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A bloodied 12 year old Naruto wheezed harshly as he stared up at the ceiling; even as the fumes of smoke from the fire spreading rapidly through his apartment entered his punctured lungs with every breath he took. The child was lying in a pool of his own blood; stab wounds marred his chest.

The corners of his vision was beginning to darken. The child coughed up blood from his lungs as his eyes watered. He is scared. He didn't want to die like this. He didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve to die. It wasn't fair!

It was all that man's fault he's in this hopeless state! He looked kind enough when he saw him the first time in the academy. He didn't realise what the man's true intention was until it was too late. To late for him to do anything. To late for him to react. The man had followed him to his apartment when he left; stalked him for weeks; learning his mannerisms and day to day activities; and then when his guard was down, the man forced himself into his victims apartment.

The man forced the child to the ground, and after sticking a chakra restriction seal on him – not that Naruto knew – he brandished a kunai and covered the boys mouth with the palm of his hand. The man then stabbed the child twice in the lungs with a sickening look of twisted enjoyment on his face. The palm covering his mouth prevented Naruto from screaming out.

The pain had been unreal. His lungs being filled with his own blood had made the boy unable to scream out for help. He never noticed the man leaving his apartment, leaving him lying there with his own blood pooling around him before coming back with a medium sized oil carton in hand. He poured the oil across the ground. Making sure to dampen the furniture through the room.

And then the man set the apartment on fire and walked back out, casually leaving the boy to die through asphyxiation or blood loss. As the light left Naruto's eyes and the fire consumed his entire being, the last thing the boy felt was pure unadulterated anger and hatred, because of how everyone apart for a small few in the Hidden Leaf Village had treated him poorly for 12 years of his young life.

X.X.X.X

Within minutes the entirety of the apartment complex had went up in flames. Those who were inside of their flats were able to get out of the complex on time, just seconds before the rest of the building was consumed. By the time the Hokage and his ANBU arrived at the scene it was too late. The apartment had been reduced to cinders.

The ANBU doused the flames before it could spread to any of the surrounding buildings. They all knew the Jinchuuriki lived in the apartment complex at the top floor, but they had no idea if he was inside his flat when the fire broke out. If he was then recovering the body - if the burning building collapsing hadn't crushed it that is - would be difficult.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage was quick to join his ANBU in putting out the fire. He had hoped beyond hope that Naruto was not in the complex when it was burning. The Nine Tailed Fox was inactive since Naruto was not in the academy yet to unlock his chakra. While he thought the boy as his adopted grandson, he was the only one keeping the other Hidden Villages' at bay. If they found out Konoha had just lost their Jinchuuriki, he shuddered at the thought of what would happen. They were still recovering from the Nine Tails attack 12 years ago. They were in no condition to fight against another Hidden Village. Not for some time at least.

The fire had taken longer than he had expected to put out; the second it was however, Hiruzen rushed through the smouldering remains. The smell of burning flesh caught his nose. He paused and stared with wide, wrinkled and shocked eyes.

It was a charred hand, belonging to a young child, underneath the ember remains of the apartment building. Hiruzen glanced over his shoulder when he felt the ANBU squad form around him before redirecting his shocked eyes to the blackened hand.

He quickly steeled himself however. It would not do for the Hokage to break down in front of his subordinates. Closing his eyes with a strained sigh, Hiruzen pinched the bridge of his nose and snapped his fingers. The ANBU moved. All of them know what the elderly man wanted from them and, lacing their hands with chakra they began to carefully pull the ruins of the building off of the corpse beneath it.

Hiruzen stared on with a look of dismay and despair, as he recognised parts of intact clothing on the corpse. Many parts of the body was burnt beyond recognition; but, the clothes were recognisable enough for the Hokage to know it belonged to his surrogate grandson, Naruto. The Hokage clenched his fists tightly until his knuckles whitened, and turned away from the body unable to look at it anymore.

Konoha had just lost their only defence against the other Jinchuuriki. They had lost the son of one of their greatest Hokage's, and one of the remaining descendants of the Uzumaki Clan.

"Take the body to the morgue." Hiruzen ordered the ANBU without turning around. As the elite ninja squad carried out the order given to them, the Third Hokage felt the presence of arriving Jonin, Chunin and Genin.

He quickly ordered the newly arrivals to help clear the wreckage, and search for any more casualties. He also ordered the area to be sectioned off from the public and to find out what had caused the apartment to be burnt down.

With a depressed sigh Hiruzen body flickered back to the Hokage Tower' after he informed the Jonin to give him a status report after the wreckage was cleared out.

Neither of them saw a mysterious floating black figure watching them from above on one of the rooftops. It had seen everything. The child's murder had brought up memories it had long since repressed. As it watched Naruto's body being taken away by the ANBU, it floated after the group.

As it moved to follow the squad carrying the burnt body the figure was revealed. It was a puppet. It was thin and tall, it a white face with blank hollow eyes, rosy red cheeks, and purple stripes that stretch from the bottom of its eyes to the top of its widely open smiling mouth. It has red lipstick painted on in an exaggerated pucker. It has three white buttons on its long, thin torso. It has rounded hands with three spindly fingers, and had white stripes on its wrists and ankles.

The puppet continued to follow the ANBU even as they went inside the hospital's morgue. If it were capable of frowning, it would have done just that when it saw the ninja place the burnt corpse uncaringly on top of the slab like a rag doll. Inside of its blank hollow eyes, the puppet gained two small white pupils as it stared at the leaving ninja; a minor show of its distaste towards them.

Once they were all gone, the white pupils disappeared and the puppet turned its gaze back to the dead boy on the slab and floated over to him. It tilted its head to the side as if it were regarding the recently deceased boy. The puppet then reached behind its back and pulled out a large wrapped up gift box out of thin air before setting it down next to the burnt body. It tugged firmly on the ribbon yanking it off and loosening the wrappings sealing the box shut.

It took off the lid, reached inside with both hands and pulled out an animatronic like mask of an orange fox. Holding the mask with one hand, the puppet slipped its hand under Naruto's back and lifted him so he was sitting up and it slipped the head gear onto the charred head. The puppet placed Naruto back down on his back and lowered its arms to its sides and stared. Waiting.

X.X.X.X

Truth be told when he died he had expected to find himself in a place filled with spikes, burning rivers and a lava coloured sky. He never expected to find himself standing in an endless black void.

Naruto frowned as he looked around in an attempt to find something recognisable to him. He was surprisingly calm after getting killed by a teacher from the Ninja academy. He can't remember what the man looked like for the life of him though. He would recognise him the moment he saw him again though.

"Where am I?" Naruto asked himself as he scratched the back of his head while looking around. Sighing Naruto shrugged and started to walk off in a random direction. If he was going to be stuck here he'd might as well try and see if he can explore it.

After walking for what seemed like hours the 12 year old stopped when he spotted something in the distance. It was a glimmer of light. It was small, but, for some reason unknown to him it was calling to him. He allowed his curiosity to get the better of him and walked toward the light.

With each step he took Naruto started to hear music. With every step forward he made it grew louder.

Dum, dum, dum, da, dum, da, dum.

Dum, dum, na, dum, dum, dum, na, dum.

Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, du, da, dum.

Do, da, do, da, do, da, dum, do, da, do, da, dum.

Do, do, da, do, da, dum.

It seemed to loop around every 25 seconds. With a two second interval between the start and the end. By the time Naruto reached the light, the music was loud yet soothing. He stared hard at the glimmer of light, that was now similar to a mirror. All he had to do was step through and go wherever this thing would take him. Looking over his shoulder Naruto sighed airily; he had nothing left. Nothing to keep him. Nothing to stop him. He was dead.

He turned back to the mirror and stepped through.

