Hey readers, it's good to be writing as this is my first story. this is just some of the stuff i have to get out of the way before you read this fic, so let's kick it off shall we? I'd like to start off by saying that this started out as an action/adventure fic. but as soon as i started typing it i instantly changed it into a action/adventure/romance fic. if you don't like romance in your stories, sorry guys. write me back and tell me it sucks. Who's the lucky couple you asked? why it wouldn't be a story if naruto wasn't in it, and nobody fit the other role like everyones favorite hyuuga girl! CHA!!! ok that was a little weard, oh god i hope i'm not going insain. Next off is the fact that the peaple in this story have more or less the same charicteristics as in the show, unless something happend to them, as you'll see in naruto's case. (AKA: Jiraiya still a perv. Tsunade still loves sake, lee and gai still cant stop going on about the flames of youth.) However there are some exeptions, for example the kyuubi and Naruto change drasticly, the kyuubi because i thought it would make a cool charicter, and naruto because he goes through a tramatizing time. but don't worry, it will get better if i continue the fic. I think that about wraps it up, oh ya discalmer. it's the law, got to do it.

Disclamer: I don't own Naruto, Mister Masashi Kishimoto owns it, not me. if i owned naruto i wouldn't be writing fanfictions. so don't anybody sue me.

Peace...

ghost.

It was quite a night indeed. As a low fog laid upon the road all that anyone would see for miles was two figures that you could tell you just didn't want to mess with. "It's hard to believe it's been two and a half years" naruto said and he and his sensei, Jiraiya, just continued walking. "Konoha at last." He still wore that same stupid grin on his face but those who really knew him could see that he might be just one step closer to breaking. A wise man once said that dreams and reality are two very different things; this quote was some thing naruto took to heart. Yes he still wanted to be hokage, but he had all but given up on his dream for someone to love him and have most importantly, a family.

"Here I am Konoha, but I'm not the same kid that left" "jezz cool off naruto, aren't you even looking forward to seeing you friends?" Jiraiya said. "Yeah but I doubt that many of them even remember me." Much less care, it was then that he started to think about the list of those who might still be his precious people, and then realized that there weren't many. Tsunade, Sakura, Iruka, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and maybe shino, shikamaru, choji, and hinata and that was it. Oh well he thought welcome home me.

Hinata woke up like any other morning, blushing at the dream that just so happed to find its way into her head. All in all she did her usual routine. Wake up turn off the alarm set out clothes, go take a shower, get out, get dressed, mark off another day on her calendar strap on her ninja equipment, wait…. double take. She sprinted back to her calendar praying it was true, sure enough luck was on her side, July 19 she thought my birthday, and by chance the day that naruto comes back. Hinata rushed to get the rest of her stuff on and then snuck out of the house, things had gotten better since naruto had beaten Neji, but she really didn't feel like dealing with her father today.

She then ran down the street and headed straight for the gate praying that her love would return today. Through the two and a half years her love for the blond had only grown but unfortunately her confidence hadn't. She still stuttered when she spoke, the blushes had actually gotten a little better but she wasn't around Naruto then, she still fiddled with her fingers, but one thing she had was determination, and she was determined to show her Naruto that she could be strong enough for him.

As she rounded the corner she bumped into some one and both she and the blur of pink went down hard. "a-arogoto sakura-chan, I d-didn't see y-you." "Its okay hinata, but where's the fire?" "I'm g-going to wait by t-the g-gate" Hinata stated while fighting the ever rising blush "why" asked sakura. "T-today's the day n-n-naruto c-comes home." "Oh man I wish I could come with, but Tsunade-sensei has me running like a dog, oh well, tell him I said hi and good luck." Sakura winked at the last part and then ran of to the hokages tower. She doesn't know does she? Hinata thought, worried that someone might know her secret. She decided against it and went back on her way to the gate.

Tsunade's day had also started out fairly normal, wake up in her office from drinking too much sake, stare at the mountain of paperwork that was sitting on her desk, sigh and down another glass of sake, then get back to the paperwork. Comes with the job I guess Tsunade thought as for the first time in a long time something out of the ordinary happened."Hokage-sama" Shinzune said as she busted down the door. "You might want to here this" at that moment Sakura walked in "well, it must be awfully important considering you busted through my door to tell me, what, did you finally get a date with Iruka?" Tsunade questioned, a hint of malice in her voice. She really wasn't up to this today. Surprisingly though Shinzune had turned to Sakura with a look that even scared the Hokage…… a little. "and I swear Sakura if you tell anyone that I have a crush on Iruka-kun I will personally test how much you've learned from Tsunade sama" with that Sakura's face viably paled while Shinzune cracked her knuckles. Oh yes, for Sakura and Ino had gotten themselves quite a reputation as being the towns gossip distributors, courtesy of one very lazy Nara who awoke one day to find the whole town thinking he was going out with the chick from suna. All for saying that she would always be the most troublesome female. However Shinzune then remembered that she hade to deliver the news and turned back to a viably angry hokage. "He's back" was all Shinzune had said and the door was forgotten.

"Sakura I have a job for you." "Yes hokage-sama" "I want you to get anyone close to naruto and tell them to meet at ichkaru's at 12:00 sharp." "Hai!" sakura then ran out the door knowing exactly where to find one probably blushing hinata.

"Hey S-Sakura, I t-thought y-y-you couldn't c-come." Hinata said as the pink haired girl approached. "I can't stay but I need your help, we have to get everyone naruto knows to ichkaru's ramen stand by twelve. Do you think you can find your team?" "H-Hai, but Kurenai sensei isn't b-back from her m-mission yet." "Alright well then just find Shino and then I'll see you at twelve" hinata then turn and took one last look at the road and there on the skyline were two barley visible figures. "Welcome home Naruto". Hinata thought out loud.

Naruto was visibly shaking as they approached the gates, and Jiraiya being the sannen that he is noticed. "What's got you so nervous; I haven't seen you like that since we were fighting itachi?" Jiraiya said with a puzzled look on his face "If you remember" naruto said "I made a promise the last time I walked through these gates." "Oh, to tell your Friends about the Kyuubi huh?" "Yeah, that one, it seemed so much simpler then. Alright, sorry ero-sennen but I really don't fell like I can face everyone just yet. I'm going to tell baa-chan I'll catch up and I'll meet with you later." That said, he disappeared, no smoke, no swirl of leaves, no creepy mist, he just up and disappeared.

She was just about to jump out and engulf the blond in a hug when, to her surprise, he vanished. Then of course she freaked when someone tapped her on the shoulder. "Well baa-chan you weren't hard to find, listen I'll catch up later but right now I have some stuff I got to deal with. Anyway I'll see you around baa-chan, Ero-sennen." Naruto said, shooting his trademark grin. "Damn it Naruto, how many times do I have to tell you not to call me that" both sannen yelled. Naruto laughed and quickly replied "Trust me, you guys won't live long enough to get them all said." And then just as quick as the last time, he was gone.

NOW Tsunade was angry and just as she was about to pound Jiraiya into the ground for not teaching the boy some manners. She realized a couple of things.

