Naruto had remained quiet for most of the trip towards Ame where his client was currently located. He was in such a state since he was still just trying to wrap his head around the one major fact that this was the leader of the group of people he had killed multiple members of within the last several months. If he had been the leader of such a group, he would have been up in arms about avenging them in some way, but this guy didn't seem like he gave two shits about it. That was the reason that this was odd to him since it didn't make sense to him anyway that he thought about it in his head. But even though that was the case he still went with the man since if this all turned out to be an elaborate ambush of some sort as he suspected it would be, well then he would kill off the leader and be done with it once and for all so their group was no longer a threat to him.
Pein, as he called himself, which made Naruto raise an eyebrow the first time he heard it, had told him that his real body was in Ame. When he was told this, Naruto whipped out his elaborate map he had that showed all the different places that he had ever been so that he knew where he could summon his door and save on traveling time since timing was essential when it came to his profession. Unfortunately for him, he had never been in Ame, but that was mainly due to the fact that they secluded themselves from others for reasons he was unaware of. But then again that was a shinobi matter and he was a doctor. He also dealt with of an all kunoichi village that was the same way as well from time to time, but at least that made sense since it was women only so of course he wouldn't be allowed inside it. He had healed a few of those women in the past, but at a town nearby since they explained their village's rule of not allowing men into their village, which he fully understood and did not argue with them in the slightest since he had no reason to do so.
He saw the closest point to Ame that he had ever been, and summoned a door for himself and Pein to enter so as to enter the operating room before he opened another one to his set destination. Once back in the world Pein wanted to hurry up, but Naruto had to explain that he was no shinobi so he did not have the speed that they did so it would take a bit longer than he was hoping. It was like when shinobi escorted civilians. Pein at first didn't buy that excuse, since if he was truly that slow it should not have been possible to kill four separate S ranked shinobi like he did, along with numerous amounts of other missing Nin and bandits like he did. And for what it was worth Pein was right about that, but Naruto would never let him know this since he was a doctor, and when his opponents faced him they all assumed he was slow and were easily defeated because of their arrogance. That was their first and last mistake in life since he was far faster than he ever let on. But in the end Pein relented and it took a day and a half to get to their destination.
He was then blindfolded, which he was assured that it was to protect the location of their hideout, which Naruto understood perfectly since this was not the first time such a thing has happened with bandits wanting his help to heal them. Sure they were bad men but he healed all who paid him to do so as long as they weren't too evil…
Once inside their hideout, he was met with the sight of a man with orange hair in what appeared to be some sort of life support system, but one that he had never seen or even heard of before. With him was a blue haired woman who introduced herself as Konan.
"Sweet merciful Kami," said Naruto with a whistle, "you weren't kidding when you said you needed medical attention. From looks alone you should not even be alive as you are."
"Are you able to heal me," asked Pein as he looked at Naruto with his purple ringed eyes. Naruto had read up on various Dojutsu when he had implanted the Sharingan into himself, mainly to see if there were others that could enhance his eyes even more so as to aid his work as a doctor. Surprisingly he saw none, but the Rinnegan did interest him for a bit. A lot of the abilities he could use after eating what he learned was called a Devil Fruit could be done with those eyes. Naruto remembered when he read from Law's journal about Devil Fruit, and he laughed when he read about the strange weakness of sea water. But he tested it out and he sank like a fucking rock so he knew it was true. He was just lucky that his bloodlines and abilities that didn't involve his Devil Fruit powers were still accessible or he would have been fucked that day. Plus since most of the places he went were inland made his weakness not that much of a factor to worry about. Sure there was regular water but it was sea water that was his weakness.
"Well," said Naruto as he walked up to the crippled man and looked him over, "that's what we are going to see about now."
Naruto than channeled chakra into his hands and began to rub the man all over his body, all under the watchful eye of Konan of course. Usually when he did this, he saw the damage done within half a minute, but the amount of damage done to this man was far more extensive than he had ever seen any other man suffer through. He was a literal miracle since for all things based in reality he should be dead as he was but he was still alive. He would also have added kicking, but the life support system had him locked in place so that was not truly accurate to state. Naruto had to pull out a scroll and began to write down the long list of things that needed to be fixed and dear Kami it was huge…
Once Naruto was done with his examination, he began to tally the total amount owed. The number was massive, with only the wealth of a Daimyo being able to afford the extensive amount of surgery required, and even then the man would go bankrupt upon the end of the procedure. Naruto sighed as he gave the bill to Konan, since he believed that if Pein saw this then he would suffer a heart attack from the amount. Hell, the color on Konan's face disappeared as she saw it and then she began to glare at Naruto.
"Do you take us for fools," demanded Konan as she threw the scroll back at Naruto in rage about the price, "that we would actually pay these clearly marked up prices!?"
"My prices are set in stone," said Naruto with a shake of his head, "I never mark them up, nor will I ever since the amount of clients I have makes it so I don't have to."
"So then why is the bill so high!?"
"Do you fully understand the amount of surgery this man would need to be back in his prime? To walk around without the need of this life support system he is in? This price is all the prices I set in one lump sum! You knew my services were a bit pricy, yet I do what others can't and that is why you sought me out, so don't stand there and yell at me for showing you the reality of the situation and the price that goes with it."
"Can't you give us…," started Konan as she took a moment to think of the proper term to use for this given situation, "I don't know… some kind of bulk buy discount?"
"I wish I could," said Naruto with a shake of his head, "but I am unable to do so."
"And why not!?"
"Because money is how the world works," said Naruto with a closed eye sigh, "and nothing in the world is free."
"You greedy…" seethed Konan before Naruto held up his hand to stop her.
