Transcending My Wings

{Dan} -yawns- hi guys! How was trick or treating yesterday?

{Naruto} it was great! I got Sasuke-teme to dress up as a doctor and I dressed up in scrubs as a nurse and we went as a pair! We got tons of candies!

{Choji} Not as much as I did! I dressed up as a barbeque ribs and people gave me more candies!

{Naruto} Not coz of your costume! It’s coz you’re fat!

{Choji} WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?! -runs after Naruto and Naruto runs away fearing for his life-

{Dan} Uhm, well, sorry about them. I HOPE YOU GUYS HAD A WONDERFUL HALLOWEEN! Or if not… then I hoped it was a happy day at least? Hehehe XD wekk, here’s the next chapter! Hope you enjoy it!

A/N: Hi reviewers! Thanks for taking your own time to review!
Spriggan_d would have been right in guessing who sound is, but I changed the identity of the sound a while back… hehehe XD as for the sun… hint (it’s one of Lee’s teammate!)

Great job to… green-eyed-loetards for guessing Neji to be the sun! I’ll post up a one-shot (any pairing your choose) dedicated to you!

I also want to thank Daydreamer for taking the time to review and even read my story! I feel kinda shy now just because I know that she has really good stories!

And also to usmorgan for the wonderful review! Yeah, I liked the other characters that have died in the series too so I gave them parts in here! ;D And lastly, yeah I changed a lot of the people’s personalities since I changed some defining points in their lives… Like Sasuke not being such an avenger since Itachi did not end up killing the entire clan, just one person… THANKS AGAIN!!

Also thanks to shadow_bind, helvetica, and half-and-half for the reviews. :3

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To Transcend My Wings
: : Chapter 13: : The Remaining Pieces
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Kimimaro currently found himself walking with the blonde down the streets of Konoha, the next day, heading to the Hokage tower. He was currently mulling over the events that led him to this point in time. He was the sole survivor of the Kaguya clan, then he gave his body to Orochimaru’s use, then he was sent on a mission to kill the one he now walked with, then waking up to find himself a guardian to said target… and finally, pledging his life to the other… To say that the events were unusual or unexpected would have been an understatement, but Kimimaro had found another reason to live and therefore, is not complaining.

“Don’t you even want to know why we’re heading to the Hokage?” asked Naruto towards his silent companion. Not that Naruto felt like divulging every secret he had to the white haired male he has only known for almost two weeks, but the silence between them was choking. It wasn’t that Naruto felt awkward around the other male, it was just that Naruto liked to talk.

“I only need to know what you want to give out,” answered Kimimaro seriously.

“BORING!” yelled out Naruto loudly gauging the other for a reaction, but he got nothing. “Ugh! Okay! You said that you’d devote your life to me right?”

“Yes, I did say that.”

“But I don’t want you as just a servant or anything like that… I want to be your friend.” Naruto looked at Kimimaro with a smile on his face hoping that Kimimaro understood him.

“Alright… I will try and act more like a companion you call a friend.” Kimimaro tried to smile back at Naruto but years of unuse had practically washed away the ability of the man to smile. Kimimaro had never needed to use facial expressions like smiling in front of the snake sannin before and even with his clan before that, so he didn’t know where to start.

“Yeah, we’ll work on that smile next time, but first we need to talk to the Hokage.” Naruto wanted to laugh at the way the white haired male tried to recreate a smile, but thought it be rude. After all, being raised by a particular snake bastard could have that effect on people.

“Hi Grandma!” chirped Naruto merrily as he strode on over to the Godaime’s desk.

“I’m busy brat; I don’t know how your parents tolerated you!”

“That’s not nice grandma! I just wanted to ask you a favor since I need to get into the Konoha correctional facility.” Naruto followed up his request with the best puppy dog eyes that he could manage, but it didn’t produce the result he was hoping for.

“Absolutely not! Do you know how many hardened criminals are in that place!”

“I’m not completely stupid! I know that, but I think one of my guardians is locked up there and I need that person to complete my guardian quest!” Tsunade and Kimimaro were both stunned that Naruto could have known the location of his guardian so it was left to Tsunade to ask the most obvious question.

“How do you know that?”

