This is an idea spawned from an inspiration of Dracula Untold's concept and of the Shinobi Way in Naruto. Changes have been made from canon to fit the criteria for what I'm going for. For example: The history of the entire Rikudo Sennin and the Juubi has been overhauled, but that's all I will say. Also the beginning of this story is going to be confusing to you all, but it will be explained in the next chapter.

There will be a crossover into this story, namely Highschool DxD, but that verse will be set in Naruto's time and...uh I'll need time to build that up.

With that said, enjoy.

"A Shinobi must never show weakness nor emotion. A Shinobi must kill their heart and their emotions so they can do what must be done to protect their home, they must do whatever is necessary to protect their village and it's citizens...no matter the cost." ~Shimura Danzo

Naruto: The Rise of the Kyuubi no Yoko

Prologue: The Beginning

Blood...

That was all he could see through his visage. It ran down his body in such a way it would surely stain his entire being and drench his blackened soul more than it already was. Every breath he took caused his lungs to constrict and every movement he made felt as if he were being stabbed by a countless number of needles. His spine tingled with every stumble he made, and every breeze that hit his body felt like he was being struck by lightning.

'You cannot feel pain, pain is a limitation, a chain to keep you grounded. Those that succumb to pain are for only the weak, but if you can ignore it, block it out from your mind, than nothing shall stop you.'

But he didn't scream, he didn't cry out, he didn't so much as let out a whimper. He simply wouldn't allow himself that luxury. To shown a sign of weakness to the enemy, of any sort, was akin to failing as a shinobi, and that was unforgivable to him. There was no room for the weak in this world, only the strong could survive this world.

He moved through the darkness around him, kunai clashing with one another. Bright flashes of steel meeting steel appeared amongst his clashes with the enemy. Multiple enemies surrounded him on all sides yet he showed no sense of fear for his life. The mission took priority over all else and nothing would impede his path to completing it.

'To a Shinobi, the mission comes before all else, even before your own life. You are to be expected to fight, tooth and nail to complete it. And if that means certain death, than you will die knowing you fought, bled and died for your village, like a true loyal shinobi.'

Ducking from an overhead strike, he tossed his kunai upwards, than used his free hand grab one of his assailants by their face before crushing their skull into the ground. Following that, he used the momentum to flip and spin kick two more aside before hurling a kunai toward both of them which nailed them before the eyes. As they dropped before jumped aside, in time too as the ground where he once stood exploded in smoke and debris from a Doton jutsu.

Spinning around he tilted his head dodging a hail of shuriken while only a few seemed to only scratch his mask, and catching the kunai from before. He leaned forward vanished in a blur, dashing to his opponent he only reappeared before his enemies eyes far too late before cold steel cut through flesh and the man's jugular. Than kicking him aside to bleed and drown in his blood, he turned only to see a giant wave of earth coming down on him.

'Do not hesitate and do not falter, endure whatever is thrown at you and keep moving, that is the way of the Shinobi. Too endure throughout all hardship, throughout all pain, even when you are the edge of no return, you must endure it and stare into the face of death without hesitation, this is primarily important for all shinobi, but more so for you too remember my student.'

Smoke and debris exploded as the earth slammed onto him, the earth rocked and the forest trembled. Tree's were leveled and the landscape shook. And following the crash multiple shinobi jumped down at the location of where the jutsu hit to survey the results.

''Did we get him?'' spoke one Iwa shinobi.

''We had to, that was a collaboration jutsu of all us, nothing short of a platoon of shinobi coul-'' another Iwa shinobi was cut off as the ground beneath started to shake before the the area where their target was presumably crushed started too tremble. Before too long streams of dark blue and crimson chakra started seep out of the cracks of the earth.

''W-wait he's still alive, scatter!''

It was too late...

The very earth exploded and the landscape shifted, chakra as red as blood and of the vilest degree erupted like a volcano. All the shinobi caught in the explosion were thrown back by the shockwave and a few unlucky ones were crushed by the erupting earth. Dazed and bewildered those still conscious could only look too see coming out of smoke was the very shinobi they tried so desperately too kill.

And the last thing they saw was part of it's ANBU mask cracked off revealing a singular glowing red eye with a feline slit.

And then their attacker just moved.

Then blood and death followed...

'And finally, remember this. You are a weapon, more than a shinobi and greater than any tool. You are a weapon to be used by the village, too ensure it's safety and well being. You will kill without conscious, you will murder without a shred of mercy. It is simply our way, but more than that, it is too be expected from you the most...'

