I DO NOT OWN NARUTO THIS FIC IS PURELY FOR FUN.
This chapter was written to Mozarts Mass in C Minor
Chapter one. Deja blue.
The soaked leaves slapped the small child in the face as he rushed past his surroundings, almost as if the environment was trying to stop him from arriving at his designated spot. Mizuki had tasked him after his disgraceful failure of an exam attempt to "steal" a scroll in the Hokage's tower and return it to him.
The rain suddenly increased in pressure as he grew closer to the old unused building, soaked to the bone yet bull headed as ever he battled against the elements and finally broke into the clearing.
Wet, but turning with desire the young academy student stopped in front of the building and waited momentarily. However the rain and wind bore into him seemingly for his sheer audacity to stop in the horrendous weather. After a moment longer he decided to move toward the shelter, like any other animal with a lick of common since would, though not his strong point.
As the drenched child moved to open the door, yet as his hand brushed the withered wooden door knob it slowly cracked open. Only to viciously snap wide open and the black void of the room sucked him in with all but a pitiful attempt at a cry for help.
"Well at least I wasn't the only one to fail the exam…" mused a goofy looking blonde lad to no one in particular, sauntering through the drooling woods around Konoha. "Still, I can't believe that they fell for that same old trick again, lousy perverts." He sighed out.
Meanwhile two of the guards at the Konoha gate entrance sneezed, causing fresh blood to cascade from their noses again. "Damn sexy justu" Izumo cursed under his breath.
The young, orange clothed, blonde mop headed excuse of a person continued to walk on, growing wetter from the ever present storm. Naruto stopped abruptly in question of hearing what sounded almost like a cry of distress, ironically being drowned out by the torrent of rain. But, with what he would often claim as his "super ninja hearing," his ears picked up on the cry, if only slightly. He knew far too well it's familiarity. He wanted to be of help if he could, or get a severe cold trying!
Not that he had ever had one before, thanks to his acclaimed "Supper Ninja Will Of Fire!" Whilst searching the area, the small male came upon a few broken twigs and what appeared to be sandal prints already muddied with water. As he pushed on closer to the suspected area, the second child to be out braving the unforgiving weather came upon what looked to be the fiery remains of an old building, though the rain was acting quickly to quench the fires thirst.
"Head Hunter Jutsu!" yelled someone eerily familiar to the left of him, as the blonde turned upon the aforementioned failure, Kotamu Hiroshi, the son of your everyday common villager. Yet his classmate was always out trying prove his place in the world, so he held slight respect for him.
The second failure of the same test could only look on as his classmate was drug underneath the ground, his head left showing above it only to be swiftly detached from the earth and reattached to the air.
Despite his natural resistance to the cold, our blonde onlooker froze. Mizuki stumbled for a moment though he snapped out of his stupor quickly enough to throw a few kuni at the child.
Said child's response time to the kuni was akin to a Nara's deer being caught in the lamplight of an Akamichi hunting party. The blonde crumpled to the ground as the kuni struck true.
"Heh, must be my lucky day or something" Teased his academy teacher.
"….wh..why" was all the downed child could rasp out, blood oozing from his mouth while he stared up at Mizuki with a mortified and pained expression.
"Tch… now now Naruto" the village traitor chided, "What kind of villain would I be if I were to monologue my plans to you? It's all trivial regardless.. you'll be dead soon enough." He stated this coldly while applying some killing intent though momentarily interrupted by the pitiful look that was given to him by the child. Sighing Mizuki walked towards the paralyzed brat and knelt down beside him, slowly extending his hand to his whiskered cheek and softly placing it on Naruto.
"It's because your a demon Naruto." Mizuki droned out, "I wouldn't of had to do this to you if you had never existed in the first place, yet here we are… a demon.. and its slayer."
A slow ring filled the air despite the ongoing storm, Mizuki pulled out a fresh kuni. "What do you… *cough cough* mean?" Naruto managed to get out weakly choking on his blood and the constant downpour.
He knew what his teacher was talking about, or at least he had an inkling of an idea. One starts to consciously observe their surroundings whenever you get as many beatings as he did just for sticking his foot out the door. So he had his suspicions, no parents, born October 10 the same day the great Kyubi was defeated and festival held, always being called demon, the list goes on and on. But he needed to hear it for himself.
"Why Naruto… heh heh YOU'RE the Kyubi no Yoko trapped in human form, quite disgusting really, a total freak of nature. Really, you should just die now."
Time froze… "I'm..the kyu…bi?" the dying child repeated softly as he descended into darkness. Looking on impassively, Mizuki watched as the dying child's eyes closed. Turning around to gather the scroll and his items then departed off into the woods via tree jumping.
It was a only half a mile that Mizuki had covered before a thick, heavy miasma of rage and killing intent flooded all of his senses. Stopping him in his spot and almost falling off of the tree limb he was currently on, Mizuki steadied himself. The rain seemed to ease around the area he was in.
