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Naruto P.O.V
" GET THE DEMON!"
"LET'S FINISH WHAT THE YONDAIME STARTED!"
These were the cries that I heard coming from the villagers as they chased me through the streets. Today was October 10th, my fifth birthday. It was also the fifth anniversary of the defeat of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. Every year on this day since I was kicked out of the orphanage at the age of three, the villagers would chase we and beat me. I didn't know the reason why, and honestly I did not care. All I knew was that I hated the villagers.
Oh sure, the esteemed Hokage thought that I was an idiot who would smile at the smallest things in life. He thought I was a fool that would run around screaming about ramen and being Hokage in that atrocious orange jumpsuit. He thought that he could control me. He thought that I would be the weapon of Konoha, and that I would give my life for this pathetic village. My acting skills are better than I thought.
I started training to be a ninja a few months ago. I realized that i I never learned to defend myself, I would soon be dead. I was lucky enough to find a scroll digging through the trash about shinobi basics. I learned to open my chakra, and with a basic henge, I walked into the library and checked out books that would help me on my journey as a ninja. When I went to the desk, the librarian just smiled at me and marked the books down. Hmph. Usually she would sneer at me and then proceed to kick me out of the library. Stupid pink-haired bitch.
Despite everything I learned, it was not enough for my current predicament. I knew that my five-year old body was too weak too put up much of a fight or to continue on too long, and soon the moment that I dreaded arrived.
Just as I was turning the corner, I could feel the sharp end of a kunai digging into my heel. I tumbled down and fell onto my stomach, and I braced myself for the coming beating.
End Naruto P.O.V
The villagers formed a circle around the boy. The child was in poor health. He was a short, malnourished boy, who only came in at a height of 3' 4". Through the tears in his shirt, you could see the ribs pressing up against his skin. His sun-kissed blond hair was a straggly yet spiky mess mixed in with dirt, and dirt smeared his face. Even through the dirt on his face, the trio of whisker marks on each of his cheeks could be seen. A subdued fear could be seen shining in his eyes.
"Well, well, well, looks like the little demon has final ran out of juice" said one villager maliciously. He was holding a pitchfork in one hand, and his visage was marred by a deep hatred for the child before him.
"We are going to teach you a lesson you damn Kyuubi! This is for my daughter that you killed five years ago!"
The villager raised his pitchfork and thrusted it forward, intent on spearing it through the the belly of the blonde. Before he could accomplish this though, a villager slapped the pitchfork out of his hand. The same villager said
"Kenshin, are you a moron! If we damage the seal, the kyuubi might get its power back! Lets get the help of a few ninja and take him to the Forest of Death and beat him up there! The animals will finish him off and then the Hokage cannot kill us!"
The same villager with the pitchfork though for a second until he stepped back, letting the chuunin that were in the mob to grab the youngling. With smirks adorning their faces, they carried the boy into the Forest of Death. Soon, they found a training post and tied the boy to it. One of the chuunin started to run through a series of seals and said,
"This is you damn demon brat. This is your end. I am going to personally send you to hell, and then I will be hailed as a hero."
The chuunin took in a deep breath, and exhaled. While the air left his body, a ball of fire came out of his mouth. Over the fiery light, a cry was heard.
"Katon: Gōkyakū no Justu!"
The squad of chuunin looked back one last time at the screaming mass of fire that was once Naruto. They looked at each other one last time smirking at each other. They departed to return to the mob, to tell them about the death of the Kyuubi.
Naruto P.O.V
Pain.
That is all I felt. I felt a searing hot pain on my flesh, and I yearned for it to stop. I hoped to fall unconscious so that I would not have to deal with this. All I could think of doing was screaming. I screamed myself hoarse, and the sound was a haunting sound that would stay in the nightmares of any real person for the rest of their lives.
"What have I done to deserve this! I will not let it end this way. I will not let these pathetic fools bring about the end of me! I will live! I will survive! I will destroy the pathetic inhabitants of this village!" Naruto raged in his head.
Even as he thought this, he found it harder and harder to focus. Soon, he was embraced with the sweet relief of unconsciousness. Soon his heartbeat slowed down until it stopped. His lungs stopped functioning soon after, and he gave out his last shuddering breath of air. Uzumaki Naruto was dead, even as his body was burning in the Forest.
End Naruto P.O.V - Mindscape
Deep within the confines of the recently-deceased boy's mind, a giant kitsune laid locked behind the bars of a giant gate. The giant gates stood in the wastes of a giant sewer. As the lighting in the sewer grew ever dimmer, the kitsune stirred from its slumber, awoken by the dire situation of its container. As it awoke and took its bearings, it realized something both important and worrying.
