sup dude's.
This is another idea that I just wanted to get out.
But know this. This fic is just a side project, something to type on because I get incredibly bored when I'm working on a single thing for an extended period of time. So updates might be slow. Hell I also may even make another side project because I have such a short attention span, as well as a number of fics lodged inside my brain. And one of the only reasons I've waited so long to start another fic is because Prince of hell is my first fic, I in fact enjoy beginning New stories I was hella hyped up when I first started prince of hell. Also one can become a popular author by having multiple awesome story ideas even though they're not finished, I mean look at jinx777 he's an awesome author and none of his stories have gone past 100,000 words. (seriously though his ideas are written down gold for us fic readers/writers.)
Anyway enjoy this story, and remember I'll update it at my own pace.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR FAIRY TAIL NEVER HAVE NEVER WILL PLEASE SUPPORT THE OFFICIAL RELEASE.
Author note: you can just read up to the point were naruto becomes a member of team seven and then skip ahead to the pain arc, everything in the middle is pretty much just a summary of the cannon naruto story that I wrote because it didn't feel right to just skip writing that part. Feel free to read the part in the middle but it's basically just a crappy summed up version of the standard naruto storyline.
ch 1: prologue: that was my life
life
Life for one naruto uzumaki was never easy.
Sure there were times he was admittedly happy, hell there were even times that made him think that his life wasn't so crappy. It had its ups and downs and it was pretty interesting, but never easy.
I suppose I should explain everything from beginning to end so you can get a general idea of what I'm talking about.
It started around seventeen years ago on October tenth, the day of his birth and therefore the 'beginning' as I called it. He was born to two notable people, kushina uzumaki and minato namikaze, his mother and father respectively. Minato namikaze was a renowned ninja of konohagakure, so renowned he had earned the name the yellow flash in respect to his amazing speed using his signature technique the flying thunder god. He was also the hokage the leader of the village and its most prominent shinobi, truly he had a lot of things he could list on his resume'.
His mother kushina uzumaki was a survivor of the prestigious uzumaki clan, a clan renowned for their vitality and skills in fuinjutsu. She too was a strong and respected shinobi of konohagakure, she was well known for her fiery spirit and her skills as a kunoichi, not to mention her boisterous and tomboyish personality.
Both people were beloved and respected in konoha, and by each other. In fact their love for each other was only eclipsed by one thing, their love for their unborn child. When they had gotten the news both couldn't contain their happiness, since both were orphans they longed to have a family and with the news of a child on the way they could finally start. They would fuss and prepare for their coming parenthood, neither of them ever had their thoughts far from their unborn child, truly they would both become caring and doting parents.
However there were a few… complications.
Kushina was what was known as a jinchuriki, a word that roughly translated to 'the power of human sacrifice', she was a container of a giant mass of chakra given living form called a biju or tailed beast. And she wasn't the container to just any tailed beast no she was the container of the kyuubi, the strongest of the biju was so powerful it was considered to be the embodiment of natural disasters and it was so powerful that the only thing that could contain it was an uzumaki with their remarkable vitality.
Now the reason this was a problem was because female jinchuriki's filtered their chakra and energy to nurture the baby during pregnancy, this leaves the seal that holds back the beast weakened. Now this doesn't mean the beast will break out, if there is a skilled fuinjutsu user on sight they could enforce the seal during childbirth in order to insure the beast stays put, and it just so happens that both parents were skilled fuinjutsu users.
Now this is the part were trouble starts.
You see right after kushina had successfully gave birth to their son naruto, a name they got from a book by minato's sensei and the godfather to his child, a masked man broke into the chamber that they were in. He then proceeded to kill the doctors and take young naruto hostage, after that he attempted to kill naruto in order to get minato away from kushina. It worked and the masked man then unveiled his true intentions, the release of the kyuubi and the destruction of konoha.
He then tried to end kushina's life only for minato to save her in a yellow flash, then minato took his wife to where their child was. The masked man then started destroying the village, causing a lot of death and destruction. Minato then went to stop the kyuubi and ended up in a fight with the masked man, after he defeated him he then went back to fighting kyuubi.
Minato fought kyuubi and protected the village, but it was unfortunately futile, the kyuubi was too powerful so Monsanto did the only thing he could, he teleported the beast away from the village. Unfortunately the place he teleported them to was where he stashed his wife and child, not the best decision he's ever made but not really the worst.
Then they ran out of options, they couldn't stop the kyuubi themselves and they couldn't really run away. So minato made what really was his worst decision ever, he decided to seal the kyuubi into his newborn son. Kushina was of course against the idea, but minato convinced her that they really had no choice and it was the best course of action.
So minato prepared an alter and placed his child upon it, he then began the hand seals for the reaper death seal. As you've surely guessed this was no ordinary sealing technique, it was the most powerful sealing technique there was and us such had a terrible cost. The cost was someone's life and soul, minato was willing to go that far to protect his village and family. He used the technique to first seal half of the Kyuubi's chakra inside himself, the reason being he didn't want to take any chances and he believed that perhaps one day his child would be able to tame his half of the Kyuubi's power.
However before he could seal the other half into his son the kyuubi noticed him, kind of hard not to when he literally split the thing in half and sealed away one of the halves. The kyuubi then thrust its clawed hand forward in an attempt to impale the baby naruto to stop the sealing, he he wasn't successful. Minato and kushina jumped in front of their child and used their bodies as shields to stop the claw just before it touched him, both were impaled and dying right in front of their child who wasn't even an hour old.
All they could do was say their final parting words to the child they looked forward to raising but now never would, they then sealed away the kyuubi and what was left of their own chakra into naruto in hopes of one day seeing him again.
They then passed on to the next world leaving their poor son crying next to the corpses of his only family.
After that naruto was then taken by the previous hokage sarutobi hiruzen, a kind old man that everyone looked up to and respected, he was also one of the toughest shinobi to ever come out of the woodwork. The kind old man knew of naruto's origin and he also knew what burden the boy was bearing for the sake of the village, and for that he saw naruto for what he really was a hero.
He then set about picking up the pieces for his village after the great catastrophe that had befallen them.
His first action was reinstating himself as hokage in an effort to stop power hungry fools from taking the position for themselves, like a certain warhawk. His next action was calling forth the clan heads and leaders of the village in order to inform them of what had happened to the kyuubi, he unfortunately made the mistake of telling them that naruto was now the jinchuriki of the beast.
The civilians and elders were immediately up in arms about the news, calls for his execution from the civilians while the elders demanded that he become a weapon or tool for the sake of konoha. Luckily the clan heads stayed mostly neutral in this and only a few narrowed their eyes at the news, though one shikaku nara, the anbu commander and head of the nara clan, made an attempt to properly explain to the civilians that naruto was not the demon. He did so due to his loyalty to minato and his loyalty to sarutobi, however his logical and understandable explanation was rebuked with nonsensical refusal due to the civilians wishes the vent their anger at something.
