From The Shadows

by darkman773

Naruto's life will be changed! As man introduces himself to our hero that will help him in a time of great need. Will Naruto chose the radiant light or the consuming darkness? Or could love conquer them both? Will the world that shaped him be destroyed, or will he save the world that had turned its back when he need them the most? Join our hero as his adventure unfolds!

1. Chapter 1

truth of the ninja world.

Ok first ff first things first this will be a naru/hina fick also slight kurama,

In not the worlds best speller far from it and im not the worlds best at punctuation but will try my best I hope you all like my fick I will try my best though. I do not own Naruto or any characters nor do I make any money from this story. NARUHINA ALL THE WAY! Also this story will follow cannon as close as possible (major plot wise like sasuke running away and the pain arc etc.) and I will make the characters as close to their cannon self's as possible excluding naruto. He will be dark strong and cold in battles thus the name of this chapter.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Fox talking''

'Fox thinking'

'Reading a text or a letter or a scroll'

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It happened this time last year the same time. October 10 his birthday .Their was a huge celebration every year for the defeat of the nine tailed fox. The villagers got drunk and sought to get a little pay back for all their losses their pain would be justified once they rid their home of the damned fox that has plagued their streets their home would be clean once more and the fourths death would not have been in vain! The logic that drove them to hunt down the demon boy their emotions fuelled by the alcohol pulsing through the veins of the mob some were merchants of some of the shops others where ninja of the village. Naruto ran through the streets of konoha, yet again the drunken villagers gave chase yelling "kill the demon" and the ever popular "make him pay for what he has taken from us!" naruto's face stained with new trails of tears.

He ran as fast as his little 5 year old legs could carry him. "why do you hate me?!" he sobbed. "your tore our home apart" one cried in a drunken rage" you killed my son!" another yelled. Many more rants of what the fox had done no one knew the truth about the fox that was sealed inside the boy's tummy. "someone help me!" the young Naruto cried.

All of the sudden a ping in his tummy signaling the awakening of the fox that slumbered in the boy. "Shut up demon!" someone yelled as a hail of random objects from knifes to Saki bottles rained down around the boy. "Turn left here'' the voice inside his head said. He followed the direction of the voice hoped it could save him. "Ok now go on till the 3 way split and take a right" he nodded at the voice. He ran into a building the door no longer their .he ran up the stares to the roof. "Ok now run across the line and down the other building you should have lost them." He jumped on the line and ran across and into the roof access and down the stares and into another ally. "Now where to?" naruto asked panicked a little as he herd the voices of the mob. "Calm down kit go into that building and be silent it's an old library!" the voice said trying to calm him. He nodded and ran into the building he hid in the dark corner of the building and hunkered down and huddled his knees to his chest and wrapped his arms around his legs closing his eyes praying they wouldn't find him.

All the sudden he opened his eyes revealing hat he was in a sewer like pathway he looked around pipes littered most of the walls and sealing of this place he now inhabited. "Where am I?" he asked a voice the same voice that lead him here rang out "This way kit." The voice rang out. He followed the path before him and it led his to a room it was vast in itself but the roof was not it was black it seemed so far away it loomed over him his eyes catching a sheen out of the corner of his eye.

He turned his head and seen the massive set of gates a white square of paper bearing the word of "seal" upon it. "I'm glad you made your way here kit." The voice boomed being so close to the source it was loud and pensive sending a chill up the boy's spine. "why did you help me?" he asked. "Every one hates me." He said as he let out a sad sigh. He was always alone he was hated he didn't know why he was so hated he no one ever talked to him he felt so bad what had he done? Even in the orphanage he was hated by all the kids and adults who were supposed to look after him. "They fear what they do not know, for the reason they hate you is because of me." The voice said softer and then pair of huge red eyes opened revealing them to be the eyes of the supposed dead great tailed beast.

"Naruto right?" the voice asked. The young blond nodded. "I thought the forth killed you?" naruto asked as the saw the silhouette of the beast flinch. "No it's not that easy to kill a tailed beast boy." the beast smiled sitting up and like some one switched on the lights the figure of the huge fox was revealed the 9 swishing tails whipping this way and that as if they had a mind of their own.

