章節 61: Chapter 7: Surgical Removal of Threats
Naruto stood there as his eye twitched in anger of the whole situation he had just found himself in. Fu could sense the anger resonating off of his body and took a few steps away from.
"Before we do anything else," growled Naruto in rage, "I just want you to understand how much you fucked up here. You destroyed a tea set, that while it was not valuable pricewise it was a gift from a woman who died and left it to me since she knew I loved her tea. It was valuable to me since I had good memories to go with it. Then there are the cookies that you destroyed!"
"Are you seriously getting mad at us because Hidan destroyed your cookies," asked Kakuzu with a raised eyebrow since that had to be the dumbest reason to get mad that he had ever heard in his entire life.
"Yes actually since they are a bit pricey as well as the fact that my whole life I have been taught to not waste food," said Naruto as his eye twitched in anger, "and you destroying it is doing just that!"
"Well how about we make it up to you and simply kill you so it doesn't bother you anymore," said Kakuzu with a chuckle.
"Well while that seems like a good idea," said Naruto with a sinister chuckle of his own, "I am gonna have to pass on it since I don't feel like dying now or anytime in the near future to be honest."
"Lord Jashin decrees that you die in his name here and now!" shouted Hidan.
"Look, crazy priest man," said Naruto as he held his hands together in front of his mouth before he pointed in Hidan's direction with two of them, "I am gonna tell you here and now that I don't give a damn about your religion so just stop it with all that."
"You will pay for your insolence!" shouted Hidan before he threw his scythe at Naruto once again. Naruto didn't move at all, which caused Fu to shout out his name in fear that he would get hurt from this, but her face went from fear to surprise when she saw him catch the weapon with his bare hand. What made it stranger for her was the fact that his hand had turned jet black as he did.
"Well," said Naruto with a heavy sigh as he began to glare at the men who had come to attack him. He had a feeling that they would do so at some point since they were a highly feared group of mercenaries and he had managed to kill two of their members. So he figured they would try and kill him at some point so he took it upon himself to research who he could find out about the members so he was prepared for when they eventually did. "Now you have only pissed me off more than before."
"You will not leave here alive!" shouted Hidan as he tried to pull his weapon back, but surprisingly was unable to since Naruto had a firm grip on the thing and was not giving any sort of leeway to do so.
"Quick question before we continue," said Naruto with all the seriousness he could muster in his voice, "who sent you to kill me."
"We are not here for you boy," said Kakuzu as he stood back to watch what was happening unfold a bit before he planned to do anything. He was not friends with Hidan in any sense of the word; it was just due to the fact that Hidan could not kill him like he did the several other members he had been partnered up with in the past that they traveled together like this. "We ae here for the Jinchuriki."
"And why do you need Fu," asked Naruto, who was genuinely curious as well as confused as to why they would need her. True she was a Jinchuriki, but they were the most prized things in the major villages as well as Taki, even though the people don't act like they are, and by taking them would invoke the equivalent of a war to whoever did so. Last he had heard, the Akatsuki organization was small with but a dozen members, so how the hell would they be able to deal with the ramifications of doing this?
"That is none of your business," said Kakuzu, "mostly since it will not help you when you're dead."
"Fair enough," said Naruto simply as his hand began to crackle with electricity, "Counter Shock!"
The electrical current passed through the blades of the scythe he was holding, and then traveled through the rope itself since the design had metal within it. It was done so the rope was stronger as a whole and yet still flexible enough to be used as a rope, but right now it was being used as a means of conducting electrical currents towards the intended target. Hidan shouted in pain as he was hit with a massive surge of electricity, which was akin to being struck by lightning. Naruto then quickly, yet flawlessly used a kunai, one of several he had for situations like this one here, and cut the rope holding the scythe. He then threw it back at Hidan, who was not able to dodge it since he was still suffering the after effects of being shocked like he did. The weapon pierced his head from an angle, but all the blades had pierced into it. Fu thought he had been dealt with, but Hidan only growled in rage as he pulled his scythe out of his skull and looked at Naruto with a murderous rage look on his face.
"So what I have heard about you are true then," said Naruto as he pulled out his cane to use in the coming battle, "I had heard you were deemed immortal, but to see it firsthand is another thing altogether."
"Jashin will have your blood!"
"So it is my blood you want," said Naruto with a smirk. He then pulled out a round glass vial of his blood and tossed it a few times in his hand before he threw it to Hidan. Hidan caught it in his hand and looked at it, far more confused than he had ever been before. He had never seen a man willingly toss him, or anyone else for that matter, a vial of their own blood. "There you go. One bottle of blood from yours truly."
"Naruto," said Fu with an open mouth shocked look on her face that showed that she was still not fully understanding or believing that she had just seen that happen, "why would you give him you blood like that! Are you insane?!"
"No I am not insane," said Naruto as he smiled at her, "I am of complete sound mind. I gave him my blood out of a genuine scientific curiosity as to what he would do with it." He then looked back to see Hidan uncorking the vial with a sinister smile on his face before he drank the contents of the container in a single gulp.
Now it was Naruto's turn to look shocked at all this since that had not been a scenario that had crossed his mind ever, and he had heard of such things happening in the past due to mental illnesses.
"I… wha…. Di…. He…. I ..." Naruto at this point was at a complete loss for words. Yet in the end he began to laugh hard to the point that he held his stomach since it was beginning to hurt from laughing.
"Now is not the time for laughing," said Fu, who was prepared to fight these men the second they said they were here for her. She would be damned if she would let these creepy men kidnap her. Sure her life sucked as it was, but from the way they talked about her, her situation would not improve if she went with them. "These people are going to kill you if you don't take this seriously!"
"I'm sorry," said Naruto as he finally began to calm himself down from his fit of laughter. He was able to see clear once he wiped the tears from his eyes since he had laughed so hard and saw that Hidan was drawing a circle around him for some odd reason. "But I have to ask you, why the hell did you drink my blood?"
