The Two Brothers' Tale
Told from Naruto's point of view as a first person narrator
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Chapter 1
„Naruto Uzumaki"
As I woke up on this morning I knew it was not a normal day.
It was a day where a strange, heavy atmosphere wavered through the air, reminding me of someone's tragedy. Something sad, something I knew…
I had my eyes still closed while I tried to identify what made me feel so uneasy. It dawned to me that it had got something to do with me,
that there was waiting something for me to discover. I tried to grasp my problem, but the more I thought, the more it blurred.
I sighed and got up.
My room was flooded with sunlight. I blinked confusedly - was it noon already? Yawning, I threw a look at my watch - it was ten o'clock. I frowned.
Ten o'clock?
That was not normal… Normally, I slept until twelve o'clock in the afternoon... At least, at weekends.
What was wrong with me? Why had I woken up so early?
I walked around in my room without a real destination.
Of course it was untidy.
Piles of clothes, Ninja roles, leftovers, litter and a lot of other things were spread over the bottom. Normally, I liked that chaos – it always arose a feeling
of home inside me.
But today it was different.
I was afraid, felt uncertain without knowing why. The things around me seemed foreign, like they didn't belong to me anymore. It was as if something would
soon happen, something which made me be so tensed. I had no clue what this happening could be and yet I could feel something coming.
I walked to the window and threw a look at my garden.
It was a nice day.
The light of the sun fell through the window in front of me, warming my face. It was not unpleasant, but there was something which made me frown again.
This warm sunny weather was not in line with my mood. Not that I expected the weather to change with my whims, but it still was something so contradictory
it made me feel confused.
A gloominess rose up inside me, creating a huge contrast to the light in my room.
Looking at the garden didn't really help me and I turned my back to it.
Overwhelmed by a sudden tiredness, I strolled back to my bed and let me fall upon it.
I was about to get back to sleep when something catched my attention.
Next to me, on my bedside table, there lay a book.
At first glance I knew it did not belong to me.
I had never seen it before nor did I know how it happened to be there. It was thick, old, muddy and seemed to effuse a strange aura.
What made me touch it was the title.
"Naruto Uzumaki".
"Someone's written a book about me?" I thought.
I ran my fingers over the cover- It was unusually smooth. As I examined it more closely, more and more questions rose up inside my head.
Why was that book in my room?
Did anyone expect me to read it? But why?
Should this be a beginning of this happening I sensed coming all the time?
And who could have made that?
The first person I came to think of was my master, Jiraiya. He was not only my coach but also an author.
But why should he write such a book without telling me? I shifted my fingers between the pages and opened the book.
The scripture was faint but not too much to be unable to identify the letters.
I was suddenly wide awake and curious.
Fascinated, I began reading.
Once upon a time, there was a Nine Tailed Demon Fox. It was called Kyubi.
It was a monster with such an enormous power that people always feared it like a natural disaster. It appeared out of nothingness, crushed whole
countries with one of his tails' stroke, and vanished, leaving destruction and hopelessness behind.
But once, and only once in the history of the Great Ninja World, there were two brothers with legendary power.
They were so strong that even Kyubi's power was almost nothing compared to them…
These brothers were said to be sent out of heaven itself… Rumours were spreading that they even had a direct connection to the God of all Shinobi.
With their monstrous power, they would be able to control the Kyubi. And certainly, their Chakras became known world-wide.
Knowing that somebody existed who would control the Kyubi… the villagers of Konoha began crying for a bit of protection. The villagers and the Hokage,
the whole Land of Fire realised that these were the destined Shinobi. They were born to finally bring peace to the Ninja world.
The legendary brothers, who were both born in Konoha… couldn't stand seeing their own friends suffering from catastrophes any more.
They both started thinking about a new Jutsu which would enable them to seal the Kyubi away…
And seeing what Chakras they had, the world government of all Shinobi countries began worrying about them.
Ninja with such a destructive power could be misused for bad purposes.
The Two Brothers could easily throw the world in chaos. They represented a great danger, because nobody knew what they wanted to do with their
enormous Chakras.
The world government gave them a task to do in order to find out how they would react.
The brothers had to use their powers in order to keep the world in balance. They were asked to work for the world government and to submit to their orders.
This task was an unsure attempt to discover which purposes The Two Brothers had.
Then something happened which nobody would have counted on:
They did really comply.
They seemed to have a positive character and agreed to join the government immediately. Both brothers were determined to improve the situation
not only of Konoha, but also for the whole world. One reason of this quick consent was that their parents had been killed in a war where Kyubi was involved.
By all means they wanted to protect their villagers from another catastrophe like this…
At the very day where they officially became members of the world government, they began thinking about the Kyubi, which was still the greatest danger for all Shinobi.
Together, The Two Brothers worked hard at a plan to tame the Demon Fox.
They wanted to create a new Jutsu.
A Jutsu, which became later known as "Book of Destiny".
