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Sorry this took so long, in combination with my laziness my computer broke so I lost all of my progress and I wasn't really in the mood to rewrite most of this. . and time flies it felt like I posted this a month ago but its been like six.

Anyways here is chapter 3

The bright sun beat down on the crashing waves of the sea and the moderately sized island the water surrounded. The sound of whirling water cast itself around the island due to the combination of both the waves and the natural whirlpools that surround the land mass teeming with life.

In the center of this island is where what appears to be a young man and two-hundred identical clones of the man all doing various activities; from hand to hand fighting to sword play, all the way to practicing multiple jutsu of all the different elements. This young man stood just over six feet tall, with spiky blond, nearly yellow hair that hung to his shoulders with the tips of hair taking on a blood-red appearance. The man, like most of his two-hundred clones, wore a plain red t-shirt with a swirl insignia on the back, black ANBU grade ninja cargo pants with the bottoms taped to his ankles, and a pair of black sandals on his feet. On his face lay six faint whisker marks, three to a cheek, which stood out against his nearly flawless complexion. Over the years his face had lost its baby fat and had become more angular reminiscent of his father. However, the most intriguing part of this character was his glowing, rippled, metallic purple eyes that gleamed with power and knowledge beyond his years. These eyes were not present on each of his clones; some clones possessing blood red eyes with black tomoes, some with the same color scheme, but contained a pattern similar to a shuriken in their eyes, and just a few using a pair of sky blue eyes.

The original, known as Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto, jumped up to higher ground above the rest of his clones to make it easier to deliver his message.
Channeling chakra into his throat to amplify his voice Naruto began to speak "Begin to dispel in groups of ten every couple of minutes. I plan to leave in the next few hours." His words came out at a normal volume, but traveled across the field they were situated in. With that Naruto jumped off to his dwellings for the majority of the three years he spent on the island of his ancestors.

Time skip

Sitting in a meditative position, Naruto slowly opened his eyes, revealing his original light blue eyes his father passed down to him. These weren't his original eyes, but Izumi's transplanted eyes had fully integrated into him over the years. He stood up, finally having finished receiving the memories from his clones, and set out to continue his day.

While his ancestors had built a city near the center of the island, it was now in ruins due to the combined assault of Kiri, Iwa and Kumo that helped start the third great ninja war. So, Naruto chose to spend his time in a house on the outskirts of the village that was still in good shape after so many years. It was small, not that he needed a large house just for himself, but Naruto also liked it because it helped get rid of some of the loneliness he felt being so isolated from the rest of the world.

Reaching the sandy shores on the outskirts of the island, Naruto stopped and looked back to his home for the past few years before turning back to the sprawling sea stretched out before him. Biting his thumb, his eyes shifted into the metallic purple he had grown used to and slammed his hand into the ground with a shout of kuchiyose no jutsu. A large plume of smoke sprang up into the air and it cleared to reveal a large bird with a beak shaped as a drill and purple eyes matching his own. Naruto hopped on to the back of the creature and without any verbal communication the summons took off with a powerful flap of its wings sending the sand on the beach in every direction. It was time for the world to once again remember the names Namikaze and Uzumaki.

Time skip

Naruto landed on his feet with a soft thud on the ground in the forest clearing after dispelling his summon. Naruto twisted his back, trying to get the kinks out from such a long trip, and heard his back crack a few times.

He was dropped off on the outskirts of a small town called Nami. It was one of the closest towns to Uzushiogakure which is why this is where he chose to start his journey. As he walked towards the edge of the clearing, Naruto faintly heard sounds, with his enhanced hearing, of a small skirmish taking place not to far away from his current location. With a shrug of his shoulders Naruto made his way towards the sounds, considering he hadn't found anything else to do yet.

Line Break

Kakashi was struggling. He was struggling due to the fact that he had been very lax with his training in recent years. The hardest he had exerted himself, not including the battle he was currently in, would be training Sasuke and a scant few of Gai's ridiculous challenges. This was not enough to fight an ex-elite Jounin from Kiri apparently, as he was locked up in a water prison at the moment.

Kakashi's opponent, the Demon of the Mist: Momoichi Zabuza smirked beneath his makeshift mask at the frightened little Genins before him. Well, not all of the Genin as a young Uchiha Sasuke smirked arrogantly right back at him. It's finally my time to show everyone how strong I've become, to show them a true elite. Sasuke thought to himself, widening his smirk as his thoughts shifted to the strength he possessed.

"Run, you're no match for him! Take Tazuna and run!" Kakashi shouted from his prison. Sakura, his little pink haired Genin trembled as she 'stood guard' in front of Tazuna. Sai his third Genin stood still and made no move to either or attack or run.

