Demon Inside
Scene Change
'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Notes/Kyuubi/Other things…
Konoha
Sarutobi Hiruzen sat in his chair as paperwork plagued his desk, but that didn't matter to the old man anymore. What mattered was the small black leather bound book resting on his lap, the Hokage sighed when he remembered who he had given the book to. The old man had given the book to Uzumaki Naruto for his fifth birthday; Hiruzen opened the book hoping to find answers. The Hokage wanted to know why Naruto had murdered his sensei Umino Iruka in cold blood. Hiruzen shuddered when the memory hit him…
Flashback: Last night…
The Hokage watched warily as Naruto ran back to the village with a large scroll strapped to his back, Hiruzen had witnessed Mizuki's betrayal in attacking both Naruto and Iruka. What worried the old man was that Naruto was running straight into a group of drunken Chunin. Hiruzen could only hope that the blonde could avoid the Chunin and head back to a safer part of Konoha. But fate seemed to have other plans for the blonde as Naruto had run straight into the group of laughing Chunin who reeked of sake. The Hokage paled when the Chunin kicked Naruto to the ground as they poured sake on the blonde, by the time Anbu had arrived Naruto was writhing on the ground covered head to toe in flames.
Hiruzen sighed as he stood over Naruto who was covered in bandages as he slept soundly in the hospital bed. Iruka sat on a chair next to Naruto's bed wearing a sling for his arm, suddenly the blonde sat up breathing heavily. The old man put a hand to Naruto's chest trying to calm him down,
"Sit down Naruto-kun, you shouldn't get up just yet" Hiruzen said, the blonde shook his head,
"I'm fine…" he whispered putting a hand to his face, "I want to see…" the Hokage hesitated for a moment but he nodded knowing that the blonde had healed thanks to his demon. Naruto slowly unraveled the bandages wrapped around his head. Iruka gasped while Hiruzen held a grim look on his face. The old man handed Naruto a mirror so that he could see for himself, what the blonde saw astounded him. His hair which had been completely burned off had grown back longer and a shade darker, the once bright golden locks were now dull comparisons of their former selves. Naruto's face was bleached white from the flames. The whisker marks on the blonde's cheeks were much more deep and jagged. Iruka stared at the blonde's new appearance in horror but regardless the young Chunin put a hand on Naruto's shoulder,
"I know it's hard to bear right now Naruto, but we can help you through this" he said. Suddenly the blonde chuckled slowly until he started laughing as if he was…happy with his new appearance. Hiruzen stared at the teen as he laughed,
"Naruto-kun, are you alright? Can we get a doctor in here!" the old man said, a doctor came in within moments. He took one look at the blonde and sighed,
"It's just the shock from the attack Hokage-sama this is just his coping mechanism. He'll be sure to recover from this in just a week, if he doesn't then bring him back here and we can do a mental evaluation on him. Right now he's free to go, but I don't recommend him being alone with his injury. He needs someone with him at all times in case he has suicidal tendencies." The Hokage nodded,
"Thank you" he said, the doctor nodded,
"His clothes were burned beyond repair but we've got an extra set of clothes over there" the doctor said before he left the room. Naruto glanced over to a table across his bed; on the table was a neatly folded white hoodie and black pants along with a pair of black shoes. The blonde hopped off his bed and walked towards to table grabbing the clothes before he slipped them on, the Hokage sighed,
"Where will he go? I can't very well leave him alone in his apartment" he said as the blonde put the hood on his hoodie over his head. Iruka stood up,
"I can watch him at my place, I have an extra room at my place" the young Chunin said, the old man nodded,
"Well that settles it then, Naruto-kun will be living with you for a short time until we can get things sorted out" and with that the trio left the hospital. But the next morning was a disaster. An Anbu was sent to Iruka's to check on Naruto only to find the Chunin dead with his entrails strewn everywhere. A note was found in Iruka's Chunin vest, the message written in blood read,
GO TO SLEEP
Konoha: Present day…
Hiruzen shuddered at the memory. The old man had a couple Anbu go through Naruto's apartment hoping to find something that would explain why the blonde had done this to the young Chunin. The apartment had been ransacked for everything but the small black leather bound book. Hiruzen hesitated to open the book fearing for what he might find but the old man steeled himself preparing for the worst. But nothing could prepare him for this.
