Okay, so maybe I will admit that some of my battles will be short. As for those who want to complain about Sasuke's change of mind and his sudden desire to kill Danzo, its simple, in my story the massacre happened when Sasuke was 13, so he's only had 3 years to brood. And the Izanagi technique being weaker than in canon, well fuck it this ain't canon. I know it probably doesn't work that way, but it was deliberately written that way. Sasuke and Sakura are slowly going to get together and Naruto will help that along. Also dynomike88 and Revan the Wicked got it right, the character was Saya from Blood+.

I say this now; this is my first fic, so if I do something wrong or there is mistakes then please tell me. If you're gonna point something out though, please tell me how I could fix it. Thank-you.

Disclaimer: If I owned this, then Sasuke would have been killed as soon as he started to even begin to show traitorous actions.

"Kami/other deities"

"KYUUBI/ OTHER BIJU"

'Thoughts'

"Speaking"

Naruto: The Crow of Konoha

Chapter 4: Ice and Revelations part 1

Previously on N: TCoK….

"Crow, my name is Crow." Naruto said in a deeper voice before he pointed at Zabuza and noticed that he started some handsigns. "Hell no you don't bitch. SONIC BLACK!" The Crow possessed Naruto cut one of his palms and forced them together, when his veins were visible to everyone he pulled his hands apart and watched as he forced a blade out which then started to fire towards Zabuza. Zabuza finished his handsigns and caused a giant water dragon to rush towards the blades, only for it to burst after the first two.

(The rest of the fight goes as canon due to Crow using too much blood and causing Naruto to pass out. Kakashi didn't get caught and Haku took Zabuza away.)

And now….

Naruto woke up and noticed that he was somewhere he never remembered going, at least he didn't think so. He got up and noticed that his stuff was being sat on by a crow, a crow with Sharingan eyes. "Either I got drunk and ended up doing something stupid with someone, or Natsuki wants something from me." The crow caws and points to a small scroll, Naruto picks it up and reads it.

Naruto-kun, if you are reading this and the crow is still there then I need you to follow it. If the damn thing ain't there, then fire a blood bullet into the air. Also, if you really must then tell Kaka-baka that you have something you need to do in the woods.

Natsuki

Naruto looks at the crow and sees that it was sleeping. He sweatdrops and then puts the scroll into a seal on his belt. He then puts everything on and straps his sword to his back. He walks out and notices that Kakashi was out cold, Sasuke was meditating, and TenTen was nowhere in sight. 'Course, everyone happens to be occupied. Where is TenTen though?' Naruto then walked out and followed the crow into the woods, unknowingly being followed by TenTen. When the crow stopped the first thing Naruto saw was a big guy with blue skin, blue hair, shark teeth, a cloak with red clouds, and a large bandaged something on his back. "Who the fuck are you?" He yelled at the fish man.

"Hoshigake Kisame, I'm Natsuki's partner in the Akatsuki. I'm also a former member of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist." Kisame grins when Naruto looks at him with respect, before face-vaulting when a girl with her hair resembling a panda comes flying out and begging to see the sword on his back.

'What. The. Fuck?' was the mutual thought of all three people who saw this.

Natsuki walked out of the shadows and stood in front of Naruto while Kisame tried to get TenTen away from Samehada. "So, Naruto-kun, I see you have come to meet me. Have you learned nothing, this could have been a trap to capture you." She gasps when Naruto appears behind her and the one in front of her dissolved into blood. "So, you use the blood clone to see if you were in danger while the real you stays at a good distance away? That, is a very good plan. I guess the first thing for us to do is get your teammate away from mine?" Natsuki then grabs TenTen and stares at her before TenTen settles down and finally notices that she is face to face with Uchiha Natsuki, the youngest ANBU captain that Konoha ever had. "Good, now if you are going to stay here, you must be quiet." She then sets TenTen down and Natsuki and Naruto have a staring contest, with Naruto winning. Natsuki just sighed and Naruto grinned. "Naruto-kun, I was asked to come and help you with training. Kisame here is going to help with Kenjutsu, mainly through the use of a Zanbatou." She notices that Naruto was holding up a copy of Nodachi and Zanbatou Techniques: Volumes 1 and 2 by: Mamochi Zabuza and that it was signed by Zabuza. "So you already have started to train using them, good. I am to help you with Genjutsu and help your ninjutsu out." She then finishes and Kisame walks over to Naruto.

