Author's Notes: Still experimenting to see just which story I am writing catches my attention the most. With two of mine done, I need a new project. But the problem is, I just find the right one. If I don't work on this after a while, feel free to type up the next chapter and send it to me. If I like it, you can adopt this. Same thing with my other stories.

—oo000oo—

Naruto unrolled the scroll he took from the vault in the Hokage Tower and read the first one. "Kage Bunshin!? I can never get away from clones!" He sighed, "Okay, okay, relax. Just take it slow." He began to read it but he couldn't help but notice the seal next to the Kage Bunshin. He shrugged and memorized the Kage Bunshin before looking at it. "What is this?" He held the paper by the edge and got a paper cut on his finger. "Ah!" A drop fell on the seal and he panicked. He was only supposed to learn from it, not damage it! But the seal glowed red for a moment, making him watch it in amazement. He squeezed the finger until a lot more came out and he spread all over the seal. There was a puff of smoke and a scroll the same size as Forbidden Scroll appeared. He looked at the title and read it aloud. "Fujin's Wind?" Shrugging, he unrolled that as well.

'To whoever so finds this scroll, know this. This is my complete life's work. Inside is my experience as a shinobi. I have found a way to implant my knowledge into this scroll and through a extremely complex array of seals, I am able to transfer this knowledge to you, the reader. But all things has a price and stipulations. First, you must be of the wind element. If you are not and try to use it, it will...' Naruto grew bored with the introduction and skipped forward. '...Must have good endurance or else it will not work. Now to proceed, you must first spread your chakra infused blood over the first seal. When you do, the rest will work by itself. Remember, this will only give you the knowledge, not the experience of my life. I was, in my time, the strongest Wind user ever. This will show through you. And once this is used once, it cannot b used again. You must make the scroll again before you die, as was by my predecessor, and his before him. This is how it has been for a long time. Three generations of ninja have done this. You are now the Fourth. Good luck, Fujin, for that will be your title before you die, you will be the Wind God.'

Naruto grinned like a maniac and did as the scroll instructed. Before passing out from pain. What he had neglected to read was that those not strong enough or without the wind element would die from the sealing. Even unconscious, he thrashed around and roared in agony. But as the damage was done, it was healed. After near an hour of the most indescribable pain he had ever felt, Naruto stopped and soon woke up. "Great ramen god, my head is splitting." He sat up, wiped his forehead of sweat, and wished for a breeze. Without even meaning to, he waved his hand and there was a breeze. He practically moaned in pleasure as it caressed his skin. After a half hour, the pain was gone and he looked at the scroll. It was completely blank. The odd thing was, he knew how to recreate it. And he now knew all of the 'intro' as he had put it. It was a warning to keep him from killing himself. "Fujin, I'm an idiot," he said, wiping his hands down his face. Hoping not to get caught, he returned the scroll inside the other and smirked when he realized what he had done. He created that breeze, he just sealed something without even being taught how. Feeling the best he had ever felt in his life, he looked at the Kage Bunshin and began to practice it, already seeing how to combine it with his wind element to make it stronger. Mizuki-sensei was in for one hell of a surprise! He was going to pass for sure!

—oo000oo—

"I passed alright," he muttered later that evening after Iruka-sensei gave him his personal headband.

"I don't know that jutsu, Naruto," Iruka said to him while eating some ramen. "What was it?"

"Uhm, I'm not sure if I should say, Iruka-sensei."

"A name then? You never said it."

"Because I don't have a name for it yet. I made it."

"Huh? You took the Kage Bunshin and improved it?"

Naruto blushed and rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah, I guess I did. ...I can't believe it though. This is so much to take in."

"You're telling me... When that clone exploded, why were there slashes in everything around it?"

"...That is the secret, Iruka-sensei. It was wind, I made the clone out of wind as well as whatever the kage bunshin is made out of. What?"

Iruka looked shocked. "Naruto, you mean to tell me you didn't completely understand what made it work before going to work on it!?"

"I didn't," Naruto replied. "Should I have?"

"Yes! People have literally blown themselves to pieces trying to do that! ...How did you do it?"

Naruto shrugged, "I have no idea. I just knew that it would work once I figured it out."

—oo000oo—

The next day, Naruto stood atop the Hokage Monument. He knew he was skilled enough to do it but up until now, he had only done this from trees, then buildings when no one could see. Taking a deep breath, he took several steps back from the edge before running off it. His hands flew through their signs and he was suddenly jerked when he almost stopped falling. He about levitated down, much like a feather falling. He touched down on the roof of the Hokage Tower and grinned. "Watch out Konoha, Fujin Naruto has arrived!"

—oo000oo—

He leaned back in his chair, wishing he could be spending his time with Konohamaru. At least he kept it interesting. He sighed before looking around the room. "What?" People were staring at him again. He had replaced his 'kill me' orange jumpsuit with a light armor. It was a black sneaking suit for the most part that covered his chest, neck, waist, legs, feet, and hands. Over his lower legs and feet, his fore arms and the top of his hands, and his chest, back, the side of his legs, and around his waist were plates of a light alloy that would deflect most kunai and shurikens. There was also a mask with the same thing. The plates were colored dark orange. He wouldn't get rid of all of it. It looked like one of the ninja uniforms from over a thousand years ago instead of what they used now.

"Stop trying to act cool," Sakura screeched.

"I am not trying to act 'cool," Naruto growled. "I am trying to stay alive. Maybe it hasn't reached that pea brain of yours but we are now the blades and weapons of the village. We will go out there and kill people. And they will try to kill us in return. I am not dressed like this to get your attention. Is any of this reaching you, or are you too busy fantasizing about jumping Sasuke to even realize you could very well die within the next year?" Sakura was too shocked to speak, Naruto never talked to her like that. He begged her for dates, not insult her. "Because as you are, a useless fan girl, you would only be a burden to whatever team you are put on. You have no real skill. Yes, we are barely more than students. But even I know more than the academy ninjutsu. Wait, let me guess, you are banking on whenever you get in trouble, Sasuke-kun will come to your rescue. As if, bitch. I wouldn't even bother."

Everyone there had dropped their mouths at hearing that, including the jonin that had just walked in to get their teams. "Naruto," Iruka said from the front, "you do realize that you are on the same team as her, right?"

"Oh goody," Naruto muttered before sighing. "I am sorry, Iruka-sensei. I have been...on edge ever since Mizuki."

Iruka nodded, "I understand that, Naruto. But not everyone in the village will betray you."

"And hardly anyone will watch out for me," he replied. "I just hope our sensei gets here soon."

Kiba turned to look at him. "What do you mean 'Mizuki' and 'betray'?"

Naruto sighed again. "I mean, he used me to try to steal a scroll of the Hokage filled with jutsu. I stopped him... To be precise, I blew his arm off and left him a bloody mess."

"As if, dobe," Sasuke said to him.

"...He is telling the truth," Iruka told him, shocking everyone there. "Mizuki was pronounced dead, three days ago, trying to steal the Forbidden Scroll." Everyone looked at Naruto and began to edge away from him.

"Like I care," Naruto muttered. "The only ones worth my attention here is my friends, what few I have."

"And they are," Ino asked.

Naruto leveled his gaze on her and she shrank back. "Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba. Maybe Hinata, she has never said anything bad about me, unlike the rest of you." He looked around and grinned under his mask. He was about to give one of them a bad hair day they would never recover from. "Hmm. Ino or Sakura? Ino or Sakura?"

"What about me," the two asked. "I'm not going on a date with you!"

"I was actually thinking about who to mess with until either Ino leaves or my team leaves." He flicked a finger and a scratch was carved into the desk.

"Touch me and I will beat you to hell, Naruto," Sakura screamed.

Ino was about to say something but her jonin sensei arrived and took them away. "And then there was one," Naruto said with a grin.

"Naruto, stop it," Iruka ordered. "I think we need to go speak with the Hokage, now."

