Naruto is not mine

"Do you understand, Naruto? You are the Kyuubi!" Mizuki ended with his speech, making the boy more confused that before. He… he didn´t know. Was he the Kyuubi? Was he not? Did everybody see him like that? Like a… beast? He couldn´t understand, he couldn´t… he couldn´t… oh, he was blacking out. He was losing consciousness… or was he not? Something like that, but… he couldn´t see anymore. "Die for everyone you have killed, demon!"

"Naruto!" Iruka yelled launching himself to put his body between the boy and the Shuriken, but then something just made it change it´s course. This surprised the silver haired ninja, when did Naruto learned that technique?

"Yes, impressive, demon fox. You are finally…"

"Shut your trap, you vermin" the bond ordered with a voice of authority that definitely didn´t belong to the usually cheerful idiot that Naruto was. His body posture also has changed. Now he had a good posture with his head held high, more fit for a warrior general than an Academy boy. "If you can´t tell the difference between a jailor and a prisoner, then you have no right to speak, least to me. Kieru"

"What did you say, you little idiot?!"

"Were you dead? Apart from a vermin, useless. I said Kieru" he smiled in an aggressive way. "Do I need to spell it for you? D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R" he crossed his arms. "and leave that scroll there. I don´t think I will need it, but apparently it can cause me a lot of trouble."

"You… I will show you to respect me, you little shit!"

"Mizuki, don´t!" Iruka was afraid. He recognized that voice from some time ago and it was no good news. Independent of whatever happened to Mizuki, it could harm Naruto, so he was more than willing to stop it. But with his injury, he was not fast enough to reach the Uzumaki in time. He dodged the attack coming from the white haired male with ease, kicking him at the same time, catapulting him towards a nearby tree. "Horrible. How did someone like you managed to be a shinobi?"

"Teme… you are finally showing your true nature, fox!"

"Ehhhh? I can be something out of your worst nightmares, but I´m not the fox" Naruto faded into the trees when his adversary got up again, making him look around himself. "I´m way worse than him" his voice resounded "It´s been a while… since I´ve tasted live again. I would like to taste a good combat too, but you are not the adequate opponent for me."

"Damn…"

"Naruto…" Iruka tried to call his favourite student again. "No… which one of the lunatics inside Naruto are you?" the other didn´t show himself immediately. "You are definitely not the water styled one, he is too lazy… the old man doesn´t like violence and the First used plants, so… you are the wind style expert!"

"What are you talking about, Iruka? There is no way this brat can be a wind style master! He is just an idiotic Academy student!" the silver haired one took off another shuriken from his back, ready to attack as soon as the younger shinobi does his move. It was just a little kid, after all. And one too stupid to even achieve the genin status.

"Shut up and don´t provoke him, you don´t know how scary his wind style…"

"Indeed I am" Mizuki felt something cutting into his flesh, faster and more painful than a kunai knife. It was a wind based attack that tore him apart, showing his bones. The man felt to the ground in a pool of his own blood, while the victorious one was smiling. "So fast… I finished him so fast… definitely a good for nothing…" he looked at his hands, that were dirty with a few drops of blood. "I… I have my hands dirty… I killed again… I can´t…"

"Iruka, I saw everything" the Hokage appeared too, looking at the ninja that was wiping his hands into the herbs. "Don´t worry about him, he is not death. You know that our guest here doesn´t like to kill."

"I can´t care less about Mizuki, I only want Naruto to be good" answered the Academy teacher.

"Yes, in a few minutes I will do something about the seals" Hiruzen sighed. "Just when I thought this wouldn´t happen again, someone goes and puts Naruto in a distressful situation" the old man grabbed the scroll. "Hummm… apparently he has been practising. Maybe I should examine him again later."

"¿Lord Hokage?"

