Hey yall. Sorry I took forever on the last one again. School started, basketball started, soccer ended, that's good, and I'm in 5 AP classes. It was just difficult for me to do this. But I'm on Christmas break right now so hopefully I'll be able to finish another chapter in this time. I have four days left. Yippe! Soooooooooo once again. Here we go.
Suna's Fire Fox
"Speaking"
"Thoughts"
Flashbacks
"Demon/Summon speaking"
"Demon/Summon thoughts"
Jutsu name or Jutsu
Disclaimer: I own nothing but a car.
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"Naruto….Naruto…hey! You dumb blonde! Listen!"
Naruto jerked his head up and looked around, too see everyone looking at him. The rookie 9 plus Naruto decided to go out to eat again. It's become a weekly basis for them to do this. Right now they were at the barbeque that the Akamichi family owned. Since Chouji was part of the family, they always got discounts. And to Naruto's delight, they sold ramen there.
Kiba had an annoyed look on his face, Naruto blushed sheepishly. "Sorry, I've had a lot on my mind recently."
It was true. Exactly one week has passed since his meeting with Ashi. Today was day where he had to make a choice. Naruto really couldn't think about anything else besides it. It was a very long week for Naruto.
Kiba sighed, "Whatever, did you hear what I said?"
Naruto chuckled, embarrassed. "Errr, no."
Kiba laughed a little, along with everyone else. "Well don't worry about it, just say yes."
Naruto blinked and shrugged. "Yeah."
Smirking, Kiba grinned at Shikamaru. "See? Naruto agrees with me."
The conversations continued, and Naruto smiled at the two of them. Naruto looked over at the girls talking and giggling in the corner. He smiled at them, they were all so pretty. Especially Sakura….
Naruto shook his head before anyone noticed, he looked over at all the sensei's in a different part of the restaurant. Denkou, Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai… They were all drinking and having a fun time. Naruto looked down at his empty ramen bowl.
He already knew exactly what he was going to say to Ashi. There was absolutely no way he would ever destroy Konoha, he loved it too much. Konoha wouldn't betray him either, especially Oji-san. Naruto looked out the window, at the passing people. Then he noticed something.
A figure dressed in all black, was leaning against a pole on the opposite side of the street. Naruto's eyes widened, He leaned in closer as if to get a better view. The figure, who's looks greatly resembled the man from Ashi one week ago. Naruto felt his heart beat quicken. Why would that man show him self?
The figure pushed himself off the pole and stood to his full height. A few people walked by, blocking Naruto's view from the man. Naruto felt his heart freeze and he stiffened. When the people passed again, the figure was gone. In it's place was a scroll, leaning against the pole on the ground. Naruto blinked, he looked around the table to see if anyone else noticed his quite obvious staring. Sasuke was the closest person to notice, and he was staring straight ahead at his food. The rest of the rookie 9 were too engrossed with their conversations.
Naruto stood up and he smiled at everyone who all briefly turned and looked at him. He gave a small wave, "I'll be right back, I have to go….um…to the bathroom."
Naruto turned and headed towards the bathroom. Everyone went back to their conversations. Sasuke watched Naruto leave, his eyes narrowed. He looked outside to the pole that Naruto was staring at intensely not even 5 minutes ago. He saw nothing of interest about the pole, and he turned back to the food he was eating.
Naruto opened the door to the bathroom and looked around for a window of some sort. Naruto frowned as he saw a really small window. He scowled at how small the window was. Looking around to make sure nobody was in the bathroom, Naruto opened it and stuck one leg out. Using chakra, he stuck his leg to the outside wall and attempted to climb out of the window. Naruto struggled for a little bit. Naruto looked up as he heard the bathroom door open, his eyes widened. Naruto got through at the last second and fell out the window, landing harshly on the ground.
He groaned and mumbled angrily about windows and rolled out of the view of the window. When he was a decent distance away he got up and dusted himself off. He looked out into the street then back to the window. He frowned, he couldn't take the risk of his friends seeing him. He suppressed his chakra, and henge'd into a dog. Naruto went over to the scroll leaning against the pole. Naruto checked around him before he picked it up in his mouth. He jogged back to the alley the bathroom window was in.
Cancelling his henge, he transformed back into his old self. He checked around him again and opened it up. Naruto read the scroll.
Training field 12
Midnight
Bring your answer, and no one will follow you
Ashi
Naruto rolled the scroll back up. He looked up at the wall across from him. So Ashi changed the meeting place. Strange. Naruto pocketed the scroll and peeked into the window again to see if anyone was in the bathroom. With much more grace this time, Naruto climbed back through the window and closed it.
He brushed himself off and was about to open the door to the bathroom, when it flew open. He blinked when Sasuke was eyeing the room, and Naruto. He was scowling.
Naruto tilted his masked head to the side, "Uh, can I help you teme?"
Sasuke ignored the snarky remark and looked Naruto up and down, "You were gone a long time, dobe."
Naruto kept his face blank, but felt his heart skip a beat. So Sasuke was paying attention… He shrugged, "The ramen here just didn't set very well with my stomach."
Sasuke eyed him, "We've eaten here before…"
Naruto kept eye contact, "Well today's was different."
Sasuke didn't move from the door frame for a while, he was staring at Naruto's masked face. Naruto's goggles were unreflective in the bathroom light. The only thing bright about Naruto right now was his hair and his eyes. His orange skin tight shirt was hidden by his cloak that was wrapped around him.
Sasuke finally stepped to the side, allowing Naruto to pass him. Sasuke followed him back to the table. When Naruto returned to the table he was greeted by chuckles and smiles, Kiba grinned at him.
"What did you do? Fall in or something?"
Naruto chuckled and scratched the back of his head sheepishly. He didn't answer that but he sat down and smiled at everyone. He leaned on his elbows and listened to the conversations, occasionally joining. Until an argument between Naruto and Chouji came up about which is better: Ramen or Barbeque ribs.
