Naruto Fanfiction
Title: Blades of Destiny
"who are you?" –talking
"What ningen" -demon speech
"Katon: …." -jutsu
"I was sent by my leader to guide you." – flashback/entity
"we die together." –thoughts
"NARUTO!" -SHOUTING
0000 Chapter 1: Another World on Another Branch
0000 ?'s POV
Darkness…total darkness covering the world around me. I see no one among the endless void. I am all alone, alone in this lonely world. With each step I walk closer to the end or to nothingness. As I walk, trees sprout from the blackened earth under me. Trees with many names…many worlds…many dimensions, an endless forest was born. A trail leading to nothingness laid before me. I walk…I walk…and walk…walking this lonesome road to nowhere in this vast forest.
*Drip *Drip *Drip
Rain…soothing rain, tears from the skies…from the heavens begin to fall upon my form. It isn't long till the onslaught comes. Thunder roars high above in the skies, calling out to me. I continue to walk the trail that was once dry now a flow of a gentle stream. I continue to walk; as I walk I come upon a tree, a tree of tall foundations.
"Hmm…" I hum; my palm rests upon the trunk of the tree. A tree with so many branches, words were flowing about around the tree, millions of them. Information begins to fill my minds, all about this world and how it worked. I grunt in pain as I grab my head, one word comes forth in my blurred vision.
"Naruto…" I whisper, I look to the branches again to see more words, millions of other branches had words on them as well. Some were short like twigs, some were long and strong, and some were half as thick as the trunk. The center named Canon, it reaches up so high but not high enough to touch the heavens yet, the others branches named Alternate Universes, branching off into different directions but yet still aim for heaven. As I look I notice some branches are alive and growing, some are alive but dormant for the time being, others withered and dead.
"So many worlds and stories wrote upon this tree. Some have died, some are still and dormant, others are ongoing. Let us see if this story goes on and on till dormancy or till death." I whisper, my form begins to be sucked into the tree, a new branch is born. I await my fate on the other side.
0000 Normal POV, Konoha
October 10th, an important day for the citizens and shinobi's of Konoha. This was the day of the Kyuubi festival, to celebrate the day when the Yondamie Hokage defeated the Nine-Tailed Bijuu, Kyuubi. Everyone celebrated this day except one, just one. A child so young wanders about in the filled streets of the village. He wanders about oblivious to all; he did what every child did at a festival. To be free and experience fun and joy…or at least tried to.
"Get out of here demon brat!" a masculine voice shouted angrily with hate and venom.
The child is still with shock before vanishing into the crowds, little did he know. People with the darkest of hearts were planning.
0000 ?'s POV
I groan as I feel myself return. I open my eyes to see the darkness of night. I slowly sit up, then stand. I stumble once but I get a grip on a nearby wall. As my vision clears I notice I'm in a dark area, an alley to be precise.
"So I have come." I thought as I looked around, a poster flies by. I get a glance at it.
"Kyuubi Festival, October 10th." I say to myself as I walk steadily out from the alley.
"Rule one. Be seen yet be unseen." I recite to myself quietly.
"Rule two. Watch all surroundings for clues or hostiles." I said again, I looked around to see nothing of the bad sort. But I do notice some shadows among the roofs.
"Rule three. Strike from the shadows. And strike efficiently, silently, and no mercy." I mutter to myself, I began to blend into a nearby crowd of people.
"Rule four. Stupidity, ignorance, arrogance, and naivety will not be tolerated."
As the crowd I am in seems to enlarge, I notice a few things. The civilians were now holding weapons of sort, broken bottles, rusted kunai's, rusted knives, pipes, etc. Some were even carrying torches. Children were being led away by their parents. I narrow my eyes with suspicion. Something was about to happen soon. Something crashes into my body; I stumble a bit before growling in annoyance, as I turned, I stopped growling when I noticed a child was on the ground.
"Ow." The child said as he rubbed his head.
0000 Child's POV
I was just running, running to find another place. Why didn't the people accept me? What did I do deserve this I wondered. As I was running, I accidently crashed into someone.
"Ow." I said rubbing at the pain on my head.
I looked up to see a man staring right back at me. He wore a black bandana around his head covering his hair, he wore a coat of some sort, I also saw he was wearing metal boots as well as gauntlets, he was wearing something metal on his chest as well but it was well hidden under all the other clothing he had on. A mercenary? A ninja? I didn't care or know, but I was right now scared of what he might do.
