The Hidden Mask

Chapter 16: Turmoil

Naruto looked at the sky, his back against the cold green grass in the mountains, his mask off as he took a deep breath, his onyx eyes closed as he did so. He exhaled, the condensation lifting into the air, joining the floating clouds above.

What was his objective now? At first, he was just helping Tobi, a person he thought as a precious person to him, but that's changed, so what now? He got Sasuke to be Hokage, more than half the Akatsuki members were dead, only a few more left and he'd be done. What would he do after? What was his dream? What would he accomplish by killing these S-Rank criminals?

Wars would still go on, death would still continue, kids would still die, he would have accomplished nothing. His only dream was to become Hokage when he was a child, but that wasn't going to happen now. But now what?

Peace.

He needed to bring peace to the world. But how? How could one unite the world so they could have peace? His eyes opened, his black eyes piercing through the atmosphere as he stood up.

A common goal. The world needed a common goal. How? He would be that common goal.

He needed to destroy himself completely and fulfill his destiny and bring peace to the Elemental Nations.

And to do this, he needed to be worse than a devil, but what was worse than a devil?

Nothing.

So he would make himself something worse than the Devil...

He would become a Reaper.

"Jeez, when will Mei-sama give us another mission? I'm tired of doing border patrol." A Jonin dressed in the standard Kiri uniform complained to his comrade, who had sighed and rolled his eyes for what seemed like the millionth time that day.

"Border Patrol is an important mission, we're the first line of defense so if there's an army or an attacker coming in, we'll alert the main defense so we can defend." He answered once again for the millionth time that day.

"It's still so boring."

"Would you just shut up?" The other said before things were suddenly quiet. He sighed in content and kept walking before he heard the sound of something dropping. He sighed again and began turning around.

"What now you-" He said in midsentence, only to stop in horror as he saw his comrades head twisted backwards, dead. His eyes widened as he went to shout, only for a black glove to grasp his mouth, keeping it shut as he felt his fingers break so he couldn't send a burst of chakra to alert the village.

In front of him, was a single man who was wearing a orange mask with black flames coming out of the side of it with a large cloak and a hood on, a single red eye looking into his eye.

Then, there was quick muffled screaming before everything was silent again before the sound of something hitting the ground was heard disturbed the silence, then nothing.

Mei Terumi, the Fifth Mizukage of Kiri, was sitting in her chair, doing paperwork furiously, trying to get it done as soon as possible so that she could go home sooner than later. She was interrupted from her work when she saw three of her guards that were hiding in the ceiling fall, each one had their throats slit.

She sat up abruptly, jumping back, preparing hand seals before a figure dressed in all black dropped from the ceiling, looking directly into her eyes with his one spinning red eye.

"What do you want assassin?" A chain appeared in the man's hand, it wrapped around his arm as he put a single sleeve up, revealing a pure white arm that he had before he pointed at the Mizukage. "Me? Oh dear, I'm flattered but I don't date men who don't know how to knock." He kept his arm up before the chain shot out, heading straight for Mei's head, which she grabbed in midair, a smirk on her face.

"You're going to have to do better than that." The red eye began spinning rapidly as she looked into, her vision getting dizzy.

"I did." She heard a terrible, dark voice utter before she saw the chain explode into thousands of tiny senbon needles as they rained down upon her, hitting many vital spots and paralyzing her. She looked up, her eyes glazed over as she saw the man hover over her, the needles coming back and making a chain once again.

"Reaper." He whispered, using his boots to stomp on her stomach, causing some of the needles to go through her body as she let out a scream of pain. "There, now you won't forget who I am." And like that, he was gone.

Three Anbu burst into the room, swords drawn before they saw their Mizukage's form before rushing to her aid.

"My lady, who did this to you?" One of the female Anbu's said worriedly.

"R-Reaper." Was all Mei could whisper before she fell unconscious.

"What do you mean the Mizukage was attacked?" Ay shouted at his assistant, who had just told the overly large Raikage the news.

"Exactly what I said Raikage-sama," Mabui replied politely if not a little sarcastically. "The Fifth Mizukage was attacked and all the witnesses are dead, or in critical condition, which is the Mizukage, she was the only survivor. Ay cursed under his breath as he stood up.

"Send a message to Kiri and tell them we will be on the lookout for this so called "Reaper"." Ay ordered Mabui, who bowed in return.

"Right away Raikage-sama." She said before walking out and closing the door, only for the door to fly back open, literally.

It was propelled off it's hinges and sent towards Ay, who narrowly dodged it as it crashed through the window. A man walked in, holding Mabui in his hand by her neck, both her arms and hands broken.

"Mabui!" The Raikage shouted in distress as he saw his assistant held so easily by the neck, obviously unconscious. He analyzed the man decked out in all black and a hood, covering his hair and revealing an orange mask.

"Who are you?" The masked man didn't answer, he only squeezed harder on the woman's neck until a loud cracking sound was heard, seemingly echoing through the room before he dropped the woman's corpse on the ground in a heap, her head bent in a weird angle.

"Wrong question." The man answered in return as he began walking towards the Raikage, who had a furious expression dawning upon his face as lightning crackled across his body.

"I'll kill you!" He shouted in a rage as he charged forward, only to go straight through the man as if he weren't even there before he felt a small blade cut deep into his lower back, causing him to stumble forward as he felt his legs go weak.

The last thing he saw was a red eye spinning before everything went black as the man kneed him in the chin, knocking him out.

Naruto appeared out of a vortex, sitting down on a rock as he thought.

Only two more.

And done! How was it? Good? Bad? Tell me!

Anyways, double upload, so that's cool. Naruto is being scary in my opinion. I thought Reaper was a good name for him cause why not reap some souls ya know?

Anyways,

Til next time my lil demons!