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The front doors to the academy slammed open. A man with white hair exiting the building as if the flames of hell was behind him. With a terrified look plastered on his face, Mizuki quickly closed the doors and then made his way back to his house just before the slaughtering inside the ninja academy could be heard. That message on the phone the demon brat left for him – his murderer - had greatly unnerved him.

And the metal, puppet, thing that attacked that idiot Iruka? Where on earth did it come from!? How did it get inside of the academy without the Hokage's knowing?

Getting to his house had taken Mizuki several minutes; chakra leaping across the rooftops had helped reduce the time he would have wasted getting there if he had walked or ran. It was the quickest way for him to get to his house in the lesser amount of time than civilians normally would. Once he was inside the building Mizuki hurriedly locked the door and began to pace back and forth inside his house.

The thing that attacked Iruka could learn everything about him and use what it had learnt to track him down. However, he knew it never looked at him. It had been focused on Iruka; he let out a bitter chuckle. That stupid idiot was good for something after all. And he didn't care much about the other brats either.

For the rest of the day Mizuki, despite his common sense telling him to inform the Third Hokage of a metal puppet attacking the students in the academy, had never left his apartment. He would lay low for the rest of the week and would not be discovered until the week was up. Being a witness and survivor of the academy attack, Mizuki was eventually found in his apartment and was taken to the Third Hokage by a small team of ANBU where he had undergone a mild interrogation to find out what had happened.

The story Mizuki told his interrogators was this: a metal puppet like thing was sitting on Naruto's seat. They heard the dead child leaving a message for them on a phone that was on the desk. When it activated on its own somehow, Mizuki and Iruka got the students out of the class room as calmly as they could. Only for the metal puppet to reduce the classroom door into splinters merely seconds after it had been closed.

Seeing Iruka get tackled by the metal puppet he panicked and ran. Leaving Iruka and the students to fend for themselves.

His reaction to the situation was understandable. But it was not acceptable. Because Mizuki had abandoned his students and left them to die, his Chunin status had been frozen, meaning he is unable to get promoted to a higher ranking in Konoha's military. His stipend had also been decreased. What was once a well-off payment of 37026.00 yen, Mizuki now has a stipend of 12342.00 yen; the equivalence of $100 in the United States. While he thought it was completely unfair that he was not able to get promoted and his stipend lowered, it was practically a slap on the wrist.

Unknowingly to anyone the night after the massacre, the recording that Naruto had left on the phone would become mysteriously corrupted. What was once a warning and foreshadowing leading to said massacre was now a scrambled mess of deep distorted voices, with the recording ending with static and four demonic sounded screeching.

However Hiruzen had managed to listen to Naruto's first pre-recorded message and managed to document it word for word just the day before it got corrupted.

X.X.X.X

One Year Later

The event that was dubbed 'The Academy Massacre' was at the back of everyone's minds. It wasn't forgotten, but, it was hardly mentioned or brought up as it had been considered taboo. Naruto's murderer was still at large but thanks to the massacre caused by a vengeful Naruto and his new animatronic friends, he was at the back of everyone's minds.

The Third Hokage however still remembered what Naruto said to him before he left with the puppet. That we would come back one way. And Hiruzen knew when he does it would not be for a talk between two people. These machines had technology in them that was too ahead of their time. Something information that was dangerous and something that any person would kill to get their hands on.

In Konohagakure a team of ninja was returning after a month long mission out of the Hidden Village. This is Team 7 under the command of Kakashi Hatake. The team consists of Sakura, Shino and a pale skinned boy named Sai. Despite what she had went through Sakura, surprisingly enough, had stayed on in the academy to be a ninja. Along with several others that survived. Apart from Sakura staying on, Shikamaru, Ino, Choji and Shino – despite him not being there at the time of the massacre – had all stayed on to become ninjas just as Sakura had. All of them now have a debilitating fear of animatronics, or anything robot like.

However there was a lesser amount of students graduating from the academy this time around; it's understandable considering many academy students had dropped out after the massacre, or were victims of said massacre. Ino, Choji and Shikamaru became Team 10, under Asuma Sarutobi the son of Hiruzen Sarutobi and a former member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja. Two teams overall had managed to become ninja. Less than what was expected thanks to that event that-shall-not-be-named which happened a year ago.

After a month of taking D-Rank missions – which were basically the equivalence of chores – Team 7 had finally gotten a C-Rank mission; to escort a carpenter by the name of Tazuna to the Land of Waves' while protecting him from bandits.

That mission quickly bumped up to an A-Rank when they were attacked by Missing-nin from Kirigakure. After giving Tazuna a mild interrogation, they learnt the Land of Waves was currently under oppression by a business man called Gato, of Gato Company who was bleeding the country dry of everything. The team despite the odds against them decided to continue on with the mission and not long after they had an encounter with Zabuza Momochi, a member of the infamous Seven Swordsman of the Mist, from the Bloody Mist. The encounter ended up with Kakashi collapsing from chakra exhaustion and now the man was bedridden inside the house of their employer.

After a week of training in preparation for Zabuza Team 7 had managed to pull off a victory that liberated Wave Country from Gato's rule, eliminated Gato himself with few casualties on their side. Zabuza was betrayed by his employer and was killed after the missing-nin had killed him.

Team 7 remained in Wave Country until the bridge had been fully constructed and made their way back to Konohagakure where Team 7 would eventually partake in a yearly event known as the Chunin Exams.

X.X.X.X

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza; it was once a chain of restaurants that once brought joy and happiness to children. However, with the infamous 'Missing Children's Incident' and the even more infamous 'Bite of 87', it became a shadow of its former self. This particular building it is where the Toy versions of Chica, Freddy, Bonnie and Foxy, including the Marionette and Balloon Boy had worked before they had gotten scrapped.

It was to their knowledge the biggest building in the Fazbear business. So it was the most logical place for them to be taking shelter. The only difference is the inside of the building itself is not in the Elemental Nations.

The easiest way to explain this phenomenon is to think of it as a place that is separated from the real world. Like Neverland for example. Only the restaurant was set-apart from the real world by a single door that is connected to an abandoned, and worn down building. It was the easiest and quickest way for the Marionette to connect the restaurant to the real world since the building was similar in size to the restaurant it had once inhabited.

The Marionette was the one who brought them both inside of the building. And it is the puppet that acts as a gatekeeper to the whole place; if you wanted to get inside of the restaurant without his permission then good luck trying. The first time he came to the restaurant it was abandoned; with only him and the puppet being the only ones there.

And then the Marionette summoned the others from...somewhere. Naruto didn't know where they had been called from but a lot of them had appeared almost immediately once they have been called. He was able to meet the Toy animatronic's consisting of Toy Bonnie, Toy Foxy/Mangle, Toy Chica and Toy Freddy, and their original counterpart who had the same name, only take away the Toy from it.

When the Marionette summoned them all to the Pizzeria, all 8 of them were excited to meet him; and for some reason Naruto thought when they saw him for the first time, they all looked as if they had seen a ghost. Almost as if they had seen him before. But that couldn't be right because he had never met any of them until the day he had been murdered. However he pushed those thoughts aside, since he felt they were unimportant. Still he couldn't help but faintly think the 8 of them knew him.

The Marionette told the 8 animatronic's that he (Naruto) had been killed and how the other humans, young and old had treated him since the former human could remember. Suffice to say all 8 of them were less than pleased when they heard that. And when they learnt Naruto wanted to get revenge on them they immediately wanted in on it.

The next day the event known as 'The Academy Massacre' happened.

On the same day Naruto came to the Pizzeria the human turned animatronic learnt there was 9 more of them. A Golden Freddy/Fredbear, a Golden/Spring Bonnie, and a Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie. There was another Toy animatronic he hadn't seen yet called Balloon Boy, and lastly there was the Nightmare versions of Freddy, Chica, Bonnie and Foxy.

He never seen the Golden Freddy or Bonnie, or Shadow Bonnie and Freddy, nor Balloon boy or the Nightmare animatronics though. He had seen pictures of the so called 'Nightmare' animatronic's near the office. And the name 'Nightmare' does them justice. They were scary. They were like a withered, twisted version of the original four that came out from the depths of someone's nightmares. They had claws, sharp dagger-like teeth – with 2 to 3 layers of said sharp teeth! – and gaping holes that showed the beams and the endoskeleton underneath, along with frickin' glowing robotic eyes.

Not to mention Nightmare Foxy had a frickin' metal tongue. A metal tongue dammit! And he was missing almost the entirety of the top of his snout. But he was disappointed he didn't get to meet the Nightmare animatronic's though. While scary looking, they did looked cool as well!

Spring Bonnie from what he was told by the Marionette, was pretty shy. Sensitive. And nervous. However once provoked Spring Bonnie would not hesitate to lash out at his provoker(s).

The marionette had been scouting out Konoha to see if anything new was happening. And when it had gotten word of a yearly event called the 'Chunin Exams' taking place in Naruto's birth place, it thought it was a piece of news the others should be made aware of.

The animatronics were at the Stage Area in the restaurant and were listening to the marionette as it told them what was happening on the outside.

"'Chunin exams'?" Naruto said with an interested tone. He crossed his arms as he thought to himself. "Seems pretty important. Have you heard anything interesting about it?" He asked the puppet since it was the only one that had gotten the information in the first place.

"Only that it is a yearly event. And that it occurs twice a year." The puppet replied. "This time it is taking place in your birth place, Naruto. A lot of people are going to be travelling there to partake in it."

Naruto rubbed the bottom of his snout with a look of interest as he took in that information. "Really now?..." The others were looking at the fox animatronic with curious looks.

"What are ye thinking?" Foxy asked with squinted eyes.

Naruto glanced at Foxy from the corner of his eyes. He didn't answer the animatronic pirate's question and instead he looked toward' the floor.

Mangle looked at her friend, her eyes squinting with suspicion. "Are you thinking of going back to that place?"

While she may love kids she didn't like how they had treated her friend from five up until his death She liked the people living in Konohagakure even less, since almost the entire populace had treated Naruto in some negative fashion from ignoring him to physically hitting him. And those who were neutral toward' him didn't bother to lend him a helping hand when he needed it most.

It didn't help that Marionette had learnt the elderly man Naruto had considered to be his adoptive grandfather, was the one who caused it all the day he was born. Revealing to the populace that he was something called a 'Jinchuuriki'. They didn't know what that word meant, considering they haven't been in the Elemental Nations for long – almost half a decade now – but what they did know, it wasn't good from how the former human had been treated by many of the adults. While the Hokage had good intentions in mind, it had blown up in his face. And he had unintentionally damned Naruto with loneliness and alienation.

"I am. If this is a major event that happens twice a year then I want to know what it is about."

"And what about your tormentors? You're going to be going after them too right?" Toy Bonnie asked.

"I don't know." Honestly Naruto felt a little conflicted about that idea. He is angry, yes, but not as much anymore. Thanks to his friends he had calmed down a lot. "But what I do know is that I am not going after the new generation."

"Really? I never thought you'd show mercy." Said Freddy as he crossed his arms, with his toy counterpart nodding in agreement with him.

"They're innocent in all this. They are just children who don't know any better." Naruto pointed out to them as clarification. "However the current generation; people who were at or close to my age at the time I died; they were the ones who had bullied and tormented me. They are the ones I am after."

"Indeed." Agreed the puppet. "The new generation is innocent in all this. They shall be left out of it."