0000 ?'s POV
When he looked up to me I saw a hint of fear etched across his face for a few moments before he covered it with a smile. I raised an eyebrow in confusion at the act.
"Ehehehe….sorry mister." He said sheepishly as he got up.
"It's no problem kid. Just be careful not to run into anybody else." I replied with a smile, I ruffled the kid's hair for good measure. I noticed some people glaring at me, this made me more cautious.
"Say kid, where are your parents?" I asked, the child's face went from happy to instantly sad and depressed.
"I don't have any parents…I don't know who they were either…" he said, a bit of anger flares in me before vanishing.
"Why so kid?" I asked again, it took him a few moments to reply.
"Well…I asked ojii-san about them, but all he told me was that they were great people…" the child replied.
"No mention of their names?" I said.
"No…" he whispered.
Rain began to fall form the skies above. It wasn't long till a thunderous boom echoed across the heavens. Rain began to pelt my coat; I notice the child didn't have a coat of any sort either.
"Hey kid, you're getting wet. Do you have a place where you live?" I beckoned, the child stiffens before nodding. His cautiousness is really making me more wary of my surroundings. I ask him to lead the way. As I pass by more people, I notice them glaring at the child. I scowl and held the child closer to me protectively; he clings onto my arm as if it were his lifeline.
"Why is the kid so scared? This needs some investigation, those shadows are watching though…" I thought as the child continued to led me, we came upon some apartments and the kid led me into his. As we entered I closed the door behind us.
"This is where you live?" I asked as I looked around.
"Yeah…ojii-san gave me this place when I got kicked out form the orphanage when I was…4." He said bluntly.
My blood just froze at that statement. An orphanage kicking out a child. Oho, now that was unacceptable.
"Why?" I dared to ask.
"The owner and some of the workers said I was a demon and I didn't deserve to live with other orphans." He said bluntly again.
"Mmmhmmm…" I hummed, thinking all the painful ways to kill those people.
"I never got your name kid." I said.
"It's Naruto…what's yours?" he asked with curiosity.
"Me? Well…you can call me….Raiden…" (No not the Raiden from MGS, this is an OC)
0000 Elsewhere, Konoha, Hokage Tower
"Are you sure of it?" Sarutobi asked the ANBU before him.
"Yes Hokage-sama, this mystery man was interacting with Naruto. He seemed to be aware of our presence and the possible Kyuubi Hunt from what the villagers call it."
"This is troubling indeed, I want you to keep an eye on that man. Make sure he doesn't do anything to Naruto."
"Yes Hokage-sama." The ANBU said before vanishing in a swirl of leaves.
0000 Normal POV, Raiden
Raiden was walking in the still partially crowded streets of Konoha. Some people were glaring at him as he walked by, his destination was the Orphanage. He was paying the owner a visit. The rain pelted his coat as he walked hastily.
"Look it's the demon lover."
"The Kyuubi must have placed him under Genjutsu."
Raiden only scowled as he heard the accusations. A lot of people were going to die either today…or some other time. He didn't quite know where the Orphanage was from the details Naruto told him so he decided to ask a villager.
"Excuse me ma'am?" he said getting the attention of a woman doing her laundry. "Do you happen to know where I can find the orphanage?"
"Why should I tell you Kyuubi lover. Get out of my site." She said loudly, Raiden only scowled.
Raiden glanced around and saw nobody; he decided to take his chance. He grabbed the woman by the arm turned her towards him she tried to scream before Raiden slammed her into the wall harshly, his right forearm pinned at her throat making her choke.
"I said…where is the orphanage." Raiden said coldy, his emotionless eyes bore into hers. She didn't answer him, so Raiden increased the pressure he was putting into his arm. "I'd rather not kill you right now, but I will if you don't answer. So I'll ask again…where is it!"
"It's just three blocks down the street, take a left at there, go two blocks and there you will find a large red building." She said, tears were streaming down her face, Raiden only scoffed.
"See that was easy. But you won't be remembering any of this though." Raiden said as his left hand glowed white as he reached for her head.
"No stop!" she said pitifully, but Raiden paid no head as he latched his hand into her head, she gave a silent scream on pain before passing out. Raiden's hand stopped glowing and he dropped the unconscious body of the woman.
"Troublesome." Raiden whispered as he went his merry way.
00 5 minutes later…
Raiden stood before the Orphanage; he gazed at it with no emotion.
