Disclaimer: once again, I don't own Naruto, Karas: The Prophecy, or Karas: The Revelation. Wish I did, but I don't. Also, anyone who is a fan of the blond shinobi himself, aren't we all hoping he'll either kill or cripple Sasuke? I mean no disrespect to those who like the guy, Emo bastard that he is, but, it's called Naruto for a reason. Meaning that the main character and focus of the anime and manga is Naruto. Not. Sasuke. And, on another note, is Naruto finally going to be able to actually have an advantage for once, instead of gaining a new ability and it working with no threat to his person, only for it to have adverse side affects, or for him to get beaten anyway.

Anyone else notice that? If this is the way that Naruto is going to continue, I may actually stop respecting Kishimoto for creating Naruto. Though I have to admit, Kishimoto-san may be have just tried to piss us off first before getting to the good stuff, on account that I got to watch as Sasuke got his ass handed to hime by Killer Bee. And the dude's one of the funniest characters in Naruto I have yet to see. If you haven't read that far.....go read that far, considering I'm now reading the series agin just because of that fight.

Author Notes:

I love candy, I love soda, I love sugar, I love.........................never mind. I never said any of that. If I find out people found out I like such things, I'll hunt you down and gut you like a fish!. Threatening warnings to protect my dignity aside, let us continue.

Anyway, leave a review if you want, doesn't matter.

So then, as an announcement:

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Dear viel12: You may vote for more than one person in the list. But! After you vote for all the people you want, do Not! vote again. This helps me with keeping the voting somewhat easy to do, instead of having the same reviewer vote for their favored pairings after every chapter.

Anyway, this is the Current poll.

Tayuya-18

Kin-13

Ayame Ichiraku-45

Haku (Female in this fic)-36

Princess Yuki-50

Tsunade-19

Shizune-21

Anko-28

Yugito-(Jinchuriki of the Niibi-No-Nekomata)-52

Tsunami-35

Female Kyuubi-24

Also, as some people may have noticed, I've removed the Niibi-No-Nekomata off the harem list, due to her automatically being added in with Yugito. So, if you get Yugito, your going to get the Niibi tagging along anyway. That how I see it, anyway.

Also......... their will be character deaths, gore, bloodshed, and overpowered people(or not, if that's your opinion).But, mostly fighting, so it's all good. Well then, let begin.

[Last Time]

Looking up, Yugito felt fear once more again that day, as she watched as a group of ten people wearing black cloaks appear from the smoke a dust kicked up. These cloaks would never normally invoke such a reaction from her, save for one, crucial, difference.

These cloaks had clouds on them. Red clouds.

Akatsuki had come to Konoha.

[Ready......Hajimie!]

Akatsuki, the shadowy organization composed of various rogue shinobi, and hell-bent on retrieving all nine of the Jinchuriki of the world, stood ominously as dust and smoke billowed around them, their cloaks fluttering in the small wind kicked up by the explosion in front of them.

In their middle stood and orange haired man with oddly colored eyes. They held three rings of gradually darkening color, the outside ring lightest, the innermost the darkest, that fanned out from his pupils. Multiple piercing's were adorned on his face, and a slight scowl on his face belayed his mood. To his right stood a shorter, blue haired women with a origami rose in her hair, and a single piercing below her lower lip. She had cold cerulean eyes, but also watched the orange haired man with slight concern. Continuing to her right, a silver haired man with a eager, psychotic smirk stood lazily, a massive, tri-bladed scythe held over his right shoulder, and a silver eyed man with a mask and gray hoody stood next to him, holding a briefcase in his left hand. On his right, a man with gold eyes, and half of his face colored white, and the other black, while what looked like a Venus flytrap grew out from his shoulders as he stared at the assembled shinobi with amber eyes.

On the orange haired mans left stood a black haired person, with a bright, fluorescent orange spiraling mask, with the spiral ending at a single eye hole. To this person left stood the black haired, red eyed with three, black tomo's Sharingan Uchiha Itachi, on of the most notorious missing nin from Konohagakure. Next to him was a shark like man with a massive sword wrapped in bandages strapped across his back. Next was a blond haired man with a metal eyepatch over his left eye, and hunched over next to him was a man with a metal, scorpion like tail that waived behind him in agitation.

"Konohagakure." spoke up the orange haired man in a calm voice, though several surrounding Shinobi felt themselves shiver at the undertone of power to it.

"My name is Pain. I am the leader of Akatsuki, and we are hear for the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune. Give him up with out a fuss, and we'll leave with out demolishing this village."

By now the assembled forces of Konohagakure had arrived after feeling the incredible chakra of their invaders, as well as the massive explosion, and Pains revelation gave many shinobi shivers, while other scoffed and muttered good riddance under their breaths. After all, if he wanted the Kyuubi brat, he could have him.

However, their were many confused people, mostly the rookie twelve and the younger generations, as they didn't know what the hell the Akatsuki leader was talking about. Shikamaru himself was confused.

'Jinchuriki? Power of human sacrifice?! What the hell's that mean? And what's up with them wanting the Kyuubi, its dead, right? The Yondaime killed it over twenty years ago. Why would they want something that's dead? Man, this is so troublesome...' however, he felt his eyed widen and his mouth gape open as two of the member's were launched back, courtesy of a flying knee to the face by a blond ANBU.

[Back with Akatsuki]

The orange haired Rinnegan wielder waited a few moments for konohas shinobi to speak up, before he narrowed his eyes in irritations they stayed silent. It was, insulating, that they would do nothing to even answer him, let alone give up their hated Jinchuriki so that Akatsuki could obtain one of the final tailed demons and accomplish their final goal. His inner musings were cut short as he felt a brief flare of chakra to his left, only to watch in open shock as both Tobi and Itachi felt a pair of knees slam into their faces, even as he had watched it in slow motion with his ringed eyes, Tobi's mask cracked, spider webbing from the force, and Itachi's eyes widened in pain, before he coughed up blood, the force lifting them off their feet and sending them rocketing into a shop several blocks behind them, the impact shattering the wall they slammed into and causing the building to collapse on top of them. And a blond haired ANBU was the cause of their impromptu flight.

