Mystic Eyes and the Demon Within

By Jolly

A Naruto/Type-Moon story

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Hello and welcome to my very first fanfic! I won't go into detail about what I plan for the story. That's for me to know and you to find out! ^_^

A little background info for the story: This is an AU where Konoha is in dire straits. It does NOT follow everything in the canon story. You'll see how exactly as the story starts. For those of you who haven't been introduced to the Type-Moon Universe, I'll try my best to portray the characters as realistically as possible, but with my own twist since I'm the one telling the story. The Type-Moon side is based off of Hisui's "Good" Ending in Tsukihime. If that doesn't make any sense to you, I suggest you Wiki it so that you know what's going on.

EDIT: Much thanks from me to eternalshiva for beta'ing this for me. She did some outstanding work! It's like a brand new chapter now! ^_^

Beta'd: 23 Jun 09 by eternalshiva.

Enjoy!

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Konohagakure was in ruins.

Buildings burned as the village laid in shambles; sections were completely destroyed as the giant snake summons slithered through. Screams were drowned out by the sounds of metal clashing; battles broke out everywhere through the village.
Orochimaru had attacked without warning, sending his army of two hundred ninja alongside his snake summons which seemed ridiculous against the strength of Konohagakure's thousands.

To the casual observer, this would seem to spell disaster for the Otogakure ninja. However, every one of the two hundred ninja possessed a Level Two Cursed Seal, making a kill ratio of eight Leaf ninja for every enemy. Even with such low numbers, they were too powerful for the village protectors.

The Leaf ninja were doing everything they could to push back the enemy while trying to evacuate civilians. Unfortunately, with the summons causing wonton destruction throughout the village, they could barely hold the line. Most of them were pushed back towards the center of the village.
Unknown to most of the combatants below, the deciding battle had already begun atop the Hokage Tower.

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The Godaime stood across from the enemy leader: Orochimaru. She stared with a murderous glare, bloodlust set in her mind. The body of their once teammate laid still beside her, his blank eyes stared into the darkened sky. She tried not to focus on the hole barrelled through his chest.

"You bastard!" she hissed, rage spat out each syllable with murderous intent.

"What?" he laughed softly, "Is the Hime upset that the loser got himself killed?" he taunted. "He was willing to give up his life already. He sealed his fate when he attempted to use the same sealing jutsu the Old Man did in attempt to kill me." His disgusted look shifted into a faint grin. "Unfortunately, the same jutsu won't work twice on me; he was a fool to try it.

"I'm going to fucking kill you, you snake… I'm going to rip your head off and beat every last one of your little puppets into the ground with it!" Her face was torn between agony and rage.

"You're more than welcome to try," he sneered "but you'll fail just like little Jiraiya. Nothing can stop me! I have the ultimate body and the ability to learn every jutsu in existence now!"

She froze, falling to her knees as the realisation set in. "No… there's no way…Sasuke…"

His snake-like grin hung over her like a death sentence. "Oh, yes indeed." He gloated slightly, mocking her fruitless efforts to protect the boy "I took control of dear Sasuke's body not even three days ago."

She couldn't believe him.

"Just long enough for me to gather my army to come crush this pathetic village! Once Konoha is wiped out and I get my revenge, the other hidden villages will fall quickly under my reign. Don't you agree, Tsunade-Hime?"

She was frozen in place; Orochimaru's forces had already taken over more than half of the village and the Snake himself had already killed Jiraiya. Her resources were limited in this battle since the only one with enough power to stop the invading army, while she was dealing with Orochimaru, was out of the country on a long-term mission.

Naruto had learned to keep his sanity up to his six-tailed transformation, easily the strongest ninja in the village. Unfortunately, with him gone, there was nothing capable of stopping the destruction of Konoha.

'Dammit Naruto! Where are you?'she thought. 'You were supposed to be back a day and a half ago!'

A simple escort mission to the Wave Country shouldn't have taken longer than a week and a half for a round trip. There were only two options as to why he was late: something went wrong on the mission or Naruto was convinced to remain longer by the old bridge builder and his family.

'I guess my only option is to hold off the Oto forces for as long as possible while the evacuation is underway', she thought grimly. She stood up and started a familiar string of hand signs.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" With a poof of smoke, a small slug appeared before her.

"Katsuyu... I need you to pass these orders to the villagers: Evacuate the village." Her tone emphasised the seriousness of the situation, Her summon focused all her attention on her master as she continued to give her orders. "All jounin and chuunin not currently dealing with the evacuation are to hold off the attackers at all costs. I authorize the use of any and all jutsu in the intent to follow that order. All genin are to evacuate with the rest of the villagers," she paused for a moment. Mildly surprised her enemy hadn't attacked, she eyed him warily. Orochimaru just smirked at the blond Hokage and her summons, as if to say he wasn't concerned in the least what she did; that it was a futile gesture. She turned her gaze back to Katsuyu, her expression severe.

