A/N: This is my first attempt at a Naruto fanfic, the reason i am attempting it is I've just finished reading through the available manga series, and read a ton of fanfic, so needless to say I have ideas.
This fic will have one, probably two OC's that are fairly centric. I would ask reviewers not to flame them simply because they did not originate from Naruto. That said, comments, criticisms, flames, whatever are always welcome. Feedback, we use it to grow. Please, help me grow! (Says the 6'4 teen)
I have about.. Half of this fic planned out, outside of that I'm winging it. Soooo please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, if I did Sasuke would be dead, resurrected and killed again out of spite.
Prologue:
Jace let loose a long sigh as he slumped to the ground, exhausted. A rarity for the warrior. He glanced about the torn up battlefield. Dozens of dead littering grounds, many unique and varied ways of dieing. Had the young man not been raised in battle, the stench might have knocked him out. But he felt no pity or remorse for the numerous corpses. They shouldn't have gotten into the game of god if they weren't willing to pay the consequence. He looked back, casting grey eyes at the burning building. It had been his birth place, if you can call being artificially grown being born
The purple haired fighter was content for the moment, his hell of a birthplace finally burned to ground so that no child would have to grow up as him. A freak, a loner, a weapon. He mused softly to himself that in the end this place claimed everything he had. He looked over beside him at the weapon filled body of the only man he would call brother. The raven haired corpse had a grim, satisfied smile on its face. Jace groaned and got up, he was sad yes, but his greatest friend had died a true warrior's death. Dieing to save a friend, and taking out a whole fuck load of people in the process. Jace laughed as he got to his knees and picked up his friends only possession of worth, a 10 foot long sword, if you could call it that. The blade had long dulled itself on the blood of its foes, but that hadn't stopped its user from simply bludgeoning them to death instead. Jace reached into his vest pocket, and pulled out a blank scroll. Lightly biting his thumb he wrote out on the scroll and sealed the massive sword inside. His last link to his greatest friend.
With that last deed done he got up and turned away, turning his back on this chapter of life. A fitting funereal pyre. "Dray always said he didn't want to be buried..." Jace said softly to himself. "'Just leave me for the buzzards.' Well, here you go my friend, as you asked the vultures will have an unmatched buffet today..." He laughed as he wandered away towards the horizon.
-Two weeks later in the red-light district of small town in Rice country-
Jace grumbled, loudly. He was, in no small matter, bored stupid. He had quickly learned that driving force in his life had been his best friend. Without him there was nothing to do but simply wander around looking for a new direction in life.
"Hey, sweet cheeks, looking for a body to keep you warm?" Jace stopped at the sound of an uncomfortably masculine voice behind him. He slowly turned around to see the ugliest drag queen the world had ever known.
"...No thanks Ma'am, err, sir. Uh, whichever you... are..." And Jace had thought he had identity issues.
The man (or so Jace hoped, he really didn't want it possible for a woman to get so ugly in a dress) looked him up and down slowly, like he was eyeing a piece of steak. "You sure? I mean with how you're dressed..."
"Quite sure. Thanks for the offer." Jace said, being creeped out into overly politeness. Wait, what's wrong with what I'm wearing!? He said to himself.
You have purple hair. You're wearing a dark purple sleeveless jacket. A leather one at that, a dark orange shirt, and black cargo pants. And you're wondering why people think you like men?
Shut up fucking bird. I dress fine. Jace said to his own inner demon. A rather powerful phoenix known as Raxxieal, not one of the famed Biju but more of an, as he called it, independent contractor... Of a demonic nature.
His inner monologue was broken off by a new sound. Shouts of swearing were following a small red haired girl, no more then 6 years old. She was covered in cuts and bruises, and her clothing was tattered. She clutched a flute tightly to her chest as she ran straight into the tall purple haired man. He reached out and caught her preventing her from falling over. A look of concern flashed in his eyes at the girls condition. "Hey there sweetie.. What's the matter?" He spoke gently, not wanting to scare her.
She looked at him tears welling in the corner of her eyes. "S-some men are chasing me. They killed Grandma cause she wouldn't be stay quiet. Whatever that means... She tried to get me to run but I couldn't leave without my flute! They grabbed me and started… D-doing things to me... I managed to get free and run after a while but they coming soon..." She looked behind Jace fighting the urge to make a run for it, not knowing if she could trust this grey eyed stranger.