"Fine," Naruto said, getting up from the back of the room. As he headed out, he passed by Hinata and saw concern in her eyes. But for him, not herself. He put his hand on her shoulder and said, "I am sorry if I scared you, Hinata. I... I have just been going through a change is all." She 'eep', blushed, and nodded while he walked by. When he walked out, she passed out.

—oo000oo—

"Naruto, why are you so mad at Sakura," Sarutobi asked.

"Because she isn't serious about being a ninja, Old Man," Naruto told him. "She sounds like a banshee so she can't hide if Sasuke so much as looks at her. She is always on a diet so she doesn't have the muscle mass to be of use in strength. The first thing she did when she found out I was on her team was groan and said she would refuse to work with me! How did she get this far!?" He sighed again and took off his mask to breath easier. "I'm sorry, this is all just too much. The Kyuubi, Mizuki, and learning what a jinchuuriki is has taken it out of me."

"Learning what," Iruka asked.

Naruto looked down. "It was in the scroll. A jinchuuriki is...just a weapon of the village that makes it. The First Hokage captured all of them and gave eight to the other great ninja villages while keeping the Kyuubi. I was born as just a weapon. Unless that it attacked us isn't a lie either. Which means we lost control of it so it was sealed in me to save our skins. Better to sacrifice one boy than the entire village."

"No, Naruto, you are not a weapon or a sacrifice," Sarutobi told him vehemently. "You are a hero that saved us from the Kyuubi."

"So I was convenient."

"No, Naruto," Iruka told him. "You were not just convenient. No one wanted that of you."

"But they want it now," Naruto replied. He looked at his hands and clenched his fist. "You think I don't hear the whispers? People muttering how they wished I was gone. Or that man with one arm, how he would look at me as if he wished he owned me. Because I know now he does. I have the Kyuubi inside me, why shouldn't he. Control me, control it. And what would my class do if they found out. They would distance me as far as they could, maybe even outright attack me... I don't want to be on a team with them. People want me gone, I should go. Put me in ANBU or something."

"No," Sarutobi yelled. "Naruto, most of those men don't survive their missions!"

"Then the council will get off your back," Naruto told him. "I've heard their whispers as well."

Both men were heartbroken by what he was saying. Naruto knew that they wanted him dead and he was willing to go along with it. "...I've failed you, haven't I," Sarutobi asked.

"No, Old Man," Naruto said, hugging him. "You cared and tried your best. But one man, even a Hokage, cannot hold back the tide, especially one of darkness. Please, let me do this." Reluctantly, he nodded.

—oo000oo—

Iruka walked back into the class and found Sasuke and Sakura still there. "Naruto will not be joining you as your teammate."

"Ha," Sakura shouted. "I knew he didn't have what it takes to be a ninja!"

"Why not," Sasuke asked.

"Because he requested something that only the Hokage can do. Suffice it to say that for the time being, you will be a two man cell."

"Two man cell," Kakashi asked as he walked in. He looked around and only saw Sasuke and Sakura. "Where is the third one. Where is Naruto?"

Iruka was quiet for a moment. "He asked the Hokage to send him on suicide missions. Naruto has joined ANBU as a trainee."

"WHAT," Sasuke demanded. "Why should he get special treatment!? He was dead last!"

"Sasuke-kun is right, he should be getting that training, not Naruto!"

"Shut up," Kakashi shouted. "Did you not hear what he asked? 'Suicide missions'. He wants to die but can't kill himself."

"Why can't a person kill himself," Sakura asked, not even getting the implications.

"Because he heals too fast," Iruka told them. "Now, you should go. I...have things to do to get ready for my next class."

—oo000oo—

Naruto picked up the head and looked at it. "And you thought you were invincible, Aoi," he said to him. He pocketed the Raijin and sealed the head inside a scroll. He really only needed the sword to prove it but it was a gift for Ibiki. His friend had told him the details of this bastard's particular escape. He stopped not long after heading back and found a flower patch. He smiled as he grabbed a few for his other friend in ANBU. Anko would love them. Briefly, he wondered if it was a good thing if he was friends with the village's top two interrogation specialist. But knew that no one else would. When he got back to the village, he slipped back over the wall unseen and went to the Hokage's office. "ANBU Kitsune returning, mission accomplished," he said to Sarutobi. The old man grinned and took the sword.

"Good job, Kitsune. The Council is going to have another fit. But the odd thing is, they were expecting you to come out of it alive this time."

"Oh?"

"Yes. They have your next mission here. And you are not going to like it." He handed the scroll to Naruto and he waited for the explosion.

"I refuse! If this is correct, Kakashi disobeyed village law by taking them farther once they learned the client had lied! If he is in over his head, he should get himself out of it!"

"Naruto," Sarutobi said, getting his attention instantly as he almost never referred to him as Naruto anymore, he was Kitsune now. "I agree...if it was just that. But he is an instructor and took a genin team out with him."

Naruto was silent for a long time. "Who?"

"A boy named Sai, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura. You should probably read the rest of that scroll."

Naruto grimace, more bad news. He finished it and was silent. Sarutobi counted down and the scrolled was cut to pieces and scattered around the room. "I will die before I train that...that arrogant, pampered... The Council is so busy kissing his ass that he could betray the village and they would demand him returned instead of killed!"

Sarutobi agreed. "But there is some good news, Naruto."

"What is that?"

"I already know his element. He is lightning and fire. You are purely wind. He could try all he wants and he will never be able to do what you do."

Naruto sighed before smiling under his plate mask. "I guess that is a comfort. And I only have to train him until Kakashi can take over again." He rotated his head, working a kink out of the muscles in his neck. "I have to go give a few things to Anko and Ibiki. So I will leave in a few days."

"Okay, sleep well, Kitsune." Naruto nodded to him before he used the wind style shushin.

—oo000oo—

"Am I late," he asked when he entered the training field. When he had offered to help train Team Eight, they had jumped at it.

"Not at all, Kitsune-kun," Kurenai said to him. "Your mission was a success, I see."

"Of course," he replied. "Now, where did we leave off?"

"Tai-Taijutsu, Kitsune-san," Hinata stuttered. Naruto suspected she knew who he was along with the others. Kiba with his nose, Shino with his insects, and Hinata's eyes, it was almost a sure thing.

"Right. Okay, pair up with a clone." He created a shadow clone for each and had them spar against them. As they did, Naruto would occasionally stop them and correct something he saw them doing wrong. Whenever they got it, he had the clone take the skill level up more. Soon, the three of them were all on the ground, with Hinata taking the longest with her Byakugan. "Well done. Now, I have a mission tomorrow so I will be gone for a few weeks."

"What is it," Kiba asked, panting.

"A team got in over their head and is requesting additional help with the mission," Naruto replied. "Now, since you are done with my training for today, I am going to go. Take care." As he walked away, he could feel Hinata watching and he nodded to himself. 'Yeah, she knows.'

—oo000oo—

"Hello," Naruto called when he landed outside the house of the client. He had altered his mask so it now looked like a fox but his armor was still the same. Everyone from that day knew who he was so he didn't expect a good welcome. He went to the door and opened it. "I am your..." He threw a hand to the side and two shurikens fell to the ground, cut in half. "Backup."

"...I don't believe it, the dobe," Sasuke said from the kitchen table. "You still alive?"

"Obviously. Not only that, I now outrank you, do not call me that again. I am Kitsune-san, Kitsune, hell, even Kitsune-teme, nothing else."

"Yeah right," Sakura laughed. "Who is here with you!?"

"He works alone," Sai told them. "When I sent back the message, I did not expect them to send you, Kitsune-san."

"They did. You, Sai, I like. But, obviously, you knew that you were not supposed to continue the mission so why did you?"

"What do you mean," Sasuke asked Sai, "the dobe works alone?"

"I am still getting those suicide missions, genin," Naruto growled. "Watch what you say or I will put you on report."

"You can't order," Sakura started. Naruto finished it when he suddenly appeared right in front of her with a fist in her gut.

