Heh, I know I need to work on my other stories, but it's been Naruto that's been catching my mind since it came out, until that obsession is over, expect nearly everything I say or do to be about either Naruto or ninjas and samurai.
The introduction will be by Zeo, but I won't write the story in first person.
Also, I won't use the Japanese jutsu names, unless it's something like Bunshins or henges, it takes to much time trying to remember what I did when I try to edit things.
The Second Kyuubi Vessel
Many people think that Naruto is the only vessel for the Kyuubi's power. That isn't true though, as great as he is becoming, he was only a child then. And there was no way he could hold all of its power. And that's where I come in, I was chosen to hold the second half of the power, but I'm not mentioned for a few reasons, my name is Zeo Takamaru, age 12, a student in the same academy as Naruto. The difference is, no one knows about my half, and another difference is that I do know something is inside me, I just don't know what. While the conscience, and half of the power of the Kyuubi may lie in Naruto, in me lies the rest of the power. The power to become the strongest ninja, and also, the most uncontrollable. This is my story, the story of Zeo Takamaru, the Second Kyuubi Vessel.
"Gah, I'm late for school!" Zeo said as he packed up his stuff and headed for the academy, his first day to be exact.
Only six years old and he already knew a few jounin jutsus, well only two, Grand Fireball jutsu and Water Dragon jutsu.
He had even created a few of his own, well only one useful one, the rest were more or less just jokes.
He had pitch-black hair that didn't seem to have ever been combed in his life and his eyes were light brown.
He also had his trademark jacket, a black jacket, a bit scratched and torn since he had no money to buy another and finally, a small pair of red pants.
As he headed towards the academy, he had only one thought on his mind.
"I should have eaten breakfast before I left."
It was then that he ran into someone, an Uchiha, the prodigy to be exact.
Uchiha Itachi, already a Jounin at age 11 and Anbu leader by age 12.
Now he was age 13, and though Zeo didn't know it, it wouldn't be long until this would be one of the last Uchiha's left alive.
Itachi had already readied every part of his plan, and it would come to existence in only a few weeks.
Though Zeo didn't know that, he did know one thing, his demonic chakra was flaring up and trying to fight back as if it saw this person as a threat that needed to be eliminated.
And to tell the truth, he felt the same as he looked into the mans eyes.
Something about him was just off, his eyes were threatening and calculating, as if trying to decide if whom he saw was worth being left alive.
"Uh... sorry" Zeo said as he ran off, not seeing Itachi activate his Mangekyou Sharingan and use a weak Genjutsu to turn Zeo to another direction.
"I must test it on one who holds no chance of realizing it" Itachi thought, as if attempting to justify his actions.
He then walked off, headed towards a secret training area of his.
Zeo continued to run, not realizing that he was now nearing the Hyuuga complex and also not realizing that he had been noticed and was now being glared at with killer intent by two main house Hyuuga.
It was at that moment that his demonic chakra flared up at the killer intent, breaking the Genjutsu, causing Zeo to trip and fall to the ground as the area suddenly changed.
"Where am I?" Zeo said in confusion as he looked around.
"You are in the Hyuuga complex you fool, and a failure with no clan like you has no right to be here" the Hyuuga member said with the Byakugan active and a glare on his face, killer intent flaring at an incredibly high rate.
"But I'm just trying to get to the academy" Zeo said as he gulped.
"I care not for the ambition of fools!" the Hyuuga said.
"And don't forget, he came on our lands, we have the right to punish him in any means necessary.
As Zeo heard that, his eyes widened in fear.
"What did I do to deserve this?" he thought as he turned and tried to run.
Before he could take even a few steps, the first Hyuuga he had talked to appeared in front of him and slammed his fists into Zeo's Tenketsu points, knocking him back towards the second Hyuuga, who did the same, knocking him forward to the first attacker, who hit him back again.
At this point, he was beginning to see a pattern.
"I hope this ends soon," he thought as his body stopped any and all functions and he could do nothing but take the hits.
After a few hours, they did an ending strike by slamming their fists into him from the front and the back and letting him drop to the ground.
"That's your punishment for coming here, you clanless child" the Hyuuga's said as they walked off, leaving him there, unable to move.
"From now on... I hate Hyuuga's" Zeo thought as he tried and failed to move his body but found that it was blocked off, as well as his human chakra, but his demon chakra was free from the binding.
