The Vile is in. Anyways the time skip has happened. 8 years of wolf like Naruto's life is a mystery. More wolves and more likely powerful Naruto.

Anyways enjoy.

"Talking"

Thinking

Jutsu

Chapter 3

The Bounty Hunter

8 years have passed. 8 years. A lot has happened in the course of 8 years. For instance, the rumours.

Rumours of a bounty hunter hunting missing nin has been heard across the Elemental Nations. Any missing nin from class D to class A. A skilled long range specialist. Able to hit her target a mile away and still hit dead center. She is able to hit targets at impossible angles and is able to pierce through objects like cement or wood and still hit her target.

When missing nin try to get in close, but only get killed as well. You see, she is also skilled with a blade. Those you have seen her was able to describe her as wearing nothing but weapons. Of course, they never got a good view of her.

Some say she is one with the wind and others claim she melts into the earth itself and the people say she vanishes into the night, but it was never verified.

She is often seen traveling with a pack of wolves. You'll never see her without a wolf. They are under her command and will always follow her. They fight beside her and will die for her.

All of the villages have sent their ninja to ask her to join their forces, but they were never able to find her. None are able to track her down because she to is a tracker and is able to get rid of any evidence of anything leading to her.

Of course, those rumours were 2 years ago.

2 years ago. A group of unknown ninja have been attacking this bounty hunter and trying to capture her for a unknown purpose. The bounty hunter fought against these ninja and came out of the battle heavily injured, but the unknown ninja were slaughtered.

132 skilled ninja has been killed by one bounty hunter that was 12 years old, but they don't know that. The bounty hunter had put her hunting skills to the fullest. She used the night, the environment, her bloodline, and her skills to kill these ninja. She used many traps and many hit and run tactics.

They fought for hours in the forest and once the bounty hunter was tired and injured, the unknown ninja had surrounded the forest area and boxed her in. They thought they have captured her, but it was all a trap. Once the ninja were in one area, a set a tag bombs went off in the surrounding forest area cutting off the ninja's escape path and burned them alive.

After that day the bounty hunter has not been heard of for 2 years. More missing nin felt safe from her with the news that she was killed and started doing whatever it was they do.

But unknown to them, she has just finished her training.

The Fire Nation forest.

The night sky is beautiful, the gentle breeze blowing against the leaves, the call of the wilds is music to people's ears and one runaway ninja with silver hair with a huge scroll attached to his back, with huge throwing stars also attached to his back, wearing a Leaf headband in chunnin clothing was jumping through the trees breaking the peaceful night, while being followed by multiple shadows.

Damn it. I just got away from Konoha and the hunter nin are already onto my trail. Were the thoughts of a man named Mizuki who has escaped from Konoha with the Forbidden Scroll.

A sharp sound was heard and Mizuki jumped down avoiding an arrow to the head which pierced into a tree.

An Arrow? It can't be. He heard of a hunter using arrows but she was killed.

Once he touched the ground he was tackled to the ground by a wolf and it bit his arm. Another wolf landed beside him and it bit down the other arm holding the other arm. Both were holding him down.

"Mizuki of Konoha. Rank: Chunnin. Threat level: D. Crimes: betraying village, attack fellow comrade, and stealing the Forbidden Scroll. Pay: 10,000 Ryo. Extra Pay: 50,000 Ryo with return of the Forbidden Scroll. Not bad, you're my first kill for two years now." A woman appeared before him, holding a customized bow that was made out of metal that looked like a dual sword that were slanted back a bit and was 2' up and down, with hilts at the grip that pointed forward that were also sword like. The string was also made of metal material that was made to stretch. Guess this was also used for close range as well.

But the woman was a different story. She is 5' 3" and has black wavy untamed hair that was above her shoulders. She was wearing a tank top that shows her stomach that was covered by a sleeveless mesh shirt. Her left arm was covered by a gauntlet that went from her left hand to her shoulder and a strap that went across her chest and back to hold it down and showed a bit of the wrist that has a kanji for bow. Her right arm had a tantō that was strapped on her forearm and fingerless glove but covered the thumb, index and middle finger. On her wrist has a kanji for arrows. A wakizashi was strapped on her back and a tantō was held on her back above the hips. And that was just her upper department.

She was wearing short shorts with some with a kunai holder on both legs with bandage tapes. A tantō is also strapped below the knees on both legs and regular ninja sandals and all of her clothing and material were all black.