1. Naruto had just been gone for three years, and that was all he had to say upon his return.

2. That was the first time in forever that she had seen him use that mask around just her and Jiraiya.

3. She didn't have a headache; normally the endless string of questions about what happened while the youth was gone would inevitably end in a headache, which in turn meant that there was no string of question. All of this added up to one thing, there was something seriously wrong with the boy, and he was trying to hide it. Then as she was about to pound Jiraiya until he told her what was wrong she realized a couple of other things.

1. Naruto had just snuck up on a kage and a sannen.

2. Afterwards he disappeared without a trace, had she not seen him there would be no evidence to ever suggest he was there.

Now this flat out confused Tsunade, yes, Jiraiya was good but there was no way that Naruto should be this powerful. The Blond hokage then turned around to see something that she hadn't seen, in as far as she knew ever. The great Jiraiya, super pervert of the century had a serious look on his face and wasn't scribbling in his notebook. "Judging by your face I can safely say that you've already figured some of what I have to tell you out, but before I continue you have to swear to me that you will never let Naruto know I told you any of this, ok?" Tsunade now very interested and only a little scared just nodded her head in response. "Good, come on we can talk in your office."

Sakura meanwhile was looking for her partner in crime, Ino. Of course she had to tell the whole team to go to Ichkaru's, but that wasn't the point. In one day she had learned that Hinata was in love with Naruto, oh she was going to have fun with this one. She also learned that Tsunade-sama could be afraid of Shinzune, and that Shinzune had a crush on Iruka, and it was only 10:30 in the morning. Of course it wasn't really news about Hinata but now they had proof, which meant only one thing, MAKEOVER!!!! Oh yeah, she was having a good day. Well except when she told gai's team about Ichkaru's. I swear if Lee tries to kiss me one more time I'm going to show him the meaning of tiajutsu. Cha!!! Inner Sakura was ranting while outer had spotted team 10.

Shikamaru meanwhile was having a very troublesome day, First he had to get out of bed, troublesome mother. Then his mother told him he had to stop playing shogi and go train, this both him and has father found to be too troublesome and continued playing only to be scolded by there wife/mother later. Then to top it all off his cloud watching was interrupted by a rather loud "SHIKAMARU GET YOU'RE LAZY ASS OVER HERE,"

courtesy of one very angry blond teammate, troublesome Ino. Shikamaru sighed as he saw the pink haired girl coming towards their group. "Choji hide man." Shikamaru said as he pushed Choji out of the way of the two girl's antics. Choji saw this and quickly got out of the way in time to be surprised when Sakura turned to them and told the whole team to meet at Ichkaru's at Twelve, then turn back to Ino so the two of them could talk about whatever it was they talk about, as long as it didn't have to do with him, he really couldn't care less.

"So Ino, what do you think?" "Well, I think we can defiantly play matchmaker with Hinata but a makeover is out of the question." Ino stated. "Really, why?" "geez, think about it Sakura, Hinata is the heir, the princess of the Hyuuga, if we go putting her in what we are wearing, Haishi would turn Konoha upside down to find us." Ino was shaking her head at this, how on earth could she not of thought of that! "Oh, I guess your right, but matchmaker is cool right?" "Right." "Then I got an idea." Oh yeah, they were going to have fun with this.

On the other side of Konoha said Hyuuga had finally tracked down Shino. With Kiba moved away to suna she, Shino, and Kurenai had become a three man team, they were supposed to get a replacement for Kiba but there weren't any ninja their age available.

So now she was talking with her one teammate, luckily she and Shino had become good friends over the years. "A-ano... Shino-kun, c-could you maybe come by Ichkaru's at twelve; the hokage wants us to be there." Shino smiled under his collar, glad that at least when she was around him her stutter almost went away completely. "Of course Hinata, however I must inquire if this has anything to do with a blond named Uzumaki." At this Hinata blushed but continued. "H-Hai, I think he has finally come home." "Indeed, we should probably get going if we are going to get there on time."

"Ok Tsunade, do you want the good news, the bad news, or the news so bad that you wont want to hear it but I have to tell you anyway first?" Jiraiya said as he sat down in a chair in the hokages office. "Okay, start with the best and work your way down" she sat down also because she had a feeling this was going to take a while.

"On a good note Naruto can probably sleep through the jounin exams, and as of right now his power is right around that of Kakashi. Now I'm not actually sure this is good but it seems he and the Kyuubi have become rather good friends." At this Tsunade jumped out of her chair "WHAT??" "Tsunade I said no interruptions till I was finished" Tsunade hesitantly nodded her head and sat back down. "Now apparently the Kyuubi had no control when she attacked Konoha, it seems using some jutsu she was summoned to our world, and as far as I know unless you have a straight portal to the demon realm going between the two worlds is a very rough ride. Miraculously the Kyuubi survived but came out very weak. It was then that our old teammate Orochimaru came and took advantage of the situation with a genjutsu that apparently made the Kyuubi attack Konoha." Jiraiya saw Tsunade start to question and just answered it flat out "Yes Kyuubi is a she." Her question now answered Tsunade backed off so Jiraiya could finish, although she now had another reason to kill Orochimaru.

"Last but not least for the good news, Naruto has a blood limit." Jiraiya stared to chuckle as he saw his teammate's eyes go wide. "Seriously, cause if this is a joke Jiraiya I'm going to kick your ass to next week." "I kid you not Tsunade, but this is where the news starts to get bad. Naruto addresses his new blood limit as Snipers Pact. I personally very much agree and will tell you now that it is the most powerful thing I have seen if he uses its final stage, but I'm getting ahead of myself."

"Naruto's Snipers Pact has as far as I describe three stages. The first is the most basic and the most common, when activated the black part of the boys pupil disappears and in its place there are white crosshairs that start at the edge of the iris and meet in the center. Some of the things that happen in this stage are Naruto instantly has precision with any long range Jutsu or throwing weapon that would make TenTen jealous. Another ability is what he calls focus, this allows him to zoom in enlarging a desired target, almost as if looking though binoculars except far more powerful and this has the ability to see through walls, woods, whatever. Think of this as a version of the beakuugan that can't see chakra and can only see in one direction, the range of the boy's sight in the chosen direction however puts the beakuugan to shame. Right now the farthest he can see clearly is around four miles; however that is increasing every day apparently. More on the physical side you can tell how far in he is focused due to the color of the crosshairs in his eyes. When they are pure white, he has not focused at all and has normal vision. As he focuses in the crosshairs become darker and darker until they are jet black, at that point he has focused in completely and is looking at something 4-5 miles away."

"The other two stages are more of a special attack. The second stage you will see his iris go black with white crosshairs, at this point he is able to do a technique called Sniper Square. The move itself is basically a bunch of ready made chakra bullets that can be released at any time. The best way I can describe these bullets is imagine a level 4 resengan, and then shrink it to the size of a marble. Now imagine him being able to create multiple of them, and then they hang around in the air spinning around Naruto until he needs to release them. Unfortunately he cant make more than two bullets a day or else he is so sapped he's useless. According to the Kyuubi the max the move will let you make is eight."