"No," said Naruto with a serious tone of voice, "I am not greedy in the slightest."
"And how are you not greedy with these prices?"
"Because to heal people I need to buy materials to make the various medicines that I use to heal people," said Naruto as he laid it all out in a manner that the two of them would understand him, "my power does not just heal people alone, it just allows me to get to the damage in a manner that no one else can and remove disease or repair what has been damaged. So I need the money to pay for the materials to actually cure the people who I aid, that's how the world works unfortunately."
"There is no way that the materials you need cost so much," said Konan as she crossed her arms and continued to glare at Naruto.
"You're right," said Naruto as he pulled out a journal, "they do not. Some are more expensive than others since they are far rarer, but it's true that they don't cost so much. But the reason I charge so much is for another reason altogether."
"And what possible reason could you have to charge people such prices like this," asked Konan. Pein was curious as to the answer as well, but he was weak as he was and let Konan do the talking for him since so far all she asked was exactly the same things he would if he could do so.
"Believe it or not," said Naruto as he handed her his financial journal to look at, "but I have four separate accounts in my name. Each of them is used for a different thing with the largest one I have taking around eighty five percent of what I earn into it. Then there is one that is ten percent, one is four percent, and the final one is a measly one percent."
This surprised Pein and Konan to hear Naruto openly speak about his finances like this since most people are far more secretive with theirs so that they were not targets for theft. But then again Naruto was a target already for his abilities as a doctor already so it made some sense to them.
"Now I know what you are probably thinking," said Naruto as he pulled out his cane and began to lean on it, "that I keep the eighty five percent of it to myself. That is the furthest thing from the truth. That money I use to fund about a dozen separate orphanages all over. And since I support so many it takes a lot of money to do that."
"And why would someone like you give a damn about orphans?" asked Konan in fear that she would not like the answer to the question. Her and Pein, or Nagato as was his real name before he took up the current on Pein, were orphaned in the Third Shinobi war. No one helped them since no one cared about them so they had to take care of themselves. To hear someone, especially one with such deadly infamy surrounding him, aiding orphans like this made her question his motives on the subject.
"You may find this hard to believe given who I am and the fact that I can use abilities that are akin to a bloodline," said Naruto with a chuckle. Everyone kept thinking that his Op Op powers were a bloodline, but they were not. "But I myself am not from a clan of any sort. I was raised by my mother who died when I was only five and while I know who my father is, he refuses to acknowledge my existence so I am an orphan since he would never claim me. Well, at least back then he wouldn't since now he keeps trying and I tell him to fuck off. But my point is that I know how hard the world can be to those who have lost their families. I also know about those who have all the money, the very same people who have more than they could possibly spend in their lives and yet they don't. But just having money does not make you immune to disease and the like so I charge these fees to get their money and help those that the world would not help get them that help so their lives will turn out better than mine started out. The ten percent account is my funds to buy the materials I need to make my medicine. The four percent I save so that one day when I have a family of my own I will be financially prepared for it. Leaving only one percent for myself to use."
"But why would you limit yourself to such a small amount of money like that," said Konan as she finished looking at Naruto's financial journal to see that he was telling the truth on his spending. He had gone into elaborate details on exactly what he spent it on. Hell he mentioned that he just bought a cup of coffee several days ago. He was very thorough with his accounts on spending.
"Because I was raised poor," said Naruto simply, "and yet I was happy since I had a mother to love me. Yet when she died I was distraught. Sure in time I made tons of money, but the memories of those arrogant pieces of shit from clans with all their money came to my mind and I realized I did not want to be like that so I keep my funds to a minimum since the things I want aren't that expensive. Sure I splurge a bit here and then, like with these clothes since I had them special ordered and a few other things over the years, but I still keep it simple."
"Be that as it may," said Pein weakly, and hearing his voice let Naruto know just how weak he was. Sure he had performed the examination, but to hear it in the man's voice really painted the picture of the man's health perfectly. "Is there any way to lessen the price?"
"I am sorry to say that there is not," said Naruto with a shake of his head, "since the sheer amount of materials needed will drain my reserves and need to be replenished entirely. But I do have a way to heal you that while expensive as well, is nowhere near the price you just saw."
"And what is it," asked Konan with a raised eyebrow.
"First," said Naruto as he twirled his cane a bit before he grabbed it with both hands behind his back, "the procedure is one I keep to myself since if everyone knew I could do it, then the attempts of capturing me to force me to use it on others would skyrocket. I already have enough on my plate to deal with so I would prefer not to add even more to it if it can be avoided. So if I am to speak of my own secret, then I must know of your own. So tell me exactly what is it that this organization of yours is up to? Allow me to reassure you that all matters spoken here will remain with me so there is no fear of me passing on such information to others. Client confidentiality is my specialty."
"We seek to bring peace to this world," said Pein simply, hoping that Naruto would take it on face value and leave it at that alone. The means of which they planned to do that was something he did not want to discuss since to those outside their organization it would appear evil and may prevent the man from healing him.
"A noble cause," said Naruto with a smirk since he was being honest there, "but in such a war torn world as ours with all the various shinobi villages about, just how in the hell do you plan to do that?"
"I would rather not discuss such matters," said Pein, not meeting the man's eye.
"If you wish for me to help you then you must," said Naruto, "since I want to know just who it is I am healing, starting with your true name since I am fairly sure that your parents did not name you Pein."
"Fine," said Pein with a sigh. "My name is Nagato Uzumaki. Our plan is to use all the jinchuriki of the world to force all the shinobi villages to stop fighting."
"Okay," said Naruto as he rubbed his chin, he was surprised to see another Uzumaki up and about since he heard that only Kushina and her daughter were left. "Now while I agree that sounds fine on paper, but in reality that won't work."
