Naruto Quest

Chapter 3

10 months ago

It had been almost a year since the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, and the entirety of the Elemental Nations had been recovering from the amount of losses sustained in the short lived, yet costly conflict.

In Konohagakure no Sato, the Hero of the Fourth Shinobi War was having a pleasant day to himself. He had been training in Training Ground 7, the very field that started his career, from morning to midday.

But when Tsunade and Sakura came and told him some... grave news, Naruto's pleasant day went down hill real fast.

Said blonde was not happy. Not happy at all.

He had a look of absolute calmness on his face, that concealed what he was truly feeling. as he stared at Tsunade and Sakura.

"...Are you serious?" he asked them in a controlled tone.

The pitying looks he was given was his answer. Sakura couldn't even look at him in the eyes. Neither could Tsunade for that matter. He inhaled, then exhaled with a low and deep growl at the bottom his his throat. The blond clenched and unclenched his fist repeatedly as he tried to keep himself calm.

Tsunade eventually looked him in the eyes. "You're too much of a threat, Naruto. Ever since the war ended people have begun to fear you. You and the power at your hands. Effective immediately, you're no longer a shinobi of Konohagakure."

"The po- the power I HAVE?!" Naruto suddenly bellowed. "Are you SERIOUS!? GAAAAAH!" To their surprise, he suddenly went into his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and lashed out at the nearest thing to him; which happened to be a tree.

He utterly demolished it in his anger.

"Naruto! Calm down!" Tsunade quickly barked. "It's not as bad as it looks!"

Naruto turned his furious eyes to her. "Calm down? Calm down?! No! I will NOT calm down!" He roared, his chakra began to fluctuate in his anger. The very air itself grew heavy and the ground under his feet started to crack from the sheer chakra outfit he was emitting. "After EVERYTHING I've been through, after everything! I! Did! For everyone, this is how you repay me?! Sealing my chakra away and revoking my ninja license, and forbidding me to do anything shinobi related because some people are THREATENED by me?!"

"They brought up some very good points Naruto. And it wasn't just in Konoha." Sakura tried to reason with him. "You're too powerful for your own good. If you were to go traitor all of a sudden, there would be no one strong enough to stop you."

Naruto scoffed. "Oh, really? Sasuke." Tsunade and Sakura couldn't hide the wince that showed on their face.

"That's different-" Sakura began, only to be brutally cut off by Naruto.

"How is that any DIFFERENT!?" Naruto shouted at her demandingly. He didn't give her the time to answer though. "Sasuke was a missing nin for nearly three years! He tried to kill me several times; rammed a fucking Chidori through my chest twice; attacked the Kage-Summit; and he worked for Akatsuki! And what do you know, despite everything he pulled and tried to do, it was my word that kept him from being imprisoned, or killed! He's as much of a threat as I am and he's wandering around the Elemental Nations willy-nilly because of my word!"

With that rant over and done with Naruto took several deep breaths to calm himself down. His Nine-Tails Chakra Mode dispersed with his anger.

Everything he's been through; everything he had to endure; from being ignored for most of his childhood, Mizuki tricking him, being sent to the Blood Prison for something he didn't do, being lied too, and now this...?