NARUTO: The Galactic Empire

Naruto's life had also been turned upside down. No longer was he a hot-headed guy who screamed for attention. It had taken a lot of time and effort from Kakashi and a lot of reading books based on human psychology for Naruto to understand that a person should assess the situation, be in control of his emotions and not get agitated soon , if he wants to be a true shinobi.

Kakashi had started training Naruto. He had taught Naruto all about chakra and had taught him to fight with shuriken and kunai. Naruto had also learned the basic chakra controlling exercises like Tree walking, water walking and leaf balancing. Though it was very tough for Naruto as he discovered that he had enormous chakra reserves as he was a jinchuriki.

Many villagers seemed to believe that Naruto was dead as they could not see his face as he always wore his mask. This was the only habit in which he followed Kakashi completely. When some people did recognize him; and showed any hostility or taunted him he was able to maintain a calm demeanor and did not respond, which was one of the reasons the people now simply used to ignore him which was better than being beaten. But what he did not know was that there had been few attempts to harm him but were stopped by Kakashi and the Hokage and the culprits had been dealt with, without Naruto even noticing them.

But today was not the case. Naruto was doing his shuriken training at training ground 7 waiting for Kakashi to arrive. He knew his brother would be late so decided to start his training. He was getting better and better at throwing shuriken and was achieving most of the targets.

Suddenly two people arrived at the training ground. Naruto looked at them and saw two Anbu standing there, their face were hidden by their masks, however their masks were different than most Anbu, because they were "blank".

"Naruto Hatake." said the anbu on the left flatly.

"Huh?" asked Naruto curious as to why the Anbu were here and asking for him.

Suddenly both the Anbu charged at him, drawing their swords ready to strike him down. Naruto had only time to blink as he barely dodged the strike of the swords but still got a cut on his face mask. It was due to sheer luck and due to some of Kakashi's training that he was barely able to dodge the blow.

"What the hell are you doing?" shouted Naruto angrily.

The Anbu were surprised that he was able to dodge the strike but neither showed any emotions. They never showed emotions.

Getting out of their daze they started leaking a massive amount of killing intent. This was the type of killing intent of silent assassins.

Naruto was frozen in shock. His body wasn't moving, his heartbeat was increasing every second, he was already hearing it beating so many times. He barely was able to get a Kunai from his pouch but his hands were trembling. He had faced a lot of angry villagers on many occasions but the killing intent these Anbu were leaking were the most powerful one he had faced in his entire life. There was a sharp pain in his eyes.

The Anbu rushed at him, one of them swinged his sword towards Naruto' chest while the other anbu jumped in the air with his sword drawn ready to cleave naruto in half.

Time seemed to slow down for Naruto, all the things started to move much more slowly around him. He could see the leaves rustling in the air at a much slower pace, he could see that the Anbu were drawing closer towards him. To any other shinobi the Anbu would seem like blurs but for Naruto he was able to read their movements and the exact angle through which they were going to strike him.

"I..can't...move..What...is..happening..I...can't. ..die...here...I will not die."thought Naruto in fear

Acting purely on what his instincts were telling him he back flipped a few meter's away; but the Anbu's attacked him again, the one on the left tried to attack him with a diagonal slash from his sword but before his attack could even connect, he felt something cold pierce his chest but when he looked down all he could see was two red eyes with two tomoes in it and a kunai buried deep in his heart.

The Anbu's lifeless body fell dead on the ground and after a few seconds a glow came from his left arm and the entire body was engulfed in flames burning the body to ashes.

Meanwhile Naruto was frozen in his spot, his hands were shaking, he was looking at the blood stained on his hands and realized he had just killed a man. He didn't know what happened he had just ducked before the blow hit him; and before he realized what was happening his kunai was lodged into the Anbu's heart. He had seen the shock in the man's eyes hidden behind his mask which were then replaced with emptiness before he fell on the ground, and was burned to a crisp.

"I..Killed..Him..I..am..a..murderer" thought naruto sadly and tears started to drop from his eyes.

Meanwhile the remaining Anbu was shocked to see his partner killed by the boy and was just about to attack him; and was already charging towards him, Naruto was frozen in his spot so it looked much easy.

The Anbu readied his sword to deliver the blow but his entire body was electrocuted as something had pierced his chest. He looked down to see a hand sticking out of his chest which was covered in a ball of lightning. He only heard a single word before he fell lifeless on the ground.

"Raikiri"

Kakashi was just returning after his visit to the memorial stone when he had felt the killing intent coming from the training ground where Naruto was. He immediately rushed towards the spot and was shocked to see Naruto pierce a kunai through an anbu's chest. But before he could understand what was happening he saw another Anbu charging towards Naruto who was in shock due to his first kill. He quickly formed his Raikiri and disposed off the Anbu. He did not even wait to see the body burn as he immediately rushed towards Naruto.