Tags: Dark Fic, Character Death, OOC Naruto, Samehada Naruto, A lot of Konoha bashing, Main affinity Suiton Naruto. Kenjutsu Naruto. Kisame as Naruto's sensei. Pairing Naruto/?

Note: 15 years old is when they graduate from the Academy. This fic is also kinda casual so don't expect any finesse in the writing.

Blood In The Water

Fireworks blew up in the dark sky, lighting up the whole village and blocking out the sight of a myriad of stars. That day marked the day when the Kyuubi no Kitsune was 'slain' by the Yondaime Hokage, who died in the process of taking down the beast.

"Please Hiruzen… take care of Naruto… don't let the village know that he holds the Kyuubi…" And with that, the Yondaime fell to the grass face first. His face peaceful and happy, knowing that at least his baby boy was safe from the clutches of the vengeful villagers.

Sarutobi nodded… that was until Minato died, and then his sad face turned into a sneer, one he directed at the sleeping blonde baby.

This… Demon! He was the cause of all this happening. The village was partially in ruins while the rest suffered minor structural damages, lives were lost, including his wife's, and most importantly, Uzumaki Kushina had died while giving birth to the demon child.

Hiruzen gritted his teeth, he could not kill the boy, for if he did, there would be no other Uzumaki's left to contain the Kyuubi when it returned and would most likely destroy the village for revenge.

Kushina was not supposed to have married Minato. She had unfortunately caught his eye and eventually married the blonde man, much to most of the men in the village's chagrin. Why? They had intended to kidnap her once she was old enough when she was out on a fake mission, telling the rest of the village that she had perished in the process. Once they had her, Hiruzen would place her in the secret underground facility, raping and impregnating her for the good of the village.

Not to mention the pleasure.

Jiraiya and Hiruzen had lusted for the woman's flesh for at least a decade, and so had the other disgusting males of the village who kept their filthy eyes on her. Dreaming of pulling on her crimson tresses while she took their full lengths, ignoring her cries of protest as they did this to her day in and day out until the day she would be barren and would no longer produce anymore Uzumaki's, not that it would stop there of course, seeing as how Uzumaki's had quite the longevity, retaining their youthfulness even at the age of 50.

The village would also earn a decent amount of money from people paying to have a go at the once-feisty red head. Heck, even Jiraiya himself had spied on Kushina bathing with the help of his 'Meisaigakure no Jutsu (Hiding with Camouflage Technique)' and had spread word about how well she kept her body from physical training as a Kunoichi. Jiraiya had thanked Kami when he learnt that Kushina never shut the bathroom stall door when she showered, entering through the main door when the loud water started as a cover to hide the squeaking noise it made whenever it opened.

Luckily, she was spared all of those horrible acts when she had married Minato and died giving birth to Naruto.

Minato would have been rolling in his grave if this had happened and had thanked the gods when he learned that she had died with him. In death, they would not be able to get his beloved wife… however, in death; they were not able to stop the years of abuse to their baby boy. Rain dripped from the sky, a physical representation of their tears as they saw the village beat and harm the blonde Jinchuuriki.

Bah! He would ignore the Yondaime in favour of using the hatred the boy gained for the villagers, turning it into a goal to earn their respect by becoming Hokage. Hokage! Hah! The old man laughed behind the cheerful boy's back, smiling kindly like a grandfather only when he needed him. If and when the boy ever became too strong, Danzo's Root forces were instructed to eliminate the Jinchuuriki… after he had been forcefully used to impregnate willing kunoichi's and having his children harvested like crop, to be used forever as Jinchuuriki containers.

The plan was completely flawless…

That was until the stupid fools in the council actually got rid of him from the village. Beating him up was one thing, but throwing him out of the villages confines while he was the last known Uzumaki was not good.

Not good at all.

The Sandaime slammed his fist into the table. Despite his old age, his aged body still managed to leave a splintery dent on the table top, scaring the group of civilians consisting of scared men and whimpering women.

