The Crescent Knight

Prologue

Naruto has had a horrible past. Ever since the village orphanage threw him out, the apartment that the sandaime hokage has given him has been countlessly ransacked, set on fire, and utterly trashed.

When Naruto was 3 years old, he started getting terribly beaten repeatedly by the villagers, hospitalized many times, only to receive third-rate treatment from the hospital staff, who held grudges toward the "Kyuubi Incarnate."

The beatings took a violent and horrible turn on his fifth birthday, October Tenth. The villager's rage increased on every anniversary of the "Demon Attack."

One, a bold pitifully stupid villager, whose parents - shinobi - were destroyed during the attack. He, a mere genin, slashed a kunai, letting a ramen-crazy 5 year old fall into oblivion, that which is complete darkness. The mark, a crescent slice, was created upon the crescent stage of the moon.

A piercing wail screeched through the night.

"I can't see, what's wrong with my eyes!"

"Hmph, serves you right, Demon. Think before you attack the village next time. Damn, ANBU! Scram, everyone!"

A Silver haired ANBU suddenly appeared, picking up the child, who fainted due to extreme pain and blood loss. "Tenzo, Yugao, transport Naruto to the hospital, now."

"hai." said ANBU replied, disappearing with said injured person via shunshin.

"Now, I get to deal with the assholes who dare to mess with my Godbrother." said the silver haired ANBU, otherwise known as Kakashi, revealing his sadistic side, along with a wicked grin.

- Naruto's Mindscape -

"Huh? What happened? Where am I? How'd I get here?" Naruto wondered out loud as he appeared in a sewer-like place with many wide tunnels, the largest of which leading to a very large room with a very large cage, displaying a large seal upon it.

"come here, kit. Meet your master." said a deep demonic voice within the cage.

" If you're my master, how come you're in the cage?" replied the blonde.

"very perceptive of you, kit. But," the unknown voice said, "how do you know you're not in the cage, whilst I am outside?"

"You're right! I AM in the cage!"

There was the sound of a forehead being smacked, echoing around the room.

"Kami he's stupid... Well, on to more pressing matters. Have you noticed anything that disappeared after your 'encounter' with the human scum?" said the voice, seeming to come closer.

"Well, yeah, they started beating me up... A punch to the throat, a kick to the gut, but nothing that hasn't happened before," replied Naruto, getting choked up. "then, that kid with the new hitai-ite d-drew a k-kunai and he r-rushed m-m-me and s-slashed at my eyes in sort of up an' down movement, and t-then I couldn't s-see anymore. But how can I see now, when I couldn't before?" wondered the blonde.

"Ah, yes. I forgot this is your first visit here." 'of many' the voice added in it's head. "This is your Mindscape, in it, all your injuries are healed for the duration of your stay. But once you go back to reality, all injuries are regained, in this case, your eyesight is removed. You came here because, while having been beaten before, this is your first life-threatening attack.

Naruto's mind was racing with so many questions he wanted to ask. "so, um, not to be rude, mysterious voice-san, but who are you?

" ... It doesn't matter right now. I will tell you when you are a bit more mature, maybe when you become a Genin. All you need to worry about now is that now that you have visited me, we can communicate through a mind link unheard by oth-"

"Wow, that's so COOL!" interrupted Naruto.

"Silence, gaki. What I was about to say, was that since you were, um, to put it bluntly, blinded, I don't want it to happen again. I'll look past your weakness this time, but next time, there will be no excuse, understood?"

" But how? The villagers beat me up almost daily, and many of them are ninja. I can't beat a civilian my age, much less a trained chuunin, or jonin."

The voice had an almost audible smirk in his words. "That, gaki, is what you have to prepare for."

"w-what do you mean, voice-san?"

"I have a deal for you, gaki. Instead of you getting beaten up, I will help you get stronger." the voice simply replied. " I, the great Kyuu- never mind. I, the most powerful you've ever met, am offering to personally train you, all it costs is your time." The voice finished.

Naruto now had a big grin on his face, from ear-to-ear.

"Awesome! I'm gonna be so kick-ass the villagers won't know what hit'em!" he yelled enthusiastically.

"hold your horses, gaki, there's one more thing. I can't have you running around beating up villagers like no tomorrow. Let's just say the village will 'assume' I've been helping you since I'm pretty damn well known. Refer to me as Kyuu-sensei, but not in public, and by the time I'm done with you, you'll forget you're blind, and you, my min-, I mean, my student, will be a force to be reckoned with." the voice was leaking sadistic-ness, and Naruto was glad it wasn't directed at him.

"Kay." was all Naruto said, as he eagerly nodded, then hastily added, "let's kick ass, Kyuu-sensei."

"... You seem to have forgotten... You're currently bleeding to death right now." Kyuu dead-panned as Naruto began to freak out.

" Damn, Damn, Damn! What do I do, I can't die yet!"

"One last thing, kit. You aren't gonna die."

That was all Naruto's body could handle as he slipped out of consciousness, or rather, slipped back into it.

"Oh, this will be entertaining." was "Kyuu's" thought before drifting off into sleep, though more out of habit than actual need, since he had nothing to do, hence he wasn't actually tired.

- Reality -

"Crap! That silver guy is catching up!" yelled a villager.

"well did you think I'd let you run away?" replied Kakashi as he now appeared in front of the mob.

All shinobi and civilians who knew of his skills were trying not to piss their pants.

"Ah, well, onto the torturing." he continued. "I normally would never use this in a 'fight' of this level, but what a certain one of you has done," he glanced at a genin, who held a bloody kunai from an attack upon a certain blond, "has forced my hand." finished Kakashi, putting his hand on his hitai-ite, pushing it up.

Bloodcurdling screams could be heard throughout the night.

End Prologue