"And who are you to say that," asked Konan in anger that Naruto had simply ridiculed their dream.
"I am a man who is a third party to all of this," said Naruto as he held his hands out to emphasize the point, "and I see the world through my own eyes instead of those that show loyalty to a village. I see the way of the world and I know that people have their pride and that they won't just submit like you want them to. You would be seen as a tyrant and then the people would rebel against you time and time again until you are either dead, or there is no one left to oppose you literally since they will all be dead."
"And what do you suggest we do then," asked Nagato with trace amounts of anger in his voice. Naruto was not intimidated by the man in any way since he was so very weak in his current state. "Give up on our dream after we sacrificed so much to make it a reality?"
"To be frank," said Naruto with a sigh, "I would say yes to that. But not entirely. Try to make this land into a utopia of sorts, and show the rest of the world the way towards peace instead of shoving it down their throat."
"That won't work," said Nagato sadly.
"Well be that as it may," said Naruto as he twirled his cane once more a bit as he thought on the matter, "I will heal you since you answered my question. But I feel like it will be for nothing since the route you are taking will only lead to the death of many others along with yourself as well. But I am a doctor and I stay out of shinobi affairs since it is not my profession. But like I said it will still cost quite a bit, just not as much as the normal type of surgery would take."
"And what is this alternative method you spoke of," asked Konan.
"Now bear with me on this one," said Naruto, "but I have the means to clone your body. The process takes a bit depending on various variables such as your eyes for instance. The body is soulless as well as without conscious so it is an incomplete clone of sorts."
"And just how does that heal Nagato?"
"I have the ability to transfer the souls of people from one body to another as I please." Said Naruto matter of factly, "and with that ability I can transplant your soul into one that is you in your prime. What you do from there is your business, since like I said I stay out of shinobi matters."
"For some reason I don't believe you have such powers," said Konan, "they just sound too impossible."
"I knew you would say that," said Naruto with a smirk as he slammed his cane into the ground and pulled out two kunai. He then summoned up a room, which shocked the two of them since they had no idea as to what the hell was happening so they were unaware of the kunai thrown at them. They were pierced through the heart, but they did not die. "Shambles." With that their hearts switched places, which shocked them even more since now Konan was in serious pain and Nagato had no idea how to cope with a sudden sex change like this one.
"So do you still think that it is impossible?" asked Naruto as he pulled out two more kunai to reverse the process.
"No no no," said Nagato in Konan's body as he waved her hands in a comical way, "we believe you, just please fix this." Naruto did as they asked and reversed the process done.
"So now that you see what I can do," said Naruto as he pulled out a receipt and wrote out the new price, "this is the bill for the procedure."
Konan, who was so glad of be in her own body again, took the bill from him to look it over. She knew that Nagato was in pain but the sheer amount of it was insane. She saw that the bill was far less than the other, but as Naruto stated it was still quite pricey. Konan showed it to Nagato, who looked at it and simply nodded in return. Konan than left the room to go and get the money to pay the bill, which they had but it was most of what they had. Naruto began the preparations of the cloning process by taking several samples from Nagato as well as asking if he wanted any changes to his body to be done while he was at it. Nagato told him no, which Naruto could respect and then summoned a door to place the stuff into the proper device to allow the process to take place. He kept a bit of his blood for his own research, but not too much. And when he returned, there was Konan with a massive scroll full of money to pay him.
"Well I have started the process," said Naruto as he grabbed the scroll from her as well as the journal he lent her to show his finances, "so it will take a bit for the clone to fully form. Try and take it easy for the next month or two. I will let you know the moment it does so that we can finish the procedure. I am a man of my word and you have paid me so I will do as you paid me to do. "
"You better," said Konan, "or else."
"There is no need for threats my dear," said Naruto as he began to walk towards his door backwards, "since if I wasn't going to help, then I would have simply left before all this." With that being said, Naruto walked through the door and Nagato and Konan could only look on in hope as it disappeared from their sight…
Naruto had not lied about the path that Nagato was taking leading to his death. Since the man's plans involved all the Jinchuriki then that would mean at some point he would either send others or himself to try and capture Fu for his plans. And when that day came, he would deal with Nagato since he had given the man a fair warning to avoid it…
(Spring Country)
Naruto arrived home to hopefully cook a proper meal and get some actual sleep in, but unfortunately for him he only got one of those things since it was after he had finished eating and was making his way to his bedroom that he saw the note left there by Haku:
Naruto,
Me and Zabuza have gotten into contact with the members of the rebellion in Kiri and have decided to aid them in their fight. I know that you are neutral to shinobi matters, but please can you see it in your heart to help just this once, if not for them, then for me? Kiri holds my most hated as well as my most treasured memories and I can't stand idly by as those like me with a bloodline are hated and killed. So whether or not you choose to aid us, I am going. But I hope with all my heart to see you there.
That was where the note ended. And to be honest, it slightly pissed Naruto off a bit to see Haku just run off and join a war like that. But Naruto could understand her reasons, if just a little since he had never fought for a village since he never belonged to one. Sure he had been born in Konoha, but Minato had stopped any chance at Naruto becoming a shinobi so he effectively killed off any sort of chance of loyalty Naruto would have had for the village. But he knew that he would have done the same thing if he had been in her shoes since in a way he understood her. While his instincts told him that he should stay out of this and leave them to their war, his love for her along with the fact that he already had a massive target on his back for taking Fu from Taki made up his mind. He decided that for once in his life, he will take the initiative and fight since he couldn't be a third party member forever.
