Chapter 6: A Scarred Past

Naruto walked up the stairs to take his place next to his squad since his match was over and he was not going to fight another one at this point since they were only expected to fight the once to dwindle the numbers down to half of what they were now. Naruto could only chuckle to himself as the various Chunin hopefuls went far out of their way to get out of his own path since after what he did to Kiba they were genuinely terrified of the guy. Most of them had grew up to become shinobi and thought that there would be grand adventure and fortunes to be earned in their futures, but Naruto had just injected them all with a harsh dose of reality with his actions. No one expected Kiba to become a limbless torso, and now that she saw someone their own age with such abilities not only capable, but willing to do that to someone it did not bode well for many of them and they were honestly considering a new career path.

Minato took a minute to make sure that Kiba was in good hands with the medic Nin before he took out the button to start the next fight. But before he could press the button, multiple shinobi from other villages that had made it through the Forest of Death raised their hands and forfeited their chances of advancing. Minato was genuinely surprised to see so many people quit like that, but after seeing Kiba becoming crippled like he had it was not wonder that they would do so. So when those who forfeited left the building to pack up their stuff in their rooms and go home, Minato called over one of his shinobi to look over the list of those still in this event. He saw that the numbers were far lower than he had expected and thought about it for a second since they were just two people over the limit that they wanted for the third and final portion of the exam.

So he did the most basic thing he could possibly think of and drew four names from a box to decide the four people who would fight with the rest passing this portion and would head to the finals. Minato took the time to explain this to those still left since they had to know and then pulled the names before he had them shown on the board.

Gaara vs Lee

Gaara saw his name on the board and simply grunted since to him it didn't matter if he fought or naught. But this did present the perfect moment to slate his bloodlust as the voice in head was whispering into the dark recesses of his mind which only made his insomnia from lack of years of sleep worse. So he put up two fingers up to use a jutsu and felt as the sand he controlled swirled around him and he disappeared in the swirl of it. He then reappeared as the sand swirled around in the center of the arena and then dispersed to show Gaara standing there like he had moments ago on the balcony.

Lee pumped his fist in joy that he would be able to show off all his skills that he had trained so long to master with his sensei. So he jumped from the balcony and landed on the ground and quickly got to his feet and positioned himself into a fighting stance with one hand behind his back and one hand out with his fingers up and used them in a 'come get me' motion.

"I'm so very happy that I can still get the chance to fight in this part of the exam," said Lee with a smile on his face. He expected for Gaara to say something back, but he just gave the young bushy browed man a glare that could freeze even ice itself. They remained like this or a bit, and Naruto as well as the others who still remained all began to wonder just which one of the two combatants would be the one to make the first move.

And to no one's surprise it was Lee who charged forward to try and land the first blow of the match. He got close to Gaara and then jumped up into the air and delivered a spinning kick towards Gaara's face, but the problem with that was that Gaara's sand blocked the kick without him moving so much as an inch from his starting position or even losing the glare on his face. Lee saw as the sand then morphed into a hand that tried to engulf him within it, but he was too quick for it to do so and jumped back just in time.

Lee had been taught by his sensei from an early age to analyze his opponent for a weakness, and to his regret he was not able to see a clear one since the sand seemed to be a factor that he would have to get past before he could inflict any sort of damage to his opponent in the first place. So with no other real options to work with at the moment, he continued his attacks, but every one of them was deflect by Gaara's sand that shifted around so Lee's kicks or his punches did not connect.

A strand of sand tried to attack him from behind, but Lee was able to use a kunai to cut through it so that it was not in a solid enough mass to do more than blow sand in his face. He tried to use the kunai to try and cut through the sand that was protecting Gaara himself, but that plan failed since the sand was thicker around him so the kunai didn't cut through and Lee was forced to dodge yet again as it tried to engulf him. Lee had to expertly dodge sand attacks from all around him, yet his intense training was paying off since he was able to do so without breaking a sweat while doing so. He then threw some shuriken to see if that was a viable option to attack his opponent, but once again his efforts were thwarted by the damn sand that Gaara had protecting him.

Lee was starting to become a bit stress over the fact that not only were none of his attacks working against Gaara, but he had yet to even move from his spot since the match started in the first place. It was when he looked closely that the giant gourd on Gaara's back was spilling out more sand that fell into the ground. But the thing that caught his attention was the fact that it was not pooling around his feet like it should have since it was hitting the ground, yet it wasn't. It was then that Lee felt the ground rumble and things then went straight to hell in a handbasket.

Lee tried to jump out of the way as multiple tendrils of sand burst out from the ground, but while he was able to dodge a number of them he still failed in the end and was grabbed by the foot by one of them. Lee was then slammed into the wall hard, knocking the wind out of him since the pain was intense. Yet before he could catch his breath his entire body was pummeled by fists made of sand before he was then slammed hard into the ground near Gaara with enough force to crack the ground into a spider web like pattern.

Lee tried to get up from this position, but Gaara was not done since he dropped a massive mass of solid sand onto his back with enough force to break his spine. Lee cried out in pain as he felt his lower body go completely numb. The damage that was done to him had literally crippled him from the waist down. Gaara began to smirk as he finally moved enough to lift his hand up so as to finally engulf Lee in his sand so as to crush him in a bloody manner, but before he could do what he had planned to do he was bombarded by several Jonin with water jutsu to soften his sand and extract Lee so he didn't die.

"LEE!" shouted the boy's sensei Might Guy as he saw his prized student in such a situation and it hurt him to see Lee like this. "What did he do to you?"

"Di… did I make you proud sensei," asked Lee before he coughed out blood that had pooled into his mouth.

"Lee," said Guy as he held his student's hand as a form of comfort, "you will be fine. We just need to get you to the hospital and the doctors will fix you up."

"I highly doubt they can," said Naruto who appeared next to them both out of the blue which made Guy flinch since it was surprising.

"What," was all Guy was able to say since he really had nothing else he could say in a situation like this.

"I am saying that the damage done to his spine is too extensive to be healed in any hospital," said Naruto as he gave the young man a look to see just how badly Gaara had hurt him.

"How do you know this?" asked Guy in slight anger that this strange young man had come out of the blue and said that his student's chances of recovery were basically zero.

"You may have heard about me through rumors," said Naruto simply with a shrug of his shoulders, "My name is Naruto, and I am known throughout the Elemental Countries as the Surgeon of Death."

This bit of information hit Guy in a manner that left him not only shocked but completely white in the face as well. He had heard about Naruto from various rumors that had spread in the village, but he had assumed that the person who was dubbed such a name would be far older than Naruto was. But from what he had heard that Naruto was able to do, the boy obviously knew more about Lee's critical condition than he possibly could since he was not a medic in any sense of the word.

