A promise of power
Disclaimer: I may not own Naruto, but that doesn't mean I don't own your soul
Chapter one: a loss of sanity
It was a massacre, there were many dead, and standing above the bodies was a tall man in black and red armor, with a headband that had a pentagram on it covering his eyes. He stood there with a sword pierced through chest, laughing, laughing like the mad man he was, as Sasuke looked around the battlefield from his injured position, leaning against a piece of debris, he wondered how this happened, and how one man had so much power. The man continued laughing, enjoying the sight of the blood, of the death, and the thought that someone thought they could kill him. Its strange, how one loss can cause the death of many. In was the effect of chaos theory, and the death of kohona's number one loudmouth shinobi, Uzumaki Naruto, was the trigger.
It began six years earlier, Naruto and Jiraya had just returned from a training journey, for some reason naruto had seemed less spirited, he actually was depressed. As naruto neared the gates of kohona, he became even more depressed. He later meet the rookie nine plus Gai's team at ichiraku, and they greeted him but they noticed his depression, mainly because the offered to pay for his ramen and they weren't broke after five minutes, they were worried about him, even shino, they usually wouldn't be so worried but they gained a new respect for him after he brought back sasuke and saved them all from a group of elite sound nin, at almost the cost of his life. When they brought him back from the battle, he was hospitalized with multiple cuts, bruises, broken bones, dislocations, fractures, charka exhaustion, multiple kunai and shuriken wounds, all three degrees of burns, poisoning, stab wounds, lung damage, internal bleeding, frostbite, blisters, massive blood loss, snake bites, and many, many more conditions. He went through all that and refused to stop fighting until the battle was over, him doing that for them made them see him in a new light, but now he seemed like he was dead inside, it worried everyone but Sasuke tried to mask his worry with annoyance. Every day they got more worried, naruto would stay in his apartment; he would sometimes come late or not come to practice at all. Eventually sakura and sasuke snapped, "Alright dobe, tell us what's going on." "Please, we're worried about you." Sasuke and sakura pleaded/demanded. Naruto's response was one of the most solemn and meaningful things they ever heard him say, "No.", Sasuke then exploded in rage, "that's it dobe, if you wont tell us, I'll fight it out of you." Naruto then made a very serious and unusual response, "No. It's pointless, what is the use of fighting? To measure ones strength? All it does is cause pain, when you know true pain, like the pain I felt, then I'll tell you." Sakura gasped, and Sasuke had it, "pain? True pain? You think you're the only one who knows pain? My brother slaughtered my clan and you think I don't know-" "SHUT UP!" exploded naruto, "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TRUE PAIN IS. YOU CAUSED ALL YOUR PAIN, YOU BECAME YOUR BROTHERS PLAYTHING, AND IN YOUR PERSUIT FOR POWER, YOU NEARLY BECAME WHAT YOU SOUGHT TO DESTROY. TRUE PAIN IS BEING HATED FOR BEING THE PRISON FOR A DEMON, TRUE PAIN IS BEING A PARIAH KNOW AS THE DEMON WHO YOUR FATHER DIED TO DEFEAT, TRUE PAIN IS BEING BETRAYED BY SOMEONE YOU THOUGHT A BROTHER JUST SO HE COULD HAVE REVENGE." He then quieted down and hissed the sentence, "True pain is living your life with a small glimpse of hope that you still may have a family out there somewhere, and having that hope snuffed out by cruel reality. I have suffered a pain greater than any one should, and I'm sick of it." He then took out a black scroll, bit his thumb and rubbed the blood on the scroll. He ripped of the necklace Tsunade gave him and his headband, and then, while performing hand seals, said, "I hear by resign as a leaf nin, and relinquish my dream of becoming hokage, people will celebrate this day, it will be marked as the passing of Uzumaki Naruto." Sasuke and Sakura were horrified, they realized what he meant and rushed to stop him, but it was if some invisible force stopped them from reaching him. Naruto finished the seals and the scroll unfurled, it wrapped itself around him and started burning a black flame that was visible throughout all of the fire country, he screamed in pain and this continued until there was nothing but ashes left, ashes, a necklace, and his leaf headband.
authors note, naruto did but at the same time did not die, he is alive, but part of him is dead, all will be explained in time.