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Dark reigned over Konoha. A bright moon shining over the sky, giving the necessary light for someone to fight in. A black figure was sitting up in a tree at training ground 12. This figure was in fact Naruto. Contrary belief, the orange color that Naruto picked out didn't show much at night and was just as good as black or camo. It was very close to midnight. Naruto's goggles was pulled down over his eyes and was switched to thermo mode. His blonde hair was covered by his cloak. He was currently looking for any sign of light.
He has been sitting up there for a while now. Thinking and waiting to see where exactly this man will come from. Out of absolutely no where, a body showed up on Naruto's goggles. He tensed, wondering how in the hell did this man suddenly manifest all of his energy.
He watched as the man walked out into the clearing, standing alone and still. Naruto watched him for a little bit before he jumped off his branch and fell to the tree. He saw the man's head turn very slightly towards Naruto.
Naruto stood up to full height and pushed his goggles up. He blinked, allowing his eye sight to adjust to the new way of seeing things. He saw the man, and walked towards him.
Naruto stopped a good distance away from the man. He didn't say anything.
The figure tilted his head, "You are here. And you are here alone."
Naruto nodded, "I am."
The figure chuckled, "And you have an anser…?"
Naruto nodded again, "I do."
The figure smiled, "Good, now. What have you decided? Join Ashi? Or destroy Konoha?"
Naruto tensed up and took a defensive stance, "I neither. I will never join Ashi. Nor will I destroy Konoha."
The figure chuckled and took off his hood, showing messy short dark green hair. Naruto tensed even more. Then the figure pulled down his face mask, showing Naruto the rest of his head. Naruto blinked.
The man had a pale face, although it was very angular, almost like an elf. He had one scar on his cheek, noticeable but faint. He had brown eyes, very demented brown eyes. The figure smiled.
Naruto narrowed his eyes, "Tell me something, who are you. Not your group, but just you."
A chuckled escaped his mouth, "Who am I? Well, since you turned down our offer, I might as well tell you. Because you will destroy Konoha one day. Whether you want to or not. My name is….Ashi."
Naruto growled and took an offensive position, "Quit fucking around! I want to know your name!"
Ashi put one hand on his hip and he wagged his other finger. He tsk'ed Naruto. "I have no reason to you Naruto. My group is called Ashi, and also my name is Ashi. I gave it to myself. I don't remember the name my parents have given me. It was too normal for my tastes."
Naruto didn't move, the figure, now identified as Ashi smiled. "Relax, Naruto-kun. I'm not going to attack you. Today."
Naruto didn't relax.
Ashi smiled, "I will definitely have more conversations with you later, Naruto-kun. But for now… you have made your point clear. I will take my leave. Just remember that we are not your enemy until you make us your enemy."
With a small wave to Naruto, Ashi disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Naruto let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. He smiled as he felt a huge weight lift off his chest. It's been very heavy on him fro the past week. Naruto closed his eyes and fell over backwards. He sighed.
"I'm only 14, and I can hardly handle any of this shit…"
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Naruto went home that night, smiling and all too happy. Denkou was glad to see that Naruto was back to his old self. That night, Denkou had told Naruto that he wished to share a drink with Naruto. The blonde was skeptical at first but after a few drinks, Naruto had a blast with Denkou, both of them getting plastered.
The morning went quite uneventful. Because of the Kyuubi, Naruto didn't have to worry about having a hangover, something that Denkou cursed Naruto for, and told him that he was eternally jealous of that ability. Naruto wished Denkou good bye as he went to go train with the rookie 9 today. They all had occasional joint training sessions with everyone at the suggestion of Denkou.
Denkou, unfortunately, told Naruto he would be late to the training because he had to give Sarutobi the monthly update on what has been happening with him and Naruto and everything. As was required of him from his original mission.
The two separated, not knowing anything at all of the impending doom that was bound to happen that day, changing the course of history forever….
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Ashi was in a dark area. He stood lazily in the middle of the room. Ashi did a few hand seals, very strange and unfamiliar hand seals. Three globs of flesh melted off his body and formed identical replicas of him. They lined up in front of him, standing just as lazily, but obviously obedient.
Ashi looked at them, "You know what to do."
The three Ashi men all chuckled and formed yet another strange hand seal. Slowly they to transform into different people…
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Naruto was gliding to the usual training ground that he and the others always trained at. He was in such of a good mood since last night. He smiled as he saw the training area ahead of him. Naruto cancelled his jutsu.
He flipped threw the air and landed on his feet, sliding across the ground and stopped in front of all the other genin. He was grinning, but none could tell due to his mask. Kakashi nodded his head in greetings.
Shikamaru snorted, "Troublesome…of course you would choose a flashy entrance."
Naruto shrugged, checking out his nails. "Well the best has to be noticed, right?"
Sasuke snorted, "You? The best? Please.."
Naruto ignored Sasuke, turning towards Kakashi. "So what exactly are doing today?"
Kakashi looked around, "Well, we were going to go around in and trade sensei's every couple hours but Denkou doesn't seem to be here. Where is he? Exactly?"
Naruto shrugged, "He said that he had to go report some stuff to the Hokage."
Asuma sighed, "Well maybe we can spar or something."
Kurenai nodded, "Good idea, who would like to go first?"
Sasuke stepped forward, "I want to spar Naruto."
Naruto scratched the back of his head, "Er, well I don't, anyone else want to go?"
Sakura glared, "No offense, Naruto-san. But I don't think you could touch Sasuke-kun."
Ino nodded, "For once I agree with Forehead."
Naruto looked at the two of them, then back at Sasuke's cocky smirk. He looked at the sensei's nodding his head vigorously. "Challenge accepted."
