Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, God of War, or Bleach with all belonging to their respective owners and I am not attempting to make a profit from this work of fiction.
Alright just a little note right here but this is a co-write between me and Killburn1001.
A small blonde haired boy with three whisker marks on each cheek who looked no more than eight years old but was really ten wearing blue sandals, dark green cargo shorts, and a dark blue shirt with a red Uzumaki symbol on the front of it ran down the streets at speeds you wouldn't think possible if you thought to look.
'I've got to run, there still after me!' the blonde thought with his bright blue eyes darting around in a panic, desperately looking around for just something, someone to save him just this one time.
But no one would, no one ever did anything when he was running, they all just ignored him like he wasn't even there. Sometimes the civilians would trip him even.
The only people who ever did help him were some nice Shinobi, they made the bad people go away by shooting a fireball at them.
It was totally awesome to see the people chasing him knocked down like bowling pins when the fireball hit them, they even told him to come to them if it ever happened again too.
But then they vanished and people blamed him for it, saying he had even killed them.
Could you believe that?
Naruto Uzumaki didn't hurt people! He just pulled off awesome, but harmless, okay maybe a bit embarrassing, pranks across the whole village of Konohagakure.
But back to the topic at hand, Naruto was running from a mob of civilians like he did every day after the Shinobi Academy let out and Iruka-sensei couldn't walk home with him, and get him a bowl of Miso Ramen when the passed Ichiraku Ramen along the way, so he ended up running from people who got angry at him all the time.
Naruto was brought back to the present by something pelting his back.
'They're throwing rocks again, just great.' Naruto thought with a sigh as he only picked up speed, looking for somewhere to escape the mob.
"Come back here Demon!"
"Die you Fox, die!"
"Come here so we can finish the Fourth's work bastard!"
"You killed my son Demon, come and pay for it!"
"Come here so we can end you Fox!"
"Stop running you Brat, you'll only make yourself suffer more!"
"Death to the Fox!"
"Death to the Demon!"
"We're catching up to him, keep going!"
'Oh crap, these guys must be training or something!' Naruto thought in a panic as he heard that and decided to put on a boost of speed and shot down the street blowing out the mob in moments.' But I'm still way faster, running from ANBU does that for you!'
Sadly there was more than one mob today and a panicked Naruto ran into an alley.
'Okay, I'll use them here and then get back to my apartment. They can't get in there!"
It was a dead end a few turns down it and for an eight year old he had a pretty colorful vocabulary when he needed it.
Luckily he spotted a manhole leading into the sewer and a quick use of a basic strength enhancement technique the teachers taught in the Shinobi Academy helped him pull up the extra-heavy manhole and he dived down into it.
'Man, I'm stronger than I thought!' Naruto thought with a grin as he slid down the ladder and took off down a side path.
Inside the seal on his belly a giant fox with nine tails snorted.
"What a brat, he should have felt my Chakra adding to his own pathetic amount after all this time. But this seal won't keep me sealed for much longer, I feel it meeting its limits on my Chakra. Soon it'll destroy this vessel and I will destroy this village for what they have done to me." the fox spoke and a grin showed sharp teeth made to destroy as red eyes slowly closed to begin their sleep again.
Back to the outside world Naruto finally stopped running and nearly wretched at the smell of the sewer as the adrenaline brought on from the chase faded.
"Oh man, why does it have to stink down here so bad!" Naruto nearly shouted as he stopped and leaned against a wall." And just great, now I get to hide out down here for a few hours until they all go home, bastards. Why the hell did I promise Hokage-jiji that I wouldn't use my kick ass Shinobi training to stop this stuff? Man I'm such an idiot sometimes but a promise is a promise and Naruto Uzumaki never breaks a promise! It's still annoying as hell through, I hate running from those bastards."
He banged his head on the wall behind him in annoyance at his plight and it immediately crumbled behind him, sending him tumbling backwards and to the ground.
Only his extra training after the academy helped him flip and land on his hands before bending backwards and coming up on his feet and turning around, one hand reaching into one of his pocket on his cargo pants for three shuriken.
"Alright, who wants to fight with the future Hokage!" Naruto yelled only to find an empty room with a large round door at the end of it.