"Now the last stage, odds are we will probably never se this in action however you should be warned. In the last stage, his eyes will still be black but the crosshairs will start to spin. Once they stop spinning they will start to turn a crimson starting from the outside and working his way into the middle. At the same time the crosshairs start turning an orb of blue light will start to gather in Naruto's hand. This Tsunade is a power to be feared. I've only seen it once, and I thank Kama every day it wasn't aimed at me. Let me start of by saying that for some reason, probably for the better, Naruto can't just bring out this power. It apparently only comes out under periods of massive emotional stress. The boy refers to this move as Armageddon's Faunally."

"The reason I've seen it is because one day I left Naruto to train by himself while I went and got some supplies. Naruto took this as an Opportunity to get to know the Kyuubi a little better, and the Kyuubi agreed. The Kyuubi then apparently showed Naruto the memory of Orochimaru casting the genjutsu, and in a last attempt to fight of Orochimaru in his mind he unlocked and fired the move both in mind and in real world. The whole sky turned dark Tsunade, and all I could hear was white noise, it was then about a mile away I saw a massive beam of energy just rip through the land and everything on it. Knowing that had come from around where I left the kid I immediately went to find him. When I got there however the sight wasn't pretty. Naruto was just laying there on the ground, his shirt and part of his pants obliterated from the power. But that's not what shocked me. Right beyond Naruto was as best as I can describe it a gash in the earth about 100 yards wide and about seven miles long. Everything in it totally obliterated, from trees to rivers to hills to mountains, everything that was once there was just gone. Tsunade as much as I hate to admit it, I'm scared; the after affects to Naruto were massive. I thought the chakra burns on his hand were never going to heal, and he didn't wake up for two months. As of right now I have no idea how powerful that move will be if he uses it again but the time I saw it we were only one year into training and he was still gaining the power of his first tail, but I need to move on."

"A quick note, Naruto's genjutsu is in the toilet, for some reason when he accepted this blood limit he had to give up his genjutsu. He can still detect and release them just fine but any attempt to create one ends in failure and a waste of a lot of chakra. As far as I can tell this is the trade off for his blood limit." Oh my god, that's a hell of a price to pay, this isn't like the sharingan or the beakugan, the only real downside to those is they use a lot of chakra, but this is the complete loss of one of a shinobis 3 main skills. Tsunade thought, trying to figure out how she would get by with out genjutsu. "as you can see, as big a gift as Naruto's powers are, they are by all means an equal curse, but even so the boy is one extremely powerful youth. Because of the seal Naruto is slowly draining the Kyuubi's powers and has right now obtained about three tails. Now let me explain this, in all the power that he will obtain from the Kyuubi will be about the power of Arashi in his prime. So logically if you divide his power by nine that's about the power he gets with each tail he obtains. If you add that to the power he will get naturally, after all he is that mans son, and we have a soon to be walking god in our midst."

"However things do get worse, right now the really bad news." He saw his old teammate shift in her seat and he wondered how she would take this, Naruto was like a son to her. "Ok Tsunade before I say this you have to promise me that you won't act on this till it passes" Ok this was bad, what could be so wrong with her ottotu that she would act on it this instant. Naruto what is wrong with you. Reluctantly however she nodded her head so her teammate could continue. "What I'm about to say could mean the difference of Konoha having Naruto as their ally or enemy. Naruto… isn't the kid he used to be Tusa-chan, in all truth he couldn't care less about the respect of the villagers anymore, and he's all but completely given up on wanting to be hokage. I think… the only reason he even came back here was you, Iruka, Kakashi, and what's left of the Konoha Twelve, probably not including Neji, I don't know if Naruto will ever forgive Neji. But Naruto will tell them about the Kyuubi, probably at Ichkaru's in about 45 Minutes." Tsunade was shocked at how she saw Jiraiya, no one else would have noticed it, but being he old teammate she could tell, the great Jiraiya… was holding back tears. "I over heard him planning in the woods. I think if his friends take it bad, Naruto is going to leave, for good. In our travels Naruto stared to refer to us as wanderers, I have no trouble anymore thinking Naruto would become just that." Oh shit was the one thing running through the blond woman's mind right now. Oh well, I guess we just have to trust that they will be responsible when Naruto tells them. "come on, we have to get to the restaurant, if worse comes to worse, maybe seeing you will calm him down." Jiraiya said getting up from his chair. "You mean like get him to stay in Konoha?" "Well that would be nice. But I meant worst case scenario." Suddenly three words rushed through Tsunade's head massive emotional stress "he wouldn't." she said. "I don't know Tsunade, think about it. If you grew up in a village that treated you like shit, made multiple attempts on your life and done all of the other things that this village has done to that boy. All for something you had no control over. And then ¾ of the very small amount of people that while maybe not your friends, at least noticed you, started to call you a demon. I don't know about you Tsunade, but my emotions would be running pretty high, and I know I'd get even." Jiraiya then turned his back and headed for the door. "Wait, you said he would tell them at the meeting I set up at Ichkaru's. He doesn't even know about that yet." "I wouldn't bet on that Tsunade, all in all he is still best suited for head on confrontations, much like Kakashi, but he didn't earn the title ghost for nothing. With his eyes, Naruto is one hell of a scout, that and if he doesn't want to be seen, as you saw when we first arrived, he is damn near impossible to detect. But come on, a ramen restaurant awaits." That said the two old teammates left the office hoping for the best… and dreading the worst.

The Konoha 12 and there respective jounin's all waited in Ichkaru's wondering what Naruto would be like after al these years. Some were talking, Shikamaru and Shino had started a game of shogi, some people (Choji) ate some ramen while they waited, lee went on about the flames of youth and had a hugging session with Gai. But what caught the jounin's off guard were three things. The first was that Jiraiya and Tsunade came in wordlessly, and then went and stood in the corner as if they didn't want to be here. The second was Jiraiya had yet to do anything even remotely perverted, and the last. Tsunade looked… afraid. "What do you think is up with them?" Kurenai asked the masked jounin beside her. "Hmm… not sure, though I have a bad feeling that it has something to do with Naruto. Ah and speak of the devil."

That very moment the door to the restaurant opened and for the first time in three years everyone got a good look at all that was Naruto. The boy that left was gone and in his place stood this, Naruto was a respectable 6' and wore black baggy pants that had orange stripe down the side. Up top he had a skintight black tank top that was completely plain. They had never seen the peace of armor he was wearing though, he had a metal shoulder guard over his left shoulder, nothing fancy but it was held on by two straps. One went down to the right side of his waist and hooked on there. The other went just under the arm and didn't attach. Naruto's left arm was covered by a long loose sleeve that attached to the shoulder guard and stopped about halfway down the boy's hand. The sleeve itself was black with orange flames on the bottom. At Naruto's side was a long sword, not unbelievably long but longer than most full length katanas. Its Sheath was jet black and the handle was wrapped in silver and black lacing. He had his kunai and shuriken holsters on his left leg and on his right was a scroll holder with three scrolls. The last thing was his right arm was bandaged up to the up to the elbow almost like lee. "Hey Naruto, Why are you wearing all your armor?" Jiraiya said, already knowing the answer. "Ha, well you know me Ero-sennen, first impressions." Naruto said trademark grin in place. Almost instantly all of the Konoha twelve were up and questioning the blond.

