A Hero Returns Chapter 1: Hate, a naruto fanfic

Naruto was walking to the hospital today, following the same path to it that he did all the time… He could feel the glares, hear the curses and insults, and worst of all see the hate that came from around him. It was what he hated most of all, how all these things just happened to him most… how his life was the hardest… how he had to deal with these things and not hate these people. His life just wasn't fair at all, no one seemed to care about him for who he was and it sucked.

Always being held back by people… It was like they did it on purpose just so he wouldn't get strong enough to do anything… It sucked to him, they made it seem as if he got stronger and the village weaker, but that's not what was bothering him right now… It was the Akatsuki he was worried about, they were after the demon in him and sent a pair after him already. Hence the reason Konoha's precious Uchiha was in the hospital, trying to match up against his brother who was one of the best to rise from Konoha, he was a fool… Sasuke.

Speaking of Sasuke that's were Naruto was heading right now, to check on the brooding boy to see if all was well… He was already inside the hospital and was walking up to a nurse, "Excuse me m'am… but could you tell me what room Uchiha Sasuke is in." The woman looked at him and scowled…

"Sorry demon but I cant allow you to see the Uchiha… You might kill him." Naruto glared at her as he began to speak again, "I'm sorry but if you don't then ill have to call ANBU for violating law fifty-two… If a member of a team is in the hospital his team members are allowed to be by that person no matter what condition he/she is in." The woman scowled, he was not lying about this law and he sure as hell looked like he would tell ANBU, "Fine he's in room Seventy-Three B."

Naruto took the stairs to the third floor as he walked towards the Seventy-Third door. He neared it and heard talking coming from the other side, "… Kun ill feed you, your too weak to eat by yourself."

Through the door Sakura was trying to feed Sasuke an apple, but the boy was being stubborn and wouldn't let her, "Leave me alone Sakura… I've told you to leave me here and you keep on coming back… What do you want from me?" Sakura tensed a bit but caught herself and began to look into his onyx eyes.

"I'm here to thank you again for all the times you've saved me, and to show my gratitude by being here for you." Sasuke narrowed his eyes once again, "I have not once saved you from anything or anyone… Its always been Naruto." 'The dobe seems to have the power to do anything now a days…'

"Sasuke-Kun you don't need to lie… I know Naruto-Baka cant have beaten Haku… or Gaara for that matter… So it must have been you." Sasuke looked into her green eyes and began to glare at her as the apple neared his mouth. He slapped her hand away and the apple flew to the floor, this was when Naruto entered the room. He saw Sakura clutching her hand and crying and the fallen apple. Naruto had been struggling before to hold back the tears of Sakura insulting him like this again…. Always him that is in true pain, but Sasuke hit her and he didn't like that.

"What the hell teme… Why did you hit her like that huh, she's a damn girl man you cant just hit her like that… Just cause you're a fucking Uchiha you think your better than everyone else and above them so much that you can do things others cant… Its not rig.." He was stopped as Sakura slapped him across the face.

"Don't yell at Sasuke-Kun like that you 'Demon'.." Yes she called him what they did… A demon and had the nerve to slap him after he covers for her ass… again, this was it. "You… Fuck you Sakura… I hate you and your stupid wannabe ninja ass, hating me for nothing and hitting me for helping. I hate you." He was glaring at her and releasing a large killer intent.. It was causing her to fall to her knees and Sasuke to shake a bit.

"Naruto… Fight me right now." Sasuke stood from his bed and neared the window as Naruto followed him to the roof, Sakura stood up and followed after the two. They all reached the roof, where dried sheets and towels hung from wires flying in the wind only being held by small clips.. Being held back just like Naruto was.

Sasuke charged at Naruto as Naruto prepared by getting into a fighting stance he taught himself. Sasuke threw a punch and Naruto blocked with his forearm and punched with his right hitting Sasuke in the face. Sasuke skidded to a stop as he made several hand seals and sent a huge ball of fire towards Naruto, Naruto switched himself with a sheet and charged at Sasuke while Sasuke activated the Sharingan. They threw punches at each other, every once and a while hitting each other, then Naruto made clones and they charged at Sasuke. Sasuke began to beat the clones down taking a few hits here and there, but Naruto was already fighting him once again… They both flew back after duel punches to the face. As they skidded to a stop Sasuke began to charge a Chidori, Naruto stood still hesitating to charge a Rasengan.

Then Sasuke charged at Naruto, Naruto seeing that Sasuke was going to try and kill him he charged a low level Rasengan… They jumped at each other and were ten feet from each other when Sakura began to run to them telling them to stop, then as they were about to collide Kakashi jumped in between them grabbing their wrists and throwing them at two water tanks.

As they collided the Rasengan and Chidori rammed through the tanks, Naruto's leaving a small whole in the front and Sasukes crushing the tank in the front. Sasuke smirked as he pulled his hand out, and waked away then stopped dead in his tracks getting angry at seeing Naruto's tank literally obliterated in the back and not one scratch on his.

Kakashi walked up to Naruto, "Why did you use it on him Naruto you could have killed him…" Naruto was beginning to get really pissed, "What do you mean why… He used the CHIDORI… Theres no possible way to stop that, and here you ar blaming this on me huh…" He turned away, tears threatening to fall, "Well he's the one that started this fight, yet you back him up.. You've never done one thing for me, never actually trained me, never watched over me, never cared if I'm hurt or hell if i'm dead for the matter… You just watch over the Uchiha… Well you know what Kakashi.. I hate you and your Village." He spit the words out with every inch of venom he could muster. As he began to run away he saw Kakashi looking away and Sakura standing there doing nothing.

