"We... We can't. No doubt, that would be the fastest way to get to where we can protect Konoha but the price is too high."

Madara sighed. "No way I can convince you otherwise? I'm not suggesting hurt people around you, I am suggesting capture some beast that has escaped from their prison and use them in a way that will stop war."

"...A land without war," Haku asked. "We have seen a land without war, the Mizukage made sure of that before we left water. Life is struggle, like it or not. Peace comes when you are dead. And we have seen a field of dead men and women before."

"So you are a survivor of the Blood Purge War. Impressive, I didn't know such a strong Kekkei Genkai was in Water."

"Forget about that," Hinata said to him. "You have far more important things to consider right now. How much are you going to resist before we kill you."

Madara began to laugh at that. "I fought the first Hokage and..."

"Lost," Hinata told him, a smirk in her voice.

"Grrrr. Even then it will take more then brats like you to beat me."

"Which is why we have these," Naruto said, motioning to all the things they had. "We are going to kick your ass."

"Try it," Madara challenged.

Naruto swung the hammer around a few times. "Remember how much that hurt?"

Madara sighed, "What do you think this is, some cheap story? Enough talk already." He jumped from where he was standing to behind them, swinging his fist. To his surprised, all of them ducked and scattered. "...Okay, this might be a bit harder than I thought." He jumped away before the hammer hit the roof he was on, breaking it apart.

Naruto jumped from roof to roof as he watched Madara. "Hinata-chan, do you know where he is?"

"...Behind us!" She spun around and raised her hands. "Like this?"

"Yes," the suit replied. Two lasers shot from her hands at Madara. They hit him in the chest and threw him threw a wall. "...We love this thing. Crap."

"That... Was... A... Mistake," Madara said as he walked out of the building. His hands formed a chain of handsigns and he pointed them at her. A lance of fire shot out of his hands and hit her in the chest.

"AAGH!" She flew into a building and fell to another.

"Hinata-sama," Kimimaro said, as he landed next to her. Truth was hurt bad and the suit still held the heat. "Anti-Venom, what do we do?" Doing as instructed, he placed his hands on the suit. Anti-Venom's claws spread out and began to cover her. When they came back, Truth was better again. "Will you be okay?"

"We... Watch out!" She pushed him out of the way and raised her hands and fired another laser blast at him. "Naruto-kun, if we can get him to somewhere with earth, we can hold him still!"

"Leave that to us then," Naruto said, jumping at Madara. He began to attack with Samehada again, forcing him to fall back.

Above them, Kimimaro watched and waited for his chance. "...Haku, can you make an ice ramp from here to behind him?"

She looked at him and smiled after a moment. "Yeah." Ice shot from her hands to create what he wanted. Kimimaro took his shield, placed it on the ramp, got on it, and held onto the building for a moment. Then he let go and pushed off.

Below them, Madara took a step back and almost slipped. "Ice... WHU!" Kimimaro plowed right into him and they went flying over the edge back into the pack. Naruto looked at the web that caught the building side and Kimimaro swing back up with a mile wide grin on his face.

"That was fun."

"There are things to do now, Kimimaro," Naruto told him. "Hinata, he is down there!"

She dropped to the ground and started doing some handsigns. Wood grew from the ground and wrapped around him. "Damn, it seems that no matter what, the Senju just won't die," Madara growled before tearing the tree apart. "I will tear that family tree out for good here and now." He appeared behind her and made to grab her head. Even with Truth increasing reaction to the suit, it was just too slow for him. He began to crush the helmet.

"Warning, warning, integrity deteriorating. Suit will loose function in ten seconds."

"GOD DAMN IT!" She grabbed his hands and squeezed. The bones there shattered and she fell to the ground. She turned around and punched him, throwing him into the ruined statue that once held the Nine Bijuu. Naruto dropped down beside him and went for the kill. Instead, Samehada was grabbed and torn from his grasp, his hands already healed. Madara lifted him into the air by his throat.