"Can you heal my student?" asked Guy hopefully since he wanted his student to become a great shinobi in the future and as he was right now he was unable to continue on with his career.

"Actually I can," said Naruto with a smile. While he may have been cold to those who were his enemies as well as those he swore vengeance against he was not to those he helped in the medical field. On the contrary it made him feel good inside since he knew his mother would have loved to see him help others like he did. "And that is why I am here right now, to offer you my services to heal the man."

"Please help my student!" said Guy as he bowed his head to the point that it touched the ground as he begged for Naruto's assistance. The spectacle made Naruto feel a bit embarrassed since he didn't really expect it. Most people just knew that he did what he did for money so there was no need to beg him like Guy was right now.

"Okay," said Naruto with a sweat drop as he saw this, "there is no need to beg like that. I'll help your student, but it will cost a bit for the medical procedure."

"Whatever the price is I will happily pay it!" said Guy as the tears of joy began to flood out of his eyes. Naruto pulled his book of prices out and saw the various things he would have to heal to fix Lee and get him back into pristine condition. This is why a lot of his operations got expensive like they did, since the prices began to pile on and the gross sum was larger than if the patient only had the one problem alone. So once the price was tallied up, he wrote it out on a receipt and handed it to Guy to see with his own eyes. Guy's eyes bugged out at the high price since he did not have that much on him or even in his account at the moment.

"I am guessing from your reaction that you don't have the money that this will all cost," said Naruto with a sigh, "but you look like a trustworthy sort of guy who truly cares for his student. So if you will sign an agreement to pay me the price in full by the end of the Exams than I will operate immediately and he will be up and about good as new after a few days' rest."

"Yes," said Guy as he wiped the tears from his eyes. Naruto pulled out a scroll that he had multiple copies of which were the simple terms of future payment which stated that if the money was not paid in full then fees would be added and then organs would be harvested if no attempt of payment was made so as to make his money back in some way. It may seem gruesome but those organs would help others so it was kind of a chaotic neutral issue if you thought about it in the broad scheme of things. Naruto wrote out the price owed, which Guy signed without hesitation and then Naruto summoned up the door to his operating room and Lifted Lee up in his arms and entered it to operate on Lee. Soon after he left, various shinobi appeared to smooth out the arena for the next fight between the final two Genin chosen whose names appeared on the board

Hinata vs Neji

'So it has come to this Hinata. Our long awaited match. One without the Hyuuga Main family holding me back from showing you my power,' thought Neji to himself while Hinata looked pissed at seeing her cousin showing such hate for her in his eyes.

Hinata Hyuga was an arrogant woman if there ever was one. Then again she was from the Hyuga clan and at least half of them were haughty because of their Dojutsu. Hinata was the daughter of the clan head Hiashi, and she had been taught most of her life that she was better than most people and those lessons had stuck to her in her youth and had remained into her teenage years. She had been kidnapped at the age of three by a Kumo shinobi posing as an ambassador and had been saved by Konoha shinobi. Something in her mind snapped that day, and she wanted to never feel that type of helplessness again in her life so she trained her mind as well as her body to be cruel like many of the rest of the Hyuga Main Branch members were.

She had remembered the day she had to fight her younger sister Hanabi for the right to bear the title of Clan Heiress, and she had fun beating that little bitch within an inch of her life so that she couldn't get back up. She then applied the Cage Bird Seal onto her sister's head and laughed as she used it with glee as she saw he sister twitch in pain on the ground. Neji had been there that day since the whole family was made to watch the event and saw that his cousin was truly evil down to the soul.

The failed kidnapping of Hinata had ended with Neji's father being sacrificed to Kumo so that they got a Hyuga, but the seal on his head killed him so they didn't have a live one. Since that day he had nothing more than rage towards his uncle and his cousin since Hiashi was supposed to be the one sent to Kumo, being the clan head and all, but Neji's father was his twin and looked just like him so he was sent instead. Because of Hiashi's failure to protect his own daughter, Neji was now without a father and a life of essentially slavery to look forward to the rest of his life under the fear of death with the activation of the seal on his head.

But now, the gods had seen fit to offer him a chance to finally vent out his fury towards his cousin and he would be damned if he didn't act upon it…

"We really shouldn't have to fight like this Neji." replied Hinata with an arrogant tone of voice while getting into her Gentle Fist stance, which mirrored Neji's.

'I am going to regret this in the end. I just know it,' thought Neji before the proctor signaled the match to start and saw Neji move in to dominate the match as fast as possible.

On the balcony Kurotsuchi and Haku watched the match with sharp keen eyes which never missed a single action performed by either combatant. Neji was being the aggressor of the two, striking with the purpose of crippling his slightly younger, and yet far more pissed cousin. Hinata for her part was showing she was quite agile when in a fight and was able to dodge the strikes aimed at the key parts of her body which showed that even with her arrogant nature she had taken her training seriously. When she was not dodging Neji's strikes, Hinata tried to deliver her own back in return, and was actually holding her ground against him. This pissed her off since in her own mind she should be winning at his point since Neji was a Branch member of the family and as such had far less training, yet here he was matching her blow for blow with skills that he should not possess. But while Hinata began to grow slowly tired from all this, Neji's sheer hatred for his cousin kept him going strong. So eventually he powered through her attacks and began to inflict damage.

As they fought, Naruto appeared via his door since he was done with Lee's surgery. The process while unorthodox in application did not take very long since he knew exactly what he was doing. This was not the first or even the last time he would do this. So he took his place back next to his friends, and nodded to Guy to let him know Lee was fine. Guy smiled and gave him a thumbs up in appreciation. So now that he was back without any form of distraction he looked down to see Neji kicking Hinata's arrogant ass and he had to admit that he had not expected this chain of events.

"He's damaged her arms pretty badly," whispered Naruto to himself and saw Neji deliver an uppercut to the girl's face before delivering another blow that sent her flying back onto the ground. Hinata was practically seething in rage at this point and people could hear her growling in anger.

"It is said the Hyuuga Clan's Gentle Fist Taijutsu focuses on shutting down chakra points of their targets using the Byakugan. It has the power to see those chakra points and shut them down with each strike using the chakra in their hands. By hitting the specific points all over the body, a person's chakra network cannot function, or if the Hyuuga wishes to be cruel...damage a person's internal organs without actually piercing the body," added Haku while seeing Hinata get up and Neji once more going on his brutal attack on the girl.