Sasuke, still smirking, pulled out a handful of kunai and launched them towards Zabuza who merely batted them away with his huge sword. However, this was just a distraction as Sasuke flew through hand seals at Chunin level speed and called out his technique. "Fire Release: Grand Fireball jutsu!" He shouted. Zabuza generally wouldn't have had a problem with this, but he had forgotten about the ghost-like Genin and was forced to jump away from both the fireball and the snakes made of ink that tried to ensnare him.

Zabuza frowned beneath his mask. "You're lucky I forgot about your friend. Attacking head on like that is stupid unless you have the ability to overwhelm your opponent, which you don't." He told his enemies.

Naruto, who was watching in the trees, nodded with a little chuckle at seeing Sasuke's angry face. He didn't know why Zabuza was attacking them for the old man, which is why he hadn't attacked either side yet. Generally, he would have killed Konoha ninja by now, but he didn't know this Sai kid and while he knew of Sakura he just thought she was annoying and pathetic, no reason to kill either of them. He would wait to see why the old man was being hunted before he made a move.

Kakashi pulled himself out of the water, looked to Zabuza and said "Prepare yourself, Zabuza, I won't make the same mistake twice." His sharingan spun as he and Zabuza locked onto each other. Both he and Zabuza flew at each other, weapons poised to kill. After a long clash with Kakashi and his kunai being forced to jump back after the force of Zabuza's sword. Seeing this, Zabuza flew through hand signs at a high speed, which Kakashi copied with his own hands. A large dragon made of water flew out of the body of water they were standing on towards their opponent. Seeing his water dragon canceled out, he began another set of handseals. However, Kakashi using his Sharingan, cast a small genjutsu on him that made Zabuza slow his seal speed and allowed for Kakashi to speed through the same signs and finish the jutsu first causing a large wave to rise up and swallow Zabuza and crash him into a tree moments later.

After watching her master crash into a tree, Haku launched a senbon into his neck to place him into a false deathlike state. Jumping to her master's side she spoke "Thank you for stopping him, I've been hunting him for years." Haku's monotone voice came from behind her fake hunter-nin mask.

Kakashi nodded tiredly to her, not even bothering to check if he was dead. Just as he was about to reply she jumped off out of sight. Kakashi sighed and turned to his team. "Good job! Tazuna can you show us to your house?" Kakashi asked as he fell over, Sai barely managing to catch him before he hit the ground.

Naruto smirked to himself before jumping off after catching his free show.

Time skip

Naruto, now wearing a cloak to conceal himself walked through the village and was appalled at the sight. Watching as little kids tried to steal some fruit from a fruit stand get caught and yelled at, Naruto was reminded of his own childhood except that the stand owners would actually attack him instead of run him off. He followed the little girl after noticing that she had snuck away with one Apple. The girl ran up to a building with a few kids out front dressed in rags similar to her which allowed Naruto to figure out it was an orphanage. Upon seeing the children split up the apple and share it, Naruto made up his mind to help the people of this village.

Naruto may have had plans of destruction and death for a certain few and didn't care much for the idea of chasing world peace, but that didn't mean he wouldn't help people in need.

Retiring to one of the local inns, Naruto began to concoct his plan.

As night fell, Naruto quietly exited his hotel room and made his way to the town square. Flexing and loosening his muscles quickly, Naruto began to pull the energy from the surrounding environment. As more energy flowed into him, red markings developed on his face around his eyes. (Hashirama's sage mode)

Sage mode was one of the many things Naruto trained over his three year tenure, along with his elemental affinities which was all of them thanks to his Rinnegan. He also trained all of his Rinnegan and Mangekyou techniques, at least the ones that he knew, and all of the techniques in the forbidden scroll he stole from Konoha. However, the thing he was most proud of was his knowledge and skill in fuinjutsu, which stemmed from the fact both his father and pretty much everyone on his mother's side were skilled in the same area.

How did he accomplish all of this in three years alone? Multiple reasons. For example, overuse of the shadow clone jutsu, his healing ability, his natural intelligence, and one of the more beneficial things being the Uzumaki time chamber sealed away in Uzushiogakure. This chamber allowed him to train for a whole year in just a month. He trained in this chamber for two months and taking into account his shadow clone use, Naruto had trained over five hundred years in everything except his physical body.

Standing on a nearby rooftop, Naruto looked on as he saw all of the awed faces of the civilians and the visiting Konoha ninja. The little orphans were munching away on a bunch of fruit, bringing a smile to Naruto's face. This smile quickly turned into a frown as he saw some thugs roughing up some civilians. Naruto had of course thought of the town having a thug or bandit problem, but this was his first time seeing one in town.

Naruto followed the thugs as they left with more money and food than they came into town with. He listened in to their conversation. "Can you believe those villagers?" One asked while laughing. The other chuckled "Yeah, they're so pathetic, no wonder Gato-sama took over this place so easily!" This garnered a nod from his companion. After a few seconds of silence one asked "Did you hear? That bridge builder hired some ninja to protect him. They even took out Zabuza!" The thug exclaimed in wonder.