"I can and am," he told her. "You two are disobeying a direct order outside of battle. I intend to make it very clear to you two how things work. I am ANBU, I make the decisions, I say how it will be. You carry out my orders. You will follow chain of command. Or I will kill you myself."

Sakura was coughing on the floor so she didn't reply. He looked at Sai and received a, "Yes, sir."

He looked at Sasuke and readied himself, he was considering what he saw. Naruto knew he didn't see him move right then. Plus, he was no doubt considering him cutting those weapons in half without a weapon of his own. "Well?"

Sasuke openly scowled at Naruto but said, "Aye...aye sir."

"Good. When she can breath again, get her off the floor. Sai, take me to Kakashi." The ROOT agent lead him first to the living room to introduce him to the client and his family. Naruto instantly didn't like the kid when he told him he was going to die. "No I won't," Naruto told him calmly.

"Yes you will! You think that your armor or your fancy mask is going to save you!?"

"Inari, stop," Tazuna shouted, he knew what that mask meant. "Please don't hurt him, ANBU-san."

"I won't," Naruto replied. "What is so bad ass out here that 'I am going to die'?"

"Gatou," the kid said, assured that he was right. "No one can stand up against him."

"Gatou...Gatou... Ah, yes. Shipping, slavery, drug dealing. Known to hire missing ninja and then killing them with a large number of thugs. Keeps two disgraced samurai as his own body guards. How is he going to kill me?" Inari was about to replied but Naruto continued. "Keep in mind I have been stabbed, crushed, bludgeoned, and set on fire." Everyone there widened their eyes at his announcement. "Let me tell you something about 'being killed'. I do not wear this mask for nothing. I wear it, because the council of Konoha wants me dead so badly, they send me on suicide missions. Where no normal human has a chance to survive. And each and every time, I have and I completed the mission. I am here alone because it doesn't matter that Zabuza is out there, waiting to kill us. I will complete the mission, alone if need be. Sai, Kakashi."

He took him up stairs and into the room. "Sensei," Sai said on entering. "ANBU Kitsune has arrived as backup."

"Not backup," Naruto corrected. "I am now in charge of the mission."

"What," Kakashi asked. He looked at him and didn't believe what he saw. An ANBU the size of his students was saying he was relieved of command. "By whose authority?"

"The Council and the Hokage. Remember this, Kakashi, I am ANBU, you are only a Jonin now."

Kakashi frowned under his mask, "Technically, you are right. But..."

"No buts. You brought them out here to feed your ego."

"Missions change all the time."

"Yeah, from say C to B, not C to A or low S. You, by all rights, should have taken them back and..."

"I was under orders," Kakashi confessed.

"What?"

"The Council had me appear before them before we left for the mission. They told me the real situation and ordered me to continue it."

"...Why?"

Kakashi sighed and continued. "I will repeat what I was told when I asked that same thing. 'The Sharigan thrives on conflict that is hard to survive. This is sure to bring it out.' Meaning..."

"Meaning the rest of your team or even you be damned," Naruto finished. "Just so long as they can get a second Sharigan." All three looked at the door when the heard a girl yelling. "You need to teach your genin how things are. That even if they knew me, they have to respect the rank."

"...I am trying but Sasuke respects power while Sakura... You were right about her."

"I know. Keeping careful notes for Danzou, Sai?"

"You know?"

"How couldn't I? That smile is as fake as I have ever seen. Go ahead, report it, doesn't matter to me in the end. What will the council do, try to kill me?" He rubbed his arm where criss-crossing slash scars could be seen. They were fading and in another week, would be gone like the others. "So the problem is Gatou?"

"In the long run but..."

"I am in command, Kakashi. But I won't put you on report for this. You should have told the Hokage but that is in the past now. I will be back when I am done." He stood up and left the room. When he reached the bottom of the stairs, he saw Sakura throwing a tantrum.

"Who does that dobe think he is!? He can't just order us around! I swear, next time I see him, I will give him a piece of my mind."

"Then give it," Naruto ordered, making her jump. "I am right here, give it to me." She turned around, scared. "Problem? You were so brave when you thought I wasn't here. I am ordering you, give me a piece of your mind. Get it out in the open. And when it is done, I will go on with my mission."

She took a moment and gathered her courage. "You will forever be just the dead last! You have no right to order us around, hit me, or say those things to us! You are lucky Sasuke-kun doesn't see you as worth his time or he would kill you!"

"Finish?"

"NO! You are a horrible person, just like my parents said! You are probably alone because your parents couldn't stand you! There is no one in this universe, much less planet, that could ever stand to be with you!"

"Thats right, let it out."

"You are rude, selfish, a, a demon! Some one like you shouldn't be born! I wish you would just die!" She stopped ranting and caught her breath.

"Done? Good. I will remember each and everyone when I make my report on you. As for Sasuke, he doesn't do anything because he realized that I could kill him just as easily as you. Well, no, that isn't true. The only thing that would be that easy is a bug I stepped on while I was heading this way. I do have the right to do those things, Sakura. I comes with this mask. And as for those insults..." A slap was heard and she was on the floor, holding her face. "My parents may have been nobodies but you will damn well speak of the dead with respect! When I come back, I will start training you three. And I will run you into the ground." He turned and left the house.

—oo000oo—

"It's basic," Naruto growled. "ANBU, highest ranking ninja in Konoha besides the Hokage himself. Identified by the animal mask they wear." He caught another thug, killed him, and tossed his body aside. "Not that difficult." He sent several blades of wind at a samurai and barely noticed the body fall to pieces. "Shut up," he shouted at the midget business man that was screaming in terror. "I will deal with you in a second." He sent another blast of wind at a thug and he was crushed by it and the wall. "Now it is time for you to die."

"W-Wait, please! I will pay you anything! J-Just don't k-kill me!"

"I said shut up," Naruto said before crushing his wind pipe. He then grasped the air and a barely visible blade appeared. With a single stroke, he severed his head from his body. He sealed it inside a scroll and made several clones. "Gather together everyone thing of value, down to the last ryu. Account numbers, bonds, everything." They scattered and Naruto turned around to see a Kiri hunter ninja.

"You killed him," he stated.

"He stood against me and the mission."

"We weren't paid."

"I don't care."

"...Would you mind if I..." Naruto picked up a gold ingot a clone carried and tossed it to him. "Thank you. But why let me go?"

"You are not my concern," Naruto replied. "Wish Zabuza good luck with Kiri for me. Or what ever it is he has planned."

"I will..."

"Kitsune. My handle is Kitsune. But I prefer Fujin."

"I will, Fujin." He walked away and Naruto continued to ransack the house.

—oo000oo—

"I said move, Sakura," Naruto growled to her when she fell down. "This isn't an option."

"You have been working us for three hours straight! We need to rest!"

"As a trainee, I was worked from when I woke to when I slept! You want to complain, go through what I did. Now I ordered you to run!"

"Kitsune," Kakashi called, stopping him. "You have to stop."

"They weren't ready for this mission! I will get them to the point that they are!"

"Kitsune, enough," he said again. "I know you are mad but you can't train them like you would train yourself."

"I..."

"Stop, they need rest."

Naruto wanted to argue but he let the breath he had for it out. "I was ordered to train them. To get them as strong as I am. It will never happen but it is still an order."

"...Walk with me. You three, take the rest of today and tomorrow off to recover." He led Naruto into the forest around the house. "You know, I once abandoned a teammate because I followed orders. She would die years later. But my other teammate, the one that went after her, did die that mission. Because I followed orders. Now, we both are making that mistake."

"But..."

"You be quiet and listen to a person that has learned more than you. I know that training, I went through it myself. It almost killed me because that is what it is meant to do. You don't know it because of the fox. But there is a fatality rate in going through ANBU training just so you are more prepared for the missions you do. I read your file about a month ago. Three months an ANBU and as many B, A, and S missions as there are weeks in that time completed. Someone is trying to work you to death, both you and I know. Someone hates you so much as to do this to you. But don't let them win in your heart and mind. You are still you in the end."

