Summary: What if an attack on Naruto at a young age led him to developing a penchant for raiton jutsu? What if as he used them, he found out some new facts about them? Read to find out.
"Hi" – Normal speech
"Go away" – Demon/Boss Summoning
"Nope" – Flashback
'Huh' – Thoughts
Raiton: Raikou Hirameki (Lightning Release: Lightning flash) - Jutsu
"YES" – Jutsu in flashback
Disclaimer: I don't own crap! T.T
Raijin: Naruto the Lightning God
Chapter 1: The Discovery
Looking inside of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, we find a young boy with bright blonde hair, electric blue eyes, and what appear to be whisker-like scars on his cheeks. While it isn't an oddity to see a young child outside in the summer during the day, on this day, when it is pouring rain outside and lightning is striking every couple of seconds it is. Let's see why he's outside during a lightning storm running and crying.
As the exhausted newly-turned seven-year old Naruto ran, he began to think to himself, "Why do they always attack me and call me a demon, I didn't do nothin' to 'em." His eyes widened when he heard over a dozen voices shouting behind him, "There he is. There's the oni-gaki (demon brat). How dare he show himself on today of all days? Get him."
Gasping, Naruto tried to get away by ducking into a side alley. He held his breath when he heard one of the villagers shout "I think he went this way, come on." He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the villagers run away the alley he was hiding in.
His face went from relieved to frightened when he felt a hand wrap tightly around his shoulder. "Heheheh, we got you now oni-gaki, you're gonna pay for what you did to our family and friends." Afraid for his life, Naruto looked up into the face of a chuunin with silver, shoulder-length hair, that hung around his face, wearing a green chuunin vest over a black turtle neck sweater, and black ANBU-style pants, with two overly-large shuriken on his back (Do I really need to tell you who this is?).
The man had an almost insane grin on his face as he began talking. "Hello, Kyuubi, today is the day you die for what you did to my family seven years ago." "Who are you and what are you talking about?" asked Naruto cautiously. "Me? I'm just the son of two of the thousands of people you killed when you attacked the village." The man replied.
"Attacked the village? Wh-what are you talking about? I'm just a seven-year old kid, how could I have attacked the village when I was just born?" a thoroughly confused Naruto said.
"Haven't you ever wondered why everyone in the village hates you? Or why they hunt you down on the Kyuubi festival every year? No one has told you because of a law." asked the madly grinning Mizuki.
"W-w-w-what law?" asked the nearly hysterical blond.
"Hahahahahahah, the Sandaime (third), made a law when you were born. The law said that we aren't allowed to tell you, that on the day you were born, the Yondaime (fourth) sealed the Kyuubi no Kitsune into you, that you are the Nine-tailed fox." Shouted a now clearly insane Mizuki.
As he said this, all the memories of every beating Naruto had ever received came back to him, including one particularly bad one that had happened two years earlier, resulting in the whisker scars on his cheeks.
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"Heh, look at the little demon, its pretending to cry." "Doesn't it know Devils Never Cry(1)?" "It's a good faker though, acting like a human child almost perfectly." "If I didn't know it was a demon, I'd think it was just a sad little boy." "Too bad we already knew it was a demon." These were the jeers of the mob as they crowded around the scared five-year old.
Crying, little Naruto asked "Why? Why are you doing this to me?"
"WHYYYYY?" screamed one of the enraged villagers, "What reason do we need to kill a demon? Huh?"
"I…I'm not a demon." Naruto cried.
This only seemed to rile the crowd up more. Then one villager got an idea, "Hey, why don't we show everyone who comes to the village that doesn't know that this kid is a demon." "How?" "Let's carve whiskers on his face to show that he is the fox-demon." "But how, every wound inflicted on him heals without a scar or any kind of sign that he was damaged?" "Why don't we burn him, and then carve it in with an ice-cold kunai(2)." This got all of the villagers excited, as they began to get ready. They caught Naruto and tied him to a post, taking care to be extra rough with him.
"Please, don't do this! Whatever I did, I'm SORRY." Screamed the crying five-year old. "Ya hear that, the demon's sorry." Sneered the same silver-haired man that would torture him for the next few years. Laughter sprung up all throughout the crowd. "Ohhhhhh, now you're sorry, when you're about to get what's coming to you. Like we'll believe that, it's just another one of your makikei (demon tricks)." Shouted a random villager.
After the villagers had finished shouting at Naruto, Mizuki began to slowly go through a set of hand seals, relishing in the fear Naruto was putting out. Finally after what seemed an eternity to everyone in the mob, Mizuki finished his seals and calling out Katon: Karyuu Endan (Fire Release: Fire dragon flame bomb), lit Naruto on fire with his most powerful Fire jutsu. Naruto began screaming as the fire burnt through his skin that was healing almost immediately after it was burnt off. Soon the villagers were laughing at the 'demon' getting what it was 'owed'. Not long after, one of the ninja in the mob brought forth a kunai that had a special seal etched into it that kept it permanently at 30 degrees Celsius. The ninja who had gravity-defying silver hair was wearing a jounin vest over a black turtle neck sweater, black anbu-style pants with a kunai holster strapped to his left leg, open-toed ninja shoes, a lower-face mask, and his hitaite (head band) covering his left eye (again, do I really have to tell you who this is), lifted his hitaite to show a crimson eye with three tomoe surrounding the pupil spinning furiously, the famous sharingan (copy wheel eye) of the Uchiha clan. "I'm going to enjoy every second of this for what you did to Minato-sensei, demon." The deranged man shouted as he began to slowly carve three whisker marks on the child's cheek with the permanently ice-cold kunai, purposely jerking the kunai back each time he finished carving a whisker. After he had finished, he stepped back to admire his handiwork.
