Ink Heart

by Foy the Snooze Button

People always thought that to be strong a person had to have bulging muscles or super speed, or almighty battle field levelling jutsu; some of the more naive people taught that to be strong one had to have someone or somewhere to love, someone they had to strive to protect. But all of that changed when Naruto entered the picture. Scientist!Naruto

4. Chapter 4

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CHAPTER 4

Konohagakure

In an alley beside the hospital,

Two hours past midnight,

Naruto landed on the edge of a two storey building as silent as a spider would and crouched down, staring into the darkness cast by the same building he was on with his goggles glowing a faint orange. He heard a pained grunt and as his eyes cut through the darkness he found Yugao's ANBU, but at the same time not on ANBU duty rather on regular jounin duty, boyfriend Genma clutching his injured ribs with his left hand while he used his right hand to parry away a kunai strike that would have taken off his head, he grit his teeth against the pain and rolled backwards when the person swung his leg at him. The attacker, a bandage wrapped man with a Suna forehead protector, spun his kunai by the ring and just before Genma could right himself he threw the kunai with deadly accuracy. Naruto cocked his head to the side and levelled his launchers with the thrown projectile, mentally calculating the speed, weight, wind change, height from the ground and various other variables before he shot a two inch long senbon to the flying weapon, going through the air in dramatic slow motion and he shot out another senbon a little bit under the first. The first senbon clanged against the kunai's pointed tip and forced it downward, sticking it into the ground diagonally, while the second needle jammed through the ring on its handle and nailed itself into the ground.

Baki cursed at his luck and looked up at where the thrower of the senbon was located; he spied Naruto, now just sitting on the edge of the building , and ran up the wall to engage him. Time ran to a crawl as Naruto made use of the 'eyes' on his forehead to mentally calculate various variables concerning the Suna jounin before he fired a single senbon that whistled lightly through the air and jammed into the Sand jounin's shoulder with much more force than it was supposed to, this fact threw off the man's concentration and his legs slipped off the wall, making him fall off, Naruto though had fired two more combat medical needles and a net spread out under Baki that caught him, sticking him to place. Naruto leaped off the building and dropped lightly on the net, his steps were light and fast as he sharply walked to the Suna ninja on the same net that prevented the captured man from moving. He raised an amused eyebrow when Baki struggled against the net, then he whipped out a senbon that oozed with a mysterious blue liquid and threw it before Baki could make use of a seal-less jutsu. The needle flew through the air and sliced right past Baki, passing through the holes on the net and nailing Genma's chest when the man began his struggle to his feet; he was pushed off his feet and summarily knocked out.

A slow smirk spread on Naruto's face as he bent down on his knees to looked at Baki, he shook his head in exasperation and jammed a syringe filled with a golden substance into Baki's neck, freezing his whole body, "I'm going to ask this only once, Suna shinobi; why did you attack my colleague?" at his stubborn hesitation Naruto jammed another syringe, next to the syringe that was still on Baki's neck, this time filled with a thin, white substance, "it's no use fighting that one, I made it myself the same drug Konoha use to fight the fear of heights…but my version…" he poked the woozy man's forehead and he was out like a light, before he tapped the man's cheek and his eyes opened again, glazed white over his black pupils, "more or less hypnotizes you. Now, answer my question,"

"I was meeting an informant from Sound…he walked in on us…he was a threat to our plans…" Baki said slowly,

"Oh, the invasion," Naruto stated quietly and Baki slowly nodded, his eyes wide with shock, "I have a friend in Sound that keeps me informed, don't worry, I'm with you guys," he pulled out both syringes from his neck and after a sharp slap across the older man's face he was snapped out of his hypnotized daze. He stood up a pulled a single thread on the net he was on and it was immediately sucked back into his sliver launchers,

"You're with us…?" Baki said sceptically,

"If I wasn't I would have taken you to the Hokage by now," the boy responded as he dropped down beside his knocked out comrade,

"If you're one of us…kill him,"

"I don't have to prove anything to you, Suna shinobi. If you think you can attack me, go ahead, I'll kill you and you know I can do that," he said as he pulled out the senbon lodged into Genma's chest and began attending to his broken ribs, "now leave before he wakes up,"

"This isn't over," Baki growled quietly and frowned when Naruto snorted, still not looking at him,

"Uh huh, sure it isn't," he used his teeth to pull off a cover over a syringe and gently slid it into the knocked out man's neck, injecting the contents of the needle into the man. Baki clenched his fist but disappeared in a sand shunshin, just as Genma's eyes fluttered open,

"What…happened…?" he asked as his eyes locked on Naruto's goggle protected own,

"You slipped off that building," he pointed to the one he was formerly crouched on, "you should be more careful," he pulled out his needle and helped the older man up,

"That…doesn't sound right…"

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One month later,

Konohagakure,

Hokage's office,

Sarutobi looked at the gathered jounin and special jounin that now filled his office with grim eyes as he sat on his desk, "there is troubling news; Jiraiya's spy network have reported that there is about to be a full scale invasion on our village by Sound and Sand," the few jounin present furrowed their eyebrows questionably, "we don't know when but we can only assume it's going to happen during or after today's tournament,"

Kakashi looked up from his porn novel, leaning on the wall to the far left and next to Might Gai, "did he say how the invasion would start?"

"Sadly no, but that should make us more careful," he began handing out mission specs to each jounin in the room, "but we have noticed small encampments of Sound and Sand shinobi just outside of konoha's borders, our primary focus now is keeping them away and neutralizing those already inside our village, we don't want them to know we're onto them,"

Yugao nodded and said, "You want them to think they still have the element of surprise,"

"Exactly. Now, the one tails jinchuriki will probably be their trump card so a seal master should be placed to contain him if he begins his rampage," he waved his hand to the large window Naruto and Yugao were sitting on and Jiriaya leaped in with his arms crossed, his face showed that he was all business, "Jiriaya can do that and when he is done he will join those defending the wall, led by, Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Chouza, Uzuki Yugao and Uzumaki Naruto," here the old man glared lightly at Naruto, "use your summons if they're too many," Naruto sent a silent two fingered salute as his eyes skimmed his mission specs, Anko chuckled a little under her breathe and the boy shook his head in exasperation, "there will, of course, be casualties so I have taken the liberty of bringing in someone we can depend on to handle that," he waved to the door and all turned as the door opened.

In walked Tsunade Senju. Shizune Kato opted to stay outside with the female secretary. The woman looked around the room silently, with her own arms crossed, until her eyes fell on Naruto. The boy wasn't even looking at her, he was still busy sifting through his bulky mission specs while idly twirling a senbon. The Senju looked back at her sensei and the man continued, amid the shocked murmurs some of his jounin were making,

"She will be in charge of the medic ninja unit as well as provide support for those within the walls," the blonde woman nodded, "all leave from duty has been cancelled and those that were on long term missions have been called back, konoha's protection is most important,"

"I have a question," a voice said from the window, the gathered jounin, as well as Jiriaya and Tsunade, looked at the source and Naruto continued after the Sandaime's prompting nod, "are we to kill the current Kazekage's children?" his shoulder was leaned to the side and his thick mission specs was propped on his chest, "if they decide to attack, of course,"

"Even though that is not part of your mission parameter…no, you do not kill them, make sure they stay alive," the jounin nodded, "ANBU will provide support for those fighting inside and the Inuzuka, Aburame and Hyuuga clan members will provide border support, like I said, Shikaku, Chouza, Yugao and Naruto are in charge,"

"Hai, Hokage-sama," they said, the ominous fact that Tsunade had been called back from her travelling retirement loomed over everyone present,

"Your priority is to protect the civilians, so if you have to kill each and every invader to do so then go ahead," the man slowly looked over his gathered jounin,

"Do we know who the leader of Sound is?" Naruto asked again but this time it was Jiriaya that answered,

"No," the man shook his head, "leadership in that village is still a mystery,"

"Freaking perfect," the blonde boy said as he chuckled shortly, most looked at him questionably and he said, "We need to cut the leader down if we want to subdue them,"

"We can assume that the Kazekage will be leading in the Sound leader's steed," Jiriaya sharply replied, "unless this leader from Hidden Sound would show up during the invasion,"

"Besides that," Sarutobi continued as he propped his elbows on his desk, "if on the occasion I am killed I have already discussed with Tsunade that she will be the Godaime," the woman begrudgingly agreed to what he said, "I want our response to be a statement to anyone else that would want to invade Konoha in the future; our village will forever be strong," he stood up and most of the jounin snapped to attention, "dismissed," what was written in every mission specs was that the jounin were to stay in the arena with some chunin and some chunin shadow clones posing as the chunin posted to the walls, this was to protect the competitors and the civilian populace.

