I know I said that I had another Fanfic known as Black Eyes in the works but due to a unforeseen and very annoying, massive writers block it has been called off for now. I'm not sure if I will complete this one or my other fanficLegacy of the Ancients first. I consider this more of a side project than my other fanfic as a way to get around my temporary writer's cramp for chapter 5 of the mentioned story. However this will be continued for as long as I have inspiration so read enjoy and most importantly (jk but please) review!

Disclaimer; I don't own Naruto but I am more than happy to be able to write Fanfics of it!

Sword speech

thoughts or flashbacks

kyuubi or jutsu

Chapter 1

The Awakening

Focus the mantra that had been beaten into him so long ago echoed once more in his head as the ninja reached out with his mind to feel the minerals in the rock around his feet. Then he used his unique kekkei genkai to change then into things he could use for his attack. Quickly he began making a series of seals as the now glowing earth raced up his right arm.

Gyokueitonhyouhenhou (Crystal release; Shard cannon)!

He threw out his hand pointed at his target and a sharp spike of blue crystal erupted from his hand and connected with the bulls-eye, followed quickly with four more that split the target right down the middle. Without pausing his hands flashed into another quick series of seals.

"Gyokueitongyokueigusoku(Crystal release; crystal armor)

The ground around him rose up and formed into black matte armor that incased him from the waist up with two pairs of blades attached to the sides of his forearms that pointed back toward him on and ran at the wall jumping back just before colliding with it then launching the gauntlet part of it to shatter the spikes, and the wall directly ahead of him, and then recalled the gauntlet and willed the blades attached to his forearms to swing forward and jumped in between the two remaining dummies and slashed several times too fast for the eye to follow he dismissed his armor and heard multiple thuds behind him as the dummies fell in ten pieces each. Looking around he wondered why he did this the last intruder had been almost ten years ago and that had just been a curious genin of the leaf. Of course he didn't kill him and thanks to the Hokage's help he had made sure that no memory of the incident remained.

He then went into the room that was probably one of the best kept secrets in Konoha and gazed around, bored from spending so much time in here. He smiled as he remembered the reaction of the genin had accidently wondered in one time he had forgotten to close the entrance on one of his rare trips to the surface. He had been found him in the main cavern rendered speechless by the magnificence around him. That too had been his reaction to when he had seen it when he was that young, but that was a long time ago and he had ceased to admire the sheer magnitude of this place. The chamber was enormous both the Hyuuga and the Uchiha districts could have fit into the main cavern twice with plenty of room to spare. Stairs of darkly glinting crystal lead up to houses that looked like they had been grown, which they had been, around the enormous stalagmites that grew from rock around them. Each topped with spires that still released puffs of steam at regular intervals that was used to heat the houses. Yup it sure was something to see for those not used to it. A waterfall danced down out of sight behind a sloping wall of darkened quartz that showed him his destination. The hot springs after refreshing his body he would do his daily check on the portal room.

He had been training for some time now as he had been feeling restless and so his clothes were drenched. He shucked off his training clothes and flung them into a nearby box made for that very purpose and headed into the pool, he would take care of those later.

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"Thank you very much Mrs. Haruno." Young Naruto had just finished eating the dinner that had he had earned doing a few chores around the house.

The tall pink haired woman smiled kindly down at him as he finished the meal quietly and with obvious relish. Internally, she sighed as she prepared to offer the same thing once more that she had offered every year since Naruto had been given his apartment.

"Naruto the festival is tonight isn't it?"

Naruto's face fell and for few second and she was sure that she had seen a look of fear dart across his features, but then he smiled as though trying to cover for a mistake.

"Yeah but don't worry I'll be fine!"

"Naruto," her brown eyes locked with his blue as she kneeled down to look him in the eye.

"You know you can stay with us."

Naruto put his hand behind his head.

"Really it's alright it's good enough that you trust me and give me odd jobs around here don't worry I'll be fine I always am!"

She opened her mouth to argue once more and then shut it.

"Okay just remember to come by tomorrow I need to have the windows washed and I have another council meeting to go to okay?"