They had reached a large mansion where both of the thugs entered and left Naruto outside, unable to hear the rest of their conversation. Naruto sighed before turning around and heading back to town. He would give the thugs another week to live before he killed them all, he was feeling a little merciful after all.

A week later

The bridge was covered in mist and the bloodied bodies of the workers. A feeling of apprehension over took the Konoha ninja. They had trained hard, at least in their opinion, but was learning tree climbing enough for them to survive this. Sasuke surely thought so as he was nearly jumping up and down in his spot. Kakashi tensed as Zabuza and Haku came into view.

"Kakashi, it's so nice to see you and the kids again" Zabuza said with a dark chuckle. "Since I'm such a nice person, I will give you one more opportunity to hand over the builder. If you don't I'm sorry to say that we'll have to kill you." Zabuza said with a somber tone though it was clear he was looking to fight.

"I'm afraid we can't let you have the bridge builder, it's a ninja's duty to finish their mission and all that." Kakashi said in a lazy drawl, but was now preparing for the upcoming fight; no longer in his usual lax state.

Zabuza smirked beneath his tape mask. "Haku, you can take the little ones. Kakashi and I are going to have some fun."

Zabuza reached up to his swords handle and lugged it onto his shoulder. As this happened, Sasuke dashed forward towards his accomplice, kunai raised to attack.

Haku vanished from her spot and intercepted Sasuke mid stride with a clash of metal on metal; her senbon against his kunai.

As they split off from the group, Sai followed them, leaving Sakura guarding Tazuna and Kakashi in a stare down with Zabuza.

Just as they were about to charge each other, they both heard slow, loud clapping footsteps behind them. They all turned to see a tall, well muscled blond with three faint whisker marks on the man's cheeks. He was outfitted in a set of armor appearing to be from the clan war era with dark purple plates guarding from the chest down and a plate on each shoulder that went to his bicep. Underneath the plates was a black long sleeve shirt and black ANBU grade pants that were taped around the ankles. This ensemble was completed with a pair of black sandals. (Literally exactly the same outfit as Tobirama except with purple armor and no fur around the collar.)

Everyone stared at him as he walked closer. "I'm so glad you waited on me to start. I'm running a little late because I had to do your job of protecting the old man's family." Naruto exclaimed in a false cheery tone.

"Who the hell are you?" Zabuza shouted at him.

"Ask Kakashi, he should be capable of answering your question. I'm sure he remembers me, it has only been a few years after all." Naruto replied.

"Uzumaki Naruto, you bastard! How could you have done that to your home? The Yondaime gave his life to stop that beast and you set it loose on the village again." Kakashi, now heated, snarled at him.

"Come now, Kakashi, we both know that shit hole was no home to me. However, your anger is expected after the mockery I made of your pathetic village." Naruto replied thoughtfully.

"Enough talk, I've been waiting for a good fight for a while now. I do hope you and Zabuza provide some semblance of a challenge." Naruto spoke, pulling out a basic kunai.

"You against me and Kakashi? Kid, don't make me laugh. Alright Kakashi, I suppose we're on the same side for the minute it takes to kill this fool." Zabuza laughed as he began his charge towards Naruto with Kakashi following behind closely.

Naruto smirked and met the charge, bringing his kunai up to meet Zabuza's causing sparks to fly from the grinding metal. They were both evenly matched in strength for the second before Kakashi threw his kunai towards Naruto, forcing him to disengage and jump back.

Zabuza smiled behind his mask with his pointed teeth. 'this might actually be fun, the kid can match the force of my sword with just a kunai'

A fireball blew by Zabuza's head towards his opponent, courtesy of his temporary teammate.

This sparked a comment from Naruto, who jumped out of the way smoothly. "Really, Kakashi? Ninjutsu so early on? But if it's a ninjustu fight you want, then I will gladly give you one."

Naruto pulled his hands into a single seal. This caused the fog surrounding the bridge to condense into a large wall of water that quickly rushed towards his two enemies.

"Suiton:Suijinheki (Water Release: Water Wall)"

As the water sped towards them, Kakashi ran through his own hand seals.

"Doton: Tajū Doryūheki (Earth Release: Multi Mud Wall)"

Kakashi spat out a large amount of mud onto the bridge which built up into a solid defense.

The wall of water clashed against the mud which continued to stand. After a few seconds the water calmed enough for Zabuza to jump onto the mud and go through his own seals.

Utilizing the water beneath him, Zabuza shouted out his jutsu, "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon jutsu)". A large dragon rose from the water and flew towards Naruto.

Kakashi, who now stood next to Zabuza, went through his own separate set of seals leading to him shouting out "Raiton: Gian (Lightning Release: False Darkness)." A stream of electricity shot towards the water dragon.

