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Chapter 1

In the beginning...

Just outside of Konoha, almost every shinobi was engaging a deadly foe, one so powerful that they knew that there was no chance of survival, that they knew that nobody was able to defeat on their own, one that was the definition of death, The Kyuubi no Kitsune. There was nothing that could stand on it’s way, there was no one capable of withstand even the weakest of it’s attacks, it even took the time to kill the shinobies one by one, but the shinobies kept fighting, they had to protect their home, their families.

“Keep moving!, and don’t let that demon to come closer to the village!, we must buy enough time for the Hokage!”, one of the ninjas shouted, just as one of the groups was engulfed by the flames of the Kyuubi, it was a lost cause, no one was able to stand up against the Kyuubi, until the Hokage showed up.

Kyuubi almost laughed at the sight of the last stand, this simple human, standing on the head of Gamabunta, was the only thing standing in the way of freedom. Suddenly, all the build confidence faded away, behind the Hokage, the Shinigami appeared.

‘This can’t be!, no one has made a contract with the Shinigami in many thousand years!’, Kyuubi thought while panicking, suddenly, Kyuubi felt the coldness of it’s touch,

‘NO! I DON’T WANT TO DIE!’, that was the last thought Kyuubi had before everything went black.

In Konoha there were mixed feelings, people was happy, because the Kyuubi no Kitsune was stopped, and still, the sadness of losing Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage, was overwhelming, Sarutobi, the Third, was appointed as Hokage again, with the newborn son of his friend and last Hokage in arms.

“Minato, I gave you my word on protecting your child and making him a hero, and I will fulfill this, you can rest in peace”, Sarutobi said, unaware of the plans and feelings of the villagers,

For some reason, the secret of the ritual reached public ears, and most of the village made a vow on finish the work of the late Hokage.

Meanwhile, in an alternate plane of existence...

“Wake up”, Kyuubi heard, it was a strange voice, very commanding, and still, it was like an echo, or a heartbeat,

“Wake up”, there it was again, more clear, the voice not only came from an external being, but also from the deeps of Kyuubi’s self,

“Wake up”, once again, the voice commanded, and now, Kyuubi opened it’s eyes, and was shocked by the place,

It wasn’t neither hell nor the Shinigami stomach, it was like a prison, big enough to hold the Kyuubi, but there was nothing but emptiness outside the bars.

“Well, is good that you are awake now”, the voice spoke once more, this time however, it sounded more ‘human’, and it was very near,

“Who is there?!”, Kyuubi shouted, while looking for the source outside the bars,

“Just someone who is VERY bored, and don’t look too far for me, I’m right here”, Kyuubi looked at the source of the voice, and found a pure-white clad man,

“YOU!”.

“YES! ME!!!”, the man replied with a mocking voice, and while this could enrage any ignorant being, Kyuubi found itself very scared,

“What do you want from me?, are you going to offer me my freedom at the cost of my soul?”, Kyuubi asked, very nervous, but got in reply a laughter from the man, it wasn’t a normal or mad laughter, it was a diabolical laughter.

“But Kyuubi!, don’t you see that your soul has no value to me right now?, can’t you see that if I want it, I just can take it?, you are just a spirit being contained inside a human baby!, but you are right, I’m here to offer you a deal”, the man replied,

The last part was so serious that Kyuubi felt that hell or the Shinigami’s stomach could be MUCH better than the current situation.

“Very well, explain this deal”, Kyuubi asked, trying to look like being in control, but found itself shivering when the face of the man showed a satanic grin that could have sent both angels and demons crying for their mothers,

“Sure, you’ll see, your soul has been linked to a newborn baby, which means, that should this baby dies, you’ll be sent either to hell or the Shinigami’s stomach, and you don’t want that, no, you want to be free, don’t you?”.

Kyuubi swallowed hard, this wasn’t going to end well,

“And, you can free me?, at what cost?”, Kyuubi ventured to ask, knowing that whatever this man wanted, he was going to get it, this explanation was just a formality,

“Ah!, you are very predictable!, yes, I can free you, and yes, it will cost you, but we will discuss that some other time, first, I’ll return to you your stolen form”, the man said, while extending his hand towards the Kyuubi, and a cocoon of light surrounding it.

The cocoon started to shrink, until it was the size of an adult human, then the light faded, and a female body was revealed, her skin was white, almost like milk, breast size DD, beautiful hips, Golden long hair, instead of normal ears, she was featuring foxy ears at the top of her head, her beautiful face was adorned with whiskers marks, and at the base of her spine, nine tail were weaving, a beautiful sight of a woman, but with all the immense power of the beast that attacked the village.

Kyuubi was awestruck, she got her godly body back, now the only thing left in her list, was to give a slow and painful death to Madara, but before she could start to make plans, te man interrupted her,

“Now, now, aren’t you the prettiest Demon-Goddess out there?, here, a little gift for you”, the man extended his arm to her, summoning a beautiful white kimono, Kyuubi quickly reached for it, with a small blush in her face, she forgot that she was naked.

“What’s next, Ancient One?”, Kyuubi asked, expecting now to hear the insane price for her freedom, but the man took out a pocket clock out of nowhere, and looked at the hour,

“Oh my!, look at the hour, I have to go now, but I promise you to explain the conditions for your freedom when I return, in the mean time, you should learn from the child you are sealed in, the ‘special’ link I created will allow you to notice everything he feels, good luck with that, ciao!”, and then he disappeared, leaving a confused Kyuubi to ponder on what did he meant with ‘special’ link.

Suddenly, Kyuubi felt fear, fear to everything, fear to the unknown, but it wasn’t her fear, it was someone else fear, then she understood the condition of this link, she wasn’t going to notice the child’s feelings, she was going to share those feelings, as if they were their own, tears were flowing for her eyes, the child was crying, crying for someone, Kyuubi fell to her knees, with a flinching heart, she knew that The Ancient One could be cruel, and now she found herself wishing his return within seconds, if he wanted her to be broken and ready to pay the price, she was ready now.

kk, here goes the second chapter, there will be major changes to the Narutoverse, hope you like them, and remember, this is a NaruHina story

Chapter 2

Adopting a Demon...

It has been 5 years and half since the Kyuubi attack, and the village of Konoha was still sore, slowly recovering from the damage, and still crying for the lost ones, the economy was bad, but there it was, slowly growing, trade between the village and other towns was smooth, at least for the outside merchants, meaning easy acces to the village, and an overcharge on their prices. So, it wasn’t strange to see merchants coming to Konoha on these days, which mean less security at the main gate.

It was this situation what made possible the arrival of a new citizen to the village, a man clad in a pure white business suit, complete with white silk gloves and white fedora hat, under normal circumstances, he would only had to pass a lax security, however, this man asked an audience with the Hokage, in order to open a permanent shop in the village, usually this could not be possible, but the Hokage asked them to allow citizenship audiences (Whatever to be distracted from the paperwork). It was this set of ‘coincidences’ what allowed up the current situaton.

“So, I got word that you want to become a citizen of this village and open a shop, is this right Mr...?”, Sarutobi asked, for some reason, the guards forgot to ask the name of this merchant,

“Uzumaki, Ankiseth Uzumaki, and yes, that information is correct”, the merchant replied, and of course, his name made Sarutobi to almost swallow his pipe,

‘UZUMAKI!!!!!!, it can’t be!, Whirlpool was destroyed, there is no way that someone of that family could be still alive, unless...’, Sarutobi was still on this train of thought when the man started to speak again.

“Oh!, it seems that you know my name!, hope my cousin have used nice words to describe me, by the way, how is Kushina?, last thing I heard was that she was about to marry a shinobi of this village”,

At the remark of the man, now known as Ankiseth, Sarutobi went pale, he completely forgot the stories about one of the cousins of Kushina, the only one of her family that didn’t took the path of the ninja.

=Flashback=

“So, Minato, are you sure you want to marry her?, you know, all her family are renown shinobies”, Sarutobi was trying to reasoning with Minato, the Uzumakis were well known for not taking kindly the marriages with outsiders, let alone the heiress of their clan.

“Don’t worry, not everyone in the family is a ninja, my cousin Ank, the one who helped us to escape, is a merchant, he was so kind to let us hide in his caravan all the way from Whirlpool to the border of the forest!”, Kushina replied, defending the most weird of her family.

“Yes, you wouldn’t believe it, if you don’t look at the lack of muscles, he could pass as my double!, of course, you’ll need to use a little make up on him, but otherwise we are identical”, Minato continued, Sarutobi found a little hard to believe how someone could neglect the techniques of the Uzumakis, but that didn’t distracted him from keeping the lecturing...

=End of Flashback=

Sarutobi felt a knot in the stomach, at first he tried to see if it was true, if this man was identical to Minato, trying to find a mistake to dismiss him, but after seeing his blonde hair, blue eyes, and foxy grin, one though exploded in his mind,

‘I’LL BE DAMNED, HE IS IDENTICAL TO NARUTO!’,

Suddenly, he found himself replying “I’m... sorry to tell you this... but Kushina died almost 6 years ago...”.

Meanwhile, in the streets of the village...

During this 5 and half years, Kyuubi has learned many things along with Naruto, some of them were not to make people angry, not to accept food from strangers, never to walk alone on isolated alleys, and not trust any known person, Naruto also learned well by listening to the voice and advise of Kyuubi, he learned how to detect danger and bad intentions, and how to run faster than any other people, also he learned to conceal his presence from most shinobies, as well as using his sense of smell to detect poisons and drugs, but over all, they learned to listen to each other and cooperate for survival, this was something that they practiced daily, and today was not exception.

‘RUN KIT, RUN!!!’,

‘I’M ON IT!, I’M ON IT!, WHAT DID WE DO TO ENRAGE THEM LIKE THIS?!’,

‘NOTHING THAT I KNOW!, BUT I REALLY SUGGEST YOU TO NOT TO STOP TO ASK!, JUST RUN!!’,

Today was one of those days, when the villagers just felt like chasing the demon kid to beat him to a pulp, just to ‘avange’ the spirits of the fallen ones, however, today was also the day when everything will change, because by ‘coincidence’, Sarutobi decided to personally show one of the worst houses on one of the worst streets of the village to the merchant, the same street that Naruto was running on.

“As you can see, we have nothing better to spare, I know you wanted to make business here, but we haven’t a place for you to do so...”,

Sarutobi was still explaining to the merchant, trying to persuade him to leave the village before he finds about Naruto, until he heard the voice of a kid asking for help, both the Hokage and the merchant reacted too slow, soon Naruto crashed against the white clad merchant, who fell on a sitting position, hugging an scared kid on his arms, Sarutobi couldn’t help but to shout in his mind,

‘FFUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!!!’.