X.X.X.X

Half an hour had almost passed and the puppet was figuratively keeping an eye and ear out for anyone that would come into the room. Within that time a animatronic suit, complete with a metal endoskeleton had covered up Naruto's charred corpse, curtsy of the puppet itself who had managed to bring in the animatronic suit in the same way it had brought in the fox head.

Now the 12 year old was a 7ft tall fox animatronic similar to foxy the Pirate in appearance; Naruto as an animatronic has burnt orange fur, light red linen pants and metal nails on his hands and feet that appeared to look like claws. He has sharp teeth just like Foxy the Pirate. The puppet floated a few meters back as the newly possessed fox animatronic started to twitch. And then after several seconds had passed it stilled.

Naruto opened his eyes and found himself staring up at a titled ceiling you would find in a hospital. That was strange; the last thing he recalled was lying down in a pool of his own blood in his apartment as it burned to the ground. So why was he here? He looked to his left and scanned his surroundings with confusion. Was he alive? Or was he dead? He couldn't tell. He couldn't feel anything. Nothing at all and it concerned him greatly.

He quickly sat up and was surprised to find himself staring at a burnt orange fur coat on his torso and a pair of light brown linen trousers. Blinking Naruto quickly brought his hands to his face and was thrown into an even deeper shock when he found himself staring at a pair of metal nails that were several inches long. He quickly looked himself over and to his surprise he didn't find himself staring at a human body he was used too seeing, but an anthropomorphic one from what he could tell was made out of fake fur and metal.

"What happened to me?" He touched his throat with wide eyes as his voice held a mechanical sound to it. "What happened to me!?"

"You died." Came a metallic sounding turned in the direction the voice came from and almost fell off the slab out of fright upon seeing the floating puppet staring at him. Its forever present smiling face and hollow blank eyes had scared him.

"Who... what are you?" Naruto cautiously asked as he slowly got off the table and on to his feet. His eyes never leaving the strange puppet thing.

"I am a puppet." It replied without having its wide open and toothless smile move. "What do you remember?" It asked, tilting its head to the side almost curiously.

Naruto narrowed his eyes and looked over himself. "I remember...being hurt." He touched the place where he had been stabbed twice by that teacher. "There was fire and smoke in my apartment. I was lying in a pool of my own blood." As he recounted his death the 12 year old animatronic steadily grew angrier and angrier.

"Would you like to get revenge?" Naruto looked at the puppet with suspicious eyes. "You were killed unjustifiably. You must want justice?"

Naruto didn't say anything at first. He was rather cautious. How did the puppet know he was murdered? And that his murderer was a man? Despite those questions lingering in his head Naruto decided to answer the puppet's question.

"I do." The animatronic fox eventually replied. "But not just on him. Everyone here except for one person has treated me as if I didn't exist. They never paid attention to me; and when they did they made sure I knew I was not welcome, which was almost all the time. They even told other children to stay away and ignore me! Even they made sure I was not welcome among them!"

If the puppet were capable of frowning it would've done so. Having that done would make any one angry. Just like it was angry when it was murdered a long time ago by a man dressed in a purple suit when it was still a child. It possessed the puppet it's now dwelling in when it died.

"I see." The puppet said understandingly. "Do you want help?"

Naruto cocked his head to the side. "...Why?" He asked curiously narrowing his eyes. "Why do you want to know if I want help?" He narrowed his eyes even further until he was almost squinting. "Are you offering to help me?"

The puppet nodded and Naruto stared musingly at the floor. After a minute had passed the 12 year old brought his gaze to the puppet and nodded; he wanted help in getting revenge.

The puppet nodded in reply and as it floated over to Naruto it held out its hand for him to take. Naruto stared at the offered hand and grasped it. The puppet turned, and pulling Naruto along, it floated out of the morgue.

X.X.X.X

One Day Later

After news of Naruto's death got out many of Konoha's residents were over joyed that the boy they thought to be the Nine-Tails reincarnated was gone from their lives for ever. The Third Hokage was quick to put a stop to that however. Now that they've lost their only asset against other the Jinchuuriki, the Third Hokage had called a meeting with both head civilians and clan heads to his council room in order to make sure they all know of any potential side effects that will happen if news of their Jinchuuriki's death were to reach the ears of their enemies.

"I call this meeting to order." The Third Hokage's voice rose above the near silent muttering among the individuals in the room. His voice was different than the one at the previous meeting they had almost a month prior. It was no secret that Hiruzen was fond of Naruto, and that the boy himself thought of the Third Hokage as his adopted grandfather.

"A recent event has led to a major loss not only in our military defence but also a blow to our Fourths memory." His eyes were cold as he stared at the members of the council. Although certain seats were empty, such as the Senju and Uchiha.

"Our Jinchuuriki, our only Jinchuuriki, along with three civilians, has been killed in a fire that burnt down the entire complex they were occupying. As of yesterday there has been an ongoing investigation for any foul play. At first there has been no evidence concerning Naruto's untimely death. However, earlier this morning, a witness came forward with information concerning yesterday's event: a cloaked man with white hair was seen walking in and out of our Jinchuuriki's apartment just before the building went up in flames."

"Lord Hokage-" Tsume Inuzuka began, but was silenced by Hiruzen's glare.

"I am not finished." His tone was as cold as The Land of Iron. "Our only Jinchuuriki was murdered by a vengeful resident of Konohagakure. Now, allow me explain to you all a possible effect, if the news of our Jinchuuriki's death were to ever reach the ears of the other Kage's..." He stared hard at the civilian's side of the council. "A Fourth Shinobi World War."

X.X.X.X

At the same time

Outside the ninja academy many would-be shinobi and kunoichi were heading to class. Many of of this years students were clan heirs and are in Naruto's year. The news of Naruto's apartment being burnt down, with Naruto himself along with three other people being killed in the inferno was the talk of the day. Many people in class were slightly saddened when they had heard of his – to their knowledge – accidental death. However his death did not affect them too much as they didn't know him that well, apart from being annoying and someone who loves to play pranks.

Except for Hinata who was devastated to learn that her crush, the boy she stalked/followed had died. But that's to be expected for someone who was obsessed with said boy to the point of stalking/following him without his knowing.

"It's hard to believe Naruto's dead." Kiba solemnly said. "How'd he die anyway?" He asked looking at his classmates as if they would know the answer.

"Troublesome..." Uttered Shikamaru, one of Kiba's classmates. Shikamaru looked toward the ceiling with a bored look on his face. "...they said his apartment building had burnt to the ground. Naruto and three others were caught in the fire. So far, from what my dad is saying, it looks like an accident so they're ruling out foul play."

Both Kiba and Shikamaru turned to their left when they heard someone scoff. It was Sakura Haruno, Naruto's crush and someone who's vying for Sasuke Uchiha's - another student in their class - affections.

"Who cares about that idiot being dead?" She sneered. "He was loud and annoying! I'm glad he's gone!"

"Sakura!" Said girl looked behind her and found her friend/rival Ino Yamanaka glaring at her with narrowed, stern eyes. "That was a little too harsh don't you think?"

Sakura just scoffed again and with a shrug of her shoulders she replied, "I am just stating the truth. We all thought Naruto was loud and annoying."

"But I didn't want him to die though!" Sakura just shrugged uncaringly at Ino's response. She wasn't close to the deceased blonde. She found him to be incredibly annoying. So she wasn't bothered or depressed to hear that he had kicked the bucket so to speak.

"C'mon guys enough of this somber talk." Said Choji Akimichi, a big boned kid who was eating from a bag of chips. "Sure Naruto was loud and annoying, but he wasn't all that bad once you got to know him. And be honest; out of us all raise your hand if you tried to get to know Naruto?"

Out of the entire group only Kiba, Shikamaru and Choji raised their hand.

"As troublesome as it is for me to admit it, I agree with Choji. Naruto wasn't all that bad once you got to know him." Shikamaru said admittedly before staring dully at both Ino and Sakura. "Which is something that can be unsaid for you two."

