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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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A New Path –
In the heavy forest area sat the Konoha Village, a village of ninjas one of the five most powerful in the country. In a rundown apartment building, a young man laid on his bed looking up to the ceiling, staring into nothingness. It's been over twelve years since the Kyūbi no Yōko (Nine-Tails Demon Fox) attacked Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village. It was a powerful demon indeed; a swing of the tails of the Kyūbi would raise tsunamis and flatten mountains. It raised chaos and slaughtered the people, until the leader of Konoha – the Fourth Hokage – defeated it by sacrificing his own life to seal Kyūbi inside a newborn child. That child's name is Naruto Uzumaki. (1)
The Fourth Hokage was remembered as a hero for sealing the Kyūbi away, and he wanted Naruto to be remembered as a hero as well for being the vessel of containment for the fox demon, but the village he grew up in had mostly contempt for Naruto, because of the tragedy that was brought to them by the same demon that's living inside Naruto. A decree made by the Fifth Hokage made it so that the other villagers were forbidden to mention the event to anyone, even their own children. However, this did not stop them from treating Naruto like an outcast. Although their children did not specifically know why their parents treated Naruto the way they did, they learned through example to despise the boy. As result, Naruto grew up as an orphan in a lonesome atmosphere without friends, family or acknowledgment.
Even after all he has done since he left the Ninja Academy the village still looks down upon him. His so call friends really didn't like him. Ever since he managed to get Sasuke back when he tried to defect from the village, Sakura has been by his side as she wants him to rejoin the village. Being one of the two only surviving members of the Uchiha clan, even Kakashi Team 7 teacher has been trying to get Sasuke to rejoin the village. Tsunade the new Hokage didn't really see him when she looks at him but her dead little brother. As for Jiraiya the toad hermit, while he's nice and all is too much into peeping on women to spend any time with him, leaving him with no one. Iruka-sensei was the only one that actually cares for him out of the whole village. Thinking about it there was that shy girl name Hinata. She's the only one that seems to like him for himself out of all the kids in his age group.
But with only two people that actually cared for him in a whole village he saw that there's nothing for him here. "Well if I'm going to do this I'll better do this now," Naruto said as he sat up looking at the homemade firebomb he made today.
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Later that night –
A fireball suddenly shot up into the sky as one of the warehouses suddenly burst into flames lighting up the sky. The villagers and ninjas quickly took action as they fought the flames stopping it from spreading. The ninjas that weren't fighting the flames quickly scouted the area as this could be an attack. In all of the confusion of the fire none of them notice that a spiky blond headed kid was missing.
As Naruto got far enough away from the village where he could only make out the lingering smoke high in the sky from the fire he started he let his body fall against a tree tried from his nonstop running. He needed time to rest his body as he's been running nonstop for two hours without resting.
"What do we have here?" a man's voice said whose voice held no humor, no malice, no emotion to give away his thoughts. A man causally walks into view but stop not coming nearer to the young man. Naruto could only make out the tan colored jacket he wore as the man stepped into his sights.
Naruto quickly pull out a knife ready to fight, "Are you from the village?"
"I see how sad," the man said, "You are the one that has a 9 tail fox demon inside of you. And from your face the one that you hide underneath that false smiling one has brought you much hardship in your short life."
"Yes this demon inside of me is the reason why the village hates me," Naruto said sighing as he drops the knife in his hand. His eyes losing the spark of life in them, "Why don't you kill me and end this life of mine."
Unexpectedly the man started chuckling lightly, "How foolish these humans are. I'm glad that I long ago left that part of me behind."
"You're not human?" Naruto ask.
"No, I'm proud to say that I'm not," the light and almost jovial tone that was addressing the young man, put the ninja on alert far more than even the direct tone that had used to command him during his days in the Ninja Academy, "I have a proposal for you. You are currently a boy with a demon inside of you, how would you like to become a half-demon?"
"Half-demon?" Naruto ask as his interest grew.
"Yes half human and half demon fox."
"Why would I want to be just half? Everyone treats me as one so why not full demon?"
"I'm glad you ask," Naruto could feel the man smiling, "You see unlike many would think being half demon will give you the views of two different worlds one of a demons and the other humans. Demons have powers that some humans will never have. They remain true to what they are. Some demons are evil and eat humans, but unlike humans you know that you should be watchful around them. While with humans you'll never know what kind of person that's walking down the street is really like inside. Humans are the most ignorant, arrogant race of beings that has even to be created. I'm ashamed to ever had been one before, in my hundreds of years of life I have seen how dark humans can become, even worse than demons that they look down upon. The only reason why I maintain a human form is so I don't scare humans outright. But every now and than I come across a human that stand above the rest, the one I met before I died was one of those rare humans. He could have been many things but instead he walk down the path of a true hero. He holds power but doesn't throw it into other people's faces or use it for himself. He has his flaws as there's no one prefect but he holds himself to his own code of honor. I never met someone like him before, he's what most people try to be but let power go to their heads."
Naruto listen closely as this man continues his tale. "He had a life very much like your own but continued on living. He once said: If you meet god, kill god. If you meet your father, kill your father. Free from everything you are bound by nothing. Live the life that's been given to you. He broke away from everything he knew and made his own path in life. Just like what you are doing now."
As he took it all in Naruto realized something that the man said, "You died?"
"Yes the man kill me in fair battle and I died having no regrets but one. That he and I couldn't have met earlier, what friends we could have become. When I got to hell this thought pledged me even as I paid for the dark life, that I had lived while still alive. So when someone created a gateway drawing dead souls to the living world, I went and fought my way pass the demons of Hell defeating many high level demons before I finally broke free. Once outside in the living world I met someone who gave me an option, to work for him as long as I live and when I died again, I would get a second chance at life. With an offer like that how could I refuse such a thing."
"Then why are you here for?"
"You see, I always wonder how someone like the man who kill me, were created. As for me, even at a very young age I never minded killing, so I don't know how they become what they are, since I have walk down a different path. So I decided to ask my new boss for some time off and search for someone like the man for me to watch and see how one because like this man. He pointed me towards you, and I have been watching you as you for a long time now. As I watch you living this hollow life, I decided to see if I can teach you all of my skills to become my heir to my art. I have waited for you to leave that village that doesn't want you before I made my present known to you to make you this offer. First I'll kill you and you will be reborn as a half-demon. And see if I can help shape you into a warrior. I don't ask for you to become like that man that killed me not so long ago. That be asking too much. All I ask is for you to do your best."
Naruto grew silent as he thought about it, "And what will you do if I decide to not to become a hero but to take my wrath on my village instead?"
"Fine with me," the man replied, "I want to shape you into a warrior for good or evil, it is up to you. What path of life you'll walk will be up to you and only you alone."
Naruto got onto his feet walking over to the man, "That doesn't sound so bad, not bad at all." He heard a click as a long blade came out of the right sleeve of the man's jacket. When he got into the mans range, he felt a sharp pain in his chest as the man buried his blade where his heart is located at, "That's not bad at all." Naruto smiles as he stares into the man's face that's hidden by a skintight metal mask that covers his whole head. There's no mouthpiece, no breathing holes or even eye holes on the mask. Just a Faceless metal mask that reflected nothing back as Naruto looks into where the man's eyes should be, he couldn't help smiling at the man that ended his human life.
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Author's Notes
1 – Anyone ever notice that there's a lot of fics out there where it's a Yaoi fic for Naruto? I mean I don't mind reading those as some are good but there are a bit too much as with Yugioh fics.
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