Kakashi shrugged, "Okay, Sasuke, Naruto. Go to the middle of the training field. Everyone else, lets go to the sidelines."
Naruto walked lazily over to the middle of the field. Completely relaxed, he watched Sasuke walk across from him, tense and ready to strike. Naruto studied Sasuke's stance.
He raised a blonde eyebrow, "Uchiha fighting style. Not surprised, but if I remember what Denkou-sensei had told me about the Uchiha, was that they tended to be fire based. And wind only enhances fires power. And to fight fire with fire seems highly redundant. Sooooo, I guess I'll just negate his jutsu's and fight him purely using taijutsu. I don't feel like mortally injuring the bastard if I whipped my sword out (Pun not intended)."
Kakashi coughed, pulling out his orange book. "Uh, you can start now. Or whatever."
Sasuke immediately charged Naruto, whipping out a kunai and slashed at Naruto's chest. Naruto blinked as the kunai came close to slashing Naruto, but at the last second he leaned back a little, taking a step back to balance himself.
Sasuke switched the grip on the kunai to bring it back for a reverse slash. Naruto frowned, before Sasuke could get any closer to Naruto, Naruto caught Sasuke by the wrist, effectively stopping whatever stabbing he had going. Naruto head butted the Uchiha, and let go of Sasuke's wrist. He turned into a roundhouse kick and sent Sasuke flying, making the black haired boy let go of his kunai.
Naruto watched the kunai hit the ground and chuckled. Sasuke got up, dusting himself off. Glare on his face, he scowled at the blonde. Naruto smirked at Sasuke.
"Come on, lets not use dangerous weapons. We're friends here."
Sasuke growled and charged at Naruto again, Naruto smirked and got in his defensive stance. Sasuke threw a punch at Naruto's face, which Naruto simply moved it back a bit to throw off Sasuke. Sasuke went with the motion and brought his back foot up towards Naruto's face. Naruto saw this and summoned his cushion of chakra on that side of his face.
Sasuke's foot connected with the side of his head, but Naruto felt nothing. He felt the momentum of his body lean to the side. Naruto used that kinetic energy to plant a hand stand and did a spinning kick at Sasuke's side.
Sasuke took the full brunt of the attack and felt the air leave his lungs quite painfully. He skidded away from Naruto, who stood up looking perfectly fine despite the hit he just took to his face. Sasuke stopped rolling and slowly got up. Naruto's attacks hurt.
Sasuke got up and growled.
On the sidelines, the genin all sat their wide eyed. Sakura was stammering, "H-how is he…? He's just fine… and he hit Sasuke-kun a lot…? I don't understand, I thought Sasuke-kun is the best?"
Hinata was beaming, she lowered her head and smiled to herself. "Naruto-kun is beating Sasuke-san!"
Kakashi was looking at Naruto with admiration. "Well, Sasuke may be the Rookie of the Year, but its been a while since you guys have seen Naruto, and he's been training under the Yondaime's teammate. Of course Naruto would have come a very long way from where he was long ago."
Chouji looked at Kakashi, "But Sasuke was so good before and Naruto was pretty terrible. For him to come this far means that he had to do some pretty tough training."
Asume took a drag of his cigarette, "Denkou-sama doesn't know any other way of training. I can honestly say that Naruto must have endured terrible training."
On the field, Sasuke was getting frustrated, while everyone was discussing the fight, Sasuke continuously got his ass handed to him. He was beat up severely at this time. He had bruises on his body, a scrape on his cheek that was bleeding slightly. He had a bloody lip and a slightly bruised eye. He looked worse for wear.
Sasuke stepped back and ran threw hand seals. Naruto raised an eyebrow when he recognized them. Sasuke took a deep breath and brought two fingers up to his mouth. He exhaled into his fingers, a giant ass fireball came out flying at Naruto. Naruto cursed under his breath and ran threw the same hand seals. He pumped a lot of chakra into the jutsu and exhaled about the same size of a fireball.
The two jutsus collided and an explosion shook the ground of the training field. On the side lines, the rookie nine shielded their eyes from any debris that might have been caused from the explosion. When the smoke cleared from the explosion, Sasuke looked forward. The smoke cleared and he looked for Naruto.
Which the blonde haired boy was no where to be seen.
Sasuke looked left, nothing. Sasuke looked right, nothing. Sasuke looked behind him, nothing. His eyes widened as he looked up and saw, nothing.
A sudden flashback to his genin exam caused his eyes to widen and he jumped high into the air, just as Naruto's hands shot out from under ground to grab Sasuke's feet. The hands poofed into smoke and Naruto poofed back on top of the ground.
Naruto chuckled, "How did you know that was coming?" Naruto said laughing.
Sasuke chuckled, "Well I ran into something like that when I was taking my genin exam."
Naruto smiled, he was about to charge, when Kakashi appeared between the two of them. He gave them both an eye smile, "That was very good! Both of you. Sasuke, you did everything right, but Naruto just did everything better."
Sasuke scowled but nodded to Naruto. Naruto grinned, his mask covering his face, the only sign was the curving of eyes. Kakashi walked to two back to everyone else.
Sasuke was greeted by Ino and Sakura, both smiling at him. "You did really well, Sasuke-kun! He just got lucky!"
"Yeah! You'll definitely whoop his ass next time, Sasuke-kun!"
Sasuke grunted and walked by them. Naruto went to a tree and leaned against it. Kakashi stopped in front of the group and smiled.
"Anyone else wish to spar?"
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Sarutobi looked up when he heard the knock on his door, "Come in."
The door opened, and his assistant walked in. She gave a small bow then looked up at him. "Sir, you have your meeting with Suna's council in five minutes. You should be done in one hours time."
Sarutobi sighed, but nodded. He stood up and stretched, hearing the cracks and creaks in his old body. He grabbed his pipe, filled it with tobacco, lit it, and walked out. He closed and locked the door behind him.