Naruto nodded, "Okay then I'll see you later!" With that he went to the door and henged into a taller boy with brown hair and black eyes and then started his walk home. As she looked out the window she sighed there was just no reasoning with him. Sometimes he was so stubborn that if she didn't know any better she would have assumed him to be one of Sakura's distant cousins. He was bright enough to be one at any rate. She had noticed that whenever he worked outside he henged into another person as a way of making sure that she couldn't be tied to him in any way. The only time he dropped it was when he was inside away from any windows. Also he had asked her to check out scrolls from the library where she worked to improve his control and knowledge his own books given to him by the instructors were outdated and if anything should have been thrown away years ago. He finished most of those scrolls even the big ones in two weeks three tops if he was really busy. It made her so mad to see such a bright boy mistreated at every turn but there was really nothing she could do about it so she went to wrap up the leftovers for Sakura always made sure to bring him his lunch.

Naruto was about to open the door to his apartment when he felt a sting on the back of his neck and slapped at it.

"Ouch!" he felt his neck and not feeling anything shrugged

"Must just be a bug."

In the shadows Mizuki smiled sinisterly. The tag was in place and now no matter where he hid he would find him and he could now use the commotion of the mob killing the demon to steal the forbidden scroll as he had tried last year. He had tried the same thing last year but the demon had more stealth than he had thought. Who knew a brat like that could hide from him a trained Chunin? It had taken him weeks to learn that jutsu but now it was finally going to pay off.

He watched Naruto open up the door and head inside and laughed softly.

"This year is the year you die fox!"

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After he was finished he rose and dressed in his usual attire a tight green short sleeve shirt, along with a zipped up black collarless vest with two pairs of pockets in the front and the symbol of his clan in red on the back. He pulled on a black pair of pants with a red stripe running up both legs and a pair of black ninja sandal. He then went over to grab his kunai holster and strap on his special bracers. He looked at the at the level of crystal left in his thick silver bracers before he put them back on and frowned. He knew that he had been low from practicing a new jutsu the other day, but there was most nothing left! He would have to go refill them later. He glanced at the mirror happy that he never had to do anything with the black hair and beard and turned back to look at his last piece of equipment, his sword. He looked over at his sword and after a short mental debate decided not to put it on again after all as long as he had the earth around him he could just make his own, he remembered wistfully the last good battle he had been in. That time the sword had been snapped and since then he had worked long and hard to create a new stronger one that at the time he had hoped to test it out again by asking for a rematch. This was not to be the case for when Sarutobi had been recalled to be Hokage once more he had no time for a good sparing match.

He sighed and proceeded from the hot springs back to the main chamber and walked to the tower that housed the object that he was bound to protect. He opened the door and took a moment to admire the workmanship of his clan now long gone. The room was in the shape of a circle with the yin-yang symbol taking up the entire room made of black and white crystal on either side there were row upon row of human statues each one looking just like it had just been delivered by a master carver. The details of the statues surpassed even the most obsessed perfectionist and that was for good reason. After all there was no one who could imitate life and all the statues here had all once been living men and women. Some were onyx and others marble, but all were dead. It was sad, he thought, that these were all that remained to tell the tales of men and women who had chosen death over power and through their deaths they had saved millions. It was truly a pity that all their sacrifices were merely rumors and legends, the only records of which being in the yellowing scrolls of generations past and the records he himself made out of crystal. At the center of the symbol was a golden circle, half in and half out of the black and white tears that made up the yin-yang symbol. In the center of that was a doorway that was so big that even from his vantage point at the door it made him feel small but it was what was at the base that he had come to see. To the side there were two pedestals with scrying crystals set in them the left one was dark and right one was lit with the image of what was before him. He sighed, it had been a long time since that particular crystal had been lit. In the center of them was an exact copy of the giant doorway. He took his time walking up to this as he let his eyes wander remembering faces that hadn't aged a day since they had arrived and he lost himself in a flood of memories. He didn't even realize that he was now in front of the doorway and he shook his head as he turned his gaze to the newest statue. Directly in front of the smaller doorway was the statue of what was once a man but no longer. A determined look was spread across his ebon features still as he clutched the sword that was his downfall. All that was visible was the golden hilt with the silver gem in it's pommel still dark and still inserted into the diagonal hole in the top of the arched doorway. Though he had failed his sacrifice was enough to close the portal for another 20 years.

He looked over at the sword in the ebony hand once again mourning that he had succumbed to darkness. He had been his best hope to let him rest in peace but he too had failed and until the next wielder was chosen he would have to continue waiting down here. He couldn't help but wonder how much longer he would have to wait before the sword would choose a new wielder. It had been many years and he was starting to give up hope. With a sigh he turned to leave and before he had taken four steps he felt a wave of heat wash over him and swore.