Plus as he thought about all of this, a promise he made to himself so many years ago came to the forefront of his mind. When he had lost everything and learned the truth of his life from his mother's journal, he had at first set out to become a shinobi so that he could become far more infamous than Minato ever was so as to overshadow one of the most infamous men who was labeled as a 'flee on sight' in the Bingo book. It was true that he was already infamous as he was with his title of Surgeon of Death, but he had done nothing more than kill a fair number of shinobi who threatened him in a gruesome manner to earn that title. He was no better than any other missing Nin out there, and as he thought harder about it the decision became even clearer. His father had done so much damage with his Hirishin jutsu to the point that Iwa surrendered, so it was time to see if he could beat that.
So he left a note for Fu, who was living there as well in the guestroom since she had nowhere else to go at the moment, and then summoned a door to teleport to the closest place near Kiri that he could possibly get…
(Kiri battlefield – 2 days later)
The battle between the rebels of Mist and those who still resided within it lasted quite some time. Mei Terumi, their leader, had gotten some vital Intel that should have made the battle end in their victory, but it turned out to be an elaborate trap. Mei, Haku, and Zabuza had fought side by side as their numbers began to die one by one until there was too few of them to put up a fight and were captured instead. As Yagura gloated over his victory over the rebellion and the fact that they would now die for their actions, Mei could only scowl as she wondered what had gone wrong. It was only then that she learned the truth…
Her right hand man Ao had been a double agent who was working for Yagura since the beginning. His words had been that he was loyal to the Mizukage, not a hot headed woman who constantly threatened others to cover up her own inferiority. Mei had sworn revenge against him, but he simply spit in her face and punched her as a means to make up for all the abuse he suffered under her command. Yagura had a makeshift executioner's block in the center of the battlefield that Yagura planned to burn after all this was over so as to cremate the bodies since he didn't care to separate the rebels and the loyalists so as to bury the latter.
One by one, the three of them watched as the men and women who fought alongside them for their just cause were decapitated on the chopping block. Yagura wanted Mei to be last since she was one of the people to start this rebellion, and it was poetic that she would be the last one. So over the course of an hour, the rebellions numbers dwindled down to just the three of them, and Haku was handled roughly and basically thrown onto the block. She began to cry in fear of her death since the memories of her own past began to haunt her mind as she remembered her mother's death. Yet as the memories dragged onwards more towards the present, her memories went to Naruto. He had been there for the worst parts of her life and had shown her a happier one when she assumed that there was none to be had.
She smiled at the memories that she had with him, and she was mad at herself for agreeing to that stupid bet with Kurotsuchi with their relationship on the line. She had done so out of pride since Naruto had always told her she was strong and his words went to heart as well as her head. She became a bit arrogant in her belief that she was strong and it was what led her to join up in the rebellion so as to help them with Kiri back.
And right now she wore to Kami herself that if she somehow survived this whole thing, that she would give Naruto a night he would not soon forget…
But as she saw in her peripheral vision that the blade was coming down to end her life, those visions began to fade as the reality of the moment sunk in. She closed her eyes as she accepted her fate, but that moment never came. What she saw instead when she opened her eyes was far worse to the point it had made her scream out loud. There was Naruto in the place where she had just been, with his head chopped cleanly off. The horror of the moment caused the tears to run from her eyes as she saw his blood drip down the block.
"Who the hell is that?" asked Yagura, who was shocked to see this random man appear like that. It made no sense, but in reality it mattered little to him since the man for whatever reason chose death, and because of that he was most likely a bloodline user or sympathizer so he would have died either way if Yagura got his way. Yet his shock only intensified as he heard a laugh coming from the man who had just been killed. It was only then that he noticed the area appeared to be surrounded by a thin pale form of energy.
"Common curtesy states that a man should offer up his own name before asking for someone else's," said Naruto as his body stood up and brushed itself off. The executioner, who nobody knew the name of, not that Naruto knew who he was or even cared for that matter, backed up in shock that the man whose head he just cut off was still alive somehow. Naruto's body then knelt down and picked up his head before he put it on his neck where it belonged like one dons a hat. Something he was all too familiar with since he wore one most of the time.
"My name is Yagura," said the named man as he prepared to order his men to kill this man. "Now tell me your name so I can remember the man who surprised me for once in my life."
"The name is Naruto," Laughed Naruto as he took off his hat and began to twirl it on his finger for a bit before he swiped it behind him. This caused the man behind him who had played executioner to scream since his face had literally been sliced off by his hat. His hat, along with his clothes themselves as well, where specially made in a fabric he paid good money for that had been soaked in his blood for weeks. This made the fabric work in sync with his own blood using bloodline in a manner that he could repair them if ever needed to be as well as harden them into a unique flexible armor. The same went with his hat, but he could also use it as a weapon like he just did since he sharpened the edge with Steel Release. No one ever expected a hat to be a weapon so it was perfect for him since he thrived on unorthodox. He grabbed ahold of the man who tried to kill his girlfriend's face and threw it onto the ground before he slammed it onto the ground and slammed his foot down hard, squishing it into paste so that when the Room was dispersed later he would then die since it was gone now so nothing would stop the massive blood loss he would suffer from not having about a fourth of your head.
"And just why have you decided to come here," asked Yagura arrogantly as he motioned for his men to surround the four of them since they were all still going to die. Nothing would change that fact. "Come to join in the rebellion? You are far too late since they have been decimated by my own forces not too long ago, so you came all this way to die alongside their dwindling numbers."
"I came at the behest of my friend," said Naruto as he pulled out a kunai in his free hand while the other one clutched his cane by the handle. "While it may seem like I came here to fight, in reality I just wanted to heal since I am a doctor."
