Well, it seems people don't really want Sakura to be in Naruto's harem. Sorry to the ones who wanted her to be in it but the opposite side didn't want her. I like her in my fic and all, but due to the vote it was not meant to be. Not that I believe in fate, just that it's too bad.

Sorry for the late update, but I'm gonna be out for a while.

I don't own Naruto, no matter how much I wish I did.

After some time, Kakashi walked down, though had some trouble getting downstairs, and sat down in the table. Sasuke was brooding in the living room and Sakura was secretly reading a scroll Naruto gave her on some healing jutsu. Naruto was still in his room, reading over the jutsu from the forbidden scroll. He smirked as he read the next one he was about to learn.

'Fire Style: Great Dragon Claw. Forms a claw of pure fire around the user's arm, adding a boost to most taijutsu and also makes the user's arm invulnerable to all fire attacks to the arm. Does not hurt the user and will work as a shield to cancel out any fire and wind jutsu. A-rank ninjutsu. Interesting.' Naruto thought.

He didn't need Duck-ass to hear anything he was saying, so he tried his best to read out loud as little as possible. He suddenly smelled something and put the scroll away in a flash before exiting the room. He then walked downstairs and his nose was soon assaulted by the smell of dinner coming form Tsunami's kitchen reached his nose. He absently licked his lips and started on his way to the table for dinner.

Akyo was left outside, since she preferred to hunt. A treat every now and then was okay, but she liked rabbits and smaller critters better. She kept running around, looking for anything at all to eat, but they were either very few of them or they were very sneaky.

She kept looking around until she felt the strange feeling she was being watched. She heightened her hearing a little, but was too late to dodge the giant form that pounced on her, pining her to the ground with only one paw.

"What the hell!" she barked, trying to look at who or what hit her. She looked up and saw bright amber eyes just like her own with the slitted pupils. She gasped and asked, "Nii-san?"

The figure let go of her and took a few steps back. There in front of her stood a fox almost as big as a small horse. It had pitch-black fur just like her, its canines were sticking out of its jaws and it had five tails behind it.

"Hey Akyo! Haven't seen you in a while nowadays! What happened? I've heard how you've been coming back home to get some scrolls and leaving to train here. And why do most of the vixens in our clan keep talking about fishcakes?" it asked her, tilting its head to the side. "Do you have fishcakes? I love fishcakes!" it then added as all five tails began wagging happily. Akyo sighed.

He may be older, but he still acted childish most of the time. "I... suppose you could say I found some. One to be exact. His name is Naruto." Akyo said in a calm voice.

"Naruto? Sis, I know you're weird and all, but it's not right to name your food."

"Shishi (Beast), just leave me alone." grumbled Akyo to the now named Shishi. The other black fox became covered in black flames before a shape stood upwards, showing a young man standing with a cloak on him, the hood hiding most of his face. He took it off and showed himself to be a rather attractive young man around fifteen, with platinum blond hair that was almost as spiky if not spikier than Naruto's hair. In truth, he was about a thousand years older than Akyo, but hid it well.

He shrugged and said, "I've seen that Uzumaki kid already, and he seems okay. So I guess I wont burn him alive. However, if he does anything to you, he'll have a sex change before completely dying a slow and painful death. understood?"

As soon as he finished talking, Akyo was in her human form chocking him. "Don't you dare do anything to Naruto-kun! I'll beat you a hundred feet into the ground, rip your tails off, and then force-feed them down your throat! DO YOU HEAR ME?" she screamed at him, her eyes flashing to show she was serious. Shishi chuckled. "I thought a moment ago it was Naruto-sama, not Naruto-kun." he said in a teasing tone. Akyo realized her mistake and blushed heavily.

"I-I mean Naruto-sama. I MEANT TO SAY NARUTO-SAMA DAMMIT!" she once again shrieked at her brother, who was laughing like a maniac.

"Yeah, wait till I tell him about this. It'll be sweet." he said, the 'sweet' coming out in an Eric-Cartman-like voice.