"Hmm…if I were to guess, I bet the owners office is right….there!" Raiden said as he pointed to a room at the second floor, it was the largest room out of the others. "And the workers must be right….there!" he said again as he pointed to a separate building with multiple rooms for each worker.
"I'll make this quick." Raiden whispered to himself as he entered the building.
As he entered he was in a mid-sized room with some furniture, he saw a hallway which had a sign that said 'Bathrooms this way'. He saw a door with a sign above it saying "Enter here". Raiden decided to go through the hallway first.
"Naruto said only some of the workers and the boss; I better not kill the wrongs ones then." Raiden said as he cautiously walked through the hall. Raiden decided to ask any workers he encountered about Naruto. He approached a worker fixing some pipes at the end of a hallway.
"Excuse me sir. But do you know anything about a child named Naruto?"
"The Kyuubi? Yeah, little brat got kicked out 2 years ago. Thank goodness." He said with a scowl. "What's your deal with him?"
"Oh nothing, I'm new to town and I've just been hearing a lot about this Kyuubi. So I've decided to ask around about it." Raiden relpied.
"Oh, well be warned. Stay away from him or he'll place you under genjutsu." The man said as he turned back to work on fixing the pipe.
"Thanks. And goodbye." Raiden said as electricity began to spark and crackle silently in his sleeve.
Raiden then rammed his palm into the man's back, a blade of electricity shot out from under his wrist stabbing through the man and hitting the heart, instant kill. The man's body fell backwards and Raiden caught it in mid-fall, he dragged the body and placed it in a closet. He made sure no blood was left on him or anywhere else.
"Hey Qin! Qin you there bud? Everyone else is readying up more the Kyuubi hunt." A voice came down the hallway, Raiden cursed as he slinked into the shadows.
"Qin?" the person said as he came by, before he could react Raiden grabbed the man from the shadows and quickly snapped his neck. Raiden also placed the body in the closet with the first victim.
As Raiden was about to leave he bumped into something. He looked down to see a child, a little girl, staring back at him with curiosity and innocence.
"Shit." Raiden cursed, a child this young shouldn't see something like this.
"Mister? What did you do to that man?" she asked.
"Nothing little one, he was just…tired so I had to…put him to sleep." Raiden lied; the girl seemed to buy it and gave him an innocent smile.
"Oh, okay mister." She said cutely, Raiden smiled as he ruffled her hair making her pout.
"Run along now little one." Raiden said, the girl beamed with joy before leaving. Raiden gave a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness."
Raiden quickly walked away from the corridor, he entered a large room. He saw a receptionist typing something on her computer. He walked over to the desk, he coughed to get her attention.
"You here to adopt?" she asked as she brushed her violet colored hair.
"Maybe, I want to have a look at the kids first. Maybe a lovely lady like you can show me?" Raiden replied with a charming smile, she blushed a bit at the act.
"Why, certainly sir. I could show you around." She replied seductively, she hugged her stomach showing off some of her cleavage.
She stood up from her chair and led Raiden to a door; she opened the door revealing a large room with children playing about. Raiden decided to ask about Naruto.
"Say, you've heard anything about a kid named Naruto?" Raiden asked as he viewed the kids as well as some of the other workers in the room watching or interacting with them.
"Oh that poor child. Yes, I feel so sad at how the people treat him." She replied with sadness in her words. She suddenly beckoned him to follow, Raiden looked around before following.
"You're new here?" Raiden asked, looks like somebody isn't dying today.
"Moved in about three years ago, trying to get away from things back at home. So I got a job here, I met the kid too. He's sweet, a little bit of a handful but sweet. Everyone told me to avoid him, but on occasions I would visit him to comfort him. It put my job on the line though as well as my life. I was forced to stop due to all the threats I got from some of my co-workers. I tried to ask the Hokage, but only he can do so much. It broke my heart when our boss kicked the child out. That's just…just…inhumane…" she said. As they were passing a room, she dragged him in and shut the door while locking it.
"Hmmm…" Raiden hummed, he decided to take his chance. "Ms…"
"Call me Akia, just Akia no 'Ms.' please." She said, Raiden nodded.
"Akia, you said people threatened you correct?" Raiden asked, she nodded. "What if those people were to be...should I say…silenced?" Akia's eyes widened in surprise, but she quickly hid it, with a frown.
"You're kidding right?" she asked. "Alright you're not kidding form that blank look you're giving me. Alright, I guess you could do that for me."
"You're not frightened?" Raiden asked with a raised eyebrow, she only scoffed.
