New story, written following "Superpower wiki" definition of "Necromancy" it takes place in Suna. If you are wondering:

"Harry Potter and the Helping Hand of Death" has the LAST chapter in making.

"N: Father of Kumo consuming Clan" new chapter is almost done, bar few fights.

"The New Holder of the Wrath" will have other two chapters before the end (One is in making).

"Two Kats and a Fox" the new chapter is half-way done.

"Strongest Team Under the Heavens" new chapter is half-way done.

I am not forgetting my new stories, this was just the first one I finished writing, give me some time, I am trying to write more stories at the same time.

One or two "Franken Fran" Elements also, don't be surprised since Naruto here basically "plays" with the whole Death/Dead concept.

Pairing: Naru/fem Gaara (Sahara)/ Temari/ Fem Kankurou (Kankuo).

"You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu

"Let's finish this" - dialogue

" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/Thoughts.

Disclaimer: I don't own and NEVER will own the material I use/used/ will use and I will NEVER take money for this or anything else I write so leave me alone, lawyers!

Black Baron of Suna Chapter 1: A new Necromancer is born.

Elemental Nations – Fire Country – Clearing far away from Konoha Village -

An huge body, property of a giant fox was being kept down by a long series of shining chains, the beast's nine tails trying to move free from the bindings while the monster kept glaring at the red-haired woman responsible of its actual capture.

In a moment of weakness of said woman, thing that had the chains lose enough strength to let it move free, the beast moved one of its massive clawed hands to pierce a young infant with its sharp nail.

"NO!" with a synchronized yell both the woman and her blond lover intercepted the attack, bravely taking the full fury of the swipe as the claw mercilessly pierced both their bodies, a subtle growl as their hands moved to GRAB said claw, further stopping its motion towards the baby, THEIR baby.

"Eh! You always have...to steal my scene...Kushina-chan" the blond man said with a tired voice, a serene smile on his face even with a gaping hole in his stomach.

"A mommy always protects her son...can't have you take all the glory as good parent...Minato" The woman, Kushina, answered with a little giggle, focused only on protecting her precious son.

"It's time...I need to use the Shiki Fujin now that the Kyuubi is restrained...we need to tell to Little Naruto what we have as our last words...now or never" Minato said as the Chakra-chains of Kushina forced the claw back and out of their bodies.

"Naruto...my baby...my wonderful baby..." Kushina said with tears streaming down her cheeks, happy that the sleeping boy was not forced to see his mommy dying in such a way.

"My son...I...I am sorry for what I am about to do..." Minato started, forcing himself to be strong enough for both parents.

"Remember that your mommy will always..." Kushina said.

"OH FUCK! Another dramatic farewell!" a nasal-sounding male voice slurred in annoyance, interrupting the two adults.

"JUST DIE ALREADY!" he then yelled with a groan.

"Shut up, fucker! At least those people die with a little dignity, and it's so romantic having them giving a LAST farewell to their newborn baby! when was the last time you did something romantic instead? I'll tell you when! NEVER!" a female voice answered.

"Romantic? I can do romantic! What about this?" the man said in challenge.

"Humping a tree is not romantic, you ass-hole! Stop thinking using your cock for a minute!" the woman answered, her answer followed by the sound of something being slapped HARD.

Both humans and Giant Rampaging Fox couldn't help but sweat-drop at the sudden interruption and ruin of the dramatic moment.

The mysterious duo finally showed itself few moments later, still arguing and with the woman glaring at the man in annoyance.

The woman was fairly young with a deathly-pale complexion, brown hair and emerald-green eyes, she had her face painted to represent an human-skull, she was wearing a black dress with an ample skirt.

The man instead was wearing a top hat, a black tuxedo (dinner jacket), dark glasses and cotton plugs in his nostrils, his skin was as black as the night and just like the woman, his face was painted in white as to show his skull, happily smoking a cigar he neared Minato and Kushina, lowering his sun-glasses to better watch the two and playfully blowing smoke on the blond man's face, chuckling at Minato's coughing fit.

"Kinda painful, isn't it?" he asked grinning, pointing at the two parents' wounds with a bony finger.

"What do you think?" Minato said clutching his STILL BLEEDING stomach, surprised he was still alive.

"Ignore the bastard, he is full of Rum up to his ears, I am starting to think that he directly has that shit in his veins instead of blood" the woman said huffing.

"And that, my friend, is why men shouldn't ever get married, why risking bringing a bitch home forever when you can just do it for a night?" the man answered.

"Yeah-yeah, I love you too" the woman said waving him off, a strange glass of brown liquid appearing in her hands as she sat near the baby, an habanero placidly floating in her drink.

"Who are you?" Kushina asked.

"Me? Oh sweetie, you should know me! I am a dear colleague of someone you people know VERY well!" he said grinning, taking off his hat to bow in a theatrical fashion.

"Who?" Minato asked, covering his wife even in his wounded state.

"He is here already... come out, idiot! We know you are here!" the woman said with a barking yell.

The baby, Naruto, was now fully awake but curiously he was looking at the scene in interest instead of crying.

"Last time I checked, this was MY territory by the way," a dark, cold voice said as a new figure appeared in the clearing.

With an imposing height easily towering over the others, sporting a long mane of white hair and purple skin stood the Shinigami itself, the demonic face distorted into a bored expression.

"So what? Can't another psychopomp pay a visit to another?" the man said shrugging uncaring, taking a long draw from his cigar.

"Psycho-what?" Kushina asked curious.

"Spirits/Deities/Angels tasked by helping souls to reach the after-life, dear" the woman answered.

"Samedi..." the Shinigami said rubbing his eyes groaning.

"It's Baron Samedi...BARON, like those classy stuck-up nobles" the man said crossing his arms.

"Why are you here? Your wife Brigitte was supposed to keep you on a thigh leash and stop THIS from happening AGAIN" the Shinigami said glaring at him.

"Why I am here? Simple, by just using my AMAZING and Awesome powers over Voodoo and Death I sensed the birth of a Necromancer...unfortunately in YOUR area, dirty lucky bastard...but then I thought 'Know what? FUCK THE RULES!' And here I am, aren't you happy to see me?" Baron Samedi slurred out grinning.

"And you followed him?" the Death God asked to the woman.

"You know the bastard, once he decides to follow one of his Brain-farts he doesn't stop until he reach his goal" Maman Brigitte said emptying the glass in one go, pieces of munched habanero flying between words.

"What do you want to do with the human baby?" the Shinigami asked pointing at the blond infant now back into sleeping.

"Knowing you people, you will either kill him or Seal his powers (or whatever term you jerks use), I think I will train him into fully use them instead" Baron Samedi answered.

"And why if I can ask?" the Death God asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Why you fuck two twins at the same time? Because you can! You know that the last one was that Hellschyte girl, and she was a poor thing unable to even speak without causing disasters, at least with me he will have enough control to not turn people to ashes by sneezing" the man answered.

"You know the rules, we decided to STOP Necromancers from appearing so to stop any one of them from trying to create a mess with the natural order of things" The Shinigami said.

"Really? And you will now tell me that it always worked?" Maman Brigitte asked smirking.

"Yes, it was over several thousands of millennia since the last one was born here, and with that the Equilibrium was and is still preserved and safe" the Entity answered in pride.

"And that thing I heard the others talk about? That Edo-thing?" Samedi asked grinning.

"The Edo-tensei Jutsu created by Tobirama-sama? What do you mean" Kushina asked curious.

"It still brings back dead people from the grave, so? What about it?" Baron Samedi asked again.

"...That is confidential...I am not supposed to answer that question..." The Shinigami said looking down, shocking Minato and Kushina by sounding ASHAMED at the question.