“Now, now, little kid, what’s wrong”, the merchant, Ankiseth, asked with a sweet voice,

Naruto turned to face the man, and not recognizing him, he decided it was safe, however, Kyuubi recognized him, and finally she felt safe again,

“THEY WANT TO HURT ME!, I HAVEN’T DONE ANYTHING WRONG!, DON’TLET THEM HURT ME!”, Naruto replied, with tears in his eyes,

At this Sarutobi asked,

“But, who want to hurt you, Naruto?”,

He immediately regretted the question, because the mob showed up just as he asked.

At the sight of the Hokage, the mob tried to disperse as fast as they could, there was a decree that no one will harm Naruto, but since only the Hokage cared, nobody said anything about the constant beatings in the streets and the park, and the fact that Kyuubi healed Naruto, made it hard to believe that the beatings were too savage.

Sarutobi was about to either call Kakashi or chase after the mob, when the voice of the merchant brought him back to the current crisis,

“Everything is ok now, little kid, nobody is going to hurt you now”, at the sweet voice of the white clad man, Naruto relaxed,

“Thank you (sob), thank you so much, but they will come back (sob), if not here, then at home and at night”, Naruto replied,

“What about your daddy and mommy?, aren’t they going to protect you?”, Ankiseth asked, at this Naruto turned sad,

“I have no parents, I’m an orphan, and no one want me in the orphan...”, at Naruto’s reply, the man decided to give him a foxy grin,

“Then you can live with me!, the Hokage is about to appoint a place I can live, so, I can take you and nobody will harm you again!”.

Sarutobi stiffened, the last thing he wanted is for some stranger to take a hold on either the Kyuubi or the son of his friend, however, Naruto was jumping in joy,

“THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!, but, who are you?, I have never seen you before”,Naruto squeaked in delight

Sarutobi wanted to stop this now, until this point, neither of them had said their family names, but he had no chance, when the merchant gave a hearty laugh,

“Oh my!, where are my manners?!, my name is Ankiseth Uzumaki, nice to meet you, little one!”.

Naruto stood still for a moment, his mind raced, trying to make sense of the current situation,

‘Uzumaki?, just like me?, but the Hokage said that I had no family left!’, Naruto thought, at this Kyuubi replied,

‘Yes, my child, Uzumaki, like you, maybe the Hokage didn’t knew?, or may they lied to you, either way, you should ask’, then Naruto asked,

“Did you said Uzumaki, are you an Uzumaki just like me?, how is that possible, Grandpa Sarutobi said I had no family left!”,

At Naruto’s reply, both him and Ankiseth turned to face the Hokage with angry eyes.

Hokage office, few hours later...

“Very well, here are your papers, now you are a Konoha citizen, you have also being appointed as Naruto Uzumaki guardian, please, take care of him, also, Naruto’s apartment is now yours, is somewhat small, but is better than the spare apartments right now”, Sarutobi said,

He wished that the council does not notice this ‘little’ change for some time, then he turned to face Naruto, and then talked to him.

“As for you, Naruto, I’m really sorry, word of the entire destruction of your family reached us, and we thought that it was everyone, not only the ninja clan, if I had knew about the existence of this man, I would have searched for him since the death of your parents, I’m really sorry”, Sarutobi finished, wishing the best for Naruto, and planning on put an special ANBU team to check every move of this man, just to be safe.

Both Naruto and Ankiseth nodded and headded to the streets, leaving a worried Hokag in his office, as soon as they left, Sarutobi made what he should have done since the beginning,

“KAKASHI!!!!!”,

It may be a little late to fix some things, but he will start fixing all what he could, starting for the original guardian of the legacy of the fourth.

The rest of the day was what could be described as one of the happiest days for Naruto, the first of many, Ankiseth promised, they visited every place of interest for Naruto, like the academy, they ate at every restaurant in the village, and Naruto watched in awe as Ankiseth paid everything as if it were the cheapest thing in the world, also, Ankiseth suggested to purchase furniture for the apartment, as well as food.

Of course there were things that Naruto didn’t liked, like the fact that his uncle told him to stop living on instant food, he stressed that real food was required for him to grow stronger, fortunately, he agreed to allow Naruto to eat at Ichiraku in the near future, at the end of the day, they arrived to the apartment, where both started to clean and repaired as much as they could.

During all this time, Naruto told to Ankiseth the small story of his life, how he was beaten almost daily, how hard was to get something to eat, and he told him about Kyuubi, his greatest secret, Ankiseth for his part, listened to everything with great ‘fascination’, and in return the merchant told him stories about lots of places around the world, stories about magic and mystery, Naruto felt like dreaming, this was just too perfect to be real, and deep inside him, he was afraid to wake up.

That night...

“Ok little one, time to go to bed, tomorrow will be a busy day”, Ankiseth said,

Naruto reluctantly agreed, and once in bed he asked,

“Why?, what are we going to do tomorrow?”, at this, Ankiseth gave him a warm smile,

“We are going to open our shop, also, you’ll be able to watch some magic in action”, Naruto chuckled at this, in his mind, whenever he said ‘magic’, Naruto thought of it as jutsus,

“Ok, can you teach me how to do magic too?”, at Naruto’s question, Ankiseth used his foxy grin.

“Of course little one, I’ll be glad to teach you everything about magic!”,

Naruto smiled with excitation, he was going to learn some rare jutsus!, however, there was a hole in his soul, and if this was a dream he wanted to give it a supper happy ending before awakening to the horrible reality,

“I know you are my uncle, but... can I call you daddy?”, Naruto asked the last part with a very tiny voice, but Ankiseth heard him anyway, and a soft and sincere smile adorned his face.

“Of course, you can call me daddy, dad, or father, as long as you allow me to call you my son”, Ankiseth replied while hugging him,

Naruto finally found happiness, and in it’s embrace, he fell asleep,

Soon after this, a diabolic grin was plastered on the face of the merchant,

“Sleep well my son, and have sweet dreams, for when you awake tomorrow, nothing will be the same”, said this, he started to cast lots of spells, both dark and light.

The awakening of a God

2 years and half had passed since Naruto got a father, he is 8 now, today is his birthday, a very happy moment, of course, is only a father-son moment, because Naruto does not have any friends yet, but is a happy moment nevertheless, however, this is just the first birthday that Naruto really enjoys.

=Flashback=

2 years ago:

“Come on, my son, it's your birthday, you shouldn’t hide below your bed”, Ankiseth said, with a sweet and reassuring voice,

“NO!, THEY ARE GOING TO COME AND BEAT ME, THEY DO IT EVERY YEAR!”, Naruto cried, since he had memory, the villagers always came to beat him at the anniversary of the defeat of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, his birthday.

“Naruto, no one is going to beat you, there is no one that can come in, not without our permission, there is nothing to be afraid of”, Ankiseth tried to reason with him, but it was useless, Naruto kept crying, and refused to came out,

“Ok, you are forcing me to take drastic measures”, Ankiseth said, and left the room,

Naruto then felt REALLY bad, for a moment, he felt like he was going to be abandoned, due to his fear on people.

“Happy birthday, Naruto, my son”, Ankiseth voice filled the room again,

For a moment, Naruto thought that he was going to levitate the bed to force him out, but instead of that, Ankiseth knelt at the bed's side, putting a small cake in the floor, and pushing it towards Naruto,

“No mater where you are, I’m here with you, my dear child”, Ankiseth explained, and Naruto cried again, but this time with happiness.

Last year:

Naruto was sat at the dinning table, a GREAT improvement to last year, since got a hold on basic magic, he felt way more secure, but he kept eyeing the doors, afraid of someone that may forced his or her entrace,

“Happy birthday, Naruto, my son”, Ankiseth said with his sweet voice,

He was entering the room, with a levitating cake following him, Naruto just learned that spell, but he was eager to use it as many times as possible, so, he made some plates, forks and vases to levitate to the table.

“Oh my!, you are getting so good at magic, and just in such a short time!”, at Ankiseth's praising, Naruto blushed, true, Ankiseth praised him daily, but it was due to true advancement,

“By the way, this year you will enter the academy, I wish you good fortune and the friendship of good people, and remember, if you can’t keep on it, I won’t be disappointed, for you are still the best mage of the village”, Ankiseth continued, giving a warm laugh.

“Daddy, I’m the only mage of the village, being you an archmage yourself”, Naruto reasoned, his wish was to become the first ninja-mage on history, at this, Ankiseth made the ‘family trade' foxy grin,

“This year I have a very special gift for you, I hope you find it useful at the academy”, Ankiseth told him while making a gift box to appear from thin air, Naruto took it and opened it with haste, and his face brighted up,

“TA-DA!, your own self repairing suit, it will reconstruct itself no mater what hits it, and is very resistant, so, it won’t rip easily, also, I added some weather charms, making it water proof, and it will not hold any smells or dirt, needing very little cleaning, however it wasn’t easy to make it, your favorite colors were hard to get!”, Ankiseth explained

Naruto watched in awe the suit, it contained a red business suit, red tie, black shirt, black shoes, white gloves with magic circles to channel his magic easily, every piece of fabric was filled with runes, magic circles, and magical inscriptions, at least 5 types of magic, a true masterpiece, with religious care, he changed into these new clothes, and after materializing a full body mirror, he looked at his reflection with pride,

“Thank you daddy!, I look like a true business man, the perfect disguise for a ninja-mage, is awesome, believe it!”.

=End of Flashback=

This year, the main hall was being decorated for the birthday, Naruto no longer feared the villagers, even if their descendants tried to make his life a hell at the academy, he was above everyone else, but this year had also brought some interesting things, so, sitting in a sofa, Naruto started to resume his year to his father, Ankiseth, who listened with fascination, awaiting for the main event of the day.

“This year has been most interesting, while most of the kids at the academy hates me, there are some that are friendly to me, and some are in my class!”, Naruto squeaked in delight, and Ankiset gave him a warm smile,

“Really?, that is very good, who are they?, do you think we can invite them for the party?”, Ankiseth asked, with his usual sweet voice, already knowing the answer,

“Well, there is Shino Aburame, very silent, but friendly anyway, unfortunately, he is attending some business with his father, there is Shikamaru Nara, somewhat lazy, but friendly, just as Chouji Akimichi, too bad that their parents hates me”, Naruto explained.

“Oh!, and, any girlfriend?”, Ankiseth asked, without losing his foxy grin,

“Well, there are two girls on my class, one that I LIKED, Sakura Haruno, but she is a banshee, yelling at everything, she has become worst since the last Uchiha got advanced one year ahead of us, they say that he is a genius; and there is Hinata Hyuga, I’ve caught her looking at me from the shadows, but Kyuubi-chan don’t feel anything but positive feelings and a bright aura from her, however, she always flee when I got near her, unfortunately, his father seems to hate me with a passion, which is strange, since he is one of our best customers”, Naruto explained with a slight blush.

