Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Heartless Youkai ❯ Disorder ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Zagger the Bloody Angel 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Comedy / Horror / Suspense | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.07.2011 | Updated On: 07.07.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 7.3K | Visits: 353 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Comedy / Horror / Suspense | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.07.2011 | Updated On: 07.07.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 7.3K | Visits: 353 | Status: Work In Progress
"What are we to do now? Are we really going to let Danzo become Hokage?" Kakashi hissed as he had to be the one to take the robes to the man, who gleefully took them. "Don't we have the power to veto it and elect someone we rather have as Hokage. Jiraiya is a much better choice."
"No he isn't." Hiashi sighed as all the elite jounin had met to discuss whether or not they were going to allow Danzo assume the role as Hokage. "I read the doctrine that the Third signed... Jiraiya is a part of the Youkai and if he is Hokage there is no doubt he would support them. As much as I hate to say it... We need a cold hearted son of a bitch and one that isn't afraid of taking a few loses to be Hokage."
"I'm not to sure that Danzo would do anything against the Youkai." Shikaku added his opinion as he had grown the balls and asked for a copy of the doctrine from the sage so he could see what was on it. "The shadow force he possesses isn't too different from what Naruto's is except right now the Youkai are actually legal. I also find it hard for Naruto to gain such equipment and items on his own. Someone had to be helping him."
Frowning as he knew nothing of what was on the damn scroll the Hokage signed, Kakashi tapped the table he was sitting before. "So are you suggesting that Danzo could have been someway connected to how Naruto was able to obtain such items? If that is so, that is more reason to keep him from becoming the Fifth."
"This is all pointless." Inoishi spoke up, rubbing his temple as many of the jounin looked over towards him. "There are barely any candidates that are worthy of such a position and they are Danzo, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Naruto. Since the latter of the three are part of the Youkai choosing them is unwise and no one knows what Danzo's position is on this... He is the best choice no matter what he decides to do with them."
"But personally... He is just as powerless to do anything against Naruto as the Third was... I saw what he did through that man's memories. We can't stop him. ...The final decree of the Third will stand. I don't want to see such a force find his way to a village like the Cloud or Rock where he would be used against us." Inoishi added before cringing as the images of the Sand and Sound massacre flooded his mind.
All was silent after listening to what the Yamanaka had to say. If there was anyone that had the best picture of what Naruto and his unit could do, it was Inoishi. They may have seen what he did through his little demonstration and saw the mess he had left of the Sand and Sound supposed attack, but they truly did not know how strong her happened to be.
Looking over everyone as he listened, Chouza stood from his seat before sighing. "So who wants to tell him the jounin have accepted him our Hokage?"
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Screams echoed through the dark halls as she tripped over her own feet. Scrambling to get to her feet, nearly tripping again in the process, she picked herself up and began to sprint away from them.
Blood was splattered on her clothing from the one that was killing everyone here. The person... No the monster was just ripping them apart with ease as after he killed the first few with orbs of chakra, he stuck with slaughtering them with a kunai and his bare, clawed hands. And all she knew was that he was after her.
She wasn't sure how she was still alive as he had caught her but just as he was about to do kill her, he stopped and gazed at her. She used that time to break his grip and run but now she wasn't sure if she could escape... Ever single time she rounded another corner she could hear the screams getting closer as the ninja within this place tried to fight the attacker.
Slipping on the cold, slick floor, her face smashed into the ground and shattered her glasses. Without them she had a difficult time seeing anything in the distance. She could see a little so they didn't matter right now as she could feel that he was getting closer and she did not want to die.
Trying to scramble to her feet, her body went rigid as she noted a pair of feet standing before her. Trembling as she believe this was it, she slowly began to raise her head to look at her attacker. But as she did so, hope began to fill her as it was Kabuto standing before her. She immediately jump up and into his arms. "Please get me out of here! Nothing can stop that thing!"
Looking at the girl for a moment, Kabuto simply nodded as he held her close to him and gently patted her on the back. "Don't worry Karin. I'll handle this..."
"Is that her?" Karin's body froze before she started shake horribly as that was the voice of the one chasing her.
Feeling her grip on him tighten, Kabuto looked over to see the attacker before simply nodding. "It is my lord... But you gave her quite a fright. You should have given me more time. I would have brought her to you soon enough."
"I know what you were doing Kabuto and I while I don't care you will not perform such experiments without me present. Now hand the girl over so I may take her home." Naruto responded in a rather annoyed tone as he knew Kabuto was trying to enhance his own abilities by infusing Orochimaru's cells into him without him to see the effects of such an experiment.
"Ah yes... I forgot about that. I will try and remember such things for the future." Kabuto responded before grunting as Karin slammed her fist into his stomach and attempted to run past him.
She, however, stopped as she noticed two others wearing very similar outfits to her pursuer were standing directly behind Kabuto. She could no longer run away... She had to try and fight these monsters.
Yet before she could start anything, her attention was brought back to Naruto as he slowly began to step towards her again. "Karin... You need to come home. With you back we can be a family again. You, me... Mom, dad... We can be together again once I find a way to break them from their bonds."
The blood in her veins became icy cold and her being froze as the young man before her slowly pulled his mask off, revealing a face that she wasn't quite familiar with... But those markings on his cheeks. They were the same as her little brother's. But... How could that be? She thought her little brother had perished...
"Naruto... Is that really you?" Karin stuttered as her entire body trembled as had to fight to keep her fear from rising seeing the blood splattered across his cloak and armor. "I thought you were dead... There was so much blood."
"It wasn't enough... As long as the fox resides in me death is an improbability. I may be wounded or gravely injured but that isn't enough... There is only one sure way to kill me." Naruto responded as he gazed at his sister with what little care he had.
In the very next moment, Karin slung her body into his and began crying, leaving Naruto unsure of what to do as he looked at Kabuto and his subordinates for help. Sure he acted like that happy-go-lucky freak for all those years but it did not mean he understood those emotions he had to fake.
And seeing they weren't helping, he had to try and placate her on his own as he lightly embraced her. "You will have to forgive me... Affection is something I am... Unaccustomed to because of my life."
Karin began sobbing further, soaking the cloth of his cloak in the process leaving Naruto unsure what to do any longer. So he simply lifted her from his chest and looked into her eyes. "I've come to take you back home and take back a few of these pesky Sound ninjas for my lab. Their lives will help me bring forth a way to reconstruct mother and father's bodies so I can remove them from this accursed seal."
"Mom and dad... They're in the seal with it." Karin asked horrified at such a prospect of her parent's stuck in a cage along with the very being that forced them to give their lives to stop in the first place.
"They are... But do not worry. Kyuubi will not harm them as she has grown quite fond of mother and father. She has been helping both father and I recreate a different version of Impure World to summon forth they're true bodies. It won't be long till they are with us again thanks to the fox." Naruto told his sister, leaving out the fact that Kyuubi would be given a body as well; he did not want to scare her any further.
Seeing that Karin was calming, he released his grip of her before motioning over towards the only female member of the unit he brought along. "Flame will take you home. If there is anything you need don't hesitate to ask her."
"But why... Why aren't you coming back with me?" Karin asked as Flame stood at her side, her emerald eyes gazing down the hallway as two figures slowly trotted down the blood stained path.
Having Raven stand beside him and facing the duo that was making their way towards them, Naruto forced an affectionate smile. "I will be. I just have to deal with this first... She'll just be taking you from here so you won't be caught in the cross fire."
Before she could say anything more, Naruto slid his mask on and simply gazed at Flame, who then lifted Karin to her feet before speaking revealing it was Sakura. "Don't worry, everything will be fine. Fox cannot release his full strength if he knows you will be caught within."