"The fourth sealed me inside you cause of a man who was controlling me he made me attack the village if it was up to me I would have been off to my cave once he released me from–" the fox paused. "my last container." the fox look sad for a moment remembering all the things the boy had endured on her behalf, and who her last container was she couldn't bring her self to do it would only hurt him more and it would lead to more question and more things that would only hurt him even more. "I'm sorry" he said. She looked to him. "What did you say?" she asked as she all but pressed her nose to the bars that bound her.

"I'm sorry for everything that you went through I am it must suck to be controlled by some one." He said softly as he stepped closer to her he put his hand on the fox's nose. "Why would you? You have lived a life of torment because of me." She said her voice no longer loud just soft as she spoke to him the first person she connected with since her first container. "I'm sorry he did that to you. I'm here if you need me." He smiled softly up at the fox. "naruto do you know why I pulled you into your mind?" she asked and he shook his head. She let out a sigh and slowly stood up and looked down at him. "naruto they found you and they attacked you but, in here you feel no pain in here your safe from them your body may be broken but they will never get you here!"

She looked at him with soft eyes filled with sorrow and pain for him but their was another feeling barely visible with in her eyes and it was anger against the village and a slight hatred the same hatred shared by the boy his eyes flashed from the joy he had shared with his inhabitance the fox leaned back down looked him in the eyes and whispered I'm sorry he looked up at her the anger now replaced with concern she was not the "demon" they made her out to be he knew that the new emotions he felt for her were that of love of a fellow outcast a mutual feeling of misunderstanding a shared feeling of pain and now the seeds of hatred have been sown. The feelings of the suffering and abuse that the village hidden in the leaf was responsible for.

Out side of naruto's mind his body was being beaten and hurt from things being through and fist crashing into every inch of his body to a blade that had slipped into his skin on his ride side the ninja seeking to kill he slid the knife between his ribs the sharp blade finding his lung the now pierced organ now collapsing in on itself another slice appeared along his lower abdomen searing the mussels from each other blood spewing from both mortal wounds he had received from his tormentors. The crowd continued their relentless assault upon the young ninja to be the mob slowly started to downsize the member satisfied with their work left leaving the boy to the next person seeking revenge the next in line of the mob took their turn inflicting each what made their drunken pain justified.

Little did they know the moves they now made would lead to the eventual destruction of the thing they most cared for in this world the anbu guarding the boy finally found him he was almost dead if it had not been for his tenant he would have been dead his body was beyond human repair. His body lay motionless he had been beaten his arm was broken in 2 different places one of his legs had been almost removed below the knee and one of his hands were all but severed barely hanging on by a few tendons and skin. The boy was bloody and his body near completely broken his lung was busted and he had over half his bones broken a cleaver still embedded in his shoulder the anbu gasped and immediately called for back up and a stretcher and a medic unit they had to hurry to get young naruto the hospital the third met the group of anbu at the hospital.

"what happened?!" he yelled as he looked of the mangled body of his adopted grandson the anbu looked at the 3rd and sighed and hung his head. "answer me dog!" he almost yelled at the anbu with the silver hair with the dog shaped mask.

"sir it was a mob they chased him and beat him and almost killed him by the time I got their they were all gone I will gather up Intel from around the area and see if we can get the names of the people that formed the group that done this."

The anbu almost pleaded the 3rd he nodded and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Naruto I swear the people that done this to you will pay!" he promised with a tear gathered at the corner of his eye almost breaking down at the sight of his grandson.

Back in naruto's mindscape. "naruto always remember I am here for you if mo one else will be I am!" he smiled softly at the fox and nodded "I know and I'm here for you like you will be for me!" he smiled up at her and gave her a rare happy smile that rare few ever got to see. "hey since you know my name what is yours?" he cocked his head a little to the right. She smiled and f she was able to chuckle in this form she would have. "True naruto I know your name and I don't want to reveal my name so soon that takes away all the mystery of a girl." She smiled down at him. Naruto gasped as she said the word "girl" and blinked a few times. She smiled and blushed under her fur and leaned down deciding to have a little fun.