With his dominance being clear with each passing second, Neji decided to go in for the kill, and hit Hinata right at a point in her chest near the heart. The girl gasped in surprise and in pain before stumbling back, clutching her chest, and looking at Neji in shock that he would hit such a point in her body. She knew the chakra points of the body almost as well as Neji did and also knew that point when hit could cause serious damage to the heart muscles if not cause heart failure if left untreated. Before Hinata could even manage to speak, Neji was upon her again, hitting her in the stomach, making the girl cough up blood, and cause the girl further pain. Neji thought now was the perfect time to finish this once and for all, but he then fell over in pain as the seal on his head was activated.

Hinata had a smug look on her face as her hands formed the hand signal to activate the seal, and as she saw her cousin on the ground crying out in pain from the agony shooting directly into his brain she could only picture what horrific punishment her father would give Neji for attempting to strike her down like he did. Who knows? Maybe he would end up like her pathetic uncle and be shipped off to die, but that was a question for later and Neji's pain was her enjoyment for now.

Naruto looked at this with eyes full of disgust since she was basically cheating. She was given a handicap in the form of the seal on Neji's head. Neji had been moments from victory and yet Hinata cheated so he was unable to finish her off, and what pissed him off even more was that all the people watching this weren't even doing anything to try and help the poor lad. See this was another reason he disliked the arrogance of Clans in villages since they used the whole 'Clan Matters' excuse to get away with shit like this kind of thing.

Naruto loathed Hinata for her attitude towards others she deemed as beneath her. Plus add in the fact that the little bitch of a princess had used her family's style to force him to his knees and then stepped on his head before slamming it to the ground so that he bowed to her only made the hatred he had for her far more understandable. While he wished to deal with the bitch personally in a manner such as he had done to Kiba, but the thought about it for a moment before he grinned since this situation provided the perfect opportunity to do what he wanted without repercussions for himself. So with that in mind he bit his finger and then pointed the bloody digit at Neji. He fired the blood at the tip like a bullet from a flintlock pistol, but without the bang caused from igniting gunpowder. The blood hit Neji in the side of the head, but he was already in tremendous amounts of pain so a little more from this new source went undetected.

The blood seeped into Neji's pores; there it began to infect the lad from the inside quite quickly. Naruto felt as this happened and waited until he had full control before he acted. He forced Neji's body to rise up, still screaming in pain since he could do nothing about the seal at the moment, and pounced upon Hinata and began to pound her face using Neji's fists as the instrument of both their hatred towards the girl. This surprised many to see Neji still attacking while screaming in pain, but eventually when the shock of the situation faded several jonin appeared and pulled Neji off of Hinata before medic Nin arrived to take her away for immediate medical attention.

Once the match was over, Naruto clicked his fingers so that the blood he infused into Neji's body became dormant and he no longer could control it since it morphed into blood type of the person it was inside of. He learned he could do this and it came in handy from time to time like it did now. This caused Neji to pass out and fall over in exhaustion since his body was far beyond its limits with all that transpired. He was picked up by a medic Nin as well so as to get medical aid for himself.

Minato congratulated the Genin who were still here and told them that the finals for the events would be held in one month's time. He then had them all pull out a number from a box to determine the matches for the finals, and they went as such;

Naruto vs Gaara

Kurotsuchi vs Sakura

Haku vs Ino

Shikamaru vs Temari

Shino vs Tenten

Neji vs Naruko

Choji vs Kankuro

Once the matches were set up and official, Naruto met up with his group so as to walk with them back to the hotel in the village itself so that they could collect their stuff and head out from the village. But before he joined them to begin the walk back, he called over Guy and told him to wait for a minute before he entered his operating room to collect Lee. Guy grabbed ahold of the sleeping lad and told Naruto he would make sure Lee took it easy for the next couple of days as well as have the money in full by the deadline before he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

Naruto then smiled as he finally joined his group, who were still glaring at each other the entire time that they were walking back without a word being spoken by either of them the entire way back. Naruto had tried to get a conversation started to break the awkward silence but the moment he opened his mouth to try and say anything he felt the killing intent they had towards each other directed at him and he knew to simply keep his mouth shut if he wanted to survive unscathed. He may be a surgeon capable of gruesome maiming and killing, yet he was a man who knew when to fear women at times like this.

Eventually they made their way to the hotel, where Naruto separated from the girls since he could sense they were still pissed at one another so he was not going to get in their crosshairs. He left a simple note that explained that he would meet them at the front gate by 8pm to take them back home so that at least they had a proper departure time set.

So Naruto set out to find something to eat since he had been eating dried meat for the past few days and he wanted a proper meal to leave this village on. So he searched for a place to eat at and finally decided on a BBQ restaurant that he had seen in his youth but never was able to go inside since him and his mother never had the money to pay for it. He went in and sat at a table before a woman came and gave him a menu. He ordered what he wanted and waited for a bit until she came back with his order. The meat was raw, but then again there was a mini grill built into the table so he could cook it there. So he did just that and enjoyed his meal in peace. He left a good tip and paid for the meal up front before he left to find something to pass the time until they left the village. He found a quiet place to sit for a spell and write out messages for various people that he summoned crows to deliver for him with the utmost haste since timing was essential for this matter. He smiled as the last one took off with the message he wrote out and then sighed I relief that he could finally relax for a few hours before he set out…

Yet the second he got comfortable his gut went off like firecracker and he moved just in time to dodge a swipe of a clawed hand that sliced large chunks out of the tree he had been resting under. Naruto quickly got to his feet as he rolled out of the way from the surprise attack and got a good look at the person that attacked him out of the blue. She had long, spiky, untamed brown hair, vertical slit-like pupils, elongated canine teeth and nails. She had what appeared to be fang markings on her cheeks as well as markings over her eyes and a dark shade of purple lipstick on her lips. She wore the standard outfit of a Konoha shinobi consisting of flak jacket and a black suit underneath with the sleeves rolled up and bandages around her legs.

"I am gonna guess by your physical appearance that you are an Inuzuka," sighed Naruto since he recognized the appearance of those who belonged in that particular clan.

The woman did not respond at all to his assumptions, she just stood there and growled in rage.

"And judging from your rage towards me I am gonna guess that you are Kiba's mother," said Naruto as he got his cane ready for the fight that was most likely to happen. He had crippled the woman's son beyond any sort of medical care so it was a fair assumption that she was here to do to him what he had done to Kiba.

"You will pay for what you did to my son!" she snarled.

"Before we proceed with… well whatever it is you plan to try and do," said Naruto as he pulled out a medium sized vial of his blood and began to toss it up and down in his hand, "can I at least get your name?"

"Sure, why not?" responded the woman angrily, "my name is Tsume Inuzuka. Remember it as I rip your body to fucking shreds!"