"I´m just wondering if he was failing just because of his abundance of chakra and not for lack of skills… and thinking about the first time this happened"

-Flashback-

"Get him! Don´t let him scape!" Naruto was running from an angry mob that tried to kill him… on his own fucking birthday! The day was absolutely the worst. He turned to enter to an alleyway… but he found himself in an alley. The kid screamed and screamed, trying to get some help or find a new hiding place, but he was empty handed. The mob finally appeared and the fear won over him. The man on front raised a kunai, making him feel like fainting. He didn´t care wherever the help come, it has to come now…

"You won´t get away from this, demon" the drunk in the front announced. "Finally you will pay for all your sins…"

"Oh, and what did I do?" Naruto´s tone of voice suddenly changed. The boy´s eyes changed too. They were somehow… older. The eyes of an experienced shinobi. The mob took a step back, feeling the danger oozing out of this individual. "You know… you are very stupid to challenge a Senju clan leader confiding only in numbers."

"A Senju clan leader? JA! You are only a poor demon!"

"Since when?" he made some hand seals, putting some wind chakra into them. Suddenly a very sharp wind cut through them, leaving some fierce marks in their flesh. The mob felt to the ground, all of them completely harmless now. "Heh… now you will never mess with me again. I just hope that none of you are… are… I don´t like it when… when" then he saw his reflection in a broken glass on the floor. "What the hell?!" the surprise was enough to shock Naruto out of his unconscious state. "Eh? What…? What happened here?!"

-End of the Flashback-

"The next morning some villagers came to me saying that the demon tried to kill them" Sarutobi frowned. "I thought it was just them being exaggerated, but then you came to me saying that Naruto had a strange behaviour at the Academy"

"Yes" Iruka saw the blond. He was knocked out by Sarutobi a few minutes ago before he could regain his senses after attacking Mizuki. "Those idiots… they woke up something that should have stayed asleep."

-Flashback- 1-

"Mendokusei" Shikamaru said, going to the rooftop to take a nap where Iruka-sensei couldn´t see him. The Nara walked to his favourite place for cloud watching when… "Naruto? What are you doing in my place?"

"It´s too troublesome inside there" the blond answered yawning. His eyes were closed and his hands behind his head, to support it while he slept.

"What´s too troublesome?"

"Just being inside of there, listening to a horrible lecture… I prefer if I pass some time here, doing what I know I´m really good at" the Uzumaki turned a bit. "You are more than welcome to accompany you if you want."

"SHIKAMARU! NARUTO!" the teacher found them at that moment. "How many times do I have to tell this to you? You can´t leave the classroom until the class is over. And you are losing some important lectures that are going to come in the next exam. You should be there, if not you are going to fail… again for you, Naruto."

"Awwwwwww" the blond yawned again. His eyes were still closed. "I don´t know why I should go there. Or him" the Nara looked at him in amazement. Was that idiot blond really excusing him? "it´s obvious that those intellectual things are not going to enter to my thick and lazy head. He, obviously, already knows what you are teaching, so there is no need for him to attend your classes."

"What…?"

"Awwww, Mendokusei! You are interrupting a very good nap and that only has to happen when I´m on a battle or creating a perverted jutsu… now that I think about it, there is no Raizo now to probe them, how bad?" he turned. "I hope there is still a nice Uchiha in who prove them."

"Mendokusei? Since when do you say Mendokusei?" Iruka was surprised, but then an anime vein appeared in his head. "I don´t care, go back to class!" he tried to grab him, but his hand passed through him. "Why…"

"Oh, and this is my Water Style: A thousand illusion mirrors. Have a nice day searching for me"

"Hummmm"

-Flashback-2-

"Okay, you have an hour to answer all the questions! Do you have something to ask?" Iruka looked at everyone around the class. The kids begin to answer their exercises. As always, the one who had a problem was Naruto. The blond was panicking and murmuring something under his breath. "Naruto, is there a problem?"

"I… I don´t know! I don´t know anything in this! I… I know… I studied this before… but… but… I can´t remember how to do them!" he got up crying. "Where is Mada when I need him? Or Tobi-chan? They were the smart ones, they could explain that to me!"