“Well, I remember talking with Kimimaro one time and he asked me why I picked him as my guardian and I told him that it was all just coincidences, so I decided to test out the connections I have with the guardians and one of my visions led me to the Konoha correctional facility, plus I know it’s a girl so I’m that much closer to finding her!” Naruto grinned towards the other two, looking smug as if he had just said that he knew how to solve world poverty or something equal to that.

“You can find them consciously now?” asked Tsunade in an incredulous tone.

“Maybe, I don’t know… All I got when I tried searching for a vision was this guy and girl, they both had long midnight black hair, and the girl’s vision led me to that place, but the guy was in this house, he wasn’t necessarily locked up but he felt trapped,” said Naruto matter of factly.

“Well, I guess I can give you clearance, but I require that you take at least two of your guardians with you,” said Tsunade as she started filling out a scroll, which Naruto assumed to be the clearance she just granted him.

“Alright, I’ll look for the others; I’ll be back later to pick up the clearance.” Naruto waved his goodbye, took Kimimaro with him and went on a scavenger hunt around Konoha looking for the other guardians to see if they were available.

The first stop that Naruto made was in a house near the outskirts of the town which housed Naruto along with Sumaru, Kimimaro, Haku and Zabuza. Naruto was greeted by Zabuza and Sumaru as soon as the pair entered.

Zabuza had flat out refused to help the blonde since he said that he wasn’t the blonde’s guardian and the only reason he was still in the village was because Haku refused to leave the blonde’s side saying that it was a guardian’s duty to remain near his charge. Of course, Zabuza countered that it was all horseshit, but Haku shut him up by threatening him of castration if he didn’t behave and settle down for the moment.

Sumaru said that he exhausted his chakra supply training with Haku that day so he probably wouldn’t be of much use in a fight even if he did agree to go. Naruto didn’t even need to ask Haku, since the other was dead asleep on the couch between the other two males and had neither stirred nor awoken with all the commotion.

Naruto asked Kimimaro if he wanted to rest that day too and just go on the next day, but the guy was adamant that he go with the blonde so Naruto went off to search for a minimum of one more guardian. Since Itachi was off on a mission and Gaara wasn’t back from the sand village, this left either Kakashi or Sasuke.

Naruto found Kakashi in the training field with another ninja who looked like a jonin, if Naruto would have guessed, along with three genins.

“Hey Kakashi! That must be the blonde boy you are talking about, right?” pointed the jonin towards the approaching blonde accompanied by the white haired male.

“Yeah, that would be him,” muttered the grey haired male before turning his attention back to the genins. “Team, this is my charge, Naruto Namikaze… Naruto meet my genin team: Konohamaru, Udon, and Moegi.”

“Hello Mr. Namikaze, pleased to meet your acquaintance!” greeted the three in unsion.

“Hi! You must all be so proud to have a teacher like Kakashi!” answered back Naruto in greeting. The three however looked unimpressed with their teacher and had muttered an unenergetic ‘yeah’ thrown in with a ‘maybe.’

“Don’t forget to introduce me! I am Maito Gai!” The man in green spandex took the blonde by the hand and shook it vigorously.

“Hi, I’m Naruto and this is Kimimaro,” said Naruto after he regained his bearings. “Well, I see you guys are busy so I’ll just go look for Sasuke instead.” Naruto bid his farewell and turned in the direction of the Uchiha mansion with Kimimaro, still silent, right next to him.

“You don’t talk much, do you?” asked Naruto.

“It was never required of me to make small talk before so I am a little uncertain about what to say,” said Kimimaro.

“Nah, It’s alright, I won’t force a conversation if you aren’t comfortable… I guess I just got too used to Kiba talking all the time.” Kimimaro ascertained that this Kiba person must have been a friend so Kimimaro just nodded in understanding and kept up with the blonde’s pace as they head to their destination.

It wasn’t long before they were at the Uchiha mansion and greeted by a beautiful woman who resembled Sasuke quite a bit.

“Hi! My name is Naruto and this here is Kimimaro, we were looking for Sasuke, is he in?” asked Naruto.

“Oh yes! My son just came back home not too long ago, I’ll get him for you.”

“Thanks.”

“Sasuke, you have visitors!” called the long dark haired woman towards her son sitting on the couch adjacent to where she currently stood. The raven looked over at the blonde and motioned for him to come on in along with the companion.