By this point, Naruto had nearly blacked out from the pain. When Mizuki saw this, however, he decided that he could not let that happen and decided to see what happened if you gave a child a soldier pill. (AN: Now, let it be known that there is a warning label on the soldier pill that says to never give one to someone who has not unlocked their chakra yet. There is a very good reason for this, let's find out what that reason is.) As Mizuki began to force the soldier pill down Naruto's throat, Kakashi saw what Mizuki was doing and tried to warn him, but was too late.
"Mizuki, noooo, you can't give those to a person who hasn't unlocked their chakra yet." Kakashi's warning was too late, as by that time Mizuki had already made the tortured blonde five-year old swallow the pill. "Why Kakashi, what's the worse that could happen?" Mizuki's question was soon answered as Naruto began to convulse and emit chakra at an astounding rate. Soon after this a gigantic chakra shockwave tore through the area putting out the fire that still burned Naruto, destroying surrounding buildings, knocking out the ninja in the crowd and sucking the life out of all of the non-ninja in the crowd. Immediately after this, Naruto blacked out, the last thing his eyes seeing being a sad Sandaime Hokage (third fire shadow) looking at what his village had done to an innocent five-year old child.
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As Naruto stared at Mizuki, he came to a realization; it was this man that had hurt him. This man had been the one to set him on fire, and the person who made Naruto release that shockwave that killed so many people. This man was the cause of so many of his problems. When Naruto came to this realization, all he felt towards Mizuki was unadulterated hate; all he saw was red as he began to release chakra through sheer instinct. As he began to release his chakra, however, something strange began to happen, instead of his chakra being the normal blue color, it came out as a bright yellow color that instead of flowing seemed to twitch. Mizuki was startled and began thinking to himself 'How is this demon able to release lightning based chakra, the stories only hinted that it could control earth and water type chakra? Wait, this brat is releasing lightning chakra during…a…lightning storm…and I'm holding onto him, shi…' were Mizuki's thoughts when he looked up, only for a bolt of lightning to go straight through his forehead dead center, killing him instantly.
Naruto soon began to growl at the people surrounding him, "I never did ANYTHING to you, but you people hunt me down every year on my BIRTHDAY. I'm tired of having to hide from all of you in alleys and dumpsters and other disgusting places. I did nothing wrong, it was all of you. You always tell me I should die, but maybe it's YOU who should die." As Naruto was saying this, and getting angrier and angrier with the people who constantly hurt him for their own selfish wants, his chakra became even more chaotic lashing out around him, and soon thanks to his lightning-based chakra, lightning began to strike all around him, frying all in the mob. During all of this, Naruto had had his eyes closed, but after hearing nothing for a couple of seconds, he opened them and looked around.
All he saw was scorch marks and ash all around him where the crowd of people that kept hurting him used to stand. When he finally noticed his chakra flashing around him, he began to wonder to himself, "Did I do this? Did the lightning protect me because I was being hurt?" While thinking, his chakra began to change again seeming to mix between yellow and a light blue color, while the wind began to slowly swirl around him as if it were holding him in its loving embrace.
After that incident, Naruto discovered that his chakra amount was almost the same amount as a newly promoted chuunin, and that he had two chakra affinities: Lightning as his main affinity with a slightly less powerful one in wind.
Needless to say that Naruto's thoughts and his discovery would change the Naruto-verse forever. Whether or not this is a good or bad thing has yet to be seen.
Author's Notes: I'm a new up and coming writer, so please review, and tell me if there is anyway I can improve my story. PLEASE just send ways for me to improve the story, not "YOU SUCK" flames. Thank you. But yeah, tell me what you think. Love it? Hate it? Want to eat it like pie? Well, maybe not the last one, but review.
(1) Had to make a Devil May Cry®™ joke because I've been reading too many DMC x Naruto fanfics lately.
(2) This idea was created by dracohalo117 (yes, I got his permission first), he is an awesome author, and if you're wondering, it's from the second chapter of "Kushina's Love, Naruto's Hate", it's a really good story, and if your not offended by incest, I recommend you read it. Even if you are offended by incest, I still recommend it because it has a great story line.
Jutsu list:
Raiton: Raikou Hirameki (Lightning Release: Lightning Flash) – Original Jutsu; will be featured later on in the story.
Katon: Karyuu Endan (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bomb) – Canon Jutsu; creates a flame in the shape of a dragon with glowing yellow 'eyes', that is made to crash into an opponent, exploding on contact and (hopefully) killing him/her.