Jace narrowed his eyes as he rubbed the top of her head whispering quietly to her as he saw a group of four thugs, yakuza he surmised from how they were dressed. A harsh glare flashed through his eyes as they drew closer. "Stay here little one.. I won't let them harm you... Or your flute." He said glancing at the object clutched in her tiny shaking hands.
The four yakuza thugs stopped a few feet away from Jace, "Give us the girl, we might let you have some fun with us." He said, in what Jace assumed was to be taken as a threatening manner. "Or you can die with her, that work for you queer?"
Jace smiled once at the small girl in front of him and stood up, lightly pushing her behind him. "Or option three; I can stab you all in the face." He grinned with closed eyes and bared teeth as he said that, absent mindedly spinning a kunai in his left hand.
"Why you, we're part of the Toshina family boys ge-" The leader of the group was cut off as Jace's kunai found itself buried in his left eye socket. The man gurgled and slumped to the ground, blood starting to form a small pool where his head landed. The three thugs behind him stepped back. Jace hadn't even looked like he had moved.
"Wha- what did you do to Boss?" One stammered out. Jace sighed lazily as he flicked another kunai out and started spinning it as well.
"It's called flash step. Moron." He grinning, "You should learn it. Could really save your life." The second kunai found itself buried between the man's eyes as he too slumped over dead. "Damn, to late."
He grinned and pulled out two more kunai, one for each hand. "So which one of you mother fucking child molesters wants to be face fucked by my blades first eh?" The two thugs recognizing a pattern did the only thing they were trained to do. Turned and ran. "Bah, shit faced cowards!" Jace said throwing the two kunai, severing each mans spinal cord at the base of the neck. He smiled at his handiwork and rubbed his hands together as if cleaning them off.
The little girl looked up at him as he turned back and smiled at her. Picking her up and resting her on his shoulders. "So little one, what's your name?"
She looked at him and removed on hand from her flute to toy with his purple hair. "..Tayuya... You're hairs a funny color."
Jace laughed as he snapped his fingers, the four kunai he used disappearing in a puff of smoke. "That it is... My name's Jace. I'm uh, guessing you don't have any parents?" He said softly as they turned and started walking to a more respectable area of town.
"No... Will you be my new Dad?" she said relaxing a bit.
Jace was slightly taken aback by the question. But he shrugged off the worries. Well, I was looking for a new direction in life... "Sure. I'll make sure no one hurts you again." They both smiled as he reached up and patted her on the head.
-6 months later, in Konoha the Hidden Village of the Leaf-
"Fuck! Fuck shit!"
A little red haired girl cried out happily running through the shopping district of Konoha, her adopted father covering his face with his hand avoiding the horrified stares of passerby. As much as he had grown to love his adopted daughter, and all the cute little ways she had started to emulate him, picking up his particular penchant for language was not on his endearing list. "Umm, sweetie, remember adult words, don't use them in public." He asked politely. Deciding the best way to handle this would be to distracts his daughter. "Hey how about we get some food?"
She smiled happily and looked around; she paused and pointed at the store they were in front of. Ichiraku Ramen. Jace shrugged and went in. Tayuya smiled gleefully and ran in, spotting a young blonde boy eating alone at the counter. She immediately struck up a conversation. "Hi! My names Tayuya, what's yours?"
He looked up from his ramen, slightly surprised this girl had ran up to him and started talking to him. No one ever did that... He looked at her and grinned, "My names Naruto, the future Hokage!" He exclaimed proudly, holding out a peace sign. Would have been a cool pose if not for the ramen noodles hanging from his mouth.
"Umm, what's a Hokage?" She said smiling as the ramen fell from his mouth.
He ignored the food, which was currently answering the call of gravity, and looked thoughtful, "The Hokage is the strongest ninja in the village! When I'm Hokage everyone will respect me."
Tayuya nodded, "Cool!" And the conversation continued from there.
Jace smiled as he watched his daughter go on in great animation the things she'd done in the past few months. Teuchi, the owner of the shop smiled as he handed Jace a bowl of beef ramen, "Nice to see the boy getting on with someone." The proprietor said, a smile on his aging face.
Jace smiled back, breaking apart his chopsticks and eating some of the food before him. "Mm, not bad. Yeah, that boy looks like he's all sorts of fun... His parents must be proud." He looked as a slight frown appeared on the owners face.