"I'll tell another thing about me…when I said I was trying to get away from things back at home? I literally meant it…I'm…a former kunoichi. Technically I'm a missing-nin, S-ranked as well." She admitted quietly.
"What did you do?" Raiden asked bluntly, shocking her a bit.
"Well…you see…I stole something of high value to a village, including assassinating a few very power political leaders, some civilians and some shinobi. Hell I even beat some of the best nin-hunters." She said.
"Interesting, what was the thing you stole?" Raiden asked as he leaned on the wall.
"….a sword….a powerful one too….it is said with one swing it can level an entire shinobi village. I haven't tried it out yet though."
"Hmm…" Raiden got into a thinking pose. "Well for one fact, I'll trust you. Another fact, I'll need your help."
"And what would that be?" she replied.
"Naruto. I'm planning on getting him out of this place." Raiden said. "Anyways before that though, mind telling me why didn't kill those threatening you yourself?"
"Well that would seem very suspicious. Everyone knows I don't like them and for them to disappear would put me on edge and my identity on the line. I needed someone else to do it, and well…you offered."
"Very well. Give me their names and descriptions and I'll deal with them. After that meet me at the Red Light District." Raiden said.
"All right." Akia replied.
00 Timeskip, 30 mintues later...
Raiden watched from the shadows as shinobi forces scoured the orphanage, word had gotten out that many of the workers had been killed; all targets that hated Naruto including the owner were silenced. Akia was acting perfectly in the situation, plus there was no evidence of tying her to the deaths.
"A job well done…" Raiden muttered to himself as he walked off to the Red Light District.
00 Later
Raiden was leaning on a wall waiting for Akia to come, he waited and waited. Rain continued to fall from the heavens, pelting his face. He didn't flinch one bit when the rain pelted his face. He enjoyed the feel of the rain, it was soothing and relaxing. To him…it washed away all the pain…washed and purified his soul. Lightning flashed across the skies, the sound of thunder followed after.
"Raiden-kun?" a feminine voice asked. Raiden broken from his trance looked at the speaker, it was Akia looking at him with wonder.
She wore a purple coat that hugged her body tightly showing the size of her chest. Under her coat was a skintight shirt, she wore black ANBU styled pants. She blushed lightly as his eyes went over her frame.
"You here, good. Come with me." Raiden said as he held out a hand, Akia took it with no hesitation. Raiden began to slowly lead her to where Naruto was.
"Where are we going?" Akia asked as they neared Naruto's apartment.
"Just wait." Raiden relpied, he stood in front of a door and knocked on it. No response, Raiden knocked again and got the same results. It wasn't until he tried to open the door the knob fell off revealing chaos had erupted in the room a long time ago. Furniture was upturned and smashed, the windows were broken, everything inside was vandalized.
"Oh no." Raiden said as he franticly looked around. "No…no…nonononono…" Raiden said hastily as he looked around.
"Oh dear…what happened?" Akia said as she witnessed the damage.
"Naruto? Naruto. Naruto!" Raiden said as he looked around, there were no signs of the child. "NARUTO!"
"Wait…this is…oh kami." Akia said with revelation.
Raiden noticed a faint trail of blood, leading towards the window. Raiden feared the worst for the child and looked out of the window; nobody was at the bottom but he saw the blood on the pipe next to the window.
"He must have gone down the pipe. He could be anywhere!" Raiden thought as he jumped out the window, Akia cried out in surprise before she followed in suit.
Raiden landed with a dull thud as he examined the trail, Akia landed next to him. There were signs of a struggle here as the unturned garbage can wasn't enough as well as thick smudge marks on the soil.
"Akia, I need you to look around, everywhere if you must. Just find Naruto!" Raiden barked, Akia nodded before leaving in a shunshin.
Raiden continued to examine the area; he again smelt a faint trail of copper. He saw another faint trail of blood and began to quickly follow it. It didn't take long till he heard some sobbing coming from an alley, when he turned the corner he saw something that would scar a normal persons mind. Naruto laid broken and bloody on the ground, a pool of blood was forming. Multiple objects were skewered on his body. Raiden didn't hesitate to rush to the boy's aid.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Raiden said as he slowly pulled out some objects from the child's bleeding body, he noticed some of the wounds healing at a fast rate but he was too worried to care. "Stay alive kid. Stay alive."
"I want to die…I want to end it all…" Naruto whispered.
