Psst ~ I see dead people~
WARNING! THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER CONTAINS VIOLENCE BUT NOT LIKE HOW MUCH VIOLENCE 'Not Like Us' HAS!
Anyways, thanks for 292 favorites, 353 followings, and 82 reviews. ONLY ONE CHAPTER LEFT OF THE ARC! IF YOU DON'T LIKE VIOLENCE DON'T READ THIS! Chapter 10 of the Renegade:- 'Revenge Is Best When Served Bloodied'
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Elemental Nations
In the Hokage's Office, Tsunade and her four advisors and Jiraiya discussed what they discussed 3 years ago. "So how do you think they will take it?" Tsunade asked them.
"Knowing the brat's reputation of being friends with them, I will say they will be shocked," Jiraiya replied.
"Indeed. As naïve as the jinchuuriki was, he was a good encourager, and had sense's will of fire." Danzo added. This threw all of them off. Danzo praising someone, was like saying, that Orochimaru was the most loyal ninja of all time. Not just Jiraiya and Tsunade were shocked but Homura and Koharu too. They had never heard their teammate praising someone, the only times he praised someone were Hiruzen and Tobirama sensei.
Tsunade cleared her throat "Ahem. So, how will we approach breaking the news to them?"
"Hime, be straightforward, do not beat around the bush. The team captains already know, so, they can cushion the blow." Danzo advised and Jiraiya agreed with him and advised, "Yes, Tsu-hime, from what I know of those brats, the Nara could deduce things easily like his father, so if we beat around the bush, he might find out more than we would want. Also let's give them some hint about him being a jinchuuriki, and keep his parentage out of it."
All the advisors nodded and Tsunade said, "Ok, let's lead with that."
After some time Shizune came in and said "Milady they are here." And then Koharu said, "Hime, we will take our leave now." And the advisors left.
After that the Rookie Nine or now Rookie Seven and Team 9 consisting of Rock Lee, Neji Hyuuga, and Tenten, and their sensei Might Gai. As they entered they saw Jiraiya was there and they knew that Naruto was gone with him. So, they thought Naruto was back too. Hinata and Sakura visibly brightened due to different reasons. Jiraiya gauged their reactions and felt pity for them. Although he could see that the Sensei's already knew why they were there. Kurenai Yuuhi or now Kurenai Sarutobi after getting married to Asuma Sarutobi and giving birth to their son Hiruzen Sarutobi named after the kid's late grandfather was preparing herself to support the meek and shy Hinata Hyuuga. Kakashi was looking visibly depressed while putting on a stoic visage, so when Tsunade would speak of their blunder, he could take it on the chin and own up to it.
Tsunade took a deep breath knowing it would be difficult to tell these kids but they were their best options, though she did feel bad for Hinata, she was a gentle soul, a type that should never be a shinobi. Though she thought it was for the greater good, the news might toughen up the girl. When she heard the said girl had a huge crush on her grandson, she was naturally curious. After she learns about the reasoning and her stalking him, she wants them not to get together because even though Hinata might be a good girl. But for someone like Naruto you needed a mentally stronger and more confident person to be with him, Naruto needed someone like his own mother. Someone who would support would unconditionally, yet put you down, if you said something stupid and she could not see those qualities in Hinata.
Tsunade started speaking, "Before telling you this information and this is a SS rank information so any leakage could result in straight execution without trial, I would like to say that I do not want to be interrupted, is that clear?"
Everyone except Jiraiya chorused, "Yes ma'am."
Tsunade nodded and continued, "Three years ago, Jonin Shikamaru Nara, then Chuunin, was given a mission the retrieval of now rouge Sasuke Uchiha." This gained visible reactions from Chouji Akimichi, Rock Lee, and Kiba Inuzuka while Shikamaru Nara and Neji Hyuuga were clenching their teeth and fists. Tsunade continued, "It was a failed mission, with Chuunin Inuzuka and Jonin Nara receiving minor injuries while the others received major injuries and were hospitalized, during that hospitalization Genin Uzumaki" Hearing Naruto's name the rookies and team 9 perked up "blew up his hospital room, stole 200k from the bank and abandoned the village." She let the information set in. She then gauged their reaction, the common one was disbelief and shock, Kiba, Lee, and Sakura wanted to protest but one eye from Tsunade, they kept quiet and Tsunade nodded and continued, "Genin Naruto Uzumaki had officially become a rouge three years ago, your sensei's were teamed up with Jiraiya to retrieve him. It failed. This is where you come in, if you ever cross paths with him, I want you to convince him to return, with force if required. But in no condition at all should he be maimed or be killed. Am I clear?"
The only thing they could do was nod. Tsunade then said, "Good, you are dismissed!" With that everyone left, while Shikamaru stayed back. Tsunade saw him and said, "Shikamaru do you want to say something?"
"I wanted to ask you something?"
"Go ahead"
"Well when we were going after Sasuke, you never gave any constraints, so why now? What's so special about Naruto that even 'the last Uchiha' was not spared this much?"
"Leave it to a Nara to deduce shit." Tsunade thought and then looked at Jiraiya as he nodded towards her.
Tsunade sighed, "This is a S rank information I am sharing with you. 16 years ago, when the Kyuubi attacked the village, Minato never defeated the beast."
"What?"
"Yes, tailed beasts like Kyuubi can never be properly defeated, they could only be sealed in people. The person in this case was…"
"Naruto."
"Yes"
"This makes sense. So this is why he was ostracized. I had my suspicions. It was odd that people ostracized him based on his pranks. Sure some of them were annoying but to discriminate against him that much. Now it makes more sense."
"So what will you do with this information?"
"Nothing." Tsunade nodded and then Shikamaru left.
West Bengal, India
A lot of people say there are five stages of grief. Denial, something he felt when he first time heard about her death, then it changed to the second stage, Anger. After which he was in the third stage, Bargaining, where he thought, he should have taken the bullet and should have been there during the blast. It made him Depressed, which was the fourth stage of grief. But then the cold hard reality of her death came crashing down thus he had to accept it, which was the fifth stage. But what people do not know is that there is a sixth stage, Revenge.
It was a magma brewing in his soul, so much so, that he skipped his breakfast to plan his revenge. After some time the Tabbar brothers came up to the terrace. When they came up, they saw Naruto smoking. Palveer took charge and called him, "Bro, everyone is here, you wanna address them?"
Naruto turned around and saw all of them and nodded then he said, "Alright, First, I wanted to say thank you, for helping me." Everyone nodded and then Naruto continued, "First I want to ask, out of all of you, who are going to college?"
Jasmeet, Siddu, Harpeet, Sukhhi, and Gurkeerat raised their hands. Naruto noticed them and then said, "Gurkeerat, get yourselves tickets for Punjab, they are leaving tomorrow." Before anyone could object, Naruto raised his hand stopping the resistance in its tracks, and said, "I know what you will say, but your education is important and the work we are to do is going to get us in jail, so do not object." All they could do was nod with their head down, Naruto saw that and sighed and said, "I not undermining you guys but I promised your family to keep you safe, so you are going to Punjab as you all have a lot of life options for you and I will to jeopardize it with a criminal record." With that, he handed some money to Gurkeerat, and the five brothers left while the rest of them who were left were being addressed by Naruto, "Palveer, tell them what you told me yesterday."
