Nine Bijuu

Nine Jinchuriki

Eight unique powers

Kurama smirked from inside his new cage. He had just been sealed away again. Doomed to another life of loneliness and suffering again. This time however would be different. His previous hosts demanded his power, tortured him for it and yet Kurama always kept a hold on it. He would not give them what they wanted, ever!

This host however, this host hadn't hurt him just yet. Hadn't tortured him. hadn't demanded his power. In a way he would not be giving up, he would not be losing by giving up his power.

Kurama cackled madly from his cage. The years of isolation had not been too kind on his mind but at this point he did not care.

Let the fun begin, he thought to himself as he gave up a portion of his power. A spark and a Dominion to his new host.

The kid's life would be an eternal nightmare and he would have his mother to thank for that.

Deep inside the recesses of Uzumaki Naruto's seal an insane cackle could be heard and it didn't stop for a very long time.

...

Uzumaki Naruto wasn't your average child. Then again he was raised in a ninja village but even then he was not average. He did not play ninja with his friends growing up. He did not dream about throwing fireballs at armies of his enemies. He did not play with kunai. No what Naruto did instead was he spent his days and nights alone. Calmly walking through the village, ignoring every single glare that he received. He walked through every single area of town from the financial district to the red light district, from the sewers to the forests. He walked, watched and he learned. He failed most of his classes at the Academy only doing well in stealth and torture. No one could quite tll exactly what he did to those poor criminals that the Academy used for torture practice but within moments of being in a room with Naruto they would be screaming all that they knew just to get away from him.

It was graduation day at the Academy and Iruka was thanking all of the gods he knew that Naruto would no longer be in his class any more, the kid was clearly not the Kyuubi but even then something about him just made the Chunin uncomfortable.

"Now Naruto," Iruka began hesitantly. "I need you to perform a kawarimi with something in the room."

Naruto started at Iruka with cold, dead eyes before giving a slight nod. Nothing happened for a few seconds before Naruto disappeared in cloud of black smoke and a chair was in his place.

Iruka shook his head, there was no way he actually saw the dead form inside the smoke.

A second later and Naruto was back where he once was.

"Good," Iruka commented. "Now I need you to perform a henge for me."

Naruto was suddenly replaced with a monstrous individual with eight arms, six of which were mangled beyond repair. Blood red eyes, a torn out hole where the heart should have been, snakes filling sad hole, a shredded mess of flesh that was once his legs and cracks all over his body with which blood poured.

Iruka heard Mizuki throwing up and yet Iruka couldn't take his eyes off of the monstrosity in front of him. "Er...ah... yes. You can change back now," he said fearfully. It wasn't quite what the Chunin was expecting but technically Naruto had performed a henge.

The horror in front of him nodded and Naruto was once more standing there.

"and a bunshin?" Iruka asked slightly in fear of what would happen.

A perfectly average and normal bunshin appeared right next to Naruto. It wasn't well made but it was enough to pass the young Uzumaki. Thank Kami.

"Congratulations you pass," Iruka beamed at Naruto. "Here's your Hitai-ate and you will be required to come back here a week from now at nine am."

Naruto gave a small nod, taking the Hitai-ate from Iruka. "Thank you," he whispered quietly before exiting the room.

Both Iruka and Mizuki let out a sigh of relief.

...

Once more Naruto found himself walking through the streets, the people glaring hatefully at him as he passed. Idly he wondered just how they would react if he truly let them know what he thought of them, what he knew about them. Would they hate him or fear him?

He shook his head, it was bad to think like that besides the old man would be upset with him.

Eventually the sun set and Naruto was walking through the streets in the dark, he felt more comfortable at times like this. At night when was when he felt safe, comfortable and powerful. Nothing could harm him at night and he knew it.

"Uzumaki Naruto," a voice called from out of the darkness. "Hokage-sama requests your presence."

Naruto nodded as the ANBU came out of the shadows up to him. It was Panda today, Naruto liked panda he was always professional with him and didn't flinch away from his eyes like so many did.

Panda grabbed Naruto firmly and Shunshin'd the two away, to the Hokage's office.

"thank you for bringing him here Panda. You may return back to your regular duties," the aged Hokage said from behind his desk.

Despite the smile on the old man's face and the smile in his eyes Naruto could sense the nightmares t come, something had happened.

"Hai Hokage-sama," Panda said giving a respectful bow before moving to leave. Just before he was fully outside the room Naruto called out.

"They will not bother you tonight," he informed the ANBU.

Panda didn't say anything as the door closed behind him.

"that was kind of you Naruto-kun," the Hokage said with a gentle smile, "I'm sure Panda is thankful for what you have done."

Naruto gave a small shrug, "he feels as if he deserves to be bothered by them. His punishment for failing. He is not thankful but he does not deserve to suffer like this any more," the young blond finished as he sat down in one of the office chairs. "Now what is the problem old man."

the Hokage let out a soft sigh, it pained him to see Naruto being so mature, he was only thirteen after all, he should still be acting like a child. "Mizuki has stolen the Forbidden Scroll and we can't find him."

"So you want me to find him and retrieve the scroll for you," Naruto deduced.

"Yes," the Hokage nodded. "I hate to put you in danger like this Naruto but we can not let the scroll fall in the wrong hands and you are our best hope at getting it back."

"And Mizuki?"

"We need the scroll and information on who he is working for and with, other than that it does not matter," came the response.