However the argument was ended when sarutobi put his foot down on matter, literally, he pretty much channeled the personality of his student tsunade when he ordered the end of the debate of what would happen to naruto. He then told them what would happen, naruto would be raised as a normal child and he would be viewed as a citizen of konoha who would be able to make his own life choices, such as if he wanted to be a ninja or a average civilian.
They then made a plan for repairing the village and dispersed, however sarutobi forget to tell them to keep naruto's status as a jinchuriki secret. The civilian representatives of course told whoever they deigned to the information they knew, and they held no qualms with exaggerating and misleading people as to what naruto really was, one could only imagine the lies they fed to the people they told about the poor innocent baby.
Sarutobi heard of the talk going on about the jinchuriki child and he quickly took actions to stop them, just not the right actions. Instead of telling them that the rumors were a lie, or something like that, he chose to believe in his village and called a village gathering. At the gathering he showed them naruto and told them the truth, he told them the beast was sealed inside of naruto and he acted as a prison for it, keeping the entire village safe with each breath he took. Sarutobi truly believed that the people of his home would see naruto for what he truly was and not what he contained, he believed they would see him as a hero.
He was wrong.
The people in their grief called for retribution paid in the boys blood, even shinobi who were taught to be more open minded in their thoughts and beliefs cried out in anger because of what they had lost during the tragedy. They refused to believe the truth and sought only to find something to blame for the pain in their hearts, they could not be reasoned with no matter what they were told, all because of the human desire to hate something for the wrongs wrought upon them.
Sarutobi felt ashamed, ashamed for what the people of his village were doing and what they were saying, he felt ashamed that a innocent child that had done No wrong was being persecuted when he should be thanked. But most of all he felt ashamed that naruto who had already lost so much was now labeled as the monster that took his family from him and the sacrifice of said family was forgotten, sarutobi was saddened and angered by the injustice of it all.
So right then and there he made a law stating that it was forbidden to tell the younger generation of naruto's burden, to break such a law would be seen as a crime punishable by death.
Luckily not everyone turned against naruto, there were a number of ninja that believed in their hokage, both present and past, as well as a number of civilians that believed him as well, there were also a number that were neutral in stance stating that they didn't hate naruto but they also didn't really care. Then there were those that stood out and openly supported naruto and sarutobi, such as a few clan heads, though they couldn't do much less they compromise their clans, and one hatake kakashi. The young anbu knew straight away that naruto was his late sensei's son and even attempted to adopt him along with a number of other people that believed in sarutobi's words, unfortunately the civilian council, elders and even a few shinobi clan heads (I won't say who) put a stop to that by claiming naruto would end up being used by whomever adopted him. Sarutobi knew they didn't care about naruto and only wanted his head, and in some cases to use him themself, he couldn't do anything, so with a heavy heart he put the poor boy in an orphanage hoping he would be properly taken care of.
He wasn't.
The caretakers of the orphanage were cruel to him, they didn't do anything to extreme less they incur the hokages wrath but they did all they could. They Fed him the bear minimum and the food was not really good quality, they also didn't properly teach him or give him proper living conditions, naruto resided in the damp basement with a old mat to sleep on and a tattered blanket to keep warm. Luckily his uzumaki vitality coupled with the healing properties of the beast he contained kept him healthy, or at least as healthy as he could be under such conditions since he was very malnourished and he wasn't kept in the best condition based on his dirty and unkempt appearance.
But the worst thing they did to him was keeping the other orphans from him and whenever he did interact with them the caretakers encouraged them to either stay away from him or to bully and ostracize him, the loneliness naruto felt was truly what hurt him in the orphanage.
Despite everything that was done to him naruto would always be seen with a cheerful smile on his dirty face, he would always be grateful for what he had and he would always find the light in a world that was so dark and cruel to him. His attitude angered the caretakers beyond reason, they believed that when he smiled he was mocking them for their loses.
Oh what delusional fools they were.
Soon the caretakers of the orphanage grew so angered by naruto's presence they began doing worse to him then they did before. They gave him less food or sometimes even forgot, and when I say forgot I mean purposefully, to give him any food at all, they sometimes found ways to lock him outside when nighttime came so he would be stuck cold, alone and afraid outside in the dark. They also encouraged the children to up their verbal bullying to physical bullying and they often punished naruto for fights breaking out, when in reality it was just naruto curling himself into a ball to protect himself while some kid attacked him.
But despite their increased aggression towards him naruto continued to smile and try to be happy, the young boy utterly refused to let their cruelty get him down and he refused to let them we him cry. But soon the caretakers grew tired of the cycle and on the day the kyuubi attacked they threw naruto out into the cold street, on the day of naruto's fourth birthday he had nowhere to go, he was homeless and on the streets.
Naruto lived on the streets for a number of weeks, eating out of dumpsters and sleeping in them to survive. The people knew who he was and made his life harder, throwing things at him, glaring and calling him names, there would even be the occasional person that would attack him but naruto was quick enough to stay away and his attackers quickly lost interest. Despite naruto's vitality and the Fox in his gut helping him his condition worsened a great deal due to lack of food and warmth, and that was the reason the cruel people of konoha that knew he was out on the street, not everyone knew because they wanted to keep it secret from his sympathizers, didn't attack him.
They enjoyed watching him suffer.
They found pleasure or in their own words retribution watching the 'demon brat' struggle to survive out on the streets, the fools never realized that from an outside perspective they would look like the demons in this situation.
Though one day while scouring a trash bin for food naruto was able to encounter one of his sympathizers, a kind man by the name of teuchi ichiraku. Naruto was understandably wary of the ramen chef at first, but the man managed to calm naruto down and asked him a few questions. Needless to say after he got the boys story he invited him to his establishment for some food and he contacted the third hokage. Once the hokage arrived he was surprised to see a thin and dirty naruto devouring ramen like a black hole, he was even more surprised as well as enraged when teuchi told him what had happened. Sarutobi then and there made a vow to actively be a part of the boys life, and he also vowed to better protect the legacy of his predecessor.
So sarutobi spent a while talking to naruto and getting to know him, he had trouble at first because of naruto's caution around others but he found it quite easy to get the boy to ok open up. It seemed that despite the cruelty naruto had already faced in his short life he still held on to his happy disposition and his belief in human kindness, something sarutobi found remarkable about the boy and made his respect for the young hero raise even further.
