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I scrolled the browser in boredom, as I felt my life slipping away without the excitement. I scanned through the content without enthusiasm and sighed in boredom.
Life seems so pointless. You wake up, bath, eat, go to class, go home, stare at the laptop, sleep and go on, and on. Go out with friend? Hah, pointless. Play games? Hah, pointless. Ambition? Job? Hah, when we're dead, see if that brings us anything. So what is the point of learning, having fun, if at the end we're all will be dead, buried under the ground, lifeless, motionless?
I sighed at my near-suicidal thought.
"Twit…"
A window popped out on my monitor. I stared apathetically before moving down to the edge of the screen. My 'Adblock' is on. I lifted my eyebrow at the content of the window.
[Boredom and apathetic?]
[Life without meaning?]
[Find excitement in this universe]
[Click scroll and we'll give you the best life endangering excitement.]
[By W.M. Zelretch K.S.]
[P/S: Humor me…]
I sighed and stared at the window for a full minute plus. I grabbed my mouse and clicked the scroll button. The boxes next to the button scrolled endlessly and stopped after a while. The first box stopped at 'Naruto'. The second box stopped at 'Hero-GB'. And the third box stopped at 'Kurama'. I stared at the screen, not-really expecting anything.
I felt my friend tapped my shoulder and leaned forward to see the screen. I frowned when I felt his beard(?) touched my shoulder. He didn't keep beard, did he? I turned around and saw an old man staring at my screen. I was stunned. He stood back, still holding my shoulder and grinned at me. My whole body shuddered in disgust(?), fear, perhaps when he smiled happily. He pulled me and I felt my soul(?) yanked out of my body, it was a surreal sensation.
I felt myself hovering over the floor as he gripped onto my soul. Then I felt a pull into a vortex, my soul was stretched beyond the horizon and my whole body(?) was pained by the experience. It felt like your whole body was burnt and zapped beyond human tolerance. I couldn't even react to anything. After a while, the pain stopped and I noticed that I was hovering over giant long-tailed rabbit with nine tail.
The old man who was still holding me tapped me at the forearm and I turned my head at him. He grinned at me.
"Good luck."
I frowned and spoke.
"What do yoOOOUUUUUU MEAAAAAANNNNN!?"
I was shoved into the rabbit and suddenly, memories flashed through my brain. As soon as the flashbacks stopped, I was hit with another wave of pain as I was pulled into another torrent of vortex into a small baby.
"Gaaaah!"
I was slammed onto the floor of a pristine white cave. Another wave of pain hit me, this time accompanied with a surge of hatred and anger. I felt as the bloodlust and rage fogged my mind but as soon as the fury peaked, my apathy immediately calmed my own wrath. I panted as the energy within me calmed itself and I slumped to the floor. I sighed and tried to calm myself. I held my hand upward and stared at the human-like paw. I rubbed my muzzle in tiredness and slumped to the ground as my consciousness left me.
I shook my head after hearing a cry, waking myself up. I crawled slowly towards the golden gate, erected within the cave. I looked down past the gate and saw a baby crying out, I sighed. I calmly sort through Kurama's memories and found the subject I was looking for. I closed my eyes and compressed my body, shrinking myself. I allowed my energy to seep through my skin forming a crimson yukata. I pulled my right hand out of the silk cloth and shove it forward. A mirror rose before me allowing me to view myself.
A man stood before me with long red hair, body wrapped in bandage, and clothed with a crimson, butterfly patterned yukata. His hair had two fox-earlike bumps and his behind was nine flowing crimson tails. I smirked at my image and snapped my hand creating a kiseru from my energy. I stored the pipe and calmly walk out the gate.
However as soon as I passed the gate, a collar snapped into my neck, nearly choking me. I formed a mirror and looked at the collar, seeing the word 'slave' embedded into it. I sighed and moved toward the carbon-copy of Kushina with whiskers. I formed a white cloth, picked her up and wrapped her with it. I cradle Kushina's daughter and as she stopped crying, she stared at me. I hovered my left hand above her and she reached up her hands to grab my palm. She giggled as she played with my hand. Suddenly I felt a surge of energy near me.
"You know, sending me into an immortal being doesn't actually makes life more interesting , you know?"
I turned and stared at the old man rubbing his head sheepishly.