"He doesn't have any parents. Raised alone in an orphanage. I hear they're going to force him to live on his own soon." He sighed and crossed his arms.
Jace raised an eyebrow, "No one wants the kid? I mean there are no outstanding flaws that I see about him."
"I... It was made an S-class secret..." The man began. Jace raised his other eyebrow at that.
Jace turned and stared at the kid. Blond hair, blue eyes, whisker marks... Can't be more then 5... Ooo...
Nice to see you figured it out moron.
Fucking bird.
Insults will get you no where mortal.
Pfft, Mortal eh? Haven't been called that in awhile. But I'm right he's...
The jailer of Kyuubi yes. The one that old man asked you to-
Jace was shaken out of his inner dialogue by a concerned looking Teuchi. After all Jace had suddenly stopped and stared into space. He flipped his lilac colored hair from his eyes and smiled. "He's Naruto, right? Good; saves me time searching." He turned to the two children and motioned them to come over. He looked at the boy who had a small smile on face and matched it with a wide grin of his own. "You're Naruto right? Ol' man Sarutobi has told me a lot about you. Asked me to find you and bring you with me to go see him. Wanna finish eating and then we can go."
Naruto was shocked, first the girl had been friendly and now this? Adults were never nice to him, save the Hokage, Teuchi and a few others. He nodded his head and downed his last bowl of ramen. Jace nodded and motioned for him to follow.
A few minutes later and they found themselves outside the Hokage office. Jace smiled and turned to the two small children behind him. "This shouldn't take long..." He opened the door and looked at a tired looking Sandaime who was currently dealing with paperwork. The famed God of Shinobi looked up and smiled as he watched the grey eyed man enter the room.
"Jace, it's been entirely too long. Come sit." He said motioning at the couch. Jace bowed his head slightly in respect and seated himself, Tayuya also sitting down beside him. "So I am sorry to hear about the loss of your friend."
Jace smiled, "Thanks, it was rough for the first couple weeks but I found something to ah, take my mind off it." He said glancing at the red haired girl sitting innocently beside him.
The Sandaime smiled warmly, "Yes I heard that you had taken to your new role quite well. I was wondering..."
"You want me to take him as well I imagine, after all birds of a feather." Jace said, cutting him off with a short laugh.
Naruto looked at him slightly confused. "We're... alike?"
Jace glanced at the Hokage, a glimmer of anger in his eyes, "Fuckin' A. He doesn't know does he?" Sarutobi shook his head in reply. Jace looked at Naruto, Blue eyes meeting grey. "Naruto, you're the jailer of Kyuubi. The 9-tailed demon fox." Such a simple sentence. The Hokage paled, he had expected Jace to say it but not quite so... Directly.
Naruto looked more confused, "So... It didn't die? The Fourth didn't kill it?" His life up till now was making sense; this was why the villagers hated him... Tears started to well in his eyes when Jace snapped his fingers in front of his face, grabbing the blonde's attention.
"Hey! Don't cry. Unless you're happy, but I'm thinking that's not why your crying right now. Smile kid, your Father left you with a great gift."
"My... father?" The Hokage paled again as Jace turned to him, more then a slight glint of anger in his eyes.
"Well for fuck's sake, Ol Man, did you tell the kid anything? Naruto, your Father was Minato Namikaze, also known as the fourth Hokage. He sealed the Kyuubi in you in such a manner as slowly the Fucking Fox's power would become yours." He smiled, "Us demon vessels get the coolest abilities when our 'tenants' are sealed well."
Naruto was overwhelmed and sat down on the couch to think. A week ago he was smiling in an orphanage to mask the pain of being alone, and now he finds out he has the greatest demon lord sealed in him and that his father was the famed Fourth. "Wait... Us?"
Jace smiled, "You catch on quick. I like that. I have the Phoenix Raxxieal sealed in me. It's kinda a pissy lot in life, but for those going the path of shinobi having a demon sealed inside you makes for a great plus." That caused the whisker marked boy to smile.
"So I can still be a great ninja… and Hokage?"
"Kid, you have the potential to be the best of them so far. Which kinda brings me to why I find myself in Konoha. I'm here to adopt you. Not quite legally since... I don't think I can and the stupid council probably doesn't want you to leave... But do I give a fuck?" Jace grinned and flopped onto the couch.
