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It was a dark night in the village of Konoha. With a soft breeze flowing through the air and a warmth that seemed to radiate throughout the village, one boy was busy. In the darkness of the forest a child sat on the grass in front of an old shack. This was Naruto Uzumaki.
"Let's see. Shadow clone justu, damn it, clones are my worst justu. What else is in here?" said Naruto. Checking the scroll for anything that could be of interest he stopped when he noticed that the paper on the scroll was looking older and worn. That's when something caught his eye. "Sealing Art: Hollow Resurrection. Sounds cool." Said Naruto with a smile. "Let's see all I kinda do is smear some blood on here and it's suppose to release this hollow thing. Alright let's do this." And with those words the boy bit his finger drawing a small amount of blood from the wound and placed his hand on the seal. There was a blinding flash as the seal drained Naruto of nearly all his chakra. When the chakra died down Naruto was left face down in the ground. "What kind…kinda bull…shit is that?" He growled out in between pants. "That damn thing nearly killed me and nothing even happened."
"Found you Naruto! What are you doing stealing the scroll like that!" Yelled the man as a small vein could now be visible on his forehead. "Oh Iruka-sensei. You found…AAAAAAHHHHHH!" was all Naruto was able to say before he started screaming in pain. Iruka dashed forward to try and help the boy only to be blasted away by a pulse of chakra. Naruto's screaming got even louder before passing out from the pain. Iruka finally got to the boy and was about to take him to the hospital before he heard an all too familiar sound. Iruka jumped back as two kunai pierced his place next to naruto, his eyes darting among the trees for the thrower.
"I don't think so Iruka. I can't have you running off now can I. I've worked too long for this moment to have you screw it up!" Iruka's eyes widened in shock as his eyes fell upon his best friend. "Mizuki! What are you doing?" Spinning a large shuriken on his forearm like a buzz saw, Mizuki only laughed at Iruka. "I thought that would be simple enough to understand…I'm here to finish off the Kyuubi! Then I think I'll take the scroll to someone a bit more…deserving…"
Iruka shot a quick glance to the still teen and the scroll before cursing the fact that he only had a five kunai with him. "So you're the reason he took it…" The silver haired Chunnin let out a bark of laughter, "Took you long enough! You honestly think that little piece of shit could come up with this on his own?" Iruka cursed. He hadn't even thought about why or how Naruto took the Forbidden Scroll. Slowly reaching one hand behind his back he tried to pull out a kunai only to be cut off by the man he thought was his friend.
Iruka never saw the man's hand move. Iruka felt many things at the moment. The dull ache of his back as he was slammed into a nearby tree, the sharp burn of the shuriken that was now lodged in his gut, the sense of helplessness and shame that came from watching someone who had been your best friend stalks up to a helpless child with a knife in hand, ready to end his life. He tried to move but he was pinned to the tree and wasn't doing anything for a long while.
Mizuki stood next to Naruto's unconscious body, a wild look in his eyes as he ran a calloused finger over the edge of his kunai, a fine bead of blood appearing on the razor thin cut on his index finger. A happy glint entered his eyes as he knelt next to the teen, making sure that his former colleague had a perfect view of what he was about to do. The man then stooped slightly and took hold of the tattered remains of Naruto's jacket, ripping them free before running a hand almost lovingly over his stomach, the seal holding the fox at bay visible in the pale glow of the moon. He shot one last wicked smile to Iruka before raising the kunai high, "Finally! I will finish what the Yondaime STARTED!" The sound of steel cutting through the air filled their ears. Iruka wanted to scream, he wanted to cry, but his pain overrode everything his heart begged of it to do, he could only screw his eyes shut, not wishing to see the death of his favorite student. "W-What…"
In Naruto's Mind
Naruto opened his eyes and jumped at what he saw. He looked like he was in a dark chamber. The floor was damp with puddles all over the place and the only light seemed to come from one side of the room, behind a wall of bars. Naruto walked towards the light only to jump back in fright when a giant red eye snapped open right in front of him. "HAHAHAHAHAHA! IT APPEARS MY JAILOR DECIDED TO PAY ME A VISIT!" bellowed out a voice from behind the gates. "Who are you and where am I?" asked Naruto. "WHO AM I…I AM THE MIGHTIEST OF THE TAILED BEAST, THE ONE THE ONLY KYUBI NO KITSUNE!" roared out the fox as it finally showed itself. The Kyubi was a hulking mass of fur and destruction. Its fur was matted with blood, darker than its crimson fur. Its fangs were twenty feet long, the same as its monstrous fang. "What the Kyubi, but I thought the Fourth killed you?" said Naruto, fear and confusion evident in his voice. "HA, AS IF THAT WORTHLESS BAG OF FLESH COULD ACTUALLY KILL ME. WHILE I MUST ADMIT HE WAS STRONG FOR A HUMAN, THE BEST HE COULD DO WAS SEAL ME IN YOU." Said Kyubi with a growl. "Seal? What do you mean?" asked Naruto. "IT'S QUITE SIMPLE, MORTAL. THE BASTARD TRIED TO STOP ME BY SEALLING ME INTO YOU. THE FOOL KILLED HIMSELF JUST TO PUT ME IN THIS BLASTED SEAL." Growled the fox, glaring at the seal holding the bars closed. "Th-that still doesn't explain why I'm here." "OH THAT'S AN EASY ONE. AFTER THat JUSTU YOU USED YOU WERE CALLED INTO THIS DISGUSTING PLACE." Explained Kyubi. "Called but by who, you?" asked Naruto, still reeling from the shocking information.