The ninja began to leave the office and as per norm Naruto and Yugao waited for the flood of top class shinobi to reduce before they stood up, and began walking to the door. Tsunade, who stood aside for the jounin to walk past, closed the door after them to talk with her sensei and her spy master team mate. The toad sage stepped off the window and stood in front of his Hokage as well. The woman spoke up first,

"Something's up with that kid,"

The old man agreed, "Naruto has always been knowledgeable of a number of things, far more than he makes us aware of,"

"Then why was he in this meeting?" she asked,

"Because he is still a valuable asset to this village," he threw Naruto's file to his female student. It had all they knew about Naruto; he was a spider summoner, a scientist, a genius, a detective, an exceptional spy and an adaptive fighter. All the missions he had gone on, fifty seven A rank, ten B rank and one C rank were completed with distinction, the clients even gave positive reviews on his performance. The high ranked missions overshadowed the lower ranked ones because he mostly performed missing ninja capture, special artefact recovery, total ninja encampment wipe out, highly dangerous thefts as well as covering his tracks, murder and framing someone else and other missions. The B ranks were mostly just important messages to other villages and escorting the Fire Daimyo and his daughter (along with the guardians) to wherever they were going. The C rank was when he helped out in the hospital by finding a rare herb that grew primarily in Hidden Chill.

Yugao had added in her own opinions to the file that Naruto never wasted any movement and never delayed in making a crucial decision, shooting senbon with killer precision and making use of his outstanding taijutsu form to take down people much larger than him. It listed all the jutsu they knew the boy was able to use and they consisted of mostly A and B rank, some that revolved around his summons and others that could be found in the A rank section of the library, nothing they didn't know but things they didn't expect a thirteen and a half year old boy to be able to perform. The file speculated that he was able to use a high amount of his Kyuubi chakra but so far they hadn't seen him do it. It also speculated that his sensory ability was much higher than an average sensors own, as seen when he was able to tell who from who without looking during a mission to Swamp country.

Tsunade whistled, impressed, "he sure has some moves," she turned to the last page and it showed some of the pictures taken by a Hyuuga hunter ninja that accompanied Naruto on a mission; Naruto had smashed his foot, the sole protected by a thick material, against a man's face in a perfect display of a flying kick. The bigger man's arms and legs were tied together by glistening ninja wire and the next picture showed the spray of blood from his mouth as he fell. Another showed the blonde spider summoner dropping onto an unsuspecting party that comprised of a popular drug dealer and his security entourage, the boy was not clearly seen in the shadows but they could notice the faint orange glow his goggles made. The mission report by the hunter ninja said he had silently dropped down in the middle of the entourage, behind the drug dealer, and with six quick movements shot down the security team with some thrown kunai, knocked the man out and took him back to Konoha on his shoulder. For all intent and purposes, the file described Naruto as a model shinobi. The last thing on the file talked about the suspicion that Naruto was connected to Kitsugami drug Company, citing that the logo was a spider skeleton with nine legs but that was as far as they had could go, they couldn't bring Naruto in for questioning since he was an expert liar and the logo might also be a coincidence; merely a Kyuubi fan as well as a spider fan. Yugao and Naruto weren't aware of this addition.

The Hokage gently lit his pipe and blew out some smoke from his nose, "I am certain that he has something in mind on how to take down anyone he goes up against, even someone he hasn't met before,"

"I'll keep an eye on him," Tsunade said as she snapped Naruto's file closed,

"Good, keep me posted," his loyal students nodded and left his office,

Meanwhile with Naruto, the boy had marched to the west gate, his post until the invasion began, and when his senses told him that no one else was present he flipped through a small chain of hand seals, "Summoning jutsu," a poof of smoke on his hand later and a pitch black spider with the number three on his bulbous behind was in his hand,

"Naruto-sama," the small spider greeted in a deep, gravelly voice,

"I want you to go to the snake summoning realm and tell them that Konoha is onto their summoner, they should relay the message to her,"

"At once, Naruto-sama," the spider said as it disappeared in another puff of smoke. The spider summons were the only summons that the snakes had officially allowed contact with on their summoning realm, at the moment there were both snakes and spiders on both realms, something most believed could never be possible. Some chunin then slipped into the room, making sure to salute Naruto, and took posts outside the door. He turned to the now assembled Hyuuga, Inuzuka and Aburame that had been posted to his side of konoha's wall that looked at him expectantly, standing outside the sentry post Naruto was seated in. He looked over them and spoke,

"I want every Aburame to focus on staying back and providing back support, advisably with their kakaichu. Hyuuga are our frontline fighters, you face them head on and Inuzuka come in from the sides as support. I want the invaders contained to the very last one. I can make traps very quickly so don't worry about going against too many people," they nodded, aware that Naruto was pretty much a trap master, "the Sandaime orders that you kill if you don't have an option, so no holding back or underestimating anyone," a vital part of being a jounin wasn't to lead, but rather to be the cool head that makes crucial decisions; he merely passed his decision to his subordinates.

"Hai, Naruto-senpai,"

Three hours later and his goggles shone a faint red and an explosion was felt from the chunin exams arena, there was a war cry from deep in the forest and Naruto got up from his reclined position in the sentry post, the clan members around the box stood up abruptly, "look alive," he placed on his head piece and leaped out of the box, and ran in, "don't forget the plan!"

The Hyuuga charged in behind him and the Inuzuka fanned out to the sides while the Aburame remained at the back, ready to throw clan jutsu as support. Two long senbon clicked into place on Naruto's launchers, drawing thin lines on the ground as he ran to the invaders. The Sound and Sand shinobi ran back to him and the boy leaped over the first wave and began slashing at the shinobi behind them, stabbing and hacking anyone that stood in front of him. As a large, lumbering ninja came at him he whipped out a senbon from a pouch at his back and stabbed it into the man's leg, flowing around him and smoothly cutting behind his knees. As the man fell down kakaichu descended down on him and ate him to the bone. The invaders began to taper out and Naruto abruptly stopped, reaching out with his senses before he silently motioned to his right to the Inuzuka there. The shinobi burst from the forest and they flooded to the dog clan members, the Aburame at the back yelled out as one a clan jutsu and kakaichu shaped as fists rained down on them. Just them there were numerous massive plumes of chakra smoke in the forest and finally silence, the invaders were cut down to the last one and the Konoha ninja waited for the new threat.

It was silent.

