Shinobi of the Meian Blade

by FireFox09

Naruto becoming a Keyblade wielder is overused I know but I wanted to do one myself so here you go! Please give it a chance! Rated T might be M later!

1. Chapter 1: Inner Strength

Chapter 1: Inner Demon

Naruto Uzumaki a twelve year old boy with spiky blonde hair in an orange jumpsuit panted as he sat down after learning a technique called the Shadow Clone Jutsu from the scroll that Mizuki-Sensei told him about.

'I did it!' Naruto realized with a grin. 'I'm going to pass!'

He let out a shout of laughter happy that he actually did it and he no longer needs to worry about not knowing how to make clones.

"Found you!" Naruto blinked and looked over to see a tanned young adult in a green Chunin vest with a scar across his nose. "It's all over!" He didn't look too pleased at all.

Naruto grinned. "Found me already Iruka-Sensei? Just in time I learned a new technique!"

"You stole the scroll of sealing just to learn a technique?!" Iruka shouted with the big headed Jutsu. "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!"

Naruto blinked in confusion. "Isn't this part of the test?"

Now Iruka looked confused. "Test? What test?"

"Mizuki-Sensei told me that if I take the scroll and learn a technique from it than I would be able to pass!" Naruto explained and Iruka's face turned from a look of confusion to understanding.

"We need to see the Hokage right now Naruto!" Iruka said before his eyes widened. "LOOK OUT!" He pushed Naruto out of the way and Naruto flew back as Kunai's came out of nowhere knocking Iruka back into the tool shed.

"I see that you found our little hideaway Iruka!" Mizuki said with an insane grin. He was wearing the same thing as Iruka but he had white hair.

"So that's the way it is huh?" Iruka asked with a pained expression. "I should've known."

"Naruto give me the scroll!" Mizuki shouted as Naruto stood there frozen in fear.

"Don't let him get the scroll!" Iruka shouted as he pulled the Kunai out of his leg. "It contains forbidden techniques that could put the village in great danger!"

Mizuki for his credit just laughed. "Naruto, Iruka is just worried about what you would do with the scroll! Everyone has been ever since twelve years ago!"

'Twelve years ago?' Naruto thought in pure confusion while Iruka looked scared.

"No Mizuki!" He shouted but his shouts only made Naruto's curiosity grow.

"What happened twelve years ago?" Naruto asked with narrowed eyes. "Why is everyone worried about me?"

"It was decreed twelve years ago that no one would tell you!" Mizuki said drawling it out. "Everyone here knows except for you!"

"WHAT DO THEY KNOW?!" Naruto shouted in impatience

"STOP IT!" Iruka cried out.

"Everyone knows that the Nine-Tailed Fox is inside you!" As Mizuki said that Naruto's eyes widened and he took a step back. "That's right! The demon that killed Iruka's parents and destroyed our village is trapped inside your body! You are the Nine-Tailed Fox!"

"I-I can't be!" Naruto was in denial as he stepped back.

"Didn't you think that it was strange how everyone treated you?" Mizuki asked in a sick, twisted smile. "Like dirt! Like they hated you for just being alive!"

'Everyone hated me?' Naruto thought clenching his fists. 'For something that I couldn't control? Why? Why does it have to be me?!'

"Die Demon!" Mizuki threw a giant Shuriken at Naruto.

"Naruto get down!" That was all Naruto heard before he closed his eyes.

At the sound of something being torn he opened them before he saw Iruka over him with the giant shuriken in his back. "W-why?"

"… Because we're the same." Iruka admitted as he grimaced in pain. "When my parents died no one had time for me because they were so busy with their lives… So I did stupid things to get noticed but it hurts inside. Being alone and I should've been there for you more." A stream of tears flowed out of Iruka's eyes as he said that.

Having enough Naruto ran off as Iruka called him back.

'I'm a monster.' He thought in fear. 'There's nothing else to be said!'

Pretty soon he felt fatigue catching up to him so Naruto hid behind a tree with the scroll in his hands breathing loudly until he heard a thud on the other side so holding his breath Naruto peeked around the tree to see Iruka on the ground across from… Himself?!

