AN: Hello ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the rewrite of a mask of happiness. This will be a lot darker then the original version. There will be bashing and character death. As you will see in this first chapter I will pull no punches. I will state what happens and whatever hell may follow. On that note! Please do not flame me for killing some character you wanted to live or for keeping a character you wanted to die. Each death and each narrow escape serves a purpose in my story. There will be no needless killing. Also feel free to pm me OC's if I can add them in I will add them. If you ever read fulfilling the fourth's wishes (a story I started but never finished) you'll recognize my personal OC. Also Miyuki from Naruto and his Guardian Vixens makes another appearance in this story except her personality is a little different. Now as always I'll state it now I'm looking for a beta. Now enough with the ramblings and on with the story! Please review!
Chapter 0 While the World falls apart.
Naruto jumped from burning roof to burning roof narrowly dodging the kunai being thrown. With a sigh Naruto turned and threw a kunai killing the man chasing him. Naruto finally stopped his run and turned to the burning Konoha. Three anbu jumped to Naruto's side.
"Hokage-sama! The intruders have the sharingan." An anbu with an Inu mask said
"I noticed, but it's fake. Their eyes do not follow our movements as well as a normal sharingan would. Relax Inu they will die before Konoha falls." Naruto said as another anbu jumped down
"Hokage-sama! More intruders have appeared in the hokage mansion."
"Where are all these coming from?" Naruto whispered as he sent the anbu away to deal with the intruders. Naruto then jumped away hunting down the leader of this invasion.
-With Inu-
The anbu captain grinned as once more his sword was bathed in the blood of his enemies. The anbu captain had jumped directly into a small group of intruders and had immediately began to kill them off. Unfortunately Boar, Inu's friend and companion through every siege they had ever faced was slain in the frenzy. As the last intruder in that group died off Inu's mask broke revealing the face of Kakashi Hatake, the sensei of the hokage and the pupil of a hokage. Kakashi's lone eye wept for the loss of Boar. Kakashi reached down and pulled off the mask of Boar, revealing Might Guy.
"Goodbye my friend. I will protect Lee now." Kakashi said jumping off to find any survivors.
-With Raven-
Raven jumped up as Nightingale finished her handsigns.
"Fire style: Great fire dance." Nightingale said and all the burning buildings around the two anbu stopped burning and the flames jumped forward at the intruders. The screams of the intruders abruptly came to an end as the flesh was melted from their bones. Raven smiled and removed his mask as Nightingale did the same. Raven's mask left his face revealing Shikimaru Nara, and Nightingale's mask revealed Anko Mitarashi. Suddenly they felt a presence behind them, they pulled their masks down and turned to face the person coming. A man with long black hair came walking through the fires as calm as one could possibly be stepping on the dead. He looked at Raven and Nightingale and smiled.
"Well looks like this is my lucky day." The man said and disappeared. When he reappeared he was behind both anbu.
"You two are so slow. Even in dying" he said and both Raven's and Nightingales head fell off of their bodies. It was then that Naruto appeared.
"Am I correct in assuming you are the leader of this pathetic invasion?" Naruto said calmly looking at the bodies of Raven and Nightingale.
"You assume correctly."
"Did you kill these two?"
"Yes."
"I see…" Naruto said and then he disappeared. There was the sound of metal on metal and Naruto had his sword out as the man blocked it with his own blade.
"You're faster then those fools, but not fast enough." The man said and disappeared. Naruto jumped forwards and rolled as the man's blade came swinging down right where Naruto was standing before. Naruto smirked and disappeared once again.
"Uzumaki Style: Swirling Revenge!" Naruto shouted and suddenly blades appeared all around the man and they began to spin creating something similar to the Inuzuka's jutsu. The spinning ball became smaller and smaller until it tore the man apart.
"What a boring fight." Naruto said reappearing behind the small ball.
"I agree." The man said as he appeared undamaged and swinging his blade sideways at Naruto. Naruto turned but realized he had no time to run. He closed his eyes expecting death. Then Naruto heard the sound of a blade cutting through flesh before getting stuck. Lee had appeared and jumped directly in the line of the blade dying to save his Hokage.
"Run. Naruto." Lee said before the light left his eyes.
Naruto jumped off running through the burning streets of his beloved Konoha. He ran up the hokage mountain and surveyed the damage. All of Konoha was burning, his forces were scattered. Konoha had fallen. Suddenly an explosion rocked the mountain and all of the hokage heads collapsed bringing Naruto down into the rubble. Naruto jumped out just before he would have been buried.
-With Kakashi-
Kakashi ran through the streets before he heard a scream a woman and a grunt from a man. He ran to the source to see the battered form of Hinata being sawed in half. The men were halfway up her body before Kakashi got to them. Hinata had long since died. Kakashi quickly decapitated the men and looked to the source of an explosion. He looked at the hokage mountain and saw a small flash of golden hair falling down in the rubble. His lone eye widened and he jumped off towards the rubble.
- With Naruto-
Naruto grinned as he tore apart another intruder. In the distance he could see the leader walking his way. Suddenly a white haired man appeared next to Naruto.
"Just like the fall of Suna isn't it Naruto-kun?" Kakashi said with a smile as they stood back to back
"I'll take that war any day. What is the status of our shinobi?" Naruto said killing another intruder.
"They are scattered or dead. On my run I saw the dead bodies of Kiba and Akamaru, Hinata, Shino, Anko, Shikimaru, Kurenai, TenTen, Lee, Neji was dying when I found him, Might Guy, Sakura, Sasuke, and Jin. It is a blood bath Naruto. We've lost."
"Yes we have."
"What do you suggest?"
"Go out with a bang." Naruto said forming hand seals. Kakashi widened his eyes and began the same handseals.
-Inside the seal-
"Don't do it! Don't do it! Please Naruto listen to me!" Akane the demon fox shouted out from her cage. With a bright light a woman with long white and black hair appeared. One of her eyes were white and the other black.
"Miyuki-sama!" Akane shouted bowing her head.
"Hello there Akane-chan. I assume you know what my appearance means?"
"My death?"
"Well it would if Yumi-chan didn't have a wish for Naruto-kun. You see Akane-chan, none of this was supposed to happen. Naruto-kun was supposed to be able to push all of this back and Konoha was to live but barely. It seems even us gods make mistakes eh? But I digress. We are deciding to send you back to stop all of this. We have made some changes to the timeline and you will meet Naruto-kun on his sixth birthday, and you will give him that bloodline you've kept hidden."
Akane eyes widened.
"You didn't think we knew about that bloodline you were creating? We are gods my dear. We know everything. You will give Naruto-kun that bloodline of yours. Now you must actually die. Your death will be the trigger for the new beginning." Miyuki said and disappeared with a wink.
-With Naruto and Kakashi-
Both sensei and student finished their handsigns at the same time.
"Forbidden Jutsu: Suicidal Explosion." They shouted and their forms bloated suddenly before collapsing inwards. The Intruders stopped their advance. Then there was a rumbling beneath Konoha and all of Konoha exploded outward, killing all of the intruders along with the few surviving Konoha shinobi. As the explosion died down a great light engulfed the world and everything stopped.