"What is it na-ru-to" she smiled overly playfully. Sadly it was lost on the boy but did what it was supposed to he blushed softly. "wh-wh-what do you mean? A girl? Your girl" he gulped. She smiled. "well normally a guy would take a girl out on a date before asking all these questions." She smiled at him and winked and he turned ever a darker shade a red. "ummm you want to go on a date?" he asked still blushing. "she laughed and shook her head "no silly but if you're offering?" she smiled. "I'm joking naruto I was just seeing how you would react kit." She smiled and looked at him softly 'if only' she sighed to her self. Naruto looked up at her and smiled. "I like u foxy I cant wait to get to know you more!" he smiled up at her. "hey what's happening?!" he asked looked up at her and she smiled. "you're wakening up ill talk to you later naruto be safe!" she said with care but it came out more like a command than she would have liked. "I will ill see you as soon as I can!" he promised with a smile as he was pulled back into the world.

The pain he felt it was every where the pain was excruciating the light hurt his eyes but not as bad as his whole body hurt. He looked around his eyes landed on the 3rd"old man? What are you doing here?" the old man shot up and rushed up to his side. "naruto thank god you're ok!" he said as he placed his hand softly on his shoulder so not to hurt the boy. "are you ok naruto?" he asked concern rapidly replacing the look of shock on his face. "yes old man I'm fine how long was I out?" naruto asked as he looked around the room.

"naruto you were out for a month." The old man sighed. "a month?" naruto looked at his body scars littering his body he looked back at the old man. "naruto how do u feel?" he asked full of concern. "naruto sighed and looked at the old man. "I am feeling ok I guess." Naruto looked up at the old man. "naruto you are healed." the third look at naruto's arm the wounds healed. 'It's got to be the fox.' He thought. "naruto I want you to enter the academy so you can learn to protect your self."

Naruto smiled up at the man and smiled. "I can go early?" he asked. He nodded. "yes naruto u can I am offering you the chance to do so you will be able to protect yourself will be even better!" naruto smiled and nodded and hugged the old man. "thanks gramps!" he smiled at the young man and patted his head. "your very welcome naruto." He smiled. "when ever your ready the academy begins in 3 weeks I think you will be able to go by then." He smiled. "you bet I will gramps!" naruto gave him a thumbs up and smiled. "rest now naruto and ill be sending you a few things and here." He handed the boy a small envelope in side was a key and an address.

"What's this?" naruto looked to the old man. "It's a key to your apartment I'm giving it to you since you are an official ninja of the leaf." He smiled at naruto. "I've got to get going naruto ill see you later naruto." He smiled and nodded and waved by to the old man and sighed softly and closed his eyes and started thinking about the fox. It has been five years since that day naruto being in the building caused all the other people to move out in a few weeks he would start his training to become a ninja! Naruto never knew how hard this would be what will become of the blond ninja what will he become?

Four years later, Year five of the academy.

Naruto strolled into the doors of the academy and looked around the teacher in front of his room had brown hair and a scar running across his nose. "Ah naruto did you miss your sensei, did you enjoy your vacation?" he smiled at naruto and naruto nodded and smiled as he went to his seat and started to watch the people pour in to the class. Iruka and naruto had spent a lot of time together over their reprieve from school so iruka knew what he had done over the time. He watched as they all purposely avoided him he sighed as emotions started to flash across his face he looked all around as anger and then to sadness. He sighed as he rested his head on his desk and started to drift off.

One year later.

He sighed and let his head fall he had failed the genin exams to pass he would have to repeat the exam one year from now he had failed the old man he had failed himself at becoming a ninja. He sighed as he walked from the class room. "hey naruto how about some ramen?" naruto stopped dead in his tracks and turned and had a smile on his face. "that would be great iruka sensei!" he smiled as the whole way to naruto's favorite noodle joint ichiraku's.

they talked as they ate their ramen he smiled at his sensei as they ate their noodles "naruto I believe you will pass you just need a bit more practice you know your not the first person to not pass on the first go and they all turned out great ninja!" he smiled and patted naruto on the head and ruffled his hair. "yea I just can't get that one jutsu down stupid clones." Naruto sighed as his ramen was gone and he slurped the broth. "I know naruto but it will get better, you will do the jutsu and you can pass I know you can!" iruka smiled. "Yea I hope your right sensei I just have to keep practicing." Naruto nodded and looked up at iruka and smiled. "thank you sensei." He smiled and nodded. "Well I'm turning in naruto."