"How did you know?" Iruka asked before in a puff of smoke Mizuki laid there. "That I wasn't Iruka?"

The fake Naruto smirked before changing into Iruka. "Because I'm Iruka!"

Mizuki looked pissed off. "Why are you defending that freak?! He's the one that wiped out your family!"

Naruto felt a pang of guilt on hearing that before Iruka said in pain. "I don't care what you say! You're not getting your hand on that scroll!"

"He just wants the scroll for his own power and uses! He will destroy the village!" Mizuki told Iruka. "That's how beasts are!"

"… You're right."

Upon hearing that Naruto's eyes widened before a few tears fell down his cheek. 'So it's true… Iruka-Sensei really does hate me… He thinks I'm a monster. Some sort of freak!'

"That is how beasts are… But that's not how Naruto is!" Naruto's eyes widened again. "Naruto is one of a kind! He works hard and put's his whole heart into it! He's Naruto Uzumaki of the Village Hidden in the Leaves!"

Naruto felt tears sliding down his face in happiness that Iruka didn't think of him as some sort of freak.

Mizuki scoffed. "Do you really believe that sort of nonsense? Well then you're finished!"

That was when Naruto blacked out wishing with all his heart for a way to save Iruka.

He opened his eyes to see nothing but darkness as he felt like he was falling.

'Am I dead?'

"There is so little time." A voice spoke up out of the darkness surprising Naruto.

"Who's there?" Naruto asked in pain.

"Listen." The voice said. "Long ago, every world was connected and a warm light covered it. The people loved the light and at length, they began to fight over it. Darkness was born in the people's hearts. It swallowed many hearts and much light before it spread too far and the world disappeared into darkness."

"What does this have to do with me?" Naruto asked in confusion. "And what do you mean by every world?"

"What indeed." The voice sounded amused before it continued its story. "However inside the hearts of children there was still a tiny speck of light and thus gathering the fragments of light the children remade the world however, the world that was created is not all connected and is made of many small pieces."

"Why?" Naruto asked curious about why it wasn't connected.

"Because true light was still asleep within the darkness." The voice answered him. "But first you must choose your path!"

At that Naruto landed on a glass surface that stretched far and on the glass was a blonde haired girl about Naruto's age in a blue and white dress with flowers surrounding her but three stone pedestals rose up with a sword on one, a staff on the other and a shield on the last.

"Choose wisely!"

Naruto walked up to the sword first because he thought that it was cool looking. "The Power of a Warrior. Invincible Courage. A sword of terrible Destruction… Is this the power that you choose?"

He immediately dropped it as he heard terrible destruction. "No!" He protested his eyes in tears. "I refuse that power."

"Very well." The sword went back to the pedestal so Naruto walked up and picked up the staff. "The Power of the Mystic. Inner Strength. A staff of wonder and ruin… Is this the power that you choose?"

"No." Naruto shook his head hearing ruin so he grabbed the shield.

"The Power of the Guardian. Kindness to aid friends. A shield to repel all."

Naruto thought about that one since he didn't have any friends besides Iruka-Sensei before he remembered that he was in danger so he nodded. "I accept this one!"

"You've chosen the power of the guardian and turned your back on the power of the Warrior… Is this the path that you choose?"

Naruto nodded with newfound determination. "I do! Believe it!"

Then the strangest thing happened as the shield was covered in darkness before it turned into a blade that was shaped like a key for some odd reason but it was jet black with a red handle.

"W-what is this?" Naruto asked as he looked at it in awe.

"… Keyblade." The voice said. "You let darkness enter your heart to come here looking to protect the one closest to you and you were tested… But the test is not over… Now you must fight!"

"Hold up! Fight?!" Naruto asked as a black shape that came up to his knee came out of the ground with large yellow eyes and it glared at Naruto twitching before it lunged so Naruto did the only thing that came natural.

He swung the Keyblade and as it cut through the creature a hiss sound was made and it disappeared into nothingness.

"What in the name of Kami was that?!" Naruto shouted into the air.

"Heartless… Once beings with potential they grew greedy and surrendered their hearts to darkness… You nearly became one when you entered this place but you have a strong will to resist turning into one so you have been granted the Meian Blade."

