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"Talk"
'Think'
"Talk"
'Think'
The next morning Kakashi awoke with a yawn and rubbed his eye. After Naruto's brutal exectution desplay he went right to his tent. Once inside he pondered what exactly happened to the blond, Shishio and his crew were a violent bunch, but in their bingo books the never resorted to that kind of torture, and fell asleep wondering what exactly made his student this way. Getting out of his tent he looked around the camp and saw that everyone was doing something. Yamato was growing wood for a fire, and Yuugao was sharpening her katana. But his two students looked absolutely horrible, Sasuke didn't show it, but Sakura looked like she didn't sleep at all last night.
But the person of his pondering last night was nowhere to be seen.
"Good morning everyone, have any of you seen Naruto?" Kakashi asked.
"He's still burning the bodies-" Yamato started out.
"The kid has been at it all night." Yuugao finished for him, after moving the stone one more time down her katana.
The perverted Jounin only nodded and went to cook his rations. Breakfast if you could call it that was quiet, no one talked, they just ate. Well more like the two Genin ate while the three scarfed down their meal when a distraction made them turn away from each other. Fifteen minutes later, they then put away their camping supplies and went to find Naruto. They arrived to see several bonfires with bodies in them, the smell burning flesh was overwhelming which made Sakura throw up again. The continued walking trying to ignore the bruning piles until they found Naruto by the last funeral pyre tossing the last body into the flames.
"Good morning, Naruto!" Kakashi greeted his student.
The blond just slowly turned his head to Kakashi. "What exactly is so good about it?" he asked monotonously.
The former Anbu Captain only shrugged, "You are not a morning person are you?"
"What was your first clue?"
"Anyways we have to get moving." Yamato said drawing the Genins attention to him.
"I'll be with you in a few minutes. I gotta use that tree over there" he replied ointing his thumb at it. The men just nodded before walking away, while the older woman just sighed, before dragging the younger one away so she wouldn't make a fool of herself.
Naruto kept his promise by catching up with them a few minutes later. And thankfully there were no interruptions from him until thirty minutes later near a cliffside.
"Why did you stop us Naruto?" Yamato asked, a little annoyed they their progress was halted.
"We are nearing another camp and I have a plan." the blond said and pulled out a map of the area. "This is my plan, from what I can tell, this camp is made up of either mercenaries, and bandits, with the light chance of there being a shinobi or two. From my estimate there are about one-hundred to three-hundred of them. The camp we are approaching is here, closest to the ocean. We will stand on the top of the cliffside, we can rain down jutsu on the enemies, but I have a jutsu that can take them out faster. But before we do this who here knows any fire jutsu's?" he saw Yuugao, Kakashi, and Sasuke raise their hands, "Good, now I want you to use whatever fire jutsu you want after I do my jutsu. Now are there any questions?" he asked the small group.
"Yea why do I have to listen to you?" Sasuke said, Sakura was about to agree with him. But then she remembered what Naruto did last night and decided to keep quiet.
"Listen Uchiha I don't have time for your bullshit. Just for once in your life cooperate with me." Naruto said getting a nod from the seniors of the group, who were actually seeing the the success in this plan.
Sasuke defently wasn't happy hearing that from some poser samurai, but reluctenly followed his orders...for now.
Thirty minutes later they reached the cliff face overlooking the camp. "Alright here we go," Naruto announced to the group before going through several hand seals, "Water Style: Black Rain Jutsu!" he whispered as black clouds formed within the clouds, and by the ocean. The clouds then began pouring black rain on the camp.
"Now!" Naruto ordered. The three performed the required hand seals, and each put an enormous amount chakra into them.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke shouted, shooting the familiar fireball from his mouth.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Kakashi yelled, as the familiar dragon made completely out of fire formed outside his masked mouth, and was launched at the camp.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Yuugao called out, raising part of her mask to launch a a smaller sized dragon at a different part of the camp.
