Hey again! I promised another chapter and here it is! I want to thank OutlawJustice for your advice, I really appreciate the blunt honesty. I hope I was able to improve this chapter compared to the others and I will try to keep improving. So without further delay for my idiotic rambling, enjoy!

It had been three weeks since Naruto first met Ty Lee and Mai and they had been over almost every day since then. All of the kids were getting along very well; the girls had already formed a close friendship, though with Azula it was always hard to tell if she cared at all for the other two. Surprisingly though it was Naruto and Ty Lee who got along the best out of the group, they were the only ones who could keep up with each other given their high amount of energy. Naruto never thought he would be this happy when he was living on the street, it stilled seemed like a dream to him.

Sadly the dream was about to turn into a nightmare.

Mai and Ty Lee had come to visit again and the children were all playing in a large court yard while Ursa and the other girl's mothers talked at a small table in a corner. There was a small squad of guards watching over the family, seven in all, confident nothing would happen on their watch; confidence that was about to cost them everything. They were so busy watching the grounds they never thought to look up for if they did they would have seen several figures moving from shadow to shadow on the roofs.

When they all stopped moving one crept to the to edge making sure that no one noticed him as he lower a thin cable tied in a noose down toward one of the lone guards. He never noticed until the cable quickly went over his head and tightened cutting off his air supply, and he was hauled up to roof quick as lightning unable to scream for help.

No one ever noticed.

It wasn't until the next guard was taken in the same fashion that the first guard was that Kyuubi and Naruto both noticed.

"Did you hear that Kyuu?" Naruto asked looking at the small fox as his ears twitched looking for the noise.

"Yeah, it sounded like someone choking," Kyuubi said.

Naruto nodded, "Uh huh I thought so too but there was a scraping sound as well." The other children just looked at the two with confused looks, in Azula's case annoyance, as the continued looking around when Kyuubi suddenly stiffened.

"Naruto, the guards at the south end…they're not at their post anymore," Kyuubi said pointing his tail in said direction.

Naruto looked over and saw that the guards had indeed vanished. Ursa noticed that the kids had stopped playing and that Naruto and Kyuubi were acting strange got up and started making her way over to them to ask what was wrong. Naruto eventually looked up and saw something, a dark figure with what looked like a long tube and it was aimed right at Ursa.

He understood immediately what it was and acted on pure instinct, "MOM!" Naruto shouted as he dove at her and tackled her to the ground, just in time as a small needle sailed right over them. This got a series of gasps and shouts of surprise from everyone, all of them rushing to the two.

The guards never took more than a step when they were suddenly covered in shadows as the remaining assassins descended on them and each buried a dagger into the back of the guards' necks, severing the spine and cutting through their windpipes; killing them all instantly. The one with the blow gun used this as his chance to shoot the children with his needles. One by one the kids collapsed as the sedative kicked in. Ursa could only watch in horror as these men murdered her guards and attacked her children and their friends. Quickly getting herself and Naruto to their feet she ran to Zuko and Azula.

"Zuko! Zuko, wake up! Azula sweetie, open your eyes!" Ursa screamed frantically trying to wake them up while Naruto and Kyuubi tried the same with Mai and Ty Lee. At this point all eight of the cloaked figures were standing in the court yard quietly talking.

"There's an extra one," The tallest one stated as he ground his steel bucklers together.

"What should we do?" The shortest of them all asked, this one with a female voice.

The leader stepped forward and was about to give orders when he noticed a lone guard had wandered into the courtyard and saw the intruders and the bodies of the fallen guards.

Eyes wide with panic he did the most sensible thing, "INTRUDERS!" He yelled at the top his lungs while pulling a rope that was set inside the wall next to him, ringing a series of bells that were heard all of over the palace.

"INTRU-GAH!" The guard never finished as a throwing knife pierced his throat. Grabbing the area around the blade in a vain attempt to stop the bleeding, he faced his attackers and was met with another knife that hit right in the forehead and pierced his brain.