Just outside of his window was another Sarutobi. This Sarutobi had an insane smirk on his face. He opened the window up and closed it when he entered. He walked over to the door, unlocked it and planted a scroll into the desk. He sat down in the chair and swiveled around a few times. He looked out the window that looked over the entire village. The intruder smirked again.
"Ah, Konoha, if only you ever understood."
A knock on the door was heard. Sarutobi smirked, "Perfect timing. Come in!"
The door opened, and Denkou entered. Denkou nodded to him and closed the door. He plopped down on one of the chairs in front of the desk. Denkou smirked at the old man.
"Saru-ji-san. You look like shit, as usual."
Sarutobi chuckled, "Denkou-kun. Unusually rude today, aren't we?"
Denkou shrugged. "I have my days. And a pretty fucking bad hangover. I'm just here to give my monthly report. Wanna hear?"
Sandaime nodded, "Oh yes, tell me."
Denkou nodded, "Well, Naruto has been acting really weird, but last night he was all better. I got him drunk for the first time ever in his life last night, thus the hangover. Skills are tad better, I haven't been so insane with his training since he became a genin. I've been more focused on getting him some friends, and team work. It's paying off it seems. Slowly but surely. And that's honestly everything."
Sarutobi nodded, "That's good, it's good that he is getting friends his age."
Denkou nodded, he looked up at the ceiling. "Yeah, that's what I was thinking."
Sarutobi didn't say anything for a little bit. After a while of silence, he opened a drawer and pulled out a blood seal scroll. Denkou raised an eyebrow.
"Denkou, I have a very important mission for you. You can consider it one of your 25 missions. Everything you need to know is in the scroll but its dire to Konoha that you complete this. There is a fortress near the land of the waves, that hold an old laboratory of Orichimaru. There are rumors that there is valuable information on his whereabouts and Akatsuki in there. We need this information at all costs. It has to be you to get the information too, because this is a timed mission. They haven't destroyed the fortress yet. And if we waste anymore time, they could get rid of all that information…"
Denkou bit his thumb and spread it on the blood seal. He opened it and looked at all the information. He nodded, and stood up. He looked at Sarutobi seriously. "You can count on me Saru-ji-san. When should I leave?"
Sarutobi looked at him, serious as well. "As soon as possible. If you have all the information on you right now, I would wish for you to leave right now."
Denkou nodded and left the room. Sarutobi leaned back in his chair and smirked. He stood up, stretched, hearing his bones and muscles crack and creak. He walked back over to the door, locked it, then walked over to the window. The intruder Sarutobi started to whistle as he opened the window, climbed out and then closed it.
He walked along the side of the rooftop until he got to a corner where no one could see him. Sarutobi started to morph into a completely, and younger, person.
Green short messy hair, and brown eyes replaced the grey hair and grey eyes of the Sandaime. Ashi was grinning crazily. He continued whistling, not seeming to mind that he was completely naked. He walked over to folded clothes in the corner and started to put them on.
After he was fully dressed, he looked up. He had the entire uniform of the ANBU on. Katana and everything. Ashi looked down below him and smirked. Below him on the streets was a group of ANBU trainees. They had the white masks, but they were only pure white.
Ashi smirked as he put on an identical white mask and wiggled his eyebrows. "Perfect timing."
He jumped down from the roof and landed very quietly behind the group of ANBU trainees. He stood up and started walking at the back of the group, as if he'd been there the entire time.
No one had noticed.
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Naruto was walking home from the training with his teammates, a smile plastered on his face. Nothing could ruin his day. Naruto put his hands behind his head and walked towards the valley, not giving a damn in the whole world.
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Denkou was racing in the woods. His ninja gear actually on his body. He had a serious look on his face. He had to get there. He never noticed the presence of another human being following him.
Denkou kept running, trying to keep a steady pace to there.
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Denkou stopped running, out of breath. He looked at the fortress. There were a few guards at the top, but he figured most of them were inside, already attempting to get rid of all evidence. Denkou was about to proceed forward when he heard someone whisper.
"Hey Denkou-sensei!"
He whipped around, a lightning dagger formed in his hand as he grabbed the intruder and glared into his eyes as he was about to make the final stab into this throat. He stopped and blinked though when he found himself looking into ocean blue eyes and a masked face.
Fury rised up inside of him as he stared in Naruto's confused and slightly scared face. Denkou quit his technique and grabbed Naruto with both hands, and shook him.
"Why the fuck are you here?" He whispered furiously.
Naruto put his hands up, "I wanted a real fucking mission! Instead of all this bull shit that I've been doing."
Denkou snarled at Naruto, "This isn't a mission for you, you aren't ready for this mission. Go home. Now."
Naruto slapped his hands away and glared, just as hard at Denkou, "No. I'm your student. That makes us a team. You even said that yourself. And since I'm part of your team, then I can't let my teammate go running around doing missions by himself. What if you needed back up?"
Denkou pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head. "If I needed back up, Naruto, I wouldn't ask for a fucking genin. I'm just as strong if not stronger than the Yondaime. I doubt I would even need back up."
He looked back behind him and then back at Naruto. "I can't risk sending you back home, just incase they see you. I need you to stay here. Don't move, don't sneeze. Hell I hardly want you to breathe right now."
And with that Denkou moved towards the fortress, silent as night. He climbed up the wall. He snuck up behind the first guard, put a hand on his head and spun it all the way around. The snap of his neck was all that Denkou needed to hear to know that he was dead. He caught the body and gently placed it on the ground. He looked up at the second guard and raced over to do the same thing.
After he had done that, he checked to make sure that there wasn't anymore guards outside of the fortress. Confirming that there wasn't anymore he entered the door into depths unknown.
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Naruto walked up to the entrance to his and Denkou's secret valley and preformed the necessary hand seals to open the door. After he finished doing the ritual, he walked inside, knowing that the entrance seals itself off again. Immediately after entering, Naruto knew something was wrong.