"What's behind that door?" Naruto asked out loud as he walked up to it, understandably cautious." Is anybody back there?"
Naruto knocked on the door and to his surprise the lock disengaged and swung open, revealing an empty room except for three pedestals and each held a weapon.
The one to the left held a katana with an ornate oval bronze guard with a hilt that seemed to be braided from a white and black material. It set in a black lacquered wood sheath with a yellow cord tied at the end of the sheath nearest to the sword with several metallic ornaments on the opposite end. The katana also had an aura around it almost, it seemed to softly whisper that it held great power but it also needed a certain elegance to wield properly.
On the next pedestal set a pair of what Naruto could only think of as chain blades. The blades held a silver edging but turned a dark color a few inches into the blade and the hilt was wrapped in black leather that looked worn form constant use for a long time with the guard that of a demon roaring with glowing red vein like markings on the darker part of the blade. The blades themselves gave off an aura of death and destruction and Naruto quickly turned towards the last weapon.
The next pedestal held a large silver broadsword with a heavy double-edged blade with a notch on each side near the tip with a plain grip and a skeletal rib and skull guard on one side with a demonic horned skull on the other with a pommel in a upside down spike like crown with the crosstree extended on either side. It gave off an aura just like the other two weapons but it was too many to name for the blonde. There was protection, determination, power, and more and all of them rolled into it.
"What is all of this is stuff?" Naruto asked as he walked forward and the moment he reached within a few feet of the pedestals he found a barrier of some type of energy in his way.
'This isn't Chakra, it's a mixture of two things.' Naruto thought and within his mind the Kyubi agreed, not like the boy could hear him through.
"This is an interesting development, the Rikudo Sennin once told me stories of the three who wielded those weapons. It's a wonder how they even came to be under this pathetic village." the Kyubi spoke and a grin crossed its face." It would set back my escape up to ten years but using the reserves that wretched seal has filled up over the years would break through that barrier and the boy will leap for those weapons. Until I escape it would do to have some type of entertainment."
With his mind made up the Kyubi let out a roar as crimson Chakra bubbled out of its body, the seal around him quickly absorbing it but doing nothing against the Kyubi's massive reserves even when imprisoned.
For several moments he flooded the seal with his potent Chakra before grinning as he felt it near bursting.
'Now!' Kyubi thought and with a mighty roar the seal let the excess Chakra go and it instantly flooded Naruto's Chakra Pathway System, ripping through it and Naruto let out a silent scream as he felt as if his entire body was burning to ash from the inside out.
The innate healing ability Kyubi bestowed upon his Jinchuriki played both for him and against him right now.
It was causing his Chakra Pathway System to rapidly grow and mature and forced the tenketsu along it to either grow stronger or be destroyed, granting him greater Chakra Control in the process as they quickly exceeded their mature state and kept going to match the flood of Kyubi's Chakra.
His own Chakra was strengthened as well once the unpurified Chakra completed a circuit ad went through the rapidly closing seal, quickly purifying it and giving Naruto massive Chakra reserves.
This also left him in sheer agony as the growth of his Chakra Pathway System and Chakra reserves also consequently stimulated the pain receptors in his body.
Every single last one of them and they were all going full throttle so, in the few moments it took to purify the Chakra and complete the entire process, Naruto couldn't even scream as he collapsed onto the floor, only making the pain worse and worse.
Just as soon as it began the pain stopped just as quickly and Naruto simply laid there for an untold amount of time, lost in the void that was the pain he had just experienced.
He may have laid there on that floor for a few minutes or for a few hours, it didn't really matter to the boy right now.
Very slowly after what seemed to be an eternity of no motion the small blonde haired teen dragged himself up.
'Come on man, you can do this.' Naruto mentally motivated himself and slowly pulled himself to his feet.
"Wait a second, there was nothing to grab before, how did I do that?" Naruto asked out loud and turned to his support to see he had used the pedestal in the center to drag himself to his feet." Where'd that barrier go?"
Inside the seal the Kyubi face palmed.
"Dammit." the mighty beast growled." That wasn't part of the plan at all."
