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Naruto watched as if in slow-motion as the sword stabbed through the cheerful brown-haired boy, a ball of cold ice forming in his gut even though a fiery rage swept through him as his eyes darkened, turning to the man who ripped the blade right out of the child without remorse; not caring that he just slaughtered Nawaki at all.

Naruto was in front of him before he realized it, his amethyst eyes glaring down on the man as his hand came forward and choked him. The man dropped his sword and brought his hands to his neck to try and escape the grip only to look down at the man choking him, fear filling him as he stared into those red slit eyes.

Naruto gave a quick jerk of the hand and snapped the man's neck, growling at the body even as it fell before he turned while his eyes returned to normal while he looked down at the dead child. (1) His eyes went dark before picking up the body and dashing away, swerving around all of the miniature fights happening over the village as he made a bee-line to the hospital.

He arrived and quickly handed the dead boy off to a nurse before leaving as she processed what just happened.

Naruto let his anger flow through him as it provided adrenaline that couldn't be replaced by conventional methods. He didn't even pay attention as he ripped through enemy shinobi after enemy shinobi, taking out his anger on all these men and women that had come to his village and attacked, the second time in his lifetime that an opponent invaded his village.

Another kunai through the throat, another kick to the neck, another fight and another and another and another as Naruto fought. It was disturbing that he felt nothing for all the lives he was ending but he did not care, he'd been fighting for too long to stop now. He gave another kunai through the throat of a man before deploying several dozen kage bunshin that shot off in different directions to sweep through the village and help those in need.

Naruto glared up at the massive floating island floating just a mile away from the village and he was soon heading for it in a dead-sprint, determined to end this village just like he did all those years ago. After roughly a minute he was on the ship, slashing and running through enemies that came his way before he was soon where was important; the room containing the zero-tails.

It was a tall room, more of an indoor colosseum than anything with the single beast in the center of the room.

Naruto grimaced upon seeing it due to it being much larger than when he last fought it, much much larger. What he remembered about this demon was that it was formed by the negative emotions of those around it and it is strengthened by these negative emotions, this power being every bit stronger due to the large amounts of it in the village below.

The human-faced snake hissed at him before dozens of yellow arms shot from the creatures form and darted for Naruto, chasing him as he bobbed and weaved out and in between the hands as he narrowly dodged them all, remembering the chakra-absorbing properties they possessed.

He would occasionally flick out a kunai for the creature's face but it would dodge them every time he threw them as the arms continued to pursue him. Naruto narrowed his eyes before flying back, rushing through hand seals before finishing on the snake sign. "Fuuton: Daitoppa!" A massive blast of wind shot from Naruto's mouth with the force of a hurricane as it ripped into the creature, cutting off several arms and shoving back others.

Naruto landed on the ground and saw the several remaining arms get absorbed back into the creature as Naruto narrowed his eyes at it. From what he remembered, the creature was controlled by the tablet and would revolt against the sky people upon its destruction but if he destroyed the tablet here, it would go down to Konoha and feed off them as well.

A soft flutter was the only indication of arrival as Mito came to stand next to Naruto, a relieved smile coming across the teen as the snake demon glared at the new arrival. "So, any special sealing techniques that you can use here?" the teen asked as Mito frowned as if hurt.

"Of course I do, but I need something to seal it into," she murmured as Naruto grinned at her, a scowl coming to Mito's face as she also came to the realization.

"Whether or not you trust me, you have to admit that I am the best person for this job," he argued as Mito's lips pursed.

"Get close to it and stay close to it," she murmured before Naruto launched forward, the woman running through hand signs rapidly. The red-haired teen was soon right in front of the creature as Mito slammed her hands into the ground. "Uzumaki Sealing Technique!" Black squiggles shot from her and traced along the ground as they encircled both Naruto and the Zero Tails.

The lines manifested under and around them as the tall demon cast a curious eye to the ground underneath them. The black lines and letters soon flashed a bright white as Mito frowned, Naruto grinning in triumph while the beast realized what was happening to it.