The fire jutsu's decimated the camp from the safety of the cliff, setting the camp aflame. The men screamed seconds before they were engulfed in flames. Tents were blown up, bodies exploded, sending body parts everywhere. In a matter of minutes all that was left of the camp was a giant firestorm, nobody survived. The team then quickly moved onto the main town of Wave. Which would most likely contain Gato. But first they had to reunite with Kurenai and her team. They figured that they can sneak through the forest on the outer edges of the town, and make their way towards Tazuna's house, which was fifteen miles north of the village, and set out immediately.
Kakashi repressed a forlorn scowl at the state of the town. It took them five hours to finally reach the town. Now they've been leaping from rooftop to rooftop for several minutes going towards Tazuna's house with the help of Pakkun; Kakashi's personal summon.
Pakkun, who was currently leading both of them to where he smelled Kurenai, gave him a backwards glance as well, but just as quickly as it was there, it was gone, replaced with slightly widened eyes and a vacant gaze.
Suddenly, Pakkun was going much faster than he had been, "Kakashi, I'm picking up more scents from where I initially smelled Kurenai. A lot more. We should probably hurry."
Kakashi's brow furrowed slightly. The report said Kurenai and her team were injured, then there was the possibility that they wouldn't be able to defend themselves from even the worst of mercenaries. They really didn't have to waste, they increased their speed, however Sakura was falling behind so Yuugao fell behind as well to protect her. After a few more minutes of leaping from roof to roof, Pakkun finally came to a stop. He didn't even need to point out to everyone where Kurenai was.
There were a clump of fifty mercenaries, surrounding a ramshackle house supported by stilts over water. It wasn't large, nor was it small, but it certainly looked to be in disrepair. The mercenaries were apparently doing everything they could to bash in the front door of the house, and were succeeding.
Before he could pull out a Kunai, Naruto put his hand on his wakizashi, unsheathed it with his thumb, and disappeared. A second later he was at the front door and sheathed it with his thumb, then the bodies sprayed out blood and either fell to the deck or into the water, the blood and bodies covering the footprints embedded in the floorboards. The blond caught his breath, and simply knocked on the door. After a few more knocks the door was opened by Kurenai, and behind her was a relieved old man.
"Tsunami! The reinforcements are here!" the man had turned and yelled over his shoulder, and allowed the Leaf ninjas into his house not noticing the dead men on his porch.
"I'm glad you're here. Come we need your assistance." Kurenai said with urgency in her voice.
Kurenai her again to a back room, they both made her way down a hall and to a small door, which she slid open. Those who were inexperienced seeing wounds were horrified.
Shino laid in one of the beds in the room, his right leg was in a splint, and his face was covered in bandages with some blood seeping through.
Kiba laid in the other bed right next to him. He had his right arm in a sling, but Akamaru was unharmed.
And Hinata had some wrappings on her hands, along with some cuts and bruises.
They also took a good look at Kurenai, and noticed the her exposed arm was covered in bandages and in a sling. And she like Hinata also had some cuts and bruises.
"Took you long enough." Kiba said to them.
Naruto immediately told them to relax so he could work on them. He walked over to his fellow Genin, and performed the Diagnosis Jutsu on them.
"So what's the damage?" Kurenai asked, clearly worried for her students.
"It looks a lot worse than it is, but their wounds are pretty bad. Kiba has three broken ribs that are dangerously close to his left lung, his right arm is is broken in four places, and has some very nasty bruises. Shino is recovering thanks to the bugs in him, however his right leg is broken in two places while the other one has a nasty case of shin shock, and his face will have scars if not treated properly."
"What about Hinata?" the exotic Jounin asked.
"She'll recover in a few hours after I'm finished with her. The only thing she is suffering from is two sprained wrists and exhaustion. However I'm worried about that arm of yours, mind if I take a look?"
Nodding Kurenai allowed him to take a look at her arm. "It seems that you have some nerve damage. I'll have to operate immediately if you want to have full use of it again." he told her the grim news. Naruto then took out his scroll, opened it, and in a small cloud of smoke there were various medical supplies.
"Kakashi, Yuugao, and Yamato. I will need two of you to go through town and kill any enemies in town. And one of you to guard the house, because I know Haruno isn't strong enough to fight off anyone. The Uchiha can defend off a few at a time and actually kill someone, but he doesn't have the stamina to take on fifty or more well trained mercenaries or bandits. I would like to accompany you myself, but it appears I'm the only one with any medical experience out of all of us." Naruto told them before ushering them out of the room to patch up Team Eight.
