Redefined purpose.
Disclaimer : I don't own Naruto, or any other character that might appear in this fanfic, they belong to Kishimoto and whoever made them in the first place. All I own are my own ieeas and plot. Props to Sinisteruto for the original story: A Broken Fox and a Caring Cat.
Chapter 1:
The Butterfly Effect. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. Such complicated terms to describe such a simple effect.
To put it in layman's terms, a simple change, no matter where it is, how big it is or how long it lasted, can bring devastating consequences to another place. For example, a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks earlier.
Big things have small beginnings. Like the forging of one ring, finding a black notebook on the ground, the consumption of a single fruit from a tree…or the end of a life.
What is the value of one life?
A simple question to which there is no right or wrong answer. Some would take that question and approach it from a monetary point of view, some from a cultural point of view but most would take it from a spiritual point of view. But why would spiritual dominate over other choices?
Because the gift of life is something we do not understand. We do not know how it begins nor what happens after it's over, but we do know that all life is precious and to be protected at all costs. But the question remains…how much is one life worth? Are some lives worth more than others? If so, then why would these lives be worth more if they are all the same?
When would we be willing to trade one life in exchange for another? Or many others? The end of a life…how much the end of a life could affect our world? If you asked, anyone with half a brain would reply that it was worthless. A single life, the destruction of a single drop of water in a vast ocean would be meaningless and be discarded as worthless.
But this is where you are all wrong. Not all lives are worth the same and some are more valuable than others. Some, while they may not seem like it, are worth thousands if not millions of others. These lives should be cherished and protected at all costs for no one knows what their end could bring into our world.
And here is where the butterfly effect comes into play. This particular life belongs to a gentle, serene and very kind soul. A strong forgiving heart that housed a soul of steel. A person willing to trade her life for the person she cherished above everything. And it's with this particular life that everything began.
While she would have been tagged as someone weak and worthless, she was far from it. She was the key to saving this world, a key that locked the beast away…a key that had been broken before the cage was closed.
Unohana Retsu, was a civilian born kunoichi that pursued a carreer as an Inryo ninja.
She wasn't rich, in fact she was in the middle class.
She wasn't some legendary kunoichi, like Tsunade, in fact she was quite average.
She wasn't some otherwordly beauty, in fact, many who saw her consider her average at best.
But she was is the world of one person, one individual in particular, one Uzumaki Naruto, and a few weeks before his birthday six years after being born, she was taken from him.
In many universes, the two never met, in this one in particular they met when he was four. This meeting created many universes with a shinobi particularly talented in the healing arts, in this one in particular her death created a monster of unparalelled ruthlesness.
Scene change : (Valey of the end).
"K-kakashi s-sensei, w-why!" shouted the blonde in a weird combination of anger, fear, hate, and sadness. This Blonde is none other than Uzumaki Naruto, also known as the kyubi jinchuuriki or otherwise just "The kyubi" or "Demon Brat". He is a 14 year old boy with sunkissed, spiky blonde hair with deep blue eyes and three wisker like markings on each cheek. He seems to be wearing a hideous orange and blue jumpsuit, but mostly orange with a weapons pouch attached to his right thigh. His normally innocent and sparkling blue eyes are now as dark and cloudy as a thunderstorm, raging in a battle between a collection of negative and painful emotions.
'What a demon, to think that he can actually speak even with my Raikiri pearcing his lungs, if not because of the damage, than the raw electrical currents I'm streaming throughout his body should have hindered his ability to even speak, much less scream so loud.' Thought the above average height Jonin now identified as Hatake Kakashi with white gravity defying spiky hair and one dark eye, with his left eye being red with three tamoe. The man is dressed in the standard jonin outfit with a green flack jacket and black gloves with metal plates attached for protection.
"One of the first lessons I taught you was to always look underneath the underneath, Naruto, you should have seen this coming a mile, no, a million miles away. I expected you to at least have anticipated this, I find it hard to believe that someone who has lived the kind of life you have led could be so naive and ignorant, to think that a blind fool like you wanted to be hokage is an insult to the title itself.."
