OCTOPUS-At a bandit camp-OCTOPUS

A feminine figure sat on a throne, one leg over the other, they were a bit stouter then the average person, they wore brown boots, and a fancy red coat that hugged their frame, and beyond that nothing else could be seen, one of their hands held on to a wooden large ringed Kanobo, the other was idly fanning them self with an iron fan, the left side was fanning herself, and the right was tightly gripping her weapon,

"I'm bored," the left head stated,

"Then do something," the right replied,

The left head rolled her eyes, "Don't just tell me to do something like that means anything,"

"What else am I supposed to say? that sucks?"

"How about suggesting something to do?"

"There is nothing to do, we're bandit leaders, everything gets done and it's our job to make sure it is,"

Their body leaned back and both the left hand and leg started flailing, "But I'm boooooored~" the left head whined,

"You are such a brat!" the right head spat, "can't you wait till we're invaded or find someone to rob?"

"But I'm boooooooooooored riiiiiiiiiiight nooooooooooow~"

"How did our mother ever deal with you?"

"Better then she did with your tantrums,"

"Fucking fine," the right head said, "lets go hunt or something, whatever shuts you up for a while,"

"Yaaaaay!" the left head wrapped an arm around the twins' shared body, "thanks sis you're the best,"

As the two were about to get up one of their grunts pushed the tent open, "Ladies there's news,"

"Fucking hell we were just about to go out," the right head said,

"And I'm boooooooooored," the left whined,

"Don't worry ladies, this'll make you feel much better," he said handing them a letter,

The left head rolled her eyes and slipped away her fan before taking the poster, "Okay lets see what's-" her eyes went wide, "mmm~"

The right head looked over the paper and smirked, "Well that's certainly some good news,"

"Think she remembers us?" the left said,

"She'd best," They tossed down the note and stood up,

"Alright grab your shit!" the left head demanded as the right laid her weapon on her shoulder, they walked past him,

"My shit?" he asked,

The two pushed out of the tent, "We're moving!" both heads bellowed, "grab everything you like and burn everything else,"

The gathered bandits looked to one another, "What?" one asked,

"The fuck you say?" the right head asked,

The bandit raised his hands, "I-I mean to say why are we leaving?" he asked, "this camp has provided for us for ages, why abandon it now?"

"Cause we said so," the right head said,

The left head rubbed her brow, "We're moving cause some prime real estate has become available," she said, "it is in our best interest to move, and we've been here too long as is, if we keep moving then we'll be harder to catch and kill,"

"You guys know we don't do nothing less it has all our best interests at heart," the right head stated, "hell when we found you all you were under some pride filled punk who was leading you to your deaths back south, and I killed him with one hand and a lumber axe and we've led this outfit since,"

The two sisters looked around at the gathered violent thugs, "And is there anyone here who thinks we've done a bad job?" the left head asked,

The group looked at one another, almost as if trying to sense the dissent against their leaders,

After a full minute the ladies asked, "And who thinks we've done a fucking great job?"

"YEEEEEAAAAAAAH!" The bandits shouted,

"So again grab your shit and set this place to burn!" the ladies ordered,

And the bandits cheered,

The ladies grinned, "Let's go find some pants, it's a long way to water country,"

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile In Konoha-OCTOPUS

Pakura leaned back away from a three handed swing of Naruto's sickle, "Too slow Master," she said bouncing her a tonfa onto her nose where she balanced it while giving him a smug look, Naruto shot forward swinging the weapon again only for Pakura to put both hands behind her back and spin away from him, somehow still keeping the weapon on her nose, "are you even trying?" she asked,

Naruto stepped back from her, a new strategy already forming in his mind, he slid his sickle behind his back, under his cloak so she couldn't see it as he put four arms on the ground, adjusting his position as he did, ensuring he was crawling, using four arms and both feet he shot forward with blistering speed, he intentionally tensed his arm with the weapon before his sixth arm pulled his cape off and swung it at her attempting to blind her before he slashed,

As soon as the cloak seemed to cover Pakura to blind her she flicked the tonfa up, caught it and used it to twist it up like it was a load of spaghetti before she spun and struck him with it knocking him down,

As he hit the ground Pakura sat on him putting the tonfa to his neck, "So what did we learn?" she asked,

"That Ameyuri is way beyond my level?" he asked,

"Well yeah, besides that?"

"That... I need more practice?"

"Correct," She said dropping the tonfa which fizzed out of reality, "And good job to Yakumo for keeping that Tonfa there," Pakura turned and said to the oldest of her children,

"Thanks" The girl in question coughed out as she breathed heavily,

"So is Syo's turn now?" The tallest of Pakura's children asked,

"Sure is sweetie," Pakura said, "you might want to move princy,"

Naruto rolled to his feet and nodded, "Right, I have things to do now anyway," he said picking his cape up and wrapping it around himself,

He turned to the gathered girls, "Haku do you want to-" she nodded and was quickly at his side, "right," he said, "then we'll be on our way,"

He and his silent companion left the house and walked toward the market district, there was a deal he was supposed to finally deal with today, he entered the weapon shop and found the young bun haired lady's lips perk up as he entered, "Hey guy, back on your feet are you?"

"More or less," Naruto said as he walked to the counter, still keeping up with his injured leg act, "Sorry this has taken so long, I've been a little busy,"

"So I've seen," she said looking at his cape curiously, she used one of her fingers to pry open the coat, seeing the many shoulders he now had, she stared at them, "And your here about our earlier deal?" she asked,

"Yes, I am finally here to buy enough armaments formy family, present and future," he stated,

The girl at the counter smiled, "Good well pick out what you want and I'll get to ringing you up," she said,

"I actually have a list prepared for you," He said, handing her a note,

She took it and examined it, "Lot of weapons here, you trying to build an army?"

"Trying to be prepared, I have no idea how big my family will grow, there are a lot of people who've been mistreated in the world, and since I intend to give them a place they feel safe I will need them to be properly equipped should conflict come to Konoha,"

"Is... that the reason for the arms too?" she asked, Naruto nodded, Tenten folded up the list, "Well I can get you a price for all this but it will take a minute," she said, "Mind chatting with me while I do it?"

He smiled and nodded, "But of course, to converse with you while you assist me would be a pleasure," he said, "of which topic should we-"

"I've. . ." Tenten bit her lip, "seen the add," she said swallowing nervously, "and so have other people," her eyes turned to him, "can you really do that stuff?"

Naruto leaned on the counter, "Have you been thinking about coming to see me?"

"Yeah," she admitted, "for..." she blushed, "you... won't be weird about what I ask will you?"

"I sewed extra arms to myself," Naruto stated, "how could anything you want be stranger?"

