This is your boy, Pandagoon, with a new chapter for the only story that has Naruto with Isshiki's Karma Mark. Hopefully you guys like this chapter as much as you did the first one (maybe even better). With that said I'm gonna do a new thing and respond to reviews.

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The Burden of the Mark

Fear.

That's exactly what this man was feeling while he was running through the forest. He knew he shouldn't have volunteered to do this mission. Sure he hated those tree huggers but still, it's nowhere near as important than keeping himself alive from the devil that's been chasing him for the better part of an hour now.

He didn't know why he was being chased, one moment he was setting up camp for his squad and then they were ambushed. A full squad of ten ninja was quickly dealt with and only one was left. He had to escape and report this monster to the Mizukage. Drenched in sweat, the man finally escaped the thick foliage and entered an open clearing with a quaint shack in the middle.

See the shack, the man made a beeline towards it. Bursting through like that of a bull, he quickly shut the door and found something to block it with, a chair being the only usable thing in the house, and sat down to rest for a bit. After a few quick seconds, he grabs a scroll out of his ninja pouch that's attached to his right thigh.

Quickly writing down a message, he puts it down and forms the necessary hand signs for the Summoning Jutsu. When finished, a miniature lizard came out of the poof of smoke. It was about ten inches, it's body being green with a blue stripe going down it's body all the way to the tip of his tail.

"Crikey mate! What the hell happened?" said the lizard in a weird accent.

"Hehe, the worst has come to pass for me unfortunately. Here I need you to deliver this scroll to the Mizukage, there's a new enemy. Just from what I saw he's dangerous, maybe even more than Mizukage himself." said the man while giving the scroll to the lizard summon.

"Ah, I see. In that case, I shall perform your final wish then, Tenshikima." replied the lizard, taking the scroll into his mouth.

"Thank you Galgor...I'll miss you." said the man now named Tenshi. With that said, after taking a quick bow of respect to his summoner, the lizard named Galgor poofed away. After he was gone, Tenshi stood up and decided to try and salvage for supplies in the house.

Unfortunately, he didn't find anything that could be used to help him beat the man that's trying to kill him. That's when he felt it. The most oppressive aura he has ever felt. Just from sensing it, he was nearly forced to get on his knees. He heard banging from the front door and knew it was the man checking out the shack. Thinking quick on his feet, Tenshi hid himself as best he could in the cramped place.

As soon as he heard the door burst open, he held his breath. He felt the man walking around, trying to sniff him out and kill him. Hearing his feet making the wood creak was like the first time he ever killed someone. The terror and fear hitting him full force, he couldn't stop himself from taking a sharp breathe of air when he felt the man move into the room he was hiding in.

As soon as he did so, two things happened. Tenshi covered his mouth to try and stop anything else from escaping his mouth and blowing his cover. As well as the man stopping and turning to where he thought he heard the noise. Walking over to Tenshi's spot, the man stood there and tried to sense him. Tenshi though, he was suppressing his chakra levels to as low as he could, praying that the man would just forget and leave.

After what felt like hours, the man finally left and the front door was heard being closed. After waiting for a few minutes to make sure the coast was clear, Tenshi left his hiding spot. Combing his hair with his hand, he let out a sigh of relief.

"What a dumb-Urk!" before he could finish his sentence, Tenshi was stabbed through his chest with a sword. He looked at the sword, surprise and pain evident on his face, before he looked behind him. The image he saw nearly made him piss his pants. What looked like Satan himself was standing there, glaring at him.

His red hair was so dark it looked like blood. Dark violet eyes filled with nothing but malice and rage, seemingly piercing his very soul. The man's lips were pulled into a viscous snarl, a guttural growl escaping the man's mouth. The man the sword out of Tenshi's chest, causing him to crumble to the floor in a pool of his own blood.

"I have told you and your kind this many, many times. Do not come anywhere near the Land of Fire. Stay out of it, unless you want your entire village to be wiped off the face of the Earth." the man said in a calm but angry tone. Tenshi just turned his head to face him and glared at him.

"You fucking tree huggers are so arrogant, thinking you can just wipe a village out by yourselves. No one can do it, not even your precious Yondaime Hokage." With as much strength as he could muster, Tenshi grabbed a kunai and tried to stab this man through the heart. Unfortunately, the man was able to see this coming and swiftly grabbed Tenshi's wrist and broke it. Yelling in pain, Tenshi crumbled to his knees clutching his wrist.