Both girls were going to try and deny his statement but kept their mouths shut in acceptance. Knowing pony-tailed boy was right in saying neither of them both had tried to get to know Naruto in anyway.

"Has anyone seen Shino?" Kiba asked once he realised the hooded boy wasn't with them.

Shikamaru sighed and threw his hands behind his head. "I heard from Shino he wasn't coming in today." He explained with a tired yawn. "Something about helping his parents integrating a new colony to him. He didn't go into too much detail."

Kiba nodded in acceptance. While he didn't know how the Aburame clan can utilise bugs in their techniques, he knew it must be pretty important if Shino had to skip out on the academy.

Soon all five of them along with the rest of the class reached their classroom and walked inside. Only for them to stop in surprise.

Sitting in the place Naruto would be seated was a 7ft tall fox animatronic. It has burnt orange fur, light red linen pants and metal nails on his hands and feet that appeared to look like claws. He has sharp teeth jutting out from the top of its maw. It was slumped lifelessly on the table; its arms drooped by its side with the metal claws almost touching the floor. Its eyes were shut, and as they were able to see partially through the gaps in its joints, they were able to see a metal endoskeleton underneath.

"W-What is that thing?" Ino stammered questioningly as she pointed at the unmoving animatronic.

Shikamaru narrowed his eyes. "I don't know. But we should wait outside for Mizuki and Iruka to come before we do anything." He advised. The others agreed to Shikamaru's advice and quickly exited the classroom to wait for their teachers to come.

Just as the door closed, Kiba frowned as he smelt the air and made a face when something foul went up his nostrils. "Does anyone smell that?" He asked.

When the door closed the animatronic silently sat up and opened its eyes. Revealing that the irises were coloured blue; though the pupils of the eyes were a disturbing white. It stared at the door and saw the puppet was floating in front of it, staring out of the window at the children with its hollow blank eyes.

The only difference was the puppet was transparent instead of solid the day before. So it was safe from anyone hearing it speak.

"Are these the ones who mocked you when you were alive, Naruto?" The puppet asked, as it turned its head around to look at the animatronic fox sitting behind the table. It had recently learnt its companions name through the night.

Knowing if he were to speak the others would be able to hear him, Naruto took the safe route and confirmedly nodded his head in place of speaking. His eyes were glaring at the door with righteous fury.

"I see." The puppet said, its tone gave Naruto the feeling it was frowning. It turned its gaze back to the door and stared out through the window to keep an eye out for anyone that is about to come back inside the classroom.

"The other 8 are in place." The puppet stated. "It's only a matter of time before they come back in."

Naruto nodded with a determined look and went back to slumping over the table in front of him with his eyes closed. He knew who the puppet was referring to. They're children who were murdered and brought back to life through the possession of animatronic suits; just like he was. Of course they had found peace and were able to move on ever since their murderer had been killed in a very brutal manner.

But once they learnt he had been stabbed in the lung and left to burn to death in his burning apartment, they came out of 'retirement' so to spea,k and the puppet gave back their old animatronic suits and endoskeletons – with a few major changes to their suits - to help Naruto get his revenge.

The 8 animatronic somewhat resemble their original appearance. Chica for example still resembles a chicken; however she now looks more feminine in her appearance, looking similar to her toy counter part, Toy Chica. She still wears her white bib that says in bold capital letters 'LET'S EAT!' and even has her pink cupcake in her hand.

Toy Foxy, or Mangle as she was known, was originally disfigured and crooked to the point of mechanical mutilation. With her being almost an entire endoskeleton. Now she has her suit back, with a white and pink colour scheme to it. The majority of her suit is white, with only the top half of her snout, the tip of her tail and her belly being pink.

Foxy the Pirate looked as he did originally. His reddish brown fur, instead of being tattered, looks brand new; his arms, stomach and legs were no longer torn apart to the point where the endoskeleton underneath is exposed. He still has his hook on his right hand and an eye-patch folded on his right eye.

Both animatronic foxes have sharp teeth like Naruto's, with Mangle being the exception of having smaller teeth. All in all the animatronics still resemble what they looked like before but they've been improved upon; looking much leaner, thinner and more realistic in appearance. They're even able to make facial expressions too, excluding the puppet of course and they're also able to talk!

After a few minutes the puppet saw some activity outside. The pre-teens were out there with two adults with them. One of the adults had long white hair with a bandanna that had a metal plate with a symbol of a spiralling lead on it, covering the top of his head. He wore black long sleeved shirt, with a green flak jacket over it a pair of matching coloured trousers and a bandage wrapped around one of his legs.

The other man has black hair that is kept up in a pony-tail, and a scar across the bridge of his nose. His attire consists a dark blue long sleeved shirt with the sleeves partially rolled up; a set of matching coloured trousers, shin length sandals and green flak jacket. He also had a forehead protector baring the same symbol as the other man.

The puppet noticed the two men were confused at seeing the pre-teens outside, and when the man with the scarred face started talking, both adults looked at one another; one in surprise and the other in amused disbelief when they were told something the puppet couldn't make out. But it had a good suspicion that it was about Naruto being in the classroom.

The two men stared at one another again and looked toward the door. They were just seconds from opening it and entering the room.

"Naruto, they're about to come back in with two adults with them. Get ready!" The puppet exclaimed a warning to the fox animatronic. But Naruto was ready. He had been for several minutes and there was no way he was going to blow this one.

As the door opened both Naruto and the puppet heard one of the pre-teens say exasperatingly, "I'm telling you the truth Iruka, there is a giant fox sitting where Naruto would be!"

"Of course there is." One of the men, Iruka the puppet assumed to be, said dismissively. "I'm not falling for your tricks. Not this time. Now everyone inside!"

The door opened and all the students - except for one dark haired pre-teen with black hair shaped as a ducks ass - hesitantly walked in with the teachers right behind them. All students stopped directly in front of the desks, and stared at the inactive animatronic with fearful eyes.

The teachers were quick to notice the animatronic the second they entered the room and were surprised to see it in the spot where Naruto would be sitting.

Iruka blinked and rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Nope, there was an actual animatronic fox sitting in Naruto's seat. "What the...? Mizuki, are you seeing this?" He asked with shock in his voice.

The named man nodded just as shocked as his friend was. "I am seeing it." He replied. The white haired man narrowed his eyes in curiosity. "What do you think it is?" He asked looking at his scar faced friend.

Just as Iruka was about to reply everyone jumped when the sound of a phone going off was heard. Everyone looked in the direction the sound was coming from; it was from the desk. Sitting there on top of the desk unnoticed by anyone was a phone.

Both Iruka and Mizuki shared a look both contemplating on what they should do. However a few seconds later the ringing cut off and everyone was surprised surprised to hear a very familiar voice coming from the answering machine.

"Hello there..." Spoke Naruto. His voice had a dark undertone that set everyone in the room on edge. They never heard the whisker' faced blonde speak with that tone before. "If you're hearing this pre-recorded message then that means I'm dead." There was a slow metallic clap heard in the background. "Yippee for you. You all got rid of me at long last. Congratulations. Now, this part of the message is for a certain someone who may or may not be in the room." The pre-recording of Naruto paused to gather his thoughts.

"You thought you'd heard the last of me? Thought you could just waltz into my apartment, stab me twice, then set my apartment on fire with me still inside of it without consequence? No such luck you stupid. Little. Fuck-tard." With every word that came from the answering machine everyone eyes were slowly getting wider and wider with shock.

The pre-recording of Naruto chuckled darkly. "Now, I'm not going into too much detail because time is of the essence; but to make a long story short: I was murdered. In my own home. And my murderer is here; in the ninja academy. In my last moments... I was angry. Not just because I was killed by someone in the ninja academy, I was also angry at how everyone had treated me for 12. Fucking. Years. Without my knowing of the reason for said treatment. So as I died, I decided I wanted to get back at everyone who treated me badly."