"Thank goodness." Said Toy Chica in obvious relief. "It wouldn't have felt right if we were going after the children."

"What about the ones we killed a year ago?" Bonnie asked her.

Toy Chica merely closed her eyes and with a raised forefinger said in a lecturing tone. "That was different. They were being trained to become killers and once they graduate they would be classed as adults."

"So was I." Naruto dryly pointed out.

"Yes, but you're different." Toy Chica evenly replied as she opened her eyes to look at Naruto. "You died before that happened. Not to mention those brats were bad mouthing you and a lot of them didn't seem to care that you died." She added with a hint of bitterness.

"Toy Chica is right." The puppet said. While it was smiling you could hear the frown in its voice. "The...ninjas in training were bad mouthing you and many of them did not seem to care that you had passed on. Many of them seemed to be happy in fact. The pink haired one in particular was happy that you were no longer among the living."

Naruto narrowed his eyes dangerously at that. Sakura Haruno. While he did have a crush on her when he was alive, she did hit him whenever he asked her out or when he did the littlest of things. Right now he had a major dislike toward the girl.

"The Chunin exams..." Naruto began looking at the puppet with his expression unchanging. "Do you know when it'll begin?"

"A week from now. This event has ninjas coming from different legions to your birth place in order to take part. The ninjas are going to be vigilant with so many foreign people coming in." The puppet said, before it added; "And also: the man with white hair that was seen walking away after burning your apartment? There's a man with white hair that is going to be one of the people that is partaking in the event."

"Are you sure?"

The puppet nodded in confirmation. "Definitely; a man with white hair wearing a bandanna forehead protector. Sound familiar?"

"Yeah." Naruto confirmed with a snarl. "There is only one person I know that had white hair and wears a bandanna forehead protector." His sclera turned back to white, and the small white dots went back to their normal blue irises as he calmed himself down. "We both saw him walk into the classroom with Iruka."

"Your murderer?" Freddy asked looking serious.

Naruto nodded as he turned to Freddy returning the expression with one of his own. "Yeah. My murderer" If he had any thoughts of not going back to Konoha they were gone now. If his murderer is going to be one of the people partaking in this event, then there is no way in HELL he is going to skip out on this.

"Do you know when this event will officially begin?" Naruto asked Marionette, with the other animatronic's looking at it expectantly.

"If what I have learnt is right it will begin a week from now. There are still 'ninja' from other places coming. So they have some time to prepare." Replied the puppet, air quoting when it said 'ninja'. "That gives us all plenty of time to scope out the area and see what we're dealing with."

"We'll have to do it without bringing attention to us though." Toy Chica pointed out to them. "We did kill a bunch of pre-teens who were training to become killers a year ago. If we are seen we'll cause a panic."

"That is easily solved." The others looked at Marionette as it spoke. "I can turn you intangible and invisible. We'll essentially become ghosts. No one will know we're there."

"That's perfect." Said Naruto with a smile. Suddenly an idea came to him, the former human turned to the Marionette and asked, "Marionette, it is possible for you to be able to turn me back into a human?"

At that question everyone looked at Naruto with inquiring looks. The Marionette though curiously stared at the fox animatronic.

"I don't really know." Marionette admitted honestly. It rubbed under the chin of its white mask in thought. "Giving life is something I know how to do. Turning an animatronic back to a human however?... It's something I have never attempted before." The puppet began to float back and forth as if it were pacing.

It (Marionette) had never done something of this magnitude before. It never saw the point. But the mere idea of reverting an animatronic back to a human? The thought never came to its mind. However Naruto's skeletal remains was no longer inside of his fox suit and cleaning off the blood from the suit and removing all the decomposition inside of said suit without short circuiting him was very difficult to do.

But they did it.

But back to the point; turning an animatronic back to a human was something it had never done before. Mainly because the children that were killed and it (Marionette) gave the deceased children new life by putting their bodies into the animatronic suits. It didn't see the need to try and turn the children back.

As far as it knew, it simply wasn't possible. But are there are other ways...?

After nearly a minute of thinking to itself the marionette, stopped mid-pace and turned to look at Naruto who was patently waiting. Letting out a metallic garble, the animatronic equivalence of a sigh, the Marionette held out its hand to Naruto and said, "Let us see if I'm able to turn you to a human?"

Naruto grabbed the Marionette's hand and waited. And a moment later Naruto noticed the changes. The Marionette released his hand and floated back as Naruto looked over himself with astonishment. Looking at the others the Marionette noted with humour the other animatronic's were staring at Naruto with their mouths wide open.

Naruto if he were still alive looked like a 13 year old boy. He was wearing black trousers with an elastic waistband with a matching coloured shirt. His foot attire, Naruto noticed, was not like the sandals he usually wore. His toes were completely covered and there was another layer of clothing over his feet.

"Surprised to see your human self again?" Naruto nodded not taking his eyes off of his now human body.

"Is he human?" Bonnie asked as the lavender animatronic bunny softly poked Naruto's cheek. Naruto looked at Bonnie from the corner of his eye, frowning questioningly at him as the robot kept poking him. "Because he looks human!"

Naruto looked at his opposite side when he felt someone firmly grab his arm. It was Foxy and to his amusement the pirate animatronic was examining his arm. He saw Foxy gently squeeze his arm with squinted eyes. "The lad even feels squishy!"

Naruto frowned when he noticed something off. He didn't feel anything even as Foxy and Bonnie poked and squeezed him. Then he remembered he didn't feel anything when he was an animatronic. He had feelings personality wise, such as joy and anger; but he couldn't 'feel' things such as pain or discomfort. He couldn't feel when he touched objects either.

"I don't feel the pressure when Foxy is squeezing me. Nor do I feel the tapping or the poking from Bonnie." Said Naruto in realization he looked at the Marionette and asked, "I'm still not human am I?"

The Marionette didn't say anything for a minute. "No. You're not." It admitted. "It is impossible to turn you back to a human. However, I tried seeing if I could alter your appearance and make it seem as if you had appeared human. Suffice to say, it worked."

Naruto nodded at the explanation. So he was transformed to look like he did when he was still alive, only a year older? And with Bonnie and Foxy touching him it was not an illusion but a fully fledged transformation! He wondered if he could turn back into his previous appearance?

To his and everyone else surprise he did turn back to his previous appearance. With no warning what so ever. "Whoa!" Exclaimed Naruto as Bonnie and Foxy stopped what they were doing when he turned back to an animatronic. He then switched back to being human again. "Okay this-" He switched back to his animatronic self. "is pretty-" Back to a human. "darn cool." Back to an animatronic. "I can switch between a human and an animatronic!"

"That is cool. I wish I could do that!" Toy Bonnie said, his tone exciting at the beginning of his sentence before it became whiny toward the end.

"Hey! You're pretty cool the way you are." Toy Bonnie beamed at the compliment. Naruto then turned to the Marionette. "Before we go outside, can we check if the others want to join us?"

Nodding in agreement the 10 animatronic's as a group left the Stage area of the restaurant to find the other 9 and see if they wanted to join them in their venture outside of the Pizzeria.

X.X.X.X

Konohagakure no Sato was bustling with activity. For an entire week many foreign ninjas from different parts of the continent were arriving to the Hidden Village to partake in the upcoming Chunin Exams. Because of these new arrivals many Jonin and the ANBU were on high alert for any potential trouble makers. Because this was a major event, there was a very high chance that an international incident would occur.

It was toward' the end of the week that something unexpected had happened; two teams from the Land of Lightning had arrived to partake in the Chunin exams. And their very presence had caused a lot of tension. A lot of people in the Hyuga clan were apprehensive toward them since they had tried to kidnap Hinata when she was still alive.

Nevertheless it was an... interesting week for Konoha. And with 19 newcomers about to arrive in the Hidden Leaf Village things were about to become even more interesting for the Hidden Leaf. And not in a good way.

X.X.X.X

Hiruzen stared down at the Hidden Leaf Village from his office with tired eyes. With the Chunin Exams on the way, his ninja has to be vigilant. With Konoha losing their only Jinchuuriki, and the Nine Tails Attack 13 years ago, they would be at their most vulnerable. The Third Hokage recalled all teams outside of Konoha. With the Chunin Exams being hosted in Konohagakure for the first time in years, it needed every able bodied ninja it could get.

He was lucky that his one of his three students came back to Konoha a year ago. However, it wasn't for a chat between student and mentor. Jiraiya The Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku and the only student who had kept himself in contact with his teacher, is the leader of a spy network with information brokers in key locations in the Elemental Nations. He returned to Konohagakure a year ago once he got word from one of his info brokers in the Land of Fire that Konoha's only Jinchuuriki – his godson – had been murdered, followed by the academy being attacked with several students and Chunin dying at the hands of 'mechanical animals' the next day.

To say he wasn't happy was an understatement. He was downright livid by the time he returned. And after he came back he stayed for several months in an attempt to try and find any leads on who had murdered his godson. However the murderer had covered his tracks fairly well. Apart from having white hair no one had gotten a good look at his face, and there was a lot of people in Konohagakure that had white hair.

"Hey, old man." Hiruzen smiled faintly at hearing the voice from one of his remaining two loyal students entering the room.

"Jiraiya. Have you found anything of interest?" The elder asked as he turned to look at his student, only to sigh in exasperation when he found him entering the room from the unlikeliest of places: the side window.

Jiraiya is a man with waist-length spiky white hair that was tied back in a ponytail. His attire consists of a short green kimono and matching trousers, with mesh armour underneath that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his clothes. He wore a pair of white hand guards, a black belt, a pair of wooden sandals and a red haori with yellow circles on both sides and carried a scroll on his back.

"Nothing yet." The white haired man replied before he dropped into the room with a grunt. Jiraiya leaned against the wall and crossed his arms. "Orochimaru is underground somewhere in the Land of Grass, rumour is there's a new Hidden Village there with Orochimaru himself being the head of it. And Naruto's murder case has officially become cold. The murderer has covered his tracks well and apart from the description of him having white hair – no one knows what the man looks like."

Hiruzen nodded absent-mindedly as he took in the detail of the report. It was truly a shame that the recording on the phone had become corrupted. It would have been a crucial piece of evidence in finding out who Naruto's murderer was. Despite knowing the hair colour of Naruto's killer, there were too many people who had it and a lot of people disliked – some even downright hated him – the boy because he was the Jinchuuriki of the Nine Tailed Fox.

The elder man get out a tired sigh and went to sit in his chair. "Very well." He looked up at his student and asked, "Do you have anything else to report?" As Jiraiya began to inform his mentor, and leader of any information or leads he had uncovered, neither of them noticed the Golden Freddy animatronic that was slumped in the corner of the room.

Golden Freddy's appearance is in a decrepit state. His suit has dirt patches, with his arms and legs being a darker yellow than any other place; he is also missing an entire left ear, has small holes and tears in the suit that partially expose the metal underneath. His top hat was slanted slightly on top of his head. And like Freddy and Bonnie he too wore a bow tie, only it was a dark blue colour. And clutched in his left hand is a dusty microphone. The Golden Freddy animatronic did not have any eyes; instead there was pin-pricked white irises coming from the endoskeleton. And they were watching the Third Hokage and his student discussing the latest events and the upcoming Chunin exams.