After he and naruto bonded over ramen he took the boy to his office were he then proceeded to call one of his most trusted anbu that went by the name kakashi hatake, he told the young man what had happened and was only just barely able to talk him out of murdering the caretakers of the orphanage with the promise that he would take care of it, let's just say after sarutobi got through with them they did not have happy lives. He had kakashi watch over the boy as he called a meeting, at the meeting he stated that naruto would get an apartment and an allowance so he could live on his own and that the boy would have frequent visits from himself.
Needless to say the council threw a bitch fit while sarutobi just sat through it with a blank face, after they had quieted down he told them that what he stated was what was going to happen and asked if any of them had any objections. The first civilian to open his mouth lost a few teeth, sarutobi clearly stated he would not budge on the matter.
And so naruto got his own apartment, it was in a rundown sector of the village but still nice. Sarutobi had kept his word and would often visit the young boy, soon he began to see the boy as a grandson while naruto began seeing him as a grandfather. With the money naruto received from his allowances he was able to properly feed himself and afford proper clothes, it seemed life was finally looking up for the little boy.
Until the people of konoha learned that naruto was no longer suffering on the streets, they then began throwing him out of their shops, or forcing others to do so, as well as making him pay outrageous amounts of money for spoiled products. They also began ransacking the boys apartment by throwing brick through the windows and robbing the pour orphan, they also began treating him with greater disdain while he was on the streets by yelling at him and throwing things at him.
Naruto for the first time in his life didn't just put on a happy face and take it, no, he was beginning to get angered and hurt by their actions. Also he was getting old enough to be able to question why people did what they did, and since no one told him the truth of what he contained he viewed people's actions as uncalled for. So he took action to get a little payback on the people of konoha.
Through harmless prancing that at most would require a little washing to remove the damage.
This outraged the people for instead of harmless mischievous acts of a wronged child they managed to twist what they saw as acts of revenge from the demon, once again they had thrown away their common sense in favor of their anger and rage. Due to their increased scorn for the young boy they ended up taking their so called 'retribution' to greater heights, one day a drunken man thought to physically attack the boy with a number of his friends. They broke into his apartment in the middle of the night and began beating him, they left the boy with a number of broken bones and hashes.
Unfortunately naruto did as some abused children did and hid what had been done to him, wether out of fear or because the boy in his kindness didn't want to cause trouble to others, after all to him physical damage was of no consequence and he was no stranger to pain or at least that's what he told himself.
Soon though word got around amongst those that hated naruto about the beating the 'demon brat' got and how sarutobi had not taken action, though that was because sarutobi was not notified, soon other malicious charecters made plans on how they could have their own 'fun'.
Soon naruto would end up getting regularly attacked by the 'good' citizens of konoha, each attack becoming more demented and cruel. They would cut messages into the boys flesh and they would also burn or brand him, but always the markings would disappear and the wounds would heal perfectly because of the healing properties of the monster in his gut.
Naruto continued to hold in the pain, he didn't want to hurt anyone or hate anyone. Also the people that attacked him had also berated him as well, telling him that no one cared about him and that he was a worthless little monster. They instilled doubt into naruto's mind, doubt that anyone that was kind to him actually cared about him, like the kind grandfather figure of the third or the kind father and daughter at ichiraku or perhaps the few anbu that were kind to him. He feared that if he told him of the beatings that they would think that he was trouble and abandon him, so he kept quiet about the horrible beatings and tortuous things they did to him and he smiled when he was outside just like before.
But now the smile was fake, it was just a brave face to try to fool himself into thinking that his life truly wasn't the hell it was. But behind closed doors he would cry and he would show the pain he hid inside, he would cry himself to sleep every night, he couldn't remember the last time he went to sleep with dry cheeks. He would always cry the same things, 'why did they hate him?' 'What had he done?' 'Why was he alone, with nothing, with nobody?'
As one could imagine this wrought turmoil on the poor boys soul, but luckily things didn't continue like this forever. One day after a particularly bad beating naruto received a visit from his surrogate grandfather, despite his healing ability the damage done to him the previous night had not healed enough for him to make his usual excuse of 'I got hurt while playing' to the kind elder man. Naruto tried to send him away, and that immediately told sarutobi that something was wrong. Soon sarutobi broke into the apartment to see a broken and heavily wounded naruto covered in his own blood, needless to say he was horrified, he had seen and heard of the hardships naruto had to face in his life but nothing could compare to the state he was in then. He could not believe the state of the now seven year old boy before him.
The boys clothes were torn to tatters, his hair matted to his head by blood that dyed his once sun kissed bright blond hair a horrifying shade of bloody red. His arms were covered in lacerations and gashes, his legs looked beaten, broken and mangled. His chest by far was the most horrifying, it was stained by the boys blood and covered in twisted messages carved and burned into his flesh, sarutobi could read out words such as 'demon' 'kyuubi til the' 'monster' and 'abomination' the rest of the twisted writing was to illegible to read. But the most heartbreaking was the boys face, it had a number of bruises and gashes on it as though it was beaten with a blunt instrument. Blood dripped from the boys hairline, nose, mouth, and the various wounds that riddled his youthful face. Then there were his eyes, his beautiful sapphire eyes were alight with a mix of sadness, fear and pain as tears freely fell from them and made the blood on his face run.
Sarutobi could scarcely believe that this was the boy who would have such bright and happy smile on his face all the time, the boy whose eyes were often filled with hope and kindness and looked at the world with wonder and compassion. After seeing the look his grandfather figure gave him, a look of fear and shock, naruto broke down crying. Naruto began apologizing over and over again as well as begging sarutobi not to leave him, the boy truly thought that he would leave him because of the villagers cruel words.
Sarutobi quickly broke out of his shock at the situation and went to take naruto to the hospital, the boy put up little resistance and soon sarutobi had him at the hospital and in the care of one of his most trusted doctors who also happened to be a sympathizer of naruto's. Needless to say the man was shocked and horrified by the damage naruto had endured, and how he was still conscious after how much blood he lost, the man immediately began cleaning his wounds and doing what he could to help the boy. But it was unnecessary as the boy began healing and due to his accelerated healing soon there was nothing left but a few patches of red skin where his wounds used to be, as well as a bit of blood here and there from said wounds.
After the doctor was finished sarutobi asked him to leave so he could question naruto about how he ended up in such a state. Naruto refused at first but after sarutobi practically begged the boy and reassured him he wouldn't leave him naruto told him what had happened, he told him that he had been getting beaten nearly every day by the villagers for two years but he hid it from him by saying the damage was from 'ninja training' or 'accidents'. Naruto also told him just what they did, the atrocities the people had done to the innocent child drove sarutobi into a murderous rage. He began to leave the room to hunt down the monsters responsible, at least until he was stopped by a pull on his sleeve from naruto.