"Alright gaki, here's the thing, I am used to using a Zanbatou, so if you are going to learn from me then you need a Zanbatou, fortunately for you Samehada here can duplicate herself. Unfortunately for you, you gotta earn the right to wield her." Kisame then notices that Naruto had a sudden sadistic grin on his face. Kisame's grin matched Naruto's as Naruto disappeared and then reappeared behind him with one of his Sin Blades out and heading towards his head. Kisame blocks with Samehada and the blades clash as Kisame then pushes Naruto away and punches him in the stomach before slamming him into the ground with Samehada. "That all you got gaki? Maybe I should be training the girly over there." Kisame taunts, pointing at TenTen. Naruto then stands up and does a few handsigns. "Water Style: Cataract Desolation!" As Kisame grins, Natsuki and TenTen get out of the way. The giant waterfall heads right for Kisame who then disappears into the water after it hits. Naruto stands on top of the water and is then puts his finger into the water and closes his eyes. All of a sudden Kisame jumps up behind him and swings Samehada down just as Naruto falls into the water. Kisame then puts his hand on the water and yells out "Water Style: Feeding Frenzy!" as five water sharks start to swirl in the water around Naruto, Naruto starts to do some handsigns, before a sudden whirlpool appears in the water and Naruto uses the whirlpool to drag Kisame down to the bottom, only for Kisame to use the momentum to knee him in the face and push him back onto the land. When Kisame jumps onto the land he ducks as Naruto throws some shuriken and kunai. Naruto then starts to be surrounded by bubbles of blood that spread out from around him.

"Kisame-san, I'm afraid that this move ain't finished yet. Why don't you tell me how it feels?" Naruto's coat is then thrown off as two wings resembling crow wings made of blood appear on his back. (All of my translations come from Google, so if they are wrong blame Google.) "Ketsueki to: Chimamire no Tenshi!" [Roughly blood art: bloody angel] Naruto then takes to the air and the wings start to form circles of blood, which then fired at Kisame repeatedly.

Kisame grins and dodges all of the blood bullets; he even does a slow motion bit where he dodges ten of them. (I do not own the matrix.) Kisame then appears behind Naruto and slams him down and holds Samehada at his neck. "Give up Gaki." Kisame then holds his hand out and helps Naruto up. As Naruto gets up he then passes out from blood loss.

"Give him a minute and he'll be up." Natsuki says from the sidelines. In a couple of minutes Naruto jumps up and looks at Kisame.

"Damn, I messed up with that final technique. Guess I don't have the amount of blood figured properly yet."

Everyone looked at the blonde like he was crazy, which occurred to the two S-ranked shinobi that he very well could be. Kisame looked at the kid and scratched his head, "Did I break him?" Everyone just face-vaulted and looked at him blankly. Natsuki hit him in the back of the head and told him to sit in the corner…of doom…. This was the only place that wasn't completely soaked by Naruto and Kisame's water fight. As Kisame grumbled and sat down TenTen was in shock at the complete insanity of the S-ranked shinobi. She then noticed Naruto and Natsuki sitting down across from each other and pulling out money and cards.

"You realize that betting against me is a bad idea, right Natsuki?" Naruto asked the Uchiha. He then grins when she glares at him, before she smirks and starts to shuffle. Kisame walks over and TenTen sits down at the edge and everyone is handed cards.

"Naruto, what's the game this round?" Natsuki asks. Naruto grins and then pushes a book in front of Natsuki. The book is a comprehensive list of every card game known to man. He points to a game that doesn't have a title. The rules were very confusing, what were a car, and a gun, and what in kami's name was (I want to just say that this game was made by a friend of mine, and it is satanic.) I'm Sexy and I Know It? (This rule made it so that I cringe every time that song plays.) As everyone reads the rules Naruto is busy sealing all of his money away and is leaving at an extremely quick pace. Like hell he was gonna play that game. When everyone was finished they shuddered at the thought of the game, what the hell was wrong with the makers of that game? (Answer: severe boredom, excess free time, and the twisted sense of humor that makes me hang out with crazy people.)

Naruto was almost able to get away when he ran right into a girl picking herbs. When he went to get up, she did as well and they ended up getting tangled together and staring at each other from a couple feet apart. They both blushed while Zabuza and Kisame were looking at the two and smirking, before they each realized why the other person their student/victim was with.

"Haku get away from him!"

"Gaki, find Zabu-chan!"