"Brace yourself Naruto!" she cried as the seal took place, the creature roaring as a black mist seemed to seep out of it and into Naruto, the red-haired teen falling to a knee as the power and darkness swelled within him. He groaned and huffed for several moments before the creature lost all solidity and became a gas that swirled into Naruto.

The teen roared in pain as he felt his chakra coils adjust to the sudden influx of power while his mental state warred with the creatures own to rampage. He fell to his other knee as he held his hands to his head, his mind feeling as if bursting as his stomach burned with ferocity.

Mito watched worriedly as the teen struggled to contain the creature, she had gone through a similar process when taking in the Kyuubi so she was not at all surprised about his reaction; simply worried. She watched in mild shock as the teen sighed before falling on his side, his shoulders heaving with every breath as the teen laid on the hard stone floor.

"Naruto? Are you okay?" she asked before coming near him, crouching at his side as the teen gave a shaky thumbs-up.

"Just let me sit here for a minute," the teen requested tiredly as he panted on the floor. Mito gave a soft smile before standing as Naruto groaned again. "So I guess you could say I saved the village," the teen commented as Mito rolled her eyes.

"More like you were the closest way to save the village, I could have easily used a scroll or pot to replace you," she insulted as Naruto raised a finger to object.

"But! You did not have the time nor the materials to make a scroll that big. And I don't see any pots nearby," he muttered as Mito rolled her eyes.

"I'm the best," the teen muttered as Mito scoffed, stomping off the ship as Naruto chuckled deeply even as she stormed away. "Mito-san," he spoke, his tone more quiet and subdued than before as Mito turned viciously. "Nawaki's in the hospital," he admitted, watching as Mito's eyes widened before the woman was gone in a leaf shunshin.

Two days later, the teen could only stare ahead at the several portraits lined along with several hundred white lilies while the rain came down on the village, soaking all those standing atop the Hokage building so that they could mourn their dead.

One of these dead, was Nawaki Senju, a young boy who didn't deserve to get taken this early. Naruto cast a slow eye over to both Tsunade and Mito who stood together, Tsunade openly weeping while Mito stood there with a somber expression.

Naruto realized that this was where Tsunade's hatred of the Hokage role began and he had to put in measures to make sure that not only did she not leave the village, but also not get the Hemophobia that was with her for decades. He came to a stand next to them, silently standing beside Mito who cast an idle eye to him but nothing more. Tsunade didn't even notice he had arrived, too consumed in her grief as Jiraiya laid a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"How did you know?" Mito asked quietly as Naruto frowned, his expression dark as he stared at the smiling picture of Nawaki.

"I was there," he answered, the woman giving a slow nod at the answer. "It was painless, and the person who did it is long dead," the teen spoke somewhat darkly as Mito stared at him somewhat put at ease with the information but also disappointed in Naruto for simply killing the man out of rage.

"I see," she uttered before returning her gaze to the portrait for a few more seconds. Mito shook away from it before grabbing Tsunade around the shoulders and softly escorting the girl away.

"Tsunade," Naruto stopped them on their way out as the pair turned to him, Tsunade wiping at her red eyes as she stared up at him. He simply reached a hand into his jacket before withdrawing the necklace, the small green crystal glimmering in the rain as Tsunade's eyes widened in shock and even Mito was mildly surprised.

"H-how did you," Tsunade stammered as she reached out for it somewhat remorsefully as Naruto set it in her hand. A realization came to the blonde as she snapped her head up to him. "You were there," she mumbled as Naruto nodded, watching as the blonde's features became filled with rage.

"Why didn't you save him," she accused as Naruto frowned. "I've seen you," she hissed as her finger pointed at him, her volume rising as she glared at him. "I know you're strong, I know you're strong enough SO WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE HIM!" she screamed as she tried to hit the teen but Mito held back the medic-nin who squirmed in her grip, new tears springing to her eyes as she glared up at him.

"Tsunade!" Mito scolded as she pulled back the woman forcefully, shoving the woman down the path as the woman sobbed and screamed the whole way, the attention of the funeral now on Naruto who just stared at the portraits.