Everyone could feel a sense of dread at that point. Shikamaru looked at the 7ft tall fox sitting in Naruto's seat with suspicion. That thing being there could not be a coincidence.

"Now here's how things are going to go down. There is an animatronic placed inside the academy. Spotting him shouldn't be too hard. If you don't know what an animatronic is... well... just look at what is in my seat." Everyone, except for Shikamaru who was already looking at it, frightfully looked to the fox. "It is retrofitted with the state of the art technology. And yes, I know big words, so please kindly shut the fuck up Sakura and Ino!"

"But we didn't say anything!" Both girls exclaimed in protest as they looked back at the phone. Although Sakura was about to mock Naruto's knowledge of vocabulary.

Everyone else looked back at the phone as Naruto's pre-recorded message continued. "What this technology entails, well that would be telling. But to give you a small but major hint, because I'm such a 'nice' person... facial recognition and unhindered access to the ninja database is two of them. One look at you and they'll have immediate access to your records. Meaning he will know your strengths and weaknesses, your date of birth, your home etc. etc."

"That means that thing will know everything about us with just a look!" Choji exclaimed the obvious in alarm.

"...Good luck, and please kindly ignore the smell. You won't like the answer if you decide to try and find out where it is coming from. Oh, one more thing: do try and survive." With that the message ended. And as it did everyone was either gob smacked, confused, or scared.

"'Survive'? W-What did he mean by that?" Ino asked, looking at Iruka and Mizuki expectantly for an answer to her question.

"And what did he mean by smell?" Sakura asked. She looked at the boy who had the bottom of his hair shaped as a ducks butt. "What do you think he meant by that Sasuke?"

The now named Sasuke scoffed dismissively. "Who cares what he meant?" He said with a look of dismissal. "He's dead. It's not like that dead last is going to come back from the grave."

"What I want to know is how did Naruto pre-record that?" Kiba asked with a genuine look of confusion. "How did he manage to get all that recorded and inside of our classroom before he died? We all saw him sitting on the swing just outside of the academy by himself since the academy closed in the afternoon. There's no way he could've done all that!"

How Naruto managed to pre-record that message was a mystery to them. Iruka was just as in the dark as they were. He had kept an eye on Naruto when he left the academy playground yesterday, and he subtly followed the young boy around the Hidden Village to make sure he kept himself out of trouble. This went on well into the afternoon and an hour later the pre-teens apartment was burnt to the ground with Naruto himself within it.

Plus he had been inside of Naruto's apartment many times and he never seen any phones, or recorders or anything of the sort. It didn't make sense.

Choji started to sniff the air and grimaced when his nostrils picked up a weak, yet foul smell. "What is that smell? It's foul!" He asked in complaint as he pinched his nose.

Everyone else in the room started to sniff the air as well only to cover their nose when the foul smell invaded their nostrils. "It's what I smelt before!" Kiba said informatively just before he started coughing and hacking."What the heck is it?"

"Maybe that's what Naruto meant in the pre-recording? Ignore THAT smell?" Shikamaru said.

However both Iruka and Mizuki were able to recognise what that foul scent was; it was the aroma of burnt flesh. It was faint and almost unnoticeable; but it was there. And it was coming from one of the desks.

But that couldn't be right. The only thing over there is the... Iruka widened his eyes in realization as he looked at the animatronic with a disturbed look on his face. That is most definitely not a good image he had just conjured. He had to get everyone out of here and inform the Third Hokage! The elderly man had been downright furious when he had learnt the charred corpse of his adopted grandson was missing from the morgue. It was as if the body had just upped and vanished without a trace. But if his suspicion was right – and it most likely was – then the missing body is inside the animatronic itself!

He had to get his students out of here before they find out where the smell is coming from. He saw something move from the corner of his eye, and the scarred man with wide eyes, slowly turned to the seats. The fox was not sitting at Naruto's spot anymore. It was now standing beside the table showing the man just how tall it actually was. And it was staring right at them with black hollow eyes and small white pupils. It was smirking sinisterly giving Iruka a full view of its razor sharp teeth. And it was flexing its claws on its right hand.

The scarred man then suddenly understood what Naruto on the pre-recording meant by saying: try and survive. They had to get out of here. Quickly!

"Everyone." Iruka called out to his students. Once their attention was completely on him and not on the now active animatronic the scarred Chunin pointed at the still open door and said, "Please leave the classroom in an orderly fashion."

Seeing the questioning looks on their faces Iruka took quick glances between his students and the active animatronic, that was still staring at them with that sinister expression on its face.

"Everyone, follow me." Mizuki said with wide fearful eyes when he finally noticed the active animatronic. Before anyone could ask what was going on Mizuki quickly led the students out of the classroom with Iruka taking the rear. The scarred man's eyes never left the animatronic; he was greatly unnerved that its gaze followed his movement.

With the two Chunin and students out of the classroom, Naruto with his sinister smirk widening, slinked his way to the door as soon as it closed.

"Naruto everything is set up. Once you begin, everything that is happening in the building will be kept inside." The puppet informed him.

During the night when everyone was retired to their beds the puppet – after it gained the information it needed - had stolen some sound restriction seals and placed them in strategic locations in the academy. They were armed in such a way that they would activate once they've been planted. No sound would get through the seals as long as they were active.

Naruto's smirk grew even more at that news. Now that everything was in place' it was time for him to begin...

X.X.X.X

"Iruka, what's going on? Why did we have to leave the class?" A student asked the scarred man with a questioning look on her face.

Shikamaru frowned thoughtfully as he closely looked at the two Chunin. They were frightened. Unnerved even. "Troublesome, it had something to do with that thing in there didn't it?" He deduced.

Sakura pulled a face. "What? That fox thing? Why would they be afraid of something that's not even moving?" She questioned rhetorically.

All of a sudden the door to the classroom was reduced to splinters. Everyone screamed out in alarm as Iruka was blind-sided by a burnt orange blur and thrown onto the wall opposite to everyone else. Mizuki knowing what had taken Iruka by surprise quickly bailed and left everyone to fend for themselves.

Pinned against the wall in an iron clad grip, Iruka grabbed the animatronic's wrist as he screamed out in pain and discomfort as he was being lifted off the ground by the throat until his feet were dangling several inches off the ground.

The students were frozen in place. Their fear overriding their flight or fight instincts.

The fox slowly raised its other hand in a slow deliberate, menacing manner and posed it in such a manner that it would pierce if it were to suddenly jab. He then shoved his hand through Iruka's chest, destroying his heart and splattering his blood on the wall behind him, as the pre-teens screamed horrifically and alarmingly upon seeing the death of one of their mentors.

Naruto yanked his bloodied clawed hand out of Iruka's chest and released his grip on the corpse; as the body slumped to the ground, the animatronic looked halfway over his shoulder uncaringly when one of the students – Sasuke he realised – had managed to get himself together and tried to attack him while his back was turned.

The fox animatronic swiftly turned around to face the Uchiha and swerved to the side away from the left hook Sasuke tried to deliver. As Sasuke's fist passed by his face harmlessly, Naruto reached out lightning fast and held Sasuke by the wrist in an iron clad grip and in the same speed used his other hand to grasp the boy at the back of his head.

He then spun on the heels of his feet and using the momentum of his motion to his advantage, Naruto proceeded to smash Sasuke into the wall behind him. Face first. He pulled back and quickly drove Sasuke into the wall face first again and again and again; giving the Uchiha no time to recover. The amount of force Naruto was putting into his movement was enough to reduce Sasuke's face into a bloodied mess. Broken nose and all.