"Ah-ha! I knew it! You wankers missed some details and fucked up! It means I can train the boy!" Samedi said in triumph.

"FINE! But if something happen I won't be held responsible! It's YOUR problem now!" The Shinigami roared in rage.

"Cool, man! No problem, we will teach him the good stuff, don't worry" the Baron said nodding.

"W-WAIT! Can I help too? Please! He is my baby, I don't want to lose him!" Kushina pleaded bowing.

"The Hell!? Why not, I don't trust this idiot to change some diapers or teaching him manners so why shouldn't you come? Both of you can help him training" Brigitte said shrugging.

"I don't have bad manners! BUUUUURP!" Samedi answered whining, before burping, loudly.

"Why are you helping us? I still don't understand" Minato asked with narrowed eyes.

"Fuck, you are one of those? You people are always asking for reasons, why you do this? Why you do that? Why I can't find my wallet and panties?...I want to do this because your kid is the first Necromancer I see in over Six-hundred-thousands years and it is so fucking funny teaching one, he gets to mess with the dead and Death in general, shit, as long as he doesn't proclaim himself a God even THE Big Boss up Here (and the one DOWN there too) will let him do as he please since it would be in his rights as a necromancer to do so thanks to his link with the underworld...even I have to follow some rules while he will be free to fuck the system in any way he likes...I mean...how COOL is that? At least I will have some fun watching him going around screwing with Life, Death and Destiny as a whole!" Baron Samedi answered in an half-whining tone.

"Ah...that's it?" Minato said sweat-dropping.

"Were you expecting some philosophical bullshit? Sorry but I am not drunk enough for that" the spirit answered.

"Just go you two...this night is already a mess so let's cut this short before the old monkey too join us, last thing I want is Sarutobi Hiruzen's Speech about valour and what's right" The Shinigami said groaning.

"Aye-aye, don't get your pants in a twist, Shini-pussy! I'll take care of that" Maman Brigitte said walking towards the Kyuubi, moving an hand on the Huge Fox' head.

"What are you doing?" Kushina asked.

"Creating a pet for the boy, but first I will need to reduce the bastard to something smaller" the Woman answered as the Kyuubi's skin started rotting and melting.

"WRAAAAAAAAAAH!" Letting out a mighty roar of pain the Kyuubi started to slowly Melt, leaving behind a massive skeleton once everything was done.

"Aaaand off you go!" Brigitte chirped happily as the bones too turned to dust.

"She guards over the Graveyards, she usually help me with making the dead rot so to stop people from summoning them as zombies, she learned it pretty well...but it's not nice when she does THAT to your balls, personal experience" Samedi said as he raised an hand, summoning a blueish flame in it.

"This is our dear fur-ball's soul, for now I will keep it, then we will have our dear Naruto here infuse it into a wonderful plush-doll of a nine-tailed fox!" Samedi said smirking, trapping the soul into a glass sphere he took from a pocket of his pants.

"Can't wait to see that happen" Minato said grinning.

"Okay, now that you all had your fun, I suggest you to start walking, you can't stay in Konoha, people will ask questions and keep you under surveillance or even try who knows what to study your son's powers, I suggest Suna since it's near and surrounded by desert, isolated from any preying eye" the Shinigami said sighing.

"What!? I won't leave my village behind!" Minato said in anger.

"Then choose, fucker! Your son's future OR the Village, tell them you sealed the beast in the boy, hoping that they won't hate him for that, or leave to have a somehow HAPPY life with your family" Brigitte said crossing her arms.

"Konoha is our home, we can't let them behind, we will explain them! We will make them understand how Naruto will be able to be their hero and..." Minato said before Kushina's punch connected with the back of his neck, knocking him down unconscious.

"Screw the village, I already lost Uzu because of politics, greed and thirst of power, I won't sacrifice MY son to Konoha for the same reasons! We will drag the baka to Suna, tie him up and then FORCE him to understand and if it doesn't work then...then I don't know" Kushina said determined.

"Once ready the boy will be able to take possession of your souls, having you act as his personal guards, in the jackass' case here Naruto will just force him into it, he won't have a choice" Samedi answered.

"Good, as you may have noticed already, you two are still alive, I refused to take your souls out of your bodies, since apparently you two will become Naruto-san's possession I'll leave the choice to have you two die to Samedi here, once ready the boy will be able to claim you" The Shinigami said giving two Scrolls with Minato and Kushina's names on them to Brigitte

"Cover those holes, being unable to die doesn't mean you will regenerate" the woman said pointing at the hole in Kushina's stomach.

"Okay, let's move, after the Kyuubi's disappearance Hiruzen must have gotten suspicious about our absence, he may be here any minute!" Kushina said grabbing Naruto in her arms, looking around in apprehension.

"Better move then, SAMEDI! Grab the ass-hole and let's go! We have a village to join!" Maman Brigitte said glaring at her husband.

"Why it's always me the one to do the shittiest job? The bastard weights a fucking ton!" Samedi said groaning as he hosted Minato on his shoulder, whining as the blond's blood stained his dress.

"I am a lady, you fucker!" the woman answered growling.

"A wonderful one at that" the man said rolling his eyes.

"Sucks to be you" The Shinigami said grinning.

"Remember! Edo-Tensei jutsu!" Samedi said smirking evilly as the two spirits, the undead-parents and the baby disappeared.

"FUCK YOU!" the Death God roared in rage before he too disappeared, grumbling about smart-ass spirits.

It would be only a matter of minutes before an old man in a black armour reached the scene followed by a dozen of masked shinobi.

"There is no-one here" one of the ANBU said looking around.

"Something happened, there isn't even a drop of blood here...someone must have cleaned everything to cover his traces" the old man, Hiruzen Sarutobi, said with narrowed eyes.

"What do you mean, Sarutobi-sama?" another ANBU asked.

"I sensed Minato's chakra signature fading into nothingness few minutes ago after the Kyuubi's presence disappearance...he must have used That sealing technique...but what happened then?" the old man wondered.

"Maybe...maybe someone from another village stole Yondaime-sama's body and the Kyuubi's vessel," one of the masked shinobi said.

"I fear that it may be a possibility, since we were occupied with helping the wounded back in the village...it would have been easy coming close to the baby to kidnap him since Minato was dead and the Fox sealed away...we MUST find them!" Hiruzen said gravely.

"A baby? A little kid was used for the sealing? The Yondaime's son maybe?" an ANBU asked.

"No, Minato had not a son, probably it was an orphan from the village, he wouldn't have put that burden on a kid knowing how his family could have been a target," Sarutobi answered.

"I can't let anyone know about Naruto's heritage, his being a Jinchuuriki will put him under enough danger without his parents enemies coming after him too," The old man thought in sadness.

"We will find him, Sarutobi-sama! That boy it's Konoha's property after all!" the Captain said with the men behind him nodding at his words.

"Not a property! Naruto is our Asset, Minato left him to us in the hope that he will one day protect our village with all the power at his disposal no matter what," the old man answered.

"HAI!" the ANBU answered before splitting in multiple directions to find any trace of the boy.

"I will find him, Minato! I know why you used your son, I know you wished him to be our guardian and protector, even knowing that the villagers would have been Hostile to him, you knew that the boy would have been happy to protect us even if shunned or ignored, can't expect anything less from YOUR son, I will do my best to protect him and at the same time teaching him how to be humble and self-less," Hiruzen though while moving back towards Konoha to organize more squads to track down the blond Demon Vessel.

Suna – some time later – isolated area near the Village's graveyard -

The village of Sunagakure no Sato, surrounded by tall walls of natural rock in the middle of the hottest desert of the Elemental Nations, infamous for the high mortality rate thanks to the vivid hallucinations the inhumanly-high temperatures create during the day, earning it the nickname of "the Genjutsu Desert" and the freezing cold nights soon following once the sun set.

