Me: Saluete! (hello!) I'm Darkphoenixchild666, and this is my first Naruto fic! I'm normally a Beyblade writer, (check out crossover chronicles part I: Naruto, and the poem 'three months') but I'm taking a whack at a Naruto centre fic! I hope you like!
Prologue
He is powerful, so powerful. So powerful that people question if he even exists at all. The one called Nightshadow; he comes from the shadows, attacking silently, leaving behind nothing but death and destruction, before melting once again into shadows, as if he was never there. The one called Nightblade, the bringer of death. All respect him, all fear him. No enemy stood before him and lived. No ally ever saw his face, hidden behind a cold porcelain mask. He doesn't speak, using simple body language to convey his thoughts, his mere presence revealing his intentions. The one called Nightstalker, none can track him, but he can track anything. Power beyond imagination, the most powerful ANBU that ever existed. He is the White Wolf.
The White Wolf.
Chapter 1: joining the ANBU
The story of the white wolf ANBU has been told over and over, passing into legend. Uchiha Sasuke had heard the tale many times. Now, as a jonin, he was taking the most difficult exam of his life, the exam to join the ANBU. After hearing the tale of the white wolf only once, he had aspired to become an ANBU. It was the next step in him being able to kill his brother, Itachi. He vaguely wondered why the white wolf was not at the base. His former teammates were also taking the exam, Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura. 'Humph,' he scoffed, 'why are they even bothering to take the exam? They're too weak, only chunins.' Naruto and Sakura sneezed. In reality, Sakura and Naruto had grown a lot since the chunin exams. Naruto was much taller, around 6ft, (he had changed his diet, no ramen, nothing but healthy foods, causing a tremendous growth spurt.) and he had grown in his mind as well. He no longer acted rashly, thinking his actions through, and almost always successful. After his 2 ½ year training journey with ero-sannin, (Jiraiya for those dunces who don't know.) he was now the most powerful chunin, but not yet ready to become a jonin, much less an ANBU. Almost all of his abilities were kenjutsus, as he would recover quickly from the damage done by them.
Sakura, however, had taken the path of the medic-nin. Thanks to her training with Tsunada, if she wanted to, she could destroy the Hokage tower in three swipes. Her knowledge of the medical arts surpassed that of the Hokage herself, and she had recently stopped fawning over Sasuke in favor of studying and practicing, which, to Sasuke, was a blessing. They were all 20 by now, and had come through all the trials and tribulations with much to show for it.
"Enough, I have decided the new members of the ANBU." The examiner shouted. The ten hopeful ninja stopped and looked up expectantly. "The two newest members of the ANBU are: Uchiha Sasuke (Sasuke smirked to himself. No, Sasuke doesn't smile!)and Haruno Sakura. Step forward to receive your masks." They stepped forward and were handed a snake mask and a crane mask. The snake mask had blue lines, while the crane mask had red lines. Sasuke smirked again; he should have known he would become the snake ANBU, after the whole Orochimaru incident. Sasuke involuntarily scratched the curse seal on his neck.
"You still remember him, don't you?" Sasuke jumped, he hadn't heard Sakura come up next to him.
"Yeah. I know he's dead, but I can still remember what almost happened." Sasuke looked over to Naruto. Sasuke was immensely grateful to Naruto. He had brought him to his senses, and Sasuke in turn, had killed Orochimaru, who had fatally wounded Naruto.
-Flashback-
"Sasuke, you don't know what you're doing! Going to Orochimaru will solve nothing!" Naruto cried in desperation.
"Oh please, from him I can get the power I need to defeat Itachi. From him I will become strong." Sasuke laughed at Naruto
"You just don't get it, Sasuke. You won't be strong, Orochimaru, in your body, will be. You're choosing the losing side, Sasuke! You will always be second best. Is that what you want, well, is it!"
"I…"
"Don't you see? By going to Orochimaru, you're becoming just like him! Just like Itachi!"
"But…
"And another thing, Orochimaru is only one of three, Sasuke! Come back with me, and be trained by the same person who trained the Yondaime, and stay with your friends. Or go with Orochimaru, and kill me. Cause that's the only way your going with him. Over. My. Dead. Body. Got it?"
"Well, Sasuke-kun? Kill him now!" Orochimaru told Sasuke.
"I, don't…" Sasuke stammered out.