"So they can't bind the other chakra," he thought before smirking a small bit as he began to transfer the demon chakra through his body, freeing himself and allowing him to move.
"I better get going, if I was late before, I'm really late now!" Zeo thought as he sprinted off, running at incredible speeds due to the demon energy.
Meanwhile at the Academy
" Is there a Zeo Takamaru here?" the Iruka sensei asked asked and when no one raised his hand, he began to mark him absent.
"Hey, wait!" Zeo said as he turned the corner and fell to the ground at the classroom door, his demon chakra no longer active since his body couldn't take it.
"Zeo... is present!" he said with a smirk as he looked up with a grin before falling unconscious.
The rest of the kids in the class could only stare at Zeo with a look of confusion.
It was then that the Iruka noticed the wounds on his body and saw that he seemed to have most of his chakra blocked off.
"He was hit by the Jyuuken!" the Iruka thought with surprise before picking him up and turning to the other students.
"Stay here, I have to take him to the nurse, he seems to be injured" the teacher said as he left the classroom.
Most of the kids remaining began to talk about Zeo's entrance and condition at that point while Naruto just pretty much pouted.
"I shoulda had that entrance, that was cool!" Naruto thought.
"Heh, that was pathetic, big brother would never get in that bad of shape" Sasuke thought, still believing his brother was great.
"Huh, what happened?" Shikamaru asked as he woke up and yawned before looking around.
He listened in on the conversations and knew what had happened in only a few minutes.
"So a kid named Zeo came in injured and fell to the ground there. But there's no blood," Shikamaru thought as he looked at where Zeo had supposedly been.
"So he must have been hit by the Jyuuken" Shikamaru thought before yawning and lying back down.
Akamaru was currently hiding from where he had sensed Zeo's energy, confusing Kiba greatly.
"Akamaru? What's wrong?" Kiba asked as he stared at the cowering Akamaru.
Besides them though, the others were mostly just talking, except for one.
Shino Aburame, his bugs were going insane, flying around through his body at high speeds, causing some damage to him as his body had not adapted to the speed of the bugs.
"He has power, and yet, he seems to be a fool in the same, I must know more" Shino thought as he held himself up from falling to the ground through only his will.
Meanwhile, at the Nurses Office
"These injuries seem to be pretty severe, even by the Jyuuken standards, where did you receive these wounds?" the nurse asked Zeo as she saw the bruises and sensed the blocked chakra.
"Well... I guess I must have been at the Hyuuga complex, but I don't know how," Zeo said as a confused look came over his face.
"Don't know how? You mean you don't know how you were attacked?" the nurse asked.
"No, I mean I don't know how I got there, I was in front of the academy getting ready to walk in, then I was being yelled at for entering the Hyuuga compound" Zeo said, causing the teacher to frown.
"He probably didn't teleport, so it must have been a genjutsu, but who would use it on this poor kid, I mean, the Kyuubi sure, but this isn't that blond kid at all" The nurse thought, not noticing as Zeo's demonic chakra suddenly flared up in anger.
"What's going on, why am I getting angry?" Zeo thought before looking at the look on the nurse's face.
"She's probably just angry that I got attacked" Zeo thought. It was then that the nurse turned back to him.
"Did you meet anyone on the way to the academy?" she asked, wondering if he might have a clue who did this to him.
"Um... ya, I ran into Itachi Uchiha" Zeo said, remembering the confrontation and shivering a bit in fear.
The nurse frowned at that, "That rules that out, someone like Itachi would never have done that, I'll just forget he said that no reason to get Itachi mixed into this" the nurse thought before beginning to heal Zeo's body, or at least, she tried to, but blinked when she saw his body was already fully healed, there wasn't a scratch on him.
"Talk about fast healing" she thought as she blinked before her eyes hardened.
"The only person who has that level of healing is that demon kid, this kid's probably a demon as well" the nurse thought before her eyes were covered with a killer intent.
As this happened, Zeo's demonic chakra went off and the nurse sensed it.
"So he is a demon!" the nurse yelled as she grabbed a needle from the rack and used a jutsu to transform the needle into a kunai.
She then proceeded to attack him with the kunai.
