Hello everybody! In advance thanks for reading my story. Hope you like it. Now, as you all know, there are some things everybody who has ever written a Naruto fan fiction has had to go through.
I do NOT, nor will I probably everL, own Naruto. We all know who gets that credit.
In this story it'll be told by a narrator, who will speak like a narrator should. Don't worry. This won't last long, probably only this chapter and the last. Next chapter will be told in third person, from one of the characters perspectives. You guys can decide who.
Now without further ado, let's begin. R&R please!
"Ah, hello there travelers. What brings to this old place, haven't you heard the stories? What? You haven't? Well then, take a seat around my fire and I'll tell you the story, the story of the demon that haunts these very woods. It goes by many names, Kyuubi, Kurama, Akuma Kitsune, etc. No matter what you call it, the stories are all the same."
"It's a nine tailed fox, hence the name. But it isn't one of those little orange animals that look oh so adorable. No this thing is the size of a large adult man, with each of its tails sixteen feet long, and it has a mean streak a mile wide. Nobody knows where it came from or when it arrived, just one day, it was there."
"It all started roughly 46 years ago. Deep in these woods is an abandoned village that was once the most prosperous village around. Until the Kyuubi. Anyone who tried to enter Konoha, be they travelers, merchants, relatives of villagers, they all died before reaching the village. Nobody inside the village was harmed, but as soon as they went past the village's border, they were fair game for the Akuma Kitsune."
"It got to the point where nobody traveled to the village for fear of death. The village was effectively cut off from the world, thanks to the Kyuubi. Finally, the leader of the village, Minato I believe his name was, decided enough was enough. He gathered the village's militia and set off into the forest to find the beast that had terrorized them."
"They didn't have to wait long before they found it. Maybe ten minutes. The militia engaged the beast, led by Minato."
Flashback, 44 years ago. . .
Men rush at the beast, spears in hand, attempting to stab it. But the fox uses its gigantic tails to fend them off before it jumps up and disappears, leaves rustling and branches falling as it jumps through the canopy.
The remaining militia men stand around panting from exhaustion, as two dozen of their comrades lay lifeless on the ground. Minato stands where the Kyuubi once was, staring up at canopy.
"Where did the bastard go?" he mutters to himself, before a loud, deep laughter surrounds the assembled men.
"Stay sharp!" he yells to his men, "It's coming back!"
They huddled together and stared out into the woods, spears at the ready, waiting for the fox to reappear. The laughing stops shortly after. Then silence consumes the forest. And then it starts.
Deep growls come from one direction and the men turn their spears to the sound. It stops. It starts again in the opposite direction and the troop's trip over themselves in their panic to face the enemy. The growling stops abruptly . . . only to be replaced by the same deep laughter of before.
"Calm down!" Minato rallies the men, "Get in a circle and stay that way dammit!" that way he can't surprise us."
It goes on like this for 5 minutes, the growling appearing in one are then stopping and moving to another one. And then it stops entirely. The silence is so thick that you could cut it with a knife.
Finally, one of the soldiers snaps. "Where the fuck is that thing!?"
And the laughter comes back, except this time it's all around them! The troops mutter and yell, daring the beast to show its face.
And Minato stands there, calm and composed and thinks. Let's see, so far it's been toying with us, going from side to side, and panicking my men. But we've always been able to tell where it was. But this time we can't. So either it has a pack, which I doubt, or it's. . .
"Everyone scatter! It's right above us!"
And in the instant all of the men start to dash outwards, the Kyuubi fell from the sky.
Well, what do you think? This will no doubt be my shortest chapter. Stay tuned to find out what's gonna happen to Minato and his men.
Oh and before I forget, REVIEW! My life depends on it!