Okay, this is my first fanfic and I am really hoping that you all will enjoy it. Please give me constructive criticism, no flames, they are for the Uchiha's. NOT YOU.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO, OR ANY OTHER ANIME/MANGA I MAY OR MAY NOT USE IN THIS STORY, THEY BELONG TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS AND CREATORS.
Please be aware of the graphic content of this story, as there will be violence, swearing, and disturbing actions taking place, any who do not wish to read may back out now
It was October tenth, a cursed day among the people in the village hidden in the leaves- Konohagakure was the name- because of an attack by a great demon only six years ago, on this day. The great demon was of the nine famed 'tailed beasts', large demon lords possessing tails that determined their ranking amongst themselves, the one who attacked was by far the strongest. The Kyuubi no kitsune-the nine tailed fox- was the most feared of the tailed beasts because it was rumored that the monster could shake the earth and make volcanoes erupt with but a swing of one of it's immense tails. Thankfully the villages great leader, the 4th hokage was able to stop its destruction by sealing it within a newborn baby. This action came at a high price however, the hokage sacrificed his life to summon the death god-Shinigami- into the world to bind the demon's soul within the child's. And so, the boy lived, oblivious as to why he was hated and fear by the people of his village. That was going to change on this night.
It was a seemingly peaceful moonlit night, not a single disturbance, everyone was resting, until the small pounding of tiny feet echoed throughout the streets. A small blur burst from around a corner, sprinting full speed away from whatever pursued it. It rounded another corner going slower now-possibly from fatigue- and revealed a mop of spiky, dirty golden blonde hair upon its head. the figure was a human-a little boy- running, but why? The question was soon answered by an ominous red and orange glow that was getting brighter, the light that fire gave off. Fire surely couldn't target someone and chase them right?
"Hurry up!"
"I saw him go that way"
"Kill it!"
Voices were heard, angry voices, followed by rushing footsteps, there were people chasing the boy! They spilled around the corner of the same building the boy had been only moments ago. They saw an alley, an alley that some of the mob knew to have a dead end.
"Hahahaha, the brat made a wrong turn, hahahaha" a bulky man shouted
"What do you know, he did," a woman replied, an evil look pasted on her face, "time for our revenge"
Other voices joined in, yelling "Finally!" and "Time to die you MONSTER"
Suddenly sounds were heard as the mob slowly approached the end of the alley, sounds of panic. The boy was breathing harshly to receive much needed oxygen into his overused lungs from the rigorous run through what seemed like half the village. He tried to bury himself under nearby trash to hopefully hide his body from his pursuers, unfortunately for him however, they had already seen him. The group stopped less than ten feet away, staring with eyes of burning hate at the innocent boy. A lone man stepped out, he was rather tall, of muscular build and he was holding a piece of steel pipe about nine inches long.
"Oh, we have all waited a long time for this, HAVEN'T WE!?" the man shouted, glaring at the boy, who cowered further into the trash that only covered half his body. He was answered by a series of "Yeah"s.
"P-please, have mercy, I-I don't k-know what i did, but i-i'm sorry, please d-don't hurt me" the boy pleaded through sniffles and snobs
The man ignored him and covered the remaining distance between himself and their prey, grabbing the boy with one arm and pulling him out of his pseudo hiding spot. He shoved the boy into the end of the alley, and signalled to a part of the mob, calling three men out. The leader hefted the boy up higher, and two of the men went to the boys right arm, one holding a fairly large nail in hand, the other a mallet. They pulled his arm until it was straight from his shoulder, and they aligned the nail to the boy's hand before they began to gruesomely hammer it through the hand and into the wall. The boy's screams were loud and filled with pain, he felt every shudder of the metal from the force of the blows, he felt the nail as it began forcing it's way through the brick behind him. He did not know why this happened, he knew this wasn't normal, he knew HE wasn't normal, but he didn't know how. He always asked himself why he was beaten, why people abused him, and it ate at him, he hated it.
The men now moved towards his left arm, and began the same procedure as they did for the right. Pain rippled through him with every single hit, and the villagers of the mob knew it, they enjoyed every second of it. They could tell the boy's lungs were gasping for air when, even as they continued to do the same to his feet, the boy stopped screaming and began to desperately try to breathe, would his torment never end? The boy began to see black edging into his vision, he felt light headed, he felt weak, he couldn't gather the strength to lift his head any longer, and so he passed out. The villagers saw this and frowned, but they let the men finish pinning the boy. The leader then woke the boy up with a strong blow the the abdomen with the pipe, he watched as the brat coughed and wheezed from the blow, spitting up drops of blood in the process.
