Naruto: Rise of the Tuner Clan

"Speaking"

'Thinking'

Written words, flashback beginning/ending, time skips

Jutsu or skill

"Demonic/demon/summons speaking

'Demonic/demon/summons thinking

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Chapter 1: Awaken, Warriors of Purgatory

It was in the afternoon in a forest when a person approached. The person appeared to be a girl of fourteen in a pink kimono with jet-black hair. This person's face was soft and the skin were pale, not unhealthily but as if it was made of snow. The person noticed a young boy of thirteen or so lying on the ground. His skin was tan as if he was used to being outside, his face wasn't hard but it appeared fair but seemingly marred by three whisker marks on each cheek. His clothes consisted of a bright orange jacket with a little blue and a pair of orange pants. His blonde hair was a rarity as it was golden blonde in color. He was sleeping on the ground. The person reached out seemingly to strangle but instead shook the boy.

"Huh?" was the boy's sleep filled word as he woke up. He took in the view of what he believed to be on of the most beautiful girls he's ever seen.

"You'll catch a cold if you sleep out here." The person said with some concern.

"Oh, what are you doing out here neechan?" The boy asked with curiosity.

"I'm collecting herbs. My friend had injured himself while he was working and I'm collecting medicinal herbs to heal his injuries and make sure he doesn't get sick." The girl replied

"Oh, How about I help 'ttebayo. The name's Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto at your service." Naruto said giving her a foxy grin.

"My name is Haku, and I appreciate the help, Uzumaki-san."

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Meanwhile at an inn near the town within Nami no Kuni, A girl was preparing for a bath. This girl had long pink hair, jade green eyes, and a high forehead. Recently she couldn't hear the occasional whoop or cheer from a second persona she dubbed 'Ura Sakura'. It started some time after they faced off against Momochi Zabuza, burradai oni no kiri. Even though she did nothing to help in the battle itself, she felt a strange 'surge' or 'pulsation' throughout her body. She laid her clothes, which consisted of a red cheongseng(SP?) black biker shorts, cherry blossom pink panties and a matching bra for a-cups or training. She looked herself in the mirror, her hand going to a certain mark just above her right breast. This mark wasn't a tattoo, but it certainly wasn't an average birthmark for it was perfectly shaped as a fox's head with nine-tails thrashing behind it.

'Why do I have this? It's bad enough that I get picked on because of my forehead, but this almost caused me to be abandoned.' She thought to herself as she entered the bath.

'Why do I have this mark anyway? I know my parents love me but it's caused me nothing but trouble. I've been called 'the demon's mate', whatever that means, because of this.' She continued to think as she washed her hair. She always took care to look pretty, but she started thinking more and more.

'Is it because of this mark that Sasuke-kun won't go out with me? He doesn't know does he? If it is then he's no different then anyone else.' She started tearing up at the possibility of this.

'I wish I didn't have this damn mark, but I love it. It's a part of me and it looks so pretty too. Would Naruto hate me if he knew? When did I start thinking about him? Didn't I hear someone call him a demon once? Arrgh, this is just so confusing.' She grabbed her head and teared up more.

"Doesn't that mean that I'm no different from everyone else?" She asked more to herself as she started crying. The few that knew of her mark hated her almost as much as Naruto.

'Maybe, I'll give Naruto a chance at least.' She thought to herself as she continued bathing.

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Naruto and Haku had been collecting various herbs. Haku had enjoyed Naruto's company, as he had been very polite with her.

"I was out training when you found me 'neechan." He said putting in another herb that Haku had said would help.

"Why is that? You seem very strong already, so why train?" Haku asked the blonde to which he replied.

"I wanna be hokage, and for that I gotta get a lot stronger. Then people will start looking at me like I'm a big shot." He said enthusiastically.

"Oh, may I ask if there's anyone precious in your life." Haku said truly wanting to know if the blonde just wanted fame.

"Of course, there's Teuchi-oji, Ayame-nee, Sarutobi-jiji, Kono-kun, and Sakura-chan. Those people are very precious to me." Naruto said happily. He really cared for those people and would never intentionally hurt them.

"Then I believe that you will truly become strong. I heard that if someone had people that are precious in there hearts then they would become strong." Haku said before leaving.

"Oh, by the way, I'm a boy." Haku said before Naruto started laughing.

"There's now way you smell like a boy." He said calming down surprising the poor girl. Especially since she enjoyed watching people get annoyed after saying that.

'How did you know that I was truly a girl?' She thought to herself as she left.