“Itachi isn’t around, if you’re looking for him,” said Sasuke lowly not tearing his attention away from the book he was reading.

“Actually, I came looking for you, you see-” Before Nartuo could explain his need of the raven’s assistance; Sasuke’s mother came back in from the kitchen and had set down a plate of cookies and drinks for the guests and Sasuke as well.

“Thank you for your hospitality,” said Kimimaro followed by thanks from Sasuke and Naruto as well. The woman just smiled in return and told them that if they ever needed anything else, all they had to do was ask. And just like that, she went back to whatever it was that she was doing right before the pair had come knocking on her door.

“Continue,” said Sasuke as he took a sip of the tea that was laid down in front of them.

“Right, well you see, I need you to come with me and Kimimaro to the Konoha correctional facility to see if one of my guardians is really there.” Naruto looked hopeful that Sasuke would say yes, since he was their last option after all.

“Fine… it’s better than waiting here doing nothing. Since aniki left there’s been nothing to do around here.”

“Great! Let’s meet at the Hokage tower in half an hour! I need to get a couple of things first!” Naruto and Kimimaro took their leave and headed back to their place to get some supplies like shurikens and kunais before heading back out again to meet the younger Uchiha at the Hokage tower.


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“Hello, I’m here with the Hokage’s permission to look for someone…” said Naruto towards the two guards posted in guard duty.

“Do you know exactly who you’re looking for? Age or any demographics on them?” asked one of the shinobi who had a long raven hair flowing behind him. His most defining point, however, was the lilac eyes. It made it look like the man was blind, but it suited him in a way. Also at that point, Naruto knew who the long haired raven was, but played it aloof.

“All I know is that she’s a girl, and she has long hair, uhmm kind of like yours actually and really dark almost midnight black eyes.” Naruto recounted as much as he could as he thought of the vision he had.

“Got it!” This time it was a man who had this bandage across his face that spoke up. “The name is Kotetsu, and this guy is Neji if you want to know… anyway, I narrowed your description down to two people and since the other one on my list is dead then there’s only one choice left. Come on, follow me.”

Naruto introduced himself and Kimimaro and Sasuke muttered a simple grunt that Naruto took as a sign that he didn’t need the introduction. The blonde and his group followed the two shinobis as they were led to a cell holding a woman who looked just about Naruto described.

“What do you want?” snarled the girl.

‘You have a visitor, I think,” answered Kotetsu. “So this is Kin Tsuchi, she was locked up here when she tried helping Orochimaru take down the village when the third Hokage was still alive and in office.”

The blonde just nodded towards Kotetsu and turned his attention back at the girl. Kin had stepped up to the bars and looked at the blonde, scrutinizing him and sizing him up.

“Umm, could you do me a favor and hold out your hand? I also need to ask this of you Neji-san.” Neji grunted and looked weirded out but did as ask, and the girl did the same after getting a glare from the impatient Uchiha. Kin also looked confused when she took notice of Kimimaro with the blonde, knowing that the man was a subordinate of Orochimaru as she had been before she was left for dead.

The moment Naruto touched both the Kin’s and Neji’s hands a light surrounded the three and the signs of sound and sun began forming on Kin’s and Neji’s hand respectively while the signs were etching themselves on Naruto’s stomach as well.

The moment the light faded, Neji and Kin withrew their hands from the blonde’s hold since the blonde started to turn hot. It was almost scalding hot to touch the blonde’s hand. Then another moment passed in silence before the blonde doubled over in pain clutching his stomach in pain. Kimimaro and Sasuke tried to go near the blonde to see what could be wrong, but a red colored chakra suddenly surged around the blonde forcing the others around him to back up.

“What the hell’s going on?!” screamed Kin from inside her cell.

The chakra around the blonde tore the blonde’s clothes right off, singing it into nothing. The signs on his stomach started to change and meld together. The random placement of the signs flowed towards the center of the blonde’s taut stomach then swirled outwards until the swirl covered the abdomen and the nine signs returned and surrounded the swirl.

The angry red chakra began surging once more then died down to nothing, leaving the blonde panting and gasping for breath, disregarding the fact that he was nude. When the others saw that the threatening red chakra had died, they tried to check up on the blonde, but another burst of chakra came out of the blonde knocking the bystanders a couple of feet away.