This was the final straw, he was out of this village.. He would make something of himself and have a purpose to live… a purpose like Akatsuki.

Today is October tenth… The day the Kyuubi died, and the day a hero was once born. Over all this day was the day every one would reminisce about their runaway comrade Uzumaki Naruto. The reason of his departure was unknown to all but two… Sakura and Kakashi usually took this day the hardest, especially Kakashi. It was remembrance of his stupidity and lack of attention to those who truly deserve it. In his trek to train one of the last Uchiha he neglected the boy who would turn out to be the strongest one to come from Konoha… It truly sucked for Kakashi when his second student ran away after Orochimaru's power. It seems a lot longer to the two than it really is, only six years yet it seemed so much longer.

Konoha seemed to still be under Tsunade, the Gondaime who lost a surgate brother. Still had second best of the three Sannins Jaraiya, who lost out on the best apprentice he would have ever earned. Still labored the Konoha Ten, who lost a great friend. Still held the alliance to a man that was changed by that friend, Gaara, lost his only friend to a stupid village. Still withheld the cruel villagers, who cheered for the departure of the demon…

Sasuke Uchiha… Oh the reason for all their pain, yes for his existence it seemed that he erased anothers existence just for being a guy with a damn Sharingan he was looked up to, yet the son of the fourth was neglected and beaten for no reason… Sasuke had already left Orochimaru in search of his brother… Yes he killed Orochimaru for the gain of gauging his strength… such a pity it was.

Then there was the all but forgotten Uzumaki, yes he left… but for a purpose, he was trained by an organization that seemed impossible to be trained by… well for him being the holder of Kyuubi and all, but Akatsuki accepted him as long as he worked for them without question, which he did, and it leads us to now…

There at the gates of Konoha stood two men in cloaks with cloud patterns adorning it on all sides… What these men were here for, no one but them knew, and its why we go back to the time of judgment…

Two Weeks After the Runaway

Naruto stood before three men in cloud shaped cloaks. As they eyed him down, "And you say that he came here on free will Itachi-San…" Itachi looked at his leader and nodded as the leader continued to stare down Naruto. Naruto did not flinch under the pressure because he truly wanted to do this, deep down he wanted to get this training to have a reason for living. His fuel… The hate for Konoha and his so called friends. Its been a whole two weeks since his departure, one week since he met up with Itachi and Kisame, and a future ahead of him.

"Then I guess I have no choice to allow you in… Naruto-San, I trust that you have come here for yourself and want to help us, but since it seems you have no real training we have… Shall you say come up with a training schedule for you." Naruto smiled a bit and then bit back trying to come up with words, "Thank you… Leader-San, I will train hard and do my best from now on." The leader nodded and waved for Itachi to come towards him.

"You Itachi are going to be training the boy… It seems he has something that has yet to be awakened. Something I think you will be quite interested in from here on out." Itachi looked a bit confused as he stared down Naruto… Sharingan blazing and then he let out a gasp, he understood now. "Yes it seems he does, I will train him along with Kisame to see if he truly has skill…" Itachi waved for Naruto to follow, which Naruto gladly complied with.

As they exited the room Naruto got extremely curious, "Itachi-Sensei… What is this bloodline I have? I have never heard of having a bloodline before, so why now?" Itachi looked at Naruto showing his uninterested face, "Its for me to know and you to find out Naruto-Kun, besides don't worry too much about it, because I'm damned surprised that you haven't awaken it with everything you've been through.." Naruto gave his ok and continued down the dark corridor.

The whole base was huge, it was atop a mountain that had an amazing genjutsu over it that blocked the entrance with what looked like a huge rock. Only those who had an Akatsuki ring could enter, but even if you did enter you'd have to know your way around, or else you might just end up dead from going in the wrong direction. The corridors were wide and long, with doors every ten feet, in the base their were multiple training grounds meant for different purposes, and the kitchen was well made with what seemed like glowing rocks filling almost the whole wall… within the corridors there were simply lanterns, but in the rooms the glowing substance also roamed about… Yes the rooms were quite nice with what seemed like rock made beds, yet when you slept on it you'd sink right in… It was damn weird.

Everything seemed right for Naruto here at the base, no one glared and no one would yell at him. He had already made friends with Itachi and Kisame who were really good people when you got past the emotional barrier they had created for themselves.

"So training huh.. When will we start Itachi-Sensei?" Itachi gave him a smile and looked onward, "Tomorrow Naruto-Kun, but I warn you now… This will be far from easy, yes very far from it." Naruto smiled at him, "I can do anything if I try really hard… Believe it." So Naruto was led to his room and ten minutes later was in a deep sleep.

Naruto was awoken by a soft shake, "Get up Naruto… Its time to start your training." Naruto bolted up from his spot completely awake, "YES!!! Awesome so are we going to start right away.." He was stopped mid sentence, "Naruto… From now on you do not act hyper like that, because if you do it makes you seem annoying and weak… So just don't do it." Naruto nodded and began to follow Itachi to a large empty room where Kisame was standing dead center sitting on top of his sword in a deep concentration.

"So Naruto… I take it that you are ready to start." Naruto walked calmly to the man and sat by him, "Yes Kisame-Sensei… What do I have to do first?" Kisame opened his eyes, "Warm ups of course… And you'll start off with five hundred push ups, five hundred sit ups, fifty laps around this room, and one thousand punches and kicks with each arm and leg." Naruto only nodded and began his warm ups.