The blond landed on his feet, his right hand whipping back upwards towards his shoulder before drawing his sword, the blade hissing as he drew it, before it sang out a cry of wind as he drew it downward in an arc, the blond explosive expert to his right cried out in pain, his right arm removed up to the shoulder in a shower of blood as the sword crashed into the ground, a ten foot long trench opening up from the blades path, the invisible force of wind chakra adding to the blades power. And then the blond simply vanished, his form wavering like a mirage as he disintegrated into the air. Deidara simply tried choking back his cries at the pain of losing his arm, before being silenced himself as an armor clad fist slammed into his face, blood and spit leaving his mouth as he was slammed into the building behind himself, leaving a large, spider webbed crater as he sunk down form it, before toppling over onto his face, twitching occasionally.

Turning towards the now alert and defensive black clad demon hunting group, all of them, even Pein, felt themselves pause slightly as the blond simply leaked killing intent, the aura of death, fear and bloodlust rolling off of his body in waves, his longer than average katana held loosely in his right hand, its edge stained with blood, the occasional drop leaking from it, through it was such a slow process it seemed as if the blade was drinking it, hoarding as much blood as it could, considering it was so stained it seemed as if it was merely dipped in a bucket of blood. While he had been initially startled, Pein calmed as he took in the blonds appearance.

His left arm smoked as it healed over, the lacerations and burns from shrapnel caused by the explosion tearing its way up his arm, as well as vaporizing his arm greave. His previously white armor was dirtied with soot, dust, and burns, and the upper right part of the chest was completely blown off, the edges around it melted down, meaning that after this he would have to scrape if. If he survived, anyway. The bomb had also burned away part of his shirt, though the tattered remains were able to conceal his ShikiFuin. His mask remained only partly damaged, the upper left side of it cracked and broken off, revealing more of his blond hair, as well as his slitted, crimson eye, burning in hatred at those that would seek to enslave his power for their own uses. He felt the Kyuubi's chakra swirl around his body, pulsating with malevolence and hate, bleeding from his form as his gripped his blade tighter with his newly clawed fingers. Placing his other hand around the end of the hilt, he brought the blade up to eye level, its business end pointed towards the orange haired Rinnegan leader, even as he called for more of his tenants power, kicking up a whirlwind as more of the red energy escaped his body, and several shinobi dropped to their knees as both partes spiked their killing intent to cancel out the others.

Naruto growled at them, before tilting his head back and unleashing a distinctive roar that sent shudders down the spines of all Konoha shinobi that recognized it as that of the Kyuubi's, before he vanished again. Reappearing within a meter his target, the Jinchuriki's blade sang as he swung it upwards, intent on splitting the bastard in two, but instead of killing him, it sliced cleanly through a hastily erected Daton barrier, before piercing Zetsu's flesh under his lower right rib, tearing its way upwards through his left shoulder with enough force to slather flesh, bone and a fountain of blood as the plantlike man fell back, his mouth open in silent scream, though he gurgled as his remaining lung filled with blood, the rest escaping his mouth and the gaping wound running his chest.

Pein had flung himself back nearly immediately after the blond had vanished, and even as he watched Zetsu die to save him, he was nothing more than a pawn that had outlived its usefulness. He bit his thumbs and drew blood, before flipping through several seals and disappearing into a cloud of smoke that exploded around him. As the smoke cleared, a massive, three headed dog with rust colored fur, larger than even Gamabunta, stared down at the blond with the same eyes of that of its summoner, who had disappeared. It wasn't until it began speaking in a gravely voice that Naruto felt his eyes widen, as though it was over toned, Pein's voice could still be distinguished with that of the summoners.

"Well, isn't this interesting? Call, and you come running, Jinchuriki. At first I didn't recognize you, but after you started using the demons energy, it all began to come together. No wonder we haven't been able to find a trace of you for the last several years.....you went and joined the ANBU. Quiet clever, boy, but now that I've found you, all we need to do is take the Kyuubi from you. However, you've improved more that I would have expected you to have over the years, but it seems theirs one thing that hasn't changed....."

And as the dogs eyes switched from eyeing the blond to settle over the pair of trembling Kage's and their escorts, its three mouths opened before a ball of white and purple fire began growing in between the three dogs jaws, flaring brightly as it grew to twice the size of the summons heads, even as the blond felt his eyes widen in horror of the similarities it had to his Kyuubi chakra cannon.

"Your compassion for others, will be your death!"

And Naruto scarcely felt himself move as the sphere rocketed from the jaws, aimed at killing the Kage's and to his own horror as he fell slight behind it, the members of the rookie twelve, their sensei's, and other shinobi he'd seen around the village, people that he'd sworn to protect. Only by flooding his body with more of the Kyuubi's chakra did he make it fast enough, no more than a scant few seconds before it would have impacted the group.

Gripping his sword as he brought it slowly up to his chest, before slashing it across his chest in a wide arc, before twist his wrist as he gritted his teeth and he cut back towards himself, the tip of his blade pointed outwards towards the right, the blades length running parallel with his chest just as the fireball slammed itself into the edge of his katana, pressing the blades dull side into the remnants of his armor. He felt himself give ground as his slid back several feet, the ground cracking and splintering as he moved, before wincing as he struggled to push the attack back, continuing to weather the blast. He gritted his teeth as the hilt of his blade seared the flesh of his palm, the sphere of fire superheating his blade, even as he watched in slight helplessness as the length of his blade became white hot, before cracks began spider webbing their way across the steel, before shattering in an explosion of steel as the blade gave way to the attack.

The shards of his destroyed weapon hurled into his body, piercing his lungs, stomach, and chest, a larger shard flying into, and out of, his left arm, tearing it of at the shoulder, while smaller shards peppered his face and sliced into his left eye, tearing their way across the exposed part of his face before clipping of his left ear. The largest shard, the foot long length of his blade's end had imbedded itself into his abdomen, though it wasn't a clean puncture. The end had blown off and spiraled down into his front side, tearing through his right kidney and stopping as the bladed end blew out through his back and anchoring itself into his stomach without going the entire way through. The rest of the blast had superheated his armor, reducing it to nothing more that melted slag, and searing the skin off his chest and abdomen as it slowly dripped off his body, revealing the pink and red muscle below it, even as he bled out heavily. His mask had shattered with the impact of the blast, and blew away from his face.