"...I wish I was sure of that," Naruto muttered. His personality had changed with using that scroll. "I will ease off. Just so long as you actually start training them."

"You have my word. Head on back, you aren't needed here and you can report your mission a success."

Naruto nodded before turning around and walking back home. Walking like he was, a few hour run would take him a day or two, just what he needed to relax.

—oo000oo—

"Your next mission, ANBU Kitsune," Councilman Haruno said to him, "is to go into Tea and get this." He handed Naruto a picture of some ancient relic. "Because of the danger of the mission, we are assigning a team to shadow you."

"Who are they?"

"ANBU, like you. There are reports of hostile ninja in the area so they are to keep them at bay. You are too infiltrate the temple, avoid or the kill the guardians, and get it."

Naruto looked at the relic again and thought about it. This was the first time the Hokage didn't brief him. Plus he didn't like the backup. But they couldn't send ANBU on anything as only the Hokage had control of them. So he would hold off in saying it was a trap to kill him. For now.

—oo000oo—

He had been right though, it was as dangerous as they said and nothing went wrong with the squad. They were resting on the monument of the First Hokage at the Vally of the End at the moment. Naruto was looking around, making sure no one was sneaking up behind them. He forgot to make sure no one was sneaking behind him. A tiger hit him and threw him to the ground. He shoved his fist into the back of its throat and began to choke it. But it still had claws. It slashed his mask, tearing out his right eye. Roaring in pain, he put his feet to its chest and pushed, sending it over the edge into the river below. He jumped to his feet and snarled at the ANBU that were surrounding him. "I will kill you ROOT for this!"

"I doubt it," one told him. "You are quite strong, Kitsune, to strong. Lord Danzou has ordered your death." One to Naruto's blind spot started going through handsigns. Naruto only knew because he heard him. He created a barrier of wind as the fireball hit it. There was an explosion and most of the ninja were thrown clear.

They searched for an half hour for his body. "Find anything," the leader called.

"Yeah!" One of them held up Naruto's broken, bloody fox mask. "Mission accomplished, sir." They headed back and Naruto climbed out of a crag. His eye was regrowing already. He didn't know that it could. Likely the scars this time were for good. His mask from before ANBU on again, he climbed up to a ledge. He told them he was going to kill them, he couldn't just lie to them. He climbed up the cliff wall and went after them, using a clone to cover his blind spot. He came to the first straggler and killed him with a daitoppa, throwing him against a tree with the force to break his spine and skull.

It wasn't long before they missed their rear guard. "Evening gentlemen," Naruto's clone said when finally they stopped. "We have unfinished business."

"You should have ran Kitsune," one said to him.

"Can't, I said I would kill you." They all started handsigns. But Naruto, having stayed hidden, had already been going through them. The several shuriken sized blades formed and were thrown at them, stopping their attacks. The clone then finished his jutsu. A tornado formed around him and began to pulled them in. Then at the top of it, it narrowed and split into three ends. Two of them formed claws while the middle, largest one, formed a dragon head. It dived at them, slashing with its claws.

One of the remaining three didn't move fast enough and was caught in it. He spun around in the air until his body was torn apart by it. "Karyudan no jutsu," one of the ROOT called out. A fire dragon flew at the wind dragon, destroying both it and the clone.

"I see Danzou did his homework," Naruto stated. "Do tell, how much is known about my skills?"

"Barely anything beyond you use wind," the leader told him. He didn't want to take the mission as he respected Kitsune for always surviving, even if it was because of the fox. "I will see you in hell, Kitsune."

"You will be going there today, I won't." Naruto flipped into the air, jumping from branch to branch until he reached pass the canopy. He jumped up as high as he could and floated there in the sun. He started going through a handsigns and called out, "Hell's Twister!" Down on the ground, the wind in all directions began to spin to the location below him. It soon picked up to the point that they had to use chakra to remain where they were. But even trees were being pulled out of the ground. One of said trees hit the leader, killing him. The last man tried to stay on the ground but even it was pulled up and he was pulled inside the tornado. Where a broken branch speared him in the chest.

Naruto dropped down to the ground, collected their heads, sealed them in a scroll. He then took out a different scroll. He took off his armor and dyed his hair silver. Taking makeup, he covered up his whisker marks while using wax to create a twisted scar that went over his lips. He then put on some civilian clothing and sealed his armor and headband away before heading back.

He got there and headed to the Hokage Tower. "Hello, ma'am, I need to speak with the Hokage."

"What about?"

"Orochimaru." She sent him right in. "Old Man, I can stand them trying to kill me through missions. But only when it gets me killed."

Sarutobi sighed and said, "What happened, Naruto?"

"The council sent me on a mission to retrieve a artifact, some ancient spear, in Tea Country. My back up was a squad of ANBU. Too bad they were ROOT as well."

"Oh no, are you okay?"

"I am, it is nothing permanent, they are not. When you see them, and no doubt you will soon, open this scroll in front of them." He gave him the scroll with the heads sealed inside. "But I have to leave."

"Naruto..."

"The council just killed a team trying to kill me. I am leaving, old man."

Sarutobi sighed, stood up, and shook his hand. "I wish you well on your endeavors, sir." He made a motion with his hand and his ANBU revealed themselves in the room. The ones that knew Naruto said their goodbyes and those that didn't nodded to him and wished him well. Naruto left, went to his apartment, retrieved his possessions, and went to find Ibiki and Anko. He hated leaving his friends to here but he had to.

He was on his way out that he heard a girl call, "WAIT!" He turned around and saw Hinata running up. "Wait a minute!" She had ran herself ragged to catch him when Anko told Kurenai. "N-Naruto, I...I... Screw it!" She threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. " I wish you didn't have to go," she cried into his shirt.

"I wish so as well, Hinata."

"...Take me with you," she suddenly said.

"What?"

"Take me as well. No one here cares about me but my team. But I care about you more."

Naruto struggled to find an answer. He looked around and then back at her. "We are never coming back, Hinata, can you live with that?"

"Yes."

"Then lets go."

—oo000oo—

Sarutobi rubbed his chin as they informed him of the tragic news. "I am afraid that ANBU Kitsune has died," Homura told him. "He was on a mission to Tea country when he died. The ninja we sent as backup is returning now with his mask as they couldn't collect his body. I am sorry, Sarutobi, I..."

"You are a liar," he said to them. "I am disbanding this council."

"You can't," they roared.

"I can and the Daimyo supports me. Especially when I told him the particulars of this mission you sent Naruto on without my permission."

"You already knew," Koharu asked. "How?"

"This was sent to me by Naruto," he told them, holding up the scroll, shocking them. "Danzou, you missed." He unsealed the contents, showing them the heads. "Look familiar? They do to me, 'former' ROOT operatives. I ordered you to stop that program and yet here are four members, dead from trying to kill one of my best ANBU. Arrest him, Koharu, and Homura." Two ANBU appeared behind each of them. "You are charged with treason, all of you."

"You can't do this," Danzou roared.

"I am."

"We were your teammates," Homura shouted.

"That was so long ago, it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters now is that you have been trying to kill a loyal ninja. He knew this and went with it because it would only get him killed. You cost this village the lives of four other ninja this time. Naruto insisted not to bother you for him. No such reason this time."

"Lord Hokage," Haruno started to say.

"Shut up! I will get to the rest of you in time! For now, you are placed under house arrest!"

"All for the demon brat," Hiashi demanded.

"All for the son of a good friend of mine," Sarutobi corrected. "Naruto is the son of the Forth Hokage and his wife Kushina. Get them out of my sight and execute those three." He turned around and left, hearing blades slide free and blood spill onto the floor.

—oo000oo—

Naruto set down Hinata and looked around. "W-Why are we h-here, Naruto-kun," Hinata asked. He had carried her all the way to the Land of Waves.

"Looking for some people."

"Wh-Who?"

