I DO NOT OWN NARUTO AND/OR THE CHARACTERS

Kai Shoryu

Kiba, Choji, and Lee arrived at the Village Gates to find them unguarded surprisingly, they looked around as it rained on the seemingly deserted village.

"What the hell is going on here?" Choji asked so worried that he put his bag of chips away to reach for his kunai. "You got anything, Kiba?"

"Yeah, I can smell people, right Akamaru?" Kiba asked receiving a bark of confirmation. "But you ain't gonna like the other thing I smell."

"What?" Lee asked.

"Things I shouldn't be smelling, at least not in this village unless there was an invasion or something," he explained. "Things like blood and tears and not like Lee and Guy-sensei talk about constantly."

At that moment, they heard a noise coming from an alley between a couple of buildings, they went to check it out to find a small figure running from them causing them to follow.

"Be careful," Lee warned. "People have been reporting strange figures since this whole ordeal began."

They followed the figure until it led them to an apartment, they tried to open the door to find it locked.

"Check the window," Kiba said. "I can smell people in there."

Choji checked the window but it was covered up on the inside.

"Okay, I'll break it down," Lee said.

He gave the door a kick cracking it but failing to open it due to the barricade on the other side.

"Stand back," Choji said. "Partial Expansion Jutsu!"

The door broke down to find a group of children in the room being guarded by Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon.

"Kiba?" Konohamaru asked as he had a Rasengan ready. "What are you gonna do?"

"What do you mean?" he asked. "What's going on?"

Konohamaru studied them and could see that they didn't mean them harm.

"This village has gone crazy," Konohamaru said putting his Rasengan away.

"People have been killing each other left and right," Moegi said. "The only safe thing to do seems to be to stay out of sight."

"What happened?" Choji asked.

"I don't know," Udon said. "The shinobi and villagers alike are just going insane, they don't seem to even recognize anyone. Or, more accurately, it's like they're seeing something or something else."

"A genjutsu," Kiba said.

"Yeah and it seems powerful," Udon said. "Even the Jonin are unable to dispel it, this is bad."

"How are you three unaffected?" Kiba Lee.

"It seems as if the younger people in the village are free of it," Konohamaru said. "We and the other Genin are held up throughout the village, you three had better stay here or else you'll get caught up in whatever's going on out there."

"First thing's first," Kiba said taking charge as the shinobi with the most experience leading a team. "We've got to reset the defenses before we do anything else."

Meanwhile, Naruto was being led through the home by Sasuke to what he expected to be his uncle.

"Here he is," Sasuke said to Naruto before opening the door. "He's going to be interested in meeting you."

Sasuke opened the door and Naruto was shocked at what he found, it wasn't the older man he expected but a man in his twenties.

"Who the fuck are you?" Naruto asked.

"This is Kai Shoryu," Sasuke said. "This is the man that's shown us the way."

"It's an honor to meet you," Kai said. "The boy who worked miracles, isn't that what they call you in the Leaf Village after you saved them from Nagato?"

"What about it?"

"Nothing, I just think it's weird that you had to save them from certain doom for them to finally appreciate you, even if it's for what you've done for them and not just for you."

Naruto grew annoyed as he knew what he was trying to do.

"Listen, that shit's not going to work on me," Naruto snapped. "Now tell me what you want or I'll take you back to the village and fuck you in the street."

"Come on," Kai said. "We're practically relatives and that's how you talk to me?"

"What do you mean," Naruto asked confused.

"I guess if you'd call me anything, I'm a clone of your uncle. You know Orochimaru, don't you?"

Hearing this name, Naruto and, surprisingly, Sasuke looked at each other.

"This fuckin' guy again?" Naruto asked.

"It doesn't end with him," Sasuke added.

"Anyway, your uncle died long ago but Orochimaru took his DNA and…"

"Placed it in babies and you were the only to survive the process," Naruto interrupted. "You inherited his abilities and blah blah blah."

"Yes, I was then placed within a division of what you may know as Root that no one in the Leaf Village other than Danzo himself knew about."

"What about my uncle?"

"Fortunately for him, the inevitable came and he was able to escape this life," Kai explained. "He may have defeated countless shinobi but he couldn't defeat death, not even Orochimaru or the immortals of the Akatsuki could."

"You won't either if you don't tell me what this is all about, unc," Naruto threatened.

"Gladly," Kai said. "What I, forgive me, we want is to end all of this. Nagato had it correct that pain will always exist but where he took the wrong turn was in thinking that it was people that caused pain. Pain and pleasure like hate and love are not opposites but two sides of the same coin, what makes one happy makes another anguish. The opposite of having a coin is not having the coin and that's what we're going to do, we're going to take the coin away. We're going to end it all."

"You know," Naruto said bringing their attention back to him standing as still as can be with his eyes closed. "I miss the days of when I first started out when ninjas were just assholes like that son of a bitch with no eyebrows."

Kai watched as Naruto's eyes opened showing the signs of sage mode, in a blink of an eye Naruto launched an attack against his uncle. Naruto was about connect until Sasuke intervened and took the blow for his new leader, Naruto had a slight grin on his face from laying one on his rival as Sasuke picked himself up after being laid out. Sasuke stared at Naruto and the eyes of the sage were locked onto the Mangekyo Sharingan for the first time.

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