Blood dripped from his forehead and his left cheek, and missing ear, even as his now blinded eye cried blood, the small shards imbedded into it leaking blood. It mixed and pooled with the twin streams of blood running from his lips, even as they ran down his chin and dripped lightly into the growing puddle at his feet. The blood ran from his chest and stomach wounds, much of it soaking through into his black fatigues and running down the silver metal of his shinguards, before settling down over his combat boots and joining the blood that pooled and grew beneath him. His shoulder bled out just as heavily as his torso wounds, though it came in clots and torrents, much heavier than the streams and rivers that flowed elsewhere on his ruined body. Shifting forwards in pain, Naruto felt himself wobble slightly as his legs began to grow numb, and they trembled as he fought to keep himself upright, his broken sword clasped loosely

Pein simply stared at the blond in shock and horror, as he couldn't believe anyone, even himself, could still be standing after that.

"What the hell are you?! How can you stand with those wounds?!" Aren't you human?!"

Even as Pein yelled at the blond in shock, he couldn't believe that even a Jinchuriki could do such a thing, even as his words struck a cord in all those present. He wasn't human. He was a Jinchuriki, as sacrificial victim used to keep a demon at bay, and he was still standing after taking wounds that would have felled even legendary shinobi. And they more they thought about it, how could he be a monster, if he would take such pain and still keep standing to protect his village. A great deal of Konoha didn't know the answer, but many of them were beginning to pale as they thought about how they'd treated the blond.

Naruto didn't hear the man's words, as he was far to gone to hear him. Feeling his legs buckle slimly, he thrust his right hand out as he buried the remains of his swords into earth, trying to prop himself up, before his legs finally gave way and he dropped to his knees, his cheeks puffing slightly before he vomited up blood. He continued to pour blood from his wounds, and his eyes dimmed and closed half way as his breathing became labored, his one good lung trying to bring in the oxygen of two, his other one dying as it clotted and filled with blood, some of which bled out from the sword shard embedded into his chest, running the length of the jagged metal before dripping slowly from its tip. His vision blurred, the images in front of him fading in and out of his vision, even as he desperately tried to fight against the exhaustion that plagued his body from the bloodless, even as Kyuubi screamed at him get up, to keep fighting, smoke wafting from his missing limb and the wounds on his body as the demon desperately tried to heal its container and keep him alive.

And she was failing.

'Is this....how I'm going to die? But...I, I...can't....she's....waiting for me....' the blond thought quietly to himself as his breathing slowed, his mind dimming, his grip on his broken sword slacking as his hand slipped from the hilt as he fell forward.

"I'm...sorry....Yu...ri...ne...." the blond whispered to himself quietly even as toppled over into the pool of his own blood., much to the horror and shock of those who had watched him fight. Tsunade felt tears run down her face as her 'little brother' fought and lost against death, just like Dan and Nawaki did.. His 'comrades', ranging from ANBU he worked with the rookie twelve simply stared, horrified and disbelieving that the blond who was indestructible, who never stopped fighting, who never gave up, had a died in front of them. He died to protect them, just as he had promised long ago, though few took his oath seriously when he had first graduated.

"I will protect, all those who are precious to me. Even if it cost me my life, I will protect Konoha and all those who reside here!"

And he'd kept that oath. Died for it, defending the people who hated him since the day he was born, with his life. Fought against those that left battle hardened shinobi shaking in their boots. And wanted nothing in return, save a little kindness. Konoha's population felt themselves fill with disgust at their previous actions towards the blond, but could do nothing, now, with Naruto dead.

Akatsuki wasn't doing any better than them, either. While the surviving members had stayed off to the sidelines as the blond fought them and then Pein killed him, the man himself grew angry and horrified at the same time. He just killed the Jinchuriki they needed. The strongest, most important one! What he hell was he going to do now?! How the hell could they capture the Kyuubi now if its container was dead and the blond's fucking seal would take the demon with him to the afterlife?! Fuck Dammit!

Even as Pein continued to curse at himself for going overboard, he stopped mid rant as a soft, musical bell chimed loudly through Konoha, followed by, as far as he was concerned , the voice of an angel.

"One."

Cue a second chime

"Two."

And another chime echoed through Konoha, even as both his forces and those of the village looked around in shock, trying to find out who was doing this. Could it be a Genjutsu?

"Three."

And that's when the cats, golden eyed and white as pure-driven snow, came. First their were only a few, then twenty, and then dozens of them came streaming into the battleground, slinking their way past stunned shinobi and civilians alike, before creating an enormous circle around the fallen blond shinobi.

"Four. Five. Six. Seven." the numbers continued, each one followed by a chime.

They relaxed on their hunches, their eyes locked onto the blonds body, almost as if they were waiting for something.

"Eight. Nine." and their was a single, last chime.

"And it is ten. Sway....too and fro, sway." the women's voice finished, before the army of cats began to pulse with energy, their bodies glowing with a mixture of white and gold. As one they called to each other, and the gold chakra pulsed its way towards the blonds body in waves, before his own body began glowing, before erupting into a column of a hundred feet across, and ascending into the sky to be seen for miles. Though it was of far more interest to the dozens of armor clad figures holding weapons that watched it, while a Yurine stood with each figure, though the their eyes and hair were different colors, their outfits were different, and their marks varied greatly. Yugito herself noticed many of them, even as her hand strayed to her sword that she held at her side, but restrained from the look she was given by 'her Yurine.' Her's looked like Naruto's, save she had bubblegum pink hair. As the surge of chakra died down, Naruto's body pulsed with the new chakra, before bluish white strands erupted from his back, merging as they went into the form of a young girl, before pulsating with her gold chakra as she instantly dressed herself before settling in front of her guardian. Watching as this took place, Yugito simply gaped as a Yurine formed on its own.

"Do you see it, Yugito? This is Konoha's Yurine. The will of the village is born through a human soul. One that is ripe for that village." her own Yurine spoke from next to her, even as she watched the spirits strands pulse before forming the villages spirit, the energy released from her appearance blasting Pein backwards as the monstrous summons he used to fight with lost its footing and was sent rocketing backwards.

The rest of those present simply stared in shock at the little girl, or was it women, as there was a maturity to her body, despite being so small. Ivory hair tied up into a pair of bobbed ponytails, while a pair of thick, black goggles stood attached to her forehead, the lenses tinted pink, with a pair of eyes painted onto them, the left eye closed with a teardrop streaming from it while the other was open. She wore a black, skin tight jacket with a large zipper on the front and a Yin and Yang symbol at the wrist cuffs, outlined with a red metal ring. Her hips were snug with a black and red leather miniskirt, while black knee length boots encased of her legs, even as a two foot long, pure white cats tail twitched behind her from underneath her skirt. She had a beautiful face, with a slash tattoo several inches in length below her left eye, and a pair of intense golden eyes.