The boy begged and pleaded the man not to hurt anyone, he stated that he didn't want to see anyone get hurt because of him, he didn't even fare about the crimes done against him, he just cared about the people that had mad his life hell for the past two years since he began living on his own. Naruto's pleas changed sarutobi's rage to sadness, he was sad that such a kind and compassionate child that only cared for the sake of others was dealt such a hard hand at life. Reluctantly sarutobi agreed that he wouldn't harm any of the villagers and he stayed until the boy went to sleep.
Sarutobi once again felt shame for what his village had become, but he also felt ashamed himself. He was ashamed that he couldn't protect naruto better and give the boy a better life, God knows naruto deserved it. But you couldn't really blame sarutobi, by all rights the man should have been enjoying retirement and spending time with his family. Instead he was governing the village and dealing with a council that argued with him on every little decision, he had to fight tooth and nail just to get naruto the basic necessities to live on his own let alone get him what he truly needed such as protection and a caring foster family. It seemed like the old man and naruto's few sympathizers were the only ones actively trying to not make the boys life hell, God knows everyone else tried to make it seem as close to it as they could.
After that event sarutobi tried to get the young boy bodyguards, but as always the council ruined that. Luckily he was able to get a few trusted anbu to volunteer to watch the boy when they could, naruto wouldn't have a twenty-four hour watch by any means but at least he would have some means of security. But even still the villagers managed to get by naruto's guardians from time to time, and since they no longer could harm the boy as often as they wanted they made sure that when they get a hold of him they did their worst, and it truly was horrible what they did to him. But naruto locked away the pain as always and just put on his happy smile, one would never guess that such a happy boy was living a life were being tortured was the norm.
Because of this Sarutobi also tried harder to visit the boy more often and he also told him that he could come to his office to spend time with him whenever he wanted, it was through this naruto gained his ambition to become a ninja and his dream to become the hokage. It started with sarutobi telling naruto about ninjas and eventually led to him telling him about the hokage, after he told him that the hokage protected the village and was the most respected ninja in it he could practically see the twinkle of hope in naruto's eye.
So after naruto told him his wish to be a ninja and to one day ascend to the rank of hokage sarutobi supported him with everything he had, he signed naruto up for the ninja academy and gave naruto the proper school supplies. It seemed like this would be the turning point in naruto's life, but once again something just had to go wrong to spite him. Once naruto entered the academy it seemed like everyone was against him, the other children were told by their parents to stay away from him so the young boys hopes of making friends were immediately dashed. The teachers were even more malicious, they would often wrongly teach naruto and yell at him for causing trouble despite it not being his fault, they would do everything they could to turn the children against him and make him a laughing stock as well as hindering his learning.
There was only a single person who was indifferent to naruto, a young teacher by the name of iruka. But even then he simply did it because of professionalism, iruka didn't hate naruto per say but he was weary of the boy due to what he contained. Unfortunately though because of the neglect naruto was experiencing from his peers he became starved for attention, so after the teachers that didn't like him made him into a joke naruto just rolled with it. He liked the attention even if it was negative attention, so he became to class clown and while it may have interfered with his studies in the academy he felt that it would make no difference seeing as no matter what he did he couldn't do anything right in anyone's eyes.
So that's how naruto lived for a number of years, going to school, learning nothing while trying to get attention, then going home to his lonely apartment while hoping the villagers didn't pay him one of their 'visits'. Sure there were some happy moments like visiting ichirakus and his pseudo grandfather, but those were just a few bright lights in a life filled with traumatic memories and loneliness.
But then came an actual turning point in his life, the day he was to graduate from the academy and take the first steps towards realizing his dream. Naruto was finally going to get a teacher that would teach him to be a ninja, that's not to say that iruka was not a good teacher. In fact over the years iruka had warmed up to him and become a good friend and role model to the boy, the man would often help the young boy out and even take him out to eat ramen. It was also thanks to his tutelage that naruto fully believed he would be able to pass his ninja exam.
Sadly though he did not pass, he had failed to do a simple clone technique. Naruto of course felt horrible and the cruel worlds of the villagers he usually received did not help, it was not until he was approached by another chunin teacher by the name of mizuki that anything changed. Mizuki told him about a 'special' graduation test that involved stealing a scroll from the hokage tower, naruto of course believed it because of his natural trusting nature.
Soon naruto managed to steal the scroll with a little help from one of his more… unique techniques, then he went to the meeting place mizuki told him about and began reading the scroll while waiting for him. After a few hours iruka showed up and after that they soon began talking as to what the other was talking about, then they were attacked. They're attacker was none other than mizuki who then revealed that the special test was a lie, even worse he told naruto the true reason why the people of konoha hated him. Naruto was of course in shock at the revelation so shocked he didn't notice the giant shuriken heading straight towards him, he was saved by iruka who took the hit for him. Iruka told naruto that he did not see him as the Fox but rather his precious student, unable to take the confusing event naruto ran away with the scroll.
After a series of events that involved naruto hearing iruka speak of his belief towards him, naruto ended up defeating mizuki using the technique he had recently learned from the scroll he had stolen, the technique was the shadow clone jutsu. Then iruka gave naruto his ninja headband and proclaimed that naruto was then officially a ninja, naruto was of course ecstatic, but he still had many questions that needed answers.
After everything was sorted out naruto sought out his surrogate grandfather to get his answers, it was then that learned the truth. The truth about the beast sealed in him as well as the events after his birth, naruto learned the reason why he was so hated and why he had lived such a tortured life. Sarutobi expected a lot of reactions, such as naruto breaking down crying or naruto being thrust into a blind rage as he cursed the village's, as well as sarutobi's own, actions.
What he did not expect was for naruto to give him a confident smile and point at him with eyes filled with determination, he furthermore did not expect naruto to say that he would show them that he wasn't the kyuubi, that he would protect the village and one day prove his worth to everyone. Sarutobi could only stare in awe as a boy who had every right to hate them claimed to become their protector, truly the village did not deserve such devotion after everything they had done. Sarutobi then told naruto about team placements and sent him off, only for him to come back he next day and have a crazy run in with his grandson that somehow ended with them being rivals for his position.
Then came the day that teams were to be assigned and naruto couldn't wait to get out of the academy and get a team, naruto really did not like the academy and if it weren't for iruka and his wish to become a ninja naruto would loath it entirely. The thing he had to say he disliked the most about the academy was the students, he didn't hate them but they were extremely annoying with their attitudes about becoming ninja. They acted like it was a game or a popularity contest and in doing so they neglect their training, naruto May have not had any ability in the education portion of the academy, though that was due to bad teachers, but naruto never slacked off on his physical training.
Finally iruka came to give the team assignments, naruto was truly excited at the prospect of who he would be teamed up with. But when he actually heard the team's he was a little…disappointed, he was paired up with miss no brain and only brains, even though she didn't use her brain for anything but impressing her crush, and he was also teamed up with the lone wolf with an attitude and ego.