Foreboding settled in the Hyuugas as they looked ahead with their byakugan blazing, that was when a generic looking pale eyed clan member jumped back quickly, away from the lightning fast bite a snake summons had sent from seemingly out of nowhere. Naruto yelled,

"Hyuuga, fall back!" the ninja diligently leaped back and Naruto commanded the bug using clan to charge, the Inuzuka were to stay where they were to cut down any more human invader when they came. The boy rolled aside from a lightning fast bite and jammed an explosive tag through the snakes head, flipping away numerous times to dodge the explosion. He shot out his right pincer senbon and it lodged under snakes chin, he swung onto its head and quickly dislodged his needle before he placed another explosive tag on the snakes head, making sure to leap onto another snake as it exploded. He continued leaping from one snake to another, blowing up their heads, until he realized that the summons were getting too many. The Aburame, still yet to suffer any casualty, were being pushed back, "Inuzuka, come from the sides, stay sharp," he said into his head piece and his command was diligently obeyed, "Hyuuga, support from behind them,

"But that will leave the gate open," a person responded,

"I know what I'm doing," Naruto grunted as he spun away from a snake that had lunged at him, he spun in the air quickly and wind fused shuriken flew out of the mini tornado that covered him, peppering the snakes around him, slicing through the hordes around him,

"Hai, senpai," the person replied. The Hyuuga began throwing 'Gale palms', 'Wind palm vacuums' and made use of 'Protection of the revolving heavens' over the dog clan as defence while the Inuzuka threw 'Drilling fangs' and 'Fang over fangs' as attacks while they were already in their 'man-beast clone technique'.

He then ordered the Aburame to fan out as he flipped through some hand seals, "Summoning jutsu: Venomous clay spiders," he slapped his palm on the ground and a complex summoning seal matrix spread around him, then out of the ground in front of the gate giant brown spider summons erupted and immediately leaped at the snakes, sinking their teeth in them, some being broken with sharp slaps from their tails. They began flooding out of the ground and overwhelming the giant snake summons, this released pressure off the human fighters and Naruto, watching as the corroding venom in the summons destroyed the afflicted snakes. The brown spiders ate through the snakes to the last one before Naruto allowed them to leave, their bellies full. Naruto sighed in relief and rubbed his eyes, "any casualties?" the line crackled silently, the three clans looked at their young captain with much more respect, as the leaders of the respective clans reported back,

"Three injured Aburame, four Inuzuka and one Hyuuga. Nothing life threatening, senpai," a female Aburame reported,

"Good, can you see any more invaders coming?"

"No one for miles ahead of us, senpai," a male Hyuuga clan member reported,

"Great, check around for any survivors and contain them. Let's clean up this mess," he used his toes to idly kick an arm that was very much far away from the owner's body, walking back to the sentry box. They might have known Naruto, being the Kyuubi container, but they were also knew of his short rise into the jounin rank as well as his skills, it was very easy to look past his age and refer to him as their 'senpai',

The assembled members, who were around him, saluted and began performing what he had commanded. He reclined in a chair there and set a radio on his lap, making sure to plug in his head set,

"Sector eleven reporting, all invaders have been dealt with, awaiting orders," he listened in for the response patiently for two minutes,

"Control tower here, sector eleven, are you certain all invaders have been neutralized?"

"Ninety nine point nine per cent sure, control tower," Naruto reported back,

"Sector eleven, you are to send support to sector seven," the west gate where Chouza Akimichi was leading the defence. This was because the bulk of the invaders were there since Hidden Sound was in that general location.

"Understood," he waved for their attention and sent over half of each clan member present, before he spoke into the radio, "control tower, how is the fight in sector one?" the chunin exam arena,

"Sector eleven, the one tails holder has been contained by Jiriaya-sama,"

"And the Hokage…?"

"...standby," there was a long pause before a response came, "the Hokage has been poisoned…they're fleeing,"

Naruto stifled his relieved sigh, "should I give chase?" he might have been very young for his age but he was very good at catching up and capturing people.

"No, maintain your position, sector eleven, the Hokage's life is our priority now,"

"Understood,"

Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't survive the fatal poison Orochimara had given him. His burial was a solemn affair but immediately after Tsunade Senju had been handed the mantle of Hokage. The first thing she did was begin her investigation on who had been supplying the hospital with illegal, hard to get drugs.

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The Yellow flower restaurant,

Konohagakure,

A week after the failed invasion,

Light violins played through hidden speakers as Kitsugami Gumo sat down on at his table and smoothed over his purple pin stripped suit with his hands, behind him Aoki stood at the ready to draw her weapon, her eyes roved over everyone in the restaurant suspiciously. The teenage swordswoman was wearing pure white face paint with her lips painted in a small pouty red circle, and her eyelids were hooded with red, cat-like paint that drew the corner of her eyes close to her ear stylishly. The girl's boss still had his wide brimmed hat casting a shadow over his whole face, he set his hands on his lap and looked around curiously for the new crime lord he had been scheduled to meet with, and he hated tardiness.

A waitress walked up to his table and began pouring water he had initially ordered into a glass cup, he noticed her hands were shaking. He looked at her curiously and when she was about to leave he grabbed her arm sharply and she froze. She slowly turned back to him and he saw what he was looking for in her eyes; undiluted fear. He gently motioned for her to come to him and he slipped a finger sized square of paper filled with exactly five thousand ryu into her hand, closing it before she could reject his money since she knew what was inside. Beneath his hat he smiled at her, she caught the faint outline of it and he whispered to her,

"Why don't you take a break, sweet heart, you look tired," he patted her closed fist gently and she gratefully bowed low to him, and ran off. Kitsugami looked over his shoulder to his feminine war paint wearing bodyguard and they both shared a knowing look. They had been, coincidentally, given a table at the very centre of the restaurant and there just so happened to be well built men and women that wined and dined on the tables around him. He caught some send him quick looks from the corner of his eyes. The major drug producer nodded imperceptivity and Aoki rolled her neck, the mysterious man slowly stood up and all the noise in the restaurant fell, silent as a graveyard.

He stood up straight and waved for the bartender, who was also shaking like a leaf, to leave as well. The old man too bowed deeply to him in appreciation, this time doing so four times before he ran out of the restaurant, no one barred his way. Kitsugami cleared his throat and said,

"Before we begin," all the people paid attention to what he was about to say, a slow, twisted smirk spread on the speakers face under his hat, he looked around, "is there anyone that would like to leave…?" the music was smooth and calm. The people then realized that he was already onto them and they stood up, pulling out various weapons from under their tables, some even threw off their formal clothes in favour of wearing standard Konoha shinobi uniform. The door to the restaurant was slammed shut and two burly Inuzuka stood guard there, under disguise as bouncers. The armed Konoha shinobi began getting into ready positions around Kitsugami, "fine then. Let's begin,"

Kitsugami gently took off his quality tailored suit to show he had on a long sleeved black shirt with purple suspenders connected to his pants, dropping his suit coat onto his chair; the music blasting from the hidden speakers began to increase tempo. Aoki half pulled out her katana and got into a ready stance as well, her back to her boss and his back to her.

It was obvious Kitsugami wouldn't come in without a fight so the jounin didn't bother stating for him to stand down; Kitsugami got into a fighting stance most would say was meant for street fighters, making sure to roll up his sleeves neatly and clenched his gloved hands tightly. His feet were clad in comfortable boots, shinobi boots, so he didn't need to worry about moving around swiftly.

His right hand motioned for the shinobi to come at him, "well what are you waiting for? Come on!"

And the all-out fight began as the classical violin and piano music started a hectic and rushed rendition, typical for most fight scenes.