'Hey, what are you doing?" Zeo asked as he jumped out of the way of the attack and ducked under a table to dodge the second attack.
"I'm exterminating a demon," she said with a look of pure hatred in her eyes as she attacked.
Zeo could only continue to dodge, stunned by the sudden, and absolute change in the nurses personality.
After the nurse finally managed to cut him and draw blood, he regained focus and... continued to dodge, but now he was making a plan.
"She only seems to swing up and down and side to side, and if she doesn't do that, she stabs." Zeo thought as he hid
"While she's like this, she doesn't notice my chakra," he thought from a hiding spot as the nurse looked around.
"Well... I can stop her, but then what?" he thought before thinking of another plan.
"I just need to warn someone without her noticing," he thought as he jumped away from an attack.
"That one jutsu, bunshin should do the trick" he thought as he jumped away and tried to remember everything he had learned about it.
"It's an academy level move, known by almost every ninja, so it probably won't take too much energy" he thought as he moved to the side again, afraid as he saw the kunai slice directly through the desk with ease.
"She's getting stronger somehow," he thought before hiding again and going through his memories to find out the hand seals.
As he remembered, he saw the nurse suddenly appear in front of him.
"Found you!" she said angrily as she stabbed forward while Zeo was stuck in the cabinet he had hid in.
"I can't dodge" he thought before his body moved on it's own and made a forbidden seal before a dark voice suddenly spoke.
"Noctin Ignis" it said calmly as a pure black flame appeared and shot out, destroying the kunai and burning the nurse a bit.
At that, Zeo regained control and jumped over the nurse, making the hand seal for the bunshin and as the weak bunshin appeared, it ran off to get help, leaving Zeo to wonder how he had created the black flame.
He didn't remember using any hand seals, all he remembered was that he had been trapped and then the flame was in front of him with his body in mid jump.
"Die!" the nurse said as she attacked before a kunai appeared in front of her, held by an assistant teacher.
As soon as the weapon was blocked, he hit the nurse in the stomach, causing her to fall to the ground, unconscious.
"Any idea why she attacked you?" he asked as he turned to Zeo.
"Uh... no, she just suddenly got really angry and turned a needle into a kunai... but that got destroyed, so that must be a new one" Zeo said as he looked at the nurses new kunai.
"Destroyed? How'd that happen?' the assistant teacher, who seemed to be a chunin, asked.
"Well... I don't know, she was getting ready to stab me, then she suddenly caught on fire, but the fire was black, it destroyed the kunai" Zeo said, causing the chunin's eyebrow to raise.
"Black flame? That's new," he thought before a few more people entered and asked Zeo and the chunin what had happened.
After hearing the full story, or at least, what Zeo told them, he avoided the part where she called him a demon, the Anbu were called to take the nurse away.
"Why was there a black flame?" The chunin thought as he looked at Zeo in confusion.
"Who is this kid anyways?" he thought with confusion.
"Hey, Kazu!" one of the chunin's teammates said as he ran up.
"Huh, what is it?" the chunin now identified as Kazu asked as he looked at his team mate, a chunin by the name of Santaro, usually called Taro, or Santa as a joke.
"We have a new mission, B class," Taro said with a grin.
"Alright, let's go" Kazu said with a smirk as he jumped out the window and left after making sure Zeo was being taken care of by the people remaining.
Zeo continued to stand where he was, wondering why everyone was staring at him.
"Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the black fire" Zeo thought before one of the people in the room called him over and told him that he was to be moved back to his class now that the incident had been resolved.
"I'm Zeo Takamaru" Zeo said nervously.
"We know, it's time to return to class Zeo," one of the Anbu said emotionlessly.
Zeo gulped before remembering he had forgotten where his class was.
"Um... I forgot where it is," he said, causing the Anbu in the room to stare at him strangely, not that Zeo could tell due to the masks they wore.
"There are no genin here" one of the Anbu said, the others didn't do anything, but if you listened very very closely, you could hear a small sigh from the younger members of the Anbu.
"It seems one of us must transport Zeo to the classroom" one Anbu member said.
"But who will be the one to transport Zeo?" another asked.
"We must decide who shall transport Zeo," another said. "Hello! I'm right here!" Zeo exclaimed as he waved his arms around.
The Anbu glanced at him before turning back.