Naruto smiled when he felt the air around them get disturbed. "Him. Hunter, come on out." The fake hunter ninja came out of the mist.

"Naruto-san, what are you doing here?"

"We came to speak with Zabuza. He wants Kiri, right?"

"Yes," Haku replied.

"Then a jinchuuriki should help his efforts. Especially if the Kiri jinchuuriki gets involved."

"You are right concerning that," Haku replied. "But I was under the impression that Konoha no longer used their jinchuuriki."

"Wh-What are you t-two t-talking about," Hinata asked.

"Hinata, I thought we worked your stuttering out," Naruto said to her.

"I'm...nervous, Naruto-kun."

"Okay, understandable. A jinchuuriki is a person that has a demon sealed inside of them. They are the strongest weapon of the village they belong to. The 'Great Five' all used to have two save Konoha. It only had one, the strongest of the nine. But because of carelessness, or betrayal, most have lost one or even both. Kumo has two, Kiri has one, Suna has one, Iwa and Konoha have none. While Taki has one now. And soon, if things go well, Kiri might just have two again." He grinned, looking rather evil with that fake twisted scar on his face. He remembered that and pulled it off. "Lets go speak with him and speak strategy."

"What about Konoha," Haku asked him.

"It can burn in hell."

—oo000oo—

Zabuza was laughing so hard it hurt. Konoha, like all the others, were stupid beyond belief with their jinchuuriki and forced him away. And he was literally looking at Zabuza for a purpose. "Alright, kid, I can use you. But what about the girl?"

"The girl is mine," Naruto told him. "Think nothing of her."

"...So, she is your tool like you will be mine?"

"Yes," Naruto said, not hesitating.

"And what will you get out of this?"

"You will make it so Kiri will accept me and the girl jinchuuriki, Nami."

"And?"

"And I will be your right hand, the one that guides the sword to kill the enemy. Haku your left, your shield. But most importantly, I want Konoha to see what they lost, what they tried to kill. I want them to see me while they whither and die. For that, I will strengthen Kiri until it is more powerful than any other force ever."

Zabuza smirked under his bandages. "I think we will get along just fine, Fujin."

"Of course, one demon can't help but work with another to reach its goals." He stood up and went to the door. "Hinata, follow me. We will see to it that we are ready to leave. Then our target is Nami." When they were away from Zabuza and Haku, he rounded on Hinata. She thought he was mad at her and already felt heartbroken by what he said earlier. But his eyes held sorrow, not anger. "I am sorry, Hinata. I do not trust Zabuza in knowing who you are. It is better he just see you as my slave or concubine than of someone of use to him."

"If you don't trust him, why work with him."

"I do trust him, just not with you. His motives are like that of a thief, simple. He wants to be the Mizukage. He will go about it anyway he wants but that is his goal. He will save the arm twisting for those that are of value to him. You could be one of those people."

"Then...why?"

"...We are ninja, Hinata, what else do we know?" She nodded after a moment, she knew he lived for no other reason anymore.

—oo000oo—

"What are you going to teach me today," Sasuke asked Kakashi.

"I'm not," he replied, a grin under his mask. "Sai, I am to inform you that Danzou has been killed and ROOT is now completely disbanded and being rounded up as traitors. A friend though has put in the good word for you and your brother. You are to be left free."

"...Root, what is that," Sakura asked. "And who is that friend?"

"ROOT is a secret organization trained and created by a man named Danzou to made weapons out of ninja. Emotionless weapons. And that friend was ANBU Kitsune."

"Why aren't you teaching me," Sasuke demanded.

"Because you are being brought up on insubordination charges, you and Sakura," Kakashi said, all too happy. "You disobeyed the order of a ninja higher ranking than you. You also attacked him."

"The Council will never let that go through," Sasuke said, smugly.

"If there was still a council, you would be right. But with three executions, and the others placed under house arrest for the attempted murder of the son of the Forth Hokage, you have no leg to stand on, and I don't have to put up with your shit."

"You can't do that! Konoha needs my Sharigan!"

Sai scoffed, "Konoha needs ninja like Kitsune. You don't have a Sharigan, you are a barely skilled genin. I would trade your life for a Klondike Bar." He ignored the screeching Sakura and turned to Kakashi. "You said the son of the Forth?"

"Yes, though I am sad to admit not seeing it. Uzumaki Naruto is actually Namikaze Naruto, son of Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina."

"There is no way that baka is their child," Sakura shouted. "He's a..."

"He is a child that when placed in ANBU, survived training and over a dozen attempts to kill him," Sai told her. "He has more B, A, and S ranked missions accomplished than we have D ranked." He smiled suddenly, "Gentlemen, here to collect the prisoners?"

They all turned to see four ANBU there. "What prisoners," Sakura asked.

"I told you two, you are charged with insubordination. That is a felony," Kakashi told them.

"Kakashi-sensei, you can't be serious," she said again while Sasuke growled.

"I am. Feel lucky you are only under house arrest. Just don't fight them." He nodded to the ANBU who then stepped forward. Sakura screamed but didn't fight them. Sasuke went for his kunai. "DON'T!" Too late, he slashed at one of them. Kakashi tried to stop them but it was too late. They jumped back as one, pulled their swords, and stabbed them both into his arms. The blades were then twisted, making Sasuke roar in pain while the bones were broken. Kakashi sighed in relief. "I thought you were going to kill him, that is standard issue."

"I want my chance with him," the woman with a snake mask stated. Her partner, a much larger man with scars on what little could be seen of his skin, nodded in agreement. "The girl is inconsequential, I probably couldn't get five minutes out of her. But Sasuke here, through stubbornness or insanity, I'm not sure, will last a long time." Being none too gentle, they tied his arms around his back and took them away.

"Where is Naruto," Sai asked. "I want to thank him."

"He is gone, he left the village."

"What?"

"The council got four ninja killed when they ordered them to assassinate Naruto. He survived, of course."

"...You mean we have driven away the only child of the Forth?"

"Yes, Sai, that is exactly what I mean."

—oo000oo—

"I want to see my daughter," Hiashi growled to the ANBU guarding him.

"We can't help you," Wolf told him.

"Like hell you can't! She is my daughter, you will get her and bring her to me!"

"We have already brought you Hanabi," Bear told him.

"I mean my eldest daughter, Hinata!"

"Again, we can't help you," Wolf said.

"Why not!? Why can't I see my child!?"

"Because she has gone missing every since one of the ROOT decided it was better to blow himself up than be captured," he replied. In truth he wasn't sure if that was completely true. But with several ROOT preferring to go down fighting and taking people with them, it was more than likely that she was caught in the cross fire.

"She's dead?"

"We can't say, we just know she is missing." He wanted to kill him right there when Hiashi shrugged and said she had been worthless.

—oo000oo—

"You stance is too tight," Naruto told Hinata as he trained her. She was holding a sword in her hand and was going through several katas with Naruto. He made a slash, knocked her sword in the air, and caught it. "Now too loose. Hinata-chan, you must be better than this if we are going to survive. Plus, you have a shit load of untapped talent just waiting to be brought out. And with what you can see, you could be a great swordsman."

"I'm sorry, Naruto-kun. I just never liked fighting and was never really good at it."

"You are good at it, Hinata. Maybe we are looking the wrong place to focus on your specialization. Haku?"

"Yes?"

"You are medic trained, correct?"

"Yes. You want her to study that?"

"Yes, see where she goes with it. I want her the best she can be so it won't hurt." He looked at the forest they were in and sighed. They were in the Water Country, getting ready for the attack. Naruto, in truth, wouldn't trust half the mercenaries they have to hold a kunai correctly. But they didn't need to do that, they just needed to be able to kill or capture the ones they were assigned. The plan was to remove the Mizukage and those around and loyal to him. Once they were dead, Zabuza would be named, by deed, Mizukage. Any that would dispute it would then face his right hand in combat. If they win and kill the hand, they could challenge Zabuza for the rank of Mizukage. Unfortunately for them, Naruto was Zabuza's right hand. "I am going to scout for information. Tell Zabuza that if I get the chance to capture Nami undetected, I will take it."