As Karin looked at her before looking down the hall, Karin could only numbly nod as everything was happening way too quickly for her to understand. But as she followed the pink haired Youkai down the blackened hallway, she felt something she hadn't in a long time... She felt truly happy... She had a brother again.
Watching them turn the corner, Naruto didn't even bother to turn around as the two that he sensed had been following them upon entering the Wave stood behind him. "It is a shame, Itachi. ...You are one of the few my heart beats for but to know that you are here for Kyuubi... I cannot accept that. She means the world to me."
"What the... What is going on here? Itachi, you never said this kid was in Anbu before. I thought this was going to be a walk in the park unless the toad sannin got in the way." Kisame spoke in confusion as he looked at the blonde he knew to be Naruto and wasn't quite sure why all the information Zetsu had gathered on him seemed to be untrue.
"It seems you've grown strong since I gave you my father's eye." Itachi ignored Kisame as he looked over at Naruto and a very rare smile graced his lips when he noticed the one in the raven mask. "And my, you have even made my little brother quite powerful as well. Did my little message to you back then spur you on?"
Naruto keep his back towards them as he turned his head slightly to Raven and shook his head. "You are not ready yet... He would destroy you if you are to fight now. Leave him to me and take care of the shark with Weasel... I will leave him alive as I have no reason to kill him. I will keep my promise."
Glaring at Fox, his Sharingan spinning wildly at him for a moment, Sasuke growled out as faster then his eyes could see Naruto gripped his collar bone and pain began to spike through the seal that marked him a Youkai. Once he let go, Raven could only grit his teeth as he nodded. "Fine... But let him escape. I want to kill him when we both are at full strength."
"As you wish." Naruto responded as Sasuke's request was reasonable and he had nothing against the Uchiha fighting one another when at full strength. That fight would be quite entertaining to watch. But for now... He would have to deal with him.
"Oh come on! Like the three of you combined could take us..." Kisame started be he suddenly took a step back.
In the very next moment, all he could remember was Itachi being driven through the ceiling before looking straight into a six star Sharingan.
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It was too boring without her love around. Sure, Naruto was about as emotional as rock but he took very good care of her and at times created havoc and chaos when he was sick of everything being mundane. She couldn't do that... Because she wasn't as fucking super insane warrior that probably could make the strongest shinobi in the world bend over and take it from behind!
Shivering at that thought, half tempted to use a kunai to bring Naruto to her so they could try that, Hinata sighed. "God dammit... Where are you my love? It shouldn't have taken this long for you to have retrieved your sister... Unless they sent Kabuto in under cover. Shit. That could take some time."
"Lady Hinata." Tenten's voice suddenly caught her off guard as she twirled around to see Falcon standing before her. "I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but shouldn't you be with the young ones and our trainees? Did our Lord not put you in charge of their training?"
Sighing as Tenten followed Naruto's orders down to the letter and couldn't understand why others didn't, Hinata gave Falcon an exasperated glance as she came up with a logical response. "Yes, he put me in charge of it but he did not say I had to oversee it. They are now in tutoring sessions with the Slug and Toad sannin."
"I see... Is there anything you need of me then? I've had nothing to do since our Lord left and I haven't seen you much." Tenten stated as she indeed remembered Naruto stating nothing about her overseeing their training.
"Why do you ask me such a question? I am not your master." Hinata frowned as she had a feeling Tenten was having the very same problem and wasn't sure how to handle it as she normally always had some order from Naruto to follow and for once... She didn't.
"Because you are his mistress and I obey your orders as long as they don't contradict what my Lord has ordered of me. I also ask as I was sure you had something for me to do from the way you were pacing." Tenten explained as she had caught Hinata's pacing and thought there was something wrong.
Looking at her oddly for a moment, Hinata then looked around at her surrounding before cursing. She had been pacing as she did not remember being in this room a few minutes ago and if fact remembered being in the study with Yakumo. "Shit... What the hell is wrong with me? Am I that bored without Naruto here to keep me company?"
Hearing no response from Tenten, not that she was surprised as the girl was almost a drone due to the strength of her Youkai seal, Eagle sighed as there really wasn't anything to do. "I guess we'll check up on the little ones and then train together. There isn't much else to do as missions have come to a stand still without a Hokage. ...I wonder how his suicide will effect missions sent here?"
"Hinata... Tenten. We have a problem." Shikamaru's voice caught both of their attention as Shadow emerged from the darkness, dressed in his Anbu attire since he currently was on guard duty. "It seems that your old sensei is snooping around the mansion, looking for information. She is alone so I doubt her motives are sinister so I came to inform you."
"Why did you not take care of her? It is your duty to guard and maintain the mansion's defense and to eliminate any threats." Tenten immediately responded with a light growl as the Nara was slacking on his duties again.
"First off, she's at the front door so she is more of a visitor then a threat. Secondly, I don't eliminate my targets immediately as they could have useful information or it could be a simple misunderstanding. Finally, I'm not a drone like you and understand there are times that you need to let some things slide as it is for the best." Shikamaru fired back at her as he always had difficult time communicating with Tenten as at times she seemed robotic and seemed to possess no compassion.
"That's enough you two." Hinata snapped at the two, getting tired with the two fighting whenever they were around one another. "Shikamaru, return to your duties. Tenten, you will follow me and act appropriately if Kurenai is to attack me. You, however, are not allowed to kill her for any reason otherwise I will punish you myself and have Naruto punish you further when he returns."
Shikamaru simply nodded and dispersed into the shadows while Tenten bowed before stepping in line with Hinata as she headed to the door. She unfortunately had to ask Tenten for directions as this was the first time she had an extended stay in the Fourth's palace before the exams.
Once they arrived at the front, Hinata motioned Tenten ahead and the girl moved and opened the door to reveal Kurenai standing at the threshold, looking a little irate as she had been standing there for five minutes. "I am sorry... I got a little lost in here and then my guards began arguing with one another. What can I do you for, sensei?"
Frowning for a moment due to the color of Hinata as they were still pink instead of their normal lavender, Kurenai kept her composure. "May I come in? There are things that need to be discussed."
"Ah, is this about what Naruto said. It is all true you know." Hinata playfully taunted, something she picked up from Naruto as that was the only time he could ever show any joy. "What else is there to say unless you just want to hear it from my mouth? If so, then I'll be happy to oblige."
While worried by the way Hinata was taunting her, she accepted the young girl's hospitality and entered the house, following Hinata, who wasn't lying as the girl got lost once before finding their way to what seemed to be study. But what surprised her was in that study was a former student of hers... "Yakumo?"
Yakumo nearly jumped up at the voice as she had been smitten with the book the toad sage had left her, wondering if Sasuke would allow her to perform such actions the next time the two spent the night with one another. But soon as she saw Kurenai standing behind Hinata, she began to wildly growl as a small tint of red began to form within her eyes. "What in the fuck is she doing here?! Get her the fuck out!"
"You will calm down Yakumo. She is my guest and you will treat her as such. Now sit down and continue reading up on how to pleasure your man. I'm sure Sasuke would enjoy those acts as my love certainly did." Hinata calmly commanded her subordinate before grinning as Yakumo blushed at the final comments.
However, that blush did not remain long as her eyes locked with Kurenai's reds. "I don't want her any where near me! That bitch took my powers from me and I'm only just getting them back thanks to Lord Naruto! You know I want nothing more then to make her pay for what she did!"
