Lone Cry for Justice
UPDATED 9/9/12: I made a major change in the style of the prologue, which won't affect the plot much, but still was important for me to do, as the first take on this prologue was, in hindsight, weak. I hope it's all better now.
Ok, just to make this clear, because some people have accused me of 'cliche-writing', the incidents described here by Naruto were the only major quarrels with the villagers and I only chose the 'Naruto gets beaten' concept, because it is easy and doesn't really have anything to do with the plot, its just for dramatic measure, the proloque is after all in ego-perspective for a reason.
The 'Naruto gets abonded by parents' is harder to excuse, because if I did explain it, I'd reveal a major plot device, but rest assured that it isn't the normal reason.
Prologue
The wind blew through the trees as I finally reached my goal. What that goal is you ask? Simple, The Village Hidden in the Leaves. Why would I want to be there? A legitimate question if you consider who I am. My name is Uzumaki Naruto, but most people are ignorant of that, most people believe Uzumaki Naruto died 3 years ago and that's how I want it to stay, for now.
The reason for me being here is to give this village its appropriate end. Just as it was founded with blood, I will be 'its executioner, leaving blood and bones in my wake. This will be my stepping stone. This is just another chapter of the great story that will one day be known all over the world. People will fear me for it, love me for it, hate me for it or respect me for it. It does not matter.
This villages history is the oldest of all the ninja village, its founding more than a century ago. Coincidentally, it will end as it started, cemented with the end of a grudge and broken by the end of a war.
But my particular distaste with this villages springs from events not that long ago. This is the spark that ignited the fire, that will consume Konoha on this last day of its existence.
-Flashback-
The earth trembled and the buildings crumbled. Something hit the ground with the force of a tsunami. The Village Hidden in the Leaves was not having a good day, in fact it was the worst since Madara Uchiha betrayed it.
The worst possible catastrophe was haunting the village, some call this vile creature a natural disaster, others call it hate incarnate, but the most well-known name for it was Kyuubi no Youko, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
For almost all people, civilians and shinobis alike, it came out of the blue. Nobody could see it coming or hear its roars, not even feel its foul chakra that could normally be felt from miles away.
Three people knew the truth about its appearence though. These three people where Namikaze Minato, the Fourth Hokage of Konoha, his wife Namikaze Kushina and the mastermind behind the attack, Madara Uchiha.
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For Minato Namikaze the day began as one of the happiest days in his still short life. His wife, Namikaze Kushina, was going to give birth to their children today, a boy and a girl, just like he always wanted. But before that happened special preparation were neccessary, because Kushina was not a normal human, she was a Jinchuuriki, a demon container. She housed the strongest of all the Bijuu (Tailed Beasts), the Kyuubi no Youko and due to the nature of this specific demon, the seal which holds the demon, would be severely weakened. Hence, the precautions.
Everything was going smoothly, the twins where finally out of their mothers womb, after almost 10 hours of "PUSH!", but that soon went to hell when they heard a low, threatening voice say "Hand over the Jinchuuriki and your son will live longer than one minute." Everyone was startled when they heard it, Minato and Kushina had fawned over their daughter, while the nurse, who was the only other one in the sealed up cave that they had chosen for the birth, was washing their son. They noticed that the nurse had a deep gash in her throat, and standing over her dead body was a man with an orange spiral mask that only had one eyehole, and a black cloak that concealed his whole body. In his arms, resting peacefully was their son, Naruto Namikaze, and he was holding a kunai at his throat.
"Oh my god, Naruto! Don't hurt him!" gasped Kushina. Minato reached for one of his special kunai and said "Who are you and what do you want with Kushina?"
The man chuckled, "More worried about your wife than your baby I see. Very well I shall answer your question, I am Madara Uchiha and I want what's rightfully mine, the Kyuubi."
Minato's and Kushina's eyes widened and the Namikaze Clan Head positioned himself between the man and Kushina. "Thats impossible, you died in battle against the First Hokage!"
"Ha ha ha, as you can see I am very much alive and I will get what I came here for!", with that he threw Naruto in the air and dashed towards Kushina.
"Save him Minato! We will be alright" Kushina screamed and took their second child, which they had named Akane (Bright Red), before running to the exit.
Minato ran towards Naruto and caught him before he could become a blood stain on the ground and then threw his kunai to Kushina to execute his most famed technique, the Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique). In a flash of yellow he was beside Kushina.