Slipping her arms under his shoulders until she found a comfortable grip, the women gently lifted the blond before switching her grip around to his chest, before pushing him into a kneeling position, even as she kept his body from falling forwards. She studied his peaceful, even covered in blood and soot, but still a dead face , before speaking gently as she shook his body once.

"Naruto, my beloved, you will continue to live, so long as there are those who need you. Your soul was born just for this place and for me, right here. Don't die on me...don't you dare die on ME NARUTO!" she screamed at him towards the end with tears in her eyes, before the lightened up in relief as his body shuttered, and she felt his heart beginning its pulsing again as he slowly opened his eyes again.

The blond simply gazed at her quietly, his slitted blue eyes meeting her own blinding gold. He saw the worry, the grief, and happiness and love she wanted for him to see shining through, and his eyes softened.

"Yurine....I..." he spoke tenderly, before she brought his face towards her own and kissed him, even as she poured both her love and chakra through his body, and began to re-awaken his abilities as her guardian. Disengaging from his lips and drawing her face into a serious mask she gave him her ultimatum.

"We'll talk about your idiotic attempt to kill yourself later. Make it up to me by destroy those who seek to harm us. Now, go Karas!"

Nodding slightly to her as her chakra hummed through his body, he growled "Right!" as a small ring of gold formed around his pupil, before throwing his hand out to his side as he reached for his sword, even as his body and the sword began glowing with a gold light. To the astonishment and horror of those around them, a large figure covered head to toe in black armor with gold highlights lay crouched a dozen meters form them, its position mirroring Naruto's, with its left arm and fingers outstretched towards his broken katana. As it looked up and towards them, the eye like slits in hits helmet flashed before glowing blood red, before growling as its blade trembled where it lay imbedded, before tearing itself from the ground and spinning towards the figures outstretched hand, even as Naruto's glowed with gold chakra, before detaching from his body and forming into a ball as it flowed into the armored form's eye slits.

With a sound of groaning steel and welding metal, the broken blade in its hand hissed and glowed with a gold light, even as its began repairing itself from its broken end onwards, before the glow faded as it finished, the blade now several feet longer and slightly thicker. Yugito and Haku both gaped in astonishment at seeing another of their kind here, even as the armored blond switched the blade to his right hand, his other armored palm light running down the mirrored edged face of the blade, before gripping it in two hands as he took a stance, an aura of red and gold chakra blazing around him.

"So, you become a Karas, have you boy? I never would have expected this of a Jinchuriki, wielding such a legendary power shrouded in fables, but regardless of what you are, I'm still far more powerful than you!" Pein spoke up with a small amount of shock in his voice, before regaining his confident tone as he roared at the blond.

However, behind an orange swirl mask, a black haired mancracked his knuckles as his fist shook in anger, his good eye bleeding into red as his anger spiked at seeing what the blond had become. Fuck his previous plan, the blond was going to die, Kyuubi be dammed!

"Big words from a overgrown puppy." the armor clad blond spat, his voice slightly distorted because of his mask, before his disappeared. Even as Pein's three heads tried to attack, six long slash marks tracked their way across his body, even as Naruto re-appeared behind him, his blade outstretched in an uppercut position, before relaxing as the giant dog behind him screamed as the slash marks exploded with blood, the summon vanishing as it died. Pein stumbled out of the smoke, his body covered in the same wounds as his previous summons did, even as blood dribbled from his mouth as he stared at the blond in shock. Naruto simply titled his head at the orange haired man, before blurring in front of him and burying his sword through the man's heart, causing him to cough up more blood.

Jerking his sword free, he turned and slammed the blades edged against another sword made of paper, brought to bear by Konan as she flew at him with angle wings made of paper, screaming at him, "You killed Pein-sama!" as she swung it back around, tears streaking her face as their swords danced and blurred. Behind his helmet the blond grimaced at her heart broken tone, before hardening his heart as he brought his blade around with his left hand, the blue haired women blocking it with her own, before doubling over as he slammed his right fist up and into her gut, before retracting it as he swung the butt of his sword into her temple, knocking her for a loop and sending her flying. He watched her tumble onto her side as she hit the ground, her wings dissolving into normal strips of paper as she went unconscious and stopped feeding them chakra, even as he swung his right arm up and behind him, blocking the enormous Samehade before it could tear into his back, before he felt it start trying to devour his chakra, even as the blue skinned Kisame grinned at the blond, his muscles trembling as he tried forcing his blade down into the Jinchuriki's body, even as his armor fended him off.

"Ha! Not bad brat, that's some nice blade work you have there, but its not going to matter against my Samehade! My living sword going to gorge itself on your chakra even if it can't cut you, and you'll simply die by chakra exhaustion!" Kisame gloated as he laughed, before trailing off as the blond's helmet turned towards, his glowing red eyes boring into him eerily. And then the blond started laughing, even as he began pouring chakra into the blade.

"Hahaha...Oh, really? So your sword eats chakra, huh? I wonder though, your swords living, ans all living things have a limit to how much they can eat... I wonder what will happen when your blade reaches its limit?! Hehehahaha!" the blond stated laughing again, before he exploded with visible chakra.

He poured as much as he could into the blade, watching with glee as the blade started vibrating, small, red and gold crack's began slithering their way across the swords scaled edges, before it bulged outwards rapidly before quivering slightly, and then proceeded to explode in the two swordsmen's faces. Naruto's armor protected him from the shrapnel, but Kisame screamed as the scale-like edges tore their way across his face and body, tearing apart his flesh and spraying blood into the air. He continued screaming in pain until abruptly stopping, before gurgling as he stared stupidly at the katana blade piercing through his neck from his backside, before Naruto dragged the blade don through the mans body and through one of his hips, nearly splitting him in two. Tapping the hilt of his sword thoughtfully, Naruto vanished again, searching for more enemies to eliminate.