"Do you know…" The Sandaime whispered harshly through gritted teeth, resisting the urge to murder the idiotic fools that had cost his a figurative bombshell in the ranks of Konoha's ninja, "…what you have just done?!" His fist clenched tightly, the liver spots that were on the elder man's cheek followed along with the frown on his face, bony knuckles turning a bright white while his fingertips turned red.

The snarl on his face was not helping the frightened civilian's frayed nerves.

"W-we thought we'd d-do the villa-village a favour and rid ourselves o-of the demon, Hokage-sama." A man nervously stuttered, flinching when the Hokage's head snapped towards him and his eyes bore holes into the man's skull.

'A no named civilian, good. I will be able to teach these fools why they should never have crossed me. Especially tonight.' Hiruzen thought to himself, intent on teaching them the reasons of why he had made that specific law in the first place.

In a flash of white and red from the Hokage's robes, Sarutobi had already appeared behind the man. Too slow to even comprehend what had happened, the Hokage drove his fist into the man's weak spinal cord, shattering it in one hit and paralysing him from the waist down. The civilian screamed while the others shouted in fright, backing away from the Hokage, who was watching the man writhe on the floor. He silently placed his sandal onto the man's neck, whose eyes were wide and was gasping out unintelligible words, and stepped down hard, effectively killing the man in a rather painful manner.

"The law that I created after the Kyuubi attack… I'm sure you all know what the consequence is, correct?" The old man stared emptily at the cowering crowd in his office. They nodded hesitantly.

"Do you know just how much trouble you have just caused me? Do you?" Too frightened to answer, he continued, "We have just lost our Jinchuuriki, the very same boy you beat up and threw into the middle of Konoha's vast forests as a prey for the beasts of the night."

With a single hand sign to the ANBU on the ceiling, they silently dropped down with tanto's in their hands and did not hesitate to kill the screaming civilians mercilessly on their Hokage's orders.

"ANBU, search the whole of Konoha's forest, locate the Jinchuuriki…" He paused in thought, looking at the bloodied heap of severed body parts, "And get someone to clean up this mess."

Little did the village know that this would be the moment where they regretted ever sparing the boy to the animals, wishing when it was far too late that they should have had killed him on the spot painlessly.

A 6 year old Naruto lay in a small puddle of his own blood. His arms and legs broke to prevent him from escaping the clutches of the night-prowling animals. One of his eyes was swollen from the punches the villages laid onto his face and his small body covered in dirt and cuts. He rasped tiredly, losing consciousness from the lack of blood in his body.

'Every year, every day, every hour, every second, I live in fear. Fear of the villagers, fear of being beaten, fear of dying. But now, now I'm not scared. I'm ready to die so that I can stop being scared. Maybe… maybe my Tou-san and Kaa-chan are waiting for me in Jōdo (Afterworld), Oji-san said they died the day I was born… maybe they've loved me and have been waiting for me.' Naruto managed a small smile, a victory in his mind, to finally be free from the cage that separated him from the family he never knew.

Unbeknownst to the boy, the Kyuubi watched silently in his cage, listening to the thoughts of the dying child wonder about his family. He may have not liked them, but he wouldn't lie about not respecting the father and mother. He recalled them both giving up their lives to have the child and to protect him. As a he himself was a father once, he would have sacrificed himself to save his kits, luckily it was not needed they grew old and happily passed on, just like his darling wife.

He smirked. No, the boy did not deserve to die just yet. He could visit his parents when he was older. Kurama was sure that his parent's wouldn't mind him exacting vengeance upon those that held ill will or committed the crime of child abuse to meet their ends, more ironically by the very child they hurt. Closing his eyes, he assisted the healing process of the child by ten-fold, ensuring that he would live to make the village pay for their many atrocities against humanity.

