Fable's Lost Hero

by jCOOLn

Naruto is sad that he never knew his mother and wishes to make her proud by one day becoming a great hero like her. One day his father gives him a statue of a White Balverine and tells him of how his mother was attacked by a group of balverines (unknowingly infecting her with a small portion of their power) and found it. Later Naruto uses it and becomes White Balverine Hero. Harem

1. Chapter 1

(Fable's Lost Hero Chapter 1)

(Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor Fable, the Lost Chapters)

Naruto was sitting in his bed looking up at the moon with a sad look on his face. The moon was as full as he had ever seen it and it was much closer to the earth then he was used to seeing giving it a large than usual look. Naruto sighed as he looked up at the light blue moon as he thought about how today was the day his mother had gone missing and how he had never meet her.

Naruto was an average sized boy for an eight year old with short spikey blonde hair that seemed to shine in the sun light but now it was dull due to his overwhelming sadness. His eyes were usually a crystal blue color but now they were much darker and held a clouded look like he was so deep in thought that the outside world just didn't matter to him right now. Naruto had a small muscle build from working with his father for the past two years at the lumber mill down the road but it was a small build nothing overly noticeable.

There was a nocking at the door right before it opened up to reveal Naruto's father, Brom. Brom was a tall man who wore a nice leather outfit that was both handy to work in and was also nice on the eyes as well. He had short brown hair as well as dark brown eyes. He was fair complected with large muscles from working in the wood mill.

"Hey kid you doing alright" asked Brom as he walked into his son's small room and sat on the chair adjacent to Naruto's bed in which Naruto was sitting on. He saw Naruto sigh again before nodding his head.

"Yea I am fine" spoke Naruto though his voice was very sad and it held no happiness whatsoever.

"Look son I know you miss her, but sometimes we must endure if we wish to live long and happy lives. I know your mother wouldn't want you to sit around mopping. That is why I brought you this" spoke Brom as he pulled out a mid-sized box and placed it on his lap. He saw Naruto look over at him with curiosity.

"You think some trinket is going to make me feel better about never knowing my own mother" asked Naruto as he looked at his father like he was crazy. He wanted no yearned to know who his mother was and what she was like. His father had told him stories about how she was a great Heroin, but that she had been bitten attacked by a group of Balverines and was severely injured which actually lead to them meeting. Naruto actually wanted to become a hero to make his mother proud of him though nobody but him knew that.

"Haha well no I don't, but I do think it will make you feel a bit better" spoke Brom as he opened up the box and removed some rags revealing something bone white. Slowly Brom pulled out a statue of a bone white creature with a long tail, sharp teeth, and slitted eyes. "This, my son is a trinket your mother took from a Balverine nest that she cleared out in Knothole Glade. She said it had some kind of special powers though she was never able to figure them out" spoke Brom as he handed it to Naruto "and now it belongs to you. I hope you can figure out what she thought was so special about it."

Naruto was so happy and quickly took the statue from his father and began to look it over from all sides. The statue was amazingly well done and he could even see each individual hair on the Balverine's statue. The eyes were kind of evil in Naruto's opinion but hey some things you can just deal with.

"Thanks dad" spoke Naruto as he continued to tinker with the statue.

Brom just smiled and stood up. He started to leave before he looked back at his son. Seeing the smile on his face he knew he had done the right thing giving him that relic that Scarlet had almost died trying to get. He quickly left his son's room only to come face to face with his daughter who was looking at him with a small smile.

"I don't know what you papa, but I can feel it has changed the future greatly" spoke Theresa as she walked off probably going back to her bed room. Brom just looked at her with an eyebrow cocked upwards wonder what she meant by that.

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Naruto kept looking at his new statue flipping it up and down checking it up and down making sure he saw everything that the statue had to offer visually. He sighed knowing that his mother must have done the same thing and still hadn't found anything but it also made him feel excited. He felt that if he could discover the secrets to this statue then he would be one step closer to making his mother proud of him.

For hours on end Naruto continued to fumble around with the statue without getting any results but he persevered anyways. What Naruto didn't know was now the moon was directly over him which empowered the statue.

Naruto was amazed when funny looking letters appeared at the base of the statue shrouded in a white light that kind of hurt his eyes that had gotten used to the dark of the night. Naruto couldn't read the words, they were not of the Albanian language, but he tried anyways.

"AGLPOMF DEP DREPROROP DKMALPH XCICS" spoke Naruto. His eyes grew wide when he saw the letters begin to glow even brighter along with the statue as well. He was excited for sure. After hours of boredom trying to figure out this statue he was finally going to get to see the fruits of his labor.

