The kitsune homunculus
Chapter 1
AN: This is my first ever kind of story so I'm not expecting any kind of praise I just want to see if I can do this kind of thing. This first chapter is a bit weird in from my point of view but ad appreciate constructive criticism, please don't just post this is rubbish or that I should quit, I want to write the stories I have but i need to know what to do and what not to do so please read and review.
Deep in the land of fire, there was a hidden village called Konoha which was founded upon the belief that no child would ever need to die in battle be it on the battle field or on their own soil. After many years a peace came to the Elemental nations but war broke out even with the Shodai's intention to bring peace the new villages brought more death and destruction and while trying to bring peace by giving the nine tailed beasts to each nation this only sent each nation to further conflict and so the curse of the Jinchuuriki was created and all those that became the jailer of the tailed beast met the same fate as those before them, facing nothing but loneliness and despair.
After the end of the third shinobi war peace came but at the cost of so many lives but one man was hailed as the one man who ended the war and his name was Minato Namikaze.
Minato was a kind man but he may have been too trusting of those he served to protect, so trusting in fact that he would sacrifice his own life to protect his beloved Konoha but in doing so lead his son a dark path.
Down a dark path, we see a streak of yellow fly by as if possessed down a winding alley then down another in a random pattern to throw of his pursuer's. The ones chasing the young child would be the civilian's still mourning the loss during the night of October tenth five years ago while many tried to move on and pay respect to the departed the more vocal and emotional people raised arms on the search of the one responsible. The sandaime Hokage tried with all his power to persuade the people to see the child not as a demon but as a hero protecting the village with his very life but grief and anger clouded their minds and all they wanted was blood. Even with the law of never mentioning the night of the Kyuubi attack under penalty of imprisonment or death depending on the circumstance the villagers were still boiling with rage at the mere thought of the child being within their home but none would act against the Hokage but time could do a lot to a person even more to people and so year after year the people waited and bided their time to kill the demon and tonight they will have their pound of flesh.
Footsteps could be heard in the streets of Konoha as many people young and old marched on in their search for the demon who stole their loved one from them. All they could do was march and keep looking for it seemed that their target was a sly one since they had yet to get the child which was remarkable in it of itself for a five-year-old but the child was just a child at the end of the day and even the demon had to tire some time and that was when they struck.
Naruto Uzumaki ran and kept on running even though his lungs burned and his legs ached but that was a dream compared to the alternative which was gaining on his position with every step. Naruto was getting the hang of running from adults because of his pranks and the odd person chasing him due to the past which no one told him about. As the night rolled on he kept reassuring that the old man will fix this like he always does when he gets in trouble. Even before Naruto was kicked out of the orphanage the old man in the funny clothes helped him with anything such as a new place to live, money to live on and even company from time to time since the parents of the children his age were told he was a bad influence to be around. Naruto knew that he was strong because of all the stories about the old man but when he first saw the Hokage in action saving him from a group of angry genin Naruto knew that's what he wanted to become. Naruto kept running on and on deeper into the village but the telltale signs of the villagers came behind him. With many turns he tried to lose them but came to a stop by a wall which turned out to be a dead end and his dead end if he didn't find a way out.
But his breath hitched when a footstep stopped and the beginning of the alleyway. Naruto turned when he heard a dozen more steps and came to the sight of the mob he was running from all night. The villagers were not happy in the least since it took them over three hours to pin the child before them but the night was just beginning for them and the Uzumaki.
