AkasukiShadow: Hey, AkatsukiShadow here with a new story! I just thought of the idea last night, and decided to post it. So, here's the first chapter of Naruto: Wolf Child! Hope it's not complete trash and actually decent! I don't think this has ever been done before...
Warnings: Major AU, violence in later chapter and maybe some swearing. Rated T for safety only.
Summary: Two months after the Kyuubi was sealed, three 'Kyuubi haters' kidnapped Naruto and left him for dead deep within a forest at the edge of Fire Country. Little did they know that they were being watched. They had left the jinchuriki in the territory of a large pack of wolves, but not ordinary wolves; wolves that had demon blood running through their veins, making them smarter, stronger, and larger than normal wolves. A female of the pack had seen the three men abandon Naruto, and the alpha female of that wolf's pack adopted Naruto as her own. Watch as Naruto fights to survive among his adopted family in the wild, hunting, sleeping, and living among the wolves as a Wild Child.
Disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me, only the plot does. Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-sama. Only the wolves belong to me.
"Demon!" - Human speak
'Brat...' - Human thought
"What in the name of Gobi-sama is that?!" - Wolf speak (Barks, growls, ect.)
'Interesting pup...' - Wolf thought
"Wolves?" - Demon speak
'I hate my life...' - Demon thought
First chapter start!
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Chapter 1: Son of a Wolf, Container of a Fox
Three Konoha jounin leapt through the trees of the Fire country, the one in the lead carrying a whimpering boy only two months old. The boy was Uzumaki Naruto, jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, and though he didn't know it, his life was about to change dramatically.
The three jounin were survivors from the Kyuubi attack who had lost their families to the fox, and one had lost their arm. They had decided soon after they found out that the Kyuubi wasn't dead to get rid of the container as soon as they could. They had successfully kidnapped him together earlier that night and were searching for a place to leave him where no one else would find the baby; they were hoping that the demon would die in the wilderness. It was perfect; even if they couldn't go back to Konoha they would be hailed as heroes by the general populace of their ex-village. "Here's a place. Let's leave the demon here and go to Suna." The ninja in the lead said, jumping to the ground from the trees, his companions following. The ninja holding Naruto roughly dropped him on the ground, causing the baby to wake up and whimper in slight pain as it landed on a pile of fallen leaves. The three ninja sneered at the whimpering baby- 'demon' in their minds- and leapt back into the trees, leaving the baby alone in the middle of the forest.
A large wolf watched the humans through wary eyes, curios to what they were doing; the humans usually didn't come around her pack's territory, which is why they had chosen this forest as their territory. 'Fools. Don't they know that their pup will die alone in this forest?' the wolf thought to herself, holding back a growl as the three adult humans left the newborn human-pup in the forest alone, leaving at speeds as fast as she could run. Her ears perked as the human pup whimpered in slight fear of being alone, rolling over onto its stomach. Curiosity overcame the wolf and she crept towards the baby, eyes not leaving the small form. She stepped out of the trees in front of the human pup, and amber eyes met blue. The wolf lowered herself to the ground and crawled towards the baby, touching the human's face with her large muzzle, taking a couple sniffs. His scent gave her quite a bit of information. He was male, and defiantly young, probably not even weaned yet, just like her alpha's pups. It was painfully obvious to the wolf that the pup's pack members had abandoned him, which caused anger to fill her mind; she didn't like those who abandoned their fellow pack members. There was also an underlying scent of fox on the boy, coming from him. 'Interesting…' she thought. Her alpha would be interested, and the young female wolf felt a kind of maternal instinct well inside her as she studied the giggling child. He wasn't afraid of her, which was another surprise; most humans would have run away or at least been scared of the large wolf.
Part of the reason was that she, like her pack mates, were much larger than normal. They could grow to the point where their shoulders would reach the shoulders of an adult human. They were also smarter than other wolves. They had yokai within them, though they couldn't control it. They were extremely intelligent, and could live longer than many humans could. The reason for all of this was simple; they had demon blood running through their veins. They were descendants of the Gobi no Hokou, the five tailed wolf demon and lord of wolves. Sure, there had been many generations between the time when their forefather and foremother had mated, but they still had some of the demonic qualities that showed up; with great intelligence, size, and long life spans being some of them. Because of their long life spans, they matured slower than normal wolves. They took fifteen years for them to fully mature and grow physically. They relied on both their great intelligence and their wolf instincts to survive, and every so often a pup would be born with the ability to use and control their yokai, though defiantly not as well as a full demon, or even a half-demon.
A wolf-grin found its way onto the wolf's face as the boy smiled and laughed at the tickling sensation brought by the whiskered muzzle. The wolf had made her decision; she was going to take the human pup to her pack. The boy made a gurgling sound as she carefully grabbed onto the back of the odd orange outer-pelt that humans wore with her teeth and lifted him up. She quickly ran through the trees, ignoring the whimpers of the human pup in her jaws, barely a grey blur as she ran towards the pack's main den area.