"Well you are too late for any of that," said Yagura with a laugh as he held out his arms to show Naruto the sheer amount of bodies that littered the fields. Once green grass had become stained in the blood of so many participants of what Naruto thought of as a stupid war to begin with. To hate someone because they were born with extra abilities… That meant they were either jealous or scared of them and either one was just stupid in his own mind. He saw this and simply smirked at it all. "Since the rebellion is dead with the final members of it going to be killed here and now alongside yourself."
"Is that what you believe," said Naruto with a sinister laugh that made all who heard it, sans Haku who knew the tone perfectly well, feel a chill in their spines begin to crawl up. It was a deep murderous tone that Haku had only ever heard Naruto use when her life had been threatened by people. The last person who he did it to was Sasuke and Naruto had castrated him for it, Kami only knew what he planned to do to an army. "Because I doubt it."
"You arrogant brat!" shouted Ao as he rushed forward to slash at his throat with a blade, But Naruto simply smiled as his Shadow Clone pulled the elderly man through the floor of the makeshift execution ground. It wasn't so hard sine the thing had been so hastily built so it was not really that sturdy. Naruto had promised to not use the Shadow Clone Jutsu against Konoha, which he would honor since as he said so many times before today, he was a man of his word, but this was Kiri so the promise did not apply now. So he lifted his foot to cave this man's face in, but he was stopped by someone before he could.
"Wait," said Mei Terumi, who Haku had taken the time to untie along with Zabuza so that they could get onto their feet, as she grabbed his arm, "don't kill him yet."
"Why?" Was all Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow since he wondered why Mei would spare an enemy that killed off her army.
"He betrayed us and is the reason our rebellion failed," growled Mei as she looked at the man with murderous hatred that burned in her very soul.
"Oh is that right," said Naruto with a chuckle. So instead he whipped out a tranquilizer, a powerful one, and stabbed the man in the neck with it. Ao fell asleep instantly and then Naruto grabbed him by the head and handed him to Mei to deal with. He then summoned a door, which surprised all who had never seen his ability before, and told the group to retreat. It was as Haku was about to go through that Yagura finally came to his senses, which made him more of an idiot in Naruto's books that he let all this happen in the first place, and order his men to attack. Haku expected Naruto to follow, but he simply grabbed her by the waist with one arm and slammed his lips to hers, which she returned just as much as she was getting. The loyalists from Kiri were seconds from reaching them when Naruto curved the fingers of his free hand inwards, catching all of the men who charged forward to attack him in his wires like a fly in a spider web.
"Love you," said Naruto as their lips parted for air, "now please make sure Mei and Zabuza don't touch anything."
"What!?" asked Haku in shock that Naruto was insinuating that he was not coming along with them, "have you gone mad!? They will kill you if you stay!"
"Mad," said Naruto in mock hurt, "I'm hurt Haku. I thought that was you loved about me. But don't worry about me. Everything will be alright."
"Don't you da…" was all she was able to say before he shoved her backwards into the door and then dispelled it away so she could not come right back. He sighed since he knew he would suffer for it later, but he then turned around to face the army that still had him surrounded.
"Now where were we," said Naruto in thought, "oh that's right." Naruto then fully formed his hand into a fist, doing so sliced the men caught by his wires into pieces as the wires cut clean through them.
"Are you insane?" asked Yagura with a quizzical expression on his face. "Do you really think that you can take on an army like mine all by yourself? Who do you think you are, the Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze?"
"No," said Naruto with a smirk that was laced with a deep growl over the mention of his asshole of a father's name like that, "I believe that I am better than him. But since this is all a theory, I need to run a few tests to prove it and luckily for me you brought so many subjects to test with."
"I don't know where you sent those three, but it doesn't matter," said Yagura as he made the signal for all his men to prepare to kill this brat. He lost a lot of his men in the battle, but he still had about two thirds of them here, which was about six thousand shinobi who this idiot of a child had challenged along with a jinchuriki. "Since their rebellion is over now and the bounty that will soon be on their heads will make anyone they possibly think they could trust turn on them for the money offered."
"Well if I am correct about that," said Naruto as he pulled out a kunai and cut his hand deep so that the blood began to spill from the wound. This action confused so many since it was an odd thing to do, but not as much as the fact that Naruto threw his blood onto the ground into the pile of dead bodies of the rebels who had been executed not too long ago. "You have to make it back to your office to put such a thing into effect. But unluckily or you, you are not going to make it back to your office to do so."
"And just how do you figure that when we have you surrounded at all angles?"
"Trade secret," said Naruto, "but before we start this off, I just want you to know you already fucked up three times, and it is because of that fact that you have already lost this fight without knowing it."
"You have peaked my curiosity," said Yagura as he made the signal to hold position, but to remain vigilant as they did. "So tell me then, what was my mistake?"
"First off," said Naruto as he held up one finger, "you tried to kill my girlfriend, and I take exception to that. Second, you threatened my future entirely, and I can't have that."
"And just how the hell did I threaten your future," said a confused Yagura. He was not expecting that response at all so it befuddled him to hear it out of the blue from a man he had never met before, "since I don't know who the fuck you even are."
"You hate bloodline users don't you," asked Naruto knowingly, "because I heard you do and since I have about five you must really hate me. So I am going to eliminate you before you begin your so called purge with the rest of the world. But the main reason you lost here today is that you picked the worst possible place to fight me. Anywhere else and I wouldn't have been so bold in my actions, but that is your own fault, not mine."
It was at this point that Yagura didn't care to hear anymore and ordered his men to attack.