"Also, find Naruto and tell him to get his lazy ass back to the village as soon as he can. If he can't make it back before I die, tell him to meet with the villagers at point Omega and help with the evacuation. He knows the plan," she said grimly.

"Yes, Tsunade-sama!" the slug quipped and disappeared with another cloud of smoke.

"Are you finished with delaying the inevitable?" he mocked. "My patience only goes so far you know."

"Shut up you twisted fuck," she spat out. "You wouldn't know the first thing about taking care of your troops. All you crave for is power."

"My, my… I never knew you had such a mouth on you, Tsunade." A ghost of a grin graced his lips, Disgusted, she could only glare at him as he continued on. "Besides, they are nothing but pawns that I've been using for my cursed seal research. I've promised them freedom if they help me take control of the world. Not that I'll make good on that promise," he said wickedly. "If my little pawns were so weak as to be killed by pathetic Leaf ninja, they are beneath my standards and should be disposed of."

"You're despicable," she spat while gathering chakra in her hands. "I'm going to end you, here and now!"

Without a sound, she charged at her old friend.

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"Man, this sucks!" shouted out the blond-haired, blue eyed ninja.

"Naruto, quit complaining before I beat you so badly that you can't complain anymore!" threatened the pink-haired kunoichi next to him.

"Now, now, Sakura," a deadpan voice interrupted her rant, "calm down before you end up knocking him out again." She huffed in annoyance. "You don't want to have to stop again and wait for him to recover, do you?" quipped the silver-haired jounin. He never once looked up from the orange book in his hand.

"But Kakashi-sensei! He's just so annoying!" Sakura complained while glaring at the offending party.

"Come on Sakura-chan! You know we could get back faster if we picked up the pace! We're already a day behind!" Naruto shot back.

"Day and a half," she corrected automatically.

"See? We should speed up to make up for lost time!" he continued.

"Naruto, we've already been over this," sighed Kakashi, his patience thinning. "The Hokage already told us that she has a long-term mission for our team once we return. By going at this pace, we save our energy for the mission we already know is going to be very draining." Kakashi explained.

"I know that already Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto grumbled out, "It's just that we're only about 6 hours away from the village! We could be back in a little over an hour if we went through the trees!" 'Only an hour away from Hinata.' he thought impatiently.

He had promised to take her on an actual date once he got back from this mission, not that she had minded eating at Ichiraku the last time. Shikamaru had bluntly told him that if he wanted to make an impression on a woman, he needed to wear something other than an orange jumpsuit and take her somewhere other than his favorite ramen stand. Being that Shikamaru was happily married to Ino for the last year, he took his word on it… and quickly found himself dragged around the shopping district for the better part of the day. Ino and Sakura both thought that his having a girlfriend was more than enough reason to hunt for sales to his dismay.

After that torture session with shopping, Naruto was considering giving up his nindo. He was in high opinion that no promise should be worth getting dragged from store to store having to try on clothes that were pushed at him under threat of bodily harm. Fortunately for the girls, he really liked Hinata. So he stuck it out and was now sporting a black shirt, with orange shoulders. To their dismay, he argued fervently with the two kunoichi that orange was a part of him and in no way would he back down from their objections at the "offending color". It went great with his new pair of tan shorts. Back at the apartment, his closet sported a pair of denim jeans, an orange and blue tank top, and a black leather jacket that went down to his thighs.

All in all, the girls considered it a success and made a show of torching his old jumpsuit in the middle of the street, he'd been humiliated by his friends. Once the fire had finally burned out, he had snuck back to the funeral site and gathered the ashes while grieving; the charred remains were now in an urn on his dresser.

Sakura cast a knowing glance over at Naruto. "What's the rush, lover-boy? In a hurry to get back to your dear 'Hinata-chan'?" she teased.

Naruto had the courtesy to blush. "N-no! That's not it at all!" he denied loudly, disregarding the fact that she was right.

Sakura laughed. "Don't worry Naruto, I'm pretty sure the village will still be there when we get back. Then you can take Hinata out on that date you promised."

Naruto sighed, defeated. "All right. All right. I'll lay off the complaining. Let's just get back as soon as we can," he said with a pout on his face. A cloud of smoke five feet in front of him made him stop in his tracks.

"Naruto-kun! There you are," the small slug said.

'Oh crap', he thought. "What's happened Katsuyu?" he immediately demanded, well aware that Tsunade would never have sent the summon unless something important had happened.

Kakashi and Sakura had both stopped as well and they both had identical worried looks on their faces.