He smiled and set the money on the counter and left naruto took his leave from the shop and headed home and as he did he bumped into the other instructor of his mizuki. "oh sorry sensei I didn't see you." Naruto said with his trade mark foxy smile. "naruto! Just the person I was looking for!" he smiled down at the naruto. 'damned fox!' he thought to himself.

Naruto looked up at his teacher with a questioning look. "oh what's that sensei?" he asked. "naruto I am offering you a one time chance to pass." He smiled. "I am going to give you a chance to pass but this is only offered to the once who barely pass and the ones who we think can be exceptional ninja." Mizuki smiled. 'come on stupid fox take the deal!' thought wile looking at the boy before him. "really?" naruto smiled and looked around excited. "what do I have to do?!" naruto almost yelled as he asked. Mizuki leaned down and smiled a big ear to ear smiled. 'master will be pleased if I bring him this scroll!' he thought. "naruto all you have to do is sneak into the hokage tower and steal the scroll of sealing and bring it back to this location." He smiled and naruto took the paper and nodded. "got it sensei!"

Naruto smiled and nodded and rushed off to the tower to get the scroll so he could "pass" naruto didn't know that it wasn't a real test. "ill do this and I will pass you just wait iruka sensei ill do it for you!" naruto proclaimed to no one in particular. He reached the tower and disarmed all the traps and avoided all the anbu the class prankster is not one to be taken lightly. He smiled and grabbed the scroll and strapped it to his back and made it back out without being detected he chuckled to himself. "they think that can stop me? I'm naruto uzumaki I'm going to be the next hokage!" he made his way to the forest that mizuki gave him. "ok let's see! Oh man shadow clone?! Oh that's what made me fail!" he said as he started to practice.

Meanwhile with mizuki 'wait till I tell everyone what naruto done they will kill him and ill be in masters good graces!' mizuki plotted. He landed at the door of iruka and beat on the door. "iruka!" he screamed. He shot out of bed and ran to the door. "what is it?" he looked at mizuki. "naruto stole the scroll of sealing as a prank the hokage needs us for a search party!" he nodded got dressed in his outfit and jumped to the roofs 'naruto what have you gotten yourself into?' iruka thought. On the inside mizuki was roaring with laughter. His plan was getting done step by step!

They made their way to the meeting the hokage was already speaking to all the current chunin and jounin "naruto and the scroll must be found! Now get going!" sarutobi waved his hand and with every person in the crowd yelled "yes sir!" and with a blaze of smoke every one was gone 'naruto be safe!' he prayed/ thought. Iruka speed off to the forest 'naruto has to be their I've searched all the normal place he would be!' he thought as he made his way over the roofs to the forest he jumped from tree to tree he found naruto covered in sweat and dirt.

"I've found you!" he yelled as he jumped down "naruto!what were you thinking!"he yelled. "hehehe you found me! But I've only learned one jutsu!" he smiled scratching the back of his head. "naruto look at you you're all beaten up, what were you doing here?" he asked placing his hands on his hips. "never mind that! I'm going to show you this awesome jutsu!" he yelled.

"naruto!" he yelled and pointed to the scroll. "where did you get that scroll?" he looked over his shoulder. "oh this? Mizuki sensei told me about it!" he smiled "and this place to!" he scratched the back of his head again smiling like a fox. Iruka's eyes widened 'what?! Mizuki?!' he thought. "he said if I showed you this skill you would pass me!" he smiled then iruka pushed naruto out of the way as a hail of kunai and shuriken pegged iruka hitting him in the arms and legs "nice job finding the moron!" mizuki smiled.

"I see that's what's going on." Iruka said as he pulled a kunai from his shoulder. "naruto give me the scroll!" mizuki ordered. Naruto looked to each and back. "what's going on?!" naruto yelled. "naruto don't give him the scroll!" iruka yelled to naruto. "he used you to get the scroll naruto it's a dangerous scroll it's forbidden! The jutsu written inside it are dangerous!" Naruto looked to iruka in shock. Mizuki smiled and propped on one knee looking down at naruto.