The boy wasn't given a chance to cry out in pain as he felt his nose break. Blood splattered on the brick wall by the second time Sasuke's face met with the hard surface. Several several seconds of this Naruto had, had enough. He pulled his arm back and drove Sasuke's face into the wall one last time with him putting everything behind it.

Sasuke who was unconscious at this point did not react as his head slowly got squeezed between the metal palm holding his head and the brick wall his face was getting pushed into. Then his head literally exploded into skull fragments and brain matter as the entirety of his skull gave way to the pressure. It was messy but quick.

Naruto's upper torso and forearms was drenched in blood. Naruto with a snort of disdain carelessly dropped the headless Sasuke to the ground. He frowned; it was unnaturally quiet. The former blonde turned to look behind him and found he was there alone in the bloodied hallway. He scowled darkly, the others must've taken off when his attention was focused on Sasuke and Iruka.

He wasn't too worried about them getting far. Looking to his left and right Naruto knew they would have split up in order to increase their chances of getting out of the academy. Too bad for them there are 9 others in the building, and it won't be long until they run into them.

Naruto heard a girl let out a terrified scream before she was abruptly silenced. Chuckling as he heard two more girls let out a terrified scream it was not long before they too were silenced. Walking in the direction the noise came from Naruto could hear several more people yelling and screaming in the area he was in.

"It seems the others are now moving." The puppet said as it floated over to Naruto.

Both fox and puppet eventually found three mutilated corpses that are covered in blood; Naruto recognised them as Ami, Kasumi and Fuki' three people who often bullied him when Sakura wasn't around. Ami was missing the frontal lobe of her brain. The culprit being Mangle herself, who was knelt in front of said corpses' with blood and brain matter dripping from her bloodied maw and hands.

Noticing she wasn't alone Mangle looked up and her eyes glowed in happiness when she found the newest and currently bloodied animatronic standing in front of her. Naruto smiled and waved at her in greeting, to which she eagerly returned the gesture with one of her own.

"Hi Mangle." Naruto greeted.

"Hello Naruto. Hello puppet." She greeted them both back in response. As she stood up she asked. "How are things on your end?"

"I managed to get two of them. One being a Chunin and my former teacher, the other was my former rival." He answered as he walked over and past Mangle while gesturing for her to follow him. "I see you managed to find three of them."

Mangle nodded. "Yeah. Those girls never looked where they were going when they were running. They literally ran into me." She paused momentarily before adding offhandedly. "Well, one of them ran right into my mouth. She's now missing the front of her brain."

Naruto nodded in acknowledgement. "Do you know where the other 7 are?" He had to know where the other animatronics were just in case someone managed to get out of the academy. If that happened then he had to get everyone to regroup before the professional shinobi reach the building.

Mangle adopted an expression that made her look as if she were conversing with someone. "The Freddy's are roaming the halls. Both Chica's are near the exits to keep anyone from getting outside. Both Bonnie's are stalking the outskirts of the classrooms. And Foxy is currently on the hunt."

"A few managed to get away while Naruto was preoccupied." The puppet informed her prompting the vixen to look at the marionette expectantly. "The three that ran into you were part of that group."

"SCREEEEEEEEE!" The three animatronics stopped walking when they heard a mechanical screech echoing in the hall ahead of them. Followed by several people, both adult and pre-teens, screaming in both shock and surprise.

"Sounds like Foxy caught someone." Mangle said just as she, Naruto and the marionette broke off into a sprint down the hallway.

Five minutes later the three animatronics found Foxy the Pirate in a losing struggle with a Chunin that is teaching at the academy. The three of them found a few academy students hiding behind another Chunin, for safety against Foxy. They were looking at Foxy with a smug and confident expression, thinking that with Chunin's around, they would be safe against the killer machines wandering through the academy.

Their smugness and confidence quickly gave way to fear and panic when a blood drenched Naruto and Mangle came rushing out of a corner and into their line of sight. The sinister grins on their maws as their glowing white eyes landed on them prompted a scream out of the wannabe ninjas.

The screams was enough to distract the Chunin. A fatal mistake. Foxy took advantage of it and overwhelmed the Chunin, knocking the young man to the ground where he started slashing and hacking at him with his clawed hand and hook.

Naruto and Mangle let out a roar/screech of their own and leapt at the other Chunin to prevent her from helping her comrade with Foxy. Mangle with the help of Naruto knocked the woman to the ground and straddled her. She opened her maw giving the wide eyed woman a full eyed view of her razor sharp teeth before she lunged down to take a large chuck out of her face.

Naruto after helping Mangle send the woman to the ground took notice of the academy students trying to run away from the brutal slaughter. His snout pulling back in to a snarl Naruto chased after them. Suddenly appearing in front of the group of students Naruto backhanded, punched and kicked them all to the ground one by one. His eyes narrowed into a glare when he recognised them.

Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Kiba and Choji were among the group. The rest of them were just nobodies to him. Not to mention they were so frightened of dying they forgot to use the Academy 3 – or in the case of clan members forgetting to use their clan based abilities - to help in their attempts of escaping.

Sakura along with the others were so frightened they had forgotten they were able to use the Academy 3 – or in the case of the clan members, they forgot they're able to use their clan based abilities – to help them get out of their situation. They weren't even ninjas yet. They are still children and seeing Iruka and two Chunin die in front of them anyone in their shoes would have been too terrified to do anything.

Naruto and Mangle slowly looked at one another; Naruto with a look of mild amusement and Mangle with a a look of expectancy. The two foxes looked over their shoulder as Foxy joined them, his upper body drenched in the blood of the Chunin he had killed.

"What... What do you want from us?!" Sakura asked in exclamation, a desperate look on her face. She didn't want to die here! She's too young! She never did anything wrong!

It was a vein attempt at buying them all some time. Naruto, Mangle and Foxy were in no mood to answer any questions and the three of them lunged. The students tried to get out of the way, and they were somewhat successful in their attempt. However, Foxy and Mangle were too fast for some and they managed to get four students in their grasp before they started to mutilate them until they were almost unrecognisable.

To Naruto their terrified screams as they felt their bones break, and their metal hands tearing into their body was like music to his ears. But as much as he wanted to stay and listen to them cry in agonising pain, he had an appointment with the others that managed to get away.

Seeing where the others ran off too Naruto followed after them. He was able to catch up some of them pretty quickly; Hinata, Kiba, Sakura and Ino and Choji were just outside one of the classrooms' and are trying to get in.

He stopped walking and stared and stared and stared. It took some time for Naruto to realise they didn't know he was there. That wouldn't do. Smirking Naruto lifted his foot and brought it down to stomp on the ground; the force put behind the stomp had caused the ground to crack under his foot.

It also did its job in getting their attention.

"Oh come on!" Kiba complained in disbelief upon seeing the animatronic standing a few feet away from them. "It got caught up to us already!?"

Ino frightfully took a few steps back out of fear of the fox. "There's no way we're going to get away from it is there?" The pony-tailed blonde was close to having a panic attack. "We're gonna die here aren't we?!"

The fox smirked sinisterly as it cocked its head to the side. "Oh yeah I'd say you're all going to die." He answered, getting shocked gasps and wide eyes from them because it had talked; but mainly because it had Naruto's voice.

"N-Naruto?" Said a wide eyed Sakura. "Is-is that you?" She hesitantly asked.

The smirk on the fox's maw widened even further as he stared directly into her eyes. "Hello again, Sakura." He answered, his smirk never leaving his maw. "Thought you'd seen the last of me?"

"Why?" Seeing the look he was being given Kiba elaborated his question. "Why are you doing this?"

Naruto momentarily stared at Kiba with narrowed eyes. He shrugged with a careless expression. "As I said in the pre-recording; I want revenge. Revenge against everyone I can get my hands on who had treated me badly."

He had purposely left out he was murdered to them. He wanted to see if any of them had remembered that teeny tiny bit of detail.

