Chapter 1: Prologue
A/N: I don't own Naruto. Wish I did though. I'd be filthy rich and Sasuke wouldn't be an emo brat with way too much power in his hands.
Beta Reader/Dude I Bounced Ideas Off: Alaster Warheaven
Idea-giver Number2: RavenKnight013
Naruto was wandering inside the village of Konoha, avoiding the hatefull glares of the people inside. The seven year old child couldn't understand why everyone hated him, but he didn't care. He'd become Hokage and then everyone would love him as they loved Jiji. They would acknowledge him and then like him and speak nicely to him. In the back of little Naruto's mind, there were doubts of him actually managing that, but the child squashed them quickly.
Little Naruto decided to go to the park to see some of his friends. Or well his only friends his age, as most children hated him. Getting to his targeted location, he saw none of his friends. However, there were some bullies. He knew them from other times, when they'd go and hit other children or throw stones at him. Naruto turned around to leave when they spotted him. Knowing that if he run he'd merely delay the inevitable, Naruto turned around and readied himself. He'd give as good as he would take. After all a future Hokage can't be a coward, no matter the odds. Jiji had told him so.
The group of five descended on Naruto, hitting him with everything they could. Their parents would be happy if they hurt him, regardless of the fact he'd heal the next day. After all nobody liked 'that kid'. So why should they treat him nicely?
The bullies caught up with Naruto and started hitting on him, their hearts clouded by corrupted teachings. Naruto fought back, but not too much. Not because he couldn't, but because a Hokage shouldn't hit his own people now should he?
Not two minutes later though, a girl's voice stopped the bullies. "Hey! S-stop it! Y-you're hurting him!"
A girl, not older than Naruto himself, pale lavender coloured eyes and midnight black hair. 'What is she doing here?' Wondered Naruto. As the bullies turned to her, they realized who she was. Behind the girl, a pregnant woman appeared, standing protectively over the girl. Realizing just who was in front of them, the bullies cried out in fear and ran off. The pregnant lady and the girl she seemingly escorted went towards the blonde child. The girl helped Naruto clean himself and tie his wounds.
Later Naruto would find out that the girl's name was Hyuga Hinata and the woman was her mother, Hyuga Hitomi. Inside Hitomi's belly was the growing younger sister of Hinata, a child that would, very aptly, be named Hanabi.
Not a couple of months later, Hitomi would give birth to Hanabi and leave the world in peacefull slumber. Not one Hyuga would ever see the weeping form of an Uzumaki Naruto as he cried over her grave.
Months passed and Hinata showed herself less and less, each time she would be more shy and meek than the last. Her father had taken Hitomi's death hard and sought to quell his pain by training his eldest daughter. He blamed her for many things, for not being a boy (which would later force her to wear her heair short to appear as a boy as much as possible), to not being as good as he wanted in the traditional family arts, to her mother's death, to the trouble he had with his brother... Everything had become Hinata's fault. However, no matter how many times Naruto would beg her to let him tell Ji-san, she told him not to and to forgive her father.
It was finally a happy day for Hyuga Hinata as her birthday had come. Usually her mother would wake her up and treat her to cinammon buns for breakfast before taking her out for a walk. Then they'd come home to a beautiful lunch just the three of them. She would then be allowed to play as much as she wanted, any game that she wanted, until dinner. Then the entire family would gather and celebrate. But now... now it was different. Her mother didn't wake her up or treat her to cinammon buns. Instead a servant woke her up, helped her get dressed and sent her to the dojo for a brutal sparring session with her father. Her father then demeaned her and told her to go eat alone, such a failure she was. Hinata's eyes stung with unshed tears. She had long since learned to not cry in front of others.
When noone would watch though, Hyuga Hinata would cry. However... someone was watching. A certain blue-eyed, blonde knucklehead of a future ninja. Naruto knew that she wouldn't allow him to tell Ji-san, so he resolved to make her feel better in another way. Now that he could evade ANBU for hours, he knew he would be able to sneak inside the Hyuga compound and deliver her gift on his own. That would make her happy! And happy friends are the best!
When night fell, little Naruto left his appartment early, in order to avoid the ANBU. It was easier than he thought because most of them were called to guard some dere... deru... deleg... some people from another place at least. Ji-san said they were from Rai no Kuni, where ever that was. Maybe he'd go for a walk there.
As Naruto went to sneak inside a sleeping Hinata's room, he noticed another figure as well. Deciding to be a ninja, even though he wasn't one yet, Naruto snuck slowly closer and closer. Then he saw that man figure produce a large sack and throw it over Hinata's sleeping body. The kidnapper, for Naruto now knew what that man was, quickly grabbed the sleeping Hinata, wrapped the bag around her and made to leave, Naruto hot on his trail.