Naruto was mildly impressed to see the two techniques combine into a much stronger one. He was unable to dodge. However, he could easily just use his Rinnegan's chakra absorbing ability, but he didn't feel the need to show them his eyes just yet. He charged some chakra into his kunai causing seals to spread over the wrapped handle. Naruto launched the kunai, raising his hands into a single seal and whispering "Kunai Kage Bunshin". The single kunai multiplied into twenty, all sinking into the approaching dragon. Shifting his raised hands into another seal, Naruto activated the seals he placed on the kunai.

Water flew everywhere and caused a short downpour as a result of the explosion that his multiple explosive seals created. He smirked seeing the combination taken out with a small amount of effort on his part. His ability to create and apply seals with just his chakra was a proud point for him. It showed his mastery of the seal because of the need to know the seal in and out to utilize it without drawing the seal every time.

Both Kakashi and Zabuza frowned beneath their masks. They turned to each other before nodding, coming the same idea. Charging chakra to their feet, they vanished from their spot on the now crumbling mud wall, invisible to the eyes of a normal civilian or green ninja. Naruto was neither, he was easily able to track them as they came towards him. He created a shadow clone variation he created with just a thought.

His shadow clone variation was a mix between the regular shadow clone and the mud clone. It had the memory retention of the shadow clone and the ability to take multiple or stronger hits from the mud clone.

He sent that clone to keep Kakashi busy as he danced with Zabuza. He smiled as he pulled out his katana, the matte black metal glinting in the sunlight. Multiple seals glowed red on the blade before fading back into the metal.

Naruto sword rose to block Zabuza's over hand strike. As the metal clashed Zabuza spoke, "Nice sword, kid. Not as good as mine, clearly, but better than most." Zabuza complimented? Naruto couldn't be sure if it was a compliment or not.

"Thanks, I guess. It's one of my favorite weapon to use. I like to think I do quite well with it." Naruto replied. His sword was probably tied as his favorite weapon because even though he loved the sword's appearance, he thought he looked much more intimidating with his scythe. The biggest reason he used his sword was as tribute to his beloved mother. In fact, it was actually her sword, just with the addition of a few seals.

Zabuza didn't reply; he disengaged by jumping back a few feet. He lunged forward with an attempted straight stab attempt. Naruto saw this fast enough to counter, sidestepped to the left. He then began to channel his wind natured chakra through his sword before unleashing a slash of his own at his opponent. Zabuza blocked the swipe, he was not prepared, however, when he saw his sword on its way to being sawed into two. He quickly hopped back after noticing the faint glow around his enemy's sword.

Zabuza realized he was in trouble; his sword was almost broken and their was no blood around for his sword to absorb and fix itself. While he hadn't drawn blood from Naruto, nor had Naruto drawn any from him, turning out to be both a positive and a negative. He had around a third of his chakra left from his jutsu and enhancing his muscles with it, and while he may not be a sensor, he could still feel that Naruto had a vast amount of it left. Zabuza was searching for options when he heard a voice that didn't come from his enemy or Kakashi.

With Kakashi and Naruto a minute earlier

The two ninja stood across from each other having just engaged in a short bout of fists, all of which were blocked or dodged on Naruto's. Kakashi, on the other hand, received quite the beating; he could feel multiple bruises forming all over his body. He bled from his now broken nose and some blood dribbled out of his mouth, dried up by his mask. Panting slightly from exertion, Kakashi said "Your parents would be disappointed in you! Betraying your village like that. If I can't do it, someone in the village will rise up and kill you, traitor!"

Naruto's stoic expression shirted into a frown. "I'd watch your mouth, Kakashi. I came here to end Gato's reign and once I saw Konoha ninja were here, to deliver a message. I've chosen to not deal with Konoha unless they bother me, but if they do your village will be razed to the ground and I'll make sure you and the rest of Konoha's leaders watch as I burn it to the ground before I slaughter them." Naruto turned around pulling out his kunai again as he did before continuing his monologue. "So you can deliver my message, I am going to allow both you and your pathetic Genin to live. This battle is over for now, Kakashi. You can rest up as I clean up The town. I was hoping for a better challenge from the copy cat ninja; maybe you should train a little more, hmm?"

Line break

The sound of nearly a hundred footsteps resonated across the concrete bridge making Naruto smile; his guest of honor had arrived. He turned from Zabuza to see a short, bespectacled man dressed up in a fine gray, silk suit that looked a little to big on a man of such small stature. He had a mustache and slicked back dirty blonde hair and an evil smirk on his face. He came to a stop when his cane made one last noise that stopped the approach of his group of thugs. Taking in the scene with his beady eyes as surprised look came upon his face. "Zabuza, why are they still alive? I am not paying you to screw around! Well, I suppose you're just not going to get paid." Gato spoke in a condescending tone.

Zabuza narrowed his eyes. "What the hell do you mean I'm not getting paid, you bastard!" He shouted down the bridge.