Up on top of a nearby branch, Kisame looked down upon the boy that was in a puddle of his own blood. He had felt the presence of an overwhelming chakra source coming from this very location with the help of Samehada. He assumed it was a powerful foe, but was mistaken when he saw the child dying alone. He frowned, which exposed the corners of his sharpened shark-teeth, turning his head to the left and watching the fireworks explode, lighting up the midnight sky. The boy was obviously from Konoha, judging by the shoe prints leading forth and back from the boy's spot.

So they had dumped him, but the question was why? He mused while slowly making his way down to the boy to check if he was alright.

Samehada licked her lips from behind the bandages, taking in the scent of the delicious chakra emanating from the boy's body.

"Gigigigigi! (What an amazing smell~!)"

Kisame shushed his sentient blade, the very same one he had taken from his old teacher, Fuguki Suikazan, for betraying their country. He was then listed as a missing-nin despite doing his job and eliminating a traitor. Hence, the reason he was escaping from Kirigakure and was headed towards Wave Country to lie low for a few months when he had stumbled across young Naruto.

He stepped over to the downed boy, his thin black eyebrows raised up and disappeared from his slashed Kirigakure headgear from watching in slight fascination as the cuts and lumps on his body slowly receded and fixed themselves to their original flawless, but dirty, state.

'A Kekkei Genkai?' Kisame wondered, for more interested in the boy. Judging by the way he was beaten up, he deduced that this was a common occurrence in the village for him, and that he would most likely join him than return to a village that did not care at all for him. He smirked, this would be interesting.

Naruto groaned, not really surprised that he didn't feel any more pain. He briefly wondered if he was in Jōdo with his family, only to realise that he wasn't judging from the cave he currently inhabited. His back felt uncomfortable as hell though, rocks and pebbles poking him from beneath the thin straw mattress. A small but brightly lit fire pit illuminated the grey walls of the cave, keeping him decently warm from the bone-chilling wind that would occasionally draft inwards, going deeper into the unlit sections of the cave.

"Finally awake huh, kid?" A man's voice asked him, one he did not recognize.

Naruto, fearing for the worst, leapt backwards, afraid that the stranger would hurt him. Only to be met by a hearty chuckle.

"Calm down kid. I'm not going to hurt you." The man stepped forth from the shadows, showing off his blue skin, the gill like markings on his cheek bones and his spiky blue hair. He had a, relatively, friendly grin that showed off his white shark teeth, something that scared the boy. Not to mention the giant bandaged corn-dog on the tall man's back.

"Chiageya! (Land Shark!)" Naruto screamed when he caught sight of the man's face, the cave echoing his last syllable loudly while the man slapped his knee and laughed harder.

"BWAHAHAHAH! Kid…" He paused, trying to regain his breath from the unintentional joke the boy told, "I like you, you're pretty funny." He said to Naruto with a smirk, causing the boy to blush from the compliment, something he had never heard before.

"Who are you and where are we?" Naruto asked Kisame, who told him his name explained to him the situation about the shark man finding the boy unconscious and bringing him into the cave due to the heavy rain, something that he could withstand, being a shark and what not, but not something a 6 year old child could without catching a cold.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto… and I'm 6!" The boy said proudly and loudly due to his lack of social skills, seeing as he had rarely talked to anyone in Konoha, save for the old man who always seemed suspicious and shifty whenever he talked to Naruto. Kisame smiled at the boy's enthusiasm, if he would agree on following and learning from Kisame, he would definitely lighten his day just by being near the bubbly boy. He paused, before his eyes drastically widened.

'Wait, Uzumaki?! Amazing, that village certainly didn't know what they got rid of.' And they certainly didn't, the Sandaime had everything and anything related to the Uzumaki clan wiped out and destroyed. The only living proof of them existing would be the red swirl at the back of the Konoha Chunnin and Jonin flak jackets.

"Say kid, have you ever wanted to be a ninja?" Kisame asked as he sat down next to the downtrodden boy, surpassing his height by a full metre. The boy would definitely make a great shinobi, with such a gigantic amount of chakra at his disposal due to his Uzumaki heritage and their apparent naturally gifted mastery over Kenjutsu since birth. He could easily teach the child some of his A-rank Suiton Jutsu's and he could easily toss them out like they were going out of style.

