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"Normal talking"

Thinking

"Reading aloud / talking to inner demon"

"Introduction of a jutsu / large beast talking"

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Flowing Blood, Broken Bone

Chapter 1: How it all Began

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The hidden village of Konoha is a peaceful and prosperous ninja village which is also a part of the five shinobi nations that control the continent. It is often peaceful and the residents there are happy and go on with their lives in an everyday fashion. But tonight was different. Tonight was the night that a young ninja in training named Uzumaki Naruto stole the Scroll of Forbidden Seals…

"HURRY I THOUGH I SAW HIM GO THIS WAY!"

"NO, OVER HERE!"

"NO THERE!"

"WAIT THAT WAY!!"

Mizuki could only chuckle to himself as he saw all of the other ninja scrambling like chickens without their heads.

You would have thought they'd have found out that it was a simple bunshin and hedge combination already. Oh well, now to go to the spot that I told the Kyubi to go to.

After taking several large leaps he arrives he sees the small and brightly clad form of Naruto Uzumaki, the container of the Kyubi no kitsune. The young twelve year-old was apparently trying to learn a jutsu from the scroll in and attempt to pass the genin exam, yet another lie told by Mizuki in the creation of this plan.

Well now we can be having that now can we. Mizuki thinks as he unbuckles a giant shuriken from his back, but just as he is about to throw it at the unsuspecting child he hears something. Taking a second to focus chakra to his ear, he suddenly is able to hear the yelling of the familiar voice of his fellow teacher, Iruka.

"NARUTO! COME OUT, THE WHOLE ANBU FORCE IS OUT LOOKING FOR YOU AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET HURT! NARUTO!"

Damn that Iruka, he's too close for me to kill the brat now and heading this way. Better set up some traps to make sure that neither of the two will leave here to tell about it.

Soon after Mizuki gets ready for the arrival of his unexpected guest.

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"KUSO! Why can't I get this jutsu?!?!"

"I'm doing everything that it says, but why isn't it working!?" Taking a moment to think, Naruto goes over what he has been doing for the past hour.

OK, first make the hand sign necessary to create the jutsu. Check. Second, focus your chakra into a pliable form to create a solid clone. Check. Perform the jutsu…

"AAHHHHHH!! I'm doing all the steps but it still isn't working. What am I doing wrong?" wonders Naruto for the umpteenth time tonight.

Wait, scroll said that the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu takes considerably much more chakra than a regular bunshin, but whenever I put a lot of chakra into the regular bunshins we learned at the academy, they would either look dead or not appear at all. So maybe if I use about half of the chakra when I try the normal bunshin, then the Kage Bunshin should work.

After thinking this, Naruto forms the necessary cross-shaped handsign and after focusing on his chakra for a second yells "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

poof

When the smoke clears there, standing right in front of Naruto is an exact replica of himself, complete with orange jumpsuit and foxy smile.

"YADDA! I finally did it, I completed the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto exclaimed with a smile while giving a high-five to his clone, which, on comtantact, exploded into another poof of smoke.

"OK, now for the next jutsu on this stupid scroll. Hmmmmmmmm, no jutsu, just something about one-handed-seals.

"One handed seals are one of the least known shinobi tools that are almost never learned for the very reason that they take much concentration and stamina to perform. The cause for this is because the user needs to highly fine tune his or her chakra to adjust to this single focusing point. Also, after doing this it still takes up nearly twice the needed stamina to perform the jutsu. The advantages of this leaves the users other hand free to draw a weapon or start another jutsu using another set on one handed seals, an added effect to this is that the used jutsu cannot be copied by an enemy ninja who doesn't know the one handed seals or anyone who has inherited a "copy-jutsu" bloodline limit such as the Uchiha's."

"Kuso, that sounds hard, but it will defiantly make me a better shinobi, better copy these seals down before Mizuki-sensei shows up and takes the scroll away."

Just as Naruto finishes copying down the seals and putting them in his kunai pouch, he hears someone rustling in the bushes nearby and quickly draws out one of his old and dented kunai, only to put it away and grin when he sees Iruka coming out of the brush.

"Iruka-sensei! Wow that was fast, I only was able to learn one jutsu before you arrived. Now I get to pass and become a genin right? Mizuki-sensei said that if I was able to learn from this scroll I would get my genin rank."

Iruka could only stand in place wondering one thing. Mizuki is behind this? But why Naruto, unless… He was unable to finish this thought as he hears the flying whirls of several shuriken and quickly dives while tackling Naruto to the ground.

"Well it looks like the goody-two-shoes and his little pet demon are having a reunion, how sweet." Mizuki mockingly says as he makes his presence known. "Well this reunion will soon become a funeral when I'm done with you."