" No They had had a deal, and this wasn't what was supposed to happen!" he thoughtwondering desperately why the sword would for any reason break the promise that it had made so long ago. Turning he saw the ebony man the sword in hand looking directly at him. Looking back at the gate he could see that the keyhole was turning once more back to its original horizontal position. As it stopped both doorways both big and small were beginning to open. He raced through 30 seals and was able to complete the technique.

"Gyokueitonkongourono jutsu" (Crystal release: diamond prison technique)

The jutsu worked and a huge clear crystal grew out of the ground entrapping the main portal in a dome that stopped time, if only for a few minutes, before the doorway had opened more than an inch. Even so that was enough to make the temperature rise in the chamber and a crack of red light was visible the light making the crystal prison look like condensed blood. He swore angrily, normally he would call more crystal to the surface to reinforce the jutsu. However after his training he didn't have the power needed to reinforce the barrier. He looked over at the now animated statue.

"Damn it! You had better have a good reason for doing this!"

The black stone eyes locked with his own, and using it's temporary puppet, the sword it projected a message into his head

"I must go if I do not then He will die."

With a flash the sword vanished and the statue then bowed to the guardian and walked over to take it's place at the head of the black statues that lined the yang of the symbol then it froze once more.

Back at the portal the guardian gritted his teeth, he would not allow another one to slip out! Normally the sword gave him a vision of the one who would receive it and he could go and bring him or her to it this time it must be serious indeed for it to leave beforehand. It knew the without the use of this jutsu the potential for disaster was vast.

I hope that the new owner is close, he thought by even now he could feel the forbidden jutsu sucking vast amount of his chakra to maintain the field within. Even as he watched the crystal started to shake dangerously and he knew that he only had a few minutes left before the prison consumed all of his chakra and started taking in his life force. Should that happened he would have no choice but to let it shatter. He would have to use the pendant around his neck to recall the Sword of Twilight but he would only do that as a last resort. He turned to the crystal that he used to forge a link with the crystal on the hilt of the sword and watched as it twirled in the air above the village like a giant compass needle and then stopped pointing downward.

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Why is it always me? That thought haunted Naruto as he dodged another kunai he had tried hiding and using the double layered henge he had learned that usually shook them. This time it didn't work he had tried it about a dozen times tonight and every time he had he would get a respite of only a few minutes if he was lucky seconds if not. Every year since he was 5 this had happened as mobs formed outside his house on his birthday and proceeded to "hunt the demon" as he heard them call it. Even with the failure of the henges he was doing well and was almost to the hokage building. If he could get there he would escape and the hokage would protect him. Maybe this time he would agree to grant his request to leave this village. He smiled as he watched the tower grow bigger with each passing second. Just a bit further and he would be home free, but it was then as he was distracted he made a fatal error. He made a wrong turn and was now trapped in a cul-de-sac the buildings too high for his exhausted body to jump over. He turned and watched with fear as the first member of the mob stepped around the corner.

"Well well well look who we have here," a white haired man with a chunin vest smirked and he cupped his hands and yelled, "Hey men over here we finally have this little fiend caught!"

They came like vultures to roadkill some with knives others swords and even spiked clubs but they all had the same sadistic gleam in their eye. Naruto looked around for someone anyone to help him but it was after the festival and most of the population were resting in their beds after a full night for fun and games.

No one was coming to help him he thought his mind trying and failing to come up with something anything to find a way to survive this time, This is it I am really going to die going to die As they closed in he closed his eyes wanting to block out the pain he knew was coming, but suddenly from overhead came a voice he opened his eyes to see a strange sight. The mob had dropped their weapons and grabbed their ears in agony. He was puzzled it wasn't that loud or terrible and to Naruto it didn't hurt, in it sounded like music.

"What are you doing!?" One of the ninja had stuffed some ripped up cloth into his ears and from the look of pain on his face it wasn't working completely but it had focused him enough to whip out a pair of kunai, "Make it stop now do it or else.."

He wasn't able to finish his statement before a streak of light slammed into the ninja. As the light cleared it seemed to be a sword. Before anyone could react to this new development a burst of white light exploded from the sword that was so intense that he shut his eyes and threw up his hands. The light expanded into a domed and throwing all those but Naruto out of it hard enough to shatter windows and break down doors.