And sure enough a few hours later Naruto finally came our of the room wiping the blood off a scalpel, and saw that everyone was in the living room.
"So how are they?" Yuugao asked.
"Answer me first, did you do the deed?" the blond teenager asked.
"Yes Kakashi-sempai and myself eliminated every bandit and mercenary in the village." Yamato answered him, "Now please answer the question Yuugao-chan asked."
"They will recover. They'll have to take it easy though." Naruto responded calmly.
"What do you mean by that?" Kakashi asked.
"Well I had to operate on Kurenai first, like I said she had some nerve damage, and I had to reattach them. She'll be able to use the arm in two weeks. Hinata's wrists were very easy to fix, all she needs is some bed rest and she'll be able to be on active duty again. However for Shino I had to use a lot of healing chakra to fix up his legs and a little on his face, but with the bugs in him he'll be ready at the end of the week. But Kiba will be out for an undetermined amount of time, I fixed his ribs but they are still very brittle. I just finished fixing his arm but it'll take an experienced Medic-nin to completely heal it completely. I'm going to have a clone to keep an eye on him in case his condition worsens." Naruto told them the results of his healing powers.
"Naruto-san have you worked in the hospital?" Yamato asked.
"Nope."
"Really? Because with a little more training you could become as good as Tsunade." the wood user remarked, impressed at Naruto's healing skills at this age.
"I'm more of a fighter than a healer, plus I would never become as good as Tsunade." Naruto admitted, thinking he should expand his medical training a bit after this mission was done and over with.
"Has Kurenai told you anything about the mission so far?" Kakashi asked.
"Yes she said she used one of her nastier genjutsu's on Zabuza, and if I'm correct his partner used senbon to put him in a death-like state so he'll be out for...two weeks at the most. Now if you'll excuse me I am very tired." he told them going back upstairs. Leaving behind a baffled group wondering just who the hell he actually was.
A few days later we find Kakashi, Kurenai, Sasuke, Sakura, Hinata, and Naruto in the forest around five in the morning.
"Sensei what are we doing here?" Sakura asked, clearly annoyed at being woken up this early.
"Today, we start training," Kakashi announced, "I assume you all know what chakra is, right?" when the four Genin nodded, Kakashi sighed in relief knowing each second counted on this mission. "I'm gonna teach you how to harness it correctly."
"But we can already use jutsu," Sasuke retorted.
"Nope!" said Kakashi, looking up a tree. "You guys aren't using it correctly." seeing their confused looks, he continued. "To release chakra means to harness spiritual and physical energy in your body and mix them within you. Based on what jutsu you use, the type and amount of chakra that is released will be different. But you guys aren't using your chakra effectively. Even if you're able to release a high amount of chakra, it isn't worth spit if you can't control it properly any jutsu you use will be weakened or won't work at all. So basically, you'll be screwed in a fight because of wasting energy."
"So what do you want us to do?" Sakura asked slightly intreagued now.
"You guys are gonna learn how to control your chakra by climbing trees." Kurenai told them.
"How will tree climbing help us?" Sakura asked again, thinking that the Jounin was sick in the head because of Naruto's improper healing.
Kakashi only eye-smiled, "You'll be doing it without using your hands."
Putting his hands in the tiger seal, a faint bit of dust lifted from his feet, Kakashi then turned to his tree and walked straight up it, "You gather chakra in the soles of your feet and climb. The main purpose of this exercise is to teach you chakra control. Bringing out the right amount to the right area, this is essential when using jutsu. Hell, even a skilled ninja has trouble with this exercise. The amount of chakra needed for tree climbing is small, but it must be exact. They say that the soles of the feet are extremely difficult to gather chakra at. So basically, if you master this, then you can master any jutsu...in theory, that is.
"The second purpose is to give you stamina needed for Chakra Control. Depending on the jutsu, controlling your chakra can be difficult as well. And a shinobi will usually be doing this while constantly moving. These typesof situations can be very stressful on you and your chakra control. That's why you'll be climbing trees."
