Bang for your Buck

by Dailydour

Kyuubi wants revenge, not against the village, but those who wronged him. Naruto's sick of being mistreated and agrees to hunt down his enemies, but it won't be a walk in the park. Naru/Harem.

2. Can't let you die now can I?

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any character in the story except for those of my own making.

(A/N:)All right now the formality is out of the way I'd like to explain a bit about this chapter. As I said before I am skipping the academy days as I will just bore you and it would be a waste of time.

Something's, however, will be explained in a flash back or later in the story. Everyone is also 14 in the story, now on with show.

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Kyuubi"

'Kyuubi thoughts'

Justu

(A/N: Author Note)

Flashback

Chapter 2: Can't let you die now can I?

(Konoha- Academy- 1 day before graduation exam)

"Tsuki, Emi"

"Here"

"Uchiha, Sasuke"

"Here"

"Uzumaki, Naruto"

"…"

"Uzumaki, Naruto."

"…"

"Uzumaki, Naruto!"

"Huh oh uhh here sensei." came the sleepy reply of a blond haired teen. 'Uhh damn Kyuubi did we have to run those drill all night,' the blond container said to the demon as Iruka finished the roll call

"Yes, your strength is lacking a bit and I do not tolerate weakness, welp."

'Right.' Naruto had the same sentiments towards weakness; it was an excuse for cowards to not get stronger. Indeed Naruto was no longer a weakling, now standing at five foot four he had grown indeed, looking to be sixteen instead of fourteen. He now wore a tight dark grey-blue leather vest with a sleeveless black under shirt and dark blue pants. The white chip of the mask was still on his face which had lost all baby fat making him look more mature. His hair had grown out as well making him look like feral. He also wore an orange armband on his bicep. He also had muscular build that was a bit on the athletic side. However he always wore a cloak so nobody has ever seen this and no one cared enough to ask about it.

"Tomorrow is the graduation exam I hope you have been practicing or you will fail."

'Yea because its so hard to three d-ranked justu,' Naruto thought sarcastically to himself. He looked around to see who might actually pass the test. Sasuke Uchiha would pass the test for sure. There was also the boy in the grey coat, black pants, and puppy on his head, Kiba Inuzuka. Shino Aburame the emotionless bug user would also pass easily. The cold Hyuga heir Hinata would also pass the test easily, he prayed for whatever unlucky bastard was on her team. Ino Yamanaka would also pass despite her infatuation with Sasuke. The lazy bum Shikamaru Nara would pass if what Naruto heard about the Nara clan was true. Chouji Akimichi would also pass being having pretty average scores. The only other person he would even consider to be surviving shinobi were Sakura Haruno for her intelligence, the rest would either die on the field or not pass.

"Now we will be running through the justus one more time today followed by review of the history of Konoha." Iruka said much to the class's disappointment.

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Naruto sat atop the Shodaime's head looking over the village. He was contemplating what he should do after the exams. He knew he would be making a run out of the village for more bounties and see if he could find out where he could be.

As he was thinking of how to sneak out of the village and wind blew a leaf into his palm. The leaf stayed there until it turned to dust. His eyes widened a bit as he stared at his hands; life had dealt him too many shit cards and he had seen too many weird things to know that he should never ignore an omen.

"Something big is going to happen," Naruto said then he smirked.

"Good it was starting to get boring around here."

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'That fucking piece of trash!' shouted Naruto in his head his face an expression of cold fury. He was behind a tree watching the situation unfold before him. It turned out Mizuki messed with a student's test to get her to fail on purpose.

Mizuki was happy his plan was coming together and the kid he chose to be a patsy was filling the role perfectly. The one he had chosen was Sakura Haruno while the girl was book smart she had the worst physical scores in class. He had her fail her physical test then prayed on her weakness to be with Sasuke. She must have lucked out to be able to have gotten the Forbidden Scroll, oh well never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Naruto had been training out in the woods near a shack when he felt a weak chakra signature coming towards him. He promptly hid in a tree, and put on his cloak to see who it was. He was surprised to see Sakura holding the Forbidden Scroll. He was about to investigate when Mizuki came into the clearing and told Sakura she had done well in her exam test. It all clicked in Naruto's mind what had gone on.