Akyo sputtered with her words for a second, before bowing her head and saying, "Fine... Let's just go already."

And with that said, the two once again became foxes and began their run back to the house of the bridge builder and his family.

(Tazuna's house)

All of team seven and Tazuna's family were now eating dinner, nobody really talking much. That is, until a young kid came walking in with an unhappy look on his face that almost seemed permanent. He sat and ate his dinner quietly... for about four seconds... before slamming his fork on the table and shouting at the leaf shinobi. "Why do you try so hard? You're all going to die anyway, so why bother!"

"Um... I dunno. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the whole place is being placed under his control and I don't like it one bit. What other reason do we need?" asked Naruto in a matter-of-fact way. He didn't know why this kid was angry, since they were about to help out.

Tsunami glared at the boy. "Inari, show some respect! These are the ninja that are going to help us get out of Gato's grasp and save this village." Inari still seemed unhappy and continued to glare at the shinobi.

Sakura looked confused, Naruto was frowning in confusion as well, Sasuke was glaring at the kid, and Kakashi didn't seem to notice. "You can't beat Gato. He's too strong. You might as well leave and go back to your cozy homes while we take care of our business." said Inari. Naruto was the next one to glare at the young boy.

"Kid, don't think for a second our lives are cozy. Especially my life. You had a family, someone who loves you, someone who protects you. I had no one. You weren't scolded for being alive. I was. You didn't have the woman in the orphanage try to poison your food and have you killed multiple times. I was. The entire village didn't chase you and try to kill you in your birthdays. My village did!" he suddenly stopped, took a shaky breath, then stood up and headed to the door. He looked back and said, "I'm off to train. Don't look for me."

Kakashi nodded. "Fine, but be careful Naruto." And with that said, he slammed the door closed and walked out, ignoring Akyo who was about three feet to his left. He didn't even notice the bigger fox next to her.

"So that's your fishcakes eh? He seems pissed." by the time Shishi was done talking, Akyo was already after her master. "Oi! Wait for me!" and he ran after his sister before she could get out of sight.

Back inside, Naruto had left a shocked bundle of people. Tsunami was the first to recover. "Kakashi-san. What Naruto-san said... is it true?"

Kakashi sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Actually, he gave you the sweet version. He left out a few... things. The only good thing is that there are few that stay neutral towards him, and even fewer that actually care for him." he said, his voice serious and sad. He had complained being an ANBU captain was troublesome if he had to keep chasing a lousy blond brat.

But as soon as he did, everything went south. Not only did Itachi become a nuke-nin, but he no longer could protect Naruto as he would always. As a result, Naruto was almost completely alone most of the time. Then again, Naruto became strong from being alone with the black fox, Akyo. He would have to ask Naruto about that later. After all, no fox was like that Akyo one.

Sasuke in the meantime didn't really believe anything the blond boy said. 'He probably just made it up to impress everyone here. Pfft, as if someone can endure that much pain. He's hated, but only because he's a nobody.' he thought like the arrogant jack-ass he is.

Sakura on the other hand was shocked. Normally, if she were still some fangirl, she would've claimed Naruto was lying. However, she clearly saw the pain in Naruto's eyes. She realized that in her own way, she also inflicted some pain on Naruto. Maybe not to the same degree as the villagers, but she still denied to give him friendship when he asked for it, even when he needed it the most. Her face took one of sadness as she felt horrible.

Kakashi saw her down look and was in a way glad Sakura was paying attention to Naruto instead of ignoring him like she used to. He really needed to thank Naruto for that. He looked at Sasuke, whose face hadn't changed. Not something he wanted to see.

The rest that were in the table were still shocked to find an entire village would do such things to a mere child. Inari left the table with tears in his eyes, saying he would be in his room.

(Zabuza's Hut)

Zabuza was in his bed, under some covers, healing, and listening to a midget yell. "I can't believe this!" shouted the short man, "You're supposed to be the Demon of the Mist, yet a jonin and a bunch of brats were able to take you on! Why am I even bothering to pay you?"

