Memories Chapter 1: The Discovery, a naruto fanfic

Kyuubi

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"talking"

'thinking'

Don't own Naruto or Guild Wars

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Huge

Huge.

That was the only word to describe this. No, there was a better word.

Titanic.

This discovery was titanic. Amazing, he thought. He knew that this dig site was an incredibly rare find, but this was unheard of. Hands shaking, he took out his canteen and took a long swig of water.

Jonathan Setzer, the "fresh meat" of the archaeological world, had just unearthed possibly the greatest find of the century. This was bigger than the Rosetta stone, than the paintings of Chauvet cave. Hell, even finding the lower half of the damn sphinx of Giza paled in comparison to this.

As he sat there in the dank cave somewhere near Mianyang, China, he began to imagine his future. No longer will he have to carry his heavy equipment everywhere he went. No, he wouldn't even have to go to sites anymore. He would be the one who funds the expedition. He would be the one who would sit on his ass while others did all of the hard work. Most importantly, however, he would be the one that got rich.

Looking around, he began to reminisce about how he got to this place. He had been the "star" student throughout elementary school, Valedictorian of his senior year, top of his class at Harvard, where he studied ancient civilizations and the fundamentals of archaeology. All without ever taking five minutes of his day to study. In fact, he was one of the laziest people you would ever meet in your life. His favorite hobby was actually watching clouds drift along. Beauty is in the subtlety of things, he believed.

Swiping his black hair out of his unnaturally blue eyes, he suddenly remembered the dire situation he was currently in. His team of locals, about fifteen in all, was in central China, digging deep into a cave somewhere in a mountain.

Then everything went to shit.

There had been a scuffle between two diggers. It quickly escalated until the entire team was at each others throats. He had seen it happen. A worker was shoved into the side of the cave, loosening a myriad of rocks onto them in the process. Now, if it was just that, the most that would have happened would have been a broken bone or two. But God just had to fuck with him.

Apparently, the cave floor consisted of some material that had been corroded overtime. The team, their equipment, and Jonathan were sent barreling down an endless abyss. He didn't know how long he was out, but when he came to, his men were all dead.

To most people, this would be a worst case scenario. And for about a minute, it was. That is, until he turned his attention to the glistening city that was presented before him. Now we find our hero standing at the –what he assumed to be– gates of this utopia of historical information. There was an odd engraving on the doors. "It looks sort of like a leaf." he said. "I've never seen such an odd emblem."

Determined to learn more about this new civilization, he stepped towards the nearly nine hundred foot doors. He noticed an inscription on them. "Hmmm… I don't seem to recognize this type of script." Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and Jonathan was taken aback by the sudden luminosity. "What the hell!" he exclaimed, just as everything faded out of existence.

Drip…

Awakened by the bothersome noise, he slowly sat up and looked at his surroundings. "Where am I?" he asked himself quietly. It looked like a sewer. "This is impossible!" he yelled. "Where the hell am I?" He was truly scared for the first time in his life. Never had he ever read or heard of anything like this. Even his usually sharp mind couldn't come up with a reason for these events, and if Jonathan Setzer couldn't figure something out, nobody could.

"Alright Johnny-boy, just calm down. What was the last thing that you did?" Then the memories hit him like a ton of bricks. "That light. What the hell was that?" He looked around, and first noticed where he was. "A…sewer? Why the hell am I in a sewer?" Something reverberated down the hall. "What was that?" Nothing. "I must be going insane." he said to himself. It happened again, but this time it seemed more like laughter. Needless to say, he was terrified. "Ok, let's think about this. I could stay here, in relative safety, or go down there and check out whatever made that noise."

He sat there for what seemed like an hour, until he finally realized that if something wanted to kill him, it would have already done so. So, with eyes as wide as plates and legs that seemed to be made of gelatin, he gathered his courage and went to check it out.

He wandered around until he came upon a doorway. He walked in and set his eyes on a gate larger than the city's. Walking forward, he touched one of the hundreds of bars. He immediately wished he hadn't. It looked like cold metal, but it was as hot as the sun. A pair of gigantic eyes suddenly flung themselves open in the seemingly eternal blackness beyond the gate. Terrified, Jonathan ran towards the way he came in.

"Not so fast, boy!" said the eyes. A slab of stone jutted out of the ground in front of the doorway.

"Ahhh… how I have missed terrorizing humans. My first host was never any fun. No matter what I did, he never seemed fazed by my attempts to scare him, be it dreams of his family being killed to sounds in the night when he was a small child." said the apparition.

"What the fuck is going on?!" screamed Jonathan.

"In due time, kit everything will be explained"

"Kit?"

"Don't pay any attention to it, just an old habit. Now tell me, do you know why you are so smart? Or why you seem to never be ill?"

"What are you talking about? I get sick all the time!" stated Jonathan, still very freaked out by the events.

"Don't play dumb with me. Your leg has already been healed from that nasty fall you took."

It was true. Honestly, Jonathan couldn't remember the last time he was sick, and his broken leg was already mended. "How do you know me?"

The beast laughed, though it sounded like the most evil thing he had ever heard.

"You haven't figured it out yet? I expected more from you. I have altered your body since you were a baby to fit my own needs."

"What needs?" Jonathan asked suspiciously.

The beast laughed again. "To give myself the most comfortable living space possible. What you feel affects this entire space."

The words perplexed Jonathan until he finally understood. "Am I… in my mind?"

"Your subconscious, actually. Your mother's was smaller than this one though, the extra space is a welcome luxury." The image of the specter was gradually becoming lighter, and it eventually took on the visage of a massive nine tailed fox.

"My mother died in childbirth." Jonathan said sadly. Growing up without your mother can be the most excruciating experience a human can go through.

"And that is why you are here! You are an anomaly of God's creation!"

"What do you mean?"

"Thousands of years ago, I was sealed into the patriarch of your family. But the fool who did so was only human, and was not wise in the ways of magic. He unexpectedly put a curse on my vessel, and your family's ability to produce sons was destroyed."

"What?..." then a question came into Jonathan's mind that he wondered why he hadn't asked before.

"Who are you?" The fox looked stunned at the question, but quickly regained his composure.

"Young mortal, I am known by some as Astaroth, and by others as Abaddon, but my true name is the great Kyuubi no Kitsune."

AN: Hey, this is the first chapter of my first story! Please review, it would mean a lot. Also, if you have any ideas on what I should do, if I should change my writing style, if I should slow down, or whatever, email me at. Thanks.