Vile here. Sorry for those who like my other stories, I had to write something like this.
Summary: Female Naruto has found a book that is a lost art. The ability to use Magic. That isn't all that is in the book. Now Naruto has access to put a curse on someone and is learning more about the lost arts. Dark Naruto. Powerful Naruto.
The magic concept is from Final Fantasy, but I'm not making it a crossover with any characters from the Final Fantasy series. Just the magic concept. Yeah. I'm to lazy to make my own magic spells.
Anyways enjoy.
"Talking"
Thinking
Demon Talkiing
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything related or the FF Series Magic concept.
Chapter 1
The Dark Arts
The room is dark.
A blond headed child is sitting in the middle of the room.
She is surrounded by candles in a circular position.
In the circle is a very complex seal.
In front of her, looks like a small shrine.
On it is a strand of hair.
The little girl is concentrating whatever it is she is doing.
A small dark figure is walking towards the circle. The figure is a kitten size crimson fox, with black tips on its paws, tails and ears.
"So who hit you this time?" The fox said as she sat beside the girl who growled at the mention of someone touching her, as she looked at the small shrine. "A curse? You haven't done one in 3 months." The fox said as the strand of hair ignited and burned away. "So who is the unlucky one this time?"
"Some old drunk who lost his family to you." The girl said as she continued on concentrating with her curse.
"You know, it's hard to believe a 7 year old is killing people without letting the people of Konoha knowing it is you, Naruto." The fox said as she remembered the first day she woke up, when girl was doing her first curse on someone at age 6, a powerful curse to be exact. She remembered how successful she was with the curse and lost consciousness under chakra exhaustion and too much concentration.
A Year Ago
The little girl woke up and can see she is in a dark tunnel or some sort. The walls had candles on it. She looked around and wondered where she was. She remembered doing something that is called a curse.
She read it off a book called the Dark Arts and Magic. It seemed stupid at the time when she read the Magic part. She was just reading it when she came across a section that concentrates on how to curse someone. She didn't bother with it until she was beaten.
She was beaten severely and got some of the man's skin under her nails as she was trying to defend herself. She remembered one of the requirements for putting a curse on someone and it is a piece of a person's DNA. She was so angry with the man and read up the curse section and she went to get the requirements to set up the curse.
Once done, she did the strongest curse that was in the book and did it. She casted a curse that would make the man's life that attacked her into a living hell. First he will lose his love ones, then he will lose his friends, then he will lose his job, then he will lose his possessions, then he will have nightmares, then he will lose his sanity, then he will die a painful death. It truly is a deadly curse to cast on someone. She could of just make the man sick, but she was pissed, and I mean really pissed. The kind of pissed that would make you go through anything and not turn back.
After that was done, she must have passed out on sheer concentration.
She looked around and decided to walk down the hall. The deeper she went the more candles there were on the wall. It came to a point when the candles were on the wall and floor.
She came across a room that was huge. The place was covered with many of candles that brightened up the room. In the middle of the room is a woman with long crimson hair sitting in front of a tea table drinking tea. She had on an elegant black kimono that had baggy sleeves and had a black and red obi. She had blood red eyes that have slits like a cat and around her neck is a collar around her neck.
"You know, when I first woke up, I was expecting a weak human to hold me." She said as the little girl just stood across from the woman. "You should have seen my surprised expression when I found her doing an advance curse and living." She looked at the girl more carefully and can see that she had potential in the dark arts. Considering she did an Advance Curse and has an interest. "Tell me, how you came across the art of curses, child."
"I found a book in the garbage and decided to read it." She stuttered a bit as she was talking to Kyubi herself. Yes, she figured out she had the Kyubi inside her a year ago. She is a very smart girl at a young age, smart enough to get the Hokage to get her, her own apartment and give her allowance to pay her rent.
"To find a Tome of Magic is sure something out of pure luck or is fate willing to bring back the lost arts." Kyubi said to herself as she was thinking about what to do. "Tell me, what do you think of the prospect of the Arts of Magic child?" She asked as she wanted to test her through her answer.
"Well, at first it seemed a bit stupid at first." Naruto admitted and Kyubi just scuffled at her. "Then I wanted to learn it after that man attacked me. I didn't have anything at the time. I didn't know what to do. The only thing I had at the time was that book, so I took my chances with it and went with it." She said as she wondered if the curse is doing its thing.
Hmmm, she has potential in this field. There is no doubt her ninja career with be tarnished. She has no one to rely on and the Hokage is doing everything he can to help her. She rubbed the collar around her neck. I wonder why the Yondaime gave me so much freedom in my container. She thought as she looked upon her container. She looks so much like him... wait a second. She started to compare the Yondaime to her container. Blond spiky hair and blue eyes, you have to be kidding me. He sealed me in his own daughter. What kind of person does that to his own child?
