AN: Well then! Here is the next chapter of Criminal past! Sorry but it's kind of short, I wanted to axe it at a good point. Don't get too used to updates this often it's unlikely to happen soon again, as I'm working on three fics at once ATM.I would like to thank everyone that has read and reviewed Criminal past, and I'm glad you all liked it so.

Now, to answer a few questions, and anon reviews: 'Some Reader'

About Naruto's knowledge of Neji's father's death, it was meant to be explained during his 'I've got a seal, poor me' rant that I mentioned, my mistake though in not actually saying it before hand.

For those that may be curious, or may have attempted to look it up like Some Reader did, the 'Yoruyajuu' is not a true Japanese mythical creature, I created up the past to the form completely on the spot, to give Naruto an even more oppressive presence. (What's more scary than a creature of myth dropping in front of you to whoop your ass?) Maybe I'll come up with a more in depth past for it, that would be fun.

About Naruto's seemingly 'unstable' level of darkness. This was not meant to be a dark Naruto fic, he's not heartless and ruthless, he just has no issue with killing people (Do to his fantastic childhood) He cares for the people he likes and trusts, and they see a part of him that no one else does. Plus, Anko's sadistic tendencies have rubbed of on him as his sensei, making him a bit more ruthless in combat.

Plus, Naruto and Anko are an Assassination squad, she trained him to kill people, not to incapacitate them, his attacks are meant to do as much damage as possible, as quickly as possible.

Finding a way to raise Anko's abilities, yeah I could do that, though I'll need to come up with a way to do it uniquely. Anko's cursed seal will also be dealt with, though I'm not saying how or when.

I also realize I made Naruto's parents past fairly confusing, It's supposed to be! They will be explained in much further detail once he finally comes across some information about them (And yes, that is coming) to put it simply his parents were not evil. They were just extremely skilled Shinobi, and they happened to take the most high-risk, high-paying jobs, such as assassinations of political figureheads and such, which earned them the reputations of being ruthless murderers. Plus, in a business of killing, wouldn't it be best to be feared?

Okay, that's all for now folks, enjoy the fic!

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Twenty minutes later Naruto was at the north gate of the village and Jiraiya was across from him. He seemed quite surprised that Naruto wasn't carrying a pack of any kind. "Didn't I tell you to pack for a week?" he asked.

Naruto nodded "Yeahhh and I did" he whipped out a scroll "Storage scrolls. You think I'm going to carry all that crap?"

Jiraiya smirked "Ahh, I should have figured, what with that seal array you had back at your house"

Naruto rolled his eyes and mumbled something along the lines of forgetful old men before poising a question "So, who's gonna be the new Hokage? And where the hell are we supposed to find them at?"

Jiraiya only offered a knowing smirk "You'll find out when we find them, and we're headed for a small town named Tanzaku-gai. My sources tell me that's where they left towards two days ago. If we get there quick enough we should catch them before they leave again"

Naruto sighed, not to happy to be left in the dark "Fine. So what the hell do you plan on teaching me? Because I'll be damned if I let Anko beat the shit out of me for wasting two weeks of my life"

Jiraiya thought for a moment before finally deciding "Seeing as Minato was on good terms with your parents, and seemed to even be friends with them, I imagine we wouldn't mind you learning this jutsu...he may even like the idea. So I'll teach you one of Minato's original self made jutsu's, watch closely"

Jiraiya held his hand out, palm up and after a moment a faint blue aura could be seen, another moment later and it had grown into a violent blue ball of swirling chakra. Jiraiya took the sphere of energy and plowed it into a tree. The effect was pretty destructive as the ball bored into the tree for about twelve inches before causing the tree to violently explode and go rocketing backwards in a spiral.

Jiraiya turned to Naruto, only to be slightly disappointed by his analyzing look, he was hoping he'd floored by his power and skill. "That, is the Rasengan" He informed.

Naruto nodded slowly "Quite destructive, from the look of it, it's a highly compressed sphere of chakra swirling at high speeds in multiple directions, correct?"

Jiraiya's eyes widened "How did you figure that out without having a dojutsu?"

Naruto shrugged "I'm quite adept at analyzing chakra and tracking it, I am an assassin after all. How do I learn it?"