"Hahaha, I just used the result you gained from the program."
I sighed, staring at the girl.
"So, everything from the anime is true then?"
I asked the Wizard Marshall. He looked at me and nodded.
"Well, basically from the very moment the creation of universe, every action or movement and even the slightest change results in the creation another dimension. That means that there infinite amount of multi-verse that exist. Your first universe can be said is the primary universe as the most basic and most boring universe."
He nodded, agreeing at his own word while I deadpanned at the word 'boring'.
"Since there is infinite amount of multiverse, of course there is a possibility of everything. Magical existence, psychics existence, even aliens existence. So yeah, anything is possible. The only universe that I can't reach is the primary verse."
I frowned at his word.
"Didn't you pulled me from the primary verse?"
He laughed.
"The moment the pop up appeared you're no longer within the primary verse. To be precise, the 'you' within the primary verse never even saw the pop up. You now is from different verse. You have the memories of the primary but no longer capable of returning to the primary verse."
I was stunned at his declaration. The baby in my hand, yawned and snuggled into my chest. I looked down at her.
"Are we on earth or elsewhere?"
I asked Zelretch.
"Every human civilization starts on earth, I never actually found a human civilization that starts from another planet. Though there are other multi-verse that flee from earth from various reason, apocalypse, alien invasion, demon invasion and stuffs like that. But still, human always originate from earth though."
He answered my question. As soon as, Hikari, I remembered her name from Kurama's memory, slept, I created a crib from my energy and placed her down. I created a sofa and sat down, taking out my kiseru. I allowed the pipe to smoke and I started smoking, frustrated in dealing with my current situation before exhaling a puff of smoke. I decided there was nothing else to do but to accept it.
"So you okay?"
Zelretch asked me. He, himself had already sat in a comfy chair. I nodded.
"There's nothing else to do but accept it. I can't even return to my own verse, yes?"
He nodded.
"So, any advices you want to give me?"
Zelretch shook his head.
"Nah, just enjoy you stay, though you do know the future of this world, yes?"
I nodded. I inhaled the smoke and breathed out. I waved at the Wizard Marshall as he left me. Hikari suddenly cried out, so I tapped the pipe down into the tray on the table nearby. I walked to the crib and lifted her up. She stopped crying as soon as I cradled her, so I took her to the sofa and sat down. With Kurama's perfect memory I started to view his memory slowly to learn more of the current world since I couldn't find another source of knowledge.
After a while, I was snapped out of the memories when Hikari struggled in my chest searching for, perhaps for food. I calmly banished her out of the mindscape and was stunned by the sudden double view. One of my current position and another was the sight of the outside world. I watch at the sight fascinatingly. Hikari cried out, her voice echoing through the cave as she cried for food.
From Hikari's view, I saw the Sandaime cradling her and shoving a milk bottle. Hikari sucked down the milk and stopped crying for a while. I watched as Hiruzen Sarutobi walked through a hall of some sort and entered a dark room. He placed Hikari in a crib and walked to a chair. I looked at the edge of the sight and saw multiple figures, some I recognize from the hairstyle that were clans head. Nara, Uchiha and all other clans.
The voice were muffled however luckily, Kurama had the experience of lip-reading. Though a bit confused with the new language usage, I still understood most of it. To summarize the content of the meeting, it was the report for the destruction and the current situation for Hikari. The civilian council were pushing to make Hikari a weapon, the ninja council wanted to adopt her. Then there's an idiot in civilian council wanted to kill Hikari, his life was snuffed out by an ANBU on Sandaime's order.
After bickering like children for a while, Danzo proposed to make Hikari his own personal weapon but was stopped by Sandaime immediately. He blocked all attempt to use Hikari and decided to take care of her until she is big enough, then send her to the orphanage. An ANBU picked Hikari up and followed Sandaime to his office. As soon as, Hikari finished feeding she started to struggle out the ANBU's grasps. So she handed Hikari to Sandaime as as they reached his office, though now she started crying. Sandaime tried to soothe her down but unable to do so.
I sighed. Even if I wanted to see outside world, I decided to pull Hikari into the mindscape as her cry started to become annoying. She appeared on my arm and snuggled into my chest immediately calming down. I pat with her back as she slowly fell asleep. I watched her as time goes on.