Kurenai however stayed back, she looked to her side to see kakashi had dropped his book and the two sannen just looked… sad. It looks like they all saw it too. She thought. She defiantly caught it as for some reason the boy had made eye contact with her. Those eyes, those were the eyes of someone who has seen far too much in his lifetime. She had seen that look before, and those were eyes that promised pain to anyone stupid enough to cross him, the eyes of a person who has had enough, and was done being kind about it.

Meanwhile Naruto was trying to fight his way through the crowd. "Naruto, after three years it seems the fire of youth still burns brightly within you, and therefore I challenge you, my eternal rival, to a friendly spar. Do you accept my challenge?" Well, lee's the same. "I'm sorry Lee, but I think the fires of youth may be in very short supply today." "Naruto, what is wrong my friend, your tone of voice is very un-youthful." At this everyone turned and looked at Naruto questioningly, after all what could be wrong he just got home. "A-ano N-Naruto-kun, if s-something is wrong p-please t-tell us." Everyone was surprised that Hinata was the one to ask, but soon they all turned back to Naruto when TenTen spoke up. "She's right Naruto, if something's wrong you should tell us, this party is for you after all." there was another long silence until Naruto finally spoke. "Damn, I was hoping you guys could enjoy the party first but it looks like there is no getting out of it. Everybody take a seat, this is a hell of a story."

Everyone found a seat and Naruto stood up in front, took a deep breath, and started to explain. "Unfortunately my return today has all the makings of being most… un-youthful. Though I doubt any of the Konoha twelve have cared enough to notice, but with the exception of the people in this room everyone in Konoha hates me, has made an attempt on my life, or planned an attempt for someone else. Today I tell you why, what do you all know of the Kyuubi no kitsune?" After a few seconds it was Shino who answered. "The Kyuubi no kitsune is the greatest of the greater demons. A nine tailed fox to be more precise. 16 years ago the Kyuubi attacked Konoha and in the battle the fourth sacrificed his life to kill the Kyuubi. The date I believe was October 10." "Very good Shino, however that story is not entirely true. Every textbook in Konoha will tell you otherwise but the Kyuubi did not die that day. The fourth was unable to kill the Kyuubi and did the next best thing; he sealed it away for all eternity. For this he needed to seal it into a human so that when the person died, so would the Kyuubi. Problem number 2 was that the person couldn't have a developed chakra system or the Kyuubi would break it and get free, so in short he had to seal it into a baby." Slowly but surly Naruto stared to lift his shirt and focus chakra into his stomach. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I am 16 years old, I was born on October 10, and I was that child." Everyone's eyes widened and their jaws dropped as what was just told to them sunk in. But before anyone had a chance to say anything a flash of light went off in the room. When there vision came back they saw something the wished didn't happen, Sakura of all people had tried to punch Naruto and Naruto had simply lifted his hand and blocked the punch.

"You monster, it's all your fault, it's your fault my father died. It's your fault all of my family is gone, it's your fault Sasuke left you demon!" Sakura said. Naruto saw all the hate in her eyes, and this time… he snapped. "You know what Sakura, maybe… just maybe, your right. If you, no, if this whole damn village wants a demon so bad, maybe is about time I obliged." Everyone just stood in shock at Naruto's words as he threw Sakura to the ground as if she was a rag doll. Naruto turned to the rest of the people in the restraint and finished what he came here to do. "Well since id say I have a good idea on your views of the matter at hand." He started to reach up to his head. "I think it's time I take my lea…" "Naruto stop right there, if you move that forehead protector one inch from where it is now I'll..." "You'll what Tsunade, kill me? Then by all means go ahead, you'll be a national hero, bigger than the fourth. I can see it now, all the kids will get out of school for July 19, the day the great Gondame Hokage truly killed the Kyuubi and the Kyuubi brat." Naruto laughed as he dropped his headband on the floor and started to walk out. But what he did next truly shocked everyone there. "Oh and Hinata" he said over his shoulder. "I'm sorry, if I ruined your birthday." That done he set a small wrapped box on the table and left, leaving a very confused group of ninja in his wake."

Then almost as one the room turned there attention to the shy Hyuuga in the back. "Well Hinata, is it?" lee said "a-ano it i-is my b-birthday." Hinata said through tears "then this belongs to you" Tsunade said as she handed the girl the present. The young Hyuuga grabbed the box and sprinted out the door. Naruto, please let me get there in time. Tsunade stood, a little surprised at the young heiress, but continued. "Alright, anyone who still wants Naruto to continue being a ninja of this village. Get to the main gate but do NOT attack or threaten him, Naruto will go to his house to get his things so we should be able to make it to the gate first."

After the ordered chaos of following out the hokages orders only three people ware still in the room. And Kakashi watched fearful as Tsunade bent down to pick up Naruto's headband and then walked over to Sakura. Tsunade was less that pleased, understatement of the century. That's like saying Sasuke was a little stuck up. But she was the Hokage and as such she kept her temper down as she walked over to the girl on the ground, and whispered in her ear. "I saw that punch Sakura" then she stood back up and continued. "Consider your self no longer my apprentice, and no longer a ninja. Give your headband to kakashi on the way out." That done Tsunade hurried off to the gate with the others.

Strangely Sakura noted that Kakashi had stopped beside her and taken his nose out of his book. "You know something Sakura, when we all got our genin students at the academy; I thought I was the luckiest and unluckiest guy there. After all, I got Sasuke Uchiha, the Uchiha prodigy and rookie of the year. Then I got Haruno Sakura, the smartest female Nin of the age. Then… I got Uzumaki Naruto, the load mouthed demon brat. Never in my life have I been so wrong about a group of kids. Ha, Sasuke was a traitorous bastard; Naruto was the only one to turn out to be a loyal and good ninja, although you just screwed that out the window. While probably earning Konoha an enemy that makes Orochimaru look fickle. But you, Haruno Sakura are without a doubt the biggest failure of my life. Even the Uchiha could see that the Kyuubi and Naruto are different beings when he was forced to tell him at the valley of the end. Oh well nothing can be done now" kakashi said as he took her headband and went after the Hokage.

Naruto was walking down the street and the gate was just coming into view. Thanks to some very useful space manipulation jutsu's and his newly acquired ability to seal things in scrolls; almost everything he owned was carried on his body. He was still wearing his armor though it had a few surprises tucked away now. In his long sleeve he had about 40 senbon needles (they worked the best with his blood limit, and they were easy to store.) thanks to the space jutsu he had about 25 shuruken and 15 kunai packed away in his holsters. In his scrolls he had sealed away his personal belongings. Things ranged from picture frames to utility items, but he had everything he needed. And as he approached the gate, there in his way stood the only three people ever to accept him. He didn't even notice that his eyes had activated and were now black.