"It seems you need a, lesson on what you should and shouldn't do in the ninja world." while the man said that, he underwent a transformation of sorts. Marks started growing up his right arm, passing his eye, and stopping when it touched his hairline. Pulling his right arm back, what looked like boulders, formed on his arm and into a blade. The last thing Tenshi ever saw, was the reflection of his own crumbled body. Blood oozing out of his chest and onto the floor, and tears coating his face in sadness and regret.

'Tsui-Hime, I'm sorry I couldn't be there for our unborn child. I love you.' was the last thing Tenshi ever thought.

Why did it always have to come to this. No matter how much good one man did, it always led to one thing. Death. He swears he would break this cycle of death and hatred of the Ninja World. He promised it to the one girl he truly loved. But she was taken away from him, by a terrorist organization.

And he never breaks his promises.

Sighing, the man stepped into the shower and washed off. Feeling a pulse in his right palm, he looks at it and sees the diamond shaped mark. Twisting his face into a snarl, he slams it against the shower wall and cracks it. Turning the shower off, he quickly puts his clothes on and goes to his bedroom. He tries to sleep but the mark keeps pulsing, keeping him awake.

Sighing in agitation, he closes his eyes and accepts to be taken into the world of his mindscape. When he opens them again, he's in a regal looking house. The man snorts, typical Otsutsuki. Hearing a door open, he turns to it and sees the Otsutsuki that's been living inside his body since he was twelve years old. Isshiki Otsutsuki was an arrogant being, always flaunting that he was insignificant compared to him.

"Naruto, I see you finally decided to show up."

"Yea well, when you keep me up all night, it becomes very difficult to ignore." was Naruto's reply. Looking at the man impassively, he tried to figure out the reason he was called here. Was it to make fun of his failures in the past? To gloat his power that is near impossible to reach? He couldn't make sense of why he was called forth into his mind.

"I can assure you it's non of that. I am here to give you information on some events that will happen soon." Isshiki said, as if he could read Naruto's mind. Naruto snorts and looks at him with suspicion.

"You, Isshiki Otsutsuki. Want to help an inferior species such as me? Excuse me for being blunt, but I don't believe you for a second."

"As much as I detest it, I must do so in order to preserve my resurrection. My fellow clansmen will come to this world very soon, looking for me. When they see that I have failed to accomplish my goal, they will try everything in their power to eradicate me and subsequently me. That mustn't happen."

"Oh yeah? What's stopping me from letting them kill me? Maybe I want to kill me, it would put an end to the continuous nightmares you put me through."

"Because if you do, every single one of your precious friends will die. Sakura, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Choji, Lee, Neji, they will perish at the hands of my fellow Otsutsuki if you don't survive."

Lips forming a frown, Naruto replies, "Fine tell me what you want Otsutsuki. But after this you will promise me that you won't ever contact me, only in dire situations can you do so."

"Deal. What I will tell you is necessary to be able to defeat my clansmen. I will tell you how to control the Karma Mark." Isshiki replies with a curt tone. Naruto looks at him with shock. A way to control the Karma Mark? This is what he's been dreaming about. If he could control the Karma, then he really could protect his friends.

"You peaked my interest, Isshiki. Tell me just how one goes about controlling the Karma Mark?" Naruto says curtly. He still doesn't fully trust him but what choice does he have? If people stronger than Isshiki are coming to his world, he needs to get stronger quickly. Even if that means allying with an enemy.

"We don't have much time but I will tell you the basics. To be able to control the mark one must have the blood of an Uzumaki, which you luckily do. You need to go to the Uzumaki temple with the masks. Select the right one and that will help you in your adventure to control the Karma Mark. But until then, learn how to control your emotions better, you draw on this power subconsciously whenever you're desperate. Just like that fox's power." explained Isshiki.

"Don't remind me of him. He may have been a bastard, but he was still the best brother I've ever had." Naruto replied quickly, and in a curt tone.

"Ah, I see. The wound is still fresh. While I normally don't care for such trivial things, I will be mindful in this instance."

"Thanks I guess. If that's all then I'm going to finally be getting some rest. Ja Ne." Not waiting for a reply, Naruto leaves Isshiki to do whatever he does. Opening his eyes Naruto stares into the darkened room. Staring at his ceiling, he thinks back on his past and everything that's led up to this point in his life. Closing his eyes he starts to reminisce.

Naruto Uzumaki opened his eyes. The light from the sun-rays hitting his face despite the curtains blocking the window. Wanting to go back to sleep, he turns away from the sun. Looking at the alarm clock he sees it's ten o'clock. Two hours after the supposed meeting time with his new team. Yawning, Naruto closes his eyes and goes back to sleep.