"Kakashi, Hinata and I are going skip out on this one." Naruto said.
"And why would that be?"
"We already know how to do it."
"Really? Care to prove it?" Kakashi asked.
"Kakashi I walked on fricking water when we fought, and with Hinata being from the Hyuuga Clan she's supposed to know this by the time she entered the acadamy." the blond used his logic of clan requirments, and his commen sense to force Kakashi into seeing he was right. Kurneai's acknowledgement further proved he was correct in skipping this exercise.
"Alright then you two go off and do your own training, but on the condition that Kurenai will go with you." Kakashi told them, having his perverted mind prevent any distractions.
After placing himself a few miles from the three Naruto lead both Hinata and Kurenai into a clearing by a stream. He knew why Kakashi asked Kurenai to come with them, however it really didn't matter much since he needed to help Hinata, and get some help from Kurenai to do it.
"Alright it's time for your training, but I have to find a out a few things." Naruto said pulling out two blank pieces of paper.
"Naruto where did you get those chakra cards?" Kurenai exclamed seeing those pieces of paper.
"Chakra cards?" Hinata asked, quite obviously confused.
"Hinata chakra cards are made from trees that were fed and nurtured by chakra for a long time. But these are used when you become a Jounin, so Naruto why do you have them?"
"I paid off a Jounin for them." Naruto lied but in reality he swiped them from one that gave him a nasty look, "Now Hinata the training I'm going to put you through will help you. Now I want you to channel chakra into the paper so I can find out your elemental alignment. Now before you ask an elemental alignment it's the element that you are intoned to. For example: Throughout the Shinobi Nation people have been aligned with their countries name. Like Water Country they mainly have water users, Fire Country has fire users, and so on." Naruto paused so Hinata could take all this information in.
"If you're lightning natured the paper crumbles, wind cut it in half, fire burns it, water gets it wet, and earth turns it to dust. There are also secondary elements take the Shodaime Hokage for example the Shodaime combined his water and earth elements to create the wood element, thus making it a bloodline. There are also other people who have said bloodlines."
"Really? Mind telling us Naruto?" Kurenai asked.
"Not really. During my travels I've met people who had the ice element, magma element, boil element, hell I even met a guy with the metal element. But we're getting off topic, Hinata I want you to channel the chakra into the card."
Hinata did what she was told, and it became wet.
Raising an eyebrow the blond took it from her to see if his eyes weren't failing him, but with a conformation from the fox and the feel of water he was sure he wasn't being fooled, "That's a surprise...this is the first time I've seen a water element in Fire Country. Kurenai do you know your element?"
"Yes it's fire. But I'm curious what is yours?" the exotic Jounin asked, clearly curious about the mysterious Genin.
"What I'm going to show you will be a secret between us, no one will know about this got it?" Naruto told them. Seeing them nod he held up his card and it split into four separate pieces, caught on fire, got wet, crumpled up, and turned to dust in that respective order.
Seeing their shocked looks Naruto explained, "As you just saw I'm intoned with all five elements. But it's not natural I went through a Forbidden Jutsu so I can gain the abilities, and no the jutsu doesn't exist anymore so don't try to ask me about it. Now onto your training Hinata do you know water walking?"
Two Weeks Later
For nearly two weeks Naruto trained both Hinata and Kurenai -though if he was honest with himself it was under her in the art of genjutsu-. He taught Hinata water walking until it was second nature to her along with some simple water jutsus. Kurenai taught her the basics of genjutsu, and got her to open up and get closer to Naruto. At first it was difficult because Hinata kept saying it was against the Hyuuga Clan code to learn anything other than the noble are of the Gentle Fist. Naruto bluntly told her that was a complete load of crap, and proceeded to prove it buy sparing with her using nothing but two jutsus. He sneaked away, use the Shadow Clone Jutsu to distract her, and then use Earth Style: Head Hunter Jutsu to pull her underground, and held his katana to her forehead. Needless to say she cooperated fully. While he he was training her he learned from Kurenai about the unfortunate incident ten years ago. And soon after that he practically forced his logic into the young hieress' head that it wasn't her fault.