Naruto tried to crawl as far back as he possibly could "please leave me alone" Naruto cried out "I just want to go home" but his begging was ignored as they stalked their way to him. Naruto tried to find a way out even so far as to claw the wall behind in hope of some miracle that the wall just vanished and he be set free but it seemed the gods were not so lenient to the blond. With no way out the villagers quickly pinned the child to the wall with kunai on both shoulders but only through the clothing. The villagers kept sneering at the boy and finally the one before Naruto stepped forward "we finally have the bloody demon, took you long enough to make a mistake" as he was talking he brought out a knife which gleamed in the moon light "we shall finally finish what the Yodamine started and finish the demon" he cheered along with the rest of the people beside him. Naruto was trying with all his might to pull the kunai out to run but his arms were pinned by two people beside him "why are you doing this to me" he pleaded as the people besides Naruto gripped him harder "I didn't do anything to you people" he yelled as the knife that was brought out was brought closer to his face.
But the knife halted as multiple ninjas fell beside the villagers decked out in protective armor and animal porcelain masks " release the boy now" the lead ANBU commanded and as the each ANBU pulled out their ninjato each villager raised their hands in surrender but the one holding the knife to Naruto's face held strong "you can't be serious, you can't let this monster go free he'll kill us all" the man yelled. The ANBU tensed when the knife grew closer and closer to Naruto's face "I repeat release the boy or we will use force if you do not cooperate" the ANBU spoke in a calmer voice so as to not startle the man and accidentally cut the blonde. Naruto grew more and more tense as the blade neared his eye and didn't even gasp when the ninja arrived so as to not end up dead if he did the wrong move. The man holding the knife grew more and more angry as the ninja encircled him as if he was the threat instead of the boy beneath his blade " why don't you guys see that this monster should be the one you should be using those swords on but if I'm going down at least I'll take the demon with me" he roared as he plunged the knife down on to Naruto but these ninja weren't ANBU for no reason and quickly threw a kunai to intercept the knife and with a clash of metal the knife missed entering the boys head but did scratch the boy's left eye from his eye brow to his cheek. In I rain of blood the kunai the other ANBU sent met the flesh of the man and as he drowned on his own blood he died knowing he failed and collapsed onto the floor dead.
Naruto screamed when the man fell as he had just lost his eye and was now bleeding profusely with no end in sight. The ANBU acting on the direct orders of the Hokage that they will protect Naruto at all cost even their own lives and so one of the ANBU who wore a cat like mask and had dark purple hair and a katana on her back dropped down and as soon as her hand touched the boys shoulder they vanished in a shunshin (body flicker).
When they appeared the ANBU quickly brought Naruto to the hospital and into the arms of a passing doctor "you need to treat this patient immediately and if you do not comply then It is within my authority to arrest you after I find a doctor to help this child now will you help him or not" Cat shouted at the doctor who stood stock still until he exhaled deeply " fine bring him this way" the doctor tiredly said as he brought the ANBU and child to a nearby station to get to work " I was just about to go home but if you insist and by the way if you think I would reject this patient because of his burden then you need to have a little faith ninja-san not everyone in this village see him as it and even so I made a vow to try and save every life I can so please don't insult me if a doctor turns a patient away then In my book they are no doctor at all" he said as he went to get his supplies to help Naruto.