Palveer nodded and proceeded to tell them the intell he found yesterday, and the reaction was an expected one, revenge, their blood was boiling for it. Naruto saw their faces and smirked, then he addressed them, "Got your blood boiling right, got mine too. When I saw the bloody tattoo, I recognized it." This grabbed everyone's attention as spoke again, "During my stay in America, I was confronted by a gang who had that same tattoo, you know what that means right?"
"That means a lot of blood is about to flow," Ranjit replied to his question.
"So when do we leave for the US?" Balbinder asked him
"The day after tomorrow, I still have to manage the visas," Naruto replied.
"Leave the visas to me, I will hack their servers to get us visas," Man told them. Naruto smirked and then said, "So, it is decided, we all will leave the day after tomorrow, after we send the boys home and wrap this shit up before the 13th day." Everyone nodded in satisfaction and exited the terrace.
Later that day, Shrishti came barging into his room. Naruto saw her having a mixed face, a face having anger, concern, and sadness. As he understood her face, he got what she would tell him. Naruto asked her, "What happed Shrishti? Is there something you want to say?"
"Yes." Naruto gave her the green light. Shrishti spoke immediately, "I heard what you were planning."
"Yes?"
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why are you going to your death?" Shrishti screamed at him, while he calmly counter questioned, "Who told you I am going to walk my grave?"
"Then what about your revenge run, do you think I would not know?" She raged
"And how does this relate to my death?" Before she could answer he spoke again, "Is it related to grandma's death."
Shrishti visibly flinched when he said that. Naruto stood and tightly hugged Shrishti and she sobbed into him and he lightly kissed on kissed on her head. Then they separated and he clasped the necklace Tsunade gave him and then clasped it to Shrishti's neck when she saw it, Naruto spoke, "This necklace was given to me by my grandma as a sign of good luck. I am giving this to you. I promise this Shrishti, I will never leave you, I will always take care of you, so I will survive and come back to you, my dear sister."
After Naruto said that Shrishti bawled into him and continued to cry for a good ten minutes after which she rapidly hit his chest and said, "You better come back to me."
"Without any doubt. Now young lady let's go have lunch all right?" She nodded and then they went to have lunch with the brothers.
The next morning, the five brothers, Jasmeet, Siddu, Harpeet, Sukhhi, and Gurkeerat had packed up and the brothers escorted them to the railway station to send them home. And then the rest of the guys went home to rest. Man went into cracking visas for the brothers, while Naruto went to his neighbors to take care of Shrishti for a while, where he made the excuse that he was going to pind for a while on so business.
Then during the afternoon, the brothers were chilling when Man came to the terrace and said, "Guys pack up, we going to America."
Naruto shocked said, "You fucker, you did it! You hacked them."
"Heh yeah, we got 2 B-1 visas, 6 B-2 visas, and 3 M-1 visas."
"Huh?" Gippi said.
"You dumbass we got 2 business visas, 6 tourist visas and 3 student visas, now choose who will get what." After some discussions it was decided, that Naruto and Ranjit would have the business visas while K.P., Sangram, and Happy would have the Student Visas and the rest would have the tourist visas. With their passports ready, it was decided that they would go in three waves first was during late night and then the next morning and the evening. Naruto decided to in the third wave, after hugging Shrishti tightly along with the other two for the USA.
After his team landed at Los Angeles International Airport, after that they lived in a 4-star hotel near the Airport. Naruto thought to contact Iman but refrained from it. He did not want to get his friend into his mess. They rested for the day and then it took them another day to get over their jetlag. After that day, they needed to get hold of the gang.
"How are we going to find them?" Sangram asked.
"Bro it would be difficult to find such a small gang." Manjot supplied.
"I know, I know. Let me think something." Naruto said, and then he started thinking, where would he find someone who could give him the gang's address? Suddenly, it struck him. He had met a very edgy club owner, who claimed that he could fulfill any person's desire. Then he told the group who were in Manjot's room, that he had to meet someone. After that, he wore a tuxedo and left for LUX, where he wanted to meet the devil, Lucifer Morningstar. That man was the only person who could help him right now.
After a short drive to LUX, he entered the place of sinners. And saw Lucifer in one of his piano performances of I Dreamed A Dream by Susan Boyle, it was a melodious performance. After the end of the performance, he sent a drink to the devil and raised his glass. Then Lucifer approached him, "Mr. Uzumaki what a surprise!"
"Me surprising the devil, has the hell frozen over?" Both of them laughed at that, and then Naruto said, "Well, Mr. Morningstar I am here to ask you for a favor."
"What favor?"
"Well, you do remember the gang I beat up in the alleyway?"
"Yes."
"Well, I require their address, as they have something I am in dire requirement of."
"Well, I do fulfill everyone's desire. You would get it in 10 minutes but I would require something for it."
"What do you want?"
Lucifer then tossed a coin with some satanic diagrams on it towards him and said, "A favor."
Naruto caught it and asked, "What favor?"
"Not now, but I will cash it later." Naruto nodded but felt like he made a deal with the devil [no pun intended]. After 10 minutes, he got the address of the gang or as they were known as the Avengers biker gang, he had a bloodthirsty smile on his face as he left the club.
"Mazikeen, be a dear and make sure that the police will be involved with him and his group."
"I still do not get what are you doing Lucifer?"
"Just helping a very powerful ally."
"Whatever." Mazikeen rolled her eyes.
"Thank you Mazikeen, also could you clean up the trail of bodies he would leave behind."
"Fiiiiine."
Naruto went into the hotel and called for the brothers to meet him in his room. Once all of them assembled in his room, he spoke, "Well boys suit up we got a gang to beat." Everyone had a bloodthirsty smile and after some time everyone suited but in black suits and went towards the lobby where Naruto asked the receptionist if there were baseball stores nearby. Once he got the address, all of them got in the three cars they rented, and first, they went to the baseball store to buy some metal bats, then they stopped at the hardware store to buy some metal rods and after that, they stopped at the gun store, which shocked the brothers as no such stores were there in India. Here Naruto said he only would enter the home.
Once he entered the gun store, looked around to see if anyone was in the shop or not and then looked at the shop owner and cast a genjutsu on him. "Hello good sir can I get eleven CZ-100s"
The owner in a monotone voice said, "Yes" and then handed his eleven .handguns
"Well, I might return some of these later, Could I also have 11 mags for these guns and a silencer" The shopkeeper nodded and gave him the eleven mags and the silencer.
He exited the shop and headed to the first car and handed them four guns and then did the same to the second car and handed the last two in his car as they left for the gang's hideout. After some time they had to park the car near the entrance alleyway. Then all of them walked out of the car and Naruto addressed them, "Boys take the bats or the rods and remember we don't shoot until they shoot but still unlock your guns just in case. Let's break some legs boys."
"Aye aye, captain," Manjot said jokingly. Then with bats and rods in their hands, they entered the alleyway where Naruto said, "Remember boys, No Mercy."
The first victims were the four goons who were smoking outside the building. Ranjit, Man, Gurnoor, and Manjot swung their bats on their heads, making their heads bleed and effectively shutting them up. Once they did that, Naruto took his gun out attached the silencer, and then shot the front wheels of the twenty-nine bikes parked there. Naruto then said, "There are twenty-five goons inside. We will have the shock advantage, but then there will be gunfire, beware."