Yea everything was going well...until that night.
As everyone sat at the dinner table, they chatted about random things. The weather, training, dreams, and other thing you talk about during dinner.
But when Inari came downstairs, many could tell that all hell was about to break loose.
"Why?" the little boy asked, his teary eyes hidden by his bucket hat.
Naruto sighed, 'What is this kid, a parrot?'
Sasuke, who was too much of a jackass to keep his thoughts to himself, spoke up. "What now, come to annoy us again?" he snorted.
Inari snapped, "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? Why are you training to fight someone like Gato? You're just going to get yourselves killed! No one can beat him, least of all you people!"
Naruto, who had listened to Inari's emo babble for the past two weeks, decided enough was enough. "Kid, you're underestimating our abilities. Gato is nothing but a fat midget hiding behind his money and his thugs. We are here to take the bastard out so let us do our job, so you can get on with your life."
Inari glared at Naruto. "What do you know? You've probably lived your entire life in comfort, never having to worry about anything! YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT PAIN AND SUFFERING!"
Naruto's fist smashed into the table reducing his portion of it into dust. "You little punk! You think we don't know about suffering?" Naruto icy voice was directed towards the youngest person at the table, and started going through hand seals. "Well if you want to see suffering I will gladly show you." he continued going through a few hand seals and called out, "Naruto's Secret Art: Flashback Jutsu!".
A huge holographic image appeared in front of Inari's face, and started showing Naruto's memories.
Naruto's Flashback
It was night and an eight year old Naruto was sleeping peacefully...until an explosion shook the hideout, and the sounds of screaming woke everybody up.
He was greeted with the sight of tens of thousands of men outside of their hideout.
"Lord Shishio what's going on?" Naruto asked.
"All the ninja villages teamed up for the first time in history just to take us down, what an honor." Shishio said sarcastically, "Naruto prepare yourself, this battle will be the greatest highlight of your life." he told him.
The intruders reached the entrance where they met Anji, Seta, Naruto, and Usui.
Anji took his taijutsu stance and started bashing the intruders into bloody chunks. One unfortunate Stone ninja met his end by his fist blowing a clean hole through his stomach, while another one tried attacking him from behind; only to find his torso seperated from his waist from his lightning fast kick.
Seta gave his opponents his famous false smile before simply disappearing. His opponents who consisted about one-hundred Sand shinobi paused to see where he was. That brief second ended up costing them their lives before their various body parts fell to the ground in a bloody heap.
"Usui where the hell is Henya?" Naruto asked slicing diagonally upwards, cutting a Star-nin's face in two.
"He's collecting his dynamite!" Usui replied using his tortoise shell to bash a Stone-nin's skull in, and used his short spear to pierce a Cloud-nin's chest.
Suddenly they heard a voice shout out, "Fire Style: Great Dragon Flame Jutsu!" a raging ball of fire the shape of a great dragons head flew towards the thoroughly panicking ninja. Just as it neared them, there was another shout. "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" the voice continued as a great gust of wind came out of nowhere. The wind was faster than fire, the wind jutsu met the fireball just as it descended upon the doomed ninja's position.
For just a split second, it seemed as though the wind jutsu would completely dissipate the fire jutsu. The fireball seemed to lose all its power as the wind blades embedded into it.
And then everything caught fire.
It was as if a river of fire from hell itself had manifested on earth. The fire from the fireball simply exploded outwards, engulfing and feeding off the air, while at the same time maintaining its momentum. The fire seemed to flow on the current of air that the wind had created, and in mere moments, what had once been a huge ball of fire, was now a flowing river of incineration.
They didn't even have time to scream. The ninja's position had been huddled together. The river of fire slowed when it hit the wall of flesh. But only slightly, everyone saw the searing of flesh, the evaporation of bodily liquids, and it was literally like an oven with the heat of the flames. They could also hear a few of the horrified screams of the dying. And then, the fire dissipated.
Piles of ash. Bodies half consumed with nothing but scorch, the rest of the body was simply a pile of cinders. It just wasn't a pretty sight.
Everyone turned to see Henya. The man was smirking and asked, "Am I late for the party?"