Three hours later he walked up to Kisame with sweat all over him, "Ok sensei… What now?" Kisame looked at him, "Now you put these on…" Kisame handed him leg weights, wrist weights, five pound finger weights, and a weight that went around his hips. "There are fifty pounds on each weight.. And you'll do all your warm ups again, but with these on." Naruto nearly fell over after putting them all on, and moving very sluggish he began again.

Seven hours later he came back panting and sat by Kisame, "Done sensei.. What now?" Kisame looked at him and smiled, "I'm surprised you can even talk right now, but now you do nothing but eat and report to Itachi after your snack… Oh and tomorrow we begin teaching you how to wield a katana…" Naruto almost did his sheepish grin but stopped himself at remembering Itachi's words. "Yes sir." And with that he was gone.

In the kitchen he saw a man with long blonde hair making something over a stove, "Hi there… What are you making?" The man turned around and stared at the other blonde, "Whoa… A kid in the base whats up with that? How did you get in here boy?" Naruto laughed, "I'm Itachi's new student, and the new member to the organization… Names Uzumaki Naruto, and yours?" The blonde stared at the kid for a bit longer taking everything in, "I see… My name is Deidaara… My last name has no meaning to the world." Naruto nodded in understanding, "Well what are you making there?"

Deidaara turned to his cooking food and smirked, "This here kid is karaage niku (Fried Meat), and its quite nice when it has other stuff added to it… Ill let you have some when I'm done if you stick around." Naruto nodded and the two entered a conversation of their interests as Deidaara cooked. Forty minutes later Naruto was walking back to the training area to begin his training with Itachi, a couple of minutes later he was there and watching Itachi meditate. As he drew closer to the Uchiha he stopped when he saw two Shuriken shaped eyes staring him down, and then pain… Pain beyond belief spread through his body… His head was on fire and he thought he was going to die, and as soon as it had started it stopped. He opened his eyes to see everything around him clearer… 'What was that?'

Itachi walked over to the fallen Naruto and lifted him to his feet, "Naruto.. You now have it.. Your bloodline, the Sharingan." Naruto stopped himself from falling, "What?… No, no that's not possible, I'm not an Uchiha so how?" Itachi did not respond, then looked him in the eyes, "Your mom Naruto… She was an Uchiha and your father, well you'll find out when you find out." Naruto could say nothing, "Now don't get emotional on me because I only awakened it for your training.. Your going to need it for this next part."

"This Naruto… Is Ninjutsu training, where I'll be teaching you everything I know, and since you know the Kage Bunshin this will be so much easier." Naruto looked at him dumbly shaking himself from the parent stupor he had earlier, "What does that have to do with anything?" Itachi smirked again, "Well it has to do with your huge amount of chakra and ability to make thousands of clones at a time…. See Naruto what Kakashi did not tell you was that with Kage Bunshins you can train easier and faster. Your Bunshins gain a knowledge of what they're doing and send it to you when they are dispelled.. Of course Kakashi knew this, but did not tell you for an unknown reason. Anyways as the clones all practice different jutsus you can do something else… Do you get it?" Naruto nodded and told Kakashi to continue.

"Ok you have to make a thousand clones for me." Naruto complied and a hand seal later the clones were there around the two of them, "Ok now spread them into groups of twenty." Naruto commanded them to split into groups, and fifty groups later Itachi continued, "Ok now I'm going to go show each group a separate jutsu and they will practice till they have all gotten it down to perfection." Naruto nodded as Itachi disappeared in the groups of clones. Two minutes later Itachi appeared before Naruto, "Ok Naruto… Since your clones don't gain muscle mass at all you'll be practicing the Taijutsu style that comes with the Sharingan, 'Sekkendou/Way of the Intercepting Fist', we'll start off with working on your senses first, so follow me."

As they neared their destination the room Naruto noticed that they were getting deeper into the training room, where there seemed to be a river and some kind of pit that was covered. "Naruto… You do know of the five senses right?" Naruto nodded, he learned a lot about anatomy when he was five… After forcing himself to read a book about it after he found out he could name the places he had been injured in order to help his Oji-San.. But the book taught him a lot about everything, as well as chakra, a form of physical and spiritual essence. "Then good, because after this you will gain a sixth one… Chakra recognition." Naruto didn't understand, Chakra recognition… A way of recognizing chakra? "Chakra recognition is simple, it is when you can sense all the chakra around you by either knowing how to use the sense, or losing one of your other senses… Seeing as how you have eyes, ears, and a mouth and nose, you'll just have to learn."

"That river there… Your going to have to walk on it, by focusing chakra to the soles of your feet it works on your control and expands your reserves… Then when you can walk on water your going to have to put a blind fold on and focus on the chakra around you… Got it." Naruto nodded and attempted to walk on water, but began to fall into the river. 'Too little then… Ok lets see what we get when I add more.' He forced more chakra out of the soles and he flew off the water…. 'Ok too much… gotta get in between it then?' He began to focus on an in-between amount… He fell again, and again, and again, and again, and again… This went on till about his fiftieth try when he stood for a good three minutes before falling down once more.

Itachi was watching the clones work and was quite impressed… They were all nearly done with perfecting the jutsu… 'I guess working for three hours straight will do that to you.' He chuckled as he pulled out a stick of pocky and began to munch away on it forgetting about the real Naruto and focusing on the clones. Hours later he saw the real Naruto sitting on the water Indian style wearing his scratched Konoha Hitiate over his eyes, "Itachi-Sensei.. I think I'm beginning to get the hand of this… Sixth sense." Itachi smiled, "It seems like you have, noticing me when I hiding my chakra… Yes you have, now take off the blind fold and try to find my chakra when I hide… Ok, now!" Naruto opened his eyes and looked around, then he found it, a weak source to the side of him… Itachi hid himself damn well. Naruto walked over to him and held his shoulder, "Found you."