Sakura haruno was his female teammate, and she was something no self respecting woman wanted to become. Her head was so poisoned with delusions of romance with her crush that she didn't realize her actual situation, she had no friends her skills as a kunoichi were sub-par at best, the only reason she got kunoichi of the year was because of how the council made academics more important than physical aspects, and to top it all off her personality was in the toilet. She was violent to everyone and she actually thought she was threatening, if anyone but the other completely useless fangirls were to actually try to hurt her she would get her ass kicked. Naruto had tried a long time ago to befriend her when he saw her all alone but she responded in her usual violent way and said he was teeing to ask her on a date, naruto saw that such delusions made her happy so he just rolled with it if only to keep the girl from experiencing the pain of feeling alone that he knew so well.
Then there was sasuke uchiha, this kid was the definition of a self important jerk. Naruto could understand if he was depressed after what happened to his family but becoming a jerk to everyone and developing a huge ego is not the way to go about it, just because you've had a rough life doesn't mean everyone should help you do what you want. He treated everyone as an annoyance and when people went out of their way to help him, which was a lot since he had a never ending supply of ass kissers, he acted as if it was their obligation to do so, he truly was spoiled by how people treated him after the uchiha incident. But what really pissed naruto off about the kid was two things, one, he looked down on everyone and their ambitions simply because his wished to do so. And two, he didn't appreciate anything he had and could only look at what he lost, everyone treated him like a prince and helped him while trying to be his friend, what naruto wouldn't give just for a single good friend and yet he purposefully isolated himself because he thought no one was worth his time.
But all that he could ignore and try to play nice, if it wasn't for their damn egos! They purposefully try to mess with him and try to tell him how superior they are to him, or in sakura's case how superior sasuke is, naruto just knew the world was against him because of how unlucky he was at life.
But then came his sensei, kakashi hatake, the man was actually a pretty cool sensei, annoying as hell but still cool. The man even thought him a life lesson that he would never forget during their test, 'those who abandon the rules are trash, but those that abandon their comrades are even lower than trash'. Those words meant the world to naruto, it was also reason he tried his best to play nice with his teammates despite their many flaws.
Kakashi himself was happy with the team that he got, sure there were many problems in all of them. Sakura had no physical skill whatsoever and in the heat of the moment she didn't use that brain of hers, and quite frankly she was a horrible kunoichi right of the bat, but there was potential. Naruto had a good amount of physical ability, he was plenty strong, fast and had a good amount of stamina for his age, not to mention his insane chakra levels. But the boy didn't use his head when he got excited and went off without thinking, not only that but naruto had no base skill as his fighting style was like that of a brawler and he had no control. Kakashi was happy to have his sensei's son as a part of his team but the boy needed to relearn the basics and get his head on straight, but he was sure that he could become a great shinobi just like his father.
Then there came the problem child in one sasuke uchiha, the kid was an excellent shinobi, but that wasn't where the trouble lay. It was the boys mentality, sasuke didn't play nice with others and only saw them as nuisances and deadweight, furthermore he had a one track mind and would do anything to achieve his ambition. Kakashi would have to keep an eye on him and try to teach him the meaning of camaraderie, he would try if at least in some way to repay his departed friend obito.
And so the turbulent times of naruto's ninja career began, he went on a number of missions and grew as a person while learning on each of his chaotic missions. His first c-rank ended with the liberation of a country and naruto learning that when one fights for their special people that you become strong. Then naruto continued on his career all the way up to the chunin exam, where once again his life took a turn for the troublesome.
During the chunin exam a rouge ninja by the name of orochimaru attacked them during the second stage, he ended up trouncing them and he gave sasuke a seal called the cursed seal. It gave him a dark power that began changing him, it made his lust for power even greater than it was before. Then there was also the trouble with a murderous fellow jinchuriki in the exams, not to mention the other participants as well.
During the training portion of the chunin exams naruto met a peculiar man by the name of jiraiya, naruto's teacher ended up getting incapacitated by said man for interrupting his…research. Of course naruto didn't let that slide and demanded he replace his teacher, he refused at first but soon relented at naruto's insistence. Jiraiya taught naruto much in this time including the art of summoning toads, a technique that naruto would cherish throughout his career.
But soon the training break was over and the chunin exam fights began again, during said fights naruto had managed to defeat a very strong opponent, and he was also able to change his heart for the better. But in the end of the chunin exams a war broke out between konoha and a sand and sound alliance. The village fought bravely in defiance, sarutobi himself fought against the mastermind orochimaru. Naruto ended up facing against the previously stated jinchuriki, named gaara, in an epic battle, in the end naruto managed to defeat gaara and konoha had emerged victorious in the short war.
But there was bad news as well, there were a large amount of casualties, sarutobi hiruzen was one of them. His death was greatly mourned by all in konoha, especially by those that were truly close to him, including one naruto uzumaki. But for naruto there would be no rest, soon jiraiya came and took him on a mission, a mission to find the new hokage. Soon they were traveling across fire country looking for tsunade senju, the woman that was to be the next hokage. During the search naruto had a run in with an organization called akatsuki.
They claimed that they wished to capture all of the jinchuriki, the purpose why however they did not state. During the confrontation sasuke showed up to confront his brother Itachi, who happened to be one of the two agents there along with kisame hoshigaki. Sasuke was soundly beaten and if not for the timely intervention of jiraiya he may have been killed.
After the akatsuki fled sasuke was taken back to the village while naruto and jiraiya continued their search for tsunade. Jiraiya also began teaching naruto the rasengan, a powerful A-class technique. Eventually they found her and eventually naruto and tsunade ended up having…a disagreement, by way of them duking it out in the middle of the street. Of course naruto lost but he managed to get into a little with the woman, the grounds were that if naruto had managed to complete the rasengan in a few days she would give him her necklace, which was a priceless heirloom of her family, but if naruto lost he would give up his dream of ever becoming hokage.
Naruto with in his refusal to ever back down accepted it and began working straight away, he worked on the rasengan till he could no longer move. It was quite moving seeing him try so hard, even tsunade felt moved by his efforts. In fact she was so moved by his actions she considered declining her other teammate, orochimaru, in his offer to her that he made before naruto and jiraiya found her, the offer was to bring her loved ones back to life in exchange for healing his hands that were destroyed in his battle with sarutobi.
Then the day came when tsunade was to give her answer to orochimaru, she had poisoned jiraiya and knocked out shizune, her assistant, so they wouldn't interfere. She acted as if she was going to heal him but in the end she attacked him, however she wasn't able to mount a proper offensive against orochimaru and his right hand man kabuto because of her homophobia and their readiness to use said weakness in their favor. She was then saved by the arrival of naruto, jiraiya and shizune, these three set about protecting her and fighting orochimaru and his minion.
