Repo

The ninja opera

How long had he been doing this? He honestly could no longer remember a time that he had not been cover in the blood of others. He knew once, long ago, there had been a time. But it seemed so distant, so long ago, that it seemed more like a dream now. He did remembered his mother though, how she had found him on the street, how she had taken him in, how she had cared about him, how she had loved him, how he had killed her. That image was still crystal clear, how she fainted, how she had bleed out, how she had died, how all he could do was cry and beg her not to leave him.

'No, he couldn't do this now, that had been years ago, he was over it, he had moved on. He had to stop living in the past, he had a life now. It wasn't perfect but it was his and he was doing the best he could. He had just been named the head surgeon at the hospital; at 18 he was youngest on record by almost six years. He was celebrated as the greatest medical genius surpassing even his own mother the legendary Tsunade. And on top of that he had been dating the love of his life for the past three years. Just the thought of her smiling face was all he needed to get him through the day. But still there was this monster casting its shadow over his happy life. Being a repo man hadn't bothered him for many years, it had become second nature to him by now, but he had no delusions as to what would happen if the world found out. He would be dismissed from his job at the hospital, after all what kind of doctor goes's around killing the people that he had sworn to heal. And what would Hinata think, would she call him a monster, would she leave him, he didn't know and he had no intention of ever finding out. He didn't know what he would do if he had ever lost her, she had become his anchor to reality, something normal he could cling to. Just thinking about her made the small box in his packet feel all the heavier. It had been there for almost a month, he had tried to ask her on more than one occasion but the word would never leave his mouth. He loved her too much to ask her to marry him. How could he, not while he was still a repo man, it wouldn't be fair to ask that of her. Of course the answer was obvious to the uninformed, he could just quit the repo game, and it wasn't like he needed the money. But it wasn't that easy. He had been doing this for over seven years now. It was a part of who he was He was good at it, he even found himself enjoying it from time to time. He didn't know if he could even give it up even if he wanted to. Not to mention the little fact that orochimaru would not take his retirement very well, he wouldn't put it past the snake to make him disappear. But these where problem for another time, he was still a repo man and he had a job to do.

It had almost become too easy. Time and again he would find his targets just walking the streets. They had to know that he was coming after them; you don't just forget something as important as if you had paid your bill that month. But still they walked out in the open, and they where always surprised when he showed up. Not that he really cared but he still had to wonder at the collective intelligence of the civilians. It wasn't even like it was just Konaha either, over the year's gene co. had grown by leaps and bounds and now there were gene co. offices in every major village in the world. And of course as gene co. grew so too did repo, and as his senior repo man it had been his job to train the new batch of repo men. At the end of that little project he had turned out almost twenty new repo men, he had also come to the conclusion that he hated teaching and had to wonder just how kakashi had done it. He was getting distracted again. He shook his head, he had gotten distracted again. There was a spinal column down there that had his, well gene co's., name on it and it wasn't just going to just going to cut itself out. So as quietly as he could he ran up behind the man and slammed his head in to the wall of an adjacent building knocking the man unconscious. From there it was simple to peel the skin and muscle from around the man's spine. The hard park was cutting the spine from the base of the head and the hips, but this wasn't his first and he had already done this procedure that it only took him a few minutes. Finished he packed up and walked of in the direction of his house, he had was having lunch with Hinata and wanted to get a few hours sleep before.

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It had been another long day. Three surgeries in a row, sometimes he thought that the director and orochimaru where conspiring together to see just how little sleep he could run on. And that wasn't the worst of it. No, instead of heading home to try and get a few hours sleep, he was being forced to appear at some benefit dinner the hospital was hosting. At least Hinata would be happy; it had been a while since she had had the chance to dress up. Lost in his thoughts he didn't even notice the person in front of him until the where both on the ground. "Sorry." He mumbled to the person while trying to collect the papers he had dropped.

"Its fine Naruto, besides it's been a while and I wanted to see you any way. Though this wasn't exactly what I had had in mind when I had planned on 'running into you.'" She laughed.