Naruto opened his eyes and was surprised at the lack of noise he heard almost nothing. He looked around and saw that he was sitting on a green grassy field. He looked around and saw a wall of crystal that he could see out of but by the looks of the people outside they could not see into it, but the thing that grabbed him most was the object at the center of the chamber. For at its center was a grey stone pedestal and in it a sword the like of which he had never seen before. It was a long straight bladed katana the hilt was gold and blade itself was two colors on one side black and on the other white. It's pommel held a silver diamond that glowed with energy and as he looked into the stone it was as though he could hear a voice calling him. Without thinking he found himself on the pedestal and reaching out to touch the gem in the hilt.

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When the hokage arrived on the scene the first thing he saw was the ANBU trying to break into the dome. Many launched kuani with explosive tags and a dog masked ANBU, marked as a captain by his full robes, was even using an earth technique to try and get underneath the dome, but he popped up a few seconds later on the other side shaking his head. The Uchiha police force was there as well launching, balls of fire from their Gokakyu (fireball) and Housenka (phoenix immortal fire) jutsu. They didn't use anything bigger than that as they didn't want to run the risk of damage to the village, but even after multiple salvo there was still no visible damage to the structure.

Striding up to the dog masked ninja who bowed upon seeing his leader he waved him to stop that.

"What is the situation?"

"Hokage-sama the villagers say that Naruto or the "demon brat" as they call him, killed a shinobi with a sword and then summoned this thing and is trying to summon the Kyuubi to kill us all."

He snorted in disbelief at that ridiculous statement.

"Luckily I found a much more accurate witness," he went into the house and returned a little with a mother in a long nightdress and her young pink haired daughter in red silk pajamas, the Hokage noted that she was only about 7 years old and as of such was very unlikely to lie.

"Please tell the Hokage what you saw Sakura."

Sakura looked from her mother to at the wrinkled old face in fear and the Hokage smiled.

"Don't worry Sakura you aren't in trouble I just need to know what happened tonight,"

"I was looking out the window at the stars when I heard a noise outside I looked down and saw a mob chasing a boy some of them throwing kunai and shuriken." The Hokage's teeth ground together when he heard this today October 10th had been the day of the festival and obviously the mob had somehow gotten it in their heads to eliminate the demon once and for all. He saw that Sakura had stopped and was looking worriedly at his face again and he knew that he hadn't kept all the anger he was feeling off his face. He smiled down at the girl reassuringly.

"I'm sorry Sakura I'm not angry at you, just at that mob now please continue,"

Sakura nodded and her small face hardened, "Yeah that's right why do they call him a demon I'll never know. Our mom sometimes pays him to do small chores for her in exchange for some food and he was always very polite and grateful, I actually opened the window and got one of the potted plants to throw at them,"

This girl had guts, the Hokage thought as he smiled inwardly, if she chose to she might become a fine ninja one day.

"They had cornered him in the cul-de-sac and were about to kill him I was just about to throw the plant when I heard the most beautiful sound," her eyes lost in the memory, "It was like someone was singing it was so sad but at the same time so beautiful and the mob started clutching their heads as though in pain. Then I saw a light appear as the singing grew louder and the whatever it was slammed into the ground and that big dome of light appeared and threw most of the bad men away!"

She nodded her adamantly, and the Hokage had to stifle a chuckle at how cute when she did that.

"Yup, it served them right to for attacking Naruto!"

"I won't argue with you there Sakura, Fang!" he gestured the dog masked captain to bend closer and whispered, "Remind me to send all people involved down to Ibiki later." He turned back to Sakura. "You can go back to bed now."

"No! I won't go until I see if Naruto is alright,"

The Hokage sighed she was just like her mother on the council, she was just plain stubborn. Well it couldn't hurt that much he nodded to her.

"Okay Sakura you can stay and watch but only if it is okay with your mother,"

Sakura looked up at her mother who nodded but it is too dangerous out here come we'll watch from your room."

"Okay."

When the mother daughter pair had gone back into the house the dog masked ninja put his hand on his leader's shoulder and pointed to the other side of the dome.

"Well one thing that the villagers said was true the body of one of the academy instructors was found split in half here but.." he was silent for a few moments before shaking his head, "If he was killed by a sword then it must have been one hell of a sword here I'll show you," they ran over to that side and the Hokage saw a white wrapped body and he nodded to Fang who knelt down to draw back the cloth.