"Hidan uses people's blood to perform his ritual," said Kakuzu simply. There was no harm in answering the boys question since Hidan already had his blood and thus doomed himself since once the ritual was complete he would die from it easily.
"Well that answers my question." Said Naruto as he pondered on that bit of information, "I assumed he did it due to a mental illness of some sort."
"A mental illness?" asked Fu with a confused look on her face.
"There were a few recorded incidents in the past of several different men who genuinely believed they had to drink blood to survive due to mental illness. I am a doctor so I know what I am saying."
"Oh," said Fu as she cringed in her mind since that was disgusting to hear about out of the blue and she regretted ever asking that since now she knew it even was a thing that could happen to someone.
"But before you continue on with your ritual over there Hidan," said Naruto as he saw the man's skin turn black with what appeared to be a skeleton tattoo n him that went all the way down his body, at least as he could see since the man's pants blocked a view of his lower body, "I feel like telling you why I laughed so hard at your actions."
"The last words of a dead man," said Hidan with a grin, "go ahead and say them, but know that I will simply forget them afterwards since they are so very insignificant to me or my lord Jashin."
"Thank you kindly," said Naruto with a chuckle. This confused Hidan and Kakuzu since by all accounts the brat should be begging for mercy right now, yet he was strangely calm through all this. Their leader had warned them about the brat who had killed Kisame and Itachi and while they had ignored it when told, thinking that the two of them had simply gotten a fat head and died from their pride getting in the way, now they were beginning to think differently than before. "So I will tell you three very important things about my blood that you foolishly consumed like you did. The first, yet most important fact is that my blood is highly infectious."
"Wait," said Hidan with a look of confusion plastered onto his face, "what?"
"My blood is infectious," said Naruto as he conjured up some of the blood in his arm to leak out of it and form multiple small balls that he began to twirl like they were stress balls of some sort. "I use it as a weapon against my opponent since my bloodline allows me to use my blood to infect the blood of others in a manner that I have complete control of their bodies. Case in point."
It was at this time that Hidan felt his hands fall to his sides and stiffen up to the point that he could not move them at all. Fu simply watched this in fascination since Naruto had yet to cease to amaze her. But it wasn't only her, but the demon inside her that was impressed as well
"The process takes a bit due to multiple factors," said Naruto with a smirk, "the main one being just how much blood I throw at you. It doesn't take much, and yet you drank a lot of it so that only hastened your defeat."
"You will die in the name of Jashin!" said Hidan through strained teeth. He was unable to open his mouth properly to shout out his threat since Naruto was using his blood to stiffen his body completely in a way that he couldn't move in the slightest."
"The second thing you need to know," continued Naruto, who was not at all concerned about the threat sent his way. He was paying attention to Kakuzu though on the off chance he decided to intervene in what he was doing to Hidan. But to his surprise the man just stood there and let Hidan suffer like this without helping him in any way. "Is that my blood is explosive as well when I want it to be. So what you consumed was the equivalent of an organic bomb."
"What the fuck!" shouted Hidan.
"Yes, but the last thing you need to know about my blood is that it is highly combustible as well. So have fun burning into ash." Naruto smiled as he clicked his fingers, and Hidan began to scream in agony as his entire body burst into flame. This went on for a bit before his body began to collapse upon itself since it was turned to ash and the wind knocked it over.
"Well damn," said Kakuzu with a chuckle, "you managed to kill Hidan."
"You don't seem so beat up about that," said Naruto as he twirled his cane in his hand for a bit before he slammed it into the ground so that it stood on its own. Once in place he put his hands together and cracked his knuckles.
"To be honest I couldn't stand the guy. The only reason I was paired with his religious ass was because he could not kill me like he did the other members who were partnered with him in the past."
"I thought you aid that you were not a shinobi," said Fu who was starting to wonder if Naruto had lied to her, and if he did for what reason?
"I'm not," said Naruto with a simple shake of his head, "I am simply a doctor."
"Yet you have a bloodline ability as well as the skills to kill a powerful enemy in an unorthodox manner."
"Think about it like this," said Naruto simply, "you have trained for so long to fight against and defeat shinobi. You know the basics of the art so you know how they act, think, plan, the works. Yet I was never trained in the field like you were and taught myself to fight as only a doctor could. That is my key advantage in a fight due to the fact that no one has ever trained to fight a doctor, so they are not prepared for it when I win."
"I… I can't fight that logic," said Fu simply with a sigh since he was right about that.
"But don't you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight?" said Naruto with a smirk, "Awkwardness and stupidity can do so easily. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do: and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot."
"That sounds like you quoted it from a book," said Fu.
"And I did," said Naruto, "since that quote has been true for me my entire life as I fought many who thought me weak."
"Sorry to cut the idle chit chat short," said Kakuzu who was fairly pissed that the two of them were basically ignoring him even though he was standing right there in front of them. He was an infamous S ranked shinobi and yet they were acting like he wasn't even a problem. "But you still have me to deal with and now that I know about your little blood trick you won't beat me."
"True," said Naruto as he held up his hand a bit. A clear ring appeared in the palm of his hand. "Room…"
"What the hell is this!?" asked Kakuzu since this was not something he had ever seen before.
"This is my operating room," said Naruto as he stood there with one of his hands behind his back as he used the other to emphasize his point. "And within this field of power, I am essentially god."
"Like hell I would believe that!" shouted Kakuzu before he formed the hand seals to blow a massive fireball in Naruto's direction. Naruto simply grinned as the attack got closer since he was not afraid in the slightest.
"Tekt," said Naruto simply as he used his finger to point upwards. The fireball then turned ninety degrees and soared into the air before it exploded. "Is that the best you have to offer against me?"
Kakuzu was utterly pissed at this point that the brat would not just die already. He wanted to charge forward and attack since apparently long range attacks would not work. But Naruto's claim of power while within this field made him think of another approach. So he made to retreat so as to get out of the field and thin of a proper plan here.