"It's too late," said Naruto as he smirked at the men charging forward. They got close like they did before, but as they got closer, they all were knocked off balance as they felt the ground rumble around them. What they saw next horrified them in a manner that would haunt them in the afterlife itself. What they saw was a massive circle of crimson liquid that surrounded the entire battlefield that began to close in on them all. It was as it got closer that they all saw that the liquid coming their way like a massive tidal wave was blood, thick and crimson blood.
"Abandon all hope," said Naruto with a sinister grin as he stood his ground, "ye who enter here."
The army of Kiri was swept up in the liquid along with Yagura himself, who had erected a thick water shield that protected him from the bloody current. Most died in the tides themselves as they drowned in it along with the pressure and the strength of the blow they were hit with when they got swept up into the attack.
Those people were the luckiest ones…
Those who still were alive due to some reason or another felt as the blood surrounding them began to grow warmer. They had thought it was due to the massive amounts of bodies in the liquid, but that was not the reason. Naruto's blood had infected the dead bodies of all who perished on the battlefield, and in doing so gave him the control he needed to turn up the heat in a literal sense. These men were boiled alive in blood as the temperature became too much for them to handle, and even Yagura began to sweat as the water he surrounded himself with began to boil, cooking him while he remained inside it.
Naruto kept this up until he felt that only Yagura was the last one alive, he finally let up on controlling the massive amounts of blood and let it fall naturally. It soaked everything, including himself, but with his abilities it simply disappeared so that there was not a speck of the stuff on his person or even his clothes.
Yagura hit the ground hard and began to cough hard and loud since he was forced to hold his breath as he was nearly roasted alive in his little bubble of protection.
"And then there was one," said Naruto as he began to walk towards Yagura. He whipped out his cane and dipped the head of it into the blood that was literally everywhere so that it formed into a scythe blade that he was so well known for using. He lifted it up and brought it down at an angle, wanting to end this fight before it escalated into something more, but his blade was stopped as Yagura blocked it with his own weapon.
"I won't die so easily," said the Yagura in rage as he quickly pulled out a kunai and stabbed Naruto in the chest directly in the heart area. Naruto was having a real sense of déjà vu here since it seemed like so many people stabbed him in that exact area. But no one was aware of the fact that all his organs were safe and sound in his secret room so that they could not be damaged like Yagura had tried to do. The only thing that could still be damaged was his brain since he could not remove that. Well, he probably could but he was not going to chance it on the off chance that something went horribly wrong. If an organ failed it was no big deal for him since he could replace those, but his brain was not replaceable so he was careful with what he did to it.
"Of course you won't," said Naruto with a growl before Yagura slammed his fist into Naruto's chest. Naruto got blasted back quite a bit before he got his footing back and got into an offensive stance with his cane. He remolded the blood on the tip into the form of a claymore as he saw a massive dragon made of water launched at him. Naruto simply slashed down with both hands, the blood doing its job and slicing the dragon down the middle so that it split in half and went to the left as well as the right of him. He may not be a soldier or a master of weapons, but he did still understand how to use them since they were not too hard to understand like human anatomy was.
Naruto had learned that mixing the bloodlines in his body like he did allowed him to do so many unique techniques such as what he did now. The blade had sliced through the dragon, but his Explosion release had sent out a fiery shockwave out that singed the ground as it passed by. Yagura had to quickly evade it, but he felt the heat that was behind the attack and he had to admit it was hotter than he was expecting it to be.
He didn't expect all that had happened to his men to happen at all, and in his fury that this bloodline using punk had managed to kill off so many people and hold his own like this only fueled the fires of his rage even more so. So he decided to end this here and now and got on all fours as he activated his tailed beast form. His body was covered in a blood red/orange color.
He charged forward to strike Naruto down but he blocked with his claymore. Naruto was a versatile fighter for sure, but he did not have the sheer strength to go toe to toe with a jinchuriki when they got serious like this. So while he was able to block the attack itself, he was still sent backwards yet again. Yagura attacked yet again, this time Naruto was not able to block it, but was able to dodge it for the most part. He got nicked on the skin which he noticed began to solidify into a rock like substance that quickly began to cover his body until only his head was exposed. Naruto struggled to get free, but was unable to do so.
Yagura took this as the perfect moment to strike, and while he was right to think that, he was still forgetting one simple thing…
Naruto was still in control of the blood that covered the field…
So as he got close to essentially claw Naruto's throat out, a fist formed out of the blood and uppercuted the man in the jaw hard. This launched him up quite a bit, which provided Naruto the perfect amount of time to use the blood and slam into the rock like substance containing him. It broke so he was then able to get free of it. It was a good thing too since Yagura landed on the ground shortly afterwards and fired a small condensed Biju Bomb his way. Naruto smirked as he wiggled his fingers a bit and by doing so launched a few bodies into the path of the attack, causing them to take the force of it and getting blown up by it instead of him like intended. This angered Yagura even more to see his men's bodies being used like this and it was because of this that he formed an even bigger one than the last one to ensure Naruto would die even if he used bodies to shield him like before.
It was then that Naruto decided to use something that he never really used. He closed his eyes for a second before he opened them back up with the Sharingan activated. His eyes bled as he used Amaterasu Fire, the black flames covered Yagura as he shouted in pain as they did. Naruto held his head since he had a bit of a headache from using the ability. He wondered if that would continue if he used the power again in the future, but he could think on that later since the fight was still going on. Yagura's beast form was consumed in the flame, leaving Yagura in a damaged state with blood leaking out, but he was not done since he then yelled out in rage as he went full Beast on him. He grew massive in size as all three of his tails now swished behind him.