Naruto awoke to the smell of disinfectant and blinding white walls, he slowly rose up seeing he was only garbed in a standard hospital gown but the more he looked the more it dawned on him that he couldn't see much of his left side. Then it dawned on him that of the events last night and of the pain he felt by the hands of the vengeful village. The sudden realization that he no longer had his left eye shocked him so on wobbly legs due to all the running the night before he slowly made his way to the bathroom and looked at his reflection. Small drops of flakey blood hung to his bright blond hair, his whisker like birth marks had a new addition in the form of a thin scar the traveled from his left eye brow to the middle of his left cheek In a straight line and where two bright ocean blue eyes were meant to be laid only one eye and a closed left eye where if he were to open said eye he would only find an empty socket. Wide eyed before his reflection he came to see that this village will never accept him, before today they would ignore him or sometimes try to beat him but Naruto always saw a chance to finally be like everyone else even if it was a small chance but with this act... No, this attack he saw what he truly should do and that was not to gain the affection of the village's people but to be a ninja one that worked in the shadows not in the light where the people lived. Naruto hardened his eye " this can't go on" he said to himself in a calm voice "I need to change before I kill myself" he said with resolve in his voice still gazing at his reflection " I couldn't agree more" a deep voice called out from nowhere. Naruto spun trying to find the owner of the voice but saw no one. Naruto stepped out of the bathroom and still heard nothing not but the wind blowing outside and the birds chirping in the trees. Naruto rubbed his head" I must be losing it, now I'm hearing voices" " hey dumbass stop talking out loud otherwise people will think you're crazy" the voice called again but it seemed amused in the child's confusion. Naruto swerved around looking in every direction for the owner of the voice but found nothing " hey I'm not dumb, how are you doing that are you a ghost or something" Naruto shouted out "heh you're just like that woman always quick to anger, stop talking out loud if you want to know where I am, well I'm in your head" the voice spoke in a softer tone " why the hell are you in my head and who the hell are you" Naruto asked as he sat back on to the bed, his missing eye completely forgotten in light of the deep voice inside his head" if you want more answers then come in we have a lot to talk about" Naruto tilted his head in confusion " how do I do that do" "just go in to the lotus position and concentrate in your mind, I'll help pull you in to guide you but you're going to have to do it yourself someday I am not going to do this every time" Naruto just did as he was told after all no one ever got hurt meditating before.
Naruto focused with in and felt a small pull as if something was dragging him further down a hole and when he opened his eyes he saw he was in his white shirt and blue shorts in a tunnel with ankle deep murky water "what the hell is this" Naruto looked around and found nothing but a sewer as far as his eyes could see " yeah this place could do with a few windows I like a bit of a cross breeze when it's windy."
"No, I mean why the hell am I in a sewer"
"Well, we are inside your head so that explains that" the voice quipped back " hey I may be a kid but I'm plenty smart and that doesn't explain why this is a sewer I thought my head would be more... I don't know cleaner" Naruto shot back still trying to understand how all this was possible.
"Ok then tell me this, if you were supposed to have such a nice mind who taught you, who raised you, who cared for you and who nurtured you to have such a nice mind" Naruto stood still searching through his mind for anyone. The old man... no Naruto barely saw him since he was busy with running the village, the Ichiraku... no, I see them now and then but they only give me free food from time to time maybe that girl with the weird eyes I met a while ago... no I haven't seen her since I got beat up by those bullies. Naruto couldn't find a single person who was close to him, no adult wanted to even get close to him, no child would come near him because their parents said not to and no one else because I wasn't worth the time. "See Naruto, you've been left to not only fend for your self but to grow alone and with no one to guide you this place fell further and further down the gutter and look at it now a wasting sewer full of lost dreams and never were's, now enough of that come down here I want to talk face to face, I think it's about time you finally knew what really happened five years ago."
Naruto shot up at that last bit since every time he and that subject met everyone would either stop and stare at him or quickly move away as if he were a plague, if he could find out what really happened then maybe he could find out about his parents and why he was hated." please tell me I need to know"
"Then come we haven't got long till the Hokage come's to check on you" Naruto ran as fast as he could down the sewer and he kept on running until a light shone onto a gate that was decorated with intricate carvings along the edge of the gate and a piece of paper with the kanji for seal on it in the centre of the cage.
"Finally we meet Naruto Uzumaki" red eye's glowed in the darkness of the cage with slit pupils and a heavy aura flooded the changer causing Naruto to fall on to his hands and knees " sorry I tend to forget how weak you human are when I'm around" the voice drew his aura back so that the boy could stand and finally see who he had been talking to this entire time.
Naruto walked closer to the cage and finally beheld the sight of the beast that brought Konoha to its knees before Naruto was a fox the size of the Hokage monument with nine large tails swaying behind the beast and a bone chilling grin plastered to its face." it cant be, they said the yondaime killed you" Naruto said shocked that the beast that killed hundreds of people in his home was inside him and talking to him.