Pain wasn't something Naruto had expected nor was watching the statue dissolve into a white mist that absorbed into his body via his skin. Naruto wanted to scream, to call out to his sister and father for help, but the pain was just to excruciating. He tried to call scream but no sound came out. He could feel his bones getting thicker, his skin rippling along his body, his ears felt like they were being pulled off of his head by a pair of pliers, his eyes burned like someone had poured acid in them, and his muscles felt like they were ripping, healing, and then being re-ripped only for the process to repeat itself continuously.

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When Naruto woke up he felt like he had gotten wasted, gotten beaten up by an entire gang of bandits, and then was set on fire only to be thrown in a pond of ice water. Naruto slowly stood up but instantly regretted it. His eyes burned like fire so he kept them closed so they could get used to the sun light. Slowly he got used to the sun light and stood up feeling his muscles scream against such a thing.

"God what happened to me?" Naruto looked around trying to figure out what was going on. He slowly wobbled his way out of his room and down the hall of his house until he came to their one bathroom where he entered it and saw something that both interested and scared him.

Standing before him was a boy much different than the one he was used to seeing. He no longer had his sun kissed hair or his crystal blue eyes. No this boy had snow white hair with steel grey eyes that didn't have the normal human pupil but the slanted slit pupil that was the same as the one in the Balverine statue. His ears had changed as well as they were no longer the curved human ears he had come to see as common but instead they were long and pointed like those of the elves he had heard about in his fairy tales. He was at least six inches taller than he was last night and his muscles were much more defined then they had been. They were kind of cored looking and not bulky but even without seeing them in action he knew they were powerful. The freakiest part of his transformations was his teeth. They looked much sharper than he remembered especially his 'cutters'. They were noticeably longer and shaper then they had been.

"What is going on?" Naruto continued looking in the mirror and put a hand to his face trying to see if what he was seeing was really him. When he did this he saw his hand. It was a little bit more thin then the more meaty fingers that he used to have and his fingernails looked like they had been filed down to points kind of like claws.

"Naruto are you ready to go to work" came a voice from behind Naruto who Naruto instantly knew was his father Brom. Naruto turned around so fast he looked like a white blur. When his father entered the bath room they both stared at each other for a moment in complete silence. Brom looked both shocked and confused and Naruto looked like a kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar after his parents had told him no.

"Naruto? Is that you" asked Brom as he looked at the boy whom he could only guess was his son. His boy had been somewhat big for his age but not by much and yes he had some muscle definition from working in the mill but this kid had muscles that looked extremely capable.

"Yea dad it's me" spoke Naruto as he scratched the back of his head in a sheepish manner. He really didn't know what to say. He didn't even know how this had happened though he did have a good idea.

"What happened" asked Brom. He could only guess it had something to do with that statue he had given his son but it was still crazy to even think that his son could have changed this much in one night.

"I don't really know dad. Last thing I remember is reading some crazy lettering on that statue you gave me and then ungodly amounts of pain. I blacked out after a while it was so bad. When I woke up this morning I looked like this. There isn't anything bad that is going to happen to me because of this is there" asked Naruto as he looked scared. His father knew his son was a brave boy but this would scare anyone.

"Where is the statue? We may be able to show it to someone from the guild and have them tell us more about it and what had happened to you" spoke Brom though he wished he had done that before now. He didn't do it because the guild would have asked for a fee which he couldn't blame them for but still even though they were content they didn't have money to blow on some guildsmen examination though he figured he would have to have in now done especially on his son.

"When I read those words the statue dissolved and went into my body. That was when the pain started" spoke Naruto as he look around his body examining every inch of himself in the mirror. He didn't know what to say. He looked stronger than before which was a good thing but if he started transforming into a mindless monster and went on a killing spree well that was a different story.

"Hmmm we will have to have you examined to make sure you're ok. I don't think it would be a good idea for you to go outside right now as the villagers may not take to your changes so kindly. I'm sure they wouldn't try and hurt you or anything but they would be suspicious. Just stay here and when I get home we will contact the guild and celebrate your sister's birthday" spoke Brom as he walked away after giving his son a big hug to assure him everything was going to be ok.

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Naruto sat on the couch and looked into the fire thinking about everything that had happened but then a thought entered his brain. He had forgotten his sister's birthday and she would kick his ass if he forgot to get her something. Naruto sighed and grabbed some gloves and put them on as well as a hat to hide his hairs and ears. He couldn't do anything about his eyes so he just squinted and figured saying his eyes were watering up because of allergies would be a good enough excuse.