X.X.X.X

Meanwhile a dark clothed boy stood in front of a building complex. His eyes were roaming over it with a look of dislike. Despite the people walking around him none of them seemed to take notice of his presence as if they didn't know he was there.

Beside the boy was a badly damaged animatronic that looked like a dirty yellow version of Bonnie. A great portion of his right ear is missing and has wires sticking out of the stump that is left behind. The yellow bunny animatronic's body is so badly torn and tattered, there are large gaping holes that expose caging and wires throughout the suit, making him look alarmingly grisly looking. His arms and feet are attached and mainly intact, but his legs are entirely stripped from the mid-shin down, fully exposing the endoskeleton metal and wiring that would normally be covered up. He is also missing the half of his middle finger on his right hand. Also the bunny animatronic has a permanent wide grin on his face as the material surrounding his teeth had deteriorated.

This is Spring Bonnie. One of the first animatronic's to have been made.

Having a currently falling apart animatronic standing beside a pre-teen would have drawn eyes to them. However no one took notice of the animatronic because he was the same as the boy standing beside him. No one knew they were there.

"S-s-s-s-so this is the p-p-p-p-place where you l-l-l-l-lived Nar-r-r-r-ruto?" Spring Bonnie asked the boy beside him. Thanks to his damaged voice box, Spring Bonnie's speech would glitch out whenever he tried to speak.

Naruto nodded in confirmation as he looked over the building with disdain and agitation. "Yeah. This is the place." He said with a light scowl. He turned to Spring Bonnie. "This spot is bringing up bad memories. Let's go and find the others."

Spring Bonnie slowly nodded; he could see Naruto was getting rather tense being back at the scene of his murder. "O-o-o-okay. Lead-d-d-d-d the way." He said motioning Naruto to lead the way. Naruto gave Spring Bonnie a thankful smile and took his hand before gently leading him away from the building. Spring Bonnie limped along as he was gently pulled by Naruto. The two of them suddenly looked up toward one of the rooftops, stopped and waved at several figures before they continued on.

At the rooftop Naruto waved at stood the Marionette and four animatronic's that looked as if they came out from someone's nightmare. The five of them were looking down at Naruto and Springtrap. And when the two of them stopped, looked up at them and waved, the five animatronic's waved back and watched as the two continued on.

"I don't understand how anyone could hate that sweet boy." Nightmare Chica said. She could not understand why anyone would treat Naruto the way they have. It didn't make sense to her.

When they first met Naruto for the first time' they were tense and were expecting him to be afraid of the mere sight of them and run away. However they were taken by surprise when Naruto gushed at how cool they looked. They were even more surprised when they saw him turn into a 7ft tall fox animatronic, similar to Foxy the Pirate in appearance but with notable differences. Such as the burnt orange fur, the metal nails on his hands and feet to give it the appearance of claws and light red linen pants.

Suffice to say when Naruto showed them he was an animatronic too and wasn't afraid of them because of their appearance, they warmed up to the boy. And when the puppet appeared beside Naruto and told them he was once a human child that had been murdered and bullied and mentally abused by his pears for as long as he could remember – which to Naruto was a very, very long time - they were understandably and justifiably angry. So when they were told Naruto wanted to get revenge on his murderer and the several people who had bullied, mentally and emotionally tortured him, they jumped at the chance.

They did not like child murderers or child abusers. Period. The same goes for Spring Bonnie who had wanted to join the second he had learnt of what happened to Naruto when he was alive. It reminded him too much of what had happened to several children, years and years ago when he was a decommissioned spring-lock suit.

Nightmare Freddy along with the miniature versions of himself sticking out of the gaping holes in his torso nodded in agreement. "I know. This place looks so peaceful. It's hard to believe that this is the same place that mentally tortured the boy. And his murderer is still alive?" He asked with his red robotic eye narrowing.

The Marionette nodded and looked at the Nightmare animatronic's from its shoulder. "Yes. And his murderer is one of the people partaking in the event taking place here."

Nightmare Foxy nodded in thought. "I see." He hissed thoughtfully, his tongue slithering out of his maw before pulling it back in. "So what be t' plan?" He asked glaring down at the civilians with his only uncovered eye.

The Marionette teleported itself and the Nightmare animatronic's to the ground. "We follow the boy and Springtrap." Said the Puppet while gesturing for the Nightmare animatronic's to follow it. Floating after Naruto and Springtrap at a respectable distance, the Marionette heard several sounds of metal meeting hard ground. "Despite his calm appearance Naruto is angry, and still wants revenge on his tormentors."

"Given the way they've been treating him for 12 years it's not surprising he wants revenge." N. Chica blandly stated.

"Hey!" The five animatronic's looked ahead of them in surprise. Both Naruto and Springtrap were standing in the middle of the path, looking at them with looks of amusement and exasperation. Amusement on Springtraps face? And exasperation on Naruto. The human-turned-animatronic-turned-human, turned to face the five completely when they stopped and crossed his arms. A small smile pulled at his lips as he shook his head from side to side. "If you wanted to follow us you could have just said. The more the merrier!"

Spring Bonnie slowly nodded in agreement, his joints in his neck groaned and squeaked at the movement. Naruto winced at the sound and looked at the damaged animatronic with concern.

"That does not sound good." Naruto said as the Puppet and the Nightmare animatronic's joined them. "How long have you been like that for?" He questioningly asked.

Spring Bonnie slowly brought his hand to rub his chin. "I c-c-c-c-cannot remember." He squinted his eyes as he tried to recall his past. "I think i-i-i-it has been over... 3-3-3-30 years? Maybe mor-r-r-r-re." He eventually said before looking at Naruto apologetically. "My mem-o-o-o-ory banks is-s-s-s not as go-o-o-o-od as they use-e-e-e-e to be."

Naruto patted Spring Bonnie on the arm reassuringly. "Don't worry about it Spring. It's alright." Everyone stopped when Naruto stopped and looked at the puppet with curiosity. "Marionette, isn't there anything you can do? Like take away some of the rust so it won't strain Spring's joints?" He asked, turning to look at the Puppet in question.

The Marionette looked at the falling apart rabbit. "I can try." It said before it floated over to Springtrap and touched his shoulder. In the gaping holes Naruto along with the Nightmare animatronic's were able to see the rust on the caging and wires was taken away. When the Marionette was done it pulled away its hand and floated back.

"How do you feel?" Naruto asked, looking Spring Bonnie over. There was no rust what so ever. Sure the endoskeleton underneath the tattered suit was exposed...but at least there was no more rust!

Spring Bonnie moved his limbs and to his joy there was no metallic groaning nor was there any metallic squeaking. "I can move my limbs just fine!" Said Spring Bonnie happily, before he put his hand around his voice box in shocked surprise. His voice box didn't glitch on him!

"I also repaired your voice box. That way you'll be able to speak normally." Said the Marionette.

"Thank you." Spring Bonnie thanked the puppet with happiness. "I can now speak without my voice box glitching on me!"

Naruto smiled at how happy Spring Bonnie was. "Let's go back to wandering, shall we?" He said; the 6 animatronic's all nodded in agreement, and followed the 13 year old boy through the streets of Konoha.

X.X.X.X

Meanwhile with the Third Hokage and Jiraiya.

The Toad Sage was sitting in the chair opposite of his mentor. His face was a mask of seriousness as he read the reports from the survivors a year ago that detailed the events of that day, to the description of the robotic attackers, to the pre-recorded message left on the mysterious phone by a dead boy of all people.

Jiraiya had heard of the academy massacre but he never knew of the details behind the event as he never looked into it. This is the first time he has gotten information.

"So the survivors claim there was more than one of these 'robotic metal puppets' that caused the academy massacre?" He looked up at his mentor, who nodded confirmedly prompting Jiraiya to frown a little. "How many of them were there?"

The Third Hokage stroked his goatee. "From what the survivors said? There was nine of them. Two bears, two rabbits, two chickens and three foxes to be specific. All of them looked similar to one another but with differences."

Jiraiya nodded as he continued where he left off in the written document; showing he was following along and that he was still listening. There was a very detailed description of these metallic animals.

Out of the three foxes, two of them were at least similar to one another in looks. The first had reddish brown fur, sharp dagger like teeth, a hook for one hand, an eye patch and wore brown linen pants. The thing gave Jiraiya an odd image of a pirate for some reason.

The second one had burnt orange fur, wore light red linen pants, and has metal nails on its hands and feet. And the thing had sharp teeth jutting out from the top of its maw. However, unlike the first fox puppet – as Jiraiya had started to call them – the second one didn't have a hook, nor an eye-patch covering one eye.

The third one was the only 'female' out of the foxes. Unlike the previous ones in the report this one didn't wear anything, except for a bow tie around its neck. The 'female' fox puppet had a white and pink colour scheme with the top of her snout, nail and her belly being pink while the rest was white. And she had blushed cheeks and lipstick?

Jiraiya scrunched his face at the admittingly humorous image of a fox like puppet wearing lipstick he conjured in his head.

The chickens were similar yet different to one another as well. Both of them were yellow and held a pink cupcake in one hand and wore a bib that seemed to be attached to them. However that was where they could see the differences. The first one was taller and more round around her ovular, as well as having a spherical shaped head and an orange beak, but she was slim enough that she had noticeable curves on her metallic body.

The second chicken was more slim in her appearance, complete with blushed cheeks like the female fox animatronic. However she wore a pink garment on her lower body. Unlike the first one however, the second chicken was seen without her eyes and her beak. Giving her a creepy look.

Then there was the rabbits. The first one has lavender coloured fur and has long jointed ears. Its body is wide and bulky, and is round around his torso, and wears a red bow tie.

The other rabbit was a lot different in appearance. It had blushed cheeks like the chicken and fox, and unlike the first rabbit puppet, it was coloured a bright shiny blue with the belly and the inside of its ears a pale blue. It also had long eyelashes as well as eyebrows.

And finally there was the bears; the first one had the same body appearance of the first rabbit. Only the fur was brown with the bow tie being black instead of red. The head and right hand was the only things that were different, as it held a microphone in said right hand and had the head of a bear with a top hat on top of it.

The second bear had blushed cheeks and was the same colour, with a lighter brown colouring on its belly, snout and its inner ears. The second bear puppet from the description in the written document states the second bear is flatter, wider and more round-shaped than the first bear puppet. And like the first bear puppet, it too wore a top hat and held a microphone in its right hand.

He turned a page and took note of the message left to them from his deceased godson, just before the fox animatronic inside of the deceased Iruka's class started the massacre. What he read made his frown deepen.

"Hello there... If you're hearing this pre-recorded message then that means I'm dead. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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!

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. ...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."

Jiraiya frowned even more as he rubbed his chin as if he were stroking a goatee. So Naruto knew who his murderer was. And was more than likely to be someone in the academy? And these animatronic's as they were called, had unhindered access to highly sensitive information about you, from just a glance? This is a major security breach. Knowing everything about who you are and what you've done with just a look? It's a dangerous weapon in a world where shinobi rule supreme.

Anyone who had gotten their hands on these animatronic's would have the informational advantage against their competitors.

"And no one outside of the academy knew the students and Chunin were being attacked under their very noses?" Jiraiya asked his mentor with scepticism and confusion as he lowered the documentation on the desk in front of him. He couldn't see how these things could have managed to kill that many children and promising ninja and kunoichi, with no one on the outside hearing a word.

