As the glowing golden sun set over a glorious October 10th a majority of the residents of Konohogakure no Sato were preparing for a fun night to celebrate the fall of the Kyuubi no Kitsune one of the Biju shaped like huge nine tailed fox who had ravaged the village killing many of their shinobi. The beast was defeated by their fourth hokage, the great hero of the leaf; Minato Namikaze. He defeated the great chakra beat but unknown to most Biju cannot be truly killed so instead it was sealed into a new-born child. A certain blonde child.
However amongst the bubbling aura of expectation for the celebratory festival one resident of this great village was preparing for what he knew was going to be a long and most likely painful night. The small eight year old ducked behind a bin in a dark side alley concealing a small round face framed by golden bangs and featuring piercing blue eyes glowing with terror through the fast approaching dark. His already stained orange jumpsuit was pressed against a grimy filth stained wall and he held his breath as a group of loud, and most likely drunk civilians, passed feet from his hiding place. He tucked his trembling knees against his chest and began nervously picking at his fraying blue ninja sandals. He let his breath out slowly. This was going to be a long night.
Several hours later the sound of a smashing bottle shattered the young boy's slumber as he jerked forward, his young mind already familiar with what accompanied that noise, pain and torment. True enough as Naruto staggered uneasily to his feet he twisted seeing a group of noisy men swaying along the street, framed darkly and menacingly. Good they hadn't seen him, almost as if he had cursed it at that exact moment one of the men glanced at the small figure skulking in the alleyway trying to back away as slowly as possible. Crying out to his comrades the man charged towards the sun kissed blonde who in turn backpedalled rapidly whipping round almost tripping in his haste to escape the mob that grew as more shouts rang out after the receding figure. "Kill the demon!" they cried.
Naruto had hoped, as he often did, that he could escape his pursuers but as he glanced over his shadows he saw the mob of now around fifty people still swarming behind him. The people seemed more terrifying in the dark than they did in the light, and kicking him out of shops and glaring at him was nothing compared to what he was sure would happen to him if these residents caught him. With these thoughts in his mind the young boy urged his legs to pump faster and though his muscles screamed in protest he pulled further away from the group however but the jeers and insults following him ensured that the blonde didn't slow. Despite this Naruto was confident that he could escape, it was at this point his legs buckled beneath him no longer able to carry the slight weight of their charge.
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Naruto was used to pain, the fact that as an eight year old he was able to stay conscious even after the maelstrom of blows that had already rained upon his fragile body was a miracle, but currently Naruto was unsure if that was a blessing or a curse. "Still awake Demon?" came the scornful tone of one of his attackers. Apparently Naruto's whimper was not a sufficient answer for the man as a kick swiftly followed striking the young boy straight in the temple rolling him onto his back. The stars in front of his eyes were matched by the real stars sitting in the sky above the torture chamber that were the streets of his home. As he stared at the sky the pain in his shaking body began to fade away and the blows now pounding into his ribs felt like feathers raining down o him. Tickling feathers Naruto thought as he began to giggle uncontrollably rolling on the floor oblivious to his body's cry of agony and despair. The men backed away from the boy who no longer seemed weak but incredibly creepy which was reinforced by the hatred thick in the air which rolled of the child in waves. This was not what they'd expected at the start of this confrontation.
As the tickling stopped Naruto stopped his hysterics and slowly sat up glancing at the men, "hmm you guys are mean" he stated pouting at them. This simple statement seemed to terrify the assorted drunks who couldn't believe the young boy was alive never mind pouting at them after the barrage of hits they had landed on him. Back with Naruto he felt a dark cloud settle over his mind. "They are 'mean' as you put it kit because they don't think you are strong" a voice seeming to come from his own head purred. "Hmm who are you then Mr I know everything?" the fact that this question was raised aloud probably didn't do much for the now terrified civilians who were slowly backing away from the previously incapacitated boy. "I am a friend child but I can show these nasty men how strong you are if you'll only agree" the voice returned to Naruto's mind. The boy giggled making Kyuubi, the Nine tails being the voice sounding from within his seal on the blonde, worry about his mental stability after all the beatings and hostility the boy had received, not that he was complaining since an insane host was probably more malleable than a sane one and until he could escape the fox had to make the most of his time in his prison. "I'll look after you child, they won't be able to hurt you with me here" that seemed to do it as the boy nodded his head quickly which the fox took as his signal. Now to push his jailor into a more interesting mental state thought the Kitsune chuckling as he forced some chakra through the bars of his cage.
