Konoha's Dark Prince

Naruto frowned as the third was encased in a large box made of purple chakra, 'That won't do,' he thought, 'Sarutobi is imperative to my plans,' he thought for a moment on the best way to progress,

But every time he came to one conclusion, 'I need to reveal myself this early?!' he glowered with rage, 'This Orochimaru has forced me to act before even becoming a chunin?' Naruto ran a hand through his pocket and pulled out a scroll, he gazed at it and smiled, "Very well, Orochimaru I'll rise to your provocation,"

He raised his hand 'Doppleman' he thought sending his shadow toward the Kage seats, and then he and Doppelman switched places, while he unsealed a large spotlight his shadowy minion took a walkie talkie out of Naruto's pocket and held it to Naruto's ear, since he might need the assistance of his two accomplices, especially as he noted Gaara of the Sand and his siblings fleeing,

"Patchwork get Yakumo and come down to the chunin exam arena," He ordered,

As the person on the other end pressed the talk button Naruto heard the sound of fighting around the speaker, a female monotone voice spoke despite the carnage, "We're already here my prince, do you need some help?"

'I should've expected them too already be here,' But he shook it off, "Yes, remember that redhead I told you about?"

"The black eyed, pale skinned, sand ninja with the kanji for love on his head?" she asked,

"Exactly, he and his siblings left the stadium and I get the feeling they aren't trying to escape, follow them and capture them, and tell Yakumo to help where she can while I assist the Hokage, but the second that box drops I might need her with me,"

"It shall be done My prince," and the other line went dead, Doppleman handed Naruto the walkie,

After he put it away, he turned and saw that his work had not gone unnoticed as he'd hoped, not only were the Anbu watching him so was one of what he assumed was one of Orochimaru's goons,

Naruto tilted the spotlight so it pointed toward Orochimaru's lackey, and walked toward them he passed his gaze toward the Anbu 'Shame I'm not able to take one of them with me, I might be able to use one of them inside,' Naruto stopped for a second as he noticed the three Hokage fighting each other, 'Lovley, I'll have to be rid of them promptly,' he walked again Naruto slightly moved one of the Anbu so their shadow lined up, and had Doppleman slide along both shadows and come out on the other side of the box,

Naruto opened his scroll further he had four seals ready for shadows and bodies, quickly he wrote the names of the first and second hokage's underneath the four seals, their bodies could go in the bottom and their shadows in the top,

As Doppleman got into position he and Naruto again switched places,

As Naruto rose from the shadows quickly he grasped the shadows of the first and second Hokages, and tore them from the feet of their owners, "Forgive the late assist Jiji," Naruto said stuffing both the Shadows into the respective seals as the two Hokage hit the floor and were rendered unconscious,

Then Doppleman who returned to his feet did the same with their bodies, as both were sealed away Naruto flicked the scroll back wrapping it up with a practised motion, "But I had little choice but to intervene,"

Both Kage level opponents, Orochimaru's lackeys, and the Anbu all stared shocked at Naruto's sudden arrival and defeat of the first and second Hokages, and his strange new manner of speech,

"You," Orochimaru started, he knew this boy from the forest,

"Yes, we've already met lord Orochimaru," Naruto spoke eloquently adding enthesis on the tile Orochimaru had handed himself, "Had I known you were such a nuisance I would have killed you when at first we met, an err on my part I suppose," The blonde stated tossing off his orange coat, then he removed his headband and tied it around his neck, "You forced me to reveal myself before I had become a chunin, do you know how much work you've spoiled simply by choosing to try and kill Sarutobi here?" Naruto asked, his tone made Orochimaru glare at him, but Naruto waved it off, "Yes, yes, you're angry I know," Naruto said dismissively, "Now you know how it feels to have something torn from you that you worked so hard to gain,"

"You impudent brat," Orochimaru hissed, then he smiled, "tell me how did you obtain that devil fruit?"

Naruto rubbed his chin, "You feel as though you are owed something?" Naruto asked, "Very well, though I'm afraid you'll be disappointed as it isn't a very interesting tale, I simply stole it from a fruit vendor who the previous day nearly killed me, he nor I knew what exactly we had before I consumed it,"

Orochimaru chuckled, "They taste foul don't they Naruto-kun?"