"Good plan," said Naruto as he saw Kakuzu make to try and leave his Room. He pulled out a kunai that began to glow with green lightning as he pulsed power through it, "but too little too late. Shambles."
Kakuzu had just made it out of the field of Naruto's power when he suddenly reappeared within it, and to his shock and horror, right next to Naruto himself who then plunged the kunai into Kakuzu's chest.
"This operation will destroy your body from the inside out," growled Naruto as he saw Kakuzu convulsing in pain as the attack surged through his body. "Gamma Knife!"
Naruto could feel all five of the man's hearts pop from within the man's body as his power destroyed him. He had read about this ability in Law's journal, and when he read about Kakuzu and heard the rumors of him having multiple hearts, he was glad to master it so as to eliminate him without too much of an issue. He saw the life begin to leave his eyes before he pulled the blade out, Kakuzu's blood squirting out of the wound. Naruto used held out his hand to grab his cane and used the blood of Kakuzu to form a scythe blade that he swung and cut Kakuzu down the middle. This was overkill and he knew it, but when it came to men who were essentially immortal via inhumane means it was kind of essential.
"Sorry you had to see me like that," said Naruto to Fu with an apologetic voice as he pulled out multiple bottles that he used to collect Kakuzu's blood within and stored for later. "That is the reason I try not to fight when I can avoid it. When I fight, I go sadistic with my fighting style since I really don't know how to stop and enjoy it. I don't like that version of myself so I try and stay away from it when it can be avoided."
"Completely understandable," said Fu as she waived her hands in a comical way. Sure Naruto might seem a bit crazy to her, but he was still the only friend she now had and was one even though he knew exactly what she was. She was not one to judge and would give Naruto the benefit of the doubt here. "But were you really so pissed off about the cookies?"
"Actually yes," said Naruto, "since I was being honest about the whole not wasting food thing. Plus… well…"
"Go on," said Fu with a smirk, "I'm actually curious as to what you have to say."
"Well the baker has a son who he is training in his craft," said Naruto as he sighed at the thought of the man, "and the son is quite effeminate with the clothes to match his personality…"
"Oh," said Fu since she was putting the pieces together, "so you are homophobic?"
"No," said Naruto honestly, "I have no problems with who people fall in love with. It's just…" said Naruto as he was a bit embarrassed to say the next bit.
"Sweet Kami," said Fu as she began to laugh since she saw it now, "he is in love with you isn't he?"
"Yeah," said Naruto as he rubbed the back of his head, "but the problem there is that I am straight, yet he does not care and likes and I quote 'the thrill of the chase' so he continues to do so in some strange hopes to turn me gay. So every time I go and get those cookies, I have to deal with that bit of awkwardness." Naruto growled as his eye twitched since Fu was rolling on the ground laughing hard about this whole thing. More would have been said, but it was at that point that two dozen Taki shinobi surrounded him. Fu was scared as she got back to her feet.
"Halt," said a large man with an eyepatch who Naruto guessed was the leader of this group, "you are under arrest for the attempted theft of our village Jinchuriki."
"I was not trying to kidnap Fu," said Naruto with a raised eyebrow. "She helped me find some plants that grow around here and then we were attacked."
"You dare leave your post without permission!" said one of the shinobi as he moved to strike Fu across the face. But Naruto was faster and threw a kunai into the man's arm, severing the tendon so it was now useless to him without proper medical treatment.
"Do not hurt my friend," said Naruto with a murderous look of rage in his eyes. "I'll go with you so as to not cause any more problems, but if you hurt her in my presence and I will make your life a living hell beyond description." Fu couldn't help but blush a bit as she heard Naruto care enough for her to threaten so many men at once. She never thought that a man would do such a thing for her, being a jinchuriki and all, so this was a nice surprise. Fu then saw as the leader got behind Naruto and roughly shoved Naruto towards the village, but she did notice Naruto give her a smile as a way to tell her not to worry…
And for some strange reason, she listened to him…
(Leader of Taki office)
Naruto was brought into the village of Taki, which he was amazed about the layout of the village since most houses were in the trees so that unless you knew what you were looking for you most likely fail to notice it at all. Naruto was led to the building that was obviously the place where the leader of the village worked, and while it was not as grand as those you would see in major villages it was still bigger than the main houses.
Naruto was basically shoved inside by the big shinobi with the eyepatch that had ordered him to come along in the first place. Naruto really wanted to punch this asshole since he did not like to be shoved like this but he would not make waves in a village that he could do potential business in the future with since that added to his client list as well as opened up new potential vendors to get rare ingredients to use for medicine. Once inside he was shown the way to the main office and once again shoved into the room.
The man inside sitting behind the desk had ink black eyes and long, dark brown hair. He wore a forehead protector symbolizing his shinobi status within the village. He wore grey pants, a green shirt, and shinobi sandals. In addition to his normal outfit, he had a grey shoulder pad on his left shoulder with a brown strap over it. To top it all off he wore a light yellow kimono jacket and light grey pants with a red scarf around his neck and a turquoise haori. From the looks of things he had been in the middle of paperwork and from the amount of stress that appeared on the man's face it had been quite the day. He saw his men bring in another who he had never met in his life and whenever that happened it meant someone had tried to infiltrate their village and now he would have to fill out the paperwork for an execution.
"Sweet merciful Kami," said the man as he slammed his head onto the desk. The amount of paperwork he had to do today had left him exhausted and he really didn't want to deal with this shit. Now he understood why his father was cranky for a good chunk of his life since he had taken over as the leader of the village once he died protecting it. "Why must I be burdened with so much paperwork?!"
He took a quick deep breath to calm himself before he lifted his head up to look at the man they brought to him.
"I am a fairly busy man," he said with a sigh, "so let's get right to the point here. Who are you and why have you seen fit to try and invade our village?"
"Invade?" asked Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "why do you assume that I invaded?"
"Because you are here before me," said the man, "and under heavy guard as well so it's apparent that you tried to invade us."