"Naruto… It seems that with just meditation you calmed yourself down to an extremely calm state… I'm proud… Well dispel the clones now." Naruto dispelled them and fell over into unconsciousness. 'Hmmm… Maybe one thousand clones going off at once isn't a good thing…' Itachi carried Naruto away to his room and left him there to sleep… Tomorrow was another day…

Three weeks later we find our blonde hero training with Kisame. "Naruto… I told you Damnit, don't give an inch of unguarded space on your body…" Naruto nodded and got back into his stance, "Is this right?" Kisame nodded, "That's better, now stay like that for a good thirty minutes…" Kisame walked away and left Naruto to perfect the stance… 'The brat is quite good at the things I teach him… maybe I'll teach him that move next time.'

Naruto stood staring at the blade before him, the part of him that would protect him unless he willed himself not to be protected, 'Stance… Stance… Stance… Perfect the stance… Perfect… Perfect… Concentrate.' He was watching the way his body held a relaxed pose yet screamed out death to those who saw his guarded position, it's been two weeks and six days since he started to work on his stance and swinging, he now began using clones to practice perfecting stances, but right now he wanted to see how far he had come with the stance… It was already near perfect, just a couple of hours more and he would have it perfected.

Life with his two senseis wasn't bad at all, they cared for him a lot, and he gave them respect. After the first three days of being with them in the base, they all began to talk of their past, Itachi skipping the massacre, and Kisame skipping the death of his wife… They seemed more open to the boy now and were acting nice around him, unless they were training, then he would be under constant beating… well to him.. And would work extremely hard, but it was really worth it. His weights were now sixty-five pounds, and the fingers were ten. He had already gotten one hundred twenty-two jutsu in the past two and six sevenths of a week… Some being A rank, some B, some C, and a lot of S, but the S seemed just hard to learn instead of extremely deadly… His sixth sense had come along quite well, he could now feel all nine Akatsuki member chakra sources… His 'Sekkendou' was coming along, but he need a lot of work on that, and his genjutsu was coming by really fast. Life now was great, but tomorrow he would be here alone training, seeing as how Itachi and Kisame had missions to do, but he knew what he would be working on, and he couldn't do it alone he always had the other members to ask… I mean they were friendly to him.

Naruto felt his posture reign over him… he did it… ITS PERFECTED, "Good job brat.. Now do your sword exercises over there and get five hundred clones here with me…" Naruto did as he was told and made the clones and left them with Kisame as he went to go do his sword exercises… yes even the basics could kill someone… coming straight from Kisame himself. Naruto's exercises consisted of one thousand upward swings, one thousand left swings, one thousand right, one thousand downward, and one thousand continuous swings… All in all Naruto had perfected swinging a sword in a good five days, but using it was another story… Yeah damn things were hard to maneuver some times, but practice makes perfect.

Naruto's clones were learning the ways of silent killing, half practicing memorizing points of fatal sword blows, Throat, spinal column, lungs, liver, the jugular vein, kidney, heart, the subclavien artery. The other half were learning how to move about in the mist without being noticed while noticing them at the same time… It was a bit frustrating, but the clones in the mist were meant to fight each other, while learning how to fight in the mist yet gain experience at the same time… Yes clones rule.

Kisame watched in amazement as every Naruto did everything with accuracy and precision… This kid was determined and had hope yet to become one of the strongest to walk the earth…. The Sharingan was a damn plus too, 'Wonder how long it'll take him to the jutsu…'

The real Naruto was receiving information from the dying clones and working on the exercises at the same time… It felt really weird, trying to concentrate on one thing and not the other, but oh well he was semi used to it now. Five hours later he was released to lunch, which Naruto always spent with Deidaara.

"Gaki… Damnit brat I told you not to add the fish till after the vegetables were fried. You never listen and yet you expect to learn how to cook… Damn." Naruto was trying not to laugh at Deidaara for turning so red, "Well Sensei the vegetables looked cooked enough so why not?" Deidaara shook his head… Sell I've never tried it like that but hell whatever you fucked up already anyways."

They spent the next twenty minutes experimenting this new type of dish… Fish Vegetable… "Wow… It looks so good…" Naruto was staring at the fish on the plate, so juicy, so luscious, so for his belly… "You know it really does… Well try it first since you made it." Naruto dug into it in the blink of an eye…. His eyes sparkled as the food entered his mouth… 'Its like…. Heaven!!' After the first came the second, then he was done with his… Deidaara stared at him for a bit, "How was it?" Naruto grinned a bit, "Perfect."

Yes it was perfect… How the juices from the not fully cooked vegetables leaked into the fish as it cooked, releasing the vegetable juice while eating the fish, yet it still had its fish taste… perfect dish. Deidaara stared at it for a second longer and finally took a bite, "Oh my.. Oh my…. Oh my HIDANS GOD!!!! Its AWESOME!!!" Minutes later the two had eaten six plates each and were happily chatting away.

"So Naruto… You never did tell me why you left Konoha… Care to share your reason?" Naruto gave him a glance and nodded.