"Shut Up! T-teme...Those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon and betray their comrades are worse than trash, wasn't that also one of the first lessons you taught us, ne Kakashi SENSEI!" screamed the blonde in anguish and hate, having started off in barely decipherable whispers.
Very true, I'm actually glad that you could remember this lesson, Naruto, that is exactly why I am doing this, I am taking out the trash that is holding our team back, so that we may reach our full potential." Said the copy nin without so much as a flinch from the jab from his student, soon to be former student.
"Cough Cough, what..~cough~ are you talking about?" asked the blonde in between coughing fits.
"Naruto, let us travel back down memory lane, do you remember when I was defeated by Zabuza, when he captured me in his water prison, tell me, did you honestly believe that me, The Legendary Copy Ninja, could have lost a battle so easily, without even at least injuring my opponent, especially after i had promised Sasuke that I would not fail to protect my comrades?" asked the copy cat, resisting the urge to smirk at the horrified look of recognition on the blonde's eyes.
"You..You...what do you mean?" asked the blonde, adopting an incredulous facial expression.
"And here I was thinking you had put 2 and 2 together, maybe I overestimated your limited IQ. Naruto, the person that was captured in the water prison was my shadow clone, which I had substituded myself with when Zabuza kicked me into the water, you get it right...I had counted on your promise to never run away that you made to yourself and your chronic need to show off, especially against Sasuke, your rival, and for Sakura, your crush. That desire for attention together with your stupidity would have driven you to attack first and head on and get yourself killed, imagine my surprise when I found myself having to switch back with my clone because you actually turned out to have a brain and rescued my shadow clone from Zabuza's water prison." Said the White haired Jonin, giving the blonde one his unnerving, intense stares.
"You...You were trying to get me killed and than save Sakura chan and Sasuke!" asked/stated the blonde in disbelief, his mask slowly but surely crumbling from the revelation.
'How is he still alive, how is he still even conscious, and asking me all these questions?' Thought Kakashi absent mindedly.
"Correct, why else did you think I only taught you the tree climbing excercise in wave country when I could have taught you all much earlier? Why do you think I entered you into the chuunin exams when you clearly were not ready for it? Why do you think I pawned you off to that useless Jonin Ebisu to train for the finals, Why do you think I taught Sasuke the chidori?" Asked the copy nin rhetorically.
"I thought..."
"Never mind, let me answer for you, it was a rhetorical question anyway.." stated Kakashi mockingly.
"I tried to get you killed by zabuza, but you came up with a plan and outwitted me. I didn't teach the team anything prior to that because i had been hoping to get rid of you first, I would than use your death as an excuse for the sudden change of attitude towards my team and train the remaining two to the best of my abilities. But I failed and you survived despite my efforts." Said Kakashi, pausing momentarily to give the blonde a chance to digest the information.
"I than entered the three of you into the chuunin exams, but not before teaching Sasuke numerous fire techniques from my arsenal and how to cast a genjutsu and copy techniques with his sharingan, and not before teaching Sakura trap making and setting and some low level genjutsu and how to heal moderate injuries without the use of chakra, once again I had hoped you would die in the exams because you were unprepared, and once again you defied the odds and came out on top against my best wishes." Said the copy nin venomously.
"But there was still hope when you were paired with Neji, the genious of the Hyuga clan who had raw skill, intelligence, and jonin level taijutsu and speed, and most importantly, who had displayed homicidal behaviour against his cousin and anyone who challenged his beliefs. I knew he would try to kill you if you were to be paired together in battle as you would obviously challenge his beliefs against what he did to his cousin, who also happens to be your classmate and friend, imagine my luck when it turned out you would be the first to fight, and against him of all people. So I pawned you off to a weak Jonin who hated your guts. But once again you saw through my efforts like the demon fox trickster you are and sought yourself a better teacher who taught you how to access your powers, and you used them to defeat Neji." Said Kakashi, glaring daggers at the demon for making a fool out of him like that.
