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Blood. Scattered all over the forest.
My vision is blurry and my tears are falling, but it's not like this is a rare occurrence. My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I'm 9 years old and I live by myself in my very own apartment that my grandfather figure gave me. He's better known as the Hokage in my village. The Hokage is the leader of the village, which is what I strive to become. Whenever I'm with him I see how much respect he gets. He doesn't get the hateful glares, the look of fear in their eyes. That's why I want to be Hokage, to be respected. I'm not so sure about my dream right now. I have a feeling that once I become the Hokage nothing will ever change. I'll always be known as a demon, which leads me to my little predicament.
Today is October 10th, that's my birthday. It's the day the villagers celebrate the death of the Nine Tailed Fox and the victory of the 4th Hokage, who gave up his life to save his village. This is also the day I fear, the day that I get beaten to a pulp. My ears are ringing and I finally take a hold of my senses and try and get away.
"The demon is trying to get away!" shouted a drunken villager. He wobbled toward Naruto and gave him a rough kick in the stomach. The other two men accompanying the villager came over, one of them was just a regular civilian. The other one was a chunin, which was bad news. The three of them started to kick the poor boy spitting insults in his face. Of course Naruto would pick up a few from hearing them all the time.
"Fuck you." Naruto coughed out. Spitting blood on the drunken guy's shoes. The man turned red in anger and grabbed his bottle of sake off the ground. "YOU LITTLE BRAT!" the man smashed the bottle of alcohol on top of the boys head grinning like a mad man. The last thing Naruto could see was the smirk of the drunk as darkness took over his vision.
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"Am I dead?" Naruto whispered to no one in particular. He awoke in a sewer that had many tunnels leading to somewhere Naruto didn't know. There was water on the ground that was about a little over his ankle height Something seemed to tug in the back of his mind and his body reacted. He started to slowly walk through a pattern of the tunnels, not knowing where to go but follow the path that his mind set for him. He walked into an enormous room that had a giant golden gate with a big piece of paper that had the kanji for "seal" upon it. He approached it and looking through the darkness as a pair of giant red slitted eyes stared at him.
"So you finally decided to visit me." said a strong low monstrous voice which caused Naruto to stumble back and shiver in fear.
"W-who're you?"
"Who am I? I don't have a name, but you humans like to call me The Nine Tailed Fox." he said with a sadistic grin. Naruto's heart stopped, he's never been in this much fear. He felt so weak, so powerless.
"But you died years ago! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!"
"You fool, you think something as mighty as me can be killed?"
"Then how are you here, why are you here!"
"Your bastard Hokage sealed me within a child." he said with a feral grin.
It all made sense now. How the villagers treat him, why they call him a demon. 'How could I have been so blind. It's so obvious since the Nine Tails was defeated on October 10th. On my fucking birthday, I'm the Nine Tails. I'm a demon.' thought Naruto as he fell to his knees.
"So you finally figured it out?"
"I'm a demon aren't I?" he said aloud. The Fox scoffed, and looked him straight in the eyes. Naruto shivered in fear and hoped he would live to see another day.
"Enough of this. You're dying and I need you alive." the demon crawled closer to Naruto showing it's huge form. Naruto felt smaller and smaller as it got closer.
"Let's make you a demon." suddenly red chakra exploded through the cage and wrapped around Naruto. He felt a surge of power as his mind was engulfed in a bright red light.
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Naruto's body exploded with the red chakra as it surged around him creating a cloak. His nails sharpened as did his teeth. His whiskered cheeks were defined and a lot fuller. He lifted his body up as his eyes made contact with the drunken civilian with the broken bottle. The man screamed, as he looked into the red slitted eyes of a demon. Naruto ran at him like an animal as his wounds were closing at a very fast pace. He jumped at the man with his claws ready to kill him.
He slashed his claws across the mans chest and blood sprayed out like a geyser. Red chakra grabbed the man as it ate away his skin. He sped off the the other civilian and shoved one of his clawed hands into his throat. He sensed something coming at him from behind and twisted the dead body in front of him as a kunai impaled the corpse. He turned around and saw the chunin that was killing him earlier. He threw the body off his hand and screamed in a fit of rage as his eyes met the chunin's. Red chakra exploded around him and engulfed the ninja as it ate away his body and left him a mess.
Before Naruto met blackness he realized something. 'I just murdered three people.' he thought until he dropped on the forest floor slipping away into unconsciousness.