~Time Skip~
As the time passes by, with the same motion without the need of eating or sleeping, I continued to watch over Hikari. She woke up, shove her out of mindscape for food or changing diapers, then pulling her back in letting her sleep with me. When she was capable of crawling I started to materialize toys to let her play and teach her slowly. Pushing her outside when she needs food or to just allow her to crawl outside.
While she played, I spoke and taught her. When she was capable of talking I thought her how to read. Though sadly, the caretaker of the orphanage ignored her most of the time, only giving her food. She was mostly alone in room. When she wanted to play with others, they all seemed to ignore her. Though I still pulled her inside when she was sad and played with her.
She understood that she was to never spoke aloud when speaking to me. I told her stories and everything that was accessible from Kurama's memories. Then when her age marked five years old, the Sandaime visited her.
"Hello Hikari-chan."
Hikari looked up at the Sandaime, and I could feel that she was scrunching her face thinking.
"Who?"
Her view slanted and I knew that she tilted her head.
"I'm the Hokage."
He smiled genially at her.
'Hokage the leader of the village?'
She thought to me.
"Yes."
I spoke to her. She nodded her head and looked at Sandaime. She bowed at him.
"Good morning, Hokage-sama."
Sandaime chuckled at her politeness.
"Are you happy here, Hikari-chan?"
Hikari nodded. She fidgeted when the Hokage stared at her. He smiled and invited her to follow him. They walked around the village and eventually reach a shop. The Ichiraku Ramen. They continued to talk to each other as they ate the ramen. Eventually, her politeness clicked something in the Professor's head.
"Who teaches you, Hikari-chan?"
She stunned at the question.
"Whisper to him, Hikari. Just tell him Kurama-niisan taught you. Ask him if he wanted to see me, he should bring Inoichi-san with him."
'Okay.'
She waved her hand at the Sandaime, when Hiruzen lowered himself and Hikari whispered at him. His face went grim before smiling fakingly at Hikari. He invited Hikari to his office so she followed. Though I noticed that he signaled a nearby ANBU to call for Inoichi, perhaps? I slowly capture the image of the surrounding to memorize the village for future use. As they reached the office, Sandaime told her to sit down. He gave her a book to read as they wait for Inoichi. When Inoichi came, he stood behind her while Sandaime kneel in front of her.
"Does this Kurama-niisan told you anything else?"
"Just tell him to enter your mind, Hikari. Tell him, I'll explain everything."
I told her as she relayed my words. So they both dived into her mind and at the same time, I pulled her into the mindscape. Over the years I changed her mind so that I won't be bored all the times. At the entrance of her mind was my room, a simple white room with multiple sofas and painting, red lighting shone within the room. Behind me was the door where all of her memories exist and then behind that was the prison, my golden gate of misery.
As soon as they all reached into Hikari's mindscape, Hikari immediately rushed at me and sat next to me as I handed her a book I materialized from Kurama's memory for her to read. I slowly pat her head and allowed her to lean on me.
"Please seat down, Sarutobi-sama, Yamanaka-san."
Both of them warily sat down in front of us while looking around.
"So yes, I am The Kyuubi no Yokou. Though I shall give you the courtesy of knowing my name and original title, Kurama the Wrathbringer."
Hiruzen narrowed his eyes.
"Wrathbringer?"
"In ancient times, before the time of the Hidden Village, there was a legend where every times wars erupt, a crimson being of terrible anger would be raised from the blood spilled beneath the plain. He shall hunt and ravaged the world, mountains shall fall, sea shall rise. Till, his wrath is calmed, no man would be safe from his fury."
While Inoichi looked at me confusingly, Hiruzen widened his eyes in surprise.
"Yes, the story came from me. There used to be villages, whenever war erupt I would come and ravage those lands. All those villages disbanded and then came small clans. In their childhood stories, it is told that the Wrathbringer shall bring chaos if one urged the wars. However after the creation of the current hidden villages I was controlled by a man, no, to be precise, a monster in the human's skin. He bounded me to his will."