Two shinobi first rushed to the hat wearing man and he flowed under them smoothly, grabbed the shirt of the man passing his right and threw him into the man passing his left, quickly sidestepping a grab for his shoulder and with a snap kick he nailed the person's ear, careening the victim across the restaurant. He leaped over a sword stroke and dropped down on the weapon, breaking it in half but before his feet could full touch the ground he smashed his foot on the user's chest, throwing him into two more attackers and destabilizing them. His arms reached to his left and grabbed a tanto from coming down at him, the woman that had used the weapon stared at him with shocked wide eyes before he pulled the weapon out of her grasp and stabbed it into her side, shoving her to into some Konoha ninja.

Aoki clanged her sword to hold off three katana blades, gritting her teeth under the combined weight before she snapped her right leg to the right and nailed a man that had wanted to ambush her on his forehead, leaving a visible imprint. Her raised leg then stepped on her dropped sheath and she quickly caught it with her right hand, having to release it from her katana and duck under their swings. She grabbed her sheath from the air and smashed it against a sword wielding man's cheek, spinning on her heel and smashing it against another person's cheek, audibly shattering their cheek bones. The people began looking at her wearily, surrounding her and raised their swords at the ready; she merely smirked and bent down in an advanced defensive stance Bifune had taught her, her katana held in a reverse grip to her side and her sheath over her chest. An invisible switch was flipped and they charged.

Kitsugami raised his forearm to block a tanto, shocking the person that it spark a little, before the mysterious man spun on his heels and used his heel to bring the sword wielder down with a painful thwack against his shoulder. He flexed his fingers and smashed the ground as a shinobi attempted to pull his legs into the ground. The next person that came at him yelled a battle cry and brought a war hammer down on him, Kitsugami flowed away from the lethal blow and flipped over the heavy weapon, away from a sickle slice from another person. He used his left hand to hold the heavy war hammer and snap kicked the person across his face, following this up by hefting the weapon above his head and bringing it down on the sickle wielders shoulder, breaking it. He threw his new weapon to a cluster of Konoha ninjas, sceptical that they were still able to overwhelm Kitsugami. That was until a hat wearing jounin reached forward and grabbed the head of the hammer safely in his hand, he dropped the heavy weapon and it thudded on the ground. The person walked forward and threw off his hat, revealing that he was Hatake Kakashi.

"I was wondering when you'd come out,"

"I was testing out the waters," Kakashi shrugged as he took off the formal suit, showing all he had his jounin uniform underneath, the copy ninja cocked his head to his hat wearing opponent, "by any chance will me showing up convince you to give up? My guys were giving you a tough time,"

Kitsugami laughed, "These guys? Nah, nah, I didn't even break a sweat," he bounced on the balls of his feet and motioned for Kakashi to come at him, "now show me what you've got, copy ninja,"

"Your funeral," the masked shinobi mumbled as he ran to the confident Kitsugami.

The A rank rouge samurai blazed under a female shinobi and sliced the back of her head, lopping her head off cleanly. She didn't stop there; she jabbed her sheath at a male katana user and followed up with a spinning kick to his face, he crumbled to the ground bonelessly. The woman blew away some hair that blocked her right eye and her eyes settled on a purple haired katana user that had commanded the other katana users to stop. Yugao walked forward, her katana pointing downwards and her sheath held in a reverse grip.

The woman looked at the dead, dying and severely injured shinobi around the war paint wearing samurai, shinobi that were under her and Kakashi's joint command and she glared at the other katana user "you will not leave this building alive," Yugao said lowly,

"If I die it would be an honourable death in the service of my master," Aoki replied as she put her katana holding fist to her chest and went back into her former stance,

"Your 'master' will be tried and probably executed, your life would have been a waste," ever so slowly Yugao got into her favoured kenjutsu stance and so did Aoki,

"We'll see," and they clashed swords against each other, sparks flew as lethal steel met lethal steel.

Kakashi easily parried a jab to his stomach with his forearm protector and went for a palm strike to his opponent's chest, but the man slapped his attack away, unexpectedly throwing the copy ninja back to the memory of Naruto slapping his hand away from his goggles during the boy's re-evaluation. The fight went on with both fighters being on equal level until he caught a hole in Kitsugami's stance; he swung his arm and smashed it against the drug dealer's chest, throwing him across the restaurant and into a wall. He heard a faint hissing and his eye widened in alarm as he saw explosive tags multiplying and creeping up his arm, he sealessly switch with a shadow clone and the clone bolted to the door, the guards parted way immediately and just as the clone leaped into the sky it exploded. The masked man sighed in relief and looked at his opponent but didn't find him, when he looked at the exit he saw the Inuzuka lying on the ground with their heads caved in. He cursed and turned to Yugao's fight with her own opponent; the ANBU captain slipped past Aoki's sideways swing and jabbed her katana through her stomach, the samurai immediately burst into chakra smoke.

"Shit, after them!" Yugao yelled and the remaining living ninja, severely cut down in number and strength, surged out of the restaurant and after the two.

With the two runaway underworld dealers, Naruto was busy trying to ignore Aoki's tittering laughs,

"I told you so,"

"Yeah, whatever,"

She relished in his sour mood, as well as the fact that he had admitted he was wrong, "oh sweet kami that felt good,"

"Don't get used to it," Naruto grunted as the two powered through the empty streets of Konoha, he could sense the ninja running behind him but it was too late to sense the wind jutsu Kakashi had used,

"Wind release: Wind vacuums," from his mouth he blew out sharp spike of wind at the mysterious drug dealers unprotected back and they were summarily dodged but a stray gust blew his wide brimmed hat off. His blonde hair reflected in the moonlight and Yugao stumbled, Kakashi too, and Naruto stopped running. He turned to the crowd of ninja and clenched his fist; Aoki pulled his hand hurriedly and encouraged him to keep running. He did so and the stunned gathering of shinobi watched on, until a nameless chunin continued giving chase, this snapped the others out of their surprised daze and they continued chasing the revealed Kitsugami Gumo, Uzumaki Naruto.

Naruto shouldered through the door and quickly switched into his lab, Aoki following through immediately after him and the Uzumaki summoned hundreds of clones to seal up every single thing in the lab, he wasn't worried about the things he had in his apartment since he mostly slept and cooked in his lab, Aoki as well. An alarm on the lab began blaring as an entire wall of his apartment was destroyed, Kakashi sniffed around, his lone eye steeled in determination to bring back the once promising tokubetsu jounin to justice. He followed his nose to the bathroom and uncovered the switch seal there, knowing that he wouldn't be able to switch to Naruto's location unless another person just so happens to want to switch into the apartment. He squeezed the kunai in his right hand tightly and stabbed the wall beside the mirror, it all made sense now; he had once gambled with Kitsugami before, when the man was an ordinary person, and after he had lost another game of cards the man had asked him to see his summoning scroll. There was no such thing as spider summons at the time and coincidentally Naruto came out as a summoner four years later,

"I need a seal master!" he yelled to the ninja behind him and a chunin ran to the Hokage's office, hoping to find Jiriaya of the Sannin. Yugao was busy beating herself up; if she had gotten her shit together and actually approached Naruto when he was younger he might not have gone down this road, she could have at least gotten him some glasses for his eyes, something she knew about very well. She couldn't blame Orochimara, whether the rouge Sannin had brainwashed Naruto into this path or not, the woman had actually cared for Naruto in more ways than she could ever think of.

The toad sage pushed through the shinobi gather in Naruto's bathroom and mutely examined the seal; he channelled in some chakra and sharply pulled his hand away when the seal crackled with electricity. He chuckled to himself and slapped his a scroll on the seal, an alternate version Naruto had used to freeze the alarms just before he stole the forbidden scroll, and the mirror rippled after that, "it's open," he simply said as he jumped through the rippling mirror and the waves of shinobi followed after him.