"Well I hated my village since the day I could first read faces…. They would just plain out hate me so why not hate right back, that's how it felt for me. Then the damn sensei's

Of mine were so full of shit that I finally got fed up, I didn't even get trained right ever, while that Uchiha got all the attention I was tossed aside like trash… I mean I did learn one powerful technique, but Sasuke learned more from Kakashi." Naruto looked sad for a bit and drooped his head, "And my so called friend didn't treat me like a friend at all…. Hitting me, taking advantage of me, doing things to put me down and shun me… Yet I did not want to fight them, I didn't hate them. They were not there for me at all, and after a while I began to notice it and I snapped when my Supposed first love defended the guy that hurt her in the first place… What a bitch." Naruto looked up to Deidaara's eyes and smiled, "I gave you the soft side to my story… there's more, but for another time now its your turn."

"Why I left huh… My village… Iwa, well they didn't treat me like a shinobi at all, they would send me on missions that were near impossible to complete, like if they wanted me dead, and once I thought I was going to die… But that's not the reason why I left, no, It was because on a mission my team got intercepted by ten RAIN, (ANBU from rain), and one of my men got captured." Deidaara seemed to space out for a bit, "Then when we finally beat the nine left me and my partner left to retrieve him at the cost of the mission, but when I got there and defeated his capturer he threw a fit about the priority of the mission and when we got back the council tried to have me and my teammate executed… He stayed to pay for his so called Betrayal, but I didn't I left and met up with Akatsuki a few years back." Naruto nodded in understanding and stood up.

"Well it's time for my training with Itachi-Sensei… laters Deidaara-Sensei." With that he was gone in a plume of smoke… 'Kids going to be a legend someday…'

Naruto arrived to the place of his training to see Itachi standing there clutching some kind of scroll. Itachi turned to look at him, "Gomen Naruto-Kun, but it seems that Kisame and I will be leaving on this mission a bit early.. So I'm going to write out your training schedule right now… So just do your exercises and come back to me when your done." Naruto was a bit saddened that his senseis were leaving early, but started his exercises anyway… His exercises included one thousand clones climbing up a man made waterfall… Itachi had to find something a bit more challenging for the blonde so that he could gain a near perfect chakra control over time. While the clones did this Naruto had to practice on his 'Sekkendou'. He had gotten most of the Taijutsu basics in the stance and strikes, but utilizing it without his Sharingan was a bit hard. Itachi had told him to do everything but memorize jutsus without the Sharingan in hopes that Naruto wouldn't need the Sharingan unless in need of a trump card. So far… It was near possible, yet Naruto would question why he had to do it without the Sharingan, while Itachi did everything with the damn thing…. The response, a chocolate stick of pocky was munched on in front of the boy… Naruto had then asked if he could have some… The reply to this… Go fuck yourself… That was fucking weird to Naruto, Itachi doesn't cuss or get pissed… 'Whoa pocky must be important than.'

An hour passed and Naruto dispelled his clones, he felt a bit light headed form the info overload, but over the three weeks his mind had become a bit stronger each time he dispelled all the clones…. Lucky him right, no more info overloads that led to blackouts. He walked up to Itachi who was rolling up a scroll, Itachi looked at him and nodded a bit handing over the scroll, "That's your training schedule Naruto… I warn you that Kisame and I probably wont be back for a good year or two…" Naruto stared at him like he was crazy, "Why so long Itachi-Sensei?" Itachi looked at the crushing water under the waterfall and then back to Naruto…. "Because Naruto-Kun this mission will be very hard… and.." Itachi looked as if he was trying to gather some courage, "And if I'm not back within two… We are dead. That is how deadly the mission is Naruto, but do not worry… No don't worry at all, if I die just know it was for a damn good reason." Itachi turned around and walked towards the exit until he heard Naruto say something, "I wont cry Nee-San…" It was just above a whisper but Itachi still heard it… The word brought back a throat clutching memory of Sasuke when he was younger and he nearly fell over from the emotion given in such a simple word… "Yes.. Till later Otouto.." Naruto didn't hear it, and watched as the clouded cloak sunk into the darkness.

Naruto stared at the raveled scroll and then opened it to read.

Nature Manipulation

Naruto… These next exercises will require a huge amount of determination, which no doubt you have. It will take you a good month or two before you even begin to grasp the feeling of the elements around you, but before you read on there is a square shaped paper under a patch in the scroll, what you must do is channel chakra into it and watch as it reacts.

Reactions: Burns, fire manipulation.

Soaks: Water manipulation.

Crumples: Lightning Manipulation.

Splits: Wind Manipulation.

Turns to dust: Earth Manipulation.

If any of these other things happen then it seems my predictions were correct, but if they don't then do not worry.

Freezes: Ice Manipulation. (Reason for predictions: Your father was from mist after being run out, even though he did not have this certain bloodline active I'm sure he still had it.)

Becomes hard: Wood Manipulation. (It seems the father of your mother was not an Uchiha…)

Other reaction: I am uncertain. (Everyone that has come from your mothers side has some kind of outside manipulation.)

Naruto stopped reading wondering about his mother and father… Then quickly got off the thought and opened the pouch inside the scroll. A small square paper slipped out and Naruto grasped it… He was a bit nervous at what the reactions would be, but calmed down enough to start the procedure. He channeled some chakra into the small paper and watch as it split into four parts, one part caught fire, another soaked and then froze, another crumpled, the other hardened then turned to dust. Naruto caught every reaction and fell onto his butt getting into an Indian style… Lightning, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Wood, and Ice… What was wrong with his family….

