Hello everyone. This is a fanfic that my friend and I came up with an idea of while we were at work. This will be an AU fic and this will also be the last one that I make before I ship to basic combat training in 20 days. I hope you all enjoy what chapters I get posted and I will do my best to get it as updated as possible.
Prologue
The dawn… in most cases, it usually had a beautiful, ethereal quality to it. Like Shikamaru enjoyed watching the clouds, Naruto enjoyed spending his time watching the sunrise. He also maintained a garden and painted. But that was all over.. once this process was complete, everything would be over. Akatsuki would win.
He was understandably pissed, as his body ignored the pain it was in. He was handed over by his village, his chakra sealed and eyes gouged from his head. He was branded, not with his whisker marks, but with the symbol, Kyuu and a tattoo of a nine tailed fox was burned into his back.
He could feel that the process was almost done and he thought about the sacrifices that were made before he got here. Certain people in the village wouldn't let Akatsuki take him without a fight. The Rookie Twelve wouldn't let him go without fighting. Sasuke, Sakura, Tenten, Neji, Lee, Ino, Kiba and Choji all died. Shikamaru, Hinata and Shino were all imprisoned. Tsunade was assassinated in her sleep after she declared the Elders traitors for ordering Naruto's imprisonment and subsequent banishment to Akatsuki. Jiraiya and the Rookie Twelve's senseis also died in the fighting, each falling to a remaining member of Akatsuki with Jiraiya and Kakashi falling to Pein himself.
-Seal-
Kurama was less than please. He could feel himself being pulled into that damnable statue. Everyone thought that the Gedō Mezō was the Jūbi reborn onto this world. They'd be wrong. The Jūbi was imprisoned in the Moon, forever. Point blank period. It wasn't getting out.
What he was currently being sealed into was a fucking alabaster statue made from the Shodai Hokage's damnable Mokuton. He could hear his other siblings in pain in the statue. This needed to change, but he didn't know how.
But soon, he felt it. Even with the weakening connection he had to the boy, he could sense something coming from Naruto. It was faint, but it was there. Ah ha! A silver of hatred. But what was the hatred for, the fox wondered. So, with his remaining time left, he dug deeper and discovered the source of it.
Konohagakure no Sato.
It was ludicrous really. The one boy who would have gladly given up his life in service to his village was being forced to against his will. While he couldn't see it, he could hear the screams of his comrades and the sounds of battle waging around him and with the sage chakra that he had gathered from being held still, he could feel as each of them had fallen in battle. And it caused the hatred to grow.
The demon lord wondered if he could use this to his and his siblings advantage and began mentally conversing with them as his consciousness entered into the statue.
-Outside Statue-
Akatsuki was tired. They were worn out from the sealing, but they had started, so they must continue. Even though they were reduced to only a handful of members, they were still a fighting force to be reckoned with. And yet they decimated Konoha. Pein could feel the last of the chakra leaving the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki and let his hands down. With a sigh, he and the others let their hands drop.
Kisame rubbed his shoulders. "Kami dammit, that took forever."
Pein nodded. "With the deaths of Kakuzu, the Art Duo and your partner to his younger brother and our failed acquisition of Orochimaru's ring, that makes the process all the harder. But now that we have sealed the Nine Tails, we move on to phase two of the plan."
Hidan nodded. "Which is what exactly?"
Pein looked at him. "Now we begin what my mentor…"
Pein paused and looked at the body of the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. Something was off. He sensed chakra growing within him. But with the complete extraction of his biju, the boy should by all rights be dead. But yet, his body was producing chakra. Slowly but surely, the body began moving more and more, causing alarm to spark with the other members of Akatsuki, that Hidan made the surprised statement for all of them with a yelled "fuck." Pein nodded at that and the body stood.
-Naruto's Mind-
Naruto didn't know how he was alive, but he knew. He could feel multiple lingering consciousness within his own, but it didn't matter. What mattered is that he felt better than before. He felt stronger, more fit and like he could accomplish anything. He opened his eyes, and he could hear gasps around the room, and feel surprise coming from Pein. His eyes flickered to the Rinnegan wielding shinobi and looked on in curiosity.
"Soething the matter Pein?" Naruto said.
"How are you alive Kyuubi Jinchuuriki?" Pein asked.
Naruto shrugged. "I have no idea. But I feel a power within me that wasn't there before. It is… stronger and more ancient than the Kyuubi and I plan to put it to good use."
Kisame laughed as he jumped at the former Jinchuuriki, his sword drawn. "How are you going to use it when I'll have shaved off your legs and put your soul back into that statue!"
Naruto looked at Kisame as he came at him and then the sword wielding Rogue nin flew backwards into the wall. Naruto looked at each of them, his silver eyes boring into every person present. "Now, you will all know my pain."
Then he attacked, and for Akatsuki, everything went dark.
That was the end of the chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it. I know it's short, but this is mostly a prologue. It's meant to set up the story and hopefully keep you all interested.