He then leaned into the boy's ear and whispered "You want mercy? Where was your mercy when you attacked our village?" he leaned back and grabbed the boy's hair, pulling him up, and continued "When you killed our people? When you took MY family? WHERE WAS YOUR MERCY WHEN YOU KILLED OUR BELOVED HOKAGE!?" he finished shouting into the boy's face. He dropped the pipe and punched the boy in the gut, forcing more blood to explode from his mouth. The boy couldn't form a response as the man stepped back and allowed the others to have at him. Men and women swarmed around the boy, some with kunai, some with pipes, and some with torches, they ripped off his clothes and unleashed hell upon his body. A few men burnt his arms by placing torches under them. Two women cut and stabbed into his boyhood with kunai. A man attacked his hands with pipe, breaking every bone he could. A man heated a piece of ninja wire that were wrapped around two pieces of wood to make handles, and the proceed to seer over the boy's infamous demonic 'whisker' marks with it, all three on each side. A man took a kunai a sliced through his eyes. And finally two dozen kunai were impaled within the boy's legs up to his torso. The leader calmly watched with a cold, heartless gleam in his eyes, and a cruel smirk upon his face, he reveled in the demon's torment, the boys endless screams were like music to him.
"That is enough" he calmly spoke through the screaming and yelling, and the mob immediately responded to the command, clearing a path to the boy. The man grabbed a kunai from a woman who had offered it to him, and slowly walked up to the boy, his smirk never leaving. He kneeled down in front of the boy. before sodomizing him with the knife. He slowly pulled the blade out, making sure he cut more of the boys flesh by twisting the knife on it's way out. He wiped the bile off the blade onto the boy, before he spoke once more "Today we complete our Hokage's last wish, to see the demon rot in the depths of hell" before he placed the blade up to the boy's neck, cut in, and dragged the blade across the once again passed out boy's throat, ending his life.
Inner World
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...Drip
"...Ugh, what? What happened, where am I?" The boy awoke to find himself inside a sewer tunnel, floating in the water. His little oceanic eyes becoming highly alert almost instantly as he got up, remembering what happened before he blacked out. He looked ahead and saw a dimly lit corridor, he turned around and saw a brick wall that looked eerily similar to the one he was nailed to only recently, now that he thought about it, he didn't know what time it was.
He saw ripples coming toward him in the water, along with a slight breeze every couple of seconds. He decided to go find out what it was. Being careful not to make too much sound, or too many ripples in the water, he inched his way around a couple corners and noticed that the air around him was almost...tinged with red. The red was becoming brighter and it felt warm around his clothed body.
He froze...where had the clothes come from? Well, they weren't clothes-he noticed-it was a black kimono. Who would give him such a thing?
He decided to pay it no mind and continued on his journey. The air was becoming almost like a thin red mist, it glowed and lit his path. He saw it becoming more concentrated into a tendril at the ceiling, it always only went into one hallway, so he decided to follow it. It led to what looked like a door of crimson light, he pushed forward, into a room. The room had pipes that lined the walls-except one- there were three different types of pipe, one that had a slight blue glow, one that glowed red, and the third seemed to suck both the red and blue light into it, leaving it a purple-black color.
It was the back of the room that claimed the boy's curiosity, immensely large gates, ornately designed in a polished gold that gave off a royal glow. On the posts that were holding the gate were swirling designs going up to the ceiling. In the center of the gate was what looked like a piece of paper with some writing on it.
As the boy walked closer, he noticed that the water around the gate was boiling, yet when he reached the point where the water bubbled around his ankles, he felt no pain.
"It is about time, hmmm hmmm hmmm, Naruto" A deep gravelly voice spoke.
"W-who's there?" The boy known as Naruto shakely voiced, "and how do you know my name?"
"I will tell you who I am, but first, Naruto you must drop that mask, at least to me, now what do you know of the attack on your birthday?" The voice rumbled. Naruto could now tell the voice was coming from the black abyss beyond the gate. He didn't want to go in and meet whatever was in there, the area around the gate felt almost...off limits for him.
"The great big demon fox was killed on my birthday by the fourth Hokage, but the demon's power also killed him" Naruto answered calmly, hiding the slight panic he now felt. 'How did he know about my mask? Did I falter and show him?'