She started to think things through, again. She can either corrupt her to a point she hates the village she is in or make her into a killer or ruin her life further by sending her chakra into the girl's chakra pathways making it impossible to mould chakra.
But that's the thing. She already hates the village she is in and someone will soon tarnishing her ninja career and she is already a killer by casting a curse on someone. She sighed at what she is going to do. I might as well help her in her Mage Career.
End Flash back
Since then, Kyubi has been teaching Naruto in the Art of Magic and made herself into Naruto's Familiar.
The Black Magic of offence and the White Magic of Defence, Naruto took a huge interest in Black Magic and took a slight interest in White Magic.
She took a liking to poison and add her poison spells to her curses. She even poisons herself and cures it herself to help her improve her spells. She has a mastery level of poison and Esuna. Her cure spell is up to Curaga.
Her Black Magic is going quite fine. Her fire spell is up to Fira, Blizzard is still Blizzard, Thunder is up to Thundera, Aero is as well as Aero. Her curses took a huge mountain climb under Kyubi's tutelage and mastery over Poison. The Blind and Silence spell will be useful as well.
Naruto's White Magic is still beginner's level except for Cure and Esuna. Kyubi made her practice Protect and Shell. She'll need it further down her life. She stills need practice.
Right Now she is starting her Time Mage spells.
"So what kind of curse did you do this time?" The little fox asked as all the candles went out showing that Naruto's little ritual is over.
"Just the usual. Making the man sick and slowly diminish away." She said as she left the room through a latter up to her apartment.
The place she lived in was a 2 story building and her landlord was an ass. One she found out her first curse was successful she made her landlord commit suicide. Something the Kyubi had taught her. Once the landlord died the place instantly went to the only person that lived in the complex and that was Naruto. She didn't have to pay rent, but she still have to pay for the electrical and water bills. She later on made the ritual room where she can cast curses on people from a safe place. She even made her own study room with her poisons and research.
The Kyubi is also teaching her sealing which is very helpful for Mages.
Once Naruto exited the ladder and seals the trap door and cover it with a rug she went on to study her new spell. Something the Kyubi thinks that she will need.
Teleport.
For 3 months she has some control with teleporting. She can teleport into a closed off space like a bank's safe, which she did and took the money and seal it away for future uses once the heat is down. Right now she is standing in front of another safe that has the top locking mechanisms and sealing the ninja arts can provide.
"Kyubi." Naruto said as the fox on her shoulder looked over to her. "Please prey tell me why am I in front of the Hokage's secret forbidden safe?" she asked the fox as she sneaked through many Anbu ninja's in the Hokage's Tower, more like teleported around them.
"Remember that Tome you found in the garbage." Kyubi said as Naruto nodded when she found that book. "That was one of the lost arts on Magic and you only scratch the surface of the Dark Arts through that book. What if the past Hokage's have found one of these lost arts and put them in here." Naruto began to think in through. It would be logical if a Hokage had found something interesting or dangerous and seals it away, like sealing it in this safe.
"So, we might as well search for it, but how. It could be hiding in there for all I know." Naruto claimed as she stepped forward to the safe and took a step back when she sensed danger. She looked where her senses were flaring and sees a kunai launchers that were aimed where she was going to step. "I should really thank you for putting in those danger senses in me Kyubi."
"Is that all your thankful for?" The fox said as she got an idea. "There won't be a need to enter that room through this door Naruto." Naruto looked at the fox like she was crazy. "You can just teleport into the room."
"Kyubi, remind me, how am I suppose to know what it looks like in the safe. I have to visualize what it looks like for me to teleport in that room." Naruto remembered her lessons on teleporting.
"You can concentrate on finding the book we're searching for in that room. Remember, all Dark Arts are connected and if you concentrate on finding the Tome, you should be able to visualize where it is located." Kyubi said as Naruto continued to look at her as if she was crazy. "Just do it."
"Fine, bossy little fox." Naruto grumbled as she concentrated on finding the book. She concentrated about how to do curses until she felt a pulse. "I felt something." Naruto said to Kyubi.
"Good than concentrate on that and visualize." Kyubi instructed.
Naruto pulled on that pulse and it later on felt dark. It felt so empty, like there is nothing there. She felt alone when she felt it and she began to visualize until she sees a stack of shelves and she further concentrate on the shelf as she visua...