Naruto raised his brow at the comment, "Ah, so you as well have partaken of the devil fruit,"

Orochimaru smirked, "Indeed I have, now then I make you an offer, rip out Sarutobi's shadow and offer it to me and I will allow you to join me since I've long desired that devil fruit under my employ," he stated, "I'll even forgive your earlier transgressions,"

"No, you won't," Naruto stated, "You'll kill me and take my fruit for your own ranks, after all why leave it to chance that I simply wouldn't try to take your shadow and take over?" Naruto said reaching behind his back and pulling out twin scimitars, "And if such happened, I wouldn't be able to fulfil the requests of my friends, nor reach my own dream of becoming Hokage, so sorry about that,"

Orochimaru frowned, "I see," he narrowed his snake-like eyes at the two who had taken combat stances, "But surely you fear what I might be capable of?" he said trying to convince Naruto of his own devil fruit might,

But Naruto shook his head, "I doubt you can use your devil fruit at all," Naruto stated, "whatever power you possess can't be used in this situation, after all why go to the trouble of bringing two Hokage back from the dead, only for your target to fight you and them off and still hold back?" Naruto said, "So I doubt you will invoke your mythical Zoan fruit," As Orochimaru narrowed his eyes Naruto smiled, "Wondering how I guessed it?" he asked, "It's simple, you're too vain to take a gamble with the Paramecia type, too skilled to desire the damage negating Logia, which left the Zoan type, but of course you're too vain for a simple Zoan, thus I deduced that this cage you have trapped Sarutobi in has restricted you from taking your massive full beast or even partial beast forms,"

"Naruto how do you know so much about the devil fruit?" Sarutobi asked,

"A secret I'll have to divulge later Sarutobi, for now we have the snake cornered and must press the advantage," Naruto said pointing one of his blades at Orochimaru,

Sarutobi spun his staff, and Orochimaru frowned, "Sound four! formation six!" he ordered, and the guard had him surrounded, and the purple chakra walls came down, the Anbu surrounded Sarutobi,

But Orochimaru glared at Naruto himself, "Naruto Uzumaki," the snake man smiled at the blonde teen and said, "You will regret this day,"

Naruto's eyes went wide as one of Orochimaru's guard had black smoke covering his hands, "DOPPLEMAN!" Naruto shouted, but before his shadow could rise his spotlight was turned making their shadows stretch over to Naruto, and Naruto found the shadow he needed and tore it up as the sun rose above the stadium behind them,

The Mohawked fat man whose hands had been coated in darkness turned to dust and died,

Then a pear hit his foot and began changing before being snatched away, "Whew almost didn't make it," An eight-year-old girl with brown hair and fox-like features said as she played with the recovered devil fruit,

Orochimaru screamed in anger, but he and the rest of the now sound three vanished in a puff of smoke,

"Aw seems they didn't wanna play anymore eh boss?" the girl asked, as she turned to Naruto,

"Indeed Yakumo," he said with his smile returning, "But I doubt they would've been much fun anyway,"

"Yeah, they looked like a bunch of cheaters," she pouted walking over to him, "Well here ya go," she handed him the fruit,

Sarutobi started walking over to Naruto "Naruto, we need to-,"

But Naruto raised his hand, took the fruit and sealed it into his scroll, "Hold on for a moment Sarutobi, I need to check something,"

Naruto pulled a walkie talkie out of his pocket, "Patchwork come in," he said,

"Greetings my prince," Patchworks monotone voice spoke through his walkie, "Have no fear I've already subdued the redhead you had a strange feeling about and it's siblings,"

"Good work as always Patchwork,"

"Thank you, my prince, shall I bring them to you?" she asked,

"No Keep them where you are I'll come get you all later," Naruto said with a glance at Sarutobi who'd walked over to the kage seating area, and looked over the ledge,

"Okay, I love you, bye,"

"I love you too," and the line went dead,

Naruto stuffed it back into his pocket and straightened his shirt, He took a breath and ran forward, to join Sarutobi, who turned to meet the eyes of his surrogate grandson, "What's the situation?" Naruto asked peering over the rail and watched the fighting continue,

"Let's go Naruto, Yakumo, Anbu," Sarutobi ordered as he leapt over the side with the Anbu following, Naruto watched as Yakumo shrugged and slid down using her claws,

Naruto ran down using his chakra and after he passed Yakumo she jumped onto his back, "Really?" he asked as her added weight even as light as she was made him stumble,

"That kinda thing shouldn't make a chunin stumble," Yakumo teased him, Naruto rolled his eyes only because he knew Doppleman would've caught them if they had fell,

As they reached the floor Naruto took his scimitars again as he manipulated their shadows to make it look like he had enough practice with them to do a bunch of cool tricks,

"THIS FIGHT IS OVER!" Sarutobi bellowed making everyone take notice of him, "Orochimaru has fled, the Ichibi Jinjuriki has been rendered unconscious, those of you who want to return to your families I suggest throwing down your arms and allowing my Ninja to arrest you, I will talk to the sand's leader as soon as one can be decided since the Kazekage that was here was Orochimaru in disguise who told me he'd already killed Rasa before he even reached the hidden leaf,"

Naruto watched as the ninja from sand seemed confused, but none of them seemed eager to still fight with Sarutobi and his Anbu down here, Naruto looked back and was glad Yakumo had remained the same just without her fox parts,

"However, if you still feel like you can win this then we-," he gestured around him, "Shall be your opponents, so if you think war will solve this THEN COME AND TAKE MY HEAD!" With his words the more reluctant of the sand Ninja dropped their weapons and kneeled with their hands above their heads,