"So Mizuki-sensei I passed right," Sakura asked hopefully.

"Yes you did Sakura now here is your reward!" Mizuki said as he slugged her in the face. Naruto watched as Sakura flew back clutching the scroll. "You stupid little girl did you really think this was a test, kukuku, now you're going to die," as he said this Mizuki pulled off a giant shuriken and threw it at Sakura.

The pink haired girl could not move shock and fear gripped her. 'NO! I don't want to die someone anyone save me, please!" as if heaven had heard her the shuriken was stopped by a hand. Sakura opened her eyes and saw blond hair, whiskers, and blue eyes looking at her. "Sakura-san are you okay?" questioned Naruto. A nod was the reply he received. "Good."

"You! What are you doing here demon!" Mizuki exclaimed as he realized who it was.

"Me? Just doing what a good guy does, you know save the damsel and murder the bad guy, and you were trying to steal an important item" Naruto said with a devious smirk. "HA! You think you can kill me you reject, go ahead and try, you be dead before you get close," said the traitorous chunnin.

"I'll take that invitation," Naruto said as he removed his cloak and rushed the chunnin. Mizuki smirked as he saw how fast Naruto was going, easy for him to keep up. When Naruto got into range Mizuki lashed out with a vicious right hook wanting to end it quickly. His fist did not connect as Naruto dodged and moved in closely with increased speed. Sparks ignited on Naruto's palm as he rammed it into the chunnin's chest. When it connected there was an explosion and Mizuki's clothes and chest were severely burned. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, you fucking demon I kill you!"

Mizuki pushed aside the pain all his anger focused on the smug gennin in front of him. He pulled the last shuriken of his back and flung it with all his strength. It was all in vain as Naruto dodged the blade and blurred from existence. He reappeared in front of Mizuki and delivered a brutal haymaker the knocked Mizuki flying backwards.

"Not done yet!" shouted Naruto as he followed Mizuki, grabbed his head and smashed it into the ground holding his head. "Now I'm done! BLAST PALM!" then Mizuki's head exploded, the blood staining the ground and pieces of charred bone spread on the ground the corpse's neck still smoking. Naruto huffed in annoyance at the lack of a challenge and turned to Sakura.

Sakura looked on in shock as the dead last of the class defeat her former sensei with brutal efficiency. While, she could do nothing but wait to die, but Naruto saved her.

"Hey,Hey! Hey Sakura!"

"Huh what?" the girl said coming out of her trance looking up at him. "Are you alright you look pale." Naruto asked concerned for her. "No I'm fine, just shaken up." Sakura said as what had happened started to catch up to her. "Good, now we have to contact the village and-" "Thank you Naruto!" she shouted as she latched onto the boys waist. Naruto was shocked but then he remembered that Sakura was new to death, her close brush with it causing this reaction.

He looked down to see her crying saying thank you over and over again. He got on his knee and rubbed her back trying to comfort her, not sure what else he could do. "Sakura it's all right you're safe. We have to get the scroll back do you understand." Naruto said as the poor girl just nodded. Naruto nodded in relief, they might be able to handle this easily. Then he felt the presence of the ANBU in the trees above them.

'Crap'

"You are under arrest for crimes against Konoha." One of the masked ninja said his ninjato already out. "Guys, guys this is a misunderstanding this traitor here," Naruto point at Mizuki's corpse, "tricked Haruno Sakura here to steal the forbidden scroll over there," Naruto finished pointing at the forgotten scroll.

"You think we believe that, you must-,"

"ANBU stand down!" came an elderly voice. The ANBU turn and saw their Hokage approaching them wearing his robes. They quickly kneeled before him. "They speak the truth I saw it all. Mizuki betrayed us dispose of the body. You two come with me, we must talk, and bring the scroll."