"Fucking hell," The Leader cursed, every guard in the whole damn palace would be on high alert now!

"Okay grab the kids, Zuko and Azula are the priority targets, the other two are children of high ranking officials so they should be worth a lot of gold," He told the others.

"What about the princess and that brat?" The tall one asked.

"The brat is just a servant so he's nothing to worry about" Leader said, "Kai, you and Ao secure the princess. The rest of us are leaving, now!" He yelled as they picked up the children and climbing a grappling line back to the roof.

"Kai you take care of the kid I'll get the princess," The tall one, Ao, said as he moved towards the pair.

Kai removed his cloak and reveal the almost every inch of him was covered in blades. He pulled down the face part of his mask and revealed an insane grin as his pulled a scythe and a two foot dagger out.

"With pleasure, the young ones always scream the sweetest, hahahahaha!" he laughed as he advanced on Naruto.

Naruto was scared, no he was terrified. These men had just kidnapped his friends and family, they were about to take his mother and they were even going to kill him. Kyuubi stood by his side growling but with his small size he wasn't really a threat. Ursa got up and ran at the Ao with tears streaming down her face.

"Where are my children!? Why did you take them, where are they!?" She screamed at the man.

Ao growled in annoyance and slapped her to the ground, mindful of his gauntlets. "Shut up," He growled and moved to pick her up.

Something in Naruto and Kyuubi snapped, these men had broken into their home (though they did the same thing a few months ago) kidnaped their friends and family and now had dared to strike their mother. Ao now stood over Ursa and was about to reach and grab her when suddenly he was hit in the side of the head by something extremely strong. He was sent flying through the air and crashed right into Kai, sending both men into the opposite wall.

Ursa looked around, confused on what just happened when she saw Kyuubi. He was standing a little of too side and she saw his tail retracting and realized that his tail was what hit Ao but it looked larger than normal. Then she took in the rest of him, his fur was all standing up on end, a deep threatening growl escaping his throat but the most unsettling thing of all were his eyes. While his eyes were always a deep red they usually exuded a playful light, as if he was trying to figure out how best to prank you without being caught but still letting you know he was the culprit. Now though any and all of that mischief was gone, replaced by never ending rage, maliciousness and a cold hunger for blood. It startled her to see the cute little vulpine this way, it was so unlike him. Then she saw her son who was rising up off the ground, looking down so his bangs covered his eyes, and walked over to the fox and knelt down next to him. Ursa heard a noise and noticed that the two were getting back up and was about to yell at Naruto to run when he put his hand on Kyuubi's head. The fox suddenly grew to three times his size, so he was the same size as a large wolf, and sprouted all nine of his tails while his eyes began to glow slightly. This shocked everyone, the growth spurt for Ursa and everything for the two hit men.

"Cheap tricks won't save you pathetic little piece of trash! I'll gut you here and now!" Kai yelled as he threw both the dagger and scythe at Naruto.

Ursa watched in horror as the deadly weapons sailed through the air toward the boy whom she had come to love as her second son, a scream tearing its way out of her throat. Without even looking up Naruto snatched both weapons out of the air. This shocked everyone other than Kyuubi as he continued to glare at the two assassins, growling even louder. Finally Naruto looked up and glared right at Kai, a vicious snarl taking over his face.

Ursa couldn't believe her eyes, Naruto, a boy who was always smiling, was looking at the two men with pure and absolute hatred and rage. It was unnatural to see him this way, he was the prime example of cheerfulness.

"What's with look huh kid? You think it makes you look tough do you?" Kai asked while pulling two short swords from his back, "I'll teach you not to look at your elders with such disrespect!" Kai yelled as he charged at the boy.

Kyuubi looked at Naruto and said "You got this trash?"

"Yeah, protect mom," Naruto said back as he got into a basic stance his teachers taught him.