"I will. Now Hinata, I am going to give you a quick test to see how well you handle healing chakra, okay?"

—oo000oo—

Naruto looked around Kiri and felt like laughing. It was about in total chaos. More over, Nami was in a group against the Mizukage. He felt generous suddenly and decided to move the plan forward himself. He walked up to the tower and was stopped by the guards. "Name and rank."

"Fujin, missing ninja formerly of Konoha." They were about to move but it was already to late for them. Naruto formed blades on his finger tips and moved his hands in a complex pattern. He stopped a moment later before blowing a breath at the both of them. They fell over, cut to pieces. He walked in, no one even noticing they were dead except for maybe one or two shocked ninja outside. He walked unchallenged through the tower until he got before the Mizukage's office. "Excuse me, ma'am, can you tell the Mizukage his two o' clock is here?"

"Just a moment," she said, not even looking up. "Sir, you have a guest."

"What does he want?"

Naruto didn't wait for her to repeat it. "I am here concerning the bounty on Momichi Zabuza."

She repeated it and the Mizukage replied, "Send him in."

Naruto walked in and found the Mizukage there with several ANBU. "You have seen Zabuza?"

"I have."

"Where is he?"

"That is my little secret. You know, you have done three things wrong right now."

"What are they?"

"One, you let me in. Two, you lightly guarded. Four man ANBU team for me, fucking insult. But your worst mistake," Naruto motioned to the sword on the wall behind him, "is you are not armed."

"An assassin," the Mizukage muttered. "You do know you are not getting out of here alive, right?"

"That you are wrong, I am the Kitsune of Konoha, the Fujin. And you die here, now." Three ANBU jumped at him while the last threw several weapons at him. A heart beak after they let loose, Naruto completed his handsigns. A sphere of spinning blades surrounded him. The three that jumped fell to the ground like they just went through a vegetable slicer. Naruto ran forward and hit the remaining ANBU, his hand drilling through his chest. The Mizukage had not been still during this. He had jumped up and went for his sword. Naruto sent a blast of wind and the blade and part of his clothes were shredded. "So, there is something special about you."

"Of course, I am the Mizukage." He turned around and Naruto his skin was rock. "I am the only person with a kekkie genkai in all of Water, brat."

"So that is why you killed them all. Well, guess what, you are not the only one." Naruto tore off the bandages over his right eye. The iris was blood red unlike his original eye. He pumped chakra into it and it became slitted. His sight in that eye changed. Naruto's vision became two fold. Infrared and chakra sensing. This was how the Kyuubi saw everything. There was no limit to its strength. He could make out the whole village from that eye and this height. Chakra pulsed along along the Mizukage's skin, making it that hard except for a few pin points. Spots only a Hyuuga could ever hope of hitting...besides Naruto.

"Nice eye, you steal it?"

"Nope, lost my old one and this grew in its place. I have a very special creature inside me."

His eyes widened at that. "Jinchuuriki," he whispered.

"He's catching on," Naruto said with a smile under his mask. "Normally, when I am injured, the wound just heals. But when something is totally destroyed, like my eye, it is replaced with the same part as a demon." Naruto's smiled turned to a smirk. "What do you think that means to you?" He didn't even look, he ran for the door. Before he reached it, Naruto did a dived, tripping him. "You're rock skin may have saved you from others," Naruto told him. "But I can see where it isn't rock. More over, it just protects you from the skin." The Mizukage closed his eyes and covered his mouth and nose. But he forgot those weren't the only openings in a person's body. Naruto slapped both hands over his ears, forcing the air in. This normally would have destroyed the eardrums. For Naruto, it destroyed his brain.

Naruto created two kage bunshin and sealed the Mizukage into a scroll while one henged into him and then Naruto changed into one of the ANBU. The remaining clone covered his chest in blood and laid on the floor. The 'Mizukage' went to his intercom and paged his secretary. "Get in here," he growled. A moment later, she walked in and looked like she was going to be sick. "Mind explaining why this assassin was able to get this far?"

"I...I... Oh Kami, I'm going to die..."

"I will deal with you later," the clone told her. He looked at Naruto. "Take that body to the ANBU HQ and perform the autopsy."

"Hai, Mizukage-sama." Naruto hoisted the clone up on his shoulder and left. While he was in the stair well and alone, he dismissed that clone and made his way out of the city. It had all been too easy in his opinion. He was so sure of his ability that he grew arrogant. Something Naruto would be wise to learn from.

He returned to camp and found Haku was still teaching Hinata. "I take it she can?"

"Yes, she is surprisingly good at it," Haku replied.

"Good. I must speak with Zabuza, I will return soon."

—oo000oo—

Kiri didn't know how to take it the next day. The Mizukage was impaled on the sword of his own statue and the man that did it was sitting in his office. What scared them the most though was that he didn't have a scratch on him while the room looked like hell. "I am now the Mizukage," Zabuza shouted out, Naruto to his right and Haku to his left. "If anyone wishes to challenge this, step forward." A fool actually did.

"I will be right back, Zabuza-san," Naruto said. "Unless you want to make a show of your own strength."

"You go," he replied.

Naruto jumped over the railing and landed in the courtyard. "I am Fujin, the right hand of the Mizukage. For any to face him, you must first beat me. And know that his own strength is far greater than mine." Actually, Naruto didn't know that for sure but it would work to keep them in line.

"All the better," the man replied. He went through several handsigns and a mist settled over the courtyard. Naruto rolled his eyes and activated his Demon Eye again. He caught the man's arm and shouted, "What you are about to hear is a man's arm be torn off and then him beaten to death with it." He was caught by so much surprise that he could do nothing to stop it. When he stopped breathing, Naruto threw the limb to the ground. "Anyone else?" This time, no one stepped forward. "That is what I thought." He turned back and jumped up to the ledge.

"Angry much," Haku whispered.

"You had a life similar to mine and you are not," Naruto countered. "Zabuza, think have better get better for this country."

"Is that a threat?"

"A promise," Naruto replied. "Civil war tears this country apart. They need a leader that will improve it. I will make sure they have it, one way or another." He turned and walked back inside. Hinata was there, waiting for him. He was grateful that she hadn't watched. "Let's go find us a home," he told her.

"Okay, Naruto-kun," she said quietly. "I heard what you said, did you..."

Naruto wish he could lie to her on this. "I did. Hinata, I needed them to see that they shouldn't fight. In time, I will make sure it gets better but right now, we have no choice but to rule through fear."

"Why fear, I don't understand."

"Because Water has seen nothing but war for so long, they might not know how to accept change peacefully. Please forgive me for what I am going to have to do."

"...I do, Naruto-kun... The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few."

"And add this to that. Kekkei genkai are not liked here. Those with them are usually killed. I want them to know not to mess with me and mine." Hinata didn't know how to take that but decided that if she was to be Naruto's even like that, she would be okay with it.

"Yes, Naruto-kun." As he walked out, she fell in step behind him.

—oo000oo—

News that the Yondaime Mizukage was killed spread fast. With them, news of a reform. Peace was brought to water, peacefully or forcefully for those that would not accept it. But that ended quickly once things began to improve. Water soon became the ideal place to live. While there were still high imports coming in, there were an even greater amount of exports heading to other countries. Farmland soil was aerated like never before. Production of goods increased with new supplies being brought in. No one could figure it out. A fortune had to of been used to back such change but almost no one had that kind of money. And with word of this, came also word of a boy that was only known as Fujin, the right hand of the Godaime Mizukage. All that was known about him was his eyes were blue and red.

"Hokage-sama," Kakashi said to him a month and a half after Naruto left, "we have received a message that Kiri is sending a team as well."

"I guess I should be surprise," Sarutobi stated. Konoha was going through its own period of greatness right then. Without the council to keep him from doing what must be done, he was able to get it done fast and with little hassle. "...I should have disbanded them years ago."

