THE CRIMSON HUNTER
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
[A/N; Alittle bit of crossover here. Don't complain, don't say Naruto is too god like, cuz he's perfectly at god level. Enjoy]
ā¢Chapter 1: New Beginningsā¢
6-Year old Naruto Uzumaki ran from the mob of civilians and Shinobi alike. He panted from the exertion, his tiny body only able to endure so much. Making a sharp turn into an alley, in hopes of losing the mob, only to discover a dead end. Turning his head to the entrance of the alley, he heard the voices of the mob closing in. Curling up into the corner, Naruto silently cried, awaiting the possibly worst beating of his life. It's like this every year, everyday, and he doesn't even know why they attack him, just that they do. So here we are, just turned six year old Naruto Uzumaki is awaiting his inevitable death. He knows that they have tried before, but he is certain they have a way of killing him this time. The mob drew closer, they are visible now, he can see they are being led by the very thing assigned to protect him... an ANBU. He looked fairly young, most likely late teens, perhaps early twenties. His gravity defying grey hair, the only noticeable feature there was. His standard ANBU garb and armor shinning slightly in the moon light. Naruto's thoughts were interrupted when the mod finally reached his position.
"Finally, demon brat. I'll avenge sensei right here and now" (Guess who and you get a cookie) With that said, the dog masked ANBU sent two men to hold the frightened child in a crucifix position. The child screamed.
"No! P... Please! I didn't do anything! Please stop!" He was frantic now, thrashing, trying to break their grip. But alas, these men seemed to have Shinobi training, meaning his efforts were in vain. Soon his shouts of fear were drowned out by the deafening sounds of a thousand birds chirping. The sound also drew the attention of a figure on a nearby roof. The figure narrowed its eyes in suspicion and moved to investigate. Once he reached the entrance, his eyes widen in horror as the man in ANBU armor plunged his lightning covered hand through the small child's chest and out his back. But it didn't end there as he was rooted to the ground by what he was seeing. The loud chirping started again, but this time the boy screamed in agony, no doubt the lightning is destroying what organs weren't already damaged from the first strike. Minutes past as the child's screams died down as he fell limp on the mans extended arm, the other two holding him, dropping him uncaringly onto the ground. The figure quickly hid as the mob started exiting the alley, the last one out being the ANBU. The figure had to restrain himself from killing the ANBU where he stood, that was not his mission. As soon as the people were out of sight he entered the alley, what he saw made him sick. Whatever that ANBU did, definitely killed the poor boy, although the child was alive, albeit barely, it was slowly killing him. His eyes were lifeless and dull, his breathing ragged, a large pool of blood forming underneath him, his chest wound smoking from the electricity. The figure drew closer to the boy, eyes softening as he did so, his breath was takin suddenly when the boy's eyes refocused on him.
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{NARUTO'S MINDSCAPE}
Dull blue eyes fluttering open tiredly. Naruto slowly sat up ignoring the pain in his chest. Looking around, he could see he was in some type of sewer system. Although, one he's never seen before, having been in Konoha's sewers before in order to hide from the mobs, lots of help that did, they still found him. Getting up off the floor, Naruto began to search for an exit. After what felt like hours of searching, he'd finally made it to a large open room, in front of him a large gate like cage seeming kept closed by a piece of parchment labeled 'seal'. Behind the gates was pure darkness, so much so that it unnerved him. Deep inside the darkness he thought he heard faint sounds of sobbing, the closer he got to the gate the louder it became. Finally his curiosity got the better of him and he walked straight through the bars. The closer he got the clearer the crying became and he could see the silhouette of a women slumped over on the ground. Approaching the sobbing women, Naruto awkwardly patted her. Her crying stopped briefly to look at the owner of the hand, after a moment her crying returned full force and she jumped into his arms, wrapping her slender arms around his neck. Naruto was taken aback by her action.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!-" She repeated as she cried. Naruto was confused at first before he took in her features. Her long flowing red hair, Heart shaped face, crimson red slitted eyes, an hour glass figure, fox ears on the top of her head, and nine red flowing tails behind her. Oh! And she's naked.
'Oh, so she must Kyuubi. Never thought her to be a women.' He thought calmly until.