"Then go to your room and continue with your story. I have to have a little chat before I send her on her way. And if she is to come here again, I will warn you so that you won't have to meet her face to face ever again. I can't have you hurt her at this moment just because of your grievances against her. It would hurt our lord's goals." Hinata said to placate the extremely furious illusionist, who didn't seem to be backing down.
"But I was promised..."
"You will back down Yakumo!" Hinata roared as she getting tired of the girl's disobedience before she treaded straight at her and stood in her face. "I know very well what my love promised but you will step down at this instant otherwise I will make sure that promise will never be fulfilled with one word to him! Do you understand?!"
Yakumo was frightened as Hinata rarely was ever this aggressive and even when she was Naruto was there to tame her. But now he was out on a mission and no where to be found and the Hyuuga seemed ready to take her out if she didn't say exactly the right things as she nodded. "I understand... Lady Hinata. I will go now..."
"The hell you will! You disobeyed me the first time and refused to stand down until I had to confront you about it!" Hinata bellowed as she glared at the girl before she turned to Tenten and yelled at her. "Falcon take Mist to the detention center immediately and have her wait for punishment!"
"But my Lady..."
"DO IT NOW, FALCON!" Hinata shouted and was becoming enraged as everyone today seemed to be pushing their boundaries now that Naruto was not there to put them in their place. "I am more then capable of defending myself from anything she may throw at me! So do what you are told!"
"Yes Lady Hinata." Tenten responded before she appeared next to Yakumo and easily restrained the girl as her body was still rather frail. "You heard her, let's go."
As Tenten began to push Yakumo from the study and out of sight, Hinata panted slightly as she tried to calm herself from her rage. "I am sorry you had to see that... Everyone is becoming rather disobedient without my love around to straighten them out. I swear it is like I'm dealing when a dozen Sasukes..."
"Did I come at a bad time?" Kurenai had to ask as the violently outburst from her formerly gentle and sweet girl she remembered was rather frightening to witness and it was even more so seeing how terrified Yakumo had become.
"To be blunt, yes. This is the first time we have been as one without Naruto to guide us." Hinata growled out as she still was very upset about Yakumo even if she understood the girl's reasons for disobedience. "Without him very few of us get along with one another and while I normally get along with her... You set her off and while I will punish her, I can't blame her. I would react the same way if you had sealed away my powers."
Flinching as she never wanted Hinata or anyone to know about her failure with Yakumo, Kurenai felt a pang of guilt as she had just caused her first student more pain in the future. But what worried her was what she had said... "What was it that Naruto promised? ...Did he promise her that I would die?"
"Please, my love does not take death so lightly and will not order it unless he breaks into blood form or if it is absolutely deserved." Hinata huffed as she glared at the genjutsu mistress of Konoha. "And he judged from her case that death was not the deserved form of punishment... But I will tell you that pain is in your very near future. Pain even greater then that on what you inflicted onto Yakumo."
Despite being rather unnerved that Hinata had just informed her that they would be coming after her to inflict pain, a small portion of Kurenai still felt it was just for what she had done to Yakumo, even more now then before. "I see... I guess I will accept that but on one condition... It must be Yakumo to be the one to hurt me."
"I assure you it will be." Hinata quickly responded as she gazed at the red eyed women standing before her. "So what is it that you wanted to discuss as I'm not going to let you leave now without knowing what it was that caused this horrid mess."
At the exact moment Kurenai actually kind of wished to leave. What she saw in just this short time was very disturbing and she didn't really want to stay very much longer. Yet she kind had to now as the way Hinata spoke made her realize that she could very well detain her until she said why she had come.
So carefully moving to a chair and seating herself, Kurenai waited till Hinata took a seat before her but still looking pretty livid about the whole situation. Taking a deep breath, gathering the courage she had built to come here in the first place, Kurenai finally spoke. "I actually... I came her to ask for what happened that night so I may now the full details."
"Is that all?" Hinata brusquely responded as her pink eyes flared a little as that really wasn't worth what had just happened.
Barely being able to keep her composure as she slowly began to find it difficult to breath, Kurenai shook her head. "Many people have been asking about what happened... But I want to know why you and Naruto decided to take this path."
"You truly were able to see through my mask, weren't you?" Hinata grinned as she had felt that her teacher was able to sense there was something different about her.
"It was very well hidden I would have to admit... But unlike Naruto you occasionally slipped up and revealed that dark layer that resided underneath. And then in the prelims I could feel it... I could feel you were holding back on purpose to serve a greater goal as were many others that are in the Youkai. I began to realize something was going on when I noticed the matches seemed to have been rigged when Naruto was matched with Neji in the first." Kurenai admitted as she gazed at the former heiress.
"I must say I am truly impressed, sensei. You were able to see that I wasn't the gentle little girly-girl that many thought I was. And I'm even more so that you were able to sense Tenten's manipulation and catch the subtle cues of our true power... Well outside of Tenten punching that fan two meters into the wall when the wind mistress tried to break her back." Hinata's grinned widen before she looked a little sheepish as she remembered how Tenten almost blew their cover.
"As for what happened that night... I did try and save Naruto as I thought they were going to kill him. Now that I think about it I was rather stupid. Naruto really can't die as even his most grievous injuries heal with a good night's sleep." Hinata stopped for a moment as if she knew what she knew then she probably would have waited then tried to help Naruto.
"Anyways... My persistence bothered them so they decided to take care of me and one of the shinobi there plunged a katana through my sternum before he smashed the butt end of it into my skull, cracking it and causing it pierce my skull and started to make me hemorrhage." At this Hinata combed through her hair to reveal a small depression.
Shocked at this as she could tell that it had been much deeper, Kurenai looked at Hinata as her face fell as she wanted no pity as she happened to like what she had become. "Then there is the only part my love didn't tell the truth about... He didn't wait for them to finish with their beating... He was drawn into his mind by his parents and Kyuubi. Once he learned everything, he drew onto their power and utterly slaughtered those that attacked us!"
"He then did as he said and used the power he summoned forth to heal me... But he had to seal part of her power within me and a piece of her soul to do that, creating the first Youkai seal in the process." Hinata stated before sliding her shirt collar to the side to reveal the mark on her collar bone. "This seal, however, is far different from the ones that other possess as it also his demonic mark, designating me as his bride."
Kurenai nearly had a cataclysmic meltdown as she listened to what she had heard. Naruto had created a seal like that of Orochimaru's curse seal to mark his subordinates and not only that he empowered them with a small amount of Kyuubi's chakra before placing a piece of the fox's soul within them.
Hinata couldn't help but smirk as she saw Kurenai's distress. Tilting her head over at her and partially opened her mouth and licked her elongated fangs to focus her attention onto them. "It really isn't all that bad... Now the fox's chakra has become one with ours rising our power dramatically and giving us demonic traits that many of us rather like."
"Do you wish for me to continue on with our story or do you just want to leave and go tell everyone what I've just told you?" Hinata leered at Kurenai with a daring glance, begging her to go do it and to emphasize her point, a bluish hue began spinning around her left hand. "In fact, go do so. I'm rather bored and maybe you jounin trying something against us will brighten my day."
Stumbling out of her chair as Hinata flickered her hand in her direction, Kurenai's heart was racing as she watched the former heiress slowly rise from her chair. "You don't know what you are doing! If well all came to..."
"It really wouldn't matter... You saw the aftermath of our counter attack. And I'll let you on a little secret..." Hinata was now beaming as she was getting a chance to show off what she was capable of doing. "Naruto only did a quarter of the damage. The rest was done by us, Sasuke and I doing the most damage next to him."