Naruto frowned. "This blade is light 'and' darkness?" He blinked a few times in a comical fashion. "How does THAT work?!"

"Light cannot exist without Darkness and Darkness cannot exist without light they are forever intertwined and some Keyblades are either light or darkness but the Meian Blade is both which allows you to go to worlds that can't be touched by others."

"World's that cannot be touched?"

Naruto swore that he heard the voice sigh in irritation. "Light Keyblade users can only go to worlds of light while Dark Keyblade users can only go to worlds of darkness but you can go to both."

"What's the difference?" Naruto asked in annoyance, while he finds the Keyblade itself to look very badass he needs to get back to Iruka-Sensei.

"You will find out in time… Behind you!"

Naruto spun around to see more Heartless coming out of the ground so he readied the Meian Blade in one hand as they came at him so he dove out of the way and sliced up a Heartless to where it disappeared before cutting two down by doing a sweep slice.

A Heartless got lucky and clawed his back but Naruto just used the blade to cut it and after a bit he was panting as the Heartless were all gone. "How was that?" He asked with a grin.

"… Mediocre." Naruto did a face plant. "But you are doing better than most wielders on their first try."

The glass broke underneath him and Naruto opened his mouth to scream but no words came out before he found himself back in Konoha during the daytime.

"What?" Looking around Naruto saw Iruka walking towards him. "Iruka-Sensei?"

"What do you want out of life?" He asked with a smile.

"… To be accepted by everyone." Naruto told him.

"Is that what you really want?"

Then he heard footsteps behind him and he turned to see Hinata Hyuga the shy girl from his class with a white hoodie and a blob of violet hair. "What's most important to you?" She asked without a stutter.

"My precious people." Naruto answered with a smile.

"Are they really worth so much?"

Finally he turned to see Sasuke Uchiha the boy with onyx hair that was shaped like a duck butt as he looked at him with cold eyes in his trademark blue shirt. "What are you afraid of?"

"… Being forgotten and ignored."

"You want acceptance, you value your friends and you're afraid of being forgotten… Is this the path you choose?"

"Yes." Naruto answered without hesitation. "It is!"

"Then your path is set! Prepare yourself!"

In a flash of light he was in a sewer like place. "Okay this is getting annoying." Naruto muttered as he looked around.

"So you are here." A demonic voice spoke out.

Naruto flinched and looked forward to see a cage with a seal on it and he felt a deadly presence coming from the cage.

"Come closer." The voice invited and Naruto listened but right as he walked closed huge claws shot out the bars but they stopped an inch from his face where they would've killed him if he was closer. "Damn seal."

Looking in the shadows of the cage Naruto saw a huge animal with nine swishing tails.

'… Wait nine tails?' Naruto's eyes widened. "The Nine Tailed Fox!"

The Kyubi chuckled. "You guessed correctly kit." The Fox sounded amused before eyeing the Meian Blade. "Now this is interesting a Keyblade wielder as my Jailor."

Gripping the Keyblade tightly Naruto glared at the Kyubi. "So you're the reason that my life was a living hell!" He shouted as the Keyblade made darkness go up his arm.

"Temper, temper!" Kyubi taunted. "Wouldn't want you to turn into a Heartless know would we? I still owe your mother that!"

The darkness receded. "You know my mom?" Naruto asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.

"Yes… Kushina Uzumaki was my vessel before that blasted Madra Uchiha used his Sharingan to try and control me yet he unleashed my fury on the village."

Now Naruto was shocked. "You mean you were forced to attack the Village?!"

"That's what I just said Kit!" Kyubi yelled in annoyance.

Naruto looked sheepish. "Sorry about that." He apologized. "But how does a guy like you get controlled?"

"… I'M A GIRL YOU IDIOT!"

Now Naruto was even more shocked. "HUH?!"

'Whoa… I did not see that coming.'

But he shook his shock away. "Look Kyubi I need to get back to Iruka-Sensei! He's in trouble and I need to help him!"

The Kyubi looked at him. "Kurama."

"Huh?"

"My name is Kurama."