"Sir," said the eye patch shinobi, "he didn't try to invade us."
"Then why is he here," said the leader as he rubbed his temples as he got a headache. Naruto saw him suffering from one and knew he had the medicine that could help if given the chance to do so.
"He was caught talking to the demon bitch out in the forest," said the eye patch shinobi, "and from what we heard he was trying to convince her to leave, most likely to try and join another village to enhance their own power."
"Is this true," asked the leader with a quizzical look on his face. If it was true than the consequences of the matter would be even direr for Naruto since this village really hated it when people tried to steal their village weapon. Sure they hated the young woman with all the hatred they could possibly give but she was their weapon or slave to some who thought about it like that. "Who are you?"
"To answer the first question first," said Naruto with a deep sigh. The man who brought him in had only arrived at the end when he had killed Hidan and his partner so how would he know about what the hell they were talking about beforehand? Naruto had a sneaking suspicion that they had been listening near the end, which infuriated him to know that they just stood there and watched him as well as Fu get attacked like that and only showed themselves when he was weakened in the fight. But why he thought that he was trying to convince Fu to leave was a mystery since he had not. Sure he had told of what the world offered but not to convince her of anything. "I was having a simple conversation with the young lady. When has that become a crime? Because it is a fairly stupid one if it is." Naruto then felt the man shove him yet again, and it took a lot of willpower to not simply slug this guy and be done with it. Sure the man had height and muscle mass on him but he had skills and bloodlines to easily counter that advantage.
"Don't you dare lie to our leader you little brat," said the shinobi, "we watched you converse with the demon and overheard your plans to try and get her to leave."
"So you were standing there when I was talking to Fu," asked Naruto as he glared at the man, "yet you did nothing as two members of the Akatsuki came and attacked us. Some shinobi you are…"
"How dare you!" shouted the man as he made to punch this brat.
"Stand down!" said the leader as he slammed his fist onto his desk. He had gotten to his feet and done so in an attempt to end this situation before it escalated into something far worse than it could be if nothing was done about it.
"Yes sir," said the shinobi, though from his tone of voice it was with great reluctance.
"Now," said the leader as he sat back down since he did not need to intervene in this conflict physically, "I will ask you once again who you are?"
"Oh I am sorry," said Naruto with a chuckle, "where are my manners. My name is Naruto, and I am known throughout the Elemental Countries as the Surgeon of Death."
His response made the men look at him in shock, none more than the jackass who had essentially tried to prove he was such a big man by bullying him with his shoving. The man began to heavily sweat in a comical way as he slowly inched away from Naruto. The man had heard about what Naruto was capable of doing to those who angered him and did not want to end up like that.
"Oh what is this," said Naruto with a sinister smirk, "you don't want to shove me around like you were before? Come on, try and do it once or twice more for a laugh. We'll see who is laughing in the end."
"No," said the man faintly as the color in his face disappeared in fear, "that's okay."
"Leave us alone," said the leader as he waved the shinobi out of the room so that he could talk with Naruto in private.
"Are you sure about that," said another one of the shinobi in confusion that their leader would send them all out of the room leaving him vulnerable like that.
"This is the Surgeon of Death I am speaking to," said the leader, "he is a neutral man who is allied to none of the major villages or even has home in one so he is not her to harm us or invade our village in some way."
"I am happy to see that you know of me," said Naruto as he saw the shinobi that escorted him leave. He made the man who shoved hm shudder as he held up a fist and stuck out his thumb to use it in a cut throat motion. He had no intention to kill or even hurt the man, but he didn't know this and that's how it would be. "Since it makes introductions so much easier. Now while you know who I am, I am afraid that I don't know your name."
"Oh right," said the man, "my name is Shibuki and I am the leader of the minor shinobi village of Taki."
"Oh," said Naruto seriously, "so you are Shibuki."
"Wait a minute," said Shibuki since he was surprised that someone with such infamy as Naruto would know who he was when not many people of their village was known to outsiders at all. "You know who I am?"
"You were Fu's friend," said Naruto with a growl since he could not understand abandoning a friend like this man had done, nor would he ever do so without just cause that his friend would understand so that they would not feel betrayed by his departure. "And you abandoned her to her fate out in the woods."
"Well shit," said Shibuki in surprise, "Fu told you about that did she? I'm surprised that she trusted anyone enough to even talk to someone about that."
"No thanks to you," said Naruto with disdain.
"Look," said Shibuki with a sigh as he prepared himself, "I can explain…"
"I don't see how you can explain what you did," said Naruto, since in all honesty he couldn't imagine a single way to explain it.
"It was not my fault…"
"That's what everyone says when caught in their bullshit."
"STOP!" shouted Shibuki in anger that Naruto was not giving him a chance to explain himself. "Let me explain my case before you judge me."
"Okay," said Naruto with a sigh, "I'll let you do so, but know that this explanation better be good since I don't see how you can explain it."
"My father led Takigakure well for many years until his death after drinking the hero water, trying to protect his village when it came under attack by foreign powers." Said Shibuki in sadness as he remembered his father. "The water granted him temporary strength enhancements, but shortened his life that led to a rather premature demise. His position as leader was passed onto me when he perished."
"I'm not seeing how this explains things," said Naruto with a raised eyebrow.
"I was friends with Fu in my youth, which my father was okay with since he did not see her as a weapon as most of the people in this village do. But he warned me that one day that I would take his place as the leader of this village and in doing so I would have to sever ties with her. I know what I did was wrong and that I hurt her by not even telling her the truth on the matter. But I am the leader of this village and as so I must think of the village as a whole. My power is based on public opinion and as it is most people hate her."
"But you are the leader of this village," said Naruto, who didn't understand how someone who led a village was powerless to help someone like Fu. This was the main reason that he hated politics since it made an already complicated life even more complex than it had to be, "so why not help her?"