Just then Madara grabbed Kushina's right arm and yanked her towards him. In a moment of desperation she handed Akane to Minato and said, " Bring them to safety"
Minato only nodded and disappeared in yet another yellow flash, bringing the two newborns into a cottage and lying them gently in a crib. Then he activated his prized jutsu again, coming back into the cave, gone for ten seconds at most.
But the cave was deserted, save for the dead body of Biwako Sarutobi.
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"So heart warming, you would have made such a good family", Madara chuckled as placed Kushina on an altar like stone.
'Sharingan', he looked her directly into the eyes and the tomoe of the "Spinning Wheel Eye" began to rotate wildly. Kushina was staring back blankly and deep within her soul a roar could be heard.
Suddenly Kushina screamed as she felt her stomach burn and a cloak of dark-red, malevolent chakra surrounded her. Behind her the chakra was gatherering and slowly the concentration increased, until you could make out a giant fox with nine tails squirming behind it.
'Oh no, I have to stop it, its going to destroy the village!' Kushina tried to stand up, but she was too exhausted. Madara laughed evilly, "How fitting for the Bijuu to kill its Jinchuuriki! Kill her, Kyuubi!"
The fox roared and brought his paw down on the injured Kushina, but when the dust cleared there was nothing there.
"I'm just in time." Minato said as he held Kushina in his arms. Madara glanced at him and shrugged, "Its futile, I have my pet now and thats all I wanted. To Konoha my loyal pet!" and he dissappeared in a swirl, while the Kyuubi puffed out of existence.
"We have to stop the fox somehow." Kushina exclaimed. Minato thought for a minute and then said, "I think I have an idea..."
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A figure appeared at the gates of Konoha and calmly walked through it. The guards that tried to stop fell to the floor after a quick Sharingan induced glance.
The figure bit its thumb and performed handseals. 'Boar, dog, bird, monkey, ram!'
The man slammed his hands on the ground and a giant intricate pattern appeared on the earth around him, before a grand puff of smoke covered the whole area around the gate. Out of this smoke an evil growl could be heard, then everything went to hell.
A giant fox with nine tails began to destroy anything that came into its path. The ninja of the village where quickly gathering in the townsquare from where Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage led them into battle.
"We have to stall it until the Fourth arrives!" Hiruzen shouted, and he dashed off, the transformed monkey king Enma in his hands.
After what seemed like an eternity of slaughtering, screaming and crying, a big plume of smoke once again covered the area.
In the smoke stood Gamabunta, the Boss Summon of the Toads and standing proudly on its head, with his white cloak fluttering in the wind, was the Yondaime Hokage.
"Its the Fourth"
"Finally, we are saved!"
"Destroy this damn Fox!"
Cheers erupted from the exhausted and injured ninja around Gamabunta and the Sandaime smiled when he saw his successor.
The fox snarled angrily, his Sharingan eyes boring into the fearless blue ones of Minato.
Kyuubi charged a big ball of energy at his muzzle and fired it at the village.
Minato reacted quickly, he threw his kunai in the balls trajectory and made a half-ram seal. The ball collided with the kunai and dissappeared in a flash of yellow, far away from the village a big explosion could be seen. Everyone gulped at that.
"Bunta! We have to stall it a little longer, Kushina is finishing our seal array." Minato exclaimed and Gamabunta nodded. He shot forward, his katana drawn
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Kushina finished drawing a circular seal and made handseals. After one minute of constant handseals, the seals before her suddenly glowed. Before Kushina a giant circle of Kanji covered an area big enough to hold the Kyuubi. Connected to that circle were three much smaller circles and two of them where occupied by Naruto and Akane respectively. In the middle of the big circle a lone Hiraishin kunai rested, waiting to be used...and it didn't have to wait long.
In a huge yellow flash, the Kyuubi appeared in the middle of the seal array, with Minato quickly running towards Kushina, who now stood in the last circle. He executed a chain of handseals and brought his hands down on the seal.
From each smaller circle eight ropes erupted and bound the Kyuubi. The fox tried to move, but the ropes where too strong and with another chain of handseals from Minato, it slowly dissolved, while the ropes had red chakra running down to the occupants of the smaller seals, who where now all unconscious.
"Fuinjutsu: Three Gods, Eight Pillars"
Minato collapsed on the ground, succumbing to sweet uncosciousness, a smile on his face. He did it! He saved the village AND his family.
-Flashback end-
And so, Minato Namikaze became the most celebrated hero in the history of the village. He suddenly was even more of a role model than before. A hero who had killed hundreds of Iwa nin in the span of one minute, with the fact that he almost died after that only adding more to his heroism. A hero who had defeated the strongest Bijuu alive, a man of honor and valor.