"Not one to gloat or kill without good reason," said Naruto with a glare of his own, "but are you sure that you wish to go down this road? You have a chance to simply leave here. I have no quarrel with you and as such I don't want to hurt you."

"You seem to be under the assumption that I am alone in this," said Tsume with a sinister grin as she howled out in a manner that people miles away heard her. Within moments, Naruto was surrounded by at least seven eighths of the entire Inuzuka Clan who were all there to join Tsume in her vengeful attack on Naruto. Those who were not here were the ones who were too young or old, or were on missions away from the village entirely so weren't here to aid Tsume in her vengeance. "When you hurt one of our family then you must deal with the rest of us!"

"Well shit," said Naruto to himself since he did not see this coming when he did to Kiba as he did. He never had to fight off an entire clan before and while he was confident in his abilities he did not want to fight them like this since he was not one to fight those who have not pissed him off. Even now these people were here since he had crippled one of their own and he could understand that since he would have done the same. But before he could try and calm the crowd down in some manner they all attacked in unison.

This made him suffer a flashback of the moment in time when he was nearly killed by a pack of wolves when he was seven. Now as he saw them charge him he looked at Tsume who had murderous rage in her heart and activated his Haki in full. The effect was immediate, with the effects being amplified by their animalistic instincts. From an outside appearance it would seem that they were simply afraid of one single person, yet what their instincts showed them was a shadowy figure of a monster that towered all of them in size with the will to kill them if push came to shove. Tsume, her family, and their canine companions fell to their knees in a cold sweat as they looked down in fear. They couldn't even look at Naruto in the face as he used this ability since it was so potent. Naruto walked over to where Tsume was kneeling and used his cane and placed it under her chin to raise it up so that she looked at him.

Tsume looked him in the eyes, and at first she was expecting the same type of murderous rage she had towards him to be there, yet what she saw surprised her entirely. There was no anger or hatred in his eyes, only understanding.

"I know why you did what you did," said Naruto with a serious face since he honestly did, "since any woman worth their salt would do the same thing for their child. Yet I don't wish to harm you since I have no quarrel with you."

"Then why did you cripple my child," growled Tsume. It took all her willpower to even muster up the courage to growl and it affected her body as her eyes began to tear up from it.

"I did it out of vengeance," said Naruto simply, his face devoid of all emotions since this was a serious case.

"What did my clan ever do to you?"

"Your clan has done nothing to me," said Naruto as he shook his head, "but your son did and it was the reason why I did what I did."

"What could my son have possibly done to warrant such a crippling blow be dealt to him in the gruesome manner that you did it?"

"Let me explain it to you," said Naruto as he glared in anger as the memories of the things Kiba did to him infuriated him as they came to the forefront of his mind. "I was born in this village. I had nothing more than the name my mother gave me and the bare minimum of anything else. Yet I was happy since I had a mother to love me with all her heart. Times were tough for us since we were so low class in the village that even if we died no one would know or even care about it. I tried to make friends, but no one wanted me as a friend. Your son and his own group of friends that consisted of the other clan heads children saw this as the perfect chance to bully and harass someone without any form of repercussion. Who would believe the word of a child no one knows over the child of a prestigious clan member and they knew it. So they sought me out constantly to harass and bully me for months, which at first wasn't too bad but it gradually got worse to the point that they physically hurt me. My pain was their enjoyment since I could not fight back."

"That isn't true," said Tsume softly. She couldn't believe that her son that she had raised would do such a thing to another human being like that. But she could not lie to herself over the fact that her son had gotten fairly arrogant over the years, and despite her best efforts to snuff it out it persisted to this day.

"Oh but it is," said Naruto as he held up his hand and pulled off his glove. Tsume saw a massive scar that went right down the center of his hand that looked like a stab wound scar, but judging by the size and the irregularities of the shape it had to have been multiple stabs since the end bits were in all directions. This scar had remained and even his own bloodline could not heal it since he had gotten it after the scar had solidified onto his hand like it was/ "The day that solidified my hatred for them was on exactly one year after my mother's death. They had found me crying over my mother's grave and took turns beating me black and blue, all the while laughing about how worthless I was and that Kami herself agreed and had taken my mother away from me as a sign to simply do the world a favor and take my own life. I had finally had enough and they grew angry that I mustered up the courage to fight back for the first time in my life. This was the end result since they held me down and took turns stabbing the very hand I used to throw a punch at them. This scar has reminded me to this day of my hatred towards those who hunted me down like I was an animal to hurt me for their sick amusement. Actions have consequences and Kiba's have led to this since the boy he scared like this grew up with hatred in his heart and the thirst for vengeance. So it is no one's fault other than his own since he chose to go down that path."

"I understand," said Tsume in grief that she had failed to see this monstrous side of her son to stop it. "But can you heal him?"

"I refuse," said Naruto, "since I did this to ensure that the rest of his life he will be reminded of his greatest mistake which was hurting me for his sick amusement. So now he gets to waste away as a useless nothing that he has always claimed I was, without a means to recover or even the means to pass on his genetics. Till one day he will beg for someone to put him out of his misery, and when you Tsume his own mother don't have the heart to end his life, let me know since I have no qualms about doing it."

Naruto then kicked Tsume onto her back, which caused her daughter Hana who was close to her to growl a bit before she suffered the same way as Tsume had with tears in her eyes.

"Now I want to know one thing before I leave here today," said Naruto as he placed his glove back onto his hand to cover up his scar once again. He then pulled out a small vial of blood that he crushed in his hand and felt the liquid flow down his hand onto the cane as it had when he fought Kiba. "I may not seem like it with my reputation of killing that earned me the title Surgeon of Death throwing doubt on my claims, but I would rather seek a peaceful resolution to my problems if presented with one over the usual means of violence. I am a doctor and I prefer to heal over killing. I do not seek out enemies to slaughter, yet I will not stand idly by as my friends and loved ones suffer and will do all in my power to protect them from harm. You have let it be known that your clan now has a vendetta against me for my actions against Kiba which means that you will not only hunt me down but will also seek out other means to lure me into an ambush to kill since that is how you shinobi operate. This puts those who I call my friends at risk and I can't have that. I don't want to fight against those who have not wronged me personally."

"Why are you telling me this," asked Tsume as she weakly tried to move Naruto's foot off her chest, but whatever force had forced her entire clan to their knees had sapped much of her strength as well so she did not have the power to move it from its position.