The village itself was simple in terms of life-style, being without luscious forests like Konoha or an ample sea to use for fishing like Mist or the minor Wave had the villagers decide to optimize their living conditions when talking about water and food, especially since the majority came from external villages and their merchants, luckily their territory was rich of minerals and ores, making exchanges easy.

In a rather hidden area of the tall walls of rock surrounding the village was a system of caves, one of them guarded by an immense Torii Gate, showing that it was the entrance to a temple, following a long stair down to the depths of the village and under the solid rock stood a vast area used for the village's graveyard where the warriors and civilians of Suna could find their final rest.

Invisible to the eyes of the humans, a SECONDARY cave was opened immediately after the Torii Gate, making the road to the graveyard split in two with only the left one being normally visible.

While the villagers of Suna were calmly passing near the second entrance so to visit their lost loved ones, a smirking Brigitte watched as their powers stopped them from noticing the changing in the whole structure, behind her a big circular cave that was slowly being filled with construction material by a panting (and cursing) Baron Samedi.

"Perfect! The idiots won't see us if we don't let them, how are things going back there?" she asked without looking.

"Fan-fucking-tastic, thank you!" Samedi answered growling.

"Don't be such a prude, it was YOUR idea to have my Naru-chan set shop here after all!" Kushina answered while making faces to the baby, making him giggle and clapping his little hands.

"Grafrfargharfarf!" Minato muttered from his mouth-gag, glaring at the red-haired woman.

"Shut up" Kushina answered kicking him between the legs, making Naruto giggle louder.

"Oooh! Naru-chan likes when mommy hurt his idiot daddy? Should mommy do it again?" she asked cooing.

"Nuuuuuu!" Minato moaned shaking his head in the negative.

"Silence, you bastards! I am working here!" Samedi said as he summoned some souls to help him built.

"While the whining bitch build our new House/shop, let's decide how things will work, okay?" Brigitte said joining the scene.

"Can I teach Naruto how to be a ninja? I want him to know the Shinobi Arts other than how to be a Necromancer" Kushina asked.

"I think we can do that, once he is good enough with his powers we will focus on the ninja training, I chose this place because being in a Cemetery will benefit him, making him almost immortal above other things so he won't have too much problems in learning since the cemetery itself will protect and heal him" Brigitte answered.

"Sounds good to me! What about him?" Kushina said happily, before groaning and pointing at Minato.

"We will make him understand One way or another" the female spirit said smirking, making the blond man sweat bullets and whine.

"Let's start then, I am getting fucking bored at playing architect!" Samedi said.

"As you wish, dear" Brigitte said laughing.

Ten years later – Suna – Park – Naruto: age 10 -

Even if in the middle of a desert, Suna village had several parks for kids to play in and adults to use when relaxing, even if now the place was completely devoid of people as the last kids were running away scared from a young red-haired girl.

The girl in question was plenty in the "tomboy" territory, thanks to the short red-hair and the plain brown clothes making her look like a boy, the death glare she was sending to the running kids wasn't helping either, the curious thing was the big gourd on her back from which sand was flowing out as if alive, the Kanji for "Love" was on her eyebrow in a blood-red colour.

"You know? Being violent won't make them become friendly" a boy said nearing her.

"Shut up or I'll kill you" the girl answered glaring at the young blond in the black-and-white jumpsuit.

"That would be unwise...let's say completely stupid" Naruto answered grinning.

"Sabaku no sousou!" the girl answered surrounding the boy in sand and constricting his body until it exploded, making blood pool under the sand cocoon.

"Leave me alone, I don't need the others...I only need Mother inside of me" she said as she started walking away.

"As I said...stupid, COMPLETELY stupid" a distorted voice said behind her.

"W-WHAT!?" for the first time in her life the girl was surprised.

"What? Never seen a soul before?" the blue flame said, showing a face resembling the one of the kid, twisted in a fox-like grin.

"W-Who are you?" the girl demanded.

"Eeh! I am complicated, just call me Naruto, now come with me, while I repair my body we will talk...can you two help me please? Kinda lost my arms here" Naruto said as two robed figures with a skull mask appeared in the park, one lifting the crushed body and the other hugging the spiritual sphere/flame and glaring at the girl.

"Was that necessary?" the woman asked with a venom-coated voice, making the girl actually look down like a scolded child.

"Sorry..." she muttered, surprising herself.

"Come on! It's not the first time this happens, come to my Office" Naruto said cheerfully.

"Yes" the girl said following the group towards the cemetery.

Suna's graveyard - The Shop Near the Underworld – some time later -

The "Shop Near the Underworld" was a decrepit-looking two-story house with black walls and obscured windows, a spiked metallic door the only entrance.

The first floor inside was occupied by the Shop itself, a single ample room whose walls were covered in shelves littered by glasses of strange liquids, jars with mummified animals or body parts (mostly eyes or hands) floating in a strange green liquid, cards of different kind, broken bones (some of which resembling human ones) broken weapons, dead flowers, faded pictures, necklaces and other mementos, instruments of any kind covered in dust and/or rust and books with ruined-leather covers, those somehow whispering to whoever came too close to them, from the ceiling several amulets were dangling on thin threads, subtly tingling in case of the ones with little bells on them.

All "souvenirs" from precedent Necromancers that Naruto received as heritage once the construction was completed.

The whole local was scarcely illuminated by few red candles, making the already creepy-looking paintings, masks and even shrunken heads on the walls gain and even more distorted appearance, in the far side stood an ample black desk covered in tarots surrounding a crystal sphere near several mirrors and astronomical maps of planets and stars.

An huge painting showing what looked like human faces twisted in continue agony towering over the room with tanks filled with poisonous frogs, snakes and spiders covering the remaining space of the wall behind the desk.

The girl couldn't help but cough a little at the strong smell of incense permeating the air mixed at the dust from the objects in display.

"Put me on the altar, I will talk to her while we wait" Naruto said as the masked Minato moved away a black curtain to show an hidden altar where he deposited the crushed body, the wounds already healing thanks to its being in the cemetery's territory.

"Here you go, ready to heal!" Minato said before returning to the main room, sitting on a chair and flipping open a book in his lap.

"I see dead people! Morons' guide to raise and train Necromancers – easy version-" was the title.

"So? Any reason why you killed me?" Naruto asked, the ghostly fac-simile of his face smiling at her from behind the desk.

"I thought you were going to attack or insult me" the girl answered, still wondering about what was happening.

"Nope, not going to happen, but you are troubled, care to tell me why?" the ghost asked curious.

"What do you want? You must be that strange man they say talks to the dead, the village talk of nothing else" the young red head said narrowing her eyes.

It was true, everything started barely an year before, random people were contacted by a tall man saying that his apprentice would have been able to resolve their problems for the right price, it was mostly the most desperate people being contacted, making their own curiosity the catalyst of their accepting, but still the rumours started spreading like a wild fire.

No matter the version, the story had always few key details, a young kid with a dark robe making his recognition impossible would offer counselings, predictions, remove curses, selling talismans or even let you speak to your dead loved ones, for the right price of course, what was asked for that usually varying from people to people, may it be just money, food or even jutsus in case of shinobi, but there were times more "personal" things were asked as payment like photos, mementos of said dead one and even blood and memories somehow extracted from the client's mind.

The people going there were only unanimous on the location, barely after the Torii Gate of the Graveyard and to the right, but no matter how many people went there uninvited, no matter how many ANBU and Genjutsu Specialists were used or jutsus and summons unleashed, the Shop itself was nowhere to be found, as if Appearing only when a client was brought there by the two strange Skull-masked shinobi in ANBU gear, even the Kazekage himself was unable to locate the store, making the rumours about the owner being a demon from Hell seems even more plausible.

