Uzumaki Naruto was a boy loved by the third Hokage. It was clear, that boy had a bright future in the village. Why else would the third make his way to the orphanage just the see the blonde. Around Naruto, the third often wore a smile and freely added a bit of killing intent towards any normal orphans that dared to interrupt their time.
Naruto was special, he deserved his time with the third. You can bully him and shun him all you want, but he is special and will someday be better than all of you. Don't you dare think yourself better than him, you're just another orphan.
The hyper active blonde often ran around the orphanage shouting about how he would be hokage and everyone must respect him. Often anbu watched over the blond protecting him from any would-be bullies.
One boy glared openly at the blond despite the anbu. He was missing his left eye, left arm, and left leg. All over his left side was an ugly red slash.
Akira couldn't understand why he hated the blond. His injuries happened days after his birth. A The blond couldn't have had anything to do with Akira's injuries.
Still, his single working eye glared at the blond in open hate. He couldn't hide it, no matter how much he wanted to. One of the anbu, Dog drew his kunai in warning. They called him Akira, he remembered the name from an anime in his previous life.
He was transdemisional and a reincarnate. That meant that he had traveled between multiple universes and he has been reborn. Akira had a single game breaking ability he gained from his previous life, mana manipulation.
Even with this crippled body, he could manipulate the six expressions of mana. Enhance, imbue, project, conjure, conceal, and sense, he also had two mana types. So, despite his ugly appearance and crippled nature, he wasn't as helpless as he appeared.
Looking up at the trees, he saw Dog. The fun was over, with Dog out there so, he limped his crippled ass inside.
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His one good hand wrapped around Naruto's neck. He still didn't know why he wanted to, but this was the perfect time to kill the blond. With the right application of enhance, he could choke the life out of the blond. His arm grew larger as mana reinforced his muscle fibers. He stopped just before the ninja wire would have sliced open his throat.
"Oh, you have good instincts for a cripple. A shame you will never be anything more." A strong hand slammed him on the ground cracking his skull against the wooden floor. Some force kept all the other children asleep.
"If you ever touch him or if I think you're planning something. You will disappear. There will be one less orphan to feed and no one will care. They will be thankful for the added food." Dog said. He stared at the dog masked man with silver hair. Someday, he would kill the man. Another slam got his attention. "Do you understand?" Akira glared at the man's pinwheel eye.
"I understand." The man let go of him.
"Then go to sleep in another room. I never want you sleeping in here again." Slowly, Akira made his way out of the room. There were no other beds to sleep in. He would have to sleep on the wooden floor.
He didn't understand, why did he want to kill Naruto? The other kids say not to play with him and the matron tells everyone he's trouble. That wasn't why Akira tried to kill him.
No every time he saw the blond, his stumps ached, and he saw a colossal fox with nine tails stepping down. Its claws slicing through his arms and legs never taking notice. Akira wasn't even an after thought to the creature. It made Akira's mana fluctuate, the red and blue colors made demands of him. The blue demanded he plan for the blonds down fall. The red demanded he choked the life out of the blond on the spot. The two forced swirled around the orbit of Akira's mind shouting at him. Akira felt weak compared to his own mana.
He laid down on the wooden floor and fell asleep.
Flashback end
Akira looked back at the blond once more before going inside. He couldn't afford to die now. "I was once a hero, I will have my power back." A mad smile covered his face. His mana cheered, he forced them apart with all the will he had. If he allowed them to mix uncontrolled, it could turn him into a grey and he could lose his power forever.
A grey was a mana wielder, who had multiple types of mana and failed to keep them separate. The mana mixed chaotically burning out the user's ability to feel their mana. Without the ability to feel their mana, they can't use it. Even skills are useless to them. Even crippled, he wouldn't let his mana types mix.
As far as mana went Akira would be considered a novice in blue and red mana. He could successfully use the six expressions of each mana type. Even death couldn't remove an ability.
Abilities are powers above skills that attach to a mana wielders soul. They can't be removed by any force once unlocked. Only failing to control their ability can result in a loss of it. With novice skill in using his mana types, the threat of them mixing was minimal.
He sat in a chair in the orphanage library. A tome on the basics of chakra control was left for Naruto a year ago. It was a present from the Hokage for Naruto's fourth birthday. Naruto and a few other kids went to the academy now. They rejected him because of his infirmities.
It stung at the time, but he didn't really need to be a ninja. Chakra was a force created by the body's natural mixing of yin and yang natures. The physical body and mental energy. In other words, energy and form.