Naruto ended up fighting kabuto and needless to say naruto was greatly overpowered by the sound ninja, but naruto refused to back down and fought him to defend tsunade, something that moved her deeply. In the end naruto was able to grievously wound kabuto with a completed rasengan, thus winning the bet he and tsunade had made. Tsunade had regained her spirit after naruto's display of courage and will, she gave naruto her necklace as promised and stood ready to fight orochimaru while stating that she would fight him as the fifth hokage, saying she would accept the job that naruto and jiraiya had originally sought her out for.
Tsunade along with jiraiya then fought orochimaru and forced said snake to flee, they then proceeded to konoha to get tsunade sworn in. The village happily celebrated a new leader and all seemed to be going in the right direction, that is all except one certain power hungry 'avenger'. Sasuke had grown angry and bitter, or at least more than he was before, over his inability to defeat his brother, he was also angered by naruto's growing skill and strength as a shinobi.
He ended up challenging naruto to a fight and they ended up taking it to far by using powerful A-rank Jutsus that should definitely not be used on allies, had kakashi not broken up the fight they could have seriously hurt each other, or worse. After the fight kakashi talked to sasuke about his growing animosity and he warned the young boy about where it would lead him, but sasuke refused to listen to his wise words due to his one track mind that could only think about revenge.
So sasuke, his mind lost in thoughts of revenge, power and frustration, didn't really think to consult his morals when a group of orochimaru's agents came to offer him a chance to leave konoha and receive tutelage from the dark sannin himself. Of course sasuke accepted in the end and abandoned his village, once it was found out his left a retrieval team was created. Konoha was unfortunately low stocked at the time so said team was composed of one chunin and the rest were gennin with the ability to be chunin, this included naruto who was dead set on bringing sasuke back due to their bond as teammates.
As they hurried to save sasuke they met resistance in the form of the sound four and their group had to split up each time they ran into another member, soon they all were fighting their own battles while naruto moved on alone to bring sasuke back. They were also aided by a reformed gaara and his siblings. Soon naruto confronted sasuke at the valley of the end, there sasuke stated his willingness to abandon konoha as well as his intention to kill naruto for the sake of power.
Naruto and sasuke fought and sasuke attempted numerous times to kill naruto while naruto only fought to incapacitate, sasuke even went so far as to use the chidori on naruto numerous times. Had it not been for the healing abilities naruto had he most definitely would have died many times over, sasuke most definitely was trying to kill him. In the end naruto was unable to stop sasuke from leaving, though no one died which made the mission at least a partial success.
After the failed retrieval jiraiya took naruto on a training trip, the purpose for said trip was to prepare naruto for the threat of the akatsuki. So naruto left the leaf village for three long years and during that time naruto trained relentlessly, jiraiya trained him into the ground with a number of teachings that strengthened naruto and prepared him for the threats he would face after the three year training trip was over.
After the training trip was over naruto endured many hardships after returning to konoha. Of course he fought many times with the akatsuki, but he also ended up facing orochimaru and his former companion. After naruto returned he also continued training and learning under his tutors, he became a very powerful shinobi and even managed to best a few of the akatsuki. But there was also heartbreak as people died as well during the battle with akatsuki, team tens sensei asuma died, as well as his own sensei later in a fight against the akatsuki pain. Naruto was heartbroken by the loss of a man he began to see as an uncle and role model, but thanks to the encouragement and help from those that truly cared for him he was able to move on and do his best to prevent such a thing from happening again.
After jiraiya's death naruto was trained by the toads in the sage arts, the ability would greatly heighten naruto's ability as a ninja. It was also thanks to this ability that naruto was able to best pain when he attacked the village, pain ended up destroying the village and killing many people before naruto showed up though and the sight of the destroyed konoha greatly angered naruto. So naruto fought pain and eventually defeated him with some difficulty, but pain's original body wasn't there. Naruto went and confronted pains original body that was in the form of a frail man by the name of nagato, instead of fighting they argued their ideals. In the end naruto was able to convince nagato that the way he was going about things was not the way to peace, nagato decided to place his faith in naruto and sacrificed himself to bring the people he had killed back to life as a way to repent for what he had done.
After that naruto returned to the village but instead of being thanked like one would expect many people blamed naruto for what had happened, the people had learned that the akatsuki were after jinchuriki and managed to rationalize that naruto could be blamed and that's what they did. There were a few people that truly did thank naruto though, for instance naruto's friends and supporters, there were also a few civilians and ninja that used to have the common low opinion of naruto that changed their minds because of what he did.
Naruto was upset that he still was unable to change the people's opinion of him but he did as he always did, he smiled and kept trudging forward with hope. Soon the people of konoha began rebuilding their village and things began gaining a shred of normalcy, that is until akatsuki made their next move. A gathering of kage was called and at the gathering the true leader of akatsuki declared war on the five great nations, sasuke showed up as well and assaulted the kage. He even managed to kill the representative for the hidden leaf danzo, he had become the representative due to tsunade being indisposed because of the pain debacle. Sasuke had stated that he was going to get revenge on the leaf village for his clan, he had become obsessed with revenge.
To stop naruto from going to the front lines a newly recuperateated tsunade decided to hide naruto along with kumo's jinchuriki killer bee on an island that only kumo knew the whereabouts of, naruto would train while on the island and hopefully he would be better able to protect himself for it. The other leaders agreed and naruto was shipped of to the island. At first naruto and bee didn't really hit it off but soon they managed to become friends, bee also agreed to train naruto to control the nine tails.
Naruto was able to, with some help from bee and the consciousness of his mother that was sealed inside him, gain control of the nine tails power and with it he gained a considerable leap in power, he also started trying to understand kyuubi.
So naruto trained as the war raged on on the outside, the enemies army was comprised of zetsu clones and the reanimated dead. All the villages and naruto's friends were fighting in the war, they fought against arisen friends and family all for the sake of the ninja world. Now of course naruto would become a part of the war someway, he became a part of the war due to his newfound sensing abilities. He was able to sense the emotions of people thanks to his new ability and when he left the area he was training at on the island he was able to sense all the negative emotions of the war.
Naruto then attempted to leave the island but the shinobi alliance tried to stop him, but with some help from bee naruto then proceeded to the front lines. Thanks to naruto and his clones help the tide of the war was turning in their favor, naruto was irreplaceable when it came to weeding out the zetsu clones that managed to seamlessly disguise themselves amongst the shinobi. Naruto was also valuable at stopping a few of the resurrected ninja such as the third raikage, he also aided the hokage in fighting the resurrected madara uchiha. but that didn't really help much seeing as it was madara and the naruto that was fighting madara was clone. Meanwhile the real naruto was fighting against the masked man that lead the akatsuki, along with the resurrected jinchuriki that also had their biju as well.