"Time to die." He slammed Naruto into the statue, making it crack. He tried to tear the hammer from his waist but he couldn't even wrap his hand around it. "Damn, another intelligent weapon. You really have all the luck brat." He jerked forward, dropped Naruto, and looked behind him. Haku stood there holding a zanbatou.

"We are not Zabuza-sama's apprentice for nothing! You will never hurt him while we are still alive!"

Naruto looked up from the ground to see him back hand Haku. Naruto growled as he pulled Mjolnir from his belt and slammed it down on his foot. A bolt of lightning threw Madara away as Naruto stood back up. "Whoa," he said, power coming off him. "This is new." Metal disc were now affixed to his chest and they also appeared on the body of the spider. "...Did we...become Thor?"

Haku hit a truck and shook her head. "He has one hell of a right hook... Huh? She looked at the truck and found it was barely damage despite the heavy hit it took. She wiped it off and saw it was black with this white skull on it. She saw the same thing on one of the heroes that fought against the Bijuu. She tore it open and saw a ton of those odd weapons he used against them. She smiled like a kid in a candy store before going inside it. She opened one of the manuals and Serum mesmerized it all and gave it to her. "C-4 Plastic Explosives. AT-4 Anti-Tank missile. Magnetic Rail Gun. Spartan Laser Cannon... Cool." She started grabbing.

Kimimaro threw the shield. It ricocheted a few times before catching Madara in the back. He let it phase through him before it cut him in half but it still hurt like hell. He slammed his fist into the shield, knocking it to the ground. "I tire of this!" The five elements gathered around his hands and began to merge until these orbs of darkness was the only thing that was left. He threw one at Naruto. He ducked it but it followed and took him in the chest. The next went for Kimimaro. His shot his web at the shield and brought it to bare before it hit him. He was thrown into the building and through it. Hinata tried to stop hers with a laser blast but it still hit her.

"Warning! Warning! Energy Depleted! Five Minutes until suit can move again!"

Madara raised the last orb to throw it but he didn't see Haku anywhere. "Where, oh where are you, little spider?"

"Behind you," she said before jumping away. "Boom." She flicked a switch in her hand and a huge explosion blossomed where he had been standing. Haku got back up. "Okay, six pounds of C-4 is excessive." She looked up and saw Madara get back up as well. Though he was missing an arm, he was still alive. "Maybe not!" She pulled the next thing from her back and pointed it at him.

Madara stood back up and shook his head. "That... Huh?" He tried to move his arm but couldn't. He then realized it was missing. "Damn." He also noticed a small red dot was on his chest. He tried to touch it only for it to go over his hand. Looking up, he saw Haku pointing a cylinder object over two feet long at him. The red light was coming from the end. It flickered a moment before the machine groaned and a much bigger and more powerful light hit him. Both Haku and Madara were thrown back.

Haku slid several feet, laughing. "We love this thing!" Before that black orb hit her.

"Can't you brats ever die!?" Madara walked back over, picked her up, throwing away the Spartan Cannon, and looked her in the eye. A moment later, she began screaming, before laughing a little. "The mask blocks that, Baka."

"You son of a bitch," Kimimaro said as he tackled him to the ground. "Why can't you die!?"

Madara connected his fist to Kimimaro, throwing him off him so he could stand back up. "My eyes, brat. I have the Eternal Sharigan, making me immortal!"

"And how did you get those," Naruto asked as he forced himself back to his feet.

"I stole them from my brother," he said. "I killed him and stole his eyes."

"...So they are foreign to your body," Kimimaro asked. He jumped on him and Anti-Venom began to cover him. Madara struggled and hit him hard more than a few times but he couldn't get him off.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME!?"

"We are curing what is alien to your body!" Madara's eyes began to burn. He tore his mask off, revealing a scarred face on the right side. He looked to be in his twenties. He roared in pain as he tried to get the symbiont away from his eyes. Soon, they came out, being replaced by his own, with a normal Mangekyo Sharigan. His roar grew strained as suddenly, his skin began to age. His black hair turned gray and bones broke from the injuries he had taken. Anti-Venom slipped off and Madara Uchiha fell to the ground, dead.

