Chapter 1
It was October 10th. The day the infamous Kyuubi no Yonko was 'killed' by the Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze. That was at least what was told in the academy lectures. False lectures repeated by chunin and jonin alike. The only one to suffer from these lies would ironically be Konoha's strongest leaf that holds the ever so kindling ember that was once the will of fire. Enter: Naruto Uzumaki.
"Don't let him escape! No surprise how nimble he is considering he's a demon." bellowed one of the many villagers chasing the poor child. For Naruto, october 10th was the day of hell. Villagers and shinobi alike would play "hunt the kyuubi brat." A sick game 'justified' by anger, despair, and vengeance.
'My legs are getting tired and I can't bear this headache any longer.' Naruto was moving at speeds no average civilian man could possible keep up with but still very slow compared to gennin standards. Even with his tunnel vision Naruto spotted a perfect escape. A fence too tall for a drunk civilian to quickly scale, separated an upcoming alleyway. With newly attained hope Naruto attempted to jump over the fence.
"That vile creature is trying to jump the fence!"
A burly villager looked at his sake bottle that he was holding, hasty decision making he threw the bottle. "For you Hyakimaru!" With shocking precision, for a drunk civilian, the bottle smashed on the back of Naruto's head.
The bleeding wound on his head was too much for his concentration. The poor child failed his attempt. For that created another gash on his forehead by headbutting the wooden fence in his descent.
Before losing his good vision the last thing Naruto saw clearly were the beautiful stars scattered through the dark sky. 'The nights on my birthday are truly beautiful, too bad I could never enjoy them…' that thought was the last straw for the young jinchuriki. Tears started to slowly secret from his ocean blue eyes. A memory flashed through his consciousness.
'T-t-tou-san! i-I was running to fast and I t-t-tripped. Cried a civilian kid, he was playing tag on the playground but he got carried away and fell. That caused him to now have a bloody knee. "Come now, tears are a sign of weakness child. Don't let some pity injury keep you down." A civilian dad told his child with enthusiasm. The hurt child quickly cheered up and smiled at his dad agreeing to his words. Naruto saw the whole scene unfold while he sat on a bench in the background. Those words of encouragement strangely stuck with him and from then on he vowed to not cry.
But today he broke his vow, Naruto felt so weak that he couldn't even move to wipe the tears off. Everything sounded muffled as if his head was dipped in water. All in all the jinchuriki spirit was officially broken.
"Is he crying? How dare that demon think we will waste our sympathy on it? What about the hundreds of lives he took from us, where is our sympathy?" The female civilian's speech renewed the villagers hate and vengeance. With savagery intent they pounced on their victim. Stomps were dealt to his limbs, punches to his temple, some even tried to choke him.
"Wait!" The beating was put to a pause as an older chunin stalked through the bloodthirsty crowd. "I need a souvenir for our success tonight!" A disgusting smile came to life on the chunin's face as he bent down in front of Naruto. He revealed a kunai from his sleeves as he strikes at Naruto's left eye. It was obvious he was no medic nin as he brutally ripped out Naruto's eyeball.
Screams of agony escaped his lips as he quickly lost consciousness. The nameless chunin raised the optical organ in the sky, proud of his deed. A round of applause thundered through the alley as the civilians cheered on the chunin. The applause however came to sudden silence.
"Chidori!" Not a second passed by and the chunin heart was obliterated, the last thing he saw was a anbu nin with gravity defying hair. He was wearing a dog face mask with the sharingan spinning furiously in his left eye. Feared filled the atmosphere and many civilians started to drop due to a d-rank genjutsu being placed on the majority. Only two managed to run away before shuriken were embedded into their skulls.
The lone anbu looked into the sky as rain dropped started to drizzle the scene. He jumped over to Naruto and gently scooped the six year old into his arms. Years of shinobi experience dulled his emotions, as he started to shout out an order.
"Weasel take this traitor to Ibiki, I'll debrief the Hokage of the situation." Another anbu with a ponytail, wearing a weasel masked appeared in front of the chunin, not a second later he was gone.
"Sensei was your decision to make your son a jinchuriki worth it?" The somber thought lingered only for a moment but was quickly struck down. 'I only hope that he won't grow to hate the village.'
With that final thought the gray haired anbu shushin to the hokage's office with Naruto.
* Mindscape*
Drips of a sewer pipeline awoke Naruto,he looked around to study his peculiar setting. He found out that he was sitting inside a sewer filled with muddy brown water. The smell emitting from the water wasn't pleasant either but what really distracted him was the huge fox, caged behind him. He stood up and steadily walked to the beast, curious as to why it was here.
"Oi Fox where am I?" Naruto asked in an uncharacteristically serious tone.
"Gaki do you know who I am? I am the great Kyuubi no- hmm you seem different..your usual mask of happiness is gone." The Kyuubi curiously asked, he was curious as to why his usual boisterous host had such a serious tone around him.
"You act like you know who I am, have we met before?" Naruto was very tired, a conversation with the kyuubi was the last of his worries at the moment.
"I've been sealed inside you from the beginning, your life so far has been a movie to me up until this point."
"The Kyuubi is inside of me? Now i get why they call me a demon! I truly am a monster..a demon..Akuma..Akuma!" Naruto was having a mental breakdown, the sewer was starting to form a vicious vortex sending water everywhere. Naruto was crouched down into a fetal position in the eye, crying.