"I was only thirteen when I was made leader of this village. I was not fully ready to take the position and the various members of the council took advantage of that fact to take power away from my position. Over the years I have been trying to get it all back, but it has been a tough time doing so. Yet while I could have done it faster than what I have done already but there was a pressing matter that I had to do that has put me in a mental conundrum that I see no way of fixing."
"Okay," said Naruto, who after hearing all this began to understand why Shibuki had left Fu like he had since he had so much on his plate. This wouldn't have been an issue if he had just explained it to Fu in the first place. "Now I am curious as to what this issue is."
"For the past few years the councilmen have been trying to implement a new program against my wishes that they are nearly about to pass. The program is to simply use Fu as a breeding tool in hopes that the children she will be forced to bear will have enhanced strength to increase our numbers with more powerful shinobi so as to increase the overall strength of this village as a whole. While I may not be able to visit her as I used to when I was her friend I won't allow her to suffer such a fate and have used every trick I could to slow down the process. But the problem there is that the more time I put into aiding her in that way, the longer it takes to reclaim the power lost to my position."
"Okay," said Naruto through gritted teeth, "who are they? I'll kill them myself."
"No," said Shibuki as he waved his hands to get Naruto's attention, "you can't do that!"
"If you really care for Fu as you said you do," said Naruto as he glared at the man, "Than why stop me from ending the lives of the men who want to rape her? They hate her so much to the point that they force her to live out in the woods and protect them, yet they want her to lie down and take it while they defile her and struggle through multiple pregnancies that will lead to the birth of children that will most likely suffer the same fate as hers."
"Because even though I hate them for trying to do this," said Shibuki as he slammed his fists on the table in pure anger. A tear fell from his left eyes since he truly felt so powerless to help his friend and it had eaten him up for so many years. He had never gotten the chance to talk to anyone about this and it was making a lot of repressed emotions surface. "They are still high ranking men in this village that would be truly devastating if they died. I want them gone, truly I do but I can't since there is no one to replace them if I do."
"So what then? You are just gonna let it happen?"
"No," said Shibuki as he chuckled a bit, "because now that you are here, you have provided me with the perfect answer to my conundrum."
"Come again," asked Naruto in confusion about what was going on in this man's head.
"You are someone Fu trusts," said Shibuki, "and not only that but one who is not allied to a major village so I know you won't use her or sell her off to one for money since I have heard you were an honorable man. So I ask of you to take her away from here so that she no longer suffers like she has been forced to do all her life."
"You do understand the extreme request you are asking me to do here right?" asked Naruto who was surprised to hear the man suggest this of all things. "By taking a Jinchuriki from a village I will have a high bounty placed upon me from this village. This will lead to many seeking to take me out.
"I understand the ramafica…." Started Shibuki before he was interrupted.
"I'll do it," said Naruto simply. His response surprised Shibuki since he had thought that he would have to try harder to convince him to do so since Naruto had been right to say that the ramifications of doing so would be huge.
"You will," said Shibuki.
"Of course," said Naruto, "since I help my friends when they are in trouble. But if I do this, I want two things from you."
"If it is within my power than I will do it."
"The first is I want you to write a letter to Fu so that she will understand the reason you left. She at least deserves to know the truth about this."
"Well I can easily understand that and you are right about that."
"But the second thing I want," said Naruto as he tried to ask in a way that was not too demanding, "I have heard that this village has something called Hero's Water."
"If you are going to ask for our villages most prized resource," Said Shibuki, "I am gonna stop you there and tell you that I can't give it to you."
"I don't want all of it," said Naruto with a shake of his head, "I just need a syringe full for research purposes."
"Research purposes?" asked Shibuki.
"I want to see if there is a way to dilute the chemical compound that gives the drinker a massive boost in power so that you don't die at the end. That's all."
"Well," said Shibuki as he got up and swiped his hand on a seal on the wall. A secret panel opened up in the wall to reveal the clear glass gourd that was three thirds of the way full of water that was sealed up with a cork that had wax on the edges to show that the seal was still intact. "If it is only a small amount then it will be okay." He then handed the gourd to Naruto who pulled out a syringe with a long needle and pierced through the gourd to get at the liquid inside. He made sure to take the utmost care so as to not break the container since it was glass. He then pulled the plunger up so as to extract the liquid for transport. Once the syringe was full he then extracted it before he put it behind his back and stored it for future research. After he was done with his extraction he waited for a bit as Shibuki wrote out his letter to Fu. Once he was done he rolled it up and then sealed it with a wax seal and handed it to Naruto for him to take to Fu.
"Please keep her safe," said Shibuki as he still held onto the letter and looked Naruto in the eyes to make sure there was no sort of lying in them. "For even though my position does not allow for it, she is still and will always remain my friend."
"You have my word that she will be alright," said Naruto as he returned the gaze with a serious one of his own, "and as you have probably heard from whatever sources that told you about me I always keep my word once I give it."
"Well since our transaction here is done," said Shibuki as he sat down and sighed, "Than I ask that you leave my village. I would say that I hope we meet again but after what is going to happen I know that will not happen so I will simply tell you good luck."
"You as well," said Naruto as he got ready to leave, "Without Fu to worry about I hope that you can make things right in this village once more." He then summoned up a door that he walked through and disappeared behind him, leaving Shibuki alone with his thoughts.
"That makes two of us…"
Naruto arrived back at the area they met the first time to find Fu dressing up her wounds that the shinobi who came to detain him had inflicted. He told her to come with him, for he was here to take her away from all this. She didn't believe him at first, but he then handed her the letter that was written to her by Shibuki. She read it, and as she did Naruto saw the tears begin to well up in her eyes before they began to fall from them. She cried as the truth was told to her, and Shibuki had told her what would happen if she stayed.
"That asshole," she finally said weakly, "all these years I have hated him for abandoning me. Yet he still cared about me all this time. Why didn't he tell me that to begin with?"
"It wasn't his fault," said Naruto simply, "he was forced into his position when his father died and so it was all so sudden. Just know that he still cared enough to protect you from those who wanted to defile you."