"Well," Tenten looked away from him, "I was kinda hoping for... breast reduction surgery, among other things,"

"Seems normal, any reason why?" he asked,

"Well it's kinda in the name, I know you can't tell cause I have them bound up, but my girls are pretty big," she admitted,

"And likely makes it hard to be as acrobatic as you need to be," he said, "If there's a room where no one is I could give you and examination,"

"Well..." Tenten bit her lip, "N-no one's here now," she whispered, "if you can do it quickly," she said unbuttoning her top, allowing Naruto to see her squashed up cleavage, tied up by bindings,

"Hmm," he rubbed his chin as he looked at them, "that looks very uncomfortable," he said,

"It is," Tenten said untying the binding and letting her twin peaks out, "Ahhhh~" she moaned intentionally sultrily,

Naruto continued to study her cleavage not saying anything, it was starting to embarrass Tenten, who blushed, 'Is he not gonna do anything?' she wondered, 'like my tits are on full display for him,'

'They're c-cups,' he thought, pretty big ones, it's easy to see why she'd struggle with them' he thought, "well I know of two ways to solve your predicament," Naruto said looking back to Tenten, shocking her, "first would be a certain seal on your bind, it acts as a sort mash up between a sealing seal and a concealment seal," he said, "it would basically allow your breasts to slip into the fabric of the binding meaning that your breasts would not get in your way, or I could just operate on them reducing their size, it depends on what you'd prefer,"

"W-well" Tenten said, her eye twitching in annoyance, "I don't know, what do you think I should do with them?" she asked arching her back closer to him, "I mean, they're so heavy~ just feel them and you'll see,"

"I wouldn't need to feel them Tenten, it's obvious they heav-" Haku sighed and walked over to Naruto, being sure to use him to block herself from sight,

She wrote into his back, 'She wants you to touch them,'

Naruto blushed, "Oh-" he said, looking away, "ah I- yes," he nodded, "perhaps I... should," he said, and reached forward with his hands, first they went under her breast, holding them up,

Tenten gasped as his warm hands held up her chest, "Ah," she started to smile as her breasts started to feel warm, "S-see?" she asked, "they're very heavy," she said, "maybe you should use more hands?"

"I-" Naruto cleared his throat, finally understanding what Tenten wanted, 'It's either a hand or arm fetish,' he thought, yet two more arms slid out of his cape to fondle her soft breasts,

"C-" The girl bit her lip, "can I borrow another?" she asked, as Naruto looked at her face it became clear where she wanted the fifth hand, her mouth hung open, her tongue lolled out of her mouth, and the look in her eyes begged him,

Naruto swallowed nervously, yet another arm slid out, quickly Tenten grasped and pulled it, forcing the thumb into her mouth, where she began to suckle on it gently,

Naruto now grew confused about what to do, 'Her nipples, play with her nipples,'

Naruto nodded at Haku's drawn advice and slid his upper hands down and has his pointer fingers press in her hardening nipples as if they were buttons, then started flicking them around, "Mmm~" Tenten moaned under his seemingly practiced teasing,

As he saw them grow rigid he caught them between his thumbs and fingers, "ah" Tenten gasped as her nipples were caught by his warm fingers, lightly Naruto began tugging on the girls nipples causing her to let out another moan,

'She's really into this,' Naruto thought, as he fondled her chest after letting her nipples go, letting his thumbs roll them around,

And though Haku had to admit that she herself was starting to enjoy just observing what was going on, she saw a figure who looked as though they were approaching the weapon shop,

Thus quickly and silently the girl shot across the room and opened the door causing the bell to ring,

"Mmm?" Tenten was quick, in the second Naruto's hand wasn't at her bust she tied her chest up, buttoned her top back and spat his hand out, "welcome," she said, finally seeing Haku but believing she had just entered,

"Just..." she watched as the man outside walked by, "looking around," she said,

"Right, call if you need help," Tenten said, letting out a breath, "dang, we coulda been caught right there," she whispered clearly in a daze, and then started pricing up his weapon list, "so," she started, "what do you think?"

He nodded remembering she wanted to talk about surgery, "Well what other types of surgery would you want?"

She smiled at him, "Can't you guess?" she asked with a wink,

"I'm assuming more arms," he said,

"Got it in one Hun," she said, "imagine the type of weapon mistress I could be with more arms," she smiled widely, "and the types of weapons I could use,"

"Well drop by whenever you're free and I'll give you a look over,"

"I will... be sure to do that," she said as she finished typing up the cost, "and here you are"

Naruto looked at the number, "I figured it'd be larger,"

"We pride ourselves on quality and price," she stated,

Naruto payed for everything and then made a call to the house phone,

"Okay in a bit the ladies should be around to pick up the weapons," he bowed to Tenten, "thank you for all your help."

She smiled back, "No, please," she winked at him, "thank you for your... assessment."

Naruto nodded at her and left the shop while Haku grabbed something to buy and walked by him, "Just these thanks." she said.

"Of course," Tenten said.

NAruto waited outside the shop for so long the other girls appeared to collect his order just in time for Haku to live the shop, "She... talks a lot." she said to Naruto.

"Normally I'd assist you but something happened in the shop that I think it's best to avoid for now." the male said to the other girls.

"Something happened?" Isaribi asked, pulling nervously at her bandages, "what kind of something?"

"Doctor patient confidentiality," He said.

"She wants smaller boobs," Haku stated, "didn't notice I was there and disrobed before he could tell her."

Naruto lightly bopped Haku on the head, "As I said, doctor patient confidentiality."

"Smaller boobs?" Yakumo asked, she looked at the girl behind the counter through a nearby window, "why? I thought people wanted bigger boobs."

Naruto frowned, "Syo?" he asked gesturing to her.

The pink haired girl looked... confused, "Um master, Syo's boobs are big." she said.

"Y-" Naruto rubbed the bridge of his nose, "yes, they are Syo, but since you have large breasts surely you can understand why someone would want smaller ones right?"

"No?" The glutton said, more confused now then before.

Naruto took a breath, "I'll... explain to you all later then." he said turning and limping away.

After he left Yakumo smirked, "Okay girls want to make a bet?" she asked.

"A bet?" Isaribi asked.

"Whoever gets him to blush first during the tiddy talk gets to ask him out." Yakumo said.

"I-isn't that too in favour of..." she looked at Syo, "her?"

Yakumo smirked, "Actually, I think you've got this one in the bag Isaribi."

The scaled girl now took her turn to be confused, "Think about it," Yakumo started, "you start with something simple 'Naruto my poor scales are itching won't you come help me?' then when he's in range you grab his hand and whisper 'I lied I really like you' or you pull up your skirt and tell him the ones that itch are on your boobies and he'll be blushing like crazy."

Isaribi covered herself, "Wh-what? that's pervy!" she cried.

"That's what makes it fun sister" Syo said patting her on the back.

OCTOPUS-A few hours later-OCTOPUS

Naruto was in the ZPR standing over a gurney filled with corpses, it was easy to work on this project, not much screaming, he took a step back to admire his work, smiling a little, though this time he was certain he was quite mad.

The body was three sewed together, being much thicker then a regular human, something he matched with the right arm, taking three individual arms and slicing two in half and just taking the top and bottom off the third, taking the largest top part and bottom part and putting the third arm between them, the hands had similar work done.

The left arms were done similarly, but were cut differently, creating a long left arm.

The neck and legs were left vacant, with him having no idea what do do with them, "Perhaps an Owl head?" He asked himself, "no it'd be better just to sew two heads together so they have full 360 degree vision."

The creature also needed a noble soul, it was to be a guardian for Konoha, even if the people it was made to protect would shun it.

Naruto gritted his teeth lightly at the thought, then he pondered why, "Perhaps this labour of love is getting to me?" he asked, looking down at the abomination he'd spent a few hours sewing together.

It was to be a sturdy guardian, basically a moving wall, one to safeguard the citizens when something big came knocking, so they could get away from the danger.