Finding the silver-eyed Kakuzu and his partner Hidan, the black armor clad blond ran his hands through several seals, even as a dozen clones of himself formed up around him as they sped off towards the pair, before converging on Kakuzu, as he was the one he had to kill first. What little intelligence he'd been able to gather about them had stated that the man had more than one heart, and was thus the reason he was using clones. Hidan could do more than swear his pretty little head off as he jumped back from the attacking clones even as they pierced the money-loving missing nin, aiming for his vitals, throat, heart, liver, lungs, spinal column, and several others as they did as much damage as they could before exploding into smoke as the man lashed out with black tentacles, skewering the clones as they were no more than paper, before turning far to slowly for his own liking as the armored blond raced towards his un-protected back, a ball of red and gold energy swirling into existence, humming as small trails of elemental chakra leaked from it.

Kakuzu lived long enough to see the elemental strands forming what looked like a curved shuriken overlapping the top of ball, before the modified and improved rasengan slammed itself into his chest. He felt the wind elemental chakra acting as a buzz saw, tearing its way through flesh, bone, and obliterating his chakra strands, though he didn't know it was done even to the microscopic levels of his cells, the rest of the strands that raced around the spheres outside tearing bloody gouges into his flesh. 'I died by the hand's of the Kyuubi's Jinchuriki. What a death to be remembered....he he he, you better survive this kid, I don't want to fade into history killed by a nobody. Good luck...blondy.... [Futon: Rasenshuriken] indeed' Kakuzu thought, before fading away as the rest of his body vanished as the chakra sphere exploded, its elemental chakra tearing the world apart a hundred feet in every direction.

As the dust cleared, the ground had been vaporized into a massive crater stretching a hundred feet across as well as deep, even with the edges of its ripped to shreds, with the blond Karas nowhere to be found. Naruto felt himself blink as he opened up Hidan's side in a shower of blood with his blade, before watching with both slight shock and fascination as the wound knit itself back together, even as the silver haired man laughed insanely.

"Hehehahah! That the best you got, you blond motherfucker?! The almighty God Jashin-sama has given me his divine gift of immortality! You can't kill me, but I can kill you, ya pansy assed bitch!" the man exclaimed, before his skin turned black and white, bonelike marks made their way across his exposed arms and face, before swinging his tri-bladed scythe at Naruto's head and missing as the blond dodged. Naruto glared at the smug bastard behind his mask, before getting remembering one of his duties as Karas. Sending souls on their way, by force, if necessary. And he felt a cheshire grin split his face as he cocked his left hand back, his right hand again occupied by his sword, before slamming in into the immortals chest before tearing his hand back, as small, black sphere that wisped black smoke as he held enclosed tightly in his armored fist.

Hidan stared at him in surprise, but at looking down and seeing no wound, he grinned as he brought his scythe back up, before screaming as his body jerked and his marks faded away and he shook in pain.

"Wha-what they hell did you do you, you cock-sucking bastard?!" the acolyte screamed, even as Naruto stared down at the man.

"I took your soul, cursed one. You remain on this plane of existence because your god attached his 'gift' to your soul, keeping you alive when you should have been dead years ago. I can't remove the gift as I am not a god, but I can remove your soul and send it one to be judged. And judging by how black it is, I don't think your going to see those pearly gates. Goodbye, and have fun in hell, cursed one."

The blond explained, before crushing the sphere in his hand, even as Hidan withered in agony before dissolving into dust. Naruto watched the slow process of the silver haired man dying, before flipping himself back as a steel scorpion tail impaled itself into the concrete where he previously stood, before retracting and hovering ominously behind the puppet master Sasori.

The steel tail blade waived lazily behind him, before he herd the distinctive sizzle of explosives, and was only seconds faster than the several high yield seal encrusted shuriken Naruto had imbedded into the tail, before they exploded, shredding the puppet body the now revealed red head with a his own puppet body had escaped from. The red head narrowed his eyes at the Jinchuriki, before twitching his hands and smirking as chakra string flew from his fingertips and chest, even as dozens of spots around him exploded in puffs of smoke, before blowing away and revealing an army of one hundred puppets.

Naruto felt his eye twitch at this, before blurring to and fro between the puppets, disinterested in the targets as they exploded into wooden shrapnel, his sword blurring has they turned them into sawdust and rent steel. He stopped as his blade arced twice around Sasori, before the puppet users arms and weapons fell, cut cleanly by his sword strokes. His mouth opened in a silent scream, before his body arced with cuts, and they opened as they exploded with chakra, tearing his body apart and scattering the pieces in all directions. Naruto simply stared at the former Suna shinobi's remains, before he glanced over at the man's still beating heart.

And promptly curb stomped it into a bloody paste with a steel clad boot. Turning on his heal as he flipped his sword behind his back to his other hand, and caught Itachi's blade, before smashing his free fist into the traitors face, following up with a armored boot into his gut. Itachi coughed up blood, before his swirling Sharingan eyes transforming into his Mangekyo Sharingan, the tri-blade red and black eyes boring into the red glow of Naruto's eye slits, seeking his own eyes.

"Tsukiyomi."

And his world faded away to black as he was transported to the nightmare world inside of his own mind, said to be a Jutsu that was unbreakable, even for other Sharingan wielders. Naruto felt himself lifted up and slammed against a black cross as Itachi appeared in front of him, his own Katana held in his hand. Naruto felt his armor dissolve off his form as he returned to his originally body, save for his ANBU armor which had also been removed.

"This is my world of Tsukiyomi, Naruto-kun. You are trapped here by my power, and here I am god. For the next seventy-two hours, I'm going to torture you into insanity."

Itachi drew his sword back to stab the blond, only to pause as the crucified Jinchuriki smiled. It wasn't a ,'happy, nice to see you smile', but a, 'vicious, bloodthirsty, self-congratulating, cheshire cat sized, I know something you don't know and its going to hurt like a bitch,' smile.

And Itachi started to sweat as the blond stated laughing, before paling as the bonds that held him in place snapped like twigs, and he descended lightly to the ground as the earth around himself shook, before a bloodthirsty roar tore its way across the planes existence.

"You're extremely stupid for a genius. You Sharingan wielders think that having your bloodline makes you god? Ha! Your technique transported us to my mind, fool, and I'm god here. Want to know what's coming? A very good friend of mine. And she's going to just love you, especially as she devours you whole!"

And Itachi could do no more than whimper as he dropped his katana, his Sharingan eyes staring into a maw filled with hundreds of serrated fangs, The Kyuubi-no-kitsune staring down hungrily at the gift its container had brought her.