'If this continues on he'll become insane and that's no good for a host, he needs a friend in these darks times.' The kyuubi let out a mighty roar, disturbing the raging vortex, following with words of encouragement. "You are no demon! You're just a scroll and I am the kunai how dumb can you be!"
Naruto sat there shocked, his tears stopped flowing and he was now shocked right back to his senses. "Ah-ah alright, if you don't mind me asking why are you behind a cage?"
"In a way your body is a prison and you're the warden." Kyuubi replied lazily.
"Well it does make sense for you to be in jail for the crimes you committed. Lives were lost and now I am paying for your consequences."
"I was controlled by those accursed Uchiha eyes, if anybody should be paying it should be them!" The Kyuubi claimed, he loathed the Uchiha's and hoped for his recompense on them one day.
"Wait so you were framed for something you didn't do." Naruto's sense of justice was clear cut and he knew what he had to do. "How could I free you?" The kyuubi raised an eyebrow intrigued on what his host was going to do.
"Tear this seal off my cage, but when you succeed you will most likely die" The kyuubi suggested while using one of his tails to point to the paper seal. A wicked smirk was plastered on his face while he revealed the information
Naruto stood up with determination shining in his blue eyes and went over to the seal resting his hand on the paper. "So what if I die it's not like anyone wants me here. Also you don't deserve a fate like this, nobody does."
After hearing those words Kyuubi had a moment to ponder on this boy's action. Memories of his previous hosts invaded his mind.
'Regrettably, I cannot let you run loose'
'Please stay quiet inside of me'
'I'm here to watch you.'
'Yet this human would effortlessly throw his life away just for my justice..' "What are your goals Naruto?" Naruto removed his hand from the seal and adopted a thinking pose.
"I want to become.." Thinking over the situation he is in, the thought of becoming Hokage just didn't sit right with him anymore. How could he lead a village that treats him like dirt, for now he'll put becoming hokage to the side. "I want to become stronger, I never want to be tortured like that again. I don't wanna feel that helpless ever again." With bold eyes Naruto proclaimed his new goal to the Kyuubi with confidence.
The Kyuubi smirked "You can't achieve that when you're dead huh? Instead of releasing me how about I help you achieve that goal. I can make you become the most strongest shinobi ever. With that said I think your time is up, your body is fully healed and healing your wounds can take a lot of energy ya know. "
Naruto started to fade out of his mindscape but a new thought dawned upon him. "By the way what's your name?" There was a pregnant pause between the kitsune and jinchuuriki.
"My name is Kurama, Naruto. Keep me a secret by the way, if the ningens knew you were able to conversate with me it could spell trouble." With a huge grin plastered on his face Naruto faded out of his mindscape
"See you Kurama!" Naruto's enthusiastic voiced echoed through his mind.
*Hokage's Office*
The famous Sandaime Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi sat at the infamous kage desk that served kages before and will serve many afterwards. He was filling out paperwork at a leisurely pace, but don't let his calm demeanor fool you. Hiruzen's mind was plagued with concerns about Naruto's safety. He gave Naruto an apartment hoping that he would hide and be out of harm's way. Yes he knew about the evil intentions of the civilians and what they plan yearly on this fateful day; but he hoped that with each year passing by their anger and vengeance would subside. But oh was he wrong, not even a minute later Dog appeared inside his office with a bloodied and heavily bruised Naruto. With two claps his personal anbu guards brang Naruto to the hospital.
"Report" Hiruzen calmly asked
"One chunin dead, 2 civilian also dead, 31 civilians in a genjutsu now under watch for the rest of the night. Naruto was found heavily bleeding with a missing left eye, chances are high that he has fractures on all limbs." Dog replied in his monotone. Hiruzen took a long drag of his tobacco pipe, each second easing his anger. The Sandaime rose from his chair and faced his window, he analyzed his view over the famed Village Hidden in the leaves. 'What would you think of this village now sensei? Forgive me, Minato for my failures.'
"Hokage-sama may you please listen to, my request." The gray haired anbu asked.
"Why of course Kakashi-kun what is troubling you?" the Hokages grandfatherly tone eased most of his ninjas.
The now revealed Kakashi removed his mask revealing a 20 year old jounin with a sharingan implant in his left eye socket, his lower face covered by another mask. "There needs to be a change, please let me move in with Naruto, The civilians came dangerously close to killing him tonight and he needs to be under my care."
The Sandaime thought about the request. While this would stop Naruto from despising this village by lending him another bond. It would also be showing blatant favoritism to not only Kakashi but Naruto as well.
"Kakashi, Anbu operative's aren't really suited for pare-" Kakashi fell to his knees and bowed to his Hokage. "Hokage-sama please.. It hurts to see sensei's son treated like a beast. I refuse to sit by and watch a six year old get tortured anymore!" Kakashi's emotions were spewing out like a running faucet, Hiruzen could tell he firmly believed in his ramblings. Honestly he was quite surprised a prideful ninja such as Kakashi would show such devotion. He firmly believes that this will be the right decision.
"You will become Naruto's guard and will be kicked out of the anbu program to resume jounin level status with your fellow peers. I expect your Anbu gear on my desk by tomorrow am I understood?"
"Hai Hokage-sama" Kakashi replied, with a flick of the wrists the Hokage dismissed Kakashi.
'I need to visit Naruto, one could only imagine what the boy is going through right now..'
Fixing the first 4 chapters, honestly it was quite embarrassing reading through them.