"As if a mere human can destroy a being made by the sage of six paths, that little man couldn't destroy me... hell even his predecessor Hashirama Senju couldn't destroy us only weaken us and he was far more powerful than any human that fought me back there five years ago""then how are you here, no why are you here" Naruto demanded from the beast" fine ill tell you what happened that night but don't interrupt me or I won't say anything ok" Naruto nodded finally getting the answers he sought.
And so the Kyuubi no Kitsune told how he had been sealed in a previous host who was Naruto's mother and when she was to give birth to him a man attacked stole Kushina Uzumaki after he had been born. Then came the massacre that was ingrained in the memory of the ninja there that day of a monstrous fox laying waste to the village they called home. The Kyuubi told how the Sharingan could if powerful enough take control of Bijuu and when the fog finally lifted from the Kyuubi's eyes he was greeted with the sight of a burning Konoha and ninja attacking him from all side's so he did what he had to do and defended himself but with the intervention of the Yondaime he was sealed into the boy but the man had intended to split the beast into two halves yin and yang but failed due to the wounds he had suffered at the unknown Uchiha's hand. So with the final seal in place, the fox was locked into the boy and both parents fell before Naruto Uzumaki on the day of his birth.
Naruto sat there taking in the knowledge of his past and if a normal person was told of such a soul shattering past the would most likely break but there was only one thing Naruto thought about when he heard the fox finish speaking " they loved me" he said through tears of joy and happiness, Naruto had grown up under the assumption that he had been abandoned and left alone in the world but to finally hear that they loved him so much they would sacrifice their own lives for him brought him joy and sadness that they were dead but he knew that he could pay his respects now to the family he had even if it was for such a short amount of time. "Hm I definitely thought that having a giant fox made of chakra in your stomach would be the first thing you'd wanna talk about but I guess I was wrong about you, heh you Uzumaki's always went with family even if it was the losing side you'd never turn to anything but family which is something to admire about your clan" the Fox mused at the boy before him" Wait I have a clan" "had a clan, they were wiped out in the second shinobi war because they were feared as very powerful thanks to their Fuuinjutsu but a few survived such as your mother" Naruto looked down mourning the lost family" could we find the survivors" "we could but that is for another time, now that we can communicate I want to make a deal and that is we work together."
"But why would you want to work with me don't hate human... hell you should hate me since I'm your jail"
"Yes you are my prison but if I do break out I'll just be locked up again and I'm willing to work with you because when I see you I see someone who can empathize with me, someone whose been shunned and attacked for simply existing also you're like this because of me and I don't like making children cry" Naruto looked confused and asked why "when your old and one of the last of your kind and lived seeing nothing but death and hardship as time went on you can't just stand there and watch children cry" the fox said looking naruto in the eyes seeing awe and curiosity in the deep blue and naruto saw sadness and regret in the blood red eyes of the Kyuubi .
"If we're going to work together then" Naruto patted his clothes then walked to the cage standing a few feet before the bars and held his hand out" my name is Naruto Uzumaki and I hope we can become friends Kyuubi-san" Naruto said grinning while the fox looked on a smile spreading on his face at the boy before him "my name is Kurama Naruto and I think we will be friends" the fox said as he held a claw out so the boy held on to his claw and shook never letting his smile down.