Hiruzen negatively shook his head. "There were multiple sound restriction seals in strategic locations throughout the academy." The elder explained to his student. "They were close enough to support one another, but distant enough to spread through the building and keep any sound from escaping and alerting the authorities."

"And with no one on the outside being able to hear anything, they had free reign to slaughter as many people as they could." Jiraiya took the dossier and reread Naruto's message. He grunted thoughtfully as he came to realise something.

The old man arched a single brow at the thoughtful sound coming from his student and asked, "Have you found something?"

"Yeah." Jiraiya slowly said, taking his eyes off of the written document to look at his mentor directly opposite him. "Have you checked out anyone in the ninja academy? Because Naruto said his murderer was someone from there."

"We have. We checked Mizuki, one of the teachers of Naruto's class. One who has white hair." Jiraiya leaned forward on his chair with a look of interest.

"And?"

"We had a Yamanaka search through his memories on the day of Naruto's murder at the end of his interrogation to see if he had anything to do with it. He has not committed the deed."

Unbeknownst to either of them Mizuki had made an earth Shadow Clone. And that clone was the one that had skilfully, and stealthily stalked Naruto for weeks before finally killing him in his own apartment. Mizuki was fortunate enough that his clone had the foresight to change its appearance when it was stalking the brat, and to wear a cloak to conceal itself from other people when it retreated from Naruto's burning apartment.

Because the Yamanaka that searched through Mizuki mind did not go further back in his memories the white haired man was not linked to the incident. If he did then Mizuki would've been found out and then sentenced to death for the murder of their most valuable military asset.

"So his murderer is still walking free." It wasn't a question it was a statement.

Hiruzen nodded confirmedly with a grim expression of his wrinkled face. Sighing Jiraiya closed the dossier and tossed in on the desk in front of him. Neither of them liked the fact Naruto's murderer had walked free for an entire year and the fact that his murder has officially gone cold didn't sit well with them either.

Jiraiya scowled in distaste "So we got a murderer on the loose. Several 'animatronic's' who are capable of finding delicate information on individuals with just a look, that mysteriously vanished after they committed the academy massacre. And with foreign ninjas from all over the Elemental Nations, allied or neutral coming over to our Hidden Village to partake in the Chunin Exams you have your hands full." The Toad Sage looked at his mentor with a dry look and in a tone matching his face he said, "I do not envy you old man."

The elder groaned exasperatingly as he leaned on his desk by his elbows; his hands threading through his hair. His student really had no idea what he was going through right now. From writing letters of condolence to those related to the deceased, to making sure word doesn't get out to their rivals about the death of their only Jinchuuriki. To making sure his former friend and team mate Danzo doesn't do anything foolish such as kidnapping another Jinchuuriki and recondition (read: brainwash) them to their cause.

He really didn't any more trouble coming their way in the nearby future. And making more enemies than Konoha can handle is not on his bucket list of things to do before he dies.

Hiruzen reached under his desk and Jiraiya hummed questioningly when he felt a seal activate in the office. Seeing the serious look on his mentor's face the Toad Sage donned one as well. A silencing seal to be exact. Whatever was going to be said in the room, would stay in the room.

Pushing back away from the desk table Hiruzen looked at the ceiling. "Leave us." The elder man called out.

Jiraiya felt several presences – the Hokage's ANBU guard most likely – appear in the room before they left the office. Leaving him, his mentor and unknown to either of them Golden Freddy in the room. "What's the matter old man?" He asked once he felt the ninja leave the area.

Hiruzen didn't speak for a minute as he wondered how he should tell him. "There was no nine 'animatronic's' Jiraiya." He decided to be blunt to his student after a full 20 seconds had gone past.

Jiraiya's eyes grew wide in shocked astonishment upon hearing that admittance. "There was a tenth one!?" He asked in exclamation. "Why didn't you put it in the report?" He questioned in shock when the Third Hokage nodded confirmedly.

"Call it an old man's intuition." The wrinkled man replied evasively. "It didn't look anything like the others were described however. It was a human sized puppet."

"A puppet?" Jiraiya blinked. He was expecting another animal based animatronic not a puppet. "What did it look like? Was it anything like the puppets from Suna?"

"No this was not anything like those from Suna. It looked more 'child friendly." The wrinkled man paused for a moment in order to collect his thoughts.

Once he had gathered himself he began to describe to his student what the puppet looked like. No detail was left out. Jiraiya took out the notebook he would use to write down ideas for his Icha Icha books from his pouch strapped to his waist and used to take notes of the puppet's description. A white mask with blank hollow eyes. Rosy red cheeks. Purple stripes that stretched from the bottom of its eyes to the top of its mouth. Red lipstick painted on both the top and bottom of its lips. Three white buttons on its long and thin torso, and, rounded hands with three thin fingers. And on its wrists and ankles were white stripes.

Unseen to either of the two Golden Freddy was looking at the old and wrinkled man from the corner he was slumped up against; impressed at the man's rather accurate description of the Marionette.

"It didn't do anything?" Jiraiya questioned once he had written down the description of the tenth animatronic.

Hiruzen nodded in confirmation. "It didn't do anything. It just appeared." He let out another sigh and slumped up against the desk as he added, "It was sentient. It could think for itself and it could speak." The elder sighed and rubbed his thumb and forefinger at the corner of his eyes. "And when it spoke, it talked of how it knows of how the people here had treated Naruto, Jiraiya. I know for a fact that the people who had died on that day were ones who have either mistreated Naruto in some way or another, or they were people who have never had tried to befriend him."

He conveniently left out that Naruto – the fox animatronic with burnt orange fur – had spoken to him as well and is one of the culprits that had committed the Academy Massacre. Given how Jiraiya was for the past year he didn't think his last loyal student – Tsunade didn't count as she has not returned to Konoha for years – would be able to handle the knowledge of Naruto being one of the offenders. He was afraid he would simply...break!

Jiraiya, while sceptical, was not surprised to hear that this tenth animatronic was sentient, could think for itself and is able speak. In the written report the survivors did say – in their own words – that the metal animals could speak, were completely sentient, and they could think for themselves. Heck these things put Suna's puppets to shame!

"So these things were around purely for revenge? That doesn't make sense!"

"It does if Naruto had managed to befriend them all without our knowing. And when he died in that burning apartment..." The Third Hokage trailed off. For all he knew that could have been the truth. He couldn't watch Naruto all day, every day. The only explanation he could think of that would have made the most sense was the boy had befriended those things during one of the days he wasn't watching him.

"The puppet could've gone to Naruto's and found him dying in the burning building and informed the others. They may have wanted to take revenge and targeted those who had a hand in Naruto's mistreatment. What better way to get back at them than to target their own children in a place they should've been safe?" Jiraiya stated with a thoughtful look.

"You understand why I didn't include the puppet in the report?" Jiraiya did have an idea as to why his mentor decided to not give out the description of the tenth animatronic. The most logical one that came to mind was everyone panicking and demanding answers. Answers that he did not have.

"I have an idea." Was Jiraiya's response before he decided to redirect their conversation away from the animatronic's to the Chunin Exams. "Anyway, the Chunin Exams, how many teams from Konohagakure is taking part in it?"

The Third Hokage was glad for the change of topic. "Team Guy lead by Might Guy. Team 7 lead by Kakashi Hatake, and Team 10 lead by my son Asuma."

Jiraiya's brows arched up in surprise. "3 teams this time? That's a lot less than I thought!" He exclaimed in astonishment.

Hiruzen gave Jiraiya a dry look. "A lot of promising ninja were killed last year. And even more dropped out not long after the aftermath. It should not come as that much of a surprise to you that we have less active genin teams this year around given what has happened." He pointed out laconically.

"Seeing as foreign ninja are arriving with each passing day, what measures are you taking to make sure we're not going to get another Kumo incident?"

Seeing as they were now speaking of a different topic Golden Freddy felt he had gotten enough information and that it was time to leave. With Jiraiya and Hiruzen none the wiser the gold coloured bear animatronic teleported out of the room.

X.X.X.X

As they walked in the market district Naruto, Marionette and N. Freddy, N. Foxy, N. Bonnie and N. Chica found Mangle and Foxy standing in the middle of the path with their backs to them. It was clear the two of them were observing the people going about their day to day business.

"Hi Mangle. Hi Foxy." Naruto greeted the two fox animatronic's.

Startled both Mangle and Foxy swiftly turned around, and visibly relaxed when they saw Naruto, Marionette and the Nightmare animatronic's walking up to them.

"Hi Naruto." Greeted the female animatronic with a wave and a smile.

"'Ello, matie's." Foxy greeted the others with a friendly wave and a toothy smile. The 6 animatronic's waved back to them with a smile of their own. Except for the Marionette whose mask is always smiling. On the other hand the Nightmare animatronic's smiles made them look even more frightening because of their 3 layers of dagger-like sharp teeth glinting in the sunlight. It didn't help they all had gaping holes in their suits, large claw on their hands and feet and terminator like eyes. If they were visible, everyone would have ran away screaming out of fear or terror at the mere sight of them.

Naruto however thought their smiles made them look even more badass and frighteningly cool. So he wasn't as unnerved as he should have been. Then again him being an animatronic instead of a human may have had something to do with that.

"So what're you two up to?" Naruto curiously asked as he and the others came to a stop beside them.

"We're just watchin' 'an observin'." Foxy answered as he turned his gaze back in front of him.

"Really? You two see anything particularly interesting?"

Mangle turned to look ahead of her as she said, "Nothing that warrants your attention." She frowned thoughtfully when something came up in her memory banks. "However there has been an increase of visitors lately. I counted three groups of people with different emblems on their headbands walking around in the past hour."

"Aye, now that ye' mention it, a lot of 'em people seem to be on guard." Foxy said in remembrance. "Though one team of sibling's has everyone stayin' away from 'em. Wonder why that is?"

Naruto merely let out a knowing sound and said in a hypothetical tone, "Those must be foreign ninja that are here to partake in the Chunin Exams. Seeing as they're in possible hostile territory it isn't all that hard to assume they're nervous or worried. As for that particular team you've mentioned; maybe they're famous or something?"

Foxy however disagreed. "No it ain't be because of that. One of 'em looks as if he ain't been sleepin' for a long, long time."

"What did he look like?" Marionette asked.

"The lad 'as a scar on the left side of 'is forehead and 'as no eyebrows. As for what he wore..." The pirate themed animatronic paused as he searched his memory banks on what the boy wore. "The clothes 'he wore are a black body suit with short sleeves, trousers that reached down to his shins and 'ad 'an open neck. He 'as a wide leather band over his left shoulder and right side of his hips, an' with it he carried around a large gourd. He feels... Off too. Even the people with him were afraid of the laddie."

"Off how?"

"He 'had the look of a deranged killer." Foxy looked the Marionette directly in the eyes. "He had eyes like 'him'."

Marionette and the other animatronic's were shocked. They knew who Foxy was referring to. It brought up bad and painful memories from their past they had tried to forget. Memories of the man in purple... After all these decades, centuries, however long it had been for them... They could never forget his eyes. And this boy had eyes like that man?

Naruto however was looking between Foxy, Spring Bonnie, Marionette and the Nightmare animatronics with a confused look. He didn't know who Foxy was referring to when he said 'him'. Was it someone they knew who wronged them?

Foxy growled lowly as he bared his teeth. "If I had to guess, the laddie enjoys killin'. And from the looks of it he wouldn't hesitate to kill 'is own family if he could."