"Ok." Kyubi said as she broke Naruto out of her concentration. "We're in." Kyubi said as she jumps to the floor and looked for the book. Naruto just took a book out of the shelf and read the cover.
"The Dark Arts and Your Soul. What the hell does that mean?" Naruto asked as she looked over the little fox that was looking over the shelves on the bottom floor. "More importantly, what the hell are you doing?"
Kyubi just looked at her like it was just a simple answer. "What... we are in a safe that is filled with forbidden arts and lost arts and you are just here for that book." Kyubi stated as it was very simple. Whatever was in here was meant to be kept in here and taking a book out of here is branded for treason for theft. It wouldn't hurt if nobody knew about it. Hell the current Hokage probably doesn't know what is in here. She might as well look for something that she will make as her own.
Naruto just sighed at the fox. "Look for something that might be helpful." Naruto said as she looked over the higher shelves of books.
2 Hours Later
"What did you find?" Naruto asked Kyubi as she was dragging 3 books with her tails.
"I found 2 more of the Dark Art Tomes. This one is about modifying plants to your liking; this could help you with making your own poisons. The other is the Art of Voodoo... I never thought it existed... then again, these Tomes shouldn`t exist. This one is a Taijutsu style, it concentrates on speed, but it also works on pressure points. This will keep people away from you. What did you find?" Kyubi said as she gave the books to Naruto and sat on her shoulder.
"I found a book on sealing and another book in the Dark Arts. This one is to manipulate people through their souls and extract souls from living beings. It also says you must read volume 3 to do read on." Naruto said as she should the book to Kyubi and it was blank.
"It seems you must read the books through the numbered volume. So you only read volume 1 and this one I found is volume 2 and the one we found first is volume 3 and you found volume 4." Naruto nodded to Kyubi. "It seems there are more volumes out there and you must read through the align numbers and there must be more in this safe considering we only searched a third of the place." Naruto nodded as she concentrated on finding more of the Dark Arts and sensed 7 more books. The problem with most of them is that they felt evil.
"I don't like the feeling of most of those books Kyubi." Naruto said as she shivered as she felt great evil in some of them.
"Those must be the forbidden Dark Arts. If I remember correctly, there is Necromancy and the Dark Blade." Kyubi said as Naruto moved towards the one that didn't feel malevolent. "It would be best if you don't study Necromancy. It is a one way ticket straight to hell if you study that." Naruto nodded as she moved towards the book that felt so empty.
"What is the Dark Blade?" Naruto asked as she got a feeling she is heading towards that book.
"It is the ability to control darkness and use it in the field of combat. Many Black Mages and Knights have sought out to control this power, but end up being swallowed by the darkness they were wielding." Kyubi asked as Naruto stopped in front of a shelf that holds the book. Kyubi looked where Naruto is looking and indeed it was the Dark Blade that Naruto was searching for.
"So... are you going to take it?" Kyubi asked while Naruto was just looking at it.
"Kyubi, what happens to those that conquered the darkness?" Naruto asked as she reached for the book.
"They unleash a power that this world has never seen." Kyubi said as Naruto teleported out of the safe and into her apartment with the books she was searching for, including the Dark Blade Tome.
With Naruto
She teleported to her dojo she made with the bottom floor of the apartment which has no entry through the first floor and can only be accessed by Naruto through her teleportation. She has a bed in the corner if she happens to feel weak, which she used most of the time.
Naruto just groaned at her mistake.
"Relax girl, it isn't the first time you missed teleported. At least were in your apartment." Kyubi said trying to comfort her as Naruto teleported again and into her study room.
Kyubi jumped of her shoulder and was inspecting one of Naruto's new poisons.
The one she was looking at isn't contagious, but it is dangerous. A poison that eats away the flesh and spreads across the blood stream, it will continue to eat away at a person's body at a rapid pace. Naruto didn't make a cure and she is the only one that is capable to cure it, that is if Tsunade returns to the village, which she highly doubts.
The second one is a paralysis poison that will turn a person numb and also cause the muscles to spasm randomly. With luck the person will snap their own neck when they are poisoned by this.
The third poison is Kyubi's favourite. A poison that will eat away a person's chakra network, the poison won't stop until the network is completely gone. Without any chakra, a human won't be able to survive, thus killing them when it is gone.
Both Naruto and Kyubi sure hope Tsunade will never come back to Konoha and find a cure for Naruto's poison.
"So, when are you going to turn them into spells? If I remember correctly you absorb the poisons you created and turned them into Poison spells." Kyubi said as she remembered Naruto injected herself with many of her poisons, thus giving her poisonous blood, because of that, Naruto can cast a poison spell with a poison that is inside her. She can coat her weapons with her blood if she wanted to.
