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Hmm…so…warning; this chapter includes mass genocide and terrorism. Anyone that has a problem with these two things should think about skipping this chapter. It's not as severe as the other more gut churning things I've written in former chapters but this still has to do with the loss of many lives and destruction of property. You'd think that I'll skip warnings on the last chapter but I won't because I'm weird.

Read at your own risk and don't forget to enjoy…

CHAPTER 10

Naruto lightly sat down on the large window sill of the Hokage's home office, staring silently with his electric blue eyes and the glinting silver dot shining in the dim lighting of the room.

Tsunade stood on the other side of the room, before the other large window, though this one overlooked the whole village, with her back to the boy and her hands perched together on her lower back. Her desk was mostly empty, except for a single piece of paper, a pen and a video recorder Naruto had sent over a while ago, documenting all of Jiraiya and Danzo's crimes. The viewing screen of the camera was crushed past the point of return and the cartridge with the recordings was broken in a fit of emotions a few hours ago. There were no empty bottles of sake littered about the office, surprisingly.

The woman breathed in and out, peacefully watching the gradually reducing chaos in the village.

The teen gently stood up and retrieved his frowny face mask from his dark blue overcoat. He barely made a rustle but the Sannin knew he had been in the room as soon as his feet touched down on the window sill. She didn't turn to acknowledge Naruto and the boy didn't move past where he was, mutely holding the mask in his right hand.

Tense silence reigned until, "You must be happy," she said, then she swallowed thickly to sooth her dry throat. "Huh, Naruto. Your plan worked. The Will of Fire has been crushed. Konoha is dead."

This was when Naruto buzzed out a laugh and cocked his head to the side. "Come on, Lady Tsunade. The Will of Fire died with Hashirama."

The woman cracked out a not too amused smirk and replied. "I guess you're right." She looked over her shoulder for a moment and then returned her eyes to the scene of utter chaos outside of the Hokage's mansion, she felt a small breeze waft past her and Naruto stood by her left side when she next looked. She shook off the question of how he could have moved so fast without her at least sensing it before it happened. Nowadays there was no reason to question what the Monster of The Pit could or could not do. She shrugged off her discomfort at having the other blonde next to her, also watching the world outside but with a light, pleasant smile. She eyed the mask in his right hand for a second, looking up and meeting him looking at her from the corner of his eyes, then he looked away and outside the window. In the very end not even her loyal ANBU stayed by her side as all were packing up their things to leave, already gone or already dead. "…Should I have let you out of jail, Naruto? Should I have not put you in solitary?"

The boy didn't verbally answer; she caught a sharp smirk flash up and down his face as he looked at her again from the corner of his eyes and the silver dots in his eyes glowing brighter for a second.

"You already had the lust for blood, Konoha blood, in your mind. I couldn't let you out," she tried to provide an excuse for her actions at holing him up at solitary confinement, hopefully for the rest of his natural life. "I am…was…the Hokage. I had to protect my village."

"You're doing a wonderful job, Lady Tsunade." Naruto said with a sarcastic eye roll, the Sannin nodded slowly and controlled her emotions at the deriding answer. He looked up as if he was trying to remember something, something he had gotten from some of Jiraiya's memories and said. "The Shodaime used to say something about his wife, what was it again…?"

The woman cleared her throat and answered. "Never mess with an Uzumaki."

Naruto snapped his left fingers and playfully jabbed the sad woman's ribs. "Right, yes, that's exactly it." he then continued, fully turning to the Godaime, the woman doing so as well and having to look up a fraction to meet his shattered eyes. "Except…I dropped my Uzumaki name and my Namikaze name. Couldn't care less about either of my parents because they trusted you people to look after me after they died."

"They loved you-"

"Oh don't give me that crap, Tsunade." Naruto snapped with a tense smile, his eyes twitched twice before he reigned in his emotions. "If they trusted you people then why should I give half a fuck for them?" the boy shrugged heavily and blew out a small puff of air. "Well, I'm not here to spit and moan about my poor childhood or point fingers at the people that were meant to look after me," here he pointedly stared at Tsunade for about five long seconds, of which the woman could not look at him again, opting to look down and shrug weakly; she ran from Konoha as soon as the chance came, even when she had been named Naruto's godmother, knowing full well that Jiraiya wouldn't be sticking around either and the Sandaime was openly biased about Naruto. "I'm here to give you a fitting death."