Naruto shook his head as he sat back down, it really hurt from that hit. "That was interesting. Ow... Venom could you possible help with our ribs please?" He groaned as they reset and began to mend. "Haku-chan?"

"We'll be alright...we think."

"Hinata-chan?"

"Another thirty seconds and we can move."

"Kimimaro?"

"Better off than you three. That shield is a life saver." He patted the shield, once again on his back. "And these symbionts. How did we live without them?"

"We've completely forgotten how," Naruto stated. He could feel the torn muscles knitting back together. Kimimaro was right, how did they live without symbionts? "...Haku-chan, where did you get those guns?"

"A truck with the same white skull as that guy from the video. We grabbed several things from it because we thought they would help. They did...some what." She hefted the S.L.C. back on her shoulder. "Can we keep them, Naruto-kun?"

He sighed, "We guess... We are going to destroy the world if we get any stronger, it is that simple." He watched Haku head back into the truck and came out with a bigger weapon. She pointed it at the statue to give it a try. "SHIT!" He jumped out of the way before the thing was completely destroyed.

Haku lowered the weapon slowly, her eyes as wide as they could go. "We are taking that truck back with us, Naruto-kun!"

"Great Kami, she's a weapon freak!" She pointed the S.L.C. at him. "Wh-What we meant to say was that we are surprised that such a kind hearted, delicate flower such as yourself we become so fascinated with these weapons."

"Oh," she said, smiling. "We thought you just said something bad about your wife."

"Never," Naruto insisted. "Not in a million years!"

—oo000oo—

Naruto began looking through file from the computer once they got back. There was much he wanted to know. What happened after the Calamity? Why is humanity so close to what it had been? What became of mutants exactly? And what about those not there when the Bijuu were freed? "Code name: Iceman," the computer said. "Code name, Cyclops. Code name, Mimic. Code name, Multi-man. Code name, Feral. Code name, Spider-man." One by one, the files appeared on the screens and he wondered about them.

"Naruto, it has been three hours," Haku said to him. "What are you looking for?"

"...We don't know really. But look at them. We see them but we also see people we know." He pointed to Iceman. "You." Cyclops. "Sasuke and Hinata." Mimic, "Sasuke again." Multi-man, "the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Feral, "Kiba." Mystique, "The Henge no Jutsu." Spider-man, "Kidomaru. Hell, we look at the Hulk and we see Gai. And look at this one." He brought up the file for Wolverine. "He had bone claws that came from his hands. He was as aggressive as an animal that he was referred as. The Kaguya, Kimimaro's clan, were a war thriving clan before they were destroyed. And you know they control their bones." He sighed, "Are these our ancestors?"

"What does it matter Naruto?"

"Because they fought the Bijuu and lost," Naruto said. "We are stronger now, he is weaker but he is still a bijuu."

Haku shook her head before looking to the two behind her. "Naruto," Hinata said, walking up behind him. "You are not going to find the answers in the past."

"But we can learn from it," he told them.

She sighed as well, she knew this was going to get unhealthy for him if he stayed. "Uzumaki Naruto," she said forcefully. "Step away from that and look at us!" They pulled him away from the keyboard and force him to look at them. "Yes, Kyuubi still has half his power and all of your old power. But you have half his power and some more of your own. You will not find the secret to beat him in the past, there just isn't enough there."

"But..."

"Listen to us," Haku told him. "If our ancestor was 'Iceman', do you know what that means now? Nothing. We are who we are. They fought and died to protect their world a hundred thousand years ago. A hundred thousand. So what if they could travel to the stars, they are dead, we are alive. When they died, it was us that lived with the Nine. We have survived this long, we will survive after this."

He wanted to just leave it for them, but there was so much they could learn. Literally, there was almost nothing they could not learn from it. There was even information on the portal that brought Venom to this time. And data on time travel itself! They might be able to go back in time and meet those people. Maybe even stop the Bijuu from being released in the first place!