All of them nodded, and then Balbinder the stereotypical big guy of the group stood in front of the door and kicked it very hard. The door opened with a bang, and the goons at the bar were shocked. All of the brothers barged in and started assaulting the first five goons eating there. With the metal bats and rods, they hit them with all of the anger they had, breaking their legs, shoulders, throats, and heads, nothing was spared as they turned them into mush. That is when the five other goons who came out of their shock, took out their guns and started open firing, thankfully no bullets hit the brothers, since the gang members were intoxicated the bullets did not hit the intended people. Immediately the brothers took cover under tables, chairs, and behind human shields and started firing in retaliation but could not do so much as they had SMGs with them and were firing them like madmen.
That is when Manjot and Naruto made eye contact and nodded to each other. Naruto tapped Jetta who was beside him, on the shoulder and signaled him to give him to give his extra mag and then he and Manjot snuck from the sides until they were behind the gang members, and then both of them opened fire and killed the five members. Naruto reloaded his gun and then both of them open-fired on the staircase killing three more members who came up hearing the sound of gunfire.
The brothers regrouped and Naruto handed the two SMGs to Palveer and Jetta after checking the bullets in them. "Palli [nickname for Palveer], Jetta you will lead and the rest of you will follow them while Manjot and I will follow you covering your back. Kill everyone in the basement except for the leader. The guy is a fatso, bald with a huge ass beard which looks like extended pubes. Show him our special hospitality and make sure that he can speak after the hospitality." They nodded and went down the stairs with Palli and Jetta leading them and Manjot and Naruto covering their backs.
Once inside the basement, they were met with a cocaine deal going on and opened fire on both of the parties bar the biker gang leader, and then tied the unconscious guy to a chair while pilling the bodies to a corner. Then Naruto's phone rang and saw it was Shivansh calling him. "Boys rough him up. I have to take this call." With he went upstairs. While the cries of pain and mercy were coming from downstairs, he was on a call with Shivansh who gave the phone to Shrishti and they chatted for a while, asking about how was everything on their end, how was he, and a lot more questions. After a good five-minute call, he again went downstairs and saw the guys beaten up badly. He turned to Sangram and asked, "He can still speak right?"
Sangram replied by saying, "We broke his legs, his hands, shoulder and ribs, gave him a minor concussion. So yeah he can speak."
"Fine, let's wake him up," Naruto said and he dug his two fingers in the glenohumeral cavity [the cavity of shoulder blades.] and the guy screamed and writhed as he woke up. When he saw Naruto's face he pissed himself as he remembered what Naruto did to him. Naruto saw his horror-stricken face and sadistically smiled and said, "Oh you do remember me!"
"You-you demon!" He freaked out.
"Mate, you are wrong, I am no demon. I am just a human who is good at what he does." Naruto replied.
"Bro, how did you scare him so much?" K.P. asked to which Naruto recounted as to what happened that day.
"Damn bro, that was a little too sadistic," Sangram said.
"Nah, this son of a bitch tried to take my gramps's watch, I will beat him up." Naruto defended himself and then continued, "Anyways, you pig you have something I require." He roughly grabbed both the man's cheeks with one hand as he put the gun to his head.
"What is his name?" Naruto asked him.
"Who?" he replied. Suddenly Naruto shot him in the foot. He screamed and wailed as Naruto inserted his thumb into his bullet wound, "Motherfucker the name of the assassin you sent to my home."
"I don't know the motherfucking Caucasian, who you sent to my house to kill my family member!" With that, he shot on the other thigh as the leader writhed in pain. That is when the leader realized who he was enquiring about.
"I know who you are talking about!" He cried out.
"Then BARK!"
"He was a former member of the gang before he went out to be an assassin. His handler, Aubrey Morale is in the States. I know his address and his number." He wheezed out. Naruto then took out a paper and pen and then said, "Write it down!"
After he jotted it down, Naruto looked at Sangram and said "I am going to confirm the number, keep an eye on him." They nodded as he went upstairs to confirm the handler's number. He dialed the number and waited for Aubrey to pick up.
"Hello"
"Is this Mr. Aubrey Lamar from Pacific Airlines? I am Kendrick Graham speaking."
"I am not Aubrey Lamar, wrong number."
"You are not Aubrey Lamar? Then who are you?"
"I am not Aubrey Lamar, I am Aubrey Morale."
"Oh, I am so sorry."
"No Problem."
Naruto walked downstairs. Everyone looked at him as he said, "The information matched, he is telling the truth."
"Please spare me! I told the truth. Please spare me!" The leader pleaded with them, Naruto leaned on his ear and whispered, "Never trust a shinobi." With that, he shot him in the head after which he addressed the brothers, "Let's wreck the place and get the bodies in the basement." They nodded and Manjot and Jetta went to work on pulling the bodies downwards and stuffing the bodies in the corner of the basement while the rest of the boys wrecked the place.
As they left after some time, Mazikeen entered the place and saw the wrecked state of the place as whistled, "Damn, they did some work!" after which she entered the basement and saw the pile of dead bodies, and then with some demonic magic, she started melting the bodies one by one, until there were no bodies left to melt, after which she called Lucifer to tell him that the job was done.
Meanwhile, Naruto and the gang were washing the bats and pipes they rented to return as there was no need for those things now. Once returned they went to the weapon shop where they bought the CZ-100 and bought more mags for them. Then they straight up went to their hotel to plan for their trip.
"So where are we going?" Gippi asked
"Well, he wrote Riverside, Austin, Texas," Naruto replied.
"How are we going there?" Jetta asked.
"Via road, it's almost 20 hours from here and add a few for some pit stops, so a day journey." Naruto replied and then continued, "Pack up some essential things for a two-day journey. We leave in the late afternoon. Let's check out." They nodded and left to pack in their respective rooms. Once done they checked out of the hotel, rented three big SUVs for three days, and loaded their baggage once done with that, they went to their local Walmart store to stock for their trip. Once stocked up completely with 20 gallons of water, some snacks, pillows, etc. After which they went towards a gas station to get some fuel.
As they reached the station, they first filled petrol in their three SUVs then bought 10 gallons of emergency fuel for their trip and were going to leave when Naruto noticed two distressed teenage girls. "Manjot, Balbinder you guys go first I will catch up with you guys and do me a favor and take Happy and Gippi with you guys, I will follow you guys after some time." Balbinder and Manjot were a bit shocked but reluctantly agreed.
It was Naruto's bleeding heart that he approached the young girls. He stood in front of them and asked, "Hello girls, I am Naruto Uzumaki, may I know your name?"
The girls looked at each other and then spoke up, the blond one said, "I am Lily." While the ravenette said, "I am Rose."
"Hello Lily, Rose are you lost here?" Naruto asked, and they meekly nodded. Naruto then asked, "Was there any elder present with you?"
Both of them nodded and then Lily said, "Yes, our big sister was with us."
"What is her name?"
Rose replied, "Zoe Nightshade"
"Ok Rose, Do know where Ms. Nightshade went?"
"Yes! She said that we would camp at the Sunrise Valley Park [A fictional park]."
"Ok, listen, both of you, since I am not really from here so let me ask someone where the park is and then let me guide you there, alright?" Naruto said as the girls excitedly nodded. Then he approached a random lady at the gas station, "Excuse me miss."
"Yes?"
"Miss, could you tell me where Sunrise Valley Park is?"