"No. That honor would belong to me." Said a voice from behind Naruto. When he turned around to see who it was, he got another dose of surprise. Standing not ten feet away was him. Or rather a more badass and dangerous looking him. While Naruto was the shortest in his class, standing at 4'6", this Naruto was 5'9". The new Naruto's hair still had spikes in it but was flatter and had its tips dyed a blood red(Picture the Yondaime's hair except with red tips). His eyes were a dull icy blue. The strange thing about his eyes were that instead of his pupils being round, they're slits like that of a beast. He wore jet black shorts that reached his shins. They were held up by two crossing white belts with a smiling skull for a buckle. In the skull's right eye there was a shining diamond. His shoes were steel toed boots and he wore black fingerless gloves on his hands. On the back of each is the same skull as his belt buckle. In his right ear is a skull and bones earring. He didn't wear a shirt but he wore a form fitting black jacket, unzipped to show off his toned six pack. But the most shocking thing about him was that on his face was white mask. It covered his nose and the bottom of his jaw. The teeth were razor sharp.
"Who the hell are you?" asked Naruto, really getting tired of asking that question. "I'm you, in a sense." Said the other Naruto, his voice hollow coming out of the mask. "I get it…what?" "I'm the new you that was created by the seal. I'd explain more but it seems Iruka and ourselves are in danger." Explained the new Naruto. "What how do I save him?" screamed Naruto. "All we need to do is touch and then we'll unite." "We will? So we'll be able to save Iruka-sensei?" asked Naruto. "And so much more. Let me show you." Said the second Naruto holding his hand out. Naruto looked at his double's hand before hesitantly grabbing it with his own. "And now we will show them our power." Said the new Naruto.
Back In The Real World
"Mizuki-sensei…I'm guessing you were going to do something…less than cordial with this?" said Naruto holding Mizuki's wrist, stopping the kunai an inch away from his face. Mizuki looked at the blond in stunned silence for a moment before shaking free of the hold, once more raising the kunai and with a roar of hate brought it down on the teen's throat. Only to hit dirt as he tilted his head to the side, "Interesting…it seems you were intending to set me up from the start, well fuck you!"
It was unnerving enough having those blue eyes bore into you with such a look of indifference, his eyes slightly lidded, as though he were tired, or he just didn't care, but the real thing that seemed to chill the former teacher was the fact that the face of the mask didn't move, just producing an odd echo when the teen spoke.
"Silence demon! I'll make sure you can't make it out of here alive!" His eyes slightly narrowed as the chunin leapt away from the prone teen, his form sitting up in a slow, deliberate manner before he plucked the kunai from the soil, looking at it curiously for a moment before rising to face Mizuki.
He didn't spare his teacher a glance, but still his voice rang out. "Thank you for trying Iruka-sensei. If you can manage, signal the village. I'll deal with this one."Iruka fought the urge to smack himself, he may not be able to move, but he still had chakra. At once he slapped his free hand into a ram symbol and began to pulse his chakra, the act making the traitor curse loudly.