"I see." From the pin-pricked irises in its black hollow eyes the Marionette was deathly serious. This was a side Naruto had not seem from the puppet and it honestly surprised him. "It seems we all have have someone to watch out for. Do the others' know of this?"

"Aye. Before we split up we saw the laddie' and how those with the same symbol on their headbands were cautious or outright afraid of 'em."

"What did the ones with this boy look like?"

"One was a lass an' the other was a laddie. Both of 'em seemed to be in their early to mid teens, I'd wager' they would be around 14 – 15 years old. The younger laddie I'd wager would be somewhere near your age." Naruto nodded thoughtfully as Foxy paused to search through his memory banks on the description of the boy and girl. Once he got them from his memory banks he continued where he left off, "The lass has 'er blonde hair tied up in four ponytails and the laddie was in an' black baggy suit. He wore a black hood that 'ad cat-like ears and wore somethin' like make-up or paint on 'is face."

"A girl with blonde hair tied up in four ponytails. A boy in a black baggy suit, wears a hood with cat ears and has make-up or paint on his face." Naruto reiterated what Foxy said. Then he shrugged and said dismissively, "They should be easy enough to find if we wanted to find them."

"So where are you six going to any way?" Mangle curiously asked as she turned to look behind from halfway over her shoulder.

"Naruto and I were going to look for you and the others." Spring Bonnie was the one who answered. Mangle and Foxy who weren't there when Marionette fixed his voice box and took away the rust on his endoskeleton, they were surprised to hear Spring Bonnie's voice box did not glitch on him when he spoke.

"Oh. Marionette fixed up his voice box and took away the rust on his endoskeleton. Just a little FYI." Naruto explained to the two fox animatronic's when he saw them looking at Spring Bonnie with surprise.

"I wonder if you're able to fix up his appearance too? Seeing Spring looking the way he currently is, is just... Sad to see."

Spring Bonnie shrugged not at all bothered by his appearance as he had come to terms with it a long time ago. "I don't mind looking like this. Sure it makes me look 'scary' and 'frightful', not as much as these guys behind me, but still 'scary'." He said as he jerked a thumb over his shoulder at the Nightmare animatronic's.

"And you're fine with that?"

Spring Bonnie nodded. "I'm fine with it." He replied calmly, then he clasped his hands together and eagerly asked the two animatronic's "So are we going to go and find the others, want to join us?"

"Aye. There's nothin' ta' do here." Foxy said in exclamation.

"Sure! I don't mind." Mangle answered happily.

With the two foxes now joining their party, the eight plus one disguised animatronic's went off to find the others, while keeping an eye out for the people that have been described to them. After a while of wandering the nine animatronic's found Bonnie, Freddy and Chica and their Toy counter parts walking around aimlessly through a park with bored looks on their faces as they had nothing to do since they're no longer entertainers to the children. The six animatronic's perked up when they saw the rest of the group.

"Hey everyone!" Toy Freddy cheerfully greeted them with a wave of his hand.

Naruto returned the wave and greeting. "Hi Freddy." He said with a smile. "Find anything interesting while you six were wandering about?"

Toy Chica was the one that answered. "Apart from several people arriving and that red haired kid that has everyone unnerved just by looking at them? There was nothing interesting." Naruto let out an 'ah' to show he understood before he asked them if they wanted to join with them while they explore the Hidden Village.

Since they had nothing else to do' and that it would be a lot more fun for them if there was more people with them, the six animatronic's quickly accepted and followed Naruto. After several minutes of walking Golden Freddy teleported in front of them without warning, causing them to jump back out of surprise at his sudden appearance. The only one who wasn't taken by surprise by Golden Freddy's sudden appearance was Spring Bonnie. Instead he cheerfully waved at him; and the Golden bear animatronic waved back at the damaged golden bunny animatronic.

"Hey Fredbear!" Spring Bonnie cheerfully greeted the golden bear. Golden Freddy/Fredbear smiled and waved back.

"Did you find anything interesting while you were on your own?" Naruto asked once he and Spring Bonnie finished greeting one another.

To everyone's curiosity and interest Golden Freddy nodded in confirmation and repeated what the Hokage and his student said while he was in the office with pinpoint accuracy. Nothing was left out. The survivors of their attack on the academy said there was 9 of them; and had given the investigator's a fairly accurate description on each and every one of them that had partaken in the attack.

Golden Freddy also informed them that the leader and his student, knows of the Marionette including what it looked like. The Marionette was fairly impressed with the Hokage's description of itself. So while everyone in Konohagakure no Sato knows there are 9 animatronic's, the Hokage and his student knows there is officially 10 of them even though the Marionette didn't partake in the attack itself.

Then he went on to the murderer himself. Neither of them were surprised to hear the killer wasn't caught yet, he is after all taking part in the upcoming exams. But Naruto was angry because a Yamanaka had not been able to link him to the night of his murder, even though he went through his mind. The white haired bastard...he was definitely NOT going to get away with this.

Once Golden Freddy was finished, everyone was silent as they took in his words. Everything he told them was what they were expecting.

"Good work on getting the info for us Goldie." Naruto thanked the golden bear animatronic. Golden Freddy tipped his top hat in response, and after setting the metal cap correctly on top of his head the golden animatronic joined them. Bringing the group up to 16.

Looking over the group Naruto frowned when he noticed something; Balloon Boy wasn't with them. He turned to Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and their Toy counterparts and asked, "Have you seen where Balloon Boy went?"

"Last I saw him Balloon Boy was heading towards a chain of restaurants nearby owned by a bunch of well rounded people." Toy Freddy answered. Naruto knew who T. Freddy was referring to. The Akimichi Clan a clan of chubby people who have a major love for food and are able to enlarge any part of their body in their attacks.

He also knew where the chain of restaurants Toy Freddy mentioned is as he had been around that area multiple times when he used to pull pranks.

"I know where that is. I know the shortest route to get there."

The 15 animatronic's looked at one another for a moment and then looked at Naruto. Out of them all, it was Nightmare Freddy that gestured to Naruto and said, "Lead the way."

And so he did. Taking the shortest route he knew Naruto led his fellow animatronic's to the chain of restaurants that belonged to the Akimichi Clan. Thanks to the short cut shortening the length of time they would take to get there, the group of 16 had gotten to their destination close to 20 minutes. However there was no sign of Balloon Boy. So they all came to the decision to split up and search the buildings so they would be able to find Balloon Boy a lot quicker and more efficiently.

After several minutes of searching from building to building it became apparent to them that the human based animatronic was not in any of the restaurants. Them turning up empty handed just drove that fact home in their memory banks.

"I'm at a loss." Said an exasperated Naruto. "The hell could have he disappeared too?" He said aloud in bewilderment as he looked from left to right. The child-like animatronic couldn't have gone far could he?

It didn't help that the area was filled with activity; making the search for the human-like animatronic even more difficult.

Then suddenly over the ruckus of people's day to day activity they heard it. "Hi." Everyone turned in the direction they heard the child like voice. Lo and behold, there standing within a dense crowd was the the balloon and sign holding animatronic.

"Well... We found 'em at least." N. Foxy deadpanned with an eye-twitch of annoyance. Balloon Boy made his way to the rest of the group, being mindful to not bump into any of the humans, even though he is currently see through and nonphysical.

"Hi." Translation: I found something interesting!

Marionette looked at Balloon Boy with interest. "Really? Can you lead us there?" It said with curiosity.

"Hello. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Translation: Sure! Just follow me!

The others were looking between the puppet and the human-like animatronic as they had a one sided conversation. Out of everyone in the group only the Marionette could understand what the heck Balloon Boy was saying. Mangle could too to a certain degree, but she wasn't as proficient at it than the Marionette is. It made talking to the child-like animatronic awkward. Not to mention annoying as hell if the Marionette wasn't there.

"Lead the way."

With another child like laugh Balloon Boy turned around and walked in a random direction with the puppet following him. The other 15 watched as Balloon Boy lead the puppet somewhere. Blinking they all looked at one another, turned their gaze to Balloon Boy and the Marionette, and then brought their gaze back to each other again.

With a shrug of their shoulders, Spring Bonnie, Golden Freddy and Naruto all walked after the puppet and Balloon giving animatronic. Not long after, the Originals, the Toy's and Nightmare animatronic's followed after them.

After about 10 minutes of following the leader, the 17 of them were led to an area that was close to Konohagakure's entrance. They all stopped when they saw two people that matched the description that Foxy gave them.

A teenage girl with blonde hair tied up in four ponytails; and a teenage boy in a black baggy suit wearing a hood with cat-like ears and has make-up or paint on his face. And the teenage boy was holding a scared looking pre-teen by the scruff of his shirt/scarf in a threatening manner. With three others, two girls and a boy looking on helplessly. And what do you know Sakura is with them!

A quick look at the three children and the teenage girl and boy, and the animatronic's knew everything about them. The boy being held against his will by the scruff of his shirt/scarf, is Konohamaru Sarutobi the grandson of the Third Hokage, Naruto's adoptive grandfather, and is a student in the Konoha academy. The other two that are with Konohamaru are also students in the academy.

The teenage boy holding Konohamaru, is the oldest out of the three siblings of the Fourth Kazekage and is proficient at using puppets in his attacks. The girl is the daughter and second oldest sibling of the Fourth Kazekage, who fights with a war fan and uses wind techniques with it to increase her attacks.

Remember when Naruto said the animatronic's had unhindered access to the ninja database? Funny thing about that; Naruto didn't say they were limited to just the Village Hidden in the Leaves. If they were to encounter foreign ninja, they would have access to their information from within their Hidden Village too.

"Well...there's one of my tormentors." Naruto flatly said as he looked at Sakura with a look of disdain. He was surprised to see Sakura had actually went on to become a ninja despite what she had seen the year before. Although he wasn't all that surprised to see she hadn't changed in the looks department.

And looking at her history, he wasn't at all impressed at what he found. She was still book smart, and while she did train to become a better ninja after the Academy Massacre, she still dieted so she hadn't made any sort of improvements in the physical sense.

"And two children of the Fourth Kazekage. And the grandson of the Third Hokage who's getting bullied." He frowned deeply at the sight. He looked at the others and saw how appalled and angry they were at seeing a child – one of the new generation – getting bullied by someone much older than him.

Naruto looked at Foxy and Mangle and then gazed at the Marionette. He came to a decision. There is no way that he is going to let the grandson of his grandfather figure get bullied like that.

X.X.X.X

Five Minutes Prior

It was a normal day for Konohamaru. He wasn't in the academy as too many of the teachers were busy setting up the Chunin exams, resulting in having the establishment being short staffed. Because of this the students were given an entire week off.

With his friends Moegi and Undon they were playing together. Until he crashed into someone that resulted in the situation he was in now.

"Let. Me. Go!" Konohamaru yelled out as he struggled to get himself free from the make-up wearing teenage boy he accidentally crashed into.

"You knocked into me you little brat." Said make-up wearing ninja snarled. He raised his fist threateningly. "I should teach you some manners!"

The blonde haired girl with her hair tied up into four ponytails sighed exasperatingly. "Kankuro, just put him down before you cause a scene. Or worse, 'he' sees what you're doing." She said while stressing the word 'he'.

The now named Kankuro scoffed before grinning sinisterly at Konohamaru. "He's not here, Temari. And I'll be finished before he does get here." He said and was about to punish Konohamaru in the face if it weren't for a newcomer.