"I think we both know what I mean; it's much cheaper to pay for these fine gentlemen behind me than it is for you ninjas. So, once my little ninja servants do their job I just have them come and clean up. It's a double win cause I don't have to pay you and I receive your bounty." Gato explained, making a gesture with his hand that signaled his men to charge.

Naruto looked back to see Zabuza seething. "Calm down, Zabuza. I want to handle them now that I'm warmed up." He also noticed all of the other fights were over and everyone was now watching him. Both Sasuke and his friend looking on from their positions on the floor, both unable to move due to the multiple senbon sticking from them. Sakura kneeled over the Uchiha in tears, happy her Sasuke-kun was still alive. Haku landed by her master, who told her to stay back.

Naruto bent his neck to the right and left; satisfied when he heard cracks ring out. Feeling loose after his quick stretch, he went through a few hand seals to fast for Kakashi to copy. "Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku (Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation)." A vast stream of intense flames spread out from his mouth, launching towards the charging enemies as the flames stretched across the entire width of the bridge.

The screams of the thugs filled the air as nearly fifty of them fell to their knees burning alive, appearing as darkened crisps instead of humans. The smell of burnt flesh permeated the air making a few of the thugs and Tazuna nauseous. The hired goons near the back were lucky as the ones near the front unintentionally used their bodies as shields from the flames. Some tried to escape by running away towards the exit of the bridge but Naruto wasn't going to let these rapists, murderers and thieves back into the world. He realized he was being kind of hypocritical because he was both a murderer and a thieve, he just performed the acts on more deserving people, not innocents. He nodded to his mud clone who then shunshinned to their exit to block them.

Naruto charged forward, one from each side of the bridge, right at the frightened goons. Naruto rolled under a swipe from a spear, jamming his sword into throat of the man, angled so the sword went up through his throat and out the top of his head. He channeled his wind chakra to his blade and let it meet the blade of another man. The man's surprised expression from seeing his sword cut in half didn't last when his head fell from its perch on his shoulders.

Naruto twisted out of the way of two blades before pulling out and launching a kunai into the head of one attacker and swiping his sword through the leg of the other. The legless attacker's scream of agony was cut off by the same sword sliding in his chest. Channeling even more wind chakra to his sword, Naruto swiped towards a group of enemies. A long thin blade of wind traveled horizontally from the sword and continued on through the mid sections of the enemies. The top half of their bodies slid off from the still standing lower halves.

Naruto continued his rain of terror for another minute before him and his clone ran out of thugs, leaving only Gato left, trembling in his spot. Naruto walked towards the man and placed his right hand atop his head. He closed his eyes so as to not let the others see his purple Rinnegan pulse as he used the mind reading technique they granted. He found all the bank and vault codes along with any other valuable things he might need. Naruto opened his eyes, once again in their blue shade. He placed a stasis seal on the quivering man to stop any attempts to run before looking to the approaching crowd of civilians.

The civilians were outfitted for a battle that they would not partake in. A roar of cheers came from the group when they saw their tormenter unmoving on the ground with fear in his eyes. Naruto had a small smile on his face as he said "I'm done here, I'll leave his punishment to you." Another round of cheers sounded as Naruto disappeared in a spark of electricity. He had one more thing to do before he left Nami.

A mile or so to the north of the bridge a yellow flash appeared in the tree line surrounding a large mansion. Naruto entered the overly large building, kicking down the door sending it flying off its hinges. He quickly made his way through the many hallways in the massive home using a few of Gato's memories to find his destination. Ita 'He's definitely compensating for something.' Naruto thought to himself. 'Well, he was compensating since I killed him.' He chuckled at his thought before moving in front of the large steel door in the middle of the wall.

Typing in the codes he received from the memories, the door opened to reveal a large vault full of gold, jewelry, unique weapons, and scrolls.

"Well, shit! It's a good thing I brought a bunch of storage scrolls." Naruto said to himself.

He didn't really need the scrolls as he felt he had a good enough repertoire of techniques, but he figured he could give them to someone who actually needed them. He was planning on keeping a little of the gold for himself before giving a large sum to the people of wave and keeping the rest to give away at a later date. He was also taking a good amount of jewelry, giving some to the people of wave and taking all of the weapons he deemed worth taking. Naruto figured he would never have to buy his significant other a gift in his life as he could just give them a piece of jewelry or pick out a nice weapon from his now vast arsenal.

All in all, his trip to wave was very prosperous. He got to liberate a village from its midget tyrant. He received the chance to see all of his 'friends' from Konoha. He was able to test his strength against two A-ranked shinobi and he got some gold, jewelry, weapons, and scrolls of techniques. A very worthwhile venture, but it was on to the next adventure in his life.

After distributing the gold and some jewelry to the townsfolk as they slept, Naruto began his trek down the beaten dirt path.