"So go ahead and try to rally others against us. If they actually have the balls to do so after cleaning up our mess, we'll treat them to the same show." Hinata punctuated her statement before the chair she had been sitting on was torn to shreds she flicked her focused Kaiten against it.
"It was nice talking to you sensei... Bye Bye now." Hinata waved before Kurenai scrambled out of the room, fearing for her life.
"That... Was unnecessary." Shizune stated as she had watched what had happened after seeing Yakumo being taken into the detention center before glancing over at the chair. "And what are you going to do about that chair? That was Naruto's favorite."
Looking at Shizune for a moment, wondering how she knew of this as she and Tsunade had only been there for a week now, Hinata looked at the eviscerated chair before rolling her eyes and cursing as she let herself get too carried away again. "Shit. When he gets home I'm fucked."
"Literally." Shizune grinned at the Lady of the Youkai, having a very good mental image of just how Naruto would punish her.
"Fuck you!"
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It was ever so quite as Naruto and his Youkai returned to Konoha with Karin in tow, who immediately noticed the looks of fear and hatred aimed towards them. She was a little unnerved by it as they headed to the tower and she found herself edging closer to her brother.
Noticing that she was slowly moving closer to him, Naruto simply gazed out towards those looking and sneered behind his mask. "Worry not of them. They are ingrates that we don't bother with our attention as they are not worth it."
"My Lord!" Falcon's voice came as she immediately jumped down before them and bowed towards Naruto. "Lady Hinata told me to greet you and inform you of what has been going on before you meet with the Gondaime."
"I see... Who is the Gondaime Hokage then?" Naruto ordered her, knowing that asking her would get him no where and he wanted to know if the new Hokage would be any trouble to his organization.
"It is Danzo my Lord. The Third committed suicide " Tenten replied before she continued on with what Hinata wished for Fox to know. "My Lady also wanted you to be informed that as of recently some of the high ranking jounin have been scooping our property and has not allowed us to act aggressively towards them. We have also picked up some new recruits as well."
"Interesting. I will like a full report later. For now I have to meet with our new Hokage. Return home and inform Eagle I will be there shortly." As Falcon nodded and dispersed into a swirl of leaves, Naruto turned to Flame and Raven. "If he is to try anything you are to get Karin away as fast as possible. Weasel and I will deal with him if it comes to that."
As all three bowed slightly, they entered the tower before working their way to the office through a few flight of stairs. Seeing that there were Root guarding nearly every entrance to the stair cases, it was obvious Danzo wanted no one to easily gain access to him as the Root tried to stop their ascent at every stop.
After the first grabbed him as he tried to walk by before Flame sent him through the wall, he order the other to inform the others not to impede their progress and they didn't stop him any longer till he reached the office. At least here he understood being stopped as the Hokage could be busy or in a meeting.
But once the order was given, he was granted access and headed straight to the desk, followed in by his unit along with Karin. "I have come to inform you that I have retrieve Uzumaki Karin from Sound possession safely and successfully. She will hereby by be staying at my manner and will be registered as kunoichi of Konoha."
"Ah... I see she is just fine. That is good to hear." Danzo responded as he looked at her from his paper work and smile. "And I will grant her any amnesty for any actions she was apart of during the Sound and I will instate her as a chunin of the village. Good work, Blood Fox. Did anything else happen on your endeavor?"
"We encountered and defeated the Akatsuki members Hoshigaki Kisame and Uchiha Itachi however both managed to escape after the underground lair we were battling in became flooded due to Hoshigaki's abilities. It was nearly impossible to pursue however I know the Uchiha is heavily injured and will take months to recover from the damages I inflicted onto him." Naruto added at Danzo's request as he had a feeling the man knew the Akatsuki was ready to act.
Simply nodding as everything seemed to go as he predicted, Danzo began to work on the papers before him. "Very good then. I will leave the eradication to the Akatsuki to the Youkai. Now let us get down to business. They may leave."
"Flame, Raven; take Karin home. Weasel, you are not to start infusing his flesh until I am present or I will personally rip it out of you." Naruto ordered without bothering to look back as the exited the office.
As soon as they left, Naruto slid off his mask before take a seat before Danzo's desk. "So what is it that you want of us? We have already upheld our portion of the deal and you are now Hokage. What else is there that you want?"
"Now don't be like that." Danzo spoke as he finished the stack of papers he had been working on before giving Naruto his full attention. "We can benefit very well from one another and I see no reason that our business has to end now that we both achieved our goals. In fact I can see a great partnership that benefits both you and I."
Only tilting his head as it would make things easier with an active Hokage that supported his unit, Naruto kept silent as he waited for Danzo to say what was on his mind.
Having dealt with the young man before, Danzo knew Naruto would simply wait till he came out until whoever he was speaking to stopped beating around the bushes so he got straight to it. "I've read the copy of the deal you forced the Third to sign and while I am all for you having such privileges as we can't afford to lose you, I would like a few things in return for them."
"What things do you have in mind? From I sit there seems to be very little I can offer you now that you are the Hokage." Naruto stated as he was very weary of what Danzo was trying to get at and the man would just come out and say it and that was bothering him.
"First off, I've noticed that it seems like you are creating your own academy for the Youkai... Well I want to expand that a bit." Danzo commented as he had kept a few eyes on them just to see what they were up to. "All I ask for this is that you expand it to include a few non Youkai members to be Konoha's regular special forces and possibly a few for Root seeing how effective your training has been so far. After all, eight A to SS-class shinobi in a year to a four year span shows remarkable results."
"I'll see what I can do with that. The academy I am creating will be mostly taught by either myself, Shizune, Tsunade, Jiraiya or Hinata and I will have to pass by them. I can easily get Hinata's consent but the Sannin will be difficult to convince." Naruto explained as he was sure Danzo knew that both didn't exactly have the highest opinions of him.
"That is fine. I know those two will resist anything I decree." Danzo tilted his head in understanding as the two gained their distrust of him from Sarutobi, though Jiraiya knew much of him through his networks. "Another thing I would like to ask of you to keep me informed. While I will let you work in the shadows, I need to know what you are up to. You can keep your experiments secret if you like but if you discover something important I would also like to know."
"You want to make sure I will not attempt a coup... I do not desire such a position of power but I will abide by that. I will also eliminate those attempting to do so if you would like. I rather have a ruler in office that won't attempt to disembowel my unit as I rather not have to rip this village apart. It is still my home." Naruto stated and added the last bit to let him know that he still had the upper hand of this situation.
For his part, Danzo only nodded in agreement and he really didn't want to see this village torn asunder. This was his home as well and he loved it. "That would work out well for both of us then... Just one last thing. I would like you and your top agent to accompany me to the peace talks with the Sand. It would do wonders for you to be present and they would willingly give into many of our demands."
"I will... Under one condition. I want Gaara. You are to force them to surrender him to us as I want him for my Youkai and he is a pivotal piece for the resurrection of my family." Naruto demanded of Danzo, his eyes sharpening while he gazed at the man.
Looking only mildly shocked at hearing that, once again Danzo simply nodded as he knew the blonde had his experiments and one to remove the souls of his sealed parents wasn't entirely farfetched. "I see... I doubt Minato wants to assume this job any longer so I have nothing to worry of that and having two flashes at once will cause utter panic in the other nations... Consider it an accord."
"Thank you." Naruto bowed lightly in respect as it wouldn't do to disrespect a good business partner. "Now I must get home. I'm not too sure my unit can hold up much longer without me. ...I am sure it has been quite restless since I have been gone."