Naruto had long since finished sealing all of his equipment and clothes and storing them into a backpack which he also in turn stored in a seal next to his heart. He was running as fast as he could out of the warehouse just after he heard his office door burst open, shattering into splinters. Aoki ran beside him with her own backpack secured on her back. Naruto made sure to shield her and himself from an explosive tag ninja had thrown at them that thunked into a tree trunk, he waved her concerns away. He heard some growling behind him and he spied some dog summons catching up to him, a thud far in front of him and he was made aware of three samurai armour wearing toads landing and preparing to catch him. As he ploughed through a few hand seals Aoki pulled out her legendary sword halfway and snapped it back in,

"Earth: pulse!" the ground rose and fell after her in concentric circles and the dog summons were thrown away, this was when Naruto finished his hand seals,

"Summoning jutsu!" multiple large bursts of chakra happened behind and in front of him and different coloured spiders ran out of the plumes, all wearing battle armour on their legs and heads. They rammed their helmet protected heads against the sword bearing toads as the toads brought down their weapons. Naruto and Aoki ran past when the spiders had created an opening for him and his friend.

The gate keepers at the north gate looked at him and his friend curiously as they ran up but when they spied Jiriaya giving chase, frantically yelling for them to hold them down, it was too late; a senbon stuck out of each of their necks. As they exited the gates five shinobi wearing Sound forehead protectors ran beside him in a five pointed formation,

"What took you so long, Naruto-sama?" a pale, unhealthy looking man said,

"I was busy, who are you?"

"Your godmother sent us here three days ago to make sure your journey to Sound is safe," another shinobi said, he had another head sticking out of his back, Naruto shook that fact off and continued running, hearing the chaos his spiders were making,

"So he's the fuck face we've been waiting for?"

"Mind your language," Naruto couldn't help but snap this, "you can cuss all you want to your friends but refrain from doing so to me," he spun around and levelled his senbon launchers on some Inuzuka that had managed to get past the spiders and were giving chase, the needles whistled out of his silver launchers and exploded on the ground when they stepped on them, going too fast to dodge them. The blue fire billowed high into the sky and Naruto whirled around, following his escorts to where they were taking him. The blonde spider summoner then bit his thumb and pulled up his left sleeve to reveal a summoning seal matrix, he smeared the blood on it and muttered, "Summoning jutsu: Mizuki beast," He leaped over the large plume of smoke that exploded in front of him and shouted to the growling monster hidden in the smoke, still running to hidden sound, "hold them off,"

"Yes…Naruto-sama," a deep voice snarled and a hulking mass sped out of the smoke, faster than the others could anticipate. Not even three seconds later there was a monstrous roar and pained screams, then the roar turned into maniacal laughs and deep crazed chuckles, it was now obvious Naruto was pulling out all the stops to avoid capture,

The sound four and Kimimaro all wondered what sort of evil creation Naruto had unleashed on the poor Konoha ninjas, "He's right Tayuya," Kimimaro muttered, wincing a little when he heard a thick cracking sound with another scream coming before it, the scream was abruptly cut short, "he is Lady Orochimara's godson, the same guy she said was able to keep up with her when they last fought,"

"…whatever," she huffed sourly,

Naruto felt his spider get killed and that was when more toads and dogs flooded after him. Kimimaro shot bone drills at them from his fingers and the silent fifth member of the Sound Four threw a clay bomb over his shoulder and chuckled darkly when he heard the toad victims give pained grunts.

The dense trees cleared out and this allowed Naruto to summon another spider, "Summoning jutsu: Clay venomous spiders," the ground in front of them erupted and out crawled three clay spider summons, "get on," he leaped onto a clay spider and when Aoki touched down beside him he mentally commanded it to go in the general direction they had originally been going. They all heard a loud boing and a giant toad dropped before them, Jiriaya, Kakashi and Yugao standing on its head. Naruto cursed to himself and mentally commanded the spiders to fan out, in different directions. The three shinobi jumped down to him and the massive summons began distracting the guards.

Jiriaya dropped straight through the clay spiders head, flinging Naruto and Aoki away. The duo righted themselves in the air dextrously and landed on their feet smoothly. The stare down was epic, until Yugao finally spoke,

"Come back peacefully, Naruto, maybe…maybe Hokage-sama would go easy on you,"

"You should listen to her, that's some really good advice right there," Jiriaya grunted, standing tall and intimidating under the illuminating moon,

"I think I'll pass on that," Naruto replied and got into his favoured four legged shadow spider stance,

"What went wrong, Naruto?" the purple haired woman whispered and Naruto caught it, the wind speed increased slightly,

"Becoming a shinobi…that's where I went wrong,"

"But…but why drugs kid…?" Kakashi said,

"You might not believe me but my company has been helping millions of people who have problems affording drugs these days, I've saved millions of families and dozens of Hidden villages from extinction with my drugs. The illegal stuff happened before I expanded my clientele. Can you honestly tell me that what I have done to the medicine world isn't vital, isn't ground breaking?" it wasn't like Naruto tested the illegal drugs on himself…that was meant for others to test on…

"You have done some great work, Naruto, but what you did before these things could happen…" Yugao trailed off, "you experimented on people, you killed, you kidnapped and you did it without remorse,"

"They were all dregs of the society; no one would miss them,"

"It doesn't make it any less evil!" Jiriaya shouted, "your just like Orochimara," he hoped that would make the boy feel even a little remorse but rather Naruto brightened up and flashed a grin at him, exposing his freakishly serrated spider teeth to them to see even under the moonlight,

"Thank you, Jiriaya, and I'm sure my godmother would be glad too,"

"Your parents would be disappointed in you," Kakashi shouted,

"They lost all right of being 'proud of me' the moment they died, I don't think you've noticed but I've been alone for a long time and they didn't even leave me a single letter, or even a picture!" Naruto yelled, finally losing composure after his parents had been mentioned. He had not received his inheritance because the estate had been flattened by a tail from the Kyuubi and the massive wells of money in the joint Namikaze-Uzumaki account had been slowly drained dry over the years by the civilian council as well as some few select shinobi, "as far as I know the only parent I have is my Orochimara, she's cared, that's all that matters," he didn't flinch when a loud thud hit the ground, destroying a clay spider and scattering the Sound ninja trying to fight the toad,

"Is this about love and care? Get over yourself; you're not the only person that had to grow up alone,"

"Try growing up half blind and having to look through the trash for food, when you know how that feels you'll understand," frankly speaking, the toad sage had lived a good early life, even as an orphan. "The people my parents entitled to look after me failed and it was only my godmother that went above and beyond, just for me. You should all be glad I don't hold any grudges…"

The man didn't have a good come back, he had already reconciled with himself the fact that he was a terrible godfather, he had hoped that he could bond with Naruto over training the Kyuubi, hoping that Naruto would look up to him but that was never the case. He got into the toad kata stance, "enough talk,"
"Yeah…enough talking," Naruto muttered and flipped through three hand seals as the three ran to him, "Web bomb: level ten!" a sparkling white orb began growing between his palms and when it was roughly the size of a beach ball he smashed it onto the ground, Aoki making sure to stand behind him away from the blast; she was very familiar with the attack, this would be the first time the three ninjas would see it.