She didn't put up a fight as Naruto lifted his hands and fixed his frowny face mask on her face. He placed his hands on her shoulders and sat her down on her office chair, turning it around so that she could see outside of the window. She didn't comment as he drew a large, highly powered explosive seal on her desk or move when he drew one on her back; she deserved everything coming to her for not preventing the walking disaster that was Naruto.

"For attempting to give me peace in the darkness of solitary confinement and covering up my existence from the other hidden villages, I thank you, Lady Tsunade." Naruto's voiced echoed in the room and the woman bowed her head in sadness, the frowny face mask not showing the depth of self-loathing she had in her being. "But," her heart skipped a beat as Naruto came up to her front and drew a powerful explosive tag on the throat. "For not investigating into the wrong charges, punishing the council for the mistrial or at the very least reprimanding the village on their actions…you are going to die a quick but excruciating death, Lady Tsunade." He placed a hand under her chin and tilted it up so she could look at him in the eyes. "I was a bit unsure on what I would do to you, for a little while that is, but I was sure I wasn't going to let you live for not doing anything against my charges. I mean, you had every chance to make things right, even if I wasn't ever leaving jail but you left them to live their lives while mine wasted away. So no, I won't show any mercy to you, just in case you were thinking I would." He leaned up close and his chilling blue eyes shone gleefully and his lips stretched into a wide, eager smile. "Any last words?"

Tsunade gulped and her hands fisted the cushions on the arms of her chair. "For what it's worth, Naruto…I'm sorry."

"At this stage, it's a bit too late for that but I appreciate that it isn't your drunk self saying it."

He stood up and left her office through the window behind her, to the Hokage's monument in a flurry of silver chains propelling him through the forest at break neck speed.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hokage's Monument

Naruto landed on the top of the mountain, after skittering up the side like a spider, and puffed out a relieved air. The silver chains waved gently around him, like hypnotic snakes, and they were slowly dragged back into his sleeves, collar or the bottom of his trench coat, into storage seals. He skipped to a stop and brushed past the kneeling Aburame and Nara, Shino and his mother and Shikamaru and his mother, and came to on the Sandaime's head. The four hypnotized ninjas rose up to their feet and stood behind their master, tilting their torsos down a bit as Naruto opened his arms wide and breathed in deeply.

He had bombs set in various locations of the village, some of which were set there himself while some were done by his clones and his hypnotized disciples.

He riffled through his coat with his right hand and pulled out a map of the village, then he unsealed a conductors stand from the scroll, placing the map on the stand and creating a sleek, silver stick with his bloodline.

He tapped the top of the stand.

Toooom! Tooooom! Tooooooom!

The warring people in the village turned towards the monstrous yet tinkering sounds and Naruto cleared his throat, giggling excitedly and making a flourished sweeping sound over the map.

Kyuubi waited with bated breathe.

"I call this…" Naruto muttered, though his words projected far and wide like he was talking into a speaker. "Symphony of the Dying Embers."

All the way in the Hokage's mansion, in the Hokage's personal office, Tsunade closed her eyes and relaxed into her chair.

Naruto tapped the Hokage's mansion twice.

Boom! Boooooom! The explosion shook the ground heavily and threw people off their feet. The mansion went up in two consecutive balls of dark red fire that tunnelled high in the air in deadly smoke stacks. Naruto tapped the Forest of Death three times and swished his hands all over the map, tapping and swiping at strategic places on it and the powerful bombs there blew up not even half a second later.

Boom…Boom…Boom!

Screams of agony rend through the air as the bombs in the forest went off one by one, with enough strength in hem to crack open the ground and create a low powered earthquake. The people, criminals and helpless families alike, began running wildly about as more blasts rocked their world.

Boom! B-B-Boom! Booo-Booo-Boooooom! Boom! Boom! Boo-Boo-Thoooooooom! Ba-ba-Booooooom-Ba-Booom!

Naruto paused in the mayhem he was causing and hummed, before he went back at it. This time he stopped tapping map and directly created a symphony of death and fire with his baton pointed at the village, moving his hands up and down, left and right with wild speed and concocting a wave of blasts that went in tune with the deathly shrieks piercing the sky.

Kurama had to admit…the sound was disastrously harmonic.

Light poured from the burning village and washed over Naruto, entering the eyes of the four awed ninjas behind the mad teen. Stars glittered in their eyes as they watched their master maniacally move his hands about in the air, in tune with the bombs and explosions, and somewhere in their souls they felt inspired tears fall down their faces. Violent wind whipped past the blonde, making his coat flutter and flap, but the boy never stopped creating deathly sounds of explosions rock through and into Konoha, humming delightfully as he did so.