"Don't think like that kid! You still have much to live for!" Raiden scolded as he pulled out the last object, he quickly picked up Naruto and began to rush to a hospital. Naruto's eyes slowly glazed over and began to close. "Stay awake Naruto. Stay awake!"
"Let me go…I want to sleep…" Naruto whispered again.
"STAY AWAKE!" Raiden shouted loudly as well as slapping the kids face lightly, it seemed to keep him awake a few seconds longer.
When Raiden saw a familiar red +, he kicked open the door and ran up to the receptionist.
"I have very hurt child here miss, he needs immediate medical attention!" Raiden barked, said woman looked at Naruto before scowling.
"Demons don't deserve treatment! Get out now!" she said uncaringly.
"But-"
"Security!" two guards ran over and shoved Raiden out from the place. Raiden was furious; they would deny a child hospitality even when he was dying.
"Mmmph…" Naruto whimpered in Raiden's arms, Raiden was in a frozen state. Why would people let this child die without care, inside Raiden was raging.
"Fuck you all then! I'll save him myself!" Raiden shouted loudly as he dashed away from the hospital. He was going to take Naruto away from this hell. Naruto was now going to live a new life away from this cursed place, but first he needed to save the kid. As he was running he saw Akia looking around.
"AKIA! I FOUND HIM!" Raiden shouted over, she instantly looked and ran to Raiden.
"Oh kami, we need to get hi-"
"I already tried, they won't help either!" Raiden interrupted, Akia had the look of horror on her face.
"WHAT! THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE!" Akia shouted.
"We gotta get him somewhere warm, where do you live?!" Raiden asked, Naruto was shivering now, time was running out.
"Just a few seconds away follow me!" Akia rpelied.
00 Later
Naruto's unconscious form laid on the bed in front of Raiden, his wounds and cuts were bandaged up. His body temperature was returning to normal, but his head seemed to be burning hot. A most likely case of a fever forming, Raiden rubbed his forehead as he sat and watched Naruto's prone form.
"In all my years, I would've never have thought Konoha was this heartless." Akia's voice chimed in. "I mean he's just an innocent child. What exactly did he do to deserve this?"
"Something related to a demon called Kyuubi." Raiden said, Akia was silent for a few moments.
"Oh kami…I think I know." Akia said, Raiden instantly jerked his head towards her.
"Tell me." Raiden said with gritted teeth.
"Well apparently a few years ago before I moved here, a bijuu attacked Konoha. It was the Kyuubi no Kitsune."
"Nine-Tailed Demon Fox?" Raiden said, Akia nodded.
"Mmhmm. The fox attacked the village killing hundreds, from what people say. The Fourth Hokage defeated and killed the Kyuubi. But…I don't think that's true though…"
"Why so?" Raiden asked.
"A bijuu is almost impossible to kill, only the Ridoku Sennin could've done something like that. The Yondamie of Konoha was power yes…but not that powerful. I think the most likely option was that he…sealed the demon away. Sealed it into something. And I think that something is Naruto, he was born on the same day of the attack and found at the same time of the Kyuubi's defeat from what rumors go by. I think the Yondamie and this kid are related, they look almost the same looking at it." Akia said, Raiden's hand balled tightly.
"So…if he is the container…they harm him because he holds a demon?! That's the most bullshitiest reason to hurt him. If he dies then the said demon would be loose! It's like a glass of water, break the cup and the water spills out!" Raiden shouted.
"Well only some people see it like that. The rest are blind to whatever they think." Akia said as she looked sadly on Naruto's form.
Raiden shook his head in disbelief, there was a long silence until Raiden broke it.
"We need to get him out of here." Raiden stated, Akia looked in confusion.
"What?"
"I said we need to get him out of here. The people won't accept him at all, no matter how hard he tries. He needs to begin a new life elsewhere away from this cursed place." Raiden said as he looked to Akia pleading.
"You want me to come along?" She said, Raiden nodded.
"You're the only other person so far that I can truly trust." He replied, Akia just sighed before nodding.
"Alright, I'll come. I was thinking about leaving a few weeks ago, I even thought about taking the kid as well." Akia said as he went out of the room to gather her things.
Raiden stared at the door for a few moments before turning his attention back to the sleeping form of Naruto.
*Sigh. "I'm sorry kid. Sorry that I let you get hurt." Raiden said before he too left the room.
0000 End
So whadda think of this story, been running around in my head for a while since I wrote Demon Angel. I'm still working on it don't worry if you've been wondering, just hit a bad obstacle. I think I may rewrite a few chapters as well anyways hope you liked and review.
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