With the first few surrendered, more and more sand ninja did the same, until those of them who had wanted to fight were left in a massive disadvantage and kneeled as well,

"Traitors!" A sound Ninja shouted and leaped to attack a Leaf ninja who'd started tying a surrendering Suna ninja hands behind her back, but before the attack got close Sarutobi appeared behind the sound ninja faster than Naruto had ever seen anyone move, and grabbed his head slamming it into the ground,

"Didn't you hear me?" Sarutobi asked quietly, but over the silence of the stadium Naruto had no trouble believing that everyone heard him, "I said those of you who still want to fight that I and my Anbu would be your opponents," he said dangerously, "Yet you attack a defenceless ninja doing his job rather than the ready opponent?" he asked, "This isn't assassination training you rookie, this is war, and nobody would've just watched you attack and then leave you be, I'd say you were lucky you decided to attack while my ninja were injured as you would've been dead before you even took hold of your weapon otherwise," When Sarutobi took his hand of the sound ninja's head, said ninja was trembling, Sarutobi stood back up at full height and released something no one had felt from him in years, Killing Intent,

"I'll say it only once!" his presence seemed to make all ninja tremble Naruto felt a shaking Yakumo take his hand, as he held it Naruto realised that he'd dropped his swords because he was quaking in fear, "Surrender now!" Sarutobi growled, "or die."

Naruto now understood why ninja looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi differently than civilians did, Civilians saw the kind elderly grandfather figure that had once been a powerful ninja who did something amazing a long time ago, but the ninja of this village saw only that Hiruzen Sarutobi deserved his epithet, 'The God of Shinobi' and in that moment Naruto saw it as well, the kind gaze he'd been so used too was replaced by a cold stare, the smile he saw when Hiruzen was proud of him or frown that let Naruto know how annoyed he'd been with him was gone replace by a neutral face that promised pain paid in full to those who were too dumb to take their only remaining out,

Naruto had no idea how long he'd stood there staring off into space, but when he'd finally been shaken out of his stupor, he realised that most of the ninja were gone, all except Sarutobi and his anbu, who stared at Naruto,

Sarutobi smiled at him, "Ah back now are you?"

It had taken Naruto a while to catch his breath before he composed himself enough to respond, "I t-take it you're surprised J-Jiji?"

"A massive understatement," Sarutobi stated, He looked around, "Apparently Suna believed I had stolen their shinobi missions and gave them to my own ninja, it's been confirmed that Orochimaru has murdered Rasa, that's the fourth Kazekage's name," Hiruzen said, he'd turned away from Naruto, his voice was somber, yet trembled with fury, "He was my friend," He said, "He was also abusive to his own children according to them," he stated,

And then he looked back to Naruto, "I met Patchwork by the way, she was very worried about you," Naruto bit his lip, "She took Yakumo home at my insistence, I told her I'd bring you along soon enough, strange physiology on her, never met a woman with two kneecaps on both legs, two elbows on both arms, and covered in stitches, care to explain?"

Naruto took a deep breath, "I uh," his mouth felt like cotton, "M-made her,"

Hiruzen nodded, "So she said,"

"From the corpses of three enemy kunoichi," Naruto stated,

The third knelt down and met Naruto's eyes, "How?"

Naruto trembled, "I t-took their bodies, and I c-cut them up, then u-using my devil fruit powers I put a shadow into her body,"

Hiruzen sat down, he took a few seconds, "You can revive the dead?" he asked,

Naruto shook his head, "N-no, when I take a shadow I can put it into somebody to add the skill of the shadows owner to the person, so one day after Iruka saved me from three enemy Kunoichi I got curious what would happen if I put a shadow into a corpse," Hiruzen nodded, "So I did, and the corpse started moving, but she wanted a better body so I took the three corpses and-"

"-Sewed them together?" Hiruzen asked,

Naruto nodded, "The personality of the Zombie depends on the personality of the one I took it from,"

"I see, why keep it?"

"Because I was lonely," Naruto admitted, "I wanted a friend and Patchwork became my friend, because of her I started studying medical Ninjutsu to help fix the body I made and messed up for her,"

"I was there for you," Hiruzen said,

"But Patchwork was always there for me, when I cried Patchwork was there, when I came home from getting beaten by the citizens of the leaf Patchwork was there, when people tried to break into my house Patchwork stopped them," Naruto said, "When I met Yakumo for the first time and saw her being dragged away by Ninja who told me not to interfere Patchwork scolded my cowardice and encouraged me to do what I thought was right, regardless of the cost,"

"And that's how Yakumo came to live with you as well?" Sarutobi asked with a frown, Naruto nodded, "What happened to you?"