On the first page of the book was a crude crayon drawing of a fox with nine tails with the word FRIEND scrawled below it. In fact the next few pages were of the fox with nine tails. Then the drawings had become very detailed sketches, the first one was off Naruto standing on top of a pile of mangled bodies with a twisted smile on his face…this was when he was only seven years old. After that the rest of the book were sketches of Naruto butchering villagers and shinobi alike, with each page turned the Hokage's heart broke little by little. Then he turned to the last page which was a blood stained letter addressed to the Hokage himself, the letter read as such;
I heard the voice, I let the feeling take over, and this is what I have become. Don't try to find me old man, but it's not like any of your worthless shinobi can catch a demon of my caliber. I'll be in touch…
A single tear fell down the old man's cheek as he reread the note several times,
"Oh Naruto-kun, what have I let you become?"
Konoha: Seven Years Ago…
A blonde child no older than five years old smiled when the Hokage handed him a small book, the book was black and leather bound filled with over five hundred white blank pages. The Hokage smiled,
"Happy birthday Naruto-kun, be sure to write in that book now. People would like to know our future Godaime Hokage!" the old man said as Naruto flipped through the blank pages. The Hokage walked the child to a small white house with a sign next to it that read; Hidden Leaf Orphanage. As soon as the old man said his goodbyes and left Naruto's side and back to the Hokage Tower the orphanage doors opened revealing a red faced man,
"Get in here brat!" the man hissed, the child was quick to obey the man as he ran into the small house. The man pulled the book from Naruto's hands, "What's this?" the man asked curious as to why the child had the book. The blonde blinked,
"The old man gave that to me for my birthday" he replied wondering what the man was going to do with the black book. The man grinned,
"Demons don't have birthdays! You're never going to see this book ever again!" he screamed before he hit the blonde on the side of the head with the spine of the book effectively knocking the child out…
Naruto's Mindscape
When the blonde awoke he found himself in a cold, dark, and musky sewer. Naruto looked up to see a huge dark gold gate with thick bars; the gate seemed to be held by a single piece of paper adorned by strange markings. Two giant red eyes stared at the child with mild curiosity,
"Hm, I expected you to see me in a few more years. Do you know who I am child?" the figure behind the eyes asked. The child looked up at the eyes in fear making the figure sigh,
"Perhaps a different form will calm you down…" the eyes disappeared into the shadows; out of the darkness a beautiful woman with crimson red hair approached the blonde. The woman wore a blood red kimono that hid little to the imagination as nine red tails swung lazily behind her, the woman looked down on the child with an bored look on her face as the blonde stared at her in wonder,
"Are you an angel?" Naruto asked innocently as he marveled at her beauty, the woman chuckled darkly as she kneeled down to the floor to glare at the blonde through the thick bars that held her at bay,
"No, but you may call me Kurama" the woman replied holding out her hand to the blonde through the bars, the child nodded as she shook the woman's hand,
"I'm Naruto!" the blonde exclaimed shaking the woman's hand happy to have finally found another person to call his friend. Kurama must've quickly caught on to this because she pulled her hand back forcefully,
"Don't get any ideas brat, I'm not your friend" Kurama hissed as her tails waved behind her angrily. Naruto flinched and moved his eyes to the ground as Kurama breathed heavily, the woman soon calmed herself down after a few moments,
"Look at me child" she said, Naruto hesitantly looked into the blood red eyes of the buxom woman kneeling before him,
"Do you want them to stop?" she asked, Naruto tilted his head confused by Kurama's question,
"What do you mean?" the child asked, Kurama sighed,
"Do you want the villagers to keep treating you like this? Like a monster or a fiend? Or do you want to rise above them and make them stop treating you like garbage?" she asked, Naruto gave the fox a grim smile that shouldn't belong on any child,
"Make them stop…" he whispered, Kurama could see a single drop of darkness well up within the blonde. Now all she needed to do was nurture the darkness. Behind the child a red substance swirled around him…
Back to reality
