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"Talk"
'Think'
"Talk"
'Think'
Naruto's months worth of training was over. As he sheathed Handanryoku in Ishikawa's katana scabbard, he reflected what he did over his last week in his training area.
When he first woke up he noticed the two kits by or on him, and it hit him on what happened the other day. The bodies of the kitsune family, Muka, and Ishikawa greeted him. He remembered what happened and immediately felt sick. But before he could even dry heave the deceased Stone Chunin's speech rang through his head, and his eyes steeled in resolve. He was going to look towards the future and craft it with his own two hands.
After he gently took the female kit off his lap, he gently placed her by her brother, and proceeded to clean himself in a river sixty feet away from the scene. When he returned he got orders from Shinigami to raid the bodies inside and out. That sickened him for obvious reasons, but after a little persuasive slash threatening chat from the God of Death, he reluctantly dug in committed the deed that killed a good part of his innocence.
During his outer search he found three kunai, including the one in his fight, seven shuriken with eight blades instead of four, three exploding tags, a sealing scroll, some medical gauze along with disinfectant, and the newest addition of the Bingo Book showing the rogue shinobi of every nation-an expensive book if he thought to himself. Opening the book he saw that Ishikawa was an A-rank missing Chunin level ninja, who stole the Shodaime Tsuchikage's bracers, a treasured item for the Kamizuru Clan. Why he did it, he honestly didn't know, and Ishikawa obviously couldn't tell him. However Muka was a B-rank missing Genin level ninja, apparently he killed his sensei and his two fifteen year old teammates while they were sleeping, and stole the Jonin's vest. And get this he was thirty-five, which was very pathetic in his opinion.
Speaking of Muka when he searched through his corpse he only found five kunai, some ninja wire, a blank scroll and a low level exploding tag. No much in his opinion but they added to the things he needed.
Then came the gruesome part, cutting open the bodies. With help from a recently deceased Mist hunter ninja that Shinigami persuaded to help him in order to send him to the rightful place for his soul. He followed step by step instructions and learned the secrets from their bodies.
Due to the lack of a scalpel Naruto used one of the kunai's he swiped and started dissecting them. The first target was Muka, after taking his clothing off the black-streaked blond started cutting into his chest. He then proceeded to remove his heart, forcing some of his chakra into it he tried to feel any sort of difference in it, like Kakashi once said missing ninja contained their villages secrets. He was hoping to feel some sort of herbs, or drugs within it, but unfortunately there was nothing and discarded it to the side. For the next hour he repeated the process with his other organs, from the lungs all the way to the kidneys, it proved fruitless however. But then he placed his hand onto the mans head he forced his chakra into his hand and slowly extracted the information he desired. He was no Yamanaka, or professional Hunter-nin, but he got what he wanted after another hour.
To his sheer disappointment, even in death Muka just showed how pathetic he was. The man only knew three C-rank water jutsu's, and one that was completely useless to him. But they were enough for Naruto and wrote them down in the blank scroll.
Ishikawa was a different story, due to him actually respecting the man he prolonged the mans dissection for a few hours until he was ready. He didn't mess with his body due to the fact that he was just unwilling to mutilate him. So instead he pulled the information from his brain, however unlike Muka's "brain scan" as he liked to call it for his sake, the deceased Stone Chunin of the Kamizuru Clan knew a lot about his clan arts. That was completely useless to him since the man didn't have the bee summoning contract on his person, nor was he even from that clan to that matter. While they were unfortunately useless to him, he found a gold mine when looked at justu's that he could actually use. And lets just say the scroll Muka had was filled up with a total of fourteen jutsu. That wasn't all, he learned a good amount of information about Iwa's various squads like the Explosion Corps, and a few other things as well.