"Hai! Hokage-sama," was the response from everyone except Naruto who just nodded his head.

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They followed the Hokage all the way to the Hokage tower. The entire way their Sakura did not let go of Naruto, she was traumatized from the events of the night. Naruto looked down at and smiled sadly, he understood what she was going through many people he thought he could trust hurt him when he was a boy, it did a number on your mind.

They walked into the Sandaime's office he told his secretary to call off the hunt because it was taken care off. "Now Miss Haruno explain yourself and what happened to night."

Sakura nodded and proceeded to explain, "I had failed my physical exam portion when something pulled my leg as I was running thought the course and held me down. M-Mizuki-teme said if tripping took me out of a fight I wasn't ready to be a kunoichi. After class he came up to me and said I could still pass if I came and stole that scroll as a fake infiltration mission. I came here and took the scroll and went to the designated area where he tried to k-ki-kill m-me. Then Naruto came along and saved and killed Mizuki with a fire justu."

"I saw the fight good thing for you Naruto trains out there or you would be dead. I will excuse you actions for you were manipulated by Mizuki and I suspect he kept you from passing so here," The Hokage reached into his robes and pulled out a headband with the metal leaf plate on it.

"Thank you Hokage-sama!"

"Your welcome, make sure you attend team assignments, dismissed." The two teens saluted and walked out of the office. As they were walking Sakura kept sticking close to Naruto and following him. "Sakura not that I mind being followed by a pretty girl but shouldn't you get home."

"Oh yeah I just wanted to hang around you longer because no one's home. My mom is a medic so she's always at the hospital." She said looking down. Naruto looked at and sighed. He spotted a bench and pulled Sakura to the bench and sit down.

"Listen I know how you feel about what Mizuki did. You trusted him and he tried to kill you. I know the feeling. You have to get over it thinking about it will only mess with your head," Naruto explained looking at her she was shocked that people he trusted would try and kill him.

He was right though, it was creating trouble in her mind. She didn't know what to think now, who could she trust. 'No one, what if they tried to kill me like Mizuki.' She had no one and these thought were making it hard to breathe. She was starting to hyperventilate her mind racing at every possible person she trusted and turning them into possible traitors who could and kill her. Her vision started to blur. Someone grabbed her hand, "Sakura." Her vision started coming back and she saw Naruto. Naruto saved her so she could trust him, -he wouldn't harm her at all, yes that made sense.

"You're right that is how I feel but… I also feel weak I could do noting against him but you beat him Naruto. If I can't defeat, can't even fight, someone who tried to kill me then I must not be cut out to be a kunoichi," Sakura said looking down wallowing in self pity. Naruto wrote something down on a piece of paper, "Here meet me at this location in two days and I'll help you get stronger."

She looked at him and then at the paper then hugged him. "Thank you I'll be there."

Naruto smiled at her, "No problem a pretty girl like you it would be a pleasure."

She blushed as he complimented her and looked away, "Goodbye I'll see there." She turned around and left as quickly as she could.

"Tomoko-chan is going to be upset."

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(Night, Resort Village)

A few hours after his talk with Sakura, Naruto was running through the forest of fire country after slipping past the shinobi guards. Honestly they have to beef up security in their village before someone takes advantage of it. He was heading to a small village in the south to meet with two important people. He also needed to relax and celebrate before starting his ninja duties. What better way than to get smashed at one of the local bars.

After 2 more hours of hopping through trees he finally came to the village. It was a resort village that was famous for the food and entertainment. Naruto quickly headed to a hotel checked in, left his stuff, and went to one of the bars. Naruto activated his Fox Mask to hide him under an illusion, couldn't have anyone know about his escapades.

"Hey chief give me some strong sake," Naruto said grinning to the man. "You got it mate," the bartender a portly man with big muscles from doing who knows what.

