Fukushû no tame ni
A.N.: Greetings.
Now, I know, if you read my other stories you might ask "Where the hell were you?". The answer is quite simple and it is two words: Writers' Block.
The dreaded, the vile foul felon.
He came, watched me, constantly, unwavering without saying a word.
So I pondered, "What does he want?" I asked myself.
Finding no answer I asked out loud: "What dost thou want?"
"Just ta piss ye off." He answered.
If you don't read my other work, then right now you're probably wondering about my sanity.
Don't, she's alright; I met with her the other day, unfortunately she had to leave... Something about the oven on the fire knocking on the door.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this.
Disclaimer: Aw damn it, still don't own Naruto. Maybe if I try with a toothpick...
Story starts here : (actually, it start underneath that...)
"Sasuke." A boy in orange, with spiky blond hair called out another one standing on a statue across a valley.
A familiar scene.
Not for the two boys who were soon engaged in battle, but one able to read the multiverse could find quite a number of similar scene.
In one, the blond would be betrayed by his sensei and left for dead under a pile of rocks. In another, the gender might be changed, or the 'hero' might reveal himself as a much worse monster than what he hold.
In what most knows as the "original story", the two boy would fight until both had to take inhuman forms to try and take the upper hand.
In this alternative, the difference would appear in a crucial moment, when Sasuke pierce Naruto's chest with his Chidori.
But, that is not completely true.
No, the fluctuation really happened much earlier in this universe. It happened during the boy's growth within his mother's womb. A simple change in his genetic code and the boy inherited his mother 'special chakra'.
After his birth and the following unsealing, resealing of the Kyuubi no Yoko, the death of Naruto's parents and the declaration of his status as a Jinchurikki, the boy's life was hard.
Actually, hard is not the best way to put it.
'Hell' would be a better word to describe it.
'Sparkling Vampire' too, but that's another debate.
Four years old and the boy had already suffered almost everything one could live through. And a few things most people do not survive.
But he never sought revenge.
Why? Because he wanted them to accept him? Because he did not want to become like them?
No, the answer was: "Because he couldn't". Because he lacked strength, knowledge or the wealth needed to make them pay. Had he at least one of those things, there was still the problem that he only was four.
But one day that changed, one day, his chakra 'awoke', not that it was sentient but it certainly seemed like it.
While his mother's chakra took the form of chains, his was eight arms growing from his back, with a range of at least five meters and the power to crush, rip and tear a human body to pieces.
Which is exactly what happened to the villagers who had decided to beat the boy to the death.
Reacting to the boy's desire for them to stop, for them to pay, the arms grew from his back, pale like bones. Four arms coiled around the boy, protecting him as he watched as his abusers were slaughtered.
One man's head seemingly popped off as an arm took the head too fast for the villagers to see, another was tore in half and a woman was quartered.
And Naruto stood, blood all over him, eyes wide openned as the last woman tried to run away only for her legs to stay where she used to be before she was vertically teared apart.
And still Naruto stood. For a few seconds he stood. As his chakra arms receded he stood.
And then he ran. Out of the alley, not watching where he was going, wanting to get as far away from the bloodbath as possible and as close to his home as he could.
That's when he ran into her.
She who would become his sole friend for the next four years.
Sasuke's hand pierced Naruto's chest, the lighting strike ignoring the resistance of the skin and bones. He jumped away and looked at his handiwork.
"See Naruto, I'll always be sup..." He trailed off as the blond's body started to be covered in seals.
All of those seals converted in one point, right where Sasuke's attack connected. The seals started collapsing.
She was walking with her mother to the park where she could hopefully play with children her own age, Maybe she'd make friends.
And then Naruto bumped into her. Blood-covered Naruto bumped into her.
She was scared. Her mother immediately took concern of the jinchurikki and she and her daughter took him to the hospital.
Only to be told that they did not treat monster and someone of her statute shouldn't stay with that thing.
She was furious. Yes, the boy was holding the beast, but she knew the difference between a jailer and a prisoner.
But nothing she said or did changed the mind of the doctors.
So she decided to treat the boy herself with what she knew of medical jutsu.
In his home (everyone knew where it was.), she somehow managed not to leave to slaughter the landlord. Barely.