He split the very being of Kyuubi into three parts, soul, Yin, and Yang, and imprisoned them in three humans.
I was imbued with the soul, my sister with the Yin and my mother with the Yang. You may wonder why my father would split the Fox into three parts, the answer is simple. My mother was on the verge of death and only the Kyuubi's inhuman healing could save her, but sealing the entirety of the demon or just splitting it in two would have needed the Dead Demon Consuming seal, which offers the Shinigami the soul of the summoner in exchange for a favor. He chose a century old Trap Seal, which was used to seal the Bijuu in the old days. There where only two requirements, the seal was as intricate as can be, so it needed a Seal Master of the highest degree to draw it. The other requirement was that it could only be drawn in blood that was in contact with active chakra, meaning ninja blood. The blood Kushina used was that of the nurse, Biwako Sarutobi. Then there was the problem of getting the Bijuu inside the sealing array, which eventually was the reason the Seal was abolished, as many ninja died in the process. With the Hiraishin though, it was painfully easy for my father to succeed.
Were was I now? Ah, yes, how it came to this day. After the new hero Minato sealed the fox, he faced the citizens of Konoha, who were much smaller in number after the attack. And so, the tale of Kyuubi no Yokou's defeat was woven, its string made of lies and the loom demented by the power. That day became monumental in Konohas History, as well as the speech given that day.
-Flashback-
"People of Konoha! Today was one of the worst days in our history, never have we lost so much. So many brave ninja who protected their charges died today. So many proud citizens lost their lifes to the evil that tried to annihilate us all. So many innocent women and children suffered from this disaster that threatened to consume us. But now comes a time of hope and prospering that we all crave for, because today, trough our combined effort, we defeated the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. With the help of all of you, I managed to seal away the immortal being."
He held up his daughter while his wife stood beside him, their son in her arms.
"With the help of an ancient Seal I managed to split the Kyuubi into Yin, Yang and soul and banish it into my daughter Akane, my wife Kushina and my son, Naruto respectively! Never again will this vile beast attack our village!"
The crowd was ecstatic, though many frowned upon Naruto, but it went unnoticed by the people who were celebrating their survival or mourning their lost ones.
Minato smiled at the villagers one last time and then went into the Hokage tower to spend some well deserved time with his family.
-Flashback end-
If you asked anyone present that day, he would say it was a heart-warming speech. But it was delivered by someone so unfamiliar to that concept, that it seemed the Universe had a really dark sense of humor. It was indeed a great time after the Fox had been banished. It was very easy for Minato to forge the people of Konoha into his own little herd of sheep, ninja notwithstanding, as they are a bigoted lot, always thinking about themselves, nothing much to see of the love and harmony principle, upon which Konoha was built and which it preached to the other nations.
It wasn't long after the defeat of the Demon that they began to wonder about the words of their Hokage, more specifically about the part of me being the container for its soul. Would it be clever to leave the Kyuubi's soul wandering through the village or let it near the containers of its power, was what they thought. The people of Konoha, secretly herded by their Shepherd, went to said Shepherd to utter their worries and fears, clumsily hiding them as concern for the well-being of the Hokages family, but not only the sheep came to that conclusion, to the joy of the Shepherd. Most of the council was sane enough to think better, but not everyone.
I was sent to an orphanage in the outer skirts and with much fighting they accepted me. My life in the orphanage from what I can remember was the worst time of my life.
First I thought it was normal for me to be ignored, to have less to eat then the others, to lack proper toys, but that was because they kept me in the cellar, so that no one could see the shame of the orphanage. But spite and anger, distrust and hate were not the only emotions they had regarding me, one reigned supreme over them all.
Fear.
That fear was what drove them to leave me out of the cellar, and not let me back in the orphanage.
So I had been abandoned to the even harsher terrain of the streets, but it was better than the cellar, because of one major difference. I had freedom. The world, or at least the village, lay at my feet. No one would stop me from stealing food, stealing books, scrolls and ink, stealing gear. No one would stop me, because no one saw me. I was just another street urchin, nothing to be too concerned about. So the rumors of the "Fox Brat" faded into murmurs and eventually died.
I would not be noticed until almost a year after first setting foot on the streets.
And by the most curious person, too.
TBC
First story and all that shit, be nice and review...or don't, that "TBC" is just for show, I don't know if I will continue this story, it just sort of appeared in my mind. Maybe if it gets good reviews... if not then your loss I guess.
See ya...maybe.