"Aaaaahhhh that hits the spot," Naruto said as the bartender proceeded to take a sake bottle out of nowhere and poured some strong liquor in his cup. Naruto grabbed the cup and drank it down easy. Naruto let out a sigh as he felt the familiar burn of alcohol. He called for another with a grin on his face. "Rounds for everybody on me," Naruto said making all the patrons cheer.

An hour later Naruto was completely ruined along with most the people in the bar. A girl was on top of a table dancing everyone cheering her on. Naruto was having a good time until a skinny man bumped into a large man who shoved him into another man, who swung at the man missed and hit a bald man, who's friend punched the attacker. This led to more shoving and punching until the entire bar was involved.

People were flying everywhere, bottles were being broken, and Naruto was knocking people out. Naruto picked up a chair and smashed against a man's head/

He would be having fun tonight.

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(Same village, 10:00 a.m, next day)

A sixteen year-old girl with black hair in a ponytail and an eye patch over her right eye walked into the hotel where Naruto was currently staying. She asked the receptionist if a young man with blond hair and blue eyes was here. The receptionist said he was and pointed her in the right direction. The girl wore a dark blue battle kimono with a green sash, black ninja sandals, shin and forearm bracers, and a small necklace with a red jewel on it, her visible eye was black. "I wonder what master is up to."

"You think aniki will give Mei-chan a sweet?" asked a small eight year old girl. This girl had dark green hair in a braid two strands of hair falling in front of her face, her eyes were yellow, and she work gray scarf around her neck, a purple short sleeved shirt, wristbands, black pants, and black sandals. "I'm sure he will Mei-chan."

They went to his room and let themselves in and looked around the room and found no one. The one-eyed girl opened the bedroom door and saw her master on the futon, in his underwear a small sheet barely thrown aside. She blushed as she walked to the futon and nudged the man with her foot.

Naruto just readjusted himself mumbling, "Come on beautiful, I got something you can play with." This caused Tomoko to blush even deeper, both in anger and embarrassment, as his soldier stood at attention.

The girl moved to the other side of the futon, reared her leg back and kicked her master. Her leg however, was caught which caused her to lose her balance and yell as she fell on her butt. Naruto yawned as he sat up, "Aaahhhh, Tomoko-chan, I'm glad you could come, I missed you."

"You sure don't seem like you missed me, Naruto-sama, you seemed happy with whatever you were dreaming," she retorted with a glare. At that moment Naruto noticed the tent he was pitching. "Sorry about that," Naruto said as he stood up and looked for his and pants.

Tomoko blushed a dark red, her heart beating erratically, his state of dress was not helping either. Her eyes tracing his muscular body up and down until his voice caught his attention. "See something you like Tomoko-chan," he said as he pulled on his pants.

Tomoko's mind took awhile to process his words to her, and the situation.

"MASTER!" the embarrassed girl yelled as she picked up the nearest object, a sake bottle, and threw it at him. Naruto dodged the bottle and the other objects that seemed to come from nowhere.

"Sorry, sorry," Naruto said holding his hands in a placating manner. The girl still angry but calmer just pouted and turned her head to the side. "I'm sorry, forgive me," Naruto said popping his fox ears out and giving the puppy dog eyes.

She looked at him, turned to the side and nodded while blushing. "Great, go to the living room and I'll be out in a minute." The girl nodded and left the room. A few minutes later Naruto came out of the room in a tight white shirt and normal blue pants. "Aniki!" shout Mei who jumped into Naruto's arms. "Hey Mei-chan, I missed you."

"Aniki did you make Mei-chan a sweet." The little girl said staring at him. Naruto smiled and reached into the supply kit on his waist. He pulled out a cookie and gave it the girl who cheered and started nibbling on it. Naruto put her down and patted her head, and then he turned to Tomoko and pulled out a rice ball. "Here I made you something as well. I know how much you like them."