"Hey," Jiraiya spoke somewhat awkwardly behind Naruto but the teen shook his head.

"It's okay, she's grieving and was searching for someone to blame, I've gotten it a lot," he muttered as Jiraiya nodded slowly, not noticing Naruto's eyes focusing on the tile roof of the Hokage building.

The smack resounded through the room as Naruto reeled his head back from the blow before slowly turning it back to the furious crying woman before him; Mebuki Haruno. The woman had large tears in her eyes and her expression was nothing but rage and loss. "My daughter died for you, you demon-spawn!" the woman accused as she stuck a finger in the stronger and more capable man's face.

"My condolences for your loss Miss Haruno," he tried to bottle up his own emotions about Sakura's death, a mere push away from drinking himself into a hole to try and escape his problems.

"No!" the woman cried as she shook her head, her blonde hair swishing back and forth. "You don't get to say that! She died for you! And you don't even care! You're just a demon, I told her not to talk to you," she hissed. "AND THIS IS WHY!" she cried again as Naruto remain expressionless.

"I do express my regret and remorse for the death of Sakura but I do care, I care about all my comrades," he spoke quietly as the woman glared up at him, tracks of tears trailing down her face.

"No, you don't! You can't express emotion! You only know how to hate, I don't care that they say you're our new hope; I just know that everyone who becomes your friend dies. Is that a coincidence Demon-spawn?" she accused as Naruto's jaw tightened. "It's not! I know what you are! You're a monster who only cares about himself! If you really cared about my daughter you would have DIED INSTEAD OF HER!" the woman screamed as her husband came from behind her, now hugging her as they stood in the doorway.

Naruto watched as the woman sobbed against her husband as the pink-haired man gave him a harsh glare. "I think you should leave," the man said as Naruto bowed.

"My apologies again, Haruno family," he finished before walking down the street as he sighed, his shoulders slumping as his entire body racked with sorrow.

He slumped into a corner booth, a single bottle of sake being his only company as he slowly tried to drink away any thoughts he had about his teammate. That's why he was three bottles in when Kakashi found him, eleven bottles in when he left.

That had been the first night Naruto realized that no matter what he did, no matter how strong he got or how fast he got; he would never be able to stop people from dying.

And it would not be the last night he thought about that.

That night Naruto had been getting ready to go into bed, only for his doorbell to ring and pull him away from the possible comfort of sleep to answer his door; opening it to reveal a drunk Tsunade leaning against the apartment doorway. (2) "Tsunade?" he questioned as the woman smiled up at him.

"Hey," she slurred as she poked him in the cheek. "Naruto," she dragged the 'o' out as the woman giggled. "Ramen topping," she murmured as Naruto rose a brow in amusement.

"Tsunade how do you even know where I live?" he asked as the woman reeled back in shock.

"I'll have you know!" the woman shouted quite loudly as Naruto winced at the volume. "I am a competent kunoichi!" she declared before staggering slightly as Naruto moved to stop her fall as the woman giggled. "Good job Naruto," she whispered, again drawing out the 'o' as she giggled. "That was a test," she spoke as if it were obvious as Naruto gained a small smile.

"Let's get you home yeah?" he asked the blonde who seemed confused as if she didn't know what home was at first. When she realized though, the woman soon thundered out of his light grip and into his living room before laying down spread-eagled on his floor.

"Nah," she denied as she made the motion for snow angels on the rug. Naruto frowned lightly before sighing as he shut the door, walking into the living room before plopping down on the couch tiredly while watching the clearly drunk women continue to wiggle about on the carpet.

Naruto rubbed the bridge of his nose as he tried to think of a way to get Tsunade to go home. The woman was then on the couch, doing strange stretches that made her generous assets move and jiggle in certain ways. The woman then yawned before falling over and landing in Naruto's lap, the woman was in shock for a moment before she nestled her head in deeper to his lap, her face angled up as she smiled blissfully as if she had planned to fall that way.