A Few days later

"Why did you save me?" Naruto asked a boy with black hair and red eyes with tomoe marks in them. Both of them were injured with many senbon and the dark haired boy

"I don't know dobe, my body just moved on it's own. I swore I wouldn't die until I killed him. Don't…die..." He said as his body drifted into unconsciousness. Naruto looked at the boy in the mirror. His smell was off, but still familiar.

"He died protecting a comrade. He died a true shinobi." The masked boy said in green and blue clothes and his hair in a bun on the back of his head. Naruto was angry, no furious. How dare this guy defeat his rival?

"SHUT UP!' Naruto yelled as he smashed the mirror made of ice holding the boy while a crimson aura swirled around him. The strangest thing in during all this was that his blood vessels were glowing as his body darkened. The mask was broken and he saw who it was. The very girl that told him he would be strong. Haku. Naruto calmed down as he returned to normal. The circuit like lines fading out.

"Haku? Why…" He started before she interrupted.

"Please kill me." Naruto was stunned. The first person he really befriended was his enemy, and now that she asked for death.

"No."

'This isn't right. She doesn't deserve to die.' He thought while speaking.

"I'm a broken tool. Zabuza-sama is my precious person like Sakura is yours." Haku said with a few tears in her eyes. Naruto couldn't strike the girl down. Just then an arrow struck a man with bandages around his face in the leg.

"Damn, my archer missed. Did you really think that I would pay you after your first failure Zabuza?" Said a short man in a business suit.

"Gatou" mumbled Zabuza under his breath.

"It seems like we aren't enemies anymore Kakashi." He said as another arrow pierced his heart.

"I…don't have much time. I'll take you to hell with me Gatou." Zabuza screamed as he started to receive many injuries. Naruto and Sakura started to look at the carnage in a trance.

Rend…

Slaughter…

Devour…

KILL THEM ALL!

"Ha! You're just a baby demon. Now, I want you all to kill the ninja and bridge builder, but leave the ice bitch and the pink hair whore alive to sell." Gatou started to say as the two people started to step forward. Kakashi was about to try and scare them and kill Gatou until what appeared to be circuit lines glowing and moving across the bodies of two of his gennin. Sakura's was starting from her right breast while Naruto's started at the abdominals. The two of them started to mutate into human fox monster hybrids and rushed the thugs, and began to slaughter them. Gatou and many of his thugs fled the bridge while the two were occupied with eating the men they massacred.

The fox of the gods…KYUUBI.

The vixen of nine-tails…TAMAMO-NO-MAE.

The villagers of the village near the bridge had come to a horrific sight. A single pink vixen human hybrid with fierce fangs standing behind a golden fox with white tipped ears just looking at the struggling form of one of Gatou's thugs. Both had human faces that had fur, pointy ears that looked like a mix of a rabbit and a fox. The thug was in the male's hands, for the other was smaller and had breasts. The thug was screaming as the fangs of the male ripped his throat out. The two demon foxes, as it was the only way to describe them, proceeded to eat the man. They ripped off his armor and devoured his guts as he ceased screaming. The two then howled aloud finishing their meal.

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Naruto woke up with Sakura beside him. Weird enough, but he also had a memory gap. He fought at the bridge. He beat Haku. Haku wanted to die. Then Gatou showed up. Sakura mumbled and gabbed him as he started towards the door. It was open enough that he can hear.

"What will you do with your life now?" Asked a man in a lazy tone.

"I don't know. Zabuza and Naruto are both important to me. I want to avenge him, but I'm scared for Naruto. What was that power?" He heard Haku ask.

"I don't know, but it's best if we keep quiet. Tazuna's still alive, the bridge is close to completion, but the main problem is that Gatou survived. Let's not tell them ne?" The older man said. Sakura woke up and was embarrassed to see she grabbed Naruto.

"Tell the dobe and the fangirl what? You sound like as if they were strong, but they're weak. I saved the dobe and Sakura did nothing." The voice of the supposedly dead boy said.

"Now, now, Sasuke. That was mean of you to insult your teammates, but yes those two seem to have a power that I don't know of."

"What are they talking about Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked. She was once friendly with him, until some doctors saw the mark and how friendly the two where.

"I don't know Sakura-chan. I'm glad to hear you call me 'kun' again, but it seems that the only way to know is to find Gatou and get him to tell us what the hell's going on with us." Naruto said and she nodded. They were going to find out what happened on the bridge and no one was going to stop the two of them until they found out. Heaven help anyone that stands in their way.