As Naruto left his house he began walking down the path to the base of his home town of Oakvale where the shops and bar slash inn was. While he was walking down the road the little girl from next door ran up towards him with big eyes that looked like they were filled with sadness.

"Um, hello Naruto can you help me" asked the girl meekly. She had always been a bit shy especially around boys and strangers but Naruto sort of knew her since they were neighbors but still she was a bit shy around him.

"Yea what you need" asked Naruto as he looked down at her with a small smile though he made sure not to reveal his teeth.

"Uhm, my teddy is missing. Could you help me find him" asked the girl as she looked down and started to draw circles in the ground with her feet. Naruto just sighed but wanted to help.

"Yea I'll look for him. If I find him I will come find you and give him to you" spoke Naruto as he smelled a bit and walked off.

"Thank you" shouted the little girl as she waved at Naruto with a big smile on her face.

"No prob" spoke Naruto as he continued walking.

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About half way down the slope he heard something odd with his heightened hearing. Focusing in on the sound he could tell it was somebody talking to someone he obviously held affection for? Naruto decided to go check it out and walked around a house that the sound was coming from and found another of his neighbors flirting with a woman though this woman wasn't the man's wife. Naruto knew this man because his father has specifically pointed him out and called him trash since he was known to flirt with women even though he had a wife and kids at home. This for obvious reason was unforgivable to his father and his father had taken many chances to ignore or to put down said man.

'Hmm, looks like he plans on taking things further than just casual flirting with the bar maids' thought Naruto as he walked away making sure he wasn't caught.

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When Naruto got to the bottom of the valley and saw how active everyone was he smiled. He loved his home town. It was a bit slow but everyone was usually so nice and things were fun for the most part.

As Naruto looked around he saw a man with a mustache he hadn't ever seen before but if the large backpack on his back was anything to go by he was a trader. They came to Oakvale every so often selling wares you couldn't get in town, make a small profit, buy some things that were on sale, and then go sell them somewhere else and make a profit there as well.

"Hey Naruto is that you" came a voice from behind Naruto. When Naruto turned around he could only think 'speak of the devil' when he saw the wife of the man he saw flirting with that hoe. She had to be a hoe as he even said he was married and she was still fawning all over him. If the wife was in on it and was ok with it Naruto would say good job because who wouldn't want two hot wives, but cheating was something entirely different.

"Yea Miss Smith" spoke Naruto as he looked over at her and gave her a small smile.

"What's wrong with your eyes" asked Miss Smith as she looked at Naruto funny.

"My allergies are acting up with this spring weather" spoke Naruto with a small smile as he rubbed his nose a bit for extra visual appeal.

"Oh is that so? You pore dear that must be awful. Weird though I didn't know you even had allergies to begin with. Haha well you learn something new every day" laughed the woman as she smiled a bit. Her faced looked a bit stressed out so the smile must have been a relief.

"Yea it's strange it only recently started to act up. Anyways is there anything I can do for you" asked Naruto as he looked up at the woman. Instantly that stressed out look in her eyes came back.

"Yea I was looking for that lazy lay about husband of mine. He was supposed to be at the mill chopping up lumber for Mr. Lester but Mr. Lester came by asking where he was. He must of snuck off to flirt with some floosy" spoke the woman with a fire in her voice Naruto hadn't ever heard come from her before.

'She must be really pissed, but if she is pissed now then she's going to be furious in a few seconds' thought Naruto as he looked over at the woman.

"Yea I was actually going to come look for you in a minute. I was looking for some money so I could by Theresa a present for her birthday first but since you're already here I guess I can tell you now. Your husband is behind you guys house with some woman and where there talking about isn't what I would call something that is casually shared between friends." Naruto instantly saw a plethora of emotions flying across the woman's face. There was hurt, anger, disappointment, sadness, tiredness, and so much more.

"So he really is cheating on me. When I am done with him he will be Balverine meat" spoke the woman which kind of made Naruto flinch but she didn't notice.

"If I could say something I would say you should just leave him. You already make good money and your kids are already old enough to look after themselves so it shouldn't be a big deal anyways" spoke Naruto. The woman looked down at him with a curious look and then looks at her hand where her ring was at. She looked sad for a bit but then her face turned into anger as she pulled it off and handed it to Naruto.

"Here take it. You can buy your sister a nice present with it. I don't want anything to do with it or that man ever again. Now if you will excuse me I have some information to give a low down divorce man who no longer has a place to sleep at night" spoke the woman as she ran off towards where the man was at.