Forgoing kunai and ninja tools the man used his hands and the area around him to his advantage. As his body literally glowed with his vile sinister chakra, his punches kicks tore through his enemies bodies like wet paper. When they tried to fight back, kunai and shuriken bounced off his body as if he were made of pure steel and even jutsu's didn't seem to effect him any more. He ripped the ground asunder and crushed his foes beneath the earth, pulverized them with the very tree's that surrounded them. The elements beckoned at his call and manipulated at his very will, and his will was too crush all opposition that threatened his home without mercy.

To the Iwa shinobi, there was simply no way for them to even hope to pull out a victory, they already learned quite well that they were facing something beyond anything they've ever fought before. This man-no this monster-was insurmountable, a juggernaut of the greatest degree. He would simply not die, nothing was effecting him. A stalwart defender of it's village and a violent oppressor upon it's village's enemies.

The last fleeting thoughts of those Iwa shinobi was simply...

"M-monster...demon...Devil''

Soon enough the forest went quiet before the masked man made way to his destination and upon reaching a hilltop his lone visible eye stared down at a completely oblivious village on the border of Iwa and Kumo. Unaware of what had transpired in their forests.

And ignorant of the fate that awaited them all as the shinobi vanished into the darkness.

"Remember these teachings well, for they will carry you on in life as the weapon Konoha will need too survive. The life of the village and it's people rest on your shoulders. You are the perfect weapon, the shield to defend against out foes and it's sword to cut down our enemies, you are hereby forever known in the shadow of the tree that is Konoha..."

Stepping forth, his black boots sunk into the soil and he cast his gaze down to see the soil was drenched in the blood of his victims. The crimson liquid of life bubbled up around his boots each time he took a step. He moved through the battlefield, until he came upon an open field where he look upwards, his Kitsune masked visage looked upwards into the midnight sky. His eyes peered at the full moon that seem to bask him in it's radiance.

But as he did, the light of moon was cast all over the battlefield and with it stood not only the smoky burning ruins of a small village, but hundreds of logs stabbed into the ground with the corpses of said villagers impaled on those very logs. Men, women and children were all impaled on these logs, and it didn't bother him. This was his mission and he would not fail.

''I am....Kyuubi.'' his lone crimson slit eye seemed to glow an even darker shade of crimson which seemed to reflect itself upon the full white moon itself. Casting a veil of crimson all across the sky, bathing the whole world in it's crimson light.

And in a shift of the wind, the masked man was gone in a swirl of leaf's, leaving only his impaled victims and a ransacked village in it's wake. However flying away from the area and in the wake of the slaughter was a small raven which had tied around it's talon was a small rolled up parchment.

Konohagakure no Sato

The major shinobi village within Hi no Kuni was not like any other village. It was akin to it's namesake for it was a village hidden amongst a vast expanse of green forestry. The green leaf's shrouded it from the naked eye. The village itself was massive though, from a bird's point of view it was more of a giant bustling city than a village. Though it was a shinobi village, it was also a center point for trade and commerce between the other nations and the Hi no Kuni palace.

Underneath the bright rays of the sun, one could see the street's of Konoha was bustling and filled with many of the locals and travelers alike. Some were from all across the nations and others were natives too Hi no Kuni coming. Some came to see the sights, others came to stock up on Konoha's vast assortment of resources, trinkets and other such objects gained from their many merchants that came in and out of Konoha from their travels. And more reserved people came seeking to ask for assistance with a matter that required the aid of Konoha's shinobi.

Speaking of it's shinobi, you could clearly see coming in out of the gates were a good number of it's shinobi from different ranks such as Jonin, groups of Chunin led by a Jonin leader and a squad of Genin led by their Jonin sensei. Others were already hopping over the rooftops toward the Hokage Tower to give a debriefing of their latest mission and others were leaving for their own missions in turn.

It was a well organized system in Konoha, for both it's civilian and shinobi sides of the village, while it was all run under the incredible leadership of it's current Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Shinobi no Kami.

In said man office, you could find the legendary Fire Shadow sitting at his desk while buried beneath piles of documents and papers waiting to be signed. It was so much it actually made his oak desk creak and groan underneath the stacks of papers in protest. The Hokage sighed as he eyed the cause of his distress and hoped for something too happen so he would have a valid excuse to forgo his paperwork onto his secretary.