"Yes! Well, you have to go straight from here and then take the first left, after which the first right and then first left and it will be on your left side."
"Thank you very much, ma'am." After that, he started talking to the girls, he said, "Well now we know where it is, so I will guide you, we can go in my car, but it would be uncomfortable for you so we will go on foot."
Both of them nodded, and all three of them started on the journey to Sunrise Valley Park. It was a twenty minutes long journey but it was a fun one, all of them conversed with each other and reached inside the park. Once inside the park, Naruto turned towards them and said, "Lily, Rose, follow me closely." Both the girls nodded and followed him closely and they reached the camp where Naruto approached a woman, "Excuse me"
"Yes" the woman replied
"Do you know someone called Zoe Nightshade?"
"I am Zoe Nightshade, who art thou?"
"Sorry?"
"I said who art thou?" As she repeated the question, another woman approached them, "Sorry about her, she is a method actor, I am Phoebe." Phoebe introduced herself.
"Hello."
"So, who are you and why are you here?"
"Oh myself Naruto Uzumaki and I believe these two girls are with you." Naruto introduced himself and then pushed the two girls forward.
"Lily! Rose!" Zoe cried and hugged them while Naruto and Phoebe continued conversing, "Mr. Uzumaki thank you very much."
"No problem, found them stranded at the gas station, so had to help them due to my bleeding heart."
"I cannot thank you enough."
"No problem with that, well I will get going, again please make sure that everyone is accounted for. I will get going bye Lily, bye Rose!"
"Bye, Mr. Naruto!" Both of them said as Naruto left that is when Zoe ordered, "Bows down, the man has left!"
Then both the elders started talking, "Thank the gods, both of them are safe."
"Yes, otherwise Lady Artemis would have been very cross with us."
"It has been 4 years right?"
"Yes, 6 more years to go."
While the ladies were talking, Naruto was leaving mumbling to himself, "Sheesh, bows stretched on me, was it a summer camp or a boot camp." After that, he sat in his car and started driving speedily to cover up the one-hour-long gap between him and his brothers. After a long one-and-a-half-hour drive he caught up with them and they stopped for a petrol and food break after a short time, Happy and Gippi returned to Naruto's car while the brothers drove into the evening to the night, and then by the morning, the entered the state of Texas. And by the afternoon they entered the city of Austin Texas. Before going and finding the handler the boys first roamed around the city to find a good Indian restaurant to eat. Due to beef consumption being a big sin in Hinduism, they took a long time and found a good homely restaurant and ate like homeless people.
After eating their lunch they went towards Riverside to find the person but the place was a bit crowded it was decided that one from each car would go out and manually search for the house. So, Balbinder, Sangram, and Naruto went to each lane of the district to find out about the house. All of them were going from person to person asking for the address's direction. That is when a future couple met for the first time.
As Naruto was asking person to person rear the banks of the Colorado River, He saw a lady walking by with baggy jeans and a silver top and auburn hair with a messy bob cut. He tapped her shoulder and asked, "Excuse me miss?"
As she turned around, her face took Naruto's breath away. If it was a Bollywood movie then at that moment cherry blossoms would have flown in between them and then they would have been instantly transported to the lush fields of Europe where they would have been romantically dancing to a romantic song and almost kissing at the end. Fortunately or unfortunately for him, he was not in a Bollywood movie and in real-time.
But in our modern time, Romeo could not say shit. How could he? He was too busy drowning in her beautiful silver eyes with could even beautify the reflection of the moon. He thought those eyes were the most beautiful and precious thing in the world. Her eyes were drawing him in. They were hypnotizing him, so much so that he did not know what he was saying.
"Hi, I'm Naruto." He did not know why he said his real name as he was going with his fake name Vidyut. But those eyes were telling him to tell the truth.
Then he heard a soft and melodious voice tell him, "I am Artemis."
What the Romeo did not know is that his Juliette is feeling the same way. Artemis, the goddess of hunt and moon was mesmerized by the person in front of her. Being the goddess of hunt she has an incredible sense of smell. Her sense of smell could tell her about the intentions of beings she smelled. When she smelled her prey, she smelled fear and hostility. When she smelled her parents [Zeus, Leto] and Apollo, she smelled Love and adoration same with her favorite sister and aunt, Athena and Hestia respectively.
But when she smelled him, it was a nice smell. A hypnotic smell, it was telling her to lower her walls against him and invite him inside her world, when he introduced himself as Naruto, she did not know what possessed her to say her real name to him as she was now going by the name Luna. But not only his smell, his eyes spoke a lot about him. Those sapphire eyes had drawn her in and she could tell that he was also drawn into her.
Both of them did not say anything but looked into each other. "You have beautiful eyes." "You have a nice smell" They simultaneously said to each other and were embarrassed but during that kodak moment a speed boat rushed past them ruining the moment, that was the moment for the first time Naruto wanted to kill someone without any reason. Sure he was on a killing spree but it was in the name of revenge but that speed boat driver ruined it for him.
They awkwardly cleared their throats and then Naruto asked her "Well, Artemis could you tell me where this address is?"
Artemis read the address and then said, "Sorry I don't know, I am a tourist here."
"Yeah, me too." He said and then awkwardly said, "Well thank you Artemis."
"You're welcome Naruto." She liked the way his name rolled off her tongue.
What the couple did not know was that three pairs were seeing their moment of eyes. Both of them parted ways not before looking over their shoulders to take a peek at each other. Once Naruto reached Balbinder and Sangram he put his game face on but it was too late, both had shit-eating grins on their faces.
Before Naruto could tell them something, Sangram started singing, "Haan mujhe pyaar hua, pyaar hua, allah miya [Title of the song is the same] [Translation is 'God I am in love']."
"Motherfucker, I will kick your damn ass." As Naruto said that, they all started laughing while Naruto was thinking about Artemis. Not knowing that her Romeo was thinking about her, she approached her mother, who was grinning like a madwoman. As she approached her, Leto teased her, "So, I like your smell huh?"
"Ma!" she embarrassingly cried.
"Huhuhu, So, what is my son-in-law's name?" Leto teased her again.
"Mom no!" Artemis cried while thinking about Naruto.
Naruto meanwhile was talking to his brothers, "Did anyone find the location?" asked Naruto.
"I found it," Sangram said to them.
"Let's go then, Sangram can lead us," Balbinder said.
All of them went and sat in their cars, with Sangram's car leading them, and then after some time, they arrived at a big bungalow. All of them got out of the car and then saw the bungalow and saw that the lights were on. So they went the classic way, where the rest of them hid on the sides and Naruto rang the bell.
"Yes." The person opened his door.
"Is this Aubrey Morale?" Naruto asked with an innocent face.
The man with a confused and suspicious face asked, "Yes, but who are you and what do you want?"
Naruto with a bright smile replied, "Ok good!"
Before the man could counter the reply, Naruto socked his jaw hard enough to knock him out cold on his door. The brothers came out from the sides and K.P. commented, "Damn bro that was a mean right hook."
"Well, that hook would land on your face if you don't drag his body inside now." Naruto joked.
With that, they dragged the unconscious man in and then sat the man on the chair and then tied him up, and put a black bag over his face. After this they searched the bungalow to find things about their assassin, thankfully the search was short-lived and they found an already-opened laptop. As Jetta and Palveer found the laptop they immediately hollered the rest to come here, "Guys we found something."