After the gruesome deed was done he buried the bodies in the woods. While their bounties were were impressive, he didn't care about them, he just wanted the pay them their last respects and return them to the earth. He didn't give a shit about the coward Muka because after he dug their graves, using just his bare hands, he just unceremoniously threw what was left of him into the grave. But he gently placed Ishikawa's corpse into the ground, he placed his katana; without the scabbard which was just the right size to fit Handanryoku's blade, on top of him and wrapped his hands on the hilt, giving him the appearance of a true warrior who fell honorably in battle. After saying a quick prayer for the deceased Stone Chunin he piled the dirt on their corpses. And placed Muka's open umbrella over it to mark it as a his grave site.
Afterwards he dug a massive grave for the fox family after he saw the two now orphaned kits staring at their corpses. He spent the rest of the day just doing minimal exercises, and tending the male kits wound with what he stole from Muka's body.
The next few days however picked up, as he threw himself into his training. He increased his running laps to twenty five, and added one more lap every day steadily becoming faster. For an intense physical challenge he even swam upstream to increase his endurance, and that was for his physical exercises.
For his chakra exercises he managed to create ten shadow clones, with Shinigami's permission of course, to increase his control. Feeling creative he ordered his clones to do the tree walking exercise, while balancing a leaf on their foreheads with chakra. After he mastered that exercise he ordered them to do the water walking exercise, while balancing two kunai's on their palms with the sharp end facing down. That exercise wasn't easy with his supply of eight kunai, and they kept disappearing due to slight mistakes on his part. But with each failure he learned after trying it the next day.
Then came his sword training, at first he was clumsy, and nearly decapitated himself once trying to do some fancy move. But in the next few days he just practiced kata's, letting it become an extension of his body. He knew it wasn't good enough, if he wanted to advance in his kenjutsu training he would have to get a teacher, one that didn't hate him. Shinigami told him he could use his shadow clones to progress faster. But Naruto told him that that would be cheating. The katana was forged for him and him alone, it would have been a disgrace to their souls for him to take the easy way out for something that he felt that he needed to do himself.
He could have sworn he saw the ghostly images of Muramasa and Masamune, nodding and giving him a thumbs up...before looking at each other, and then started beating the living, or unliving hell out of each other.
Truly weird.
Then came his Jagan Eye, this happened clearly by accident. He slipped during his kata moves when he first started his kenjutsu training, and banged his head on a tree. The force of the impact knocked his hitai-ate off his forehead revealing his Jagan Eye. He heard what sounded like laughing and turned his head to see the male kit rolling around on the grass laughing his furry ass off. He of course told him to stop it, which the kit replied 'make me'.
Mentally.
That was when he figured out that the Jagan Eye granted him mental powers, and asked Shinigami why he didn't tell him. The God of Death merely replied that he wasn't going to hold his hand all the time, nor was he going to hand him everything on a silver platter. He would help him if he was truly stuck on something, needed some advice, or wanted to learn a technique he would gladly help. But he was on his own for everything else.
Back to the subject, whenever he wasn't practicing his kenjutsu or doing physical exercises, he worked on mastering his third eye. The process was grueling and caused him many headaches in the long run. Apparently the Jagan Eye was sentient and demanded respect, and that conflicted with Naruto's "I'll give you respect when you earn it" attitude, so in the long run Naruto only was able to get the basics of mind reading-one of its powers, and that was only to the kits.
And this is where we find the black-streaked blond now, looking towards Tazuna's bridge.
"Ready Ichigo? Benihime?" Naruto asked the two fox kits on his shoulders.
The two only nodded.
Putting on his mask Shinigami presented to him a few days earlier, Naruto pumped some chakra into his legs, and leaped away from the forest. Not once looking back where the old Naruto Uzumaki died.
With Team Seven and company
Everyone gathered at the bridge was in a somber mood. Today was the day Team seven and Zabuza along with his adoptive daughter departed.
Minus one member.
"I guess this is where we depart." an almost completely healed Kakashi announced, for once not reading his perverted book. This was a serious matter because in less than a day he would have to tell the Hokage in person that Naruto was dead. He owed the blond that much at least.
"Yea I guess it is." Tazuna replied standing under the sign titled The Great Naruto Bridge.