But he wondered as pain shot through his arm and leg just what this thing could do against do against someone like Ameyuri, "Regardless of it's effectiveness on a monster like her it's better to have it and not need it then need and not-" the sound of buzzing broke his concentration, causing him to turn toward an intercom installed to get his attention when he was down here, he walked over and pressed the button, "yes?"

"It seems you're wanted again my prince," Patchwork stated, "and worse of all they sent one of the ones I don't like."

"Which one?" he asked.

"The abusive neglecter one." The sewed woman stated.

"Kurenai," he said with a sigh, "tell her I'll be right up." he said releasing the button and grabbing a spare cane, he walked up the stairs, then he tapped a button letting those outside know he wanted to leave, then he placed the cane on the ground and waited.

When the vault opened he limped outside, seeing Pakura and Patchwork outside, both glaring at the black haired woman still outside the house, Naruto made sure to look as though he were struggling as he left the manor, and as he had found a team of Jonin, 'Kakashi, Guy, Asuma, Kurenai, Tsume?' he thought, attempting to hide his shock upon sight of the clan head.

"We've gotten word of an unnatural lightning strike on the border of Konoha," Kurenai stated, "we need to get there fast."

The young Uzumaki nodded, "Very well." an arm produced the scroll that sealed away his objects and unravelled it, while a second was quick to unseal his carriage and his shadow leaped up sliding under the reins and forming into a horse.

"Come now," he said limping towards the carriage, "get in or on, there's no time to lose."

Quickly the Jonin mounted up with most sitting inside, which he expected, what he didn't was who sat beside him, Tsume and one of her dogs.

He half expected Kakashi or Asuma, but the change was welcome, Naruto took the reigns and snapped them, the carriage taking off down the dirt path, while Tsume guided him while the wolf looking dog laid over her lap, staring at the lone Uzumaki while his master pet him.

"Saw your ad in the paper." The woman stated during the ride.

Naruto turned to look at the woman, unsure of what to say to her, having met the child her husband had with another woman, the cries of the young woman who came to his home begging for her teeth and nails removed, "I'm glad it had such high reach Tsume-San." he said bowing his head lightly.

She rolled her eyes, "I know you met my ex'sotherdaughter," she said, "and I can guess why she went to you."

"Most people would wish to ignore things that point them as not a good person." Naruto said back.

Tsume smirked, "Ninja? good people? that's a laugh," she said, "we're killers Uzumaki, dogs of war" she said scratching her hound behind his ear, "nothing good about one of us, and there isn't supposed to be," she said, "fact of the matter, wanna know what happened to my worthless sack of shit husband?" her grin grew wider.

"I hesitate to make a guess." he said turning his attention back to the road.

Tsume took a breath, "Though I don't really care what people think about me, honestly this wasn't how I wanted to meet you," she said, "you bein' my godson and all" Naruto's eyes widened, and he turned to look at the older woman, she smirked again seeing his expression, she let out a little whistle, "what a scary face" she said with a laugh, "I know you're wondering where I've been all this time right?" her expression dropped, "fucking pissed that's where." she said.

She turned away, "Your parents weren't buried, their should've been a massive service for them both," she started, "you had three godmothers, and one godfather," she said, "first was me, second was Mikoto Uchiha, your teammate Sasuke's mum, and third was Tsunade Senju who practically begged cause she was running low on family," she listed, "then on the male side there was Jiraya, your father's mentor,"

"Now I'll talk about Tsunade first cause it's the strangest," she said, "Tsunade was your mum's midwife, she was the most excited outta all of us, she'd go on gushing about everything to do with you before your birth, she'd lost her boyfriend recently so I think it was nice for her to have another family member, what with you and her being like cousins due to the closeness of the Uzumaki and the Senju, you following so far?" she asked.

Naruto nodded, "I... think so."

"Right, well after her brother died it was like a switch flipped in her, and next thing we knew she'd packed up and left, just before the Kyubii attacked," Tsume looked away, "at the time it was so extreme that people were saying some stuff about it being Genjutsu, sure she was always a mopey drunk bitch under it all, but... take it from a woman who used to wake up in the morning finding her at her counter drunk, Tsunade was many things, but she never quit on family."

"Next was Jiraya, he's easy, nobody really expected much from him, man has a spy network to maintain, course hewantedto take you, but even he knew what a stupid thing that'd be to do, as young as you were," She said, finally getting to the part she was hesitating on the most, "now me and Mikoto, Miki as we knew her as kids," Tsume let out a heavy breath, "I had a dog set out for you, Miki had a ''guest'' room in her house, sectioned off and left for you and your mum, wouldn't be surprised if she was buried with that key still around her neck," she said.

"We tried so many times to adopt you, us and some others, strangest being the Kurama siblings, but none of us were allowed to, some bullshit nonsense about how Iwa'd have found out about your linage, which get this, those Kurama siblings heard too," she said, "and they barely knew your mother, and they just wanted a buddy for the young clan heiress at the time, and Shizuku tried several times more after her brother Issao went missing on a mission of peace to Kumo,"

Naruto narrowed his eyes, "What?"

"S'what I thought," she said, "why would all of us be dismissed? and not by just any authority, but by the Lord Hokage himself?" she asked, "and soon after we stopped being able to approach you, anytime I tried some Anbu pricks would come outta nowhere and tell me to fuck off, politely of course."

"So that's it?" he asked, "you weren't there cause the Hokage said so?"

Tsume shook her head, "It goes further then that kiddo, when you were going into the academy my Hana was applying for a teaching assistant position, she was approved and even signed to your class, then just before her first day she was told that there was a mistake and that she actually wasn't approved to work around kids as there was some background checks needed, a few days after you left the academy she got a letter back saying she was cleared for work, after more then three years."

Naruto furrowed his brow, but Tsume kept going, "And worse of all was Mikoto," she said with a slight glare, she turned to Naruto, "there was, is, never will be a force on heaven or earth that would've stopped that woman from adopting you, cept just one" she said, "death" she drewcloser, "she'd had enough grown sick of all the Hokage's bullshit and decided to go for it, meet you directly and talk, tell you exactly who she was and offer you a home, not sure if you remember her or not but she did meet you, but when she tried to talk the Hokage showed up, she let it all out on him, you were her best friend's son, she was supposed to be your second mother, you were supposed to live with her if anything happened to Kushina, just as Sasuke was set to live with Kushina if anything happened to her, and I was supposed to have taken you both in if something happened to them both, but a week after, she was dead, killed by her own son."

Tsume turned away, seemed she'd aged a few years just by talking, "I tried to talk to you, to Sasuke, make you understand who I was, but when the Anbu showed up I gave up," she said, "and you know why?" she asked gritting her teeth, "they promised me one thing" she took a breath, "you and him, you were supposed to bemystudents," she said.

"MINE!" she growled out, "not Kakashi's, not Kurenai's, not Guy's, Anko's, or ANYONE ELSES!" she snarled, "mine"

Tsume turned away, "I took it all in, nowhere near enough how much you've suffered, or how much Sasuke suffered, all for the day I'd get you both, then I could explain everything, I'd take your hate cause fuck I deserved it, but I'd never leave you again," her eyes narrowed, "then some new law gets passed, clan heads can't take students, said it showed favouritism or some bullshit,"

She looked at him, "So Naruto is it nice to meet your godmother? the coward who wouldn't rip the throats outta a few anbu to see you? the woman who couldn't keep her own husband? the evil bitch who exiled a child of my clan due to infidelity and mocked her mother? the last remaining family you have left, and she left you for a broken promise."

