"Top Of The World"
Is there anybody out there?
That wakes up with a bitter taste?
It's a king that we put up there
And he's a short way to fall from grace
It's slowly filling upward.
You can stand but you have no ground.
I hear it from the lost words.
They say it's time that you lost your crown.

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Rain fell in a steady thrum, the ceaseless rhythm seemed even louder in Kakashi's ears as he gazed down at the bloody body laying before him. He didn't know what was funnier, in a sick and sadistic way.

The fact that he had to be the one to find the poor soul laying in the forest a mere kilometer or so outside of Konoha. Or that small smile that adorned the naked boys face even in the bloody gruesome end.

Kakashi looked around wryly. His fellow elite ninjas- fresh from a mission as was he, were staggering on the sidelines of the clearing, one was throwing up her breakfast, lunch and dinner. The other had a cloth to his face to try and thread out the smell of blood, innards and decaying body.

Not that it did anything.

A large part of the boys intestine laid out strung a crossed several tree limbs. The rest were either strewn a crossed the ground, or piled right next to the boys corpse.

A vertical slit ran from between his collar bones down to his groin. His ribs were surgically broken and open wide to bare the only organ still in tact.

His heart.

Blood coated everything. Ranging from the tree trunks, to leaves, to the ground. Even the boy was covered in it.

Kakashi could still tell that beneath the blood coated hair, once silky golden sun blond hair rested. Beautiful sky blue eyes were gone from beneath the slashed eyelids. Kakashi had the faint thought that the missing parts would be found somewhere in the area.

Kneeling down, Kakashi looked between smiling, blood coated lips to where a tongue-less mouth was. Blood still slid down freely like tiny rivers over his cheek and onto the ground. Shaking his head sadly, Kakashi stood up and turned to his fellow ninja.

"Get Tsunade-sama. She'll wish to see this with her own eyes."

"Kakashi, who is it?" the woman asked with wide eyes. Her pale an unhealthy pale shade.

"Uzimaki, Naruto."

Despite the sickened look from the violent scene, Kakashi caught the look of relief that passed through her eyes.

"Just GO!" Kakashi lost his cool and screamed at the woman.

She hightailed it out of there.

"Kakashi, look at this."

Kakashi turned slowly to look at his fellow ninja. Then slid his eyes over the pointing finger and to where he could see the hanging piece of flesh. A smoothly stretched chunk of skin was impaled with a kunai and shoved into the base of a tree. On the smooth skin, Kakashi made out the former signs of a bellybutton and a sealing sign.

"Naruto…"

Kakashi closed his eyes and turned to wait for Tsunade.

He hoped she would come soon. He wanted to be gone from that nightmarish scene. Away from the heavy rain and pooling blood.

The thought of a warm bed and even warmer body flooded Kakashi's mind.

Iruka…

This was going to kill him. Absolutely kill him.

Kakashi feared…

And felt the almost overwhelming feeling of suffocation and pain fill his chest and work up his throat.

'Kami-sama... You finally did something that others will truly hate you for...'

Kakashi stopped his thought process to take in a deep breath. It seemed to hold back the choking sensation that had lodged into his throat.

"Damn you Naruto."

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Wah! I killed off Naruto! Someone must review to me and work up the continuation of this story. Please!

Li- a li is a Chinese measurement of about 500 meters