"It has been better," Kakashi replied. "Have you decided on whether or not you will kill those that remain yet?"

"Most of it was done by Danzou and my teammates so doing that would be wrong. But I can't let them off the hook either. More over, some have been weakened by recent events. If I kill Hiashi, his last remaining daughter will be at the mercy of the clan council. I don't their methods but they did instate that blasted seal."

"And the others?"

"Inoichi, Chouza, Shikaku, and a few others were against it until they saw that Naruto would survive whatever they threw at them. I knew this at the time. They will be let off."

"Yeah, have to admit, Naruto did do a lot of good for the village, even if that wasn't their intentions."

"Haruno is just as guilty as Danzou but her clan is in the same position as the Hyuuga. Kill her and a worst ruler will appear."

"Speaking of which, what was it decided on about Sakura's punishment?"

"That if she decides to take being a ninja seriously now, she will be allowed to stay as one. She will be returned to you in a few weeks. How are Sai and his brother Shin doing?"

"They are fine and getting better. They actually look forward to the chunin exams. I guess they will miss it though without a third member. And Sasuke, did he actually do that?"

"You heard right. During interrogation, he activated his Sharigan and tried to use it to cast a genjutsu. He didn't realize that it takes more than the first level to do that. Anko had some fun with him for that. Tried to use it as leverage next. Inoichi did a dive into his mind and found it was shattered. He might be able to rebuild it but the damage has been there along time."

"Itachi. I will follow your command on this, Hokage-sama. If Sakura is returned in two weeks, I can, officially, enter team seven. Those two boys deserve the chance to be chunin even if she doesn't."

"...Take them in. But warn Sai and Shin. If it looks like they will be hurt because of her, they are to withdraw."

"I will, sir." He looked out the window. "It isn't right, that this city will get better because its savior is taken away. Have you gotten any luck in finding him?"

"No, he has just disappeared about. I pray that it is to a better life."

—oo000oo—

Naruto trailed kisses from Hinata's lips to her neck, every now and then giving her a love bite. She moaned his name as his hands rubbed her body. One of his hands just slipped under her shirt when it happened. There was a knock on the door. Naruto groaned while Hinata continued to kiss him. "Leave it," she told him.

"It...might...be...important."

"Not important enough," she replied. Her hands went under his shirt and began to trace muscles there. After a moment, the knocking went away. And came back more insistent.

"I'll kill him," Naruto growled. He, reluctantly, forced Hinata from atop of him and went to the door. He opened it, scowling at the messenger. "Is the city under attack?"

"No," he replied.

"Nami on her period and on a rampage?"

"No."

"A mission so critical, it needed to be done hours ago?"

"No," he replied, confused.

"Then why are you risking you like right now?"

He swallowed and said, "The Mizukage has ordered that his Hands are to go take the chunin examine. You are to pack and leave immediately. Please don't kill me." The man obviously knew what he interrupted.

Naruto wanted to stay mad, he did, but Hinata had walked behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Inform the Mizukage we will leave be ready to leave in a half hour to forty five minutes."

The chunin let out a sigh of relief. "I will, sir."

Naruto closed the door and created several kage bunshin. "You, prepare my armor. You, Hinata's. You four get my equipment ready. The other four, Hinata's."

"And what will we be doing," Hinata asked.

Naruto swept her up and carried her back into the bedroom. "I wasn't done, my hime."

—oo000oo—

At exactly forty five minutes later, Naruto and Hinata were at the gate. Both now wore a Kiri headband with their Konoha headband, with a slash through the symbol, around their waist. The armor was exactly the same except Hinata's was made to fir her chest as well. Hinata's was colored pale blue on the armor plates. While Naruto's were now red on one half and blue on the other. Haku wore a set just like his, only white. These were the uniforms of those that perform directly at the Mizukage's bidding. They were his hands, his apprentice, his child and friends, most of all, his weapons.

"Who is our acting sensei," Naruto asked.

"Jonin Do'Urden Drizzt," Haku informed them. "Skills include being a fifth level sword master, fifth level spear master, fifth level...well, you get the point. He is a weapons master, the best."

"I was not expecting Do'Urden-sama," Hinata told them.

"Neither was I expecting to be giving as the temporary sensei to you three," a man said as he walked up. At his side was a six hundred pound black panther, his most notable feature. At his waist were two scimitars. He wore chain mail armor. And his hair bordered on white while his tan was almost black. "The chunin exam is taking place in Konoha, are you sure you two want to wear those?"

"I am," Naruto replied.

"As am I," Hinata told him. "I am Fujin's, I will do as he wants." Haku scoffed, he knew who was really in control in their relationship. All Hinata had to do was cry and Naruto would fight the world to make her feel better. Hell, he stormed ANBU HQ because one of them insulted her. Some were still scared of him. Which was probably a good thing, he realized.

"Is everyone ready to go," Naruto asked. When Haku and Drizzt nodded, him and Hinata headed for the docks. It would take a few days to get to Wave and a few hours from there to get to Konoha. Unlike other nations, they couldn't hurry it so why bother. The boat would leave in an hour, walking, they would get there in half.

It was a quiet voyage and there was no incident when they got there. Although, Naruto was surprised that the bridge was named the 'Great Kitsune's Bridge'. They even put two shishi going on and off the bridge. But instead of the dog-lion, the statues were two foxes with many tails. "Dedicated to the unknown ninja recognized only as Kitsune," Hinata read. "A man that lost his innocence far too soon in life but lived with no regret. Despite all that ever faced him, he refused to die and brought freedom to our home." She smiled at Naruto. "I always knew you were great, Fujin-sama."

"I'm not so great."

"Ahem, the Great Kitsune Bridge," she quoted.

"I'm sure they refer to the bridge itself."

"Stop being modest," Drizzt ordered. "Everyone in Water knows that you are the strongest next to the Mizukage. Maybe even stronger than him."

"...Why are we even taking this," Naruto asked Haku.

"To show that Kiri has strength again. You have to admit, Fujin, seeing you cut a person in half with a wave of your hand is quite an intimidation tactic. Plus, we are going as our title. I'm the Mizukage's Shield, you are his Blade, and Vixen is his Handmaiden." They had decided that while at Konoha, it wasn't safe enough to use their real names.

"I guess..."

"Why do you keep putting yourself down," Drizzt asked. This was his first time working with the boy and he was curious about him.

"He downplays himself to avoid attention," Haku told him. "He left Konoha because he had too much of the wrong kind and none of the right."

"They were trying to kill me," Naruto elaborated. "But they couldn't do it." He released the seal over his right shoulder and grabbed the spear as it dropped. "To retrieve this was their last mission. The Lightning Spear of Raijin, if the legend is correct."

"Do you know how to wield it," Drizzt asked.

"You are not the only weapons master around," Naruto replied. He spun the spear around in this hand and brought the butt end down on a puddle. Several drops were kicked up and Naruto spun, cutting one in half. He kept it balanced there just on the tip before spinning, throwing the water droplet up into the air and cutting it in half again. He resealed it. "When it hits, it delivers a high amount of electricity into the person it hits. There might be a few there that I want to hit with it."

—oo000oo—

They reached the gates and the guards tensed. "Names and passports."

"Do'Urden Drizzt, Jonin sensei."

"Fujin, genin, Mizukage's Blade."

"Haku, genin, Mizukage's Shield."

"Vixen, genin, Mizukage's Handmaiden."

The one writing dropped his pen. "...You mean you three are...his personal bodyguards?"

"We are," Fujin told them.

They opened the passports and frowned, they were masked in them as well. "We need to see your faces."

"No," all three replied.

"We cannot let you in then," the other guard said.

"You would deny us entrance," Drizzt asked.

"We have orders to sent a person wearing sectional armor like they are to the Hokage."

"Our title holds us above that," Vixen told them.

"But..." He looked down and scowled. "Reveal your face now."