"I guess we'll see you." Zabuza said sadly.
"Yea don't be strangers." Tsunami quietly whispered with her hand on Inari's shoulder, who was on the verge of a tearful breakdown.
"Don't worry we'll be back...to see him again." Sasuke whispered out the last part, remembering the day they buried what remained of his former teammate.
The group turned their backs to get back to the village, because they knew that this would be the last experience they would have in this country ever again.
"Aww now what is everyone so depressed about? You all act as if someone died." a rough voice rang out, causing everyone to the source of it.
Standing on top of the sign was an imposing figure as tall as Sasuke. While the sun blocked his head they could clearly see that covering his dirty, tanned, muscular, and apparently still healing skin was a dirty and torn black long sleeved shirt that was missing its right sleeve, torn and dirty black cargo pants, and black open-toed shinobi-styled sandals with white bandages that wrapped his heels and extended into his pants with what looked like two ankle bands on each leg poking out from under the torn bottom of his pants. From what they could see behind him were two brown shuriken pouches attached to the back of his waist, and his exposed forearm and probably under his sleeve were a pair of what looked like black lightweight guards that lead to claw-like fingernails on his hands.
Kakashi narrowed his eye seeing the clothing a Stone ninja.
Everyone prepared to pull out any kind of weapon the figure spoke again, "Now, now, now, there is no need to attack me." with that said he hopped down onto the ground in front of everyone.
What they saw made them stop dead in their tracks.
The figure had black-streaked blond hair wearing a mask that had black razor sharp pointed horns, black metallic eyes and teeth, and the expression all exhibit the full wrath, anger, and resentment on its face. The coloring on the face was crimson signifying the full wrath resentment and anger of this mask. This was a Hannya mask, a mask that basically showed everyone not to fuck with them. Kakashi once saw one of these masks in The Third Great Shinobi War worn by a Stone shinobi that killed over five-hundred Leaf shinobi at Jounin-level before he was taken down by the Yellow Flash himself; and even then the future Yondaime Hokage had a hard time with the beast of a man that day.
But what's more was that he had two forearm-sized fox kits on his broad shoulders, on the right was a crimson colored fox with fiery brown eyes, a wicked scar going diagonally down from his right ear to his left cheek. While on his left shoulder was a smaller fox with brown eyes, and light orange orange coat rather than crimson.
But the revealing thing was the katana on his belt. From what they could see from the hilt was white with black thread covering it, and at on the end of it was a skull that looked like it was made of bone. Along the bottom of the skull was a crimson tassel wrapped around the bottom of the jaw with a small hourglass with black sand inside the glass on the end of it that disturbingly reminded Kakashi of a hangman's noose.
The last thing they all noticed on the belt was a beat up Leaf hitai-ate proudly displayed to them.
"Who are you?" Kakashi demanded, weary, and confused by this stranger.
The figure put one of his clawed hands his heart in a mock sign of pain, "Aww Kakashi I'm wounded that you forgot all about me."
"Cut the crap kid and answer the damn question!" Zabuza ordered him, bringing his right hand to the hilt of his legendary blade.
"I'll give you a hint he died a month ago. Give up? Its me Naruto." the figure now revealed to be Naruto responded.
"Don't lie you Stone bastard!" Sasuke spat at him taking out a kunai, his Sharingan eyes blaring at this imposter.
"Yea! The dead can't come back to life!" Sakura responded like a parrot after her crush spoke, trying to keep up her act of being sad for her dead teammate.
Haku meanwhile kept her eyes focused on him, during her travels with Zabuza she's seen and heard some pretty bizarre stuff. For example she saw some ordinary guy swallow three claymore swords down his throat, a guy who was fatter...I mean bigger than any Akamichi, a shinobi who could control his five foot beard to kill a man, and many more weirder things. If this person claiming to be Naruto was the real deal, then this extraordinary event shattered anything she had seen in her young life.
However no one was willing to see it that way, and everyone would rather use their fists rather talk. So being the mediator like she always was when Gozu and Meizu got into a dispute, she got in between the two parties effectually shutting them up.