"So how do we get out of here, and a better question is where will I go?"
"Well I have an answer to both those questions," said Naruto as he pulled out another scroll, "a while back I got citizenship papers for Spring Country for myself as well as four of my friends. Now while I had done that two of them had been killed on a mission they were on so I had two of these to spare and so you can have one. From there the opportunities open to you are endless."
"You really think far ahead don't you," said Fu with a chuckle as she wiped the tears from her face.
"Not always," said Naruto with a shrug, "but I at least try to. But now that we have established all this and I have offered you a better life away from the hatred of men who I can only refer to as scum. Now all you have to do is walk through that door." He said that last bit as he summoned up a door to his operating room. "Well to be honest it's through this door, a few minute wait, then through another door."
"You just killed the mood by saying that last bit," said Fu with a bit of a sweat drop, "the way you said it made it feel like a fairy tale of some sort but then you had to ruin it with reality."
"Sorry for that," said Naruto with a laugh as he held open the door, "but that is kind of my field of expertise." Fu simply chuckled as she walked through the door, followed by Naruto…
(The Next Day)
Naruto had finally made his way to the Kaen residence, and as he made his final approach to the massive residence he stopped walking for a bit. He had to take a few deep breaths, since his anger had arisen to levels that were not healthy for him so he needed to calm himself or else he would give himself away for the plan he had for his former family. Most of what he had planned was already in play as it was, but now all pieces were on the board and he just needed to hit the point home to complete this.
Once he was finally calm enough to continue the last bit of the trek towards the front gate, he proceeded to do just that. He made to the gate without any sort of interruption or ambush, but then again no one really came this way since the Kaen family were the kind of people to have trespassers killed and so that made people not want to even come out this way unless they needed to. Naruto reached the gate and pulled the rope, which he had to admit was fairly fancy, which then rung the bell it was attached to. He stood there and waited for someone to arrive, the whole time it pissed him off since the whole setup of this was vain in execution. There were no guards at the front gate, but there were plenty spread around the house itself, leaving the servants quarters completely unguarded in case of a siege. And to make it worse those who waited at the front gate were forced to wait while the one guard in charge of doing so got his arrogant ass up to open it, forcing whoever was there to wait upon them like it was a privilege or something.
Naruto honestly wanted to leave, since he could not take all the vanity, but he waited it out since he had the plan he made up and he would stick to it no matter the cost. It had taken sixteen years to get to this point and it would be so worth it in the end when it was all finished…
Eventually the guard arrived at the front gate and demanded to know who he was and why he was here. Naruto growled in response and told the man who he was and handed the scroll that had been given to him by Zuko back when he had still been in Konoha. The guard looked at it, saw it was genuine and then opened the gate with the warning to mind his tongue or else he would suffer dearly for it if he did not. The guard then led him along the log road that led to the house, and as he walked by he saw the various fields that the Kaen family owned of various trees and fruits. Yet while the scenery was lush and beautiful, it simply masked the truth of the ones who maintained it.
The Kaen family were ruthless businessmen. They took great satisfaction in the destruction of competition in such a way that not only did it leave the family who owned those businesses destitute; they would then enslave them as well and force them to work the fields thru shady dealings or 'legal' means. Naruto could sense the pain they were in and even saw one such case where a boy that was about a few years younger than himself was beaten by a guard for so much as speaking out of turn. Naruto could only growl in hatred at the darkness that made up his former family, and could only smile inwardly that his mother had left when she did and turned out far better than they had. She died a good person with at least one person in the world to care enough to remember her name, while if the rest of her family died no one would honestly care and would in fact celebrate their demise.
Eventually they made it to the room that the head of the household was in, which had multiple medical instruments within it to keep him alive until the heart transplant was complete. The guard ushered him in and threatened him to be on his best behavior, which Naruto imply flipped him the bird since he could care less what threats this man had to make. Naruto had killed so many bandits, missing Nin, as well as several members of the Akatsuki so he was not afraid of one guard with an ego that had achieved gravitational pull due to its size.
Naruto opened the door and went inside to see the man known as Ozai surrounded by a dozen personal doctors as well as his two children. Ozai saw him enter the room and ordered the other doctors to leave the room at once. They did as ordered, leaving Naruto alone with the other three as well.
"So you are the Surgeon of Death that I have heard so much about," said Ozai in a tone of arrogance, "you don't seem like much."
"Well I could easily say the same for you," said Naruto with a twitchy eye, "you being stuck in a hospital bed like you are."
"Listen here you insolent whelp," Ozai started before he was interrupted.
"No you listen," said Naruto with a simple glare, "you sought me out for my medical expertise, so keep your insults or your arrogance to yourself or I will simply walk out that door and not return. And before you think that you can simply order your men to detain me and force me to operate on you, allow me to state that I will kill all who try and feel no remorse about it. Plus even if you tried to play the political game to make me suffer as I have heard you have done to so many, I am friends with half a dozen daimyos from all over, three from major countries with access to shinobi. So let's move on past all the threats and arrogance and get down to business shall we?"
"Fine," said Ozai as he was furious that this peasant dared talk back to him in such a manner. He was actually planning on doing what Naruto stated, but with that many connections he could not do much against Naruto or else it would spell doom for his family on such a massive political level. "So how much do I owe you?"
"Well that all depends on what needs to be healed," said Naruto as he took a step forward. "I will perform a simple physical and tally up what is owed by what needs to be fixed."
"And how do I know that you won't simply try to bleed me dry of my money by marking up prices?" asked Ozai. He did not get where he was today by letting people get one over on him like that, and he would be damned if he started now.
"Because my client list is so extensive," explained Naruto as he held up his hands, which were glowing with chakra to perform the physical, "I have no need to do such a thing. I make far more than enough with the prices I have set to need to try and cheat someone out of more. It literally pays to be one of the best in the medical field."