Hinata hugged him and said, "Naruto-kun, we love you but we won't stay here in this place. Only ghost belong here now." She stepped back. "We are sorry you have to stay." She had tears in her eyes as she turned and walked away.

"...Goodbye, Naruto-kun," Haku told him before she followed.

"We will make sure they are fine, Lord Naruto," Kimimaro told him before he followed them out. "We hope you find what you are looking for."

Naruto watched them go for a moment. "What the hell are we doing? Hey, wait for us!" He ran after them. "You know...now that we think of it, we don't really need the past for our future. But we do need a way back!" He entered the hall and saw that they were waiting for him. "...And you knew we would follow."

"Of course," they all said. "Look if you want, Naruto-kun," Haku continued. "But like you said, your future isn't there. And we can always come back later."

"Okay... Haku-chan, no giving those weapons to anyone else. Enough had died to those in the past."

"Cross our heart and hope to die." She began to finger a hand laser.

"And Hinata, what are you going to do with that suit?"

"The computer is repairing it. We figure keep it so we can use it against Kyuubi if we can. If we can't...well, we fought well enough before hand. Have you figured out how to turn off the god look?"

"No. But we did activate it by hitting the ground with is so maybe..." He hit the hammer to the ground and it turned into a stick while Naruto turned back into Venom. "There. So, we have Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and the Punisher. Hell, why not find that magic medallion, give it to someone in the Fuuma clan, and have them become the new Juggernaut?"

"The medallion is within the building," the computer told them through a speaker.

Naruto dropped his head into his hand, "We were just joking. What is next, Silver Surfer... Never mind, every time we open our mouth, something happens."

"Juggernaut," Kimimaro asked.

"A normal person empowered to become a human juggernaut, a being so powerful that it was thought he couldn't die. Obviously he did." Naruto could picture it, someone is given it and it becomes a clan treasure. And they would spend the rest of their life going, 'I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!' He did not need that headache. He was already going to get it over these when Tsunade asked about them. "We tell no one about these. Ever."

"Agreed," they all said.

"Now what is this medallion," Haku asked.

Naruto sighed, "Computer, bring up the file on Juggernaut."

—oo000oo—

"I can't believe our luck," War shouted as he tackled the jinchuuriki with the glasses right through a building and the one after it. "We go in search of Raijuu and we found Nekomata and Hachi!"

"No way in hell am I letting you Akatsuki bastard get Hachi," Bii Kiraa yelled, bring his fist down on War in a hammer strike. But when his hands hit the symbiont hardened skin, War felt almost nothing. The symbiont had over time hardened to become a suit of plate armor worthy of its name.

"You don't have a choice," War growled as strands of War spread from his hands and wrapped around Kiraa. "Brother, you will make an excellent Famine." He raised his hand to show a newly formed symbiont, this one bright orange with red highlights. He pressed it to Kira's skull.

"Kira may be an idiot," Yugito said, not noticing what happened to him, "but I know better. You are not Akatsuki." She ducked out of the way of the swords again.

Carnage began to laugh. "You are right, kitten. We are no more Akatsuki than you are. In fact, we have a great deal in common with you." He moved back and Carnage slipped off Kyuubi's face. "We are jinchuuriki ourselves. But unlike you and the idiot for the moment, we are the bijuu, not one of you pathetic humans." Carnage slipped back, covering his face with a roar. Several spikes shot outwards, forcing her back. He flipped his swords in his hands onto his back and made a cross shaped handsign. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" A dozen clones appeared. "Get her," he ordered.

—oo000oo—

Death purred as she felt the wind on her face again. "Beautiful," Nekomata stated, her foot long tongue licking her ash gray lips and single tail behind her waving. "We are almost all back together again."

"Hard to believe," Famine said, four tails behind him. "What has it been, thirty thousand or forty thousand years?"

"Twenty," Carnage told them. "Remember that mortal that appeared from Shukaku's dessert?"

They all grinned at that memory. "Yes, him, that 'Apocalypse'. He fought well for a mortal," War supplied. He grinned again. "Imagine the battle if he had one of these. His flesh would really have been worth it then."