"If you really are Naruto." she started to say, drawing looks from everyone, "Then you would have three things that only he would know, or have."
Zabuza realized what she was doing and smirked underneath his bandages, she was right this kid, if he was Naruto, then he would have to prove it was him.
"Lay it on me." Naruto replied, crossing his arms, and waited for her questions.
"Naruto would have a giant puncture wound going through his chest. I need you to lift you shirt up to confirm it." she told him.
Without any hesitation Naruto lifted his torn shirt above chest level, causing a twinge of pink to rush up on Haku's face. She couldn't help but stare until Tazuna's voice snapped her out of her trance.
"What was that Tazuna-san?" she asked.
"I said there is a hole-shaped wound on his back." Tazuna said again, smirking up a storm when he saw her blushing face. But decided not to embarrass the poor girl. After all he was young once.
Kakashi was also observing the supposed Naruto's body. He noticed that there were various lacerations in his muscled skin, most that were still healing up as well. But he focused on his chest area, now he never stayed to see the results from his famous jutsu, for all he would know this individual probably was hit by a lightning pincer maneuver attack from two Cloud shinobi. So he decided to voice it.
"This isn't sufficient proof, he could have been attacked by two Cloud shinobi in a pincer maneuver." he said drawing looks from everybody.
"Sorry kid I hate to admit it but Kakashi's right, I've seen plenty of wounds like that." Zabuza added, effectively drawing suspicion back at Naruto again. Who only sighed and pulled his shirt back down.
"Then this is the second one only he would know. What was I wearing, and what did we talk about the day in the forest where I went to pick herbs?" Haku asked, drawing a surprised look from The Demon of the Mist, clearly not knowing about that tidbit of information.
"You were wearing a pink sleeveless-kimono with a white obi sash, and we talked about our purposes in our lives, and those we care about." Naruto answered her like it was yesterdays news.
This news surprised a lot of people, Zabuza because his surrogate daughter actually talked to the enemy. While he wasn't mad at her, he was going to talk to her about this later. Kakashi's jaw would have fallen to the ground knowing his student-if he was his student actually talked to another girl besides Sakura, while stupidly talking to his enemy at the time. Sasuke however wasn't all that effected, but he was intrigued all the same. But Sakura and Inner Sakura were inwardly fuming that her puppy as she called him would disobey her. Granted she would never claim ownership to him, but she felt mad that her influence over the blond wasn't as secure as she thought.
And she decided to punch a hole in Haku's logic.
"While I don't now what exactly happened between my teammate and you, but there could have been another person hiding where you two were. He or she could have reported it to the Tsuchikage, and he could have picked it up." she said causing Naruto to narrow his eyes behind his mask.
While Haku didn't want to agree with the pink-haired brat, and while it could not have happened. She could unfortunately be right, after all stranger things have happened. So now it all came down to his last piece of evidence that could make or break this figure that could possibly be Naruto.
"Finally that last question, are you ready?" she calmly asked, hoping beyond hope that this last question will prove her right.
"I'm ready." Naruto replied, knowing that he might be in trouble if this last question failed.
"Naruto had blue eyes, and had three whisker marks on his cheeks. If you really are Naruto I'm going to need you to remove your mask." Haku finally said after what seemed like hours to her.
With not a shred of hesitation Naruto brought his left hand on his mask and parted it to the side. He revealed a part of his chiseled right face that showed his three whisker marks, and his blue eye that a good amount of its warmth that sent chills down their spines. "I would show you more but..." he parted his mask a little more to reveal jagged-still healing cut going across his nose, "my left side is horribly mutilated, and I really don't want to scare the kids."
If there was any doubt in anyone's mind it was blown away, there could be no further denying it. This person was indeed Naruto.
Before anyone could say a word Inari latched onto Naruto's back, and let out two weeks worth of emotions all over the back of his shirt.