Jiraiya grinned and pulled a small water balloon out of seemingly no where. Naruto caught it and raised an eyebrow at Jiraiya "I want you to pop that balloon using only your chakra." he informed.

Naruto shrugged and sent a burst of chakra to his arm and out of the tenketsu of his hand, the result was

the balloon violently exploding and a fine spray of water to be sprayed across Jiraiya.

The now mildly damp Jiraiya glared at Naruto "Maybe I should elaborate. I want you to pop that ball by moving the water inside of it with your chakra" he again threw a second balloon to Naruto, who caught it. "Now work on that while we walk, when you get it to pop, I'll introduce you to the next step"

Naruto shrugged and began to move the water within the balloon as he kept pace with Jiraiya, who wasn't exactly strolling along.

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Just short of a week later Naruto and Jiraiya arrived at Tanzaku-gai. To Jiraiya's immense surprise and amazement Naruto had learned the Rasengan in just four and a half days. Never in his life did he imagine someone would ever be able to learn the move in such a short time, granted he cheated in using a Shadow clone beside him to double hi learning pace, but even so, remarkable.

"So, if they're here, where will they be?" Naruto asked.

Jiraiya looked back at him and smirked "Just follow me, I have a feeling I know where they are, judging by the fact that it's the evening, they are likely in the restaurant or bar of the inn they are staying at."

Naruto shrugged and followed Jiraiya as he began to walk off into the village.

A short while later Jiraiya led Naruto to the largest inn in the town, which, in fact, held a gambling house and restaurant. Mere seconds after walking in Jiraiya cracked a huge grin and led Naruto across the restaurant.

He led him to a table where two women were seated, one with blond hair tied into two mid back length pig tails and honey brown eyes. She was wearing a green robe-like shirt over a white outfit and she was also sporting a decent scowl at seeing Jiraiya coming her way. The second women was a somewhat generic looking young women with neck length black hair and black eyes, she was in a standard black Kimono and was cradling a small pig in her arms.

"Tsunade! I'm so glad I found you!" Jiraiya proclaimed.

"Uck, Jiraiya...what do you want from me?" the blond women said.

Naruto cocked an eyebrow 'This women is the one they want to be the next Hokage?' he asked himself.

"May we join you?" Jiraiya asked while motioning to himself and Naruto.

Tsunade looked over to Naruto for the first time and cocked an eyebrow of her own "Who's the 'dark and spooky' gaki?" she asked.

Jiraiya glanced at Naruto for a second before answering "He's my traveling companion.-" "Naruto, Shikuto Naruto" he interrupted Jiraiya.

Both Tsunade and the unnamed black haired womens eyes widened significantly at the name he gave "Sh-Shikuto?" he black haired companion asked.

Naruto cracked an evil smirk, he could get used to this kind of reaction to his name "Indeed"

The woman shivered slightly, though Tsunade only shook her head slightly and motioned to the booth across from them "Sit" she ordered.

Naruto shrugged and he and Jiraiya sat across from them. "What do you want, Jiraiya?" she asked.

Jiraiya sighed and poured a saucer from the bottle of sake she had on the table, then to everyone's surprise Naruto took the bottle and took a flat sip straight from the bottle. He put the bottle back down on the table with a content sigh before glancing from person to person "What?" he asked.

"You've got to be the first kid I've ever seen that likes sake, children normally like sweeter things" Tsunade said.

Naruto scowled at Tsunade "I never had the privilege of being a child, I wouldn't know".

The two women looked at him in slight fear for his sanity before Jiraiya interrupted, "Did you hear about the invasion on Konoha?" he asked.

Tsunade nodded slowly, as did her companion. "Did you hear about Sarutobi...passing"

Tsunade nodded once again "Yes...I heard it directly from the source in fact...bastard wouldn't shut up about it"

The room was suddenly flooded with an inhuman amount of killing intent and a section of the table before them spontaneously splintered into nothingness as Naruto's fist came down upon it. Many a customers in the restaurant fainted at the killing intent.

The other four occupants looked at Naruto in surprise, and fear as his anger caused him to channel his dark chakra and his skin began to blacken and his eyes began to gray out. "Orochimaru!" He hissed. A moment later he regained his composure and all of the killing intent vanished and his skin changed back into it's golden tanned self. "You saw that bastard? When!?" he demanded from Tsunade.