"Couldn't kill all their emotions could you... Or perhaps you thought it was best to keep their personalities but obey you whims? ...It matters not. You may go." Danzo was rather curious as from what he could tell there was at least one or two within the Youkai that were practically emotionless yet others seemed absolutely normal but it was none of his business.
With that, Naruto dispersed in a flicker of light leaving the Hokage chuckling as he began his paper work.
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"No he isn't." Hiashi sighed as all the elite jounin had met to discuss whether or not they were going to allow Danzo assume the role as Hokage. "I read the doctrine that the Third signed... Jiraiya is a part of the Youkai and if he is Hokage there is no doubt he would support them. As much as I hate to say it... We need a cold hearted son of a bitch and one that isn't afraid of taking a few loses to be Hokage."
"I'm not to sure that Danzo would do anything against the Youkai." Shikaku added his opinion as he had grown the balls and asked for a copy of the doctrine from the sage so he could see what was on it. "The shadow force he possesses isn't too different from what Naruto's is except right now the Youkai are actually legal. I also find it hard for Naruto to gain such equipment and items on his own. Someone had to be helping him."
Frowning as he knew nothing of what was on the damn scroll the Hokage signed, Kakashi tapped the table he was sitting before. "So are you suggesting that Danzo could have been someway connected to how Naruto was able to obtain such items? If that is so, that is more reason to keep him from becoming the Fifth."
"This is all pointless." Inoishi spoke up, rubbing his temple as many of the jounin looked over towards him. "There are barely any candidates that are worthy of such a position and they are Danzo, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Naruto. Since the latter of the three are part of the Youkai choosing them is unwise and no one knows what Danzo's position is on this... He is the best choice no matter what he decides to do with them."
"But personally... He is just as powerless to do anything against Naruto as the Third was... I saw what he did through that man's memories. We can't stop him. ...The final decree of the Third will stand. I don't want to see such a force find his way to a village like the Cloud or Rock where he would be used against us." Inoishi added before cringing as the images of the Sand and Sound massacre flooded his mind.
All was silent after listening to what the Yamanaka had to say. If there was anyone that had the best picture of what Naruto and his unit could do, it was Inoishi. They may have seen what he did through his little demonstration and saw the mess he had left of the Sand and Sound supposed attack, but they truly did not know how strong her happened to be.
Looking over everyone as he listened, Chouza stood from his seat before sighing. "So who wants to tell him the jounin have accepted him our Hokage?"
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Screams echoed through the dark halls as she tripped over her own feet. Scrambling to get to her feet, nearly tripping again in the process, she picked herself up and began to sprint away from them.
Blood was splattered on her clothing from the one that was killing everyone here. The person... No the monster was just ripping them apart with ease as after he killed the first few with orbs of chakra, he stuck with slaughtering them with a kunai and his bare, clawed hands. And all she knew was that he was after her.
She wasn't sure how she was still alive as he had caught her but just as he was about to do kill her, he stopped and gazed at her. She used that time to break his grip and run but now she wasn't sure if she could escape... Ever single time she rounded another corner she could hear the screams getting closer as the ninja within this place tried to fight the attacker.
Slipping on the cold, slick floor, her face smashed into the ground and shattered her glasses. Without them she had a difficult time seeing anything in the distance. She could see a little so they didn't matter right now as she could feel that he was getting closer and she did not want to die.
Trying to scramble to her feet, her body went rigid as she noted a pair of feet standing before her. Trembling as she believe this was it, she slowly began to raise her head to look at her attacker. But as she did so, hope began to fill her as it was Kabuto standing before her. She immediately jump up and into his arms. "Please get me out of here! Nothing can stop that thing!"
Looking at the girl for a moment, Kabuto simply nodded as he held her close to him and gently patted her on the back. "Don't worry Karin. I'll handle this..."
"Is that her?" Karin's body froze before she started shake horribly as that was the voice of the one chasing her.
Feeling her grip on him tighten, Kabuto looked over to see the attacker before simply nodding. "It is my lord... But you gave her quite a fright. You should have given me more time. I would have brought her to you soon enough."
"I know what you were doing Kabuto and I while I don't care you will not perform such experiments without me present. Now hand the girl over so I may take her home." Naruto responded in a rather annoyed tone as he knew Kabuto was trying to enhance his own abilities by infusing Orochimaru's cells into him without him to see the effects of such an experiment.
"Ah yes... I forgot about that. I will try and remember such things for the future." Kabuto responded before grunting as Karin slammed her fist into his stomach and attempted to run past him.
She, however, stopped as she noticed two others wearing very similar outfits to her pursuer were standing directly behind Kabuto. She could no longer run away... She had to try and fight these monsters.
Yet before she could start anything, her attention was brought back to Naruto as he slowly began to step towards her again. "Karin... You need to come home. With you back we can be a family again. You, me... Mom, dad... We can be together again once I find a way to break them from their bonds."
The blood in her veins became icy cold and her being froze as the young man before her slowly pulled his mask off, revealing a face that she wasn't quite familiar with... But those markings on his cheeks. They were the same as her little brother's. But... How could that be? She thought her little brother had perished...
"Naruto... Is that really you?" Karin stuttered as her entire body trembled as had to fight to keep her fear from rising seeing the blood splattered across his cloak and armor. "I thought you were dead... There was so much blood."
"It wasn't enough... As long as the fox resides in me death is an improbability. I may be wounded or gravely injured but that isn't enough... There is only one sure way to kill me." Naruto responded as he gazed at his sister with what little care he had.
In the very next moment, Karin slung her body into his and began crying, leaving Naruto unsure of what to do as he looked at Kabuto and his subordinates for help. Sure he acted like that happy-go-lucky freak for all those years but it did not mean he understood those emotions he had to fake.
And seeing they weren't helping, he had to try and placate her on his own as he lightly embraced her. "You will have to forgive me... Affection is something I am... Unaccustomed to because of my life."
Karin began sobbing further, soaking the cloth of his cloak in the process leaving Naruto unsure what to do any longer. So he simply lifted her from his chest and looked into her eyes. "I've come to take you back home and take back a few of these pesky Sound ninjas for my lab. Their lives will help me bring forth a way to reconstruct mother and father's bodies so I can remove them from this accursed seal."
"Mom and dad... They're in the seal with it." Karin asked horrified at such a prospect of her parent's stuck in a cage along with the very being that forced them to give their lives to stop in the first place.
"They are... But do not worry. Kyuubi will not harm them as she has grown quite fond of mother and father. She has been helping both father and I recreate a different version of Impure World to summon forth they're true bodies. It won't be long till they are with us again thanks to the fox." Naruto told his sister, leaving out the fact that Kyuubi would be given a body as well; he did not want to scare her any further.
Seeing that Karin was calming, he released his grip of her before motioning over towards the only female member of the unit he brought along. "Flame will take you home. If there is anything you need don't hesitate to ask her."
"But why... Why aren't you coming back with me?" Karin asked as Flame stood at her side, her emerald eyes gazing down the hallway as two figures slowly trotted down the blood stained path.
Having Raven stand beside him and facing the duo that was making their way towards them, Naruto forced an affectionate smile. "I will be. I just have to deal with this first... She'll just be taking you from here so you won't be caught in the cross fire."
Before she could say anything more, Naruto slid his mask on and simply gazed at Flame, who then lifted Karin to her feet before speaking revealing it was Sakura. "Don't worry, everything will be fine. Fox cannot release his full strength if he knows you will be caught within."
As Karin looked at her before looking down the hall, Karin could only numbly nod as everything was happening way too quickly for her to understand. But as she followed the pink haired Youkai down the blackened hallway, she felt something she hadn't in a long time... She felt truly happy... She had a brother again.