"Inari I though I told you not to cry unless they were-"
"Tears of happiness, I know." Inari interrupted the resurrected black-streaked blond, "And these are tears of happiness."
Naruto could only smile under his mask, and knelled down so Inari could get down.
"Naruto where have you been? We all thought you were dead." Tazuna asked once the black-streaked blond set Inari on his feet.
"I was." he cryptically responded.
"But your body was destroyed, your flesh was all over the place." Kakashi stated, still a little skeptical that this was his student.
"Unless your age is getting to you, a lot of Stone shinobi, especially the bastards from the Explosion Corps like to rub it in your face by writing insulting things on walls, and usually fucks with your minds." Naruto then turned his head to regard Tazuna, "And as to where I've been, I'm afraid I can't tell you, I need to report to the Hokage for this." he continued before turning back to his team.
"Goodbye everyone I'll see you all soon." he said before jumping off, causing the returning team to stumble before chasing after him.
The entirety of Wave Country could only smile as their resurrected hero went back to his home.
Konoha one day later
The trip back was uneventful, okay that was a huge lie because Naruto kept getting questioned for every little thing. Where were you? Why are you wearing that outfit? Why do you have a sword? It nearly drove him nuts. Haku and Sasuke respectfully gave him some space, but the other three wouldn't leave him alone. Zabuza was acting like a sword otaku wanting to hold it, caress it, feel it, and cut something with it. He kept saying no, because he wasn't sure what would happen if another person held it, and Shinigami wasn't answering his mental calls, so he decided not to risk anything.
Kakashi kept pulling the superior officer routine demanding him to tell him where he was. His response was always the same, "I'll tell you later.". He didn't want to be an ass, but he was under Shinigami's orders not to reveal anything until he spoke to the old man. And a God's orders defiantly overruled everyone's in the Shinobi Nations.
Sakura meanwhile kept sweetly asking what happened to him in fake worry. While the Jagan Eye and him disagreed on many things the sentient tool-and yes it was a tool, gave him a peak into the pink-haired girls mind. It almost made him want to maul her with his claws Kyuubi forced him to grow with his demonic chakra during the month. Her thoughts were malicious thoughts about the two fox kits on his shoulders, orders from the Civilian Council to cripple him in the shinobi arts, abuse him for even the tiniest mistakes, and kill him if he was getting too strong by any means necessary. In fact he nearly tore her face off when she reached for his mask. But Kakashi being a mask-wearer himself slapped her hand away, and lectured her on personal space. Which he broke immediately before questioning him again.
That was invading his personal space in his opinion.
Thankfully it ended when they stood in front of the village gates where they were immediately confronted by a squad of Anbu Black Ops.
"Kakashi Hatake why do you have S-rank Missng-nin Zabuza Momochi, and two unidentified strangers in your midst." the white cloaked leader of the group demanded, as he narrowed his eyes behind his tiger mask.
"Stand down I'm just returning from a mission, and I am going to report this to the Hokage about the situation." Kakashi explained to the Anbu Captain, knowing that he would listen. After all he was once his superior.
The unnamed captain only nodded in response. He didn't trust the three figures worth a damn, but his former captain seemed to trust them. He ordered his men to place a hand on their shoulders, and they all disappeared in a small cloud of smoke.
Within his office the Hokage was waiting for them as the squad members appeared in his office. He could only narrow his eyes at the infamous Demon of the Mist, who single handily changed Water Country forever, and killed many of his high-ranking shinobi during his days as a Missing-nin. A girl who held an air of discipline and a calm aura. An finally a demonic faced Stone ninja that brought back many foul memories. However these three weren't the ones he was concerned about.
Naruto wasn't anywhere in the group.
"Kakashi why are these three with you, and where is Naruto?" Sarutobi demanded the cycloptic Jounin.
However instead of Kakashi's answer Naruto was the one who stepped up, "I'm right here old man." he said, drawing the aged Hokage's gaze.