"You sunava of a bitch get in the air and bomb the hell out of everyone!" Naruto cheered.
Henya unfolded his cloak showing off his emaciated body, and took off into the air using his magnificent use of his wind affinity. They cheered as he dropped his bombs on the enemy for a few minutes until he was assaulted by the Bat Clan of Lightning Country. That was when he took out his katars and started slashing them out of the sky instead of dropping bombs, leaving the others to hack at the enemy.
Naruto formed a whip made of fire in his left hand, swung it, and took out three Stone Chuunin. While he used his katana to fend off the others. What he didn't notice that a Cloud Anbu snuck up behind him, and put his katana through his collarbone. Crying out in pain he fell to the ground the Anbu was about to finish the job when he found himself cut vertically in half.
"You alright kid?"
"Yes I'm alright Henya-se...ns...ei." Naruto looked on in horror to see that Henya was missing his left eye, had bite marks and lacerations all over his frail body.
"We're...retreating into the hideout." he said coughing up some blood.
"Alright let's head inside and let Yumi-nee-chan fix you up." Naruto said only for Henya to drop his katars in his hands.
"No, you retreat...grow strong Naruto." Henya said and then took flight. He went high into the sky, lit his remaining dynamite, fell towards earth.
And went out with a bang.
Hundreds of Shishio's men ran outside to hold off the enemy. It took Naruto fifteen minutes to get to Shishio's office and tell him the grim news, however they were interrupted when one of their shinobi rushed into the room.
"Lord Shishio the enemy has infiltrated the base! We lost Anji, Cho, and Saizuchi. And worst of all over half of our men betrayed us!"
"WHAT! Naruto come with me, we'll go all out and kill everyone of them." Shishio told the boy. Naruto nodded and put on his newly acquired katars. It took them a few minutes to reach the battle where the rope bridge was, and ran over to join the fight.
Fuji had forgone his armor, and was hacking away his foes with his zanbato grinning like a mad man, Seta was using One Step Below Shukuchi (Reduced Earth) to take out his enemies, Hoji was sniping off his enemies with kunai and shuriken, Yumi was trying to heal Usui, Kamatari was cutting down foes with his scythe, and Iwambo was swatting them all over the place.
Naruto saw some Rain and Cloud ninja sneak past everyone and tried to attack Yumi. Usui saw this and pushed her out of the way taking the hit in the heart, and killed the two before dying with a smile on his face. Then he and Shishio ran into the middle of the fight. Naruto swung his right katar at a man's head, reveling in the arterial spray and the meaty thunk of the man's head hitting the floor. He spun around and sliced another mans stomach open, Naruto then stabbed a Cloud-nin in the throat, flipped over his head and stabbed a Snow-nin in the back of the head.
Shishio smirked when he saw Naruto fight, and started using his blade to cause some carnage. He appeared in front of a group of men trying to flee, taking all four of their heads off at once. He then turned and impaled a man that had tried to sneak up on him. He used some friction on his blade catching it on fire, he jammed his blade deep into a Mist-nins stomach catching him on fire and threw him into a group of Rain-nin's catching them on fire. He turned his head and saw a Waterfall-nin charging him from the corner of his eye. He ran at the man, dragging his sword along the ground, creating sparks and igniting his blade again. When he neared the man, he swung his sword upwards, splitting him from his crotch to his head.
Naruto heard a cry of pain and saw Fuji get pierced by a stalagmite, badly injured by a wind jutsu, and punched hard enough to hear his ribs break. The giant fell into the stalagmite filled pit, and died on impact. He saw the men who did it a Stone Jounin with a terrible burn scar on the right side of his face, a Sand Jounin with the entire right side of his face covered by a white cloth and two red striped tattoo's on the left side of his face, and a huge Snow Jounin with a robotic arm.
While he was distracted he was hit by a piece of shrapnel by a earth jutsu, and it cut horizontally across his left cheek. Then a Stone Anbu launched a kunai with an exploding tag ready to hit him...until Iwambo leaped in front of the attack. The kunai pierced his fat stomach, and he lost it after the note detonated. The blond got a good look at the man, he was built like a bear, had an eye-patch on his left eye, and a scar going across his chin.