"What's going on here?" Temari, Kankuro, Konohamaru, Undon and Moegi all looked in the direction the voice came from. The three academy students were relieved to see it was Sakura and she was staring at the two older Genin with suspicion as she approached them. Seeing Konohamaru being manhandled like he was she narrowed her eyes at the black suit wearing boy. "What do you think you're doing manhandling one of our residents?"

"That's none of your business!" Kankuro snapped, glaring at the pink haired girl with annoyance. "So go away before I make you regret interfering with me!" Temari merely shook her head and rolled her eyes with even more annoyance.

It was then the six of them heard someone else join in. "Actually it is our business."

Everyone turned to the new comer with varying amounts of emotion. In the case of Kankuro and Temari is was annoyance and frustration. Annoyance for Temari because they had another person that is most likely going to delay them. For Kankuro he was frustrated because people were creeping out of the woodwork's, and it frustrated him to no ends!

For Konohamaru, Moegi and Undon it was even more relief that someone else was here.

For Sakura however it was pure unaltered terror. Because the person who just joined in was the one who had taken part in the Academy Massacre: Naruto Uzumaki. It didn't help that the deceased pre-teen was walking over to her, looking like he would have been if he were still alive, albeit in different clothing. But nevertheless she was pretty terrified of him and it showed.

"You may want to put him down before you regret it." Naruto told the war paint wearing Suna-nin.

"Is that a threat?" Kankuro demanded hotly. Unflinchingly Naruto looked the Suna-nin square in the eyes and nodded with confirmation, causing Kankuro to laugh. "You're seriously threatening me, shrimp? Do you know who I am?"

Without taking his eyes off of him Naruto said, "Sakura. Take notes." He tilted his head to the side. "Kankuro. Oldest child of the Fourth Kazekage. Older Sibling of Temari and Gaara. A highly skilled puppeteer and is currently able to use three of them at once. You're able to use poison in combination with your puppets, and have a mild resistance to poison. You're also able to use Earth, Water, Lightning and Wind Release."

He took away his gaze from a wide eyed and shocked Kankuro and looked at an equally wide eyed and shocked Temari. "Temari. Second oldest child of the Fourth Kazekage. You are a Genin that specialises in long-range combat. You use your war fan to increase your attacks. And you're very proficient in using Wind Release."

Crossing his arms Naruto looked at Kankuro again and gave him a smug looking smirk. "So yes. I know full well on who you are. And what I just said was little in comparison of what I do know of you two. So why don't you do us all a favour and drop the Third Hokage's grandson before you cause an international incident between Sunagakure and Konohagakure?"

Upon hearing who he was holding by the scruff of his shirt, Kankuro widened his eyes even further and immediately dropped Konohamaru as if he had been burnt. Now that he was free, a wide eyed Konohamaru along with Moegi and Undon all looked at Naruto, thanked him before they got out of there.

Waving cheerfully at the retreating children Naruto turned to Kankuro and Temari and smirked at them. "Word of advice, Kankuro: learn about people who are related to important figures so you can avoid a potential shit-storm you were about to cause."

Kankuro pulled his lips back in a snarl as he glared at the smirking pre-teen. He didn't like the tone this... shrimp was using. Talking as if he was better than him! Who the hell does this shrimp think he is? He wasn't going to let this shorty get away with talking to him like that!

"No! What ever you do - do NOT try and fight him!" Sakura exclaimed with panic when she saw Kankuro about to move. She just knew the painted teen was going to attack Naruto. He didn't know what he was. What he is capable of. And if he attacked, she was sure he wasn't going to live long enough to regret it.

Temari and Kankuro both looked at Sakura with narrowed eyes and were taken aback at the terrified look on her face. It was the same look people in Suna would give their youngest brother Gaara. They quickly to the assumption the blonde kid was similar to their brother. And they looked at him as if he were a bomb that was about to go off.

Naruto ignoring what Sakura said stared at the two siblings with a bored look. "Oh before I forget: the registration for the Chunin exams are over there; I suspect you have around 2 to 3 days to sign up before registration closes." He told them while pointing in the direction of the Hokage's tower.

With that said and done he shoved his hands into his pockets and walked away, passing by the two sand siblings and Sakura. However he stopped directly beside the pink haired girl, who stiffened nervously when he leaned in to whisper in her ear. "By the way Sakura; if anyone finds out I'm here – and I will know - I will hold you responsible. And I will make sure you end up becoming an orphan. Got it?" He hissed threateningly, his voice unlike before had a metallic undertone to it; to drive his point home to her the entirety of his eyes were suddenly taken away, and from within the empty eye-sockets were two pin-pricked white irises that glared at her.

Sakura nodded frantically to show she understood him as she did not want to have to go through another Academy Massacre, and to protect her parents as she was afraid that Naruto would carry it out.

He suddenly smiled cheerfully at her. "Good." Naruto patted the terrified girl on the shoulder and then parted ways. As he walked away Sakura, Temari and Kankuro all heard Naruto sing to himself.

"Dum... Dum dum diddly dum... Da da dum dum... Diddly dum dum da dum diddly dum... Dum dum diddly dum..." Temari and Kankuro couldn't be sure but they thought they had heard a metallic undertone in his voice as he sang.

"Who was that?" Temari asked when he was finally out of ear shot; she was staring at the terrified looking Sakura with wide eyes. Kankuro merely scoffed disdainfully as he stared at the slowly shrinking figure of Naruto. He didn't like him. At all.

"That... That would be Naruto."

"What can you tell me about him?" Temari asked, she didn't know why, but something about him felt off. That he was not what he appeared to be.

Sakura stiffened and looked at Temari directly in the eyes; the teenage girl was taken aback at the sheer intensity in her eyes. "Nothing. I can tell you nothing." She replied quickly and stiffly, the nervousness in her voice conveyed just how scared she actually was, despite her not showing it. "Just don't try and do anything to get his full attention on you... And you'll be fine. You'll be perfectly fine."

Kankuro tore his eyes away from Naruto's back to look at Sakura. Because of this he never noticed the blond pre-teen becoming transparent, and vanishing without a trace.

"Is that a threat?" The puppet user demanded hotly, ignoring the warning look Temari was sending him.

Sakura's hair whipped side to side across her face as she frantically shaked her head. "No. Not a threat. A warning." With her piece said she turned and began to leave.

Both siblings watched the pink haired girl leave. They were about to leave to find their brother and mentor before they grabbed the side of their head. Their minds were suddenly assaulted by some rather disturbing images.

A robotic feminine looking fox, her maw, arms and the lower part of her torso was tearing through a girl's skull with her teeth. The image changed to a pirate themed robot fox, with the most of his body covered in blood was goring a ninja with his hook and hand. The image quickly changed to another fox, similar in appearance to the pirate themed one, with his arm covered in blood as he impaled a Chunin with a scar going across his nose through the heart.

The image changed again to the same fox as before, only this time he was covered in someone's blood; his hand was in a place where a person's head would be, and in place where a person's head would be was an explosion of brain matter and skull fragments.

The images changed again to two yellow robot chickens, with one wearing what appeared to be pink panties at first glance, and holding a cupcake. Both of them were similar in appearance, only one of them was missing a beak – showing the human like skeletal teeth behind the beak – and was missing her eyes with white pin-pricked irises replacing them. Both of them had large amounts of blood splattered on them as bodies of ninja and students were lying on the floor with gaping holes on their bodies. Their faces had expressions of pure terror and fear.

The images changed again to two bear robots. One was tall and the other was short and fat looking. The two of them wore a top hat and are holding a microphone in their left hand. Like the others they too are covered in blood, and they're bludgeoning people to death with their microphones or crushing people's heads under their feet.

The images then changed from the bears, to two rabbits. Like in the previous images they were covered in blood. The mental image showed the rabbits intercepting students and Chunin's who were trying to escape from the slaughter. Only for the Chunin's to get crushed to death when they were grappled to the floor and had the life crushed out of them, followed by many of the students trying to run away from them in terror.

The hallucination – that was the only thing they could deem it as – changed again. This time instead of seeing robotic animals slaughtering people, they saw the third robotic fox standing idly with his back to them. To Kankuro and Temari's confusion the image of the fox began to flicker and distort. The 7ft tall robot fox would change to a young boy and back to the robotic fox again. They were unable to make out any details of the boy's identity however as his back was turned to them as well.

Then they heard someone speak.

"When someone dies, a lot of people seem to think their loved ones are waiting for them in the afterlife... That's not true. For the first 12 years of my short-lived life... I was hated. Scorned. Mocked. This was by...a lot of people. And then one year ago I was killed..." The voice was faint sounding; like a whisper in your ear. It was eerily familiar to them and it had a metallic undertone to it.

Temari and Kankuro were suddenly looking through someone's eyes and they quickly realised they were looking through the perspective of the one who was speaking. They were looking up at the ceiling, a hooded and cloaked man was above them holding a kunai. They saw white hair coming out from the hood. Then the man stabbed the kunai down, twice, into the person they were looking through's chest piercing the lungs before leaving.

Then he returned and to their horror the man began to pour oil in the apartment before setting it alight. He then left the building for good, leaving his victim to burn to death.

They were suddenly looking at the robot fox again. This time he was looking at him from over his shoulder. His black hollow eyes and small white pupils were glaring at them.

"And as I died I wanted to get revenge. Revenge on everyone who had treated me less than dirt all my life. Revenge on people who mocked, scorned, and ridiculed me. But most of all I wanted revenge on the man who had killed me. And when I did die, it turns out that death...is not all that it's cracked up to be. There was nothing waiting for you at the end of your life. Just loneliness. And a black endless void. But then I was brought back. My charred corpse was put into an animatronic and I was given an offer I did not want to refuse."

X.X.X.X

Then the two siblings are now in a different place. They quickly came to realise they were standing in a morgue, and in said morgue they saw the fox animatronic and something they had never seen before. In front of the animatronic fox was a thin and tall puppet.

"Would you like to get revenge?" The fox animatronic looked at the puppet with suspicious eyes. "You were killed unjustifiably by him. You must want justice?"

The fox 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 he 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?"

The fox animatronic 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 he stared musingly at the floor. After a minute had passed the robotic fox 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 the fox it held out its hand for him to take. The fox stared at the offered hand and grasped it. The puppet turned, and pulling the fox along, it floated out of the morgue.

X.X.X.X

Temari and Kankuro were back where they were before the fox animatronic in front of them was no longer looking at them. Instead he was looking ahead. They looked at one another, confusion evident on their faces as they tried to figure out what was going on. To them it was pretty darn obvious they were seeing through the eyes of the person speaking. That person wasn't well liked and was treated less than dirt.

He was murdered and was apparently 'revived' as an animatronic. The puppet...thing must've been the one to revive him and had offered to help him get revenge. What happened next must've been the series of images they saw of several different animatronic's killing ninjas and if what they saw from the images was right, academy students, before they saw all of this.

"They were so arrogant to think that their belittling of me, their mocking of me, would go unpunished. You both saw what we had done a year ago to those ninjas and academy students. You both know what happened to the small minority of those who had done those things." The two siblings looked directly at the fox animatronic with wide eyes; he was talking clearly and his voice was clearly recognisable to them now!

Now that they knew who he was Naruto turned around and looked at them with his pin-pricked irises seen in his black hollowed eyes. He was smirking at them.