'Ahhh!? The Kyuubi's a girl?!' He almost started to panic until he realized she had started to calm down. Kyuubi looked up at Naruto with adorable watery eyes. Naruto was memorized for a moment before speaking.
"Hey. Why were you crying and apologizing? I don't think you did anything wrong." He said innocently. Kyuubi sniffed again before she glomped him again crying harder with tears of joy.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!-" She repeated while squeezing the life out of the poor boy. Naruto gasped for a moment before Kyuubi noticed his blue face. She released him immediately with a sheepish look while scratching her cheek timidly.
"Oh! Heh, sorry 'bout that. Got a little carried away." She said slightly embarrassed by her blunder.
"Meh, It's fine Kyuubi. I understand." He said disarmingly. Kyuubi blinked once and tilted her head to the side in very cute way.
"Um... How did you know I'm the Kyuubi?" She asked anxiously. She was wondering if he would hate her for all she's done to him.
"Well it isn't really hard to figure out. I mean I've seen the seal on my stomach and the mobs, and the hateful words, and the glares, and the-" He stopped talking when he noticed Kyuubi was crying again.
"Hey! No, no, no. I don't blame you Kyu-chan. You weren't trying to get sealed in me I'm sure, right?" He said as he brought her into a side hug. After moment she calmed down again.
"So Kyu-chan, why am I in here?" He asked absently before looking down to her.
"Oh yeah! That's because you're dying." She said cheerfully before she saw his pale expression.
"Um... Are you ok? You look pale." She said as she poked his cheek. Naruto looked down, hair shadowing his eyes.
"Oh so it finally happened, huh? But I wanna know why you're so happy about it!?" He shouted toward the end. He was sad about dying but that was to be expected, after all.
"I'm not happy you're dying silly! I'm happy cuz now I can really bond with you!" The ever bubbly Bijuu said. To be completely honest, that attitude did not fit her one bit. The strongest of all the tailed-beast being so, joyful. Makes you want to shudder at what the others maybe like.
"Um... Bond? How are we going to bond if I'm dead?" It was a very valid question. How was she expecting to bond in any way with a dead body. Made no sense.
"Oh I'm just going to give up my Chakra to save your life and then my spirit will bond with you and then you'll eventually develop a Zanpakutou like me." She said like it was common knowledge.
"Uh... What's a Zanpakutou?" He was genuinely confused, she was talking about all these things he's never heard about. Chakra? Zanpakutou? How could she save his life?
"Ugh... You know what? I'll just transplant all that knowledge in your tiny brain and all you gotta do is take a itty bitty piece off that seal of yours and I'll do the rest. Well you gotta wake up, someone outside is waiting to help you. Oh and find someplace hidden for the next 15 hours, this will hurt a tiny bit." With all that said she kicked him out of his mind.
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{REAL WORLD SECONDS PASS}
The figures sudden gasped alerted Naruto of his situation, but he did not panic. Kyuubi said he would help so he just had to trust in her judgment.
"Hey can you get me out of here and far away from here, I'm going to be doing something that I need to stay hidden while I do it?" His voice hoarse but it got the point across. Nodding dumbly, the figure picked up the boy only receiving a low hiss from the fragile child.
"Thanks, I really need out of this village." He said getting very sleepy. He knew it may be a bad idea to fall asleep in a strangers arms but he didn't care right now.
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{THE NEXT DAY}
Groggily, he sat up in a very soft bed. Looking around Naruto could see that he was in a well furnished room.(Just imaged a generic inn room) He could smell food cooking, it was probably the man who took him away from that evil village. He was about to get out of bed when he felt a throbbing pain in his head and remembered what happened, and why he felt like never talking to Kyuubi again.
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{FLASHBACK}
"So all I gotta do is take a piece the size of my thumb off the seal and you'll handle the rest?" He said getting an exuberant nod from the red haired beauty. And she's still naked.
"Yep! And while I'm at it I can also give you other things like a special bloodline and maybe change your appearance so no one from the leaf can recognize you." She said as she played with a small ball of yarn she got out of seemingly nowhere.
