Author's Note: This is my first attempt at a story, so I've started it off with a brief insight as to what the world is like, and I mean BRIEF. Enjoy!

Descendant

The Shinobi World was a dark, twisted place. There was no such thing as peace, only false hope and deceit. While it might seem that it was a time of peace, wars were being carried out in secret everywhere, ravaging the smaller countries that had no Hidden Villages to protect them, leaving them at the mercy of the tyrants that were the Five Great Shinobi Countries.

The majority of those who lived in The Five Great Shinobi Countries didn't see this and believed that it was indeed a new age of peace and prosperity. Ignorance of the highest level. Ninja were sent in to murder countless innocents and eradicate entire villages in the name of their country and Konoha, Iwa, Kiri, Kumo and Suna were words that inspired fear in smaller nations and drove them to forfeit themselves just to avoid their erasure. But these five villages were not the biggest threats. The biggest threats were ancient and monstrous: the Biju, around before the Five Great Shinobi Countries existed.

The Biju, devastating forces of nature that they were, weaved fear and destruction wherever they went but also provided the villages with weapons of unnatural power: their Descendants. After the Sage of Six Paths had split the Juubi's power into nine, the Biju went unthreatened and undisturbed until the time of the creation of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, where they were captured and forced into humans, creating the first jinchūriki. This was both a grievous error and a twisted blessing for the Hidden Villages, as they had increased the Biju's powers exponentially, by giving it a focus. The Biju were just beings of pure, unrivalled powers before, with only a primitive intelligence. This made them extremely destructive, yes, but it also made sure that any attacks that happened were either random or provoked and never focused. Not so after the jinchūriki came into being. The humans selected couldn't possibly control these huge vessels of power and lost themselves in the mass of chakra, but not without giving the Biju the greatest ability humanity has: the ability to think and adapt. All the Biju received a huge boost in intelligence, something akin to enlightenment in their regards, and could actually reason and think and feel complex emotions, and they loved it. Being contained within their vessels of flesh meant that their powers could be concentrated, making these beings even more dangerous and this delighted them. And so, they repaid the villages for this gift: the devastated the nations once more, killing thousands, but not before choosing certain people to receive their power, to become their kin, to be what jinchūriki were meant to be, humans with powers of the Biju. And with these acts, the Biju disappeared.

These Descendants, 9 in total, created clans and were sought after by the Hidden Villages for their potential. Some clans aligned themselves with these budding villages, choosing one to become their home, while others secluded themselves, not wanting to be used. Each clan had traits from their respective Biju and varied in numbers and behaviour, with those clans descended from the stronger Biju more likely to have fewer members, though there are exceptions.

These Descendants are shunned by many, viewed as monsters due to their connection with the Biju, but constantly sought after, as they were superior in every way to normal ninja, but none of the Descendants are shunned or feared more so than Kyuubi's Descendants, rarely ever seen and unimaginably destructive. To have such a being present in a village's army almost guarantees victory in all situations against all enemies, but alas, they are extremely rare, the last suspected Descendant being reported as a Konoha ninja, twelve years ago.

That was until Naruto Uzumaki came into prominence.

"May the world quiver with fear and beg for its survival, for I shall rip it asunder with my anger."

Has it been mentioned he hasn't been treated particularly well?

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