The Sandaime sighed, "Well that is why I asked you here." He looked at Naruto the boy he'd come to love as a grandson. "But ultimately the choice is yours Naruto."
The blond boy mulled it over, "So, I stay here and be tormented in an orphanage... Or go with someone who knows what I am and accepts me..." Jace smiled, so young, so full of sarcasm. The boy had potential.
"Oh, I can also train you to be the finest shinobi leaf has ever seen." Jace said, just throwing that extra bit of incentive out there.
Naruto perked, "You're strong?"
"Beyond so. And that's before I use my demon's power. I'll be able to train you to do both. But first I'm going to talk to your.. Guest." He leaned forward and lightly grabbed the sides of Naruto's head, slowly his grey eyes faded into a stormy blue, with what appeared to be rotating swirls of yellow lightning. A slight glow appeared and Jace found himself in Naruto's mindscape. He walked through a maze of damp sewage filled corridors until he found himself in front of a massive cage. A small piece of paper with the Kanji for seal was on it. Jace rolled his eyes.
"Hey Fucking Fox, I know you're in there. C'mon out I gotta talk to you."
"Who DARES insult Kyuubi?" A massive swirl of orange chakra came together swirling together to form the giant demon fox. Jace stifled a laugh. "You dare laugh before me?"
"I'm sorry! I can't help it! It's your ears man. You'd look like a demonic bunny if it wasn't for the tails." Jace laughed out loud this time as the mental image of the most fearsome demon lord hopping gaily through a field of flowers came to his mind.
"I should kill you where you stand!"
Jace stopped laughing as a serious look overcame his face, his eyes glowed a bright blue as he laughed at the demon fox. "I am NOT scared of a caged beast. Even if it as one as powerful as yourself. Now I came to deal with you Lord. I can make your.. confinements." He said gesturing at the damp sewer area they were in. "Far more bearable. Maybe bring in a TV and some books."
The fox stopped growling. "You can do that?" Jace nodded.
"In exchange you lend the boy your help, chakra, or, hell, even advice if the mood hits you." Jace said nonchalantly. The demon mulled it over.
"Agreed. As a show of good faith can you do something for me right now?" Jace raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms.
"Sure." He listened to the request and sighed. Focusing slightly he pulls a thick orange book from thin air. The title 'Icha Icha Paradise: Kitsune Edition' he tossed the book at the fox. The demon lord grabbed it and giggled pervertedly before fading into his cage. "That's soooo damn creepy." Jace said to noone. "Remodeling will wait for later I guess." he said exiting Naruto's mindscape.
Back in the real world the Hokage looked at Jace. "Well?"
Jace flashed a toothy grin. "We're good on all fronts. Ok kid. We're gonna buy you some new clothes and then blow this dive." He looked at Tayuya, "Sweetie, looks like you have a new brother."
She squealed in delight and grabbed Naruto in a tight hug. "Cool!"
Naruto was slightly shocked, his whole life turned around in an instant. He only had one question, "Will I still be able to become Hokage?"
Jace and the Sandaime exchanged glances, before the lilac haired man smiled. "Yup, we're moving back here before the academy class you would have joined graduates. SO don't worry... You'll still get your dream."
Naruto smiled. "Yes! So when do we leave?" he said with a huge grin plastered on his face.
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A/N: And thus ends the prologue! Kinda on the lengthy side.. for me at least. Hope you enjoyed it so far. Yes this was a little Jace centric but c'mon, he rocks. At any rate the story will focus on our fav blond idiot... Eventually at least. And his friends. But don't think the little adoptive family is complete yet still one little Demon container to get... hehehe... (Loud dramatic voice comes over the loud speaker)
Next up: Demon Child of the Sand.
For those of you wondering...
Name: Jace
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Height: 6'2
Hair: Lilac Purple
Build: Lithe
Favored Jutsu/Attack/Weapons: None, he has an affinity for everything and trains as such to be an unpredictable force in battle.
Demon Contained: Raxxieal the Phoenix bird god of rebirth. Slightly talkative, bit of a prick.
Bloodline Limit(s): Yes he has some. But I'm not gonna say what
Pairings (hypothetical or otherwise): AnkoOc(Jace), NaruIno. Those 2 are for sure... the rest I have some ideas about... Anyone got a good idea for a gay Sasuke?