"Tsunade?" Naruto questioned as the blonde hummed. "I am not a pillow," he informed as the woman hummed again. Naruto suppressed a sigh at the woman's attitude as he looked down at the seemingly content Tsunade. "Then why are you using me as your pillow?" he questioned as the woman hummed again. Naruto closed his eyes in annoyance before opening them as he tried to come to his senses. "Why aren't you at home?" he questioned as the woman frowned and looked up at him.

"Too many memories," she murmured as Naruto's mouth opened in realization before sighing as the woman became even more comfortable. "And I wanted to say sorry," the woman muttered as she wrung her hands together, Naruto watching in curiosity as the woman who was more often than not mature act like a child. "I know it wasn't your fault," she murmured as her hands tightened into fists. "I was just so angry,"

The woman broke down into sobs as Naruto frowned in empathy before grabbing one of the hands to try and give her some support which invoked a tidal wave of movement as the woman quickly pivoted and hugged his midsection, her face buried in his bare stomach as she sobbed. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," she mumbled over and over as Naruto pat her shoulder.

"It's okay Tsunade, I completely understand," he said as the woman continued to shake and sob for several more moments before the sobs subsided and the woman simply clung to him. Naruto shook her shoulder only to realize she had passed out drunk and was now drooling on his stomach, his eyes twitched at the revelation before gently trying to push her off and almost succeeded before the woman clung onto his waist, her face buried in his thigh.

"Nawaki..." she murmured, stopping the red-haired teen dead as he stared down at the woman that seemed to be content to lay there as if she had done it several times before.

Naruto frowned in realization before shaking his head and laying against the couch, his head lolled back to lay down at a weird angle on the couch and he was certain it would hurt in the morning. Naruto sighed before shimmying several times to try and get comfortable for the coming night since he knew he would not be leaving his position.

He idly amused himself with the thought of someone like Jiraiya coming in and seeing Tsunade hugging his sweatpants before he nearly winced at the prospect of Hiruzen or Mito finding them, the two would more than likely assume that he did it and had taken advantage of someone in grieving, a bad image since the two were quite connected to the blonde woman who had refused to release his leg.

Naruto thought about how he could simply force her off but he couldn't do that to her, not when today had been so tough on her already; she didn't deserve that at all.

And so, Naruto settled in as his hand was taken by Tsunade while the teen smiled. He's gone to sleep in much worse conditions after all and with a beautiful woman next to you, it is always a good sleep even if nothing happened; women were good at chasing away the ghosts and demons in his life and he was almost certain that Tsunade would be better at it than any other before her.

Several hours later he awoke to a shattering noise and a clang, Naruto flickering out of his position and was already in a position to strike down the infiltrator, his reflexes taking him over as his fist thundered for their face. The figure turned their face to him in shock as he stopped the strike, blue visible chakra flickering around his fist a mere inch from Tsunade's face, the chakra licking her nose before he brought down the fist.

Tsunade wasn't focused on the fist though, it was the eyes. His eyes had been so cold and blank that she knew he didn't even hesitate to attempt to kill her, not a slight hesitation as Tsunade realized what Naruto truly is.

A weapon.

He was a product of war and strife that all shinobi either strived to be or strived to overcome, Naruto was the ideal and perfect shinobi; a cold-hearted killer with little to no moral thoughts on the matter. The teen would have had no regrets, no remorse, and no thoughts on the person he killed in his apartment; only stopping because he knew them.

Tsunade could feel the power in that strike, her hair had fluttered lightly from the sheer strength and speed he had struck with and Tsunade realized with some shock that he was stronger than her; much stronger.

"I try to make you some food and you try to kill me as payment?" she asked, veiling the fear she had felt from his close proximity as the man scowled, reaching up to rub at his eyes with a headshake before he focused again on the blonde who tried to hide her fear and anxiety, she was failing.

"Old habits die hard," he muttered before looking to the right and seeing the bowl shattered and the pan next to it as Naruto shook his head. "Try not to break anything else please," he asked before leaving the small kitchen as he made his way into the living room, eyeing the rising sun with a scowl. "I'm going for a run, don't burn down my place please," he requested as Tsunade rolled her eyes.