At Tazuna's house

"Sensei, are you sure that was Naruto? I mean, he was so strong and he looked way too old for his age. I find it hard to believe that he went from the dead last in the academy to that!" Sakura questioned Kakashi.

Kakashi sighed beneath his mask. "Yes, Sakura, that was him. And as much as it pains me to admit it, that demon was stronger than me." Kakashi said, no longer sighing but frowning. He was angry at himself for not being strong enough to kill the demon and at the demon himself.

The Uchiha sat by himself listening in seething to himself as well as brooding. He had weird look on his face as he pulled off a half seething/half brooding look. He would have appeared constipated to any normal person looking at him, but Sakura was the only one looking and that was done with literal hearts appearing in her eyes. Sasuke just couldn't understand how the dobe was stronger than Kakashi. He should have that power; he needed it to kill his traitor sister. He stood up from his chair before storming outside to train, all the while grinding his teeth in hate.

The last member of the illustrious team seven was seated on his own armchair doing what appeared to be drawing. In actuality he was writing a letter with urgency to his master, telling him of the events that transpired on the bridge and more importantly that his missing weapon, Naruto, was found. He got up, pretending to go after Sasuke and using the time to send the letter via a bird of ink.

Time skip

A yellow blur flew from branch to branch. This was shortly followed by a group of ten masked shinobi in hot pursuit. Naruto had first noticed he was being followed an hour ago and it's been a foot race since then. He could easily escape by either hiraishin or running full speed, of course. But Naruto wanted to fight, he was just looking for the ideal spot, preferably a spot where he wouldn't destroy a village or forest. And he found the perfect spot.

Naruto jumped off the last branch, charging chakra to his foot to place down a hiraishin seal on the branch as he did so. He landed in the middle of a large clearing and waited for his pursuers to catch up.

Naruto waited until all but one ninja had landed in the clearing. That ninja was just landing on the branch when a flash appeared right beside him. He was unable to react to the appearance of Naruto crouched down on the same branch as him in time and as a result felt a kunai being jammed into his leg. Naruto didn't stop there as he charged his wind chakra into his kunai and looped off the rest of the man's leg. The man, completely caught off guard by the disappearance of his leg, fell face first towards the ground off of the tree. Looking at the downed man, Naruto quickly threw his wind charged kunai cleanly through the back of the ninja's head causing a large puddle of blood to develop underneath his body.

Naruto jumped down and collected his kunai from the hole in the dead ninja's head. All of his enemies had their weapons facing him, not at all disturbed by the death of their comrade. "Well, nine against one isn't very fair! But you need not worry as that number will drop very soon." Naruto announced with a slight grin tinged with bloodlust.

"Kyuubi jinchuriki, you will come with us. Danzo-sama requires your presence." The enemy closest to him said in a monotone voice. They all seemed to the exact same other than hair color and height. They all wore a blank ANBU mask with the kanji for Ne in the middle of the upper portion of the mask and a black cloak covering all of their bodies.

"He didn't even come to see me, why should I go see him?" Naruto asked with a fake frown. "Seriously though, you can all fuck off or die. I'm being so very generous by giving you this chance to leave alive and I suggest you accept my offer." Naruto said.

No motion to leave was made by the group which made Naruto smile. "Good." With that he vanished from his spot and reappeared next to the closest enemy, his leg extended for a kick aimed at his opponents solar plexus. The man reacted just quick enough to divert the kick with his hand to land on his shoulder. The force of the kick dislocated his shoulder causing it to hang limply by his side. Naruto disengaged and jumped back to assess his situation.

The group of shinobi nodded to each other before going through different handseals. Half of them released a ball of fire that zoomed towards Naruto; the other half shot a blast of wind towards the raging inferno. Once the wind reached the fire both the speed and strength of the fire increased drastically.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at the intense ball of flames before doing the same with his hand. Opening his eyes to reveal his Rinnegan/ Sharingan mix, he used his chakra absorption powers gifted through his eyes causing the flame to quickly deplete in size. The enemy shinobi appeared to be unsurprised; whether that was due to their masks or lack of emotions Naruto did not know.

Naruto used his still outstretched hand and called out "Banshō Ten'in." The ninja felt a pull towards Naruto but the focus was on the shinobi closest to him and he was ripped from his position, being sent flying into Naruto's grasp. Naruto grabbed the nin by his neck, squeezing tightly. The rest of the root nin threw a barrage of weapons at Naruto who calmly used the root in his grip as a shield.

The sound of multiple thuds and spurts coming from the now dead shinobi' back ended allowing Naruto to dispose of his human shield. The dead body tumbled to the ground as Naruto raced through a few hand seals. He called out "Raiton: Kaminari-kyū(Lightning Release: lightning ball)!" A ball of electricity zoomed out of his mouth towards the numerous enemies.

Seeing the quickly approaching ball, the root shinobi fired off the same seals and slammed their hands on the ground. The earth rose from its place in the shape of wall that was soon splintered into hundreds of pieces by the thunderous lightning attack that slammed into it.