"But we never did anything to you!" Suffice to say he was somewhat disappointed. But he hadn't expected them to remember since everyone is getting killed left and right.

Naruto turned to Choji and slowly nodded in acknowledgement at his declaration. "True. You and Shikamaru didn't do anything to me." His admittance had somewhat eased Choji's fear only for to it rise once more when Naruto dangerously narrowed his eyes. "But you both didn't exactly try to help me either. Whenever I was alone, unless I actively went and ask 'can I play with you', you left me by myself. You never thought to come to me, or ask me if I wanted to hang out with any of you. Nor did you ever ask me how I was doing. So you're just as guilty as everyone else is!"

"Oh my god..." Hinata whispered in horrified shock. She was staring at Naruto with her Byakugan activated. She had a horrified expression on her currently pale face at what she saw.

Sakura hearing what Hinata whispered to her, "Hinata, what is it?" while keeping her wary eyes on the animatronic.

But she ignored the pink haired girl. Hinata made her way over to Naruto catching the former blondes' attention as she asked him with a desperate, yet pleading look. "How...? How can you be like that inside... and... and like that?!"

Everyone stared at the lavender haired girl not knowing what she was asking of the animatronic. But Naruto did for she was pointing at his torso where his charred corpse was stored. How did she know of that? No one apart from the puppet and the other animatronic's know of the body that was stuffed inside of the suit.

Kiba saw Hinata was using her Byakugan. He knew the eyes of a Hyuga allowed them to see the chakra points in an individual, see through objects, and, give them a full 360 field of vision when its active. So she must've seen something that made her so terrified.

"Hinata what do you see?" The Inuzuka asked. When she didn't reply he grabbed her by the shoulders and made her look at him. "Hinata, what did you see?" He repeated this time with force.

The girl was so shocked at what she had seen that her Byakugan deactivated by instinct. She didn't want to see Naruto's dead body and when Kiba grabbed her by the shoulders' and made her look at him she shrunk into herself.

When his question finally registered to her she was about to reply and tell them what she had saw, only for the answer to die at the tip of her tongue, as a bloodied clawed fist pierced through both her and Kiba's chest.

Sakura, Ino and Choji all let out a terrified scream as Naruto just appeared behind the Inuzuka and Hyuga faster than their eyes could see, and effortlessly drove his arm through Kiba's back, and out of his front all the way into Hinata's front and out of her back. Their blood splattered on their clothes and faces.

"Okay, seriously." Naruto mockingly said even as he withdrew his bloodied arm from Kiba's and Hinata's chest allowing the two corpses to slump to the ground. "Here I am, murdering you all." He flicked his arm to get most of the blood off of it. "And all you're doing is standing around asking a walking, talking, killing machine a bunch of questions instead of doing the logical thing." He stared at the remaining three at the corner of his eye with a dark look as he not so innocently brought his bloodied hand to his face. "Like running away for your lives?"

Sakura, Ino and Choji took the hint and ran for their lives, with Naruto's menacing laughter ringing in their ears. A minute later a bloodied Mangle and Foxy, along with The Puppet caught up to him and noticed the corpses of Hinata and Kiba.

Foxy noticed the other three weren't with them. "Where are the others?" Foxy the Pirate asked.

"I let them go." Naruto replied as he re-crossed his arms against his chest. "If they run into the others while they're trying to get out of here then that'll be their problem." He turned to his fellow animatronic's. "How long until time is up?"

"Not long." The four turned and found the bear animatronics' Freddy Fazbear and his toy counterpart walk out from one of the corners in the corridor.

They too had blood on their suits; but unlike the Mangle, Foxy and Naruto they weren't covered in it. Instead they had some minor splotches of blood, while their microphone and hand was covered in blood and brain matter.

Toy Freddy looked like a child friendly version of his original counterpart. He has rosy red, blushed cheeks and would have had blue eyes if they currently weren't missing from the sockets. However, unlike his original counterpart Toy Freddy has a face that is flatter, wider and more block shaped with his mouth and teeth being somewhat more human like in appearance.

It was the older version of Freddy Fazbear that was speaking. "Many have already gotten out before we could get our hands on them. It will be a matter of time before they someone what is happening here."

"I see. Some of them were bound to get out anyway; the academy is a big place after all. Do we know where the two Chica's and Bonnie's are?" Naruto asked, not at all put off at hearing some of his tormentors had managed to escape. He had been expecting it after all and he would be surprised if no one DID manage to get out.

"We're here." The animatronic's in question answered simultaneously as they walked up behind them.

Both Toy Chica and Toy Bonnie had their eyes missing. So the eyes of their endoskeleton was glowing ominously from within the eye-sockets. Also Toy Chica had her beak missing so her human like teeth was revealed. And unlike their original counterparts, they are more child friendly in appearance.

Toy Chica like the other Toy counterparts of the original animatronics has blushed cheeks, though hers are pink rather than red. Originally she would have blue eyes and an orange beak, but they were currently missing. She is also noticeably more curvy than her original counter part who was somewhat round ovular. And unlike her original counterpart, Toy Chica had a pink pelvic region, giving the illusion that she was wearing a pair of shorts; or panties; depending on what you think it resembles.

Toy Bonnie is a green eyed bunny animatronic that has blushed red cheeks. He would've had green eyes, but like Toy Freddy and Chica his eyes were missing from their sockets. However unlike his original counterpart who was lavender coloured, was a bright shiny blue – he is covered in blood after all – with his belly and the inside of his ears a pale power blue. Unlike the original Bonnie, the toy counterpart has eyebrows.

"We managed to break a few of them." Toy Bonnie began.

"But some managed to get away." The original Bonnie added.

"However few of them didn't get far." The original Chica interjected.

"Because we were there to stop them." Toy Chica concluded.

"So with a few of your tormentors getting away from our clutches, what is the plan now?" Foxy asked.

Naruto tapped the corner of his maw as his eyes narrowed in thought. The 9 animatronic's looked at Naruto with expectant looks. While Freddy and Toy Freddy were the leader's of their own Fazbear family, Naruto is the one who knows the most about the Village Hidden in the Leafs. Therefore he is the best person to lead them as of this moment.

"We leave." He eventually told them.

The animatronics were surprised at that. They thought Naruto would want them to stay and cause as much chaos as possible before anyone arrives. Granted they accomplished that already, but they thought he wanted to cause even more!

"Not to question your reasoning for this but why?" Mangle asked the questioning that was on everyone's mind.

"To fuck with their heads of course." The former blonde answered and seeing their confused looks he decided to explain. "They are going to be expecting to find us among here. Instead of waiting around for them to find us we're going to leave and they're going to find the bodies, along with a message that is left behind on a phone by yours truly."

Foxy was the one to have figured it out. "I see where you're going with this. Since everyone hated ye guts they're going to think ye came back from the dead to get revenge on them!"

"Yeah! Precisely that!" Naruto replied with enthusiasm. Then his enthusiasm waned as he looked away from them and nervously rubbed his arm. "And well...in the short time I've known you, I consider you all as my friends. Even though you nine don't know me that well, you did more for me than anyone here did in 12 years. Even when you didn't have to. That means a lot to me. And well, I don't want you all to get into any more trouble than I've gotten you."

Mangle touched by Naruto's admittance suddenly pulled Naruto into a heartfelt hug. Taken by surprise at her action Naruto didn't know what to do. This was unfamiliar territory for him. After a moment of hesitance Naruto slowly wrapped his arms around Mangle and returned the hug. It wasn't long until everyone else had joined in on it, turning the singular hug to a group hug.

"Ever since the puppet brought you back as an animatronic, you've become part of the Fazbear Family. You're one of us now. And we won't abandon you." Said the original Freddy as he and the others pulled away from the group hug.

"Aye. If they mess with ye they mess with all of us!" Foxy declared with a shake of his hook.

