Disclaimer: I do not, nor have I ever, owned anything related to Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto series. I also do not own Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Prologue
Every single creature upon the Earth must obey death and even the mighty Biju* will eventually be forced to be down before it. The Humans believe that Demons are immortal but they are sadly mistaken.
All notable stories seem to begin with the phrase "Once Upon a time" and I am afraid that my story uses it to.
Once upon a time, the Demons, the protectors and caretakers of the Earth, were at war with the Shinigami, the angels of death. No one knew what caused this war, but they did know that neither side was willing to back down.
The Demons and the Shinigami fought a bloody war against each other for two and a half centuries. During that time, there seemed no end to the bitter conflict and many Demons, Shinigami, and Humans despaired.
It all changed on one warm, cloudless day in the middle of June. On that day something truly remarkable took place.
A wandering kit, named Kouji, from the Demon-Fox Clan met with a newly hatched Shinigami, named Ryuk, and befriended him. As the days passed, their friendship grew and they became more than just friends. They became brothers in all but blood.
I will ask that you forgive me as my memory of the following decade has faded over the centuries. I do remember that Kouji and Ryuk slowly gained allies among the Shinigami and the Demon Clans.
I remember how those two, after two decades, managed to finally end the Great War* between the Demons and the Shinigami. They had accomplished something that people believed impossible.
It was after the war that a conference between the leaders of the Demon Clans and Shinigami was called. During this conference, the two parties negotiated and eventually formed the Treaty of Peace between Demons and Shinigami*.
As part of the treaty, the Demons bestowed the Shinigami with power to use some of their most treasured abilities. In turn, the Shinigami gave the Demons the closest thing to immortality.
Just as there was only one sure way to kill a Shinigami, there was now only one way to kill a Demon. To kill a Demon, someone must first seal it within a newborn.
The sealed Demon would die if its mortal host dies, but the caged Demon would have died anyway. You see the Fuinjutsu* that is necessary to actually seal a Demon slowly consumes everything that makes the Demon a Demon. The Fuinjutsu drains the Demon's will, strength, and very life force until the Demon has nothing left to sustain itself with.
The only Human that knows of this secret was once the leader of the Uchiha Clan and the rival of the First Hokage, a man known as Madara Uchiha. However, there is one thing about this process that Madara doesn't know about.
With the death of the sealed Demon, the Fuinjutsu will collapse, as there is nothing left to sustain it, and turn the Demon's host into a new Demon. All of the former Demon's strength and skill will merge with the host and, theoretically, create an even more powerful Demon.
The majority of Demons detest this concept so much that actually commit suicide in order to prevent themselves from dying that way. How those Demons managed to commit suicide is something I don't know, or ever wish to know, so I have never asked those around me.
Few Demons willingly accept this and will allow themselves to be sealed quietly. Even though they accept the fact that they are going to die, the majority of these Demons will not willingly help their hosts.
Only ten Demons have actually allowed themselves to be sealed and have actually helped their hosts.
I'm one of those ten Demons,
Otherwise known as the ten Biju
Yes, sadly, each Biju has been sealed.
You want to know my name?
To the world I am the Kyubi no Yoko*.
To my friends I am Kouji, King of the Demon-Fox Clan.
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I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Naruto Uzumaki:
I am a Jinchuriki*, not a Demon. I am the jailor, not the criminal. So why am I the one who is being punished for what someone else did?
I am very familiar with pain. My life has been unfair but I have tried to make the most out of it. I'm now faster than anyone in my village as everyone has chased me around at some point in my life.
My lonely life is like an abandoned road that I alone travel on. It almost feels safe.
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
Yagura:
Ever since I was forced from my home village, Kirigakure no Sato*, I have wandered the world. Eventually, like a bird, I will fly away.
I follow the path of all the Jinchuriki before me, a path of eternal damnation and absolute loneliness. I don't know where the path goes but I can never escape from it.
I have always preferred moving anyway. I am like a river as I keep moving and never look back.
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Yugito Nii:
I did my best but for me to have a normal life seems almost impossible. That kind of mediocre life is so close that I can actually smell it but no matter how fast, or how much I run, I can never reach it. I can never have a normal life.
It is actually like I am in some sort of sick, twisted dream. There it goes, the perfect life, and there I go, chasing after it as I try to catch up with it. I seem so close to it, yet I am so far away.
My dreams, once sweet, are now bitter and full of the emptiness I feel inside.