A sudden rush of power flooded through Naruto like ecstasy and for the first time in his short and dark life the boy felt powerful, powerful enough to make the bad men leave him alone. Speaking of bad men the boy now cloaked in a red bubbling cloak of what felt like death and despair turned to face one of his ex-attackers. His blood red eyes framed dark whisker marks that were barely visible before his transformation stood out now. The red streaks in his previously golden hair gave it the impression of being blood soaked, Naruto then proceeded to ruin the image of terror by again giggling, "this is gonna be sooo much fun" he squealed. Inside his cage the fox really worried for the child's sanity. He smirked; probably not as worried as he was about the men trapped outside with said crazy jinchuriki. Outside the men seemed to share his opinion.
Naruto jumped towards one of his attackers, a chubby man dressed in filthy alcohol soaked garbs, however Naruto had no idea that with the Kyuubi's power he was much faster and stronger than before. The result of which was Naruto blurring forward at incredible speed and his outstretched arm smashing into the man's chest completely shattering the victim's ribs and puncturing his lungs before crushing his heart in a spray of blood before said, now, corpse toppled backwards leaving said killer stood staring at his blood soaked hand in a mixture of horror and fascination. As the boy held the blood soaked appendage up to the light apparently distracted one of the other stunned civilians grabbed a smashed bottle and charged at the seemingly unaware child. Naruto heard? Wait heard? Yes, heard footfalls coming from behind him? Oh well the blonde thought I'm not gonna ignore my new found power, but suddenly his body was not under his control and it swung around at an unnatural speeds with one of his arms almost instantaneously falling down onto the attacking man when the red power covering his body formed claws bisecting the man's body clean in two from shoulder to hip. "Don't worry kit I'll take care of them for you now" came the soothing voice as Naruto felt all feeling leave his body. The boy blurred out of view fazing into existence between three civilians incapacitated by the enormous amount of killing intent released. The possessed body blurred again in a flash of blood and screams swiftly followed by death as various body parts littered the now blood stained alleyway. The Kyuubi smiley cunningly, what fun could he have now?
In his office high above the village Hiruzen Sarutobi the wizened third hokage had taken a break from battling his arch enemy the dreaded paperwork and was leaning back contentedly smoking his pipe when he felt something that sent his blood cold and terrified the god of shinobi himself. He felt the Kyuubi's chakra. Almost as soon as he felt it his anbu guards flickered into view their porcelain masks shining white in the light, a stark contrast to their dark body armour. "Hokage-sama what are your orders?" the hokage paused for a second considering his options but only for a second "subdue him but I want him alive, am I understood?" he held the gaze of the anbu captain. "Hai Hokage-sama" was his only reply before the assembled shinobi blurred out of sight.
Elsewhere Kyuubi was enjoying his first taste of freedom in eight years, doing what he had been imagining doing for the entirety of his imprisonment. Torturing his jailor, Naruto was trapped somewhere dark and steamy with a dark metal floor covered in a thin layer of water and walls covered with pipes snaking along them. In front of him suspended as if on a giant screen was the view through Naruto's eyes. The blonde himself was on the floor shivering, his eyes wide but glazed over white hands clenching his hair but he was unable to avert his eyes from the decimation committed by his own body, "I thought you were going to make them leave me alone" he screamed forcing his face into his knees finally cutting his eyes off from the vision of suffering. "I did brat, these fools will never harm you again, not unless you can speak to the dead." The Kyuubi materialised behind the broken boy, huge metal bars being the only thing stopping the demon from attacking the boy right there. "You killed them all!" the boy cried in anguish "why did you kill them all? I didn't want them dead….I just wanted peace" his voice trailed off in the end. "They were going to kill you as well you know" the Kyuubi cooed "I'm protecting you kit, mortals do not understand demons like us" with his short piece done the giant fox rested his head on his front paws. Naruto dragged himself to his knees facing the prison. His sapphire eyes were red with crying, his whisker marks surrounded by other scratches and he was slumped forward. Broken the Kyuubi mused, excellent. "What do you mean demons?" the boy whispered shaking as he raised his widened eyes to stare into the crimson orbs of the fox. "I mean boy, that you are not one of them. You are exactly what they hate you for, you are a cold killer blooded killer, you were born to bathe in blood and you can never around and of those pieces of scum because you will kill them!" Throughout his speech the Kyuubi was raising his voice shouting through the hands pressed to the blonde's ears attempting to block out the noise and with the penultimate phrase he burst out in tears burying his head into the floor again.