Yet as he stood there using all of his senses to their fullest to combat the killing intent, all he heard was the pitter patter of the rain and the wind rustling through the treetops. Suddenly a low growl was heard echoing around the area stilling everything present, even the rain seemed to back of, though a mild sprinkle was still about the area.
Looking up Mizuki noticed the he was currently in the eye of the storm.
Suddenly releasing the kuni he had in hand at the base of a tree about fifteen feet behind him, he paled as he heard what sounded like wood being splintered. Slowly turning around he saw the silhouette of a small body that was veiled with a menacing crimson red aura. Mizuki readied himself mentally and put on a less than convincing front of "confidence".
"And here I was worried that there was an actually threat behind me" chuckled the now Ex Konoha nin. "I'm confused.." questioned Naruto. His bangs covering his face, darkening it severely in the lessening light. The sun was falling and bringing the night closer to its time of reign.
"Whatever about?" Inquired Mizuki in favor of readying a fuma shuriken. "If I'm the king of all the tailed beasts…..THEN WHY AREN'T YOU BOWING?!" Naruto finished savagely his voice breaking into multiple pitches and forming a demonic tone. His head snapped up and the pupils in his crimson slitted eyes dilated to a fine sliver.
The now "awakened" jinchuuriki's eyes narrowed at its prey while a shockwave of sound and air pressure burst around him, blowing Mizuki off his branch.
After regaining his balance on a nearby tree, The chunin reared back his right arm to throw his fuma at the blonde.
Only for his arm to stop before the release by the Demon Fox container latching onto Mizuki's wrist. Grimacing, Mizuki pulled back his right arm catching the container off guard and sent a savage right legged spartan kick to Naruto's stomach. Naruto was sent flying back then tumbling into the forest and took out a few younger trees.
Turning around, after waiting for a few moments, he faulted.
Seeing Naruto crouched on all fours looking right at him with his head cocked slightly to his left side. Like a predator questioning it's preys next move. He stilled himself and waited.
They stared at each other intensely, each looking for an opening.
The rain was slowly regaining its force and the night had nearly claimed the land when a bolt of crimson lightning flashed off in the distance, its color fueled by the suns dying light. Mizuki, in a burst of speed, ripped out a kuni.
Just as Naruto charged at him with a snarl.
Slashing down diagonally to the left with his right hand, he aimed for the young childs head.
Yet somehow, the boy managed to duck under the slash fast enough to only loose a single lock of hair. His loss was not in vain though. He may have lost a precious spike of hair, but managed to use his forward momentum to send his clawed hands into Mizuki's chest and pierce the air behind him.
Landing on his knees with blood pouring from his mouth and listening to the mans whimpers and groans of pain Naruto locked eyes with the man "Now that's much better."
The incarnate of rage nestled deep within Naruto's seal quirked an eyebrow and peered through the child's eyes to see what was going on.
"Well it must be my lucky day or something." Stated Naruto demonically while slowly stomping toward Mizuki.
The rain was steaming around young Naruto, the downed nin in front of him trying to crawl away. Mizuki let out a girlish scream as he was flipped over on his back. Naruto plopped himself down onto Mizuki's lower abdomen. Mizuki let out a hoarse shriek while trying to push the demon off of him. His vocal chords shredding and eyes bulging.
However, his useless attempt was stopped with a right hand plunge into Mizuki 's preexisting wound. "Looks like it's time for you to go home now sensei..." Naruto whispered. "Wha?.."
"Shhhh….it's raining sensei…..it's pouring…. you should be snoring." A crazed smile cracked across his face, his eyes covered by his bangs. Lifting his left hand high, the crazed youngster slowly started to giggle as he formed a ball of energy in his palm the size of a soccer ball only for him to condense the energy ball to the size of a golf ball. He gave Mizuki one last look.
Mizuki POV
"So much pain….damn this freak brat! I can't die like this, not when I was so close to getting out!" Mizuki tried to move but he was still pinned to the ground by Naruto's hand which was gripped tightly around a sturdy root in the ground. Looking up he saw the ball of energy condense to the size of a golf ball. "Shit…shit…. SHIIITTT!" Mizuki screamed in his head, but before Naruto's hand plunged downward, Mizuki noticed the color in his eyes separated and run white with his pupil turning silver, and towards the edges of his whites a black shattering pattern emerged.
Then down came his hand, ever so slowly, though he knew it would only take a second if not less to impact. "Funny….I don't even know what my last thoughts should be about, how sa…"
Naruto POV
Impact.
No more was Mizuki. With that Naruto turned to the scroll long forgotten in the rain, yet somehow perfectly in tact and dry. After a few moments of situating himself under a tree, he opened the scroll and began a long night of memorization.
Not that he was currently conscious of course… no, he would have to thank the Great Fox later for this one. The boy owed him more than he could even try to understand at this age. So as the Fox memorized the jutsu, he contemplated the multiple ways that he could one day gain freedom. That, he would personally make sure of.