Zabuza then turned and saw his former comrade and saw that the golden haired boy just sighed and flipped Kisame the bird. Zabuza then saw that Kisame had gotten behind him and was eating something, something that Zabuza had just picked up from a new restaurant in the village. A restaurant ran by Gato of course. Kisame then chuckled and pointed behind Zabuza and it was Haku staring at Naruto like he was crazy. 'Course Naruto transforming into a miniature Kisame and flipping himself off wasn't crazy. Zabuza turned and Kisame then drop kicked him onto the ground. "Hey Zabu-chan, whatcha doin here?" Zabuza then flipped Kisame off as well, as he got up he noticed everyone looking at a girl that looked like a panda.

TenTen just watched as Naruto apparently was magnet for dangerous people, first Natsuki and Kisame, then Haku and Zabuza. She then noticed that Zabuza had no eyebrows. She did the dramatic point and yelled, "Did Gai-sensei steal your eyebrows!?" which caused everyone who knew of the man to laugh. Natsuki laughed as she walked into the clearing at the same time as Sasuke and Kakashi. The two did not see what was so funny, until they saw everyone laughing at Zabuza who was just glaring at TenTen. Kakashi looked at Naruto who repeated what TenTen asked, and then even Kakashi was laughing. Natsuki disappeared before Sasuke could see her and Kisame then disappeared after grabbing Zabuza and Haku.

"Well, since everyone is here why don't we talk strategy? Naruto, you and Sasuke will be guarding Tazuna while TenTen and I guard Inari and Tsunami. Sasuke, while you're guarding Tazuna don't forget to be constantly on the lookout for Zabuza or Gato. If you get the chance take Gato out of the game permanently." Kakashi received a nod from all three of the genin. Naruto then made a couple of Kage-Bunshin and sent them to Natsuki to receive the training for Genjutsu.

At Zabuza's hideout….

Haku was in her room while Zabuza talked to Kisame. She was remembering the boy who she got tangled up with and all the stuff that Zabuza said he did during the first battle. She then blushed when she remembers that Zabuza called her his daughter when Kisame asked just who she was.

Zabuza was trying to comprehend what Kisame was saying, the boy he fought against was a Jinchuriki, and he hadn't even used the biju's immense power against him. The boy was also gonna be trained by Kisame in the art of swordplay. Hell if this kid could almost beat him without training imagine how bad it would be if he got training. Then Zabuza remembered how Haku seemed to be attracted to the kid, hey a father knows these things, and he wondered if just maybe that could be used to help him and her survive. "Kisame, I want you to arrange a meeting between the gaki and myself. I need to talk to him about something important." Zabuza was completely serious and Kisame noticed, Kisame nodded and then left in a water shushin.

With Natsuki and Naruto's Kage-Bunshin….

Natsuki was astonished, completely and utterly astonished, Naruto was a fucking genius of Genjutsu. She saw that he had a Genjutsu around him at all times, a Genjutsu that hid several different weapons. So instead of teaching him Genjutsu she would teach him all she knew about sealing and eye based Genjutsu. Naruto also showed her his golden eyes and laughed when she asked what they could do.

Naruto took to sealing like a fish to water, and then Natsuki just stood there wondering what else she could teach him. He was already strong enough to spar with Kisame, his speed could only increase, and his technique pool was deeper than hers and Kakashi's combined. Kisame was gonna teach him Kenjutsu, Kakashi had been teaching him taijutsu and ninjutsu, he had all the chakra of the fox under his complete control, he even could play those damn gun-tars like a pro. She just stood there, still wondering what she could teach the boy. 'I could always teach him the summoning technique… fuck Jiraiya and his plans I'm gonna teach Naruto how to summon crows.' Natsuki then walked over to her bedroll and pulled the crow contract out from seal it was in. "Naruto-kun, I want you to come over here and sign this summoning contract." She yelled as one of the clones dispelled to give the original the message. Natsuki then remembered that the guy sealed in Naruto with the fox was named Crow….. Fuck it.

Naruto suddenly appeared in the clearing and caused Natsuki, who was enjoying some light reading, to jump when he appeared surrounded in blood. She then noticed that his face was serious. Naruto sighed and told her about how some of the people in the village tried to attack him in order to get his money. He then told her that no matter what Gato was dead if he saw him. "I'll strangle the damn midget myself." Naruto growled out. Natsuki then handed him the scroll and told him to prick his finger and write his name in blood on the first open spot. He signed it 'Namikaze Naruto' and then Natsuki taught him the handsigns for it. He then performed the handsigns and slammed his hand down on the ground and a cloud of smoke popped up. When the smoke cleared a crow the size of a house was there.