"… Oh." Naruto shook his head. "Kurama can you help me?"

After what felt like hours of silence Kurama nodded. "Very well I will increase your powers but you will be forever changed!"

Dark red aura seeped out of Kurama's cage and enveloped Naruto as he screamed in pain but when it receded he fell to his knees and when he looked into the water he gasped at what he saw.

Two fox like ears were sticking out of his blonde hair and he had a swishing fox tail as well as fox teeth… The whisker marks stayed though.

"What the hell?"

"You've gained some of my power Kit." Kurama sounded tired. "But I won't be seeing you for a while so make sure you don't die."

With that there was a flash of light and Naruto found himself back in the forest.

"You're finished!" Moving quickly Naruto head-butted Mizuki away from Iruka.

"Naruto-!" Iruka's eyes widened upon seeing the changes on Naruto.

'What happened to him?' Iruka thought in shock.

"You see Iruka?" Mizuki laughed. "The demon is controlling him!"

"No she's not!" Naruto growled out. "Kurama isn't controlling me! No one is!"

"She? Huh, who knew the demon was a girl." Mizuki shrugged before pulling two Kunai's out. "Oh well I'll finish you myself!"

"Try it!" Naruto held out his hand and in a mixture of darkness and light the Meian Blade appeared in his hand. "I'll return what you dish out ten-fold!"

'That weapon!' Iruka only heard of it in legends.

"A Toy?" Mizuki laughed before Naruto did a cross hand sign.

"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!" He shouted and the clearing were filled with hundreds of him holding the Meian Blade.

Mizuki fell down in shock as he looked around seeing all the clones. "H-How?! The Clone Jutsu is your worst subject!"

Naruto chuckled. "It 'was' my worst subject!" He corrected him with a feral grin. "Now you're going down!" With that all the clones as well as the original rushed at Mizuki and if it wasn't for the fact that he was a backstabbing traitor (literally) Iruka would've felt sorry for him.

Once Mizuki was knocked out, with blood coming out of his nose and mouth and swollen eyes 'and' occasionally twitching limbs Naruto walked up to Iruka dispelling all the clones and the Keyblade at the same time.

"Iruka-Sensei, are you okay?" Naruto asked in a worried tone before he helped Iruka up, "Come on I'll get you to the Hospital!"

"That won't be necessary Naruto!" Upon hearing that new voice Naruto spun around with Iruka to see a man dressed in red bandages and wearing a red coat.

"Who are you?" Iruka demanded weakly.

The man smiled. "I go by Diz." He offered. "The Keyblade wielder can't go back to the village in his current state! They already believe him to the demon so what do you think will happen when they see him like this?"

Iruka hated to admit it but this Diz guy had a good point. "What do you think we should do then?" He asked deciding to see what this guy wanted.

"I'd say that the choice belongs to the Keyblade wielder!" Diz said looking at Naruto before holding out an armband with a glowing blue stone on it. "This is a piece of a star shard which will allow you to go to other worlds whenever the need arises."

"Other worlds?" Naruto eyes the armband cautiously. "But what about Iruka-Sensei?"

"The Anbu's are on their way." Diz said without hesitation. "They will heal Iruka but if they see you like this they will kill you before he could explain!"

"… Naruto take the Armband!" Iruka ordered him.

"What?!" Naruto looked at Iruka like he was insane. "But I can't run away!"

"You're not!" Iruka told him. "You're just staying out of trouble while I explain to the Hokage what happened and about your new appearance! I know that you will be back and I don't want the Anbu Black Op's to kill you without waiting for me to explain… But one last thing."

Iruka limped over to Mizuki's still twitching body before taking his headband and passing it to Naruto.

"You graduated!"

Naruto's eyes widened in shock before he felt tears sliding down his face. "Iruka-Sensei… Thank you for believing in me!" Naruto hugged his teacher as he tied the headband around his forehead.

"Wear it with pride!" Iruka told him. "And be sure to tell me all about your adventure when you get back… Over Ramen!"

"It's a promise!" Naruto told him before Diz gave him the Armband and no sooner did it go on his wrist did it light up and he disappeared.

To Be Continued…