Spotting the scroll the former teacher dashed at it, his speed surprising to Iruka, he had never seen Mizuki move that fast before, however, much to his further shock, a kunai found itself in the traitor's leg; making him stumble and skid into the object he was so desperate to get his hands on.
"Now, now Mizuki-sensei. I thought you knew better than to make a mistake like that against an unknown opponent" mocked Naruto. Mizuki scowled at the blond as he pulled the kunai from his leg. It would have been humbling in any other situation.
Rising to a knee the man pulled his other oversized shruiken from the back harness and began to spin the weapon, mimicking the attack that had put Iruka out of the fight. "Now I'm going to show you why I'm a chunnin you MONSTER!"
Before he could even bring the weapon back to prime his throw he was frozen in fear, there was a massive aura forming around the teen, a dull blue glow at first that soon erupted into a massive pillar of energy that engulfed the whole of the area in its light. Both Iruka and Mizuki had to shield their eyes as the glow began to lessen until they could see properly again, albeit with spots in their vision.
There, looking at the kneeling man with the same dull eyes was the familiar sight of the blond prankster of Konoha, however, his overall appearance had changed to the point that it made both chunnin blink in surprise. His clothing had gone from the glaring orange to a pure black outfit.
However, in a flash there was an item that made Mizuki pause, strapped horizontally across Naruto's back was a short sword from the looks of it. The thing looked about a foot and a half long. The handle was wrapped in a blood red cloth. The hilt was nothing but a black ring held up by eight fang-like objects.
"That's a bit better. I was feeling naked there for a moment. Now then…" his right hand came up slowly to hook his index finger into space between the fangs in the hilt and with a disturbingly, practiced, ease the blade came free in a shower of sparks framing the boy in the night. Mizuki's eyes widened slightly as the blade somehow seemed to be longer than the sheath was, about three feet long.
With the blade free Naruto gave the guard a slight tug, making the weapon twirl in midair to let the grip fall easily into his hand, the sword held in the laziest way possible, making it look like it could fall out of his hand at any second. His eyes said otherwise.
Mizuki started to laugh long and hard at the thought of the blond using the weapon. "Only the dead last would think to bring a weapon he couldn't even use to this fight…DIE!"
The massive shuriken came speeding at the blond, as though being chased by a demon, the steel twirling even as it spun, making it that much harder to deflect. The look in his eyes never changed as his grip tightened on the sword and swung with startling speed.
Mizuki grinned at first, thinking that his shuriken would simply cut the boy in half, but to his horror the two met and seemed to explode, shards of steel flying everywhere shredding underbrush and rending trees asunder! "Tsk, pathetic. Get him out of my sight."
To the pair's shock the boy turned, returning the sword to its dark crimson sheath. Mizuki looked more than a little confused until he felt the pair of hands on his shoulders. Taking a trembling glance up his eyes widen at seeing a squad of animal masked ANBU staring down at him.
"Mizuki Mataka. You are under arrest for attempted murder of a fellow ninja of Konoha, attempting to corrupt a potential ninja of Konoha, stealing village secrets with intent to sell them to enemy powers. You are hereby bound by law. Bear! Get him out of here."
A massive man in an equally intimidating mask stepped forward to take the smaller man by his upper arms, lifting him as though he weighed no more than a pillow as the other ANBU placed a series of tags all over his body before they vanished in a swirl of leaves.
The teen turned and looked at his fallen teacher before nodding and moving to the scroll, stooping he seemed to fiddle with it for a moment before slinging it across his back and moved back to his injured friend. "Are you able to move Iruka-sensei?"
He gave a weak shake of his head, "No…he cut up my stomach something bad, I don't think I'll be up and about for a while…"
The blond gave a hesitant nod, his eyes shining in sorrow as he placed his hand in the same ram seal he had seen Iruka use a moment ago and pulsed his chakra several times, just as his teacher had done. Within a minute those in the clearing were joined by one of the masked ANBU as well as a jounin he had never seen before. The pair looked at the blond in confusion before seeing the injured teacher. A quick explanation from the chunnin had them doing a bit of first aid until they could move him without further aggravating his wound and then they were off in a puff of smoke, the ANBU taking the scroll as he went.
Naruto gave a sigh as he turned and looked at the moon. Absently a hand came up to run through his hair. The blond turned to make his way to the tower. It had been a hell of a night, and he knew he had a lot of explaining to do.
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