Even though Naruto did not know who they were Itachi did… His father, the Yondaime Hokage who had come from mist after the start of the civil war was found on the border of fire country at the age of seven… He seemed beaten, bruised, and near dead… He later explained that the civil war was about trying to get all families with bloodlines out, and his mother sent him off running when she was told by a friend that they were coming for them, she sent him off and stayed to fight them off long enough for her only child to get out of there safely… Yondaime ran for days straight crying and using resolve to continue.. For his mother… For her sake he had to do it. Then when he fell to his knees from exhaustion he awoke in a hospital bed surrounded by people with white clothes on… they were watching him intently but he did not care, he got up and stared right at a man in what looked like his thirties…

The man wore long white robes and a large white hat that had the Kanji for Fire Shadow… a kage? Maybe, but he didn't care right now, "Where am I?" The Hokage smiled at the blonde haired boy and replied, "You are in Konoha young man, but before I answer any questions you must answer some for me… Where are you from and what is your name?" The blonde looked at him, "Names Minato Namikaze… from Kirigakure…" The man only nodded, "Then what are you doing way out here?" The blonde held back his tears but couldn't, then tears sprung from his light blue eyes, "My… my.. Mom sent me away when they came to try and kill us… I… I ran as fast as I.. as fast as I…" He burst into tears, but the Hokage got the point… 'Civil war then…' The hokage gave off a grim aura, a boy so young getting put through such pain, and now the boy was here with him… "Minato-Kun… Do not worry my boy… I will have someone watch over you and you can live here in Konoha." The blonde looked up crying and smiling.. He nodded and that was how it came to be known that Minato Namikaze became one of the greatest ninja to ever walk on the earths surface.

His mother was a mystery to him, but he had a hunch that she was a descendant of the first and second… Madara Uchiha had a sister in which the first took a liking too… Their daughter was the mother to Tomoko Uchiha… A prodigy that he passed up, it was heard that she had the elements of lightning, fire, and water.. Pass on the traights why don't you?

That was all Itachi knew, but the rest would be for Naruto to find out. The blonde sure as hell deserved it after the life he was put through… Not a life that a kid should be put through… hell not a life that a grown man would want to be put through, but that was Naruto's curse… And everyone had a curse.

Naruto then continued to read from the scroll.

To master your manipulation/manipulations, your going to have to work extremely hard and long… What you must do everyday in training is create one thousand clones to work on EACH element. It may seem like a lot, but that's why we worked on your reserves for so long already, you should be able to create a good ten thousand clones now, if not more.

Order the clones to try and manipulate the elements around them, an example: The waterfall I created, send one thousand to try and control the water by using a soft chakra… You'll know the difference between your normal chakra and your elemental quite easily, but to focus on it you must be prepared to meditate… till you feel the element around you, you must pull it to you, control it as if it were part of you… That is what manipulation is.

Until you have mastered manipulation do not read the rest of this scroll because you need manipulation to do the rest of the training… Till you master it Naruto, remember.

Naruto was confused so he reread it over and over again about five times till he got the concept. He was going to start today… that was for sure…

The two cloaked men stepped foot into the gates only to be intercepted by four ANBU members, "Do not dare cross this path into Konoha AKATSUKI scum…" The man was down before the rest could react… And when they looked into the men's scarlet eyes they were paralyzed… Paralyzed with fear that could not be broken, 'Only two men in this world have those… those Eyes..'

Two years passed and Naruto had grown considerably. His hair lengthened to a medium sized ponytail…. It seemed so much like Inoichi's hair, yet so different. He grew a good seven inches from the lack of ramen in his diet, and held a nicely formed face, but the most notable thing on him was his eyes, they held a beauty that would trap your soul into it. It held such wisdom and knowledge, yet it held peace and happiness. They were a captivating light blue that went into a darker blue into an almost black ring around the outside of it… Nice blend of colors. He wore a white Akatsuki cloak with the clouds on it, and a Katana on his back… What Manipulation wasn't the only thing he worked on.. Matter of fact he didn't work on them at all, that was his clones jobs… He went to work on his Taijutsu and Kenjutsu, he was above Jounin level in the areas.

Naruto had mastered manipulation in every aspect possible… He was as good as the Nidaime in water manipulation, pulling water particles from the air itself, so good at ice manipulation it was scary… I mean the guy could freeze your insides if you didn't know how to evade it, and the Mokoton was by far one of his favorite hobbies… Create new types of weapons and attacks with his surrounding flowers, trees, grass, anything.. And yes he had control over it to that extent, literally in control of everything that was alive related to plants.

Lightning… It would come from nowhere, fire… You were already burnt to a crisp before you knew it, earth, you were under a boulder when all you saw was him blink, and wind… Oh the wind was beyond scary… No if you were to be hit by his wind manipulations you would be shredded from inside out… He had gone so far into wind that he had mastered a New type of Rasengan… A deadly Rasengan that mutilated anything and everything in its path, but this was just Naruto right… a normal blonde who just happened to contain a demon.

So yes.. Now it was time to commence training part two. After waiting a two years to completely master the manipulations he was ready for the rest, so he grabbed the scroll from under the earth and opened it with a soft click.

Naruto-Kun… If you are reading this then you have already mastered the manipulation of your surroundings, but before you go on this is important. These next jutsus are a force to be reckoned with, but you must go in order from top to bottom, do not skip because if you do it could cause death. The jutsus all have an important aspect in each other, they relate to each other. If I'm back then I will show you exactly what I mean by in correspondence to each other, but if I am not then your going to have to…

Naruto stopped reading when he felt a familiar chakra signature. Yes, his seseis were finally back, and were alive. He stood up and walked to the entrance of the training room using a high level genjutsu on himself to blend in with the wall, element of surprise was always best. He felt the signatures coming closer, closer, closer, there were nearly there… The door opened and in stepped Kisame and Itachi. They looked around the room and found it empty, "That brat is skipping training now.. When I see him he's fish food." Kisame was moving forward until he felt cold steel at his neck. "What did you say sensei?" Naruto was speaking in an all too sweet voice.