A few minutes later, the perpetrator stopped to secure his package and check for any pursuers. Lo and behold, there was one. The ninja readied himself for combat with a Hyuga... only to see Naruto land in front of him a furious face on his childish face.
"Leave Hinata-chan alone you bully!"
The shinobi snorted and laughed. He kicked Hinata's sack with his foot to make way for better footing. That however, had the result of the top of the sack falling off of Hinata's face, letting her see her Naruto-kun ready to defend her. Were she not in such a situation, she would have blushed.
Naruto's anger hit red when the bully hit his friend. Inside Naruto, two malevolent red eyes opened and a smirk formed. Naruto charged at the kidnapper, unleashing a warcry of some sort. His valiant charge however, was cut short as he impacted with the jounin's foot.
Naruto was thrown back. He heard footsteps as the jounin approached him. Then pain erupted as the jounin proceeded to repeatedly kick Naruto's head into the ground. He failed to see Naruto's eyes turn blood red as they lost focus.
Undisclosed Location-
Naruto opened his eyes and saw a sewer. It felt... like him in a way. Like a home he had never been till now. Surprised he walked on. There were six doors in front of him. One was a light blue color, emanating the same power he often felt when he channeled his chakra. It was slightly open and a light shone. Four other doors were closed but emanated unimaginable power, each giving him a different feeling. One spoke of how to be young and old at the same time. The other taught of how everything was one and yet separate. Another spoke of healing and care, the touch of a caring mother or a kind healer. The next yelled of power and death, of darkness and shadow, not evil yet not pure either. The last door was completely open wide and a red, malignant glow emanated from it, bringing forth bloodlust and fury the likes of which Naruto had never felt before, but somehow knew as intimately as he knew himself.
Picking the red glowing door, Naruto walked in silence through the darkness. A dark, mirthfull chuckle, more evil and vile than anything Naruto could imagine echoed as the door behind Naruto closed and disappeared. Red light shone from everywhere and nowhere as Naruto beheld a huge black cage. Behind it, two rows of teeth and two red malignant eyes. Next to them, red fur with black outlines. Behind that... nine huge tails swayed as the beast chuckled, sending shivers of terror down Naruto's spine.
"Welcome brat to my humble abode. As your pathetic little mind may have guessed, I am Kyubi no Yoko. The same Kyubi no Yoko that your prescious old man had declared to be dead. A lie just like everything else he's told you. I am pretty much alive within you brat."
Naruto stepped back in fear, the times the villagers had called him a demon resurfacing. "So... I... I am you?" The thing laughed evilly.
"As if. You believe your pathetic little excuse of a human body would be able to contain ME? DON'T BE SO NAIVE! As if you could control or contain me. Now... Now I am getting out here, but not before I exact some revenge from you my vessel."
Then the pain began as Kyubi pumped his evil power through Naruto's body, its raw uncontrolled power destroying and ripping apart the child's chakra system. Naruto screamed as the cage broke and the blue door shattered. He managed to see the figure of a man appear and try to fix it desperately, but the man had no time as the Kyubi unleashed its chakra on that, somehow familiar, man and sent him away. Naruto screamed and wreathed in pain, but he still refused to let the Kitsune out. And the Kitsune saw it. So, he resolved to keep up the torture. He may not be able to kill his container, but who said he couldn't torture him? Besides, with his chakra coils ruined beyond repair, Naruto would have to depend on Kyubi for survival and that meant that Kyubi would get free sooner or later. Somewhere deep inside Kyubi, another side of the being awakened, but it was too weak, too sleepy after seeing that man with the red eyes.
"Why do you fight me boy? They all hate you" Images of Naruto being hated swam around the being. "They despise and hurt you." Again more images, this time followed by the Kyubi smashing a tail of youkai on Naruto. "Even your oh-so-prescious old man lied to you! He hates you too!" Kyubi would have said more, were it not for a dark power emanating from Naruto. Raw, deep, bottomless darkness blew outwards, stunning the Kitsune that grinned. The black door was wrenched open. "Yes! Yes, give in to the hate within, give in to the fury and anger! Show me the darkness within you little one!"
The darkness lashed out and Kyubi laughed. A voice then sounded inside the mindscape.
"Naruto-kun... help me!"
Naruto's eyes snapped open. He knew that voice, he recognised it. Hinata! Hinata needed his help and he was here dawdling with that baka of a fox. What kind of a friend was he to forget Hinata-chan? Naruto roared and the walls shook with power. Around Naruto a light shone, so strong and powerful in scorched the Kitsune's fur. The white door was wrenched open as well.