The effect of this was the ball exploding and covering all in thick, heavy and quickly drying white webs, even the toad had to leap aside. There were finger nail sized spiders with beeping brown and green behinds that moved sluggishly over the webs, expanding it and at the same time fortifying it; when Jiraiya thought he could break out his hole was smoothed over, it would last an hour. Naruto shook the webs off easily and pulled Aoki out, summoning clones to pull the Sound Four and Kimimaro out too. The toad touched back down on the web and it solidified around his feet, making him immobile. He spared a looked at the trapped ninja, and ran off to Hidden Sound.

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"Ray…Jay," a smooth voice chirped as she sauntered through the front door of the Scarlett Pleasure Brothel, the woman had a beautiful tan with purple lipstick and dark eye shadow painted on her face, she wore flowing black formal dress and a long gold necklace around her neck. She also had hoop earrings and black high heels. She hopped onto the scrubbed down counter where drinks were usually served and crossed her legs, two twins dressed identically in purple pyjamas yawned as they waltzed out from the curtain on the far right of the counter where the sex workers received 'visitors' in their rooms,

"Ohayo Arana-sama," a twin with a rose hairclip holding up a long black overhanging bang chirped, the other twin though allowed her own bang to cover her left side, her soft brown eyes glinted at the head matron and she raised her visible eyebrow,

"Have you heard the news?" the matron said as she buffed her manicured nails on her chest and examined them,

"You need to be specific, lady," the other twin said,

"Well, Jay-chan, I was talking about Kitsugami-sama,"

Ray, the twin with the air clip snapped her fingers in realization, "oh yeah, that chase yesterday night…why didn't you let us help out again?" she angrily perched her fists on her hips and her twin frowned and followed suit,

"Kitsugami-sama specifically said we shouldn't interfere if it was to ever happened," she sighed wistfully, "he said he didn't want us to come into harm's way, the sweetheart,"

Jay blew her bang and looked away briefly, "well that's stupid,"

Ray bumped her shoulder, "he's sweet,"

"Do you know who Uzumaki Naruto is?" the matron asked as he snapped the twins out of their daze,

"The Kyuubi kid, he used to visit when he was like six, what happened to him?" Jay replied with a suspiciously raised eyebrow, "You're not telling me that that little kid was-"

The matron nodded, "Kitsugami Gumo, head of the Kitsugami Drug Company. Only I and his chief foreman knew this,"

"Damn it…" Jay cursed under her breathe, "Wasn't he some sort of star ninja? Damn it!" she threw her hands in the air, she then paused, "they didn't catch him right?"

The matron snorted, "of course not, this is Uzumaki Naruto we're talking about. Now, the reason I called you two is that he has sent a message back that he wants the snitch that ratted him out to be killed, he doesn't care how or where but preferably soon,"

Ray cocked her head to the side, "done," the usually ditzy twin was now stoic and her twin looked at her briefly before she too nodded.

Authors note

I wanted to end the story here but there was something I wanted to add in, it's relevant if you squint really hard.

It's a side story.

It wouldn't be the last side story in 'Ink Heart'. Side stories, to me, are stories that don't hold that much of significance to the main story, but they are still very well connected to the story. This being said that this side story does not really influence the main story.

That also means 'Aoki-chan's story' is not a side story since maybe (or maybe not) it does have a purpose in the main story (just squint really, really, really hard). Woof, I'm tired of all this explaining, read if you're interested BUT…beware…

A warning; this story is going to be very violent. There will be a lot of unpleasant scenes, violent scenes. I am saying this from the bottom of my heart, this side story is not for the faint of heart; it contains torture on a psychological level. I apologise if they trigger anyone but don't say I didn't warn you. Here it is,

Side story:

What happened to Mizuki Touji?

About a day before the chunin exams

"I've found something, Kakashi-senpai," the masked shinobi looked to his right when he heard the familiar feminine voice of his subordinate, Uzuki Yugao. The swordswoman had been among the few people that had volunteered to rummage around in Naruto's abandoned warehouse/ laboratory. So far the only things they had found were stray pieces of paper that had gibberish scribbled over it, probably codes, some empty test tubes and, now, a camcorder with a memory card jutting out of it. The blonde and his clones might have overlooked it as they were scurrying to pack up their research. Even the beast that had attacked with the spiders had disappeared to wherever it came from.

Kakashi took the camcorder from her and looked at it with his lone eye, then he brought down the corner of his mask to expose his sharingan eye, "no tags or genjutsu," the camcorder's screen was smashed and its eye piece had been bent in a bad angle, it was too broken to be used.

He turned and walked to a large screen that hung securely on the wall, where Naruto used to magnify anything he was looking at through his powerful microscope. He pulled out the memory card and blew on it, and then he poked it into the space under the screen where Naruto had labelled for memory cards. The other ninja that had been looking around the ghost warehouse paused at what they were doing when Kakashi pushed the card into the space under the screen.

The screen fizzled.

The was a short, static buzz and there were only lines crisscrossing the screen before it abruptly cleared to reveal Naruto looking into the camera, his goggles black and his pale face an emotionless slat.

"I think it's on now boss," a dismembered voice said and Naruto smiled slightly,

"Good thing this thing was 100ryo huh," he muttered and handed the camera to the voice. The audience watched as Naruto cocked his head to the side and took off his hoodie to reveal his plain black short sleeved shirt, he leaned back to reveal that he was in the abandoned office, he hung his hoodie and ignored his lab coat in favour of walking out of the office, showing that the corridor between his main lab and the office was actually and animal containment area, containing a vast number of animals, so many that the audience wondered just how he was even able to get them past the gate keepers. He entered his lab, passing by the empty spider enclosures. He turned to the camera and this time on his formerly expressionless face was an bright grin, "this," he forced the clone holding the cam to turn to the left to reveal a silver haired man lying on a table with his hands and legs strapped down securely. His was in plain trousers and shirt and he was very much asleep, "is Mizuki-sensei,"

The watchers leaned back abruptly when they beheld the dozing man. Naruto had reported that he had 'torn him apart in an emotional explosion of clones'…

Naruto stepped away a few paces from the camera and walked to the side of the table where Mizuki lay. He raised his hand up…

…And used the back of his hand to slap the sleeping man awake.

"Good evening, Mizuki-sensei," Naruto said as he turned to the smaller table besides him, he ran his fingers over the gleaming tools and test tubes there then he looked back at Mizuki,

"What the…Kyuubi…?"

"Yeah…let's go with Kyuubi," Naruto grinned widely, exposing the serrated teeth feature he shared with his summons,

Mizuki tried to sit up abruptly but realized that his hands and legs as well as his midsection were held down by tight straps, "I always knew you were evil," the former teacher said under his breathe after a small chuckle,

"Evil is merely a perception from the victim. I merely do things for an end, is that so evil?" he picked up a syringe and stabbed it into a closed test tube, sucking all of its contents in. He then injected the liquid into a bag that hovered over the teacher, injecting another liquid into another bag; he connected these bags into a vein on Mizuki's left and right wrists,

"What do you plan on doing, demon?" the man's struggles were futile,

"You might have not have noticed but I pursue ideals people consider vile. Simply put, I want to turn you into a creature of nightmares. I might fail, I might succeed, the positive side is I would be able to see you break apart," he slipped on a pair of rubber gloves and a twisted, dark smirk crawled onto his face, "you should have never trusted Orochimara,"

"Wait wh-"

"Let's begin. There will be five stages of what I'm going to do to you," Naruto interrupted and flipped on the drip bags to begin pushing the clear liquid into his wrists, "disregarding your cursed seal you have a strong immune system, so the first stage is to…break your body; I'll start from inside and work my way out," he then harshly grabbed the man's cheek and smiled widely to the sweating man, "and believe me when I say this, I will savour every moment of it. Don't be shy to scream,"

That was when the immune weakening serum being pumped into the man's body began to take effect.