"Here he comes." Said Jiraiya "remember if we want him to stay or at least not level Konoha we have to try and calm him down, NO THREATS OF ANY TYPE!" the masked jounin was a little confused about the leveling Konoha, but he figured the hokage would fill him in later. Then for the first time Jiraiya gat a good look at the boy's eyes. He paled as he realized they had just stopped spinning, and were starting to turn red. "Get out of my way Jiraiya, you too kakashi. I'm leaving one way or another, but I really don't want to have to go through you two to do it. Don't get me wrong however, I assure I will" Naruto said as he stopped and raised the growing blue orb in front of him. "Naruto think about what your doing." Tsunade said as she stepped out from behind Jiraiya. "If you use that here think of how many people are going to die. It's about 15,000 Naruto; do you really want to kill them?" Naruto started fighting in his head, if he used his jutsu now he would kill the only person who ever really loved him. Battles raged on trying to find out whether or not he could release it, he was still leaving alright, but he didn't know if he could… but he had to keep up the show. Just then he noticed the Konoha twelve minus Kiba, Sasuke, and Sakura standing off to the side in awe, even Neji was there. "15,000 people, who have done what Tsunade, treat me like I'm a demon. Really I'm just doing the crime; they all punished me for it when I hadn't done anything. So, I think it's about time I got to have my end of the deal." That was it, the boy had convinced everyone there that he had no trouble doing this…. except the one that mattered. Tsunade could see it, she could see that she had found the old Naruto in there somewhere, she had gotten him to listen, now she just had to finish it off. But surprisingly Naruto spoke again.

"You know I had planned this for three weeks Tsunade, three weeks I've had to plan what I would do if things turned out for the worst. And in that time I swore upon my ninja way that no matter how bad it went, I would not resort to violence, I swore I would leave peacefully, and most importantly I swore I would never even think about using this attack." "Then why are you, you always keep your promises, that's what you used to say!" Everyone turned to see that it was Neji who had spoken. "Because Neji-san, not in three weeks and in my dreams could I have predicted how badly things would actually play out." Naruto said "Please Naruto, I do not follow, if you had three weeks and were expecting the worst surely you would have foreseen someone getting mad and attacking you." Lee said confused. "Ha, I guess you guys still don't know, why don't you tell them Tsunade? Tell them all what really happened at ichkaru's." damn Tsunade thought now they went and reminded him of why he did this in the first place. She sighed and turned to the group of chuunin. "Neji, Hinata, if you look at Naruto's left hand you'll see that all the bones were recently broken and some are still fractured." Both said teens instantly activated there eyes and nodded to confirm the hokages previous statement. Suddenly it all made sense to the lazy chuunin in the middle. "Wait Tsunade I think the Nara might have something." Naruto interrupted. Everyone turned to look at said boy to see him standing with his eyes wide in surprise. "Well are you going to fill us in or what Shikamaru?" Ino asked. Suddenly he snapped back into the real world and started trying to explain. "Um, with the Kyuubi in him Naruto has healing abilities far above that of the normal ninja. Think about it, the only way Naruto's hand would still be damaged after this long would be if Sakura used the super strength move in that punch. Back in Ichkaru's I noticed that Sakura had aimed for Naruto's temple, at first I thought she was just trying to deck him. But if you add in Tsunade's super strength… Sakura just tried to kill Naruto." He said his eyes still wide with shock. The look soon spread to everyone there, even Kakashi was surprised. "Bingo, somebody get this man his money" Naruto said as he turned back to the hokage.

"And that is why I am going to take this damn village down, even if it means I have to kill the only three people that ever accepted me."

Damn it, Tsunade though and as she tried to think of another plan when help came from somewhere no one saw coming. "The four people who accepted you Naruto, you'll have to go through me too" Kurenai said as she stepped forward between Kakashi and Tsunade. Wait, she cares? Naruto though, the doubt re-entering his mind. No, this is just a trick of Tsunade's. "Oh really, and just how much is our grand hokage paying you to say that. After all, you've never really meet me, you have no idea who or what I am. So tell me why you seem to care so much?" the boy said with a sarcastic tone. "Naruto I'm not paying her anything and in all truth I'm surprised she would step in the way for y…" Tsunade stopped as Kurenai held her hand up. "You know what, your completely right Naruto, well except that I was paid." The jounin said "I have never actually met you, in all honesty until today the only way I've known you is by reputation. You asked why if all this is true I am willing to do this? Look to your left Naruto, look at all the people and tell me who are the two at the end." Said boy turned his head to look, and then turned back to Kurenai. "it' just Hinata and Shino, your students if I remember correctly." "Correct Naruto; now let me fill you in on a little something. Those two that you just pointed out, those two are both the closest thing I have to a family, and the reason I'm willing to do this. You may not yet know it, but you helped those two more than you could have imagined. Shino used to never come out unless we had training or a mission, he was so afraid that people would be scared of him for the bug he carries with him. You were the first person beside his family and his team that ever made an effort to get to know him. I believe when he described the first time you meet when he reluctantly told you about the bugs, he was completely expecting you to run away. According to him you're response once you saw it was an ear shattering 'KICK ASS' and then you asked him to teach you. Ever since then he has started to come out more and more, he has started to make more and more friends. You have no idea how happy I was when he first told me someone had accepted and even though his ability's were cool." Kurenai said as she pointed over at Shino. Naruto looked over to see Shino nodding his head. Now everyone could see the doubt on Naruto's face, but the good was still losing the war. The boy opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by the jounin.

"I wasn't done yet Naruto; there is still one more person of the two." Hinata instantly paled in fear, Kurenai was the only person she told her secret to. What if she told Naruto?! "you again have no idea how much you helped Hinata, Hinata as everyone knows has always had a bit of a confidence problem. It used to be that she would never raise her voice, she would never say anything even if she thought something was wrong, and when she did finally speak up she was so nervous that she would stutter all the way through. She was always afraid to fight because she thought she was too weak, this wasn't her fault. It was that basterd Hiashi who pounded it into her head. All this happened until about three years ago during the chuunin exams, in the preliminaries. That day for the first time I saw the closest thing I have to a daughter fight to win with a determination I thought I would never see. Why do you ask? Honestly I don't know if it was because she started to believe in herself, but I do know it was because someone else truly believed in her for the first time. That person was you Naruto; you were the inspiration to help her start to pick away at the barriers her father had put up over the years. In all truth you are kind of still her inspiration, now tell me how Hinata and Shino are going to feel if there inspiration and the first person to try and make friends with them blows up their entire village and then disappears. Huh?" Hinata meanwhile had invented a new shade of red. Her sensei hadn't quite told anybody, but she came awfully close.

That was it the last straw, there was no way he could do this, not when Kurenai put it like that. He could never hurt his precious people. Wait… No, he had to leave; he had to take all those people down a peg. But Tsunade, kakashi, Jiraiya, and now Kurenai, Hinata, and Shino were all hanging in the hopes that he would not destroy everything theave ever know. It was then that he made is decision.