"Fine then. Do what needs to be done so then you can leave sooner," said Ozai. He did not like conversing with those he deemed as commoners, and this brat was one of them. Naruto finished what he was doing, pulled out his price book and wrote out the bill that would need to be paid before he started. Ozai growled since the price was steep and he felt as though the brat should heal him on the fact of his family name alone, but his daughter had told him how he cared not about such thing and simply wanted the money owed. So Ozai called in a butler, one who had served him since he was five, and told him to go retrieve the funds that Naruto billed him but not a single cent more.
"Well while we wait for that man to return," Said Naruto as he stood there with his arms crossed, "I have a deal I wish to make with you."
"And why would I make a deal with one such as you?"
"Because I will half the bill." Those words shocked not only Ozai but his children as well since they were curious as to what Naruto wanted to do such a thing.
"Go on…"
"I would like you to answer a few questions I have," said Naruto.
"You offer my father the means to decrease the amount paid for your services in return for having your questions answered," asked Zuko with a puzzled look on his face since he was confused. "Why?"
"Because these are questions that he alone can answer," Said Naruto with a passive wave of his hand, "and it is because of that fact that gives him leverage."
"Ask away then boy," said Ozai, who was happy to do so if it meant he spent less money.
"Before I ask I need to explain something," aid Naruto with a sigh, "I am an orphan who lost my parents when I was simply four years old. Now while you may not care about that since you have all this going for you with the money and the political power, just go with me on this. But when I felt as though I would die on those streets I was saved by a young woman who had lost her own child within a few years of his birth since she had not the funds to care for him. She told me that I reminded her of the son she lost and took me in and cared for me. I loved her as a child does their mother and I was happy. But my happiness was short lived since she died a year later and once more I was alone. Once she was put to rest and buried in the ground I was given the few things she had, one of which was her diary. It was there that I learned who she was and what she struggled to go through to survive. And it is the reason I ask you this question. Why did you abandon you own daughter Moka when she came to you and begged for aid not only for herself but the child she gave birth to?"
The looks of shock on their faces were priceless, and it made Naruto wish he had a camera to capture this moment and preserve it forever. They never thought that anyone would ever ask about the forgotten member of their family, and to hear someone ask about her out of the blue like that was unexpected entirely.
"Why do you wish to know about my pathetic little sister," asked Azula as she growled at the memory of her.
"Because that woman saved my life when she had next to nothing for herself," said Naruto with a serious look on his face, "and any woman who would do such a thing did not deserve to be treated like she was. So I will repeat the question, why did you abandon her?"
"My former daughter," Ozai said that bit with venom laced words that seemed like he choked to say them, "was a disgrace to the Kaen name! She did not act as we did and became a strain on who we were. So I planned to put her to some use as a means to acquire political power via an arrange marriage but she ran away! I disowned her because she disobeyed my orders to run off with a commoner!"
"And what about the child she came to you for aid about," asked Naruto, "the child was simply born, so what did the child do to warrant such treatment?"
"That child was worthless," said Ozai, "he was born out of wedlock via the seed of a commoner which is of no use to our family. He was an abomination that was undeserving of life and I will not have something like that in my home!"
"Thank you for answering my questions," said Naruto simply with an emotionless tone of voice. For years he had wanted to know the true reason that he and his mother had suffered, and while he believed the words that came from her diary but to hear those words spewed from the mouth of the man who cast her out.
"What was the point of that," asked Azula who was still confused as to why he asked those questions in the first place.
"To slate my own curiosity," said Naruto as he walked over to the door and whipped out a seal. He placed it on the door and activated it, sealing it up so that it could not be opened.
"What are you doing," asked Zuko in anger.
"Making it so we can't be interrupted," said Naruto simply as he held up his hand and whipped it around for a bit. This tangled up Zuko and his sister in wires so as to suspend them in the air as they shouted out their anger at being put in such a situation.
"What are you doing to my children!" shouted Ozai, who wanted to help them but was unable to since he was stuck in the bed with the tubes in his body. "Let them go! You are here to cure me!"
"And now why the hell would I help you?" asked Naruto with a growl.
"Because that was what you were paid to do you filthy commoner!" shouted Azula as she struggled in vain to try and break free from her bindings.
"So the high and mighty insult the so called filthy commoner who has the ability to save them," chuckled Naruto, "but I don't want your money. I simply want you to suffer."
"For what?!" demanded Zuko.
"My mother," said Naruto with a glare.
"What," asked all three of them in unison since they were even more confused than they were before.
"I'm surprised that you have yet to figure it all out," said Naruto with a shake of his head, "apparently money can't buy intelligence since you are all idiots. I am the so called abomination unworthy of life that you so boldly claimed I was."
"Impossible," said Ozai as the realization of the situation was starting to sink in, "how?"
"I struggled most my life but I made something of myself no thanks to you," said Naruto as his scowl only deepened further than it already was. "And now I have come to make you pay for what you did to me as well as my mother."
"Unhand us!" shouted Azula who would not allow the bastard child of her hated little sister to do this to her.
"Not yet," said Naruto as he walked over to where he saw a bottle of Scotch on the table. He took the top off with one hand before he poured himself a glass that he gulped down. His bloody bloodline made it so he could filter out the alcohol in a sense that he didn't get drunk but he did still enjoy the taste of it when it was finely aged. He had drunk with many of his wealthy customers over the years and had enjoyed the conversations that went along with it when he did. "I want to kill you, believe me I do, but I just can't bring myself to do so. And before you ask or even think about it, no it is not because we are family or any of that nonsense. The reason I stay my hand is that you have not done anything to me directly. You screwed me over as well as my mother, but you have done nothing more to me than ignore my existence and I can't see that warranting death."
"If that is the case then why are you doing this," asked Ozai as he coughed a bit from the stress the fear of all this was doing to his heart.
"Because we are simply waiting for the others to arrive," said Naruto as he poured another glass of Scotch, "you see what I did was inform the various families who you have screwed over of what I planned to do and told them to come over and get their pound of flesh from you. See they have the right to do so since they have been personally screwed over by you with your actions so it is only fair that they get to end you."