Naruto turned back to the road, unsure of what to say or do, or even think, this woman he'd barely ever heard of, and never once even met was apparently his Godmother? and she'd stayed away for something that stunk of a conspiracy, not only that but that Shizuku Kurama wanted to adopt him?

As they continued riding he tried to mull everything the woman had said inside his mind, but slightly decided to investigate himself before believing anything, after all Tsume his supposed 'Godmother' wasn't exactly someone he trusted, 'If her story is true then she's a victim in a conspiricy around me, but if she isn't... then what is the purpose of this? Shizuku, Tsunade, Jiraya, Hiruzen, Sasuke, Mikoto, Issao, except from the last one I know most of those people, with the mention of Shizuku it's possible this is some form of scheme to weaponise my guilt, if I feel guilty I would of course break down... or would I?' he thought, 'Tsume said a lot, I need to take a lot in, but she gave me a few methods of attack.'

He cleared his throat, "That dog... the one planned for me... what happened to it?"

Tsume took a sharp breath, "Put down, ninja hounds aren't like regular dogs, they need to bond with a master to survive, otherwise they 'starve' due chakra exhaustion," she said, "they typically feed off chakra we Inuzuka make, but I found a way for someone else to use them," she turned her eyes to him, "you've heard a lot about me from my ex's daughter, probably a lot from the village about how I'm a violent beast of a woman, but the offer stands, I'd be happy at anytime to try and pair you up with one of our pups," she said, "partly cause... you... you're nothing like either of them."

"My parent's?" he asked getting a nod back.

"You haven't even asked."

"Why would I ask a question I know I won't get the answer to?"

Tsume opened her mouth, then leaned forward, sniffing the air, "We're close, left here." she said.

As Naruto turned the corner he heard her click her tongue, while his eyes narrowed, "End of the line," Tsume said jumping off the stopped carrige, "everyone up!" she called, "we're here!" and then took off down the burned path,

As the Jonin left the carriage they saw the devistation of a large burned crater, a quick look up to the sky saw it filled with dark clouds that still sparked with electricity, Naruto's shadow turned back into a humanoid shape and grabbed either side of his waist lifting him out of the driver's seat, before pooling at his feet, Naruto put his cane into it and it carried him forward, while the ninja around him leapt forth,

"Survivors!" Tsume called and Naruto turned his shadow to beeline to her location, there on the ground were two women, conjoined twins cut in half at the waist blood pouring out of the gap, he looked around but their legs were gone, a convulsing horse was nearby, it's head had several small holes through it's face, "Legs?" he asked, dropping to the ground so he could crawl over to the women, he placed his hand on them and focused medical chakra through it.

"Can't find any," Tsume said, before leaping off somewhere else.

Several of Naruto's hands left his coat, two went to one eye of either lady, holding them open so he could shine a torch in, 'left is barely conscious, right has passed out from blood loss,' he looked around "I NEED SOME LEGS!" he cried as another arm set out a roll of tools, 'they'll die at this rate,' he thought he grabbed the bonesaw and pulled it free, another arm grabbing needle and thread, he looked around looking for anything suitable, and his eyes fell on the horse.

He narrowed his eyes, but his shadow extended forming a large hand that pulled the horse closer.

The Jonin searched around, looking for any clue of who or what could've done this, and found that many scents scattered about, and left only burning, when they returned they found Naruto, hands covered in blood, as he sewed and healed the women on the ground, having made them part horse.

Kakashi eye widened as he approached, carefully, seeing what Naruto had done, replacing the women's missing lower half, with the horse's, he looked over the mess, "What are you doing?" his disgust must've registered to the disturbed self taught ''doctor'', but the young man didn't even turn his gaze to him, too focused on this mockery of humans he'd made.

"Saving a witness, I made do with what I had on hand."

"A horse?" Kakashi asked, "there's bodies all around!"

"None I could see, surgery is a quick thing Kakashi," Naruto stated, "it requires focus and split second decision making, you all chased the trails that no doubt led us exactly to the assailant, I had no time to find a suitable donor, least of all with my knee as it is, the horse was close, had few holes in the part I needed, and already expired, thus it was used," one of his arms lifted the stethoscope cup to the women's breasts, hearing their heartbeat he nodded, then lowered it down to hear the horses own, he frowned slightly, "two heads, hearts, stomachs, digestive tracks," he shook his head, "when she's stabilised I need to sort her out, for now this should keep her from bleeding out," he said, looking over the body he took a short breath, "them."

He crawled back to where he was reaching his cane, only for Kurenai to grab it, and Guy to grab him, lifting him back onto his feet while the cane was handed to him, "Many thanks" he said as he took the cane and held himself up, "They seem mostly stable, I'm sure you all found something."

"No," Kakashi said stepping closer to his student, "Naruto look at what you've done!" he cried pointing at the woman, "this is sick!" he said grabbing the boy by his shoulders, "how are these women supposed to eat? sleep? sit? they're half horse!"

"Whuh" one of the women groaned, raising herself off the ground, "what happ-" Naruto shoved Kakashi back and dropped in front of the conscious woman.

"Easy, easy" he said taking her arms and making her look at him, "I'm a doctor, what happened to you?"

"We wuz movin" she said, "bandis" her eyes were glazed over, she seemed like she had a concussion, "then buncha people, through trees," she said, "wore that" she said pointing to Kakashi's forehead, or rather the metal headband covering one of his eyes.

Naruto looked at her, "Do you remember what it had on it?" the woman nodded, she reached up and opened her top showing a mark on her breast drawn in blood, it looked like an arrow split down the middle and separated.

Naruto took note of it, and nodded, "Are you alright?" he asked.

"My legs... feel numb" she said, "my sister isshe-" she turned but Naruto turned her head back.

"She's okay," he said, "out cold but alright, I'm going to get you two blood transfusion, go to sleep now I'll wake you up later."

"Don't let her die doc, I'll kill you if you do" she said as her head dipped and she fell asleep.

"We need to get them back home," he said, "I can treat them there and we have the room." he laid his hands on her his hands glowing green again, his shadow shot off back to the carriage and pulled it toward him, the shadow crept under the woman and lifted her up onto the roof where Naruto was then dragged up to, and his cane dropped next to him.

"Go" Tsume said, "some of us better stay behind and track the ninja, but what symbol did she have?"

"Like an arrow split down the middle," he said, his shadow split forming the symbol he'd seen, as Tsume's eyes widened, "Wait, you're sure that's what she drew?"

"Certain, why?"

"Cause that's the symbol of Takikagure" Kakashi said, "an ally of Konoha."

"Don't have time for this" Naruto responded, his shadow formed back into a horse and pulled the reins turning the carriage around, "jump on or stay behind!" several ninja jumped on as it took off down the path, Naruto didn't check which ones, too focused on keeping the women's heart pumping, and not just their heart, the horses too, and most of the internal organs of the creature he'd stitched together and would soon have to fix, already he was trying to plan it all out in his mind, a bigger heart, stomach, should he use the animal's organs and replace the human ones? were the human organs damaged from how long they'd been in the open air? he took her stomach out before to make room, now he'd have to attach her spine right, yet he also had to focus on the horse pulling them towards home, he was feeling weaker, slowing he could feel it.

But he was the only one here, and the women had the only information on the attack so close to Konoha, on it's own borders, how close would the attack have come, why did he have so much to think about now of all times, he tried to calm himself as he raced back to Konoha.