Outside in the real world the Hokage was furiously going through his enemy that he still couldn't defeat even after half a century of battling it. Paper work was the doom of all Kage no matter country and Hiruzen had even with his intelligence couldn't find a way around it but today he fought harder and faster because of one reason, Naruto had been attacked and hurt but due to certain laws that certain advisors placed he had to finish his work before he could do his own activities" how could I let these people do such a thing to Naruto, maybe I should assign a guard... no, the council will kill that idea immediately, the report said he lost his left eye and if he can't find a suitable replacement he'll lose half his vision" at that thought his pen stopped and he looked at the scroll of sealing and what it held within" could I really give Naruto that, I mean he could use it, Kakashi only suffers chakra exhaustion when using his Sharingan but Naruto has his Uzumaki genes and since he's a Jinchuuriki his chakra reserves are even higher than most jounin he could use it better than anyone here when he's reached his prime" Sarutobi thought. The council would throw a fit but if he said he was priming the boy to be a perfect ninja and if since Naruto has the reserves for the eye it would all fit and so with out hesitation he summoned his most trusted
ANBU weasel and cat."How can we help you Lord Hokage" they both spoke in unison " I need you two to take this to Naruto" the Hokage went to the scroll and summoned a jar with a thick blue liquid suspending an eye unlike any the ANBU had seen before "What is that Lord Hokage" cat spoke trying to figure out where such an eye came from.
"When the ANBU and I stormed Orochimaru's labs we came across this, it seems he was experimenting with Uchiha DNA with other blood lines but this was the only successful organ to survive but when Fugaku demanded I hand this over to him I denied him due to the nature of the origins of the eye and that if anyone were to use it they could kill them selves with chakra exhaustion but with Naruto losing his left eye and the villagers attacking him a believe he needs this more than anyone now."
Weasel stared at the eye as if it were looking right back at him" is it safe for the boy Hokage-Sama, the tests that were done on that eye are rather lacking on what it can do also what if the snake left anything dangerous within it"
"I assure you weasel that this eye is perfectly safe and if there are such dangers I will imminently order the eyes destruction but there is more to this than simply a delivery" the Hokage reassured but then his gaze hardened at the two ANBU" with the recent attack on Naruto Uzumaki I order you as Hokage to train the boy" With that order both their heads rose up and looked at the Hokage" why us Hokage-Sama why not a jounin sensei or even a teacher from the academy?"
"I chose the both of you for two reasons, first you weasel for training him to control that eye since he will need a teacher that I trust not to sabotage his training and you are capable of using your doujutsu better than most and you cat since I believe he will take up his family's tradition of kenjutsu but if he doesn't wish to learn the art of the sword just focus on his other area's and I chose you two because you can still do missions but he will need someone to guard him against attack if necessary" the Hokage explained and with that both ANBU accepted the assignment and left with the strange eye to the hospital.
"I hope this wasn't a mistake that will hurt Naruto, that's the last thing I want to do to him" the Hokage lament for the boy but as he turned his old enemy had somehow grown so high it over shadowed the old man" DAMN YOU MONSTER" the Hokage roared as he prepared to continue the fight of the paperwork.
When the strange roar from the Hokage tower ended both ANBU appeared before the same doctor from the night before in the hospital "HOLY CRAP" the doctor jumped back while trying to calm his old heart" don't do that you could give someone a heart attack, what do you need ninja-san.
"We are under orders by the Hokage to assist you with the eye transplant of Naruto Uzumaki using this eye" cat explained as she handed the jar of blue viscous liquid that held the strange eye.
"Well you don't see this every day" the doctor joked as he stared at the eye before him. With a few quick orders, the doctor and a couple of assistances left to get the patient who they found awake and coming out of the bathroom after finishing his morning routine."What's going on" Naruto questioned as the nurses brought Naruto to the stretcher "We are going to give you a new eye Naruto Uzumaki, you might want to thank the Hokage when this is all over but we need to prep you for surgery" the old doctor explained as he held the eye before the boy seeing his curious gaze at the strangest eye he had ever seen "Wait the old man gave me this" Naruto asked shocked at the gesture. "Yes he did my boy but save your excitement for later, this eye's stasis container won't last forever but we have to do this as soon as possible but I have only one thing to ask you, do you want it?" with out hesitation Naruto shouted out yes right in front of the doctor making a few of the nurses to glare at the boy "could you do it a bit quieter next time please now I've got a drumming in my head" and with that Naruto was wheeled in to the operating theatre by the doctor and his nurses to receive a gift that will not only change his life but the entire world as he knew it.