"Our guards will defend us like they always have," said Azula with an arrogant tone, "They wouldn't dare to attack us! They would be killed just for attempting to!"
"True," said Naruto with a smirk, "you have hired some of the most ruthless, yet powerful of guards to guard your home over the years. But you see I did my own research and found a simple way to eliminate that threat. As you know since you allow it to happen, the majority of them drink the night away once a week. Now you don't really care since they keep your slaves in line as well as guard your house so it is just the matter of doing business for you. But I learned from a source that spoke of something else they do that day. The maid who they make serve their drinks, they get drunk and then hold her down and rape her. Just her alone and no one else has to service about a hundred men a week all at once because they threatened to kidnap her daughter and force her to take her place if she resisted."
"How did you know she spoke the truth," spat out Azula, "how can you be certain that she wasn't just another whore?"
"Because I was the one she paid to heal her wounds sustained from the various bouts of rape," said Naruto with a sad shake of his head since he remembered those times, with one of them being so bad that she almost died from it due to the numerous injuries sustained. It had gotten to the point that he healed her for free since she could not keep paying for his treatment since what he healed was basically renewed within a week or two. The damage done was easily fixed without too much materials needed so it was not too much of a financial loss for him to do so. "As well as performed all six of the abortions she had to suffer through since the men used no form of protection nor allowed her to use some form of contraceptive of any sort. So she suffered through all that and tried to hide it from her daughter, yet her daughter was no fool and knew what was happening to her own mother. So I sent the mother a special poison to put into the drinks of the men, and she did so without hesitation."
"She did what!?" demanded Ozai in fear laced anger.
"She poisoned them," said Naruto as he pulled out his watch to look at the time, "and since I timed my visit just right…" at that specific moment they heard the guard who stood outside their door screaming in pain as the poison finally began to do its job and kill the one poisoned. It was a slow acting poison that made one's body die slowly, yet restricted the muscles so all they could do was scream in agony as the pain lasted a few hours before all vital functions simply shut down entirely. The drawback to using this poison was the fact that it took so long to get to that point and was easily curable until it hit the final stages you just had to know you were poisoned in the first place. These men would not know about the symptoms and the poison had been slipped into their drinks a few days ago so he had time it right and arrived near the end of their lifespan. As they spoke the various guards all over the estate dropped to their knees in agony and screamed out in pain as the poison did its work. The front gate was broken through by the massive mob of people who had come to ransack the place and kill the family who took everything from them. It took about ten minutes for Naruto to finally hear the knock on the door that he told them to use to show that they had arrived.
"And that sound means that our little reunion is finally at an end," said Naruto as he retracted the wires holding his aunt and uncle up in the air. They fell to the ground and looked at him in fear. Naruto then went over to the door and ripped the seal off before he opened the door to show multiple people standing there with various tools in their hands to use against the Kaen family. "And now I will leave you three in the hands of the fine capable hands of these gentlemen."
"No wait," said Ozai in fear, seeing so many faces of people whose lives he had ruined with a smile upon his own while he did it, "protect us! Name your price and we shall pay it!"
"I'm sorry, but I believe you have confused me for some sort of mercenary" said Naruto with a chuckle as he turned his head to look at them without fully turning his body around, "but I am not one of those. I am a doctor sir, and a very good one at that."
"You can't leave us like this!" shouted Ozai in a desperate attempt to play on the brat's humanity.
"How ironic," said Naruto with a cruel laugh, "since you put my mother in a similar situation with her begging for help and you tossing her out like she was trash. Now here I am not lifting a finger to aid you no matter how hard you beg. Consider this karmic justice."
Naruto then walked out of the room as the men rushed in. He heard what obviously was Ozai getting carved open like a cooked turkey along with his son suffering the same fate as his father. Yet Azula was screaming out for them not to touch her and he heard the rip of her clothes as the men were obviously going to rape the fuck out of her. While Naruto was usually against that sort of thing, he was not going to stop them in this one case and simply walked back outside past all the various people who were taking anything of value. He had to step over quite a few bodies of guards who were killed, yet all in all he made good time out of the place.
While it was true that he wished to kill the three former members of his family with his own two hands, it was not a great idea to put into action once one considered the political backlash. If he had done the deed personally then the bounty on his head would be massive with the various daimyos of the nations he was on good terms with being forced to turn him over. His overall reputation would be in shambles, but as it was it will be seen as people revolting against their oppressors so he was blameless. If someone were to investigate and somehow see that they were there, well he would tell them the truth and explain that he had been hired to heal the man, only to survive the attack on the mansion since people knew who he was and let him go since killing him would be a waste of talent. All had gone as he had hoped it would, and in his heart he knew that he had avenged his mother by doing so.
While he would usually summon a door and teleport home, he was enjoying the serenity of the whole situation and walked towards no particular destination since he has none in mind. Yet as he walked towards basically nothing, he was stopped by six people in black cloaks with red clouds on them. What surprised him was the act that while they were all various sizes they all had orange hair with purple ringed eyed.
"Oh for fucks sake," said Naruto as he slammed his hand into his forehead with enough force to hear an audible smack from the action, "why do you members of the Akatsuki keep harassing me? I won't join your group so stop asking!"
The six figures looked at each other for a second before one of them stepped forward.
"We are not here to try and recruit you into our organization," said the one who came forward. "You have made it abundantly clear that you would not work for us when you killed Itachi and his partner Kisame."
"Then let me guess," said Naruto with a sigh as he whipped out his cane in preparation for a fight that he was certain that was going to happen , "you came to avenge your fallen members by killing me."
"Wrong again," said the one speaking as he shook his head, "for their failure was their own."
"Okay," said Naruto with a quizzical look on his face, "so what can I do for you?"
"I require your medical expertise and I am willing to pay what you ask for your services."
Naruto could only look at the man with a blank face since this was absolutely the last thing he ever expected to hear…
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