“I see, so, anyone we could invite?, it would be so lonely in this big hall only the two of us”, Ankiseth asked, savouring with anticipation the next moment,

“Well, there is this guy that WAS one year ahead of me, he is really friendly, and have good manners, I got word that he was downgraded one year, so, he’ll be with me next year in class, his name is Rock Lee”, Naruto said his name with some sadness, because he also got word on another thing concerning this boy.

“Well, let’s go for him, he surely will enjoy this cake”, Ankiseth spoke, knowing exactly who this boy was, and who he will become,

Naruto couldn’t help but to smile, he was going to invite a friend for his birthday party, the first of many, he told himself.

Meanwhile, in the memorial stone...

Rock Lee was crying, crying his heart out, this seemed to be his worst week, two days ago, he got word that he will have to repeat the year in the academy, his grades were the lowest in all the academy's history, or so they said, this was a low blow to him, Gai-sensei promised that if something like that happened, he will fix that with a talk about how he could become a taijutsu genius, but there was a problem with that, today was the day Gai was bound to return from the lands of the west, he went to a mission, but the rest of his team returned without him, “Missed In Action”, they said, meaning that he just lost the closest thing he had as a father, and his only way to become a ninja, so, in front of the stone, he did the only thing he could thought, cry, unaware of the two figures that were watching him.

“Are you ok?”, Naruto asked, true concern in his voice,

The crying boy turned to face them, he recognized them as the merchants, kind people that always treated others with sweet words, so, he did his best to answer politely,

“No (sob), Gai-sensei will never return (sob), he was like a father to me (sob), I’m alone now”, the boy replied, eyes filled with tears, and still, Ankiseth smiled.

“There is no need to cry, Gai will watch over you forever, for he is already toasting for you in the dinning halls of Valhalla, wishing you a long life full of victory and adventure, a life guided by your courage”, Ankiseth spoke with a voice filled with knowledge and wisdom, almost religious,

Naruto wasn’t startled by this, he has gotten to know that his father always knew a lot, if not everything, what ALMOST startled him, was the brightened face of Rock Lee.

Rock Lee was able to see that picture, Gai-sensei toasting for him, in the great halls, surrounded by the great heroes of the long forgotten times, suddenly, he realized something, this stranger knew about that, something that he believed only he could imagine, and this made him to look with fear at the tall blonde man.

“You are wondering how I know, right?”, Ankiseth asked, this returned the foxy grin to Naruto’s face, Lee nodded, still eyeing the adult,

“You know, there is a cake waiting for us at our home, we can eat and drink, and toast in the name of Gai-sensei, and then we can talk about the long forgotten knowledge, what do you think?”, Naruto proposed, the ways of Ankiseth already made his own,

Lee was about to argue, when his stomach agreed for him, after all, there was nothing waiting for him at his table.

Uzumaki’s Apartment, a few minutes later...

“WOW!!!!, THIS PLACE IS BIGGER THAN IT LOOKED IN THE OUTSIDE!!!”, Lee was amazed, the place was... a palace,

“What is important of a house is not the size, but the people who inhabits it”, Naruto explained, using a sweet voice, just as Ankiseth would have done,

“Indeed, but let’s not talk with empty stomachs, today is a day to celebrate!”, Ankiseth added, and Lee nodded,

“True, today is the anniversary of the battle against the demon fox, right?”, Lee asked,

“We don’t celebrate that event”, Naruto replied, still with a smile,

“Today we celebrate something more important, the birthday of my dear child, HAPPY BIRTHDAY NARUTO!!!”, Ankiseth explained, and Lee quickly congratulated Naruto.

After the dinner, that Lee conceded to be the best food he ever tasted, Ankiseth proceeded to give a new gift to Naruto, another piece of clothing,

“Here, my dear child, here is the rest of your new outfit, this took longer to make, because it's alive”, Ankiseth explained

He allowing the orange trench coat to wrap itself around Naruto, who couldn’t help but to grin at the gift, knowing that it will help him to be aware of his surroundings more easily, Ankiseth completed the outfit by putting an orange wide brim hat in Naruto’s head, of course this show scared the poor Lee.

“H-How did you do that?”, Lee asked with a fearful voice, something inside him told him about the dangers of what he just saw,

“It’s Magic!”, Naruto replied as if it were as natural as breathing,

“Magic?, you mean, no jutsu?, but Magic?”, Lee asked, not sure if he did it properly,

“Of course, but the true question is, how do you know the difference?, or is there any difference at all?, Aesir?”, Ankiseth asked,

Then he walked down stairs, heading to the basement, while the two kids followed him, no need to give orders, Naruto followed him because it was the natural thing to do, while Lee followed him because he felt that the answers where with him, as they reached a golden room filled with images in the walls, Ankiseth asked Lee to step in the center of the room, where a magic circle was drawn,

“Step in the center of the room, and let the lost knowledge of your people flow in your soul, Aesir”

Lee did as told, he wasn’t actually listening to Ankiseth, the room was actually calling him, and as he stepped in the circle, something awakened inside him,

“I. AM. TYR!”

Legions of demons, angels and arcane creatures felt a shiver in their spines, something that wasn’t mean to be, just happened, and all of them cursed the only being capable of such transgression, The Ancient One.

Chapter 5

The Princess

Two years have passed since the awakening of Tyr, who decided to keep the previous name of his current body, he also became Naruto’s best friend, his cheerfulness and kindness remembered him so much of Baldur, his beloved brother, and in these two years, that friendship has grown even more, of course, things weren’t easy for the reborn God and the Son of The Ancient One...

=Flashback=

“Hey!, look at that, the dobe and the klutz, hanging around together like a couple!”, one of the kids shouted, signaling to Naruto and Lee, both of them were having lunch peacefully, until this boy decided to start teasing them,

“I can’t believe they are calling you dobe!, you are by far the smartest one of this village of weaklings!”, Lee whispered to Naruto, who only was smiling,

“Oh, let them be, they are just ignorant, I mean, we have to keep this charade, I play dumb, and you restrain yourself as much as you can, otherwise we won’t have the fun we want after the graduation”, Naruto replied.

“I guess the rumors are true, by looking at you whispering like that, is easy to see that you are a Gay couple, not really surprising, considering the losers you are”, one boy came closer to them, Naruto recognized him, it was the last Uchiha,

“And what’s wrong with you?, dressing like that, a pair of clowns if you ask me”, Sasuke continued.

Both were dressed very different from the rest of the students, Naruto with his business man suit and orange trench coat and hat, and Lee with loose green pants, brown boots, heavy leather bracers, and a fishnet shirt that did nothing to hide neither his growing muscular body, and his massive collection of tribal tattoos, some of them were even on his face, unknown to everyone, these tattoos were both gravity seals and movement restraining seals.

“What do you man by ‘clowns’?, this clothes are made of the finest quality of materials you can find in the world!, and they look cool too!, or are you jealous of not affording the quality of our goods?”, Naruto replied, still holding his smile,

Lee was geting angry, not for the words of the brat, but for his attitude, Magni, his nepew, and his high ego were nothing compared to this midgardian kid.

“BAH! You are so jealous of me and my greatness, that you resort to using stupid things like quality of your clothes to hide your mediocre skills, very suited for the son of second hand trader if you ask me”, Sasuke concluded

Lee had enough, this midgardian has badmouthed them more than enough to be rewarded with the wrath of every God, but to insult Naruto’s father, the kind man that also helped him to awake from his slumber, it turned him into full ‘God of War’ mode, he was about to rip off Sasuke’s head, when the voice of someone known stopped him.

“UCHIHA!, what the hell do you think you are doing?!”, Neji shouted, disgusted by the behaviour of the last Uchiha,

“What do you think am I doing?, I’m just placing these two weirdos in their place!”, Sasuke replied.

SMACK!!!!!

Just to be hit by a giant paper fan, wielded by Tenten,

“I’m sorry for this, Uzumaki-san, Lee... we’ll make sure he won’t tease you anymore”, Neji bowed and apologized, while Tenten was binding The Uchiha heir with steel cords,

“Thank you, Neji Hyuga, I’ll remember to throw something nice for you and your girlfriend in the next purchase you make”, Naruto said, earning a deep blush from Tenten, and another bow from the Hyuga prodigy...

=End of Flashback=

Today, at Naruto’s 10 birthday, things were going to be great, the party will finally be a little more bigger than three people, because they decided to trap a certain Hyuga girl in a pincer formation, which is what has coming to the current situation.

Both Naruto and Lee were at the range training area, which was pretty empty, since every one else was heading home, only the two of them, a shy girl hiding behind a corner, and another man who was so well concealed, that only God knew he was there.

“May the wishes of your heart will be granted, brother Naruto, for you have worked for them with all your will”, Lee stated, he was sitting inside the range training area, leaning against one of the logs that were being used for training,

“Thank you for the blessing, but you should look for happiness too, there should be a worthy girl for you out there”, Naruto replied, while holding his new weapon, 'Casull', towards the target that was just a little above Lee’s head.

Hinata was watching them, despite how shiny was what Naruto was holding, she was more focused on him, his stance, his features, she was completely mesmerized by him, who always showed a warm smile and a kind heart, despite how harsh the life was with him, and those clothes, just enhanced everything, adding a mysterious air, which was boosted with his confident way of walking, as if the world has nothing to throw at him that could affect his life, yes, she was in love with him, the whole him, not like the fangirls of the last Uchiha, who only loved the surface.

BANG!!!

The alien sound brought Hinata back to reality, and she couldn’t help but to stare at the results, a hole in the log, just above Lee’s head, signaled where the projectile impacted, it was a nice hole, 13 millimeters wide, at first she couldn’t make sense of the weapon and the result, until Naruto shot again, and again, and again, every time he did this, a new hole appeared just above Lee’s head, the time between, the sound and the impact was very close to nothing, meaning no way to evade it, it was one hell of a weapon, and it made Naruto to look even more unreachable to her.

“Looking at my son?”, Ankiseth suddenly asked from behind her, and this earned only one reaction from the shy girl,

“EEEEEEEEEPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!”,

She was caught, and by no other than the father of her crush!,

“Sorry, sorry!, didn’t mean to scare you, I never thought that I could sneak behind you to began with, you are a ninja, and I’m a merchant!”, Ankiseth explained,

Hinata was still hyperventilating, and blushing, not only for being caught, but for being utterly careless, true, this was one of the kindest man she has ever met, but to let your guard down for a simple civilian to sneak behind you was unforgivable!

