Into the Void
By
Ragnorokrising
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Chapter One: Opening the Void
Konohagakure no Sato, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, is a beautiful town, filled with powerful shinobi. Lead by the Kage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, they have risen to the spot of most powerful shinobi village of the five great villages. Ask a villager why Konoha has never be challenged for the position and they'll say the ninja are the strongest in the world. Ask a Ninja older then twenty-two and they'll say it's because they're scared. Not of the ninja, but of the Kyuubi.
Six years ago, the Kyuubi no Kitsune came to the village. It stood over the walls, looking at them. Some say it would have turned around if Orochimaru hadn't summoned Manda to land on top of it. Others say, they say the symbol for the Mangekyou Sharingan in its eyes. If you were as close to it as the Fourth Hokage got, you would have seen the face of Madara Uchiha smirking as his beast tore ninja apart. If you were the being that sealed Kyuubi, the Shinigami, you would realize he was fighting to take control, and was losing badly.
In current time, the child the fox rested inside, Naruto Uzumaki, went through his regular birthday ritual. Eat breakfast, go to visit the old man, get beaten, go change clothes, get beaten, take a shower, get beaten, eat lunch, get beaten, play toss with himself, get beaten, oh, and they beat him a couple of times. It was the beating after dinner, at ten thirty, night, in a dark alley, behind the Kage tower. Above, a team of snickering ANBU watched the villagers attack him.
"The senile old man can't save you now demon!" one yelled.
"This is for my daughter!" shouted another.
"This is for my pet hamster!" the leader yelled. He brought a giant ax down on the child. The boy's eyes turned pure black with a small sparkle of silver in the center as he screamed. The ax and the man's fingers suddenly disappeared. The ANBU stopped their snickering as the boy's screaming slowly stopped. He stood up, his wounds sizzling closed at an alarming rate. He had his head lowered, his eyes closed. A smile broke his face as he tilted his head up and opened the pitch black eyes.
"Hehehe, die you bastards!" he brought one arm up, palm facing the crowd, and clawed his fingers, right as a Dog masked ANBU appeared behind the others.
"The Hokage said to protect him from this." they ignored him, pointing at the boy.
"Look Captain Hatake, something's happening to the demon." one said. Kakashi made a mental note to kill him later and turned his gaze down, shock obvious as he stared at the eyes of the small child.
"Open, Void of Silence!" laughed Naruto in n insane voice. The villagers never noticed the black portal forming behind them as they shot straight at the six year old. Naruto tilted his palm upward and pulled his arm towards him. The black hole shot forward and sucked the group up. As the hole vanished, so did the blackness of the eyes. He fainted to the ground, falling into a blissful black out. Kakashi jumped down, scooped Naruto up and ran to the Kage tower.
(Kage Tower)
"Are you sure Kakashi? It was a void?"
"Void's are hard to mistake Lord Hokage." Naruto awoke to this, instinctively keeping his eyes closed and listening in.
"We'll need to teach him to use this ability."
"I know that look Sarutobi. What crazy idea do you have this time?"
"The last person to have this ability was a special ANBU member. She was the best assassin the village has ever seen."
"You want him to go into ANBU Sir?"
"Yes Kakashi, I want to make him an assassin."
"But wouldn't that give him the right to kill-"
"Any one he thought wasn't following the law of Konoha or misusing their power. I know the laws Kakashi, I made them."
"Old Man, who's Kakashi?" Naruto spoke up, letting the two adults, well, one adult and one seventeen year old, that he was awake.
"Oh, Naruto, thank goodness you're awake again." Sarutobi said, swerving to avoid the touchy subject. "You gave us quite a scare. Do you remember anything?"
"Yeah, I remember seeing my vision fade and go black, and I thought I died, but I could see all around Konoha at once. Then I saw this hole in the air and reached for it. Next thing I know, the blue shapes surrounding my body were swallowed by it and I blacked out." Kakashi and the Hokage exchanged glances. A head nod, one only an ANBU could see, from Kakashi moved the conversation forward.
"Naruto, do you know what a Kekkai Genkai is?" Naruto shrugged his shoulders.
"Nope, never heard of it."