"If I do it'll be on purpose!" she hollered after him even as she heard the door shut, her form going slack as she leaned against the counter. The sheer power and indifference he had shown unnerved her, her thoughts of Naruto becoming scrambled as she tried to compare the flirtatious Uzumaki with the warrior Uzumaki.

Naruto jogged down the street, releasing several dozen Kage Bunshin to go help with the repairing of a damaged Konoha before he continued on his run for training ground seven. He had soon reached it, nodding to the occasional person that recognized him as he passed.

He came to a stop atop the massive lake that ran alongside training ground seven, the redhead stopping in the middle of it as he sat, crossing his legs and folding his hands together in the boar sign as he closed his eyes, letting go of his stress and control as he did so.

Nothing happened at first but soon, the effects were quite visible.

Blades of wind started exploding from the teen, the water flickering about as he practically made a sphere of air around himself; protecting him from all pain and memories as he poured himself into his technique. The once small blades of wind now became gigantic, larger than trees and sharper than knives as they swished around in the air, lashing out in controlled chaos as if it were all an orchestrated event.

The sphere of wind Naruto sat in became a misty white as the wind started lashing around so fast that anything inside became obscured from the outside world. Soon, the entire lake became unsafe as the massive blades of wind expanded and flew about, never going over the land and staying hidden behind the trees as they lashed around and around and around in vicious calculated strikes.

The blades of wind got larger and larger the farther they got from the teen, the blades easily taking several dozen feet in length as they flew about as if they had a mind of their own; as if they were sentient. Mito flickered to the ground, safe from several meters away as she watched the pulsing chakra lash about.

She was sure that no one in the village under kage-level would sense this unless they were a sensor such as herself. Hiruzen then appeared next to her several moments later as they stared into the hurricane of wind, hundreds of wind blades flying about the large sphere of air that was now levitating above the water, the water waving about in vicious laps as if they were at a beach and not a lake.

"What is he doing?" Hiruzen asked, his arms crossed as he stared into the masterful display of wind manipulation on levels he could never even think of.

"Training?" she responded, not sure herself as she had never seen anything like this before, let alone from Naruto. Several moments later Hiruzen's students arrived, all three of them more than surprised at the massive sphere of power above the lake.

"What is it?" Orochimaru questioned, enthralled by the power and skill inside of the wind orb.

"Naruto," Tsunade muttered as she stared at the orb in awe, Jiraiya and Orochimaru both flicking their heads to her.

"The Uzumaki?" Orochimaru questioned as Mito nodded. "What is he doing?" the pale-skinned man questioned as both Mito and Hiruzen frowned.

"He's blowing off steam," a voice said as they all turned their heads up to see Danzo who had his one eye focused on the massive hurricane of wind.

"Blowing off steam?" Jiraiya asked as he looked at the very deadly display of power. "Seems more like he's trying to make us the village hidden in stumps," the man rebuked as Mito and Hiruzen frowned at the massive thing of wind as well as at Jiraiya's comment.

"Jiraiya-kun has a point," Hiruzen commented as he turned to his old teammate, the man landing next to him his arms crossed. "How do we stop him before he destroys the village?" he asked as Danzo frowned.

"He won't destroy anything Hiruzen," Danzo reassured as the wind seemed to double in strength, the sheer strength of power coming from the hurricane making their clothes flutter and the branches to rattle. "He has the best control over wind I've ever seen and I know good wind manipulation, I have it myself you know," the man spoke dryly as Hiruzen scowled.

"Still, the potential of him destroying the village is too great," Danzo shook his head.

"You're not getting it monkey," the man muttered as Hiruzen gave him a glower for the name. "You can't get him out of it," he said as Hiruzen rose a brow. "I've tried everything, I've had men try to force him out but no jutsu can get him out, not even fire affects that thing," he muttered with distaste. "You just have to wait this out," he finished as Mito rose a single brow.

"And what did you mean by blowing off steam?" she asked as Danzo quirked his mouth to one side.

