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"demon talking"
"normal talking"
'thinking'
Chapter 1: it all started with a fox
I welcome you, my dear readers, to read the tale of one Naruto Uzumaki.
Okay now, let me think where to begin... I could start at Naruto's birth, but for you to understand what's going to happen after the deaths of his mother and father it's probably better if I'll start a little earlier, so yeah, the story started while the young babe was still in his mother womb.
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It was a beautiful day, lovely really. The sun was high in the sky and no clouds covered the blue, birds' thrilled happily, singing with melodic voices, a perfect day. There was no apparent threat approaching as far as the villagers knew and their lives were lived happily.
Well, other than a couple's first born birth, which his name, they decided, was going to be Naruto.
Naruto's mom, Kushina, and his dad, Manito, were sitting together looking worried and talking in hushed voices. Kushina Uzumaki was a pretty, young lady, with bright red hair and sparkling green-blue eyes, creamy skin and feared temper. Manito Namikaza, also known as the village's fourth Hokage, Yellow Flash and the strongest man of his time, was a young man with blond hair, ocean blue eyes and impressive figure.
Kushina looked at Manito and held his bigger hand in her smaller one, they were both worried, you see… The soon to be mother is the current kyuubi's host, meaning, she is the jailer of the nine tailed fox, a beast so tariffing that it could level a mountain with just a flick of its tail, and because of this fact, in the day of her son's birth, the kyuubi could break the seal holding it captive and escape if it will be trying hard enough.
"Manito, I'm scared, what if the damned fox will break out of the seal? Our son will be in danger, not to talk about the village itself! I just don't know if it's wise to have the birth so close to the village" The Red headed female said with a small voice, she let herself get hugged by her soon to be husband, the wedding was going to be just a few days from now, and the couple couldn't be any happier.
"Everything will be alright Kushina-Chan, you will see, nothing can rival you and hope to win," the blond laughed before looking her in the eye "not even a nine tailed fox. Naruto will be fine, you will see" the yellow haired Hokage said while smiling and hugging his soon to be wife.
The blonde kissed The Red head on her cheek and let his smile grew bigger "I informed Jiraya that he and Tsunada that they will be Naruto's godparents. The pervert was over joyed and Tsunada asked to be there at the birth" that made the soon to be mother smile warmly.
"Did he now? I hope he won't take his godson to his 'work', don't you agree Manito-kun?" The Red head said, the blonde nodded and smiled
"That's what Tsunada's for" they both chuckled
"Manito," Kushina said quietly "you have to be prepared for the fox. Promise me, for Naruto and for this village's sakes" The Red head said with determination, "as far as I know, the only way to deal with a tailed beast is to seal it, but that will make matters worse for the host. The people won't see the host as a host, but as the beast itself, I want you to be ready for that Manito, since I know you, and I know that if things will come to that you will use Naruto to seal the fox" she sighed
"I wanted you to know what will happen to Naruto" she said and sighed again, there was deep sadness in her voice and in her eyes shown tears "this way you can talk with the third and work out a plan of sort, to make things easier for Naruto. Believe me when I say it, he will need it"
The blonde sighed but nodded all the same "I promise Kushina-Chan. How about we will learn about the seals together, see if there's anything that can make them better?"
The Red head nodded and laughed.
Maybe they won't have to leave their son alone.
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They looked everywhere, they tried everything and Manito even sent Anbu to some hidden villages, just to find out if they had something that could help with the sealing.
So far they found a way to protect the host from direct contact with the hosted, it will stay that way until the host will be in life threatening situation or if he will try to find the fox on his own, also, they found a way to have the hosted Chakra to leak to the host, without it harming him, this way the host will have larger Chakra reserve then what he was going to get on his own, it will also act as an antidote to large portions of the hosted Chakra, which they discovered to act like poison.
But so far, no way to save The Red head husband.