There was a quick response to that and the brothers assembled at the room. Naruto then said, "Man, crack this shit up and give me something good." As he said that Ranjit from downstairs hollered, "Guys, he is starting to get up."
With that, the boys went down while Man started going through every nook and cranny of the computer to find something useful. While he was doing that, all of them gathered around the tied-up man.
As Aubrey woke up, he only saw darkness in front of him before the intense rays of light pierced his eyes causing it to squint when the bag was removed from his head. "Ah, good evening Aubrey!" Naruto jovially said.
"Who are you?" he rasped out.
"Oh right, you might not know me." He innocently said turning grim, "But you might know her." As he said that he took out a picture and put it in front of his face. As he saw the picture, his face rapidly paled. Naruto saw that and said in a psychopathic voice, "Oh so do know her." And out of nowhere shot his shoulder and he cried when Naruto forcefully pressed his shoulder and ragingly whispered, "She might just be another paycheque for you, but she was my motherfucking grandmother that you assigned the assassin and killed!" While he said that he pushed his shoulder more causing Aubrey to cry more in pain.
Before he could torture him further Man hollered from upstairs, "Bro I found something, you might want to see it!" Naruto loomed at Manjot and said, "Make sure this son of a bitch does not move even an inch." Naruto quickly went upstairs, "Man, what happened?"
Naruto went in and saw Man opening an Excel sheet. "Bro good you here, this excel sheet has all the information of every assassination month-wise for this year. So I searched the Excel sheet, and then I found grandma's data here." Naruto saw the highlighted row. Then Man said while pointing at the row, "Bro, look, so row goes as, serial number followed by the picture of the target, then name of target, then the date of beginning of operation and finish date followed by the name of the assassin, followed the mobile numbers of the contractor, since the names are anonymous could not get the name but thankfully the computer was connected to the internet so I searched in the database and found that the numbers were under the name of Abrar Haq and Ruksana Haq."
While Man was telling him the details, the gears in Naruto's head were spinning at the speed of a Formula One wheel. When he saw the commencing date, it was early April and the finish date was Dhriti's death anniversary. And then the name Ruksana, it was someone who he knew but it was not Ruksana Haq but Ruksana Bashir. The number was of Iman but a stubborn part of him wanted to deny the facts that were in front of him, so he told Man,
"Man, do me a favor, call this Ruksana Haq a Pacific Airlines employee, and call her Kathy Wood. And then make sure she tells him her real name." Man, a bit weirded out by the request as he just said her name but did comply.
"Hello"
"Is this Ms. Kathy Wood from Pacific Airlines? I am Tobey Mathers speaking."
"I am not Kathy Wood, wrong number."
"You are not Kathy Wood? Then who are you?"
"I am not Kathy Wood, I am Ruksana Bashir."
"Oh, I am so sorry."
"No Problem."
Man once over with his phone call, had a confused face. Naruto noticing his confused face asked him, "What happened?"
"It's confusing bro, the first name match, but instead of Ruksana Haq, she called herself Ruksana Bashir." While Man was musing that, he missed the murderous face of Naruto. Naruto immediately left the room, not before telling Man to copy all the information on a Hard Drive. As he came downstairs, he saw that Aubrey was still tied up on the chair, so he entered the room and tightly slapped him on his face, breaking one of his teeth in the process. The loud slap gathered everybody's attention as Naruto looked into his eyes with a murderous look and some killing intent and asked, "The woman who gave you the information have you ever seen her face?!" Aubrey rapidly nodded.
Naruto further interrogated, "Was she a Muslim woman with a mole near her left eye?" he again rapidly nodded. "Do you remember the assassin's name you sent to kill my grandmother?" he rapidly nodded and then said, "I know him and the group, we get contracts and then we sent assassins to get the job done, your case the assassin was Mike Fallon since the killing needed to look like an accident! I can also tell you their hideout, it's in England!"
"Ok, Palveer jot down the address." Only he squeaked the address, Naruto said, "Jetta undo his binds."
"Bro!" Jetta protested.
"Just do it." Jetta reluctantly did it and the Naruto sat on the table to face Aubrey and said, "Aubrey, do you know what I hate more than an assassin?"
"What?"
"A motherfucking rat!" And shot him in the head, killing him in an instant. After which Naruto said, "Sangram, pass me the water bottle." He drank the water and then poured it down his face. After taking a deep breath, he screamed and shot Aubrey's dead body until his magazine was empty and then kicked his body down along with the chair.
Everyone was startled by the action of Naruto and only Manjot dared to ask him, "Bro calm down and tell us what happened?"
"Son of bitch, I was friends with a fucking snake in saint's clothing and played into his schemes." He raged.
"Bro, can you elaborate?" K.P. asked to which Naruto explained them about his foreign trip, about Iman and Ruksana Bashir, and what Man told him. By the time he ended his tale, not just him but everyone was equally angry as they were taught to never stab in the back of your friend. "Now what?" Man, who was spooked by the commotion came down and heard his tale, asked.
"Man, hack into the UK server to make us UK visas. Till then let me make a call to the snake." Naruto ordered and then venomously said.
"Will do." Man said and left upstairs to work on Aubrey's computer. Naruto went outside and then called Iman, "Iman Brother!" He called
"Ranvijay! How are you, brother?"
"I'm good, sorry had to leave, my grandmother died."
"My condolences"
"Thank you, but I am returning to the US in a week."
"Oh that's great, I am here for a month, so do come!"
"Sure brother!" He cut the call with a bad taste in his mouth as he mumbled to himself, "My condolences, MY FOOT!"
He went inside not before parking their car in Aubrey's garage and they rested for the night in Aubrey's house not before clearing up their mess. By the morning every one of them was on the breakfast counter, Man spoke up, "Bro when do you want to book the ticket for the UK, the visas are ready they are the same types as our US ones?"
Instead of answering Man's question, Naruto asked Balbinder, "Balli the car we rented was from a franchise model rental right?"
"Yes, Why?"
"Ok then, Man, get us the midnight ticket for L.A. and the tickets for the night flight to the UK."
"Bro, why today afternoon, weren't we going for tomorrow?" Balbinder asked. To which Naruto replied,
"Kaal kare so aaj kar. Aaj kare so ab [Translation: 'Do tomorrow's work today and today's work now]."
They nodded and by the afternoon they had returned their car and were on the plane to L.A. Once landing in L.A. they rented 2 big 7-seaters and went towards an inn to stay for the day. Once checked in, Naruto told them to stay while he bought so guns for them during that time, he to Ranjit to modify the range of the signal jammer that they took from Aubrey's house, enough for 2 acres of land, and gave them some cash to get the necessary items for the modification and left to buy guns for them. Once they were done with buying the guns and the signal jammer ready, they left for Iman's house to kill the couple.
Meanwhile LUX, L.A.
Lucifer who had been informed by Mazikeen of the destruction and murder of the biker gang, and that Naruto was now in L.A. and also his plan. Lucifer called Mazikeen.
"What do you want Lucifer?"
"Ah Mazikeen, don't you think that our friend from the veil is quite interesting?"
"If your interest means the way he kills people left and right, then sure."
"Well, you see, he is going to kill a married couple now who had wronged him."
"So, what?"
"Well, I want you to make sure that the LAPD does not interfere in his endeavor and my show does not get ruined for me."
"Arrgh Fine" Mazikeen let out a pained groan.