The Hokage in question beyond all his paperwork had the appearance of an old man dressed in a assortment of white and red robes, the Hokage robes to be exact. He had brown eyes which only narrowed in his annoyance at his current situation of work which caused the wrinkles around his eyes to increase in depth. And to complete the image of the old kage was a simple smoke pipe hanging lazily from the right corner of his mouth.

Giving a grunt the old man went over one paper with incredible speed, gave it his approval and stacked it and grabbed another, it was like he was on autopilot with only the occasional grunt in sequence. At intervals a annoyed tick would pulse from his right brow and his left would twitch in irritation from the seemingly endless amount of paperwork laid out on his desk. Sometimes he cursed his late successor, the Yondaime Hokage, for dying early in his reign leaving him to pick up the reigns again and along with it the infernal paperwork that haunted him every waking moment of his long life.

By Yomi he hated paperwork...

'If I could have any sort of interference from this infernal torment I'd see it as a blessing from the Gods.' the old yet experienced kage thought.

And his prayers seemed to be answered.

Tack! Tack!

Suddenly his ears perked up from a sound coming from the window behind him, and looking over his shoulder he saw it to be a jet black raven, but when he saw it's dull red eyes his own brown orbs narrowed dangerously before quickly standing up. Forsaking his paperwork, he walked toward the window and creaked it open and let the crow latch onto his forearm. The talons didn't pierce into his due to the armor he wore underneath, a precaution he felt was always needed which has saved his life more times than he could count.

''Well, has he finished his mission then, little one?'' he questioned the raven which only stared him at blankly before titling its head to the side. Smiling, the old man noticed the parchment tied around the raven's talon. Brown eyes seemed to glow in familiarity and a bit solemness when he noticed the distinct chakra signature from the parchment. Exhaling a bit, he untied the parchment from the raven before taking another slip of paper and tying it to the raven's talon.

''Thank you, now go back to your master, little one.'' he said and the raven blinked before he turned around and flew off from the Hokage's office. Leaving the old man and the parchment of paper in hand. Watching the raven fly off, Hiruzen puffed his pipe a few times and turned to read the contents of the parchment. Unfolding it, he saw the contents were, as protocol required from his operatives, coded so he raised his index finger before channeling his chakra through it causing the tip of glow a fiery blue.

Giving the letter a single tap, the coded letter glowed before the codes rearranged and become letters that spelled out the message sent to him. And as he read it's content he felt himself become older with each word he read before he finally let out a solemn sigh. It was a quiet one, but it was no less filled with an emotion of intense regret.

"The mission has been completed, per instructions Hokage-sama. Iwa will no longer trouble you or Daimyo-sama, for the foreseeable future. Call upon me when you need me again, Hokage-sama."

''Perfection as always, neh? You never cease too amaze me, but then again...'' he trailed on, his old eyes skimming over too look over Konoha, his village, his home that he swore to protect at any cost. The very village he was born and raised in, a village he swore to safeguard at any cost, no matter how steep those costs would be.

'That's too be expected from you, isn't? You are my greatest sin and yet Konoha's greatest weapon.' he thought to himself before he ignited the letter in hand with a little bit of Katon chakra. And throwing out the window he watched it burn into nothingness, and contents of the mission along with it. Seeing the ashes scatter to the winds, the Hokage turned to look at the recent team assignment folders on his desk and he sighed.

''Now onto more delicate matters.'' he sighed, knowing what was too come would be the cause of his migraine to come.

Tack! Tack!

Hearing the sound of something tapping the window of his bedroom, a figure cloaked in shadow meditating on how bed released himself from his position. Letting his feet touch the cold wood flooring of his room, he let the light of sun peak through the cracks of his humble abode as he went toward his window. And there standing on the outside of the window sill was a jet black raven.

But what caught the figures attention was the rolled up piece of parchment around it's talon.

Silently, he opened his window and let the raven fly onto his forearm, without so much as a word he untied the parchment from the raven's talon.

''Thanks for bringing this to me little guy, here's a little something for your trouble.'' the figure spoke before fishing out a dried up piece of rat meat before tossing it to the raven which caught gleefully and began o devour the contents of his little snack.

The figure than began to Unfurl the parchment, but noticing the decrypted message from the Hokage and he decoded it with his chakra, same as the Hokage had done. And in a poof of smoke, out popped from the parchment was a medium-sized message scroll. Taking hold of it in one hand, he ignited the parchment in a blaze of orange and red flames, in the very same manner as the Hokage and let the ashes blow away outside his window.