His container was dying.
Usually this would not have been a problem, but his life force was tied to that of the child. He knew that if the shadows that were creeping ever so closer to him touched him, that he would be dead for at least the next thousand years at the least, or permanently at the worst. Either case was bad for the fox. For the first time in its life, the fox felt fear, fear for its life. He roared angrily, and swiped his paw against the bars of the cage, eliciting a series of clangs.
"This cannot be! I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the greatest of the Bijuu! I will not meet my end at the hands of a bunch of ningen! Curse you Yondaime!"
In his panicked state, he continued to send youki burst after youki burst through the body of its container, hoping in vain that it will resurrect his container. When its attempts failed, he sat back and resigned himself to what was going to inevitably pass. Just as he settled on his haunches, the mindscape brightened back up, and it shifted.
Gone was the smelly sewer, and in its place was a giant forest. The bars meleted away and were turned into a collar that was fastened around the nine-tailed demon's neck. This collar was attacked to a chain that was attached to a giant pole stuck in the ground, inscribed with seals. Just as the Kyuubi thought that things could not get any weirder, a giant ball of black energy and a giant ball of white energy appeared and seemed to fight over dominance. as the two orbs fought, they inevitably approached the area that the Kyuubi was chained to.
The Kyuubi saw the approaching orbs and started muttering to himself in fear,
"I do not know what those orbs are, but they seem familiar. I really don't want to touch them, so I need to get out of here."
The giant kitsune started to paw at the chain, trying in desperation to try and remove its connection to the mind. No matter how hard it would try though, the chain would hold fast, and it seemed to get stronger with each attempt. When it took a short respite, it heard a low humming sound, and whipped its head around to see what was the cause of the disturbance. It did not even get the chance to scream as its body was burned away by the white light. Just before its consciousness was destroyed, he was able to remember what type of energy it was
"Damn it...done in by holy energy..."
Even as the giant demon fox was being destroyed by the holy energy, the demonic youki of the kitsune was still left behind. While the youki was floating around in a gaseous cloud, it came into contact with the black orb of energy. After it had finished assimilating the remnants of the youki, the orb of energy, now demonic energy, settled down with the holy energy. Soon, a third circulatory system was formed, and the demonic and holy energies started to flow through it.
Real World
Even as the energy clashed within his body, changes could happening to the burnt body. New flesh stretched over the burnt patches of skin, and the sounds of muscles tearing and bones snapping could be heard as the body grew to a respectable height of 4'. A fair bit of muscle started to form on the body, but nothing too big considering the age of the boy. Finally, the most obvious changes occurred to the boy. His hair started to darken until it reached a blood red color, and grew until it reached his shoulders while it straightened out of its spikes. His whiskers started to fade away until they were completely gone. Even though no one could see it, his once cerulean eyes changed into a shade of amethyst.
After all these changes were complete, Naruto's eyes started flickering back and forth underneath his eyelids. What was unknown though, was that he was going over the memories of the Kyuubi. Centuries of fighting, hiding, and years of being sealed and the memories of the two former containers flew by his eyes as if they were a movie. After this was done, the eyes of the former blonde opened slowly.
These eyes were different than before. While before his beating there was a subdued fear and anxiety in his eyes, now his eyes betrayed nothing. He slowly pulled himself up onto his feet, and took a look around the clearing. His lips quirked downward into and tiny frown and he said disdainfully,
"Hn. This is why I hate humans. They call me a demon yet they beat up on a child and burn him to death. The name Uzumaki Naruto has given me nothing but grief in my life. From now on, I am no longer Uzumaki Naruto. He died tonight, being burned to death by his fellow villagers. From now on, I will only be called Unmei."
With this, the boy turned away from the village and ran deeper into the forest. As he ran he started to think to himself,
"Never again. Never again shall I be weak. Never again shall I lie helplessly while others gloat over me, ready to kill me. I will get strong. I will be powerful. I will be the strongest, and then none shall stop me."
After that personal thought, the renamed redhead landed on a thick branch of a giant tree. He leaned his back against the tree, and went to sleep. He had a lot of memories to go over, especially the ones that dealt with training that he would need. He might hate humans, but he could not deny that they had some very versatile arts, especially when it came to seals.
Hokage Office, Konohagakure no Sato
While all this was happening, an elderly man in white robes was sitting in his office completing his paperwork. While he was scowling at the work in front of him, he was smoking from a pipe. This man was Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage and the Kami no Shinobi.
As he was furiously attacking the bane of all kages, angry thoughts were flying through his head.