Naruto fought against them but they were to much, in fact if not for kakashi and gai's timely arrival he might of been captured. Then naruto, bee, gai and kakashi began fighting against the jinchuriki's, but if things weren't hard enough before they were now because tobi had the jinchuriki release their powers and become the biju the contained. It seemed like they were going to lose until kyuubi offered to help naruto, he stated that he believed in naruto.
Naruto then worked together with kyuubi, or as he called himself kurama, to stop the biju in hopes of freeing them, he found out that it would be much harder to save the trapped biju but they all placed their faith in naruto. After that though things just kept getting worse, first they learned that the masked man was really obito, a former konoha shinobi. Then the resurrected madara joined up with obito to fight against them, not to mention the ten tails got revived and was under the two uchiha's control. Then, and big surprise here, sasuke showed up and once again sided with the mad man against the people that cared about him, all because sasuke wanted revenge and he just couldn't stop blaming people for the problems in his life.
Then the shinobi alliance shows up and fighting ensues, many people die and the people in the center of it all end up swapping ideals and beliefs. Then after a lot of fighting and chaos naruto ends up getting kurama taken from him as bee also had gyuki taken from him, bee would survive due to the bond he shared with his biju naruto however would have died had obito not chosen to believe in him and steal back all of kurama's chakra and put it into naruto, sacrificing his own life to do so in the end.
After obito stole back kurama's chakra from madara he ended up suffering from a clash in the chakra from the other eight biju sealed in him, without all of them he didn't have the ten tails but rather eight biju trying to break out of him. Madara had to retreat less his plans completely fail, the shinobi alliance tried to stop him but he wasn't considered one of one of the greatest ninjas in history for nothing. So with madara gone and his forces going into hiding with him the allied shinobi could only recuperate while looking for said mad man, that and train.
After naruto woke up from his near death experience he felt horrible, so many people had died and still the war wasn't over. He kept thinking that if he was stronger then maybe he might of been able to save them, or at the very least the war would be over rather than postponed. But naruto quickly broke out of that line of thought, he wasn't one to dwell on what could of happened or what might have been, no he worried about what he was going to do and he knew exactly what he was gonna do.
He was going to get stronger so things would be different next time, and he knew just the two people he was going to go to for help.
After asking them for help in training kakashi and gai couldn't really refuse the boy, after all he was the key to victory or defeat in the war. The reason naruto asked these two in particular was because he knew just how powerful they were, kakashi was his sensei so of course he would know that the man was strong. Then there's gai, after seeing the man fight in the war naruto couldn't help but respect the man, his taijutsu was amazing and the eight gates was a truly fearsome technique.
Naruto was also now able to use his clones to their full potential, with kurama no longer hindering him in any way and in most cases helping him deal with the backlash of his training method naruto was able to spam as many clones as he could. So when they started naruto made a large group of clones to go with kakashi so naruto could train in chakra control as well as ninjutsu and elemental manipulation, meanwhile naruto would have another group of clones learning new taijutsu styles while the real naruto trained with gai to bolster his physical abilities, he even got his own weights.
So for six months naruto trained his ass off, he only slept or ate the minimum of what was required and every other waking moment was spent on cold merciless training. But the training paid off, naruto had gotten much better chakra control and his control over the wind element was amazing. Naruto had also branched off to learn to control the other elements to an extent, none were anywhere near as good as his skill with wind but still okay. With gai naruto had learned a number of taijutsu styles and gai had even taught him the eight gates, naruto had also gotten much stronger and faster due to gai's training along with his weights and kurama healing him. Naruto had also branched out to learn fuinjutsu and kenjutsu, he wasn't a master in kenjutsu but thanks to his clones he was close and he took to fuinjutsu like a duck to water, he actually did make it to master level thanks to how much effort he put into it.
Naruto's friends were astounded at how far naruto had grown in half a year, they wagered that naruto was now the strongest person in the shinobi alliance thanks to his training and newfound abilities. Seeing his strength had given many people hope, madara may have been forced to flee the last time but he was still one of the most powerful ninja in history, but with naruto's newfound strength they now had there own ace in the hole.
And right on time to, they had received word from some scouts that were sent out to find madara had actually found him. But it was more like he let them find him, they saw him in broad daylight at an abandoned fortress alone, they knew better to engage so they left and reported the sighting. The veteran ninja all knew what madara was doing, he was baiting them into a final confrontation. One that would decide the fate of the world, their best hope of winning was naruto but naruto was also the final piece madara needed to win the war.
But they had no choice but to take the bait, they couldn't wait for madara to amass more forces and they needed to stop him to end the war. So they amassed their forces and put together a plan, madara had an army of zetsus but that wasn't the main problem. The main problem was sasuke, madara and the eight biju sealed inside the formers gut, altogether they were dealing with an army, two skilled ninja, one of which was the current strongest on either side, and eight powerful chakra monsters enslaved to said man. Things were better than they were before but still grim.
So they formed their army and marched to the abandoned fortress, everyone was on edge due to worry of how this battle would turn out. Except naruto though, he fully believed they would win and his attitude helped cheer up many of the soldiers. Finally they arrived to see exactly what they expected, an army of zetsu's waiting for them. They spared no words as both sides quickly charged, they met in a fury of slashes, blood and body parts as both sides fought one another. Every ninja fought with everything they had, every ninja from every village fought with all their strength even the kage's fought on the front line for their future.
Meanwhile naruto cut a straight line towards the fortress knowing his targets waited within, the zetsu's seemed all to happy to let him through. Naruto was soon in the fortress and looking for his two targets and he knew just where to look, given their egos they would be in the highest place in the central area of the fortress, a perfect place to watch the carnage like the madmen they were. Soon enough one of his targets came to him.
Sasuke uchiha blocked his way while he wore the same 'I am superior to you' smirk he liked to wear, as soon as naruto stopped sasuke tried to insult him in hopes of ticking the blonde off. But naruto remained stonefaced and didn't say a word, as far as he was concerned this was just another insane enemy, the sasuke that was his friend died long ago. Naruto then attacked and they began fighting, sasuke soon lost his smirk when he saw naruto's newfound power and he also noticed that naruto was no longer trying to incapacitate him, no naruto was aiming to kill.
With naruto's newfound strength sasuke was easily pushed into a corner, while the uchiha had trained as well during the six months reprieve from the war his training was nothing compared to naruto's. Naruto then, without mercy or regret, struck the final blow against the man that was once his friend, he then left to face madara without looking back.
Naruto soon ascended the final flight of stairs and reached the highest chamber in the fortress where there seated in an extravagant seat on the far end of the room wearing the patented uchiha smirk was madara uchiha, the creme de la creme of evil assholes. Soon the two began their banter, stating their obvious in this point of time objectives and beliefs. Then they talk about why the other believes in what they believe in only to receive a shocking and inspirational speech as an answer, then they get to the fun part that involves drawing their weapons and meeting in an epic clash.
