Title: Shinigami no Kage

Rated: M

Category: Naruto

Genre: Adventure/Romance/Horror/Humor

Beta'd By: Nobody :3

Rated For: Blood Gore Swearing Lemons

Pairing: Undecided D:

Summary: Have you heard? About the kid so dark and evil, it's like the Shinigami walks the human realm again? They call him the Shinigami's Shadow. Don't close your eyes because before you open them, he'll have you in an eternal darkness.

Heart-chan: Haaaaai my sexy readers! For those who are following my profile, this is the rewritten version of Sono Retsu Enkin. For those of you who came here from said story – well you know what the deal is. And for all the new people, HI! So! Here's the story! Enjoy, my pretties~

Revised: 12/22/2014

~YaoiLemons~

Chapter 1: Trust

There was an eerie silence that cloaked the village hidden in the leaves, making the normally busy and lively village seem like a ghost town. It seemed as though all of Konoha's inhabitants were in their beds, sleeping tight for the busy day tomorrow.

But of course, there's always an exception to everything.

A small, blond haired boy raced through the empty streets of Konoha, his breath coming out in harsh, short pants. Behind him was a small crowd of about six people, all brandishing a weapon of some sort. Of those numbers, at least half were ninja, given the hitai-ate they wore. The young blond took a sharp right down an alleyway. Crystalline blue eyes widened as his saw the large brick wall preventing his escape.

"There he is!" He whipped around to see his pursuers blocking the only exit to the alley. He backed slowly into the wall and started to shake but didn't make a peep. A ninja stepped out from the crowd and walked slowly toward the blond who held his arms in front of his face and started to cry. The shinobi cracked his knuckles and pulled his fist back and slugged the young child across the face. The blond fell to the ground without a sound. He tried to push himself up from the ground, but the shinobi stomped on his back, pushing him back down. "Today, we will take revenge on the vile demon that wrecked our village and ruined our families!" The other members of the crowd made murmurs of agreement. The ninja smirked cruelly and drew a sword from its sheath on his back and stabbed it straight down towards the child's neck. However, something, or rather someone, caught the blade of the sword. The weapon was yanked from its owner and the man was shoved off of the blond.

The blond raised himself from the ground, his bangs falling in front of his eyes. In his bleeding hand was the hilt of the ninja's sword. He spat a glob of blood on the fallen ninja's Chunin vest. The shinobi glared and opened his mouth to yell when the blond looked up. The alley was coated in a layer of killer intent, leaking from the seven year old blond. His eyes were bloody red and catlike. There was a sinister smile on his face and the trail of blood running down the side of his mouth did nothing to make him seem less demented. This blond was completely different from the defenseless child they were chasing just a few minutes ago. 'How quickly the tables have turned,' the blond thought to himself. "You seem quite surprised to see me like this." His voice was soft and teasing. "Demon is what you like to call me, no?" He walked closer to the ninja and poked him in the crotch with blade of the sword. The shinobi gulped and nodded. "Then why is it that when I play the part you pin to me, you get so upset? Hm?" He dragged the blood-soaked tip of the sword down the ninja's face and he shuddered. Naruto sneered. "Pathetic."

Someone rushed out of the crowd with a war cry, his shovel poised above his head. He was obviously a civilian, judging by his form and lack of proper weaponry. With one swift swing of the arm, Naruto took the running man's head off. The man's body slowed and he dropped his shovel, his head slipped off his shoulders before his body fell to the ground. Naruto smirked. "Anyone else?" With that, all of the civilians in the crowd screamed and attempted to evacuate the alleyway.

Attempted, being the keyword here.