He looked around the valley. Signs of a battle definitely showed. Especially near the house. Naruto felt his heart beat quicken and he started sprinting towards the house, a feeling of complete and utter dread manifested itself in his stomach.
Naruto reached the house, and almost stepped on Shishiu as the small fox came sprinting out of the house. Naruto let out a sigh of relief to see that his fox was ok. But he ignored Shishiu for the time being and opened to door, poised to strike. He looked around and felt his mouth drop in shock.
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Denkou let out a string of curses, as the entry way was booby trapped. He dropped to the ground and rolled out of the way of several devastating explosions. He looked up when he heard people shouting and running towards him.
He got up and formed a lightning sword. He lined up against the wall and right when the first person came around the corner he stabbed the lightning sword into his stomach. He saw another enemy ninja right in front of him, ready to stab Denkou.
At the last second Denkou dodged out of the way, and was about to punch his head with a lightning infused fist when a ball of fire flew by Denkou, covering the enemy ninja with flames. Denkou ignored the mans screams of pain and looked at where the ball of flames came from.
Naruto had his fist out, just like he would if he punched the air. Naruto smirked at him, "Saved your life."
Denkou glared at him, "I told you to wait out fucking side."
"Your welcome." Naruto spat at him. "Now lets get going, whatever you have to do, we definitely don't have time for us to be arguing this."
Denkou scowled, "Fine, but don't get in my way. And stay back."
Naruto nodded and followed Denkou deeper into the fortress. Denkou stopped, signaling for Naruto to stop also. Denkou took out a mirror and peeked around the corner using it. Four men were sitting around a table, looking through documents and commenting on them. Denkou put away the mirror.
He started to do hand seals. After he was done he gently put his hands on the ground. Two snake like rock figures formed up out of the ground. The started to slither towards the room. When they were both a decent distance away from the enemy shinobi, the opened their mouths and released gas.
After about a minute or two, the men started choking. Without another sound, they all fell over one at a time. Dead. Naruto was about to walk out into the open, but Denkou stopped him. Naruto gave him a confused look.
"We have to wait for the gas poison to disperse. It'll be gone soon."
Naruto gestured to the room of dead shinobi, "What was that?"
Denkou smirked, "An assassination jutsu. The gas poison doesn't smell and is virtually undetectable. After a few minutes, and after the job is done, the poison is nullified and the air is harmless again. Best part is, you can't detect the poison in the body of the person you killed. Its one of the best assassination techniques."
Naruto whistled, "Woah, that's so cool. Did you or the Yondaime invent it?"
Denkou smirked again, "Me, of course."
After saying that, Denkou nodded for Naruto to follow him into the room. Naruto, just in case, stopped breathing when he walked through the room, while Denkou just didn't give a shit. They continued into the next room. Denkou checked the whole room, no one was in it.
Denkou walked into the room, prepared for anything, but curious. He went to the work station that seemed to contain the most scrolls of information. He studied the whole room.
Naruto walked up to a tank, with some fish looking person inside of it. "Who would do this?"
Denkou didn't answer, but he looked at what Naruto was looking at. The being inside was dead. He turned back to the table and started to look through the documents. He scowled as he noticed something.
"These are all old documents…"
Naruto looked at a computer screen, he turned on the computer and the screen flashed the words
PASSWORD?
Naruto frowned, "Hey, sensei, come here, I think I found something."
Denkou turned towards Naruto and saw what he was looking at. He walked over to him and looked for the keyboard. He found it and stared at the screen…
He started muttering to himself. "Now what kind of password would Orichimaru use….?"
Naruto watched as Denkou started typing. The black haired man clicked enter, and the screen flashed.
INCORRECT PASSWORD
Denkou scowled. He tried a few more times, getting the same results, until one try the screen finally said.
WELCOME.
The computer started loading all of its information. Denkou smirked and shook his head.
"What a dumbass and very cliché password for him."
Naruto looked at Denkou, "What was the password?"
Denkou chuckled as the computer finished its loading, "Immortality."
Naruto looked confused, since he really didn't know much about the Sannin Orichimaru. He watched as the computer screen started filling up with file names, and information code sequences. Naruto blinked, it all looked so complicated.
Denkou frowned. He started typing, "Access classified file documents."
He clicked enter and watched as another window popped up. It contained more 1's and 0's and random letterings. Denkou started typing.
"Access previous classified file document entry."
Denkou leaned back as he watched the screen start to bring up dozens of different windows, each containing figures, words, and diagrams. Denkou felt his heart beat quicken as he took the mouse and clicked on one random file.
All of a sudden, all the files and documents turned into one big window. A naked woman was on the screen, she was getting fucked by a man. Moans and sexual noises filled the quiet air as Denkou quirked an eyebrow.
"Well that's certainly interesting."
Naruto felt his face flush up and he turned around, covering his ears. "Oh my god I can't believe I just saw that."
Denkou looked at Naruto, chuckling. "It's all apart of being an adult Naruto. You better get used to it. Trust me when I say that it is a beautiful thing about life. And its just so amazing."
Naruto ignored Denkou. Denkou turned back to the screen and was about to exit out of it. When he clicked the little X in the corner, another window popped up. A man with short green messy hair and brown eyes was staring right back at Denkou. Denkou felt his body tense up.
The man grinned, psychotically. "Ah. Ah. Ah. Now you really thought information would be left behind in this compound? Better think again."
Denkou felt his eyes widen and his instincts flared wildly. He whirled around and created two lightning swords. Naruto blinked, caught un prepared by the suddenness of Denkou's created technique.
Denkou shouted one thing out, "It's a trap!"