"If you won't kill him, I will!" The sannin shouted. "sune-ku genkotsu no jutsu!(1)"
The sannin hurled himself at Naruto. Sasuke could do nothing but watch as Orochimaru drove his snake fist through Naruto's Stomach. He saw it in slow motion as Naruto fell back as his eyes glazed over. Then something snapped. Sasuke could fell tears well up in his eyes.
"n-no, Naruto, NO!" He screamed. He looked down, his eyes shadowed, "he was my only friend, and you killed him. Now you will die." He snapped his head up, and his eyes were the sharingan. But they had evolved, into the Mangekyou sharingan.(2)
Orochimaru suddenly found himself in his worst nightmare. (It's too terrible to describe, it sends shivers down my spine.) It got so bad that he just fell down to his knees, giving up.
"Chidori!" Sasuke scremed, sending the jutsu straight through the sannin's heart.
Sasuke went to were Naruto was lying, and knelt down beside him, and cried.
"Sa-su-ke" he heard a weak voice. He looked down. Naruto was alive! He quickly picked him up and was off like the wind.
-End flashback-
Somehow, Sasuke was able to get Naruto to Tsunada before he died. Tsunada, grateful for the death of Orochimaru, forgave all of Sasuke's trespasses, and saved Naruto's life. Sasuke then looked to Sakura and smiled, a real smile, not a smirk. (I've been forced to eat my own words. Bleahg, they taste nasty.)
Naruto looked over at the other two and walked out of the building, nearly running into another ANBU.
"The white wolf has returned from his mission! He is coming to the base to check out the new recruits!" the hawk-masked ANBU shouted.
Sasuke snapped out of his revere in surprise. 'So that was why the white wolf wasn't here during the exam. He was on a mission.' Sasuke looked back to where Naruto had been standing, only to find him gone. 'Where did he go?' Sasuke thought to himself, but was interrupted by a slight breeze. Every ANBU looked to the shadowy doorway to the side. Sakura and Sasuke waited and watched. A cloaked figure seemingly melted out of the shadows. The hood of the cloak covered the person's face, but Sasuke knew who it was. The man slowly raised his head to revile a pure white wolf mask. Black whiskers and a black mouth were the only decoration. The white wolf threw off his cloak to revile a well muscled body under the black ANBU uniform, and a black bandanna covered all of his hair. The ANBU tattoo was on his right bicep. All in all, he looked like any other ANBU, aside from the pitch black kantana strapped to his back. But it wasn't how he looked, it was how he felt. The most powerful aura surrounded him, and his presence was so terrible that Sakura involuntarily flinched. Sasuke was mentally running in circles, screaming bloody murder, but was calm and collected on the outside. But he couldn't help but jump when the wolf phased out and appeared right in front of him. The wolf looked into Sasuke's eyes and grunted in satisfaction, and the same with Sakura. He phased out again and reappeared in a shadowy corner.
"The wolf approves." Said the examiner. "Those who were not chosen must now leave." After the failures left, the examiner continued. "You two must be apprenticed to another ANBU until he/she demes you ready to take on solo missions. Are there any volunteers?"
The room immediately erupted in arguments on who would take the new ANBU. But all were interrupted.
"I will take them." A smoky voice cut through the din. (A low, cold voice that makes you shiver, like wind whispering in your ear) Those ANBU that didn't have there masks on jaws' dropped to the floor. The white wolf had spoken. What in the nine hells had made this a special occasion to speak? A voice cut through the silence. "What makes them so special that you take them?" no one expected the wolf to answer, and murmurs broke out among the ANBU once again, but again were silenced.
"I see much potential in these two, almost as much as my master saw in me." The wolf said. Grabbing two ANBU uniforms, he tossed them to the recruits. "Put them on. Meet me in the small room off to the right in half an hour." He went to the shadowed doorway and melted into the shadows. Another ANBU approached Sasuke and Sakura.
"Consider yourselves extremely lucky, not only did the white wolf speak to you, but he is apprenticing you as well. He has never, I repeat, never, done ether to any of us." He left.
As Sasuke went to change, he began to wonder, 'what have we gotten ourselves into?'
Me: Well? You like? These are the notes I put in:
1: sune-ku genkotsu no jutsu: snake fist jutsu. I made this up. Imagine your arm turning into a giant snake.
2: kaleidoscope mirror-wheel eye: I think that thin is soooooooo cool!
Me: valete! (goodbye) REIVIEW!