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile-OCTOPUS

Syo walked through Konoha, holding aa list close to her chest, sat on her shoulders was Yakumo, back in her childlike form, and by them was Isaribi, "So what were we supposed to get Syo?" Isaribi asked,

The taller girl pulled the paper close, "Mmmm~" she tapped her head, "looks like we gotta some ink, sealing tags, and... after that it just says more food, underlined a bunch."

"Probably cause we eat it too fast" Yakumo said, "or Syo does at least."

"Better to eat then let it spoil Syo says" the taller girl said as they walked by a tea shop,

Sat inside a figure with a straw hat looked up as they passed, "Kisame." he said, the glint of crimson eyes under his hat,

The one sat across from him chuckled, "That time is it?" he asked standing up, the two left the shop and followed after the three girls,

They followed them down the way where they stopped by several shops, and continued following them as the three glared back at villagers who made disgusted faces, as the three of them came by a water way one of the figures appeared before them, "Excuse me ladies," he said tilting his hat down, "is your master here?"

The girls stopped, looking at the mysterious man, "Um... who are you?"Syo asked,

"He smells like blood and ash," Yakumo said sniffing the air, "and tea?" she asked.

"I take it this guy isn't a friend of our uh... ''masters''?" Isaribi asked.

A gruff cackling came from behind the girls, "That's right-" they turned to find a man in a cloak with red clouds on it removing his conical hat, tossing it in the water, then he took what looked to be a sword covered in bandages off his back, he swung it forward and smashed the ground behind them, he looked up his face was blue and looked like sharkskin and he gave a sharp toothed grin. "mind telling us where he is?"

The three girls looked at one another, Yakumo jumped off Syo's back, her hammer forming behind her, Syo turned around, and quickly Kisame blocked twin cleaver slashes, "Woah!" he grinned, as she lightly started to push him back, then he used his sword to bat her back, and Syo stumbled back before stomping down and glaring up at him, "hey I know that face... Ripper right?"

"Syo happy to kill you now!" she said tapping her blades together before lunging forward, Kisame grinned and swung his sword smacking her straight on in the head, then his eyes went wide as Sahemeda shaved the skin off her forehead and fell back, Syo grinned, she spun her blade around, "Syo sorry, she dropped something" she said pointing her weapon at him.

Kisame stared down at the sword sticking out of his chest, "Actually pierced my skin" he said, before grabbing the handle and tearing it out, he studied the tip seeing a thin layer of blood on the blunt end of the blade, and his grin grew, "Blunt blades? and you threw one hard enough to pierce me?" he asked with a laugh, "I think I like you ripper."

"Syo will like you more dead!"

"Come on then" he tossed her weapon back, "let's not draw this out."

Syo grabbed her weapon and stabbed it into the ground, she reached into her chest and pulled out what looked like a ration bar, she stuffed the whole thing into her mouth and her teeth tore the whole thing to shreds, her body seeming to grow bigger.

Then she dashed forward her blades becoming a gleaming blur as Kisame grinned swinging his sword at her, the two clashing, and almost instantly Kisame was pushed back by the first strike Syo landed on his weapon, then she dashed forward bringing her blades closer to him, but the shark man grinned and swung back hitting her into the water and making her hit the stone wall on the other side, she turned up and glared up at him as he leapt off the water he swung his sword in a wide arc Syo took the hit and was knocked out of the water, she landed hard on the ground, and rolled to her feet only to get kicked through a stall behind her.

Kisame swung his blade with a mix of practiced ease and savagery as he wildly swung his blade turning the wooden stalls into debris as he attempted to attack the young teen.

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile-OCTOPUS

Yakumo and Isaribi looked toward the other man who shook his head, "So impulsive," he said removing his hat, letting it drop to the ground they saw his true face, Yakumo scowled at the man, "I take it you recognise me?" he asked.

"Course I do Sasuke!" Yakumo stated, "I always knew you'd turn against Naruto, you're just so jealous of how smart, talented, and handsome he is and you're not!" she said.

"..." ''Sasuke'' sighed, "I'm Itachi, Sasuke's brother." he said.

"We're not giving you a devil fruit to help you kill your brother," Yakumo stated, "just train hard and you'll kill him."

"I'm not Sasuk-" A jet of water blasted through Itachi's head, in the water Isaribi had transformed and now glared at him.

"Think that got him?" she asked.

"No I don't" Itachi responded as he appeared behind her and kicked her out of the water, then leapt off the water as several tails tried to coil around him, Itachi looked up seeing Yakumo coming at him, holding her hammer, he took the blow exploding out into a mass of crows, each of which were fired upon with gobs of water from Isaribi, Itachi reformed in front of her kicking her head up, and then driving a Kunai into her neck, which was stopped by the girl's tough scales, and suddenly his feet started sinking into the now muddy ground beneath him, three tails wrapped around his neck and arms and Isaribi charged up another bigger jet of water.

Yakumo reeled herself in and swung her hammer at Itachi full force, and Isaribi opened her mouth ready to unleash her attack.

The second Yakumo released Itachi from her tails he switched places with Isaribi, who was knocked forward slipping on the mud and unleashing the jetstream on the stone, and then Itachi used her head as a stepping stone to kick Yakumo towards the water, but as he swung his leg she transformed into a quadrepedal nine tailed fox, though barely bigger then even a claw of the actual beast, this form was much larger then Yakumo's own, allowing her to grab either side of the stone on either side of the water before launching herself toward him, trying to bite his throat, but again he turned into a mass of crows slipping through her fangs like water, he reformed above her kunai poised to strike her neck.

As Itachi brought it down on her Yakumo grinned as she let go of her hammer and changed into squirrel, dodging the strike, then as he fell by her transformed again into Syo and made a cricket bat, hitting him with it and ricocheting him off a building and right into Isaribi who swung hard knocking him away from her, as Itachi and let out a swarm of fireballs at her, she unleashed a blast of water trying to snuff them out.

The fake Syo dropped and grabbed her hammer, tossing the cricket bat at Kisame, and then using her hammer to send a bunch of rocks toward Itachi, Kisame blocked the bat which vanished shortly after but allowed the real Syo to get up, she rushed forward stabbing her blades into his shoulders and trying to force him down to his knees, though he back handed her forcing her back, and then turned trying to slash at her with his weapon, Syo rushed in kicking his attack away shedding much of her blood as her leg touched Sahameda and swung both of her weapons downward, she sliced through his coat, her blades burying themselves into his skin spurting out blood, as she saw the red liquid Syo's eyes lit up and she grinned, yanking her blades out while she lunged forward, first headbutting him, and sinking her teeth into his shoulder.

"Too close!" He called flipping his weapon into reverse grip and stabbing it into the ground behind her, raking across her back, tearing her outfit, and coating Sahameda in the teen's blood.

Syo let out a cry into his shoulder before swinging both of her blades at his neck, Kisame swatted one of her arms away and then opened his mouth and caught the other one in between his teeth, blood filled his mouth as his teeth clamped down on her arm, then with his free hand he swatted away another slash and hit her in her stomach, driving her into his sword.

As she grew paler from the blood loss Kisame released her, and then kicked her onto Sahameda, knocking the blade over and seizing her legs, first he raked her across the blade bleeding her dry, then swung her around before launching her at the other two, Syo bowled over Isaribi who never saw her coming while Yakumo leapt over the two, only to be caught by the throat by Itachi who held her for three seconds before tossing her at the other two, where she collapsed returning toher gaunt form, clearly unable to continue.