"Don't lie to me Naruto is-"
"Your full name is Hiruzen Sarutobi, nicknamed The Professor and God of Shinobi, your teammates were Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, you became the Sandaime Hokage after the Nidaime sacrificed himself to allow you to survive in The First Great Shinobi War, you have never lost a battle, you have been recorded as the longest living and longest reigning Kage with the Sandaime Tsuchikage following behind you, you trained Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade Senju who later became The Three Legendary Sannin, you have two sons; Asuma and Tsuno Sarutobi with the latter giving you a grandson by the name of Konohamaru Sarutobi, you have a contract with the Monkey summons, you paid for my academy intuition because I couldn't pay it myself, and you keep your Icha Icha Paradise book in your upper right hand drawer." Naruto interrupted him as he listed off the things the old Hokage told him in his younger years, causing said Kage's jaw to drop onto his desk with a loud thumping noise.
"Naruto is that really-"
"Of course who else would interrupt you, and disrespect you and actually get away with it old man?" the black-streaked blond interrupted the old Hokage once again, furthering proving his point.
"Naruto I told you to respect he Hokage!" Sakura screeched out, and swung her left fist at him knowing he would take the hit like always.
Oh how wrong she was. In an instant Naruto raised his right hand and blocked her punch. This surprised the occupants of the room, because it was no secret that the former full blond let the pink-haired girl hit him. This was especially surprising to said girl, the Naruto she knew would let her abuse him. He was her puppy. An idiot! An orphan who would always be grateful to be in her mere presence. And yet he defied her right in front of the Hokage, the Anbu, and even her own team.
"The old man and I were talking, it's considered unlady-like to interrupt two people ain't it?" Naruto stated not even looking at her, hell not even addressing her by her name.
"Naruto's right Sakura it's rude to interrupt someone." Sarutobi mentally smirked seeing her face, it was absolutely priceless. "Now Naruto what happened to you? And why do you have the infamous Zabuza Momochi traveling with you?" he asked the black-streaked blond, not knowing this story would nearly give him a heart attack.
"First I would feel better if your "guards" left." Naruto said as he glanced at the masked ninjas.
Sarutobi only nodded and waved them off. Out of everyone her trusted in this room Naruto was at the top of the list, and he knew that these Anbu members trusted the former blond as well. After all they protected him since he was a baby. He could also tell them on a later date.
After the elite team exited the room Naruto told him what happened, of course leaving out a few key details. He used Ishikawa's cache of information regarding operations in Stone Country. From what the deceased man remembered, there were rumors of secret experiments occurring somewhere in the mountains that made the country famous. And he used that to his advantage, during the remaining three weeks of getting dirty and tearing his clothes up while training he contacted Kyuubi. He used his increased smarts to formulate a plan that his body was taken to said lab, brought back to life, and experimented on. In order to make it convincing he told Kyuubi not to heal his wounds from his fight with Ishikawa to look like he fought his way to freedom. It was a low blow to the only Stone ninja he respected, but it was necessary to make his story more believable. And it was working if the look on the Sandaime's face was any indication, and the small killing intent from Kakashi showed he hit a sore spot.
"So what you are telling me is that you died, were brought back to life, and experimented on. You believed you were trained in secret then later escaped after seeing "red", and ran for what you described as a week straight, finally meeting up with your team?" Sarutobi clarified after hearing the pre-teens story. He knew that there was such a lab during the last great war, and it proved effective from the berserker's they created-which Naruto ironically wore one of their masks, but after Stone's defeat it was closed down. That's what the reports were at least.
"Yes that is correct." Naruto responded.
"But my question is where is it? And I heard that it was closed down after the last war." Kakashi demanded, knowing that if that lab was truly open, then they were in big trouble if Stone Country decided to attack them again.
Naruto inwardly cursed his sensei for opening his big fat mouth, he of course didn't know where it was, nor did he know if it was open. All of his information were just rumors at best, and he honestly couldn't say, 'Sorry I lied, I'm now the Shinigami's Avatar and I have to kill your old student, a Uchiha that should be dead, and a guy named Danzo. Oh and guess what? I'm Sasuke's cousin.'