"By this point I was confident in my suspicions, I had always known that that happy go lucky Hokage wana be attitude was fake, and looking underneath the underneath, I realised exactly why you wanted to be Hokage, you wanted to infiltrate the village hierarchy and destroy us from within to get your revenge, playing the innocent child all the way until you had the power that you required, you were trying to hide your true self, but your ability to not only see through my plans but to counter them so efficiently without looking too suspicious confirmed my thoughts. Even your win against Kiba was a well thought out strategy, using his nose against him to create an opening, under normal circumstances, people would write it off as the idiot naruto getting a stroke of luck, but I, being your sensei, and knowing how you countered my plans knew better, this was all part of your genious plan wasn't it, why else would you pretend to be something you're not?" asked Kakashi out loud, though the question was not directed at anyone in particular.
All the while Kakashi had been talking, Naruto had been silently listening, too shocked to react or say anything in retaliation, who wouldn't be in his place, how could one have expected someone they considered family to have thought so ill of them all this time, to have been deceived like this?
"But I had already anticipated everything you would do, demon fox!" snapped Kakashi hatefully, breaking the blonde from his stupor.
"On the off chance that you survived your battle against Neji, I had decided to teach Sasuke my prized technique, the Chidori, I knew that Sasuke would try to kill you at some point in order to activate his mangyeko sharingan so that he could gain the strength to defeat his brother, but I knew he would need a trump card to defeat a demon trickster like you, so i taught him the chidori, using the excuse that he would need it to defeat the unstable and homicidal Sabaku no Gaara, this way, he would stand a chance against you, it would also be poetic in a sense, if my technique would be used to end your existence."
"But once again you saw through my plan again, after witnessing the power of the chidori when Sasuke used it against Gaara, you convinced Jiraiya sama to teach you an equally powerful technique, the rasengan. When I found out about this when you fought Sasuke at the hospital, I was angry at Jiraiya sama and confronted him about teaching you the rasengan and almost gave my cover away, that's when I realised what you were doing, trying to expose me to get rid of me, but indirectly, frustrating me until I started acting out of character without even realising it, which could have had the result of people starting to become suspicious of my behavior. You would than use your current influence over the Hokage, Jiraiya sama, and the clan heirs to make me look like the guilty one, painting yourself as the innocent boy with a burden, who only wants to protect his precious people. When I realised how much control you already had over the village, the village that Minato sensei sacrificed his life to protect, I knew what I had to do, which is why we are where we are at this moment." Said Kakashi, ending his long explanation.
"You bastard, you won't get away with this! Baa chan will know, she'll know that you're lying, and Ero sannin will investigate, me and Baa chan have a bond, she is like the mother I never had, and ero sannin treats me like his own son, they'll know what happened, you're going to rot in jail you bastard!" shouted the blonde, steeling his resolve with that trade mark defiant look in his eyes, a look that silently infuriated the copy nin.
"Mother you never had? Father you never had you say, you don't know anything about them do you? About your so called God Father and God mother who abandoned you and wanted nothing to do with you? Or your twin sister and mother who deserted you on the day that you were born, do you...Naruto...?" asked Kakashi, silently revelling in the horror and grief stricken look on the blonde's face.
"I'm an orphan. My mother and father died as heroes in the kyubi attack, they loved me...t-they...they wanted to be with me, to raise me b-but..but they died ..unfortunately, that is what jiji said, so I know, I know you're lying, jiji wouldn't lie to me teme!" said the blonde softly, hyperventilating, whether because of emotional or physical distress, Kakashi honestly did not know, maybe a combination of the two.
"When you asked him what their names were, what did Sandaime sama tell you? When you asked him why everyone hated you, what did Sandaime sama tell you, huh...Naruto...?" asked Kakashi.