He read the scroll a tenth time. Akira closed his eye searching for any sign of his chakra. Mana rushed through his body with enhance. He wasn't fortifying his body, he was only searching for chakra. He found it after a while.
His blue mana was great at interacting with the physical world. With it he could feel things that couldn't normally be felt. Lining his muscles with them let him feel his every movement and enhance those movements at the right times. In contrast red had very little sensory potential but it held a lot of power. He could get around 10X the output of blue with red. Even when he couldn't see right where to put them.
Now that he could feel the chakra coils, it was time to see what he was dealing with. Barren was one word to describe the state of his coils. Others would be mangled, holey, shattered, broken, and obliterated. The beast that crippled him also corroded his newborn coils. He still had chakra but only his right arm could use anything. Basically, the farthest away from his damaged area.
Why did he want to blame Naruto for this too? He honestly couldn't think of any solutions. Well that wasn't true, he had options. It would hurt but he could fix this, he just needed a test subject. One came to mind. He would just need to be sneaky. Until his coils were somewhat repaired, touching his chakra wouldn't do him any favors.
Before his death he had around 20,000INT and 15,000WIS with several bonus traits that increased his Mana capacity and his mana regeneration. In DOD or dungeon of dreams he had around 800k mana. Divided between red and blue, he had around 400k to work with either. With 12k regen his magic ability was nothing to sniff at. Though he wasn't anything compared to a dragon or even a demon lord. With his focus on skills that increase his intelligence and wisdom he quickly became a rather smart guy.
That's what got him killed the first time. With his intelligence came pride. He tried to steal treasure from a friend. Katara, his friends first wife. She was a dragon that made use of polymorph and wasn't opposed to giving pointers. As a prank he stole a coin from her, and she unleashed her breath attack on the spot. She broke through his hastily erected shield and blasted his body to dust. Before he died he saw a look of surprise on her face. She hadn't meant to kill him, it was a reflex.
Was that what he was about to do now? Was he going to make a stupid prideful mistake, because he thought he was better than the mana less mortals. He looked at his missing limbs and missed putting the scroll back correctly because of his bad depth perception. His red mana hummed its song and the blue whispered its desires. He would have his revenge and he would take every secret they had. The problem was the medium. He needed something of flesh and blood to work with. Mana constructs were fragile unless a lot of care was given to their creation. He saw a spider crawl down the bookshelf.
"You will work just fine." He said to the spider. It was time to employ the expression of imbue.
Imbue was an expression of mana that created an effect. When used in conjunction with enhance it could create a buff spell. Mana upkeep and everything else all depended on how the user forged the spell and how much they understood about the effect they created.
Imbue was a very complicated expression with more masters in conjuration and concealment than the imbue expression it was a relatively unexplored field. He was thankful for the room. It was one of the only windowless rooms in the orphanage.
He slowly let his mana explore the spider's body. It was a female, which could be useful later. It had venom sacs, but it wasn't technically poisonous. Akira was severely tempted to use red mana to create a very acidic venom. But the blue side of his mana orbit altered his decision. If he did that then they would blame him, and Naruto was a touch little fucker.
After ensuring the venom would be benign at most and painless, he began to alter the spider's structure. He enhanced the joints, made the fangs a bit sharper, and improved the spider's brain a bit. It was ordered to bite Naruto Uzumaki. The venom was filled with an effect that would send signals to Akira's blue mana. Those signals would help him map out Naruto's chakra network without the need for physical contact.
The spider crawled back up the book shelf. The creature looked no bigger than it had been before, all the alterations were on the inside, mostly. Akira relaxed, he might as well remain here for the rest of the night. He had found the chair more comfortable than the floor.
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The spider moved on its mission. Mice and other spiders were no longer a match for it. The mysterious energy its master put within it had made it know things. It knew blonde haired blue-eyed children were bad like wasps. They needed to be bit at the closest opertunity. It dug its fangs in a mouse that had dared to obstruct its mission. The large mammal was no match for the arachnid.
It used its web to drop down unseen atop the blond boy. The spider was no larger than a fly. It slowly fell upon the enemy the blond didn't even move when it landed. After looking around and seeing no wasps it found a place to bite the blond.
Before it could dig its fangs into the unsuspecting wasp lover. Beetles began to appear. They rapidly moved on the spider and dog piled it. The spider moved and threw off what beetles it could but to no avail. They tried to drain something from the spider but failed to take its master's power from it.