Still, she treated him and asked how he got all that blood.
She met little success. He refused to say. She decided to let it drop for a while and to cook him something.
But she needed food for that and there was none. So she left the two children alone, after making sure the door was locked and reinforced, and went to buy something.
She would regret that action for the rest of her life.
When she came back, she knew something was wrong. Whether it was her mother instinct, woman intuition or some other force, she did not know but, once she saw the door of the blonde's apartment, she knew. And then she entered.
It was a bloodbath… He stood there eyes wide open, the corner of his mouth curling slightly into a smirk with some difficulty it seemed, as if it was an alien thing to the boy. As if his body wasn't sure how to do it.
She turned to her daughter, worry edged on her face and she saw something that actually was more frightening in her mind than everything else in the room.
The little girl was poking a corpse in curiosity, she was trying to spread the flesh of the bisected woman a bit more, wanting to see what was in there and how everything was connected and worked.
Sasuke jumped away from Naruto as the seals finally collapsed completely. The blonde's body was suddenly covered in red chakra, a red vile chakra the aura of which was sending shivers down the Uchiha's spine.
The chakra was healing the blond, healing the wound sustained in their fight but also the years of malnourishment and the results of the other mistreatments. Naruto's hair became longer as he looked toward the sky a smile tugging at his lips. He was also taller and only his pants had resisted the sudden growth. Even if they looked a bit too short now.
Naruto slowly lowered his face in his opponent's direction a hand covering his right eye as the left one closed. Sasuke couldn't help but think the smirk on the other boy's face was insanely scary. Then Naruto's uncovered eye opened and the dark haired boy knew fear.
She took them away to a safe place, a place only she knew of; her safe place for when her husband or Shinobi life became too difficult.
In that place, she made a decision looking at the children watching her. The boy who apparently trusted her and her own daughter, both waiting for her to do something, both strangely unafraid.
She nodded to herself, steeling her resolve. She would train them, teach her everything she knew and then some she would make sure they were safe no matter what the cost.
And she trained them, both worked hard, her daughter was sure to become a medic-nin as great as Tsunade. Or she would have had she been interested in healing people. She seemed by far more eager to cause pain than anything else.
As for the boy, she wasn't sure what he would become he had an ultimate defense and his offense was almost just as great and considering what he was… He could very well become unstoppable. She would have been afraid of that if not for the fact that he seemed to be ready to do anything for his friend. He was always ready to get the girl what she wanted, usually something horrible like someone's corpse, and she found it was sweet in a morbid way.
Of course, not everything was well; the shinobi started noticing that the Bijuu container was becoming powerful. Unlike his friend, who managed to hide her abilities and tendencies from everyone, the boy was constantly showing his newly trained strength to every fool who attacked him.
And, after only four years, they were found.
She was followed by an ANBU after having dropped her daughter to a birthday party and they were captured in the middle of the lesson by Jiraiya who immediately placed a seal on the blonde's forehead.
And less than an hour later, Naruto was chained with an untold number of seals on his skin, the toad sannin waiting for the order to activate them. The order did not come. Instead, the blond was forced to see his sensei one of the two people he loved judged and executed.
The Hokage himself declared her, with disappointment in his voice, a traitor to Konoha, working to destroy it with the use of its secret weapon before her own husband stabbed her through her throat. Naruto tried to stop it, tried to summon his vectors, as he called his chakra arms, and rip them all apart but the activation of the seals stopped him.
As his memories slowly disappeared, as his abilities were sealed, he kept looking at her trying to keep her and her daughter in his mind no matter what happened. The two things he cared the most about in this wretched village.
But Naruto forgot. He forgot his life, the people he killed, how to use his vector, all the knowledge she helped him get and, more importantly, his important people, the two he had sworn to protect.
As Uzumaki Naruto looked at Uchiha Sasuke, he smiled, he was already planning. What he would need, what he would say to her, how to help her if they had gotten to her.
And once that was done, he would have his revenge.
'I'm back. And they will pay!'
End of Chapter.
Had that in my mind for quite a bit.
So I'm happy to post it.
By the way, don't worry there won't be all those lines in the other chapter.
Bye bye for now.
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