"Run Naruto, Mizuki used you to get the Scroll of Forbidden Seals. I'll hold him off till you can reach help." Iruka says as he gets in a fighting stance.

"Yes Naruto run, but how do you know that Iruka doesn't want you to do just that. I mean, I would want to kill the person that killed my parents on my own too."

"Whaa?" Naruto could only say as he had no idea what his former teacher was saying.

"No Naruto, don't listen to him, just run for help." Iruka desperately stated, him not wanting Naruto to hear of the fourth's seal and what it held.

"Well brat," Mizuki continued as if he didn't hear Iruka, "didn't you ever wonder why all the adults were cruel to you, or why they wouldn't let their kids play with you."

"No Naruto, please, just run."

"Well I'll tell you, ITS BECAUSE YOU ARE THE NINE-TAILED FOX!!!" Mizuki said, practically yelling the last part of his statement.

Naruto could only stand there, stunned and confused even more than before. Is this why all the adults hate me? But why me? Why an orphan who has no one to support them?

He was so caught up in his thoughts that Naruto didn't realize that Mizuki had launched another shuriken, but this one was at least four times as large as the standard issue ones that he usually uses.

"NARUTO!"

thud

Broken out of his stupor, Naruto finds himself once again on the ground with his teacher above him, only this time there is blood coming from his mouth and seeping through his clothes where the giant shuriken had was stuck.

cough "Naruto its true that you hold the terrible power of the Kyubi inside you, cough but that does not mean that you are the evil beast itself. You are Uzumaki Naruto, Konoha's number-one most-surprising-knuckleheaded-ninja."

After finishing this statement Iruka no longer had enough energy to stay crouched over his young pupil and promptly collapsed on top of the said child.

"Iruka-sensei… thanks for believing in me, I'll bring this traitor to the ANBU myself for what he's done to one of my precious people." Naruto whispers as he leans his favorite teacher against a tree-trunk.

"AWWW. Would you look at that, the brat is protecting the pencil-pusher. Why don't I just leave and let the ANBU take care of the demon that 'nearly killed one of Konoha's most prized teachers'."

Clutching his fists in anger, Naruto says through a rigid jaw, "For hurting Iruka-sensei like that, I'll return the pain you've caused him one-hundred fold."

"Let's see you try to back that up you demon."

"KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!"

POOFPOOFPOOF

When the smoke clears, there in the clearing is not the two or three bunshin that looked like half-dead Narutos that Mizuki was expecting, but literally hundreds of the blond covered the entire clearing, all at one saying in stereo, "GET READY MIZUKI, 'CUS HERE COMES THE PAIN!!!" and then charging at the stunned white-haired, and suddenly very pale, chunin.

POWPOWPOW

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"Whoops. Looks like I kinda overdid it." Naruto says with a sheepish smile on his face as he looks at the battered and broken form of Mizuki. Turning around and seeing Iruka watching him with wide eyes, he approaches him in order to get his sensei to medical attention.

Naruto was able to learn and perform a Jounin level jutsu in just one night. What has this village been holing back all these years? Thought Iruka as he was conscious throughout the entire fight and saw how Naruto literally pummeled Mizuki into a four-foot-deep crater.

As Naruto walks towards Iruka, he fails to notice the tripwire that Mizuki set up before he came out of hiding and sets it of, unleashing a swarm of poison laced kunai and shuriken to fly out of the bushes to his left and slice into his arm and across his eye.

Put off balance from the barrage, Naruto takes a step to the right only to set off another trap that launches a lone, giant shuriken to wish through the trees strait towards him.

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"NARUTO!"

The last thing that Naruto was aware of before losing consciousness was Iruka shouting his name over and over again while he was clutching the bleeding stump where his lower left arm should be.

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(Naruto's Mind)

YAAAWWWWWWNNNN "That was a good sleep. Where am I?" said the great Kyubi no Kitsune as it awoke from its twelve year slumber. "The last thing that I can remember is that flash of yellow and the shinigami reaching for me and …DAMN IT, I'M DEAD!!!!!" and with that statement the giant fox let out a great roar that shook the very cage it was trapped in.

Wait, a cage? What am I doing behind a cage? The beast thought as it took in its surroundings, which upon further inspection proved to look like a giant sewer that was filled with a few inches of water, which the fox desperately hoped had little relation to its surroundings.

Well Yondaime, guess I'll have to thank you for sealing me instead of taking me with you into the shinigami. Now let's check and see who the host is and how strong they are.

What the Kyubi saw was a surprise to even him as he saw his jinchuuriki fight and beat a Konoha chunin. That surprise turned into horror, and then anger, as he witnessed the blond get cut and poisoned by the small shuriken and had his arm sliced off by the larger one.