"Imagine if he had lived to see this day," Death told them. "They have climbed back up from the brink we sent them to. In ways, far from what they were, in others, so far ahead. If he had lived, imagined the power he would have brought and be able to take."

Famine scoffed. "As much as we would like to continue this musing, we still have our other siblings to free, Akatsuki to destroy, and these two," he motioned to the struggling form of their good halves,

"I swear, I will not let this happen," Nekomata growled.

"You have ignored me far too long," Hachi snarled. "I will no longer be denied!"

"Yes, fight it," Carnage told them. "Get stronger! For when we come for you, it will be a battle that will send this little mud ball of a planet once again back into the stone age!" He began to laugh as he led them away. "Oh, little weaklings, the others are gathering in Konoha. I suggest you head there as well. You will need the help."

—oo000oo—

Amachi hated several places in the prison. But if there was one place he hated more than anything else, it was the shower. Up to this point he had been lucky and nothing has happened in there. But that can always change. He went in and began to scrub himself clean. He was almost done when it happened. He dropped the soap. It hit the tiles and everyone look to it then him. "...I'm done." He turned around and was about to leave. But Leroy got in his way.

"Oh no you're not. You didn't clean behind your ears, I've been watching." He stood there and Amachi knew he had no escape.

He turned around, reached down, and picked up the soap. And nothing happened. "Huh?"

"What?"

"I just thought... I mean nothing happened."

"You want something to happen?"

"NO! But I had heard the stories and..."

"For the love of Kami, this is a shower man! Do you want to get clean where someone did that!?"

"No."

Leroy nodded. "Finish cleaning up and don't worry about the soap. I will just get you double tonight." That had him crying already.

—oo000oo—

Naruto, Haku, Hinata, and Kimimaro watched as New York faded from view atop of Scarmory. "You visit a lot of interesting places, Naruto!"

"You have no idea!" He fingered the medallion, not sure what to do with it. Nor the War Machine armor that was repaired. They had been gone almost a week now and were eager to get back home. They just didn't expect what they got.

"You are Uzumaki Naruto," a blond woman asked.

"Yes. Who are... You are Yugito. And you're Kira... What are you doing here in Konoha."

"They are here," Roushi told him, "because Kyuubi helped their Bijuu escape. All of the others but mine and Gogyou."

"WHAT!?"

"He said that of the Nine Bijuu," Nami told him, "only the Four and Six Tails is still in his prison. We were all attacked by these creatures that claimed they were jinchuuriki. Care to explain?"

"...Oh hell," Naruto said, rubbing his temples. "Roushi, Gogyou, you are now a priority target." He looked down at the medallion, the scroll that held the suit, and the offspring that was being held in by Truth, Serum, and Anti-Venom. "We will tell you. But first, is Akatsuki still in one piece?"

"The entire Hidden Rain village has been sundered, raised, burned to the ground, and the ashes pissed on," Bii Kira told him. He hadn't been in the mood for rhyming since he lost half of his 'friend' though the half still there was much more pleasant. "Far as we can tell, there isn't a survivor of the normal ninja. And of Akatsuki, two, both of them not being there."

"Who?"

One of the Fuuma guards stepped forward. "More than a week ago, the one called Kakuzu left Akatsuki for unknown reasons. The other was a woman by the name of Kohan. Her mission was to find some trace of the missing Kyuubi. Sir, the Hokage isn't happy with this. All nine jinchuuriki here in the village is going to cause strain in the political arena."

"We were a hairs breath from hostilities with Iwa anyway. That we have their missing jinchuuriki matters not," the other said. "But the other villages, even Suna, things are bad. They don't know what happened yet and if they do, they will blame Konoha."

"Crap, this means they got Gaara, where is he!?"

"He is resting right now. Shukaku is much more agreeable right now than before and no longer needs that alcohol to sleep," the guard informed him. "Sir, Shadow-sama has been inquiring as to your location. After Rain was destroyed, he no longer asked if your mission was accomplished."

"We will handle him. What became of the Seven of them then?"

