''Speaking'' - ''Believe it''
'Thinking' - 'I don't believe it'
Jutsu - Fire Style: Great fireball Justu!
Location - Konohagakure no Sato
Chapter One: The Pain
Pain is a simple yet powerful feeling. One that creatures developed to help us survive. Yet we got more then we bargained for. Pain isn't just a feeling anymore. It is an emotion. Just like happines, love.., Hate... It is somthing we fear and cannot predict when or where it will happen. It just does.
Most people lived through pain. Either physical which can leave bruises and scars. Or the darker side of pain. Emotional pain is often found in connection with love, hate and greed. However this type of pain doesn't have as meny physical reprocuttions but mental. Craziness, hate, desire. All of these feelings are enchanced.
One who knows pain better then most is one Uzumaki Naruto. His pain was only partly physical. But being lonely was another problem altogether for him. He never had family, friends, even acquantinces were hard to find. For some reason he still to this day cannot find they hated him, glared at him like he was nothing more then some litter on the road. He loathed those stares. It felt like they were cutting him with their eyes.
So he did the only thing he could. He tried to make them laugh. Tried to get their attention. Oh he got their attention, However it was not in a positive way. When he became more vocal, they berated him, sometimes in worst cases even beaten him.
So he did the only thing that came to mind... He left.
The Sandaime was not happy with his choice, not happy at all. He thought Naruto was incapable of doing wrong. A kid who loved the village that despised him, right? He sent ANBU, jonin, chuunin squads searching for him, people that were capable of tracking down chuunin level nin.
They never found him. Not even prodigies like Itachi or Kakashi were unable to locate his whereabouts. Its like the damn kid evaporated into thin air. Of course he considered that he could have been kidnapped. But in the middle of the day in Konoha it was not too likely. The Kyuubi jinchuuriki probably got fed up with the people and left. That was five years ago. He was seven at the time. Just started the academy too. He wondered what Naruto would be like if he was still here.
The door croaked open ''Hokage-sama'' a bandaged man greeted the leader of Konoha. He was Danzo the Yami no Shinobi (Ninja of Darnkess). Even with his underminded tactics he only seeks what is best for Konoha in his eyes.
Sarutobi suppressed a sigh. It was a long day of paperwork and he simply didn't have the energy to deal with Danzo right now. Perhaps tomorrow, but not now. ''Danzo, i hope this isn't important. I am a tired old man afterall.'' the aged Hokage greeted.
Danzo acctualy smiled at this. He enjoyed conversations with Hiruzen. It was like talking to his opposite self. And you know what they say ''opposites attract''. ''Yes Hiruzen'' he started. ''I believe the roots of the village have found somthing that might interest you'' he always did this talking as if everyone didn't know his ROOT or The Foundation was still operative.
Even with this in mind the Professor knew that Danzo usually didn't come to his office just for the shits'n'giggles of it. No, this had to be somthing important if he would come to him. ''Well Danzo out with it.'' He was tired. He wanted to get straight to the point.
Danzo suppresed a smile and started. ''Yes, of course Hokage-sama. I believe my ROOT has discovered the location of one Uzumaki Naruto, that has been oh so elusive these past years.''
To say the Hokage was in shock was like saying grass was yellow. He was feeling meny things at the moment. Happiness, guilt and curiosity. But all of those overshadowed by worry. If Danzo found the son of the Yondaime. Then said son would have meny problems.
''A young masked individual around 11-13 years old with black hair calling himself Menma has started to appear around Fire country. He has been sighted killing dozens of thugs, bandits and even some C to B rank missing-nins.'' The Sandaime processed the information throught but there was somthing off about the information that Danzo was giving him.
''Danzo im not sure you are aware, but Naruto-kun has bright yellow hair.'' the old man was looking sceptical about this whole situation.
''This is true, however Hiruzen. You forget that he outrun and simply escaped even my ROOT squads. I wanted to take the jinchuuriki for myself. But he was elusive. We just simply couldn't find him. Take into account that there are not meny children with the power to kill people walking around in the Fire country.''
''I see.'' he really didn't want to believe this was Naruto. Killing people at such a young age must be horrible to bear. ''Very well'' the Hokage started. ''I am going to send a couple of ANBU squads into the depths of Fire country'' he stated smiling. ''However should they fail. The roots will simply have to go deeper.''
Danzo was now smiling. Hiruzen never indulged him in his little game of Roots as it was unnamely called. It only happend when somthing serious was about to happen. ''That is all i ask Hokage-sama, thank you'' with that the Yami no Shinobi simply left.
Undisclosed location: Fire Country
A boy no more then twelve years old was currently walking along the forest road. He had Kitsune ANBU style mask on his face. He wore a dark blue-grey robe with grey lining and a fur collar, fingerless opera-length black gloves wrapped in studded red-brown leather straps, baggy black pants, and red-brown sandals. This was Naruto Uzumaki. To the world known only as Menma.
He never stays in one place for too long. Usually it is to gather supplies for his main hideout. To train, find books about fuinjutsu, Nin, tai or even Genjutsu. By now he was probably a chuunin level-nin. He had a goal. An ambition. He wanted to set things right.