She wasn't lying; it had been almost two months since they had last talked. He and sakura had actually become rather close friends. It had been hard at first, his free time was at a premium between the hospital and his night job, but they had somehow made it work, often having lunch together, along with Hinata some times. However as time went on both had gotten more and more caught up in their work. He had gotten more and more involved with his work at the hospital. And she, after making chunin, had become gene co's. Full time spokesperson as well as becoming one of the greatest singers in the village, found her own free time diminishing. But still they had been able to meet every now and again and had stayed friends. Not that it was that surprising. Sasuke had disappeared into the unnamed ranks of anbu some years ago, not that he was ever really up for making friends. Then there was kakashi he still didn't know how they had convinced him to become Hokage, though knowing him they either bribed him with copious amounts of smut or they had blacked mailed him into it. In any case they had never really gotten on that well so he didn't really mind not seeing him all that often. "It has been awhile hasn't it?" he asked sheepishly while rubbing the back of his neck.

Sakura could only shake her head at her old teammate. He really was one of the oddest people she knew, well maybe not as weird as orochimaru and his kids but that wasn't exactly saying much. "Yes it has, but don't worry where both busy people and besides I imagine I'll be seeing you at the party tonight, after all the hospitals holding it and you are their golden boy after all." She laughed a little at the nick name.

"You're going to be there? I don't suppose you know what the whole things about, no one bothered to tell me?" he wasn't really all that surprised that she was going, she was the face of gene co. after all.

"Of course, this whole thing has something to do with some kind of new painkiller or something, I'm not entirely sure. But whatever this new drug is it's made by gene co. so I've got the job of presenting it to everyone." She said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Well that's news to me, it's a little odd to be holding a party just for a new drug but whatever, and it will give Hinata a chance to dress up so she'll be happy." It was actually kind of odd that he hadn't heard anything about this; he spent enough time around the building.

"Anyways I just wanted to see if you were going to be there, it would have really sucked if I had been stuck alone in a room full of people I didn't know." She finished with a warm smile.

"Yha don't worry me and Hinata will be there to save you from all the perverted old men." He laughed.

Sakura just shook her head. "You really are an oddball Naruto. Any way I have to get moving but I'll see you tonight." And with that she waved bye to him and walked past him.

He turned. "Yha see you tonight."

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Naruto had forgotten just how much he had hated getting dressed up. There were only two suits he felt comfortable in his hospital scrubs and his repo suit. Unfortunately this was a formal event and scrubs where out of the question and he didn't think that his repo suit was exactly formal either.

"Stop fussing." Said Hinata in frustration.

"Fine, fine. But you know how much I hate having to wear this monkey suit." He whined

Even after all these years still found herself shaking her head at her boyfriend. "Really, it's not that bad and besides you only have to where it for a few hours, and if you behave yourself I might even help you out of it, if you know what I mean. She said with a coy little smile. It had taken a few months for her to simply stop stuttering whenever she had been around him but eventually she had opened up and well the rest was history.

That got him to stop fidgeting with the western style suit. "Well with incentive like that I think I can be convinced to behave for a few hours, but you know I'm going to be a bundle of pent up energy when we get home." He said with a cocky grin.

Hinata just laughed it off and grabbed his arm as the continued walking down the street toward the hospital.

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Despite what most people think, Naruto had never been overly conferrable in large crowds, it had only gotten worse over the years, he had become accustomed to being on his own for most of the time, not to mention he spent almost half his time as a repo man and they weren't exactly known for their social skills. Still he had Hinata by his side, and at least he wasn't the center of attention here. No that honour belong to someone else, it wasn't often that orochimaru mad a public appearance but this was his drug they were débuting so it was only expected that he be there. Unfortunately that also meant that his kids where there as well. Kiba was of in one corner hitting on anything with two legs and the right reproductive organs. Ino was off with to the side surrounded by a number of other girls most likely talking about her latest surgery. Then there was Kabuto, by far the freakiest one of the lot. Somewhere along the line his face had become horribly scared, however that was nothing compared to how he had remedied the problem. Instead of getting regular plastic surgery like most normal people he went around steeling woman's and stretching them over his own and attaching them with clips he had had surgically installed. He was also by far the vainest person he had ever met, as evident by the fact that he was currently off in a corner by himself simply admiring himself in a mirror. However he didn't really care about them, they had an unspoken agreement, don't mess with me, I don't mess with you. It also helped that even they knew that their father would be less than happy if he lost his head repo man. However his thoughts were soon cut off as the light dimmed and a spot light illuminated the stage. Apparently sakura was up. He wasn't really an opera person but even he had to admit that sakura really was an exhalent singer.