Hinata was still trying to get a word from her mouth, but none was able to get out, she was paralyzed, she wanted to impress this man, but only was embarrassing herself, she was in the worst situation possible, so, she did the only thing she felt smart (or stupid, if you caught the intention), she sent a silent pray,

‘To whoever God is listening to me, please, help me to get out of this situation and get the love of Naruto-kun!’,

When she finished, she heard something that sounded like ‘Granted’, this scared her, and the fact that it sounded like certain tattooed boy made it even more freaky, suddenly, she felt hands on her shoulders, and upon turning to face who was touching her, she was greeted by a foxy grin.

“Caught you!, you have escaped every time I tried to talk with you, but today you are going to answer to me!”, Naruto spoke, and Hinata was about to freak out,

‘Did I annoyed him?, OH NO!, now he hates me!’, she thought, but before she could do anything else, Naruto continued,

“So, Do you want to be my girlfriend?”, he asked with the warmest smile she had ever seen, Hinata turned to a bright shade of red, and with a loud ‘YES!’, she fainted in Naruto’s arms.

Two weeks later...

Two weeks had passed, and Hinata as still humming love songs, long time ago she promised to herself that if Naruto asked her to be his girlfriend, she will put all discretion on that, but since she woke up in the arms of her beloved Naruto, she chained the discretion and shyness to a colossal stone and threw it into the deeps of he sea (figuratively), it was now public knowledge that Naruto and Hinata were a couple, and while some people were happy for them (Iruka, Sarutobi, and Ankiseth), many others were enraged for this turn of events.

“This can’t be allowed!, the heir of the Hyuga clan must not befriend the Demon Fox!”, one of the Hyuga elders screamed,

At first they believed this to be a joke, then they believed that it wouldn’t last more than a few days, but by the looks of it, this was bounded to be long lasting, so, they called to an emergency meeting, they will not allow the Demon Fox in their ranks.

“First of all, I have to remind you that the kid is ONLY the vessel of the Demon, and has not shown any sings of corruption”, Hiashi suddenly responded, and everyone else gasped,

“Are you siding with the Demon Fox?!”, the head of the elders asked with indignation,

“No, I’m only stated the facts, as well as remember you both the dieing wish of the fourth, as well as the decree of the third”, at Hiashi explanation, everyone went silent.

“Still, as the heir of the clan, she must not be allowed to be with this... boy”, one of the elders said, spiting venom along with the word ‘boy’,

“And the heir will not be dating the Uzumaki boy, she is still too young to think on men”, Hiashi replied, and this earned questioning looks from the elders,

“Are you telling us that your daughter, Hinata, is not dating the dem... the boy?”, another elder asked, not believing the Head of the clan,

“Don’t mistake me, Hinata is indeed dating the Uzumaki boy, but she is not the heir, Hanabi has shown herself more deserving of that title”, Hiashi explained, in a last attempt to save his daughter, since the day she came home with that smile, he promised to the spirit of his late wife to protect that happiness at all cost.

“It almost sound as if you approve that relationship”, one of the younger elders stated, and the rest glared daggers to Hiashi,

“She is no longer the heir, I fail to see what harm could came from that friendship, in any case, it will benefit us, by keeping a closer eye on the Legacy of the Fourth, if corruption is shown, we can take action faster”, Hiashi quickly replied, not wanting his last stand to fall so soon, and then the older of the elders growled,

“Very well, but since she is not the heir anymore, she will be marked, tomorrow at night”.

Meanwhile, in the depths of the park...

Hinata was training, since she wasn’t confident enough to train her Jyuken, she decided to try another thing, her father never opposed to train other styles, he said it would be beneficial to learn how they were inferior to the family style, so, she decided to try something diferent, Ankiseth suggested her to train with a weapon,

“Some of the greatest warriors are so shy, that they hide behind their blades”,

Hinata took this to heart, and asked for a wooden nodachi to practice, she was just a starter, but already got a pair of eyes watching her.

“Nice swordplay, where did you learn it?”, a female voice startled Hinata, who cursed for being so careless about her surroundings,

As she turned to face the owner of the voice, she spotted a girl who couldn’t be older than her, she was wearing a black Hakama and Gi, with the symbol of a raven on it, she also wear fingerless gloves, her skin was pale and her long silver hair was tied in a high ponytail, also, the bokken in her right hand didn’t go unnoticed.

“Er, I’m just learning it, the father of my boyfriend taught me the basic moves, but he told me to make my own style”, at Hinata’s reply, the other girl frowned, she didn’t seemed to like what she heard,

“I see... let’s spar!”, the girl shouted, and before Hinata could argue, she found herself barely blocking an incoming slash.

“No!, wait!, stop!, I don’t want to fight!”, Hinata screamed

She tried to reasoning with the crazed girl, but for every word she shouted, she had to block another 5 slashes, the strength of this girl was notorious, Hinata’s hands were getting numb, but when everything seemed to be lost, an scary roar made them to stop.

Both turned to look at their side, and a BIG grizzly bear came out flying, and crashed in a tree, at the opposite side from were they were looking,

“WHAT THE HELL?!”,

The silver haired girl was shocked by the scene, but Hinata looked somewhat calm, then from the direction from where bear came, a young and tattooed boy came out.

“Come back here, and face your destiny!, I’ll make a big feast with your meat, and your fur will make a beautiful rug in my room!”, Lee shouted,

The silver haired girl followed him with the eyes, as if he was the only thing on earth, and watched Lee as he beat the bear to a pulp, with his bare hands, she never noticed Hinata getting closer, neither how she raised the wooden nodachi over her head.

WHAM!!!!

“OWIE!!!!”, the girl shouted in pain, dropping the bokken, and eyeing Hinata,

“Why did you attacked me without warning?, and who are you anyway?”, Hinata asked, the shy girl was hidden behind the blade,

“Hump!, I told you that we were going to spar, no warning is needed between sword users!, as for my name...”,

The girl was about to say something, when a deep and manly voice shouted in the distance,

“REIKO! WHERE ARE YOU?! IF YOU ARE FIGHTING AGAIN, YOU WILL FACE THE WRATH OF MY ZANKANTOU!!!”,

At the sound of those words, the girl, now known as Reiko, started to freak out, and then darted in the direction of the voice, leaving a confused Hinata.

“A weird and wild girl, isn’t she?”, Naruto asked, while hugging her from behind,

Hinata only nodded, she was still unused to the sudden apparitions of her boyfriend, when Hiashi came into sight,

“Hinata... and Naruto... I have something important to tell you”,

Usually, Hinata would start to freak out, because her father was very protective of her, and he didn’t liked to see his daughter being feeled up by any male, but he looked so concerned...

Uzumaki’s apartment, a few hours later...

“So, basically, you are telling me that Hinata will be forced to be marked by a cursed seal, only because she is dating you?”, Ankiseth asked to the couple, and while both nodded, only Naruto expressed himself,

“Is completely unfair!, I will not allow that to happen!”, Hinata blushed, but felt the need to clarify the things,

“Naruto-kun, this can’t be avoided, if I’m not marked, then we’ll not be allowed to be together”, Hinata explained, still sad by this turn of events,

“It’s unfair anyway”, Naruto replied.

“Well, there is still an alternative way to solve this dilemma”, Ankiseth started, with his sweet voice,

‘This can’t be good’, Kyuubi warned,

‘What are you talking about?, dad is never wrong’, Naruto defended,

‘I know Kit, but while it will be good for you, I can’t help but to feel sorry for the souls that will be bashed for whatever he is going to do’, Kyuubi replied.

“And what is this alternative way?”, Hinata asked, with hope in her voice,

“Well, you will have to attend to the ritual, while we hide you here”, Ankiseth explained, but Hinata only got more confused,

“Follow me, we must start now”, Ankiseth said,

He then guided them to the basement, into a big room, somewhat dark, and with a circle drawn in the floor, the circle showed a very complex pattern inside it, along with smaller circles, on these smaller circles were some bowls filled with many compounds, and three tiny circles were in the middle of the entire circle.

‘This is not good, not good at all’, Kyuubi warned again, much more scared than before,

‘Kyuubi-chan, you should have more faith on dad, he has never disappointed us’, Naruto defended again,

Kyuubi almost felt as if Naruto were making a copy of the diabolic grin that could send shivers thru the spine of the fiercest demon.

“Now, to make sure this will work, you must willingly put the next three objects in the three circles in the middle of the room, a strand of hair, a piece of your clothing, and a droplet of blood”, Ankiseth instructed,

Hinata did as told, without hesitation, knowing that with the cursed mark, they will force her to marry another person instead of Naruto.

“Very well, now step aside, and be ready to greet whatever comes from this”, Ankiseth said,

But before anyone could ask about the safety of this procedure, Ankiseth placed his hands at the border of the circle, the borders started to shine, and then, all the compounds in the bowls started to fly toward the center of the circle, where a cocoon of light formed, soon, all the elements were sucked by the cocoon of light, and a red light started to fill the room.

“Here is where the true masters got separated from the simple experienced ones”, Ankiseth said,

Then he started to cast spells, returning the white light to the room, soon, the light faded away, and in it’s place, a girl was standing, she was a carbon copy of Hinata, and she was naked, Hinata turned to face Naruto, who was covering his eyes with his hat, Hinata made a mental note to reward him in the near future.

“My, my, why are you so shy?, don’t you wish me?, you can take me if you want, and as many times as you want, Naruto-kun”, the copy of Hinata almost sang, in a suggestive manner that was VERY un-Hinata, said girl was so red that a tomato could die of shame at her side, and still, Naruto didn’t took the hat from his eyes.

“Speak your name, Fiend”, Ankiseth commanded,

“Ask to the girl you molded me after, I’m her sin after all”, the copy replied, with not so much respect,

Hinata couldn’t believe it, she was looking at the incarnation of her darkest secrets, the last thing she wanted others to know, and a simple word left her lips,

“Lust”.

Chapter 7

Treason

“Another test?”, Ankiseth asked,

“Yup, this one courtesy of our new sensei, Anko Mitarashi!”, Naruto replied, at this, Ankiseth used one of his smiles,

“Oh may!, I hope she won’t be so harsh on any of you, my children”, he was making a nice feast for his child, his soon to be daughter-in-law, and the reborn God, while it was pretty obvious that they were going to graduate, it was a nice ‘coincidence’ that the three of them ended in the same team.