'...Wait...WHAT!" Snapping awake, Naruto looks at the alarm clock again and sees he truly is two hours late to the first meeting with his team. Bolting out of his bed, he quickly grabs his clothes and runs to his bathroom to take a shower. After taking a quick shower, he leaves his apartment and bounds to the meeting place his sensei said to go to.

'Oh man, I hope Sensei isn't to angry'

Sakura Haruno woke up to the sound of an alarm clock. Groaning, she rolls over and turns it off. Sitting up, she rubs her eyes getting rid of any dust that was collected there when she was asleep. She gets up, grabs her clothes and hops into her bathroom to take a shower. When she was done with that, she went downstairs to eat the breakfast that her mom made.

After saying good morning to her parents and sitting down at the dinner table, she thinks about her team. Her sensei is weird, not to mention rude. How do you show up three hours late to meet your potential Genin team? A jerk that's who. Plus that mask and his Haiti-ate covering up 80% of his face makes him even more weird. But other than that, he seems cool for the most part.

Naruto, for lack of better terms, is an idiot. To be clear she doesn't hate the boy, sure he can be annoying whenever he's pestering her with dates. But she would be lying if she didn't say it felt kinda nice to have a boy compliment her looks everyday. After ending her friendship with Ino, Naruto's compliments really helped boost her confidence. Truly, all Naruto needed was to be a bit smarter and take things more seriously and he might be a decent shinobi in the future.

Sasuke, oh Sasuke. She blushes at just the thought of him. While other girls give the basic answers on why they like him like, 'Well he's an Uchiha' and 'He's so handsome.' She doesn't think that simple. She admires and likes Sasuke because of how sure of himself he is. She wished she had half as much self-confidence as he did. That's why she liked him so much, she wanted a beacon of hope in her life she could always cling to whenever things got dicey.

Finishing up her breakfast, she said bye to her parents and left for her first ever team meeting. So long as everybody is there her day would be completely fine. She will soon find out, that she should probably wait a couple hours after the assigned time for the team meetings to come.

Sasuke Uchiha hated his reflection. It reminded him too much of his mother. Which subsequently reminded him of the horrible tragedy that befell upon his clan. That's why he destroyed almost all the mirrors in his house. All except for one, his mother's personal mirror that she kept in her bedside drawer. He couldn't bring himself to destroy, she was the only one to openly show her affection towards him when he was a kid.

Well, the only one besides him. He still shivers a little whenever he thinks about him. How the hell he used to admire such a bastard is beyond him. He swears he'll get revenge for his clan, even if he dies with him. Nothing will stop him from killing Itachi, not even God himself can stop Itachi's destiny. He knows he's nowhere near as strong as him yet but he will be.

If he gained anything from the Genin Test, is that his sensei is really strong. Strong enough that he might even be able to rival Itachi, he needed that strength. He would do anything to gain the strength to defeat the "Clan Killer" as people have been calling him lately. Taking a glance at his clock, he sees its about time to get going and grabs his stuff.

Running towards the Training Ground, he's praying inside that his Sensei is at least somewhat on time today. He'd would soon find out that his prayers would go unanswered.

Bursting into the Training Ground, Naruto looks around frantically, hoping that his sensei was late just like yesterday. After failing to find him, he calms down and settles right next to Sakura.

"Ne Sakura-chan, after training today, do you want to you know, hangout?" Naruto asks with a blush on his cheeks. As soon as he hears Sakura sigh, he already knew the answer, he was just bracing himself to be hit.

"Will you stop pestering me with date requests if I say yes?" asks Sakura. Shock evident on his face, it takes him a few seconds to comprehend what she says. But when he does he nods his head so fast, you'd think it would fall off.

"Well then I guess." Although it didn't have any much weight, a very faint blush could be seen on her faces from just thinking about being alone with a boy her age. Even if it is someone like Naruto. Just as Naruto was about to respond, a plume of smoke fills their vision and out walks their Sensei Kakashi. He is met with an echoing cry of 'You're late!' from Naruto and Sakura, which goes ignored.

Looking at his students, he eye smiles and asks them a question that he already knew the answer to, "So, who wants to start their training?"

How was that chapter? Hope you guys enjoyed it. I originally wanted this out Friday, but with spring break starting next week it was so hectic at school that I couldn't finish it. We figured out that there is a way to control the Karma Mark that Naruto has, and it's connected to the Uzumaki blood that's flowing through his veins. Leave me any suggestions for this series and I'll take it into consideration for this story.

I love you guys so much, thank you for taking time out of your life and reading this. Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Ja Ne!