She looked like she was prepared for a war. The most noticeable thing about her was her eye. Her left eye was covered by an eye patch and her right eye was bright blue. It looked like it can shine any dark places with one look.

That's when Mizuki remembered about a bounty hunter that hunted down missing nin. A skilled hunter to be precise.

"I'll give you the forbidden scroll if you let me go." He began to try to buy his way out while sweating bullets and shaking violently. "You can become a powerful ninja if you take the scroll. Just let me live, I'll return to my village if you let me go"

"Now why would I do something so stupid and let you go. Obviously you will try to runaway again later on." Busted. "So, I might as well take care of you right now and be done with." She unsheathed her tantō on her back hip and cut off Mizuki's head. The wolves back away from the corpse and waited for further orders.

"You carry way too many weapons Naruto." A 4 foot high black wolf walked towards the woman named Naruto.

"It's better to be prepared Kurome. I'm not going to get ambushed again." She remembered that day like it was yesterday. They surrounded her and gave her a choice to either join their little group called root or die. Of course, she chose option c: Kill the bastard ninjas and run like hell. A week later they send stronger ninja and she killed them with the help of Kurome and the pack. Later on, she set up a certain forest area with traps when she received a message from one of her scouting wolves that a huge number of these root ninja were heading towards her. The battle was fierce and she survived with severe injury and the cost of many of her wolves dead.

Fenris and Fenrir called her back to the wolf territory to further up her training and repopulate the lost wolves.

And here she is, back in the elemental nations. Going to take out the leader of this band of ninja called root.

"Yes, I lost a few of my friends that day. They were desperate if they sent that many ninja to kill you." Said Kurome as she picked up the forbidden scroll. "What are you going to do with this?"

"I guess we'll keep it for now." She went to pick up the head and put it into a storage scroll and burned the body. "How long do you think root will head out to kill me?" Naruto asked Kurome.

"I don't know. I'm no psychic. I'm just a wolf with a scroll on her back." She walked away from the scene.

"Bitch." She mumbled and walked beside her with the pack of wolves following her.

"I'm no dog, you bitch!" Kurome countered and she looked up at the arrow embedded in the tree. "Shouldn't we get rid of evidence that we were here."

Naruto looked up at the arrow and gone into thought and made her decision. "Leave it for now." Kurome just looked at her like she grown a second head. Usually she leaves the area without a trace so why is she leaving an arrow and Naruto sees the look she is receiving. "There is only one group of people that recognizes that arrow and I want them to know I'm still alive."

"Root." Kurome stated and Naruto nodded while she left the area.

"Besides, I made better different tipped arrows and that one was just to get those root ninjas out of their little grave they dug themselves in." Naruto said as the other wolves agreed with that statement. I'll soon fine where root is located and destroy them myself. I just hope they are the ones that find it first.

A few days later at wolf territory

Wolf territory. A valley of land that is impossible to find if you are not related to wolves. This land is a safe ground for wolves and Naruto. Those who tried looking for this land were either lost or killed by the wolves and it is the latter if you're wondering which one.

The cave that Naruto lived in when she was 7 was long abandoned and later moved into a bigger cave inside the mountain in the valley. The cave had three path tunnels and the first path of a tunnel had a cavern area that was big enough that she put her forge inside it and stored her fur from her hunts. She mostly sells what she didn't use and the money was used for iron material for her arrow tips or weapons she bought, but she made her own shuriken and kunai.

Of course the second tunnel was populated with female wolves and their cubs but a fur blanket covering her tunnel path that showed her section of the cave was very helpful from wondering cubs.

The third path had a huge cavern that wolves were fighting each other or resting. This area was where they practise fighting and showed who the alpha of the pack is. There are three packs. The first pack follows Kurome's orders. The second pack leader is lead by a grey wolf named Kujo that is 5' tall and fights viciously. The third pack leader is lead by a 7' black wolf with a scar over his left eye but still works name Geo. All three packs follow Naruto's orders and the pack leader orders their back to follow through the order.

Then there are the elders, Fenrir and Fenris. All wolves follow their orders without questions. They are the all and powerful elder wolves. Fenris is the oldest. She is able to manipulate water as if it was nothing to her. Fenrir is the younger brother of Fenris. He is able to materialize through any earth materials, excluding trees. They only watch over the cubs and train the wolves and never to leave the valley. An agreement they have made with the moon god to watch over the young and train them to adulthood.