The young Jinchuuriki swiped his hand upward and black, shadowy tendrils shot up in the entrance of the alley, forming cell bars. The two remaining civilians slammed into the bars and fell to the ground but quickly scrambled to their feet. "Ah ah ah~!" Naruto sung, stabbing the ninja at his feet in the head. He left the blade lodged in the man's skull and stalked like a predator towards the others in the makeshift cage. One of the ninja jumped in the air but another black tendril plucked him out the air and pulled him down towards the ground. Other tendrils surrounded him until he was wrapped in a cocoon of shadows. Naruto clenched one of his hands into a fist and the cocoon tightened and the man trapped inside screamed in anguish until his body exploded into a fountain of blood. "I can't have you bumbling fools escaping and telling your idiots friends about what happened here." The blond swung both his hands up, catching both of the civilians in his shadows. The tendrils wrapped around their limbs and necks and Naruto swayed towards his two victims, bypassing the last shinobi. The man took that as his opportunity to run however a shadow speared him right through the heart and he tripped over his comrade, dead before he hit the ground. The last remaining men were trembling and crying, trying fruitlessly to get out of their shadowy bindings. Naruto stopped in front of them. "It's been nice meeting you and all but my first day of the academy is tomorrow. Goodbye." He swiped his hands down and the tendrils ripped the two limb from limb, decapitating them as well. Their blood splattered all over the blond child and his face twisted into an evil, shit-eating grin. He backed into the shadows of the alley, his body obscured, before disappearing completely, the bars in the entrance vanishing with their master.

~YaoiLemons~

The twittering of the birds and the rays of sun shining through his window woke him from his slumber, and sleepy blue eyes blinked a few times. He yawned and sat up, rubbing at his eyes. He slipped out of bed and dragged himself over to his mirror, stretching and sighing. The nine year old ran his fingers through shaggy blond hair, eying his black tips. He had always wondered where he got his abilities from. It seemed no one had an ability to control darkness quite like he did. "Although the Nara clan does come kind of close," he muttered to himself. He walked off to the bathroom to do his morning routine and exited about thirty minutes later in a towel. He tossed the towel on the bed after drying his hair, baring his nakedness to the world. He dug around in his drawers and retrieved his underwear and black undershirt before opening his closet and getting the kill-me orange jumpsuit he forced himself to wear. He shrugged the jacket on and zipped it up and wiggled on his pants before walking towards the door. Slipping on his sandals, he stepped out his apartment, locking the door behind him.

He got his normal glares and muttered hateful words as he walked to the academy. But they didn't fazed him. After all, why would it? One cannot continued to be hurt by the same things over and over again. "Kit," came the gruff voice of his tenant and mentor.

"Hm?"

"Do you ever wonder if they know for sure?" Naruto raised an eyebrow but smirked nonetheless. Ever since three years ago, he stopped taking the villagers shit all together. Every time he was cornered and beaten, he retaliated with tenfold the brutality. But did anyone ever find out?

"Of course not. The idiots are too sure that I'm bringer of all evil to even think of finding out for sure. There could be a missing ninja here and they'd blame me for everything he did." He tenant was quiet for a moment before chuckling.

"Quite the clever one as always, Naruto-chan." The blond snorted to himself as he entered the academy building. He walked into his classroom and purposely took a seat in the back, putting his head down. He drowned out the noise of the classroom and relaxed, opening his eyes to the sewer-like setting that housed the giant demon fox sealed in his gut. "So nice of you to see me, kitten." The blond sat down by the cage, laying against one of the giant bars. "To what do I do the honor?" Naruto snorted.

"Is a crime to come and see my dear friend when I have nothing better to do in school?" Kurama chuckled. He was then shrouded in his red chakra and it ebbed away to reveal a tall red-haired man. He too leaned against the bars of the cage. "Have you ever wondered where I get these powers from?"

"I have. However, I've sealed within humans the past century so I'm not exactly up to date on all the kekkai genkai of the shinobi world."

"Touche."

"You have to go now kit." Naruto frowned at this. "From what I can see, it's time for you and your human classmates to go outside and practice weapon throwing." With a deep sigh and a groan, the blond stood up and shuffled away from the cage. "Perhaps today is the day for you start showing your true self. There are only three more years of the academy." Naruto smirked and bowed to his tenant, looking at him with mischievous blue eyes through blond bangs.

"Perhaps."