"We all have your back!" Toy Chica added supportingly.

Naruto was looking at the animatronic's with surprise. If he was still alive instead of inhabiting the endoskeleton of the animatronic he would've felt warm and tingly upon hearing their support. "Thank you all." Said the former blonde with a genuine smile.

Naruto went to one of the classrooms and looked at the clock to see what time it was. It was 10am. An hour had gone by since they started the rampage. "You all better get going now. They'll be here any second."

"What about you?" Toy Freddy asked even as he and the other 7 gathered around the puppet.

"I'll be staying behind to leave them that message. Then I'll join the rest of you."

The puppet floated over to Naruto until it was hovering in front of him. "I'll be staying behind too. Without me around you will not be able to get out of here that easily."

Naruto accepted that. The marionette was the one who had gotten them inside the academy with the shinobi knowing a thing. Plus it was marionette who kept all that was happening inside the academy stay inside of the academy. It was why no one had heard the terrified and agonised screams of the victims as the animatronic's got their hands on them.

"Alright. I'll be with you all before you know it." He looked at the puppet. "Do what you need to do. I'll be back where I started." He said while motioning in the direction he, Mangle and Foxy came from, from over his shoulder.

Seeing the puppet nod its head in confirmation Naruto turned around and made his way back to his classroom, passing the still warm corpses of his former classmates and Chunin's who were teaching at the academy.

Just as he went by a corner he heard the marionette tell the Toy and Original Fazbear families to gather around it. One look over his shoulder allowed the burnt orange animatronic coloured fox to see the 9 animatronic's were becoming transparent. Like ghosts. Mangle saw Naruto looking at them and she, along with Foxy who also noticed him looking at them, gave him a farewell wave as they vanished before his eyes.

Naruto returned the gesture until they were no longer there and refocused on his task. The puppet would be back in around a minute. That will be enough time for him to get back to his former class and record another message.

It's a shame he didn't get his murderer during this attempt. Oh well. Konoha is a pretty big place. He'll find out where the bastard lives sooner or later. And when he does nothing on this planet will stop him from getting his revenge. He would hunt him to the ends of the Earth if he had to.

X.X.X.X

Minutes after the former blonde and the animatronics left, the left side of Kiba's jacket moved around. A blood covered Akamaru, Kiba's faithful pet and best friend, poked his head out from the front of his former master's jacket.

The puppy was whimpering frightfully as he noticed the state of his friend and master.

It kept quiet when Naruto had begun his rampage through the academy. While Akamaru wanted to help his friend his survival instincts kicked in. Preventing the puppy from doing anything foolish. The puppy knew on a subconscious level if it tried to do anything or bring unwanted attention on to it, then it too would meet the fate of all the others in the academy. Akamaru whimpered again this time with sadness and manoeuvred his way out form under Kiba's jacket, and nudged the dead boy on the cheek with his nose. Hoping beyond hope that, that his nudging would bring back his friend back from the dead.

Akamaru would still be doing this; even as the Jonin, ANBU, Clan Heads and the Hokage himself arrived to the scene minutes later.

X.X.X.X

Getting back to the classroom went by like a breeze. After kicking Sasuke corpse in the chest for a few seconds – making sure to break a few of his ribs in the process – the burnt orange coloured animatronic walked inside the classroom and immediately made his way over to the phone.

After pressing the record button Naruto recorded his message, and left it to be found by anyone that is coming to investigate the academy. Satisfied with his work Naruto hummed to himself as he stood in the middle of the room and faced the door and looked down so he was staring at the ground.

X.X.X.X

Sakura was hyperventilating as she, Ino and Choji burst through the main doors of the ninja academy. The second she got outside the pink haired girl collapsed to her hands and knees before crying at what she had been put through. Nearby adults looked toward the entrance in surprise when they heard its doors slam open, and were even more surprised to see several academy students running out of the building, followed by several other students and Chunin's just moments after them.

They were alarmed to see almost all of them had blood on them. And nearly all of them – mainly the students – were curling themselves up into a ball as they started to cry out in anguish.

Almost immediately everyone converged on the terrified group of people with looks of concern, while others stared at the double doors with wary looks. Were they under attack?

As the final Chunin ran out, she immediately closed the doors behind her. She wasn't really confident those doors would be capable of holding those killing machines back for long, but it will delay them enough for help to arrive.

Looking over her shoulder the Chunin found several civilians were rushing to them with alarmed looks of concern on their faces. "Someone get the Hokage! The ANBU! Someone capable quickly! There's something inside the academy killing everyone!" She ordered hastily, while pressing her back against the door in an attempt to keep those... things... from getting outside and murdering everyone in their path.

"What?!" One civilian exclaimed fearfully as he looked toward the academy in alarm. "We're being attacked?! By who?!"

"Never mind that!" Another Chunin snapped at the civilian impatiently. He turned to the kunoichi keeping the door closed. "I'm going to get the Hokage! Just make sure you do whatever it takes to keep that door closed!"

The teacher didn't wait for a response. He immediately took off to the rooftops and chakra hopped his way to the Hokage's residence. That was where the council was after all.

Approximately 10 minutes later the Hokage arrived at the scene with a small contingent of ANBU. Instead of wearing the traditional Hokage robes, Hiruzen was in his shinobi attire that consists of a black jumpsuit with mesh armour covering the lower parts of his limbs, a green gauntlet that covered his right wrist, forearm and elbow. He wore an armoured hood with a bandanna-like forehead protector that bared the emblem of Konohagakure on it.

He immediately took stock of the situation and spotted many students curled up on the ground in a ball. He saw many of them had blood on their attire, and that many academy students and teachers were missing. He listed off how many people were there and how many were missing.

Sakura Hurano. Shikamaru Nara. Choji Akimichi. Ino Yamanaka. Students from Iruka Umino's class with clan heirs being a part of that class. Many students including Iruka were missing. Mizuki was the one who had informed him of the attack on the academy, but it was the blood covered Chunin that intercepted him that had informed him just what was attacking the students and teachers.

Narrowing his eyes Hiruzen directed his ANBU to care for the survivors while he kept 3 of his shinobi with him. He glared toward the double doors of the academy and marched over to it with his subordinates following close behind. As the distance between him and the academy shortened Hiruzen steeled himself for whatever he was about to see within.

X.X.X.X

Blood on the floors and blood on the walls were the first thing the Hokage had seen within minutes upon entering the building. The metallic smell of blood assaulted his nose the second the doors opened. A smell he was used to. He scowled in dismay as he found corpses of adults and children alike were strewn on the ground. Many of them were missing limbs and had holes larger than human fists in their chest, where their heart, lungs or kidney's would be.

As they moved deeper into the building, and walking over many dead bodies of students and teachers, they eventually came across the bodies of Hinata Hyuga and Kiba Inuzuka. Akamaru was trying in vein to get Kiba to respond to his nudging. Letting out a despairing sigh Hiruzen ordered one of his ANBU to take the puppy out of the building and then return to him.

Two clan heirs were dead with many more unaccounted for. He was going to dread telling their parents about their fate. They're going to be calling for blood once they find out. Once the ANBU returned they continued on their way through the bloodied corridors.

After being informed by the blood covered Chunin there were inhuman creatures resembling animals of all things, inside of the academy killing people without restraint. The Chunin had reported these inhuman creatures were much stronger than normal human beings, who are able to overwhelm a single person with little to no difficulty, and is able to hold its own when they're fighting against two people.

The Chunin was one of the few people who fought against an animal that resembled a bear, before he was forced to retreat when another bear like creature arrived in time to help its comrade. However, Hiruzen had a feeling there was more to this than he was told. His ninja were experienced fighters, unless they were taken by surprise they should have been able to fight them off. Alone or not.

Following the trail of blood Hiruzen and his ANBU guards came across the corpses of Sasuke Uchiha, and Iruka Umino.