Watching them turn the corner, Naruto didn't even bother to turn around as the two that he sensed had been following them upon entering the Wave stood behind him. "It is a shame, Itachi. ...You are one of the few my heart beats for but to know that you are here for Kyuubi... I cannot accept that. She means the world to me."
"What the... What is going on here? Itachi, you never said this kid was in Anbu before. I thought this was going to be a walk in the park unless the toad sannin got in the way." Kisame spoke in confusion as he looked at the blonde he knew to be Naruto and wasn't quite sure why all the information Zetsu had gathered on him seemed to be untrue.
"It seems you've grown strong since I gave you my father's eye." Itachi ignored Kisame as he looked over at Naruto and a very rare smile graced his lips when he noticed the one in the raven mask. "And my, you have even made my little brother quite powerful as well. Did my little message to you back then spur you on?"
Naruto keep his back towards them as he turned his head slightly to Raven and shook his head. "You are not ready yet... He would destroy you if you are to fight now. Leave him to me and take care of the shark with Weasel... I will leave him alive as I have no reason to kill him. I will keep my promise."
Glaring at Fox, his Sharingan spinning wildly at him for a moment, Sasuke growled out as faster then his eyes could see Naruto gripped his collar bone and pain began to spike through the seal that marked him a Youkai. Once he let go, Raven could only grit his teeth as he nodded. "Fine... But let him escape. I want to kill him when we both are at full strength."
"As you wish." Naruto responded as Sasuke's request was reasonable and he had nothing against the Uchiha fighting one another when at full strength. That fight would be quite entertaining to watch. But for now... He would have to deal with him.
"Oh come on! Like the three of you combined could take us..." Kisame started be he suddenly took a step back.
In the very next moment, all he could remember was Itachi being driven through the ceiling before looking straight into a six star Sharingan.
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It was too boring without her love around. Sure, Naruto was about as emotional as rock but he took very good care of her and at times created havoc and chaos when he was sick of everything being mundane. She couldn't do that... Because she wasn't as fucking super insane warrior that probably could make the strongest shinobi in the world bend over and take it from behind!
Shivering at that thought, half tempted to use a kunai to bring Naruto to her so they could try that, Hinata sighed. "God dammit... Where are you my love? It shouldn't have taken this long for you to have retrieved your sister... Unless they sent Kabuto in under cover. Shit. That could take some time."
"Lady Hinata." Tenten's voice suddenly caught her off guard as she twirled around to see Falcon standing before her. "I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but shouldn't you be with the young ones and our trainees? Did our Lord not put you in charge of their training?"
Sighing as Tenten followed Naruto's orders down to the letter and couldn't understand why others didn't, Hinata gave Falcon an exasperated glance as she came up with a logical response. "Yes, he put me in charge of it but he did not say I had to oversee it. They are now in tutoring sessions with the Slug and Toad sannin."
"I see... Is there anything you need of me then? I've had nothing to do since our Lord left and I haven't seen you much." Tenten stated as she indeed remembered Naruto stating nothing about her overseeing their training.
"Why do you ask me such a question? I am not your master." Hinata frowned as she had a feeling Tenten was having the very same problem and wasn't sure how to handle it as she normally always had some order from Naruto to follow and for once... She didn't.
"Because you are his mistress and I obey your orders as long as they don't contradict what my Lord has ordered of me. I also ask as I was sure you had something for me to do from the way you were pacing." Tenten explained as she had caught Hinata's pacing and thought there was something wrong.
Looking at her oddly for a moment, Hinata then looked around at her surrounding before cursing. She had been pacing as she did not remember being in this room a few minutes ago and if fact remembered being in the study with Yakumo. "Shit... What the hell is wrong with me? Am I that bored without Naruto here to keep me company?"
Hearing no response from Tenten, not that she was surprised as the girl was almost a drone due to the strength of her Youkai seal, Eagle sighed as there really wasn't anything to do. "I guess we'll check up on the little ones and then train together. There isn't much else to do as missions have come to a stand still without a Hokage. ...I wonder how his suicide will effect missions sent here?"
"Hinata... Tenten. We have a problem." Shikamaru's voice caught both of their attention as Shadow emerged from the darkness, dressed in his Anbu attire since he currently was on guard duty. "It seems that your old sensei is snooping around the mansion, looking for information. She is alone so I doubt her motives are sinister so I came to inform you."
"Why did you not take care of her? It is your duty to guard and maintain the mansion's defense and to eliminate any threats." Tenten immediately responded with a light growl as the Nara was slacking on his duties again.
"First off, she's at the front door so she is more of a visitor then a threat. Secondly, I don't eliminate my targets immediately as they could have useful information or it could be a simple misunderstanding. Finally, I'm not a drone like you and understand there are times that you need to let some things slide as it is for the best." Shikamaru fired back at her as he always had difficult time communicating with Tenten as at times she seemed robotic and seemed to possess no compassion.
"That's enough you two." Hinata snapped at the two, getting tired with the two fighting whenever they were around one another. "Shikamaru, return to your duties. Tenten, you will follow me and act appropriately if Kurenai is to attack me. You, however, are not allowed to kill her for any reason otherwise I will punish you myself and have Naruto punish you further when he returns."
Shikamaru simply nodded and dispersed into the shadows while Tenten bowed before stepping in line with Hinata as she headed to the door. She unfortunately had to ask Tenten for directions as this was the first time she had an extended stay in the Fourth's palace before the exams.
Once they arrived at the front, Hinata motioned Tenten ahead and the girl moved and opened the door to reveal Kurenai standing at the threshold, looking a little irate as she had been standing there for five minutes. "I am sorry... I got a little lost in here and then my guards began arguing with one another. What can I do you for, sensei?"
Frowning for a moment due to the color of Hinata as they were still pink instead of their normal lavender, Kurenai kept her composure. "May I come in? There are things that need to be discussed."
"Ah, is this about what Naruto said. It is all true you know." Hinata playfully taunted, something she picked up from Naruto as that was the only time he could ever show any joy. "What else is there to say unless you just want to hear it from my mouth? If so, then I'll be happy to oblige."
While worried by the way Hinata was taunting her, she accepted the young girl's hospitality and entered the house, following Hinata, who wasn't lying as the girl got lost once before finding their way to what seemed to be study. But what surprised her was in that study was a former student of hers... "Yakumo?"
Yakumo nearly jumped up at the voice as she had been smitten with the book the toad sage had left her, wondering if Sasuke would allow her to perform such actions the next time the two spent the night with one another. But soon as she saw Kurenai standing behind Hinata, she began to wildly growl as a small tint of red began to form within her eyes. "What in the fuck is she doing here?! Get her the fuck out!"
"You will calm down Yakumo. She is my guest and you will treat her as such. Now sit down and continue reading up on how to pleasure your man. I'm sure Sasuke would enjoy those acts as my love certainly did." Hinata calmly commanded her subordinate before grinning as Yakumo blushed at the final comments.
However, that blush did not remain long as her eyes locked with Kurenai's reds. "I don't want her any where near me! That bitch took my powers from me and I'm only just getting them back thanks to Lord Naruto! You know I want nothing more then to make her pay for what she did!"
"Then go to your room and continue with your story. I have to have a little chat before I send her on her way. And if she is to come here again, I will warn you so that you won't have to meet her face to face ever again. I can't have you hurt her at this moment just because of your grievances against her. It would hurt our lord's goals." Hinata said to placate the extremely furious illusionist, who didn't seem to be backing down.
"But I was promised..."