The seal had only grown larger reserves after his little stunt and now it would take him gathering massive amounts of Natural Energy to strengthen his own Chakra with Senjutsu Chakra to make another attempt and that required either the seal to be partially opened, which was never going to happen with no on even understanding how the blasted thing even did half of the things it did, or to allow the brat to access his Chakra on a near constant basis so he could gather the needed Natural Energy over time.
In the end both required a ridiculous amount of luck and incredible timing, which the Kyubi had plenty of both of, but neither likely to happen with the power in the weapons he basically just handed over to the child.
"Perhaps it would have been better to simply kill the boy then." Kyubi muttered as he felt the seal continue to adapt itself to prevent a similar even from just now from happening again.
"Damn you Namikaze, damn you and your overpowered Fuinjutsu skills, I'll be trapped in here for far too long now, especially in this blasted Uzumaki. He'll live for perhaps centuries with the changes my Chakra caused in his body." Kyubi cursed as he laid back down." I might as well catch back up on my rest in here, the moment I am free I will destroy everything I see. That will show these mortals not to test me again."
Outside the mindscape Naruto noticed a seal on each pedestal on nearly laughed at it.
One of his favorite past times when with Hokage-jiji or with Iruka-sensei ever since he was five was to read books on seals ever since he heard all the previous Hokage were masters at seals and once Iruka-sensei decided to teach him the Kage Bunshin when he was eight once the instructor saw the normal Bunshin just wouldn't work with his massive Chakra reserves he had burn through the entire library in a few weeks and what followed was one of the greatest, to him at least, and most terrifying, to everyone else in the entirety of the Shinobi World, pranking spree in history.
It didn't help that the Hokage turned a blind eye to it all since Naruto destroyed most of his paperwork due for the next month during the resulting chase
So in general, seals did marvels for his pranking career and also showed that if was interested in something he would learn all he could about it.
But back to the topic at hand, Naruto flooded Chakra to his palms and very carefully began rearranging the seal with Chakra, it being harder than normal since he was unsure of the effects a single mistake would bring so he made sure to make no mistakes.
'A blood seal is always easy to overwrite, why don't people realize that?' Naruto thought as he found one on each pedestal and merely sighed as he continued to work.' I've got to remind myself never to use a damn blood seal, ever! The thing is way too easy to crack open for anyone who knows enough about seals.'
Moments after those thoughts Naruto had opened the seals and quickly putting his blood in place of the sample accepted by the seal and it sealed itself moments later, accepting the sample and recalibrating itself.
Naruto simply face palmed at the simplicity of a blood seal and now focused on picking what weapon to grab first.
'That katana looks really nice but so do the chain blades. The big sword seems a bit hefty so it'll take a lot of training and everyone has a katana and I don't know what it can do even.' Naruto thought before stepping up to the middle pedestal and his hands hovered over the hilts of the chain blades.
Naruto took a deep breath before his hands dropped down and he pulled the chain blades up.
The chains at the end of the hilts immediately seemed to come to life and they snaked around his arms and Naruto simply brushed it off.
'Shinobi weapons usually do something weird like this, I wonder how far I can swi…" his words were cut off as the ends of the chains buried themselves into his forearms, the chains themselves growing red hot and searing marks into his skin and he nearly bit off his tongue holding in his screams.
"Pain is a message, the message can be ignored." Naruto repeated the mantra he had created as a young child when the mobs use to catch him and beat him." Pain is a message, the message can be ignored. Pain is a message, the message can be ignored."
He didn't know how long he spoke through gritted teeth but eventually the pain stopped and he sighed.
"Well that was ea…" he fell onto the podium the blades rested on before he could finish and wasn't getting up for a while.
"Oh come on, another sewer!" Naruto shouted as he looked around his mindscape." Is my mind really such a dump!?"
"Of course it is boy." A voice growled and Naruto turned to a nearby wall before banging his head against it.
"Stupid. Stupid. Stupid!" Naruto shouted and the Kyubi looked on somewhat disturbed.
'This brat is odd. My Jinchuriki usually begin pleading for their lives or begin with poor attempts at threatening me, but he does the unexpected thing of banging his head against the wall.' Kyubi thought before Naruto slammed a fist into the wall, punching through it and revealing another room beyond the wall.
"What the?" both thought before Naruto turned to the demonic nine tailed fox sealed into him.