A whistling sound filled the air as Denkou felt several kunai and shuriken pierce threw his skin. He grabbed Naruto and dove to the ground. Naruto covered his head as tons of metal objects flew over their heads and implanted themselves into the wall behind them. The computer was shattered and completely broken. Denkou stood up once the onslaught was over. He looked up just in time to see a boot to his face.
Denkou flew backwards, feeling the blood leave his body from his now broken nose. He hit his head on the table and felt his world become suddenly dizzy. He looked up at his attacker and saw a black clad man go for Naruto.
Naruto froze up after seeing his sensei get taken down so easily. He watched in slow motion as the attacker came after him. He felt his reflexes kick in and his arm threw a fire punch at the man. The figure dodged the punch easily and drew an oversized kunai from behind him.
Denkou watched as his own world slowed down also. The oversized kunai was lunged straight at Naruto's heart, who the blonde haired boy was wide open to attack from his sloppy attempted fire punch. Denkou screamed as the kunai pierced straight threw Naruto's chest. Right where the heart should be.
The kunai came out the back of Naruto also. Without another thing, the man let go of the kunai and kicked Naruto into another table. The table broke and crashed down with Naruto, who was laying there at an awkward angle, unmoving and not breathing, blood slowly started to pool under Naruto.
Denkou felt tears form in his eyes as he stared, disbelieving at Naruto's body. Slowly, his vision started to turn red. He felt a burning, white fury explode threw his chest.
Denkou stood up, a roar of pure rage escaped his mouth. He charged the man who had killed Naruto and sent a lightning kick to one his knee caps. A loud pop, and a small explosion of blood came to Denkou's ears after he had successfully destroyed the mans use of his leg. Denkou heard the satisfactory scream of terror and pain. The man was about to fall over, before Denkou sent a lightning punch threw his stomach to keep him standing.
Denkou didn't stop there either. He sent a flurry of super charged lightning punches at the man, sending small explosions threw out the man's body and creating havoc in the room. After a little bit, Denkou watched the mans body fall to the ground, in a bloody heap of hamburger. There wasn't a single identifiable portion of the mans body. It was a mutilated mess, some parts were roasted from his lightning to a charcoal black. The smell of blood and burned human flesh filled the room as Denkou slowly started to control his emotions. He ignored the man's body and rushed over to Naruto's side.
He turned Naruto over, but sat down in a huge puddle of Naruto's blood. He felt the blood soak threw his pant legs, and his shoes. He laid Naruto down in his lap and felt tears flow from his eyes. Naruto's blood started to cover his lap, his chest, and his arms. He was drenched.
He pulled the kunai out from Naruto and started to perform the only medical jutsu he knew on Naruto's gapping hole in his chest. He sobbed as the wound refused to close, most likely due to the fact that Naruto was dead. In a last attempt to save Naruto's life, he slapped Naruto's face.
Denkou sobbed out, "Come on, kiddo, wake up. Wake the fuck up, Kyuubi will save you. You're not dead. Wake up, Naruto. Wake Up!"
Denkou cradled Naruto's head as he put a hand over Naruto's heart and sent one single jolt of electricity threw it. He watched as Naruto's chest cavity convulsed violently. Naruto's blue eyes stared lifelessly upwards. They weren't shining, just a dull blue.
Denkou felt his throat start to close, and he found that it was incredibly hard to breath. He punched Naruto's chest.
"Wake up dammit! Naruto! I can't loose you!"
Words became hard for him to say as he sent another jolt of electricity threw Naruto's body. Nothing happened again.
Denkou choked out one last sentence. "FUCK IT NARUTO! WAKE THE FUCK UP! I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HANDLE ANOTHER DEATH!"
He sent one last, much bigger, jolt of electricity through Naruto's body. Once again, nothing happened. Denkou choked out a scream of anguish as he hugged Naruto's head. He put his cheek into Naruto's bloodied hair. He sobbed, and cried. Naruto's lifeless body resting in Denkou's hands.
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-A few hours earlier-
Naruto opened the door, slowly. He immediately noticed the blood trail on the ground. He looked around the room, noticing the bodies that were littered on the ground. He pulled out a kunai as he checked each body for a pulse. He bent down and studied the ninja. Each shinobi looked like a chunin or a jonin from Konoha. The standard navy blue pants and elbow long sleeves. The dark green flak jacket.
Naruto frowned as he looked for any sign of what village they might be, although he had a very slight suspicion that they were from Konoha, he quickly disregarded these thoughts. Konoha doesn't attack it's own ninja. Although technically Denkou wasn't a ninja any longer, he was still a very valuable asset to Konoha.
Naruto continued to search for any clues of what village they were from. He looked up and noticed that there seemed to be more bodies. He looked up when he heard cackling and coughing.
Naruto went into the next room. He looked around and made sure it was clear before he went it. Naruto made a clone and had it search the rest of the house. The original blonde looked at the man leaning against the wall, blood pooled all around him. He had blood falling from his temples, and was almost pouring out of his mouth. He sat there chuckling and giggling.
Naruto snarled and picked the man up by his flak jacket. He activated his Onigan. The blood red pupils glared into the now scared man's brown.
"What. Happened."
The man coughed then grinned. "We completed our mission."
Naruto bared his fangs, feeling some of the Kyuubi's chakra leak into his system. "What mission."
The man chuckled, "To kill Denkou-sama."
Naruto felt his eyes widen. This scene will forever be in his head because of his Onigan. He shook the almost dead man, "Why? Who would want Denkou dead? Who sent you!"
Naruto could see the life force leaving his body as he said, "H-Hokage-sama sent me."
Naruto shook the man as he yelled, "Liar!"
The man reached up into his pocket and pulled out a scroll, which fell out of his hands. Naruto narrowed his eyes as he watched it roll away. He looked back at the man. Who weakly pointed at it.
"T-there's your pro….proof."
The man closed his eyes, and his head rolled back. Naruto stared at him, realizing this was the first time he questioned a dying man. He shook that thought out of his head, and gently placed him back on the ground.