Now while others would run in fear when pitted against such overwhelming odds like Naruto found himself in right now, Naruto was not like others. He simply stood his ground and grinned. He had expected Yagura to pull out this form at some point and he was right to think that. Naruto then lifted his arms, doing so lifted all the bodies that littered the area using the power of the Room that was still active right now, he then clapped his hands together causing all the bodies to begin to cover all over Yagura's giant form. He had done that he had done to distract the man to get to this point. He knew that Yagura would not be easily defeated by his other attacks and that was why he infected all the bodies and let the blood soak in so as to use them like this.
Yagura screeched out in rage as he used his tails and hands to try and rip the bodies off of him, yet there were too many to rip off. Plus the ones he ripped off just came back like a magnet. Once all the bodies were in place, Naruto simple smirked as he clicked his fingers. The bodies all exploded at once, the force behind it leaving a crater as people miles away felt the explosion.
Yagura hit the ground hard, his tailed beast form all but gone at this point since he took the full force of a massive explosion point blank. He tried to get up from the ground in his severely weakened state, but all he managed to do was get off his stomach and onto his knees instead. He had not the strength to get up any further than that. Naruto appeared once again before him, this time with a kunai that was sparking with green electrical power.
"Like I said before," said Naruto as he prepared to deliver the final blow. Yagura had been a bit of a challenge, he saw that know, and if he wanted to fulfil his wish for the future he would have to prepare properly for when he put it into play. "You picked the worst possible place to fight me. This battlefield runs red with the blood of all those who died in this pointless war of yours. All that blood under my control made me a challenge to even someone like you. And the humorous thing about it is that it doesn't drain my chakra all that much to use it. At least when the person is not alive that is."
Naruto was not lying when he said this. Blood was fairly easy for him to control once he infected it with his own, but when the person whose blood it was alive it took more out of him to control the person. Not by much, but it took more out of him to do so.
"Just fucking kill me," coughed out Yagura as he glared at Naruto with all the hatred he could muster in the hopes that somehow it alone would kill the brat. His blood was spilling out of his mouth as it exited through his teeth and he had to cough out a moderate amount of it. "But I hope to see you in hell someday, since there I will make you suffer personally."
"Noted," said Naruto simply as he stabbed Yagura in the throat with his Gamma Knife and held onto it as the power coursed through the blade, Yagura attempted to scream out in pain as he felt whatever energy was now coursing through him begin to tear him apart from the inside out. Yet Naruto had stabbed the man in the place he did so that he would not have to hear Yagura's screams, since he didn't care to hear them. For what seemed like hours, but in reality was about six minutes, Naruto pumped Yagura with the energy until he saw the life fade from his eyes. Naruto let go of the blade and saw Yagura slump forward a bit as the blood flowed out of his mouth.
Naruto got up unto his own feet since he had to get to his own knees to stab Yagura, who was very short, and made to head back when he felt a massive surge of power erupt behind him out of the blue. He turned around to see what appeared to be some massive spiked turtle of some sort. This was the Biju that had once inhabited Yagura, but was now free at least in energy form since it would take some time to reform into his physical one. To be honest, Naruto did not plan on this since he never killed, or even fought for that matter, a jinchuriki like he had done. Thinking on pure instinct here without any reasoning behind it other than containment, Naruto used the power of his Room that was still up and used the power to channel the beast into a clear cube like he would do if he removed an organ.
To his surprise, he was able to contain the demon in full, but in a small size. He wondered why it was so small when the stories behind such beasts said they were far larger than this, but that was a question for later since he was just glad that he stopped this before it got worse than he wanted it to be. So he looked around to see if there was anyone else in the area who would try to attack him when his back was turned. But to his relief there was no one else. He had found a pretty decent seal master a few months back and had him make a specific sealed scroll for him which he now pulled out. Once used, it unsealed two massive metal doors with a sad face that split in half as it opened. Naruto opened the door and used his power to summon up all the blood in the area and forced it into the door which led to a massive closet. Once the blood was fully there, he closed the doors and resealed the scroll before he sent it away. Usually he would use the blood for later use, but the amount of decay and taint from him using it as a weapon made it all worthless as a means of blood transfusions. But he was okay with this since he could still get use out of this.
And with his mission complete, he summoned the door with the three tailed beast in hand and walked through it...
(Operating Room)
Mei, Zabuza, and Haku were all sitting down and catching a much needed breather from the war they had survived with the help of Naruto. Mei had wanted to torture Ao, who was still asleep at the moment from the tranquilizer Naruto injected him with, but Haku had stopped her by stating that this was Naruto's operating room and he needed to keep it clean so as to heal future patients. Mei was reluctant to listen at first, but Zabuza warned her that she never wanted to piss Naruto off since it never ended well if you did.
Mei demanded to know all that they knew about him, which they did since they were stuck here until Naruto came and got them since he alone had the ability to get to and from this place. They made sure Mei understood that, and it made them worry a bit since Naruto had challenged a literal army. If he died then they would be trapped here forever without a means to escape. As they talked Haku took Ao and strapped him onto the operating table so that the man could not escape and do something stupid like break something in a fruitless search for escape.
They all sighed a breath of relief as the door appeared once more and Naruto walked through it with a clear cube in hand. What shocked them was the fact that the cube contained the sleeping form of the three tailed beast, yet before they could ask him anything at all, he walked into his secret room, but closed the door before they could see inside it, and placed the cube into a container. The beast could not break free from the thing, at least for a while. So he placed it in a container of liquid nitrogen to freeze it alive. The creature was made of energy at the core so it would not die in the slightest. He left it there for the moment since there was not much else he could do. To be honest he had no idea as to what to even do with the creature since he never planned on this, he just wanted to see if he could do it and went off that. But those where thoughts for later since now he had people to answer to.
"So I know you have questions," said Naruto as he came out his secret room, "and I'll answer any and all of them as long as they are not about my secret room there."