Three minutes of this happening, and as Konoha was now basically a bonfire of dark red fire and crackling sounds, the boy pointed at the Hokage's mansion and the bomb on the dead Godaime's neck went off.

THOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The noise of explosions didn't die down, even after Naruto picked up the map of Konoha and gently tossed it before him, into the lazing inferno not too far away from the rocky monument, his face set in a chillingly small smile.

Kurama observed the brief spell of peace that went about in the mindscape he was contained in; the dark red sky stopped churning violently, the usual black clouds that crackled with dark blue lightning became puffy white and floated gently over the horizon, the bright blue and red sun that shone down mercilessly over the landscape of strong, burning green grass, settled into a soft, orange and it actually rejuvenated the chaotic tailed beast. The nine tails was already used to staying in the hellish landscape of Naruto's mind, though he was protected by his own hellish body constitution and the fact that Naruto ensured to separate an expansive patch of land with a humble cottage in the middle, a clean pool, healthy grass and large trees to shade his first and only true friend, the beast was still not privy to the deeper inner mechanics of the shattered boys destroyed mind. Kyuubi was protected fully and if any other normal mortal was to even glimpse this small fraction of the world in his holders mind they too would lose their own mind.

Hearing the symphony of fire and death the boy had been passionately conducting raised a question in Kurama's mind, one he was both hesitant and a little afraid of knowing the answer. "Is this what you hear in your mind?"

An ominous chuckle answered him and a cryptic, "No."

The beast pressed on, summarizing on his own. "So…more chaotic."

"Maybe another day, Kyu."

Kurama saw that the small slice of Naruto's mindscape he was allowed to see returned back to its chaotic nature. "Now I'm curious, I almost don't want to know but I'm not going to push you."

"Thanks, man." Naruto muttered genuinely, keenly watching the tree branches the map landed on burn the dry paper map thoroughly. He then commented, talking about the hellscape of fire. "This should burn for a few years."

Now Kurama could not hold back his curiosity. "A few years?"

"Yeah, a few years." Naruto answered with a shrug, staring at the village as it burned. The Hokage's tower, once covered in a tarp, collapsed forward as the dark red fire turned a somewhat darker shade of icy blue, mixed with licks of evil red.

The beast groaned at how lightly Naruto was taking his statement, giggling amusingly as the world of fire before him stretched as far back as the Aburame compound. "What do you mean by that? What did you use to make those bombs?"

"Oh that's easy," Naruto answered, finally tearing his bright blue-silver eyes away from the fiery world he had created, facing his loyal to death disciples, that promptly dropped onto their knees. "I mixed a tiny bit of your chakra in the explosion kanji I drew around the village with my clones and I powered it with my own chakra alone. You won't believe how powerful that'll make the bomb." A stray explosion, a gas stove in the Akimichi compound, went off behind Naruto and the icy fire muffled the red burst easily. "I mean, it's no amaterasu but it's dangerously close." He then went on, speaking out loud while his disciples listened eagerly, knowing full well that it was a conversation between jinchuriki and beast. "Anyway, Orochimaru and I tested it out on some poor sap from Iwa, a really small dose, a whole lot smaller than what I did here," he said, waving over his shoulder at the Naruto-made catastrophe. "And the dude burned for about…" he rolled his tongue in his mouth, looking up to the sky. "Four weeks? Give or take a few days, I forgot."

Kyuubi didn't hide his stunned expression; not even his chakra could burn for longer than a week. He then truly began wondering what kind of a monster he had helped create. "It still surprises me how overpowered you are, kit."

The boy laughed bashfully and the beast rolled his vulpine eyes.

Kurama sat down on his haunches and watched through Naruto's eyes as he addressed four of his many followers. They trembled under the boy's dark gaze, shoulders quivering ever so slightly and eyes lowered down.

The blonde cleared his throat and his hands swept to his lower back as he stood taller, smirking with ill intent. "Now, you four know why I didn't just end you lives, or the lives of the others back in the new base, right?"

Shino answered quickly with high hopes of winning Naruto's favour, discarding his stoic façade. "To serve as you tools, master."

"Use us however you wish, boss." Yoshino chimed in.

"We only live to die for you, sir." Shikamaru provided, bowing with his right hand over his heart.