"Ehhhhhhh?" Iruka was starting to think there was something very bad with his favourite student. The little blond was continuing to panicky, calling two specific persons. Tears came to his eyes. "Naruto… you have done a lot of stupid things and failed a lot of exams, I don´t think that one more…"

"I´m a failure!" a depressive cloud appeared around him, something that never happened before. The Uzumaki was all sunshine and smiles. "I´m an horrible learner! And a stupid gambler with horrible luck! My brother was right when he told me that I had to sit down to study what I learned… that that way it would stuck itself in my thick head."

"My thick head… my brother… Naruto, you don´t have a brother"

"Buahhhhhhh!" the crying intensified so much that Iruka had to take him outside the classroom. When he was out, the little blond escaped, doing some strange hand signs and making the trees taller.

"Ahhhhhh! Mokuton?!"

-Flashback-3-

"Naruto! Naruto! You are not getting away with skipping classes again" Iruka yelled as he searched for the blond around all the place. He found him sitting down in the roof, looking down at the class with a sad face. "Naruto, I finally found you? Why did you leave? This is normally your favourite class, you shouldn´t be running from it"

"It´s so sad"

"Hummm? What is so sad?" Iruka sat down besides him. Naruto´s attitude has gotten weirder and weirder with time. "Look, if you want to pass this class, then you have to…"

"I don´t know how to put it in words, how much I despise the use you now gave this gift" he sighed. "My father hoped for it to be a way to make peace, a way to unite us all together, not for it be a weapon in the wars of men."

"Naru…"

"This has to be his doing… but you also have a little bit of the blame" he stood up, sighing. "I felt to sad when I saw it the first time, in my brother… I can´t do something… or can I? To stop this madness…"

"Naruto, great joke, but…"

"Naruto? Who is Naruto?" the blond looked at him with genuine confusion on his eyes. "Well, I don´t really care how call me, address me as you like?"

"You… you can´t be… the Kyuubi?!"

"Kyuubi? If there is one being really named like that, it should attack whoever named it. Even the Bijuus had names, you know?" the child jumped and landed on his feet, something he haven´t achieved, not even in his best days.

"Okay, this has gotten too much weird" Iruka decided.

-End of the Flashback-

"Well, okay, that was definitely weird" the Academy teacher scratched his head. "I remember I brought Naruto to you a few days later, when the weirdness turned into creepiness. And I would never forget what you did…"

-Flashback-

"This is bad, the Kyuubi must be the cause" Hiruzen was passing from a side to other of the room. Naruto was unconscious on a chair, tied up with seals just to be sure the beast doesn´t do something when they were trying to mess with the seal. "I´m not as good with the mind jutsus as the Yamanaka, but I guess it could be enough…" the Hokage got to the young blond and put a hand on his forehead. "Iruka, prepare yourself to enter with me"

"But… but Hokage-sama…" the chuunin was completely surprised by his request. "Shouldn´t you take an escort of jonin and ANBU to fight the Kyuubi or…?"

"Right now, the most familiar people to Naruto should do it. His mindscape is fragile, if we let someone who is not familiar with him enter, then the beast would be able to take advantage of that and escape for real" Iruka nodded and grabbed the old man´s arms. "Now prepare to enter his mindscape."

"Okay" Iruka felt himself falling and then landing on somewhere full of water. They looked around. A sewer? Well, that speaks a lot about Naruto´s state.

"Come with me and don´t let my arm go… unless it´s necessary" they walked until a red light in the horizon stopped them. The Academy teacher felt his eyes go wide, it was the fox. The killer of his parents… in a big cage with a seal in the middle. It was lying on the water, letting some of it´s malevolent chakra leak around. "I…"

"Hummm, so some vermins have entered the place" the bijuu started, sounding terrified. "What are you two doing here? Wait, I know! You must have thought that I had something to do with my jailer´s strange behaviour! Jajajajajaja!"

