"So how was your day at the academy, Naruto?"
He thanked the woman who brought him tea while Naruto ranted on how poorly everyone treated him, how many bowls of ramen he ate, and the asked question. Things were actually starting to look up for Konoha; the war with Hidden Sky was starting to come to a close and they were starting to recover from the Kyuubi's last attack.
He took a sip of the tea and a cold shiver followed immediately by a burning sensation rippled through his body. He reached for the napkin the serving women had handed him along with the tea. Words started to bleed into the napkin
Hello Sarutobi-sama. How do you like my new poison? It allows people to see certain invisible substances clearly. It also has a taste incredibly similar to green tea. Simply put, if you can read this, you're going to die. Not even Tsunade could remove this poison with ease. I do hope that you spend your last minutes regretting choosing that other inferior over me as your successor. You will see how wrong you have been all these years.
Konoha will be mine.
Waves of pain spread from his chest outward. He looked up from the note and saw Naruto still talking, oblivious to Sarutobi's peril. He realized that the villagers would see him dead with Naruto still in the room. It would result in death and chaos. Numbness spread to his fingers and up his arms. He couldn't feel his legs either. Naruto stopped talking for a minute. "Hey, gramps, is there anything wrong?"
He had to tell him to run as far as he could from Konoha. Even then, his chances of survival would be extremely low. But any chance was better than none. "Run, Naruto. As far as you can. I'm sorry I couldn't help you." He felt one last wave of pain before the darkness.
Naruto saw the old man fall from his chair. He ran around the desk to check on him. He hoped that the Hokage was just trying to play some joke on him. But the old man almost never joked. "Hey, are you okay?" He never responded. Naruto rolled him over on his back. He wasn't breathing. Naruto put his head to the Hokage's chest. His heart wasn't beating either.
Someone knocked on the door. "Hokage-sama, I have brought the reports that you asked for." Silence . "Hokage -sama?" The chuunin opened the door. Naruto was kneeling over the Hokage's dead body.
"Hurry! You gotta help him. He just suddenly fell over and-"
The chuunin started to back away. Once he was out the door, he broke into a run. "Somebody help! The demon killed the Hokage!"
"It wasn't me!" He tried to justify himself, but the nin was already gone. Soon the whole village would think that he killed the Hokage. Naruto jumped out the window. Running through the Hokage tower after that idiot would be suicide. His few lessons to becoming a ninja helped him reach the ground safely.
"Over there! The demon is over there!"
Naruto ran in the other direction of the voice. Why did they call him demon? What did he do wrong? Another group was headed his way, so he took another turn into an alleyway. The streets were empty on the other side. He ran out of the alley.
A kunai lodged itself into his leg. He fell on the ground hard. He looked up and two red eyes with three commas in each stared back. Sharingan.
"Good job, Itachi. As expected of my son." Another Uchiha appeared behind him. A crowd was gathered now, every one of them ninjas. He tried to get up to run away, but the first one named Itachi drew an ANBU sword and cleanly sliced off Naruto's right arm. He clutched the stub of what was his right arm and screamed.
Itachi acted as if those screams never existed. "Uzumaki Naruto, you have been accused of the crime of killing the Hokage. By the unanimous agreement of the council of Konoha, I hearby sentence you to death." He brought his sword downward and darkness engulfed Naruto.
When Naruto awoke, he was in a large chamber with a cage in front of him. He noticed that the candles on the stone walls were flickering, but there was no wind "Where am I?"
"You are here. We are in that seal that was placed upon your belly when you were born." He spun back around and looked at the cage. He saw a very vague outline of some kind of large animal. "Come closer."
He took a few steps forward. Inside the cage was a large demon fox with nine tails. He remembered reading about the same beast in a story book. "Kyuubi..." he murmured.
The large fox demon smiled. "Hey, kit, you're gonna die. Wanna live?"
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