Back with Naruto
Once they were geared and suited up, Naruto led the pack wearing a Persian blue suit and a matching shirt, while the rest went with Black suits and white shirts. They got in their car and after a few minutes' drive, they reached their location, Iman Bashir's Mansion. Naruto looked towards Ranjit and said, "Ranjit, get the signal jammer ready, on my signal." Ranjit nodded.
Naruto then pulled out his phone and dialed the house number, "Hello" Ruksana replied.
"Hello Ruksana," Naruto said. And Ruksana recognized his voice and said,
"Ranvijay! Sorry Iman is not here."
"Oh don't worry. I am not calling him, Ruksana Haq."
"What?!" Naruto heard her throat close.
"Oh I know you, you know my real name, you and that son of a bitch you call your husband."
Before she could talk, he continued, "Oh don't worry do call me Naruto Uzumaki, after all, you did give the contract to kill my grandmother, Dhriti Ghosh Agarwal. How do I know this? Well, a certain dealer squealed to me."
"What do you want?!" Ruksana said in a hostile voice.
"I want you to pray to your god. You are going to die right now." As Naruto said that he immediately signaled Ranjit to activate the signal jammer and cut the phone.
After the phone cut, Ruksana's first action was to call her husband but due to the signal being jammed, she could not contact him. Then she called 911 with, the same result. So she went to check the security cameras and saw that Naruto and the boys taking out their weapons from the car and marching towards her door. When she did that, she knew that she would die but she decided, that if she had to die, she would go down guns blazing, so she took out her handgun and got ready.
On the other side, the boys took out their guns, which ranged from rifles to SMGs. And then broke down the front door with Balbinder, K.P., Sangram, and Man leading the pack as they entered. Once they passed the lobby to go inside the house, they were met with a fearless Ruksana who was ready to sacrifice her life. She had her gun pointed towards the incoming crowd and then when she encountered Balbinder and Man, she pulled the trigger.
Man and Balbinder saw the gun and widened their eyes as they saw the trigger getting pulled. Thankfully the gun was locked and as nothing came out of the barrel, Man lunged towards her to disarm her. In the scuffle, the gun accidentally unlocked and she pulled the trigger and the bullet grazed Man's thigh and he writhed on the ground. Then Balbinder tried to get a hold of her but was kicked on his pelvis [nuts]. Then she socked K.P. and punched Sangram in the stomach. Before she could kill them, three bullets were fired, and K.P. saw blood on her face and saw a bullet lodged on her forehead one in her lungs, and one in her heart. Then he saw the gun that shot her, in the hand of Naruto.
Naruto looked at the four men on the ground and then said, "That is why you don't underestimate a person even though she is a homemaker." Then he sighed and said, "Gurnoor. Get the first aid for Man. And everybody else, search the house to find the son of a bitch." With that, he also helped in the search by barging in his private room. When he searched the house he found a journal, where he found where he was. He quickly made a shadow clone, "Go to the convention and put the genjutsu."
Then he hollered the rest of the boys, "Guys I found the fucker!" All the boys immediately came there. "Where?" Jetta asked. Then he raised the journal. "This fucker kept his journal here, I saw it and saw he was in some convention 5 blocks down the road, let's go there." Then as they were leaving, Naruto made some shadow clones to raid the house for some valuables. As they were leaving, it was decided that Man would sit back in the car to rest his injured leg and control the signal jammer.
After a short drive, they reached the block. Once the car stopped, Naruto got out while lighting a cigarette, then all the boys got out except for Man, who all gathered at the back of the second car to get the guns. Once they armed themselves they walked into the convention building with their sunglasses on. As they entered the lobby they opened fire on the guards there and then Naruto opened the hall door as the guards pointed the guns at him they were immediately shot by the brothers. Chaos spread throughout the hall, as people started screaming, and to control them the brother told them to be silent while making the shushing motion. Then they pointed their guns and fired some warning shots all the while telling them to close their eyes and sit down, as the while Naruto slowly marched towards Iman and stared him down.
Iman saw him and knew his death was near as he got his late wife's page [for all the Gen Z the message from a pager] about her death. Then K.P. climbed the podium and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are here to do something. It's a two-minute job and won't take much time. If you just, [K.P. load his gun] close your eyes." All the while Naruto was just staring blankly at Iman. K.P.'s announcement and a little force from the other brothers, the guests slowly started to close their eyes. That is when Iman, showing some courage, stood up. All the while Naruto was looking into his eyes like a predator ready to devour his prey. Then he put his hand on his shoulder which when Iman forcefully removed it, turned into a chokehold and Naruto brought both of them down to the ground. Manjot and Gurnoor looking were looking at the ongoing murder. After writhing for a good few minutes, Naruto felt Iman was unresponsive, so he released the hold and flipped his body to his side while catching his breath. He then stood up and tapped Gippi, motioning him to give his rifle. Gippi reluctantly and slowly gave his weapon while softly saying, "Bro, he is already dead."
But Naruto was in no mood to listen, as the gun reached his hand, he took it and loaded it. He then fired three shots simultaneously at the dead body handed the gun to Gippi and started leaving the hall, he passed Manjot to whom he said, "Bro take the dead body with us. We will bury him with his wife." And with that, the four of them lifted his body and all of them left the hall. As soon as they left the hall, the genjutsu Naruto previously cast came into effect as the attendees forgot the previous action, and the person named Iman Bashir, and the convention continued as if nothing happened. The only person who remembered it was Mazikeen. She saw everything that was going on and was impressed by the boldness and brutality and went to tell Lucifer about it.
As they left the hall they stopped at the house, where they picked up Ruksana's body and then left for the burial ground. After the burial they went towards the Bashir house, where they left Man to rest. As they entered the house, they saw the house was spick and span. And they went upstairs to meet Man. As they entered his room, he was doing something on their computer. Naruto then called him, "Man, the work I gave you. Is it done?"
"Yes bro, this property is now in your name."
"Good, now list it on the auction site."
After 5 minutes the auction began and the house sold for 187 million dollars, as Naruto predicted, since this house was on a hot property. The moment the money was transferred into his account, five minutes later a guy came to collect the house keys, by that time they had taken all the valuables and then they left to sell them. The valuables had given them a good 20,000 dollars. After spending some of the dollars on a hearty dinner, they converted the rest of the dollars into pounds and left for the airport.
As they were waiting for their flight, he looked towards the moon, and his mind was filled with thoughts about a certain silver-eyed lady who had infested his thoughts whenever he looked at an auburn lady or anything silver. "Who are you Artemis? Why did I never feel this for any other person?" He thought, not knowing that someone else was resonating with his thought process. Miles away the lady who had infested his thoughts had been also infested by Naruto. The whole day somehow or the other, something reminded me of that man. "Why? Why are you still in my mind?"
Not knowing that both of them were thinking about each other, Naruto boarded his flight to the UK. And after a 12-hour flight, all of them landed in the UK. The first thing they did was to take a train and an hour later they de-boarded at Winchester. They then went to search for a hotel, and after resting for the night they were ready for the final massacre.
Oasis, Winchester
If someone looks at Oasis from the outside, it is a normal pub. But for the black market, it was a hub of assassins. So when Naruto walked into the bar, he was mentally ready to fight. Once he had entered, he started evaluating the hoard of assassins present there. He ordered a glass of beer, and his first target was a goliath of a man, from listening around he got his name, Carnage Cliff. By looking at his physique, he deduced that the guy is a brute and his favorite weapon is an axe.