"Ah brat… It seems you've been practicing in silent killing." Kisame was smiling, "And it seems you've gotten better, I'm so proud of my student." They were both pulled out of their musing when Itachi grabbed Naruto's shoulder, "Ah Naruto-Kun I see you've gotten better at genjutsu too, you nearly fooled me." Itachi gave a sly grin as he pulled out a stick of chocolate pocky and munched away.

"Damnit still not good enough then, two damn years and I haven't gotten my Genjutsu to your level." Naruto was giving a small pout, "Oh well… Senseis.. How was the mission? Was it successful or did you two just suck so bad you failed the thing entirely?"

They smirked, now was the time to tell him everything that happened this past two years. They looked about the training area a bit more and smirked when they saw the open scroll, "It appears you've just gotten to the second area of training… Perfect." Naruto was a bit confused at the way the two were smirking, "And why would that be perfect?"

"Because any sooner and you wouldn't have trained at all… The rest of that scroll is empty, filled with a bunch of bull crap." Kisame looked at Itachi and smirked, "Yes… And its empty because we had to get the next part on our mission… We'll explain it to you right now as a matter of fact."

The three sat down in a triangle formation.

"Naruto-Kun… Tell me what every village has in common." Itachi was waiting for a reply, "They all have a different element for their use, like fire country has fire, rain has water, and lighting country has lightning jutsus." Itachi nodded in approval, "That is correct Naruto, and tell me what it takes to control that element?"

Naruto was looking at Itachi as if he were crazy, "Well you need to learn how to manipulate that element…" Naruto was thinking, "But what does this have anything to do with your mission." Kisame then entered the conversation, "Our mission… Was to steal every forbidden scroll from every elemental country.." Kisame smirked a bit, "And as you said… you need to know how to manipulate an element to control it and use it better for jutsus, so now… tell me what each forbidden scroll contains." Naruto scrunched up his face in thought, "They all have the countries jutsus that are either too powerful and hard to do, and they also contain jutsus that take manipulation to its max…"

Naruto was smiling a bit evilly, "Oh so that's what the two years worth of manipulation was for, but even though I have the elements mastered…. How would learning things from forbidden scrolls be of any help?" Itachi stared at him like he was crazy as he munched on a banana flavored pocky stick, "Naruto-Kun… Where talking about some of the strongest jutsus know to man… How can that not help you?" Naruto was grinning like a madman, he always did have a knack for powerful jutsus.

"Ok then… Lets get started then." Itachi and Kisame stood up, "Uh actually were going to go to sleep… Having to travel for two days straight to get here was taxing, but you can read the scrolls." Itachi pulled out a bag from under his cloak and handed it to Naruto… 'How in the name of hell did he get forbidden scrolls in a bag that size…' Itachi smirked at Naruto's shocked face, "Mangekyou's just cool like that Naruto-Kun." Naruto then nodded at the answer… 'Ah that space time bullshit again..' The two senseis walked away leaving forty-three Naruto's reading forbidden scrolls from major villages…

'When ones mind and soul are one they truly become ninja.. Becoming one with the things around them, relying on nothing but the air they breathe and the earth they walk on. The calm wind that blows through this world is a force to be reckoned with when it is controlled by one of these 'True' Ninjas… Just as any form of nature is. To be calm, to be collective, to be relaxed, is to be and element in its own kind. When one is brought down from heaven itself just to be recreated as one of these ninja… It is an honor that very little can say they have the honor to believe so of themselves…'

'An example of a ninja of these sorts was the forth hokage of Konohagakure… A man who was so selfless when things came to that of his village and people… Then came the point in the mans life were he had do the most selfless and shameful thing for a man to do at all… give up his own sons life for that of ungrateful people he had sworn to protect, but even so… On life in comparison to thousands was well greater, but with his sacrifice came his end, and in his end rose the next ninja of his kind…'

Itachi continued to write in a black scroll he had picked up a few months back…

'Uzumaki Naruto… A boy who is now at the age of seventeen, his captivating midnight blue eyes, and long golden hair holds that of his fathers… Such a reflection to gawk at, it is sad to say that this boy grew up in a life harsher than hell itself, and yet he came out to be what his father once was.. A selfless man who cared for all but himself. This young man.. I can compare him to a son I wish I had the time to have, or maybe a little brother that I could have respected… Naruto has come so far in his life now, three years since we returned from our mission and since he began his intense training.. It is not hard at all for me to admit the kid has passed me up in skill, and is now capable of beating me hands down… But even so he does not show it and show off his skills, its amazing to say the boy is a good six feet three inches. He is so different from everyone else in this damned organization.. As we wear the precious black cloak with red clouds, he feels the need to be separated with is white cloak and intermixing blue clouds. The young man has become somewhat of a role model to some of the others here at the organization… Just yesterday I experienced four of the members calling him… Uzumaki-Sama??? That is quite shocking seeing as how the only person they call Sama is the leader himself, what Naruto has done with other members to gain such respect is indeed beyond me, but the boy has completed over thirty-three missions in four months… And that is terrifying in its own right, I took three years to do that many.'

Itachi looked up from his scroll to see Naruto meditating on the lake that was created by a jutsu Naruto created… Beautiful in its own rights.