Kyuubi nodded and with blinding speed appeared in front of Ursa so he stood in between her and Ao who was finally on his feet and had thrown his cloak of as well revealing a mountain of muscles. Naruto waited for Kai to close in on him before bringing up his guard to block the double downward strike that was aimed to take both of his arms off at the shoulders. Kai couldn't believe it, this kid had blocked his attack. No child should have had this kind of strength. So he tried another attack with just one blade aimed for Naruto's head which he promptly ducked under and countered with the dagger. Kai dodged the strike before resuming his assault trying to bisect the child. However Naruto dodged once more by jumping back and put both weapons in a reverse grip before he charged a Kai. Kai couldn't help but smirk as he saw his chance to kill the annoyance as he prepared to bring one blade down on him in a feint that would leave Naruto unbalanced with no defense. But he didn't anticipate Naruto suddenly jumping up into a spinning flip, Kai tried to bring his guard up but the blade in his left hand was knocked aside by the dagger in Naruto's hand, while still spinning Naruto brought the scythe down on Kai's head. The blade found its mark as it buried itself in Kai's skull and Naruto let go of the scythe and landed on his feet looking down. Kai immediately crumpled, dead before he even hit the ground, his body twitching slightly.

Ursa's hand shot to her mouth in shock, completely ignoring Kyuubi as he fended of Ao with his tails with no effort, Naruto had just killed someone! Bile rose to her throat as she stared at the dead body, it was her first time seeing someone killed, and it was her son who had done the act.

Ao looked over and saw Kai's body with the scythe still sticking out of his head, "Kai!" He yelled in shock and when he saw Naruto just standing there his anger rose even more.

"You little shit I'll crush you!" Ao roared as he ran right at Naruto who finally took notice of the giant sprinting toward him. Acting on instinct Naruto threw the dagger he had in a bid to slow Ao down, but it didn't work at all. Ao swatted the flying knife aside and lashed out with a kick aimed at Naruto's head, the boy managed to duck underneath it but was unable to dodge the follow up kick that hit him square in the face.

"NARUTO!" Ursa screamed.

Ao wasn't quite done yet but something caught his attention in his peripheral and he went into a roll as he narrowly dodge another one of Kyuubi's tails.

"You'll pay for that human" The fox snarled with a deep threatening voice that sent chills down Ursa's spine.

Ao just snorted before looking back at Naruto who was now on his feet and running right at him. Ao stood up and prepared to strike when Naruto jumped into the, fist cocked back as if to punch him. Ao couldn't help the cruel smirk that crossed his lips, this kid just left himself wide open with this pathetic attempt of an attack. When Naruto got within range Ao lashed out with a vicious punch, and with all his muscle and his steel covered fist the punch would most likely break the young boy's neck. His attack never connected though, just as his fist was about to land Naruto grabbed Ao's forearm and used the momentum from his jump and his light frame to swing under Ao's arm and up feet first so that he kicked him right in the face with both feet.

"Payback", Naruto thought.

Ao's nose erupted in a fountain of blood as it completely broke from the kick. Ao's head leaned back providing Naruto with a perfect platform as he sprung of his face and performed a forward flip. As Naruto came down head first he slammed both of his open palms onto Ao's ears, discombobulating him. Naruto landed and rolled to his feet as the giant assassin staggered and dropped to his knee. Naruto looked around and spotted Kai's body and made a mad dash for it, when he reached it Naruto yanked the scythe out of his skull. Around this time Ao had gotten back to his feet and was now trying dodging three of Kyuubi's tails but was having a really hard time as some blows were landing and Kyuubi wasn't giving him the chance to counter. With a quick look at Naruto Kyuubi stopped his attack, and Naruto rushed Ao. Seeing that the boy was charging at him again Ao let his rage take hold of him and charged as well fully intent on crushing Naruto.

As they closed in on each other Ao thought Naruto would try the same thing as last time and prepared himself but he once again underestimated Naruto. Instead of jumping up like before Naruto dropped to his knees and slid underneath Ao, as he did so he brought the scythe in both hands and slashed upwards right through Ao's groin. Screaming in pure agony Ao dropped to his knees hands going towards his wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding, "You motherfucker! I'll fucking kill you!" He yelled out as he turned to look at Naruto but instead was met with razor sharp fangs. Kyuubi had lunged at Ao the second he hit the ground and in one quick passing ripped his throat out with one bite of his teeth. With his femoral artery and his throat torn open he was dead in seconds.