Naruto awoke to the sound of angry stomps coming towards him, it was the orphanage caretaker red faced and reeking of sake,
"I'm gonna make you pay" he slurred raising a fist swinging it sloppily at the child who easily jumped out of the way. Naruto felt something stir inside him a feeling that he needed to do something about the caretaker, the blonde ran upstairs past the other confused orphans as the caretaker followed him into an empty bedroom with a large open window. The drunken man shuffled into the room looking around for the child, the door closed behind the caretaker revealing Naruto who was standing behind the door. The man turned around to hit the boy but he froze in horror at the sight of the child's eyes, what once was a deep ocean blue had turned into violent blood red pools. The caretaker took a step back desperate to get away from the blonde,
"G-get back demon!" he shrieked stumbling backwards, Naruto took one step towards the caretaker and that's all it took. The caretaker stumbled back out of the open window and down onto the hard ground, Naruto looked down at the twitching caretaker with now ocean blue eyes. Kurama grinned as she witnessed the barely breathing caretaker on the ground through the child's eyes. Dark thoughts filled the blonde's mind forever taking away what he once was…
Present Day: Location Unknown
Naruto stood wearing a white hoodie stood in the middle of a forest with a crazed grin; he slowly walked towards a small cabin with a large kitchen knife in his hand. The teen hid the knife behind his back as soon as he reached the front door, with a small grin he knocked on the door three times. A woman opened the door only to let out a choked scream as the blonde plunged his blade into her throat, after a few gurgling gasps the woman fell to the ground dead. Naruto walked into the house to see two children both no older than six or seven looking up at him, the blonde chuckled,
"Hello children, don't worry about your mother. It's nap time, close your eyes and…GO TO SLEEP."
Hours later
Yamoto Kento, a travelling merchant grinned as he made his way to a small cabin in the middle of the woods. It had been months since he had seen his family and he was eager to return to his wife and children. Kento reached his cabin with a warm smile that quickly faded, at the door was his wife Yumi…dead. Kento knelt down holding his wife's bloodied corpse close to his chest tears streaming down his face as he sobbed at the loss of his wife. Then he realized that he had forgotten about his two children Ren and Yumiko, the merchant gently laid down his wife closing her eyes before he ran into the cabin,
"Hush now, quiet now…" a soft voice echoed through the small cabin, Kento walked as quietly as he could to reach the master bedroom where the soft voice of what seemed to be a boy or a teen tore through the eerie silence. A strangled scream suddenly erupted from Kento at the sight of his son Ren dead and bloody at the foot of the door. Adrenaline rushed through the merchant's veins as he kicked the door open only to be greeted by the sight of a young teen wearing a white hoodie cradling a mangled corpse against his chest. The teen looked up at the merchant and immediately dropped the dead child whipping out a bloody kitchen knife from his pocket.
Kento quickly side-stepped to dodge a swipe from the blonde and countered with a right hook, the teen ducked down dodging the punch as he stabbed the merchant. Kento cried out in pain accidentally backhanding the blonde with all his might. The teen grunted as he fell from the force of the hit forcing the blade out of the merchant's stomach, Kento held his stomach as he spat out blood. A pool of the glistening red liquid poured out of the merchant as he struggled to stand only to fall back groaning in pain. The teen stood laughing maniacally as he picked up his knife,
"You look weary friend…" the teen said as he slowly walked towards Kento brandishing the blade in his hand. The merchant let out labored breaths as his blood slowly pooled around him, with great effort he looked up at the blonde who stood before him,
"What are you?" he wheezed with his last breath. The teen crouched down to stare into the merchant's eyes. Kento stared into the soulless unblinking eyes of the demon before him,
"Never mind that now friend. Just close your eyes and…GO TO SLEEP." And with that the merchant closed his eyes as his blood pooled around him…
AN: My first piece of fiction to the land of F.F. So…should I continue this? Please remember to review and tell me your thoughts and have a pleasant day!