Barbarian Invasion
Barbarian Invasion
Prologue
I OWN NOTHING
Naruto Uzumaki was achingly dragging an unconscious Sasuke Uchiha back towards Konoha after a ferocious battle at the Valley of the End. Both had tried to kill the other, Sasuke with a Chidori, Naruto with a Rasengan. Incredibly both had missed their target, after which Sasuke had collapsed from exhaustion.
This chain of events led Naruto to having a very dead looking Sasuke being dragged by his collar.
As Naruto finally reached the gates of the Hidden Leaf Village, he spotted a familiar red and pink blip leaving from the village. 'Sakura.' He sighed to himself.
That warm fuzzy feeling disappeared when he saw her fist coming for his head with the accompanying scream of "Naruto you MONSTER!" The combination of his shock, previous injuries, exhaustion, and heart-rending disappointment meant that when the fist connected, he was knocked out instantly.
When Naruto came to, he found himself in some indoor auditorium with a collection of benches around the entire room. Sitting on a raised seat was Granny Tsunade, looking for all the as if she had been crying her eyes out if the bloodshot and puffy eyes were any sign. Around her was a huge collection of older people.
Naruto was about to ask what the heck was going on, when an older gray-haired man rose up and said in a condescending and gloating voice, "Naruto Uzumaki, you are hereby stripped of your ninja rank and are also indefinitely banished from the Village Hidden in the Leaf. This edict is due to your attempted murder of Sasuke Uchiha."
Naruto's jaws dropped in utter shock; he couldn't process or believe this. He turned to Tsunade, begging silently with every fiber of his being for her to stop this.
The look on his face drove the older blonde into a new bout of tears as she shook her head slowly and mournfully.
Naruto's world shattered, he was about to spiral into despair when a final fragment of his nature's drive to defy the despair changed the despair into something far more terrible, rage.
Something deep within Naruto finally snapped, when he looked back up they were consumed with a horrible blood rage but they were not the red and slit of the Fox, they were still blue but the pupils were greatly dilated. Something else had awoken, something more ancient and terrible. Then he answered the assembled ninja and villagers in a voice that sent a chill down even the Hokage's spine.
"I'll go but I promise you this, I'll come back and when I do I'll destroy every damn Village, city, and town! I'll slaughter every Hokage, Jounin, Chunin, Gennin, Daimyo, Samurai, or anyone else who stands in my way! I'll torch all of the Elemental Countries, and I swear I'll drink to my victory out of your damn skulls and I'll be laughing the whole damn time!" With that he left. When an ANBU tried to apprehend him, the man was blasted through a wall.
That was the last anyone saw of Naruto Uzumaki, despite his friends and decent teachers struggling to find him.
Ten years later, in the Country of Mountains and Valleys, there started to appear small bands of strangers, men with thick facial hair and odd checked clothing. When questioned they would only say that they were warriors who had sworn their swords to The Fox King, The Chosen of Esus, and that he was coming.