They invented a legendary book which gave them the unbelievable power to tame the Demon Fox…
The Two Brothers managed to put a lot of their Chakra into an ordinary book. Using their powers, the book became extraordinary … and they were finally able to predestine the
future by themselves. They just had to write down into the Book of Destiny what should happen to the Kyubi. The things which were written down would later turn into reality.
Knowing that a Chakra Monster can't be killed, the Two Brothers wanted to capture or control the Kyubi by writing down its "destiny".
The "Book of Destiny" was their instrument to obtain force above the Demon Fox.
Like that, The Two Brothers would finally be able to tame the monster…
But, like every great Jutsu, this one had disadvantages, too.
Sacrifices had to be made…
Victims whose future was already written down in the Book of Destiny. Their whole life was predestined from their birth until death- on the other side, one "desire",
whatever it was, would be fulfilled. Once written down, a person's future couldn't be changed any more.
This unchangable predestination was the drawback of the new Jutsu. That there was another drawback, the Two Brothers didn't know yet.
The whole life of a person, of course, already required a lot of thinking - before writing down a story. They took their time to develop a plan.
It had to be worked out with perfection. Flaws or mistakes would be a huge disgrace for them – born as two prodigies, they could not afford to make any mistake
in front of the world.
If they made one – then the faith of Sunagakure in Konoha would be destroyed; Kirigakure (for a long time at enmity with the Brothers' village) would have a reason
to declare war on Konoha and many other villages would at least notice their weakness and probably try to attack them.
Their decisions would certainly have serious consequences… "Keep the world in balance" has not been an exaggeration: The Two Brothers really were responsible for
the peace of the world.
At the time they were ready, The Two Brothers wrote down their plan. They decided that the fourth Hokage should seal the Kyubi in a new-born boy… a boy, who was later
known as Naruto Uzumaki.
The brothers planned to imprison the monster in a human… because they thought this would be the safest and only possibility for protecting Konoha. This monster
couldn't be killed, so they decided to lock it up in a human.
The Two Brothers wanted to control crime, violence and wars… and Kyubi was often involved in catastrophes like that…
And being caged inside in such a highly controllable nature like a human, the brothers thought the Kyubi could not burst out unpredictably any more.
But Konoha and the whole Shinobi world was unsure whether such an experiment on a human really worked.
Nobody had ever tried to use a Jutsu like the Book of Destiny before.
It was a new technique.
Nobody could foresee what would finally happen to the fourth Hokage and his son, the sacrifice. The brothers had already broken a tabu…
Experiments with humans and especially with babies were forbidden. If they failed, the baby would die and in worst case, a Third Worldwar would break out.
They could do nothing but try and wait.
But it really happened.
The fourth Hokage squeezed the Demon Fox in his own son. Naruto survived.
Sealed in a human and constantly being controlled like that, Kyubi never burst out again. The man-made connection between the new-born boy and
the monster was irreversible… their destiny, together, was it to remain in this body for the next years.
Would the boy die one day, the monster would die, too – and vice versa. Kyubi (against all knowledge) was turned into a mortal being.
Like that, the monster was tamed by the Book of Destiny forever.
However, protection was given to Konoha for a high price…
The fourth Hokage, the legendary Yondaime, rescued Konoha by sealing a monster in his own son…
But he died.
At this point, the villagers and the Two Brothers realised that every single destiny written down in the book... would cost a life.
On the one hand, the Two Brothers had the unbelievable might to control the future directly… but on the other hand, every time a new destiny was invented, or
an old destiny was changed, a human's life had to be taken.
One destiny, one life, that was the inseparable bond between the Book of Destiny and the humans who were involved.
This was the price Konoha had to pay… they lost a great Ninja forever… one of the best Hokage ever known was dead.
His son had no father any more.
He had no mother either, because she had died at his birth.
Naruto Uzumaki was alone now right from the very start.
Damned to grow up without parents… damned to be raised in a world where nobody really liked him.
Surprisingly few humans were shocked from this result. Konoha, of course, grieved for their Hokage – but the Two Brothers were almost the only ones who
felt sorry for Naruto. The villagers of Konoha couldn't help but turn their fear upon Naruto- who was carrying the murderer of countless families.
The rest of the world were only glad to have cleared the danger of the monster.
Speaking about the Kyubi and the truth became a world-wide tabu. Like that, the next generation and Naruto himself would not know the truth for a long time.
However, The Two Brothers knew that, despite or because of that tabu, people would talk about it.
And also in order to never forget this catastrophe, they gave the boy's destiny a title.
It was named "The Two Brothers' Tale".
This is the story of Naruto Uzumaki. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So this is the beginning of the Two Brothers' Tale.
How could Naruto react to that? What will he do?
And will he find answers to his many questions?
Next chapter – "A child's desire"
It will be uploaded on 1st February 2009
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is my first Fanfiction...
I'm no native speaker - so I'd be glad for anyone who helps me improving and correcting :)