"Ok let's do this." Little did he know that he would regret those words for the next 15 hours. Yup it just wasn't his day. But it was sort of funny seeing him roll around while screaming like a girl. Now that was the attitude that fit her most, why didn't she stick to that?
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{PRESENT}
Ugh I may never forgive you for that, Kyuubi-Chan. He thought mostly to himself although it did not go unheard.
AH, IS NARU-KUN NOT HAPPY THAT I GAVE WHAT WAS MOST PRECIOUS TO ME TO SAVE HIM, MAYBE THIS WILL HELP YOU? Just as she finished talking, Naruto's mind was assaulted by a multitude of erotic images, most revolving around a certain vixen. Blushing heavily, Naruto shook his head of those images and walked over to the mirror. What he saw, satisfied him greatly. He was a little taller than before, by a foot(4-ft). His hair no longer the bright yellow as before, in it's place vibrant jet black hair slightly longer and wilder than before. His face lean and without any baby fat as well as his whiskers gone. His eyes were the most attention grabbing than most as they were not their original deep blue, no, now they were a golden amber color accompanied by small slits for pupils. All in all he was very intimidating for a child.
Finally done with his overview of himself, Naruto opened the door and walked into the living space of the suite. The man in the kitchen noticed him the moment he opened the door and came out into the living room wiping his hands in a towel.
"So your finally awake. I was afraid you might have died in there. You know what ever you did sounded pretty painful with you screaming for several hours straight. Say kid what's your name?" Naruto just stared at the man with a deadpan look before taking in the mans looks. He was fairly tall maybe under six-feet and an acceptably muscular build. His brown hair done up in a small pony-tail with two bangs sticking up on top of his forehead. A scar running over his left eye, though he could still see and such as it doesn't appear to be a deep wound.
"Well my name was Naruto Uzumaki. But I think it best to change my name, you can call me Hei." He said with the utmost seriousness. The man was obviously taken aback by the child's serious attitude, he half expected him to want to play catch or something. But than again considering the circumstances of how he found him, he could understand why he'd want that.
"Alright Hei, my name is Tatewaki." He sighed and began walking back to the kitchen.
"So anyway, come and eat your breakfast. And while your at it you could tell me where that O-Katana came from." He said as they sat on the table. Naruto just looked at him strangely for a moment before his eyes widened.
"Katana? Hm do you mind showing it to me?" He asked curiously. Tatewaki nodded and got up to retrieve the item. When he came back he was holding an O-katana in a black sheath wrapped in golden cloth. Naruto stared at for a moment before promptly passing out. Tatewaki was confused by the child's behavior.
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"Oi! Kyuubi, is that my Zanpakuto out there?" He shouted as soon as he entered the mind scape and as a result, startling Kyuubi greatly, causing the following chain reaction.
1: Kyuubi shrieking and jumping up abruptly
2: Naruto laughing
3: A tick mark developing on Kyuubi's forehead
4: Kyuubi tackling Naruto
5: And finally Naruto's head being squashed in between Kyuubi's impressive bust, and Naruto passing out of a nosebleed.
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{REAL WORLD}
"Yeah I get it now. It appears this is my Zanpakuto. Although this is a very unique Zanpakuto for someone like me." Crimson said as he finished examining the sword. Tatewaki just stared gawking at the boy, not understanding a thing. Which did not go unnoticed by the child. With a sigh of exasperation, he got Tatewaki's attention.
"Ok I guess it's only fair I explain this all to you. Here's how it is..."
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{ONE VERY LONG EXPLANATION LATER}
Tatewaki was absolutely shocked. Spirit blades? Kyuubi no Yoko? He was its vessel? The boy was either crazy or all of this was true. He sighed as it seemed like he just couldn't have a normal day.
"Alright say I believe you, how can you prove it?" He said a little hoping that the boy couldn't. Naruto thought for a moment and came up with nothing, so instead of trying to prove himself, he decided to negotiate.
"Alright, at the moment I can't prove anything I have said is true. So why don't you train me until I unlock my Shikai. Then we go from there." Tatewaki thought it over and nodded his agreement.
"Fine kid, we start tomorrow. For now eat your breakfast." Naruto nodded and the two began to eat in total silence.
Till next time!