"There is no better way to die than in your service, master." Shuna buzzed.

They were startled when Naruto clapped his hands and beamed at them. "Wonderful, you get the gist of it. Now, we best get started on what next to do; I don't like being bored, you know." They bobbed their head affirmatively and their master motioned to Shino and his mother and the two Aburames focused on every single word. "You two will be my main trackers. When Hanabi gets a better hang of her byakugan she will be joining you. For this project you two will work together but any other project I call you back for, you'll most likely work alone. Shino, I hope you're up for it." he said, directly speaking to the younger Aburame with narrowed eyes and a sinister smile. The boy shook and nodded quickly; Shuna Aburame, his mother, was a star Kunoichi before she went into passive ninja services for Konoha. Naruto really hoped Shino could pull his weight in the tracking team, for his own sake. He didn't want the boy slowing down his mother. "I'm not in any particular rush but I want you two to track down Asuma and Kureanai, and while you're at it Hinata and Konohamaru. I'm pretty sure Asuma and Kureanai know how to detect, avoid and probably fight Aburame so I won't really be surprised if it takes both of you a while to find them. Once you do find them then let me know immediately. No need to rush, ok? Take your time and be smart about it."

"Yes, sir!" they exclaimed.

"Get started." They got to their feet, bowed deeply, and blazed off the monument, on the opposite side of the lethal blue fire. The boy watched them leave, feeling a little bit proud of his work on them.

For the Aburame, Naruto posed as one of his characters, a former non-Aburame student of Shibi, to get closer to the grieving family. He planted subtle thoughts in their heads through a barely detectable, low powered, almost weak genjutsu he exuded with his presence. Their hives got a taste of his chakra but was silenced from alarming their hosts of the boy's threat level by the spiritual manifestation of Naruto's icy chakra. The illusion took roughly a three whole days before it took root in their minds before they willingly approved for Naruto to dig his fingers into their brains and alter their thoughts. During the process, the two were inexplicably disoriented and slept more at night from a questionable tiredness they felt, as if their very souls had given up on them. They blamed it on the sorrow they felt for the loss of the patriarch of their family, and the head of the clan, not even entertaining the thought that the surprise appearance of a student didn't throw them off. The genjutsu Naruto ebbed from his body was only to lower their defences, sort of like making them drunk, and to make them more uninhibited before Naruto alone. The hive queen was also brainwashed in the process.

"I want you two to be my personal assistants." He said, talking to Yoshino and Shikamaru. "You see, I want to start a mercenary organization-or maybe a mafia, I'm not sure-and you will help me organize the others, train them, you know. Advertise my services to the underworld, gain clients, account for each ryu we get and each one we lose." He rolled his left wrist uncaringly. "I'm sure you can come up with more functions but that's about it, but over all that is to drive the point into everyone's head that I'm not an enemy they should make."

The two saluted crisply and shouted. "You can count on us, sir!"

"We'll be working with Hidden Sound and Orochimaru from time to time but we're not going to depend on them for anything; we build our own base, make our own money, get a reputation and thrive. The reward for their loyalty is my protection, understood." Loyalty was a trait Naruto could gladly reward. "When they step out of line, then I'll personally kill them all."

He said it so easily and with a breezy, serene smile, though the gravity of his words made the two feel weak-kneed.

"I'm thinking…of making a base in Frost country," he said and Shikamaru removed a notepad and a pen from his pocket, jotting down his masters words eagerly. "I've got my eyes on a few real estate there that'll be amazing." Hundreds of acres of free land, mainly because Frost country was blood chillingly cold for those that weren't adapted. He could have used Orochimaru's money to buy the land he wanted but that would have cemented Naruto in the only living Sannin's favour, and the teen didn't want that. "I want the actual building to be huge," he emphasized this by stretching his arms as widely as possible, Shikamaru jotted it down with a nod and Yoshino looked at what her son was writing to make sure he wrote it properly. "Leave the offensive-defensive genjutsus to me but for the traps and the authorization to enter the base, both of you have to think of something."

"Understood, sir." Yoshino said, already thinking of blueprints for the future secret base.

The new boss tossed a scroll he removed from the dark recess of his overcoat to Yoshino. It was a map of Frost country, attained from a time he went on a personal training trip in the cold country. "The marked spaces are the places I want to buy. Look over them and see if it's perfect then you buy it with money from your bank account." He then added with a humble smile. "I hope you guys don't mind."