"Because I think ahead since it comes with the territory," said Naruto with a glare, "and I have a feeling that if I simply walked away that you would seek to harm my own family in the future if I was ever lucky enough to have one. So I would rather nip this in the bud here and now." That last bit was laced with a fair bit of anger. But he used the blood on his cane and formed into a spear tip and held it mere centimeters away from her throat. Tsume looked at him once more and saw that same shadowy figure her and the rest of her clan had seen when they attacked them, this time it was poised to attack like it was going to swallow her whole in a manner that would leave nothing if it did. "So I will ask you this here and now once and only once. Will you let this vendetta go and forgive me for seeking my just vengeance? Or must I bloody my hands with your clan here and now going down the lines of succession until I find someone who will?"

Tsume looked at him with utter shock that seeped deep into her very soul since she knew that he was telling the truth when he said that he would kill them one by one if push came to shove. In a sick twisted way she could respect that since the boy had come from nothing and had overcome everything life had to throw at him to obtain the balls and threaten an entire clan known for their ferocity. She weighed the option given to her in her mind and thought it out fully. She knew that whatever power this kid had to subdue her clan like this would eventually have to end since all powers required energy of some source and his would eventually run out. So with that being said she had no idea how long that would take or even how many of her family would die before then. Her worst fear was that in the end their clan would end up like the Uchiha with nothing more than a few members that would then be tasked with repopulating the clan towards greater numbers. While she would always hold anger towards the man who crippled her son, she was the clan head and had to think of it as a whole and not just one person.

So in the end she simply nodded her head to show that she agreed with his offer. With that, Naruto retracted the blood from his cane and felt as it seeped into the pores on his arm. He held his hand out to help her up to her feet. Once she was there, he began to walk away from the clan who all backed away from him since any man who could force an entire clan to submit like that was not someone worth fucking with. Many had heard what Naruto had said to Tsume about his actions towards Kiba, and most if not all of them agreed to themselves that if they had been in the same situation that they would have done as he had if given the chance. Tsume saw Naruto disappear into the distance and as she saw him disappear from sight a single thought came to her mind. She would question her son on his actions as a young child. She would do it in a way that he could not lie to her, and if Naruto was telling the truth she would let this vendetta go since his actions were not only legal given the fact they had been part of the Chunin Exams and Genin were known to die in them, but she would have done it too.

She mentally prepared for that talk she was going to have with her son, all the while in the back of her mind she knew that Naruto was telling the truth on the matter…

Naruto had checked his watch and saw that even with that random ambush that ended in his victory, not much time had gone by. So he began to walk around to try and find something to do since he had time to waste until he met up with the rest of his group and left the village with them. And yet no matter where he walked he could not find anything worth his time and as such just kept walking. Just when he had assumed that he would remain bored until the moment where they all left he heard a voice call out his name from the distance. He saw a man who was clearly a Hyuga, which Naruto could clearly see from the attire as well as his eyes. He saw that the man was carrying a folder in his hands, which made Naruto wonder what it was

"Hold on for a moment young man," said the man as he caught up to Naruto. Once he did he took a second to catch his breath since he had full on sprinted to find Naruto once he heard about where he was located. "Are you the one known as the Surgeon of Death?"

"That I am," said Naruto as he faced the man fully. He saw no hiate or bandana on his forehead so he was a main branch member. "What can I do for you good sir?"

"My daughter was hurt recently and is in need of immediate medical attention," said the man, "I was told by the head doctor at the hospital that only someone of Tsunade's skill would be able to help her since the damage was too extensive. The problem is that Tsunade is not in the village and it would take too long for her to come back and help her. I heard that you were in the village and had various members of my family seek you out so I could find you."

"Well I'm happy to help if you are willing to pay my fee," said Naruto, "and I am guessing what you have there is her medical charts so that I can look over them and see exactly what needs to be done to aid her?"

"That they are," said the man as he handed them to Naruto. While he was loathed to have to pay what he assumed would be far higher prices for medical aid than what he would regularly pay for in the Konoha hospital. Yet the Surgeon of Death had an amazing record when it came to medical field so it was an easy pill to swallow his pride.

"May I ask your name," said Naruto as he took the file to look over it.

"My name is Hiashi Hyuga," said Hiashi with a bit of arrogance in his voice like it was a privilege for someone like Naruto to know his name. "And my daughter Hinata is the one in need of medical aid."

"Oh," said Naruto as he looked over the file he was given. Apparently Neji had done far more damage than even he thought possible using just his hands and saw why someone of his medical skill was needed to fix her up. "So the cheater requires aid."

"Excuse me," said Hiashi in a slightly pissed tone. He didn't like hearing his daughter insulted like Naruto had just done.

"I called your daughter a cheater my good sir," said Naruto as he handed the file back to him since he saw all he needed to see.

"How dare you!" shouted Hiashi in anger. "Do you know who you are speaking to?!"

"The father of a cheater," said Naruto with a smirk, "yes I know who you are."

"I am a Hyuga and you will give me the respect I deserve!"

"So what if you are a Hyuga," asked Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "I am not from this village nor do I care if you are from a clan. We all have the same organs and weaknesses, and while I will admit that your eyes are able to see what mine can't, I am a doctor and know how to do what you do without them. You're not special in my book."

"You filthy commoner!" shouted Hiashi, whose face was starting to turn red in anger that this brat had insulted his entire clan.

"And yet I am a filthy commoner that you spent so long seeking out to aid your cheating daughter," said Naruto with a chuckle.

"My daughter is not a cheater as you claim!"

"She fought her own cousin in the Chunin Exams and nearly lost. Before he could win she used a seal that I hear was put on him years ago to subdue him. That sir is called a rigged fight, and as many people know that is called cheating, so your daughter is a cheater." Naruto could honestly see where Hinata had gotten her arrogance from if this was how her father acted to people.

"Enough," said Hiashi through strained teeth since this conversation was getting out of hand. "Will you help my daughter or not?"

"Oh I will help her," said Naruto with a wave of his hand, "that was never an issue; it's just that she is a cheater and I wanted you to know it."

"Keep your opinions to yourself," said Hiashi as he took a deep breath to calm himself.

"Noted," said Naruto with a frown, "but before I head to the hospital to help your daughter there is something you must know. The damage done to your daughter's organs is beyond repair and requires new ones to replace them. Now while most people who come to me for an organ transplant wait for a bit while it get the proper one they need so as to complete the operation, your daughter does not have that kind of time. So you have to make a tough decision here since the only way she will survive is if you sacrifice someone else since the organs she needs are vital ones that people can't live without. And the organs needed have to be from a close family member such as a brother, sister, or cousin. So ask yourself if you are willing to kill someone else to save your cheating daughter's life?"