As the wall crumbled, two of the ninja fired off an earth dragon at the spiky haired man in front of them. The blond dodged the collision of the dragons and the ground. Landing ten or so feet to the left of the explosion of dirt and rock, Naruto's neck length spiky blond hair with its red tips billowed in the wind the blast created. He bent down and slammed his own hands to the ground.

Nothing happened for a couple of seconds and the enemies got over their confusion at the lack of technique. Their confusion vanished when a multitude of black chakra chains blasted through the earth's surface straight through the legs, chest, and head of two Root ninja. The remaining ninja jumped back and launched a barrage of knives and jutsu. Still controlling his chains, Naruto maneuvered the dead bodies still stuck on the tips to shield him from the techniques and weapons. A few kunai and shuriken made it passed his human shields forcing him to release his now useless shields and draw his own kunai to block the flying ones.

The ninja that had his shoulder dislocated charged forward with a short tanto in his good hand. Naruto unsealed his own sword and swatted away the strike from his opponent, then followed up with an overhead strike that was blocked. However, the force behind the blow caused his enemy to stagger considering that he only had one good arm.

Naruto took advantage of the stagger and rushed forward sword in a reverse grip that was used swipe at his enemy's neck. The disoriented ninja was quick enough to lean back to avoid the swipe and allowed his fellow Root ninja to come in with his own swipe that would have relieved Naruto of his head had he not ducked beneath it. Naruto jabbed at the new arrival with a kick to the leg. He stopped his kick before it landed as he rolled backwards to allow a third ninja to stab the ground where he was. He dashed forward for another attack but was stopped again by a fourth enemy.

"This is getting annoying. Whenever I get close to killing one of you, another one of you bastards pop up." Naruto said. "I guess I'll just have to separate you."

His eyes flashed purple and he appeared in between his enemies. "Shinra Tensei!" Naruto shouted before a wave of invisible energy spread out from around him, sending all of his enemies flying. He launched one of his tagged kunai towards a fallen enemy and disappeared in a flash. He reappeared next to the downed ninja before he could react and stabbed downwards with his sword. The sword went straight through his neck causing a spurt of blood to erupt from the area of contact.

Naruto looked at the remaining nin, seeing their panting and disgruntled appearance as he himself was as fresh as a daisy. "You guys aren't looking so hot. I was expecting much better from the famous Root but this is quite disappointing. I guess Danzo isn't that great of a trainer after all." He teased them with a snarky look on his face which of course did not receive any form of response from the group. "You guys are no fun to talk to."

One got up and charged him with their standard tanto and Naruto smacked the blade away with his own. They traded a series of blows that ended in a deadlock that made sparks fly. This lasted until Naruto got tired of it and kicked him in the chest to send him flying away. "You're all so predictable with your attacks it just makes this boring." While he was focused on his sword battle with the one Root agent, the others were busy setting up a trap that he accidentally stepped into.

"Oh ho, so you do know how to be a little unpredictable, but it wasn't a well thought out trap. As for one; I'm a seal master, so a paralysis seal made by non-seal masters won't be hard to disarm. And secondly I can absorb the chakra in th-" Naruto was cut off by a charge from the still living root agents. His eyes flashed purple yet again as he quickly absorbed the chakra placed in the seal allowing him free control over his body once more. "Fuuton: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)." A blast of wind knocked away his incoming attackers as well as tore up the ground in front of him. "Well, I'm getting tired of this. Get ready! I've only practiced this jutsu once or twice before." Naruto told them as he raised his hand towards the sky. "Chibaku Tensei!" He shouted causing a black ball to form in his hand that he released into the air, letting it float upwards as if it were a balloon. The root agents tensed as they felt the pull of gravity coming from the black ball. The ground began to come apart and fly to the ball and with the ground came the ninjas on top of it. Naruto stood there without a worry as he used his gravitational powers to keep him and the ground around him still connected to the ground.

He jumped to the agent closest to him who was struggling to stand on his rising piece of rock. He needed one kept alive to send Danzo a message and that message was to fuck off. Naruto kicked the man down to the rock before created a couple of clones out of the rock to hold him down as he drew hhis own paralysis seal. He didn't want any problems from the man and it is hard to cause problems when you can't move. He slung the man over his shoulder and floated down using his control over gravity. Once on the ground he took a look into the man's memories and erased everything about his Rinnegan that he could using his preta path. Naruto then left the man there, paralyzed until his timed release seal went off twenty-four hours later allowing him to return to his master.

Naruto looked to the sky once more and closed his fist tightly. The large ball shaped collections of rocks and bodies condensed greatly into a much smaller ball, ending the lives of those still alive inside.

Naruto then left the clearing in a quick succession of Shunshins towards the next town.