"We'll talk later fuzzy, I've got to go check this out." Naruto called out as he leapt through the wall just as Kyubi launched his claws out of his cage, almost managing to cut Naruto in half.
"Come back here brat!" Kyubi roared in angry as he could dimly here the boy's deep chuckles echoing around him." You dare call the great Kyubi no Kitsune such a name as fuzzy! I'll rip you apart piece by piece boy!"
"Yeah, yeah, see ya later fuzzy!" Naruto's voice echoed towards the Kyubi and the demonic fox slammed himself against his cage doors.
"This seal won't hold me boy, I will crush you!" Kyubi roared before retreating into his cage, growling and planning his revenge.
Naruto simply chuckled as he continued down the hallway he found himself in, door lining both sides of them but all of them were sealed tight and the few he tried always threw him away the moment his hand touched the doorknob.
"Hello, anybody there?" Naruto called out with his only response being his echo.
"Is anybody in here?" Naruto continued shouting, still only receiving an echo in response.
He saw a slightly open door at the end of the hallway and heard the distinct sounds of battle so rushed forward and when he reached the door he rolled in, his new chain blades sliding into his hands and he gripped them tightly.
He found nothing but a large screen in front of him and a single chair in front of it.
"Is my mind really this dull, there's not even any color to this room!" Naruto exclaimed as he looked around at a dark room.
He received no answer as he expected so he stepped forward and set down in the chair and the screen burst to life with several golden words on them.
"Blades of Chaos?" Naruto asked as he glanced down at the two chained blades in his hands.
A new scene playing drew his attention and he looked at the devastation the two blades could create in mere minutes.
"Awesome." Naruto muttered as he saw the destructive elemental attacks the blades could be imbued with, completely decimating entire armies in mere minutes." I'm going to be awesome when I use those!"
But as Naruto saw the scenes play out in front of him he saw the suffering the blades had brought their previous user, the sheer amount of it changed Naruto, it was almost as if he had experienced all of it as well.
"Power comes with a cost and those who seek it must be prepared to change." Naruto spoke, the words flashing to life as the scenes ended.
He found himself outside his mindscape and now looked between the two remaining weapons.
The aura of both seemed different now.
The broadsword now held something else in its aura, a darkness that was neither good nor evil, it was dependent on the user.
The katana was changed as well, it seemed to call out of lessons learned from lost, suffering, betrayal and more with the sheer force of it forcing Naruto to look away and drew the broadsword from the pedestal it stood on.
He was immediately drawn back into the hallway and he saw a new doorway open for him and he rushed through it.
"Rebellion." Naruto read on the screen as he looked down at the large blade held in both hands and soon took his seat and looked on as the previous wielder used the sword to destroy what could only be called Demons and save the world.
But he also was forced to take down his own brother, a familiar katana held in their hand.
Naruto again felt changed, now knowing what it truly was to battle against your own flesh and blood and to be forced to destroy someone so close to you.
He was his twin and he still had to fight him, both of his own free will and while under control of a Devil, a much stronger Demon.
"Power comes with a cost and those who seek it must be prepared to change." Naruto read once again before being cast out of his mindscape.
Naruto actually hesitated in taking up the last blade, it seemed to scream of anguish now but with a deep breath he grabbed the katana and drew the blade form the black sheath, power engulfing him.
But this time he didn't head back to his mindscape.
He lived the memories of the previous wielder.
Of the traumatic death of their mother and the following separation from his twin brother and his quest for power, always seeking it to prevent the pain he felt at the loss of his mother. Once willing to kill his own brother if he had to but soon he allowed himself to be cut down, dragged into the depths of the Demon World and allowing himself to be trapped there, to prevent the Demon World from ever again threatening the Human World.
It was a sacrifice no one but his brother knew about and he only learned of it near the end of his life and died happy. He died knowing his brother had given his life for the Human World, for Human who he had once thought of as ants at best and dirt under his heel at worst.
"I understand now." Naruto spoke as he was dragged into his mindscape by the Kyubi.
'I am lucky the seal is weakened from the child touching the weapons.' Kyubi thought as he saw the Uzumaki appear in front of his cage.
"And what do you believe to understand child?" Kyubi asked.