The Hokage looked around and was surprised at the lack of blood. Here and there he saw a few drops that he had assumed were from the flying villagers but, he would have never guessed that there was a mutilated body under there! First of all there was no blood anywhere near the body so he must have been flung a long ways before hitting the ground and second he was only feet from the dome. If the thing that killed him had indeed been a sword then there should be blood everywhere and as Fang lifted the cloth he saw the man underneath and gasped.

The look of surprise was frozen across his face and he was still gripping a kunai in each hand was normal enough, but he was split in two! And he could see that both sides of his body were covered in black crystals. Then realization hit him and his eyes widened in fear.

"Fang you need to tell everyone to get out of here now evacuate the area this instant!"

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Then he stopped as a light began emanating form the sword and he had a vision of a great black stone gate and a voice spoke to him neither male nor female but with an unmistakable air of power.

"Last of the line of heroes. If you should take up this sword you will be given the power to change the course of history, although for good or evil I cannot tell. Your very fate will be intertwined with that of this planet."

Naruto blinked, okay now he had to be dreaming how else could he be inside a giant crystal with a sword that was now talking to him?

"This is not a dream I may have saved you but you still have the choice to take up the sword or not but time grows short. And you may truly be the last worthy to wield me."

Naruto thought of the pain and humiliation he had suffered at the hands of the villagers and this sword had just saved him. He ached to grab the sword and draw it then but something still struck him as suspicious. If it had power like this without anyone using it then why did it need him? There had to be a catch, but the more he thought about it the more he found he didn't care catch or no catch it was offering the power to never be afraid of the villagers again. Never again would he have to hide behind a double-layered Henge afraid of those around him! He reached out took hold of the hilt and though it was as taller than he was it was not too heavy and pulled and it came out of the pedestal and he held it awkwardly in front of him.

"Now your destiny and mine have become intermixed now for you to gain the power that is yours by right as my wielder, the powers of Light," here a man with white hair and silver eyes appeared on his right side smiling projecting an aura of peace.

"And Darkness," a man dressing in black with red eyes and black hair with and frown and shadows dancing arose his features, appeared on his left. They stepped forward and each placed a hand on one of Naruto's skinny shoulders and he felt a burning pain and then blacked out, but not before he heard one final message.

"Good luck, Twilight Swordsman"

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The Hokage had been the last to go after using a few doryuheki jutsus (Earth Wall) to try and contain as much of the blast as possible and he used another farther away to protect himself from the possible flying shards and when the blast sounded he waited for a second then dropped the jutsu and ran toward the remains of the dome. All but the last wall had been destryoed and he put his hand on it and drew the remainder of his chakra infused into it back into his body and watched at the wall crumbled. In the center he saw Naruto his hair blackened presumably from the blast but as he got closer he could see no burns anywhere on him but his shirt was in tatters. Curious to see why he lifted the remain of the shirt and gasped running down his arm all the way to his wrist was a tattoo of a white phoenix in flight and on the left arm was a black dragon fire breathing from it's mouth. Even as he looked on the tattoos grew fainter until they faded into the skin leaving no trace that they were there to begin with. It was only then that he looked down and saw the thing that shocked him the most. Now that the tattoos were gone he saw that in Naruto's hands was a sheathed sword, a sword he remembered seeing once before. Grimly he picked Naruto up and headed for the hospital. He would find a doctor to find out what had happened to him and heaven help anyone who refused to cooperate!

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Underground the doorway had closed once more and the crystal shattered. The ninja had nearly collapsed from the strain of holding it open for so long and had been about to use the pendant around his neck to summon the sword and consequences or no end the jutsu and jam it back into the keyhole himself. He had seen in the crystal brighten once more and forge a new link with the new swordsman.

Finally, he thought, I can get out or here for a while he thought but first I need to sleep. He smiled and fell asleep drained by the effort of holding the jutsu for so long. It was a shame for if he had stayed awake for a minute longer then he would have seen the shadow that slunk slightly out of the room and off to the corridor that led to the outside world...

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The sword has changed something in Naruto though why or how is still unknown. What does this mean for his future and what about the tattoos that cover his arms? What was the thing that was in the room just now? Heck why am I asking you guys? After all I already know! This one was insane I really have no idea where I got the inspiration from one minute I was watching Gundam the next minute this idea hits me and I run to my computer to write it down! Be warned that the translations I am using are not exact but they were the best I could find, just warning you not to use the individual words as translated directly! If this story continues to write itself like this I may have it completed before summer is over! Please review and tell me what you think!