The things the young boy did to the chunin were too painful to watch. Naruto disregarded the man's screams of pain and when he deemed his immune system weak enough he injected what he called a 'regulation serum' into his system which boosted his regeneration while his immune system was still very low. The shinobi winced as Naruto whipped out multiple senbon and stabbed it all over the teacher, even laughing at his whimpers of pain. He roughly grabbed his hands and, one by one, he be began breaking his hands, then, to the audiences horror, he cut the fingers starting from the very tips down to the palms. Then the hands regrew but while they were doing that he focused on the feet, shredding it up to the knees and allowed them to grow back while he went back to the hands.

The blood, spit and mucus that sprayed from the screaming chunin was nauseating, some of the ninja that watched couldn't take it anymore and released the contents of their stomachs. Kakashi sighed when Naruto laughed loudly again as he jammed two senbon straight into the soles of Mizuki's feet; he closed his eye and grabbed what he could guess was the remote control that hung under the screen; he pressed the fast forward button. The first stage in the video lasted three days before Kakashi finally released the button; Mizuki was sweating buckets and his hands were shaking violently in their restraints, he was panting and crying,

"P-p-p-please…"

Naruto smirked at him in amusement, "and why are you begging. I believe you are ready for the second stages; breaking your mind. Looking at you now I'm half done with that. Let's begin,"

He made sure the regulation serum was still pumping into the broken teacher's body before he brought out two small clamps and used them to keep his eyes open. He then lifted up the table that held him down and spun it around to the very screen they were watching from. Naruto brought out the remote control for the screen and said,

"I will show you a series of pictures, they aren't too pleasant to look at but you don't any option but to watch it, don't you?" he clicked the play button and the TV flickered on, the camera then panned over to Mizuki's face and all of the colour,

"How did you-" a scream belted from the video and he struggled to look away, he struggled to close his eyes but his restraints held strong. His mouth stretched open and his eyes widened even more and, an hour later, he seemed very unresponsive. The ninja would have thought he was dead if not for the regular breathes that escaped his mouth. The rest of the video was dead silent.

Kakashi again fast forwarded.

Mizuki eyes were now flickering and the corners of his mouth were twitching, though he didn't speak. His eyes dully roved to Naruto as he walked past the camera, the ninja could see the sadistic blondes smirk as his former teachers mind crumbled and split apart by the seams to the torturously repetitious series videos he had shown him for a month.

"Excellent," Naruto said as he jotted something down into his clip board, "at this point you may not be wondering why I'm doing this to you; besides the fact you thought you could manipulate me with money," he said with a short snort and roll of his eyes, "I don't want to seem like the cliché movie villain that would reveal his dastardly plot to the spunky hero right before he even does it," at this point it was like he was speaking to a plant, a living, breathing plant that had a twitching hand and flickering eyes. Mizuki's eyes now seemed permanently contracted eyes with a thin red ring around his eyeballs, probably caused from the tears he cried before his brain cells were fried. Naruto noticed this and chuckled to himself, writing down his discovery that even with the bait of telling him his plans would force any action; it was either he was faking his behaviour to escape the videos or his mind was genuinely so broken it was reminiscent to a window that a soccer ball had broken through. The ninja watching weren't aware of this but this was his intention, not the obvious fact that Naruto simply wanted to hurt Mizuki, but rather breaking his body and his mind were part of another goal he wanted. The former teacher had hauntingly wide eyes with pin-like pupils with red rims around both of his eyes, his mouth was slightly gaped.

The blonde mad and sadistic scientist was glad that Aoki-chan wasn't around to witness the proceedings. She had come face to face with the lower rungs of humanity and would rather not meet them again. She had been allowed to stay at his apartment or walk around the village if she wanted anytime he returned to the lab.

Shocking the watchers Naruto snapped his fingers and shadow clones walked before the camera, and removed the restraints from Mizuki's hands. The clones left as the man clumsily fell on the ground, he rigidly picked himself back up again, but his horrified facial features and pallid skin colour remained the same, this was understandable since he hadn't eaten a good meal in months of being in Naruto's lab.

The blonde poked his forehead again, seeing if he could elicit even a small wince but he got none, "it seems I can now move to the third stage of my project, breaking your will," the watchers felt their blood chill when he said this and some even covered their faces, this was the real side their comrade and their senpai didn't reveal to them, "I'll give you a ten minute head start. Run," the boy said shortly before he turned around.

The broken man remained in place, releasing the occasional breathe and taking in more. Naruto looked over his shoulder and sighed when he turned around,

"Fine then, I'll have to use one of man's primal instincts to break your will, the urge to eat," he snapped his fingers again and a single clone snapped a collar around Mizuki's neck, the chain trailed off into the background. Naruto riffled through his pocket and brought out five energy bars, he placed them one the floor and leaped back in time for the hungry teacher to dive at the bars. The man didn't even unwrapped the bars before he chomped down on it, swallowing thickly and whimpering at the taste. Naruto set his pen holding hand to the right and a steaming bowl of ramen was placed in his palm, he dropped the bowl but this time he didn't flinch away when Mizuki dived at him, because the chain effectively kept him and his hands away from him but at the same time painfully close. He dropped the bowl on the ground and left the lab.

Kakashi closed his eye again and fast forwarded until Mizuki was a thin, crumbling man on his hands and knees. He wasn't reaching for the food anymore, but rather he was looking up and waving away invisible flies that pestered him.

Naruto spoke outside the frame of the camera, "that stage served as a twosome; it broke your will and your spirit. So I can go to the next stage," he walked to Mizuki and shoved him back onto the table, the man didn't raise any sort of resistance, "I will refortify your body, strengthen your immune system and bestow you with body regeneration. This all considering that your mind is like a torn, crumpled piece of paper. Now what do you say…?" he had made sure to assign his clones to give him ten drops of water daily, but the food remained out of reach,

Mizuki coughed dryly and muttered, "thank you, Naruto-sama,"

Naruto beamed and ruffled his hair, "well done, you're learning. Now let's begin,"

The young scientist slowly slid a needle into the man's left wrist and connected a tube to be supplying regular drops of a chemical into his veins. He then slowly eased a needle to where his heart was and gently pushed the golden liquid of the injection into his body. He dropped the empty needle and placed his left pointer and middle finger on the man's neck while he whipped his right wrist in front of him to show he had on a ticking watch. He stayed like that, keeping count of his heart rate until he got what he was looking for; the man's heart began beating rapidly. He remained neutral as he injected his other wrist with another chemical, this one was light purple.

At this point you all may be wondering why his cursed seal wasn't reacting. The camera panned to the seal; to answer your question Naruto brought out a paint brush with bristles wet with ink and a phial of blood. He squinted his eyes and his goggles shone a faint red before he began tracing over the intricate seal, when he was done he channelled his chakra; a thin line slashed through the cursed seal and purple chakra pumped out and circulated through the man's body, aided by his rapidly pumping heart and his widening chakra coils. The boy gave the brush to a clone and retrieved another one, this one was dry; he dipped it into the blood phial and traced over the thin slash. The seal, surprising enough, began to flicker and beep black and purple; Naruto handed the brush to a clone and retrieved yet another brush, this time he bit his thumb and dipped the tip of the brush on the wound before his regeneration closed it up. It happened slowly; he tapped the blinking seal with the blood painted brush and it stopped blinking abruptly but began to bubble on his neck. The cursed seal rippled and spun within itself before it stopped, revealing that it was now in an Uzumaki spiral that was red rather than blue.