"Naruto theirs no use in you having it, ill tell you the truth!" he smiled lowering his head a little and waving his hand. Iruka went wide eyed"mizuki n-noo! Don't!" he screamed trying to get mizuki not to tell naruto the truth. "naruto 11 years ago the demon fox attacked konoha since that day a special rule was made that we were never meant to be told to you!" naruto gaped at the man. "a rule what rule?!" naruto asked. "the 9-tailed fox was sealed in you naruto you are that demon! Naruto! You are the nine tailed fox!" he smiled hoping to crush the boy then and their and then kill him taking the scroll for him self. "you are the demon that killed Iruka's parents!" he leaned back with a sadistic smile on his face "no mizuki stop!" iruka yelled he paid no mind to him. "that's why every one hates you! Even iruka hates you! Why do you think he was so nice he was luring you in befriending you so he could kill you in a clean humane way!"

He was almost happy no he was in a sate of catatonic about the look on naruto's face as he slowly gaped at iruka the emotion and feelings flooded over him tossing him in a sea of emotions Iruka's own mind playing the conversations that he had had with the hokage about naruto's mask about how it hid his suffering and his pain that the village had caused him all the moments he and naruto had spent over the last year getting to know one another the amount of bonding they had done iruka was disgusted at mizuki for blatantly spit this atrocious lie at naruto. "naru-to!" iruka had tears pricking at his eyes "naruto it isn't true you are like me naruto I did what you have done turned myself into the class clown just so I could get attention regardless if it was good or bad I wanted them to acknowledge me!" he cried hoping naruto would see through the lie. "naruto nobody will ever love you!" mizuki sneered "that's the scroll that was used to seal you into the body you are now demon!" mizuki yelled unclasping a giant shuriken from his back he started to spin the weapon at an incredible speed and flung it at naruto. "die demon!" he yelled as the shuriken flew towards him at a rapid speed naruto blinked 'this is the end for me' he thought as he knew he was about to get cleaved in half.

But death didn't come. He slowly opened his eyes to see iruka above him the shuriken embedded in his back. "na-ru-to" iruka cried as tear made their way down his cheeks to naruto's. blood dripped from the corners of Iruka's mouth melding with the tears on naruto's cheeks. "naruto your just like me alone and you have no friends but I'm here for you naruto you have a friend in me." Iruka sobbed as he looking into the shocked face of the child before him "naruto you must be in such pain! I'm so sorry naruto if I had only done better! You wouldn't feel like this." Naruto moved from under iruka running deeper into the woods.

Mizuki dropped down "did you see those eyes?" mizuki asked as he stepped towards iruka. "the eyes of the demon he will use the scroll to seek revenge against this village the eyes of the demon iruka did you see them?" he yanked the shuriken from his back and turned his head towards what was supposed to be his friend. "naruto isn't like that!" naruto was leaping as fast as he could away from them thoughts in a spiral he couldn't think straight. Mizuki smiled "it doesn't matter I will kill naruto and be regarded as a hero and then ill be back to finish you off!" he leaped to the trees. 'no you wont I want let you kill naruto!' iruka thought as he leapt after mizuki.

Back in the village "we should have killed him!" a random chunin shouted. "he's dangerous kill him if you find him!" another yelled. "we have to find him now and kill him before he releases the demon's power!" a jounin yelled. A various amount of "yea and lets do it's" came from the others. Sarutobi was looming over his crystal ball 'I've found him!' he sighed as he saw naruto leaping through trees. 'mizuki told him! He's scared and he could release the 9-tails and plus the scroll he's holding it's a one in a million chance he could break the seal and change into the 9-tailed fox but if that happens…' he thought. Iruka jumped through the trees. 'found him!' he gasps.