While the midget ranted, Zabuza rolled his eyes and sighed. Once he finally got payed, he could go back to his 'village' and kill the damn Mizukage.

"Shut your trap already. I'll get them next time I see them." growled Zabuza, though it seemed to annoy Gato.

"You better! Or I wont pay you at all!" Gato was about to reach for Zabuza's bandages to 'teach him a lesson' but was stopped when Haku snapped his wrist. The midget screamed in pain and backed away, his two bodyguards were about to slice Haku into pieces, but found their own blades pressed against their necks.

"Get your sorry excuses for hands off of Zabuza-sama, or I will personally castrate you!" Haku said in the most menacing voice she could muster.

"Let's go! We're done here." ordered Gato, leaving with his goons and sending a glare to both Zabuza and Haku.

When the midget was gone, Zabuza turned to Haku as best as he could in his bed and said, "That was unnecessary, Haku. I could've taken care of him myself." he moved slightly below the covers and showed he had a kunai in hand.

"I know Zabuza-sama, but you need to heal or you will only make the wounds worse." standing up, she changed into a pink kimono and took off all her ninja gear. She said she needed some herbs and left.

(Forest)

Naruto was unhappy. Mostly with himself for saying those things to the kid. He didn't know why he got angry, but he just really wanted to scream that Konoha wasn't 'cozy' to him. He actually wanted people to know what Konoha did to cursed children instead of helping them. Maybe he was actually loosing it. Again, another tree fell because of the slash that went right through it.

He didn't even notice the fact that he was pushing chakra into the blade, nor that no normal blade should be able to do that! All he knew was that he was angry, and that he was simply cutting to vent out his anger. Left and right, almost every tree he passed was cut down. Akyo and Shishi were watching the blond from behind a bush. Akyo was very worried for her master. She never knew Naruto had this much anger in him.

Finally, after many hours, it was getting close to dawn and Naruto collapsed on the forest floor from minor chakra exhaustion. Akyo slowly walked over to him and curled up into a ball on Naruto's chest before falling asleep.

Not long after (Three minutes actually), a young girl a little older than Naruto wearing a pink kimono came into a clearing. She was going about, bending down occasionally to pick up an herb, when she noticed that there was a boy a few feet to her left resting near a place that had the trees cut right through. He looked exhausted, but recuperating slowly. She walked over to him and saw the black piece of cloth on his stomach shift slightly.

Then she realized it was actually a fox with black fur. She remembered seeing a giant fox at the battle that Zabuza fought, but this one could probably be held in both her hands. She knew who this was, the one who stabbed Zabuza and was about to kill him. She probably should've brought some weapons, and there wasn't enough water anywhere to use her ice powers.

Crap!

'Maybe I could strangle him. No, the fox will most likely wake up when he starts struggling. Why did I leave my weapons? I could've at least brought a senbon or two.' she mentally whined. She got closer and took a closer look at his face. Last time she saw him, she was sure he had blue eyes. She kept staring at his whisker marks and his blond spiky hair. Before she could even realize it, she was already about an inch away from his face.

She blinked twice before slowly sitting straight again, a blush on her face noticeable. She looked over at the fox again to find it was awake, making her panic. It looked at her from on top of the blond's stomach, she looked back at the little critter. It cocked its head to the side, so did she but to the other side.

Then the fox turned into a weird black substance and turned into a naked platinum-haired girl straddling the blond boy's waist, in a fox-hybrid form with a black tail and fox ears. Haku looked at her for about four seconds before she fainted. Akyo giggled when she saw the girl on her back with a trail of blood coming out of her nose. After a few more minutes, the ice user woke up. Just in time too, Naruto was waking up as well.

The young blond got up and looked around him for a moment before noticing the young girl who was turned away from him. She seemed to be wiping something off her face furiously while making sure he didn't see her. He quirked an eyebrow and looked down at his lap to see Akyo, who was currently in her fox form. She looked at him with those puppy-dog eyes that said, 'I did something that will make you angry, so I'll just be cute and adorable.'