"I... I refuse baka-kitsune! I know I am angry and I accept it. I know I have hate and darkness within and I accept it. It's as much a part of me as is light and the power to care. Darkness... isn't evil... It is death and death isn't evil, its a part of our existence Light is life and life isn't good, it's a part of our existence. That's why... That's why I won't let you get out. I may not be able to use chakra any more but I will still protect them all! Darkness and Light! Hear my voice and come to me!"
A flood of power. That's all Kyubi saw as two radically and completely different energies swivelled around Naruto. As one they worked, they cooperated towards their common goal. Kyubi was thrown back as the two energies became a new, colorless one, or was it that it contained too many colors to see one, and they formed another cage, this one stronger than ever before. Kyubi stood in awe as the child wielded powers not seen in... well forever!
The last two doors opened slightly, their power shining, yet not accessible yet. Beforethe great Bijuu had time to speak, Naruto disappeared.
-Back in Konoha
The jounin had fun stomping the brat's head and hearing the girl's crying until a burst of power exploded. The brat was covered in a blood red aura of raw power and fury. As it made to lunge at him, the child screamed in agony and its flesh was burned. The jounin didn't have time to think about it as another power exploded and pushed back the previous one. This one was pure black. It emanated cold death, without the fury however. It was as if it simply were there, ready to extinguish all life around it. The Kumo nin watched in awe as the life was literally drained away from even the air itself. Heck even the moonlight was too weak compared to this... thing! Next to him, the girl had managed to free her mouth and spoke four words. "Naruto-kun... help me!"
It was as if it were some sort of signal as the boy's eyes widened. Where before the eyes were a black, endless void, now they were a pure glowing white. The aura changed yet again, this time to a glowing white, as if life itself was concentrated around this child. The Kumo nin once again watched in awe as the life returned to all that it was leached away from, the trees and flowers going into an impromptu blooming session. However, the ambassador also noticed one more thing. During all this the child was unconscious, its eyes too unfocused and its stance too loose. However, now, the child was coming back to the world of the conscious.
Then, as Naruto awakened once again, so did the black power. One would expect two so different powers to fight each other. But they didn't. They combined in one single powerfull aura that dwarfed the Raikage's own. Heck even the Raikage's brother didn't have near as much power! Then the child opened its mouth and the jounin almost ran for the hills. He wouldn't live to regret not doing it.
As Naruto opened his mouth, two voices came out in perfect symphony, like his eyes, now the right being white while the left was black. One voice was laced with the fury of a caring father while the other was filled with the lethality possessed only by those assassins that stop having emotions about death or killing.
"You... you dare take away Hinata... you dare lay a hand on her... Light and darkness don't usually coexist. But... once in a while, both light and darkness find a common enemy, a common goal. When that is found... their power is endless. You are that enemy, your destruction our goal. We have witnessed your soul... We pass judgement... Twilight... Blast."
Naruto's hands rose to the front. A globe of the purest light on the right and a globe of the darkest black on the left. In an instant they had been united into one huge sphere of power, dazzling and stunning all spectators watching, as Naruto's hands twitched and the blast flew outwards. The Kumo nin never had a chance. His body was pulverized and destroyed beyond recovery. Naruto's power seemed to leave him as he stumbled forward before falling in front of Hinata.
"Hinata...safe...mission... complete..."
Hiashi had been watching in awe, hearing Naruto's speech. Having been woken up by Kyubi's youkai, he sought out his daughters, finding his eldest missing. His Byakugan quickly confirmed several things. He didn't have chakra coils any more, they were shredded apart, probably by the youkai. In their place however, flowed another power, one he couldn't identify. It seemed to leave as quickly as it came however and the child stumbled forward. Hiashi could barely make sense out of the situation so he did something he rarely if ever did. He decided to let the Hokage sort it out. A few of his most trusted servants quickly came and cleaned up evidence as well as taking Naruto to the hospital.
A/N: Another fic by yours truly. Yeah yeah I know I suck. I should first finish one fic before starting a new one, but can you really blame me? All these wonderful ideas swimming inside my head like a myriad colorfull fish inside an endless abyss illuminated by mystic gems sending shards of light in every direction, color and shape imaginable. Ahem, I'll stop now.
Anyway, this is the first chapter of my new fic. Naruto's powers are the manipulation of Light and Darkness, in both spiritual and literal aspects, as well as temporal/dimensional manipulation. Justification follows in the next chapter. It may sound a bit shaky to most, but bear with me and I shall explain it all in a following chapter.