Hiashi took all this information in stride and growled at the added insult on the end. He thought hard about what Naruto said, and his eyes opened wide since he had the perfect person to sacrifice so that his daughter may live.

"Please head to the hospital," said Hiashi with determination in his voice, "I'll get what you need."

"Some family," said Naruto to himself as Hiashi rushed off to get who he was going to get. "You can feel the love within it." Naruto then walked towards the hospital where he was met by a few Branch members who were there to protect the room Hinata was in while she awaited her surgery. Hiashi had told them that Naruto was coming to help Hinata. He walked into the room and sat in a chair in the corner and pulled out a journal and began to scribble in it. Hinata was fast asleep since she was saving her strength so she was unaware of the added presence.

Soon enough Hiashi arrived with Neji, who was bound and gagged as he struggled feebly to try and break free from his bindings.

"Is this how your family works," said Naruto with a frown, "you sacrifice the one to beat your daughter so as to 'wipe away the shame' of her losing?"

"I brought you what you required," said Hiashi angrily as he shoved Neji forward. Neji fell forward and landed on his stomach and began to growl in anger towards Naruto as well since he would not go so easily and would fight like a man possessed the second he was out of these bindings. "Now heal my daughter."

"Okay," said Naruto as he pulled out two different receipts. "Now I am willing to offer you a bit of a deal here. Since this young man is going to die, I wish to keep the organs that are not needed so as to transplant into others who will need them in the future. If you agree to that then you will receive a discount. Otherwise you pay full price."

"Do whatever you want to the boy," said Hiashi with a snarl, "but I demand his eyes back. That is non-negotiable."

"Fine," said Naruto with a shrug, "since I don't really care for them. I do better with my own thank you."

"You dare mock our Dojutsu?"

"Your Dojutsu is fine against others, but I am able to slice your arms off from a distance which makes it a moot point since you can't get close enough to do any real damage to me. But we are not here to discuss 'what ifs' we are here to heal your daughter. Now I want payment as soon as I return with her, which you have my word as a doctor that I will heal her and return her safely. I just have to perform the surgery in my own operating room. So let me get this done and over with while you go and collect my money."

Naruto then pulled out a needle and stabbed Neji with it in a pressure point to make his body go numb so that he wouldn't fight back. He summoned his door and picked up Hinata and walked her through it and placed her on the operating table. He then walked back out and grabbed Neji and walked back into his operating room, but not before turning his head to glare at the man who would kill his nephew just to save the life of his monster of a daughter. He then closed the door and it disappeared behind him.

Once inside he injected Hinata with a drug to make her sleep as well as Neji. He then proceeded to operate on Hinata. He had lied when he said that she needed transplants since all the damage done to her he could heal, it just took some time to do it. But with the help of Shadow Clones he was able to cut the time down to a fraction since they all worked on separate organ each. Once done with, he put her back together and deactivated the Room. Once put back together he smirked as he pulled out a container that he then opened up. Inside of it was a small syringe filled with a grey liquid that he took out and injected into Hinata.

This was a virus, one that was made to be undetectable as well as slow growing. What it would do over time, which if his tests and calculations were correct would be within the next year, she would go blind. But not only that but her muscles would begin to atrophy as well, all leading her to become a weak heiress and booted from her owe so prized position of power since she will lose the strength to maintain it. She could still get pregnant, but the way her body would grow weak over the following year, she would die in childbirth if she ever even attempted to do so. In this way the child had a chance to not learn her mother's arrogance since she would not be alive to teach it to her daughter.

Once everything was done with Hinata, he walked over to Neji who he had placed into a chair and injected him with adrenaline to wake him back up. Neji woke up with a start and began to wildly swing his arms around in a rage. Naruto opened his palm for a second before he closed it, doing so grabbed Neji's arms with his wires so that he couldn't move from his spot.

"Please calm down," said Naruto simply.

"I won't let you kill me so that arrogant bitch will live!" he shouted with all the rage he could muster.

"I'm not going to kill you," said Naruto simply with a raised eyebrow.

"Bullshit!" said Neji, who was not buying it, "I heard what you said to Hiashi!"

"And yet I healed Hinata already," said Naruto as he pointed towards her unconscious form, "and I did it without harvesting your organs to do so."

"So then why am I here," said Neji with questioning eyes that were still filled with rage.

"You don't remember me do you," said Naruto as he shook his head.

"Can't quite say I do," said Neji. Naruto didn't say anything else but he removed his glove from his scarred hand and held it up for Neji to see with his own eyes. Neji looked at it in shock since he remembered Naruto via that scar alone. He had been there that day, not to hurt the poor boy like the others, but since it was his duty to protect Hinata since he was a Branch member and she was a Main. He had watched as they had stabbed him in the hand repeatedly. He had to leave with the group when they did, but he had left Naruto, who at this point was crying while bleeding over his own mother's grave, with some bandages to help seal up the wound.

"I can tell it by your eyes," said Naruto as he saw it, "that you remember me. You were literally the only person in this entire village other than my mother to help me in some way shape or form. To you it might seem small, but to me it meant the world since no one else gave a damn about me."

"So what do you plan to do with me," asked Neji, who was no longer afraid of Naruto since the man was not hostile to him.

"I plan to repay you for what you have done," said Naruto as he retracted the wires. Neji felt them loosen from his arms and rubbed them since it itched quite a bit.

"But all I did was give you some bandages," said Neji with a confused look in his eyes, "I don't see why you would help me like this."

"It's not that that I am talking about," said Naruto as he laughed, "you see I have a vendetta against those who hurt me all my childhood, your cousin included. I had plans in play to get said vengeance against them, yet you did it for me when it came to your cousin. So it is only fair that I repay you for taking the full force of the repercussions of the event."

"So what do you have in mind to help me?"

"As you heard, you are all but dead to the clan since they think that I am going to chop you up to save her life but that is not what is going to happen. So what I am going to do is give you a fresh start, the likes that I myself have had when I left this village to seek a life elsewhere."

"But what about the seal on my head," said Neji since he knew that he could never be free with it on his head. "Can you remove it?"

"Not by normal means," said Naruto with a smirk.

"What do you mean by that," asked Neji who was far more confused than he was before.

"What I am going to tell you stays between us," said Naruto as he looked at Neji with a look that promised pain if he told a soul about it. Neji understood and simply nodded his head. "I have a means to clone your body. But it will just be your body since seals are not genetic. Once fully formed I can transfer you into it, fully free from the seal on your head. But while I am doing so I will make a few alterations so that you can hide your identity such as different natural hair color and pupils in your eyes while still being able to use your Byakugan."

"And how am I to know that you are telling me the truth about all this," asked Neji who once again was not fully believing what Naruto had said.