Sheesh. I'm not awake for tem minutes and the boy is already on his deathbed. If I don't help him out, both of us will die. I just hope that that arm or his can take the youki that I'm going to send through it to get rid of the poison or the kid is going to have a skeleton for a lower arm for the rest of his days.

Suddenly realization hits the fox, and he starts to grin rather evilly as he ponders over his plans for the remains of Naruto's arm.

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(In Konoha)

"Won't somebody help him!" screams Iruka as he rushes through the doors of the hospital.

Sneering, one of the doctors nearby says "Why should we help a demon like him, the best thing that he could do for the village right now is die."

That doctor then had sudden acquaintance with the far wall as Sarutobi unexpectedly made his appearance where the doctor had been standing. "The next person won't get off so easily. Now either you people help the boy or all of you will be having private sessions with Ibiki later," the Hokage said as he glared at the medical personnel present in the reception area.

The doctors in the direct vicinity immediately rushed to help the bleeding boy as to not incur the wrath of the Sandaime, taking him to an emergency ward and giving him blood to replace what he had already lost.

Once they were gone, Sarutobi approached Iruka, wanting to know exactly what happened and what could have caused Naruto to be so severely injured.

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(Hospital Emergency Ward)

"Hmmm, what happened? Where am I?" Naruto said groggily as he took in his surroundings without opening his eye, since one was covered with something. Ok, let's see, from what happened between Mizuki and me I can only be in three places. If that's the case then I'm either dead, at Iruka-sensei's, or at the hospital…I really hope it's not the first one.

Slowly Naruto opened his eyes and was relived to see that he was in the hospital, but when he tried to sit up, he immediately fell on his side. Bewildered he looked to his left to see what was the matter, only to gaze in horror at what wasn't there. The lower part of his arm from two inches below the elbow was gone and inside a surgical pan beside his bed. As he stared at the appendage he suddenly felt intense pain rocket throughout his body, primarily from his stomach and his left eye and what remained of his arm. It wasn't until he was engulfed in a blood-red aura that had originated from these areas that he started to scream so loud that the residents in Konoha though that the Kyubi was burning someone alive, unaware of how close that to the truth they were.

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(Hyuga Compound)

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"Come now Hinata, you are the heir of the Hyuga clan. Surely you can beat someone that is several years younger than you," stated Hyuga Hiashi as he watched his two daughters fight using basic Juken stances.

pant "Gomen father, I will try harder," said a very beat up Hinata as she tried to regain her breath.

"Trying isn't enough. One of the Hyuga heirs should easily b able to…" he was unable to finish what he was saying as he heard a bloodcurdling scream that was followed by a familiar malicious aura that he hadn't sensed in twelve years.

"Kyubi," Hiashi says under his breath as he turns and rushes to the source of such a vile intent, unaware that he was being followed closely by his eldest daughter.

That scream. Somehow that sounded like Naruto-kun. I have to go and see what has happened to him. Thought Hinata as she trailed behind Hiashi with only the concern of her idle present on her mind as she made her way into the hospital and towards the emergency ward.

Outside the room she saw medical personnel look into the open double-doors with fear clearly painted on each of their faces. Even her father, a hardened shinobi and head of the most prestigious clan in Konoha was starting to break out in a cold-sweat as he gazed upon what lay inside the ward.

Finally gathering enough courage to look into the room herself, Hinata immediately regretted it as she saw Naruto screaming his lungs out while engulfed in a strange red chakra. Wide eyed, she couldn't help but notice that part of his left arm was floating slowly towards where it was formally attached, and that as it made connection with the remaining limb, both it and Naruto's left eye started to smoke and the scent of burning flesh could be smelled.

"Naruto-kun… what is happening to you," Hinata said as he watched in horror at the events that were happening

By the time that these words left her lips, there were literally pieces of flesh falling off his arm, leaving behind only the white bone that lay beneath. Slowly these bones too began to bubble, but instead of falling of with the reminder of the arm, the bones started to fuse together until they looked like a white steel rod, until that too started to change and elongate and sharpen into what appeared to be a wakizashi blade with various kanji surrounding the place where the bone stopped and the flesh started a few inches below his elbow.

The process complete, the aura started to deplete, until with one final mighty burst it was gone entirely. Leaving behind a stunned little girl that promptly fainted once the screaming of her crush had finally ended and the exhaustion from the fight with her sister started to take its toll on her.

"Naruto-kun..." were the last words Hinata said as the darkness of sleep overtook her.

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A/N: Sorry for being so jumpy with the story, I had to do it so that I could get the beginning done right and not completely screw up the plot. Yes, this will be a Naruto/Hinata story and nothing will change my mind. Please read and review, flames welcome. Untill next time, Ja ne.