Another surge came again, but this time, it was strong enough to destroy the building, everything that the chakra touched was incinerated. Kin and the rest of the guardians were protected somehow, but Kotetsu and the other prisoners weren’t as lucky.

The lashing force of the red chakra had only burned Kotetsu’s right arm when it neared the man so he hid behind the Uchiha to protect himself as well. The ones who knew nothing of the event died instantly the moment the scalding red chakra touched them.

In the end, only a couple prisoners were left alive: one of them was a man named Mizuki, and the brothers Raijin and Fujin. The aftermath left a crumbled building and its inhabitants, either dead or semi-conscious.

“Damn, what was that all about?” groaned a silvery haired male.

“Uh, Fujin? I think we can leave now that they opened our cell,” said a rather big man towards his brother who looked just like him.

“Yeah! They did! I guess we’re free now Raijin!” agreed the other happily.

“You idiots! The cell didn’t open! Someone destroyed the facility!” yelled the silver haired male.

“Hey Raijin! I’m hungry! Let’s go see if they have any food for us! Come with us too Mizuki!” said one of the brothers.

“Follow me! I know where there’s plenty of food to eat!” Mizuki smirked as he thought of using the brothers in his revenge against the village that dared scorn his genius. For turning sides during Orochimaru’s attack on the village, he was prosecuted by the current Hokage to spend the rest of his life in jail to repent… though that is highly unlikely.

“Not so fast,” rasped Kotetsu, staggering to get back to his feet. Kotetsu held his damaged arm and stood in front of the three, now free, ninjas with only a kunai clenched on the available hand for protection. He tried to attack, but in his condition, he could barely do any damage and he was sent sprawling on the ground by a harsh blow from Mizuki.

Awakening in the sounds of a struggle, Naruto got up from the ground and headed over to the shinobi that had just gotten hit. Kotetsu now noticed that the clothing that was incinerated from the blonde had been replaced by a form fitting black shirt and some loose fitting black cargo pants. The guy’s face that used to be unmarred now carried these whisker-like marks making him seem a little feral. All in all, even the guy’s aura felt different, as if he wasn’t the same person.

“Leave him alone,” said Naruto in an even and clipped tone.

“What will you do runt? Just get out of the way if you don’t want to get hurt,” sneered Mizuki.

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” said Naruto as he summoned up chakra on his palm into a ball. The ball started getting bigger and bigger until it looked like a gigantic version of a shuriken.

Mizuki, not wanting to know what the jutsu could do, attacked first followed by the brothers. Before they could reach the blonde, Naruto had completed in gaining the needed amount of chakra and had launched the jutsu. The shuriken made of pure chakra collided with the three and it had killed the three in mere moments.

By this time, the others had already awakened and had seen the power the blonde had just shown. It was both incredible and disturbing at the same time. The thought of the blonde killing others in cold blood just didn’t seem to fit the blonde’s image.

Sasuke noticed the blonde wavering, but before he could get to the blonde. Itachi swooped in and caught the blonde as he fainted.

“Otouto, take Kotetsu to the hospital and inform the Godaime of what happened, and take the rest of them with you… And finally inform the new guardians of their guardianship. I’ll take Naruto home.” Itachi looked emotionless as he gave orders to his brother and indirectly, Kimimaro, but Sasuke knew that it was troubling Itachi to have come back to find Naruto looking as he did.

“Take care of Naruto-sama,” said Kimimaro.

Itachi didn’t dignify that with an answer as he leapt from tree to tree carrying the blonde back to the house he stayed in.

I will, better than any of you can.

TO BE CONTINUED!!!

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{Dan} Okay! A chapter done! Yeah… I don’t know if I like this chapter.

{Choji} -munching on chips- You know, it wouldn’t hurt for you to plug some lemony scented chapter in…

{Dan} I’m trying! But I just haven’t gotten a good spot to put it in! Maybe the next chapter?

{Choji} Really?!

{Dan} Well, I don’t know… maybe just a slight one… of just limey… lolz -Choji and Dan plot on how to put some much needed lemons-

{Naruto} Well, while they’re trying to decide on where to put lemons… please leave even a small review for the author! It keeps him sane that way… Thanks for reading!