'I don't know if I can leave Naruto alone, and if Manito will die I will surly soon follow', she knew of only one thing she could do for her son, and so she will do it.
"So you finally come to visit, Jailer-San"
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Ok now let's move on to the birth. Naruto's mom and dad are outside of the village. His mom is in deep pain, cursing the moment she let her child's father come anywhere near her. The boy's dad was panicking, running in cycles like a soon to be headless chicken and swore that next time, he will be as far away as he can while The Red head would be giving birth, if she'll let him come near her in the future that is...
So Kushina's giving birth, with only Manito and a few trusted Anbu from Manito's privet guard present. But, something was going to go wrong, that thing, my dear readers… I think I'll tell you a bit later.
They were so carful, but still, it didn't help, the Kyuubi escaped.
So the Kyuubi is now out of the still giving birth soon to be mom, trying to kill\hurt\destroy... anything that it can come close enough to. Kushina is dying. Manito has to sacrifice his life to save the village and his soon to be born son.
He tried everything else he could think of, he called his Summon to fight, used a few forbidden Justus, but nothing hurt the Kyuubi.
"What now Manito?!" asked the toad boss.
"There is only one thing I can do now to save everyone, and now that Kushina's dying, it will have even a heavier praise on my son, I'm afraid" the blond said with a sad-depressed voice just as the sound of his son crying came to him, it filled him with determination.
He had to do this, for his son, for his village.
"I'm going to use the shinigami's seal. I have only one more thing to ask of you dear friend. Please, if you'll ever meet my son, help him" and with that the fourth Hokage did the hand signs for the shinigami's seal while fusing some other Justus into it. At least hours upon hours of studying will be paying off.
The shinigami appeared and with only one look around it, it knew why it was summoned to this place "are you sure you want to do it mortal?" the shinigami said "the praise to what you're about to do, it will be your life", the blond nodded smiling sadly.
'Naruto, I'm sorry'
"I know, but that's the only way Shinigami-Sama, I will give my life to save the lives that will be dead if not that act. For my son's life, I will give mine. I don't want to do it, but its better that way. I know my son will grew up without a father and a mother, but the only other option is not growing up at all. I'm ready Shinigami-Sama, please seal the fox inside this infant" the Shinigami nodded.
So the Shinigami sealed the nine tailed fox inside of the young babe while taking his father's life.
And just a few minutes later The Red head joined him.
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The third Hokage was the only one who knew, everyone else that knew died in the Kyuubi's attack, well except for the child godfather and godmother, but he was away from town and she got carried away by her husband to safety before the Shinigami was summoned, and so he too will only come to know about what happened that night.
The third took the child away from his dead father's body, knowing all too well who the child was, but saw no reason to keep quiet about what happened, about the fox being sealed inside the child. He knew he was going against the Fourth Hokage wishes, but he wanted the child to be seen as a hero.
He told the whole village what the child contained, but did not tell them the child's parentage; they did not need to know. It was for the child's protection, his parents had lots of enemies.
The Third didn't know why but the moment he told the villagers of the infant they looked at it in fear, starting to call for its head. This terrified the Third, the child was supposed to be hailed a hero, not a monster, so he did the only thing he could. He forbade them to talk about it. It was a forbidden topic.
Anyone to say otherwise will die.
In the following three years the babe was placed in the only orphanage that agreed to take care of it, but only because the old man (the Third) paid them a lot of money to do so.
The old man came every once in a while to see how the child was doing and took him out to play.
It was the only times the child's caretakers saw fit to smile at him and to not look at him like he was a monster, they even gave the small child food!
The first few times that it happened got the child really confused, he didn't get why someone would act so bad to him a lot of time and then just change in a heartbeat. Later he connected the change of heart to his Ojii-san's visits.
When he came to the Orphanage Naruto got to go OUT of the damn place, when the old man came they would eat good and tasty foods, not the rotten things people kept giving him, they would play outside until the sun set and it was dark outside, Naruto could even talk to the other children like he was their friend!