"Jiji didn't know their names, the records were lost during the destruction. W-what does that have to do with anything, who cares about that! You know about my parents? I want to know about my parents, tell me about my parents, teme sensei!" screamed the blonde in frustration and anticipation, maybe even a little bit of trepidation as well, fearing what horrible truths might be uncovered.
"You fool, how do you know if someone is a hero or not if you do not even know who they are? Did you honestly think it is possible for a Kage to not know the names of his own shinobi, his own employees? Naruto, I used to be one of the A.N.B.U that were occassionally assigned to watch over you, so i know better than anyone how many times you asked the sandaime why everyone hated you, he blatently lied to you every time you asked that question,. If he could lie to you about something that important, what made you think he wouldn't lie to you about your lineage? If it was up to him, if Mizuki had not told you, you still wouldn't know why everyone hated you, he never intended for you to ever find out anything?" said Kakashi venomously, causing the blonde to almost flinch at the hate filled eyes directed at him.
"No...he wouldn't...Sandaime jiji said he loved me like his grandson..he was the only one there for me.."
"Of course he was, demon fox...!" cut in Kakashi.
"He had to determine whether you had regained your memories or if you had any hold over your powers, but he couldn't behave too suspiciously, he couldn't directly interrogate you either, that would render the law he made about your existence irrelevant. So he did the next best thing, he earned your trust by pretending to be your grand father figure, at the time, the only interactions you had experienced with other people were negative memories. He would then be your light in the darkness, the person who treated you kindly and cared about you, the person you admired and wanted to emulate, the person you could confide in. This way, it would make it easy for him to monitor you, or rather, to monitor the seal and determine whether you were a threat or not, you get it right...no one has ever truly cared about you..." said Kakashi with absolute sincerity that not even the blonde, who was bordering on complete denial could ignore.
By now endless tears were freely flowing from the blonde's eyes, staining his cheeks and even his torn jump suit.
"I-I'm tired, please...just tell me...tell me about my mother, and sister, why did they abandon me, a-and who is my God mother,and God father? Why did they abandon me...cough cough...?" asked the blonde, not even looking at the Cyclops anymore, his eyes looking at the ground with his spiky, blonde bangs covering his eyes darkly, his forehead protector having slipped off of his head during his battle with his best...former best friend.
He could feel it, he was dying, his body was so...numb, yes, he was numb, he couldn't even feel his limbs anymore. His heart rate had slowed down and he was sure that the internal damage he had suffered would hard press even kyubi's healing ability to keep him alive.
"Your mother left you on the day you were born, demon. She took your sister away with her so that she can train her to be a strong kunoichi, come to think about it, they are supposed to come back two years from now." Said Kakashi.
"Why..w-why didn't they take me with them?" asked the blonde.
"To protect Naruko, if people knew that Kushina sama was raising the demon, than they would hate her too, and by extension, they would hate Naruko for being the sister of the demon, to protect her daughter, she decided that she would leave the village and come back when Naruko was strong enough to protect herself from anyone, and strong enough to protect her home village, just like her father did." Explained Kakashi patiently.
"F-father?" asked the blonde curiously.
"Yes, Namikaze Minato, my sensei, The Yondaime Hokage, otherwise known as the koroi senko (Yellow flash)."
"W-what! Impossible, the Yondaime is my hero, the man i look up to the most, he would never seal a demon in his own son!" denied the blonde with renewed vigour.
"It was a no doubt a difficult decision, but sensei had trusted that your god father, Jiraya sama would take care of you, and as a fellow seal master, he would be able to ensure that the kyubi stayed locked away. Your mother, Uzamaki Kushina left you in her cousin's care, Senju Tsunade, but she also abandoned you, no one wanted to raise a demon it seems." Said Copy Ninja.
"Y-you keep speaking as if I'm the demon itself, and yet you were patient and generous enough to tell me about my lineage, why, if you truly believe I'm the demon, than why did you find it necessary to explain all of this to me?" asked the blonde softly. He couldn't find the strength to shout, scream, or curse anymore, his desire to hear the truth, to receive some form of closure was the only thing keeping him alive at the moment.