"Well, Kekkai Genkai, sometimes called Bloodline Limits, are abilities certain families have. Konoha is famous for all of its Kekkai Genkai. Our greatest one, one that died a long time ago, came from a village far away, called Whirlpool Country. Have you ever heard of it?"
"Yeah, Ayame helped me in the library when I found out what my name means." he smiled at the mention of the young ramen server.
"Well, their heir, Kushina, had a Kekkai Genkai that was shunned in Whirlpool, called the Void Fist. It opens holes in space to suck stuff up and store them. It also makes a great fighting style."
"What happen to Kushina?" Sarutobi's face fell into a deep frown, then, in a flash of emotion, became a sad smile. He sighed as memories long forgotten returned.
"Well, she died, giving birth to her only child, a young boy." Naruto's eyes locked onto Sarutobi with his ears. "That was October Tenth, five years ago."
"Hey, that's when I was born!" he chimed in. Then he realized what Sarutobi told him. "Was her last name Uzumaki to Old Man?" Sarutobi nodded his head, not trusting his words.
"That's why I'm here." jumped in Kakashi, who had discarded his ANBU mask to show the face beneath. "I'm gonna train you to make your mom proud and eventually surpass her." Naruto's shock turned to happiness and he jumped on Kakashi, giving him a hug.
"WAHOO! I'M GONNA BE A NINJA!" he yelled. Kakashi pulled three ear plugs from each ear.
"We'll work on stealth first. I could hear you through all three sets." Sarutobi chuckled as Naruto celebrated.
"Can I make a hole? Please? I want to fill it with ramen!" he pointed at Sarutobi. "And he always buys me all the ramen I want on my birthday." Kakashi snickered and nodded.
"Your mom told me how she makes one. First, sit down and close your eyes." Kakashi showed Naruto a meditation pose and had him close his eyes. "Eventually you'll be able to make one on instinct, but not for a while." then he walked behind Naruto. "Now imagine falling into an endless void, with a single spark of light at the end. Reach for the star, grab hold of it and bring it back to Konoha." Naruto reached his arm out and grabbed at air.
"I got it!" a void opened up in front of him, and Naruto's eyes shifted to the blackness they took in the alleyway. He opened his eyes and pumped his arms triumphantly. "I DID IT! NOW FOR RAMEN!" Sarutobi sighed and kissed his wallet good bye. The black hole closed and the three males went to Ichiraku Ramen.
"How can I help you Naruto?" asked Teuchi Ichiraku when they arrived.
"Old Man, how much do you have?"
"Three hundred fifty six thousand."
"I want all the ramen I can buy with that! Half miso, one eighth beef, one eighth pork, and one fourth shrimp!" Sarutobi shook his head and handed the younger man his wallet. Teuchi chuckled and began to make the huge amount of ramen as Naruto opened a portal. Teuchi nearly dropped his spoon as the swirling vortex appeared. He quickly finished the last bowl and put it in the void. Sarutobi looked at him, sadly.
'I forgot he and Kushina were close friends.' he threw in some chopsticks as well and stared out into the back as the hole closed. He smiled as Naruto's arms closed around him.
"Thanks Old Man Ichiraku!" Sarutobi tapped Kakashi.
"Seven o'clock, Danzo and my teammates." Kakashi glanced carefully at the three wizened people in the crowd, staring at the place where a black hole just closed. "Get Naruto out of here and begin his training. Do it behind the mountain." Kakashi nodded and dashed off as fast as possible after throwing down a smoke bomb and picking up Naruto.
"Sarutobi, why where we not told of his ability?" demanded Koharu.
"Because you're a bitch." the words slipped out of Sarutobi's mouth before he realized what happened and he used Shunshin to get away. When he saw Kakashi leaning against a tree, Naruto swinging back in forth in a hog tie on one of the branches a few inches above his head, he started to cry.
"Lord Hokage, what's wrong?"
"It's the paperwork! There's gonna be so much of it now." Kakashi stared at the old man, before a suppressed chuckle escape, bursting into full laughter in a few seconds. Naruto fell to the ground as he escaped, bonking his head, increasing Kakashi's laughter.