'He sits on his own lake.. Yes that lake that holds such beauty, in this cursed cavern were no light enters, this lake seems to give off its beautiful low colored green light.. From where It finds it source is still unknown to me, but it does not matter. Then the waterfall shows off its own light blue lights as it mixes with the blue on the ceiling of this place… That jutsu was so amazing and its aftermath was even more devastating… to create a lake that is this is too… there are no words to explain the rest of this lake.'

Itachi eyed Naruto for another second and then continued to write.

'Over these years the boy has made Jutsus that put even some of the leaders to shame, but even so Naruto still ahs not shown me some… Sadly I have to wait till the right time… It seems odd though, he sits there meditating, but he's been sitting there for the past four hours, what is he thinking… No matter. This boy has gained the one thing I despise about myself.. The Mangekyou, yes its sadly true… How? In the most terrible way possible, he lost a very dear friend a month ago… Yes that mission was practically suicide yet he and Kisame still accepted it. As they were being overwhelmed by Oto-Nin Kisame was struck by some type of weapon, and as Naruto watched his named older brother dying he felt an anger well that sent him killing the fifty-two sound Nins… The onslaught was not long, and after.. Naruto says he crawled over crying to his brother, grasping at him as the blue skinned man let a silent tear drop from his eyes.. Kisame's last words are still saddening for me to write down… Don't die otouto… No don't die before you reach your goals as I am dying right now… But I die living out my dream, dying at the side of a man who will someday become the legend spoken by only by gods. No don't die… Don't die.. I asked Naruto to show me the scene through Tsukyomi, and as I watched the scene as Kisame's last words were spoken not even I could contain the tears that then flowed freely… I too now lost a brother. He was a great man Kisame, a man of true honor and freedom, always so cheerful and humorous, and when around Naruto the two were a joy that set everyone right, I miss him even now… Goodbye Kisame.'

Itachi's tear drops stained the scroll a bit till he wiped them away, he once again looked to the place were Naruto once sat, but he was no longer there… No he was by his side right there over him… "Itachi-Nii-san we are going to leave now…." I nodded to Naruto and told him I would be ready in thirty minutes.

'Yes today we leave Akatsuki forever with our companions… Naruto had already told the ones he trusted that he defeated the leader and was ending the organization, when asked why he told them that it was not right to try and achieve god status on a place that did not deserve to bow down and kiss the feet of imposters. We were all surprised that Naruto had defeated the man name Uchiha Madara, but were a bit glad none the less… And on that same day four other members agreed to follow Naruto on an unknown journey, Deidaara, Tsuriyu, Reita, and Tsuki… So yes today we leave for this journey to a new start…'

Itachi was thinking of something he thought he was forgetting..

Written by: Itachi Uchiha

As once said before….

Yes… Six years since he had been back here, as he looked at the guard he began to reminisce in the past, but soon was brought out of his thoughts by Itachi, "Sousui.. Maybe it would have been wise to bring the others?" Naruto smirked and looked at the frozen guard, "No ani… I shall deal with this, no worries at all." Naruto began to approach the guard at a steady pace.

The guard was trembling.. The young man in front of him should have been Sasuke Uchiha… But the blonde hair and no the boy would not have been with Itachi no matter what, so then who was this Uchiha? "Stay away.. No don't kill me." The man was screaming, but Naruto did not get angry or anything, "Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you… But you should stop screaming.. I want you to take me to the Hokage." The man was still crawling away, but stopped when he heard the semi-soft voice… It was so.. Honest? Trustworthy? Calm? Innocent? It was a perfect voice fit for a young man.. The man stood up on shaky legs.

"Why would you.. You want to see Tsunade-Hime?" The man was shaking, "I have come to join your forces… as have four others." The man was confused.. Akatsuki members wanting in on Konoha, this was something above him, but can he trust one of the most strongest missing-nins from Konoha to go see Tsunade.. Itachi might be dangerous to her, but this other man seemed so trustworthy… "I can get ANBU to evaluate you first and then take you to her, but until then I can not trust you to see her… " The man was waiting for death to come but it never did and as he looked at the smiling man before him he almost smiled back, "Okay then call them." Before the man could even call them though they appeared before the three.

"Halt Akatsuki scum… Why do you trespass on Konoha's la.." they never finished as they saw the blood red eyes of the two men before them, "Please don't refer to us like that… Its disrespectful." The ANBU was about to spit at Naruto till he saw a glare reach his eyes from Itachi, "Disrespect Naruto-Sama and itll be the last thing you do.." Itachi was stopped by Naruto, "Don't Itachi.. ANBU-San, take me to Tsunade-Sama, I have something important to discuss with her right now." The four men didn't know what to do.. They were no match for two members of Akatsuki, and Naruto?? How was that familiar somehow… Their only option was literally to take them to their leader.

The ANBU with a hawk mask nodded to the other three, "If you wish to see Hokage-Sama then follow, but if you dare try to attack you'll have the whole force of Konoha on you." The two cloaked men nodded and in a split second the six men were gone in poofs of smoke.

The guard stood there wondering what the hell had just happened… This was something else that he could brag about to the others, he just saw maybe a making of Konoha's Future first hand. Still he had that weird fear brought on just by the look of the blood red eyes…. Last time he saw those was the time Itachi was his leader in ANBU.

Tsunade was brought out of her thoughts of Naruto when six small pops were heard.. She rose to see cloaks with cloud designs on them… She got into a battle stance, but stopped when she noticed the other four ANBU, "What is this all about.. You AKATSUKI SCUM!!!" Naruto looked at Itachi, "We really need to get some different cloaks Onii-San."

The end of Chapter one and the beginning of a story… I loved writing this first chapter… Took me a good three days, but please tell me what you think of the first chapter, it may be a bit bad or maybe good.

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