"Well they lasted longer then I'd have thought eh Itachi?" Kisame asked with a snicker,

Itachi turned to the other man, "Was it necessary to strip yours?"

"My sword shaves Itachi, and she bit through my shoulder, sides it's not like she's gonna be alive long to regr-" A curved sword pierced through the back of the blue sharp toothed man, it's blade sticking out through his stomach, he wobbled forward for a bit before turning around, behind them was a woman who looked like she'd been stitched up, wearing a skimpy maid dress, "the hell are-"

"Those are my kids" she said, her fingers flexing about unnaturally, "and you have harmed all three and reduced one to a state of undress," she said, "that can't do" she aimed her hand at the two of them and the stitches in her arm came loose and she swung it about like a flail, striking Kisame in the head with it.

"Ha barely hurt you she devi-" He was silenced as Yakumo's hammer was pulled via ethereal blue wires towards the woman, hitting his cheek as it went.

"Chakra wires!" Itachi called as the hammer flew into her hand, and the threads used to extend her arm's reach pulled it back reattaching it back to her elbow, which Itachi now realised was one of two elbows the woman had on the arm.

Patchwork spun the hammer around as she charged forward, shooting past Kisame and swinging it into a wide eyed Itachi, 'Tsukuyomi' he though as the woman's eyes met his own, but... felt nothing from her and he got hit with a glowing orange hammer to the cheek knocking him away from the teens as the woman stood in front of them.

"Everyone okay?" she asked them, her head spinning to look at them, seeing that Yakumo was struggling to breathe, Syo was bleeding, and Isaribi was unconscious, the three seemed alright enough, but her hand holding the hammer split off from her, sliding down the hammer and crawling over to Syo, slowly wrapping her bleeding spots in thread while Patchwork walked toward the two ninja, "you've assaulted three of my children" she said as her head turned back to face them, "I will enjoy torching this village to hurt you." she said her left hand clicking as she walked.

"What are you?" Kisame asked seeing she didn't bleed from her severed hand,

"Dead" Patchwork answered, "I am a Zombie, created by my master to serve him and give him and his family a positive maternal figure, however I also act as guardian of my children in the day, children you have harmed."

Itachi frowned, 'That explains why Tsukuyomi didn't work, there's no genjustu that could effect a dead woman.'

Kisame grinned, "Well I'm fine fighting a dead wom-" stopping as Patchwork's seems started to come undone.

"Fight?" she asked, "no no no" she said as her chest opened and explosive tags started falling out, "there is no fight" she said swinging her arm, chakra wires leapt out wrapping the mass of tags in a whip, "just die"

Itachi's eyes went wide as he realised Patchwork had already started wrapping them, her whip coiling around the two without even a single motion from her whatso ever, he grabbed Kisame and leapt away onto a building, 'What is she doing? an explosion that size would damage the village.' he thought then Kisame let out a scream as the blade in his back started glowing, Itachi tried grabbing it but his eyes widened again as the tags closed in, due to his eyes he saw the swarms of ninja making their way toward them, the citizens in a panic running away, and a bunch of children who'd frozen up, he turned to look at the Zombie who glared at him, but one of her eyes looked to one of the children nearby with the same degree of anger, it was there that Itachi saw that behind her the teens had vanished, 'she doesn't care?' he realised kicking Kisame into the water before diving in after him, 'all these people and she doesn't care that she's about to kill so many just to hurt us.'

As he sank into the water and took hold of the now cooled weapon, a large splash came from above him and a hand seized his leg, Patchwork's torso spun slamming him into the wall cracking the concrete but also pulling the blade out of Kisame's back, who turned and used the water around him to send a shark bomb jutsu at the woman, but Patchwork turned holding up a bomb tag.

As the shark hit the tag it blew Itachi, Kisame, and Patchwork out of the water, though the woman being closer to the two blasts reduced her to bits, and quickly the thread started reattaching the woman before she could land in a crumpled mess, with the threads where her missing arm was slowly coiling around the curved sword's handle, it was then that Itachi realised what she'd done with the other tags, attaching them to many different surfaces around them trapping them in what would become a massive explosion.

"It's like we're fighting the others eh Itachi?" Kisame asked getting back up.

Itachi grabbed his partner's shoulder, "We're leaving Kisame." he stated.

"What? already, this thing can't take us." he argued.

"The Kage and several ninja are on their way, and if this woman blasts the streets we won't be able to take them."

Kisame grumbled but the two vanished in a puff of smoke.

Patchwork frowned, her wires spreading to collect the explosive tags as she reluctantly stuffed them back into her chest cavity which sewed itself, and her top up before the ninja could arrive, she turned back towards the manour and started walking towards it when Hiruzen arrived, the old man looked around, before spotting the undead woman, "Naruto's Zombie?" he asked.

"Patchwork" she responded, still walking away from them.

"Where's the ninja? what happened?"

"I threatened to blow up the street, they left," she stated heading towards home, "tell my master to return home as soon as he's able, I'm sure I can help the others survive until he returns."

"Oth-" Patchwork uncaring of Sarutobi's rank took off running towards the Uzumaki Manor, "Patchwork? wait!" he ordered, but the mismatched woman vanished.

He cursed under his breath, "Someone get to the manor and question her, try to be delicate we don't know what she might do now that her children have been harmed."

"Sir." One of the Anbu said leaving.

"One of you by the gate, when Naruto returns tell him to go home and what happened, I'm sure he'll appreciate the warning."

"Won't be needed," Hiruzen frowned and turned to look back at Danzo, "Uzumaki is on his way as we speak, with a new guest."

Sarutobi made a sign to the Anbu who leapt off to make sure they couldn't be heard, "And?"

"Tsume acted exactly as expected," Danzo said, "if a bond is formed hopefully she can reign him in on his... darker proclivities, though considering what I've heard he's done I doubt it very much."

Sarutobi frowned, "What now?" he asked.

"He cut a horse's head off to preserve the last remaining witness, who it seems points to the attack so far being done by Taki," Hiruzen's face hardened at the news, "of course, she was out of it, and only gestured to a mark on her chest, it's possible it was changed to indite someone else, which moves us away from Ameyuri and now likely Raiga, one wouldn't bother with subterfuge and the other is too busy running for their life."

"Leaving who?" Hiruzen asked.

"Killer Bee, much of Kumo, and the Takikage himself," Danzo admitted, "I doubt Bee would lower himself down to our level to fight again when he's free now?"

"Leaving Kumo and the Takikage as the most likely culprits?" Hiruzen asked, "and the victims?"

"Seems to be a group of bandits, not really sure though, none of ours" Another voice said.

The two turned to see an older man with long spikey white hair a red vest over a mesh outfit and had a large scroll on his back, on his headband was the kanji for 'Oil', he was reading a book on top of a building, he leapt off it and joined them on the ground, "What's up old men?" he asked with a grin.

"Jiraya?" Danzo asked, "back in Konoha so soon after everything happened?"

"I heard about Orochimaru and Ameyuri, and Naruto too," he said frowning slightly, "by the way when was I gonna hear about that?" he asked.