Naruto stretched as he woke, still slightly tired from his nap and his fight against the Root ninja and a small headache courtesy of his hangover. He charged some of Akane's chakra to his head to relieve the pain. He found he had the ability to diminish his healing powers to allow him to use some of the delicacies of life like a nice bottle of sake to their fullest potential i.e getting drunk or high. He had gotten a room in an expensive, fancy hotel in Tanzaku Gai the night before.

He did his morning routine: taking a shower, brushing his teeth, and putting on some clothes before going down into the town to get some breakfast.

Time skip later in the day

Naruto was seated at a poker table at the casino in the bottom floor of his hotel and he was enjoying himself. Living life, loving life. He was winning the majority of the hands and taking in even more cash. He figured all of his luck came as retribution for his shitty childhood.

His luck continued as one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen sat right next to him. She was near or on the level of Izumi and he placed her on pedestal above all other women. Well, he placed his mother on her own pedestal too, but besides that. She had beautiful silky blonde hair that framed her face, a little like Izumi's, and went down her back in two pigtails. The skin on her face was unblemished and fair, complemented by the light blue rhombus in the middle of her forehead. Her face had sharp features showing off her connection to royalty. Then her near flawless figure with all the right curves in all the right places. However, the most noticeable feature, at least to Naruto was her amber eyes that teemed with knowledge and power, but the overwhelming sense of sadness that lay within them.

Naruto smiled at her as she sat down. "Senju Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin, as beautiful as the stories say. I'm Uzumaki Naruto, pleased to make your acquaintance." He said in a polite tone.

Her cheeks were tinged slightly red as she replied. "That's cute, ki-. Hey, wait a minute, shouldn't you be in Konoha?"

"Well, I could say the same to you, couldn't I?" He fired back. "But to answer your question; yes, I should be. Konoha probably isn't that happy their weapon ran away, but they can screw off and die for all I care." He said with a shrug.

She was caught off guard that he knew about being the jinchuriki but didn't show it. "I'm surprised that you know about that. Is that why you left?" She questioned.

Naruto took a sip of his drink. "I'm surprised you know about it considering you left the village before it happened."

"They send me letters informing me of what's going on and trying to get me to come back." She answered.

Naruto hummed in acknowledgment. "Ah, I see. Anyways, no, I didn't leave the village just because I learned of being the jinchuriki. Getting beaten and scorned by the villagers all of my childhood would be the main reason. But there were other reasons to leave as well. Once Izumi left I was all alone again, so I figured I would make the most of my time alone and train. Konoha wouldn't like the demon getting too strong so I left. It worked out well as I think I have gotten pretty strong in that time. It also weakened Konoha, so that's another plus to my departure." Naruto explained and took another drink.

Tsunade's eyes widened a little from his short story before a look of sympathy entered her amber eyes. "So Konoha kinda ruined both of our lives, huh." She said as she also took a sip of her drink that arrived as they were talking.

"Well, I got to meet Izumi for being there so there is a bright spot in all of the dark." Naruto told her.

As they talked Tsunade lost all of the hands they played and Naruto won the majority. "How do you keep winning?" She nearly shouted in frustration.

This made Naruto chuckle before replying. "You want to go to the bar? I can tell you my secret over a drink." He said in a cheeky manner.

She stood up. "Fine, but you're buying." She walked off towards the bar.

"I figured" Naruto said to himself as he collected his and Tsunade's chips that she forgot at the table.

Time skip night

After many rounds at the bar and a lengthy conversation Tsunade had passed out at the table causing Naruto to have to take care of her. He lifted her up bridal style and used hiraishin to get to his room. He didn't want to carry her as it would look like he was about to take advantage of her which wasn't the case. He put her down on the extra bed in his room and went to take a shower and clear his head, still buzzed from the alcohol.

After drying himself off he wrapped the towel around his waist and went to go get dressed. Before he could start getting dressed he heard a knock at the door. Shaking his head he went to the door.

"Hello?" He asked as he opened the door and got his first glimpse of who was there. Standing in front of him was Hoshigaki Kisame, whom he recognized from his bingo book. He really was not prepared for a fight. He only had a towel on and he had a buzz but he quickly charged his head with chakra to remove it.

"Ah shi-" Naruto stopped as she stepped into view and he saw her for the first time in years. In the same outfit as Kisame, a black cloak with red clouds, he could see she had developed even more in his time away. Her lips twitched upwards as he stared at her in surprise. She looked even more perfect than she did before now that her body and face received the time to mature. He just wanted to kiss those soft, supple lips of hers for the rest of time.

"Hello, Naruto-kun."

"Izumi-chan." He breathed out.

Alright, just to clear this up Naruto will be over powered and the lemons are coming up next chapter. The part with the sage mode and mokuton I felt was kind of stupid but I was too lazy to go back and change it, Naruto won't really use it at all after this.

Hope it was good enough so review and favorite and all that good shit if it was.