Naruto sighed, "This is why I wanted to wait until I was a chunin, I didn't want you to know the truth," Naruto admitted, "But I have little choice," Naruto took a deep breath, "It is as I told Orochimaru, I stole the Kage-Kage no mi from a fruit vendor who nearly killed me the day before, since you refused to put him or the others I had suffered at the hands of in prison and I wanted some revenge of my own, and he boasted about a new strange type of fruit he'd found," Naruto said, "I stole it, ate the whole thing and placed its core on top of his stand, it was foul and I despised every bite but I was determined,"

"And the change in attitude?"

Naruto smiled, "My compatriot Yakumo insisted I was like a Prince from a story book, A handsome Prince who saved her from more pain at the hands of her evil mother, and Patchwork insisted it was true, even telling Yakumo tall tales of my linage to encourage the fantasy, I decided that since that was what they wanted then I should take upon myself the act, and found I rather liked it, so it stuck,"

"And you hid this from me?" Sarutobi asked, "Why?"

Naruto rubbed his temple, "Hiruzen," Naruto stated, the use of his first name rather than the title of Jiji surprised Sarutobi, "Everyone knows and mistreats me because I have the Nine-tailed fox sealed inside me while you only preached forgiveness to those who harmed me, those who mercilessly beat me within an inch of my very life were left to continue on as if they'd done nothing wrong," Naruto stated, "I didn't know how my devil fruit user status would be leaked, but I doubted it would improve my standing or beatings thus I deemed your knowledge of my true self unnecessary if not outright harmful to my goals," Naruto explained,

Hiruzen's face fell, "Right, I suppose I deserve that much at least," he nodded, "Now about Yakumo Kurama,"

Naruto shook his head, "It was not how Shizuku wanted you to know how she'd died," Naruto said, "She hated what had happened to her daughter and after I... told her a zoan type devil fruit would give her the strength to walk again Shizuku claimed her own life, she entrusted me with her clan's secret and instructed me to give it to Yakumo,"

"I see," Hiruzen said, 'That explains how Yakumo has her mother's devil fruit The Inu-Inu No Mi: Model Nine Tailed Fox, her weak bones and the drugging she received mean she might need to remain in her half beast form,' he thought, it also explained why there had been no active Kurama clan member seen in six years, he'd tried checking up on them before but making it past their Genjutsu forest was a challenge even for him, even after he'd gotten to the clan compound he couldn't find anyone, though they'd left a note for visitors that they'd all gone off on missions, "And what of the Kurama clan themselves?"

Naruto rubbed his head, "I honestly have no idea," he spoke honestly, "After Shizuku passed they just remained in the clan compound, maybe waiting for Yakumo to become clan head? I don't know,"

Sarutobi rubbed his head, this was a lot of information to take in, and worse he was getting the short versions, so there was a lot Naruto was leaving out, "What about the First and Second? what did you do to them?"

"When I take someone's shadow, I render them unconscious, easy enough to seal them and their shadows away," Naruto already knew the next question and said, "When I took the shadow of Orochimaru's guard he was in direct sunlight which turned him to dust, killing him and took his shadow with him,"

"I see, shame you couldn't get Orochimaru's shadow," Hiruzen frowned,

Naruto rubbed his chin, "Yes, if I could've gotten them both then-,"

"Wait both? you were aiming for the two of them?" Hiruzen asked,

"The Devil fruit the one I killed possessed was very dangerous thus I needed to remove it from Orochimaru's control," Naruto said,

"You prioritised that Devil fruit over Orochimaru?" Sarutobi asked,

Naruto sighed, "There's an old tale about that devil fruit, that among the Logia class it's an oddity, and that it's power lies in the infinite crushing power of darkness, and that it gives the ability to negate other devil fruit user's powers, I deemed it highly useful for when Orochimaru next tried to attack the leaf,"

Sarutobi raised an eyebrow at his grandson figure, "You have more of them, don't you?" Naruto looked at his grandfather and nodded, "Naruto," Hiruzen said, "I'm leaving Ox and Neko to watch you, in the morning report to the meeting chamber to decide what is to be done with you,"

He bowed, "Of course Lord Hokage,"

Naruto frowned but there wasn't anything he could do, he turned to see his spotlight was gone hopefully someone had resealed it, but he was too tired to check and started walking home, he frowned seeing the destruction of the leaf, 'Perhaps I should've made some Zombies to defend the leaf?' he frowned, 'No, not counting Patchwork's, Yakumo's, or Haku's I only have three shadows at my disposal, and then I'd have had to find some good bodies no one would miss,' he looked around all the effort he'd have had to go through wouldn't have helped the village much if at all,

As Naruto opened the door he was welcomed back by the usual monotone, "Welcome home My prince," Patchwork was a woman with varying skin tones ranging from fair to mocha, a blue eye and a green eye, she was covered in stitches, and wearing a stitched-up dress, "Patchwork these are guests of the Hokage,"

"I see," She said, "Am I to show them everything My Prince?"