"I understand that trust is earned," said Naruto with a sigh, "so I will tell you something that I have never told anyone else. Not my closest of friends, or even my girlfriend. I will trust you with my secret if you will trust me enough to help you live a life worth living."

"What is this secret of yours," asked Neji, who was genuinely wondering what it was that he could be hiding from so many people.

"I am the bastard son of Minato Namikaze," said Naruto with a growl since he never liked to say that since the man was no father of his after all he had done to him. Neji looked at him entirely shocked by what he had heard.

"But, how…" was all Neji was capable of saying since his mind was trying to process it. How was the son of their Hokage treated so badly like he was? Yet he couldn't say anymore since Naruto once again stabbed him with a drug to put him asleep. Once he was out of it, Naruto pushed open the secret door he had and entered into it. Inside the room was multiple tanks filled with liquids of all sizes. The smaller ones were cloning individual organs that would then be transplanted into the person they were made for while the larger ones, of which there were only three of them, were used for entire people. He stripped Neji of his clothes and put him in one of the pods so that his genetics could be cloned in the machine next to it. Naruto saw the machine turn on and saw his genetic makeup. He punched in a few things to change his appearance, but other than that there was no need to change him.

Before he had put Neji into the pod, he had made sure to take Neji's eyes since Hiashi wanted them. Once the secret door was closed he picked up Hinata and walked her out of the place and put her back into her hospital bed in Konoha. He waited there for a bit until Hiashi showed up, where Naruto handed him a vial with Neji's eyes. Hiashi gave him the money that was owed and once paid in full Naruto saw that it was near the time he had set for their departure. So he set out and met his teammates, where they then went through his door so that he could take them home to prepare for the last portion of the Exams…

(A day later)

Naruto had decided to use the day before he headed to the Kaen residence, since he had sent a message to them that he would come tomorrow, to seek out a plant he had been meaning to find yet never had the chance to do so since he had so much on his plate for the past several months. He had thought now was the perfect time to do so since Haku was still not in a talking mood for reasons that he could not understand.

Luckily for him though Zabuza had provided that bit of information shortly before he left to find the plants he was seeking. Turned out Haku and Kurotsuchi had gotten into a heated argument over the fact that Kurotsuchi was apparently in love with him since he had saved her life in the past, a fact that made Naruto face palm himself since he had not seen the obvious signs and it made him feel like an idiot that he didn't see the very clear signs. She called Haku out on stealing her man from her, which then got into a heated argument with Haku boasting that she slept with him and then things escalated from there. Now the two of them had a bet going on that whoever beat the other in the exams would be his girlfriend and to make sure there was no cheating on the matter they agreed to not talk to him about it.

Apparently that rule did not apply towards Zabuza since Haku had gone directly over to his place to stay at for the month and told him all about it. Naruto groaned since he wondered just when he became labeled as a prize between two women. He wanted to talk Haku out of the whole silly thing, but Zabuza had lost the color in his face when he told Naruto not to do that. Apparently Haku was far more stubborn when it came to what she deemed as serious matters and would use senbon to make people get the point as painfully as possible. So he decided to run this errand instead of risking his health.

He had been walking in what seemed like circles for the past few hours, and the map he had did not help at all in the matter. He sighed as he stood there for a minute to ponder exactly what to do right now. He was knocked out of his pondering though when he was forced to dodge multiple shuriken sent his way.

"Sweet merciful Kami," said Naruto as he prepared himself for the fight ahead, "can't I simply go anywhere nowadays without being attacked one way or another?"

"Leave now," said a voice that Naruto could not tell what direction it was coming from, "you are trespassing on land that is not yours."

"I am," asked Naruto as he looked at his map again, "to be honest I am completely lost here. Where exactly am I? This map is not helping me."

"You are near the land of Taki," said the voice, which Naruto was able to tell at least came from a woman, "and if you don't leave now then I will kill you where you stand."

"Taki," said Naruto to himself, "well then at least I'm in the right area."

"Right area for what?"

"This is ridiculous," said Naruto with a sigh, "could you please show yourself? I'm not here to attack you and I feel silly yelling at what are basically trees."

"Fine," said the woman, "but I want you to know that if you try anything then I will kill you where you stand!"

"If I had a ryo for every time I heard that threat," said Naruto to himself under his breath.

He heard a rustle of leaves behind him and turned around to see just who exactly he was talking to. The woman was a petite, androgynous, tan-skinned kunoichi who wore an orange clip in her short, layered mint green hair that matched her eye color, which were also orange. Her outfit consisted of a short sleeveless white midriff shirt with fishnet armor underneath, long white armlets, and fishnet shorts with a short white apron skirt over it. Her forehead protector was worn on her right arm and also carried a cylindrical object in red wrapping on her back,

"Well hello there," said Naruto with a smile to try and ease the hostile tension she had towards him, "my name is Naruto. May I inquire as to what yours might be?"

"My name is Fu," said the now named Fu, "now explain why you are here. If you are a threat to the village then I will kill you."

"There is no need for such hostility like that," said Naruto as he put his hands up in surrender. He could understand a guard doing their duty to protect their home so he was not mad at all the threats of murder towards his person like this. "I was fully unaware that there was even a village out here so I am not trying to invade or attack it."

"Then why are you out here in the first place," asked Fu with a tone that basically said that she didn't believe him.

"I am trying to find a plant that grows in this area," said Naruto simply.

"A plant?" asked Fu in a confused tone of voice, "you came all the way out here to the middle of the forest for just a plant?"

"Yeah," said Naruto as he pulled the book that he learned about the plant in the first place and began to flip through the pages to find the one he wanted to find, "I am a doctor, and this plant will help me in my research."

"You are a doctor," asked Fu as she lessoned her stance. Fr some reason she was beginning to believe that Naruto was not a threat, and the demon sealed within her was whispering the same thing as well.

"Yes," said Naruto, "and you being here actually might help me since I have no idea where the hell I am. The map I brought along is of no help. Have you ever seen these plants before?" Naruto then moved forward in a nonthreatening manner since he was not trying to have her attack him. He showed her the picture that he wanted to show her and saw as Fu looked at it with recognition in her eyes.

"I have," said Fu with a nod of her head, "but why would you want those? They are highly toxic."

"That's why I want them," said Naruto before he saw Fu's accusing stare, "and no I am not going to use it to poison someone so put yourself at ease there."

"Then what possible reason do you have for them?"