=Flashback=

“This is the list of graduates of this year”, Iruka showed the list to the Hokage, who wasn’t surprised at all, and still, his face showed uneasiness,

“Thank you, Iruka, I will handle the group forming”, Sarutobi dismissed Iruka, who felt that something was amiss,

“Is there something wrong, Hokage-sama?”, at Iruka’s concern, Sarutobi decided to let slip a little of his troubles,

“No, and yes, this year is going to be a little hard to make the teams, with the exception of the Ino-Shika-Cho, who was decided long ago, Kurenai asked for the Hyuga to be in her tracking team, I have one young Zonbolt asking for this Rock Lee in her team, Haruno is asking for her granddaughter to be advanced and be placed with the Uchiha heir, and nobody want their children to be in the same team with Naruto...”, Sarutobi explained

Iruka felt his blood boiling, how can people blame Naruto, he was the hero after all, but got no chance of made his mind verbal, because Hiashi entered the room,

“Sorry for coming like this, but since you are going to make the genin teams, I want to ask a special favor”, Hiashi started, both Iruka and Sarutobi were ready to hear the same bullshit, but...

“I want Hinata to be in the same team with the Uzumaki boy, since Ankiseth-san is not a shinobi, and for hence, has no voice in this matter, I vote in his behalf too, for Naruto to be in the same team as my daughter”, Hiashi voiced his request, and neither Iruka or Sarutobi believed their ears,

“H-Hiashi-sama...”, Iruka tried to say something, but was cut by Hiashi,

“Yes, I’m serious, yes, I remember that Naruto is the vessel of the Kyuubi, and yes, I’m aware that the elders aren’t going to like this, but I’ll deal with them when the time comes”, Hiashi said.

“Hiashi-sama, if Ankiseth is blackmailing you...”, Sarutobi interjected,

true, the merchant was a kindhearted man, harmless, and always had what you needed, but he didn’t liked how things were always favorable to him no matter what, but soon, he and Iruka faced something that they will never forget, Hiashi’s emotionless mask fell, and he looked sad

“Hokage-sama, I had to see my daughter being sealed, I had to hear her screams of pure pain and despair, that day I swore to myself to grant her the happiness she deserved, the happiness I stole when I tried to force her into being the heir, I don’t like the Uzumaki boy anymore than the rest, but my daughter likes him, and I can’t stand in the way of her happiness anymore, please, I beg you, I don’t want to see her with a broken heart just because she is not in the same team as the boy she loves”, Hiashi explained with a broken voice, and Sarutobi didn’t had other choice but to agree,

After Hiashi left, Sarutobi closed his eyes, he was tired of this, so, he choosed the easy way, lifting the pen to randomly select the rest of the teams,

“Oh well, I guess God will choose the rest”, while he said this, a certain reborn God started to laugh like a madman.

=End of the Flashback=

“Well, at least, by the grace of God, you are all together, and you will stay like that”, Ankiseth concluded, enjoying the pun,

“AYE!”, Lee replied, and Naruto and Hinata giggled while leading the floating plates filled with food, one of them, had a roasted boar, soaked in spices,

“Dinner is ready”, Hinata sang,

“AH!, A FEAST FITTED FOR THE GODS!”, oddly enough, it was easy to please the local God of War when you live with him.

Meanwhile, Hyuga compound...

“I find it quite strange that the Hokage didn’t hear your pleas about separating your daughter from the demon kid”, one of the elders expressed his concern, the day before the naming of the teams, Hiashi agreed to talk to the Hokage about the team prospects for his daughter,

“I told him my concerns, and he said it was for the best”, Hiashi replied, he wasn’t lying, but neither was telling the truth

“At least she is being restrained in her room, we can’t go against the Hokage in this, but we can restrict their time together as much as we can”, another elder spoke, Hiashi made a mental note to purchase something cute for Hinata’s double, she was a true blessing to both of them, but he couldn’t help but to feel guilty for imprisoning the girl,

“There is another thing, Hiashi, while is acceptable to a Hyuga member to learn an alternate style besides the Jyuken, I have noticed that your daughter Hinata relays too much in that weapon”, the head elder commented, but Hiashi didn’t flinch

“A fine masterpiece, indeed, it seems that my daughter has found a new style on her sword, MASAMUNE”, Hiashi put special emphasis in the name of the legendary sword, and this got a massive gasp from the elders,

“Y-You c-can’t b-be s-serious!, the true masterpiece of the katanas?, the blade of the One-Winged-Angel-of-Death?!”, one of the elders asked, Hiashi found quite amusing that the elder stuttered like his daughter used to do.

“Yes, that same sword, and before you ask, it still belongs to the Uzumaki clan, even if it still a small family of 2 members, their resources are quite vast”, Hiashi explained, and just as he predicted, greed flashed on the eyes of the elders, now he needed to move carefully, or all the work to make Hinata happy will be wasted,

“And... how can we make that sword a gift for our clan?”, the head elder asked, yes, Hiashi will have to move with caution

Latter that night...

Hanabi wanted to take a walk, and as usual, she went in the company of her ‘sister’, Atanih, as she named herself in order to not let Hiashi to know what she was,

“I still don’t understand what do you see in that blonde merchant, Sister”, Hanabi stated, not only she was fooled too by Hinata’s double, but also feel strange that her sister was attracted to someone that everyone else found unworthy, unfortunately for her, this wasn’t Hinata, so, a blunt answer was in the way.

“Well, is like the way you feel around the honourable grandson of the Hokage”, Atanih answered, enjoying the deep blush in Hanabi’s face,

“H-How did you know?!”, Hanabi shouted, her deepest secret was discovered by her sister, Atanih wanted to laugh, and also to shout that every Hyuga is a pervert to heart, but before she could further tease Hanabi, her mirage byakugan detected an incoming attack,

“HANABI WATCH OUT!!!”, Atanih shouted while throwing Hanabi to the ground, just to be stabbed by a giant shuriken, Hanabi was so shocked by the scene of the death of her sister, that she didn’t noticed that someone was getting closer, then everything went black.

A few minutes latter, Mizuki was running at full speed thru the forest outside Konoha,

“HA!, this was my lucky day, not only I managed to get the forbidden scroll, but an extra treasure!, Lord Orochimaru will be so pleased, that not only he will make me special jounin, but he may allow me to breed with this little slut!”, Mizuki expressed,

this was his revenge, and he was so engrossed by his apparent success, that he didn’t noticed two facts, first, he was being followed, and second, he has passed the same tree for third time, when he decided to stop to take a small rest.

“Mizuki-sensei, what are you doing here?”, Mizuki turned to face the owner of the voice, just to find Naruto, who had a wicked smile in his face,

“Huh?, Naruto?, I’m in a classified mission, but what are you doing here at this hour, shouldn’t you be getting ready for tomorrow’s test?”, Mizuki asked, trying his best to hide his emotions, if things come to the worst, he will tell Naruto about the Kyuubi, then, in the confusion, he will kill the demon kid, scoring an extra trophy.

“You are a bad liar, now hand over my sister, your filthy hands have touched her enough”, Hinata said, walking out of the shadows,

Mizuki let the scroll and Hanabi fall to the floor, breaking the henge on the little Hyuga,

“No!, It can’t be!, I killed you!, I saw your guts sprawled all over the street!, it wasn’t a genjutsu!, YOU ARE DEAD!”, Mizuki shouted, terror getting the best of him.

“It does not matter, now give up, and we’ll allow you to walk on your own feet to the village, were you’ll be judged as a traitor”, Naruto stated, and this brought Mizuki back to his senses,

“Nice genjutsu, I see you noticed that I killed your stupid girlfriend, so what?, want the other Hyuga now that the failure is dead?, you may be good at genjutsu, but I’m much more experienced ninja, NOW DIE!”, Mizuki shouted, while sending a barrage of kunais,

As soon as he saw that Hinata used her blade to deflect all the kunais, he started to think, ‘So, she is real, damn Hyugas, the one I killed was a double!’, as he thought this, he grabbed Hanabi again, to use her as hostage.

“Using my soon to be sister-in-law as a shield?, you may think you are so smart, but that can be fixed”, Naruto stated, not with coldness, but with an unnatural happy tone,

Mizuki couldn’t make sense of that, until the shadows below Naruto expanded, not like the Nara secret jutsu, this shadows looked liquid, it separated and raised from the ground behind the blond genin,

“What an amazing genjutsu!, but this isn’t an amateur fight, KAI!”, Mizuki tried to dispel the illusion before he was trapped, but it didn’t dispelled, meaning that this was all real.

Soon the separated shadows raised high, and the tips took the shape of fox heads, nine fox heads, suddenly they opened their eyes, several dozens of eyes on each head, they also opened their jaws, that were filled with irregular freakish tusks, Mizuki was so scared, that he didn’t noticed that Hanabi wasn’t in his hands anymore,

“Naruto-kun, now that my sister is safe, can you pretty please, DESTROY THAT FILTHY b*****d?!”, Hinata shouted with an unholy rage that made Kyuubi proud of her,

“As you wish, my dear, this b*****d will never get up of this”, Naruto stated, and Mizuki watched in horror how the nine heads darted at him, with murderous intent.

Meanwhile...

“Are yo sure you don’t need a medic?”, Hiashi asked to Atanih, who was currently gathering her innards from the street floor,

“No, Hiashi-sama, I don’t need a medic, but some help could be useful, can you kindly pick up my intestines?, they are over there, and over there too”, Atanih asked, being an homunculus had the benefit of not dieing, but it was quite troublesome when your organs got spilled out of you,

“It amaze me, your kekke genkai is awesome, still, I have no words to describe my gratitude... I think this is one of your lunges...”, Fortunately, her inability to die by ordinary means was confused by one of those strange blood lines, making her able to blend with the crowds easier.

“Dad!, Atanih!, here is Hanabi!”, Hinata arrived, unfazed by the gore,

“Thanks to God!, now we can call the search to a stop, who did kidnapped her?”, Hiashi asked,

“It was Mizuki-sensei, Naruto-kun is dealing with him right now”, Hinata calmly replied,

“WHAT?!”, Hiashi shouted, and this woke up Hanabi,

“Huh?, dad?... SISTER?!”, Hanabi shouted, freaking out,

‘OH CRAP!’, both Hinata and her sin thought.

One hour later...

Naruto was still watching Mizuki, who was battered beyond words, still conscious, but his mind was already lost by the insane pain that he suffered at the ‘hands’ of Naruto, he was covered in blood, he looked clawed and bited from every angle, bones were visibly broken, and his eyes looked lost, this sight was what the ANBU team reported back at the Hokage, who dismissed them, saying that he overlooked the fight with his crystal ball all the time, and it was a very powerful genjutsu, mixed with some physical attacks, and anything that Mizuki could say about it should be ignored,

“Naruto, what have you become?”, Sarutobi asked to no one in particular, he was amazed by the unspeakable power unleashed by the son of Minato, a power that Kyuubi didn’t had,

“He has become my son, and I’m very proud of him”, a sweet male voice replied, and as Sarutobi turned to face the owner of the voice, his eyes grew wide as he recognized the speaker.