"Very well, you win. You have my word that nothing will happen to Konoha this day." Naruto said just as he started to regain control. "On the condition that you all stand down and let me leave. I still have to release this jutsu and I can only hold it for so long." He said as he started walking towards the gate. Suddenly Tsunade jumped out in front of him and started talking. "I won't let you leave Naruto, you may not think it but there are still people who care about you" she said as she put herself between him and the gate. "She's right you know," it was kakashi who spoke "Naruto I know I made mistakes as your teacher, I know I played favorites with Sasuke, and I know I didn't treat you fairly. Now I will try and make up for that. No one here wants you to leave; even the other jounin's want you to stay. But that's my two cents worth Naruto; this is your life, and your choice." The boy turned to see everyone nodding there heads and started to worry, then it happened, the final nail in the coffin. "Naruto" Tsunade said "Jiraiya told me you spent much of the three years you were away looking for you parents. If you stay in Konoha, I can help you." That was it, his mind overflowed and the floodgates opened, all the feelings he was locking away cam rushing out in only a few sentences.

"DAMN IT, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SO HUCH EASYER IF YOU ALL JUST HATED ME LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!!! WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH ANYWAY, CANT YOU ALL SEE I'M A FREAKING DEMO…" he was interrupted by a small pair of hands wrapping around him from behind, not threateningly, but with the fingers laced to not let go. "Don't ever say that Naruto-kun. You are Naruto Uzumaki and you never give up. You are under no circumstances a demon." Said boy turned in the young girl's arms to see Hyuuga Hinata talking through tears. "I'm sorry Hinata, but the boy you speak of… died about forty-five minutes ago at a place called ichkaru's. It is unfortunate to say that I truly am a de…" "I said stop Naruto, would a demon have helped me and shino all those years ago? Would a demon have spared Sakura after what she did? WOULD A DEMON HAVE REMEMBERED MY BIRTHDAY?" Hinata almost yelled through her tears. Everyone's jaw dropped at what had transpired, Hinata had gone to stop Naruto, almost yelled in the process, and while the words were slurred a bit from the tears not once did she stutter.

It was then Naruto noticed a silver glare around her neck, he instantly recognized the necklace he bought for her in wave. It had silver chains that lead down to a teardrop shaped pearl that had a small diamond inside and centered placed into it. "Hinata I have to ask you to let go. I have to release this jutsu soon and if your anywhere near me you'll die. Besides, you of all people know what its like to stay in a place where nobody loves you, I have to leave." As she heard this her grip on the boy tightened. "No Naruto I'm not letting go, not when you so badly need me to hold on." Naruto locked eyes with Hinata and got lost in a sea of lavender. There was something about her eyes, something in those never ending lavender eye's that calmed him down. Suddenly he felt like he would do anything if just to get this girl to stop crying. He didn't know why, but he would. "Hinata I hope you understand that I am truly sorry for this but I can't hold this jutsu any longer, HOKAGE-SAMA PLEASE CATCH HINATA AS IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF SHE WERE TO GET HURT."

Everyone was confused until they saw Naruto throw Hinata, forcing her to let go, the entire 100 foot distance where Tsunade caught the frightened young girl. After seeing Hinata was safe Naruto checked around, good there is no one within 100 feet. They should survive the blast. Naruto thought as he started to release the jutsu. Everyone watched in horror as the very ground beneath the boys feet began to crumble and raise up as if gravity didn't exist. Suddenly as they saw his eyes pulse a crimson wave from the center outward, he raised his hand and pointed it up towards the sky. "Armageddon's Faunally" he whispered as he finally let it go. Within an instant everyone there was thrown back by the sheer power of the attack, and when they were collected enough, all they could do was stare at the blue beam of light that had erupted from Naruto's hand. It seemed as if the clouds had parted, as if sound had run away in fear, and as if time itself had stopped as they looked upon the attack that almost meant the demise of there home. All stood in shock, Kakashi suddenly wasn't wondering about what the hokage had meant when she said 'level Konoha' Oh my god thought Kakashi this thing wouldn't just level Konoha. It would have done that and then leveled everything for the next five miles. As the blast started to come to and everyone just stared, too scared to move, too scared to breath. As one the all looked to where the blast had come from.

There in the middle of a ten foot crater was Uzumaki Naruto, his shirt and armor shredded and long gone, his pants had the left leg torn off but his hitai-tie was completely untouched. And so he was, sitting there in the hole using his arm to support himself. Slowly but shurly, he started to stand.

He should be out cold. Thought Jiraiya and there's now way he should be able to stand.

"I know what you thinking Jiraiya." Naruto said in forced words "and your right. Soon ill run out of chakra and it will be a much smaller scale of the first time this happened. But I didn't put all my chakra into it like I'm supposed to. That's why the blast was so small and why I'm not out like a light.

It almost couldn't be real. There wasn't a scratch on him, but four people knew that that was his exterior, his inside was a mess. Tsunade could tell because she was a medic, Jiraiya had seen it before, and the Hyuuga's could see with there eyes, but to everyone else, Naruto was in top shape. "Hokage-sama" Tsunade shivered at the name, for some reason it just didn't sound right coming from the kid." I have no intention of running from Konoha, so don't bother wasting your time. Also, in two months I expect a folder with everything Konoha knows about my family, until we meet again." Then Naruto was gone again.

"damn, I got to get him to teach me how to do that." Tsunade said. Then out of the corner of her eye she saw Kakashi rounding up a team of ANBU. "Don't bother Kakashi, you wont find him." She then looked over to Kurenai and Hinata. "And thank you two, you both served both me and Konoha above and beyond the expectations, if you two had not done what you did, there would be far more damage than a 10 foot crater." Unsurprisingly it was Kurenai who spoke. "Thank you hokage-sama, but I didn't do it for you." She said as she motioned to the girl beside her. "Y-yes, t-thank you hokage-sama, b-but u-understand that in n-no way did I d-do it for Konoha."

Naruto suddenly faded into existence and looked around. "yup, just the way I left it." This was his sanctuary, his hideout. It was so well hidden that the ANBU would have trouble finding the place, and was rigged with enough traps to make a kage sweat, Unless you knew the safe way through of course. It wasn't much just a small shack with a bed, some med supplies, and some food. The med supplies was here because this was where he would escape from the villagers attacks when he was younger, and sometimes he came in hurt pretty badly. The bed and the food were there because sometimes it would take awhile for the villagers to cool off, and he needed a place to stay. But that didn't matter, if he didn't stop wasting chakra soon he wouldn't be around to care much longer. And in good anime fashion, he was asleep before his pillow hit the bed.

Suddenly he found himself in a long hallway, it was a nice place, one of those hallways you would see in traditional Japanese temples. He knew this place all two well, here was where he trained in his sleep, sometimes played games, and even just sat around, This was his home if ever he had one. Then he walked through the door at the end into a massive room, and there in the middle sat a beautiful woman staring at a shogi board. She stood a respectable 5'7' and was wearing a blue kimono. She had jet black hair and deep green eyes that you could lose yourself in. her hair was pulled up into a bun and held there by a pair of hair sticks. Naruto walked over to the other side of the board and moved a pawn forward. "Your move, Kyu-chan."