Naruto looked at them the two Anbu, "Hmm," he thought for a moment, "No, show them your body but that's all,"

"Uzumaki-san we need to see everything," One of the Anbu said, Naruto couldn't tell which one,

"I know but you'll have to meet her soul doner tomorrow, since I think she's already asleep right now," Naruto looked at Patchwork who nodded in response,

"Indeed, she's fast asleep, and It has been quite a while since she last rested so easily so I'll have to murder anyone who tries to wake her,"

Naruto banged his head into the wall, "Why do you have to threaten people when my loyalty to Konoha is being called into question?"

"Your loyalty is being questioned?" Patchwork asked her body shifting in ways that made it look like she had no joints, "Well surely once these two report that your loyalty is to Konoha the questioning will stop, correct?" she asked reaching behind her,

"They're also here to make sure nothing happens to me," Naruto insisted leaping in front of them, "So don't attack them,"

Patchwork pouted, "Yes my prince, I will leave the worthless skin sacks intact," Patchwork said, "By the way," she held up an alarm clock, "It's about time for lady Haku's treatment, will you be attending her my prince?"

Naruto nodded, "I will,"

"Yay, I'm going out to play pirate," Yakumo said cheerfully,

"Actually," Naruto said, "Since the Anbu are supposed to keep an eye on us, I'd rather no one leaves the house tonight" Naruto said,

"But I can only play outside when it's dark," Yakumo pouted,

Naruto ruffled her hair, "I know, but tonight we have guests, so it'd be a good time to practice for later when we have guests,"

"Okay," She said, "But you owe meeeee~"

Naruto chuckled and slyly leaned over to Patchwork, "How many do I owe her?" he asked quietly,

Patchwork blinked, "Five favours," She whispered back,

Naruto nodded and left the room going to his old bedroom,

Quietly he pushed open the door, the faint beeping of the heart rate machine filled his ears, he entered the room, on his bed was a young long black-haired woman, "Hello Haku," he greeted her kindly, hoping as usual that today she'd open her eyes and greet him back,

But she didn't,

Naruto walked over to her I.v. bag, "Hm seems you were thirsty today," he chuckled replacing the empty bag with another,

"The hell is this?"

Naruto turned to see Ox looking at the comatose girl on his bed, "Ah well this is Haku," he said, "She was an enemy ninja I encountered in wave, but she was rendered comatose after the mission, so I sealed her away and brought her some medical equipment to keep her alive while I wait for her to come out of it,"

"You haven't just taken her shadow?" Ox asked, in response Naruto lifted the cover off her body so he could see she still had a shadow, before he covered her over again, "Still why keep her here?"

"Cause she has a Kekkie Genkai, ice style, and the second anyone found out she'd be used as breeding stock to create strong ninja, more so since she was an enemy ninja," Naruto turned to ox, "If anyone finds out and requests me to place her in a hospital... well I wouldn't want to be you in the afterlife,"

"Was that a threat?"

"She was Zabuza Momochi's surrogate daughter," Naruto stated, he placed a palm on Haku's head and his hand glowed green, "So unless you'd like to face him in the stomach of the Shinigami I suggest you keep it to yourself what she and her children can do,"

"How would I die?"

Naruto looked at him, "You're a ninja," he smiled, "So many things could kill you, even shadows might look dangerous if you make the wrong kind of choices in life,"

"You know threatening a superior officer is a crime in Konoha right?" Ox asked,

"I do," Naruto said taking his hand off Haku's head,

Ox put his hand on Naruto's head, "I'll tell the Hokage, but I wouldn't want anyone to go through the C.R.A." he said,

"Very well," When they both exited into the hall, they saw Neko, Patchwork and Yakumo all had makeup smeared on their faces/masks,

"Boss I wanna paint your face too," Yakumo said,

Naruto sighed, but was already on his way to sit in the chair, "Very well," he said sitting down, Yakumo already drew circles around his eyes with lipstick,

"I'm gonna make you look so pretty," Yakumo said,

"I'm sure you will," Naruto said,

OCTOPUS-The Next Day-OCTOPUS

As Naruto woke from on the sofa he realised the Anbu were standing above him,

"Have you two been-?"

"Yes," they answered in unison,

"That's weird," Naruto said pulling the quilt off of himself, he stretched, "So how long do I have before the meeting?"

"It starts in five minutes," Neko said,

Naruto blinked, "Fuck," The guest room's door opened and Patchwork threw her arm out and it grabbed onto Naruto's ear, "Owww, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,"

The hand let go and fell to the floor, then it wagged its finger at him, then it crawled back into the room,

"We ALL need to get up now!" Naruto called,

The door opened further, "I know," She yawned,

The Anbu were suddenly glad they were wearing masks, "Is that?" Neko asked,

"Yes," Ox nodded,

In front of the two of them stood Pakura the supposedly deceased hero of the hidden sand village, and she didn't have a shadow, she looked at them, "If either of you opened the curtains or windows you'll pay," she stated,

Both Anbu looked from her to Naruto, "Meet Patchwork's shadow doner, Pakura,"

Pakura waved from over her shoulder as she made tea, "Hey how ya doing?"