Chapter 9

Dead Uprising – First part

At the Hokage tower, teams 7 and 11 were reunited, wearing their hitai-ates proudly, Naruto was wearing it tied to his left arm, Hinata was wearing it around her neck, Lee had it as a belt, Matsukaze and Reiko were wearing them in a more traditional fashion, in their foreheads, while Naraku was using it to cover his eyes, they were about to receive their first mission, all the other teams have already left with missions related to mundane tasks and boring assignments, so, they didn't had high hopes on getting something good, thing that was even more obvious due to the fact that this was their very first mission, what they didn't knew, is that their fate was sealed the night before they were tested as a team.

=Flashback=

“Naruto, what have you become?”, Sarutobi asked to no one in particular, he was amazed by the unspeakable power unleashed by the son of Minato, a power that Kyuubi didn’t had,

“He has become my son, and I’m very proud of him”, a sweet male voice replied, and as Sarutobi turned to face the owner of the voice, his eyes grew wide as he recognized the speaker.

“Ankiseth-san!, how did you enter?!”, Sarutobi asked, somehow he felt very insecure in front of the merchant, maybe it was the fact that outside the office were over 20 ANBU ninjas, or maybe the fact that neither the windows or the door were even slightly open, or maybe the fact that he, being the Hokage, didn't noticed the merchant entering his domains.

“That's a very interesting question, Hokage-sama, but there is no time to explain something that will explain itself in a few moments, right now, I'm here to ask a request”, Ankiseth started, right now, any feeling of uneasiness was multiplied way too much,

“And what is this request about?, I'm guessing you don't want to change Naruto's team, do you?”, Sarutobi asked, something was wrong, very wrong,

“I just want to give an interesting and educative first mission to my son”, Ankiseth replied with a foxy grin.

“What kind of mission?”, Sarutobi asked, interesting and educative weren't D-rank missions, so, this merchant wanted something entirely different,

“Nothing special or dangerous, one client of mine lives in a little town called Cheddar, just a week from here, you know that place, nothing never happens there, this client wants this little and inoffensive package, so, I was thinking, 'why not to let my son and his team to deliver this little and inoffensive package to a small and peaceful town?', I mean, A chosen Hero, a reborn God, and chosen princess can get bored by just doing mundane tasks, don't you agree?”, Ankiseth explained.

Sarutobi was about to have a heart attack,

“The Chosen Hero and Princess?, AND THE REBORN GOD?!”, from all the times for old prophesies to become true, why it had to be during his days as a Hokage?, he was about to ask this when Ankiseth banished in front of his eyes, no chakra spike to be felt, as if he never step inside the office, the only evidence of this event, was the small package...

=End of Flashback=

'Might as well send both teams, just in case', Sarutobi thought, while eyeing them intently, and this made Anko explode,

“ARGH!, JUST HAND OVER THE MISSION ALREADY!, WHAT IS IT?!, PAINTING A FENCE?, PURCHASING GROCERIES?, TAKING CARE OF TROUBLESOME CHILDREN?, CATCHING THAT DEVIL CAT?!”, Anko shouted, and this made Yamato to chuckle, while the genins sweatdropped, this also returned Sarutobi to the current situation.

“No, nothing like that, in fact, I have a special mission for both teams, here, take the info, and handle this package with utmost care”, Sarutobi said, while handling the information and the small package to the jounins,

“Deliver the package to a man named 'Alexander Anderson', in the town of CHEDDAR!, that's one week of travel!”, Yamato expressed the contents of the information,

“CHEDDAR?!, THAT'S THE MOST BORING PLACE OF EARTH!!!”, Anko added, she felt that this was almost as bad as a D-rank mission.

“Excuse me, but going out of the village isn't considered as a C-rank mission?”, Naraku asked, a little confused for the sudden importance of the mission,

“It has to be, is too far away from any backup”, Reiko replied, already getting excited for getting a great mission,

“GREAT!, our first mission is over ranked!, we'll be the envy of the rest of the teams!”, Matsukaze shouted, all of them seemed to forgot what Anko said.

“Can I ask who is asking for this mission?”, Naruto suddenly asked, with a sweet and polite voice that sent shivers thru Anko's spine,

“Let me see... huh?, hey!, it's Naruto's father the one who ask for this mission!, no wonder the Hokage is accepting to give it to you, being only a genin, besides, the only danger lies in the forest, once we hit the road to Cheddar, is almost an accomplished mission”, Yamato stated, however, instead of getting another shout from Anko, he watched in distress how a dangerous smirk appeared not only in Anko's face, but in her genins too.

“I know is an easy mission, however, I want you to take this chance to teach your students how to treat C-rank missions, and remember to make good use of the time to polish your skills in stealth and survival, now, you are dismissed, go and get ready to leave in the morning”, the Hokage commanded, and both teams left, leaving the Hokage to think in how to approach the merchant, in order to clarify how he knew about the old legends... and to purchase some herbs to smoke.

Konoha's main Gate, next morning...

Yamato had instructed his genins to pack everything they considered necessary for a medium to long trip, and he saw the result of his words in the big backpacks the kids brought, Reiko's backpack was slim and small, Yamato knew that any Zonbolt will simply refuse to seal their things in scrolls, and that they lived basically from their swords, meaning that what she packaged were mostly sharpening tools and spare clothes, Naraku's backpack was a sack, containing mostly healing items, and some food, Yamato was still amazed on how he was able to identify everything with ease, despite being blind, however, Matsukaze's backpack was way too big, and looked awkwardly heavy, and it was hard to tell what could he have there.

Soon after checking his team, Yamato noticed team 7 getting closer, and he took notice of the genins, Naruto was not carrying any kind of backpack, and he doubt that this genin could already know how to seal things in scrolls, which he also didn't saw on him, Hinata was carrying a very small pouch, tied in her belt, and by the shape it was taking, it looked like small bottles, either with medicinal remedies, or poisons, but Lee, the only difference was that he was wearing a GREAT mantle, made of the fur of some bears, it was the only animal that Yamato thought that could have enough fur for that kind of mantle, giving him an scary look.

“Your team looks ill prepared for this trip, Anko”, Yamato stated, it was hard to tell if he was all business, or if he was teasing Anko,

“Yours looks overcharged, Greenie”, Anko replied, mockery at it's best,

“You can't blame the kids, they wanted to be ready for everything”, Yamato defended, getting angry,

“A good shinobi can live from the ground, carrying too much will slow you down, specially oversized weapon users, they should not carry anything else”, Anko shot back, she looked really happy for teasing the wood user.

Meanwhile the genins were having their own chat, where Naruto and Hinata were busy in a flattery contest, with kisses in between, Naraku was pointing how Reiko drooled in front of her crush, while Matsukaze was making plans to get Reiko to look at someone else, namely him, when they watched how Lee was getting closer to Reiko, who became nervous upon this realization,

“Reiko, can I have a word with you?”, Lee asked, with a strong yet polite voice,

“Huh?, er... I... sure!”, Reiko replied with trouble,

“Can you stop drooling?, it's disgusting”, Lee said with not much emotion in his voice, and Reiko got petrified, tears were menacing with getting out like rivers, when,

“Besides, it ruins your beautiful face”, Lee continued, and then turned to walk to his companions, Reiko's heart skipped a beat, or two,

“Did... he... call me... BEAUTIFUL?!”, she finally snapped, and almost jumped in joy.

After a few minutes of watching the verbal fight between their senseis, they departed, and since there was no danger in this mission, a bet was made, the sensei of the team who fared worst this trip, will pay for the party at their return, this was a serious bet, both teams have people that eats like there is no tomorrow, making this a hard contest, and at noon, they had their first test of survival, getting something to eat,

“Ok, go and get some food, and remember, we have to remain hidden, from the gathering to the eating”, Yamato instructed, and turned to watch how Anko managed this,

“Lee, go and hunt whatever you want, I'll skin it, and Hinata and Naruto will cook it”, Anko stated, and Lee darted into the depths of the forest, this brought Yamato's attention,

“Anko, are you abusing that we are still in homeland?, remember that there could be dangerous animals or bandits, even some enemy ninjas, you can't allow that overmuscled boy to wander alone!”, Yamato lectured, and Anko looked at him as if he were some kind of alien,

“I seriously doubt that there is something more dangerous than him out there”, Anko replied, and soon they heard the sound of a dieing animal.

“I'll start the fire, Hinata-chan, can you kindly make some of that delicious sauce that only you know how to make?”, Naruto begged, and Hinata giggled,

“Of course, my dear Naruto-kun, besides, I love how you lick it from my fingers”, Hinata replied, seriously turning on the other males in the nearby,

“Aren't they too young for that?”, Yamato asked, a little startled by the display of affection,

“If I remember properly, you were very pervert at a younger age”, Anko replied, making fun of the wood user, again.

After one hour, both teams were eating, Yamato instructed his genins to eat atop a tree, eating fruits, and cold foods, this in order to keep the stealth, but this lesson was being corrupted by Anko's team, they were at the floor of the forest, feasting in a fat boar that Lee caught, that Anko cleaned, that Hinata and Naruto cooked, the fine yet strong smell of the cooked meat was an inhuman torture for team 11, even Yamato's mouth was all wet, but he decided to show strong, and closed his eyes to add a dramatic effect to his lecturing,

“As you can see, team 7 is being careless, during a mission, is vital to keep secrecy, to remain hidden, by cooking meat like that, you only attract unwanted attention, like bandits and wild beasts, and if other ninjas were in the nearby, team 7 will be dead by now”, Yamato finished his lecturing, just to find that he was alone, his team went to join team 7 into the feast, and upon seeing them enjoying the meat with utmost pleasure, he fell to the wimps of his stomach,

“WAIT FOR ME!”, he shouted while jumping to join the others.

Outskirts of Cheddar, one week later...

A blond girl was running thru the forest, her weapon, an old katana strapped to her waist, her mission, to get help from any source available, the reason, some kind of evil people cam to her peaceful town, and started to kill the good people, people that she knew, that she loved, and that loved her, but the worst part was that the people that was killed, didn't stay dead for long, they raised, and started to attack other people, this invasion of the dead destroyed the town in only one day, and the few survivors were being protected in the small church, somehow the priest managed to repel the abominations, but he wasn't a fighter, he won't last for long, that's why she decided to take the risk to go outside and call for help, but as usual, she found resistance.