"Why so angry," Haku asked. He looked down at their scratched headbands. "Just because they are missing ninja?"

"We were abandoned by our sensei over a year ago," Fujin lied. "As Konoha will have nothing to do with us, we left for a village that would. Article nineteen eighty six states that no ninja, even missing ninja from the hosting village, shall be denied entry of the chunin exam if they are participating, are the sensei of a team, or connected to a participating team. Article nine ninety three also states that visiting dignitaries of certain rank or title, such as that of ANBU, do not have to reveal their identities. We reveal who we are, there is an army out to kill us."

"Not our problem," they stated.

"It is your problem," Drizzt told them. "Deny us entrance and this could start a war between Kiri and Konoha."

"I will send a message we are being denied in," Fujin told Drizzt as he bit his thumb and prepared for a summons.

"Wait...you will have to meet the Hokage but you will be let in," the guard on the right said.

"Good enough," Naruto said, wiping his hand clean. He didn't have a summons but they didn't need to know that. They were lead through the village and to the tower. Once there, the Hokage saw them. "Hokage-sama, we were told to be let in, we would have to speak with you."

He read the report the guards quickly drafted up. "Understandably so. I will get right to the point. I honestly don't care who you are, I care who you are not. I don't need to know who the girl is. Likely, the same as you, Haku. But you, I might. I am looking for a ninja that was betrayed by the council and I..."

"I don't want to come back," Naruto told him. "Do you know what happened while I was away? During that first week even? I have another nightmare." This, for a normal person meant little. For Naruto, it meant him waking up screaming in terror and pain. "But instead of facing it alone, I had someone there for me this time. I am happy where I am."

"Naruto..."

"Isn't here. I am Fujin, the Mizukage's Blade. And I am here because I was ordered to be here."

"Naruto, I am sorry..."

Fujin sighed and pulled off his mask. "Once again, I am telling you I am not mad at you. You tried your best, old man. And I am grateful for that. Although," he looked out the window. "Konoha looks like it is doing better. Pisses me off."

"You would wish hard times on Konoha?"

"Well, maybe just the feelings they gave me. If it takes hard times, then yes."

Sarutobi nodded, he could understand that. "So, the Blade of the Mizukage. I have heard horror stories being told to frighten bad children about you."

"...I am not sure if they would be exaggerated."

"You turning into a demon and slaughtering a whole village?"

"Okay, they are exaggerated. But no doubt, some of what I have had to do has actually made it to there."

"...Beating a man to death with his own arm for challenging you?"

"He challenged the Mizukage," Fujin replied. "I was just the chosen tool of his punishment. You have heard, right? About how Water was to how it is?"

"Yes, a remarkable change."

"That is why I did it. If fighting continued, progress wouldn't come. It was wrong but it was also the only answer."

"The lesser of evils," Drizzt stated. "I am Do'Urden Drizzt, Hokage-sama. I am their registered jonin sensei, even if they have been trained by others. Do we have permission to enter the village of Konoha?"

"Yes, of course. Naruto, will you be so kind as to remove your old headband and the headband around the waist of the young lady?"

"But we are..."

"No, missing ninja betray their village, not their village betrays them. I have a thought who she is but for all concerned parties, the girl I'm thinking of is dead." Fujin nodded and looked at Vixen. She removed hers and Fujin his. "Do remember to stay out of trouble."

They nodded and left. "There is a hotel on the east side of Konoha that has good rooms for a reasonable price."

"...I am going to scout the competition," Haku stated. "I will find you later."

—oo000oo—

Haku had just turned a corner and smiled when he saw another Kiri ninja team. "Hey..." A fist just hit his face.

"YOU! I hate you! Because of you, Sasuke-kun is in prison, so was I, and my mother is facing charges from the Hokage as well!" Haku turned his head back in the direction of the screaming kunoichi. She had pink hair, a flat ass, and almost no breast... He was going to get back at Fujin for making him a pervert.

"That punch had no power in it," he stated. The Kiri team were all shocked, no one attacked a person wearing that uniform and got away with it. Few even lived. "How did I do you wrong?"

"Don't give me that shit, Naruto! You know exactly what you did!" She went to punch him again but Haku caught her hand and began squeeze it. He began to move his fingers, making the bones in her hand grind together painfully. "AGH! Stop! Someone get this thing off me!"

Haku did let go when he saw a few chunin nearby turn to them. The Kiri team were on their feet and moving over. "Are you stupid, girl," the jonin demanded. "If he was Fujin the Blade, you would have been killed!" He took her hand and examined it. "Stop whining, you aren't hurt."

"What are you talking about," Sakura asked. "Who is Fujin the Blade?"

"This is Haku the Shield, the Mizukage's left hand," one of the genin told her. "There is also Vixen the Handmaiden and Fujin the Blade, the Mizukage's right hand. They are the most dangerous team in all of Kiri."

"This is Naruto," Sakura screamed.

Haku sighed and pulled off his mask. "Do you know me? I neither know you nor have I been to Konoha before." Sakura was not only shocked that she was wrong, she was blushing. "I suggest you do not do something like this again because of our armor. Like the genin said, Fujin would have likely killed you."

He began to walk away. "W-Wait! What are you even doing in Konoha? You are all Mist ninja, right?"

"The Chunin Exams will be starting in a few days," Haku told her. "The best from every village will gather here to test their might to get the rank."

"Is that why you are here, sir," one of the other Kiri genin asked.

"Yes, title aside, my team and I are still genin officially. And before you even think of it, do not withdraw." He put his mask back in place and continued walking.

—oo000oo—

"Hokage-sama! Hokage-sama!" A chunin burst into the room. "I have news about one of the teams entering in the Chunin Exam!"

"What?"

"One of the Kiri teams is made up of the Mizukage's Blade, Shield, and Handmaiden! All three of them are here, now!"

"I know," Sarutobi replied.

"Sir, if a normal genin team goes up against them, they will be killed!"

"I know, which is why I was about to inform the jonin senseis in the meeting you are currently holding back." The chunin looked behind him and saw several jonin looking at him questionably.

"Yes, right, my apologies, Hokage-sama. I over reacted."

"Now, I would have been that surprised myself had they not come to me and told me." When the chunin left, Sarutobi turned back to them. "As you know, the Chunin Exams will be taking place in a weeks time. Normally, I would now ask the rookie genin team leaders which want their team to join. But I am going to do something I probably shouldn't. I am going to tell you about a team that came in today from Kiri. They are the three hands of the Mizukage, his Blade, Shield, and Handmaiden."

A jonin in back said, "Sir, are you telling us the reported three most dangerous ninja from Kiri are only genin and are taking this exam?"

"Yes. Strength is not limited by rank. I have met the three of them and not only are they powerful, they know it. Two of them will be more inclined to leave survivors. The Blade, I can tell, is not. He is the weapon he is known for. Reports from Team Asuma, when they accidentally came across him as he was fighting a battle, says his strength. Asuma, is this the boy you saw?" He handed him a copy of his passport picture.

"...Yeah, that is him, pops. Same eyes, same armor, same look in his eyes. My team is not taking the exam."

Kurenai looked at the picture, "Is he that dangerous?"

"I saw him kill a man with just a wave of his hand. His control of wind isn't paralleled."

Kurenai thought about it. "My team isn't ready anyway, I wasn't going to allow them to take it as they are still trying to get teamwork with this new girl down."

Kakashi took it. He saw the similarities with the armor that Naruto wore right away. But he could tell it wasn't the same armor. But his one blue eye kept him from saying it wasn't the same person. "...Sai and Shin are ready. And Sakura has gotten better as well. I will tell them this and let them decide to take it. Otherwise, I sponsor them to take it." Most others did not share his confidence. Out of fifty teams, less than twenty that day would go on to actually take the exam.

—oo000oo—

Author's Notes: I was once told that if I ever made a Dark Naruto fix, that person would open up the faith of Foxcomm. Now, I don't know how well that might go over with the rest of the world but here you go.