"How very thoughtful of you, brat. Seventy-two hours I get to play with the bastard, and then it resets, and only a second has gone by? You really know how to show a girl a good time, Naruto-kun!" and she sank her jaws down onto the now screaming Uchiha, before tearing into his body before swallowing him whole. Only for him to reappear in front of her, and for her to crush him underneath one of her paws. She continued killing and torturing him in multiple ways as she laughed, Even as Naruto grinned at Itachi's screams from his perch atop her head, watching the show.

"Hey, think about it Itachi!" he called down. "Only seventy-one hours and fifty more minutes to go!" and he continued to laugh as the Uchiha screamed.

[Three seconds later outside]

Itachi and Naruto returned from the Tsukiyomi landscape only for the Uchiha to clutch at his eyes and began screaming in pain as they began to bleed. Looking up through his half blinded by blood eyes, Itachi screamed once as the blond swung his blade towards him, before his own head arced from his shoulders in a fountain of blood. Naruto watched the body fall, before turning towards the orange swirled masked nin that had appeared several yards behind him, raising an eyebrow behind his mask as the man began to clap, before laughing.

"Well done, Naruto-kun, well done! I am highly surprised that you destroyed, no, obliterated, the Akatsuki organization I, Uchiha Madara had created by yourself! But, I should expect nothing less than of Konoha's new Guardian, should I not, Karas?" The man spoke up, even as he removed his mask, revealing a silver eyepatch over his left eye, while his right swirled an fully matured Sharingan into existence, even as he stared cooly at the guardian in front of himself.

"So then, shall we begin? After all, the world and Yurine are mine to do with as I please, and I will show you the true strength of a Karas, that which comes from my desire for power!" He shouted as he produced a large pocket watch with a eye in the middle, before slamming the watch into his heart as it fused into his body, laughing as Black and gray armor formed across his body.

"Shit." And the blond pulsed with a gold light, before turning into an armored, bird-like jet fighter as he took off, Madara hot on his heels in is own transformed state, bolts of purple chakra trailing after the blond as Madara tried shooting him down. They transformed mid flight before swing themselves around and crashing into one another, their blades singing as they match done another blow for blow, sparks dancing around their blades edges as they ground against one another before free themselves to trade blows once more, shockwaves booming across the sky from the power of their attacks. They twisted around in a pivot as they slammed their swords together again, before the shock wave threw the both f them away from one another, sending their forms tumbling end over end through the air, buildings, and anything else that got in the way of their paths of travel.

Below them, shinobi and civilian alike gaped as the two titans fought, their forms no more than the occasional blur to even the Kage's as they slammed against one other with their swords before disappearing again. They met blade to blade once again before detonating in the air, rocketing away from one another as they obliterated entire cities blocks as they crashed through, before both transformed and flew off back towards one another, before transforming mid-flight and attacking again, before they stalemated as they locked blades, before smashing helmets as they head butted one another.

"You are far more formidable than my last opponent, and even the past Karas I've fought against!" Madara spat at the blond as he struggled to overpower the slight smaller warrior.

"Bastard! Just how many people have you killed! How many of our brothers and sisters have you slaughtered for your ambition!" Naruto roared back as he was kicked away, his decent halted by an apartment building he slammed into.

Landing away, Madara knelt before launching a barbed chain from his left knee, watching as it wrapped around Naruto's waist, before he pulled the blond out and began throwing the blond around as he were a ball on a string, slamming the blond through several blocks before he was able to get his blade under the chain and sawed through it, breaking the links in several places. Madara waited until the chain had wound its way back to his knee fully before launching himself at the blond, bouncing off the 'frozen' chunks of building rubble that lay in his way from their fight. Landing several feet from the recovered Naruto, they both floated in the air atop their own platforms, before speaking to one another as they changes stances and brought their swords to bare.

"Madara! If you were the former Karas of this land, why do you ignore its will?" Naruto spat.

"The will of this land allowed the villagers and shinobi to bloat with arrogance weakness, and they multiply their numbers like a cancer! They no longer cared for their land, only for themselves. If this is what those I had sworn to protect had become, why should I have to stay as their guardian!"

"Even so, its is our duty to watch over this land, and protect those who reside here."

"You do not understand that watching over a cesspool is no Duty! I am the pure agent who will cleanse this afflicted land in my own image! You, who would stand in my way, are the true enemy of this land! To that end, I will destroy you, and take Yurine back as my own!" The insane Karas shouted before slamming his blade into Naruto's as they clashed once again, before overpowering the blond and sending him crashing into a floating rubble platform.

Setting his sword in front of himself parallel with his hands, he made several hand signs before a copy of his blade materialized in front of him before both were sent spinning at the blonds chest. Naruto blocked and flung the first out of his way, but the other smashed into himself and sent him careening backwards. Cursing, he launched himself to the side and Madara shattered the rock he'd previously lay on with a left punch, before transforming and following the retreating blond, lighting up the sky as he fired more chakra bolts. They both blew passed a intently watching Yugito, who began cursing after Naruto had crashed underneath the roof they'd been sitting on and had sent her flying.

"That's it! Every Karas across the elemental countries is watching this. I say we show a little strength and take him down, now!" Yugito bit out fingering her sword as she glared at the dog fighters duking it out in the skies above her.

"Right now you would have no chance of defeating him." Yurine replied calmly to her, even as her eyes flickered down towards the ivory haired Yurine below her, who watched the fight above herself intently, patiently waiting in a kneeled position for when her beloved would need her.

Tick marks appeared above her eyebrow as it twitched, before Yugito began yelling in anger.

"Fine! I'll prove it to ya!"

"Do whatever you want." was the dead tone reply. Yugito gulped at that, as she knew her contractor was now annoyed with her.

"Ah, Right!" and she saluted, before racing after the two fighters.

Flying into an open area, Naruto swore to himself as he flipped himself to the side to dodge the pink and gold Karas , and judging from the way the armor accented the body, a female Karas, that had appeared in front of himself before transforming back into his armored form. Madara came screaming around the corner, only for the Karas to slam her bladed staff down over his left wing, sending him careening off into the ground as he bounced several times before slamming into a building several hundred meters away from them. Even as he jumped next her he noticed that she had a similar scent to himself, a pink breastplate, and flames in the shape of a ponytail, as well as wielding an enormous naginta staff.