Then he ordered 5 shots of Jaegerbomb and started evaluating a pair of twins sitting behind him, from what he could see they were some kind of special ops, and when he heard their conversation, he guessed that they were good in chemical weaponry. After the Jaegerbomb, he ordered gin to wash down his throat and evaluated a nerd whose name he got was Finicky Fred. The guy was not physically not so great and his assassination skills were in weird inventions. Then he ordered vodka while looking at his next target, a seductress, they call Jane the Ripper, from what he got she was a good swordswoman. Then he started talking to their ring leader, the bartender, who had a rifle under the bar. "Hey mate bill me up." He said in his best British accent.
"Yeah, sure. Your bill is 100 pounds"
"That's expensive."
"Well yeah, that's economy."
"Thanks, mate"
"You are welcome."
From what he got on the guy, his name was Big Ray, ex-military and was the boss of the gang, also he found out that Mike Fallon was out of town and would come back that evening and would visit the bar at late night so he had to get the job done by the evening and with that, he left for his hotel. Once he reached the hotel, he called for a meeting between the brothers.
"Ok boys, we have 6 motherfuckers on our targets, first is a pair of twins, they are special ops with a specialization in chemistry." Before he could say further, Manjot interrupted,
"Leave them to Jetta and me." Jetta nodded. Naruto then continued, "Ok, fuck with that, then let's talk about the next target, Finicky fed-" he produced a photo "- he is an inventor assassin, not physically endowed." He was this time interrupted by Happy,
"Gippi and I will take him on." He said. Naruto then continued, "Ok, then the seductress, Jane the ripper,-" he showed the photo "- she is a seductress, and is very good with a katana."
"Gurnoor and I will take her on." Man declared.
"Ok, then is the big guy, Carnage Cliff-" he showed them the photo, "-This guy is a heavy hitter, he swings his axe. Balbinder, can you handle him?"
"Yeah, Palveer and I can handle him." Balbinder replied, after which he said, "The final guy is this guy, Big Ray."
"Leave the guy to me and Ranjit," Sangram said.
With that all of them got ready and that evening they went towards the bar. Once they broke down the door, it was a 5 minutes affair as they had the element of surprise. Once they broke down the door, Balbinder attacked and restrained Carnage while Palveer to his axe and chopped at his neck, while that was going on Manjot and Jetta were in direct combat with the special ops twins, Mic and Mike. During that time, Happy and Gippi chucked two knives at Finicky Fred, one at his forehead and another at his heart. While the brothers were done first, the same could not be said for Man and Gurnoor as they were in a straight duel with Jane the Ripper. During the duel, Jane kicked Man on the pelvis and was going to stab him but she felt a searing pain as Gippi stabbed her on the spine, as she was distracted, Gurnoor slashed his head. Meanwhile Happy helped in killing the special ops twins. While all that was going on, Sangram shot Big Ray in the shoulders so that he could shoot the shotgun and restrained him. At that time Naruto walked in.
"Yello! Big Ray!" Naruto walked in jovially.
"You?!" Ray looked at Naruto and recognized him.
"Why me yes! You see these are all my brothers. And now you will give your phone to contact that son of a bitch, Mike Fallon."
"Never!"
"Put a sock in his mouth! And here is the phone."
Naruto pulled out the phone and called Mike, and as he picked up the phone,
"Mike?"
"Sike!"
"Who are you?!"
"Your death Motherfucker!"
"Where is Ray?!"
"Oh he is alive, cannot say the same about your little assassin gang, though I am a good guy so I will let him talk to you." "Mhmm!" Ray grunted.
"Ray!" Bang!
"Oops! I pulled the trigger!"
"You son of a whore!"
"I will let you know, my mother was a respectable woman. And as for Big Ray, take his corpse from me at Coke Park [fictitious park]. See you tonight! Oh by the way Aubrey ratted you guys out!"
With that, he cut the call and said, "Wait for me in the hotel and give me this guy's severed head." With that, he took the head and left for the park.
Coke Park
Mike Fallon was a Caucasian man. He was Brit, 6', and had black hair and a light beard. And his emotions were of a storm. He was raging as his mentor was just killed on the phone, so fuck meeting his girlfriend he went to the Coke Park to kill that fucker who killed his mentor. So, he took his Triumph Thunderbird and went towards the said park. As he entered the park and raged at what he saw.
Naruto was sitting there and he saw Mike entering the park. He kicked the head at Mike's feet angering him. As he rushed and said, "I am here, come out you fucker!"
"So the assassin finally comes out!" As Naruto came out of the shadow, Mike felt like he knew him. Naruto read his face and said, "You seem to think that you remember me or not, well let me jog your memory! I am the grandson of the person you recently killed in West Bengal, India."
As Naruto said that, Mike's face drained of any color, Naruto had vindictive pleasure seeing Mike's face, "Oh! Now you remember, huh?"
Naruto then took off his suit and rolled off his sleeves, punched Mike in the face and axe-kicked him, sending him flying. Mike shook away his shock and punched him, after which he kicked his thigh, Naruto fell and Mike socked a good left hook on his face, making Naruto spit some blood. Naruto stood up as Mike was going to punch him. Naruto grabbed his arm and twisted it and as Mike forcefully freed himself, he ripped his shirt in the process. As he staggered to the ground, he slashed Naruto's left solar plexus. Naruto grunted in pain but did not notice that his emergency summoning tattoo had been activated and now only required some chakra, which was fulfilled as Kyuubi's charka spread through his body, and did not know which tiger was summoned.
Baatora had been summoned to see the fight. Once she was summoned, she was about to call Naruto about where she was, but when she saw the fight, she let both of the boys fight it out.
Naruto did not notice Baatora there and continued fighting. He hooked Mike on the face while not noticing the Nine-Tails, the one-tailed cloak had covered him, and that Naruto swung two hooks on his face effectively closing his left eye. Naruto was angered as the second tail sprouted out and started repeatedly punching and he punched square in his chest effectively shutting down his heart and repeatedly punched him. By the time the third tail sprouted he created a Rasengan and hit square on his chest then with his enlarged nails ripped his heart, crushed it, and ripped his head from the rest of the body.
Baatora had enough, as she saw a fourth tail growing. She immediately took out a suppressor seal and before that, she took out another seal. First, she applied a seal that created a shadow clone and then applied a suppressor seal and knocked him out.
Mount Taigahiru
Naruto woke up with a jerk, as he looked around he found himself in a cave. Then he started recalling what had happened, in which he remembered that, he was mincing Mike Fallon and then he suddenly blacked out. As he was looking around, Baatora entered.
"Oh Naruto-boy, you are up!"
"Baatora, are we in Mount Taigahiru?"
"Why yes!"
"Why am I in here?"
"Well Naruto-boy, what do you remember?"
"I remember that I was fighting someone and then I blanked out, and now I am here."
"Were you really fighting him? Or were you beating a dead man?"
"You were there?!"
"Why yes! I saw you. Kill no ravage the already dead man."
"How?"
"You might not remember but you summoned me."
Then he remembered the blood that sprayed on his emergency summoning tattoo. As Baatora saw his face of realization, she asked about a more pressing issue, "Naruto-boy, I have never seen you so angry, what happened?"