To his surprise, the boy started jumping all over the place, claiming that he wanted to become the best ninja in the Elemental Nations while making sound effects that sounded exactly like 'pew pew pew!' making Kisame laugh again at the boys hilarious antics.

"BWAHAHAHA!" He wiped a tear away from his eye, clutching his stomach in pain from laughing so hard. He grinned toothily at Naruto, who grinned right back, stretching his whisker marks wide apart, seeing as the man wanted to do him no harm.

"But you do know, once you leave with me, you cut all ties with Konoha, right?" Kisame suddenly turned serious, and as a child would, Naruto copied his expression and he too, became serious.

"They always beat me up, there's no way I'm going back there!" He declared, slightly angry at the village for hurting him. He promised himself that he would make them rue the day they crossed Uzumaki Naruto!

"I think we're going to have a very nice relationship, kiddo."

And indeed they did.

Time skip: 1 year. (7 Years old)

A 7 year old Naruto ran across the course, dodging speeding shuriken and zooming kunai's made of water thrown by his master.

"Good, Naruto! Keep going." Kisame yelled, throwing more and more water weapons, tossing them rapidly at different intervals to see if the blonde would slip up. He definitely saw improvement since the last few months of training where he had used dull weapons instead of sharpened just in case he actually hit the boy.

Which he did.

A lot.

He realised that the boy was lacking in any proper nutrition and minerals making him weak. He left the boy with a water clone, made from the nearby river, who taught him the different hand signs to cast Justus while the real Kisame was out grocery shopping.

He snickered inwardly every time a shopkeeper saw him and panicked when they thought he was a shark looking for prey, specifically, shopkeepers.

After a few weeks of eating decently, Naruto had gained some kind of mass, enough to actually cover his ribs and make him look like an actually 6 year old instead of a walking, talking skeleton.

Naruto had initially wanted to grow stronger, but Kisame insisted that he had to grow older before moving onto strength and should work on speed while he still had the time. He made the young boy run laps around their cave hideout, making sure that he was constantly aware of his surroundings by firing sharp and point objects at the scared blonde. Kisame was a hard taskmaster, but one who actually cared about him to train him to prevent him from dying so easily in the future.

Even Samehada had taken a liking to the boy, occasionally licking him to steal some of his chakra, not enough to actually cause the boy chakra exhaustion, but enough to satiate its taste for the unique chakra the boy had. Not like he was going to run out soon, seeing as he had high Jonin level reserves. Kisame had also taught him how to use smaller blades and how to throw weapons; he would teach Naruto how to use the bigger ones such as Samehada in the future when he had gotten stronger.

Naruto had actually gotten his first kill not too long ago, sure the boy had later vomited from the smell and the sight, but after that he held no remorse for the man. He tried to kill Naruto when he was injured and was escaping from enemy-nin, and had stumbled onto a sleeping Naruto by accident. Luckily for the boy, Kisame had always told him to sleep with a weapon, just in case you wake up to an enemy breaking down your door. And with hard instinctual throw, he embedded the kunai into the man's eyeball, killing him quickly.

Needless to say, Kisame was proud of him. He even bought him ramen as a celebration for killing his first vict- *cough* enemy.

Time skip: 8 years. (15 Years old)

Naruto dodged his master's punch, bobbing and weaving through the multiple taijutsu attacks his master sent his way. He manoeuvred left, dodging a large foot which went past his face with speed, causing his hair to be blown back from the force. Crouching low onto the grass, he swept his foot outwards, causing Kisame to jump to avoid the boy's strong kicks. Going through a chain of hand signs, Kisame grinned.

"Suiton: Ame Yose no Jutsu (Water Release: Rain Summoning Technique)!"