Naruto looked down at the ring and smiled. It wasn't anything special as there just want jewel makers with that kind of skill around there nor did anyone really have enough money to buy something that was over the top, but it was still worth a pretty penny compared to the pocket money he was used to having.

'Now all I need to do is find that teddy bear and give it to Rose then buy Theresa a present for her birthday' thought Naruto as he went walking around looking all over for a misplaced teddy bear.

It wasn't in the center of town that he knew for sure so he started to walk towards the bridge. A lot of the kids played on it so it was highly likely Rose dropped the teddy bear around there. As Naruto was walking up the slope on the other side of town going towards bridge he saw a little boy he saw around the Millers house a lot having some heated words with Ron the village bully.

"Give it back" shouted the little boy showing some backbone as he stood up to the much older boy. It was obvious if things turned physical then the little boy wouldn't be walking away under his own power but still you got to give credit where credit was due.

"And what are you going to do if I don't you little idiot" demanded Ron as he looked down on the smaller boy obviously enjoying the thrill of holding power over someone else.

Now Naruto was a nice guy usually though he was known to have a devious side but getting into someone else's beef just wasn't his style, but when he saw the teddy bear in Ron's hand he knew that he would have to if he wanted to help the shy little Rose get her Teddy back so he walked over to the older boy.

"What do you want runt" demanded Ron as he looked at Naruto with anger in his eyes. Naruto was younger and smaller than Ron, but not by too much. Ron didn't like Naruto because they had gotten into a few fights before, it wasn't nothing new in there village, all people fought when they were younger and then became friend when they got older or just forgot about past grudges. The real reason Ron didn't like Naruto was because Naruto had beaten him in every single one of their fights and he had one it handily. It had embarrassed the boy losing to someone so much younger than him in front of others.

"I need the teddy. Rose is looking for it and asked me to help her out. I promised her I would so that's what I am here to do" spoke Naruto as he stepped up to Ron and looked him in the eyes through his squinted eye lids.

"Well you can go jump in a river because you aren't going to get it" shouted Ron as he cocked a fist back and went to punch Naruto. Naruto didn't know what it was but everything was much slower than it usually was and his instincts easily took over causing Naruto to easily dodge the punch. When Naruto was on the outside of Ron's guard he delivered a powerful left strait, strait into Ron's check. It was fast and it was instant. Ron was launched ten feet across the ground before he fell onto the ground with an audible thump knocked out stone cold.

Naruto looked at his fist and then at Ron and then back again. He hadn't felt a thing when he hit Ron and the power in his arm was unbelievable. He bent down and picked up the teddy bear before quickly walking off so the little boy couldn't bombard him with questions.

As Naruto walked through the village his senses started to go off. Something felt off, like this was the calm before the storm so to speak of but he couldn't figure out what the storm was. Naruto shook off the feeling and made his way over to where Rose was playing in the sand.

"Hey Rose guess what" spoke Naruto as he walked up to Rose who looked at him with a small smile which told Naruto she was expecting he had found her teddy.

"Did you find teddy" asked Rose as she looked up at Naruto completely forgetting her skittish nature.

"Here he is" spoke Naruto as he pulled Teddy out from behind his back and handed it to the sweat little girl who was going absolutely crazy for her little teddy bear.

"TEDDY" shouted Rose as she clomped the teddy bear into a big hug and began jumping up and down with delight. Naruto smiled at her. It felt good to do something nice for someone once in a while.

"Alright well you two have fun and don't get into too much trouble" spoke Naruto as he started walking off. He wasn't expecting the little girl the hug him especially since she was usually so shy.

"Thank you so much" shouted Rose as she hugged Naruto right before she let go and ran off with her little teddy to go play probably by the water line.

'Hm, she is a good little girl' thought Naruto as he started to walk back into the heart of town.

"Well hello there young sir" came a voice from beside Naruto though it wasn't one he had ever heard before. When Naruto turned around he saw that it was the trader who was now looking down on him with a faint smile.

"Hello" spoke Naruto as he turned around to look at the trader.

"I am a trader, and rumor has it your sister is having her birthday today. I have a wide selection of gifts you could buy for her that would surely put a smile on anyone's face." The trader was obviously good at what he did. He got in touch with the locals and found out what he needed to know in order to make his sales quick and effective.

"Yea it is, so what you got" asked Naruto as he looked over at the trader. He as planning on trading the ring he had just gotten for some cash and then buying a present for Theresa with it but who knows the trader might just have something good.