"I don't believe this, I know this." Naruto spoke up after a moment of silence." Power comes with a price, if a person thinks they can grow stronger without suffering then they are just fools, fools who deserve to die for such a belief in strength."
Kyubi grinned at that, a grin showing all of his teeth and it seemed to widen once he saw that Naruto was unaffected by it.
"I believe we can make a deal here boy." Kyubi spoke and Naruto merely rose a blonde eyebrow at that and he simply crossed his arms.
"And why should I trust you?" Naruto asked as he pointed to the seal paper holding back the cage doors." All you want is out of that cage and you'll do anything to do so, it's natural to want to escape from such a prison."
"If you die then it will take me far too long to reform, a decade for each tail for a being of my power and during that time I am much too weak for my taste." Kyubi spoke and Naruto still looked skeptical and hadn't moved from his spot, coincidentally out of range of Kyubi's claws.
"There's no insurance there but what would the deal entitle?" Naruto asked and Kyubi looked seriously at the blonde.
"It will greatly enhance your natural abilities and remove the malnutrition you suffer from as well as taking you well beyond normal human standards by constantly destroying your body and healing it, making it stronger and stronger over a three day period." Kyubi answered after a moment of silence passed between the two." The pain you experience will most likely kill you through and if it does become so I will personally destroy the seal containing me and free myself."
"Is that it?" Naruto asked and Kyubi nodded before Naruto snorted but began walking forward until he was at the bars of the cage." I've got a long weekend anyway."
'This boy, he continues to surprise me even now.' Kyubi thought as he saw the boy stop in front of his cage.' He may be foolish but it can be weeded out of him given the right factors.'
"So, what do I have to do?" Naruto asked.
"Modify the seal on your stomach, open it slightly and I will do the rest." Kyubi answered and Naruto shook his head.
"Not here, it's too noticeable for my taste. My place has enough Chakra Blocking seals in the basement to hide a fight between all the Tailed Beast so let's do it there." Naruto spoke as he looked on as the Kyubi's shocked expression changed to one of amusement and the great beast chuckled.
"You hold many more surprises than others give you credit for Naruto Uzumaki." Kyubi spoke and Naruto only looked at him blankly.
"It is the business of Shinobi to hold secrets and surprise our enemies, this is no different." Naruto answered before exiting his mindscape and a quick use of the Blades of Chaos gave him the exit from the sewers and he entered his apartment a few minutes later.
Once inside he immediately pushed aside the bed, showing it was on disguised tracks running across the floor, to reveal a hatch underneath it along with multiple seals covering the lock and placed on and around the sides of the hatch.
Naruto quickly drew a master seal on his palm in blood mixed with ink and slammed his palm into the center of the hatch.
It flew open moments later and Naruto was already dropping into it as it closed behind him just as quickly and the bed slid back into place on its tracks.
Naruto quickly took off his shirt and moments later a pulse of Chakra revealed the intricate seal covering his stomach.
Simply placing his hand on it and turning it opened the seal, it under his control even if he knew nothing about seals since it was linked to his Chakra Pathway System.
"I'm ready Kyubi." Naruto spoke up and from within its cage the fox grinned.
"Believe me child, you are not." Kyubi answered as he stood to his feet and began building up his Chakra." This pain will completely destroy you."
With a roar the Kyubi let loose a massive blast of Chakra the seal absorbed and Naruto collapsed in agony to the floor.
The blonde was not able to move or make a sound, the pain was all consuming as it rushed through his small frame.
Within the seal Kyubi chuckled, he had more than enough access to Natural Energy now, the seal would now remain slightly open no matter what the brat tried to do to close it. His Chakra was already lining the seal, building supports that Kyubi would modify later but for now he sent another surge of Chakra into the boy.
He was surprised when the boy didn't begin begging for the pain to stop and that he wouldn't make a sound, he simply shook on the floor in agony.
'What are you boy?' Kyubi thought before reaching through the open seal and entering the boy's mind to hear his thoughts.
'Power comes with a price, this is my price.'
'Power always changes you, this pain is changing me.'
'Pain is how you gain power, without it you have nothing.'
Kyubi merely chuckled again at the boy's thoughts before another surge of Chakra was sent through the seal.