That was when something clicked and he almost stopped breathing.
Sasuke.
Sasuke was family. He was blood related to Sasuke Uchiha, he couldn't believe it had taken him this long to realize this. For the first time since he became smart he felt like an idiot. He realized with a start that Sasuke may very well be the only blood relative he had alive in all of Konoha. But he wasn't exactly sure if he liked that or not, I mean Sasuke was an okay guy, but he could be a real asshole at times.
His musings were brought to a halt as he heard the Sandaime's voice.
"What?" he questioned him as he snapped out of his trance.
"I said do you remember where it is?" the Sandaime repeated.
Quickly taking advantage of the question the black-streaked blond replied, "No I'm afraid not. All I remember was an uncomfortable bed, hearing them mutter about losing their benefactor, feeling lots of pain, and seeing red. Everything else is just a blur."
Sarutobi only nodded, he remembered Gai going through a similar experience during The Third Great Shinobi War. The event was known as The Crimson Forest that earned him the title: The Green Beast of Konoha.
Sakura however had to burst the Hokage's thoughts, "Then why do you have those beasts on your shoulders." she demanded in a commanding tone.
"It's simple once I escaped I found them all alone. And being the nice guy I am I adopted them as my own." Naruto casually replied, once again not addressing her by name, and not even turning around to acknowledge her presence.
Zabuza couldn't take it anymore, while what Naruto said was informative, it didn't change the fact that his and Haku's fates were on the line. And his agreement with the former blond was still solid as iron, yes he was alive now, but he died and The Seven Swordsman's last rites were too serious to be broken. It's been that way since the group was created and it would remain that way until the end of time, or Water Country was wiped off the map, and all her shinobi, Missing ninja or not permanently killed.
"Hokage-sama I hate to interrupt, but what is going to happen to us?" The Demon of the Mist asked the old Kage.
Hiruzen Sarutobi while an old man long past his prime looked at the infamous Demon of the Mist. His eyes, old and slightly dulled over the years still pierced their souls like a sharp kunai into soft tender flesh.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity the old Hokage replied to him, "Zabuza, your crimes are extensive, especially your failed assassination of the Yondaime Mizukage. Plus you are wanted in killing Kumade Toriichi and a few other of my Leaf shinobi." he then directed his attention over to Haku, "And Haku you are still technically a citizen of another country, and your bloodline while outlawed is still registered until the last of you die."
Both of them looked down not liking where this was going. They knew they were going to have to fight their way out, or die trying.
However the old Hokage smirked, "However..." he started out getting their attention, "I never liked that brat of a Mizukage, and this would help us in the long run."
"So we can stay?" Haku asked, her voice filled with hope.
"Yes you can stay, however!" he shouted out before they could do any type of celebrating, "Both of you will be under house arrest until I judge you are trustworthy. I'll send a few of my elite Anbu squads to make sure that you behave."
That deflated their spirits, but it was better than losing their heads.
"You're all dismissed, and Naruto I want a full report from you tomorrow at noon." Sarutobi then dismissed the members of Team Seven, while the Anbu members waiting outside the door took Zabuza and his surrogate daughter to their temporary home.
Once outside Kakashi bid them farewell before waking off to do whatever Kakashi's do, and Sasuke nodded at the two before heading to his apartment.
Leaving Naruto and Sakura alone.
Giving the girl a blank stare behind his mask, Naruto turned away and headed to his rat-hole of a home. While he was heading to the poorer districts of Konoha he pondered on what to do with Sasuke, while he was his cousin, he wasn't sure if he could live with him. While he seemed to change after his death, Sasuke still needed to mature a little in his opinion. The guy was still too broody, and he still acted like he had a stick shoved up his ass.
A he was about turn a corner that lead straight to his apartment he heard a voice behind him. And it was a voice he didn't want to hear at that time.
"Naruto you got a minute? I want to ask you something." said the pink-haired howler monkey by the name of Sakura Haruno.