"Thus came the great battle between the Uchiha and the Senju. I was then, prisoned by Mito Uzumaki and she never give me the moment to explain myself. Then she passed me down to Kushina Uzumaki making her the second Jinchuuriki. She too, was bigoted in her mind, corrupted by Mito Uzumaki at the fact that I am a mindless beast. In those cages, anger and wrath filled within me. It breeds insanity to my mind. When she gave birth to Hikari…"
I felt Hikari leaned closer to me due to the story. I hugged her and inhaled the kiseru on my hand and exhaled a puff of smoke.
"The seal that bounded me came loose, thus allowing a man, said to be That Man, though I personally do not believe that he is the original person, bounded me one more time to his will. After a certain amount of time ravaging, his will was severed from my mind, but my wrath and anger blinded from my action. I continued to rage within your village. I was then caught by Minato Namikaze, and chained by Kushina Uzumaki. The thought of being sealed once again, sent me into insanity. Right at the moment he tried to separate me in half..."
Hikari started to climb to my chest and started sobbing into me. I sighed.
"In my rage, I tried to kill Hikari… but failed because her parent saved her, by shielding her with their own body, my claw ripped into their stomach…"
~Flashback~ [watch?v=gIuotFZnBtk]
Kushina held Hikari's head lovingly. And coughed out blood.
"Hikari… Don't be picky... Eat lots and grow strong... Make sure that you bath every day and stay warm... Also... Don't stay up late... You need lots of sleep... And make friends... You don't need a lot of friends… Just a few... Ones you can really, really trust... I wasn't very good at it, but keep up with your studies and practice your Ninjutsu hard... Remember that everyone has strengths and weaknesses… So don't get too depressed if you can't do something well…"
She coughed out blood in pain but continued on.
"Respect your teachers and upperclassmen at the Academy… Oh, and this is important... It's about the Three Prohibitions for a shinobi… Be extra careful about lending and borrowing money... Put your mission wages into your savings account… No alcohol until you're twenty... Too much can ruin your health, so drink in moderation… Another Prohibition is women... you'll be woman, one day… Just remember to find someone good… someone that will protect you… Someone that loves you for who you are… "
She looked back at Minato and smiled at him before continuing.
"Find someone just like your father... Speaking of the Three Prohibitions, be wary of Jiraiya-sensei, you know... Hikari, from now on, you're going to face lots of pain and hardship… Be true to yourself... Have a dream and have the confidence to make that dream come true... There's so much... Oh, so much more that I want to pass on to you... I wish I could stay with you longer...I love you"
Minato chuckled painfully. Tears streaked both their faces. Kushina continued to stroke Hikari's face.
"Well… My only advise… Listen to your motor mouth mother… I'm sorry… Hikari… Kushina…"
He surged his chakra and heaved out his last word.
"Fuin…"
~Flashback End~
Hikari cried as I hugged her.
"I'm sorry, Hikari… I'm sorry…"
I closed my eyes as my heart ached seeing her cry. After a while, she fell asleep. I lifted her and placed her on the bed at the corner of the room. I brushed her hair, kissing her temple. I walked back to my place and sat down calming myself by inhaling my kiseru. We sat in silence as Sandaime and Inoichi tried to calm their heart, noticing that tears had streaked their face. After a while I asked them.
"Anything else, Sarutobi-sama, Yamanaka-san?"
They both looked at each other, before looking back at me. Sandaime spoke to me.
"So you have no evil intention in helping, Hikari?"
I sighed and inhaled my pipe.
"I would like to kill the villagers, so dearly…"
As soon as I spoke like, they both turned tense, though my words had yet to finish.
"… treating my dear Hikari, like they did. She was never at fault. Ignored by her peers. Whispered in fear and anger within the sight of the elders, to never having the privileged of a loving figure."
I sighed again.
"But no, you have my word that I had absolutely no evil intention in helping my dear warden. Never once I whispered the word of revenge. She will never be a being full of hatred. Only of forgiveness, pure and untainted."
I smiled at her.
"An angel for a warden, and a demon for a prisoner."
The bed curtain fell, blocking her sleeping figure from me. I stared back at them, my face turned rigid and smiled calmly at them. But bloodlust, fury, rage and anger peaked as I stared them. Both their face turned white at my killing intent.
"If your villagers, tried even once to corrupt my dear warden. Run… Run like no tomorrow… Because I shall ravage the plain and leave no man alive, I will soak the land with their blood till the land turn crimson, and no rain shall wash away your dirty blood."