'The boy will get himself killed soon enough but he's unneeded now, with the seal partially open I can escape with most of my Chakra with me when the boy dies. I may lose a tail or two of it but I am still the strongest of my brethren even then.' Kyubi thought as he laid down in his cage.' Very soon I will be free, the boy doesn't know how to use those weapons or the many that are sealed within him for now. I'll probably be out in a year or so.'
With those thoughts the Kyubi no Kitsune went to sleep with a grin, expecting freedom in the near future.
It was not to be through.
Naruto Uzumaki suffered through the three days of ever increasing pain and came out of it far better than before.
And where his body grew, so did his mind.
With the use of a few Kage Bunshin he had sealed away both Rebellion and Yamato but found that the chain blades had simply receded into his arms, they truly had become a part of him now and he was glad the burn marks from the chains searing into his skin healed in a few hours.
He had explored the vault again and found a scroll detailing how the three weapons came to be there and the multitude of weapons and powers he could gain access to over time.
But the scroll also said that he would change over time as he gained more of the weapons.
He would take on the personalities of the previous wielders.
Naruto knew there was a cost to begin with and when he thought about it he found that he just didn't care.
Power came with a cost and he couldn't say he liked who he was before.
The previous him was a moron through and through.
Promises mean nothing in the Shinobi World, all that matters is your continued survival.
The opinions of civilians meant nothing, the politics inherent in them rarely worth it because in the end they all mattered little, new civilians could always replace the old and dead ones.
The opinion of the village as a whole meant very little to him now, it was so pointless when he really thought about it.
They were blinded by mindless hate by directing their feelings for the Kyubi sealed into him to him when he was just the container and he soon found himself imagining unleashing the Kyubi on the village.
But that would work against him in the end, the Kyubi was a great source of power and he would be stupid to simply cast it out simply because he wanted to see destruction.
He could do it all himself if he needed to once he got more powerful and unlocked more weapons.
People were of course shocked at the new Naruto Uzumaki when he first stepped out into the streets nearly a month after the deal with Kyubi.
He was more serious now, especially when it came to training and when the numbness that came with the merging of three extra personalities faded away he was more cocky but could back it up with a certain ruthlessness when he fought now.
A prime example was when he sparred with Kiba Inuzuka a few days ago…
"Alright, the next match is Kiba Inuzuka vs. Naruto Uzumaki, can both combatants please step up to the ring." Iruka spoke after Hinata Hyuga had thoroughly decimated the fangirl Sakura Haruno.
"Alright Akamaru, let's get this easy win." Kiba told the small white puppy on his head with the dog barking in agreement.
Naruto walked up to the ring in silence and this put Iruka on edge.
'Naruto is different today, after that long weekend he's been different.' Iruka thought as Kiba grinned as he stepped into the ring.
"Alright loser, let's do this." Kiba called out as he allowed his nails to sharpen and his hair to grow shaggier as his teeth lengthened." I'll show you how a real Hokage fights."
Naruto simply held out a hand and motioned to bring it.
Kiba growled as he launched forward, unleashing a fury of clawed blows on the Uzumaki.
Naruto dodged the blows with ease, never blocking and only sidestepping or moving backwards to avoid the blows.
"Stand still you bastard!" Kiba shouted as he moved to kicked Naruto in the stomach only to miss as Naruto moved to the side." Throw a punch or something!"
"If you insist." Naruto spoke with a shrug before grabbing Kiba's extended leg and driving him into the ground with a palm to the chest as he stepped forward before flipping his leg to send Kiba into the air and clapping his fists on Kiba's ears, disorienting him as he hit the ground head first before Naruto grabed his legs and flung him out of the ring.
And all of that in the span of three seconds.
"Winner, Naruto Uzumaki!" Iruka called out as Naruto gave a grin before retreating from the ring.
After that little event he and Kiba became regular sparring partners, Kiba driving to beat him and Naruto enjoying the extra training Kiba's unpredictable and wild style brought.
Iruka shouting at the class to quiet down as he entered drew Naruto's attention back to the present and he focused on the lesson on the principles of Ninjutsu.
AN: Alright consider this a beta for a new story and review on what you think is good or what you think is bad, where the story should go, what the pairing should be, and anything else.
Anyway, Peace.