Tsunade was surprised someone so young knew much about Orochimaru, and was even more surprised that he held a hatred for him. "About two days ago" she answered to humor him.

Naruto growled in anger and almost lost control of his killing intent and chakra once again. "What did he want from you? We're you going to meet again!?" he demanded.

Tsunade looked at him in surprise for a moment before simply offering an arrogant smirk "What's it to ya, punk? Why do you care?"

Naruto growled once again and the table cracked under a second impact from his fist "I will destroy him" he declared. "Now tell me!"

Tsunade's arrogant smirk didn't fade or wither. "What does a little shit like you think you can do against a Sannin? You think because your parents were murderers it makes you special? I could take you out with one arm behind my back"

Naruto clenched his fist in anger, it was one thing to insult him, it was something else entirely to insult his parents. "You wanna make this into something?" he asked.

Tsunade grinned "Oh I would love too, it's been a long time since I got to wipe the arrogant smirk off of some gaki"

Naruto emotionlessly stood from the table, his action mimicked by Tsunade and the two made their way towards the entrance of the restaurant. Tsunade's companion chased after her mentor to ensure she didn't hurt the boy, and Jiraiya sighed and stood to follow them, his conversation having been ruined.

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Naruto stood across from Tsunade in the street "When I beat that smile off your face, you're going to tell me everything about Orochimaru" Naruto demanded.

Tsunade shrugged "And when I pound your stupid ass into the street, you and Jiraiya are going to get your sorry asses out of this town and leave me alone"

"Deal" Naruto immediately complied.

"Wait, Naruto!" Jiraiya called out "Don't be stupid!"

"Deal, time to go to sleep!" Tsunade said with a smirk as she raised her fist.

Naruto scoffed at the threat "Is that supposed to intimidate me or something? If it is, you suck at intimidating...then again, you are a medic-nin...not made for combat. I'm not surprised that you can't come up with a threat that could make a genin sweat."

Naruto grinned as his simple ploy took effect. His appealing to Tsunades temper and brutality, and righteous hatred for those who talk down to or about Kunoichi got her right pissed.

Tsunade's eye twitched in anger and she charged the 'unprepared' genin with her fist raised "That's it, you're dead!" she yelled in anger.

Naruto grinned as she got close and let her fist swing, he bent to the side and down and spun to the left and easily dodged the swing, "Such speed!" he said in a mocking voice. "A snail might be in for a tough race!" he further mocked.

Tsunade's face flushed in anger, her speed was one of her few weaknesses, and she really didn't like to be mocked about it. She took a few steps backwards to observe this boy 'He's more than he appears. That much is clear, he's got skill. Even if my speed is my weakness, I'm still mid jounin level speed'.

Naruto grew bored of her standing there observing him so he decided to do something that was sure to catch her off guard. He quickly pulled out a Kunai, but he held it backwards, he lobbed the Kunai through the air slowly towards Tsunade, handle first.

Tsunade watched the blade fly towards her in mild confusion 'Why would he give me a Kunai?' she thought before she notice him flash through a seal and his shadow rocketed across the ground faster than the Kunai was going through the air 'I've never seen the Shadow possession jutsu move so fast! And how does he know it!?' she thought frantically.

All the thinking in the world won't save you from inaction though, which Tsunade seemed to forget as Naruto's shadow latched onto her own and he quickly moved in a blur, her body mimicking his movements. The two ran forward rapidly and Naruto controlled Tsuande's body like a perfect puppet to snatch the Kunai out of the air, by the handle and hold it to her own throat.

All of the observers of the fight were watching with slack jaws. 'To think, he can utilize the shadow possession jutsu so well, it's startling, I've never seen a Nara use it to such extents before.' Jiraiya thought.

Tsunade frowned at the simplicity of the way he caught her, and yet the obvious skill he demonstrated in pulling that off. He controlled her body from a distance to flawlessly catch that Kunai and put it to her own throat, all through controlling his own body and going through the needed motions to get her to go where needed and when.