"The village is under attack by Orochimaru and his army!" the small summon urged. "There are large snake summons running amok throughout the village, but Manda has yet to turn up." Sakura let out a small gasp while the two males looked into the distance towards Konohagakure. "The village has been ordered to evacuate. The jounin and chuunin who aren't assisting in the evacuation have been ordered to hold out as long as possible."

The slug slid forward a bit to gain the blond's attention. "Tsunade-sama has ordered you to return as fast as you can, but also said that if she were to die before you got back to the village, you were to go to point Omega and assist in the evacuation," the slug relayed.

"Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn!" Naruto shouted, near frantic. "Where the hell is Ero-sennin?" he demanded from the small slug. "His toad summons should be able to take care of those damn snakes!"

"Unfortunately," Katsuyu started, cutting off his tirade "Jiraiya-sama was killed while fighting Orochimaru." Her small voice spoke volumes on the urgency of the situation. "I left just as Tsunade-sama went on the offensive."

All three ninja gasped, averting their faces to the ground in shock.

"Is Sasuke attacking the village as well?" Kakashi finally asked, breaking the tensed silence.

"In a sense, yes," the slug said to the looks of utter disbelief from the ninja. "His body was taken over by Orochimaru three days ago."

Naruto and Sakura both fell to their knees in complete shock. "No…" said Sakura in a murmur of disbelief. Naruto recovered first.

"I'm going to kill him…" he said softly at first while rising to his feet. There were tears coming from his eyes, the blue gone and replaced with the angry red of the Kyuubi. "I'm going to kill that bastard!" he shouted, his emotions on the brink of complete loss of control. So great was his rage that even those present could sense it coming off his body in waves.

"Kakashi-sensei, Sakura-chan, we're getting back to the village in 15 minutes," he said flatly while making a familiar hand sign. "Kage bushin no jutsu!"

Four more Narutos appeared with a poof of smoke and held out their hands to the original. The real Naruto bit his thumb and swiped his blood acrossed all four palms before they all started to make the same hand signs in unison and shouted, "Kuchiyose no jutsu!"

Behind them, through the forest, appeared five giant toads. The largest one eyed Naruto and spoke first.

"Eh? Naruto? What's the idea of summoning us way the hell out here?" Gamabunta asked, his tone left no room for discussion.

"We need your help, boss," Naruto quickly answered. "Orochimaru is attacking the village, Ero-sennin is dead, Obaa-san is fighting the bastard and we need you to get us back to the village fast. Once there, I need you and your brothers to take care of all snake summons. What do you say?" Naruto asked in a flat voice.

"Jiraiya's dead?" he chocked in surprise at the news, "This is an outrage! That damned snake will pay…" He looked back to his brothers and they all nodded in agreement, not even needing to be asked. "Well, when you put it that way my boy, how can I say no? Get your sorry ninja asses up here," he ordered. The three ninja did just that while Katsuyu disappeared in another poof.

"Hang the hell on!"

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Tohno Mansion

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"Shiki-sama……Shiki-sama……" a voice called for him. It was familiar and it was a sound he loved.

"Mmm..." he grumbled turning towards it while still half-asleep.

"Shiki-sama, it's time to wake up."

Shiki opened his eyes and sat up in his bed. He looked over to the side of the bed where his gaze was met by a pair of jade eyes and red hair. "Good morning, Shiki-sama. I'm sorry to rush you, but if you don't get changed soon, we'll be late getting to the mansion up in the mountains," she urged while bowing.

"Sorry Hisui. I didn't realize it was already this late," he said apologetically while getting up. He looked over to the clock and saw that it was only nine o'clock in the morning. He groaned. His sister always wanted to get a jump on things like this.

"How is Nanaya doing? Is she recovered enough to make the trip with us?" he asked.

Hisui nodded. "Yes Shiki-sama, she has been very excited about this trip ever since you told her about it. Akiha-sama also seemed livelier."

Shiki couldn't help but smile. His sister, Akiha, always tried to give the impression that things didn't excite her. Truth be told, she wanted to skip throughout the house. He blamed it on her father bringing her up to be a 'lady.' She just didn't get excited like normal people did, but those who knew her could always tell when she was excited about something.

"In that case, I'd better get a move on. Could you wait for me in the dining room and ask Nanaya to make me a Japanese breakfast?" he asked while walking towards his desk.

"Yes, Shiki-sama," she replied, bowing once again. As she turned to the door, he remembered something. He reached out and touched her shoulder.

"Oh, Hisui?" He waited until she had turned to him again. "Good morning."

Her familiar little smile graced her lips and replied, "Yes. Good morning, Shiki-sama." She then left the room so that he could change for the day.
'It's going to be a great trip', he thought.

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Hooray!!! Chapter 1 is complete! How am I going to integrate these two storylines, you ask? Well, that's for me to know and you to find out!