Where the city sleeps
And I am the only one and I walk alone
Roshi:
You could call me anti-social but if you had grown up like I have, shunned and hated for another's mistakes, you would be anti-social too.
I am the type of person that prefers to be alone, though I am technically never alone. Sometime I long for more company than the Yonbi no Saru*.
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a…
Utakata:
The day that I met Amaru was the first day that I believed. It was the first day that I believed I was more than a weapon waiting to be used. It was the first day I smiled.
Before that day, I seemed to fall within my Demon's shadow. I had cried for someone to be able to help me, to understand me, for someone like me.
I was extremely lucky to have met Amaru.
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
I am walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and I walk alone
Gaara of the Sand Waterfall:
There is a thin, almost invisible line between sanity and insanity. I believe that, as a Jinchuriki, I walk that very line. For a time, I fell off that line and became insane because of my purposeless existence.
It was only thanks to my friend, Naruto Uzumaki, that I have become sane once more. She was the one that reached through my darkness and pulled me towards the light. She saved me from myself.
Naruto knows just what it is like to walk on that thin line, although see has never fallen. If she ever does fall, I will be there to catch her. I will save her like she saved me.
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Killer Bee:
I have made the most of my life. Sure, my life isn't paradise but it is a tolerable existence. If it wasn't… well I wouldn't be here today.
I have recently begun to look at the signs and reading between the lines. Something big is going to happen if it is causing the Hachibi to be acting the way he has.
This old wanderer just can't wait to figure out just what is going on.
Check my vital signs
To know that I am still alive and I walk alone
Fu:
When I was younger, I wanted to die so badly. I had thrown myself off 400 ft. cliff, jumped into dangerous rapids, and baited numerous vicious and dangerous creatures… If you named something, I probably would have tried it to end it.
It was only thanks to the Nanabi no Kabutomushi* that I am alive. Whenever I tried to kill myself, the Nanabi would heal me. I would wake up under the moon's pale light and know that I was alive when he spoke to me.
"Don't cry little one… It is simply too early to end things. You have not yet learned how to live."
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a…
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Han:
I am a vagrant, a wanderer, a warrior, and a Demon. I don't remember much of my past because I simply refuse to remember.
I usually travel from place to place, never staying in one location for too long. I never felt welcomed, no matter what place I traveled to.
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a…
Amaru:
Before I met Utakata-niisan, I lived in a small village. I had wanted to become to the best medic-nin in the world. The Slug Sanin, Tsunade Senju, was my personal hero and I did my best to be like her.
That was before I learned I was the Jinchuriki of the Reibi no Menhiru. Before I learned that Fuinjutsu used to seal Donsu within my body messes up my chakra control. My dreams had been crushed.
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
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I can feel as my strength slowly fades from my body, my end drawing ever closer. But I have accepted it. From my death a new, more powerful Demon shall emerge and take up my mantel.
We, the ten Biju, have spent the last few years preparing our Jinchuriki for their rise to their future thrones. Our successors are ready. Our deaths draw close.
The countdown to our deaths and their transformation begins. They have one week, eight hours, twenty-two minutes, and 49 seconds.
Important Information:
1. The Biju (Tailed Beasts) are ten Demons that were each the leader of their respective Demon Clan. This group of Demons was given this name because of their efforts in the Great War and the unusual number of tails that they possesed.
2. The Great War is the name of the two and half century war between Demons and Shinigami. It was offically ended due to the Treaty of Peace between Demons and ShinigamiTreaty of Peace between Demons and ShinigamiTreaty of Peace between Demons and ShinigamiTreaty of Peace between Demons and Shinigami.
3. The Treaty of Peace between Demons and Shinigami: The treaty that ended the Great War. As part of this treaty, the Demons bestowed the Shinigami with power to use some of their most treasured abilities. In turn, the Shinigami gave the Demons the closest thing to immortality.
4. Fuinjutsu (Sealing Techniques) are a type of jutsu that seal objects, living beings, chakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object. An imbalance is created when an odd-numbered seal is placed on top of an even-numbered seal and vice-versa.
5. Kyubi no Yoko (Nine-tailed Demon-Fox) is one of the ten Biju.
6. Jinchuriki (Power of Human Sacrifice) are Humans with Demons sealed inside of them.
7. Kirigakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Mist) is the Hidden Village of Mizu no Kuni.
8. Yonbi no Saru (Four-tailed Monkey) is one of the ten Biju.
9. Nanabi no Kabutomushi (Seven-tailed Horned Beetle) is one of the ten Biju.