Naruto nodded before getting up from his seat, "it will be a while before I can start looking for him. I am going to go and get something to eat," he informed the old man before walking out of the office, not even waiting for a response.

...

Mizuki was running through the forest. He didn't know what it was but something was chasing him. He couldn't see it just hear it and somehow that made it much, much more terrifying.

There was a loud creaking sound from behind him and a tree fell down, just missing him. Mizuki turned right and kept running, he had to get away, he just had to. After what felt like hours and hours of running Mizuki began to get tired and eventually collapsed on the dirt, too tired to care that he was about to die.

The sound of footsteps could be heard getting closer and closer until a giant, seven foot tall scarecrow walked out of the woods, a rusty farmer's scythe in it's grasp. It regarded Mizuki with the jagged cuts that were it's eyes, before it turned and walked away. "Not even worth killing," Mizuki heard come from the walking horror.

Mizuki blinked and he found himself in the middle of Konoha's market during lunchtime. People walked around him, pushing against him as they moved from place to place, not a single one of them even looking at him. How dare they not look at him! How dare they. He was the one who stole the Forbidden Scroll and they just ignored him?

It was too much for Mizuki and in anger he pulled out a kunai, cutting into the person next to him. Not a single person paid any attention to the bloody corpse nor it's murderer. Again and again Mizuki cut people, ripping them apart, killing them and yet everyone else just went about their day not even paying him or his deeds any attention. Not even noticing him.

"Hey Iruka," someone called out excitedly and suddenly the crowd did react, as one they all rushed to where Iruka appeared. Smiling at him, talking excitedly and praising the worthless excuse for a ninja. Oh how Mizuki hated Iruka and everyone else. Even Tsubaki was there, praising Iruka and ignoring Mizuki.

Mizuki would make all of them pay!

"you know you deserve this," a soft voice came from behind Mizuki. "you deserve to be treated like this, like the insignificant nothing that you are."

"I'm not nothing!" Mizuki roared in fury, throwing his kunai at the offending voice.

The Kyuubi brat, the source of the voice, just casually reached out and picked the kunai out of the air. "You can't even kill an unarmed child who was just recently made a genin. That sounds like nothing to me," it mocked.

"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" Mizuki roared, throwing a fuma shuriken at the monster but once more his weapon was just casually picked out of the air.

"I don't know why you even try, a nothing like you could never hope to hurt me," the Kyuubi-brat continued to mock. "You aren't even worth killing. I mean sure you stole some scroll but let's face it would it really be such an important scroll if a nothing like you could steal it?"

"heh that just shows how great I am," Mizuki boasted.

"Yes really great," the Kyuubi-brat smirked. "it takes real skill to steal a blank scroll."

Mizuki paled slightly, "what did you say demon?"

The Kyuubi-brat's smirk widened, "you mean you didn't know? Didn't even check? Tell me would the Hokage really keep such an important scroll out in the open? Why don't you have a look right now? Go on I'll wait."

Mizuki didn't trust the demon at all but it's words did make sense so hesitantly Mizuki took the scroll off of his back and opened it up. "it...it's blank!" he cried out.

"it's cute how a nothing like you thought that you could actually do anything of note. I wonder what your boss is going to say when he finds out that you failed him."

"Yes Mizuki what will I say," came a silky smooth voice, one that promised eternal pain to those who disappoint.

Mizuki turned and found himself in one of Orochimaru's laboratories. His lord and master there in front of him a curious yet sadistic look on his face. "Tell me Mizuki what will I say? What will I do with you?"

"m-my l-l-lord it w-was all the d-d-demon's f-fault," Mizuki stammered fearfully, inching backwards until he bumped into an operating table.

Orochimaru shook his head in mock sadness, "blaming others for your failures? And I had such high hopes for you Mizuki. I guess this is my lesson that I should never trust a nothing like you to do a job. Perhaps that fellow Iruka would be a better tool than yourself."

"I-Iruka's t-too soft hearted my lord," Mizuki got out.

Orochimaru gave a slow, considering look, "perhaps but even then he can't be as useless as you. Though perhaps useless is the wrong phrase. After all you would make an excellent test subject for my newest batch of a flesh eating virus," the Snake Sannin mused.

Straps came from the table, grabbing on to Mizuki and pulling him down. Locking him in place. Orochimaru pulled a needle out of his robes and advanced on his newest test subject, "now don't you worry Mizuki, this will hurt you a lot more than it will hurt me. Kukuku."

...

In the middle of the woods, hidden in the roots of a tree lay Mizuki's sleeping body. A dark cloud of smoke started to seep out from his skin until it formed into Uzumaki Naruto. Without any hesitation Naruto pulled out a kunai and slit the traitor's throat, grabbed the Forbidden Scroll, sealed away the head and destroyed the rest of the body.

Without a single word Naruto just calmly climbed out of the tree's roots and after orientating himself started to calmly walk his way back in the direction of the Village.

"I'm going to miss Mizuki," Naruto muttered almost sadly to himself.

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So yeah another story after how long? Meh who cares.

I got the idea for thhis story from a character I created for a TTRPG called Part Time Gods.

It's going to be interesting to do this but I hope it goes well and I hope you guys enjoy it.

P.S there's a cookie for the person who can tell me who Naruto henge'd into for the graduation exam. It won't be a real cookie but still it's a cookie :P

oh yeah. I'm thinking of doing a pairing for this at the moment im deciding between

Hyuga Hanabi

Temari

or Ayame.

If anyone has other suggestions let me know, OC's are welcome as well. Harems are not welcome however.