When the old man wasn't there, the young child was left in his room alone, it was small and filled with dust, and on the other side of the door the stupid caretakers locked the locks to keep him inside.
They always ignored him no matter how well he behaved, he was trying to be the best he could, but that only made the caretakers angry. More than once they left him outside his room to sleep on the hard floor just because they pretended that he was not there, that he did not exist.
He couldn't take that. Any child no matter if he was fed, cleaned, and well slept, only wanted to be loved, and Naruto wanted that more than anyone. The children avoided him, calling him a monster and he found himself alone more than he liked it.
It was more painful than any beating he could ever experience.
Around three years old the young blond child with the crystal blue eyes started to get into trouble. He pulled on pranks, tried to make them notice him.
At first it didn't work, and he had to take it to the next level where they got too annoyed or mad to ignore him, but then IT happened, the thing that changed his life forever!
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Naruto was sitting in a dark room and preparing his next prank, it involved explosives, fish, paint, a flout and some old Shuriken that he found not too long ago.
He was trying to tie the explosives to the bucket of paint when it just went and exploded on him.
Not that surprising, since exploding tags activates by chakra pulse, and while Naruto was getting frustrated (the damn thing did not want to get tied!) he released without knowing small pulses of chakra, quite normal to those with abnormal chakra reserves.
And like any other child faced with an explosion,
He fainted.
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Naruto woke up in some kind of a sewer. He looked around him and felt the cold water underneath him. This place was cold and creepy; there was a smell of something burning and a cold laugh echoing though the sewer. Gulping the three years old did his way to the source of the laughing. He followed the laughter to a big room that hosted a large metal cage with the word seal written on a piece of paper that was glowed to it, inside the cage was something red-white-and-black. Naruto didn't know what that was, but The Red was probably what made the weird red mist that surrounded the room and probably was the source of the creepy laughter.
"I see you finally came" the voice said, it looked like the voice came from the Big Red. Naruto walked closer to The Red and stared at it.
It moved, reviling big red eyes, Naruto looked at it with curiosity, The Red laughed and its laughter sent shivers thought the young child's body.
"Who are you?" the young child asked, he didn't know if The Red will answer him, most people never answered, they liked to ignore him when he spoke, but it seemed The Red was not like the other people.
That made Naruto happy.
It answered the boy, it looked at him and it smiled. Naruto didn't even care that the smile was creepy and looked more evil than anything else the young child saw in his short life.
It was a smile, for him.
"Do you mean a name?" the child asked.
The Kyuubi knew that anyone, even that small child that stood in front of it should know about who it was. After all it was the strongest of the Bijuu, the king of the tailed beasts, it was the Kyuubi no Kituna, and like a true king it was feared and respected at all places.
Children knew of its title, old and young. The child nodded, a hopeful look in his eyes was showing. Someone was talking to him, even if it was that red unknown thing,
"The name's Kurama"
The thing said, making the young child smile with true happiness. The Red told him its name! Maybe it will want to be his friend! Naruto never had a friend before. He saw all the other kids in the orphanage, playing, being friends, but none of them wanted to even come near him. They said he was a demon and humans shouldn't get close to demons.
But The Red isn't a human... So maybe…
"Hello Kurama" the young child said "Naruto's name is Naruto" the kyuubi chuckled. The child didn't fear him, but that could be changed, and it probably will with time.
Why not to have fun with the thing while he didn't fear?
"I know child. I've known ever since I was sealed inside of you. After all, you are her son"
The child's eyes widen and his mouth was open in wonder and hope, the child held his hands close to himself and whispered in a soft voice "her?" the Kyuubi nodded.
"Your mother"
The Kyuubi could see a small tear on the young child's face. It didn't know why the child was crying, it didn't say anything to make him cry, only that... ho...
"You knew her? You knew my mother?"