Naruto May have gained a great deal of skill and strength in his near spirit breaking training, but madara was just as powerful as he was and he held the edge in experience and skill. Still naruto fought valiantly and it seemed for a while that naruto and madara were even, but naruto was tiring quickly because of the energy he had to put into fighting madara as well as the taxing nature of the first few eight gates that he had opened to get an edge on the resurrected madman.
But even then naruto came up short fighting him, evidence being naruto an his knees and looking like he just got the crap beaten out of him. Madara looked like he got the crap beaten out of him as well but he still looked fresher than naruto, which wasn't really saying much since they both looked like they belonged in the morgue.
Madara had a smirk on his face due to the current advantage he had. "Give up boy, you've lost. I must commend you though for the effort you've put into this war, I haven't felt like this in battle since hashirama and I fought at that valley."
Naruto grit his teeth, he couldn't be beaten here. He then forced himself to his feet and pulled his large sword into a ready stance (picture aurons sword from final fantasy X, only slimmer in the width department). "Quit talking like I'm already beat you bastard, I'm not done yet!"
With that they leapt back into battle with their respective weapons, naruto with his sword and madara his katana. They met in an impressive display of kenjutsu, especially considering they both looked half dead, they looked perfectly equal in a battle of salesmanship. Until madara saw an opening and drove his sword into naruto's thigh, the attacked forced naruto to a knee allowing madara to jump back and do the handsigns for an all to familiar jutsu.
"This will end it!" With that madar thrust his now lightning encased fist forward, naruto raised his sword in an effort to defend himself but the wear and tear it had suffered from the earlier battles resulted in the sword breaking and madara's attack hitting him… right through the heart.
Madara smiled. "I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is the end for you. But don't worry, after you die I'll take the kyuubi as it leaves your corpse and finally bring peace to this rotten world." Madara then pulled his arm out of naruto's chest and allowed him to fall forward.
Then naruto stomped his foot on the ground to stop his descent, he then threw a punch that nailed madara right in the jaw and sent him flying several feet away. Madara got up and looked at naruto in shock, it's not everyday that the man who's heart you just tore out slugs you in the face. "Impossible."
Naruto was panting and spitting up blood as he straightened his back up to stand tall, the sight of naruto doing anything at all shocked madara since he knew he got the boys heart with his last. How was he alive? "I told you, don't talk like it's over until it's over."
With that naruto activated the rest of the inner gates, he figured he didn't have long to live anyway so he might as well go all out. After the gates were released naruto disappeared and reappeared next to the still shocked madara, he then started wailing on him with his fists. He threw madara all around the room with his beat down and naruto did not let up in the slightest, then he punched madara into a wall and he began punching him at such a speed that it looked like madara was glued to the wall while having a seizure. Then naruto formed a rasengan in his hand and drilled it into madara's chest, with a yell the rasengan drilled into the villain until it exploded sending madara through the wall he was pushed up against.
Madara landed in another room with his back on the ground, he just stared at the ceiling with a dumbstruck look on his face. Naruto then stumbled into the room and walked next to the defeated uchiha, he then started to do handsigns to release seal on madara and set the biju free.
"H-how?" A weak voice spoke. "How did you defeat me, how did you survive, how did you become so powerful?"
Naruto looked at the beaten man as he kept doing his handseals. "Because unlike you I fight for my precious people, I have something that's worth fighting for… worth dying for."
Mascara closed his eyes. "I see."
Naruto then finished his handseals and placed his hand on madara's chest. "Now it's over madara, finally it's come to an end."
Then the room was flooded with a bright light as naruto released the biju.
'I kept my promise… everyone.'
Outside the shinobi army had just finished the last zetsu clone when they noticed a bright light coming the fortress, the eight individual balls of light came out of the top of the forest and shot of in different directions. The shinobi were at first confused about what this meant until someone shouted out.
"He did it, naruto did it!"
And like that everyone began cheering believing the war was final over and their hero had won, well everyone but one person. One kakashi hatake was worried rather than happy, and that wasn't going to change until he saw the state his student was in. Without a second thought kakashi quickly rushed towards the fortress determined to find his young student.
It didn't take long for kakashi to find signs of fighting, and after following said signs it didn't take him long to find blood, wether it was naruto's or his opponents he didn't know. Then he came to the room that naruto fought madara in, the place was torn apart, though kakashi expected nothing less from the battlegrounds of two such powerful ninja. He then saw the hole in the wall and it didn't take long for him to figure out the fight didn't end here, he walked to the hole and readied himself for what he might see.
When he saw what lay beyond the wall his heart clenched in pain, there laying against a fallen pillar was naruto's unmoving body. Kakashi immediately could tell what killed him, after all not many could survive a hole through the heart. Kakashi knew something like this might happen, but that didn't dull the pain of seeing another of his precious people dead. Kakashi slowly walked to naruto's unmoving body and when he reached it he knelt down to get a better look at the face of his now deceased pupil, when he looked at naruto's face though he couldn't help the small smile that came to his face at what he saw.
Naruto was smiling.
Even in death naruto kept that infectious smile that just had the power to change people's hearts.
Kakashi placed his hand in his still students head. "You did it naruto… you did it."
With that kakashi picked up the fallen hero's body and started making his way towards the exit of the fortress. Once he reached the exit he heard the telltale signs of people still rejoicing the end of the war, that was until kakashi stepped into view. Every shinobi that saw kakashi, or rather who he was carrying, stopped celebrating, rather than the happy atmosphere the shinobi army had before they all adopted a melancholy look once they caught sight of their hero. Then kakashi began walking and shortly after the shinobi alliance began following him, what once was a mass of celebrating people was now a funeral procession for their fallen hero. He deserved nothing less, after all.
He was their hero.
And so ended the life of naruto uzumaki.
Blue eyes opened up to look at an endless terrain of darkness. Then slowly, cautiously, naruto uzumaki rose to his feet, though he didn't know what he was standing on since he was in an abyss of nothingness.
"Um, hellooooooooo anybody there?"
Naruto took another look at his surroundings… yep whole lotta nothing. "Where the hell am I?"
Suddenly he felt a presence behind him, naruto prepared himself for confrontation before quickly turning around to see… an older red haired version of himself.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Hey man how's it going."
to be continued.
Hey dude's
This is a new fic I've had cooking in my brain, but do keep in mind this is just a prologue okay, a set up to the actual story. I'll be working on this when I don't feel like typing out the Prince of hell story.
Please don't write reviews about how stupid this looks so far because it's just a prologue, the next chapter will be the actual start for my story.
Stay classy dude's.