"It's a long story," Naruto said,

"Not really," Pakura stated, "I was betrayed by Mizu and Suna, just barely managed to survive, managed to get transport to Konohana from a merchant for a rare fruit I found, and then he," she pointed at Naruto, "found me bleeding to death outside Konoha, and healed me up, since I couldn't go out anyway in case somebody found me I offered him my shadow as payment for letting me stay here,"

"Get dressed now!" Neko ordered,

"Your clothes are in the bathroom my Prince," Patchwork stated holding her unattached arm, "Also could you sew this back on before we leave,"

"Since I can't leave anyway I'll watch over the house and all its secrets," Pakura stated slurping her tea, she tilted her head to the side to dodge several kitchen utensils that now stuck out of the wall,

"Slurping your tea is rude," Patchwork stated, she held up several sharp kitchen knives, "Don't do it again," Pakura did,

Naruto slipped into the bathroom, inside he couldn't find his regular clothing, instead he found a white short sleeved button up shirt with ruffles down the middle, black dress trousers, sleek leather shoes and a long black cape,

A note was attached to the mirror, 'We got them for you since we wanted you to look the part of a prince when you revealed yourself, Pw.'

'You'll look sick as hell! Y. Ps Patchwork still pulled my ear for that, it hurt'

'It cost a lotta money so if you don't wear it I'll kick your ass, P.'

Naruto smiled and dressed,

He exited the room and sent Doppleman to separate Patchwork and Pakura,

He already saw Yakumo was dressed in a long blue pirate's coat with a wooden sword on her hip, "Ready boss?" she asked,

"Not yet" he handed his scroll to Pakura, "Patchwork give her your radio in case anyone attacks,"

"Naruto it's a little paranoid to say someone might attack," Ox said,

"I rather err on the side of caution Ox," Naruto stated,

With the radio and several snide comments between the two women shared they were taken by the anbu to outside of the meeting room,

"Flank me," Naruto said before he shut his eyes and he pushed into the room, his cape fluttering in the wind, "Forgive the lateness, I overslept," he said walking inside,

"Dobe?"

Naruto opened an eye, his team and the entire council, shinobi, and civilian, were sat before him, "My squad-mates," Naruto bowed deeply, "I should have anticipated you all being here, I did not, forgive the oversight,"

"Why are you talking like that idiot?" Sakura asked,

"Simple Haruno-San, this is who I am," Naruto said, he bowed again "Forgive the... what was it you said again?" he rubbed his chin, "Ah yes creepy comments, and disgusting date requests, I only said such things as I believed you would never except them, your constant rejection being an excuse as to why I barely left the apartment,"

Sakura blinked, "What?"

Yakumo giggled, "She's the dumb one,"

Patchwork pulled her ear, "Yakumo stop being rude,"

Sakura growled, "Naruto," and stepped closer to him,

"Hm?"

"CHA!" Sakura shouted swinging her fist,

Naruto didn't move, instead his shadow rose and stopped her fist, "Forgive the insult Haruno-san, but Yakumo isn't rather fond of you," he stated evenly,

"How did you do that!?" Sasuke asked watching as Naruto's shadow returned to his feet,

"Simple, I ate the Kage-Kage No mi," Naruto stated, "And became a shadow man,"

"You could do that this whole time?" Sakura asked,

"Since I was four yes,"

Kakashi placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder, "Naruto you really shouldn't keep secrets from your friends,"

"I don't, all who live under my roof know my various secrets," Naruto said, "Even my big red fluffy one," Sakura and Sasuke looked confused,

"I meant your team," Kakashi stated,

"Why would they need my secrets?" Naruto asked, "Sasuke cares not for me but for his mission, him knowing about my powers are unnecessary, and Sakura in her introduction listed me as the one thing she disliked why would she need to know?" Naruto asked,

"And me?" Kakashi asked,

Naruto smiled and shook his head, "You needed to know less about what I could do than anyone else on this team," Naruto stated, "You proved that most when I asked you for training and you said you were busy training Sasuke and got Ebisu to fill in for you,"

Sarutobi glared at Kakashi,

"But don't think I hate any of you," Naruto said, "Each of you were invaluable to my plans that I unfortunately had to abandon," Naruto said with a smile, "If any one of you had actually tried to be my friend rather than my teammate that plan would've lasted six seconds when one of you tried to visit my house and realised I had a walking corpse, a supposedly dead woman and a eight year old with fox features living in my house,"

Naruto frowned, "Now if I were on a team with either Hyuga-san, Akamichi-san, Inuzuka-san, or worse of all Yamanaka-san, I likely wouldn't have gotten as far as I did,"

"Hold on," Sakura said, "So you don't really care about any of us?"