The spider screeched when one of the beetles ripped its leg off. As a last-ditch effort, it leapt on its back and began to send out its stickiest web. Some beetles were captured, but others used their capture brethren as stepping stones.
A large hand came down and the spider felt its body crush against the blond. As a last act of revenge, it dug on of its broken fangs into the blonde's night shirt. It's venom sac emptied into the filthy wasp lover. Its last act done with, it died.
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Akira just woke up when the spider died. The signals from the venom connected with the blue mana in his cloud. The blue sped up receiving the signal collecting the information in Naruto's coils. The blue mana was spreading quickly mapping out the parts that Akira needed to repair most first. Naruto had coils much wider than his. It was more like; Naruto's coils were several hundreds of times larger.
"Funny seeing you awake Akira." The Hokage said. He walked in holding a bag containing a spider. Anbu walked in and he knew he was in trouble or maybe not, he just needed to play it cool.
"I often have trouble sleeping, it comes with phantom limb syndrome, Hokage Sama." Akira said. A man with blonde hair Inoichi most likely walked in along with Shikaku. Shikaku looked Akira over. The man narrowed his eyes and Akira felt himself shiver uncontrollably from the killing intent.
"We have reason to believe you attempted to assassinate Naruto Uzumaki again." A tear fell from his right eye uncontrollably. The killing intent only increased further.
"I made a mistake why am I blamed for everything that happens to him now. I've been here all night. How could I have done anything?" One of the anbu went through a series of hand signs.
"I understand you have tried and failed to activate your chakra several times. Even going so far as to steal one of the few gifts Naruto has ever received. I turned a blind eye because you are merely a child. Even the attempt to kill Naruto could have merely been a case of extreme anxiety or coaching from the matron. There is no way you could have possibly attempted the latest assassination attempt but the nindogs say your smell is all over the spider." The Hokage said and nodded his head. "Now tell me, how does a child with no chakra manage to alter a spider and use it attack my grandson." The killing intent rose to an obscene point. Most children's heart would have long since stopped. One Akira's own passive enhance kept his sputtering heart going. Foam began to form at his mouth has his breathing became rigid.
"Leave the orphanage konoha will no longer feed a murderous little bastard like you. Leave before I kill you boy!" The Hokage shouted. Akira got up on his crutch and tried to leave only for a hand to rip it from him. He fell hard.
"This is the property of Konoha, begone." The Anbu watched him flee on his right arm alone.
He clawed at the ground pulling himself out the door and towards the streets of Konoha. Akira could only think of his revenge someday. The red demanded he destroy them no matter the consequences, while the blue lamented their rash action. Even as he moved, he collect information from the venom. Red chakra began to batter his mana. It attempted to force it out of Naruto. His mana contDoged to send waves of information despite the red energy's attempts to cleanse Akira's curse.
After hours of clawing at the ground, he pulled himself into an alley to rest. Truly, he had been lucky to keep the cloths on his back. The venom was in Naruto's blood. It had long since been destroyed by the blonde's immune system. The effect in the venom had remained. Signals were going out giving Akira's mana a clear depiction of Naruto's body.
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"That was a bit harsh wasn't it Hokage Sama. There is no way that child did anything to the spider. He may not like Naruto, but he's the same age as Naruto. Akira doesn't know better." Inoishi said. The aged Hokage took a puff from his pipe. Naruto was fine, the spider wasn't even poisonous. It just gave him a scare.
"The Aburame claim that the spider was unnaturally strong and tactful. Akira may have a blood line similar to the Aburame. Though his lack of chakra does make it a bit mysterious." Shikaku said.
"I've watched the child on several occasions. Everytime he looks at Naruto, I see his thoughts. He can't reconcile Naruto as the cause of his injuries, but he instinctually blames him. Its as if, he knows that Naruto contains the fox." Dog said. He thought about the red headed child and the way the boy's single eyes teared. It was a heart-breaking sight. The child barely survived the fox attack. Before the choking attempt, he had been almost a normal child. Then he was rejected by the academy. Something broke in the child, he didn't blame the child, but he couldn't condone his actions either. If he wasn't a child, then he would have been executed by now. Perhaps, it would have been a kindness to leaving him to rot on the streets.
"The child's chakra network was destroyed by the fox's chakra. He barely has enough to keep himself alive, much less manipulate an animal with it. He's my daughter's age. I don't want to think about him starving in the streets too proud to beg." Hiashi said.
