I've had this idea buzzing inside my head for a while now, and I've finally gotten around to writing it! Enjoy!
I don't own D. Gray-Man or NARUTO.
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The moon hung over the night sky, pure white, full, glorious. It appeared completely immortal, eternal. It white light shone over a village. Konohagakure no Sato. The Village Hidden in the Leaves. Normally all was peaceful in Konoha, but not tonight. Never on October 10th, not since five years ago.
"Help me!" a young voice shouted, "Someone, please!"
"Kill it!" someone shouted.
"Finish what the Fourth started!" another roared.
"Die, Kyuubi!" another person screamed.
The small boy the mob was chasing darted into an alley, the moon light reflecting off his blonde hair as his blue eyes were bright with fear. The mob followed close behind, pitchforks, knives, kunai, torches, and many other things held in their hands ready to use on the boy.
One of them threw a kunai at the boy and it sunk deep into the child's leg. The blond boy screamed as pain shot through his leg and he fell to the ground.
"Die demon!" one the people shouted as they swung a bat down, colliding with the boy's head. Others joined in with more bats, planks of wood, and other blunt objects. Then the ones with the sharp objects started stabbing the boy in his arms and legs.
"This is for everyone you've killed, devil child!"
"This is for my wife!"
"This is for my daughter!"
"This is for my uncle!"
"This for my parents!"
A man stood atop one of the roofs above the alley watching the scene play out, a large black casket next to him with a gold cross on the front and wrapped in chains. The man looked at the casket.
"Disgusting isn't it?" the man asked, his voice deep and gruff, "It's incredible how humans can be even worse than Akuma."
The coffin didn't reply.
"So what should we do?"
Still nothing.
The man chuckled as he brushed aside a part of his coat and pulled out large caliber revolver, he smirked as he pointed it as the group of people surrounding the boy. The actual power of gun wouldn't be able to hurt them, but the bullet's themselves could.
The man pulled the trigger and softly spoke one word, "Judgment."
The bullets rained down and ripped into each and every one of the boy's attackers with perfect accuracy, heads being blown off, limbs being lost, holes in torsos appearing. The mob was completely slaughtered and the boy was laying in the center of it all, blood was splattered everywhere around him.
His blue eyes looked around his shock, horror, and awe of what just happened. A shadow passed over him and he looked up to see the very man that had saved him was holding onto the casket as it gently floated down. The boy backed away, the fear clear in his eyes.
"P-Please! Don't h-hurt me!" the boy pleaded.
"Hurt you?" the man repeated, "You haven't done anything wrong against me that I know of, why would I hurt you?"
"You not going to hurt me?" the boy asked in disbelief, "Everyone else does, except for Jiji."
"Do they now?" the coffin touched the ground and the man's feet came down, "Why would they do that?"
"I-I don't know." they boy stuttered, "They've always done those kinds of things."
"Is that so, gaki?" the man raised an eyebrow. The bow could see that one half of the man's face was covered by a white mask with a thin black cross on it. One brown eye stared at him. The man's vibrant red hair shown in the moon light.
"So tell me, gaki," the man spoke, "What's your name?"
"Naruto… Uzumaki Naruto."
The man's lips turned into a smile, "I'm Cross Marian, Naruto."
"Cross." Naruto said slowly testing out the name, "It sounds nice."
Cross reached out a gloved hand and ruffled Naruto's hair, "Compared to a kid's name that means 'fishcake'."
"Hey!" Naruto called swatting Cross's hand away, "My name mean's Swirling Maelstrom! Remember that!"
Cross laughed, "'Maelstrom'. It has a good ring to it."
Something caught Cross's eye, his one eye looked at it confused.
"Is something wrong, Cross-san?" Naruto asked when he saw the look that was on Cross's face.
"Take off you shirt for a second," Cross instructed, "I wanna see something."
"Huh? Okay…" Naruto carefully removed his shirt trying not to worsen his wounds that were already miraculously healing faster than what should have been possible.
'Well I'll be damned.' Cross thought as he looked at Naruto's chest, aside from the boy's torso being horrifically thin, the ribs barely showing, Naruto's chest was completely black, and not just dark skinned or tanned, but actually black, there were four small stone that looked like glowing green gems embedded in the center of his chest in the pattern of a cross.
'Is this kid, Cedak…?' Cross wondered as he stared at the Naruto's chest.
"What's wrong, Cross-san?" Naruto asked uncomfortably.
"How did your chest get like that?" Cross questioned.
"Huh? Jiji told me I was born with my chest like that." Naruto answered.
Cross frowned, "Who're your parents?"
Naruto's face suddenly fell, "I don't know… Jiji says doesn't know who my parents were, but he said he was sure that they loved me…"
Cross ruffled Naruto's hair again, "And I'm sure I can just for them as well."
"You can?" Cross nodded.
"Naruto," Cross said, "I think I may have an idea on who your parents are."
Naruto stared up at Cross, "R-Really?"
"Yeah, I think I do." Cross put his hand around Naruto's hips and lifted up.
"Whoa, whoa!" Naruto called as Cross lifted him onto his shoulders.
Cross gave the coffin at his side a pat, "Come on, Maria."
The coffin floated up two inches off the ground and followed Cross as he made his way out of the alley with Naruto on his shoulders.
"So where do you live, Naruto?" Cross asked as he made his way down the street.
"In an old apartment in slums." Naruto said.
"The slums?"
"Yeah, it's the only place that'll let me stay…" Naruto said a bit sadly, "Even though I barely get any water or electricity… and most of the food is bad."
Cross frowned, "Show me to where you live."
"Uh, okay." Naruto pointed out the streets for Cross to turn at and eventually they reached Naruto's apartment after five or so minutes. Cross looked at the building, it seemed well enough from the outside. Naruto told him his apartment number and Cross went up the steps to the second floor, apartment 207.
The door was kicked in, however, and it looked like someone had gone at it with a fire axe while they were at it. Cross entered the apartment, the walls had holes in them showing the wood frames behind them, the bed, if it could be called a bed, was torn to pieces. The single window in the room was shattered with glass scattering the floor. Cross's foot nearly fell through the floor with the next step he took.
"Do you… seriously live here…?" Cross asked in disgust as he pulled his foot free of the rotten floor boards.
"Um… yeah…" Naruto admitted a bit ashamed.
Cross shook his head, the moment those two found out how Cedak was living… Cross involuntarily shuddered. Those two had gotten strong over the years and he knew that even he would have real trouble with them at the level they were at now even if he took them on separately.
"What all is important to you here?" Cross asked.
"Um, nothing really." Naruto shifted on Cross's shoulders.
"Well you're not going to be living here anymore." Cross turning around.
"I'm… not…?"
"Nope," Cross said, "I'm taking you out of this dump."
"You are?" Naruto asked excitedly.
Cross chuckled as he and Naruto left the apartment building, "Yeah, I can even take you away from this entire village if you want."
"Away from the whole village…?" Naruto seemed reluctant.
"What's wrong?"
"It's just… there are some people that are nice to me… and I don't want to leave them." Naruto said.
"Ah, I see." Cross smiled, "How about we get a hotel room for the night and we can talk about it tomorrow?"
"Okay! But let's get lots and lots of ramen first before we go to bed!" Naruto said pumping his tiny fist in the air.
Cross laughter echoed through the dark night streets.
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