The two shook their heads hurriedly. "Not in the least."

The clan heads home of clans in the village was directly in charge of the clan's bank accounts within and outside of the village, and even as the clan heads had died, authority of the accounts still remained with the bereaved family members. They had all swiped roughly eighty percent of the clan wealth and wired it to ten different banks across the continent, all of which were under Naruto's name and sole control. The banks in turn did not report these large surges of cash into the account because Naruto had the foresight to threaten the officers in the banks families with slow, painful death if they spoke a word to their various daimyos before he set up the accounts. The clan members themselves were unaware of money leaving them but they were busier with trying to survive the attacks of the Phantom and scurrying out of Konoha. Most clan members had died and some were captured by Sound, Naruto could care less about those that had managed to escape, they were too afraid of him to pose as any kind of threat. The sum total of money Naruto had, from each account, was about fifty billion ryu.

At that moment, outside of Konoha and north of Fire country, the current base Naruto was using was occupied by some of the children of the clan heads, a few other clan members and the children of the dead civilian council members.

Naruto rubbed his hands together and shooed them away, saying. "Alright you two, get to work."

They promptly went off to start their part of Naruto's grand idea.

The boss turned around and watched the crackling landscape of icy blue fire, sighing deeply. He savoured the scenery with a fond look. "My only regret, besides that whole Hinata fiasco, is that I could only do this once." Time travel was a possibility, hell Naruto knew how he could recruit the right minds and gather the funds to make a time machine but repetition got boring after a while. "How about we get started with that Madara guy you used to scream about?"

Kyuubi jumped over an embarrassed groan at how blood thirsty he had initially been when he met Naruto, simply out growing his ravenous appetite for personal revenge and helping the boy find his peace by getting revenge on Konoha. The act itself calmed the great beast down, astoundingly enough, and he had come to think of his holder as a younger brother figure, as Naruto already saw Kurama as a big brother, of sorts. The nine tails had learnt that by his single leap of faith, a single minded hope in Naruto that the boy was not going to betray him after he had basically poured more than half of his knowledge for Naruto's consumption, that despite Naruto being nothing more than a monster, there was a small semblance of humanity in the boy that made him truly familial with Kyuubi. The fox coughed into his fist and said. "Really? Are you serious?"

"Yeah I'm serious."

"Well…ok then, what do you need to know?"

"Tell me what you know about him; how your problem with him started, why you think he came after you. As much as you know." The teen sat down on the Sandaime's head and crossed his legs. He picked up a small rock and smoothed it out with his thumb, pointer and middle fingers, listening to what the nine tails had to say about Madara Uchiha as he quietly used the smoothed out rock, making it float and giving it an invisible cutting edge to carve the rock faces on the monuments into something else. He did so, his chest sometimes humming with laughter.

"It all started about a hundred, maybe two hundred, years ago…"

Despite the beast telling the story of that point in his life, Naruto, for once in eight years, did not feel his soul shredded by a burning passion for personal justice.

The whispered, tittering laughter was not, for once, sinister and wicked.

The airy smile on his lips did not bear malicious tidings for any particular person, not anymore.

The silver dot in the ocean of bright blue did not spark sadistically, vying to wring the life out of any unfortunate soul, not really anything he felt towards Konoha.

The chaos of his psyche bubbled and churned without rest and the lust for entertainment could never rest but, in spite of the ocean of blue fire spread out before him, Konoha was not on his mind anymore.

He could focus on his life now. He could go after something other than the Hidden Leaf's utter downfall.

The red haze over his eyes, the single minded possession for Leaf death, lifted and the boy sighed again with his shoulders relaxed, satisfied with his work.

Naruto was truly happy.

The End

Authors note

That's the end of the story for now. I shall tag it as complete but the epilogue might come out maybe in a few days, if not then I might publish another story, a new story. My reason for not stamping The epilogue after The End was that, after staring at the screen for a few, long minutes, putting the epilogue immediately after The End felt like it reduced the impact of the ending.

It's difficult to explain, really.

But anyway, writing this story was a lot of fun. It really was. And I enjoyed how much you guys enjoyed it as well, with your rejuvenating, positive reviews and the wonderful encouragements. You guys might have noticed from all the warnings I put before each chapter that I was hesitant to pour out this amount of darkness into one story but apparently you lot liked the darkness. If I ever get around to making a Part Two of this story then I look forward to seeing all your reactions.

I can't promise a quick epilogue but I will try my best :D

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