"Contrary to what you might believe, I'm not killing you out of revenge, at least it is not just revenge against you, demon.."
"Then why?" asked Naruto, not understanding at all.
"I cannot bare to see you use the body of my sensei's son like this, to watch Naruto suffer at your hands, by killing you, Naruto will be able to find peace in the afterlife, he will be reunited with his father and be freed from your evil, that is why I have taken the liberty to explain things to you, Naruto's spirit is still locked somewhere inside you, this way, he can at least know the truth about his family before he passes on, now die demon fox...Lightning Style: Lightning Blade Current!" said Kakashi, fully activating the modified version of his signature technique.
"GWAAH!" screamed Naruto in pain and anguish. He couldn't believe how much pain he was in, if he thought being pierced by the lightning blade was painful, than this was ten time worse. He could feel the electrical currents not just in the area surrounding his wound, but all throughout his body, it felt like every organ in his body...no, never mind that, it felt like every cell in his body was being electrocuted.
"Rest in peace...Naruto." whispered Kakashi before he kicked the blonde into the river, right between the statues of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
'I've done it, finally. I've killed the kyubi, freed your son, and protected the village, just like you did all your life, Minato sensei...' Thought Kakashi, feeling a mixture of relief, sadness and nostalgia.
"Argh!" grunted Kakashi in pain originating from his sharingan eye, it was the most burning sensation he had ever felt in his life, but just as it came, it was almost immediately gone in nothing but 5 seconds, making him question if it was ever there in the first place.
'No...something is different, my eye is draining a lot more chakra than it usually does.' Thought Kakashi, who had to suppress a gasp from leaving his throat when he looked at his reflection in the water. Something was different about his reflection, more specifically, something was different with his sharingan. Whereas before it was red with three tamoe , it now looked like the tamoe had been connected to form a black, three pronged shuriken.
'M-mangyeko Sharingan, but how, I'm not an Uchiha...' Thought Kakashi in bewilderment.
'I cannot let anyone find out about this, at least not yet.' Thought the cycloptic ninja as he deactivated his ultimate sharingan, covering up his eye with his forehead protector.
"Sasuke, we'll meet again, I'm sure of it. I'll save you from Orochimaru, I won't fail Obito, we'll definately meet again." Thought Kakashi out loud before he disappeared with a leaf shunshuin.
Scene change :
As Naruto was sinking, a white mist covered his chest wound, Naruto simply thought.
'Thank god for Oshie no Shūdōin (Teachings of the Monastery), thank god for small miracles Kakashi is as dense as his teacher before him, I mean come one! If a bloody eight years old can see you coming there is seriously something wrong with you as a shinobi.' and surprisingly his injuries were disappearing due to the white mist. He started remembering the day when everything changed.
Flash Back start (Naruto age 6):
A six year old blonde boy with sharp blue eyes, tan skin and whisker marks tripled on each cheek was lying down in an ally way being beaten by a mob.
This boy was Uzumaki Naruto of konoha. He didn't know why they all hated him but; he always tried to smile no matter the abuse he received.
The only people who nice to him was an old man in red and white robes with a funny hat and the people at the ramen stand that let him eat there.
This was one of the worse beatings he was getting it was his sixth birthday day where he should be happy but, no the people never let him be happy.
He secretly hated them for all the things they did to him, He did nothing to them why can't they leave him alone, He screamed in him mind.
He suddenly felt surrounded by water.
Deeper
Deeper
Deeper He sank into the lake the mob of his attackers had thrown him in too.
'Why, why, WHY! I've done nothing to them and yet I'm going to die.' He thought as He sank even deeper into the lake
Bubbles escaped his mouth and his eyes glazed over as He was losing consciousness. This was Uzumaki Naruto in what may be his last moments in his short six year old life.