"Master, thank you," said Tomoko as she got up and walked over to him. She however tripped on her feet and fell forward. Naruto caught her before she fell, "Still clumsy as ever." Naruto smiled at her as he helped her to her feet and handed her the rice ball. She bit into it and smiled, "Kelp, my favorite thank you Master."

"I'm glad you're happy… I have to leave in two days back to the village," Naruto said saying the last part quickly then sitting on the couch.

"What but Aniki promised to be with us two weeks!" Mei shouted as she stopped eating her treat. Tomoko kept silent but stopped eating her rice ball. "I know Mei-chan but I promised to help a girl out in the village with training," Naruto said.

"A girl! I should have guessed, just go right now!" Tomoko said upset that her Master wanted some whore from the leaf. "I don't know why you even came here!"

"I came here because you two are important to me, but this girl needs my help," Naruto said staring at her, then his eyes soften, "Listen there's a festival in this village tomorrow I was planning on have some fun before we went bounty hunting."

"A festival?" Mei asked eyes alight with curiosity. "Yeah and I am taking you two to it." Naruto said happily.

"Did you hear that Tomoko-onee-chan a festival and aniki is taking us!" Mei cheered. Tomoko was still upset he had to leave but she saw Naruto pleading with her. "I guess that would be fine but we don't even have appropriate clothes," Tomoko said pointing herself and Mei. "I guess I'll just have to take you two shopping," Naruto said with his head down like any guy who was about to go shopping.

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(Shopping District)

Naruto was walking through the streets with Tomoko and Mei behind him. Most of the young girls they passed by on the streets sent glances at Naruto, who smiled back. This pissed Tomoko off to no end and Mei was to busy with her cookie. "Here this looks like the place the receptionist spoke about." Naruto said.

They entered the building and Tomoko started helping out Mei choose a kimono. Naruto sat down on a chair as he knew this would take awhile.

An hour later Mei had a yukata it was a dark forest green with pink petals on the bottom of the dress. Naruto was sitting on the chair, sending looks at the cashier girl, as Tomoko came out of the dressing room. "How do I look Master?" Tomoko asked her hands held in front of her. Naruto turned to look at her and his eyes widened.

Tomoko was wearing a dark blue yukata with falling green leaves and a white moon on the chest. Tomoko did a small twirl and Naruto saw that there was a white nightingale on a black branch on her back. "You look beautiful, Tomoko," Naruto said in an awed voice.

Tomoko blushed seeing the reaction she got from her master and happy that she could make him like that. 'Master thinks I'm beautiful maybe I am good enough for him.'

Yes, despite how her master flirted with other girls and teased her she wished he really felt for her like she did for him. Tomoko walked up to Naruto and closed his mouth. This caused Naruto to scratch the back of his head, grinning sheepishly.

"Listen I also chose this place because there is a contact I have to meet here," Naruto told them. The girl nodded and changed back to their regular clothes. Naruto then walked them backed to their homes smiling at some the girls who looked at him not noticing the scowl on Tomoko's face.

"The festival starts when it gets dark so get some lunch and take in the sites for awhile while I go and take of the business," Naruto said to Tomoko who nodded and Mei who smiled at him. "You'll meet up with us later right, Aniki?" Naruto just nodded at Mei's question.

"Well Mei lets go find something to eat."

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(Bar, Red light District)

The white chip on his nose stretched out like roots until the completely covered the bottom half of his face and turned his hair black. He looked around until he found what he was looking for. Naruto walked into a bar were the smell of smoke and alcohol was thick spotting his informant.

A skinny man with brown hair and beady eyes wearing drab clothes saw Naruto approach and sat up. "Hey there ol' mate been wonderin when you would get 'ere."

"Sorry to keep you waiting now what can you tell me," Naruto said seriously.

"Straight to the point, eh? Well if you must know the target will be passin' through the Leaf in two months before he goes away again to who knows where. Hope you catch'em," The man said taking a swing of his drink.

"Is that all Weasel?"