"You can transport Zeo," one of them said as they looked at a silver haired Anbu who was currently looking at a certain book created by Jiraiya.
"Kakashi... pay attention" one of the older Anbu members said with a calm, yet obviously angry tone.
"Fine, I'll take him" Kakashi muttered as he turned to Zeo, "Come on" he said as he began to walk off.
"What... was that about?" he thought as he ran after Kakashi and soon reached the classroom.
"Alright kid... whatever your name is, there's your class" Kakashi said as he disappeared.
"MY NAME'S ZEO" Zeo yelled, causing the teacher to open the door to see what had just disturbed his class.
"Zeo... DON'T YELL" Iruka said as he hit Zeo on the side of the head, sending him flying into the wall.
"Yes mam!" Zeo said dizzily.
"... I'm a... GUY!" Iruka yelled as Zeo jumped up to dodge the punch.
"Sorry sensei" Zeo said quickly
"Also... Don't tell the other students what happened with the nurse," he whispered. "Okay" Zeo said.
"... Alright then, introduce yourself and take a seat," Iruka said as Zeo gulped and entered the class.
"Zeo was late, so he'll introduce himself now" Iruka said.
"Um... what am I supposed to say? Just my name or what?" he asked Iruka sensei.
"Name, likings and hobby" Iruka sensei said.
"Alright... My name is Zeo Takamaru and my hobbies are training... and sleeping... my likings are... well fire jutsus and water jutsus... as well as Ramen," he said with a bit of nervousness in his voice.
"Alright then... take a seat anywhere it's open" Iruka sensei said.
"Okay!" Zeo said as he looked around and saw a seat near Naruto open and sat down there, getting the rest of the class to stare, including Naruto.
"He's probably going to make fun of me" Naruto thought was he looked down, a scowl on his face.
"He's sitting by that kid? Didn't our parents say to avoid him?" a couple of people in the class thought.
"Who are you?" Zeo asked Naruto, who just stared in him with surprise.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki... and I'm going to become the fifth hokage," Naruto said confidently.
"Your dream, my nightmare" one of the kids groaned, causing the rest of the class to laugh.
"Um... why do they not like you? It's only the first day right? Did you do something wrong?" Zeo asked in confusion as Naruto looked down with a scowl.
"No, the whole village hates me for no reason" he said before remembering what Zeo had said about Ramen.
"You said you like Ramen right?" Naruto asked with a happy look on his face.
"Uh... ya... why?" Zeo asked as Naruto began to grin.
"Have you ever heard of Ichiraku's Ramen shop?" he asked.
"Not really" Zeo said, his face scrunched up in confusion.
"Well than, let's go there for dinner, they make the best ramen ever!" Naruto cheered before he felt a shadow behind him.
"Naruto" Iruka said calmly.
"Ye- yes Iruka sensei?" Naruto asked while a shiver went over his body.
"STOP YELLING!" he yelled.
As Iruka walked off, Zeo looked at Naruto.
"Why does he yell when he tells us to stop yelling?" Zeo asked.
"What? I can't hear you!" Naruto said as he tried to get the ability to hear back.
"... Um, I'll just listen to Iruka sensei for now" Zeo said as he sweat dropped and turned towards Iruka sensei, who was currently telling them what a ninja did before putting on a video of one of the wars that took place, blood and all.
He then turned to the class with a serious look and said.
"If you don't think you can deal with those things, leave now."
As he did that, half the class got up and walked off while another few almost got up, specifically Hinata, Ino and Sakura.
Ino and Sakura quickly sat back down when the eyes turned to them while Hinata remembered how her father would react if she quit and sat down, pretending she hadn't almost left.
Shikamaru probably would have left just so he wouldn't have had to be there... if he had been awake, but he wasn't.
"Alright, the rest of the class will stay, but I leave you the right to leave at any time, but if you do leave, you can't come back unless the Hokage and I both permit it." Iruka sensei said as he began to hand out papers.
"There are ten questions on this test, this is only to find out what you already know, it will not affect your grades at all," Iruka said as if quoting out of a book.
"Good, I'm not doing it, it's too troublesome" Shikamaru said with a yawn as he went back to sleep while Sasuke raised his hand.
"Yes Sasuke?" Iruka asked as he looked at him.
"How many people have passed with 100 percent?" Sasuke asked as Iruka sighed.