Suddenly his eyes opened and they held pure determination as He tried to swim but He was in such pain He could barely move.
'I won't die, not like this! Hokage. I need to be Hokage like jiji and be a ninja.' He thought as He fought the pain but it was too much for his as He made it up somewhat but his body gave out from his.
The last of the bubbles escaped his mouth as he fell asleep. Suddenly his eyes opened but they were red and cat like, his body became surrounded with red chakra and the child redoubled his efforts to reach the surface, after reaching the surface 'Naruto' run all the way to his hideous in the forest of death, ironically the only place he felt secure.
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'Am… am I dead? No… I'm breathing and I feel warm.' naruto decided to look around. He appeared to be in a sewer. He looked around and saw no one around him, he then screamed
"Hello, is anyone here!"
"Yo...loser! You and I are gonna have a little talk!" said a voice from the shadows, Naruto turned and saw a boy with bright blonde, spiky hair, three whisker like lines on each cheek, manacing eyes with black sclera and yellow irises. He was dressed in the same clothes as Naruto but he looked, well for a lack of another term, evil
"Who are you? And why do you look like me?"
"Well I am you, how else am I supposed to look?"
Naruto stopped shortly at that, why did he stop? Well... for one, that voice looked kind of like him, not the same, mind you he was generally very well behaved person, not this sarcastic, arrogant and well...not well behaved voice. Looking up in order to identify this person, Naruto's figurative heart almost stopped in surprise.
"We haven't been introduced yet have we? Allow me to rectify that, my name is Unohana Naruto, pleasure ...no...displeasure to meet your aquintance." said the black eyed blonde sarcastically. For the sake of simplicity let's call him dark Na
"What! That's not true, I am Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage Dattebayo!" exclaimed the blue eyed blonde.
"Not true, you're not Uzumaki Naruto, nor are you the future hokage, you're Unohana Naruto, the future destroyer of konoha, I know this because I am you..." said Dark Naruto with conviction.
"No way, if you are me, than who am I? And if I am you, than who are you? And if we are one and the same, than who are we?" asked the blue eyed blonde, squinting his eyes, a small confused frownon his face.
"Y-you idiot! That doesn't even make sense!" said Dark Naruto, snarling in anger at his doppelganger's stupidity.
"Hey who you're calling an idiot y-you..whoever you are!"
"Argh! I just told you who I am two minutes ago you imbecile!" shouted Dark Naruto , mentally blocking the urge to pull on his hair in frustration.
"Yeah, well you're a..."
"Silence you moron, listen I don't have time for this. Don't you want to know why everyone hates your guts?" after seeing Naruto's nod, dark Naruto continued "Well... there is no easy way to say this, when we were born, the Kyuubi no kitsune attacked Konoha, the yondaime Hokage decided to save konoha by using the only way he could. You see, bijuus are immortal they don't stay dead when you kill them, they just reappear somewhere else, so all the man could do was sealing it inside a baby." Then he pointed at Naruto whose eyes widened "Yeah that baby was you." Naruto was about to say something when dark Naruto interrupteur him again "What you don't know, is that the Kyuubi had an escape plan ready, In order to do that, he couldn't afford to have a strong host, he needed you to be weak. So he took away a part of yourself, he took away your darkness, your hatred, he took away that part of your soul during the sealing, before the seal had fully settled in. He would than use this part of your soul to store all the negative emotions you had and build it up to form a powerful hatred that would rival even his own. This would be his leverage over you, all he would have to do is wait for the darkest and most painful moment in your life, where you would have no choice but to rely on power. This would also be the day that he escaped, he would than use the hatred and anger stored inside me to manipulate you into removing the seal, effectively turning you against yourself. Once the seal was removed, he would than devour you and be reborn. This was his ultimate escape plan, at first I was with this plan but after a certain event, I found myself incapable of going through with it."