He looked over at the scroll. Naruto looked at his hands, which were covered in blood. He scowled as he wiped them off on his pants. He picked up the scroll and tried to open it. He frowned when he saw some sort of seal on the opening of the scroll. He pushed a little bit of chakra into the seal and then tried to open it. Nothing happened.
Naruto looked at the dead man, then at all the blood around him. He looked back at the seal and then back at the man. Naruto dipped his pointer finger in the pool of blood around the man and let a drop land on the seal. Then he tried to open it.
Naruto felt the scroll open without any hitch. He grinned as he just discovered what a blood seal relatively looked like. He looked across the contents of the scroll. Which his eyes got progressively bigger.
Mission: Kill Murasaki Denkou
Class: SS-class
Description: Attack Murasaki Denkou at his house, which is located at the indicated point on the map given to you. His house is accessed by a special jutsu, which the technique is written down on another scroll. Kill Murasaki Denkou, AT ALL COSTS. Bring all the utilities that you would bring on a very high class mission.
The best time to attack is around 5 O'clock, which is when he lets all guards down and takes a nap outside. He won't have any of his ninja tools with him, so he is at a slight disadvantage.
Signed,
The Sandaime Hokage
Sarutobi Hiruzen
Naruto stared at the signature. Then he looked back at the top. It was the official seal of the Hokage. No one could forge that, it was special. This was an official document. No doubt about it.
Naruto felt shock take control over his body. How could he? How could the Sandaime assign a mission to kill Denkou? Those two were very good friends and even if they weren't Denkou had done more for that village than any other shinobi besides the actual Hokage.
"Hey Boss. Come here. I think you should see this."
Naruto looked up, disbelief still filling his veins. He rolled the scroll back up and put it in his pocket. He walked into where he heard his clones voice come from. Naruto came in and saw his clone standing over another body. He looked around the room.
This room by far was the worst for wear. Blood was almost everywhere. And the room was demolished. Naruto looked at five or six bodies on the floor. They were very mutilated. Naruto finally turned towards his clone and looked at whatever his clone was looking at.
Naruto felt his heart stop as he saw the body. He stared at the man. Black hair, matted down with blood. Purple eyes that used to be vibrant with life were now staring blankly ahead of him. His chapped blue lips were in a very small smile. Naruto knew that he had promised himself that he would never cry, but when he saw the body of his very beloved sensei. He lost all self control.
Naruto dropped to his knees, while his clone back away wiping tears out of his eyes. The original grabbed Denkou and released a scream. Naruto felt his eyes start to sting as hot tears streamed out of his eyes. He clutched Denkou's head, screaming and sobbing into it.
He buried his head into Denkou's hair, sobbing uncontrollably. "No! Sensei! You can't be dead, I can't have you leave my life! It only got good when you showed up…"
Naruto sat there for what felt like hours crying uncontrollably into Denkou's hair. He kept shaking his head no. He couldn't believe that he was gone. Naruto cried, until he found that he had no more tears left to cry. Naruto sat their clutching his sensei's head, almost afraid that if he let go, Denkou would disappear.
Naruto felt something tug on his sleeve and he looked over at Shishiu. The small fox had his sleeve in his mouth. Naruto tiredly pet his head. He felt exhausted already. It was too much to take. Shishiu whimpered and cuddled against Naruto's leg. He hiccupped.
Something fell to the floor, and Naruto looked on the other side of him. The mission scroll that the Sandaime had given was lying next to him. Naruto looked up at Denkou, then back down to the scroll. Naruto narrowed his eyes and stood up.
He wiped the tears in his eyes, and then looked back at his clone emotionlessly. He forgot that it was still there. Naruto dismissed him. He closed his eyes when he saw the memory of his clone watching him cry for a good hour or two. Naruto opened his eyes, righteous fury replaced his empathetic ones.
Naruto looked down at Shishiu, "Come on little buddy. We're leaving. After we bury Denkou."
Naruto picked up Denkou and walked outside. He gently placed his master on the ground and did a found a shovel. He angrily started to dig. He was going to leave this place. Right after Denkou got the proper burial that he deserved.
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Denkou carried Naruto's body outside, and gently placed his body on the ground. He stared at Naruto's face, remorse plastered all over his face.
He looked at the ground. He couldn't be seen carrying Naruto's body all the way back to Konoha, it wouldn't be good. So he was left with the option of burying Naruto here. He did a few hand seals and slapped the ground with his palms. He watched as a perfect rectangle grave was formed in the ground. He looked back at Naruto.
He brushed Naruto's hair out of his now closed eyes. He felt another tear fall from his eyes. "I'm sorry, Naruto-kun. I wasn't good enough to protect anyone. Especially you. I'm so sorry."
Denkou picked up Naruto's body.
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Naruto wiped the sweat off his head, as he looked at his crude, but workable grave. It would fit Denkou's body barely, but comfortably. Naruto stabbed the shovel into the ground. He looked over at Denkou, tears threatening to fall again.
He licked his thumb and gently wiped a little blood off of Denkou's face. He ruffled Denkou's hair, just like Denkou would always do to him. He stared at Denkou's face. Because of Rigamortis, he wasn't able to close Denkou's eyes. So he merely placed two ryo over his eyes.
Naruto closed his eyes in pain. He couldn't cry any more. He had cried all his tears for a long time. He took a shaky breath.
"I'm sorry, Denkou-sama. You shouldn't have ever had to deal with a monster like me. You were so strong too…..It was my fault. I know it. I'm so sorry….."
Naruto picked up Denkou's body, Shishiu whimpering on the sidelines.
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Denkou did more hand seals and slammed his hand on the ground again. Watching Naruto's body be covered up with dirt and rock, to preserve it longer. Denkou watched Naruto's face until it was fully covered. He painfully swallowed.