"Who are you?" he questioned, considering the rule that other Karas were forbidden by their Yurine's to interfere with the workings of another land.

"Just stay out of my way, I'll take care of Madara!" she replied in a dismissing tone as she took off.

It took her less than a minute of getting pummeled before Naruto jumped in and knocked the Madara away, before retreating with the girl in tow and depositing her some distance from themselves, before he took off towards the bastard again.

They met up one last time, feeling each other building their energy to kill the other, as with out awakening their abilities to full, they'd be locked in a stalemate. Drawing his blade slowly from its sheath and holding it above his head, he fed it energy and with a sound of wrenching iron, it split itself upwards, nearly doubling in width, while red veins ran the length of the larger, thicker blade. Madara unleashed his own blade, bursting it open as well, purple veins running its length. They both watched the other quietly, before Naruto cocked his head slightly to the side as Yurine floated down next to him, staring down at her former guardian.

"Madara. Behold, those who supported you have failed and perished."

He simply laughed at her as he gathered more energy, before beginning to speak.

"For hundreds of years I've watched this land, and the agony I have endured as I watched it rot and drift from my ideals. No one can comprehend this!"

Swing his sword down to his right side, he stated shouting as he drew in more energy, an aura of purple and black bursting from his form. Naruto said nothing as he brought his blade to his own right, drawing more energy as well, a crimson and gold aura expanding rapidly from his body. Both lunged at one another, the concrete and stone shattering beneath their jumps as they crashed into one another, creating a shockwave that shattered the buildings around them for hundreds of feet, before they rocketed off towards the side in a straight line, running at their sides as they lay deadlocked with one another, before ascending into the air, pushing against one another they broke apart in midair, floating around as they spiraled upwards, the auras bleeding from their forms lighting up the sky and turning all eyes towards them. And then they fell towards one another, Naruto bringing his blade upwards and downwards in a massive overhead strike, while Madara brought his blade up from his side and struck upwards with a side strike to split the blond in two at the waist.

'Kyuubi-chan,.....lend me your strength, let it flow and combine with Yurine-chan's, please....just, just this once.....' Naruto directed his thoughts towards the kitsune inside of him, asking for her aid in this final moment.

'Very well, Naruto-kun....I will lend my strength to that of the, girls, no matter how much I dislike her. But only this one time. And you owe me, blondie, kukukuku...' and she agreed, though he felt a shiver run down his spine at her seductive laughter that followed her demand.

Both Karas shouted their rage at one another as they slammed their blades togther, before vanishing as a titanic shockwave, far grater that any that had come before it, rocked Konoha to its foundation, the energy they'd unleashed felt easily across the entire elemental nations, and even beyond that. It died as quickly as it formed as a small ball of energy arced itself towards Konoha, slamming into the ground, before dissipating as dust billowed around it in a cocoon, before it too began to fade away. Those present waited with baited breath for the winner, with Yurine appearing on a close rooftop, watching just as intently. Their had been so much energy released she had momentarily lost her connection to her beloved, and thus didn't know if he was alive or dead.

Spotting a dark object falling through the sky, a black helmet piece slammed into the pavement as it smoked, before a pair of figures appeared out of the dust. Arcing above the two of them glinted the foot long shard of a Katana's end blade, before it slammed down, piercing through the helmet. Both Karas held swords pointed at each others throats, but as the smoke cleared black chakra and dust drifted off Madara's helmet, his partly uncovered face staring in surprise and shock at the executioner. Dropping his swords, Madara rasped out a statement to the blond.

"You will see in time what I have, you shall walk the same path as I."

As blood ran freely from his forehead and over his good eye, Naruto withdrew his blade as the dying warrior slowly trudged his way past him and towards Yurine, his hand extended and trembling as he reached out towards her, even as she watched him cooly, her eyes bright as she switched her attention to the black armored warrior behind him.

"Yu....ri...ne..Aagg!" and he screamed in pain as his body began to dissolve into black feathers, starting from his outstretched hand up and finishing at his feet, before they spiraled their way skyward.....

[back with Naruto's body]

Koharu trudged his way towards the gold energy dome, the entire ANBU black operations forces marching at his flanks and back. Raising a hand, their hands as one flew to their sword hilts, before tensing as they prepared to attack the resting Naruto and the reappeared Yurine, who narrowed her eyes at them as she held he beloved's body closer to her own. Tsunade scrambled her way towards the group screaming at Koharu to wait, but he cut her off.

"This disaster coincides with the arrival of the Akatsuki. This would never have happened if we never had a Jinchuriki. The demon Naruto Uzumaki is to blame for what happened here. And we will rectify the mistake we made over twenty years ago by allowing him to live." snapping his fingers, the ANBU reacted to the unspoken order, while Tsunade's orders to stand down were drowned out by the sound of hundreds of blades sliding form the sheaths, as the ANBU charged.

And they promptly stopped in shock as the their blades shattered in half the remains spinning in the air as Naruto appeared in front of them, he blade held out to the side, before the shards dropped as one in front of him. He flashed forwards in front of Koharu before resting the flat of his blade at the mans throat, before flipping to his back and slowly sheathing it up until an inch of the blade was left showing.

"Even you, are among those under my protection." he replied, before clicking it shut as he stepped back, before blurring a foot in front of Yurine as his form began to glow once with a gold light, before dissolving into a column of golden feathers.

The dome around Yurine glowed brilliantly white, before dissolving and showing a fully healed and awake Naruto, the shrapnel gone from his body and his left arm fully restored. Reaching down near his feet at the new, pristine blade he forged for himself, he knelt in front of Yurine as he smiled at her, his heart warming as her own lips quirked in response. He extended his left hand to her, her own smaller hand sliding into his as she slowly rose to her feet, her tail twitching behind her as she took her time. Tapping his arm, he nodded and knelt in front of her, before she turned around and seated herself on his bicep and shoulder, before placing a hand on his shoulder to help balance herself, though it was more in the thought have having more physical contact with him before he curled he arm around her legs protectively as he rose to his feet, balancing her carefully and lovingly, before turning his deep blue eyes with a black, vertical slit, as well as the new ring of gold that encircled his pupil to the crowed, before making his way towards them.