Their face was soaked with sweat of fear. I continued to smile at them before sighing, their heart continued from still and their blood flows from static. I inhaled a puff of smoke and nodded at them. They sighed in relief.
"You forget…"
I smirked at them.
"… that I'm still the Wrathbringer, the only reason I was caught by the Him, was due to the fact that he ambushed me while I was sleeping. But believe me when I said that I held absolute love at her."
I bowed a little bit at them. They nodded at me as well.
"Anything else?"
They shook their head.
"Well, thank for coming by, and listen before judging me like the bigot before you. See you later."
I nodded at them and pushed them away from the mindscape. I sighed.
"You didn't have to threaten them…"
Hikari wrapped her hands around my neck, her face placed next to my head.
"I won't lose heart, not from anything. Not from them, not from the villagers."
I smiled at her words, I grabbed her one piece and flung her to me, catching in a bridal style, before tickling her. She laughed out loud at my action. I stopped at patted her head.
"I hope so, Hikari. I hope so… Forgive me?"
Her eyes soften at my apology.
"Kurama-nii wasn't at his mind. I couldn't blame you. I could never blame you. When you told me the story the first time, I was glad. Because you told me the truth, never once you led me astray. At least I have you, Kurama-nii. And I would trade no other with you."
She smiled brightly at me. My heart ached from her words and her forgiveness. Still she never fault me. Not once. Even the first time I told her the story, she instantly forgave me. My dear warden. My light in my life. My angel. My Hikari.
I brushed her hair. And lifted her, bringing her to the bed. I placed her down and lay down next to her. I hummed her a short lullaby, the song that brought her to her sleep. I watch as she slept, as she dreamed, comforting her as much as I can.
~Time Skip~
As time passes, she blossomed into a wonderful girl. I watch as she interacted with the world. Watched and guided her as she decided to become a kunoichi. To become a protector. To those deserving and undeserving. I smiled and nodded. No matter what her action is, I shall support her. I watched as she entered the academy. Though she was sabotage by those sheep, I corrected her. Any question asked, I answered.
I taught her how to work her muscle, to improve flexibility. I taught her that the best weapon a kunoichi should have, speed and stealth. If no man could see you, how could they fight, if one is too slow how can they battle. I taught her to respect the fallen, to kill instantly and deal less pain to the downed. I taught her to be precise and quick. To never hesitate. I helped her built her tolerance to killing intent. So she'll never freeze in fear.
I pushed my Youki into her coil to develop her chakra network. I taught her chakra control and how important it is. No matter how large is your chakra network, if your control is dire, then it is worthless. I taught her how to climb tree and how to water walk. I improved her control by various possible way. Senbon balancing, waterfall running and water skiing. Then combining multiple technique together. Senbon balancing while water walking. Leaf concentrating while water fall running. And the final test of waterfall skiing.
I told her to perfect her basic, because even the best man, can be taken down with nothing but a knife. I taught her to be able to do her basics seallessly. Bunshin helps to distract. Henge helps in disguise. And Kawarimi helps in avoiding mortal blows. By doing it without seals, allowing her to do everything at the moment of notice. I told her that even with only this three skill, you can already become a great ninja.
Another thing I told her is that knowledge is power. And to learn everything while you can but never to misuse those knowledge. As she learned I taught how to apply those knowledge. Strategy, medical, poison, history and many others. Never once she strayed from my word. I also told her to hold back at the academy. There were no benefit in being good in the academy. Best to hide her skill than flaunt them in front of the fearful villager.
They fear the unknown. They fear the strong. So I told her to hide her skill. I couldn't rate her skills but I knew, that all she need is experience. Once she had one, even at her level of skill, she could fight a Kage to a standstill. But not a Jinchuuriki. A full fledge Jinchuuriki is string. Too strong. Not that she couldn't fight them, it's just that her current skills won't and couldn't damage a Jinchuuriki. So I told her to seek for skills from the Sandaime. At least a few non-elemental one.
So she learned Kage Kunai, Kage Shuriken, and Shunshin. Similar to the basics, I told her to learn until she was capable of using those seallessly. So our study continued. She learned to do everything by heart and mind. I then taught her how to suppress her chakra. To hide her chakra from the sensor. From hiding in plain view to hiding in shadows. And as time continues on, she completed her training. And then, came the graduation.