"Lord Hokage..." Hiruzen looked at the kunoichi from the corner of his eye, and arched a brow when she was pointing over his head with a shaking hand.

Following the direction the kunoichi was pointing Hiruzen widened his eyes. There standing in the middle of Iruka's classroom, facing the door was a 7ft tall fox that looked to be made out of metal and a fake fur coat that made up its suit. It has burnt orange fur, light red linen pants and metal nails on its hands and feet that appeared to look like claws. It has sharp teeth jutting out from the top of its maw. And if he looked close enough he could see a metal endoskeleton underneath the joints.

It was currently looking at the ground, and, most unnervingly of all, it was covered in blood. Mostly on its arms and clawed hands. The Third Hokage narrowed his eyes. This must be one of the so called 'inhuman creatures' that was attacking and killing everyone within the academy. The fact that it was a fox of all things did noting to help his building unease.

"What on Earth is that thing?" One of the ANBU asked the very question that was on everyone's mind.

"It looks like there is metal underneath it. Could it be a puppet of some kind?" Said another ANBU with an analystic tone in his voice.

While his bodyguard of ANBU were discussing the puppet amongst themselves, Hiruzen snapped his fingers to regain their attention and cautiously walked to the seemingly inactive animatronic. He kept himself at arms length from it when he stopped.

"There's something on the desk Lord Third." Hiruzen looked toward the desk in question and true to his ANBU's words there was something on it. A telephone to be specific. Strange, there's no phone in the classrooms.

He narrowed his eyes and walked over to the desk. Suddenly the phone rang catching the ANBU by surprise and for them for reach of the hilts of their tanto's and Kodachi's reactively. Hiruzen however despite being surprised, kept walking to the desk. The phone continued to ring for a few more seconds before it cut off when the Third Hokage reached the desk. And then Hiruzen heard a voice he thought he would never hear again.

"Hello there." Spoke Naruto. His voice still had the same dark undertone from the previous message. The only difference is his voice had a metallic sound to it. "If you're hearing this message, than that means you have just seen the dead bodies strewn through the academy. And you most likely can see one of the culprits. If you want to know the reason behind all of this; check the previous message and talk to the survivors of Iruka's class. I think the answers you'll get from them will be rather... eye opening."

The message stopped there. Curious about the mentioned previous message Hiruzen pressed a button that would replay all messages that was currently on the contraption. By the time that first message ended the Hokage was disturbed on what he had learnt.

Naruto being murdered in his own home. Then getting his apartment burnt down by his murderer. He learnt that his murderer is in fact in the academy and he wants revenge against him, and on anyone that treated him badly.

Which was generally everyone in Konohagakure. Then what caught his interest was the 'advanced technology' that is provided in the animatronics. It explained how many of his ninja had died. The animatronics already knew everything they needed to know. But how did they gain access to the ninja database? It is heavily guarded and only his ANBU and advisor's know of it existence. He'll have to do lock down Konoha and do a thorough sweep in search of any spies and leaks in security. If these things had gained access to important information on his residence and ninja forces then he needed to find where they're getting the information from and conceal it.

Just as he was about to delve deeper into his thoughts, there was movement behind him followed by metal clashing on metal. Reactively Hiruzen swiftly turned around and pulled out a kunai from within the sleeve of his jump suit and took a defensive stance. He was surprised to see the animatronic was holding the tanto and kodachi from two of his ANBU in-between its claws.

Its eyes were half closed, giving it a bored look as it stared at the special forces' ninja trying to withdraw their weapon from its claws. Shaking its head with a disappointment the animatronic reared back its clawed foot, before Spartan kicking the sole female of the three ninja in the stomach. The masked woman felt the air get knocked out of her as its foot impacted on her stomach with such force she was left gasping, her grip on the hilt of her sword had slackened completely and the force the animatronic put into the kick had sent the woman straight into the wall behind her, creating a spider-web like crack around her when she was embedded in the wall. The force put behind the kick, combined the hard impact with the wall behind her had left the kunoichi unconscious.

The fox animatronic looked at the tanto it held in its claws almost curiously, before flicking its claws holding on to the blade, effortlessly shattering it to pieces. Seeing his comrade get embedded into a wall the man released his grip on his kodachi and quickly moved back. A wise decision on his part. The animatronic looked at the sword for a moment, before tossing it over its shoulder. The sword flew across the room in an arch, with it spinning horizontally before the metal blade was embedded into the wall up to the hilt.

The remaining ANBU gathered 'round their Hokage to defend him. Despite at least two of them were disarmed of their weapons, they were far from helpless. However the bloodied animatronic never made any attempts to attack them. It just turned to look at them with unblinking eyes.

Seeing it stare at them Hiruzen had remembered what Naruto had said in the first recording: one look at your face and the animatronic would learn everything about you. And if that's true then the machine in front of him had already analysed his face and accessed his information. His ANBU on the other hand are safe as their masks prevent it from recognising them. A weakness that is easily exploitable once it has been discovered.

The ANBU tensed as the fox animatronic tilt its head to the side. Looking at them with an almost curious look. Slowly the animatronic reached up to the top of its torso and giving the ninja a mocking eye smile, it pulled open the front of its torso revealing to them the burnt dead body that was stuffed inside. The wires, crossbeams and cogs had impaled and crushed the body in various places.

And the smell. Oh the horrible smell of burnt flesh made them gag horribly.

The Hokage stared in horror recognising the dead body within before he glared angrily at the animatronic. "What have you done to Naruto!" He demanded in outrage.

Naruto without taking his eyes off of his grandfather figure, concealed his burnt corpse by closing the front of his torso and securing it. And then he just stared with his head tilted to the side. He could have spoken. He could have told the old man that he was in fact Naruto. But right now he was feeling a little mischievous, besides' he was playing the role of a murderous rampant animatronic. With only Sakura, Ino and Choji knowing who he really was.

The Hokage and the ANBU were surprised when their vision suddenly went dark. A second later their vision returned and they quickly noticed they had a new guest with them.

It was a thin and tall puppet. But one they had not seen before. It a white face with blank hollow eyes, with small white pupils. Rosy red cheeks, and purple stripes that stretch from the bottom of its eyes to the top of its widely open smiling mouth. It has red lipstick painted on in an exaggerated pucker. It has three white buttons on its long, thin torso. It has rounded hands with three spindly fingers, and had white stripes on its wrists and ankles.

The puppet had its head placed in a specific position that made it seem it was glaring angrily at the ninjas.

Its sudden appearance had put the ninja on guard as they looked at it warily. So far they thought there was one of them but then this one came up out of nowhere. The puppet looked at the two standing ANBU in the eyes, and their heads recoiled as if they had just been struck, before they collapsed to the ground unconscious.

The elderly man was alarmed and was about to act when the puppet looked at him directly in the eyes. "This one will not be hurt by anyone here." It said putting a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "He has suffered for 12 years at the hands of your people, Hiruzen Sarutobi."

The elder squinted in confusion as he stared at the new animatronic. He went over its words in his head, and as he looked at the fox animatronic standing beside it he quickly made the connection.

"Naruto...? Is that you?" Naruto didn't grace him with an answer. Instead he looked up at the puppet and got its attention by putting his clawed hand on its hand and nodded. The puppet understood and before Hiruzen's very eyes both Naruto and puppet became transparent.

As Naruto disappeared with the puppet he looked at Hiruzen directly in the eyes, and just as he was about to go away completely... "I'll be back, old man. One day." He promised.

Hiruzen stood there for what seemed like hours to him. Staring at the spot Naruto and the puppet was. Nothing else mattered. Even as another group of ninja entered the room he still stared at that exact spot. He didn't react as they escorted him out of the room and out the academy itself.

His brain had simply shut down with Naruto's words echoing repeatedly in his psyche.

I'll be back, old man. One day.