The truth was that the whole cave and shop were Hidden in plain sight, residing in the Limbo realm BETWEEN the land of Living and the Underworld (Hence the shop's name), making Samedi and Naruto the only ones able to invite people in, even leaving out the escort and admitting only the intended customer.

Naruto didn't mind those rumours since those people were chosen by Baron Samedi as a final Test for Naruto's training in Necromancy before leaving the "final tuning" to both Kushina and a still grumbling Minato so that the alcoholic spirit could return to his job as spirits' guide to the underworld, making Naruto the ONLY one able to admit people in the shop, luckily leaving behind few "manuals" to help the two parents now faithful bodyguards of the boy.

"Yes I am That Man people talk about, but I prefer the name Baron Shi, thank you. So? What makes you act so blood-lusted?" Naruto asked (Shi – Death)

"Why do you care? I don't trust you..." the girl said.

"It has something to do with that spirit sealed inside you?" the boy asked, making sand flew through him.

"What do you know about Mother?" the girl asked glaring at him, hating that by now she couldn't kill him like the voice in her head demanded.

"For starter I can tell you that it's NOT your mother since that soul is not of the 'Human Kind' and then that if you don't stop I'll be forced to become violent" Naruto answered narrowing his eyes.

"Violent? No-one can touch me, mother protects me" she answered.

"We'll see" the little ghost said shooting forward, entering the girl's body from her mouth, phasing through the shield of sand she summoned.

"GAWK!" trashing in her seat the girl grabbed a fistful of her hair and roared in pain, apparently "fighting" against herself.

"BLUUUARGH!" after few long moments she managed to puke out the ghost that calmly returned to his seat.

"You sure have a crazy tenant, but as you saw it is NOT your mother" Naruto said calmly, looking at his body to see that it was now fully healed.

"Who are you? What's that THING inside me? WHERE IS MY MOTHER!?" the girl asked with rising voice before yelling in rage, the sand from her gourd moving in a mini storm.

"Just a moment" the little flame said reentering the blond-haired body, opening a pair of deep-blue eyes to look at her with a smile.

"Better! Now I can help you" Naruto said happily, sitting on his seat with an actual body.

"ANSWER MY QUESTIONS THEN!" the girl yelled in rage.

"FINE! Stop screaming and I will help you, first things first, let's talk with your REAL mother" the boy said glaring at her.

"I don't want to speak to her! I know she hates me, my very same uncle told me as he too tried to kill me last year!" she answered.

"Sorry if I don't believe you, since you have a rampaging beast sealed in you I tend to believe you were manipulated into believing it" Naruto said shaking his head.

"Then I will show you, what do you want in exchange for making me talk to her and my uncle?" the girl asked.

"I'll tell you later, now shut up and let me focus, speaking with the dead is not simple for me, I am still training" Naruto answered taking five candles and positioning them on a portion of the desk he freed from any other object.

"Lights off and let's start" he said as the other lights in the room died up, leaving only the candles on the desk as source of light.

"I need to speak with this girl's mother...is she there?" Naruto asked to the room as his eyes dulled in colour.

"Who is speaking?" a voice demanded as the candles' flames turned blue

"I am Baron Shi, Necromancer and Master of the Dark Arts, the one who speaks to the dead and I need to talk to two souls in your realm...a young woman and a man recently deceased, respectively the Mother and Uncle of the girl in front of me" Naruto answered with a monotone voice.

"Baron Shi...your request had been granted...those souls will now approach you...the Mother will be first..." the voice said as a distant echo.

"Who's there? Sahara? Is that you?" a female voice asked from the flames.

"That's...that's my name...why are you doing this? Why tricking me!? Everyone knows who I am!" the girl, Sahara, said in anger.

"I admit that you are pretty famous here so knowing your name is not impossible, but I am not trying to trick you" Naruto answered.

"Then how do I know that this is not a lie?" she demanded.

"You can't, but you can trust me and accept that your mother is here, right? Karura-san?" the boy asked.

"My wonderful baby...what happened to you? What did your father do to you?" the woman asked with a sad voice.

"He helped me understand that I can only love myself, not expecting others to do the same...uncle confirmed it before I killed him" Sahara answered.

"I was forced to! your father tasked me with that attack to see how you would have reacted, before dying I saw Shukaku's eyes on you...that's why I told you that my sister hated you, I was referring to the Biju sealed inside your body...I believed...I believed that the demon had took over completely...I am sorry" A male voice said between sobs.

"You are Yashamaru, right? What happened during the sealing?" Naruto asked.

"Shukaku was sealed in her while still inside Karura's body, her husband wanted the girl to be the ultimate weapon of Suna, when he was born prematurely some complications caused my sister's death, but still he didn't care, focused on turning Sahara in his weapon, when it was clear that the girl was unable to fully control Shukaku without giving in to rage I was ordered to attack her as a LAST test to see how she would react..." Yashamaru answered sighing.

"Since then I was continually attacked by our shinobi" Sahara said looking down.

"He considers you a 'failing' so he wishes to kill you and seal the Biju into another vessel and try again...I am so sorry, my dear...if only I didn't die" Karura said sadly.

"Do you really hate me? Do you really hated giving birth to me?" she asked sighing.

"NO! As with your sisters I was so happy to know that I was expecting you, the few instants I could hold you in my arms were the happiest of my life!" the woman answered.

"Mother..." Sahara said sobbing.

"Is there any way for you to bring me back? Please, I will do anything!" Karura asked pleadingly.

"I MAY be able to summon your soul from the grave...but I will have to bind it to something to make it last forever" Naruto answered.

"Baron Shi-sama...can Shukaku's seal work for that? I am an Human Soul, I shouldn't overpower the seal with my presence" the woman asked.

"And the Biju? It may try to reject or even absorb you" the boy said.

"I know her, I will be able to stay in the seal and stop her from influencing my little girl, making her able to sleep pacifically" Karura answered in determination.

"Her? Shukaku is a woman?" Naruto asked disbelievingly.

"She is the only girl of the nine Biju, the rest of us are all males" a whispering voice coming from a cat-sized plush-doll of the Kyuubi said, fixing the two kids with its unblinking gaze.

"Thank you for the explanation...well, I think we can start then, ready, Karura-san?" Naruto said

"Yes, I am ready, Baron Shi-sama!" Karura said happily.

"Wait! What...what do you want in payment?" Sahara asked looking at him.

"What do I want in exchange...Uuhm! I know! You will be my friend!" Naruto said smiling wide

"W-WHAT!?" the girl said with wide eyes.

"I see you need some good friends, and I need some too myself, the few I had up until now were just spies people payed to force me to do as they said...the punishment for the people paying them to spy on me wasn't nice" Naruto said pointing with his thumb at the painting with the screaming faces.

"T-those are..." Sahara said paling.

"Trapped souls, the men that tried to kidnap me using my so-called friends as a bait to capture me and use Baron Shi's powers for their goals...I don't appreciate THAT kind of people, I have powers over Death, I can't let people play with those powers, the kids I just scared with some smoke before erasing their and their families' memories of me being Baron Shi, luckily no one else knows this" the boy answered.

"They tried that with me too, gaining my trust and then betray me, I won't do that to you...friends?" Sahara said with narrowed eyes, presenting her hand.

"Nice to meet you then, Sahara-chan!" Naruto said happily, shaking her hand.

"So? Let's move your mother here with you!" the boy said making the girl nod eagerly.

Few minutes later – outside the graveyard -

"Where is she? The guards supposed to follow her didn't see her disappearing" a girl with four ponytails said looking around.

"As if you can trust those bakas, Temari" another girl with war-paint said looking around.