It was now 10:00 and Tsunade, Jiraiya, and a clean up team was all that was left. Jiraiya meanwhile watched his old teammate. While it would be nothing compared to what Naruto was going though, this would traumatize her too, and he still had to make sure she saw the truth about Naruto. Reluctantly he walked up and put a hand on Tsunade's shoulder. "I swear Jiraiya if you touch me in anyway that could even be close to perverted I assure you, you will not wake up tomorrow. I'm really not up to this right now." Tsunade said as she watched the ANBU leave. "I know Tsunade, but you still need to come to terms with something else. As big as what your going through right now you still have to remember Naruto, What that boy went through today makes mass trauma look like a gift from god. You need to understand that whenever Naruto decides or is healthy enough to come out again, odds are he won't be the same person. As much as I hate to admit it, the boy was right earlier today. Uzumaki Naruto died today at a little ramen restaurant called Ichkaru's. You need to accept it and move on, especially if you still want to try and adopt the boy." Jiraiya said trying to force a smile at the end "how do you know about that?" Tsunade asked trying to keep herself together. She wouldn't break down in public, she was the hokage. If people saw her crying, she could only imagine the chaos. "I'm not one of the best spies in the world for nothing Tusa-chan" Jiraiya was hoping her old nickname would cheer her up. "But like I said before, Naruto is uncommonly sharp, period. I suggest you get around to asking him before he takes it upon himself to find out."

That was it; she couldn't take this anymore, she didn't care if anyone saw her. Jiraiya just froze as his teammate buried her head into his shoulder and started crying.
Only once in here life had anyone ever seen her cry, and that was the day Dan and Nawaki died. Jiraiya silently cursed, any other situation and she was practically throwing herself at him. But unfortunately his perverted side had to step down once more as the woman's well being to precedence. "Come on Tsunade let's get to your office, weather you like it or not your still the Hokage, and you've got work to do." He saw the depressed look on his teammates face and felt so bad, she had stopped crying but he could tell that even if she managed to get something done it would be shoddy work at best. "On second thought Tsunade, let's get you home. I'll fill in for you tomorrow so you can recover." He saw the smile on his teammates face and relaxed. This would be the first time in a while he had helped somebody without asking for anything in return, but she needed it. Physically she was fine, but mentally she was a mess. Damn thought Tsunade. I never thought I would ever have to thank Jiraiya.

Two weeks later…

Tsunade was sitting at her desk, folder in one hand, and evaluations in the other. God she hated the yearly evaluations. She enjoyed seeing how the ninja progressed, and it helped get missions done with far less casualties, but god there was a lot of paperwork! The folder in the other hand was what Naruto had requested. She didn't know how he would take it, but this was what he asked for. Yes, she knew he didn't want it for a little while yet but they already had everything sitting in a file so all she could do was watch the dust gather on it.

She set the folder aside however because she was getting to the only interesting part about evaluations, the Konoha twelve. With anticipation she opened Kurenai's file.

Aburume Shino.

Age: 16

Sex: male

Rank: chuunin

Statistics:

Ninjutsu: 258

Tiajutsu: 294

Genjutsu: 288

Speed: 310

Agility: 260

Strength: 314

Notes: Shino is an Aburume and as such he has an affinity with kilika bugs. He can use them for tracking, gathering info, and upping his abilities in certain areas. His primary class is tracker and subclass is assassin, also like the rest of his clan shino very much prides himself on his knowledge and not letting anything cloud his judgment.

Hyuuga Hinata

Age: 16

Sex: female

Rank: chuunin

Statistics

Ninjutsu: 217

Tiajutsu: 298 (with Jyuuken)

Genjutsu: 254

Speed: 290

Agility: 347

Strength: 198

Notes: Hyuuga Hinata has the doujutsu and bloodline Beakugan; she is also the current heir to the head of the household. Hinata also has great potential however her self confidence is very low. This I have reason to believe was caused because of family problems at home. Also the young Hyuuga has an infatuation with said shinobi Uzumaki Naruto. I personally agree with her choice however with her shyness I don't know if she will ever be able to tell him. Said boy also seems to have a positive effect on Hinata as seen in the chuunin exams three years ago. Her primary class is scout with her beakugan.

PERSONAL NOTES: As I have said before with the loss of Kiba Inuzuka from team 8, we are now a three man team. As accomplished as I believe my team is it is still unwise to do anything above C class missions without a fourth to help us in dangerous situations. Therefore I must request a permanent replacement that will work well with my team, and be a trustworthy teammate. Preferably someone who works well as a scout as Hinata's beakugan is amazing but she only has so much chakra and can't be awake all the time. It MUST however be someone with high levels of abilities in head on confrontations as no one on team 8 is well suited for this position and head on confrontations do happen. Unfortunately when this occurs the only person we have that can even do anything is shino and like I said this is not his forte. In short, should team 8 take a B or higher mission and are found while scouting or the mission itself calls for direct fighting, the chances of survival of my team are slim at best. Please try to find an addition to our team as it is dangerous to continue in the current situation. Thank you.

Yuuhi Kurenai.

Tsunade sighed as she put down the folder, she knew very well of Kurenai's situation and if she were her she would be mad too, but there just weren't any ninja available. Not to mention the catastrophe that was team 7. That however was the end of the evaluations as Kakashi no longer had a team too evaluate. "Damn this job." Tsunade said to the wall. "Damn Sasuke for being a traitor, damn the Inuzuka for moving to suna, and damn the Kyuubi for starting it all." She said as she poured herself a glass of sake. "you know you really should watch who you insult human, your one of only about 6 of your kind to earn my respect and that and the kit is the only reason I wont kill you for that."

Tsunade whipped around in her desk to find herself staring into the blood read eyes of a woman she had never seen before. But knowledge of her or not she had deadliness rolling off her in waves. Then as she walked around the hokages desk her eyes reverted to there normal deep green and Tsunade put two and two together. "Wait, Kyuubi?" Tsunade looked her up and down and even with her figure; let's just say she was envious. "Indeed, and you would do well to remember it. Also don't worry; I can separate from Naruto at his consent for a set amount of time. He knows I am here, and I don't plan on destroying anything right now. Right now, I have business that needs attending to." She said as she sat opposite the hokage. "Really? I'm sorry but I must ask if you know anything about Naruto, Jiraiya said this might have really changed him." Kyuubi just laughed and got to the point. "That is the reason I am here, although you may not believe me, I care about the kit just as much as you do, and this thing really did change him. Over the past two weeks that smile he used to wear is replaced with an almost constant frown and sometimes a smirk. His demeanor itself is cold and his eyes no longer have that light that everyone always saw in him. But the old Naruto is there, locked away behind so many doors that its almost completely gone. I want that old Naruto back just as much as you do, enough so that I am willing to set aside my pride."

Tsunade shifted in her confusion, not only was THE Kyuubi having a civil conversation with her it seemed that she was just as worried about Naruto as she was and was now talking about pride. "As much as it pains me to ask help of a human, I can't get to Naruto by myself, something about this place got to him two weeks ago even when I could not talk sense into him. I am now asking your help Tsunade, we both have the same goal, and I'm very sure we won't be able to do it on our own. I will try to keep setting him on the right path for now, but I have the feeling that only something from this world can bring him back. So once again I ask you, Please… Please." Tsunade just sat in shock, its not every day you have a conversation with a demon, much less a greater demon, much less the greatest of demons, and even more so have them almost beg for your help.