"Of course you'd want to know about him living with a bunch of young wome-"

"Not. that." Jiraya stated coldly, "during the invasion he had a devil fruit, killed someone, and almost was killed by Ameyuri!" he spat, "and yet not once did anyone decide that I had any right to know?"

Hiruzen's expression softened, "Forgive me Jiraya, it was too dangerous to contact you."

Jiraya crossed his arms, "Oh I'm sure it was," he said, "found out he wasn't raised how I expected him to be," he stated crossly, "any reason for that?"

Though both men acknowledged his question by looking at him, neither decided to answer it.

"About what I expected coming back to the two boogeymen of Konoha," he said shaking his head, he turned and started walking away, "well just figured I'd check in and tell you both that I'm taking the kid out to find Tsunade when he's done tending to wounds." he said before jumping off.

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile-OCTOPUS

Naruto's carriage sped down the road, heading like a bat out of hell straight towards the gate, as it shot past the entrance it turned heading towards the ruined district, pulled by a large black steed, on top of it Naruto struggled to hold on and keep the women alive, when finally it skidded to a stop, his shadow forming into a large figure to stop it from tipping before grabbing him and the woman and rushing them inside the manor.

It rushed past an old man outside, into the house, up the stairs, down the halls, Naruto keeping himself focused on making sure the woman's organs could function for a few minutes without him as he broke into the hospital room, "Two beds!" he called stopping as he saw three occupied beds, Yakumo, Isaribi, and Syo, all looked up at him with wide eyes, conscious at least,

His shadow worked, placing two beds together and placing the woman on it, he looked around finding Haku, "Get the ladies, tell them I need organs and blood quick!" he instructed, she nodded and ran out the room, he placed two hands on the women, and stretched the others other to the other girls, "what happened?" he asked gently.

As his hands glowed soothing them Syo opened her mouth, "People were looking for you, they wanted us to make you come out."

"We didn't tell them we knew you," Isaribi said, "we didn't tell them anything!" he could feel the panic in her voice as she spoke.

"Shh," he said, "I know you didn't," he said rubbing her head gently, 'gonna have to be quick' he thought taking his hands of the conjoined horse woman, "three minutes," he said rushing over to Yakumo, "where?" he asked, the poor sick girl gestured to her throat, and his hands were there, using a combination of medical ninjutsu and massage therapy he helped her breath a bit easier, "two and a half" he said, quickly rushing to Isaribi, "where?" he asked.

But she shook her head, "Do me last." he nodded and kissed her head gently drawing a blush out of her before running over to Syo.

He saw the girl on her stomach, and as he approached she took her covers off, He stopped and almost grimaced seeing her heavily scarred back, but quickly his hands were on her, "Anywhere else?" he asked her, she nodded turning her head to him, through the torn skin he could see the flesh protecting her skull, he winced, but put his hands on the wound, healing it was a bit beyond him right now, but he could soothe them easy enough, Syo let out a breath as the pain eased, laying somewhat more comfortably.

"Thanks master" she said.

"Rest easy, I'll patch you up soon," he said quickly back at Isaribi's side, "where?" she lifted her head up, there was a large bruise on her chin and a small hole by her neck scales, "didn't expect anything would get through those so easily." he noted.

"It's nothing, shouldn't even be in-"

"Your jaw is fractured" Naruto cut in.

"Bed..." she finished now feeling a bit silly.

"You've done well, all of you." he said, before rushing back to the woman, "anyone we know?" he asked laying his hands on the horse women again.

"Some shark guy and Sasuke in black coats with red clouds on them." Yakumo stated.

"Sasuke?" Naruto asked, "A shark guy?"

"Didn't look like a Kaima" Isaribi said, "course neither do I most of the time."

"Sasuke looked older too, maybe a time devil fruit?" Yakumo added.

"No... it sounds more like Itachi, Sasuke's brother, which... honestly makes me much prouder of all of you, surviving that monster is a feat alone." he said.

"Monster?" Syo asked.

"He was the youngest recorded Anbu the leaf has, and he murdered his entire family in one night, except for Sasuke, who's the lone survivor of the massacre." Naruto said.

The door to the room opened and the three women came in carrying boxes, quickly they set up an Iv for the two ladies and put what he'd need near him before pulling the curtain shut.

The three of them listened to the sounds Naruto made as he operated, and watched his shadow on the curtains as he worked, it took a few hours but eventually the curtain was pulled back and Naruto covered in blood walked out, "Patchwork we need more b negative, go down to the hospital and pick some up, on your way make a detour to the Hokage tower and ask Hiruzen for a few guards and a Yamanaka, we don't know who these women are but we'll house them until they wake as I'm responsible for them." he said wobbling as he walked over to Syo.

"I need skin next, Pakura go down into the Zpr and find some matching Syo's skin colour, and I'll need a few chakra pills," he said laying his hands on the girl, "Isaribi if you can move feel free to come over and watch, it'll be good experience for you," he closed his eyes and shivered a bit, "Haku could you get me something to wake up?"

She looked over him, "Got one already if you're willing."

"I need to be awake, I'll take it." he stated.

She nodded and walked over to him, "This will hurt." she said.

"I'm ready"

She nodded, and placed her hands on his shoulder's, "Three... two... one!" as the count ended ice grew on his shoulders and his back went straight.

He curled his lips back as the ice crept along him, but he stayed firm, the girls other then her cringed at the sight of him, he was exhausted, bloodied, but still on his feet, for them.

A few minutes later Pakura entered the room she helped him set it on Syo's back and forehead, and shortly after he covered her over, after he did two ninja flanked by Ino's father, he looked over to the boy who turned to them with a glare, "I'll let that slide," he said wobbling, "but next t-" his cane dropped and him with it, "time..." his head hit the ground "knock" he groaned out before the world turned black again.

Again he found himself in the tower, but it passed him by, he could barely feel his legs, thus with no one around to see him he laid down on the stone ground, shutting his eyes so he could rest a little.

When he opened them again he found himself in bed, alone. he turned finding chakra pills and coffee on his night stand, he took a pill and washed it down with the now cold drink, still feeling weak he grabbed another pill, and taking it he felt better.

His shadow lifted him out of his bed and he exited his room, now having to fake a limp in his own home he just relied on his shadow, he entered the hospital room and peered inside, seeing Inoichi with his hands to the women's head, eyes closed in concentration, two guards on either side of the bed, the other beds were empty, likely moved by Patchwork or Pakura.

Stumbling down the hall he found each of the girl's rooms, he rose his hand to knock, but lowered it and continued, as he came to the stairs his eyes narrowed, Pakura was at the door, and beyond her was a figure he knew well.

His shadow lifted him up and carried him down the stairs, "Problem?" he asked, Pakura looked at him and moved.

"None at all Uzumaki-san," Danzo Shimura said, "rather I was hoping I could trouble you with a walk."

Naruto peered into the dark Konoha streets, "Awfully late for a walk Shimura-san." he said.

"I know, but there's much for you and I to discuss... privately." he said, aiming a look at not Pakura, but the stairs.

Naruto grabbed a cane, and his shadow set him on the ground, "Very well Shimura-san," he said, "lead the way."

Danzo nodded and turned, the two walked for quite a while, with the old man leading him down many dark roads, and eventually to a dead end.

Naruto raised a brow at the other man, who walked over to a wall and opened a secret passage, "Not further now." he said walking down the dark hall and vanishing.

Naruto hesitated slightly before shaking his head and following the other man, finding a large facility underneath Konoha.