As that was said, the water in the air turned to condensation and rose to the skies. It didn't take long for a large storm cloud to form above the grassy battle field. Grey cotton merged together and rain started to drizzle lightly. Kisame continued with his hand signs, targeting his B-rank jutsu at Naruto who had back off considerably. Years of fighting his master had taught him to never get close to the Chiageya when he had a large supply of water and when his hands were still attached to his wrists.

"Get ready you blonde punk! Suiton: Suigadan (Water Release: Water Fang Bullet)!" Kisame shouted, firing multiple sharpened water bombs at the boy who jumped and rolled out of the way as they hit where he once stood, blowing up the grass and kicking up chunks of mud into the air.

Naruto retorted with his own Jutsu, one he had mastered with the help of Kisame.

"Suiton: Suikyouren (Water Release: Water Drill)!" Placing his hands at his chest, he forcefully shoved forwards, launching a spinning water drill that could easily rip through rocks like butter. Kisame smirked at his student's creation, impressive, but he was the one who assisted him in the making of the technique. Not to mention he was the one with more years of experience and chakra control.

"You'll never beat me with water Justus, Naruto!" Kisame laughed, quickly dashing straight ahead, right for the spinning drill. He easily leapt over it, causing Naruto to grimace, forgetting that his teacher could have easily done that. Kisame landed and rolled forwards, only to be forced to move to the side from a quick downwards slash, complimentary from Naruto's tanto.

Kisame cocked his both his fists backwards and released one of them in the form of an uppercut, one that caught Naruto's chin hard, and the other smashed into his gut soon after the first. Another quick side kick to his ribs and Naruto was knocked onto his side on the muddy grass, gasping for breath. Quite impressive that he managed to withstand his teacher's punches without even going unconscious, something he had learned from Kisame was to take a beating to last longer in battles. Without letting up the beat down he was dishing out, Kisame gave Naruto's ribs a powerful punt, knocking him away from the shark man, and landing violently at the far end of the field, splashing loudly as he rolled against the water.

"Urgh. My goddamn ribs." Naruto groaned, wishing that the Kurama would quickly mend the cracks in his usually sturdy frame.

The Kyuubi had made friends with Naruto throughout the years, meeting him first when Naruto got knocked into unconsciousness when he got his ass handed to him by his master. Eventually they had bonded close enough, leading to Kurama telling Naruto his name and about Naruto's family.

When he first heard that both his parents loved him right before they died, he broke down crying with a giant smile on his face. The blonde Jinchuuriki was incredibly elated that his parents did love him, only unable to show it due to their early deaths. On that day, he promised that he would treasure their sacrifice and work his hardest to become the best ninja in the world in their memory. When Kisame had been told that Naruto was the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi and the son of Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina, he nearly had a heart attack.

Uzumaki Kushina was an idol of his growing up, the 'Crimson Death of Konoha' was undoubtedly the most prominent and powerful Kenjutsu user in the Elemental Nations, being able to handle all of the Seven Swordsmen of The Mist at once with some difficulty. Not to mention the Yondaime Hokage, 'Konoha no Kiiroi Senkō (The Yellow Flash of the Leaf)', the man who effectively ended the 3rd Shinobi War with a single Jutsu, the 'Hirashin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique).

Not to mention the Kyuubi itself was a literal force of nature.

And from that day forth, Kisame was never surprised by anything Naruto ever did again.

"Hold on, ass-hat." Kurama grumbled, unhappy that he was being put as a medic. He was a force of nature that destroyed mountains and caused massive amounts of untold, wanton destruction wherever he went! Not some, rib-healing little prissy pot medic.

"Nuh-uh, you're not going to get any breathing room kid." Kisame had somehow made it across the field and above Naruto without him noticing. His eyes widened as Kisame brought his fist up high, his fist coated in a gauntlet of water.

"Ah shi-"

He never got to finish his curse as the water-covered fist collided with his face.

Review and what not. He's also going to be joining the Chunnin exams under a guise of another country. Flames will be ignored.

Tell me if I should give him the any other swords/all of the SSMOFM swords.