The fox nodded and smiled sadly, it knew how hard it was to be alone and hated. It wasn't as evil as people thought. He did try to ruin the boy's village but that was to be expected after what happened "want to hear about her child?" the beast asked, the child nodded "like me your mother had red hair. She had white skin and soft dreaming eyes. Her hair was long and soft, but her words could hurt even demons like me with their sharpness. She was a worrier, a ninja from another land, from far… far away. She was young and in love with your father.
A few days before she died she came to talk to me" the kyuubi said while looking at the child.
"Why?" Naruto asked quietly, afraid that if he would speak to loud he won't know the rest of what the big red knew of his mother.
"She was pregnant with you" the Kyuubi said softly "but she knew that the birth was going to be a dangerous process. She knew there was a chance I will escape"
"What do you mean? Where would you escape from? Why having a baby was dangurus?"
"Dangerous, Naruto, not dangurus. And like I am sealed inside of you, before you were born, I was sealed inside of your mother. She wasn't a very good host mind you, but she was better than her mother"
"Wow, so my mom and her mom hosted you before me? Why?"
"I don't know, really, and it started with your grandmother's mom, so that's four generations" the fox sighed "anyways, she came to me and asked me for a favor" the fox smiled wildly "I laughed in her face, asked her why should I help her. She looked at me with her soft eyes and said that she was willing to make a deal"
"A deal?"
"Yes, a deal you see, she had a friend that she liked and I hated, Uchia something, she wanted you to be friends with her friend's soon to be born son, Sus-something... Of course, being an Uchia, I was all aginst it. Did you know that as a part of the Uchia's awakening of the Sharingan they need to kill their best friend?"
"Anyways, as a part of the deal I demanded that you will be kept as far away from the Uchia as possible. If you are going to be my host I don't want you dead"
"And? Did she agree?"
"She didn't have a choice"
"So what did she ask you? for the deal?"
"Well, she asked me to take care of you, to make sure that you are as happy as you can be. I was going to keep you safe anyways, and cause of the seal I couldn't meet you before, but now I have to keep my end of the deal"
"Say, Kurama... can I ask you something?" the child asked, his big blue eyes looking at the giant fox with pleading eyes, sighing the fox nodded his head yes.
"can you be my father?" at first Naruto wanted to ask Kurama to be his friend, but something the Big Red thing said when he talked about his mother made him ask it to be his father. He wanted a father, and the Big Red said it knew his.
They both weren't human.
So why not?
The question took the fox off guard, but made him smile none the less, this time it was a nice smile like that of a parent.
"You are human. Do you really want a non-human father?" the fox asked, only for the small child to look at him confused
"Me? Human?"
The fox nodded its head yes "but I was told I'm not a human, that I'm a demon" the child said that made the fox angry, those humans did not deserve this child.
Kurama stopped to think for a moment. It was his duty to make the child happy.
Will he be happy as a human?
As an orphan?
"Do you want to be human? Do you want to be demon?" the fox asked "I can make you both"
The child looked at the Big Red "Kurama, are you a human or a demon? I want to be like you" the fox nodded his head in understanding. It could make the child like him; he was the nine tailed fox.
"I can make you like me child, but are you sure that's what you wish?" in the child eyes shown a light of determination.
"I want, Otto-san" the child said, tasting the word on his thong.
"Do you even know what I am?" the fox said "I am a tailed beast, a demon. I am the king of my kind. I am the nine tailed fox. If you continue it will make you my son. It will make you my heir, the prince of my race, the future Kyuubi, and a nine tailed fox demon.
"I do!" the child said
"Fine child, but now rest. When you will wake up do not speak of this meeting to anyone, not even that old man of yours, if you will, I won't be your father and you will not be my son"
"For now you train. Make sure to learn all that you can. On your sixth birthday you will be reborn as a fox demon, and I will be freed from this seal to be your father"
The child nodded and happily ran to the giant fox to cuddle next to and sleep. He was happy, he has a father now.