"Shut up, Kankuo! It's already terrible that she disappeared without your comments!" Temari answered.

"I can't see her" a Suna ANBU said looking around, annoyed at being forced to look for Sahara.

"Then just keep looking!" Kankuo demanded.

"Temari-neesan" the red-haired girl said coming out from the cave to the graveyard.

"SAHARA!" Temari yelled running towards her.

"WAIT! Did she...didn't she just call you neesan?" Kankuo said in surprise.

"Temari-neesan...Kankuo-neesan...I am sorry...for everything" the girl said looking down.

"W-Wait! T-that's not normal! Is she really Sahara?" Kankuo asked to an ANBU.

"It's her, no Henge, genjutsu or masks of any sort" the ANBU answered surprised, he and the others sending several pulses of chakra in a wide range to disrupt whatever could have been the cause of the change.

"I am...sorry" the girl said again.

"It's all okay, I am here" Temari said, further surprising everyone by coming closer and hugging the girl.

"Let's go back home and forget whatever happened" Kankuo offered, making the ANBU nod in acceptance.

Better deny everything so to not have problems should the girl go psycho again, they thought.

"What happened?" Temari asked whispering as the three sisters were now walking next to each other with Sahara in the middle.

"I have a new friend...a REAL one that is not scared of me and will even protect me" the girl answered.

"Really?" Kankuo asked surprised.

"Yes, I promised that I will go back to talk with him some more" Sahara answered.

"Why you were in the graveyard...he was there to visit?" Temari asked.

"He knows a lot of people there" she said cryptically.

"Whatever, can we meet him?" the war-painted girl asked curious.

"I don't know...I will ask him next time" she answered.

"I think that he shouldn't have problems with us, we will treat your friend well, I promise" Temari said, happy that her little sister was acting more open with her.

"And if we are lucky...he will be your BOYFRIEND soon, right? Sahara-chan?" Karura said from the seal, Shukaku nodding with her.

"Don't say those things, mother!" Sahara thought in answer, relieved that the sand she used to cover her body like an armour prevented the others from seeing the faint red of her blush.

Back into the shop -

"Good, now that this is over we can focus on your training, starting from today we will alternate Necromancy Training with Ninja Training, you are now at the age in which kids join the academy, so we need to start as well" Kushina said taking off her robes to show a black ANBU attire.

"As you wish, Kaasan, just have patience until I find a way for undead to have and use chakra too" Naruto said happily.

"Don't worry, I know you can do it, and by the way...I am sooo proud of you for helping that girl, Naru-chan!" the woman said crushing the boy in a thigh hug.

"I just did what I think was right" he answered.

"And the fact she was pretty helped, right? My baby-boy's first girlfriend! I am so happy!" Kushina cooed in happiness.

"MOOOOOM!" Naruto screamed in answer, face red in embarrassment.

"I still say that we should have remained in Konoha...there are plenty of good sensei there" Minato said whining.

"Just shut up and help me" Kushina groaned slapping the man on the back of his neck.

"Fine! Fine! But I think that people would have treated him like an hero" Minato answered sighing.

"You wanted to seal the Kyuubi, beast that had just killed innocents in hundreds, inside a baby and knowing Hiruzen I bet that he would have kept our identities as his parents a secret since Iwa is still out for YOUR blood, and without the notion that he is OUR son...do you still think that they would have seen him as an hero? Or maybe he would have lived his life as a pariah, ignored by everyone?" Kushina asked with narrowed eyes.

"..." Minato didn't answer, looking away in sadness as the words had clearly struck the core of the problem.

"...Sorry" the blond man finally said.

"I thought so, just remember that next time you whine about leaving Konoha, we are talking about OUR SON here, he MUST come first, Village of Konoha comprised," Kushina said ending the conversation.

"I am sorry," Minato said again sighing.

"Then show me that you are and help me!" the woman said.

"I will" he answered with determination.

Suna – Six years Later - Shop Near the Underworld – Naruto, Age: 16 -

Once his abilities in the Necromancy Arts reached what could have been called "a good level" the Shop was officially opened to the public, making several red candles appear in front of the doors of the citizens of Suna, one for each villager, accompanied by a ticket listing the rules of the Shop.

"The Shop Near the Underworld – Main Rules -"

At night the candles all over the village will light-up, showing that Baron Shi will receive whoever wish to meet him, please follow the rules here listed:

1- When "requesting" a meeting with Baron Shi please blow over the fire while thinking about your request, if the candle stop burning the request is accepted, please wait for one of us to pick you up and accompany you to the shop.

2- Only ONE client per request, should your request requires someone accompanying you, YOU BOTH will be held responsible for the actions of each, the one accompanying CAN'T make requests of any kind.

3- If MORE than one meeting is accepted, the one deemed MORE IMPORTANT will be called first, if you see the flame turn blue it means another request was accepted before yours, the flame will die down by itself when your turn comes, please don't leave the candle to not lose your priority.

4- NO WEAPONS, weapons are not accepted if not as a form of payment, you can leave your weapons OUTSIDE the shop with one of our guards, should one or more being requested as payment they will be brought inside to act as payment, weapons will NEVER be returned until the client is OUTSIDE the shop. Any failure to comply or direct/indirect attack towards Baron Shi and/or his guards will result in SEVERE punishment for the attacking client and near family members/friends.

5- Payment: Baron Shi's services have a price, by requesting his help you automatically agree to pay in ANY WAY he will see fit, the payment will be decided BEFORE the start of the meeting with Baron Shi, that will be the LAST occasion for denying the form of payment and renounce to make the actual request, in that case please feel free to "ask" for another meeting later as the Payment change depending on the request and following the Owner's desires at the moment said request is made. Failure to pay the due price will result in SEVERE punishment.

Other 'minor' rules will be listed during the meetings, please follow them.

From now on "The Shop Near the Underworld" is open, thank you for your attention.

Even if someone tried to throw away the candles, those always "returned" shortly after, but thanks to the rumours about the place and his owner choosing himself who to serve, a lot of people was instead secretly eager to finally meet him and ask for favours.

The great majority were asking for his help when illnesses believed impossible to cure were diagnosed, adding to the mysterious "Baron Shi" figure the name of "Man of Miracles" as he seemed able to tear away the ill men from the jaws of Death itself.

At the same time, the few fools trying to "force" him into doing as they said or to not pay after having their selfish desires become reality simply disappeared without trace, leaving behind a "list" of their sins and the actual request that had them disappear, more often than not, wishes of dark nature like submitting a man/woman to their bidding or assassinate innocents for reasons of envy, money and/or lust.

The fact that his predictions about the future were also precise and always "true" helped, resulting in the more superstitious merchants and shinobi making a point of paying him a visit before an important mission/trading affair, with people coming from even other villages so to speak with the enigmatic figure, using a Special white candle positioned in the main square of the village that apparently only people from OUTSIDE Suna could use, following the same rules of course.

Voices had that even KAGES and DAIMYOS hidden under super-powered henges were secretly asking for meetings with the man, but that was never confirmed since there weren't enough details to confirm or deny it.

Now Naruto was calmly sitting at his desk, waiting for Sahara to come visit since she asked for a meeting herself, the black candle in her possession (and that only she could use) making her able to enter the shop whenever she wanted as VIP-guest.

"She is late" the Kyuubi doll said in annoyance as the boy kept petting him.

"She will come, you know her, nothing can stop her when she sets her mind on something" Naruto answered.

"She is such a nice girl! A wonderful girlfriend!" Kushina said from her seat, eyes not moving from the game of chess she was having with Minato.

"A pity she is such a crude Yandere" Minato said shaking his head, groaning as Kushina removed his bishop from the game.

A little knocking at the door signalled that someone was waiting outside to enter.