"Are you… are you not?" asked Iruka, putting the good being of his student before the rage he felt towards the one he kept contained.

"Of course not! That should be you, humans, who have the fault! What am I?! The always-culprit?!" the huge vulpine rolled his eyes. "The mobs chasing him and no one around to help… it´s a miracle that just this happened."

"What… what are you talking about?"

"I´m just going to say that this mind is a little bit overpopulated this times" the monster smiled when he saw behind them. "And if you don´t think fast, you are going to know what´s happening in the most painful way"

"Hey, tell us…" Sarutobi moved the chuunin so fast that they were knocked on the ground. Iruka raised his head only to find a strange male there, with a fun filled expression. His dark brunette bangs felt to the end of his neck, where his old fashioned white kimono started. Over it there was an ancient looking samurai armour.

"Oh, two intruders in here" the man started. "They should know by now that they should not mess with me. Now you will face my wrath!"

"Awwww, Mendokusei" another person arrived. He was wearing a similar kimono, just blue with some ornaments based on water and no armour. He appeared to be too lazy to put one on him. "Couldn´t you have come any other day? I wanted to watch some clouds… if I ever get the light before this angry management needed case got it."

"I don´t need anger management classes! And respect your elders!"

"You are only what, ten or twelve generations older than me?"

"Enough! Let´s get this guys out here!"

"As you say" the older one made some hand signs and activated a wind jutsu, while the other just sighed before copying him, using a water style to disappear and attack. The two shinobi ducked and got out of the way.

"I think I know what´s happening" the Sarutobi said, breathing hard. "Thanks to all the abuses, Naruto had multiple personalities… some very messed up multiple personalities"

"Oh, it´s all, old man?" the anger management case attacked again, nearly slashing them. Unfortunately for them, another wind attack was going directly at their faces, along with a Water style that could kill them if the wind doesn´t. "Hey, you don´t mess up our fight! That you or the old man doesn´t want to fight doesn´t mean that we are the same!"

"Hey, you two! Leave them alone!" a very familiar figure was standing in front of the fallen Hokage and chuunin. "This way. They are not going to follow us in there."

"Thank you" Iruka said to their saviour… until he saw the face his leader made. "What…"

"Hashirama-sama?" asked Hiruzen. After all this years… was he really seeing his old sensei´s brother and beloved first Hokage of the village? The man smiled at them.

"Do I know you? Wait… are you Saru?" he hugged the old man. "Really? Little Saru has become an old man? And a Hokage? I can´t believe it!" the Senju let him leave. "I still remember when you were just a little genin and…"

"Iruka, this is Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage"

"Ummmm… yeah… but… what are you doing here?" the Academy teacher was more than confused. "What are you? And the nutcases outside?"

"What are we, heh? That´s a good question" the Shodaime put a hand on his chin. "Even I´m not so sure. If I have to guess, I would say that we are echoes… echoes of past lives the this soul lived. We are here because… he needs protection. But we are not very good at that" he sighed. "Specially those two. They are fighting for the light all the time"

"Fighting for the light?"

"Fighting for the control of the body we are currently living in" he smiled in a sheepish way. "In our defence, it could be much worse. This soul has reincarnated so many times that is a wonder that only four of us awakened."

"Ahhhhhhhh" now they understand. Naruto called for help and, as he didn´t receive it from the outside, he awakened some of it inside of his mind. Wait… "Hey, you have gotten Naruto into a lot of trouble. Because you always got the light he couldn´t listen to class and fail at least five tests…"

"In fact, the one that failed those tests was me" the Shodaime admitted, scratching his nape. "So… sorry… I never was one to study, I was more like… motivating and learning on the field? Yes… that I am" he continued looking awkward. "You… you don´t remember what I say, right?"

"That you said that you were an idiot gambler? Yes, I remember. Not the image I have from the First Hokage, but… well at least was true" Iruka crossed his arms. "Now, you got worse grades than Naruto and… who are Tobi and Mada?"