~YaoiLemons~

The blond stalked over to a tree, leaning against the cool wood with a sigh of content. He watched through hooded eyes as the students gathered around their two teachers. Stupid idiots. They had only three more years to get their asses in gear or else they would be dead as soon as they graduated. "Okay, so who wants to go first?" Iruka asked as he stood next to Mizuki, a light grey haired Chunin who was the brunette's 'best friend'. Not many hands were raised as the students were nervous and wanted to compare their skills by watching the others first. Kiba's hand was the first to shoot up, followed by Sasuke, and a couple other kids irrelevant kids in his class. "Alright Kiba, you're first, then Sasuke, then Ami, then…" He droned the brunette Chunin out, falling into his own little world.

Umino Iruka. One of the first beings to recognize Naruto as the crazy little bastard he was.

And the first ever to take a hit for the blond child.

It was one of the usual nights where he was getting chased by the villagers and he just happened to bump in to Iruka while trying to escape. The brunette fought as hard as he could only to fall victim to the bastard Hyuuga that was in the crowd. As a result, Iruka's chakra pathways were utterly destroyed and he could never be a ninja again. That night was the night he killed someone. That was the night he started changing.

And that was the night he vowed to never let someone else take a hit for him.

At first it confused him – why would someone ever put their neck out for him? Was it all a lie? Like every other act of kindness was? For a week, he went into hiding, paranoid that there would be others trying to harm him. Eventually hunger and guilt started gnawing at him and he ran to the Hokage, begging him to let the blond see the kind Chunin who protected him. After a meal and bath, he was standing at the edge of Iruka's bed, apologizing and crying at the same time. The brunette gave him a kind smile and told it was alright.

And that was a start of a wonderful, twisted, and beautiful friendship.

Blue eyes fluttered open just in time to see Kiba hit the third ring from the bull's eye with his third shuriken, the other two stars and his three kunai all off in the field somewhere. He rolled his eyes – it took him that long to throw six weapons? The blond grunted and got up from the ground as the kids had a good laugh at Kiba and his failure. He heard one kid yell out, "Well that's not too high of a score to beat huh, Kiba?" Naruto snickered lightly to himself as he got in line behind the purple haired girl. Kiba growled, flushed with embarrassment as he and his puppy made their way back to the back of the crowd. He, still feeling proud with his results regardless, of course decided to poke fun at the blond, having already forgotten what happened only moments before.

"Oh, look what we have here! The dead-last thinks he can actually hit the targets!" he declared loudly, attracting the attention of all the other students. A look from Naruto kept Iruka from interfering and Mizuki could care less. "Don't poke your eye out, worthless. Then you won't be able to be a ninja. Oh wait – you never had a chance in the first place! Ha!" Most the other students started laughing at the blond whose ice chip blue eyes narrowed at him.

"Even if I don't hit at all, our scores wouldn't be too different, seeing as you only hit the target once." This remark started off another bout of laughter from the children. Kiba flushed and growled. The taller boy grabbed the blond's collar and pulled him off the ground, glaring.

"Listen here you punk! You think you're worth anything compared to me? I'm from the Inuzuka clan, an elite clan of hunters! My clan has been the hunter division of the ANBU for years! And where are your parents huh? Who the hell is the Uzumaki clan? Where are they? Where's your mommy and daddy? Oh that's right. They're DEAD! They and everyone else in your stupid clan died because they were weak and worthless! Just like you!" With that, the brunette threw the blond to the ground.

Anger.

That's all he could feel coursing through his veins. Hot, red, boiling anger. He would kill the ungrateful little shit stain. How dare he mock his parents and his clan! He knew exactly who his parents and the sacrifice they made just to keep him alive. It was bad enough this village didn't even honor his father's dying wish but for this brat to call his family worthless? It was unforgivable. Naruto growled loudly and stood up to pounce on the brunette when the raven haired Uchiha stepped in and socked Kiba in the face. Naruto's eyes widened. 'But why is he standing up for me? I've done nothing to help him.'