It was at this point that the anbu appeared around the main street the possessed Naruto was standing in, glancing aghast at the sheer amount of blood staining the ground and the walls. You could barely recognise the prone figure in the street blood-soaked as he was kneeling in the centre of this ring of death. To the external eye the boy seemed completely oblivious to the threat around him but it wasn't Naruto in control, it was the nine tails. "Look now boy they some to kill you, they know what you are" Naruto turned to see porcelain faced ninja gathering quite openly around him, Shinobi who he knew from looking after him as a child or who he knew protected the Hokage his grandfather figure. Wait these ninja worked for Jiji? At this moment realisation crushed Naruto the one person Naruto thought cared for him wanted him dead. Maybe he really was a demon, what other reason could there be? The fox smirked practically hearing the cogs turn in the boys head. "We need to go, even I cannot defeat these ninja at this point" the fox made sure to inject sympathy into his voice. After what felt like an eternity to the child he grasped to the only thing in his life that seemed safe and apparently didn't want to kill him for being a demon. "Can you protect me fox?" he ran at his prisoner pressing himself to the bars anguish clear in his eyes only just allowing his hope to show through. The Kyuubi restrained from squashing the child with great effort before forcing a look of concern onto his face "of course kit that's why I'm here, demons look after their own." Naruto nodded backing away from the bars feeling suddenly drained, he slowly collapsed to the floor and closed his eyes.
This exchange took mere seconds in Naruto's mindscape but even so with enhanced reflexes Kyuubi only just fell back quickly enough to avoid the spike of earth shooting out of the ground. Cloaked once again in chakra the demon in Naruto's form rose to his full four feet of height and surveyed the elite shinobi with blazing eyes. Though it looked as if he was sizing up the enemy he was in fact searching for the nearest exit, spotting the wall at the edge of the village the cloaked body began to move. The two anbu in the direct path of the charging roiling mass of chakra moved to intercept but were surprised as two red chakra claws grew forwards form the boy's arms batting the nearest opponent into an adjacent wall but missing the second who used a quick karawami to swap with some bamboo propped up behind him. Unfortunately for the dog masked shinobi he was back in the way of the charging eight year old and disorientated by his quick jutsu so was unable to do anything but stare into a familiar face and think simply, 'oh Naruto, what have we done to you?' his thoughts were cut short by a quick slash of red claws.
His two immediate enemies dealt with Kyuubi leapt forward, away from the silver haired shinobi with the shattered dog mask who lay bleeding crumpled on the ground. On the rooftops leaping towards his escape the great nine tailed fox grinned for the first time in eight years, determined to put as much distance between Konoha and himself as possible before he had to relinquish his power so as not to permanently damage the chakra coils of his host. Landing on the outer walls of the village, already leaving behind his pursuers, Kyuubi barely paused before firing off into the forest and his freedom.