"They vanished," Roushi told him. "Boy, I know you did not tell me everything and I missed something important. I think you need to tell us just what happened that let them escape at all. And why only after something is pressed to their bodies."

Naruto sighed and looked to the others for help. They could offer him nothing. "You two, leave," he said to the guards. When they were gone, he continued. "We are more than we seem. We are Naruto and we are Venom." A tendril of Venom rose off him and his white eyes looked at them. "Our 'Kekkei Genkai' is a symbiotic relationship with this creature. For lack of better terms, it calls its race 'symbiont'. Venom lives off of energy produced in its partner. We were a hyperactive child before we were bonded."

"So it feeds on your chakra," Roushi asked.

"Yes. Kyuubi used two things to escape from within us. First was the anger that we once held. It created a symbiont that desires nothing more to kill and maim. It was kept inside the other symbiont and couldn't escape. But it could reach inside to Kyuubi. It took the evil half into itself to gain control for a minute and created a Kage Bunshin that it then to permanent control of and made real with the Kyuubi's chakra. From there, he went on and took the evil half from you using the same escape. That is the full, unedited story."

"How do we stop them?"

"We get stronger and talk to a few people. Save for a few matters, the symbionts have a weakness to extreme high pitch sound and fire. Get Kimimaro close enough, he can destroy the symbiont. Do any of you also have something that isn't natural that increases your power?" None nodded. "So much for that hope. There is something else though."

"What," Nami asked.

"That isn't the only offspring it has." Venom settled back over his body. "Since they are seven of the strongest beings on the planet, we need to fight them. Problem is they know all you are going to do with your training up until they were separated. Good news is, we can give you something that will help even the playing field." He revealed to them the medallion. "Who is the strongest here?"

"Me," Kira said and no one questioned that. Being that he could wield seven swords at once. "What, planning on giving me that sword?"

"Like you could wield Samehada," Nami scoffed, Isonade agreeing with her.

"Watch it brat," he and Hachi growled.

"Enough," Naruto shouted. "Before we start fighting ourselves, keep in mind that we will be doing that soon enough with something powerful enough that they can destroy a whole world by themselves!" He shut up. "Good. Kimimaro, you are a sword master. We want you to test him. If he is able, see if your sword and the other will be a good match for him."

"We know we don't use it but..." He hesitated. It was all he had of Lord Orochimaru.

"Don't worry, we are taking everything we give them back," Naruto assured him. "It is just with your shield, you don't need your sword, right?"

"...Okay, Lord Naruto." He motioned behind him. "Come with me, Bii. If you are truly worthy of your fame, you will have no trouble getting Kusanagi and the Raijin."

"Did you say Kusanagi," he asked excitedly. "Whoa, stand back, Killer Bee is coming though, I'm going to show you my strength out of the blue."

Yugito dropped her head in her hands. "Your 'rhymes' still suck."

"Hey, don't dis my lines! I keep telling you, they are perfectly fine!" He was going to say more but Kimimaro, running out of patience, hit him with a web line, and pulled him from the room.

Naruto turned back to the group and considered those there. "Roushi, just how much more dangerous were you when you were younger?"

He sighed. "Have you ever heard of an old ninja before?"

"Only those that retired young and the Third Hokage," Naruto replied.

"How's that for your answer."

Naruto smirked under his bandages. "That is just what we wanted to hear. Hinata-chan, if you would please."

She looked at him for a moment before remembering what he said. They would take it back. She walked forward, raised a hand, and put it on his chest. Her armor there changed to silver. "Don't be scared," she told him. Silver Strands suddenly shot out of her gloves and began to cover him. The others panicked, thinking that he was going to release Sokou. They were held back by Naruto and Haku. When Hinata finished, the symbiont replaced his clothing and he gave a shudder. "How do you feel," Hinata asked.

"...Thirty years younger," he replied. He stretched and slowly closed a fist. He rolled his fingers to do it to pop them. He smirked, "Sokou just tried to get Greed to free him. Greed told him to get bent." He twisted around a little, popping his back there.