"And you know what the coolest thing was? I knew everything about them. Their strengths. Their weaknesses. Where they lived and what their hobbies were. I knew all of that with just. A. Single. Look. And, it's the same for you."

As the last sentence left his mouth Temari and Kankuro stared with wide eyes as Naruto was joined by the other 8 animatronic's they'd seen in the images just minutes ago. They all stopped beside and behind him. Then to their shock even more animatronic's appeared. Balloon Boy holding up his trademark sign and balloons, passed through them until he was in the front. The two were almost shaking in their shoes when behind Freddy, Chica, Foxy and Bonnie came their Nightmare counterparts.

To the right side of the Toy animatronic's, was Springtrap and Golden Freddy; and to the left was Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie. And behind the Nightmare versions of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy was the Marionette looming over them. The two siblings almost faltered under the puppet's pin-pricked glare.

"We all know where you live in the Land of Wind. And we all know where you're going to be staying here in Konohagakure once you get yourself registered. So allow me to give you both some advice: don't do anything stupid. Or you both will end up like those Chunin and academy students."

With that said and done Temari and Kankuro blinked and they found themselves back in Konohagakure. The two siblings looked at one another with scared looks before they rushed to find the rest of their team.

Meanwhile Naruto who is now back with the other robots was now invisible and nonphysical again. All of them were standing in the middle of the path, staring blankly ahead of them before they shook their heads.

Marionette was the first to recover and it looked at Naruto with curiosity. "Was it wise on letting those two knowing about us?" It wasn't angry at all that Naruto allowed those two foreigners to know of them.

"They're bound to find out about us sooner or later. I merely sped it up. Besides, who's going to believe them when they say they've had hallucinations of people dying, and saw 19 robotic animals where one of them threatened to kill them like those in their hallucinations? People will look at them as if they're insane or think they are pulling a prank on them."

"You raise a valid point, Naruto." Freddy said. "But, still, we cannot leave out the possibility of someone taking them seriously."

"...That is, true." Freddy had him there. There was always a chance someone would believe them. The likelihood the survivors of the Academy Massacre could overhear them is unlikely but not impossible. And after he threatened to make Sakura parent-less if anyone were to find out about him, the possibility of anyone finding out about them was even lesser.

"This may be a dumb thing to say, but we can cross that bridge when we get to it." Mangle piped up.

Foxy nodded in wholehearted agreement with Mangle. "Aye, we're in no danger of gettin' discovered 'right this moment. We can still take a' look around."

Everyone then turned to Naruto who at this point had turned back to his new appearance: a 7ft tall burnt orange animatronic fox; apart from the Marionette who had been keeping tabs on the Hidden Village, he is the one who knows the place best.

"Well there is still a lot of places we can go to." The burnt orange animatronic said rubbing the bottom of his maw. "Not to mention Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie aren't with us; so there's a chance we will run into them while walking around."

Toy Bonnie swung his arm around Naruto's shoulder and pulled him into hug; and with his other arm the light blue animatronic pointed in a random direction before exclaiming cheerfully and with enthusiasm in his metallic voice, "Lead the way!"

Smiling in appreciation at Toy Bonnie's enthusiasm Naruto decided to do just that. After a while of walking around to various destinations that Naruto had shown them, with many of them being breath taking views of the Hidden Leaf Village, the group had decided to call it a day and head back to their domain.

Once they got back to the entry way and were about to open it, both S. Freddy and S. Bonnie appeared before them. Their physical body grew out of the shadow that was coming from one of the many buildings surrounding them.

An interesting characteristic of these two particular animatronic's? They're like ghosts. They can get through any obstacles and no one can see them (excluding the other 17 animatronic's of course), unless they allow themselves to be seen. Of course almost everyone who had seen them would find themselves unconscious, or worse, brain-dead if they don't look away from them quick enough.

They're similar to Golden Freddy as he too is able to do that. Although everyone who didn't look away, or try something to make him go away, would find themselves killed by the Golden bear robot.

"We found out where the first phase of this 'Chunin exams' is going to be taking place."Said Shadow Freddy, catching everyone's attention now. His voice box gave the shadow-made robot a deep, hiss like tone when he spoke.

Shadow Bonnie picked up where Shadow Freddy left off, "It seems it's going to be taking place in the building where you killed those ninja-in-training a year ago." He said, looking pointedly at the Toy's and their Original counterparts, along with Naruto. His voice too had a deep, hiss like tone when he spoke. "At least in a place that is separate to it. It will begin two days starting from today. From what we've seen the entire team has to be there in order to partake in the exams; this also acts as a register for their entry otherwise they would be automatically disqualified."

Naruto found that titbit of information to be interesting. "Really? So then the foreign teams that are here doesn't really need to be registered until they actually enter." He should feel stupid he had misinformed those two siblings; but he didn't. Mainly for the sole reason that make-up bearing teen was about to beat up a kid a relative of the Third Hokage that is several years younger than him; and his sister, despite knowing the kid was younger than the two of them by several years, wasn't going to do anything to try and stop him even if she knew it was wrong.

"Have you found anything else?" Marionette asked the two of them as it looked around searchingly.

"The second part of this event is going to be taking place in a place called 'The Forest of Death'. It's a team based assignment where they have to grab a scroll that is the opposite of theirs from other teams, through any means necessary"Shadow Freddy said with a nod.

Shadow Bonnie added on to it, "A lot of participants are expected to die in that place since the survival rate is low. But in the event too many people do manage to get through, they're going to hold a one-on-one tournament in the large tower in the middle of the death forest' to see who will ultimately get into the third and final part in this event, which will take place a month from now."

"Will people die in this 'one o' one tournament?" Asked Nightmare Foxy with a look of curiosity, and gleefulness that looked more like a menacing glare than an expression of curiousness and glee.

If he had asked that question in the presence of anyone else they would have been worried or concerned. However Nightmare Foxy was in the presence of robots who knew him; they knew he was made... Designed? Dreamt? Either way Nightmare Foxy, along with Nightmare Bonnie, Chica and Freddy were made out to be walking, talking killing machines.

"From what we figured? Yes." Shadow Bonnie answered, much to the glee of Nightmare Foxy who was lowly cackling with sinister intent.

While Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie were informing the others, Marionette was checking if the coast was clear for it to open the door to the restaurant. Once the coast was clear for it to open the door the puppet proceeded to do just that.

With the door open, Marionette got the others' attention and gestured them to head inside. Once all 18 of them walked through the door way Marionette surveyed its surroundings to see if anyone was nearby. When no one was spotted in the vicinity the marionette closed the door and separated the complex from the real world.

X.X.X.X

Two days later

Sakura has unsurprisingly told no one of him being back in Konoha. Having taken the threat of him killing her parents seriously. And both Temari and Kankuro after they saw the hallucinations of Naruto and the other 8 robots slaughtering everyone, they were on their best behaviour. It's a shame they couldn't do the same for their brother, Gaara, though. The good thing is their brother had only glared darkly at other contestants and threatened to kill them (his siblings) if they got too annoying. Despite that the two of them had done all they could do not bring the wrath of Naruto's anger down upon them.

And not a day later, the puppet heard rumours about a 'blonde haired boy getting the honourable grandson out of trouble' when it had been out and about in the Hidden Village. But because the description of the 'blonde haired boy' was vague, people suspected it was someone from the Yamanaka Clan' because every member of that clan had blonde hair.

Naruto highly suspected it was Konohamaru or his one of his friends who was behind the rumour. After all Konohamaru was the one person he had gotten out of trouble that day.

With the Chunin Exams about to begin Naruto with the puppet floating beside him, was following one of the remnants of his class who had managed to become ninja for Konohagakure. Both of them were intangible and invisible to avoid any probable problems that would come their way.

The two of them were alone. Naruto after a long discussion on asking the others if they had really, really wanted to come with him had decided to do this by himself. Marionette and Spring Bonnie on the other hand had insisted on going with Naruto. They were very adamant on it too. Naruto couldn't find it in himself to refuse his two friends and allowed them to join.

Spring Bonnie had went to scout on up ahead.

Like Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie said, the first part of the exam was taking place in a separate part of the academy. It was a place that not even he (Naruto) had been in before. That quickly resolved itself when he found a team that consisted two people from his class, and a third person he had never seen before and followed them.

The two animatronic's followed the three Chunin to be through a corridor, Naruto looked at them and from the lens of his eyes, he saw their information pop up.

Team 7:

Affiliation: Konohagakure no Sato.

Team leader: Kakashi Hatake of the Sharingan.

Member: Sakura Haruno. Shino Aburame. Sai.

Missions:

D-rank; 'Find Tora the cat', success.

A-rank; 'Escort the Bridge Builder', Success.

D-rank; 'Pull weeds', Success.

D-rank; 'Pick up litter', success.

D-rank; 'Paint fence', success.

D-rank; 'Walking dogs', success.

D-rank; 'Collect groceries', success.

Naruto stared as their amount of D-rank missions went on and on and on. Then their skills came up and suffice to say he was not impressed with what he saw. Sakura while being the smartest in the team, she was the weakest link strength and stamina wise. That pale skinned boy Sai was the strongest; but his disturbing lack of a personality and emotion made him a liability trust wise. Shino was the well balanced one out of them all and if he had to guess, the bug using boy was the most reliable out of them.

Both Naruto and Marionette stopped when they reached the end of the hallway. In front of them was a large room with a lot of people being held up by two Chunin's disguised as Genin standing guard in front of a staircase. Naruto however ignored them and continued on with Marionette following him.

When they reached the top of the stairs the fox and puppet animatronic's found Spring Bonnie standing in front of a grey haired man, wearing a mask over the bottom of his face and had his forehead protector slanted over the right side of his face, covering his eye. The incredibly withered golden green rabbit was examining the adult; as if he was sizing him up.

Naruto took one look at him and knew who the man is: Kakashi Hatake; known as Kakashi of the Sharingan, leader of Team 7 and the last living student of the Fourth Hokage. The man had his nose in a book, however, both Naruto and Marionette knew the man was depressed.

The reason for that however is unknown to any of them.

Behind the man was a doorway that led into a large open room. Inside of said room were the other contestants of the exam. They seemed to be waiting for something.

Kakashi suddenly looked up from his book when he heard footsteps and his face figuratively lit up when he saw all three of his students walking to him. Naruto flinched in discomfort as Sakura and Shino walked through him as if he were a ghost.

Oh the joys of being nonphysical. No one can hear you approach nor will they be able to bump into you.

As Kakashi told his students he was happy that all three of them were in the building together otherwise they would have been automatically disqualified, Naruto and Marionette waved in greeting at Spring Bonnie who returned the gesture.

Quietly the three animatronic's went into the room where the other contestants are. The room was mainly flat on one side while the other ascended with each step. Each floor or row on the right side of the room was long enough for a row of tables going across.

On the flat end of the room is where the participants are. The majority of teams participating in the exams were unsurprisingly from Konoha (unsurprisingly), Suna and Ame. One of which was an ally if what Marionette had overheard was right, and the other was neutral towards' everyone else. The rest had minor numbers compared to everyone else. Naruto was surprised to see there was a single team from Kumogakure partaking in the exams. That Hidden Village must be playing on the safe side considering the attempted kidnapping on that Hyuga heiress years ago.

