Rurouni Shinobi

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Disclaimer: The Pheox clan does not own Naruto. ^_^

Summary: What if Naruto wasn't from the Leaf? What if he was from the cloud? What if Kyuubi attacked the Cloud instead of the Leaf but still got stuck inside Naruto? At the age of 12 Naruto is forced to leave the Hidden Cloud village, and he brings someone with him. 5 years later at the age of 17, and living a life as a rurouni he finds himself in the middle of a war between the Leaf and the Sound. (AU)

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Prologue

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Hai=yes

Kuso=shit

Demo=but

Yosh=alright

Otou-san=father

Okaa-san=mother

Onee-chan=elder sister

~*~*~*~*~=time/place change

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"Kuso!" A blonde haired boy muttered while jumping through tree branches.

"There he is! After him! Don't let that demon escape!" Jounins yelled behind him.

Naruto kept on jumping before 3 cloud jounin appeared in front of him, and the 3 behind him caught up.

"Nowhere to run, is there fox!" The leader sneered.

"Why me?" Naruto groaned before yelling out his signature move. "KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!"[1]

He called up two-dozen clones and they all went into different directions.

"Little brat!" One jounin yelled. The group split up and began chasing after the clones. Little did they know that the real Naruto hasn't moved and was just hiding in a taller branch.

"Idiots!" Naruto muttered as he once again began his escape out of the Lightning country and to freedom.

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Naruto has been running for 10 minutes since the minor encounter with the jounins, when he heard slight sobbing noises. He turned towards where the noise was coming from and headed to check it out.

When he got to a small clearing he noticed a girl surrounded by 4 dead jounins. The girl had brought her knees to her chest with her arms wrapped around them and crying her eyes out.

Naruto stepped cautiously into the clearing, and walked slowly towards the sobbing form. "Hey," he said softly as to not alarm the girl. "What's wrong?"

The girl raised her head and Naruto immediately recognized the girl as Pheox Sierra, a member of the famous team, the Fire Shooters of the Cloud, and Naruto's friend. Her light brown hair was a mess, covered in dirt, blood, and tears. Her normally bright amethyst eyes were now dull and teary, and her clothes were all ripped.

"S-Sierra! What happened?" Naruto asked worriedly.

"Raikage-sama," Sierra sobbed. "He-he-he killed otou-san, okaa- san, and onee-chan. An-an-and he ordered jounins to k-kill the rest of my-my clan. Th-then he told jounins to retrieve me b- because he needed my p-powers." She started sobbing again.

Naruto knelt down beside the sobbing girl, and took her into his arms. Sierra clung to him as if he was her lifeline and sobbed into his shoulder, while Naruto tried to calm her down.

"Everything's going to be all right, I promise." Naruto told Sierra as he continued to rub circles on her back.

The moment was ruined when a kunai grazed past Naruto's cheek and embedded itself into the tree in front of him.

"Hmm. Seems to be our lucky day both targets in one place." A jounin jumped down from a branch to land on the ground.

Three soon joined the first jounin as Naruto stood up protectively in front of Sierra, as he glared at the jounin in front of him.

"Tsk tsk tsk. Sierra-chan you seem to be an emotional wreck. And here I thought that you were a shinobi." The leader sneered. "Obviously that can't be right as shinobis aren't supposed to show feelings and here you are crying your eyes out. I'm very disappointed."

"Just ignore him Sierra." Naruto told the girl behind him. "He's doesn't know the meaning of pain."

Sierra nodded her head and stood up. She understood. Both her and Naruto now know the true meaning of pain and betrayal, though they wished they hadn't.

Sierra wiped the few remaining tears from her eyes and glared at the ninjas in front of her. "Ne, Naruto?"

"Hai."

"Since I doubt they'll leave us alone," Sierra grinned mischievously. "Why don't we give them a lesson in death."

"Demo..."

"It's either them or us."

"YOSH!"

"Lesson One: Quick Death." Sierra said and, with speed none of them had ever seen, slashed the jounin leader's throat. He fell, dead, to the ground before anyone could react. She then returned to her position beside Naruto.

"Lesson Two." Naruto said. "Poisoned Death." He ran up to another jounin with a kunai. The jounin dodged the attack but not before taking a scratch on the arm. He started screaming in pain, before he too fell to the ground dead.

"Y-you're just a ch-chunin."[2] The last jounin muttered fearfully falling to the ground.

"You're point?" Naruto asked stepping toward jounin.

"You're not supposed to have such p-poisons."

"You're right." Naruto nodded his head.

"HUH?" The jounin asked confused.

"You're leader had it." Sierra said holding up a vile. "And I simply took it and gave it to Naruto. Now, Lesson Three."

"Slow Death."

The man's screams rang throughout the forest, alerting everyone to his position.

With the last jounin dead, Naruto and Sierra quickly jumped into the trees and ran towards the Lightning border.

"I didn't think he'd scream that loudly." Naruto said to the girl jumping beside him.

Sierra didn't answer. She was busy thinking about her family's tragic death.

"Oh well." Naruto said avoiding an overhanging branch. "Looks like you and I are stuck together. Friends 'till the end."

"The way you say," Sierra grinned slightly. "You make it sound like a bad thing. And here I was thinking that you would enjoy the company."

"I'm just surprised by the turn of events." Naruto said. "When I first left I thought I would be travelling along. BUT this is a nice turn of events."

"Maybe it's destiny." Sierra stared a the stars, shining clearly in the midnight sky above them.

"NAH, I don't believe in that stuff." He continued forward.

20 dead jounin and 5 dead ANBUs later. Naruto stepped onto the Lightning border. "One small step for man, one giant leap for shinobis everywhere." Naruto crossed over into unknown territory.

"You better not act like an idiot the entire time." Sierra commented waiting for Naruto to catch up.

"But I can sure try." Naruto landed onto the same branch as Sierra.

"Idiot." Sierra muttered.

The two shinobis jumped into the darkness of the night and disappeared. It would be 5 years before either of them were heard from. In 5 years Uzumaki Naruto and Pheox Sierra will make a big impact on the ninja world.

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[1] I know this is supposed to be a kinjutsu of the Leaf, but for the sake of this story lets just think that it's a kinjutsu of the cloud. Okies?

[2] In this story Naruto's a 12-year-old chunin, and Sierra's an 11-year-old jounin. Don't like it? Too bad. *sticks tongue out immaturely.*

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