"He does this after every battle or any type of conflict, I asked him about it once and he said that every time he fights someone he gathers up all this energy and if he doesn't get knocked out he has to expulse all this energy and chakra," he summed up as the others rose their brows.

"That much power hm?" Orochimaru muttered as he stared at the wind chakra only to blink.

"Uh, what's up with that black?" Jiraiya questioned as they all returned their gaze to the massive sphere, seeing streaks of black beginning to overcome the sphere of wind as they felt the malice and hate fill the clearing.

"That monster!" Mito exclaimed in shock as the others rose their brows. "We decided to try and hide this fact but I suppose now's a good a time as any, Naruto is now a Jinchuuriki," she admitted as several people snapped their head to her in shock.

"When?" Tsunade demanded as Mito frowned at her granddaughter.

"The massive island that the Sky Village used as their base that flew ran on the power of a creature, we interrogated several men and they confirmed it for us; the shinobi of the village had gathered hundreds of people and combined all their hatred and suffering into a single creature." Danzo and Hiruzen's eyes widened at the implications.

"What are you implying Mito-san?" Orochimaru questioned from the back as she turned her eyes to the orb, watching as the massive blades of wind disappeared and only the sphere remained.

"They made their own tailed beast," she muttered in distaste. "They called it the Zero-tails, and as with any Bijuu; we cannot kill it only seal it. With Naruto's Uzumaki chakra as well as his consent, I sealed it into him and he had seemed fine until now so I had not deemed the need to bring it up with any of you," She frowned as she looked every one of her years. "I was wrong,"

The group watched on anxiously as the sphere became nearly entirely encompassed in black as two crimson eyes appeared over the orb, the eyes glaring at them as the malice and hatred radiating nearly doubled again; the sheer power and killing intent becoming unbearable.

Tsunade glared at the orb and just as she was about to run forward and punch it, it dispersed with an ear-splitting screech as Naruto fell out of the orb; landing on his back and onto the waters.

The group was soon hovering over him, some more obsessively than others as they tried to see the teen's state of health while said teen simply blinked up at them. "Didn't realize I was putting on a show," he groaned as he sat up, slowly coming to a stand as he straightened out his back and rubbed his neck.

"How are you?" Tsunade asked, Naruto raising a brow in confusion to the question as he looked over himself to see he wasn't bleeding or injured in any way.

"Fine?" he answered as he turned to her. "Should I not be?" he questioned as the woman blinked.

"So you didn't feel the Zero-tails take you over?" Hiruzen inquired as Naruto blinked at him in shock.

"Oh, you guys saw something huh?" he asked as they nodded. "Nah, I was just kinda seeing how it's chakra felt and that was kinda it. I'm made of tougher stuff than to let that old worm take me over!" he cried in triumph while giving them a thumbs-up as if to help show his assurance on the matter.

Despite this, Tsunade started running a green palm over his face before starting to run it down but her hand was stopped from continuing by the teen. "Is my word nothing these days?" the teen questioned with a raised brow as the woman scowled at him.

"I'm just making sure it didn't do some damage to your chakra coils," she bit out in frustration as she tried again to run the green mystical hand over him only for the teen to leap back several feet.

"Well, this was fun but I've got stuff to do don't we Taicho?" the teen asked as Danzo frowned.

"No, we are to aid with rebuilding and assistance of the village until Hiruzen tells us otherwise," the man said as Naruto sweat-dropped.

"Well..." he trailed off as Tsunade glowered at him. "I've got to go feed my cat?" he finished lamely at the end before shrugging as he hopped away, dashing through the trees and back to the village. Tsunade groaned in annoyance before disappearing in a shunshin followed by her teammates, leaving the three in the clearing.

"We need to start moving onto Hanzo, Hiruzen," Danzo spoke harshly as Hiruzen frowned, reaching up a hand to grab at his budding goatee.

"Yes, I will be sending them there soon, I will need a favor though," Hiruzen trailed off as he thought of the strength of the mighty Salamander in Ame.