"The Uchiha Massacre, kit. I guess one can say you two are in the same boat." He watched with hazy eyes as Sasuke wailed on Kiba's face only to be pulled back by Iruka and Mizuki. The crowd was silent save for Kiba's groans of pains and Iruka muttering to Sasuke to calm him down. However, the raven was not calming down. Iruka's hold seemed only piss him off more. Despite bleeding from the nose, Kiba was angry as well, his animalistic, alpha male side coming to the forefront.

"You stupid submissive bitch! You're worthless! Everyone always has to come to your defense because you can't protect yourself. You weakling! You should just rot in hell with the rest of your family!" Naruto screamed in anger and jumped the brunette, further abusing the Inuzuka's face. Iruka passed Sasuke over Mizuki and rushed over to Naruto, tugging him off of Kiba. He pulled the blond into a hug, rocking him back and forth and whispering sweet little nothings, much like a mother would. Eventually the blond calmed down, laying still in Iruka's grasp. Mizuki had already ushered Sasuke inside and came back outside with an icepack for Kiba's nose. Iruka stood up with Naruto still in his arms.

"Alright everybody, back inside for now. After we get these three settled, we'll come back outside and finish up our weapon throwing." There were groans of disappointment and annoyance.

"Thanks a lot, Kiba!"

"Yeah, now we have to go back inside!" The young brunette growled lowly as Mizuki ushered him inside as well.

~YaoiLemons~

The three young boys sat quietly in the classroom, doing their best to not make a peep. Sasuke stared out the window, every now and again chancing a glance at Naruto. Kiba was pressing the ice to his face glaring at the both the raven and the blond. And finally, Naruto was sitting with his head on his desk, speaking with the ever-present presence in his head.

"..."

"Kit, calm down. We both know damn well he's a no good imbecile but why are you so angry?"

"Because I've come to the realization that this village is hopeless. Even it's young is tainted by the idiocy of their elders." Kurama went quiet for a moment.

"It's because he came to your rescue isn't it? You may be powerful, kitten, but you've got to trust people sometimes."

"He'll be nothing but a nuisance. And why are you being such a hypocrite? You separated yourself from your eight siblings. They were your family. And you want to preach to me about trust?"

"I trust you." Naruto was stunned into silence by those simple three words. "You may think you're able to hide your emotions and thoughts but we are bound together. I know you better then you know yourself. And that's why I trust you. You've been alone all your life. That's why you got so angry today. And that's why you're so scared to trust people." Naruto said nothing, trying to ignore is tenant. "I won't vouch for Uchiha, but if we were to trust someone, it would be him. He's a loner. Nothing to hold on to here. And once he learns the truth," Kurama trailed off. Naruto smirked.

"He'll hate this place as much as I do."

~YaoiLemons~

Naruto trekked slowly and aimlessly through the crowded streets, not ready to get back to his apartment building. He ignored the glares and hateful words and kept walking, opting for staring the ground rather than straight ahead. Soon, the number of people walking by lessened and he was eventually walking on a dirt road, towards his usual place for quiet, an empty dock. It was on Uchiha ground but nobody was there most of the time. He stopped and climbed down to the wooden planks, kicking off his shoes, and dipped his feet into the cool water. The smallest of smiles cracked on his face and he closed his eyes, leaning back on his arms, soaking in the sun that bathed his skin. "Hey." Blue eyes snapped open and he whipped around to face the only surviving Uchiha in Konoha. The raven was standing at the top of the stairs to the dock and was steadily coming down the stairs.

"What are you doing here?" the blond demanded. Sasuke didn't answer but slipped off his sandals and sat next to the blond. Naruto scoffed and placed his elbows on his knees, propping his head up with his hands. They sat in silence for a while, basking in the sun.

"Aw, look at you two. All calm and serene."

"Shut. Up."

"We really messed Kiba's face up today, huh?" Naruto gave the raven a sidewards glance.

"Yeah... I guess we did."

"So, you want to train together some time?"

"Sure."

And it was the start of another beautifully twisted friendship.

~YaoiLemons~

Heart-chan: So this first chapter is somewhat shorter than the original but hey, I like it. Review and Favorite and Follow and all that good stuff! See ya!