"How the hell did you contain the three tail like that!?" asked Zabuza, who didn't want to beat around the bush and simply asked the question that they were all thinking.
"I can't explain the science behind it," Said Naruto with a sigh, "but I was able to use my ability to contain it like you saw."
"What about Yagura?" asked Mei "is he…?"
"Dead?" asked Naruto with a chuckle, "Indeed. I made sure of that personally."
"But…. How….?" Zabuza was having trouble finding the words to form the question. He had tried to kill Yagura years ago and he nearly lost his life when he failed to do so, so to hear that someone else did what he couldn't messed with his mind quite a bit.
"Stabbed through the throat and shocked with electrical currents until his organs all failed in a manner that not even the demon within him could heal the damage done," said Naruto simply. His answer caused Zabuza to unconsciously step back a few paces in fear of the boy.
"And his army?" asked Mei, who wanted to hear about them.
"Boiled alive," said Naruto, "and that is all I will say on the matter. So that just leaves him alone," said Naruto as he pointed at Ao who was still knocked out.
"Well I am about to change that," said Mei angrily. She had waited long enough in her own mind and would begin to hurt the man who betrayed them. She stormed over to his sleeping form and grabbed a surgical scalpel to begin when her hand was grabbed by Naruto.
"Please refrain from using my surgical equipment for your own personal vendetta," said Naruto as he pulled the scalpel out of her hand and tossed it into a container of disinfectant.
"But he needs to suffer for what he has done!" shouted Mei in clear rage about being denied her vengeance.
"I agree," Said Naruto, "but don't use my equipment to do so." Naruto then injected her with a mild tranquilizer as well so that she fell asleep.
"Naruto! Wha…" was all Haku got to say before she too was tranqed asleep.
"Just do it," said Zabuza, who knew that he was next. So Naruto did as he said. Once asleep, he made a Shadow Clone to prepare the room for what was going to happen while he grabbed Haku and made a door to their bedroom. He placed her on their bed and tucked her in before he kissed her on the cheek and then went to get Zabuza. He placed the man on his couch since he never visited Zabuza's place, which was because Zabuza didn't do visitors really, with Haku being the exception and that was not by choice mind you. Then again any man who's threatened with needles to the groin usually gives into the demands of the person threatening them.
As he did all that, his Shadow clone put up the plastic he made into a containment area. Some procedures got bloody, with the stuff getting everywhere. Naruto was not bothered by the sight of blood it was just the hassle of cleaning that forced him to make this. It covered the whole area around the operating table with enough room to move about easily without hindrance. He also moved Ao for a bit to cover the operating table itself in thick plastic sheets before he was once again strapped down since there were holes for the restrains to get through. This limited the blood that got onto the table, and he knew there would be a lot of it.
Once all was in place, he calmly walked over to Mei, who he put into a chair and pulled out a small white pill. He cracked it open under her nose, and once she smelt it she woke up with a jump.
"What… where am I?" she asked as she looked around frantically.
"You are in my operating room and were trying to kill an elderly man before I tranqed you asleep."
"Why the hell did you do that?" asked Mei angrily.
"Because you were trying to use my surgical tools to do so." Said Naruto simply.
"So what? Are you going to let that traitor go!?"
"No," said Naruto as he pulled out a pill and popped it into his mouth, using his bloodline ability like he had made him a bit woozy so he needed it to make that feeling go away, which it did. "He is still strapped down over there."
"So what now?"
"Oh you can have at him," said Naruto as he handed Mei a closed metal box, "but use these instead of my surgical equipment."
"What is this," asked Mei as she looked at the box in confusion.
"Old rusty tools that I was going to sell as scrap to a man who melts metal down to sell to others," said Naruto with a smirk. "I never said I wouldn't let you kill the man, just that I wouldn't let you use my surgical tools to do so."
"Has anyone ever told you," asked Mei as she began to chuckle as a sinister smile appeared on her face, "that you are a sadistic man?"
"A few times actually," said Naruto as he began to head towards the door, "but take your time. Don't worry about the mess, that is why I set up the room as I did. When you are done, put the tools back in the box and come through the door. It leads to my house in the kitchen. Oh, before I forget here."
Naruto pulled out another pill and tossed it to Mei.
"What is this?" asked Mei who had never seen a pill like this.
"Snap it in half under the man's nose," said Naruto, "it will force him awake. No sense in torturing a man if he is asleep."
"I think you and me will get along quite well," said Mei as she laughed.
"Only time will tell," said Naruto as he finally made it to his door that led home. It had been a long day and he wanted to enjoy a nice hot shower and sleep before the next major event eventually involved him. So he closed the door behind him, and let Mei have her sadistic fun.
And as Ao screamed to the heavens in pain from the pain he was forced to endure until he final died from it, he should have been thanking his lucky stars that Naruto had been too tired to do it himself after fighting off an army and a fully enraged Mizukage like he had.
Naruto would have been even more sadistic…
(A/N: Well I hoped you like this chapter, and since I have a feeling that people will ask about it let me set one thing straight…
Naruto has many techniques under his belt, but he does not have the raw physical strength such as Tsunade or A have so he has to fight with tactics instead. Sure he has multiple bloodlines, yet not one of them increases his physical strength. His Steel Release can harden his skin to the point it is harder to pierce as well as hit harder if he uses it to punch someone, but that's about it. So far you know he has:
Blood Control
Steel Release
Explosion Release
Those are the three you know he has, and yet there are still two more bloodlines that have yet to be revealed, yet I gave a hint to one of them in the fight. I question if anyone can figure it out. It is a real bloodline in the Naruto universe; both of them are from now extinct clans so there is a hint. Until next time!