And there is Naruto. She is the first human to survive a wolf passage. The passage is more of a test to see if a wolf was skilled enough to become a summon for the wolf contract, which Naruto signed and owns. Naruto became the pack alpha of the wolves when she defeated Geo in a battle, which he received a scar on his left eye during the battle.

Her abilities range from close to long range. Her natural element is wind, water, and earth. She received the earth element from Fenrir and the water from Fenris while her natural element is wind. Her bloodline is related to wolves. Her eyes go from night vision, thermal vision, ultraviolet vision which makes her an excellent tracker. She is able to survive the harshest of winter weather when many people froze to death a long time ago. Her jutsu is still unknown other than she uses her wind element to sharpen her weapons.

Now she is in the infirmary of the cave which is where the female wolves watch over the newborn cubs talking with Fenris.

"So you got Konoha's Forbidden Scroll. Quite a bargaining chip you got there. You should learn some jutsus from it." Said Fenris as she was cleaning one of the cubs that were just born.

"That's the thing. All of the jutsu inside it are forbidden for a reason. They are a double edge jutsus that requires a huge amass of chakra. If I don't have enough, it will probably get me killed or land in bed for weeks." Naruto said as she was cradling a cub in her hands.

"You forget, that you have enough chakra to equal 4 kages and those techniques will just be icing on the cake for you." Naruto thought about it and remembered her training that increased her reserves.

"I guess I should start learning from it, but there is the problem of Konoha will search for it." Naruto said as she remembered the bounty of the scrolls return with Mizuki's head.

"True, Konoha will probably kill you for holding the scroll if you return it directly, so you will have to wait to return it when the time is right. But for now, learn what you can." With that Naruto put the cub down next to its mother and left the infirmary section of the cave.

Naruto arrived to her section of the cave and flopped down onto her fur covered bed to get some rest. "So much for hunting missing nins." She really wanted to go out hunting and animals were too easy now but someone has to go get them.

"Don't mop around. I just found a useful jutsu for you to learn from the scroll." Naruto looked over to the voice to see Kurome reading over the scroll. "It's called the shadow clone. It's says here that the user will create a solid clone of them self which is used for scouting. Once the clone disperses, the clone's knowledge will be sent back to the original." Kurome read over the jutsu. "Ok, it says here to put your hands into a cross hand sign and put as much chakra as you can into it."

"Alright then." She put her hands in a cross seal "Shadow clone jutsu." She did a sloppy job but did it perfectly or whatever you call filling the room with clones pushing against each other and squishing the wolf in the room.

"Cancel them! CANCEL THEM!" Kurome shouted as she was squished by multiple clones of Naruto.

Naruto cancelled the clones as she too was squished by the clones.

"Ok, not too much chakra next time." Naruto stated.

"And use it outdoors." Kurome added. She stretched her body to fix what the clones had damaged and so did Naruto. Once they relocated their joints with the sound of many pops, Naruto just went back to bed while Kurome was reading over the scroll. "All the jutsu in this scroll are jutsus used by the Shodaime and Nidaime. " Kurome groaned at the scroll of techniques that Naruto won't be able to use and read further until she reached a jutsu that only requires chakra manipulation. "The Rasengan."

"The what?" Naruto asked still lying in bed.

"The Rasengan, a jutsu that forms a spiralling ball made out of chakra that doesn't stop spinning but only spin faster. It is a powerful jutsu that made the Yondaime famous. There are 3 steps into mastering this jutsu." Kurome read the 3 steps. "But unfortunately we don't have balloons or rubber balls."

"Hmm." She wasn't even listening, too busy falling asleep.

"Hey Wake UP! This is a jutsu stronger than your Kazedoriru (Wind Drill) and its pure chakra manipulation." She successfully woke Naruto.

"Kurome please, I spent 10 hours looking after new born cubs and it is really tiring." Naruto whined and went back to sleep looking at the other direction. "I'll look over it tomorrow."

"Fine! Go to sleep you big baby." She went back to reading the scroll as Naruto started snoring. The things I do for you. You better be grateful. She stopped reading when she came across a seal. The seal of the Shinigami. Fenris-sama said this is what held the Kyubi inside Naruto when it use to be inside her. It's so complicated I don't even know where to break it down. She moved on further as she read the last jutsu. Hiraishin.

Unknown Location

The underground tunnels of Konoha. Tunnels that the hokage don't know about other than an old man cover in bandages all over his body including his left eye... what's with people losing their left eyes? Anyways the man lost his right arm during the second shinobi war and is the leader of the group of ninjas that the Sandaime disbanded.