"Damn little devils, I will destroy you before you get a chance to reproduce. I will find a way to destroy you little shits permanently. Damn you Minato for dying and making me take this job again. Damn you for taking the secret of paperwork to your grave as well."
As he was going through paper after paper, an anbu shunshinned into his office. He looked up with a brief glance, and said in his commander voice,
"Tora, there better be a good reason why you are interrupting me right now. If not, well, there are always D-rank missions that need to be done. Kami knows that the genin never get them all done."
As the Hokage said this, the anbu paled a bit before he coughed into his hand. After he cleared his throat, he reported,
"Hokage-sama, sorry for the interruption, but we cannot locate Uzumaki Naruto. We lost track of him a few hours ago after my team and I had to break up a drunken riot in the market district. The last known location of Uzumaki was the Red Light District."
When the aged leader heard the name "Naruto" in the report, he shot his head up. He looked his anbu dead in the eye and threatened,
"This better not be a joke Tora, otherwise you will pay for it. Call in Inu and Neko, I want to hear the story from them as well."
After waiting for a couple of minutes, the Hokage felt the chakra signatures of Inu and Neko approach his office. Once they appeared in a pair of leaf shunshins, the Sandaime launched straight into questioning both of his underlings.
"Neko, Inu, today I assigned you to watch over one Uzumaki Naruto to make sure that he was not beaten too much. Tora has just reported that Uzumaki is missing. Care to explain yourselves?"
Both Neko and Inu detected the dangerous undertone that was present in their leader's voice. They knew that they had to be careful, otherwise things would turn out really bad for the both of them. Inu, seeing that Neko was not going to answer, took the initiative to answer the question.
"Sandaime-sama, we were watching over the boy and saw that he was being chased by a mob. As per your orders, we were going to wait for the child to be beaten a bit until we got you and staged the rescue. Before the beating could start though, there was an explosion in the market district. We thought that we had more time, so we went to go investigate what had happened. After we quelled the riot, we returned for the boy, but he was no where in sight. We brought in some chuunin that were near the last spot Uzumaki was seen, and they are right outside the door. Shall we bring them in?"
After contemplating what the gray, spiky-haired anbu had said, the aged leader gave a slight nod giving his affirmation to bring the squad of chuunin into his office. Neko, seeing this, went to the door, and opened it. Stepping aside, a squad of chuunin stumbled into the office with goofy grins pasted onto their faces. They all had the stench of alcohol wafting off of their clothes.
The Hokage knew that something was wrong, so he started interrogating the chuunin,
"You four were located near the sight of the last known location of one Uzumaki Naruto. Do any of you where the boy is right now?"
One of the more drunk chuunin did not detect the seriousness of the situation, so he opened his mouth and slurred out the truth.
"Yeah, we know where that little shit is right now. We dragged the kyuubi brat into the Forest of Death and then tied him to a training post. We did not want the demon to escape without receiving his punishment from his betters, so we lit him of fire with a katon jutsu. He screamed real loud, didn't he, Kenichi? It got even better when he got all quiet."
The moronic chuunin just stood there and smiled like an idiot while the friend he pointed out nodded in agreement. The both of them and their fellow two comrades did not know what was wrong until it was too late.
"YOU FOOLS! INU, NEKO, TORA, TAKE THEM TO IBIKI AND TELL HIM THAT THERE ARE NO LIMITS ON THESE FOOLS! I DON'T WANT THEM SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY EVER AGAIN!"
After the Sandaime was finished with his tirade, he slumped back into his seat and let out a frustrated sigh. When the three anbu had returned to the Hokage's office, Neko decided to question her leader.
"Hokage-sama, what now? What will we do now that Naruto is dead. The other nations will surely attack us once they learn that our jinchurriki is dead."
Sarutobi gave out a resigned sigh and decided to answer his subordinate.
"I don't know, Neko, I don't know. That damn brat was supposed to be our dependent weapon once he had gone through mental conditioning to make him completely loyal to me. Now that he is dead, we can only wait for the Kyuubi to reform and then seal it into another child. Maybe this time I will give the child to Danzo. Inu, Neko, Tora, you are all dismissed."
The three anbu gave a slight nod a disappeared in a trio of shunshin. Sarutobi cleared his desk and decided to go home. He was in too much turmoil at the moment to finish his paperwork. Once he had reached home, he climbed into bed and shut his eyes to go to sleep. His last though before he nodded off was,
"I'm sorry Minato. Your plans for a weapon for Konoha have gone awry. Maybe we can get it right the next time."
R&R. This is my first story, so I want to see what you all think of it before I continue. If the reviews are good, I should have a chapter out by the end of the week.