"Veronica, please go greet our guest" Naruto ordered getting up, the plush-doll now perched on his shoulder and the robe's hood down, showing his face and deadly-pale complexion.

"Yes, Master Shi" the young girl said smiling.

She was one of the "Experiments" Samedi suggested him to do in order to understand how Souls "Works" by creating a new soul using his power of 'soul manipulation' to create her.

Veronica was a fairly young girl with short dark-blue hair and violet eyes, across her face an 'X' shaped stitching showing she was the result of his operations as her whole body too was covered in stitches of various shapes and length.

The "living puppet" as Naruto called her, having summoned some dead Master puppeteers and Surgeons to guide his body into building hers, was wearing a wide black coat with white lining, black boots reaching her knees, white gloves and a black fedora hat, two fluffy pompons on the front of her coat that were now bouncing around as she walked.

Even if her appearance and face suggested a placid, benevolent image, she was instead his trusted bodyguard, following him around when outside the shop while Minato and Kushina followed secretly from the shadows, the three undead finally able to use and store chakra thanks to "batteries" created from the hearts of some clients that tried to "chicken out" from their payment.

Even if created by using Human body parts, Veronica was equipped with an huge guillotine blade hidden in her right arm and a sharp sword in her left, the gloves she usually wore covering the needles on the ends of her fingertips allowing her to inject viruses into her targets, a deadly human doll.

"Naruto? Are you here?" Sahara asked ignoring the girl, sparing her just a glare before moving towards the boy.

"Always for you, Sahara-chan!" the blond boy answered.

"Good" she said, moving his seat back so to sit in his lap with both arms around his torso and her head on his shoulder.

That was the normal way Sabaku no Sahara THE ALMOST YANDERE (vessel of Shukaku THE TERRIBLY YANDERE) usually sat when visiting the blond, her sand forming a circle around them as to define the maximum distance EVERYONE should keep from him.

"Father wants to meet you for some private matter concerning the Chuunin exams that will be held in Konoha, tonight he will come here, what do you think he will ask?" she asked looking at him.

"Probably the results and the names of the ones being promoted? I think that this time I will wait for his actual visit and see for myself instead of ask to some spirits" Naruto answered caressing her head.

"Master, the new project should be ready by now, should I tell her to stay at ready in case of need?" Veronica said nearing him, Sahara's sand forming spikes to keep her away.

"You need to work on your possessiveness, Sahara-chan," Naruto said smiling playfully.

"As I told you, you are mine," the girl answered with a growl.

"Yes, I remember that day, you barged in my shop, you glared at me and then said 'You are my boyfriend now' then you just got out slamming the door," he answered.

"But like that you got the message," she said.

"Then what's the problem? You practically keep threatening Kankou-chan every time we are in the same room and more than once attacked Temari-chan," the blond boy asked.

"Kankuo admitted to find you cute and Temari is starting to say it as well, I can't let those two steal you from me" Sahara answered in defiance.

"Come on! You know I only like you" the boy said hugging her.

"But still those two may try something," she answered.

"May as well share him...it's not like he will go outside the family," Minato muttered sarcastically, rolling his eyes at her.

"Pervert" the girl answered hitting him with a sand bullet.

"I have a client now, do you want to stay and watch?" Naruto asked.

"Yes" Sahara answered moving behind the long curtain hiding the small altar where she first saw his body heal.

"Enter" Naruto said slipping on his hood as his parents moved to flank his sides, Veronica opening the door and following the man.

"Good morning, Baron Shi-sama...did you call me?" the man, a retired shinobi with an eye-patch, said sitting down.

"Yes, Hosomaru-san...I called you...do you know why you are here during the day instead of night as I normally do?" the boy asked with the cold, monotone voice his 'Alter-Ego' was famous for.

"I have no idea, I already payed for your services so I don't know why I am here to begin with and sincerely, I find it a waste of time I could spend in a better way" the man said sneering.

"I discovered that the Favour you asked for was more damaging than what I believed...apparently the 'Tragic Love incident' you talked about was nothing more than an attempt at having your son impregnate the daughter of the Wind Daimyo so to have a link to the royal family, plan resulting in the girl's comatose state...you asked me to make sure she could still get pregnant saying that it was the couple dream even if the father didn't accept their relationship" Naruto said with his eyes narrowing.

"Sure you won't believe the words of her father, right? That man only wanted to use his daughter to further enlarge his wealth by marring her to some snot-nosed brat of nobility she could never love" the man said, hoping that the boy didn't notice his back going rigid.

The boy did, unfortunately.

"Someone else may believe that, that's true, knowing the man's way of treating the others especially, theory showed in how he is letting Konoha Suck-up every mission for some reasons, leaving us with barely the means to go on...unfortunately, for YOU that is, I was recently called by the Daimyo himself for a little 'job' in his his palace" the boy said as Veronica moved closer to the man with the two skull-masked parents doing the same.

"What kind...of job?" the man said swallowing hard.

"He was tired of hearing your complains going in dissonance with what some trusted bystanders said, they say that your son simply tried MOLESTING her, resulting in her running away and fall down the stairs, making her end up in that bed" Naruto said.

"THAT'S NOT TRUE! THE BASTARDS ARE TRYING TO DISCREDIT ME!" the man yelled in rage.

"Screaming is useless since I am in front of you...as I was saying, since they were tired of those opposite versions of the story they tried to call me, I usually don't go door-to-door offering my services, but I admit that this story intrigued me so I went there, do you know what happened?" the boy asked leaning forward.

"They filled your head with lies" he said narrowing his eyes.

"Not exactly, I used my powers to Read her soul, meaning that I cold SEE what she felt, saw, thought and even DREAMED since the day she was born...and her version of the story was of your son trying to force himself on her, she may have not known it was him, but even while masked it wasn't hard for me to reconnect the mysterious man to that brat of yours" Naruto said with a low growl.

"THAT'S NOT TRUE AND YOU KNOW IT!" Hosomaru roared.

"No-one can lie to me when I do that, a Soul can ONLY tell the absolute truth, no matter how Dark their intentions are, lies are not of the Souls Realm"

"Then die and feed the worms you so much love!" the man said taking an hidden kunai out of his sleeve to slash open the boy's throat.

"Don't move!" Minato yelled as he acted fast to restrain him, both parents and Veronica holding the man down.

"That...was a mistake" Naruto said with a croaking voice as the cut rapidly healed.

"What...what the Hell are you!?" Hosomaru yelled in disbelief.

"I am a Necromancer, I dance with Death itself and can freely valtz in and out of its Realm as I please without paying for my passing, I can see the dead and play with their destiny, I can manipulate the very same forces of Darkness and bend them to my will and create, destroy and change whatever I want in every manner I see fit, Killing who I want and calling back who I want without fear of repercussions...if I offer SOME help to you people is just because I want to be nice and lend an hand, but I don't like when someone stroll here and act as if owning the fucking place! If I want I can even kill every Daimyo and install myself as EMPEROR of this damned country with an army of undead and spirits at my back and call! The only reason I don't do that is because I don't know what to do with a whole country! So stop acting tough and accept the truth, you fucked up and you are going to pay the ULTIMATE price for it!" Naruto said growling, oblivious that Sahara was getting Aroused at his speech, not helped by the fact that Shukaku herself was loving the blood-lust in his voice.

"The...the ultimate price?" the man said paling, trying to get free from the collective hold the three guards had on him.

"Yes...The Wind Daimyo is arresting your son as we speak, I managed to wake the girl up and cure the remaining wounds of the attack, once I told him about your request the man was of course enraged, but with a little sweat talking I managed to have a concession" Naruto said as even under the darkness of his hood his feral grin was visible in all its terrifying glory.