"That is false" The voice said, "The Demon, Kyuubi could not be killed as you say, because it is an immortal being-it cannot be killed, at least, by normal means. Would you like to know the truth about that battle?" Naruto nodded dumbly. "The fourth Hokage knew that the tailed beasts-such as the Kyuubi- could not be slain, so he looked for a different way to defeat the beast. It was known that the Hokage had been a fuinjutsu master, he managed to create a seal that would hold the Kyuubi, however it came a a price. The seal he had created, summoned the Shinigami-the death god- and had the shinigami seal the demon, at the cost of his life. He didn't have the death god seal the demon inside an object, rather, inside a person…do you know who it is I am talking about, Naruto?
"I-it can't...I-its gotta be..me, r-right?" the boy nervously asked.
"It is, Naruto, who does that mean I am?" The voice inquired.
"You...You're t-the Kyuubi" Naruto whispered.
"Yes, I am" Kyuubi stated.
"Why not try to eat me?" Naruto curiously asked "why introduce yourself by telling me that story?"
Gigantic crimson eyes with slitted pupils opened. 'He's smarter than he lets on… I wonder how far you will go, Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze…'
"I feel pity for you kit, all the things that the villagers do to you, and so I offer a proposal, should you accept, I shall grant you training, knowledge,and power, decline, and you may walk out of this place,never to return" Kyuubi questioned.
"I accept your deal, on one condition…" The boy's demeanor changed as he said this, he grew calm, calculative, and almost, cold.
"Oh, and what would that be?" Kyuubi asked, intrigued.
"That you tell me your name" Naruto said "I know that 'Kyuubi' is a title, not a name"
The eyes of the beast widened. '...Much smarter, he has loads of potential,hmmm hmmm hmmm, i'm beginning to like you kit.'
"Very well, Naruto, my real name is Kurama" Kurama stated.
"Hello Kurama-sensei" Naruto said.
"Hmmm hmmm, We will speak again, however, it seems as if your body is waking up, I will speak with you telepathically, through your mind, when we cannot meet face to face like this, all you must do is think of your reply and picture it being sent in a letter to me. As a last statement, do not tell your Third Hokage of our deal, got it?"
"Hai, sensei!" Naruto determinately responded, before fading away.
Real World: 5 minutes ago
Konoha Hospital
'What is happening to you my boy?' An old man was sitting beside a hospital bed, staring at the six year old Naruto as it's occupant. He had seen the boy's attack-at least the end of it- when he had decided to check up on Naruto with his crystal ball. He rushed with a squad of ANBU to go and save Naruto, by the time they had gotten there, all of the attackers had fled the scene, leaving poor Naruto nailed to the wall. They went to the hospital to see if he could be revived-Kurama had healed some of his wounds, such as the slit throat-and they had barely made it in time. He was waiting on Naruto
to wake up, when the boy suddenly began pulsing red chakra, before it surrounded him and formed what looked like a shell, or a cocoon. He didn't dare touch it. He did hear faint cracking and what sounded like the horrendous ripping of flesh… He saw cracks forming in the shell, it swelled, ready to explode, the third's eyes widened, but then; miraculously, the shell shrank again and began to break apart.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Naruto's scream echoed throughout half of Konoha. His body seared with excruciating pain as soon as he woke up, all his world was at the moment was a seemingly endless torture: an endless hell. He felt every piece of dust slam into his skin. He felt as if his bones were dropped off the Hokage monument and placed back into his body in random places. He felt the vibrations of someone walking towards the bed-through the bed itself. He felt the cold air freeze his-literally- steaming body. Then, abruptly, the most intense pain that he had ever felt simply vanished, without a trace, leaving him feeling perfectly healthy.
"Naruto?" Said boy turned his head to see the third Hokage staring down at him.
"Y-Yeah Jiji?" Naruto replied somewhat dazed at the sudden lack of pain.
"What do you remember of your attack?"
"I remember being nailed to a wall and being attacked until I passed out"
"...Anything else?"
"Meeting the Kyuubi" The third's eyes shot open at that. 'He MET the Kyuubi? Has the demon corrupted him? Is that what brought on such a drastic change? It was RED chakra that did this…"
"What happened during your meeting, Naruto?" The third asked.
"Kyuubi told me about the night I was born, how it was a lie that he died, and that he was sealed in me, seeing as I was the only child born that night" Naruto explained.
"Did he say anything else? Like, how he might've changed something?" Hiruzen inquired.