'I am still not strong enough' he mused. It was a simple observation. 'I will need somthing to make me ascend. Above the normal shinobi.' Suddenly a noise made him jump, breaking himself out of his musing he turned to the new appearences.
Making themselves appear were a couple of bandits. ''Hey kid give us all your money and we might not hurt you'' the leader demanded.
He inwardly sighed. Menma didn't really like killing. But when faced with these kind of ''demons'' in human form he just couldn't help himself. He raised his hands and mutterd something in his raspy voice. ''Fire Style: Great fireball technique''
He started gathering chakra in his mouth and it expanded when the great fires went through the small hole in his mask. The bandits had a terrified look on their faces. Moments later the fireball hit them.
Their bodies laid on the ground black and burned. 'Still not big enough!' Even though it could kill every bandit with one shot Menma was not satisfied. ''Perhaps i should visit my village again'' he started musing. A few hours later he came to his destination. An old abandoned training mansion. It was supposedly used by the Toad Sage Jiraiya and the Fourth Hokage himself. Walking inside he started musing about the great shinobi that supposedly lived and trained here.
Menma always idolised the Yondaime. He was the hero of his village afterall. Butchering Iwa-nin with his famous Flying Thunder God technique. He was one of the greatest shinobi of all time. The Toad Sage is not someone he had much information about. From what he could gather he is a spy master who worked with Orochimaru and Tsunade Senju. But they were all minor beings compared to the blond haired Hokage in his eyes. To be able to kill an army was simply amazing. Because of this the former blond haired jinchuuriki became interested in finding out about more iconic figures from the world. The most interesting he found were the founders of Konohagakure.
Uchiha Madara. The name that made the Sandaime Tsuchikage tremble. The man himself only exerted real presence when fighting the Shodai. Otherwise he held a calm and almost bored visage. The Uchiha clan head was also one of the greatest masters of Fire style techniques. The famed Great Fire Anihhilation was said to bring down armies. He was said to have mastered the sharingan to its fullest potential. This though confused the Kitsune wearing boy since from what he gathered mastering sharingan to its fullest was done by meny Uchiha before and after him. That information piqued his interests.
However his rival was no slouch either. Hashirama Senju. God of shinobi. The leader of the Senju clan and the bearer of the famed Kekkei Tota, Wood style or Mokuton. The ability to give chakra and convert it to life. It was one of the greatest dreams of meny men. It is said that Madara's rival used these techniques to build the village itself. That was merely a rumor, yet it was a believable one.
The masked anti-hero came up to a desk and sat down 'Perhaps i should begin in more advanced fuinjustu arts' he started thinking. Fuinjustu was an art he grasped with relative ease. Perhaps that one of the first pieces of literature he found were simply amazingly easy to understand. Perhaps it was in his genes, maybe his parents were masters in the art.
'I really should stop thinking about such trivial things' he thought. Thinking about family, how his life would have been like if he stayed in his village were in his mind. It was like a part of him longed visiting the place which he both hated and loved. Yes, Konoha was the place he never felt a part of but it was still his home.
He slowly checked the books the old training field had about fuinjustu and found one that piqued his interest. It wasn't all about fuinjutsu per say. But it was something he found simply fascinating. 'Well this should be interesting, The Bijuu and known sealing methods huh?'
With that he spent meny nights in the old mansion learning about meny of the worlds secrets.
Well that is that!
My very first fanfic! What do you think? Like it? Hate it? Constructive critisism always welcome!
Now let me explain some things. First are the couple of things that annoy me in anti-hero or dark Naruto fics that won't be included in this one:
1. Naruto randomly gets information (like he leaves the village and suddenly he knows everything. It gets annoying.) This is my biggest concern with these kinds of stories. Don't get me wrong he will get all the truth in my story aswell. But he randomly learns of his parents. He greets his Bijuu when he is like 5 and it trains him? He knows of the Uchiha clan massacre just cuz yeah.
2. Randomly gets somthing like the sharingan. Sure its fun when the fics focus on him being an Uchiha. But when he just randomly gets it because yeah Dark Naruto fic must have sharingan. (Im not saying its an impossibility that he will get it in my story, however he will not simply unlock it)
3. Naruto stories are usually OOC. But sometimes they are too OOC. For example Naruto suddenly stops caring for his teammates (honestly the Sakura bashing is too much sometimes) and hating Jiraiya and Tsunade aswell? what? Am i missing something?
4. He randomly gets other abilities.
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Alright DONE with my rant! Now onto the good stuffs. The pairing is still undecided. Most likely it will not be a Konoha kunoichi. Definitly not NaruHina i just don't wanna flood with more of that.
The justu Naruto WILL have:
- Basic rasengan (He won't use this jutsu too much)
- Rasenringu (After obtaining the Fox power)
- Nine masked beasts Justu (Later on)
- Repulsion technique (most likely in a couple of chapters)
- Dai Rasenringu (MUCH later on)
- Bunch of Fire style tecniques (now mostly Fireball)