"What do you want? Can't you see I'm trying to go home." he replied still not facing her, nor addressing her by name once again.
Sakura barely managed to keep her cool when he said that, it wasn't amusing the first two times, and it wasn't amusing the third time, "Come talk with me. It's important." she demanded before she began to walk down the nearest alleyway.
"Whatever you have to say, you can say it right here." Naruto growled out, showing the girl he was not in the mood to be dealing with this.
That stopped her in her tracks, causing him to inwardly curse him for putting a hitch in her plans, "Naruto I know that we've had our differences-"
"Yea differences." he spat at her.
"Anyways the last mission made me think about life, and I realized it's too short, so I'll go on a date with you. And hopefully things will progress further with us." she giggled shyly giving Naruto her cutest, and sexiest pose knowing that he would be putty in her hands once again.
It however did the opposite, while Naruto would admit Sakura was exotic looking, she was a wilted flower on a magnificent tree.
Such a pity.
"That's it? You pull something like this? Sakura there is no us. During my time away I've seen things you could never comprehend, I learned the hard way that his world is not all good like I thought it was. Instead I find that there are no heroes, and that everyone will do anything to hurt you. If that is all you have to say I bid you good day." Naruto said as he turned to walk back until Sakura grabbed his arm and tried to take his mask.
He responded by rearing his masked head back, and headbutted Sakura right in the forehead. The last thing pink-haired felt was pain and an overwhelming sense or irony before she fell to the ground in an unconscious heap.
Taking a breath and smiling behind his mask he pointed, and yelled at her prone form, "Bitch you got knocked the fuck out!" cracking his neck afterwards he muttered, "Shinigami that felt fucking good." and walked back to his apartment, with Ichigo laughing his furry ass off, while Benihime just sighed at their antics.
Meanwhile hiding in the shadows Sasuke saw the whole thing, and was stunned, possibly even more so than the unconscious Sakura. Never in the entire time that he had known the former fullheaded blond had he ever heard him speak, or do something like that, and Sakura was certainly the last person he expected him to verbally and physically abuse. Sighing he picked up the unconscious girl and left to drop her off at her house, and to try and solve the mystery that was Naruto.
Little did he know that it would forever change him for life.
Pvt. Liquor: Holy shit did you see the latest manga update? Sakura is going rouge!
Armageddon: Liquor relax, now while this will give me more of a reason to kill her we can't jump to conclusions.
Pvt. Fox: Why the fuck not?
Armageddon: Because I made the mistake of overreacting when Hinata got stabbed and supposedly died, I looked like a bigger douchebag than Ryan Seacrest. And I'm not gonna overreact again I'll take it in stride, and see what happens.
Pvt. VFSNAKE: Wow that's pretty mature of you.
Lt. RasenganFin: We all learn from our mistakes.
Armageddon: Now that that's over guess what time it is?
Everyone: Question time!
Armageddon: That's right now Lt. Doom look up the questions.
Lt. Doom: *mutters: This is so degrading while looking up key questions* Okay an anonymous IM reviewer asks what is Naruto's hairstyle?
Sgt. Shadowtrayster: I'll take this one, now good reviewer his hairstyle is more or less based on Hiei's, next!
Lt. Doom: This is from a future smartass reviewer saying, "Can you give a better description of the Hannya mask."
Sgt. Shadowtrayster: I'll do it again, now smart-ass reviewer go to google type in Hannya and you'll see his mask, next!
Lt. Doom: From another future reviewer asking...when will Naruto get ass fucked by Sasuke, and-
Armageddon: Enough release the spiders! *laughs diabolically*
Pvt. Killjoy: *laughs evilly and pushes a big red button on a control pad with a skull and crossbones on it*
The Announcer from Sponge Bob: A few minutes later killer robotic spiders go into the Internet and killed the sick yaoi bastard that everyone hates. And trust me he died an agonizing and painful death.
Armageddon: That's all for now folks until next time what so we say?
Everyone: Say not to yaoi!
Armageddon: Damn right we do!