"Oh, I was… calling my brother Tobirama and my best friend Madara" they looked at him in disbelieve. "It is true! Madara and I were best friends before he went crackers and left the village. Tobi… Tobirama used to teach me maths before he grew up into an strict dictator. And Madara helped me resolve the Academy´s first textbooks. He stood night by night besides me, explaining me each problem and… sometimes twice or trice."

"Then I congratulate him into not losing it before the Valley of End" the chuunin turned around. "And the nutcases?"

"The wind Styled one is Senju Nobunaga. He used to be called Nobunaga of the demonic wind and was a famous Senju clan leader. They said that in his days on the battlefield he defeated armies without killing one single man… in fact in his whole life he only had one confirmed kill, Uchiha Shinobu, the Uchiha clan leader" Hashirama lifted another finger. "And the other is Hotaru, another Senju clan leader. He was born to a clan head that married a Nara princess for an alliance, that why he is so… mendokusei. He practically invented Water Style."

"And those famous ninjas are tormenting Naruto because they are his past lives, no?" Sarutobi scratched his chin. "How did you put them to sleep again?"

"I don´t know" admitted the Shodaime, frowning. "But I know someone that could help us! He doesn´t like being in the light very much, he says the world corrupted chakra, but… he is the first one and knows the deepest secrets of chakra. We need to go deeper into this mind to find him. This way" he started walking into the darkness. When they were almost in complete darkness… "Hey, old man! We want to talk to you!"

"You are loud, just like I was in my youth" answered the man. He looked young, but his wise eyes contradicted his image. "I´m Ootsutsuki Ashura, son of the Rikkudo Sennin" he introduced himself. "You are the young ninja I talked once, no?" Iruka nodded. Even if it wasn´t Naruto´s voice he could recognize the wisdom tone. "Then you should know what I think"

"Yes, but… it´s not your body! It´s Naruto´s and you all are trying to take it from him!" Iruka yelled and the man smiled. "Please help us return it to him."

"Come with me, if you listen to me I will tell you what to do" Ashura started walking towards the light. "In the first place, my grandmother was the only being with chakra. After defeating her, my father and uncle shared chakra and has children who inherited that trait. It was created to connect people, a tool for peace… not what you have now" he continued walking. "My brother rebelled, my older brother Indra. He wanted power and corrupted chakra into the weapon you think it is now. He didn't need our family, just… his Sharingan and his madness"

"Sharingan?"

"Yes, Sharingan. According to what I say, his descendants inherited it… and his curse of hatred" Ashura stopped in front of the cage that contained the Kyuubi. "Kurama"

"Hummm? What do you think you are doing, brother?" the fox answered. "They are as corrupted as Indra-niisama, they don´t deserve your help."

"Kurama-niisama…"

"Kurama?" asked the two shinobi.

"Yes, Kurama is his name. And he is my brother, as well as the other bijuu" Ashura extended a hand towards the creature. "Indra was first born from our mother, then my father created the bijuu from his chakra, then I was born… and even if I was the youngest, I became clan leader… before Indra´s madness ripped our family apart" he got closer to the huge vulpine. "He promised that nothing would stop him, not even death"

"Not even…?"

"Why do you think those brats are here?" the fox glared at them. "At our father´s deathbed, our two brothers made a promise. Indra nii-sama promised that he would reincarnate himself over and over again until he got what he wanted, to control the world. And Ashura promised that if Indra came back, he would too. In all the ages, the reincarnations of Indra have caused havoc in the world and the ones of Ashura stopped them."

"That means that…"

"Yes, if Ashura has reincarnated again, it means that Indra-niisama is not far away" the fox yawned. "We are going to be needed pretty soon to fight alongside him against the evil, the true evil" he glared at them. "But you don´t care! Because to you we are mere weapons and monsters to be used!"