It was a feat jiriaya could only hope for, but at the same time a feat Naruto could not reach all by himself. He had sent a spider summons to Orochimara to request for the administration instruction scroll for the cursed seal of heaven. It always helped that your favourite relative was an evil scientist that had a taste for blood; she also sent the phial of blood for him to remove the seal. Though removing the seal wasn't his plan; he read through the scroll since the first day Mizuki arrived and had seen various routes to take the toad sage could never be aware of in order to remove the loyalty seal that was keyed to the snake sages blood and place his own instead.

The thick veins escaping the seal turned red and the man grunted, his fists clenched tightly but didn't break loose of his restraints.

Naruto allowed a small twitching smile to come to his face before he left the man to return to his other experiments, while at the same tie regulating and maintaining the flow of drugs to his other warehouses. The money he made on a weekly basis that was returned to him by his chief foreman was not only stored into small squares which were in turn stored in a room at the laboratory, but rather invested in expanding his drug corporation various other ventures he was not too focused in like his drug empire. Concerning his investments back into Kitsugami Drug Corporation he had set up more warehouses but not in Konoha but in both Snow and Marsh countries, there were more staff running around, which he had to pay for their loyalty with regular salaries, and he had made his administration system even more sophisticated. He had extended his drug corporation to include a delivery system; this was mainly for legal organisations that needed his drugs direly, like hospitals. There were at least a dozen C rank ninja that went to make the drop off but before that the money was wired to his account in Snow country. The money was always withdrawn to the last ryu just in case the country ever caught up to him and froze his account. The other thing he did was to invest his money into extending his corporation, yet again, into the espionage world. This was more of a passive hobby to the drug empire but in the shinobi world information was what turned the planet, then money. He encouraged the drop off ninja as well as the civilians, and ninja, which controlled the warehouses to keep an idle eye and ear out for any useful piece of information or blackmail that could serve a greater purpose for him.

Kitsugami Drug Corporation was now taking root into the elemental nations and even as the ninja watched the video Naruto had purposefully left behind they still weren't aware of how well connected the KDC could be. The Hokage, and the other Kages', may have made a vendetta to shut down his operations but their attempts were amusing, given the fact that their own hospitals depended on the drugs he himself had created, some of their ninja needed his own custom made chakra replenishing pills, which were better than the old ones seeing as they didn't have that much of a negative backlash when the chakra ran out. He might have been producing illegal drugs as well as his main merchandise but there were still a large sphere of people outside his workers that didn't want him to shut down his operations.

The next time Kakashi fast forwarded Mizuki looked much healthier than the last time. He had thick muscles and his back hunched noticeably on the table. His hair was shaggier; growing till it was past his barrel-like chest, this still considering the fact that it was shadowing his eyes. The tube connected to his wrist still supplied regular drops of liquid into his body.

Naruto spoke again from outside of the cameras view, "your cursed seal has been altered. That means, my broken friend, that I removed the limiter kept on it so that it would be eternally activated. In my research on humanity and nature chakra I have discovered that as long as a person is part animal of any kind, even a measly ant, then he will be saved from the adverse effects nature chakra has on use. That thing in your wrist is what I call 'Liquid DNA'; it contains a small, submissive strain of DNA from a Grass country tiger spider," these were spiders that were as large as three year old children (when they were fully grown) with no venom n their fangs to kill but rather to stun long enough for the fangs to fully sink into the neck of its victim. Its foil though was that with how quick it could strike and how stealthy it could move it was not a fast runner, "your cursed seal assimilates with this submissive DNA in you even more since it is a breed of spiders closely related to tigers. If I stopped the circulation of this DNA in your body the ones already in you would be eaten alive by your now strong immune system and you would turn into a stone. A sad fate for a miracle of science if I ever deemed you worthless,"

"Please master…" Mizuki muttered with a small unconscious growl, not one of defiance but rather since he could not speak without the occasional growl,

"Your usefulness to me is still yet to be seen;" Naruto simply said, "now the last stage is simply when I inject you with something I have been making here for a while now. It contains a mix of the tiger spider and the fire centipede. This should hurt, let's begin," he stabbed a needle he whipped out from his coat sleeve into the mutating man's neck and stepped left once again to attend to his duties in the lab and to his corporation.

As Kakashi once again fast forwarded all witness the change Mizuki underwent in high speed. His neck thickened, his arms bulked up even more and descended down to his feet, his legs became shorter (about as long as your foot to your knees), his skin turned greyish-red, his canines descended well past his chin, twelve spike like protrusions jutted out from his sides and twitched with life and a large mandible shot from the edges of his mouth and clicked together. He was now a freak of nature. The only rational thing that passed through his broken, twisted mind was on how to serve Naruto better to earn his favour.

Naruto smirked at what he had created and turned to the camera, a knowing glint in shone his eyes before it turned off.

The silence that reigned in the empty lab slash warehouse was deafening. Some of the chunin that Naruto had commanded during the invasion looked down at their hands. Kakashi sighed again and stashed the memory card into his flak jacket. No one spoke again as they all filed out of the warehouse and tree hopped back to the village.

Why did Naruto leave a video showing a juggernaut he had in his grasp? Just because. He didn't have to have a reason for everything he was going to do or doing presently, right?

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Side story ends here but main story continues

Uzumaki Naruto, though, and his godmother, Orochimara of the Sannin were at the moment lying on their bellies on a high hill, with the sickly woman peering into a pair of binoculars. They were looking the violent whirlpools that spun over the oceans, then at the menacing sea creatures that swam through the whirlpools with ease, then finally to the dozens of highly ranked ninja wearing the Kumogakure forehead protector patrolling in front of the high wall that curved over the main path towards ocean, as well as the few shinobi that patrolled the other routes. It was ridiculous that the Raikage had gone through all this measures so that no one would go to Uzishio, disregarding the fact that there were dozens of whirlpools that would shred any person that was not an Uzumaki summons or with the Uzumaki bloodline (or associated closely with the Uzumaki). Since Kumogakure, and any other village, could not access Uzushiogakure completely then no one would.

Orochimara removed the binoculars from her yellow eyes and looked into Naruto's goggle protected own, she smirked wickedly,

"First lesson, my lovely little godson, is on how to pass through Kumo to get to Uzishio," she motioned forward to reveal that they weren't even in Kumo, rather they were lying on a hill behind Hidden Mountain, which bordered Kumo, "we are going to put your stealth skills to the test," she pinched his cheek and stood up, he stood up as well to show he was in a well-fitting black and red hoodie, he shrugged on his back pack and carried his godmother's back pack in his right hand.

They always had the option of passing around Kumo but where was the fun in that? Besides, cutting through the hidden village that had the world's highest bounty for the snake Sannin was way shorter than going around it. They had a long journey in front of them, which just so happened to do with breaking through the elemental nation's wealthiest hidden village to a destroyed village whose eternal defence may or may not reject them.

What could go wrong?

Final authors note

Done. This chapter took me three days to complete, which is strange since I usually get a chapter done in a day. I blame it on the fact that I had to struggle to get the right emotion into this. Naruto, at this point in time, may technically be classified as the bad guy and I don't want you to think otherwise. He's just really selfish, not necessarily evil. Though he isn't selfish all the time, keep reading to find out when and how he stops being selfish.

Next chapter is bound to be crazy. Any thoughts on the stunt those two want to pull? I've got some surprises coming…keep reading to find out what.

I put up a new story called 'The Cursed Maker', check it out in my profile; it has an old Naruto in it. I'd appreciate it if you do, especially if you drop a review *massive smile*

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