For interest sake, chapter 2 is uploaded at the same time as this; if you want a bit of back plot: read chapter 1, if you want a fight go to chapter 2.

Note that chapter one is shorter than usual, but chapter two is longer.

...HI! Don't kill me! I went on an unannounced hiatus, but I'm back and I will spare you all my excuses but I'm back. Now at the end I will have some A/N's, but until then, onto the story.

Naruto: The Wind Sage

Prologue- Leaving Hell.

*Flash black*

The slash of the forces caused a great explosion that rocked the area. The cursed seal enhanced chidori that collided with the kyuubi enhanced rasengan, could only end in disaster. In the end, Sasuke was left standing over Naruto only because Naruto changed the course of his rasengan at the last minute, he couldn't bear to kill his friend.

When Kakashi arrived at the scene, he had no time to investigate the area as what happened was obvious and Naruto's life was in grave danger as he was sprawled up on the ground bleeding and unconscious.

Kakashi hurriedly picked up the boy and left at top speed towards Konoha.

*Time Skip* - (Still flashback)

Naruto took his first walk throughout the village since his return, limping as he went. He had sneaked out of the hospital for one reason, but as he journeyed towards his destination, he couldn't help but hear the voices of the villagers, who were not bothering to whisper as they saw the condition he was in.

"The demon-boy is still alive huh? He didn't die in the invasion and he didn't die now. At least this time he could have been some use, but once again, the demon proved that he still is what he is, a demon, and he can never do a good thing for anyone. He didn't even bring back the last Uchiha to the village." The villagers said among themselves as they watched him past with hate in their eyes.

Naruto sighed. He was really getting tired of this bullshit. He saved the village from letting up its most powerful secrets, he stopped a real demon from destroying the villager and his very existence was to keep the village standing in the first case, but no, these ignorant villagers were too blind to see any of that. Nope, he was just the resident demon.

He finally reached the house of one Sakura Haruno. Knocking on the door, he came face to face with Sakura's mother. He didn't even know her name, but didn't care.

"Is Sakura here?" Naruto asked timidly.

"You!" She growled, "How dear you show up here! I should have you arrested for your..."

She was interrupted by the appearance of Sakura next to her. Around her eyes were red, showing that she had been crying.

"Mom," She said quietly, "can I have a moment to talk to my teammate?"

Her mother scowled but reluctantly left the two.

"...hey Sakura..." Naruto began, but was cut off.

"You worthless piece of shit." Sakura interrupted.

Naruto was, to put simply, shocked. He had never thought that this could happen, I mean, wasn't a chidori to the chest enough? Why was she yelling at him, wasn't Sasuke the one that tried to kill him.

"Ever since we were in the Academy, you always had to get in the way and be the one to make the mistakes that costed us, on team 7, all the time, baka! And now Sasuke-kun is gone and will most likely never come back to me, and it's all your fault!" Sakura basically shouted and burst into tears.

The still speechless Naruto couldn't mutter a word, but then, he got angry, to think that he was going to apologize to this poor excuse of a kunoichi.

When Sakura finally stopped ranting mindlessly, Naruto wordlessly raised up his hospital garb and showed the massive blood-stained hole in his chest that was healing. In a very controlled manner, even though inside he was boiling, Naruto answered the questioning expression on the girls face.

"You see this, Sakura?" Naruto asked in a low voice, noticeably leaving the –chan in her name, "this is what your precious Sasuke did to me; he rammed a rank A assassination jutsu into my chest, and I speared his life, so honestly, I don't know if you should be the one to be bitching about this."

It was now Sakura's turn to shut up as Naruto continued, "I came over here to apologise for not being able to keep my promise to you, but it seems that I will have to do it."

Sakura brightened slightly, "Thank Kami that he is still obsessed with me."

"But," Naruto continued, "I had never said anything about the teme being alive."

At this point, Sakura's jaw had slackened as she listened to him.

"So," Naruto concluded as he turned around and began walking away, "I'll bring back your precious Sasuke-kun...in a coffin."

Sakura was speechless as she watched his disappearing form before slowly closing the door and heading to her room to contemplate what she was going to do now that she didn't have anyone who would be willing to help her get back her Sasuke-kun.