Anbu Root.

The man that commands them is none other than the war hawk Danzo. The man is so in love with war, he is willing to kidnap children and brainwash them to follow his orders without question, even backstabbing his so called allies. More like stepping stones.

Then there were rumours about a bounty hunter. He wanted someone with great skill under his command. Once he captures her and put her through his reprogramming operation. Then he will have a tool to overthrow the Hokage.

But.

The problem with the bounty hunter is that she is too free spirited that she doesn't want to be held down by a village. Something about receiving a collar of slavery. Anyways, he sent group after groups to capture her, but she killed them all. So he ordered almost all of his root ninja to capture in a forest. She fought them off with great tactics, using her wolves as a distraction while she picked off ninja after ninja with her bow. The traps she used were avoidable, but that led his ninjas to their down fall.

He ordered them to surround the forest and box her in with advances, but it was all a trap. He lost all of his root ninjas with the exception of his personal guards. Over the course of 2 years he only refilled almost half of what he had 2 years ago.

And now.

"Report." He called out and one of his subordinates shunshin in front of him bowing.

"We followed Mizuki's trail and lead to a dead end."

"Dead end?" Danzo questioned.

"It seemed that Mizuki was followed and captured him and killed him. Severing his head and burning the ashes."

"What of the scroll?" The root Anbu shook his head no. "Then we just have to wait till the person that killed him reports it and follow him and kill him, after you retrieve the scroll."

"There is something else we found." He pulled out an arrow and Danzo immediately recognizes it.

She's still alive. Inwardly he seethed at the girl that nearly destroyed his root forces. How was he to suspect that she would be so capable? Note to people: Never underestimate a hunter; we might save your life in the wilderness.

"Order a squad to investigate the area you found that arrow and send five search parties for a woman in black with wolves in fire country." The Anbu nodded and went to follow out his master's order.

"She won't escape death this time."

With Naruto

At the damn crack of dawn, Kurome instantly woke Naruto up and dragged her to a damn lake to practise a damn jutsu. Yes she's not a morning person. Hell she isn't even a day person either. Once they reached the lake Kurome pushed Naruto in to wake her up.

"DAMN IT KUROME, WHAT THE HELL?!" She shouted as she unsoak herself as she got out the cold water. Even this cold water effects her in the morning.

"You're going to learn the Rasengan, and were going to use this lake." She motioned to the lake and Naruto was weary of her pushing her in.

"And prey tell me how I'm going to learn the Rasengan without following the 3 steps." She sounded like she just didn't care.

"Well the first step is rotation with chakra and you're going to make the water rotate steadily in this lake. Once you make a steady rotation, you're going to make it stronger. Making the lake spin. As for the last step you're going to make the lake turn into a whirlpool and hold it for a minute or so. You got that." She asked Naruto to see she was looking at a different location. "NARUTO!"

"Hmmm. Oh, sorry. I just noticed this squirrel over there." She pointed at a squirrel that was gathering nuts. "Anyways you want me to make a whirlpool or something."

"Yes." Kurome just let the squirrel subject go. "After you finish making the whirlpool, you use what you learn and make a spinning ball of chakra without using the water."

"Alright, the sooner I do this the sooner I could go back to sleep." She was about to go make a whirlpool when a grey wolf appeared from the forest. "Uh, Kujo. Report."

"We stayed at the scene as you ordered." Mizuki's death bed. "Root ninja were the first to arrive to the area."

"That was quick. Did they find the arrow?" The appearance of the root ninja was unexpected.

"Yes they did." Naruto smiled at this news.

"Did you follow them?" She needed to know where they lay to further up her plans of the destruction of root.

"Yes we followed them. They entered a hidden village called Konoha." Kujo new of the word Konoha. It was a topic that was not spoken amongst the wolves. Why, because of the treatment they have given to their mistress.

"Damn it! Of all the hidden villages, it had to be that village!" Konoha. A village Naruto isn't fond of. If root lays in Konoha, than she will have to change her plans drastically. "We're going to have to change our plans a bit." The two alpha pack leaders nodded in agreement. Joining a village that root lays in is no longer in the plan. As far as she remembers, is that Konoha is corrupt to the council and she is very certain that the leader of root is in the council and the Hokage is very old that wants to rest does not have the power to go against the council. That's when an ideal crossed her mind and she did a wolf like grin. "Looks like that scroll will be useful after all."