"Natsuki-san, are you the one who summoned me?" The majestic crow asked the Uchiha.

"I'm sorry Noriki-sama, but I'm not the one who summoned you." Natsuki said to the boss summons of the crows. 'Of course Naruto-kun would summon the boss on the first go.' She then pointed to Naruto. "He's the one who summoned you."

Noriki looked down at the young man who summoned her and noticed that his coat had a white crow on the back. "Child, why is there a crow on the back of your coat? Did you do this thinking that you would be assured the role of being our summoner?"

"Nope. I am the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune and I also have a man sealed in me who went by the name Crow, the crow on my back is in honor of him." Naruto replies in one of his rare completely serious and respectful attitudes.

"Ah, well in that case I would be proud to have someone who will become as famous as you use the crows for your summons. I will also assign a newly hatched crow chick to be your familiar. (Cliché yes, but it happens to be leading to our next guest.) Her name will be left for you to choose, so I say this now: good luck and may you always survive." With that being said Noriki leaves and Naruto looks down at the hatchling and sighs.

"I suck at names. Shihime. Yeah that'll work." Naruto says as the hatchling caws and looks up at him.

"That's a beautiful name, Naruto-kun." Natsuki says, happy that Naruto actually was allowed to summon the crows. Then she blushed when Naruto grinned and his eyes had a mischievous shine.

"Oh, Natsuki-chan, I think it's time for your reward." Naruto says grinning as Natsuki backs up and he grins.

With Sasuke….

Sasuke was sitting down watching Tazuna and the workers on the bridge while they were working. Tazuna was standing around and telling everyone what to do. Sasuke had a Kage-Bunshin reading over a fire style scroll that Naruto had lent him. Naruto had also taught him the Kage-Bunshin and told him to only use one for now. Sasuke then remembered how Naruto could and did spam the clones whenever he got the chance. Sasuke, thinking about training, then wondered how Sakura was doing. He also remembered how Naruto had gotten his 'sister' to train Sakura; he shuddered when he thought of a Sakura that had been trained by Anko and Saya. Sasuke then thought back to when he was told that his sister had killed his clan.

*Flashback*

Sasuke was happy; he had been staying with a friend of Natsuki's that had a daughter. The woman, whose name was Masane Amaha, had watched Sasuke a few times in the past. Sasuke loved going over there and hanging out Masane and her daughter. The two never coddled him or told him that he would eventually surpass his sister, they just told him straight out that his sister was always going to be more awesome than he was, and the funny part was that he never actually cared. As he was heading home an ANBU appeared and told him that Danzo needed to talk to Sasuke. When Sasuke showed up Danzo had come up to him and told him that his sister had killed his clan and that he was the only other survivor. Danzo had a smirk the entire time, but to Sasuke it looked like a gentle smile from the old man. Sasuke then swore he would get his revenge.

Sasuke had started to avoid Masane and even wondered if she was part of it. Sadly she left after a jounin tried to rape her and her daughter; the jounin was then found torn up in Training Ground 44. Sasuke noticed that Naruto was absent that day during the academy. The fangirls that constantly swarmed him got on his nerves, how they dare call themselves kunoichi when all they ever did was complain during physical training and talk about fashion. If his sister had heard all that she would have killed them where they stood.

*Flashback end*

Sasuke then thinks about what he feels for Sakura, and he realizes that the feeling makes him feel better. As he sighs he realizes that Sakura would be a target if they got together, a guy with the ability to use his blood as a weapon, the last male Uchiha, son of the White Fang and student of the Yondaime Hokage, and then a pink-haired former fangirl. She would be a target if there ever was one; any half-bit team that wanted to be famous would go after them. His eyes turned into their Mangekyo form and he swore then and there that Sakura would be safe as long as he was alive. He then deactivated the eyes and watched as Naruto returned with a baby crow that was talking on his shoulder… only one person could summon crows and if Naruto could now then that meant that she was here. "Is she here Naruto, is Natsuki here?" The former emo asked.

"Yeah, but she asked me to not tell you where she is yet. I told her about your new plans and she agreed that it's time she came home. She only has a couple things that she needs to first." Naruto replied to his teammate and friend. They then watched as the sun began going down and Tazuna came up to them and told them it was time for everyone to go home.