She was not one to go down without a fight though, no Nara could ever hope to stop her with a shadow possession jutsu, her strength was too inhuman to stop. She channeled her chakra to her four limbs went to break free of the possession. To her great amazement she couldn't break his hold, in fact, she couldn't even budge. And he didn't look strained in the least. "What? How are you holding me? No Nara could ever hold me"

Naruto grinned "All Nara's share one simple defect that make them rather poor utilizers of their own jutsu. They all have small chakra reserves! Even the men, none of them can spare the chakra it would take to hold someone of your strength for any significant amount of time, so it's better to just release you and try to get it so that they can employ a different strategy."

His grin grew more sinister "I however, do not share that weakness. I have the exact opposite of that condition in fact. I have an astronomical amount of chakra. More than everyone in this street combined. I could hold you here all night and all through tomorrow, no problem. Now, why don't you just give up nice and easy and tell me all that you've got on Orochimaru".

Tsunade grit her teeth, to be defeated in such an embarrassing way, it was unfit for someone of her rank and ability, by a genin no less. "I'm going to get you back for this you know" she growled as she held a Kunai to her own neck "I concede"

Naruto smirked and had Tsunade throw the Kunai back to himself before releasing her and snatching the Kunai out of the air and putting it away.

The second Tsunade was released she charged Naruto with her fist raised "Just because the fights over doesn't mean I'm not going to bash your face in!" she yelled as she came down on him and threw her full weight into the punch she sent at his face.

Naruto's eyes widened as the fist flew towards him and he threw his hands in front of his face and caught the fist at the last second. The fist didn't collide with his face but the ground below him cracked and cratered from the force of the impact. Tsunade was stunned that he managed to stop her fist and pressed even harder against him, pumping more chakra to her muscles.

Naruto's legs began to buckle under the force of her punch 'Christ in hell she's strong!' he groaned. Left with no other option other than getting his face caved in Naruto began to channel his dark chakra.

Tsunade watched in both fascination and horror as Naruto's skin began to blacken once more and a black chakra with no presence began to seep from his skin like a ghastly fog. Naruto blinked in relief from the incredible surge of strength to his muscles with the chakra and he took a better grip on Tsunades fist and to everyone's surprise he began to push her fist back until she was off balance and had to stagger back.

Once Tsuande was a few feet away from him and he was out of immediate danger he stopped channeling his chakra and was almost instantly back to his normal state. "Wh-what the hell was that?" Tsunade and her companion asked in amazed fear.

Naruto glanced at Jiraiya, who was looking just as stunned as Tsunade and her companion. "I'm surprised that you didn't hear about Konoha's demon breaking free, Jiraiya" he said to the Sannin, who's eyes widened.

"I'm only going to show you this because most of Konoha knows by now after my use of it in the invasion, and because you wouldn't stop badgering me if I don't" he explained before taking a few steps back and channeling his dark chakra once again.

Unlike before though, he did not stop until he had achieved his normal size of eight and a half feet tall.

He stood on his hind legs looking down upon the three Shinobi before him with his massive arms hanging by his side.

All three of his observers gasped simultaneously and Naruto heard Tsunade's companion breath out 'Yoruyajuu' to which he turned his large head to her and barred his teeth in a feral grin. "Correct," He said, startling them further "A beast of myth and legend, more or less. Standing before your very eyes. Thanks to the Kyuubi, and whatever my parents had going on with them, this is the outcome"

Both Tsunade and her companion gasped "He's the Kyuubi Junchuuriki!?" Tsunade yelled.

Naruto turned to her and strode towards her, his movement completely silent. He stood before her and stared down at her normally respectable height of five foot ten. "Do you have a problem with that? I could demonstrate the true meaning of strength to you if you like" He said as he clenched his clawed fists slightly.

Tsunade chuckled "Calm down fido, I didn't say I have a problem, I was just surprised to meet a Jinchuuriki in the flesh"

Naruto's white eyes narrowed at her but he didn't move or say anything, after a few minutes of silence something dawned on Jiraiya "That jutsu, that was the Shadow Possession jutsu of the Nara's, a closely guarded clan technique. They would never teach that to someone from outside the clan...let alone someone as...notorious as you. So how do you know it?" he asked in an accusing tone.