"Everyone retreat into the chamber!" Shishio ordered.
"Go on ahead I'll by you some time." Kamatari said readying his scythe, while a good handful of the men still loyal to them stayed by the crossdresser.
Sadly nodding they left them to their fate.
Half an hour later the last four members of The Ten Swords and a handful of soldiers heard them bash on the steel doors, they were ready for their last stand. However the remaining four members knew one of them was too young to die, so like a telepathic link they decided for him to live.
"Naruto." Shishio suddenly said.
"Yes Lord Shishio?" Naruto asked.
"Are you ready to fight?"
"Yes, it was an honor to die with you."
"It was an honor to fight with you my student, but it's not your time to die." Shishio said confusing Naruto.
"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked.
"Farewell my son." was all Shishio said before Naruto fell through the floor.
It was the last thing he would see, the remorsefull looks on their faces, and the sound of the steel doors busting down.
After an unknown amount of time Naruto crawled out of the darkness, and into the room where he was ready to die. But the battle was already over and the results were devastating.
The room where Shishio's last stand, and the room where he first met the members of The Ten Swords was completely destroyed. The white marble tiles were stained with blood, the beautiful paintings, marble, stone, and jade statues were either destroyed or looted.
He went through the ruined base and saw the many bodies of the the invaders, soldiers loyal to Shishio, and his family. Yumi looked like she was brutality raped before they killed her, Seta's body was cut into pieces, Hoji was cut in half, Kamatari's body had several deep stab and slash marks, Fuji's body was still in the stalagmite filled pit that pierced his vital areas, Usui still had the stab mark in his heart area, Iwambo's stomach and was completely hollowed out, Anji's body had over fifty known weapons stuck in him, Cho was mutilated, Saizuchi was torn limb from limb, Henya's remains were all over the place, and Shishio looked like he was brutally tortured and executed.
Their heads were severed from their bodies, and their weapons were taken from their corpses. But he had no time to grieve enemy shinobi were still in the area, but as much as he wanted to kill them he had to leave.
Days later Naruto found himself in a nearby village, and the heads of his family on wooden platters behind a bamboo cage. The image would be forever burnt into his mind seeing their remorsefull looks, and not ones of peace. Later that night the blond was staring into his campfire. He got up and stuck his right hand into the fire. "With this oath of pain I will avenge all of you."
Months later Inari saw Naruto in a city; Shanghai The Demon City to be exact. The poor boy then saw the horrors of the Demon City. They saw him getting mugged of all the money he had and katars, beaten, tortured, several attempted murders, and several failed hangings. He saw his body ravaged with disease, and saw him eating corpses just to survive, and saw they finally saw him lying on the ground next to several skeletons and other rotting corpses; his body skin and bones in only a few months after arriving in the horrid city.
The memory turned black for a few seconds, and then the memory showed a healthier Naruto finding the people who tortured him, robbed him of his katars, and tried to kill him. The memory showed him finding them, taking them into alleyways, buildings, or in public with hundreds of witnesses, and literally ripped them apart.
But what made the eight year old cry was seeing Naruto's face. One of peace and innocence when he was his age change into that a heartless cold blooded killer.
Then the memory went black.
Flashback Ends
Naruto ended his jutsu to see Inari was openly shedding tears.
He then undid a very minor genjutsu on his face so everyone could see the scar on his left cheek, and removed part of his right glove to showed Inari a charred black hand which made him recoil in horror.
"Inari if there is one lesson you need to learn is that no matter how bad you have it someone always has it worse. Now if I hear how cry about how crappy your life is again. I'll rip out your spine and use it as a whip to slay anymore enemies I will come across." the angery blond then got out of his seat and headed towards the door, but before he left he stopped by Inari's chair and whispered, "And if you tell anyone what you saw, you'll wish you were dead." with that said Naruto walked out the door and into the night.
Armageddon: Yo I redid this chapter quite a bit. Now if you are wondering why only Inari saw Naruto's memories, well I read through this and decided that not everyone needed to know about his past...yet. As for him threatening Inari it was just an empty threat, but he doesn't know that hehehe.