"Naruto give me the scroll before mizuki finds us!" he said. Naruto landed and took a powerful leap into the chest of iruka. And landed on a tree branch sending iruka skidding across the ground. "naruto w-why?" he asked naruto laughed "hehehe" he smiled a foxy grin. A puff of smoke reviled mizuki. "how did you know it was me?" he asked. A few moments and naruto puffed into a cloud reveling iruka "cause I'm iruka." He smiled softly at mizuki. "I see.." mizuki smiled. "hahaha you would even transform into the very thing that killed your parents?" he asked. "can't you se you idiot I would never give some one like you the scroll can't you see naruto and I are the same!" he laughed in iruka's face "can't you SEE? If you use the scroll you can do what ever you wanted!" mizuki smiled. "there is no way that damn demon wouldn't use the power unlike what your assuming!" mizuki held his arms out.

Iruka sighed "yeah" 'I knew it even deep down iruka sensei doesn't acknowledge me.' The pricking of tear naruto knew it wouldn't be long before he cried he clutched the scroll to his chest. "yea the demon would do that but naruto ISINT the demon fox! He is.. one of my students he is one of my best sure he may not try as hard as some of the other but he has felt pain and he carries that in his heart! He isn't the demon fox he is a member of the village of the leaf! He is naruto uzumaki!" iruka smiled. By hearing this naruto was crying like a child that had fallen and scraped his knee iruka did care about him! "humph what ever… "mizuki jumped down from his branch and unclipped his final shuriken "you know iruka I was planning on finishing you off later but I have changed my mind! Ill end you now!" he spun the shuriken fast as he could and threw the shuriken aiming to kill iruka naruto rushed mizuki but it was to late "NOW HURRY UP AND DIE!" mizuki yelled as the shuriken raced toward iruka naruto threw the scroll at the spinning star it collided with the shuriken knocking it off its path but it still sped toward iruka it hit him in his right shoulder pinning him to the tree he cried out in pain and his head slumped down naruto stood wide eye

"Nooo iruka sensei!" he screamed and looked towards mizuki his eyes turning red and his whisker marks filling out more his nails and his teeth elongated. He raised his hand slowly and pointed at mizuki "you will die you monster!" he yelled as he formed the hand seal for the shadow clone and thousands of clones poofed into existence. "I-impossible!'' mizuki yelled "now you will pay for killing iruka!" he yelled as all the clones and naruto charged mizuki a scream was heard through out the forest as naruto ripped mizuki to peaces maiming him till the point he to ware he wished he was dead. When naruto finished he was missing an eye and his right arm and his left leg from the knee down.

"This is the least I could have done for iruka I should have killed you! And I still might!" naruto clenched his fist. "naruto. That's enough he is finished naruto." He turned around and their stood sarutobi the third hokage. He walked naruto home if he had known how to read chakra he would have known that iruka was alive but that would come later he need naruto to get ready for next years classes. "naruto that was quite the jutsu you preformed I'm proud of you." He smiled at naruto looked up at him with a forced grin and he knew it thinking iruka was dead had changed naruto he would not have guessed that this change would be ever present in naruto from today on.

Once they reached naruto's apartment they parted ways naruto had given the old man back the scroll and he made his way to bed and the old man returned the scroll back to its proper place. "Naruto I hope your going to be ok I hope this doesn't effect you to deeply all wounds heal but every one has their scars…" sarutobi sighed softly as he retired for the night. The next day a scroll was delivered to one naruto uzumaki. "Hmm a scroll." Naruto slid the scroll open and started to read.

Naruto I'm sorry that you had to witness what happened to iruka I know he as a dear friend of yours. Naruto sighed. 'Yes sarutobi he was a dear friend. He was my only friend.' It is sad naruto he is a great ninja but these things happen I'm sorry you had to witness mizuki's betrayal. These things are common in the ninja world I hope this doesn't bear on you naruto. Your grandfather sarutobi, also the third hokage and naruto if you ever have the need to talk I'm her for you. Naruto smiled softly as he finished the scroll. "it has gramps more than anyone will ever know." Naruto closed and clutched the scroll.

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Ok so please don't be a gram Nazi and all criticism welcome I don't really care about flames but please! Ill be nice to you if you be nice to me. The next chapter of "from the shadows". The next chapter of the story will be up in a little time as possible.

Chapter man in the skull mask. Not all of my chapters will be this long but I'm going to try my best to at least 3k in words but I will most certainly going to aim for 4 or 5k words per chapter, but no less than 3k. I might end up changing the plot more to fit me but I'm not a 100 % sure yet ill will post if I change my mind.