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The night was almost over. As it turned out this whole night's event had been about some new painkiller called zhydrate. It had looked promising, but he knew better then to take anything that orochimaru had made at face value. Still the night had been almost enjoyable; he got to spend some much needed quality time with Hinata as well as having the chance to catch up with sakura. However he knew his luck couldn't hold out too long he wasn't surprised to see the orochimaru was now making a bee line for him. He knew that this wasn't going to be pleasant, and with Hinata he standing beside him he couldn't even act like he normally would.

"Ah, Naruto my boy, it's so good to see you again. I was almost afraid that you'd be too busy to make it. After all, the way I hear it your always seem to be busy doing one thing or another." He greeted with a hint of amusement in his sickeningly slick voice.

God he had never heated the man and his games more than he did right now. "It's good to see you as well, what's it been almost two years now?" orochimaru had offered him a position as one of his lead doctors at gene co. almost two years ago. Naruto had politely refused. That had been the last time they had talked in public. Of course as his lead repo man they had talked with each other at least once a month. "And as for being busy, well what can I say? Every time I find myself with some free time something else always seems to pop up."

"Yes yes, I know how it can be. I seem to be finding myself with less and less time to myself. But enough about me, now why don't you introduce this lovely lady on your arm?" with a predatory glint in his eye.

Naruto groaned in his head, of course he would bring Hinata into this, fucking snake. "Oh how rude of me. Orochimaru this is my date Hinata Huuga. Hinata this is orochimaru, he was on the same squad as my mother, in fact he's probably the closest thing I have to family now." 'Let's see how you handle that you snake faced bastered.' He thought to himself.

Orochimaru just laughed quietly. "Yes, I guess that's true. In fact I've always thought of you as my favourite nephew." The way he said it almost made him sound genuine, but Naruto had been around the man long enough to know when he was just having fun. "But how rude of me to ignore such a beauty," he said as he took Hinata's hand and lightly kissed the back of her had. "It's a pleasure to meet you and might I say it's about time my little Naruto-kun found someone." He said as he released her hand. He turned back to Naruto. "you're a very lucky boy Naruto, a girl like this only comes along once in a life time, you'd best hold onto her before some else sets their eyes on her." He smirked at his own veiled threat.

Naruto unconsciously held Hinata a little tighter. "Their welcome to try, but I'm hardly a pushover." He was losing their little game and he knew it.

"Of course, of course. I would expect nothing less concerning some one as beautiful as her." He smiled at the end indicating that the game was over and that he had been the clear winner. "However, as much fun as this had been I really must be going. But before I do I just wanted to let you know that my offer still stands. After all gene co. is always looking for people with ... talents like yours." And with that he bid them goodbye and walked off into the crowd.

"I didn't know you where so close with him." Hinata said bringing Naruto's thought back to the real world.

"I don't know if I would say that we where 'close' per say. But I have known him for some time now and as such just know how to talk to him" Hinata just nodded her head in understanding. "now I believe that you promised to help me get out of this stupid suit if I behaved, and as far as I can tell I conducted myself as a perfect gentlemen so?" he asked with a playful look.

"Did I? I don't seem to remember saying anything like that. Are you sure you didn't just imagine it?" she asked innocently.

"Oh no you don't, you not getting out of it that easily." and with that he grabbed her arm and started to run home Hinata right behind him.