This last spectacle happened just as Iroh, Ozai and a squad of guards entered the courtyard. To say they were shocked was a huge understatement, they couldn't believe their eyes. A small boy had taken out two full grown men and the formerly tiny fox was now growing to be as tall as a full grown man's waist.

"Naruto?" Iroh asked as the boy got back up on his feet, Naruto didn't even acknowledge him as he went over to Kai's body with Kyuubi following him.

Ozai went to his wife's side and helped her to her feet, "Are you alright" He asked.

"Yes…but Ozai the children…" she sobbed out.

"It's alright the troops have already sealed off the palace gates," Ozai said as he looked at the body of the giant assassin.

"Don't worry Mother, we'll get them back" Naruto's voice sounded across the courtyard.

This drew everyone's attention to him as he slid the scythe into his belt. They all noticed that he had taken a small number of bladed weapons from the body he was near, some throwing knives and two tantos were stuffed into his belt opposite the scythe, the long dagger he had used against Kai was in his right hand.

They all wondered what he was planning when a runner suddenly came up with a message.

"Captain, My Lords and Lady, we've captured one of the intruders. He was intercepted after of the guards caught him in the leg with an arrow." He reported while trying to regain his breath.

"What direction were they headed?" Iroh asked.

"To the south General."

"South, got it"

Everyone looked at Naruto once more, clearly confused by what he meant.

"Naruto?" Ursa asked.

"I said I'd get them back Mom, and I won't go back on my word," Naruto said, and with that he jumped on Kyuubi's back, as soon as he was settled Kyuubi crouched down.

"Naruto wait!" Iroh cried too late, and jumped up onto the roof and started heading to the south.

"Naruto!" Ursa cried but he was already gone.

Ursa broke down into sobs as her husband and brother-in-law went about ordering the guards on what to do.

"Ozai…" She said gaining his attention.

"Yes?" he asked.

"Bring them back to me" She told him.

He nodded and followed his brother and the guards out of the court yard while a small group stayed behind to escort the princess to a secure room.

Kyuubi bounded across the roof of the palace at an incredible speed before finally catching what he was looking for, "I've got their scents Naruto, we're close," He said to the boy. Instead of trying to catch the intruders' scent Naruto suggested looking for the children's scent since Kyuubi was more familiar with them.

Kyuubi bounded in the direction the scent was coming and finally spotted the group of kidnappers but something was wrong, "Why are there only three?" Kyuubi asked aloud.

Indeed there were only three of the original eight now running for the palace walls.

"Doesn't matter, they still have everyone" Naruto stated.

With a grunt of agreement Kyuubi k kept running on the now parallel roof. Once they were close enough Kyuubi leapt off and dived right at one while Naruto jumped off his back for the other. Naruto drove the long dagger he had through the kidnapper's leg and into the stone below. This caused him come to a sudden stop and drop Ty Lee while grabbing leg, screaming in agony. Moving quickly Naruto caught Ty Lee and set her on the ground before spinning around and drawing one of the tanto and driving the blade into the assassin's eye. His screams quickly died as he did.

While that happened Kyuubi had pounced on the one holding Mai, one of his tails shooting in front of him to grab ahold of the girl so she didn't hit the ground. With wasting a second Kyuubi used his powerful jaws to tear the would-be kidnapper's face off and left him there to die slowly. The Leader spun around and saw that both of his men were dead and saw that it was the servant kid and the fox that killed them he could only guess that Ao and Kai were dead as well. Setting Zuko and Azula down he took his cloak off and drew and normal Chinese jian.