Again, he looked at the girl with black hair and the pink kimono. She was quite beautiful, he'd give her that, and had chocolate-brown eyes that almost looked like his own. The girl was thinking along the same lines as him in the eye department. They seemed to belong to someone like her, someone filled with sadness and loneliness. Naruto smiled at her, making her blush a little. "Hi there. What are you doing here?"

"Um..." Haku quickly looked around and said, "I'm picking herbs for someone special to me." She bent down to pick up an herb from the ground.

"... Lady, that plant you're holding is poisonous." Naruto deadpanned. She looked at the plant and realized he was right. She blushed in embarrassment and let the plant drop, Naruto looking at her like she did something stupid. Well, she almost did something stupid.

She cleared her throat and turned her attention back to Naruto. "So you're a ninja? It must be hard a life. You shouldn't be sleeping here, you could catch a cold."

"Heh, not like it's the first time I've slept outdoors. And besides, I haven't caught a cold in all my life." Naruto said smoothly, remembering many times he had to sleep in the streets. Akyo wrapped herself around his neck like a scarf and looked at Haku with some curiosity. The little demoness was sure she'd seen the young girl before, but couldn't remember.

"What is your name?" asked the girl. "My name is Haku."

"I'm Naruto. So, who're the herbs for?"

"Someone precious to me. Were you training here? It looks like it because of the damage." she asked curiously. Naruto looked over to where she was looking and realized how much damage he caused. His eyes widened and he feels a slight pain on his back. He looks over and finds Merciless's guard poking his back.

He pulls the blade out, careful not to cut himself with the blade. He replaced it in its scabbard and and stood up, stretching his arms to the sky. Haku had to hold back her blush as she could see his abs and arms perfectly. She frowned when she noticed he looked slightly malnourished for some reason.

Naruto turned to her and asked, "Do you need any help with the herbs, Haku-san?" She nodded and they spent most of the morning picking plants and talking about their precious people. After that, they were saying their goodbyes as Naruto waved at her, smiling widely.

As Haku walked away, her face took on a look of sorrow. 'Naruto-kun. I can only hope I don't have to fight you at the bridge. And if I do, I hope I can take you out quickly. I'm so sorry.' she thought sadly, as she walked back and disappearing via water-shunshin.

Naruto sighed and mumbled, "Better get back before they get worried." He started walking normally, but stopped after taking twenty steps when he realized something... If Akyo was around his neck, why were there footsteps of a large fox following him? And that wasn't Akyo's scent now that he thought about it. He turned his head slowly and was face-to... mouth... which is drooling...

And saying, "Hi fishcakes!"Naruto jumped back and got into a fighting stance with Merciless in his hands. Before he could attack, the fox got on its hind legs and brought its front legs in a placating manner. "Woah! Heel, fishcakes, heel! Down boy, don't want to hurt your mate's brother do you?" it said in a cheerful tone, and Naruto realized this one had five tails. It... he suddenly turned into black flames before forming a human-like shape and turning into a cloaked boy a little older than Naruto with a few platinum-blond bangs sticking out from his hood. He also had a giant grin as he said, "So how you've been fishcakes? You treating my sister good? Or do I have to kill you if you aren't?" Naruto could tell this guy was serious. After all, who would have their fist have spikes all over it the size of his arm. They were at the tip of his knuckles, and the ones around his wrists were on like a bracelet then curved to point in the same direction as his knuckles. And to add to the coolness, the spikes started spinning, the ones on the knuckles spinning clockwise and the ones on the wrist were going counter-clockwise. It made no sound, but it still looked intimidating.

Naruto cocked his head to the side and asked, "Sister?"

The boy pointed at Naruto's neck, where Akyo was smiling with her puppy-dog-eyes. "Um, Naruto-sama? Meet my older brother, Shishi."

Well, hope you guys liked it! I'll see when I update.

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