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He hated how complicated this was, he loved her, she loved him it should of been as simple as that. He wanted to be with her forever, he wanted to marry her, he wanted to settle down and start a family. But that was the thing, besides the fact that he would never be able to keep his other life a secret from her, it wasn't fair to ask her to marry him when she didn't even know about that part of him. The only way he would be able to ask her would be if he quit. And that thought just brought up other problems. The biggest was that he knew that orochimaru would be less then pleased at the thought of losing his best repo man. Not to mention part of him simply didn't want to stop and if he was being honest with himself he wasn't entirely sure that he could even stop if he wanted to. He had been a repo man longer then he had been a ninja and doctor it had become a part of what he was and he didn't think he could just give that up not even for Hinata. He was just so confused. He needed some advice, but the list of people he could go to was unsurprisingly short. Orochimaru was out for obvious reasons and the only other person that knew his secret was kakashi and he was hesitant to go to the man with his problems. He could always ask the person he was stalking but he doubted that he would be much help. No he would just have to work this out on his own. However until then he had a job to do. Deciding that he wasn't in the mood to listen to the man's screams he simply stabbed the man in the base of the skull before he even knew what was happening. Laying the man down on the ground he simply cut away all the skin and mussel around the man's stomach. He was just there for his large intestines so nothing else needed to be done. Afterward he packed up and started back to the gene co building still trying to think of a solution to his problem. He had to hurry though, he didn't want Hinata to wake up and find that he wasn't there. He was lucky that she was a heavy sleeper an so far hadn't woken up to find that he wasn't there, though knowing his luck it was bound to happen sooner or later.

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It had been a week since the party at the hospital and Naruto and Hinata where having lunch together at a small restaurant near the hospital. He still hadn't decided on what he was going to do. He simply couldn't come to a decision one way or another; it was like he was fighting a never ending war inside himself, the Naruto that loved Hinata with all his heart on one side and the repo man on the other. However currently his thoughts where on the odd behaviour of the girl sitting across from him. Not only had she reverted back to the shy girl she had first been when they became friends, she also seemed paler for some reason. He wasn't sure what the problem was but he was sure something was wrong. "Hinata is something bothering you; you know you can tell me anything." He was such a hypocrite.

"Ano, its nothing." She said staring down at her food while pocking her fingers together like she did when she was younger.

Now Naruto knew something was wrong, she hadn't done that for years now. Quickly running threw a mental list of the things it could be the only thing he could come up with that would make her revert back in to the nervous little girl he had meet all those years ago was that she had figured out his secret. Naruto suddenly felt a cold dread take hold of his heart; she was scared of him, that was the only explanation. 'No that was imposable. He had been careful; it had to be something else.' But even as he though this he couldn't feel a cold sweet breaking. "I know something's bothering you, I'm sure you'd feel better if you told me." He couldn't help the tremble in his voice; it took everything he had to simply form the words.

Hinata was looking vary intently down at her food and pressing her fingers together so hard it was surprising that they hadn't broken yet. "Ano ... it's just ... I mean ... that is ... that I think I might be pregnant." The last part had come out so quiet that Naruto almost missed it.

He thought his heart had actually stopped there for a second. Did he hear her right, she was pregnant, he was going to be a father, he was going to be a father. That was all he could think of at that moment; no longer did anything else seem to matter. It was at that point that all debate between his repo life and Hinata stopped. It had become so obvious that he felt like kicking himself. He loved Hinata; he already knew that he would love their child. Nothing that the repo man could give him could ever compare to that love.

Hinata didn't know what to do; everything had suddenly gone so quiet. It had been almost a minute and he still hadn't said anything. Was he happy, or angry, disappointed? She just wished that he would say something anything, though she hopped that he would be happy.

Everything was suddenly so clear to him now, he knew what his future was now, he would marry Hinata and they would raise there child and they would grow old together and everything would be fine. It was then that he realised that no one had said anything for over a minute. It was then that he got up and walked around the table and got down on one knee and took both her hands in his hand. "Hinata you've just made me the happiest man in the world right now." He said looking up into her eyes that where already starting to water over. He then reached into one of the pockets in his pants. "I've been waiting for the right time to ask you this, and id ought that a better one is going to come along anytime soon." With that he opened the box and inside was a gold band with a number of small diamonds surrounding one large one. "Would you make me even happier?" he asked.

By this time the tears were running down her face. She had dreams of this day, had imagined it happening so many different ways, but none of them could compare to the real thing. She was so choked up with emotion that she found that she could no longer form words all she could do was nod her head in a silent yes.

Naruto slipped the ring on her finger then got up and pulled her to her feet and hugged her like he had no intention of ever letting go, and in all honestly that arrangement sounded just fine with him.

By now Hinata could no longer stop her tears, she was so happy; nothing else mattered to her now. His odd behaviour, his workaholic work ethic, the fact that he couldn't cook worth a dam. None of it mattered anymore, they were getting married and they had a baby on the way and everything was going to be fine.