"Only one, Itachi Uchiha, your older brother" Iruka said, causing Sasuke to smile.
"I'll get 100 percent too!" he thought as he got the paper and looked at the questions before writing down the obvious answers, such as what were the three most powerful groups in Konoha.
"Uchiha, Hyuuga and Kurama" he thought as he wrote down the answer to the first question while everyone else just stared in confusion, mainly Zeo and Naruto.
"There are clans?" they thought as they stared at the paper and looked over it in confusion.
"Is a clan a family... or maybe it means like the Hyuuga... and maybe the Uchiha's are as well... but what about the third clan... um... how about the Inuzuka?" He thought as he wrote the three down while Naruto made up clans.
"The Inkamo clan... that sounds powerful... kind of. And the Orona clan, ya, they sound strong... How about the Uzumaki clan... it'll be the strongest of all someday," he thought as he wrote them down.
"Question 2" Sasuke thought as he looked at it.
"The most used weapon for a ninja is and how many are you supposed to carry?" Sasuke thought before smirking.
"The weapon is a kunai and you're supposed to carry three!" he thought as he wrote it down.
Zeo was also on question two and stared at it with a look of confusion.
"Kunai and three!" he thought as he wrote that down while Naruto wrote his own answer down.
" A knife and two" he wrote down with a grin, thinking he was right.
Next was question three. "How many Hokage's have there been and who is the current Hokage?" Sasuke thought before sighing.
"Four hokages and the third, Sarutobi, is the current," he wrote while Zeo looked at his own paper in confusion.
"Hokage is the leader of the village so... they always say the third and no one ever says anything about a fourth hokage... but the mountain has four so I guess that means there are... Four hokages and the third is in charge," he wrote down while Naruto looked at the paper with a grin.
"Four hokages, and the third, Sarutobi is in charge" he said, positive of his answer since he had studied up on the hokages.
"Question four... what is a sannin and how many are there..." Sasuke thought for a while on this one before remembering the answer.
" They're three legendary ninja with extraordinary skill... and all three of them were trained by the third Hokage" Sasuke wrote.
Zeo also stared at his paper in confusion.
" Um... there are three of them, but um... sannin means three people right?" Zeo thought as he wrote down three for the number and wrote down that sannin meant three people.
He also wrote that the three legendary sannins were all trained by the same person, who trained them was an answer unkown to him.
Naruto stared at the paper with more confusion than any of the others.
"What's a sannin? He thought before writing down a random answer.
"They're a mushroom" he wrote before writing down 17 for number.
(I wonder how the sannins would react if they ever saw this) "Question five, halfway there" Sasuke thought as he looked at the question.
"What are the Sannin's name's? Um, Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade" Sasuke thought as he sighed.
"I hope I'm right" he sighed as he wrote the answer down.
Now Zeo got to the question.
"Uh... Jiraiya and Tsunade, the other one is a missing nin... so what's his name?" Zeo thought before remembering. "Orochimaru!" he said as he wrote down the answers.
"Man this is confusing... why do mushrooms even have names?" he thought, forgetting he had written that they were mushrooms.
"Joe Bob and George" he wrote after a few minutes.
"Question 6, what do the sannin do" Sasuke muttered.
"Jiraiya is a pervert book writer, Tsunade is a gambler and Orochimaru... is a missing nin" Sasuke wrote.
"Um... Jiraiya is a hentai book writer and Tsunade is famous for losing at gambling, Orochimaru is a missing ninja" Zeo wrote while Naruto stared at his own paper with wide eyes.
"Mushrooms have jobs too?!" he thought as he made up some jobs.
"Bob is a... a hobo, George is an... evil villain built on world destruction and Joe is a comedian!" Naruto wrote with a grin.
"Question 7, How many main hidden villages are there?" Sasuke thought
" there are five" Sasuke wrote.
" there's um... 5" Zeo wrote while Naruto wrote down 8.
"At least we aren't talking about mushrooms anymore" he thought.
"Question 8, what are the names of the main villages... they are... the Water country's Hidden Mist Village. Then the Wind country's Hidden Sand Village, after that comes the fire country's main village, Konoha, the Hidden Leaf village. After that is... the Lightning country's Hidden Cloud Village, finally, there is the Earth Country's Hidden Rock Village" Sasuke wrote.