When they got back to Tazuna's house they saw that Inari had come out and was waiting for his grandfather. When he saw the two shinobi he glared at them before hugging his grandfather and running back into the house. Sasuke and Naruto just look at each other and shrug. When they walk in TenTen sees the crow chick and Naruto tells everyone about what he was doing, leaving out the whole training with Kisame till that bit was over with. Everyone just stared at him, only he would consider hanging out with two S-ranked shinobi that could kill all of them with toothpicks.

"So you mean to say that while I was watching Tazuna on the bridge, you were learning things from my sister?" Sasuke growled out to Naruto. "Dobe, I hope you're ready for me to kick your ass into next week."

Naruto flipped Sasuke off and Sasuke grunted before flipping Naruto off. "Come on with the come on, teme." Naruto replied holding his hand out in the universal sign of bring it on bitch. Everything was tense when Tsunami walked in and hit both of them with a wooden ladle.

"There is no fighting in this house." She then turned and looked at Kakashi. "You should have taught them better, they are your students." She then looked at TenTen. "You're the only sensible one here besides me. You and I need to remind these boys why we're better." Her and TenTen shared a smile, before everyone saw Naruto and Sasuke grinning.

"Hey Naruto, wadda ya say we help TenTen train in dodging taijutsu, ninjutsu, Kenjutsu, and your blood bullets?" Sasuke asked his friend.

"I think we should Sasuke, it would be such a great training exercise." Naruto replied with an equally sadistic grin. "Plus, I have to test my Sonikkubaretto. So, TenTen-san, are ya ready for a Team 7 training match?" Naruto and Sasuke grin when TenTen remembers that Naruto was fighting Kisame a few hours ago.

TenTen remembered how Naruto could shoot off bullets made of his blood, and then she remembered that move he used against Zabuza. "Naruto, what is Sonic Black?" TenTen asked spontaneously.

Naruto then sighed and looked at Kakashi, who then nodded and sat the other two genin down. "What you are about to hear is considered an S-ranked secret, to tell anyone without the permission of the Hokage or myself will result in immediate execution. Everyone knows the story that the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune was killed by the Fourth in exchange for his life; well that story is only half true. He did give his life, only you can't kill a biju; you have to seal them up, and from the Gobi up they have to be sealed into a person. If you think about it, it's kinda funny how stupid some people are. I am the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune. The biju is sealed in my stomach. However, apparently I have another prisoner sealed in me. His name is Crow and the place he came from was an alternate dimension, he went from one prison to another actually. Ya see on his world, he had what was known as Branch of Sin, which was a virus that manifested in the form of unique abilities with the person's blood. His were the blades you see me use all the time. He was eventually killed in a twisted game set forth by the warden of the prison, he died laughing, and then he met Kami-sama herself, who told him he was to be sealed into me. With his knowledge, my regeneration factor, and the Kyuubi herself I have a lot going for me huh?" Naruto explained, anxiously awaiting an answer from his two friends.

TenTen was in shock, the guy in front of her had a biju sealed in him, a fucking biju. "So that Sonic Black move was Crow's move?" She asked meekly.

Naruto nodded as Sasuke stood there thinking. "I can tell Sakura about this right?" Naruto nodded and Sasuke let out a breath. He then saw everyone looking at TenTen. 'Come on panda girl, he trusted you with his greatest secret. Don't make me have to mind wipe you.' The thoughts of the former avenger were all about helping his new friend.

TenTen thought about it and realized that it was the same principle as the scroll she used to transport her kunai and other weapons. As everyone watched her she just shrugged her shoulders and looked at Naruto. "So you have a giant fur ball sealed in you, doesn't make you a fur ball. It's the same principle as my weapon scrolls." She then noticed everyone let out another breath.

Kakashi then noticed that Naruto looked a little bit happier. 'I think it's time for me to reveal another secret for you.' "Naruto, Sasuke, and even you TenTen, I have an S-ranked secret for you as well. Naruto you are the…"

CLIFFHANGER!

Sorry for the abrupt end but I need to get this out and it is only part 1.

I'm thinking that I might do the Chunin Exams around chapter 7 or 8. You only have till then to make votes for the Harem, remember only the top six will be chosen.

As always flames will be used to burn the house of flamers.

Vermiculus-umbra-chorus out.