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Naruto grunted as he threw the last of the dirt on top of the small grave. He wiped his head again from the sweat. He looked at the pile of dirt and rock, to preserve it longer. Naruto took a breath and looked up towards the sky. Unsure of what to say for his last words.
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Denkou put his hands behind his head, "Here lies Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto. He was great kid, one of the best human beings that will ever walk this planet, he was unworthy of a teacher as weak as me."
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Naruto picked up Shishiu, petting her. "Here lies Murasaki Denkou. He was the strongest man I have ever known. Stronger than the 4th Hokage. I….I thought Denkou was the greatest teacher. He was unworthy of a monster like me for a student."
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"Naruto was brave, fun, determined, and most of all….happy."
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"Denkou was wise, brilliant, kind, and most of all….there for me."
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"Naruto would always complain about having me as a teacher, but he knew that I cared for his development deeply."
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"Denkou would always complain about having me as a student, but he knew that everything I did was to get him to be happy."
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"Naruto was….like a son to me."
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"Denkou was….like a father to me."
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At seemingly the exact same time in history, both Naruto and Denkou said, "I will never forget what he had done for me….ever. That's a promise."
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Naruto got up and sighed, he looked at Shishiu, and walked inside the house. He started to gather all his things. He wasn't sure exactly where to go, but he figured he would keep running or walking until he hit the very first Shinobi village he came across, and there he would start his shinobi life a new. He'd be damned if he stayed in a village that would betray their most loyal shinobi ever.
He sealed all the essentials into a scroll and packed those scrolls into a backpack. He opened his window and grabbed Shishiu. He jumped down and landed on the ground. He placed Shishiu in a harness that was comfortable, and connected to his backpack. He made the Harness for Shishiu if he had to go long distances with the fox, or if he wanted to run since Shishiu couldn't keep up with him yet.
He sprinted towards the exit of the valley. He did the seals and exited. He sent one last look into the beautiful place that he pretty much grew up in and sighed. He would miss that area so much. He turned his head, and instead of turning right to head into the Konoha village, he turned left. He was planning on running all the way around Konoha.
It would be a very long time before Naruto ever stood where he was standing, ever again.
Naruto started to run, blinded by his emotions. He sprinted, and he kept sprinting. He wasn't exactly sure where he was going quite yet. But he figured whatever happens, happens.
Naruto packed his soldier pills in a pocket that he could reach relatively easily, if he ever got low on energy. So Naruto was set to run for a very long time.
Naruto let his mind wonder as he continued to run. But immediately after he allowed his mind to wander, he began think about Denkou, so he stopped letting his mind wander. Naruto scowled as he realized that his will be a very long trip to wherever it is he's going.
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A black clad man walked around the valley that Denkou lives in. Ashi was grinning like a mad man. He did his hand seals, and 10 clones melted off his body. He turned towards them and grinned again.
"Looks like the plan went absolutely perfectly. Haha! Denkou is never going to take another mission from that old coot and hopefully, he won't even walk into the village ever again. And Naruto? Wow, he played his part perfectly. Leaving the village? Ha! I thought that I would have an intervention with that and give him that extra push to leave the village, but appa~rently….He loved Denkou waaaa~aay more than I would ever had hoped for!"
He was met with applause from his clones, a maniac smirk stretched across his face. "Thank yoou! Thank you." He gave short bows to them.
He then turned around, and smiled, "Well. You have about 10 hours to fix this place up to exactly the way it was before! There will absolutely no evidence that anything inside his house had ever happened. Or else."
He turned and started whistling as he walked away from the valley. The grin on his face, was ever present. How he was able to grin and whistle at the same time, is beyond even the almighty writer of this story…..
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-Many hours later-
Naruto dragged his feet, his breath completely ragged. He had Shishiu bundled up in his cloak in his arms, protecting the fox from the relentless sun. Naruto crossed into the desert, never taking a break once. He had plenty of supplies to make it across, but he realized that he would have to spare it. He never accounted for the sun to be so hot.
Long ago he had ripped the bottom of his pants off to turn them into shorts, and the had ripped the sleeved off his orange shirt, making it stop at his shoulders. He was controlling the wind around him very often to make it breezy.
Naruto's lips were chapped and bleeding. His face mask was too hot for him to wears so he took that off too and put it in his back pack. He had given a lot of his extra water to Shishiu already, to let the fox live. The fox was actually perfectly fine, if not a bit hungry and a little heated from being wrapped up in a black cloak.
Naruto saw a huge structure in front of him. But he ignored it. So far, he's already seen several oasis mirages and has learned to ignore and not get his hopes up from anything that might look different.
He felt dizziness wash over him, and he couldn't help but stagger forward. Naruto saw a person in front of him. Someone he's never seen before. The man ran up to him and was saying something, but for some reason he couldn't hear him. Then he noticed that there was three of the same guy.
Naruto tripped on his feet and fell to a knee, the man saying more things that he couldn't hear but grabbed onto his shoulder. Naruto looked at the man and noticed the only thing about him, A Suna headband around his head. Naruto smiled at him.
He held out his hands, "Take….take care of Shishiu."
He gave the man the bundle of clothe that was Shishiu, who immediately popped his head out of the cloak to see what all the commotion was about. The man looked up at Naruto, and yelled something behind him. Naruto couldn't understand.
Naruto grinned at him, using his foxy grin and fell face first into the sand. He weakly saw three more shadows appear behind the man in front of him. And with one last thought of 'How do shadows form?' Naruto's world went entirely black.
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A/N:
Woah. Important chapter much? So much happening. Haha But I just want to say to everyone! Hope you had a VERY Happy New Year's and I hope you partied hard, cuz this year! I definitely did not. Lol, um I think that's all I want to talk about too! Soooo um. Thanks!
Ja'Ne!
11-Tailed Demon Wolf