"I have a box of chocolates and at a great price of three gold coins" spoke the trader as he showed Naruto the chocolates. Naruto wasn't so sure giving Theresa chocolates from some dirty guy's back pack would be such a great gift so he decided against it.

"Anything else? I want something that will last a bit longer than some chocolates" spoke Naruto as he looked at the man. He was thinking of some jewelry since Theresa was getting into that sort of thing but giving her a ring, a wedding ring at that was kind of weird especially from a brother.

"Oh a coinsure are we? Alright how about this silver necklace with this green gem at the end of it which I am sure she will love? It is said to bring happiness to those who wear it" spoke the trader as he showed Naruto a beautiful, if kind of small, necklace with a small green gem at the end.

"How about a trade? I have this ring that I am willing to trade for the necklace" spoke Naruto as he handed it to the trader who took out a small magnifying lens and started to examine it.

"Hmmm it seems like a fair trade. Hope your sister enjoys her birthday present" spoke the man as he walked off somewhere, probably on to his next sale.

"I do to. Hate to so her hate a gift I spent so much time trying to get" spoke Naruto though it was more to himself than anyone else.

As Naruto walked around the village looking for his sister though without any luck he began to pick up on her scent which was odd for him. It was like he could all of a sudden see a scent trail though instead of using his eyes he was using his nose. He began to follow the scent trail until he reached the edge of the village right before you entered the corn field area.

"Hold on Naruto where do you think you're going" asked the guard as he looked down on Naruto with a critical eye. He thought to himself that Naruto was smaller than that but shook his head because he figured the boy must have hit a growth spurt and he just hadn't noticed.

"I was looking for Theresa and figured she was out in the fields" spoke Naruto as he tried to avoid making eye contact with the guard. This guard and his dad were good friends and Naruto didn't want him noticing anything he shouldn't

"Oh yea I did see Theresa run though here earlier. Alright you can go on by but you had better be back before sunset or your father will hear about it" spoke the guard as he got out of Naruto's way. Naruto just nodded his head and took off.

Eventually Naruto came upon a small corn field on the outskirts of the village beside the main road. As Naruto looked over at the corn field he saw his sister admiring a scarecrow so he walked up behind her.

"Hello little brother" spoke Theresa as she looked behind her to see her brother. Naruto didn't try to hide his appearance and was surprised when she didn't react.

"Aren't you surprised at the way I look" asked Naruto as he looked at Theresa with an annoyed look. She always seemed to know what he didn't which was annoying.

"Your heart is still the same so what does physical appearance matter" asked Theresa as she turned around. "More importantly little brother I hope you haven't forgotten what day it is."

"Don't worry I got you your present" spoke Naruto as he pulled out the necklace causing Theresa to smile. "May I" asked Naruto. Theresa smiled and nodded her head which prompted Naruto to step forward and put the necklace on for her.

"It is beautiful little brother" spoke Theresa as she looked down at her Necklace.

"It looks even better on you" spoke Naruto which caused his sister to blush a bit "but I think we should head home or else father will be up at arms looking for us" spoke Naruto as he began to walk towards the town. That was when his danger senses started to go off.

"Wait something isn't right" spoke Theresa as she walked up beside Naruto.

"Yea I feel something bad I about to happen" spoke Naruto but before he could do anything something hit him over the head with something very that was very hard, very hard.

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When Naruto woke up and looked up he was horrified. His home was on fire and in the streets men and women alike were laid about dead from slash marks and arrow wounds. It broke his heart but what was worse was Theresa was gone and he wasn't sure if she was dead or what but he needed to find her he knew that much.

Naruto quickly got up and ran into town. He searched everywhere but he couldn't find anyone who was alive or his father and sister either. He continued to search until he came upon his father's body which was dead as a stone and was covered in blood. Naruto fell to his father's body and began to cry, but then he heard a war cry coming from behind him. When he turned around he saw a bandit running at him with the intent to kill, but something inside Naruto snapped and the monster within came out to play.

The bandit stopped in his tracks when he saw the little boy he was about to kill get on four legs and start to transform into a giant white Balverine. I was huge but it wasn't as monstrous as the ones he had heard of. This one looked a lot more regal than the others and wasn't littered with scars or pieces of flaky skin that looked burnt. It was faster than lighting. One moment the Balverine was in front of him and then it had one half of him in its claws and the other half in its fangs. The bandit was dead even before he realized it.

After killing the bandit Naruto calmed down and transformed back into his human form. When he looked up he saw a blue light and then a man walked out of it. He looked surprised but then he picked Naruto up and took him away. Naruto didn't know where he was going but he knew his life would never be the same after today.