There was another single team that came team from a newly formed Hidden Village he had never heard of before. He didn't know what it was called either.

A quick observation of the room and to their complete and utter surprise, they found Golden Freddy who was surveying the room at the farthest corner with his eyes narrowed. He smiled upon noticing Spring Bonnie, Naruto and Marionette enter the room and waved at them in greeting.

Naruto, Spring Bonnie and Marionette shared a look before quickly making their way over to the Golden Bear.

A minute later Sakura, Shino and Sai entered the room. Naruto narrowed his eyes at his former crush in disdain. She is nervous being around so many foreign people glaring at them. Shino with his heavy coat, glasses was a blank slate, and Sai just wasn't reacting at all.

They, well, mainly Sakura wasn't ready for this at all. Shrugging dismissively Naruto walked over to the Golden animatronic's with Marionette following him.

"Goldie? What are you doing here? I thought you were staying back at the Pizzera?"

Golden Freddy looked at Naruto. "I thought so too." He replied. "But a few minutes after you left I decided to join you and scouted the building for your target."

As they conversed the four animatronic's ignored everything going on around them. Even ignoring the fight that threatened to break out between a team from a newly formed Hidden Village and someone from Konoha.

It wasn't until a puff of smoke appeared out of nowhere near one of the rows of tables on the ascending part of the room. As the smoke dispersed, a dark clothed scarred man with a large and imposing figure was revealed. His forehead protector worn on his head like a bandanna. The second he appeared in the room he glared dangerously at the troublemakers, freezing them in place with his glare alone.

As Naruto, Marionette, Golden Freddy and Spring Bonnie looked at the newcomer they were able to access his personal file. While it is a surprisingly short one, what they saw was enough for them to know what type of person this man is.

Torture and Interrogation Force

Name: Ibiki Morino

Affiliation: Konohagakure no Sato.

Age: 27

Rank: Tokubetu Jonin; 'Special High Ninja'

Occupation: Chunin Head Examiner & Head of the Torture and Interrogation Force

The head examiner of this exam as well as a professional torturer. If the four of them had to guess from his occupation Ibiki was going to play mind games on these people. Pressure them into making mistakes or do something to make them snap.

"There will be no fighting here or you'll be disqualified! Do you maggots understand me?!" Ibiki barked demandingly as he glared menacingly at the sole team with the only Musical Note on their forehead protectors.

"I don't like him... He reminds me of THAT man who wore me so long ago." Spring Bonnie said as he stared at Ibiki with narrowed eyes.

Marionette and Golden Freddy put a comforting hand on Spring Bonnie's shoulders knowing who he was referring too.

"Guy's there are more people in the room." Naruto informed them lowly, pointing at each and every person who was most definitely not in the room when they entered. The Chunin hopefuls made their way to their seats and waited.

"I see them." Said Golden Freddy as Ibiki began to plan the first part of the exam was a written test, with a set of 9 questions and a tenth question for when they reach the end. Ibiki then went on to explain the test is team based, if of them is caught cheating then they along with their entire team is disqualified from the exams entirely.

"Could one of them be your killer?" Spring Bonnie asked.

"Possibly. I'll check." Naruto narrowed his eyes as he stared at each new comer. His eyelids closed even more with suspicion when their shinobi rank came up as Chunin instead of Genin.

Impostor's perhaps? Whatever. It wasn't his business. They must be in the exams for a reason. Perhaps they were here as a way for these Chunin hopefuls to get information? Despite that info Naruto continued looking and gathering information on the new arrivals.

And then his analysing eyes landed on seemingly average looking teenage boy with shoulder length white hair, wearing a bandanna styled forehead protector. He was sitting beside a red haired dark skinned girl from Kumogakure.

Naruto recognised him before the information came up; he was downright glaring in anger at the very sight of him. But despite his anger Naruto managed to keep a cool head. He didn't want to act on pure anger even if it is justified.

In spite of the fact that his killer is sitting. Right. There. He wasn't going to act. No. Instead he was going to follow him once this part of the exams were done and strike when his killer would least expect it.

X.X.X.X

One hour later

By the end of the exam many teams had gotten themselves disqualified from getting caught or just giving up.

Mizuki who is no longer in his disguise walked out of the room with a frustrated growl. He didn't understand why he had to partake in that stupid exam.

Oh that's right; the Third Hokage practically ordered him to. And it wasn't as if he could refuse. He was on thin ice as it is.

He knew how the first part of the exam went: they had an hour to answer nine questions. But they were too hard to do normally; to get by this you had to cheat. Hence why there are disguised genin in the room so others can cheat off of them. If you get caught cheating 3 times then your entire team is automatically disqualified. If you manage to stay in for an hour, you had a tenth question that is either 'do or die'.

If you don't do the tenth question you and your team are disqualified.

If you do, you and your team will pass.

So that's what he did. He answered the questions on the sheet of paper given to him, allowing the genin to copy off of him and waited for the timer to go down completely. As the hour went by many teams had been caught and disqualified, and then up came the tenth question.

Ibiki began a new set of rules for this question: if you don't take the question you're disqualified. But if you take the question, but answer it wrong, then you and your entire team is disqualified and you would never be able to advance beyond genin.

Which was complete and utter bullshit if you thought about it. Ibiki is not the Hokage. He does not have that kind of power. Nor does he have the power to prevent foreign teams from advancing in rank. You would have to be a complete and total idiot to fall for that.

Long story short: many people decided to not risk it and they quit then and there. Those that stayed passed. Then the second proctor of the exams – a woman by the name of Anko Mitarashi - came in via the window and after a small banter between her and Ibiki she declared herself to be the proctor of the second part of the exam before leading the remaining teams off to where the second exam would be taking place.

"I'm glad that is over. That was a fucking waste of my time." Mizuki muttered under his breath. With that said and done he was free for the rest of the day and couldn't wait to get back to his home.

When he was out of earshot from everyone else, Mizuki was suddenly grabbed by the shoulder and got slammed into the wall. Gasping he looked toward his assailant only to realise to his horror the burnt orange furred animatronic from one year ago was right in front of him. And he was joined by three others he had not seen before, a Golden bear animatronic and a badly damaged Golden rabbit, hovering behind the fox was a puppet.

If glares could kill, Mizuki would have been killed a thousand times over from the glares he was getting from the four of them.

"Oh, fuck me." Mizuki knew he was screwed the second he saw them.

The child killer gagged and choked when the fox grabbed him by his Adams Apple, shoved him up against the wall and effortlessly lifted him off his feet. The pressure on his throat prevented the child killer from calling out for help, and in a vain attempt to relieve the pressure forced upon his throat, he grabbed the robotic fox's arm with both hands.

Mizuki was in such a panic he didn't think to use substitution to get himself out of the robotic fox's grasp.

"Hi Mizuki!" Said man's eyes almost bulged out of their sockets upon hearing Naruto's metallic voice coming from the robot's maw. "Surprised to see me!?"

"You!" Mizuki wheezed out with an expression full of hatred. "How are you here?! I thought my earth clone killed you on that night you fucking brat!" He spat at the robotic fox hatefully, completely ignoring the other three robots that are there.

Naruto's eyes lit up at the admittance. Literally. "Ah-ha. So it WAS you!" He exclaimed happily, looking as if he had won the lottery. Then he glared dangerously at the man. "Thank you for confirming that clone was yours!"

Upon seeing Mizuki's questioning expression Naruto decided to give his murderer a brief explanation. "Your clone spoke to me just before he set my apartment on fire you see..."

X.X.X.X

One Year Ago – The night of Naruto's murder

The earth clone smiled with sickening glee as he poured the oil on the furniture and once he was done he made a trail in front of the doorway. So Naruto would have no escape route from the burning fire.

"You are a moron." The Mizuki clone mockingly taunted the dying child who was seemingly unresponsive, if not for the blue eyes weakly glaring at the madman. "I mean; learning what you do, day by day, and following you home was sickingly easy. Your bright orange jumpsuit made keeping track of you easier." The white haired man snickered as he pulled out a lighter and flicked the spark wheel causing a small flame to ignite.. "The original me would have done it himself, but if he did then he would have been found out. So he made me, an earth clone, and gave me enough chakra to last for weeks to do what I needed to do."

The clone looked down at the injured boy lying in a pool of his own blood; then he walked over to the couch. "Because I'm a clone the real me won't be getting the memories. Because I'm wearing the cloak, those who would see me would only be able to make out a vague description of myself. The original me will be home free, and he would get away with your murder."

The Mizuki clone then lit the couch on fire and as it went up in flames, spreading through the room quickly he walked out of the front door, leaving the bleeding helpless boy to his death.

X.X.X.X

Mizuki raged in his mind at how stupid his clone was for revealing that important information. His internal thoughts were abruptly interrupted when he felt a massive pain in his chest, and with wide shocked eyes he coughed up blood. His face still an expression of shock Mizuki slowly looked down and saw the reason. Naruto had shoved his right hand through his chest and out of his back; ripping through the ribcage with blunt force and destroying the lung with ease. Blood splattered the wall behind him.

Naruto pulled his bloodied arm out of Mizuki's torso and released the dying man's neck.

Mizuki with a scared and pained expression slumped to the ground. His mouth was open as he tried to cry out. But only blood came out. Every time he tried to breathe, more and more blood would come out of his orifice.

This was it.

He was going to die here.

"You thought you could get away with killing a child, and not suffer the consequences of your actions?" Mizuki weakly looked up at the badly withered bunny that was stared at him judgementally. The damaged animatronic pointed its finger at the dying man. "What happened here; what happened a year ago was your. Entire. Fault." He said with finality.

And without a word Naruto walked away in the direction Mizuki was head to before he had gotten grabbed. Golden Freddy and Spring Bonnie followed him after giving the dying man a look that had no pity whatsoever.

Marionette however stayed behind a moment longer; the puppet was admittedly unimpressed at the rather pathetic look of anger the murderer had on his face. After a moment Marionette left as well leaving the killer to his inevitable fate.

As Mizuki weakly turned his glaring eyes as to not lose sight of the puppet, he watched as Marionette, Naruto, Golden Freddy and Spring Bonnie slowly became transparent before they faded away completely.

Mizuki coughed up a mouth full of blood and went still as his eyes glazed over. He had finally succumbed to his injury.
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Author's Notes

This is perhaps the longest one shot chapter I've ever done. Obviously it's a continuation of chapter 7, but still, it is one of the longest one shots I've ever done. This chapter is 36 pages to be precise.

Originally, the Toy's and the Nightmare's (Nightmare Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy and Chica to be specific) were meant to be in the forest of death, and when midnight stikes, they would hunt down various teams one by one. The Originals' along with Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie would've been searching for Mizuki, who had unknowingly gotten away from them when Ibiki teleported them into the room where the written exam took place.

That combined with what I have already written, this story would have been over 40 pages long. 40 pages. I just didn't have a way to get it down. Or make it feel right. Otherwise it would have felt forced. And if there was one thing I don't like doing, it is forcing myself to write something I know wouldn't feel right.

Now I am bound to have this question from my readers: "If Naruto knew where Mizuki lived, then why didn't he just go over there and kill him then?"

My short answer: Plot convience, duh.

The long answer: Mizuki was being watched. Heavily. I mean think about it; he is a witness/survivor of the event. While he did pretty much leave everyone to die t the beginning, he is still a witness, and is someone the hokage would put on watch for his actions.

Spyash2, out!