Naruto was in haven nothing could bring him down, well nothing but the thought of just how orochimaru was going to take his retirement, but as far as he was concerned he had given the man seven years of his life and now it was time that he started to think about himself.

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This was it; there was no going back, no taking no for an answer. He quickly walked toward the receptionist.

"Ah, hello Naruto nice to see you again." she said in an overly sweet voice. "I assume that you here to see orochimaru?" all Naruto did was nod in the affirmative. "Well your in luck he's currently free," she pushed the button that opened the doors. "Oh and by the way congratulations on you engagement to Hinata, she really is such a nice girl."

He didn't even bother responding to the girl, his entire focus was on the man sitting behind the desk in the middle of the room. "Ah Naruto-kun what a surprise, I thought that you would be to ... busy to come and see me tonight." He greeted in his overly friendly voice.

"I assure you the last thing that I wanted to do today was come and talk to you." he said with some heat in his voice.

"Oh, then if you don't mind my asking just what are you doing here then?" he asked

Naruto closed his eyes and gathered his resolve. "I want out." was all he said

"Out? Out of what?" he asked curiously

"I've been you repo man for over seven years now and I can't keep doing this anymore. It's not like there aren't others that can't take my place." He'd try reasoning with the snake man; it wouldn't do to lose his temper this early in the conversation.

"Your quitting then, is that it?" his voice didn't betray any more emotion then it normally did. Naruto just nodded his head. "That's understandable I guess, you're in love you have a family to consider now, you can't keep running off in the middle of the night now."

Now Naruto was starting to get worried. This wasn't how he had seen this conversation going at all, he didn't understand how the man could be so calm and the fact that he could not read any emotion in the man's voice made it imposable to tell just what the man was thinking.

"I understand, really I do, I'm a family man myself you know. And your right there are others that could take your place and you have given me over seven years of your life far longer than any other repo man I have on staff. Maybe it is time for you to retire. I'll tell you what you finish up the weeks work and I'll call us even, I'll even keep all you secrets, well secret." He laughed a little at the end.

Naruto couldn't believe it; he was free just like that. The snake had even agreed to keep not only his mother's death but also his life as a repo man a secret. Normally he would be suspicious but at the moment he was too happy to care. "I have to say I'm a little surprised that you're taking this so well, not that I'm complaining of course."

"No no it's quite alright you've done a lot for me and gene co. over the years, it's only fair that I return the favour after all." He finished with a friendly smile.

"Thank you, really you have no idea how much this means to me." Naruto said with real gratitude in his voice as he turned and walked out of the room.

It was only when the doors had closed did the smile drop from orochimarus face. This was not part of the plan. Naruto was the best repo man he had ever had, not only was he skilled and by far the most effective repo man he had ever employed but he was also the only one that had made it past two years without burning out, he had an entire psych-ward devoted to burnouts. He had spent years moulding, guiding him trying to make the perfect killing machine and the end product was more then he could have ever hoped for. He could kill without remorse but unlike so many other experiments he was still able to live a normal life, hell given a few more years he would of been able to keep up with him in his little word games and that was a rather impressive feet. Just thinking about Naruto brought up thoughts of his 'kids'. How disappointed he had become of them. Disgraces the lot of them, even when he wasn't comparing them to Naruto the where failures of the greatest magnitude. He had tried to shape them into perfect replacements for when he was gone but all he got where a bunch of egotistical, sociopaths that would serve better as organ donors then worthy heirs go gene co. but now he had lost his one true success and he was beyond livid, no one stole from him and that was exactly what that slut of a Huuga had done to him and in so doing sealed her fate. It was only a question of when and how, preferable in a way that would drive Naruto back in to his arms.

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A/N

Well there you go. Naruto and Hinata are getting married, orochimaru is pissed and there's a baby on the way. Stay tuned to find out what happened.

As a side note I'll probable name the kid shilo if for no other reason than I want to try and use some of the songs and her name comes up a lot. If you think that's a bad idea let me know and ill think of something else.

Character list

Nathan - Naruto

Blind mag - Sakura

Luigi - kiba

Amber - Ino

Pavi - Kabuto

Rotti – Orochimaru

Marni - Hinata

As always reviews much appreciated. Till next time see ya.