"It isn't working with it," Sebun asked, both she and Kaku were confused. The kunoichi from the Hidden Waterfall looked at Naruto. "Why?"

"Because of Venom and Carnage," he told her. "The symbionts from Carnage follow his line of thought. He was born of anger and hate. Because of us, he exist..." He looked over at Haku, ashamed of himself for letting his anger get the better of him on that day. Venom just wants to live in peace with his host. That does not include anything inside the host."

Gogyou frowned. "I don't want to fight but I have no choice, do I?"

"There is always a choice," Naruto told him. He looked at them all and asked, "Who is a front line fighter?"

Kemuri, having been silent up to that point, stepped forward. "I am," he said. Made sense, as he was wearing a rather heavy looking armor. "Why?" Naruto placed something in his hands. Looking at it, he saw it was a gem of sorts. "What is this?"

"Lets take a wake outside for a moment." Naruto led them out and looked at him. "That right there is the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak. Read the inscription. And take off your armor if you don't want it destroyed."

Confused, he did as instructed. "Whosoever touches this gem shall be granted the power of the Crimson Back of Cyttorak. Henceforth, you who read these words shall become, forever, a human juggernaut." Naruto took a step back before it happened. A bolt of lightning hit him and Sebun was no longer there. In his place was a nine foot tall, four feet wide, all muscle, armor bound man wearing a helmet. "What happened," he asked, holding his head.

"You are the Juggernaut," Naruto told him.

"Figures," Nami groaned. "Finally get the chance to see what he looks like under his helmet and he just gets another one!"

"We know someone like that," Naruto stated. "Hatake Kakashi always has a mask. But that is neither here nor now." He looked her up and down. "What do you do?"

"You have more in your bag of tricks?"

"A lot more."

"I am a sniper if you must know. I specialize in the crossbow."

"This is where we come in," Haku said, taking Nami to the side. "Do we have something for you to see. What do you think, Naruto, that bowcaster?"

"Why not, similar to the crossbow." He looked at those remaining. "Before you go, give Nii-san your's." She hesitated as well before motioning for her to follow as well.

Naruto looked at Sebun and Gogyou. "And then there was one."

"But there are two of us," Sebun stated.

"No, Gogyou doesn't want to fight, told me so when we first met him. And it is more important that he keeps Raijuu imprisoned."

"Okay, what do you have for me?"

"A War Machine," he said with a smirk. "We need to head back inside for this."

—oo000oo—

Naruto stood atop of the Fourth. "Are we mistaken? Did we do the right thing? Has any of this been right? We saved Haku but caused Carnage to be there to be freed. Are we any better than Kyuubi?"

"I don't know," a dark voice said from the shadows. Naruto spun and saw a man with the cut headband from the Hidden Waterfall. "I am Kakuzu, and I have come to kill you and Scarmory."

"You have a problem with us," Naruto asked him, his blades already in hand.

"I do," Kakuzu stated. "Near a hundred years ago, I met Scarmory on the field of battle. It is time to pay him back for his betrayal."

"Your name isn't on the contract," Naruto stated.

"No, my father was though. That bird tore him apart. And now, it has come full circle, I will tear him and you apart. Akatsuki be damned."

—oo000oo—

Author Notes, sorry this one took so long. Hit writers block after Naruto getting a headache at 'I'm the juggernaut, bitch!' Plus with work as well as trying to work on all of the stories in my jarhead, it got put on the back burner by accident. But with one story all but done, I have room again. Wow, Haku and weapons, why not. We have the Four Horsemen as symbionts, Naruto as Thor as well as Venom, Hinata is Iron Man, Roushi is Greed, Yugito is...what do you think, Lust or Envy. Yes, that was the Spartan Laser Cannon from Halo 3. No, they won't keep all these when it is all over. Well, maybe Haku and the guns.

And there we have just why Kakuzu as interested in Naruto signing the Raven contract. We know we haven't said it but Kimimaro has signed the Tiger Contract and he will us it.

See Ya Space Cowboy.