"You will back down Yakumo!" Hinata roared as she getting tired of the girl's disobedience before she treaded straight at her and stood in her face. "I know very well what my love promised but you will step down at this instant otherwise I will make sure that promise will never be fulfilled with one word to him! Do you understand?!"
Yakumo was frightened as Hinata rarely was ever this aggressive and even when she was Naruto was there to tame her. But now he was out on a mission and no where to be found and the Hyuuga seemed ready to take her out if she didn't say exactly the right things as she nodded. "I understand... Lady Hinata. I will go now..."
"The hell you will! You disobeyed me the first time and refused to stand down until I had to confront you about it!" Hinata bellowed as she glared at the girl before she turned to Tenten and yelled at her. "Falcon take Mist to the detention center immediately and have her wait for punishment!"
"But my Lady..."
"DO IT NOW, FALCON!" Hinata shouted and was becoming enraged as everyone today seemed to be pushing their boundaries now that Naruto was not there to put them in their place. "I am more then capable of defending myself from anything she may throw at me! So do what you are told!"
"Yes Lady Hinata." Tenten responded before she appeared next to Yakumo and easily restrained the girl as her body was still rather frail. "You heard her, let's go."
As Tenten began to push Yakumo from the study and out of sight, Hinata panted slightly as she tried to calm herself from her rage. "I am sorry you had to see that... Everyone is becoming rather disobedient without my love around to straighten them out. I swear it is like I'm dealing when a dozen Sasukes..."
"Did I come at a bad time?" Kurenai had to ask as the violently outburst from her formerly gentle and sweet girl she remembered was rather frightening to witness and it was even more so seeing how terrified Yakumo had become.
"To be blunt, yes. This is the first time we have been as one without Naruto to guide us." Hinata growled out as she still was very upset about Yakumo even if she understood the girl's reasons for disobedience. "Without him very few of us get along with one another and while I normally get along with her... You set her off and while I will punish her, I can't blame her. I would react the same way if you had sealed away my powers."
Flinching as she never wanted Hinata or anyone to know about her failure with Yakumo, Kurenai felt a pang of guilt as she had just caused her first student more pain in the future. But what worried her was what she had said... "What was it that Naruto promised? ...Did he promise her that I would die?"
"Please, my love does not take death so lightly and will not order it unless he breaks into blood form or if it is absolutely deserved." Hinata huffed as she glared at the genjutsu mistress of Konoha. "And he judged from her case that death was not the deserved form of punishment... But I will tell you that pain is in your very near future. Pain even greater then that on what you inflicted onto Yakumo."
Despite being rather unnerved that Hinata had just informed her that they would be coming after her to inflict pain, a small portion of Kurenai still felt it was just for what she had done to Yakumo, even more now then before. "I see... I guess I will accept that but on one condition... It must be Yakumo to be the one to hurt me."
"I assure you it will be." Hinata quickly responded as she gazed at the red eyed women standing before her. "So what is it that you wanted to discuss as I'm not going to let you leave now without knowing what it was that caused this horrid mess."
At the exact moment Kurenai actually kind of wished to leave. What she saw in just this short time was very disturbing and she didn't really want to stay very much longer. Yet she kind had to now as the way Hinata spoke made her realize that she could very well detain her until she said why she had come.
So carefully moving to a chair and seating herself, Kurenai waited till Hinata took a seat before her but still looking pretty livid about the whole situation. Taking a deep breath, gathering the courage she had built to come here in the first place, Kurenai finally spoke. "I actually... I came her to ask for what happened that night so I may now the full details."
"Is that all?" Hinata brusquely responded as her pink eyes flared a little as that really wasn't worth what had just happened.
Barely being able to keep her composure as she slowly began to find it difficult to breath, Kurenai shook her head. "Many people have been asking about what happened... But I want to know why you and Naruto decided to take this path."
"You truly were able to see through my mask, weren't you?" Hinata grinned as she had felt that her teacher was able to sense there was something different about her.
"It was very well hidden I would have to admit... But unlike Naruto you occasionally slipped up and revealed that dark layer that resided underneath. And then in the prelims I could feel it... I could feel you were holding back on purpose to serve a greater goal as were many others that are in the Youkai. I began to realize something was going on when I noticed the matches seemed to have been rigged when Naruto was matched with Neji in the first." Kurenai admitted as she gazed at the former heiress.
"I must say I am truly impressed, sensei. You were able to see that I wasn't the gentle little girly-girl that many thought I was. And I'm even more so that you were able to sense Tenten's manipulation and catch the subtle cues of our true power... Well outside of Tenten punching that fan two meters into the wall when the wind mistress tried to break her back." Hinata's grinned widen before she looked a little sheepish as she remembered how Tenten almost blew their cover.
"As for what happened that night... I did try and save Naruto as I thought they were going to kill him. Now that I think about it I was rather stupid. Naruto really can't die as even his most grievous injuries heal with a good night's sleep." Hinata stopped for a moment as if she knew what she knew then she probably would have waited then tried to help Naruto.
"Anyways... My persistence bothered them so they decided to take care of me and one of the shinobi there plunged a katana through my sternum before he smashed the butt end of it into my skull, cracking it and causing it pierce my skull and started to make me hemorrhage." At this Hinata combed through her hair to reveal a small depression.
Shocked at this as she could tell that it had been much deeper, Kurenai looked at Hinata as her face fell as she wanted no pity as she happened to like what she had become. "Then there is the only part my love didn't tell the truth about... He didn't wait for them to finish with their beating... He was drawn into his mind by his parents and Kyuubi. Once he learned everything, he drew onto their power and utterly slaughtered those that attacked us!"
"He then did as he said and used the power he summoned forth to heal me... But he had to seal part of her power within me and a piece of her soul to do that, creating the first Youkai seal in the process." Hinata stated before sliding her shirt collar to the side to reveal the mark on her collar bone. "This seal, however, is far different from the ones that other possess as it also his demonic mark, designating me as his bride."
Kurenai nearly had a cataclysmic meltdown as she listened to what she had heard. Naruto had created a seal like that of Orochimaru's curse seal to mark his subordinates and not only that he empowered them with a small amount of Kyuubi's chakra before placing a piece of the fox's soul within them.
Hinata couldn't help but smirk as she saw Kurenai's distress. Tilting her head over at her and partially opened her mouth and licked her elongated fangs to focus her attention onto them. "It really isn't all that bad... Now the fox's chakra has become one with ours rising our power dramatically and giving us demonic traits that many of us rather like."
"Do you wish for me to continue on with our story or do you just want to leave and go tell everyone what I've just told you?" Hinata leered at Kurenai with a daring glance, begging her to go do it and to emphasize her point, a bluish hue began spinning around her left hand. "In fact, go do so. I'm rather bored and maybe you jounin trying something against us will brighten my day."
Stumbling out of her chair as Hinata flickered her hand in her direction, Kurenai's heart was racing as she watched the former heiress slowly rise from her chair. "You don't know what you are doing! If well all came to..."
"It really wouldn't matter... You saw the aftermath of our counter attack. And I'll let you on a little secret..." Hinata was now beaming as she was getting a chance to show off what she was capable of doing. "Naruto only did a quarter of the damage. The rest was done by us, Sasuke and I doing the most damage next to him."
"So go ahead and try to rally others against us. If they actually have the balls to do so after cleaning up our mess, we'll treat them to the same show." Hinata punctuated her statement before the chair she had been sitting on was torn to shreds she flicked her focused Kaiten against it.
"It was nice talking to you sensei... Bye Bye now." Hinata waved before Kurenai scrambled out of the room, fearing for her life.