"I am trying to make powerful anti-toxins," said Naruto as he pulled out a personal journal with all the information he had on the subject. He handed it to Fu to show her that he was telling the truth, and while it was true that she didn't understand about half of what was written since she was not a medic, she saw that he was indeed telling the truth and making anti toxins. "And the way it works is that I need to build a base before I build from there. I want these plants since they are considered one of the most poisonous plants around and will make a good base. So can you help me find them? Because I will probably be walking around aimlessly for hours with the slim chance of ever finding them without your help."

"Well sure," said Fu as she began to lead the way towards where the plants were. She knew that Naruto would not attack her since she sensed no hostility from him in the slightest and to be honest she was grateful for the human interaction. She had been forced to live out in the woods and guard the village from attack for years and didn't really get to interact with people other than the occasional Nin who tried to infiltrate the village. She had a friend in the past by the name of Shibuki, but he had just abandoned her out of the blue and it had broken her heart that her only friend had done so. So she was happy to spend some time with a person who was not hostile towards her. It took about thirty minutes, but they eventually reached the place where the plants grew which was a marshy area near a cave. Naruto donned thick gloves that he had to handle things like this since the poison could enter through skin contact alone. Once on he picked quite a few samples and placed them into a container that he then sealed away for later. They then made their way back to where Naruto had met Fu in the first place.

"I thank you for your assistance," said Naruto with a smile, "and I would like to know if there is anything that I could do to help you in return?"

"Huh," asked Fu who was surprised that he said that.

"I was taught that you should help those who help you," said Naruto, "and since you helped me find these plants that I was having trouble finding I wish to offer something to aid you in return. So is there anything that I can do to help you?"

"Well," said Fu as she rubbed the back of her head and smiled a bit in embarrassment since her request seemed kind of silly, "if you wouldn't mind, could you stay and talk with me for a while? You are one of the only people who I have got to talked to in years."

"So a bout of conversation is what you wish," said Naruto with a smile, "that I can do quite easily. But since it is rare for you to have such a thing, allow me to make this a better experience for you. Wait right here. I promise I will be back in about ten minutes, of that you have my word."

Naruto then summoned up a door to his operating room which he entered. This surprised Fu since the action of summoning a door like that was odd to say the least. Yet the door disappeared from thin air just as quickly as it had appeared. Fu felt a bit sad as it did since the memories of her only friend leaving that day with the promise to return later only to never return again came to mind. But she would give Naruto the benefit of the doubt since he said he would be back in ten minutes.

So she waited ten minutes, but he had still not returned and it made Fu sadder than before since she felt as though she had been lied to for the second time in her life. She felt as tears began to form in her eyes since she feared that she would forever be alone in these woods, stuck remaining the guard dog of a village that hated her for what she had sealed within her. After twenty minutes had gone by from the time of his departure, she was just about to head home when the door reappeared. Naruto then came through with a table in hand, while several clones of himself came with chairs and a tea set that was fancy in design.

"Sorry for the wait," said Naruto apologetically, "I moved my tea set from my house to my office and forgot where I put it. I nearly tore up my house before I remembered where it was."

"What is all of this," asked Fu in surprise that he had brought all this just to converse with her.

"I have learned that some of the best conversations are had over a cup of tea," said Naruto as his Shadow clones disappeared once they had set the table. On it was the tea set with hot plate heating up the kettle and had a fancy tin that Naruto opened up to show that it was full of cookies. Fu's mouth watered when she saw them since she had not had a cookie in years and she never knew how much she craved for one until the moment she saw them. Naruto gestured for her to sit and pushed the tin for her to take a cookie at her own leisure. And Fu had to admit that she was happy for the first time in a long time as she took one of the cookies offered and bit into it. She stopped after one bite since it was far more delicious than she had expected.

"Do you like the cookies?" asked Naruto with a smile as he picked up match and struck it to lite it up. He then put it on the hotplate to light it up and then put the kettle on so that the water could boil. He then spooned out some tea leaves into the two tea cups he had.

"They are amazing," said Fu as she took another as she gulped down the first.

"That they are," said Naruto with a smile, "I got them from a bakery in Spring Country. They are a bit pricey but they are completely worth it in my book. But while you are in a good mood, I have a quick question to ask of you. Why do you live out here of all places? Shouldn't you be in the village?"

Fu stopped eating her cookie when Naruto had asked that since she feared answering that question. She had always been told most of her life that Jinchuriki were hated throughout the world and treated far worse than how she was here with the isolation. Now here was a man who had listened to her request of staying and talking to her and she feared that he would hate her if he knew the truth about her.

"You don't have to answer that," said Naruto since he had thought about it for a minute and recognized the scenario, "you are a Jinchuriki aren't you?"

Fu was speechless that he had figured it out from her lack of answering and feared that he would just up and leave.

"No need to fret," said Naruto as he waved his hand to try and ease her fear, "I am not going to start hating you simply because of the demon sealed within you. I judge people on their actions not their burdens."

"Oh," said Fu as she sighed a heavy breath of relief. By this point the water was boiling and so Naruto poured the hot water into the cups to mix with the tea leaves. Naruto and Fu conversed for quite some time, which both of them thoroughly enjoyed since they had a lot in common. They had both been loners for a good chunk of their lives, but while Naruto's life had improved over time, Fu was still confined to her post on the outskirts of the village. Fu explained how she had a friend named Shibuki long ago, but he had just abandoned her. Naruto felt pity for her since he had been the same exact way with the lack of friends and the hatred against him for reasons that he didn't fully understand why it was happening in the first place. Fu at this point had begun to cry since the pain of that day had never left her nor did she have any form of counseling or person to get over her grief. Naruto had cheered her up though in the end by wiping the tears from her eyes and gave her a hug. She reciprocated it and hugged back hard. Naruto understood that everyone needed at least one friend and he held out his hand and offered to be that one that she needed. She had smiled as he offered and accepted.

But their sappy, yet happy moment was ruined when a scythe on a chain came out of nowhere and slammed into the table destroying not only it but the tea set and the cookies as well…

Naruto and Fu looked to see just who the hell had ruined their good time. Standing there were two Akatsuki members, which Naruto easily recognized from the red cloud black cloaks. One of them had medium-length grey hair that was slicked back and distinctive purple eyes while most of his chest was exposed as he pulled back his weapon and slung it over his shoulder. The second man was a very tall tan-skinned man with long dark-brown hair. His eyes had an unusual coloring: green irises, no pupils and red sclera. Naruto had done his research after the Akatsuki tried to recruit him, and he knew exactly who these people were….

Hidan and Kakuzu...

Both deemed immortal in their own way…

"Oh fuck," said Naruto as he signed in anger as he prepared for the fight that was going to happen. Why they were here was the question.

Could he not just have a moment of peace!?