"Once I figure out how the poison won't affect me anyway possible or will be used against me." Naruto looked at one of the plants she was growing and sighed at it as it was falling apart. "I really need that plant to continue on with my research. Finding these kinds of ingredients is difficult enough."
"Why don't you start reading this?" Naruto looked over to Kyubi and can see her sitting on one of the books she got from the safe. "It's a book that modifies plants to your liking. Maybe you can grow a plant that can be changed to the ingredients to what you need."
Naruto shooed Kyubi off the book and started reading it. Kyubi can see Naruto is in her studying stage when nothing can break her from studying.
7 Months Later
Naruto could have been making more poisons and modifying them to her liking, but she came across a subject she read over Konoha's Archives. Why was she there, she wanted to read up the hospitals history records and the poisons that were submitted. Chiyo is sure a genius in the poison field, but again, Tsunade kept finding a cure for such poisons.
Then she came across a subject that intrigued her.
The Curse Seal.
Orochimaru's Curse Seal to be precise.
Naruto wanted to know what made this seal to be called a curse seal. That is why she is in the Anbu's heavily secured storage room with Orochimaru's research in Konoha. Sure he must of left something about the curse seal.
How she entered the storage room. Kyubi gave created Naruto a crystal ball. She concentrated on Orochimaru's research and it showed the storage room. No alarms were set off. Of course, everything had to be set up outside the storage room.
"You know, correct me if I'm wrong but, shouldn't the Anbu have found a way to counter the Curse Seal if they had his research this whole time?" Naruto asked Kyubi as she went towards a book that she was looking for and opened it. "I can see why." Naruto looked at the coded book that can only be decoded by the person that coded it. "Think you can decode it Kyubi."
"Do I think I can decode it?" Kyubi asked as she looked over the book. "It may take some time, if I use the Analyze spell." Kyubi said as Naruto took the book and teleported out of the room and into her study room. She has spent most of her time in there.
Over the course of 7 months, Naruto has read and understood the concept of changing a plant to her liking. No longer she has to buy certain seeds and just bought the regular seeds.
She was able to inject herself with one of her personal poisons that is able to eat out a person's chakra. The only reason she was able to inject it into herself without losing her chakra was because the poison wasn't able to affect her with the huge amount of poisons she was exposed to and the potency of her chakra mixed in with Kyubi`s made it impossible to infect herself.
Her blood is so potent with poisons; it lost the red color and gives off a black thick substance. Her skin still gives that healthy shine to it and her hair lost its blond color, which later on has given her a grey color that is bordering to white. Her eyes were no longer sky blue, but gave off a violet red color. All in all, her changes were caused by the poisons she injected to herself, is the only answer she can provide.
She read the book about the souls. It seems the curses she was doing were actually put onto the person's soul, but not the body. It turns out that the soul is everything. Without, you are an empty shell with no feelings. It also says that a person can be born without a soul. Both Kyubi and Naruto shivered at the concept of someone not having a soul. Curses won`t be able to affect anyone without a soul and this will cause problems for Naruto, that is if she finds someone who doesn`t have a soul.
Naruto asked what Kyubi's first curse was. She told her she took away a man's luck. Naruto wondered why such a thing was a curse anyways. Kyubi told her that a person's luck is everything, from fighting to performing jutsu. If he had no luck then the jutsu he will perform will most likely backfire on him. She also told him he lost everything in his life and also told her he was sent to hell when he died for having no luck at all.
Later on, Naruto labelled that curse as a SS-Class Curse.
On the topic of the soul and the fourth volume, she has found out everything she has been doing was related to the Shinigami. Every person that died from her curse is an offering to the Shinigami. Naruto also found out on how to extract souls from someone and seal it away or take apart of someone`s soul and control them. This was a very interesting subject to her as she will need to practice this sometime later on.
The Art of Voodoo is something she didn`t bother unless she wanted the person to be tortured for life. It would come in handy. She got herself a voodoo made out of a potato sack and some buttons. She got herself some senbon needles. Note: they are not meant for a doll. She decided she needed a weapon and senbon needles seemed appropriate at the time.
Naruto didn`t bother reading that book about the Dark Blade yet. She didn`t want to read it until she thinks she will be ready for it.
Right now, she is in her ritual room performing one of her curses with more complex seals. She got it off the third volume. It says it will make casting curses a lot easier.
Naruto was in the ritual circle as Kyubi was sitting outside of the circle as Naruto finished with her curse, but there is a problem. The ritual is continuing on.
"Naruto! What did you do?!" Kyubi yelled as the room temperature dropped as the candles burned a bright blue and the feel of death has entered the room.