"So little boy, you want to play the hero huh? We could've helped end the suffering felt around the world if our employer got a hold of these damn brats. But do you care you fucking Fire Nation bastard? No! But I wouldn't expect a kid like you to understand, whatever let's just get this get this over with," Leader said as he got in a ready stance, his eyes flicking up for a split second.

Naruto saw it and reacted instantly by grabbing the scythe and throwing it backwards without looking. He was rewarded seconds later as a large thud was heard, turning slightly Naruto saw the body of one of the intruders with the scythe embedded in his face, a blow gun in his hands.

"So that's where that one was hiding", Kyuubi mused as he looked up at the small crevice on the roof from where the body had fallen.

Kyuubi turned slightly when he heard the sound of foot-steps and saw that Iroh and Ozai had finally arrived with a contingent of guards, "About time" He thought "Hm? What's this scent? Wait I recognize it".

"Shit! He took out Marksman, that only leaves me and Nia, damn we were so close," Leader thought as he looked at the body wondering if his last comrade had enough time to get ready the next part of their escape plan.

If she survived she could report about this freaky kid so a better plan could be made. As the leader thought this Nia looked out from behind a pillar towards the scene, she was halfway dress in a palace guard outfit, apparently that was how they planned to escape, to disguise themselves and smuggle the kids out of the palace.

"Holy-! How did that kid do that?" She thought as she saw Naruto kill the long range expert of the group, "Sorry boss but I gotta get outta here, someone's gotta tell them what happened. Besides I am not dying here!"

Nia was just about to finish strapping on her armor when she saw something red flash across her vision and then felt pain explode from her entire being. Looking down she saw five red tails piercing her chest and she knew that they belonged to the fox, looking closer at the fur she saw that it glinted slightly. With what strength she had left she brought her hand to one of the tails and found that it was as hard as steel and each hair as sharp as any blade.

"You can't escape my sense of smell trash," She heard a deep voice say, "Now die" and with that Kyuubi pulled his tails in different directions, tearing Nia apart into several pieces.

Leader's eyes grew wide as he saw the last of his team killed in such a gruesome way but didn't have time to even think about it as he was forced on the defense by Naruto who had taken advantage of his momentary shock and threw all five of the throwing knives that he had taken, each one aim for a vital part of the Leader's body. The Leader knocked each one out of the air and brought his sword up just in time to block the flying strike from Naruto who had drawn the second tanto. Lashing out with a punch to try and hit Naruto while still in the air Leader found himself on the receiving end of the same move Naruto had against Ao, but instead of jumping off like last time Naruto just fell straight to the ground while the Leader was just able to keep his balance. Sticking his empty hand out to ground Naruto used it to spin once he landed and slashed at his opponents legs. Because of the angle he landed Naruto missed Leader's left leg entirely but he did manage to bury the blade into the right calf and severed the hamstrings there, rendering the leg next to useless. Leader cried out in pain and dropped his sword falling to the ground, Naruto tried to capitalize on this and tried to bury his blade into the Leader's chest but he was able to catch the small boy and fling him over his head. Naruto landed roughly and saw that the guards were about to rush in and secure the prisoner who even now was trying to get to his feet.

But Naruto's rage wouldn't allow this, it cried out for all of the fools to die. He couldn't tell where this hatred was coming from but a small part of him figured it must've been his bond with Kyu, how else could he explain being able to kill so easily? But that was beside the point; all that mattered right now was that this man had to die. Naruto looked at the ground and noticed one of the throwing knives was right next to his empty hand. Quickly snatching it up Naruto sprinted toward his rising enemy and plunged both of the blades into his shoulders, right where the arm sat in its socket, and his using the unnatural strength gained from the bond with his fox he forced the man to the ground where he then broke both of the blades. Leader screamed in pain, now unable to use either of his arms. All the guards stopped their advance as did Iroh and Ozai as they bared witness to Naruto's extreme rage.

Calmly Naruto stood on the Leader's chest and reached down to grab him by his collar, "Now, tell me why you tried to take my friends and family?" Naruto growled at the man as Kyuubi came over with all the children nestled comfortably in his tails.