“No!, stay away!, please!, don't you remember who am I?, it's me, the Kitty!”, the girl tried to reason with the man in front of her,

He was one of her best friends, one of those that were a good choice to marry with, but it was useless, the only answer she got were the hungry moanings of who used to be one of her best friends, and soon, more in this condition answered the moanings in the distance, it was a matter of time before she finds herself surrounded by the undead, she had to act fast, to decapitate this undead just as the priest told her to do, but she hesitated, she found herself unable to kill him.

The full moon shined with a bloody red tint over her like a bad omen, as if her own end were close, until a white gloved hand bursted out of the chest of the undead, and as if it that were the most deadly attack, the zombie became ashes, once this happened, she was able to see her savior, a young boy dressed in an orange trench coat, with wide brim hat that matched his coat, and his eyes shined like two orange round orbs, she barely missed those who were at the sides of her rescuer,

“W-Who are you?”, the girl asked, and her rescuer, as well as his two companions grined in a scary way,

“My name is Naruto Uzumaki, The Yokai King, to my right is Hinata, The Aurora Angel, and to my left is Rock Lee, The God of War, and we are here on a mission”, Naruto introduced himself and his team,

“A beautiful night, isn't it?”, Naruto concluded, while the jounins and team 11 raced to join them.

Chapter 11

Dead Uprising – Part 3

It was noon already and the Father Anderson, since his awakening from his sudden shock, has been eyeing Naruto, who, as a way of respect, took off his hat and his shades, allowing everyone to see his warm smile and happy features, thing that made Anderson to dismiss him as the reincarnation of "The Abomination" he used to know some time ago, however, he didn't let his guard down, for he sensed that this child has both a soul of greater good, as well as a soul of greater evil.

The Father Anderson also gave the proper thanks to the shinobies, they were their saviors, but the presences of Anko and Lee were very disturbing, Anko for her very indecent shirt and skirt, and the young boy for his tattoos and his attitude, he walked and talked as if he were worthy the title of a god, thing that was a blasphemy to the priest, however, since he didn't say or did anything that showed disrespect to The One God, at least not inside the church, he was tolerated, the others were only strange to behold, is not everyday that you see a blind boy to coordinate an strategy, showing a sharp "Vision" of the situation, or a girl with lavender eyes humming something happy in the middle of a crisis like this, as if for her, the time and space were a realm without importance.

"Indeed, so different from what used to be back home..", Anderson sighed, and this earned the attention of Yamato,

"Back home?, from where are you exactly, Father Anderson?", Yamato asked with as much respect as possible, there was no need to start a war of faiths right now,

"Huh?... errr... from the far west...", Anderson replied somewhat startled, since he didn't noticed the wood user until he spoke,

"From the far west?, that's strange, the people from those lands are very strong, and while you look strong, you weren't able to fight in a more open way, are you sick?", Yamato asked, he was counting in the holy barriers of the priest to mount a strong defense for the incoming assault.

"He is broken", Matsukaze suddenly stated, with certain disgust,

"Broken?", Yamato asked, ready to reprimand his genin if he disrespect the priest too much, but got surprised when the priest lowered his head on shame,

"He has no will to fight, or to survive, and faith alone is not enough to save this town, for I know no God that will favor the cowards!", Matsukaze raised his voice, when...

SMACK!!!

"Reiko-chan... why?", Matsukaze shouted in pain and surprise at the violent reaction of the young Zonbolt,

"Watch your tongue Maeda!, overall show respect and tolerance to any faith you encounter, and do not mistake the pain of the heart with weakness or cowardice, now apologize to the Holy Priest of The One God, and offer a prayer at the altar!", Reiko said in a very commanding voice that brought a warm and happy memory to the priest.

=Flashback=

"WHY DO I HAVE TO TEAM UP WITH THE ABOMINATION?!?!?!?!", Anderson shouted, disgusted by the idea of working along a Vampire,

"Pope orders, Iscariot and Hellsing must work together to overcome the current crisis", Maxwell answered without much interest,

"BUT THIS IS BLASPHEMY!!!", Anderson shouted again, looking with enraged eyes to the crimson dressed man,

"Now, now, Judas Priest, you know that you want it, that you want us to go there, to go there alone, to be alone so you can backstab me, backstab me as the saint of your devotion, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!", Alucard stated with a creepy and sadistic voice, rejoicing in his own evilness, until...

BANG, BANG, BANG!!!

"Ow!, Master!", Alucard mockingly whimpered, while healing the three holes in his head,

"Shut up, TOOL, you will do as you are odered, and I order you to apologize now!, this mission is way too important for you to fool around!, if you don't work together there will be no tomorrow for you to have another of your senseless and bloody fights!", Integra said with a commanding voice that sent shivers thru Anderson spine, something he liked, and that he'll miss, for this was the last time he would see them.

=End of Flashback=

'It seems that, in the end, I have found everyone of the people that were important to me, at least in this land they are less bloody', Anderson thought, while making a very little smile, and suddenly, Naruto and Hinata appeared in front of him,

"Father Anderson, we are about to go outside to start our strategy, but I don't want to go without giving you this, the package you ordered", Naruto said with a foxy grin, while handling the small package to the priest,

"I see, before you go, allow me to bless you, is the least I can do for you", Anderson replied, and after mumbling a short bless, he allowed them to go, after seeing them depart, he looked at the small package with a curious expression in his face,

"Strange, I don't remember to have ordered anything...", Anderson muttered.

As the sunset approached, the people inside the church was getting busier and busier, the jounins and genins were gathering things for a barricade, and makeshift weapons, torches, water, and food, ready to make a bunker of the old building,

"I hope this works, these civilians have no knowledge on how to fight", Yamato stated, really worried for the safety of the people,

"I still think that we should attack the enemy heads on", Anko replied, wishing to have gone with Naruto and Hinata, who were in charge of setting up a trap to decimate the numbers of the enemies, in order to lessen the damage on the building,

"Anko, don't be suicidal, these aren't humans, we don't know their strength!", Yamato tried to reprimand her, but failed miserably,

"YOU don't know what you are fighting, I perfectly understand our situation, the undead are both strong and weak, normal methods of fighting are useless, but, some other things like holy objects or blessed elements turn them to ashes, even if it won't cause a scratch on you, besides, the living and the undead share a common weakness", Anko explained, and Yamato couldn't help but to feel amazed at the knowledge of the crazy snake lady,

"And what is this common weakness?", Yamato asked filled with interest,

"Decapitation and destroying the heart proves to be lethal", Anko replied with a grin, while Yamato looked at her as if she were crazy.

As the sun finally hides it's light behind the mountains, the Valentine brothers start to walk in the streets of the town, followed by a large group of vampire ninjas, making their way to the church, where the last living ones were taking shelter, for them, it was like walking to a fridge, with the exception that this time there were some snacks that were going to try to fight back.

"Hey Luke, I wonder if there will be some girls with the pests, if there are, let me rape them, I want some rough action!", the one with the face filled with piercings shouted,

"Sure Jan, but remember, if you see a young virgin, save her for me, I could add another good fighter to my selected body guards", Luke replied, while looking at the four barely dressed kunoichis that were following him very closely, suddenly, Luke stopped, with an startled face, and looked towards the town square,

"Something wrong, brother?", Jan asked, not really caring, he was more focused in imagining what kind of women he will find in the church,

"It seems that one of the pests is preparing a pincer, but, this pest is not hiding his chakra, is like a flame drawing moths", Luke replied, while smiling at the idea of facing someone that strong,

"What do you propose?, going for that one first?", Jan asked, while grinning, he just wanted to spill someone's blood already,

"No, Jan, I'll personally go to greet this one, I'll let the church to you, have fun brother!", Luke replied, and started to go towards the town square, followed by his four Kunoichies.

In the church, everything was ready, all the kids and women were taken to the basement, while the few men capable of fighting were armed with makeshift weapons and flasks with holy water, all of them prying that the shinobies were enough to stop the monsters, Reiko took the chance to cover her sword with holy water, thing that Naraku copied by spraying some holy water in his bow, Yamato and Anko were making lots of explosive tags, and Matsukaze filled a small gourd with blessed wine, the Father Anderson could have reprimand him, if not for the fact that, if the water runs out, the wine could be used as a less powerful alternative.

"Are you sure it was a good idea to sent these two outside?", Yamato asked, worried for Naruto and Hinata,

"You should not doubt them, they will pull out a victory, they have the blessings of two Gods", Lee replied, and this puzzled the wood user, but before he could further ask, they heard the blind genin,

"Here they come!, GET READY!", Naraku shouted, and the shinobies darted outside.

Meanwhile...

Luke was walking to the town square, that was just a few more meters in front of him, he was being lured to this dark presence, he was walking calmly, knowing that there could not be any surprise attack that could bypass his bodyguards, their footsteps were a calming music for him, and suddenly, the music stopped, and he did as well, his face was of pure shock, he didn't had to turn around to be sure about it, he was alone, and suddenly, he laughed,

"So!, you are THAT good!, to have trapped me in a genjutsu of this magnitude!, but it matters not!, your blood will be mine!", Luke shouted, and kept walking, and soon he found himself looking to a short man sitting in a throne,

"So, are you the one behind this senseless attack?", Naruto asked, and this shocked the vampire,

"A kid?, a mere kid, is the owner of this demonic presence?", Luke asked,

"You'll see, Mr. Valentine, in this world, as well as many others, the power is given to the worthy ones, being they men or women, young or old, good or evil, willing or unwilling, it all depends on the balance of the universe, but the question is, why do you seek a dark power like this?, weren't your money, your women, and your political position enough for you?", Naruto asked with a mocking voice, he took his time to make a little research on the Valentine family.

"Shut up, what do you know anyway?, what good it makes me to have all the material things if I can't live forever to enjoy them, what good it does to me to have all these women if I'm going to get old and won't be able to enjoy them anymore?, but now, I'm a vampire, I'm immortal, and I'll be young forever to take the pleasure I deserve!", Luke explained, and this sickened Naruto, but decided to keep the charade,

"Luke, Luke, Luke, there is nothing like 'Immortality', or being eternaly young, in the end, you'll become old, and unable to be pleased, not mattering how young your body looks, and, you are already dead, so, no Immortality for you", Naruto explained, and Luke looked both shocked and angry.

"How did you know my name... no, it does not matter, soon my brother will end what we started, soon that church will be burned to a crisp, and then, we'll be able to turn this entire town in our den, from where we'll start our domain of terror, and everyone will knelt before us!", Luke said, with a hint of madness in his voice,

"So sad, at least I hope you can put a decent fight", Naruto said with a happy voice that sent chills thru Luke's spine, who decided to finish this quickly, so, he dashed towards Naruto, and soon pointed a wooden covered gun at Narutos head,

"It's over, kiddo", he calmly said, until he noticed something against his chest, Naruto had Casull pointing at his ********!", Luke managed to shout.