"What kind of concession?" he asked.

"He will take the boy's life...but I will take yours" Naruto said snapping his fingers, making a new entity enter the room.

She was a tall woman with long black hair, wearing a simple-looking white dress over her body that was completely covered in bandages, face comprised.

"Who...who is that woman?" Hosomaru asked trembling.

"She is my new experiment...I call her Adorea, she will keep the organs I will collect fresh by storing them in her body, I have noticed that spare parts to repair my guards are hard to find so I decided to create a meaning for me to keep the ones at my disposal from decaying" Naruto answered chuckling at the scared man's expression.

"WAIT! I-I-I can pay you again! I can give you whatever you want to just forget this!" the man pleaded.

"Oh, don't worry! You WILL pay me...with the interests" the boy said nodding, motioning to Adorea to come closer.

"Collect everything you can, Adorea-chan, but leave out the brain, I want to add a new slimy-kun to my collection...I think I will make it Orange this time...I like that colour" the blond boy said as the woman removed the bandages from her face.

"Wha-what is she doing?" Hosomaru asked.

"Preparing for the extraction of course! Repeat after me, ITTADAKIMASU!" Naruto said as the woman's face showed up as being a mass of long tentacles leading to a fanged hole acting as mouth.

"AAAAAAAAAH!" the man screamed in terror as he was literally swallowed whole by the woman.

"Uhm...maybe orange will be too bright...brown perhaps?...no, orange, definitely going to make an orange one this time." Naruto mused looking at a wide fish-tank filled with water where several colourful Blobs of slime were slowly swimming aimlessly.

"You are terrifying when you want to" Sahara said walking out from the curtain, hugging the boy from behind.

"It's the fair punishment for an animal ready to do anything to sate his hunger, he won't die, I will use his brain to eternally bind his soul and then turn the whole thing into one of those blobs, floating in the water without possibility of freedom or death...eventually he will just stop thinking, like the others" Naruto said.

"And I must scream, those were the exact words, right?" Sahara said.

"Exactly" Naruto answered.

"Just remember that you have me, not everyone is evil in this world"

"That's true, it's just that living surrounded by death makes you insensible at what it means to be alive" Naruto said nodding.

"Then I will remember to you what it means to be alive...proving both our existences" Sahara said walking in front of him.

"You may be my Self-declared girlfriend, but I can say that it IS worth it" the boy said smiling.

"Good to hear that, things won't change even if you were to refuse, but like this is easier" she answered with a tiny smile, normally reserved ONLY to Naruto.

"I'll remember that" he said kissing her forehead.

"I need to go, otherwise my sisters will use this as an excuse to try and see you" Sahara said moving towards the door.

"I won't mind being shared between you three, you all are incredibly cute" Naruto said grinning.

"Pervert!" she said, closing the door fast to not let him see her blushing.

It was in those moments that Shukaku went back into asking for blood, ordering her to kill whoever tried to seduce THEIR man, Sahara's sisters comprised in the hit-list.

Suna - That night – the Shop -

"I am the Kazekage, I should be able to enter every time I want, not asking for permission like a commoner!" the man said sneering as he neared the entrance, ignoring the mysterious cold mist that usually surrounded the place, further adding to the "spooky" aura of the shop.

Knocking twice he glared at Veronica as she blocked his entrance.

"Weapons" she simply said presenting her outstretched hand, the other holding an empty scroll ready to be used to keep them.

"Tch! Disgusting freak" The Kazekage muttered in distaste as he removed every weapon on his person.

"The hidden blade too, we won't give attackers an excuse to fight back this time" the girl said with narrowed eyes, a long blade coming out of her sleeve.

"Here, take it and shut up" he answered throwing the little knife at the girl's feet.

"Welcome to The Shop Near the Underworld...idiot" Veronica answered moving to the side, rolling her eyes at the man's actions.

"Kazekage-sama, it's a pleasure having you here, what can I do for you in this wonderful night?" Naruto asked trying to sound respectful, seething inside at the bastard that kept sending his girlfriend on high-profile missions in hope to have her return injured enough to easily attack her and extract Shukaku.

"Next week there will be the Chuunin Exams in Konoha, I have some...business I will conduct on the side during the event, I want you to tell me how things will go" he asked.

"It's not a secret to me that you are planning an invasion with Oto village aiding you, I have some spies around the village that daily report to me...your daughter Sahara will play a key role in that as well, am I right?" the boy asked, watching as the Kazekage went rigid at that

"You dare to spy on me?" the man asked glaring at the boy.

"On you, on your daughters, on your ANBU, on your Jounin, on your Chuunin, on your Genin, on your Academy Sensei, on your merchants, on your guards, on your hookers, on your orphans, on your civilians, on your bartenders and so on and so forth...I spy on EVERYONE that even remotely BREATH and EXIST in this village, my life-style is a dangerous one, I can't let my guard down not even for an instant, but if you are concerned about me talking, I can assure you that I usually keep my client's secrets no matter what, well, I do that until those "secrets" do not endanger me and mine of course" the boy answered with a low chuckle.

"You better...now then, since you apparently know about that plan, tell me that things will go as I expect" he demanded.

"I can see some aspects of the future, not influencing it completely, but if you are so interested...which way you want me to use? Divination has many forms: Tarots, books, crystals, mirrors, needles, even the dead can help in that, that is, if the dead want to cooperate" the boy asked rising an hand to count.

"I don't care, just hurry up and tell me I will conquer the Leaf" the Kazekage said sneering.

"Tarots then, my favourite" Naruto said as he rapidly shuffled the cards, positioning them face-down on the table.

"Chose three of them while thinking about your question, those will tell us your future" the boy said.

"Tch! Party-tricks" he muttered while pointing at three cards that started floating in front of the boy.

"No tricks, Kazekage, Dark Arts" the boy answered while reading the result, smirking under his hood.

"So? What do you see Oh great Baron Shi" the man asked in sarcasm, uncaring that Veronica was glaring at him in hate or that Kushina seemed ready to rip him in half.

"I can safely say that everything will go as planned and your ambition to see Konoha invaded will become reality, Sahara will give a pretty big hand in the final outcome, congratulations...may I suggest an amulet to further increase your Luck?" Naruto answered clapping his hands a little with an amused tone, a little tablet of black wood appearing in his hand from inside the wide sleeves of his robe.

"I don't need that...that garbage is for weaklings that fear death, I will destroy Konoha and show to everyone the greatness of Suna!"

"Suits yourself, I will come to watch the thing unfold from distance, it may be interesting" the other answered shrugging.

"Will you use your power to help us?" the man asked.

"Nope, not happening, if someone knows that I can 'interact' with the Dead and misunderstand my abilities, you may found yourself in more troubles than that is worth" Naruto answered shaking his head in the negative.

"Coward" the Kazekage said throwing a little sack of money on the table before getting up to leave.

"Since you have all those spies...what can you tell me about this Naruto boy my daughter Sahara is seeing?" he asked

"This time I'll answer for free...don't worry, her friendship with him won't cause you too many problems, you may even benefit from it in the end" the boy answered chuckling.

"At least the brat is useful, she is easier to control now, more stable" the man answered slamming the door as he left the shop.

"We need to do something! He will attack Konoha! Innocents may die!" Minato said worriedly.

"Have no fear, I told him he would see the mission being carried on...not that it will succeed" Naruto answered taking off his hood to show a devious smirk.

"What do you mean?" Kushina asked.

"I saw the plan starting, but I also saw its complete and utter failure" the blond boy answered tapping on his desk, making three cards light-up and jump in the air.

"Yes...our dear Kazekage won't be able to see the mission succeed, and the one killing him will also die" Naruto said showing a tarot with a Thirteen written under the image of a cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.