She wasn't going to just go to the village and offer the scroll and kill off root. No, the council are desperate for power. What do people with power want more in the world? More power. They will just take the scroll without an award and use her for whatever they wish of her doing. Probably turn her into a puppet of a root member or the more likely option. She shuddered at that option.

She will have to tread lightly and make the council demand for her to be of service of her while she picks off the council members one by one. Starting with the root leader. For this to work she is going to have to get the Hokage's attention. Hopefully he remembers her... more precisely she hopes he's still the hokage. Once he gets the attention he will send someone he trusts to locate her and offer her a position in their ranks. She will use that opportunity to present the scroll and say something like she will only follow the hokage's orders and no one else.

She just prays that this will work and hope that the council does not have too much power. Once she eliminates the root leader, the rest will probably follow. Probably.

"Alright. Investigate Konoha and search for the root HQ and..." she was about to continue when a huge ass wolf made a flashy entrance. More like a dusty entrance. "Geo what do you have to report?"

Geo the big bad black wolf towered over her. "More root nin left the village called Konoha and is searching for you and our fellow wolves."

"They sure are persistent into killing us all." Kurome said while Kujo and Geo just growled.

"This is really getting old. Alright, Kujo." The grey wolf straightens out. "Find Korona and search for root HQ and its leader." Korona is a 3' dark purple wolf that is the master of the shadows. She and her pack remain in the shadows; they always remain in the shadows and act as scouts, spies and detectives.

Kujo just groaned at that order. "Finding her is a pain in the ass." He said and left to go find her and search for root HQ.

"Geo..." The huge wolf looked down at her. ".......... do what you do best." He gave a wicked feral grin and went to do what he does best.

"He's going to kill the search parties isn't he?" Kurome asked a question that she knew the answer of.

"It's what he does best." Naruto blankly stated and went to do what she was dragged to the lake to do. "Ok, use chakra to spin the water, seems easy enough." She sets her palm on top of the water and made it spin. "Yup, easy."

"You're not supposed to use water manipulation. Just plain chakra." Kurome stated and Naruto cancelled out the water manipulation and the water stopped spinning.

"Ok, this will be harder than I thought."

A month later

Mastering the Rasengan was indeed difficult. Once she made the lake spin she moved on to make a whirlpool and that was difficult. How Kurome came up with this kind of method is beyond her. It took more than half of her month to make the whirlpool deep enough to see the bottom. Once she finished it with the whirlpool, she did a perfect Rasengan without water five days later. She demonstrated its power to a wall of rock to see its capability and was surprise to say that it was stronger than her Kazedoriru. A month worth spent.

Korona came to give her report on Konoha to Naruto and nothing about root. It seems that root isn't working openly, so to say that they remain hidden is a bonus for her, but that would lead to more questions. Anyway she said that Konoha is indeed corrupt and the old man is still the Hokage, another bonus right there. She also said that the smell of a root nin lingers amongst the council. All those bonuses went out the window.

Having a corrupt council is easy enough but having a root leader amongst the council is bad enough. What he or she says is law with the council and the hokage won't be able to do squat jack to help her. The only person that can over throw the council is the Hokage but the council probably knows how to go around the Hokage's demands and the only person that can go against the Hokage...is the Daimyo.

"Kurome! Kujo! Where heading to the capital." The wolves in question went to follow their mistress. Kujo is by her side because he isn't a stealth wolf, but more of a fighter and tracker. Entering Konoha with his pack was an impossible task.

"Why would we be going to the capital?" It may look like Kurome is contradicting or questioning Naruto's orders, but she is the tactician of the group. She did make the other method of the Rasengan.

"Getting my entry ticket to destroy root." What she is about to do will be hard indeed. I just hope the Daimyo isn't corrupt or a pervert.

To be Continued.

Well there you have it. Naruto has an the forbidden scroll and an enemy. A huge introduction to wolves in this chapter. Let me elaborate.

Fenrir: All I know of him is he is from Final Fantasy. I think he's a summon in Final Fantasy.

Fenris: The God of wolves. That is all I'm going to give.

Kurome: Kuro(Black) me(Sprout)

Kujo: I got the name from the rabbit dog named cujo. I just change the c to a k.

Geo: A cerbrus on a psp game I played a long time ago. I forgot what the game was called.

Korona: Sounds nice.

Anyway review if you like and review if you like wolves. I like wolves. Foxes are cute but I like wolves. Dogs to and are close to wolves.

Well, Ja!