"No, I do" Naruto said, "I needed to feign a rivalry with Sasuke with my motivation being a crush I had on you," Naruto said, "It was all so my facade could work, but you are still my team, and I am still ready to stand by you three," he said genuinely,

"Speaking of which," Sarutobi said, "What was the point of your facade?"

"Simple," Naruto said he pulled a folded piece of paper out of his pocket and began to unfold it until it spread across the table, "This is my end goal," he said with a smile, on the paper was a dark gothic large manor, "This Is the Uzumaki Family Mansion," he said, "It's the product of ten years-"

"Give or take three and a half," Patchwork said,

"-Of planning," Naruto grinned, "A house for everyone the world labels freaks, who will enter and become my family, and Patchwork's and Yakumo's as well," Naruto said, "The house will be constructed inside the leaf village and with me the head of the family each and every member will love the hidden leaf as much as I do, this was my promise to Patchwork who wanted kids despite the fact that she's dead," Naruto grinned,

"The full plan was for me to become chunin, pretend I only just found the Kage-Kage No Mi and use its power to keep the village safe and while I was out on missions to find people as hopeless as I once was and bring them here!" He pointed at the door, "to bring them Home, where they will be loved not ridiculed, where they will know their lives were not a mistake," Naruto said, "And that was it,"

"That was your plan?" Kakashi asked,

"Indeed," Naruto said, "The point of the facade wasn't for most of the people in this room, it was meant to endear a character to the civilians, someone they beat down who would rise up and still protect them, now that my facade is gone and they'll soon find out my true intellect my battle has only just begun,"

Kakashi raised an eye at the display, "And why are your friends Yakumo not fond of your team Naruto?"

Yakumo herself answered that question, "Cause we ask Naruto about his missions Scarecrow," she said,

"And suffice to say we are not team seven fans," Patchwork stated,

Naruto sighed, "If I had predicted they would be here I would have ordered you two to remain back home," Naruto said, then he pulled his walkie out, "Momma bear this is shadow guy, do you copy momma bear? over"

"Shadow guy this is Momma bear I read you loud and clear,"

"Copy that momma bear how's the hen house sitting?"

"Not a peep shadow guy,"

"Copy that keep me posted"

"10-4 Shadow guy, Momma bear out,"

Naruto slid his radio back into his pocket, "Well back to the matter at hand," he gestured to Patchwork, "That's my zombie,"

Patchwork walked forward giving a short curtsy that had her spine twisted round so her head pointed to the floor, but her face looked at the council, "Hello," she greeted before she got back up and Naruto helped twist her spine around,

"I made her by sewing together the corpses of three Kunoichi who tried to kill me when I was four, and the shadow of a woman I saved from the brink of death,"

"Speaking of which you're not gonna believe whose shadow is in her," Neko stated,

"Yes, I'm ashamed to be made up of Pakura's shadow," Patchwork stated, displaying her anger before returning to her usual monotone,

The council looked around at each other, Sarutobi had his head in his hands, he slid them down his face, "Pakura?" he asked, "as in the hero of the Sand Village Pakura?,"

Naruto pulled out his radio, "Momma bear a quick call sign for those in the back,"

"Sure, Shadow guy, this is Pakura hero of Suna, fuck Suna and Mizu, over,"

"Copy that Momma bear," Naruto said before he slid it back,

Ox stepped forward, "He's not lying sir she's in his apartment right now,"

"Uzumaki-san," An old man in the back asked, Naruto looked over to him, the man who'd spoke was an elderly man covered in bandages, "And your little doll here can do anything that Pakura is capable of correct?"

"Her name is Patchwork and yes," Naruto stated,

"I see," he said shuffling for a bit, "Then I think we all want to see just what you're capable of Uzumaki-san,"

Naruto nodded, "How about a demonstration of the Kage-Kage No mi?" He pulled a scroll out of his pocket and unfurled it, "Is there anyone here with an earth nature?" he asked,

Several clan head raised their hands, but Naruto pointed to just one of them, "Hyuga-san, you'd be perfect for this test,"

Hiashi nodded and walked over to the blonde who unsealed the shadow of the first Hokage, "I don't plan on keeping you and your master for the rest of eternity, but in case the leaf needs your might, will you assist me?" he asked the shadow, which seemed to consider his words before nodding in response, Naruto bowed his head, "You honour me with your acceptance," he turned to Hiashi, "Are you ready Hyuga-san?"

"I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing," Hiashi admitted, "But I am certain I will prevail,"

Then Naruto shoved the shadow into Hiashi's body,

Hiashi's eyes widened, he flinched as the shadow was slowly sucked into his body, and when it was done, he fell over seemingly unconscious, before springing back to his feet with a large grin, "Wow Uzumaki-kun-" everyone gaped at the formal and serious Hyuga clan head grinning and using Kun to describe anyone, "That was really strange, but I do feel stronger,"

"Naruto," Sarutobi said slowly, "What did you just do?"