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Naruto was woken by a stray shaft of sunlight piercing his closed eyelids. They fluttered open straining against the harsh light as the small boy rose unsteadily barely noticing anything in his surroundings as he rubbed his eyes and yawned. The strange smell on his hands was the first thing he noticed as he finally looked glanced at his surroundings and froze. He was sitting at the base of a twisted tree hugging the side of a weathered cliff, looking around he say many other trees indicating that it was a forest but the trees were so small, nothing like any near Konoha. Where was he? The young blonde looked around and noticed a large red stain on the ground next to him. He swiftly leapt up. There were red handprints on the large tree as well he thought, what could have caused that?" he thought out loud. He scratched his head but caught glimpse of a flash of red as he lifted his hand. Glancing at them he saw the same red substance all over them, and now that he saw it his orange jumpsuit was also coated but also torn in several places. In fact all of his clothes were ruined; even his sandals were covered by the dark red mystery. His clothes were never really amazing he thought but they were never this bad.
"You don't remember brat?" came an amused voice seeming to echo within his mind. A flash of images tore through his head; a man slashed clean in two blood spraying everywhere, another man crawling away as Naruto bore down upon his before tearing him limb from limb, more terrified faces and tortured screams. Then like a flood the torrent of memories his mind had tried so desperately to shelter it's conscience from ripped into his mind fuelled by further memories thrust forward by the amused voice in his mind. The blonde's legs buckled as he collapsed onto the hard earth pressing his hands to his eyes in a futile attempt to block the visions haunting him. "I didn't want to do that!" the agonised scream cut out into the forest "I didn't want to hurt them." The visions cut our after the outburst. "Are you sure about that brat? I can feel what you feel, you wanted to tear them apart make them feel the pain you had felt all of your life" the Kyuubi paused, how to play this it thought, "it's what marked you out as a demon to me child."
"But I'm a human not a demon, I'm sure of it" the great fox smirked this could work perfectly "You just haven't unlocked you potential yet child, if you wish I could do that for you now?" Naruto paused was this what he wanted? He considered his options as contrary to common belief he wasn't a completely stupid prankster with nothing better to do with his life than irritate the inhabitants of Konoha. He'd only pulled the pranks as he'd hoped it would help to show people that he wasn't mean or scary like they all though he was; he was fun. But maybe he was? Isn't that what I was just told? And I can't go back to that shithole he reasoned. "Hey you?" he called into mid-air not knowing how else to talk to the mysterious feral sounding voice. "Yes kit?" the voice resounded in his mind, Naruto wondered if he could talk in is mind. "Of course you can, else you'd look like a fool if you ever needed to contact me, just think the words."
Like this? Naruto began to wonder if he was actually going insane and there was no great power helping him and that he'd imagined the entire night before. Kyuubi chuckled at that idea "Very good, now about my offer?" Naruto thought again, who are you? Once again the Kitsune came to an interesting decision, what would give him the most control over his vulnerable container? After a seconds debilitation he decided "I my young demon am your darker side, I am your demonic powers taken form and I am ready to teach you in the use for those powers" Naruto nodded his head slowly what else could it be? I'm ready.
"This is gonna hurt like a bitch." Before Naruto could register those words his body was flooded with Youki and all functions of his body were cut off prematurely as he passed out at the base of the twisted tree in a blaze of torment for the second time. As he succumbed to the darkness he heard the voice a final time "Bring forth fire and hell upon all in this place Uzumaki, let the word burn"
Unbeknownst to Naruto, who had relinquished all control of his body to the demon within him, in the real world changes were occurring to his young body; foul poisonous chakra leaked out of his frail form enwrapping the child before flowing back in. To anyone who observed the scene they would have noticed a silent strangled scream leave the mouth of the boy before canine teeth grew in place of human ones and a snarl marred the usually smiling features. Like blood flowing freely an ocean of red clouded beautiful clear blue eyes and for a split second a cat like pupil was visible before a crimson centre completed the visage. The sounds of snapping resonated loudly in the forest as all animals had fled when the evil chakra had roared through the trees; Naruto's bones were breaking and reforming due to the stress of muscles being forced to grow. They ripped out of the blondes already tattered clothing and the now demonic child fell onto all fours his back spasming and claw like appendages digging easily into the ground.
Then as quickly as it had begun the chakra receded completely into the broken figure but the feeling of malice and hatred remained. A dark chuckle resonated from the depths of the boy's soul and Naruto Uzumaki was changed forever.