Then he continued onto the scroll and unrolling it, he began to read it's contents and for a moment, the figure let out a sigh, as if he was exhausted, but his hand seemingly went to his face and running it down he could only speak to himself in a air of what seemed to be annoyance.

''And now it's come to this hasn't it, Hokage-sama?'' he said to only himself as the message from his leader reflected well on his mind. It was a message that made him shiver in both anticipation and anxiety, two emotions he knew quite well could never have been stripped from him.

You have new orders, your efforts in oppressing Iwa have held incredible results from our scouts. But I have received troubling intel that Gato, of Gato Transport, who has taken the country of Nami no Kuni under his grip has employed the service of several notable forces under his thumb. The number of mercenaries he has under his command has roughly tripled in size in the following months and are now estimated to be roughly between the numbers of 500 to 1200 all of which have been scattered across Nami no Kuni as some sort of security measure. Another bit of intel also suggests he has gained the service of a few missing-nin, some belonging to the neighboring country of Mizu no Kuni. Which, you no doubt realize is still in the midst of it's civil war.

We strongly believe Gato means to go past his control over Nami and plans to invade smaller countries by sea, and if information on him is accurate he has the backing of the current Mizukage of Kirigakure as well as a few minor Daimyo's.

There has also been recent movement from Kumo, they have bee bolstering their forces inside their village and tightening security along their borders. We also have mission reports of small incursions from Kumo's BOLT divisions invading small countries that encircle our borders. We believe they are trying to expand their borders closer to ours, but they've yet to do anything to warrant the extreme of warfare. But you and I both know they are up to something, what that is thought I cannot say.

And as for Suna, our spies have been closed off for some time now due to the village being in total lock down. With the recent economical depression from their Daimyo cutting off missions and funds for the village and sending their missions to us. This makes us believe, with the fact they've issued a lock down for the village, that they are concocting something that may very well break the treaty between our two villages. Possibly out of desperation, because of the fact that a few of their spies have been found, captured and interrogated by Ibiki and Inoichi. We could only gather what we could before they died from self-induced poison capsules.

Whatever the case may be, they are desperate and that makes this to be a very tense situation between our two villages, especially now with what's going on.

Summing up all I've said, I must tell you, I know you've sworn yourself to secrecy since you were let loose. But I fear the times of War are returning, and with a wave of chaos the likes of this world has never seen before. I can feel it in these old brittle bones of mine, therefore I am ordering you as your Hokage.

You have been our shield long enough, you've safeguarded Konoha many times untold. But now it is time we strike, talks of peace are no longer an option. You must now become the Sword of Konohagakure and, by the orders of your Hokage. You are to eliminate those that would seek to harm us.

In this scroll holds the key your cage, use it well.

And...from an elderly man to his finest pupil...

I...am truly sorry for making you do this...

Good luck to you, Kitsune

Sighing, the figure shook his head. ''You always were the sentimental type, Hokage-sama. But I suppose that's what makes you so great and such a stark contrast to Danzo-sensei.'' spoke the shadowed figure before he rolled the scroll up and keeping it in hand, but looking out the window, his heterochromia eyes stared amongst the forests that surrounded his home. His eyes soon narrowed, one a cold azure, colder than the frozen tundra's and the other a fiery crimson, glaring out with an intent to cause murder and bloodshed.

And a single feline slit in his red eye seemed to smolder in such a unholy fashion that the shadows of his room seemingly quivered in fright.

''Nevertheless, an order cannot be ignored, and if War is upon us...I will eliminate all that threaten my home...without mercy and without a second thought.'' were his last words in the perpetual darkness of his home. And turning away from the bright rays of the sun that tried to pierce through the veil of the forest, the figure walked deeper into the darkness. With only the light of his glowing mismatched eyes that gave off where he was.

And on that day the souls of those that would dare to threaten Konohagakure tremble from an un-seeable force that sent a cold chill down their spines. It made them tense, and go awry with paranoia, not knowing, never truly realizing the danger that was coming for them and their heads.

For the greatest military power, Konohagakure no Sato, had just unleashed it's strongest weapon.

Kitsune...

Very confusing, I know, but rest assured all will be explained next chapter, but the clues I left behind in this prologue will help you understand what I'm going for here. The history from canon is no where near the same for what I am building up in this story.

It's a bit ambitious, I gotta say.

With that said, bye guys I need some rest, got some major health issues coming up, not looking so good to be honest.