"No, why?" Naruto was beginning to worry at what the third was saying.
"Stand up" Naruto began to move to get out of the bed when he noticed something, his feet looked a bit further away than they were before, his arms looked a bit longer too. His feet hit the floor much faster than expected, causing him to stumble and fall.
Naruto groaned as soon as he hit the ground, the impact causing him to feel a new soreness throughout his body. He felt...new...it was a strange feeling.
"Naruto!" The Hokage called, "are you alright?"
"Yea-" Naruto began to respond, before he heard Kurama's voice in his head.
"Tell him that I can speak to you, and that it's because of me that you've changed, but do not tell him my name"
'What did you do? Why do I feel sore?' Naruto thought and pictured his message being sent to the back of his mind, to Kurama.
"I'm sure your Hokage will show you, just be patient" Kurama responded
"Kyuubi can talk to me now, and he says that it's his fault that i've changed...what happened to me anyway jiji? Naruto asked.
'Kurama?!' Naruto nervously called out in his mind, there was no reply.
"Come with me, and i'll show you" The old man replied quickly. He grabbed Naruto's arm and helped the, now taller boy, up.
'I wonder how you will take this, Naruto' Kurama thought.
The Hokage aided Naruto out of the room and began leading him to the bathroom down the hall. Having a long history of being abused, naruto could see the looks on people's faces and almost read what emotion they were feeling at the time. He noticed the looks he was now getting, not all of them were of hate anymore, most of them were of confusion. He began to wonder just exactly how much had been altered with him.
By the time they had made it to the bathroom, Naruto was getting was getting incredibly nervous. The bathroom itself was pretty ordinary for a hospital, white tile floors, slate gray stalls, porcelain urinals and a gray, wall to wall, countertop with multiple sinks and a mirror.
He began to dread walking up to the mirror. He didn't look up as they approached it, then the old man lifted him up and set him on the counter of the sink to get a full body view of himself.
'N-nani?' He stared at himself, amazed by what he had missed noticing on the way to the bathroom. He was taller. Before the Kyuubi changed him, Naruto stood at a below average 3'1" at six years old. He was 5" shorter than normal, now he was above average, at 3'8". His hair seemed to flatten out across his head and spike off to the sides more, not to mention it was almost black in color. If the light wasn't hitting his hair at the correct angle, one would never know that his hair had actually become a very dark iridescent red. His eyes had become a dark shade of purple that also seemed to faintly glow. His 'infamous' whisker marks had become more defined. He had also lost some- not all- of his baby fat on his face and body.
'Kurama...how did you do this to me?' Naruto asked.
'Since our meeting, something has changed, I now have access to your DNA, I don't know why exactly, but it will help us in the long run' Kurama stated. He was truly confused as to why the seal had suddenly granted him access to the boy's body, he would have to look into it.
"Naruto?" An old voice interrupted their mental conversation. Hiruzen was beginning to feel worried about Naruto, he hadn't stopped staring at the mirror, and he also hadn't spoken a word.
"Naruto?" Hiruzen spoke louder, gaining the boy's full attention once again "How are you taking this?"
"I...think i'll be fine, it's just…a big change" Naruto slowly answered, he had to admit he liked his new look, but it was also so strange: he had basically woken up as a different person.
"Naruto, why were you outside at such a time, I thought the orphanage had a curfew" Hiruzen asked confused.
"...Jiji...I was kicked out of the orphanage three years ago" Naruto sadly responded. It was true, the heartless caretakers had thrown him out on the street after keeping him locked in the basement. They never let him play with the other kids.
The old man took a few seconds to let the information sink in. Three long years on the streets… and he never knew.
"Naruto...I'm so sorry. I should've made absolutely sure that you were there, and not just send the money to the orphanage, i'm so sorry" The Hokage bowed his head in shame, he had been paying the orphanage monthly for six years to take care of the boy, and he hadn't even been there. He felt like a complete and utter failure, he couldn't keep to his promise…
Naruto turned around to look at his jiji, he simply stared, he didn't know what to say. The old man then looked up and into Naruto's deep purple eyes-kami he'd have to get used to that-and began formulating a plan to get Naruto a home.
"Naruto, I am going to have you move into an apartment complex, I don't want you to be living off the streets ever again" Hiruzen stated
Nani-what
And that's my first chapter, please tell me if I should continue with this idea or not. And yes, I know that this is a somewhat unoriginal beginning, just bear with me.