Naruto turned and bowed, "I inserted the shadow I took from the resurrected First Hokage and placed it into the body of Hiashi Hyuga,"

Haishi laughed at the looks on everyone's faces, "They look like their heads are about to explode," he turned to Naruto, "Hey Uzumaki-kun does this mean I can use wood style?"

"I-," Naruto frowned, "Am uncertain,"

"Let's find out," Hiashi slapped his hands together in the snake sign, "Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!" He bellowed, but nothing happened, Hiashi Hyuga dropped to his hands and knees, "I guess It's no good," he lamented,

Naruto rubbed his chin, "Let me try something," And he pulled out Kakashi's shadow,

"H-hey what are you doing with that?" Kakashi asked,

"Testing a hypothesis," Naruto said putting the shadow against his own torso, unlike with Hiashi the shadow was immediately pulled into Naruto who barely moved at all, after it was done Naruto shook his head lightly before running through several handsigns, "Lightning Blade," He intoned flicking his wrist before lightning encased it and the familiar sound of chirping birds filled the room, "I see," he said, before he snuffed the lightning out and returned Kakashi's shadow to him, "It seems that Kekkei Genkai cannot be reproduced, but the techniques themselves can be,"

"So, you can use the lighting blade now?" Sakura asked genuinely curious,

"Perhaps if I borrowed Kakashi's shadow and continuously practised with it, but as I am? no," Naruto said, "Since I took Kakashi's shadow I was able to do anything Kakashi could do, only while I possessed it though," Naruto explained,

"That could make anybody super strong super quickly," Kakashi stated, "If you gave a civilian my shadow they'd-,"

"Probably die from chakra exhaustion," Naruto stated,

"And you got this powerful from eating a simple fruit?" Sasuke asked clearly interested, "Where did you find it?"

"Apparently from a fruit vendor," Sarutobi stated,

"I was very lucky, some of the devil fruit are monstrous and depending on the type of fruit you get you might become useless in certain situations, and then the trade-off after eating a devil fruit you become hated by the sea and stepping into it you lose the ability to swim and upon touching the ocean you become immobile and promptly sink to the bottom as if you were a hammer," Naruto explained,

"You seem to know a lot about these devil fruit," Tsume noted, "How did you become so knowledgeable?"

Naruto's eyes were cast to one of the empty clan head chairs, "Shizuku Kurama imparted what little she knew about devil fruits to me before she claimed her own life," Naruto stated sombrely,

Hiruzen nodded, "Which the Kurama clan confirmed," Hiruzen stated, "well you may leave now Naruto,"

Naruto bowed, "By your leave Oji-dono," then he turned making his cape flutter in the wind and left with Patchwork and Yakumo in tow,

"You two can leave as well," Hiruzen stated looking at Sasuke and Sakura, "We have a long boring meeting a head of us,"

Both genin bowed and left the room,

Sarutobi looked around, "So now we begin the trial of Genin Uzumaki," He stated seriously, steepling his fingers he looked around the table, "What should be done? our options are, removal from the ninja program, a return to active duty, or a return and a promotion," he looked around seeing everyone considering their options

"There is only one correct choice," Danzo stated shocking everyone that he was the first to speak, "Genin Uzumaki chased off Orochimaru, defeated and subdued the resurrected First and Second Hokages, and probably saved your life Hiruzen," He raised his hand "I vote in favour of Genin Uzumaki's promotion to Chunin and immediate return to active duty,"

Shikaku clicked his tongue, "Impressive feats aside he still may have coerced Shizuku Kurama to end her own life," He rubbed his chin, "We need to consider all options and the facts before committing to a choice," He advised wisely as he sank into his chair,

Tsume yawned, "Kid saved the Hokage, and with him who knows how many others?" She asked, "We have a lotta wounded but cause Sarutobi came down and ended the fighting most of our shinobi are alive," she raised her hand, "I vote the kid comes back, he's been suspended for basically keeping a secret, that if everyone had known that snake fucker might've been ready for it,"

"A fair point Inuzuka-chan," Hiashi stated joyously, "We very well might owe our lives to Uzumaki-kun,"

Eyes went to the Hyuga clan head who grinned, "I think Uzumaki-Kun might've forgotten to take Lord-first's shadow back," he grinned standing up, "I'll go remind him so I can return to normal," he said getting up,

OCTOPUS-THE END-OCTOPUS

Kiishishisishishi!

Got the idea for this while I was re-reading Marionette Uzumaki, originally it started off as an evil Naruto with the Yami-Yami No mi story, but over time the idea changed and I started writing this,

Rather than Naruto making the big 'I'm evil' reveal instead he's still good, just smarter and more Princely,

Stay tuned to see how long this story goes before I get distracted by something else and start writing that instead,

Thank you all for reading the story, reviews are appreciated, and I thank those of you who do review for taking the time out of your day for doing so,