"Then adopt him, give him a prosthetic and make him a servant of the Hyuga. He won't have to look at Naruto and be on the streets begging." Shikaku suggested.
"The elders would never allow it. It would be a scandal. No, the boy unfortunately will be left to hate deeper and fall into despair. He will undoubtedly make another attempt on Naruto's life." Hiashi said. Hiruzen nodded sadly. If that happened, he would make good on his threats and execute the child.
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Just touching his chakra coils with enhance unleashed a wave of pain unlike anything he had suffered before. This put an immediate stop on his plan to quickly have chakra coils just as powerful as Naruto's. He still hated the blond, but he respected his physiology. A smile spread across his face as he thought of the havoc his mana was causing the blond. Red chakra was trying and failing to touch his mana. It was like a battle between oil and water. Neither mixed well enough to touch the other. The red chakra was obviously stronger than the little bit of mana in Naruto, but it didn't matter if they never touched.
Anbu were always watching him. He couldn't do anything but remain here until they were relieved. He hated this place, the anbu, the Hokage, and Naruto most of all. This was his own personal hell and it didn't have to be this way.
He needed something to expand and repair his coils for him. For this he would have to waste a ton of mana and a lot of his regen as well.
First, he would conjure his tool. He created his very own super ego. An idolized version of himself. Perfect red hair, a godly build, twelve angelic and demonic wings, and two halos one black the other white. It was a dark/light architype, but it was his construct. The creature's perfect two arms, two legs, and two perfect eyes almost discouraged him. Tears flowed down his right eyes at the sight and his left eye socket stung. He bound it to his chakra network after imbuing it with the effect of healing and destroying. It had the blueprint of Naruto's chakra network to work with. Once it was locked on to his chakra network pain like no other racked his body and he screamed.
The anbu rushed down and he wanted to howl with laughter. His eye closed and he passed out from the pain.
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The medical staff at Konoha hospital stared at the ten-year-old boy as the impossible happened. Some unseen force was going through the child's chakra network, ripping it apart, and repairing it. The Hokage was present staring down at the boy.
"It appears that his chakra network it is undergoing rapid expansion and repair simultaneously. I've never seen anything like it." Hiashi said. The nurse waited for orders from the Hokage.
"Hiashi, shut down his chakra network immediately and keep it shut down until Jiriah can be summoned." The Hyuga immediately began hitting the boy's chakra points. The Hyuga's eyes widened and he struck again.
"Hokage sama, it appears that the boy's chakra points reopen the second they are stopped. Its like some creature is possessing the boy's network." The nurse took in a breath, as the boy woke up despite sedation, just as Hiashi pummeled him.
"Stop and let's see what Akira has to say for himself." The third said. The nurse looked at the boy wondering how he could know anything. The nurse froze when killing intent flooded the room.
"I thought you would leave me alone, when you kicked me out of the orphanage." The Hokage frowned.
"You never sound like a ten-year-old. There isn't any energy about you. If I didn't know any better, I would say your something else entirely." The boy didn't react. The nurse didn't know what else the boy could be other than a child.
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Fuck, fuck, and fuck, he had no way of getting out of this. The construct attached to his chakra coils was sucking his mana orbit dry. His chakra coils were about 30% altered and the fucking Hyuga had stopped the process or at least slowed it. He wouldn't cry this time. He wasn't a child and he wouldn't cry.
The Hokage gave him a look, like the old man was thinking of something truly diabolic. Then a large middle age man with silver hair, standing well over six feet tall walked in. "Hey sensei why the heck did you call me back early. The kid won't be ready for me for a couple of years yet. Who's the squirt."
"He's an assassin who tried to kill Naruto on two separate occasions and found a way to repair his chakra network, then improved it into something like Naruto's. I have no time for your antics seal his network fully." The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes slammed his fingertips into Akira's stomach.
"So, are we going to take him to TI to see who he works for?" The man said with a smile. The construct's consciousness was busily looking over the seal on his stomach. "I didn't think they still made assassins this young." Jiriah said.
"He's just a crippled orphan with a blood line of some sort. He will spend the rest of his life here receiving blood tests and biopsies until we can successfully replicate his bloodline. Then he will be disposed of." The Hokage said. The middle-aged man simply nodded.
Akira watched them leave. The second he got the chance. He was going to rip through this place killing everyone. He couldn't access his chakra, but the construct contDoged its work. Soon, his chakra network would be practically repaired.