The Tarot Card of Death.

"He should really have took that amulet" the boy said smirking.

"You think it will be Sahara the one to kill the Kazekage's killer?" Minato asked.

"With a little help from myself? Of course, can't have the first coming taking away my woman's chance for revenge, I'll be there to be sure everything will play accordingly...leaving Konoha with the littlest amount possible of casualties if you care so much, but I can't make promises, I am still a villager of Suna, I have to protect MY village interests, we will need to have a "chat" with both the Fire Daimyo and our esteemed Wind Daimyo after this is over, better talk with Sahara-chan and her sisters tomorrow, giving them and heads-up will prevent them from doing something stupid and/or dangerous" Naruto answered closing his eyes in thought.

An image of a Snake biting a Monkey to death briefly flashing in his head, catching his curiosity.

"Interesting..." the boy muttered while moving upstairs towards the bedrooms.

That night his dreams were filled with battles, a Toad and a Monkey fighting against hordes of shadows and sand following a Snake's orders, images of an old helmet being crushed under water and wood that were smelling of death and covering everything, trying to trap and kill the Monkey, a brief glimpse of a Slug appearing in the distance, as if waiting for something.

Why the visions in his dreams were never clear to understand? It was something that really annoyed Naruto.

Konoha – day of the Exam – Village entrance -

"Well, well, well...it IS a nice village after all...a little too many trees for my tastes, but I admit it may have some form of beauty depending on who you ask" Naruto said as he walked with the Suna sisters and their Jounin sensei Baki, he could clearly feel the Happiness of Minato at being back.

Kushina and Veronica were just following the group from the shadows, only interested in protecting the blond boy, ignoring completely the village.

"Why you came with us? You are not even a shinobi" the man asked.

"And leave some idiot try to seduce MY Sahara-chan? Not happening" the blond boy answered smirking, the fox plush-doll on his head watching everything in disdain.

"As I said to father, it was either him coming or me not taking part to 'it'...you know what I am talking about" Sahara answered as she got closer to the blond.

"Why you told him? He may put everything in jeopardy!" Baki answered.

"We trust him, don't worry" Temari answered "He is a good boy" she then said smiling at the boy.

"And OUR favourite toy" Kankou said smirking.

"Touch him and I will kill you all," Sahara said glaring at her sisters.

"Try and before I die I will tell him what you were doing last night...and what name you were saying between your moans," Temari whispered in answer.

"You wouldn't dare!" the red-haired girl said.

"Try me!" the other said in challenge.

"Quit it you two, we can't risk screwing the mission" Naruto said in a reprimanding tone.

"COME BACK HERE!" A female voice screamed as a boy with a long scarf came running towards them, hiding behind Naruto in clearly fear of whoever yelled.

"Please help me" the boy pleaded as a girl...boy...something with pink hair came into view.

"Stop hiding and take responsibility!" the girl said pointing at him.

"What have you done to make her angry?" Naruto asked.

"Called her 'billboard forehead'...but she was making fun of my scarf!" the boy answered.

"Listen miss..." The bond boy asked.

"Haruno Sakura, now hand over the brat so I can punch him" Sakura answered crossing her arms.

"Run, I will distract her" Naruto said.

"THANK YOU!" the already sprinting boy yelled in answer.

"Why you helped him?" the pink-haired girl asked.

"Because I wanted to...that's all"

"Why are you four here?" she then asked.

"A lot of questions...My girlfriend is here with her Team so I came to cheer for her," Naruto answered with Sahara smiling at him.

"The bimbo? You are kinda cute, can't see why wasting yourself with her" Sakura answered, smirking at the Suna girl's fuming face.

Smirk that disappeared as sand surrounded her body.

"Sahara-chan...please let her go, she has an Hitai-ate, you will probably meet her during the exam, just have patience" Naruto muttered kissing her cheek.

"Just because you asked, Mother wants her blood for her words...Shukaku too" Sahara answered letting the girl go, muttering the last part so only him could hear.

"Your abilities are interesting, you know?" a boy said from the top of a near tree.

"And you are?" Kankou asked crossing her arms.

"Sasuke Uchiha..." Naruto said in a bored tone, Reading his name and date of death inside his soul.

"So I am famous even in Suna...can't say I like it" Sasuke said sighing.

"More likely an hidden ability of mine, nice to meet you, I am Naruto" the blond said waving at him.

"Baka! As if Sasuke-kun will waste time talking to you" Sakura said glaring at him.

"Are you here for the exams as well?" Sasuke asked, completely ignoring the pinkette.

"Just as a spectator, my girlfriend will take part" Naruto answered.

"Good luck then, I hope we will fight each other" Sasuke said jumping down and presenting his hand, a wall of sand appearing between th two.

"Not a trusting girl...sorry then" the Uchiha boy said nodding.

"What's your Team?" Temari asked.

"Me and two girls...Sakura is one of them...unfortunately" Sasuke answered sighing.

"Hoping to have you use them to re-create your clan?" Naruto asked.

"Sadly yes...I decided to train so that one day I will be able to avenge my clan by killing the one responsible, but the village seems worried that I may take too much time and push for me to Hurry up, as if getting stronger was as easy as snapping fingers," the raven haired boy answered with a pained expression.

"Not a revenge-driven guy then?" Naruto asked.

"Oh, I want to kill Him, but I am not so stupid to believe that it will be easy thanks to my name, no more at least, after risking getting killed during a C-Rank turned A-rank mission I started to re-evaluate my life, can't let Ego blind me, with my eyes it may sound kinda stupid too" the boy answered turning his eyes red with two tomoes.

"I heard that other than Itachi and Mikoto Uchiha, every other possessor of the Sharingan was kinda full of himself and overconfident" Kankou said grinning.

"Can't argue with that, sadly...I like to think that I am another Humble Uchiha, or at least I hope so," Sasuke answered shrugging.

"Keep saying that and stay out of trouble, those eyes too have limits, you know?" Naruto said, strangely patting the tree Sasuke was on few minutes ago.

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?" Sakura said in rage, the Team of Suna plus guest walking away, ignoring her once more.

"Shut up, Sakura, he is right...in the past it was THAT attitude to cost the life of several Blood-line users, just because the Sharingan posses powerful abilities doesn't make it invincible" Sasuke said looking intensely the tree the boy touched.

"Why you defend him? He is not even a shinobi, he has no right to say that" Sakura asked in disbelief.

"Because he said the truth, and as for not being a shinobi...I fear he doesn't need this exam, look at this tree" Sasuke answered pointing at the DEAD plant.

"It's...dead? But you were there few minutes ago" Sakura said, watching as the former green plant was now dead, empty branches and black-coloured bark.

"Completely rotten" the Uchiha boy said tapping it, making the whole thing fall down to pieces.

"A truly strange, terrifying boy" Sasuke muttered as he walked away, Sakura immediately following him.

"Things will be interesting, can't wait to see what will happen" Naruto muttered smirking, feeling the spirits of Konoha and their restless state as they too knew of the approaching storm.

Finish! First wonderful chapter of my new story! I am so happy! ^ ^

I HAD to write this, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to focus on my other stories, what can I say, my brain works like this ^ ^

By the way, the pairing is fixed (gender-bending opens SOOO many possibilities ^ ^) other than Tenten no other will be added (You want me to keep writing? Then I fear you'll have to accept that the Weapon's mistress will be added ^ ^)

Veronica Madaraki – the character from "Franken Fran" Manga (COMPLETELY OOC since I will use ONLY the appearances) will be a "Pairing" too, I use quotations because it will be of the Slave/Master kind more than romance...Naruto is the Master, just so you know.

That's pretty much all, I hope you enjoyed, please take my challenges in my profile in consideration

Have a nice day ^ ^

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