"Should I say sorry? You killed my parents, so…"

"I didn´t want to break lose in the village! That masked man controlled me into doing it. I haven´t seen eyes like those since" his eyes widened. "Since Madara Uchiha"

"Madara? What does Madara has to do with this?"

"Can´t you see it, Hashirama?" Ashura looked at him in disbelieve. "He was Indra´s reincarnation in your time."

"Then Indra…"

"Nope, he was a nutcase on his own… but he wasn´t as nuts as some of his previous lives" Kurama made a gagging sound. "There was one who liked to put his enemies in stakes and impal them, another that…"

"Okay, okay! Great, Madara is normal compared to his past lives, sheesh. We don´t need an explanation" the Shodaime crossed his arms. "And weren´t we here to get something? We are running out of time, Mendokusei and the anger management case should be here by any moment."

"Yeah, right" Ashura turned to his brother. "Kurama-niisan, we need a way to repair the cracks in this mind, even the ones that allow us to stay here."

"Why should we? I missed you, little brother, and am very comfortable having someone here that really understands me" he yawned. "Besides, the brat´s parents weren´t very nice to me, specially his mother. She had an horrible personality, I couldn´t stand her."

"She was my descendant, one of the last of them after the Senju clan and Uzumaki clan were almost exterminated."

"And that was the only reason I didn´t try to turn her mad"

"Please, nii-sama"

"Okay, okay, here" the Kyuubi handed him a shinny scroll. "Father developed a jutsu to heal this kind of madness, even before you developed even more his healing jutsus. It´s a seal and it has to be placed where the rupture happened. That should be… there" a shinny crack was shown. Suddenly a wind based attack nearly collided with them, stopping in the Kyuubi seal. "You better hurry or they will end you."

"Okay" Ashura handed Sarutobi the seal. "We will protect you, you have to put the seal in there. We should disappear once the jutsu is complete. Hurry up" the Ootsutsuki suddenly was enveloped in a chakra cloak. "I can use all chakra natures"

"Why are you doing this?"

"Like you say, I´m not used to steal lives. I want my children to live their own lives, decide on their free will, even if there is a danger in the horizon" one of his tails got up, forming a sphere of fire natured chakra. "I trust them… and I trust Naruto. Now go!"

"Thank you, Ashura-sama"

-End of the Flashback-

"That way we stopped this madness… but thank to this traitor it began again" Iruka kicked his fallen ex companion. "I couldn´t even believe that I saw that guy again… the wind styled anger management case."

"So you say" Hiruzen got down and analysed the seal inside of Naruto´s head. "It´s fine, the seal is still in it´s place. I don´t think this can happen again, but… to be sure we will have to watch him" suddenly, Naruto got up. "Hello, Naruto"

"Hello… ehhh… Iruka-sensei, I…"

"Whatever Mizuki said, it was a lie as big as a house. You are Uzumaki Naruto from Konoha and nothing will make me change my opinion" he smiled to his student. "Besides, I know you better than anyone and I know that you are not the beast. I´m proud of you and I will ever be, ever."

"Tha… thank you" the blond got a little bit red. "Hey, do you want to see the jutsu I mastered?"

"Of course, we both would like to see it"

"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" they clapped when they saw the clones materializing. "It´s amazing, don´t you think so, ttebayo?!"

"It´s great, Naruto"

"Yes" the Hokage picked up the scroll. Well, at least this proved that he was right. Naruto couldn´t do the bunshin just because he had too much chakra for that simple jutsu. "I think this is enough o let you graduate, don´t you think, Iruka?"

"Yes!" Iruka took off his own band and passed it to Naruto. "Congratulations!"

-In the Uchiha compound-

"Auch! My head is pounding" Sasuke got up from his bed, getting to his kitchen to drink some water while the pounding passed. He took a look at his hitai ate, the one he got that same day and grunted. Then his glass felt to the floor. "I can feel you… I can feel you, Nobunaga!"