She bulldozed through the written test, full marked in throwing exam, and scored perfectly in jutsu assessment, giving her and average result from the accumulated score. She gained the title Genin, becoming the kunoichi of Konohagakure. Sadly, her social life was left to be desired. She rarely interacted with another student and always preferred to talk with me. That night, she celebrated at the Ichiraku Ramen, a source of warmth and family for her together with her Iruka-sensei.
Going home, her danger sense went off and she quickly Kawarimi-ed with a nearby box. A windmill shuriken ripped the box apart and a figure dropped down from a tree nearby. Hikari immediately went to her personal Taijutsu position. The figure turned out to be Mizuki.
"Hello, demon whore."
Hikari calmly reciprocate his insult. At the same flaring our her chakra to alert the ANBUs.
"Attacking a member of ninja corp, under the shinobi law 34 results in being a traitor and will be designed as such. What are your defence, Mizuki-san?"
He frowned at Hikari, before smirking.
"Did you know?"
He walked toward the windmill shuriken and picked it up. He turned and smirked at Hikari.
"Why does everyone seems to hate you? Actually, there is a law assigned by the Sandaime about that, you know?"
He smirked and laughed.
"You are the Kyuubi! Ever wondered why your birth was the same day as the day the Kyuubi was killed! That was because…"
"… I am the Jinchuuriki for Kyuubi."
He was stunned when Hikari finished his word for him. He snarled at her and threw the windmill shuriken again. Hikari immediately Kawarimi-ed away placing a bunshin-henge on the box she substitute with. She threw a kunai and did a Kage Kunai at Mizuki. Though he thought that his attack hit her, he leapt away immediately when he noticed the henge, but some of the kunai still hit him, thus injuring his leg. He sneered at her but leapt away when Hikari threw another barrage of kunai bunshin, saving her own chakra.
He went to motion of a fire technique but was stopped in track when Hikari shunshin-ed to his front and kick his jaw upward. As his body flew from the momentum, Hikari threw a Kage Shuriken and shunshin-ed above him. She delivered a heel kick and threw another Kage Shuriken before Kawarimi-ed with a box of flour nearby. The shurikens hit Mizuki from both side and he fell down onto the ground. The flour box opened as it slammed onto him, dispersing the flour into the air.
Hikari took out a kunai wrapped with a hit-activation Kibaku Fuda and threw it at the Mizuki. As it impacted the tag activated thus resulting in a a great explosion. She walked forward and waited till the smoke stopped. As the smoke dispersed, Mizuki was charred but still alive. She calmly walk forward and cradled Mizuki's head on her thigh. Unable to move, could Mizuki only stare at her.
"I'm sorry, Mizuki-san."
She slit his throat, then she closed his eyes. She stood then bowed at a tree nearby.
"Threat neutralized Hokage-sama."
Sandaime jumped down from where she sensed him and nodded to the ANBUs that followed behind him, they immediately took away Mizuki's corpse. Sandaime nodded at Hikari.
"Well done, this will be considered a C-rank mission, so you can take the mission reward at the Mission Information Centre."
He frowned as he watched Hikari.
"Are you okay, Hikari?"
"Yes, I can handle it, Hokage-sama."
They nodded at each other and Hikari quickly head home. As soon as she sat on the bed in tiredness, I told her to lie down and come to the mindscape. As soon as she did, I gestured her to sit next to me. I enveloped her in a hug.
"Hikari?"
She gripped my yukata and started to sob.
"I feel disgusted. I hate this. It hurts… I feel dirty… I'm a monster…"
I immediately hushed her before she started to rant.
"Hikari, the world isn't as white and black as it seems. There is always a shade of grey between them. To know that you hate the killing even if necessary is a good thing. It means you're not a monster, you still have feeling. Nobody's perfect. It's good that you hate to kill, but it was necessary. You chose to give him peace. Know that he gained his peace."
I rubbed her back as she continued to sob against my chest. I let my heartbeat soothe her pain and lulled her into sleep.
Yeah, so another try at Naruto story. Still, regarding Prototype X Naruto. I really don't know whether I should continue or not. Well, for this one, I don't know if I want to continue or not. Perhaps if there is high demands, maybe. So yeah, review if you can. Thanks for reading.