Naruto's head swiveled to Jiraiya and he glared slightly before suppressing his chakra. Once the blond haired boy was standing before them once again he spoke "I cannot say what I did to learn the jutsu, or the rest of the Nara's shadow techniques, seeing as who you all are, I would be killed if news got out...or, they would attempt to kill me"

Jiraiya pondered his statement for a moment before his eyes widened "I heard a report form one of my informants in Konoha that the wife of Nara Shikato, Yoshino was attacked during a celebration at the Akimichi residence just after the preliminaries...You didn't!?" he asked.

Naruto glanced from Sannin to Sannin a few times nervously before shrugging "I didn't what? Are you implying that I assaulted a civilian of Konoha while on active duty, then used that civilians blood to break into the archives of the Nara clan house? I would never do such a thing. Especially to one of Konoha's innocent and helpless civilians" he said with feigned innocence.

The three Shinobi present stared at him with wide eyes, he broke a multitude of laws, all of which were serious. Assaulting a fellow citizen of Konoha, even worse, a civilian, and while on duty. Breaking and entering into a clan compound. Trespassing into that same clans library archives. And to top it all off, stealing from that same archive, and stealing the prized clan techniques of that clan. Any one of those would land a regular Shinobi a visit to Ibiki, and would each likely earn Naruto an execution, but put them all together? If news got out Naruto would be killed on the spot, no questions asked.

Naruto looked at the three for a moment before rolling his eyes and sighing, "Now, I believe that you have some things to tell me about that snake fuck, Tsunade" he asked, though his tone of voice was not requesting anything, it was demanding.

Tsunade nodded slowly, though still not that happy that she was bested by a boy no older than fifteen. "He came to me a few days ago as I said, his arms were badly damaged from whatever Sarutobi did to him. He wanted me to heal his arms for him, he said he would meet me again soon to ask for my decision, that's all I know" she said honestly.

Naruto was in thought about what to do when Tsunade turned the tables back on Naruto and Jiraiya "Now, what the hell are you two following me for? There has to be a reason for your presence besides Orochimaru" she asked, not liking being in the dark.

Jiraiya nodded, having forgot about their reason as well in the heat of the moment "Ahh, yes. This does have to do with Orochimaru as well though. He told you that he defeated Sarutobi-sensei, then as you know, Konoha is without a Hokage-" "Hold on a minute" Naruto interrupted. He felt a chakra signature appear close by, it was watching them.

A small grin appeared on Naruto's face and Naruto channeled a bit of his dark chakra and with a single handseal he slipped into his shadow. "Be right back" his shadow stated before slipping away in the twilight.

The three present Shinobi stared at the spot he was just standing before Tsunade quirked an eyebrow "What the hell was that?" she asked Jiraiya, who was just as stunned.

"I don't have half a clue" he admitted honestly.

Tsunade groaned at his uselessness "Aren't you his sensei or something? Why don't you know anything about him?" she asked.

Jiraiya outright laughed "His sensei? Ha, no no, I'm not his sensei. I'm nothing of the sort. He uhh...met me at the hot springs a while back during the chuunin exams, he told me his name and I wanted to get to know him better, but he refused to tell me anything unless I told him somethings about his parents...turns out there's a lot more that I need to know about him then I know about his parents to trade for information. I haven't even been able to ask about the Kyuubi, which has me worried, what with what he did before"

Their conversation stopped though as Naruto apparently reappeared. He was in his Yoruyajuu form once again, though he was closer to ten feet tall now. In his grip he had what appeared to be a human, he was dressed in a mix of purple and gray clothing and had silver hair, he had a smashed pair of glasses on his face and blood was trickling steadily from his nose, and mouth. Naruto had his fist wrapped around his head and was partially dragging his legs across the ground as he walked forward. "There, solved that little problem" He said with slight satisfaction as he dropped the unconscious man into the street and turned back into his human form.

"What the hell did you do!?" Tsunade yelled before recognizing the Shinobi, he was the man that was with Orochimaru when he contacted her.

Naruto shrugged slightly "I sensed his chakra appear, he was spying on us. You didn't think Orochimaru would leave you unobserved, did you? Then he risked having you skip town on him, and he's not the type to take no for an answer."

"Why not just kill him then, he's Orochimaru's second in command" Tsuande stated.