Zeo wrote the same while Naruto got villages and country's confused so he wrote the Earth Village, the Fire Village, the Wind Village, the Lightning Village and the Water Village instead of the actual villages.
"Finally, question 9, almost done" Sasuke thought as he read the question.
"What is a Jinchuuriki..." the question read.
"It's a demon vessel" Sasuke wrote as Zeo and Naruto looked at it.
Zeo wrote down the answer while Naruto thought for a minute.
"Those people called me a Jinchuuriki when I pulled that prank... so it must mean prankster!" Naruto wrote.
"Question ten!" Sasuke thought as he looked at it.
"How many great tailed demons are there?" the question read.
"There are ten" Sasuke wrote.
Zeo also wrote down 10 while Naruto wrote down eleven.
After a few more minutes of waiting, Iruka sensei yelled Time and told the students to bring their tests to the front.
"Alright, I'm going to say the results aloud.
( I'll make up a few names so it doesn't seem like only the rookie 9 plus 1 to be are there)
"Shino Aburame...8, Akamichi Chouji...4, Amazaka Ryo...6, Borono Shiro...2,Cantero Inaro...5" Iruka said.
A few minutes later and Haruno Sakura was called.
"...9, Hyuuga Hinata...7, Inuzuka Kiba...1, Leoto Minero...2, Nara Shikamaru...0!" Iruka said angrily as he stared at the blank paper.
"Alright, next is... Takamaru Zeo...9, your only mistake was that you didn't know what the third clan was on the three most powerful clans, not bad" Iruka sensei said.
"Tudaru Kino...7, Uchiha Sasuke... 10!" Iruka announced as everyone looked at him with amazement. Sasuke just smiled.
"Next is Uzumaki Naruto...1... and why would a sannin be a mushroom?" Iruka asked, causing the rest of the class to laugh.
"SHUT UP, someday, I'll be hokage, then you'll respect me, you'll see!" Naruto yelled as he stood up with a glare on his face.
The room went silent for a few seconds, then the person behind him then kicked his back, causing him to fall forward and tumble down the steps.
This brought forth another burst of laughter.
"I will become hokage! You'll see" Naruto said, in tears.
Iruka, not seeing what had happened, yelled at Naruto to get back in his seat.
Naruto just glared for a second before complying and sitting back down, glaring at everyone around him.
"You alright Naruto?" Zeo asked, confused as to why everyone was insulting him.
"I'm fine!" Naruto snapped.
"Hey, don't get angry at me!" Zeo said, annoyed at what had just happened.
"... sorry" he muttered as Iruka said the last grade.
" Yamanaka Ino...5" Iruka said as he looked outside.
"There are ten more minutes left of class" he thought before sighing.
"As I said, this will not affect your grades, tomorrow, we will be outside and being taught what weapons a Ninja is required to have. As for using them, that won't be for another month, maybe longer depending on your current knowledge" Iruka said as the bell rang.
"Alright then, you can leave now" he said with a sigh.
After a few minutes, most of the kids had either been picked up or had left on their own, Naruto and Zeo were the only one's left.
"Well... are you going to leave?" Iruka asked them.
"To where?" Zeo asked as he looked outside.
"I don't remember how to get back to my house from here" Zeo said with a small laugh while Naruto glared at Iruka.
"I don't wanna go back to that stupid apartment!" Naruto muttered angrily.
"Fine then, don't go to the apartment, just... GET OUT" Iruka yelled as he threw them out.
"Uh... so, you said something about Ichikura ramen or something like that right?" Zeo asked Naruto.
"It's Ichiraku ramen... you wanna go get some?" Naruto asked while Zeo grinned a bit.
"Sure, why not?" Zeo said as he stood up and Naruto and him headed for Ichiraku's ramen house.
As they arrived and ordered, Zeo took a bite before his face took on a strange look.
"This ramen... IS DELICIOUS!!!" he yelled as he began to chow down.
There's chapter one, it probably isn't that good but you don't start at being a great writer, that and I didn't have much free time, my update rates will be pretty slow if I don't get reviews, and even if I do, there will be chances that it will still end up being slow due to school and tests and such.
I hope you enjoyed it at least partially. Seeya... for now, only 14 pages it seems, I hoped it was longer