"I just copied the seals in the book." Naruto said as she couldn't move her body as Kyubi went a looked at the book.
"Which page?" Kyubi asked as she flipped through the pages.
"Page 154!" Naruto shouted out as she started freaking out as a dark figure started appearing in front of her. Kyubi flipped through the pages and came across the seals Naruto used.
"YOU IDIOT!!" Kyubi shouted as she too sees the figure appear in front of Naruto. The thing looked ghostly as its skin is pale. It had on rags that covered its body. It's face seemed demonic, as it has black irises, yellow eyes, with sharp teeth and white hair. Kyubi knew what she was looking at. It was the only creature that can overpower her.
"The Shinigami."
The Shinigami was looking around the room and sees the person that summoned him. He reached down with his hand to grab the girl's soul. His hand entered her and pulled out her soul, but stayed in her body like it was anchored down. The moment Naruto's soul came out, it appeared black. The Shinigami began to laugh maniacally as he let go of the girl's soul.
Naruto didn't know what happened. The moment the Shinigami put his cold hand in her she felt numb all over her body. She felt cold as well.
So she is the one who has found the Dark Tomes.Naruto and Kyubi heard. Your soul is black as the night. Your blood is filled with many poisons. Surely the Dark Arts have corrupted you.The Shinigami lick its lips. No doubt your soul will taste delicious.
Naruto regained her composure from having the Shinigami inside her. "Corrupted me?"
Did you think that committing the Dark Arts will leave you unscathed human. He began to laugh more at the girl. The moment you die, your soul will be my dinner. The Shinigami continue on to laugh.
Naruto didn't know what to say. The things she done has no doubt has give her a ticket to the Shinigami. Surely there is a way out of this. Then it hit.
"If that is true, then why don't you take my soul away from me right now?" The Shinigami stopped laughing. "Just as I thought, you can't take away my soul." Naruto said challenging the Shinigami to take her soul. Kyubi was sitting on the side lines watching the little exchange between the two and wondered how insane Naruto had to be to challenge the Shinigami.
The Shinigami just looked down at the girl as she too had to look up to the Shinigami. He started laughing at the girl again.
You have guts human. Surely you know how to use them. Naruto shivered. You're right; I can't take away your soul.
Naruto breathed out a breath she was holding and was relieved to hear that the Shinigami can't take away her soul.
But.
Damn it. Both Naruto and Kyubi thought.
You have a one way ticket straight to hell for learning the Dark Arts.
"WHAT!!" Naruto shouted as she would have been flailing around if she was able to move. "What you mean I will be sent to hell. I didn't touch that Necromancy stuff!"
True. That stuff is so full of taint; even I wouldn't want to eat the one who casts that stuff. You on the other hand are different. You read the third volume of the Dark Arts didn't you. Naruto nodded as she remembered that every curse she casts does the person is directly sent to the Shinigami. They were delicious by the way. I haven't had different flavours of souls in a long time. The Shinigami licked his lips at the taste of the souls he ate that were sent by Naruto.
"What are you getting at?" Naruto had to ask.
You got 2 choices human. 1 your soul is sent to hell the moment you die or you can serve me for the rest of your life and I will grant you entry to a peaceful afterlife. The Shinigami offered. The choice was rather obvious. Even Kyubi was telling Naruto to take Servitude to the Shinigami. It was better than being sent to hell.
"I'll take the servitude offer." Naruto said as Shinigami smiled an evil smile that scared Naruto and Kyubi.
He reached into to Naruto again, but didn't grab her soul. He grabbed onto Naruto's chakra pathways. The once blue chakra that was infused with Kyubis that gave off a purple color is now turning darker. Naruto's chakra has become a complete black. Once finished he released Naruto as she slumped down to the floor breathing heavily.
I'll send you the Raven Contract in 4 years and the list of people I want you to send me.The Shinigami said as he left the Human realm.
The feeling of death has left the room and the candles burned its regular orange flames.
"Kyubi." Naruto said as she stayed lying down and Kyubi sat on top of her. "What have I got myself into?"
"To tell you the truth Naruto, I don't know."
To be Continued
There you have it people. Anyways, if you have anything that relates to this, please review, like anything that is related to curses and all.
I'm just getting started with this and yes I am still writing out the other chapters on my other stories. I'm building this story up for now and the concept of Orochimaru's research will come back later on.
Anyways, If you like Review. Haters and Flamers get lost. I haven't decided about the pairings right now. If you are thinking about the Uchiha brothers than don't review about that pairing. I have no idea on how to put them together.
That's all for now, Ja Ne!