Naruto's eyes lit up at that and a sadistic grin crawled across his face "All the more reason to keep him alive." he said before bending down and slinging the unconscious man's body over his shoulder and turning towards the outskirts of the town and began walking off. "Hey, where are you going with him!?" Tsunade yelled out to his back.

A creepy sadistic laugh rolled through the empty street courtesy of Naruto "I'll be back, I'm going to get some information out of him, the fun way" he informed before continuing off into the distance.

"He knows how to interrogate someone already? Just who is he?" Tsunade asked.

Jiraiya cringed slightly "He's Mitirashi Anko's apprentice"

Tsunade cringed slightly, offering a silent prayer for Orochimaru's assistant, oh yes, she remembered the sadistic little firecracker that was Orochimaru's ex-apprentice.

Her companion however, did not "Huh? Who's that?" she asked.

Tsunade shook her head slightly "It's nothing important Shizune, she was just a very sadistic Kunoichi, who seems to have passed that on to her own apprentice. Now Jiraiya, judging by what you said before...They want me to become the next Hokage, don't they?" She asked with a hiss.

Jiraiya nodded numbly, already expecting this type of reaction to the request.

Tsunade snorted "That village is just as ignorant and stupid as the day I left, I would never accept that title and role, in fact, only an idiot would accept that role"

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Naruto had taken the nins's unconscious form to the edge of the town and tied him to a fairly thick tree with a healthy amount of Shinobi wire, tied tight enough to cause major discomfort, but not enough to cause damage...at least not to quickly.

Naruto brought him back to the land of the conscious with a harsh backhand to the face and a loud bark of "Get up!"

Said Shinobi opened his eyes blearily but quickly focused them and took in the visage of the fairly tall -for his age- boy, he recognized him as the bane of Konoha, Uzumaki Naruto. How he was able to knock him out he was unsure, let alone sense and sneak up on him. All he remembered was having a tremendous force come down on the back of his head and his face smashing into the roof he was on with a brutal impact.

"What's your name?" Naruto asked, though his voice was asking nothing, it was demanding, and promising pain.

The silver haired boy scoffed "Eat me, when I get free, I'm going to enjoy killing you, Kyuubi brat"

Naruto's eyes narrowed "Wrong answer" he said with an sadistic edge before grabbing his index and middle fingers and snapping them at right angles at the middle joint with loud pops, followed by the silver haired boys screams of pain.

"I know you work for Orochimaru, I know you're his second in command, now tell me your name!"

The older boy panted from the pain before answering "Ya-Yakushi K-Kabuto"

Naruto's eyes widened slightly from the name "Ahh, I knew I recognized you, the Chuunin exams, no wonder you had so much information on everyone. You were Orochimaru's little spy. Now, why don't you be a good little rat and tell me when Orochimaru plans to visit Tsunade for her answer" he said, his voice still asking nothing, and demanding everything.

Kabuto scoffed "As if I would ever reveal that kind of information, I am a Shinobi, a little bit of pain will get you no where!" he yelled in defiance.

Naruto rubbed his forehead with the palm of his hand "So, a little bit of pain won't get me anything, how about a lot of pain?" he asked before slamming the same palm into Kabuto's restricted arm, shattering the Ulna and Radius beneath, once again eliciting a loud scream of pain from the silver haired youth.

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Jiraiya looked off towards where Naruto left when they all heard the scream. "I'd hate to be on Naruto's shit list" he commented dryly.

Tsunade shivered at the scream slightly, it reminded her of all the dying patients she'd failed to save in her time as a field medic-nin. "How can someone so young...be capable of inflicting so much pain on someone" she asked in a far off voice that feared the answer.

"Simple" Jiraiya offered. "He's experienced more pain than you could imagine. I had to look into his records to find where he lived a little while back when we were trading that information I told you about, his record has more blacked out information on it than Hatake Kakashi's, an ex-Anbu captain. I didn't even bother trying to read his medical file, I did bother to read the main summary packet -which was normally a page, two maximum. He's been admitted to Konoha's hospital over two hundred and fifty times. I don't even want to think about the number of times he wasn't able to get to the hospital, or was refused admittance by hospital staff"

Tsunade's face grew red with anger "Why would he be attacked, or refused care!?" she asked,

Jiraiya quirked an eyebrow "You think anyone in that Konoha cares about him, aside from his sensei? He's the son of the two most famous missing-nin ever, and the Kyuubi's jailor. He's viewed as a monster in every possible way by nearly everyone in the village. Even Sarutobi-sensei didn't care for him" Jiraiya explained, much to Tsunade and the now named Shizune's stunned amazement.