"As matter o' fact it ain't. There been rumor bout the same fellow, that he be killing people something bout collectin debts, for death whatever the hell that means." The man said now staring at a scantily clad waitress

Naruto's grip tightened his claws digging into his making him bleed. 'Shit, already, I though I would have more time.' "I know what he means and thanks for the info, here," he pulled out a small bag and threw it on the table. The man smiled as he picked up the bag smiling as it jingled. Naruto got up and left, he killed about an hour on this little excursion so he went to go find his friends.

"Better get something to eat first," said Naruto as he spotted a ramen stand.

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(Nightfall: Same Town)

Naruto decided to look around town instead of looking for the girls. When night fell he headed back to the hotel to change. When he got there the girls had not arrived so he showered and went to his room to grab his clothes.

While he was in his room Tomoko and Mei arrived and did not hear him. "Who knew this hotel had a hot spring that was great," Tomoko said to Mei as walked into the room. "Yeah it was Tomoko-nee-chan," the young girl replied enthusiastically.

"Let me grab our clothes than we can change and wait for Master," The black haired girl said going into Naruto's room where she left there bag. Naruto had just dropped his towel when the door swung open. Tomoko walked into the room and her eyes landed on Naruto, completely naked. She had seen her master without a shirt when she dressed his wounds but she was not prepared for this. Her master's body was muscular more so than an average shinobi, she memorized everything and her eyes pooped out when she saw 'the goods.' She was a girl of sixteen with a healthy libido and seeing a nude male who she was attracted to elicited a common response. Tomoko was rocketed out the door by a nose bleed a huge smile on her face.

A few minutes later Tomoko started coming to, "Nee-chan, nee-chan wake up, c'mon, wake up." Tomoko opened her eyes to see Mei looking down on her. She sat up and looked around, "What happened?"

"Nothing much," Naruto said as he came out of the room dressed in a dark red short-sleeved dress shirt unbuttoned at the top, black pants without his shirt tucked in. "You walked in on me though."

Tomoko hears what he says and blushes recalling what she saw. "W-we should g-get dressed, come on Mei-chan," Tomoko said quickly and grabbed the little girls hand and ran into the room. They came out awhile later in there yakutas "Lets go," Naruto said grinning.

The night was going enjoyably so far, Mei enjoyed the games, Tomoko and Naruto played some as well, and the food was delicious. There were a few incidents when a teen girl would come up and flirt with Naruto at which point Tomoko would latch onto his arm and glare at the girl. "Thanks for keeping them of Tomoko-chan, I want this night to be about you and Mei-chan," Naruto told her after the last incident.

Tomoko nodded her head as she watched Mei try and catch a small goldfish. "Of course Master I also enjoy our time together," Tomoko said staring into his eyes. "You mean a lot to me Tomoko," Naruto said a small gentle smile gracing his face. He stared into her black eye and she stared into his blue ones. Their faces started moving closer together. Tomoko closed her eyes, she could feel Naruto's warm breath on her lips. Naruto's own eyes were half lidded and he moved down to kiss her. "Aniki look!" the boy and girl stepped back in surprise of the voice that interrupted their situation.

Naruto looked sown at Mei as she held up a larger than average gold fish. "Wow Mei-chan you caught that," the girl shook her head up and down. Naruto ruffled her hair and grabbed her arm. He looked at Tomoko, who saw an unknown emotion pass through his eyes, "Come on the fire works are about to start lets head up to a spot I found."

Naruto led them up to a hill with a cherry tree already in bloom. They sat and waited for the fireworks to start. "So Master, how did your meeting go," Tomoko asked looking at Naruto. "It went well I got what I was looking for," Naruto said looking as the fireworks. "I'm glad I came."

"So am I," Tomoko said slipping her hand into his. Naruto looked down at their hands and then at her, smiled, and turned to look back at the fireworks. His hand gripped hers and she smiled laying her head on his shoulder. Both were content to be with the other under the star filled sky.

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Cut that's a wrap folks

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