BANG!, BANG!

The gun shots alerted Luke's body guards, who were currently facing a very young girl, under normal circumstances, they will not be worried at all, but these were not normal circumstances, there were two gunshots, and their master never used more than one shot per enemy, and to make it worst, this girl, alone, has blocked the attacks from the four of them, a feat that no human or vampire is capable of,

"What's wrong?, afraid of a little girl?", Hinata mocked, and this enraged the vampire kunoichies, who grinned, and then leaped at her,

Hinata was blocking exactly as she done before, and the vampires used this as an advantage, forcing her to block the attack of two of them, and when she repelled them the other two attacked from below, stabbing her heart and lunges with their swords, making the lavender eyed girl to cough blood and going still.

Meanwhile, at the church...

The battle outside the church was a bloody one, Yamato was using his Mokuton to impale as many vampires as he could, having little success, for they were way too fast for a normal human to fight, however, he kept this strategy, for it was the safest one possible, Anko stayed at his side, using kunais with explosive tags to kill those that were getting close enough, or were too busy evading the murderous roots to notice her kunais, they were a little ashamed, for their genins were faring quite well.

"REI-YA AME!!!"

It was Naraku's battle cry, he shouted this while shooting one arrow to a group of ninjas, they could have laugh at it, if not for the fact that a single arrow became a massive barrage of explosive arrows, that effectively rained over them in an unavoidable explosive doom, this technique was rewarded with a shower of guts and small body parts that once belonged to the vampire ninjas.

"KATON: NENSHOU YAIBA!!!"

Matsukaze shouted with a barbaric strength, covering his oversized zanbato in flames, the group of vampire ninjas that was facing him become really aware of his skills, for fire really hurts the undead flesh, but then the young horse tamer reached for his small gourd, and filled his mouth with the sacred wine, this of course puzzled the vampires, until he spat the wine in the burning blade, transforming the flames into holy fire, several vampires turned to ashes just by being exposed to this holy light, the rest tried to run away, and were chased by Matsukaze, who was swinging his blade like a madman.

"RAIKOU GIRI!!!"

Reiko shouted, using again her high speed technique, her body was infused on a mixture of wind and lightning chakra, her mind already done with the memorization of the attack pattern, and then, with lightning speed, she started to massacre the vampires, whom were able to hold a little defense, because the holy water in the blade was making it hard to block, soon, Reiko found herself covered in blood and ashes, reward of having slashed all the group she have faced.

"First and Second Seals, RELEASE!!!"

Lee shouted, and then all his tattoos shined with an eerie light, and the sudden flow of power was quite noticeable, noticeable enough to froze in fear the large group that was in font of him, and Yamato couldn't help but to mistake this with the Hachimon Tonkou, and then, Lee shouted again.

"THUNDERSTORM PUMMEL!!!"

Lee launched an uncanny barrage of punches, these punches where covered with lightning, and upon connecting with any vampire, this exploded with unholy violence and gore, due to the sudden entrance of electricity on their bodies, no one was able to escape this barrage, for Lee moved with his godly speed.

Meanwhile, inside the church...

Anderson was feeling like s**t, he was supposed to be out there, not those kids, but the dark skinned boy was right, he was broken, he lost his two reasons to live, first, his beloved Yumie, she died of a sickness when they get into this land, he should have died too, but being a regenerator granted him an unbeatable immune system, and second, someone that he deemed as the worst abomination, but still, battling him made him feel alive, and he really missed him, Alucard, who in the end, helped both him and Yumie to escape from a certain doom on their last mission, a mission where he lost his most beloved golden cross, he was thinking on all of this, when he remembered the package he received, and upon unwrapped it, his eyes went wide.

"H-How is it possible?!", Anderson muttered, in his hands, his lost golden cross was being held once again, it was no mistake, not a fake, for it has holy writings in latin, and unknown language in this land, and it has the marks of all his battles, and along with his cross, a letter, wrote in romanian, with blood instead of ink, read as follows:

How are you, Judas Priest?, I'm dead as usual, just a little out of place, inside of an eclipse, can you believe it?, I, The No Life King, jailed inside a paradox!, not that it really matters, I managed to contact a friend of your God, he says that in a few thousand years I'll be able to get free of this place filled of nothing, do you know what it means?, No?, soon I'll be able to go to visit you!, and finally fill that hot air filled head of yours with bullets!, NOW MOVE THAT FANATIC a** OF YOURS AND STAY SHARP!, I WANT AN EPIC BATTLE!, OTHERWISE IT WONT BE WORTH WAITING!.

As Anderson finished reading this letter, Seras came to him, holding something in her delicate hands,

"Father Anderson, I know you said no, but, I fixed your old blades, I know you are not a fighter, that you don't like to spill blood, but... I think... that you may need them?... Father Anderson?", Seras froze in place, as she was talking, Anderson's face darkened, and upon moving his small glasses to a more comfortable angle, a sadistic grin adorned his face,

"Thank you, my little angel, now go with the rest of the people, it's time for me to purify this place", Anderson said while taking his bayonets from Seras hands, who suddenly realized that being outside fighting vampires was not so scary anymore.

Back with Hinata...

The kunoichi vampires were looking at the stabbed girl with pride, such sweet and young, they were already savoring the blood that they were about to feast, when the sounds of two things hitting the ground made them to turn around, just in time to see their decapitated sisters becoming blood fountains, covering them in their blood while falling forward, Hinata standing behind them, with a childish smile, holding Masamune in her hands, bloodstained.

The two kunoichies turned to face each other, true terror showed in their faces, then, slowly turned to face the one she stabbed, it was exactly the same girl, not a kawamiri or henge, for she was still bleeding, then she opened her eyes,

"Surprise!", said Atanih, before making her nails grow and stabbing the vampires, and then revolving her long nails, until the vampires were only a shower of guts and blood,

"Hmmmm... a job so well done requires a double pay, don't you think, Hinata-chan?", Atanih moaned, thing that made Hinata sweat drop, she didn't liked how that 'double pay' sounded.

With Naruto...

"Damn it!, is he never going to die?!", Luke asked to no one in particular, a moment ago, he raised from the ground, his wound barely healed, while Naruto's wound looked still fresh, then they started to exchange gun shots, Luke doing his best evading them, while Naruto was still on his throne, receiving every shot, this continued for a while, until Luke ran out of bullets,

"DAMN IT!", Luke shouted, and then one of Naruto's bullets destroyed his gun,

"Oh Crap!", Luke said again, and now watched Naruto to stand up, and soon, all the blood that came out of his body, returned to it, it was a gruesome sight, seeing all the gore in the ground to fly to refill the decaying body of the kid, who started to regenerate, not only the flesh, but the clothes too.

"What the hell?, what are you?, a true immortal?", Luke asked, in morbid fascination,

"Ah!, Luke Valentine!, you have amused me so much!, but is time for us to fight in another level, something more proper for beings like us", Naruto's distorted voice echoed, and Luke watched in horror how the body of the kid became pitch black, filled with red slit eyes, then, nine shadows extended from below him, and they took the shape of deformed foxes, with heads filled with eyes, and mouths filled with terrifying tusks, at this sight, Luke did the only thing he could think about, run away like a scared girl.

BANG!!!

Luke's escape was foiled when the bullet separated his leg from his body, making him fall, he rolled on his back, in order to face his foe, thing that he regretted, for the nine heads were looking at him with drooling mouths,

"STAY AWAY FROM ME, YOU MONSTER!!!", Luke shouted, filled with terror,

"So, that's all?, this is all you can do?, whim like a worm?!, You are worthless, you are worst that human s**t!... but that can be fixed, you can become fox s**t!", Naruto said, and then the nine fox head darted at the sorry vampire.

At the church, the battle was coming to an end, despite how many vampires they killed, more were taking the places of the fallen ones, and after have used so many jutsus, exhaustion was getting the better of team 11 and Anko, the only one who seemed unaffected, was Lee, who looked even happy with all the killing, and the idea of keep fighting, Jan was laughing, it was only a matter of killing that tattooed boy, and then he will kill the priest that was in their way, until a blood chilling scream filled the air, it was frightening, to hear someone to scream like that, and the worst, it sounded like his brother, Jan was about to turn in the direction of the scream, when the doors of the church opened, and the figure of the priest appeared.

"Ha!, it seems that the rat has finally come out to face the cat!, but it won't be so easy, FIRST I'LL RAPE ALL THE WOMEN IN FRONT OF YOU!!!, HWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!", Jan laughed, if his brother was dead, he will make the killer suffer with the loss of these people, but the priest only grinned, like a madman, like a sadistic madman, then his bayonets flashed in his hands, and moved them to form a cross with the edges of the blades,

"And now O kings, be ye wise. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest He grow angry, and ye perish in the way for His wrath may quickly kindle.", Anderson said with a potent voice, and a weird accent, at this, Jan gave the order to the remaining ninjas to end the life of the priest, for his presence stop them from using the vampiric dark arts they seek, but the priest did not faulter,

"And now, the unholy will perish, for dust are thou, and dust thou will become!", Anderson said then he spun one bayonet in one hand, and it became three, and then he shouted,

"AMEN!", Anderson launched his bayonets, but instead of being only three, thousands of holy bayonets rained on the vampires, decimating them with ease,

"AMEN!", he shouted again, and another rain of bayonets fell on the undead, killing even more of them,

"AMEN!", this time he shouted with a thunderous voice, launching the bayonets from both hands at the same time, slaughtering the remaining vampire ninjas, leaving Jan alone, and the shinobies only watched with awe the show of gore and death.

"This... NO!, STAY AWAY YOU FREAKING MONSTER!!!", Jan shouted, and tried to run away, but as he turned, Lee greeted him with a powerful kick to the jaw, sending him flying to an insane heights, as the power of the kick lessened, Jan found himself almost floating, while seeing stars (due to the hit), and the Lee appeared from behind him, and grabbed him with a steel grip, turning both of them upside down, they darted toward the earth in a drill like motion.

"METEOR CRASH!!!"

Lee shouted, and then they impacted the earth, making a very big crater, where Jan laid as a smashed charred corpse, Lee fell to the side of the crater afterwards, and once again, Yamato mistaken this for a lotus technique, he was about to ask, when Anderson started to laugh, but he was laughing at the sight of Naruto, who was being followed by Hinata,

"It seems that the priest found the required inspiration, didn't he?", Hinata asked,

"Maybe he is still blood lusting", Naruto replied, and grinned at the priest, who grinned back.