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Back with Naruto Kabuto was now dealing with two broken arms, and two broken legs. "Now tell me! When does he plan to return!?" Naruto ordered "Do you want to feel more pain? I can keep doing this all night!" he yelled.

Finally Kabuto snapped. "Tomorrow! Tomorrow, okay!? He's coming to get Tsunade-sama tomorrow" he explained through gritted teeth.

Naruto nodded "Now, was that so difficult to do? Now I'll be more then happy to make all your pain go away" he said cynically as he raised a Kunai. Kabuto saw the blade and yelled out "Matte! (Wait) I gave you what you wanted!"

Naruto shrugged carelessly "You're still a traitor to Konoha, and an ally of Orochimaru, my sensei's, and my worst enemy. It's best to tie off loose ends. Sorry friend, you picked the wrong team to side with" he said before driving the blade through Kabuto's left eye and into his brain, instantly killing him.

Naruto untied the Shinobi wire and put it away before lifting Kabuto's broken and lifeless body and heading back towards Jiraiya and Tsunade.

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Naruto looked quite evil, strolling out of the forest edge of the town in the pale moonlit night, the dead and broken body of Yakushi Kabuto draped over his shoulder, blood slowly dripping from the Kunai still plunged into his left eye socket and the few places where the bones in his arms and legs broke through his skin in a compound fracture.

Jiraiya and Tsunade stopped their still continuing argument to stare at him as he strode up to the group, the dead body swaying slightly with each step, causing some of the drops of blood to flick off to the side.

Shaking off his surprise Jiraiya addressed the dark youth. "Did you learn anything useful?"

Naruto nodded "Hai, I learned the only thing I wanted to. Orochimaru is coming tomorrow to obtain Tsunade. Though, that may change slightly when his second in command never comes back to base" he added, with no small hint of sadism in his voice.

Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune all stared at him for a moment before he interrupted their various thoughts "So, is everything set and square? She's gonna be the new Hokage?"

Tsunade scoffed "No, and I never will be. The role of Hokage is something only a fool with a death wish would pursue." she said, a tone of past pain and sadness clearly evident in her voice.

Naruto nodded in understanding "Indeed it is. The role of Hokage is not for the weak willed, one must be willing to lead an entire village, to have everyone's problems become their problems, to protect and preserve everything everyone holds dear. A job that usually ends with a sudden death protecting what they love. In a different life...I could see myself pursuing that very title to the ends of the earth, trying to earn the acceptance of the people of Konoha, and their respect." he admitted, to everyone's surprise.

Tsunade looked at him in a new light, despite the darkness of the night. Here it was, Mr. Mini dark and creepy had a soul after all, and just wanted what anyone did, acceptance. "Granted, I've managed to accomplish that in a much easier way" he interrupted by continuing. "I've found someone, someone who accepts me for everything I am, for who I am. I will protect her at all costs, and I will do what it takes to make her happy. Orochimaru has made her life nothing but suffering, and I, in return, will snuff out his miserable life with a sea of suffering so vast, his soul will be lost, adrift in the horror of his own sins forever. It's ironic really. I've achieved everything I could from being Hokage and more, by doing something completely different. I met someone who I care for, and cares for me, and I've even gained acceptance through all of Konoha, and I've gained their respect, even if it only is because they fear me and my dark power" he finished, further surprising everyone present.

The two Sannin and one Jounin looked at him in barely restrained surprise before Naruto grew uncomfortable and interrupted "Right, well everyone should get some rest, we've got a Sannin's ass to kick tomorrow, we'll need the energy. I somehow doubt he will be happy when news of Kabuto's death reaches him.

"What of Kabuto?" Jiraiya asked.

Naruto pulled out a storage scroll and quickly sealed Kabuto's body away "I'll bring him back to Konoha with us when this is all said and done" he explained, before heading for the inn "Night" he called back before entering the building.