Naruto sighed and then started talking about everything, from his journey to America to the assassination attempt on Dhriti to the murder of Dhriti to his revenge arc. Baatora sighed and asked Naruto, "Naruto-boy, tell me how are you feeling right now?"
Since Baatora asked him, he started to contemplate. He was so blinded by anger he never thought how he was feeling. He was so engrossed in killing left and right that the basic emotions were missing. He started with a whisper, "Why am I not feeling anything?"
Baatora, who could not hear asked, "Sorry Naruto-Boy?"
"WHY AM I NOT FEELING ANYTHING?! WHY AM I NOT FEELING GOOD OR ACOMPLISHED?! WHY?!" Naruto's sudden rage surprised Baatora. She also saw Kyuubi's chakra leaking, she readied the chakra suppressor seal but it was not required as Naruto started breaking down. If someone else saw Naruto without a given context, they would think that
Naruto was having a hysterical breakdown of a hormonal teenager. But Baatora knew what he was going through. She knew that Naruto was not a person big on killing and revenge, so once he came to terms with his action he was having a breakdown and regret about his action.
She put a comforting hand on his sobbing shoulder as he cried, "Why?"
"It is because revenge is never an answer. Do you think Dhriti would have been proud of you?" Baatora softly asked.
Naruto nodded and then Baatora continued, "Naruto, sometimes anger makes us lose everything, but it is never the answer. Shinobi's do kill, but it is to protect their loved ones, not revenge as it only destroys people. Naruto, Dhriti did change your life, now it is your time." with that she left him pondering.
"Heh guess you would be pissed with me, right grandma?" Naruto started talking to himself and continued, "I am sorry. I promise that this won't be the end of me." With that, he left the summoning realm. He ended up in his hotel room and popped his shadow clone. He got all the memories of his clone, where he found that his brothers were worried about him. After gathering the boys he only told one thing, "Let's go home." They took a flight and reached late at night in India.
The next morning, West Bengal, India
Naruto woke up, sobered by last night's conversation with Baatora, and also knew that he had to move on, and what better than to do it just thirteen days after her death. In Hindu traditions, the thirteenth day after someone's death is considered the day, when the soul has departed from the land of living. He went in preparation for the necessary rituals and the feast to remember her.
As the rituals and feast were done by the evening, he was looking at the sunset and its beautiful orange color, the color of freshness. He was determined to let go for a new day, thinking about these experiences, he thought about his friends in elemental nations not knowing that they were discussing about him.
Konohagakure, right after the meeting between the rookies and Tsunade
Due to the secrecy of the situation the Konoha 12 or now 10 and their senseis' met at the Sarutobi couple's house, which was both a secure place and the couple could look after their son instead of their usual YakiniQ place. It was a quiet and sober environment there as many could not believe what their hokage had told them or that their senseis' knew about it but above all they could wrap their head around the fact that their knucklehead friend had gone rogue and abandoned the village. The two people who were the most shocked were Sakura and Hinata, and due to the latter girl's crush on the blonde, she was also heartbroken.
Kiba spoke up, "I can't believe that Naruto would do something like that."
Shino agreed with him and said, "Indeed, it is highly illogical to think that Naruto-san would leave the village."
Chouji then said, "Yeah, he always said that his dream was to be the Hokage. So, him leaving the village will be the last thing that would help him in his dream."
Neji, the more mature of the group said, "Uchiha-san was still believable that he could be a flight risk but Naruto was one that is still unbelievable."
Ino then interjected and asked, "Asuma-Sensei when were you guys sent for the retrieval?"
Asuma Sarutobi the youngest son of Hiruzen Sarutobi said, "Well we were alerted 6 hours after his abandonment, Me, Kurenai, Kakashi, Raido, Genma and Iwashi had gone along with Jiraiya-Sama. His intell said that Naruto had gone towards the land of waves. We went and searched there but found nothing."
Neji then asked something that was bugging him, "Why Jounins led by a Sannin were sent after Naruto and not Genins led by a Chuunin? When we went after the Uchiha, we were all Genins and did not have any Jonin in the mix."
Before any of the Jonins could answer, the answer came from the door, "Because Naruto is far more important than Sasuke in the political scenario of elemental nations."
Everyone looked towards who it was, to see Shikamaru entering the room. "What do you mean by that Shikamaru?" Ino asked him
"Troublesome, if someone were to catch Sasuke and execute him or turn him, we can afford that but not with Naruto." Shikamaru elaborated further as he sat down with the rest.
"But why is that? While we don't know much about Naruto other than him being an orphan under Lord Jiraiya's mentorship, Sasuke is the second-last living Uchiha, surely Sasuke would be a far more enticing bargaining chip" Neji countered him, being raised in the Hyuuga clan, he knew a lot about politics.
"It's not about the outside, it is about the inside." Shikamaru cryptically said, but the Jonins already caught on to what he said.
"So you know?" Asuma asked his student.
"Yes, I stayed after the briefing, and asked somethings that were bugging me and got the troublesome answer." Replied the lazy Nara.
"What?" Chouji asked after munching on his chips.
"Troublesome, it bugged me that in Naruto's case, we had to make sure that we peacefully drag him back to the village and as a last ditch maim him back to the village but no such conditions were given in Sasuke's case. Everything was a fair game even using lethal force. It was our foolish decision that we did not want to use any lethal force on him."
"Now that you say, yes I do recall that." Neji agreed with him.
"But why would Hokage-sama do that?" Shino enquired.
"Yeah, why?" Ino also asked,
Before Shikamaru answered Ino, Kurenai interjected them by asking, "Has Hokage-sama authorized you to tell them the S-Rank secret?"
"Yes, since it was always available for seasoned chuunins and jonins so yeah."
"What authorization?"
Shikamaru sighed and then asked Ino, "Ino, why do you think the adults always advised their kids to stay away from Naruto?"
Ino answered it like it was the most obvious thing in the world, "Well because of his annoying pranks." But was shocked when Shikamaru shook his head and said, "No, Ino you are wrong."
"What?" before she could interrogate further Tenten interjected them by asking, "What has all this to do with the politics?"
Shikamaru sighed and then said, "Everything, this is a troublesome situation, do you think that Yondaime defeated Kyuubi no Kitsune?"
Kiba replied to that by saying, "Yes, everybody knows that."
Tenten then said, "No Kyuubi is a large chakra entity, so they cannot be defeated but can only be sealed."
Guy asked with a shocked face, "How do you know about this Tenten?"
Tenten embarrassed by the spotlight on her, "Well I wanted to research more about fuinjutsu. That is when I learned about the jinchuurikis. Thus I know about it."
Lee interjected them, "But what does this have to do with Naruto-kun?"
Shikamaru sighed and then said, "Troublesome, on which day did Yondaime defeat the Kyuubi?"
"October 10" Lee replied
"When is Naruto's birthday?" Shikamaru asked
Chouji replied, "October 10."
Neji connected the dots and realized, "Naruto is the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi!"
"Yes, it was the worst kept secret to the masses, the punishment for ratting the secret out was execution so the masses ostracized him," Shikamaru said.
"That explains why is he such a good political chip. But can he survive in the wild?" Neji questioned.
"Easily. Naruto lived on his own, for so long and his mentality is that of survival."
"So what we will bring him back kicking or screaming!"
"Yeah!" Everyone agreed and cheered with him.
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