The blond made an intimidating sight, his Katana held loosely in his right hand, clad in black combat pants tucked into thigh high combat boots, his leg and forearm armor remaining the same, his blond hair remaining spiked with his headband still attacked. However, his torso armor and black muscle shirt were gone, leaving him topless, allowing both his impressive upper body that rippled and flowed with muscle, as well as the ShikiFuin tattoo and his ANBU tattoo on his right shoulder to standing out on his tanned skin. Tsunade's necklace hung loosely around his neck, and bounced slightly with each of his steps. He face remained the same with three thick black slash marks on each of his cheeks, but his eyes held a maturity, hardness, and inner power that scared them, as Tsunade had only seen such eyes with her teammates and survivors of the great third war, or ANBU who actually survived long enough to retire.

Tilting his head up towards Yurine, Naruto voiced a question to her.

"Shall we go home?" she replied with a nod of her head as their eyes met, before he schooled his features into an impassive mask and silently made his way through the shivering and parting ANBU. Only to stop as he was screamed at by a red eyed Tsunade with tears still running down her face.

"You stupid, stupid brat!" she screamed, "I thought you'd died at their! Don't you dare do that to me again or I'll bring you back just so I can kill you myself!" but she sighed in relief as he quirked a grin at her, his features softening slightly.

"As if Yurine-chan would allow me to die. I'm needed, and..." a mischievous, devious grin split his face as he looked up towards Yurine, even as she turned away and blushed slightly "Yurine-chan would miss me to much. After all, with all the training we do, it's my stamina she loves the most." and his grin widened as his ivory haired girl blushed harder, before turning her head and concealing her eyes with her hair.

"Training? Is that how your so strong?"

"Yes, Yurine-chan's special training is both tiring and makes me feel satisfied that I accomplished something by the end of it. The first time we stated, I lasted two days through it before I collapsed from exhaustion. Right know, I've can last around a week."

"Really? Just what kind of hell could that little girl put you through that would have even you collapsing?"

"Well...." and they leaned closer to hear,

"it's a...." and they leaned even closer, without noticing the grin tugging at his lips,

"Secret!" and promptly face faulted, even as he laughed at them.

"Joking aside, Ero-Sennin, the details are all in this nice, innocent, white book." and he produced said book from his hip pouch before tossing it the white haired man. And he promptly vanished, taking Yurine with him, but leaving behind so many questions and completely shocked people.

Who was she, the little girl and yet was not, this Yurine?

What was the tremendous power he used, that was even stronger than the Kyuubi's?

Where the hell had he been for the last several years?

And how the Hell did he butcher the entire Akatsuki group, minus one, come back from the dead, and basically come out of it none the worse for the wear?!

So many questions!

And Jiriaya didn't care about that at the moment, because the book in his hand was worth its weight in gold. Hell, it was worth it's a dozen, no, a hundred times more than that! he continued to skim through the book, before finding a particularly, ahem, graphic passage, and promptly collapsed from bloodless, a silly, proud smile on his face as he lost consciousness.

Tsunade simply quirked an eyebrow at his behavior before picking the book up and reading where he'd left off. She promptly shut it after the first several paragraph, her face flaming as she discreetly tucked it away.

'Well, fuck. I guess I cant call him a little brat anymore. Meh, well, at least the kids happy. Now then, if I was only just a bit younger, I'd take a shot at him myself if he's as good as the training is describing.' she mumbled to herself, before sighing and began ordering her shinobi to clean up the mess Naruto's fighting had made of their village.

"Fucking hell, this is so going to take years of paperwork and months of work to make all the repairs. I going to have such a migraine for the next several years....And its all you fault, Naruto Uzumaki!" she screamed out at the end, shaking her fist at the sky.

[Namikaze Compound]

reappearing at his houses porch, Naruto bent his legs slightly before allowing Yurine to scoot off his shoulder, before seating himself on the hardwood and began removing his boots. He had them off for several seconds before he smiled, feeling Yurine's small hands gently working at the knot for his headband, before it dropped from his head as she freed it, clinking as it landed on the floor.

And he felt himself freeze in fear as Yurine mad her way around to his front , before seating herself in his lap and winding her arms around his neck as she gazed at him cooly, before she began to speak.

"I'm not very happy with you, my beloved. You killed yourself protecting those that neither need your protection nor warrant it, and had I been anyone else, I be alone for the rest of my life. Is that what you wanted?" and she glared at him as he shrunk back.

"Your going to make it up to, right now, and until were done, your not leaving this house. For anything. Your mine, beloved, for the next week. And that's at the very least."

Naruto simply nodded at her request, knowing that an angry women is a non-negotiable women. And the best way to get out of this with the least damage to himself was simply to agree with anything she said.

"Um....what would you like for me to do for you, Koibito?" he questioned her, before gulping as her eyes lit up.

She leaned herself up against him, her body flush against his, and nuzzled her cheek to his as she whispered into his ear.

"We're going to finish what I tried to start this morning, my beloved, and its going to be a long time before that's over and done with."

The poor blond had only two words in his mind as she nuzzled his cheek and then trailed her way down his neck with feather light kisses, and he felt her fingers trail down his chest and abs, then curled around the buckle of his belt, before releasing it as she purred into his neck

'I'm fucked.......'

And....that's a rap!

He..heheh....hehe...hehahahahahHAHAHAHH! Ahhhhh.....It is so much fun to torture the poor blond. Heh, oh well, at least the blond's going to enjoy it, anyway.

Afternotes:

Yo! Been awhile since I've updated this story, huh?

And before some people beginning to bitch about how over powered Naruto was in this story after transforming, I have only one thing to say to you...BITE ME!

And as for Pein only having one body? When I first wrote the rough draft for this chapter, I hadn't read far enough into the Manga to learn that he had more than a one body, and I didn't feel like altering my story more than was necessary. Besides, This is fanfiction. I can write this story any way I please, And if people don't like it, theirs a million other stories out their they can read. I've done it, you've done, and we'll continue to do it.

However, many thanks to those who reviewed, and also for those that took the time to look for mistakes in grammar or spelling to help me out even after I proofread the dam thing a million times. I still won't find everything.

Now then, as I promised. The lemon. should it be its own chapter, Or should it be the first part of the next chapter as I advance the story more? And, as some people have yelled at me about, Finally we learn the back story to Naruto's and Yurine's relationship, which may take a while, as I have all kinds of fun things to introduce.