Naruto was completely angered to his boiling point as he walked through the streets, ignoring the same old looks and whispers that seemed to be getting louder than usual.

Heading to the training grounds, he created 400 kage bushin and besides his best judgement because of his wounds that were still healing and hurting, he said in a grim voice, "Alright guys, you know what to do."

The clones nodded and for the rest to the night Naruto did anger management with his clones, all the while not noticing that his wounds were slowly reopening.

As a result, he was back in the hospital the next day, having to spend even more time than originally planned. Fortunately, or unfortunately, this gave Naruto a lot of time to think, and after a week, he had made up his mind.

And it's after this that we pick up the story, now in the Hokage's office with Tsunade and Jiraiya.

*Flash-back end*

"I have to do this, baa-chan." A still bandaged up Naruto was saying with determination in his voice.

"But why?" Tsunade asked worriedly, "Why the sudden change of heart? Besides, allowing you to do this is irresponsible and radical."

Naruto looked out the window at the peaceful village below. It was peaceful for everyone, except him. To him, it was hell.

"I must leave this accursed village," Naruto again said with conviction as he stared into Tsunade's eyes.

"Fine," Tsunade said in a defeated voice, "but you will have someone going with you. Jiraiya has offered to make and train you as his apprentice."

Naruto shook his head, "No can do, baa-chan, this is something I have to do on my own." He turned to a quiet Jiraiya, "Thanks for the offer, I may take it up sometime in the future."

"Naruto! I am ordering you as the Hokage to not leave these village walls." Tsunade said in a desperate yet strongly authoritative voice.

Naruto sighed; he had hoped it would not have to come to this. "Baa-chan, it's either you allow me to leave on my own, or I leave and become a missing-nin."

Tsunade and Jiraiya were taken back by these words.

Tsunade sighed before saying a cautious voice, "So even if you go, what are you going to do out there, and are you going to abandon the village?"

"I'm going to travel the shinobi nations, most likely for a couple years-for now," Naruto replied, "and then after that, I'll return to hell and see if it's frozen over, and if not, I'll just leave again."

Again, both Sannin were shocked at his words. They winced as they knew that for Naruto, the village truly was hell.

"Fine, but don't leave until your wounds are completely healed," Tsunade said, "You leave before, you'll become a missing-nin of Konoha, fair?" she asked.

Naruto thought for a moment then agreed.

"Good, when you are fully healed, come to me and I'll give you your pass to travel."

Naruto nodded and left, heading towards his rundown shack of an apartment.

Two weeks later, Naruto packed all his belongings, which weren't much, and went to the Hokage's office. When he arrived, Tsunade was surprised, but didn't leave anything to chance. Suspecting Naruto may be trying to trick her, Tsunade ran a diagnostic jutsu on him to detect any injuries.

To her surprise, she found none. Out of options, she had no choice but to write a scroll and head it to Naruto. Smiling a sad smile, Naruto bid farewell to the two Sannin and headed out towards the village gates. Said pair of Sannin look at his retreating form with sad expressions. This village caused the boy to become like this and it would pay for it in due time.

Naruto walked slowly towards the village gates, taking one last experience with him before he left. Inside, he wondered if what he was doing was right, but on his last stroll, the muttering, glares and outright shouting at him, the demon child who failed at bring back the 'oh so holy and important' Uchiha back solidified his decision.

Reaching the gates, Naruto gave the bored chunin gatekeeper his scroll to verify as he took one last look at the village he called hell. No one was there to tell him bye, not that he expected anyone to anyway.

With the scroll returned to him, he left hell. He would return, but he vowed that he would not come back the same.

And stop!

Well there you go, first chapter of my third story, which oddly I came up with while showering, anywho. Between too much school work, a busy life, other things and possibly laziness, I haven't got the time to write.

A/N: I will be re writing my first story because of writers block and the timeline not fitting what I had in mind, and of overall wanting to redo it, and also to make it compatibly with its sequel: The Legend of the last Namikaze, but that's another story (literally!) and won't start until way later on, but enough of that.

Next time: Why do hoods never stay over my head?! Now I have to go back to hell.

Confused? You should be, so instead of reading this, you should be hitting the review button, then the next button. (Too much old spice commercials) Seriously, some feedback please?

Ja ne. (Re-written: 7/7/2014)

-T.H.K.