Suddenly Tsunade snapped too and realized Kyuubi was waiting. "Of course, I would do anything to help my otouto. However I must see if you can give me an estement of Naruto's power, Jiraiya told me about his blood limit and his genjutsu but he never really gave me an actual level." Suddenly Kyuubi had a folder in her hand "I think that if Naruto and your prized copy ninja both got serious, they would probably be deadlocked until later on where Naruto would just out last him, for any details, it all in here." she said as she handed Tsunade the folder. "What is this?" Tsunade asked "its Naruto's evaluation, don't worry I did it to Konoha's standards. Oh and a word of the wise, don't make the mistake of underestimating that kid Tsunade, he hates that. Orochimaru and Sasuke are underestimating him by stopping trying to kill him all together, and the Akatsukiare doing the same by giving him time to get stronger, because that's all it is now, a matter of time."

"Right now however I must go, the kit will wake from his healing soon and I need to be there." Tsunade got up and walked around the desk to the Kyuubi. "wait you said Naruto was unconscious. When did that happen, I saw the way his chakra paths looked after that attack and while they were falling apart, for his body to heal he would have only needed about 48 hours of rest." To this Kyuubi responded "Maybe I should educate you on the gravity of the situation, that attack that you all saw two weeks ago was nothing, the first time he did that it was bigger. As the perverted one probably told you it took a couple of months to wake up, that's because when that particular attack is used it uses all the chakra in the boys body, his and mine. Somehow he was able to stop it from using up my chakra at all and still save enough of his to stay conscious for about three minutes. I don't know how, the last time it was uncontrollable and drained everything in his body. I think that this was a one time occurrence and next time, should we be unlucky enough to have one he will not be able to hold it back. As for why he is out for so long I don't know, it's just what happens. Now, as I said before I must go." Tsunade watched as the woman stepped out of her office and looked at the file in her hand.

Naruto, thought Tsunade as she opened the file. Holy shit.

Uzumaki Naruto

Age: 16

Sex: Male

Rank: Missing Nin

Statistics

Ninjutsu: 523

Tiajutsu: 512

Genjutsu: 0

Speed: 503

Agility: 549

Strength: 467

Notes: Naruto is the single possessor of the Snipers pact doujutsu; I believe said details have already been explained so I shall not go into detail. Also as you saw above Naruto has no ability to cast Genjutsu. The boy is also an excellent tactician in battle, though not very good away from it like in planning positions for war like the Nara, he can come up with instant strategies for 3-4 People if he knows a good deal about them in any situation. As of now Naruto Knows around 600 Jutsu and most of them are long lost, forgotten in the sands of time. His trap skills are also very high and even without genjutsu he can stay hidden unbelievably well. I once again urge you not to underestimate him as it is easy to do, and thank you for your help. Naruto has a fighter/scout classing.

Tsunade set the file on her desk and sighed, it had oh so respectively reminded her that Naruto was now a missing nin since he resigned and could resign with any nation he wanted. This was, in good Nara fashion, troublesome. She looked over to her clock, wow 11:30 already I've got to get home. With said thought she locked up and left for her house, knowing tomorrow was the day Naruto came back… again.

Two weeks later and I'm still cursing my promises. Thought Naruto as he approached the gate once more. Come on kit they accept you now; you should try and make some friends. Kyuubi replied in his head. Uh, no thanks Kyu-chan in case you haven't noticed friends get you nowhere but trouble. He thought back. Ok kit but you still need to get the human to heal you, your not even close to in top form yet, so no fighting. Fine, fine, you win, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. He was no longer wearing his armor for missions but was now in his normal clothes. They weren't much different; instead of the long sleeved shoulder guard he wore a black jacket that had a stripe of orange going across the top half. The only other difference was instead of three scrolls on his leg he now had four, and he wasn't wearing his sword. that and since he didn't have his headband anymore his longer blond hair fell a bit into his face.

"Halt, state your name and business in Konoha" said the chuunin guard at the gate. Naruto's fist clenched, he didn't want to have to do this, it would be so much easier just to blast his way in. uh un Naruto, no fighting. Fine. "My name is of little importance, all I ask is an audience with the hokage and then hopefully I can leave. Please go to Tsunade-sama and tell her I'm back." The guard was confused but seeing the mans decreased state of health he complied. "Very well but you are not to move from that spot until I return" he said as he motioned for some of the other guards to come watch the man. "Since you have refused to give any information about yourself we have grounds to kill you if we even think anything is up, please give us no reason to do so." Naruto just laughed "Ha, you could try gatekeeper, you could try." He said in a voice that sent shivers down the guard's spine. " suku, i want you to watch this one, i don't trust him one bi..." "as well you shouldn't" Naruto cut him off "but i am in a hurry and the quicker you get the hokage the quicker i can leave." he finished staring at the guard. "very well stranger, i shall ask the hokage." the guard said as he took off towards the tower. "well i guess there is nothing left to do but wait."

now he really did have to wait, Naruto hated waiting so he decided he mine as well sit down, so he turned, walked over to a tree and sat down. then he reached into his bag to pull out his book... "stop! what are you pulling out?" said a female voice. interesting thought Naruto i never thought they would put a Hyuuga on the gate. "why don't you look for yourself love? after all, that beakugan of yours is quite a bloodline" he said as he looked the girl in the eyes. my god, she cant be more than twelve years old. "let's see, headband around the neck, about twelve, long hair, you must be Hyuuga hanabi, the younger of the two heirs, correct? ha, that young and already a chuunin, Congratulations." hanabi was astounded, this stranger knew so much, how was that possible. "yes, i am Hyuuga Hanabi, however i must ask how you know both my name and so much about my family?" she replied "also i am not a chuunin yet, we are still genin and this is a low c-ranked mission, the man who went to get the hokage is our sensei." she spoke with a stuck up, high and mighty voice, but then with the exception of Hinata that is pretty much what he had come to expect of the Hyuuga. "lets just say that your reputation precedes both you and your kin, and i mean that in the absolute worst way possible, with the exception of your older sister of course." hanabi was sent for a loop, this... person, not only just insulted her and her family, but said that Hinata was better than them. "oh no mister you got that reversed, Hinata is the failure and has been all her life, she is a nobody and doesn't deserve to be called a Hyuuga." Naruto looked the girl up and down almost as if he was trying to figure something out. "Nope, i have to say i was quite right the first time, and how lowly you speak of your own sister proves my point, expectably after she saved you all." confused hanabi tilted her head as if trying to ask what he meant. "oh well, it will probably still be awhile so im going to take a nap." he finished as he leaned against a tree. "Wait, i still didn't get your name." hanabi asked. and just before he closed his eye's he responded "that's because i didn't give it." hanabi was starting to get angry and as she went to kick him she realized he had already fallen asleep! she really was starting to dislike this person... whoever the hell he was.