"That... Was unnecessary." Shizune stated as she had watched what had happened after seeing Yakumo being taken into the detention center before glancing over at the chair. "And what are you going to do about that chair? That was Naruto's favorite."
Looking at Shizune for a moment, wondering how she knew of this as she and Tsunade had only been there for a week now, Hinata looked at the eviscerated chair before rolling her eyes and cursing as she let herself get too carried away again. "Shit. When he gets home I'm fucked."
"Literally." Shizune grinned at the Lady of the Youkai, having a very good mental image of just how Naruto would punish her.
"Fuck you!"
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It was ever so quite as Naruto and his Youkai returned to Konoha with Karin in tow, who immediately noticed the looks of fear and hatred aimed towards them. She was a little unnerved by it as they headed to the tower and she found herself edging closer to her brother.
Noticing that she was slowly moving closer to him, Naruto simply gazed out towards those looking and sneered behind his mask. "Worry not of them. They are ingrates that we don't bother with our attention as they are not worth it."
"My Lord!" Falcon's voice came as she immediately jumped down before them and bowed towards Naruto. "Lady Hinata told me to greet you and inform you of what has been going on before you meet with the Gondaime."
"I see... Who is the Gondaime Hokage then?" Naruto ordered her, knowing that asking her would get him no where and he wanted to know if the new Hokage would be any trouble to his organization.
"It is Danzo my Lord. The Third committed suicide " Tenten replied before she continued on with what Hinata wished for Fox to know. "My Lady also wanted you to be informed that as of recently some of the high ranking jounin have been scooping our property and has not allowed us to act aggressively towards them. We have also picked up some new recruits as well."
"Interesting. I will like a full report later. For now I have to meet with our new Hokage. Return home and inform Eagle I will be there shortly." As Falcon nodded and dispersed into a swirl of leaves, Naruto turned to Flame and Raven. "If he is to try anything you are to get Karin away as fast as possible. Weasel and I will deal with him if it comes to that."
As all three bowed slightly, they entered the tower before working their way to the office through a few flight of stairs. Seeing that there were Root guarding nearly every entrance to the stair cases, it was obvious Danzo wanted no one to easily gain access to him as the Root tried to stop their ascent at every stop.
After the first grabbed him as he tried to walk by before Flame sent him through the wall, he order the other to inform the others not to impede their progress and they didn't stop him any longer till he reached the office. At least here he understood being stopped as the Hokage could be busy or in a meeting.
But once the order was given, he was granted access and headed straight to the desk, followed in by his unit along with Karin. "I have come to inform you that I have retrieve Uzumaki Karin from Sound possession safely and successfully. She will hereby by be staying at my manner and will be registered as kunoichi of Konoha."
"Ah... I see she is just fine. That is good to hear." Danzo responded as he looked at her from his paper work and smile. "And I will grant her any amnesty for any actions she was apart of during the Sound and I will instate her as a chunin of the village. Good work, Blood Fox. Did anything else happen on your endeavor?"
"We encountered and defeated the Akatsuki members Hoshigaki Kisame and Uchiha Itachi however both managed to escape after the underground lair we were battling in became flooded due to Hoshigaki's abilities. It was nearly impossible to pursue however I know the Uchiha is heavily injured and will take months to recover from the damages I inflicted onto him." Naruto added at Danzo's request as he had a feeling the man knew the Akatsuki was ready to act.
Simply nodding as everything seemed to go as he predicted, Danzo began to work on the papers before him. "Very good then. I will leave the eradication to the Akatsuki to the Youkai. Now let us get down to business. They may leave."
"Flame, Raven; take Karin home. Weasel, you are not to start infusing his flesh until I am present or I will personally rip it out of you." Naruto ordered without bothering to look back as the exited the office.
As soon as they left, Naruto slid off his mask before take a seat before Danzo's desk. "So what is it that you want of us? We have already upheld our portion of the deal and you are now Hokage. What else is there that you want?"
"Now don't be like that." Danzo spoke as he finished the stack of papers he had been working on before giving Naruto his full attention. "We can benefit very well from one another and I see no reason that our business has to end now that we both achieved our goals. In fact I can see a great partnership that benefits both you and I."
Only tilting his head as it would make things easier with an active Hokage that supported his unit, Naruto kept silent as he waited for Danzo to say what was on his mind.
Having dealt with the young man before, Danzo knew Naruto would simply wait till he came out until whoever he was speaking to stopped beating around the bushes so he got straight to it. "I've read the copy of the deal you forced the Third to sign and while I am all for you having such privileges as we can't afford to lose you, I would like a few things in return for them."
"What things do you have in mind? From I sit there seems to be very little I can offer you now that you are the Hokage." Naruto stated as he was very weary of what Danzo was trying to get at and the man would just come out and say it and that was bothering him.
"First off, I've noticed that it seems like you are creating your own academy for the Youkai... Well I want to expand that a bit." Danzo commented as he had kept a few eyes on them just to see what they were up to. "All I ask for this is that you expand it to include a few non Youkai members to be Konoha's regular special forces and possibly a few for Root seeing how effective your training has been so far. After all, eight A to SS-class shinobi in a year to a four year span shows remarkable results."
"I'll see what I can do with that. The academy I am creating will be mostly taught by either myself, Shizune, Tsunade, Jiraiya or Hinata and I will have to pass by them. I can easily get Hinata's consent but the Sannin will be difficult to convince." Naruto explained as he was sure Danzo knew that both didn't exactly have the highest opinions of him.
"That is fine. I know those two will resist anything I decree." Danzo tilted his head in understanding as the two gained their distrust of him from Sarutobi, though Jiraiya knew much of him through his networks. "Another thing I would like to ask of you to keep me informed. While I will let you work in the shadows, I need to know what you are up to. You can keep your experiments secret if you like but if you discover something important I would also like to know."
"You want to make sure I will not attempt a coup... I do not desire such a position of power but I will abide by that. I will also eliminate those attempting to do so if you would like. I rather have a ruler in office that won't attempt to disembowel my unit as I rather not have to rip this village apart. It is still my home." Naruto stated and added the last bit to let him know that he still had the upper hand of this situation.
For his part, Danzo only nodded in agreement and he really didn't want to see this village torn asunder. This was his home as well and he loved it. "That would work out well for both of us then... Just one last thing. I would like you and your top agent to accompany me to the peace talks with the Sand. It would do wonders for you to be present and they would willingly give into many of our demands."
"I will... Under one condition. I want Gaara. You are to force them to surrender him to us as I want him for my Youkai and he is a pivotal piece for the resurrection of my family." Naruto demanded of Danzo, his eyes sharpening while he gazed at the man.
Looking only mildly shocked at hearing that, once again Danzo simply nodded as he knew the blonde had his experiments and one to remove the souls of his sealed parents wasn't entirely farfetched. "I see... I doubt Minato wants to assume this job any longer so I have nothing to worry of that and having two flashes at once will cause utter panic in the other nations... Consider it an accord."
"Thank you." Naruto bowed lightly in respect as it wouldn't do to disrespect a good business partner. "Now I must get home. I'm not too sure my unit can hold up much longer without me. ...I am sure it has been quite restless since I have been gone."
"Couldn't kill all their emotions could you... Or perhaps you thought it was best to keep their personalities but obey you whims? ...It matters not. You may go." Danzo was rather curious as from what he could tell there was at least one or two within the Youkai that were practically emotionless yet others seemed absolutely normal but it was none of his business.
With that, Naruto dispersed in a flicker of light leaving the Hokage chuckling as he began his paper work.
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