Leader groaned in pain before focusing on Naruto, "It was just…a job. We were meant to take them to our employer," He said through the pain.

"Why?"

"Who knows, like I said: it was just a job. They could've been sold, held for ransom, brain washed, I didn't care so long as I got paid and it hurt the Fire Nation," Leader said with a blood stained smile.

With each word the man spoke Naruto and Kyuubi's rage grew and grew, Kyuubi growling at the man ready to end his life.

"Of course the princess would've been a huge bonus, she would've been sold for some serious gold with looks like hers," Leader laughed at that.

That did it, that one comment sent both the boy and fox over the edge and with them linked they just fed off of each other's rage making them even angrier. With a feral cry Naruto stood up and brought his fist down on the man. As he did so, Iroh and Ozai noticed that small bursts of fire were forming around the child's fist. Kyuubi also noticed this and knew what was about to happen so he wrapped the kids in all his tails so that it looked like they were in a giant ball. Right before the punch landed the assassin noticed that boy's eyes had changed, instead of the blue they once were they were now a angry red and the pupil was now a slit. Absent mindedly he noticed how similar they looked to the giant fox's eyes. When Naruto's fist stopped about a foot from the Leader's face a jet of bright gold flames erupted from the boy's fist, completely engulfing the head of his opponent. The flames rose about ten feet into the air once they backlashed from the ground, everyone staring at awe at the sight. In the entire history of the world there have never been any records of gold fire-bending, only the extremely rare blue.

Naruto kept the flames going for ten seconds before he cut them off and looked at the Leader's head or what used to be his head. The face was completely gone; caved in from the force of the flames. The rest was a charred mess looking nothing like what flesh should look like. With heaving breaths Naruto finally started to calm down, his eyes reverting back to their usual sky blue and the gravity of what he had done finally crashed down on him. He had killed. Killed! Not one but four people! People who could've been captured instead but he killed them in his fit of rage. With tears no flowing down his cheeks Naruto backed away from the burnt corpse and tripped over his own feet and falling to the ground and broke down sobbing.

Kyuubi slowly made his to crying boy and sat next to him where Naruto then clung to his fur.

"I'm sorry Naruto," Kyuubi spoke softly as he wrapped a paw around the child.

Eventually Iroh and Ozai came to stand next them when Kyuubi unfurled his tails and handed off the previously captured children, once they were safe Kyuubi then wrapped all nine tails around himself and his charge.

"Kyuubi?" Iroh began but the Giant vulpine cut him off.

"It's alright general; I've got him. Once he calms down a little I'll take him to Ursa. It's best that she handles this."

Iroh nodded and then looked at his brother, "What do you think we should tell the children when they come to?"

Ozai thought for a moment, "The truth, they should know what has transpired here. Our enemies dared to strike our home," He finished with a frown.

Iroh nodded and noticed that Naruto had finally passed out, with no more adrenaline coursing through his system the exhaustion, both physical and emotional, from all that he done had caught up to him. Kyuubi wordlessly picked him up and set him on his back and began heading back inside with everyone else following, knowing that today had changed the small blonde-hiared, blue-eyed boy forever.

And there it is, to be honest this was originally part of chapter 3 but then I decided that it was waaaay to long of a chapter this early in the story. Now I'm pretty sure that some of you are wondering how Naruto was able to take these guys on and there are two answers. One: it says it right there in the story; Naruto's bond with kyuubi. Just like in NARUTO the young boy draws strength from the fox and so Naruto gained a nice little power boost in a slightly subtle way andsince Kyuubi is what he is he really has no trouble killing, therefore neither did Naruto until he regained himself. Two: the kidnappers severely underestimated Naruto, and that coupled with him being enhanced by Kyuubi let Naruto dominate them. But this will probably be one of the only times I'll let it be such a one sided fight with skilled warriors. Well that's all, Oh! One more thing before I forget, I'll be uploading a new story some time this week so keep an eye out! and here's a hint; it's not a crossover. See ya!