Naruto: Endementium Ninja
Chapter 1: The Dark Beginning
Minato Namikaze lay dying. Having just sealed the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox Kyuubi inside his son, and giving his soul up to the Shinigami in the process, he was about to die.
He held his son in his arms for the last time, tiredly panting and weakly rocking the poor child in his arms.
"Don't worry Naruto, Hiruzen will get here soon," he murmured to the baby. Naruto cooed softly and reached for his father's face.
A blinding white light threw Minato off his feet, dropping Naruto to the ground, where he began to wail. Minato covered his eyes as he looked up from his prone position on the ground, and saw something that stopped his heart.
They looked like men, but no men he'd ever seen before. They had white, segmented skin, outlined in black, bulky and wide. They had no faces; only smooth, black glass that showed no emotion. The beings walked over to Naruto, and picked him up.
"This is the target?" One of them spoke in a voice reminiscent of two gears grinding together. "A child? What is Argos thinking?"
A second spoke in a lighter tone. "Does it matter? We're here to retrieve the target, and that's what Argos wants. And what Argos wants, Argos gets."
The first one sighed. "Whatever. Let's get out of here. There's not enough tech around here."
They began walking towards the portal, carrying Naruto. Minato rose to his knees shakily, gripping a tri-pronged kunai. "No!" He called weakly, crawling towards them, "No!"
His voice caught their attention, and they turned. "Hm. A local. Life-signs failing. Not even worth the bullet."
They walked to the light, Minato crawling after them slowly. The beings walked through it, and in a rush of air, it began to crumple upon itself, curling into a ball the size of a marble, that winked out of existence.
The rush of air blew Minato back on his back. He lay there, breathing his last, staring into the night sky. All he could say was:
"I'm sorry, son."
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"Run the scan again. Make absolutely sure that this is the child. I want no mistakes."
"Yes, Argos."
A tall man, wearing a black suit that went to his knees, trimmed in gold, black hair slicked back, small pointed beard on his chin, bags under his glowing red eyes, surveyed the child underneath his gaze.
He whispered to himself, "What a magnificent way to harness an energy-being's powers. Seal it into a child and let it's powers be drained away. Magnificent, yes, but flawed. I have no doubt you are the child I am looking for." He leaned over the Naruto, who slept, unaware, in a crib. "Yes…if you are, my dream shall finally be realized. No longer will this wretched sickness sap my species' life."
A man wearing a lab coat walked up behind the man, and held a pad out to him. "Here are the results of the test, Argos."
The man, Argos, took the pad and read what was on it. He smiled, showing white teeth. "Yes. Excellent. Begin the procedure at once."
The scientist nodded and wheeled the crib away. He pulled a wrist to his face and spoke into a wrist communicator. "Prepare the first series of Endementium infusions in med-bay forty-four, now!"
Argos smiled and headed off down a hallway. Stopping at a door marked '9', he opened it. Inside, it was dark. A man, bald with age, wearing white robes sat in front of a row of candles, all lit.
"Hello, master. I have found a new student for you to teach." Argos said cheerily.
The man did not turn to face Argos, but still spoke. "I am not your master anymore, Argos. Nor will I be to any student of yours."
"Don't be like that master. We recovered him from another dimension, and he has an energy being inside of him."
The man's eyes opened. They were blue, like electricity, and glowed as such. "An energy being? Like us?" He asked.
"Yes, master. Except it is an animal, and much more powerful. If unleashed, it could destroy a planet by itself." Argos smirked. He knew he had his former master hooked.
"Such power could be dangerous if left untamed." The man sighed. "Very well. I will teach him, but only him."
Argos nodded, and left the room, closing the door behind him. The man reached down, and gripped one of the candles. Bringing it to his face, he studied the flame intensely, and then blew it out.
Scratched on the base were the words:
"The Beginning of an End."
A/N: And that is the beginning of my new story, Naruto: Endementium Ninja. I had writer's block for BLACKLIGHT Ninja, so I'm writing this to get rid of it. Hopefully it works. Don't expect this to get updated often, I'm really trying to finish BLN before I start anything else. This is just a way to relieve my writer's block.
*Sigh* I hate writer's block. It is the bane of my existence! Curse you!
Until next time,
Keep Being Awesome!
-Sol