Naruto peered down a railing and found people, tons of blank masked Anbu standing at attention looking back at him.

Naruto looked up finding Danzo next to him, the old man looked to him and spoke, "We're here Uzumaki, welcome to my Root." he said.

"Root?" Naruto asked, "your Root? what is-"

"Old escape tunnels were dug out years ago before even the first foundations of Konoha were erected, and still are being discovered now, some were taken over by Orochimaru herself when she started her illegal experiments onsomewilling citizens, I was one of them," he said, "when she was run out I couldn't let her work go to waste, thus I started Root," he said turning to the younger man dropping his own cane, "when I started" he said putting his arms on the railings, "I alone felt I knew and understood the truth, sometimes to do good things we must do bad." he explained.

"Tsume has talked to you today correct?"

"So she's part of this?"

"No," Danzo said, "I just wanted to confirm what she said to you," he turned to the young man, "Sarutobi and I both wanted you, it was something of a game between us, keeping you away from the Inuzuka was my doing, Tsume was and is too hot headed, keeping you from the Uchiha was both of our plan, it was too dangerous at the time to have you in the home of Fugaku Uchiha."

"And the Kurama?"

Danzo looked to him, "Do you know how many orphans were made by the nine tails?" he asked, "neither do I, yet out of all of them those two wanted you, loyal though they seemed Sarutobi didn't trust them, thus he refused both siblings."

"Why are you telling me this?" Naruto asked,

"I'm not planning on killing you anymore," Danzo stated, "it'd be too much of a waste of good talent, and you have it, you're what I've been waiting for, exactly what I've been waiting for."

Naruto raised a brow at the man, trying to keep his composure, "And... what exactly is that?"

"Another Orochimaru," Danzo stated, "a person who understands what I do, that Konoha needs protecting above all else," he stated, "beyond morals and ethics it needs saving before it's too late," the old man stated, "we've still not fully recovered from the Kyubi's attack, the population is thinning, more are becoming civilians or ninja closer to your Haruno teammate, we need drastic measures to change things fast, else Konoha won't be around for much longer."

Danzo frowned, "Those women you brought in today, do you think when they wake up they'll have the speed of a horse?"

"After they're used to it, if they don't want more normal legs afterwards." Naruto responded.

Danzo nodded, "Imagine that" he said, "an army of half horse ninja, faster then most ninja recorded before," he said, "or ninja with the bodies of animals, a whole gorilla squad, and that's just the bodies, how else could we improve on the ninja?" he asked, "chakra, mind, body, weaponry, together with your skill and my resources we could make Konoha unstoppable."

"You and I working together?" Naruto asked, "and if I say no?"

"Nothing, you go home, I erase your memory of this and never speak to you of it again." Danzo said.

"I-"

"Not yet," Danzo said, "first I have a job for you to complete, one outside of Konoha," he said, "a few days after you return home Jiraya of the Sanin will take you out of Konoha on a journey to find Lady Tsunade, he was going to come tonight, but decided to allow you to rest after what your family has been through, he's likely going to teach you one of the fourth's ninjutsu in return for your 'help' in truth it's a ploy to get to know you, as Tsume said the man is your Godfather, one of two, on this journey is where the job I have for you comes in" Danzo showed him a bingo book, "page eighty three," he instructed, "her name is Suzumebachi, leader of the Kamizuru Clan, now in exile from Iwa, she's looking for a devil fruit, Mushi-Mushi No Mi- Model: Suzumebachi."

"How fitting," Naruto said.

"No, such was always intended from the start, she would do anything to gain that fruit," he looked to Naruto, "even join the devil himself."

"So what?"

"Find her, help her, and then bring her to Root, during the war her clan kept Iwa safe with an unpassable network of bees, no spies could get in, and those that did, wished they couldn't."

"And what do I get in return?"

"You will have free reign down here, able to perform surgeries to your heart's content on anyone, also you can experiment on what little dna we have of the senju, Orochimaru made a civilian orphan able to use the Senju's wood style, I'm sure you could figure out how to replicate it."

Danzo turned from the young man, mostly to hide his expression, with that he'd got him, but of course he always liked a bit more leverage, "Any people you find out there I will support you in bringing home, when Syo is checked for mental problems so she can be instated into the ninja system should you or she choose that her results will read ''mild psychosis'' regardless of how bad her actual state is," he smiled, "and... the people who attacked your family, they belong to a group of missing nin, they're called The Akatsuki."

Naruto's eyes went wide, "Well Uzumaki-san" Danzo said turning to him, "you have your mission, bring Suzumebachi back to Root."

OCTOPUS-The End-OCTOPUS

Oooh, it's dat boi Danzo here to attempt to bring Naruto into the Dark Side, Naruto was originally intended(in this story) to have Three Godmothers and Two Godfathers, but I couldn't think of any and made a bet with myself, If I can't think of one before my "STOP WRITING" alarm rings then I'll delete that part, yeah it rang as soon as I said that, so now he's got the one Godfather, if theirs any remnants of him having two god parents it's a mistake.

Also ignore the transition from no full stops to actually including them, cause while yes ICOULDgo back and change them...

I don't feel like doing it, so I'm not gonna.

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Gamelover41592: New chapter 5 review: Excellent work on this chapter and loved the deep talk between Naruto and the girls, also welcome back :)

My response: Thanks, I enjoyed writing it.

Delta3950: I feel I should remind you that not everyone who uses a Devil Fruit can use it the same way. For example, Lady Toki's version of the Toki-Toki no Mi allowed her to travel forward in time and before she died she used it on her son Momonosuke and his retainers. A different person however might be able to use the Toki-Toki no Mi to temporarily stop time and go all, what's his face from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure or even be like Sakuya Izayoi, so let's not discount the Toki-Toki no Mi. Now for Sasuke, getting the Yami-Yami no Mi could be good but assuming you send him off to train under Pedomaru then that could be bad. However I have a thought, Sasuke's main elemental affinity is Lightning, so, why not give him the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, (is that Goro-Goro no Mi) and turn him into a cooler and less delusional Enel.

My response: The Goro-Goro(which yes is the Rumble-Rumble fruit) was one of the first devil fruits to be assigned to a character and is currently already in use, I would tell you who it is but that's half the fun of meeting new characters, trying to figure out what they do,

Also I'm not sure that devil fruit fact is accurate, after all there are devil fruit that can't be used differently, mostly all the ones that can be are in the Paramecia classification, for example The Bane-Bane No Mi or Spring-Spring fruit, or Bellamy's fruit, he and I would use that totally differently because I thought of something else that could be done instead of just jumping at the the enemy, second coil, by turning part of your arm into a coil you can shoot your hand forward, but by adding a second coil to the same arm you can completely change the direction of the strike, but what they really do is actually pretty static, the door door fruit only makes doors, the user might find a way to use the power better then another user but they still have the same power,

Going with Orochimaru? hmmmm I wonder~

And to clarify what I wanted from the Toki-Toki No Mi was to bring the Uchiha clan back from destruction, either by creating a bubble that rewinds their personal time bringing them back to life, or skipping time on the Uchiha clan compound until eventually he had a small army of his descendants, but being that it only allows the user to jump forward with no way back I decided to skip that one.

And finally KONO DIO DAAAAAAAAAAA! MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDAAAAAA! WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!(it's Dio Brando, or Jotaro Kujo, they both stop time)