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"Light Heart, your back. And with a… human pup?" the amused voice of her alpha reached the ears of the wolf carrying Naruto as she entered the clearing the pack lived in. It was a simple clearing; grassy and a bit hilly, surrounded by three sides with forest and one side with a river, with dens dug out between trees and in the hills. The newly dubbed Light Heart approached her alpha slowly, dropping the gold-furred human pup in front of him and whimpered, rolling over to show her throat and other vital areas. The large black wolf that was her pack's alpha looked down with amused golden eyes at the smaller light grey wolf. "Pray tell how you got your jaws on a human pup." The alpha male barked, looking at the human child, who stared back with a curious and amazed expression, but not fearful. That was understandable, though; he was probably too young to understand how dangerous they could be. "He was abandoned, alpha Shadow Runner, by three adult male humans who I am assuming where his pack mates. From their scents I don't think they were related by blood." Light Heart whimpered, causing the alpha male to snort. "Just when I thought that humans couldn't get worse… first pointless killing then abandoning defenseless pups in the middle of a forest? What next?" The alpha grumbled to himself, lowering his large head to the pup's eye level.
"Shadow, what's going on out here? I smell human." A female voice sounded from inside one of the dens as another female wolf crawled out of the entrance of the den, her fur a mixture of light grey and snow white, her eyes a bright blue color. Complaining yips followed her, coming from her pups inside the den. Her eyes widened at the sight of the human child. "Light Heart found a human pup in the middle of our territory." Shadow Runner replied to his mate. "Alpha Moon Light." Light Heart whimpered in respect to her elder with a bow of her head. Moon Light trotted to Naruto's side, bringing the child's attention from the butterfly sitting on the flower in front of him to her. He made a cooing sound, reaching up towards the female wolf. Something tugged at the Alpha Female's heart as she was reminded of Runt, her deceased son who had been the runt of her litter. Their eyes were the exact same color, both with the underlying mischievousness that would most likely grow to be part of their adult personalities. "We could raise him to be one of us." Moon Light said, causing the eyes of Shadow Runner and Light Heart to widen in barely concealed shock.
"You sure? Who would adopt him, though?" Shadow Runner asked Moon Light, staring at his mate. "I will, of course. I'm the only wolf that currently has pups in the pack, and there is plenty of room in the litter for another." Moon Light exclaimed. "If you say so, Moon." Shadow Runner sighed in defeat. Once his mate got an idea into her head, nothing could stop her from bringing the idea into reality. It was one of the reasons he loved her. Both females yipped in joy at their alpha's decision, wolf grins spreading onto their muzzles. Moon Light looked at her new pup as the boy yawned widely, eyes closing. "Aw, he's tired. I'll take him into the den and introduce him to his new brothers and sisters so he can sleep." Moon Light said, carefully lifting the child by the outer-pelt he was wearing like all humans did. She crawled back into the den, mouth full of giggling human pup; literally. 'Things defiantly won't be boring around here anymore.' Shadow Runner thought, watching as Light Heart happily bounded through the grass. Shadow Runner raised his head into the air and let loose a long howl, ears perking as the howls of his pack answered him. He needed to explain everything to his pack as soon as he could, or else it wouldn't be pretty when they discovered the human pup. Troublesome.
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Kyuubi growled from within the seal; his container had been abandoned by his own kind to live in the wild and raised by wolves! Well, at least he was being raised by a predator like himself instead of a deer or something like that. He had been studying the seal for the entire two months he had been trapped inside here, and he hadn't found anything that was good for him yet. "Wait… this is something I didn't see before! Well, child, here's a gift from me to you to help you survive among these… wolves…" Kyuubi growled with a wide grin on his face as he sent as much chakra through the seal as he could without either killing his host or hurting himself, using it to alter his container's very DNA makeup.
Outside the seal, Naruto was curled up among his new siblings against his adoptive mother's side, sound asleep. Moon Light licked the top of his head lightly a few times before moving on to her other pups, only to recoil in slight shock as a red mist surrounded her adopted pup, who whimpered in his sleep, a look of slight pain on his face. She watched in shocked awe as small claws replaced dull, human nails, the odd whisker-like markings on his cheeks darkened slightly, and his golden-blonde 'head-fur' became wilder. His ears pointed at the tip, almost like the elves of myth, and small canines sprouted from his gums as the red mist disappeared. A slight grin covered her muzzle once more as he curled up into a more comfortable position; he was defiantly going to fit in with the pack, and he was very intriguing. "Goodnight, little pups." Moon Light lightly whined at her litter, curling up around them to fall asleep as well. Her last thoughts were about what name to gift her new pup with; she would talk about it with Shadow Runner in the morning, as well as about the odd red mist. Right now she needed to sleep.
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So, how is it? Reviews and constructive criticism loved!
Polls:
1) Should the Akatsuki be evil in this fic, or just misguided and later good?
2) Who should replace Naruto in team 7?
3) What pairings, if any, should I have? Note: Pairings are not a major part of the story.