Naruto was shocked with all the revelations, he was the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, that was why he was hated, and his hero the yondaime Hokage was the bastard who damned him. Then it hit him, what did his other self, dark Naruto call himself Unohana Naruto.
"Hey wait a minute, how does taking away my darkness and hatred make me weak? Doesn't that make me better off? And why do you call yourself Unohana?'' asked the blonde uncertainly.
"Listen here fool, you are the light and I am the darkness. There are both bad and good qualities about your light. The good qualities are that you are kind, loving and caring, you always want to help those who have suffered, those who are in pain, even at your own expense, especially your loved ones. These are no doubt good and admirable traits and can be used as a reason and source of strength...but..." paused Dark Naruto, his neutral expression transforming into that of disgust.
"But what...?" asked the blue eyed blonde in anticipation.
"Too much of anything is a bad thing. Because you have so much light, you blindly and willingly trust anyone who gives you a smile, you are so desperate for love and affection that you will except it from anyone. You trust people so much that it makes it so easy for people to deceive, use and manipulate you. Because of this, you attract the wrong people, you're like a dead corpse that has been left to rot in the wild, vultures flock towards you from all direction at the smell of your flesh. A scavenging hyena will tell you that he is a bunny and you will buy that obvious lie because you believe everyone is like you, you believe that people would never lie to you simply because you yourself wouldn't do it to them, that is so stupid it makes me want to puke my guts out..."
"So what! Are you saying that I should just hate and destroy everything, that I should be like Kakashi teme, or worse, Hebi Teme!" screamed the blue eyed blonde angrily.
"Don't be stupid! I never said I was perfect either, darkness is born within a person's heart when a person has suffered and has come to know true pain. Darkness breeds maturity, perception and paranoia. This is because darkness is associated with pain and suffering. In order to overcome their pain, people face many trials and tribulations, and these trials and tribulations are the things that force a person to mature at a faster pace. But, most people in these situations have been betrayed by people at some point, perhaps even those betrayals might be related to their suffering,and to avoid being caught in similar situations, these people learn to observe every situation with strict scrutiny , hence the perception and paranoia. Maturity, perception, and paranoia, these are the characteristics associated with a quality shinobi, these are the good characteristics that I have acquired from my darkness."
You make it sound like darkness is a good thing?" said Naruto
"Everything on this earth exists for a reason, so yes, darkness is a good thing, but it is not enough on its own. Too much darkness can lead to hatred, cruelty, evil, and ultimately..destruction. If you have seen the world for what it truly is, and you only have darkness in your heart than you will hate it even more instead of loving it, instead of redeeming or saving the world, you might choose to rather destroy it and end its sorry existence. Brother..." said Dark Naruto, now standing right in front of the blue eyed blonde with his right hand gripping his shoulder in a comforting gesture.
"You have felt it have you not? The emptiness inside of you, but because you did not know the source of that emptiness, you threw yourself at everyone you could get your hands on, anyone who would show you the slightest bit of affection, anything to fill that emptiness, that missing piece of yourself, but no matter how many 'precious people' you attained for yourself, you still felt empty inside, like a part of you was missing. Is it not so...brother?" asked Dark Naruto.
"H-how do you know? How do I get rid of that emptiness?" asked the blue eyed blonde desperately.
"I know because I have felt it too, I even sided with Kyu against you because of it, but nothing ever worked, my darkness, my hatred, and all my negative emotions are consuming me. To fill that gap in our hearts, we need to work together, we need to become one again, as we were meant to be, I need your light, and you need my darkness, so what do you say, let us help each other...brother?" asked Dark Naruto with a smile on his face, a small full of unexpected but sincere affection.
"You, that..you're way cooler than I thought..sniff...sniff...I..I want to be whole again, I wnt us to work together, to be one with each other, let us do it..sniff...brother..." answered the blue eyed blonde in between sobs, also gripping his brother's shoulder as a display of understanding and comfort, with what is probably the first true smile of his life.
In that instant, when mutual understanding had been reached by the two alter egos, a bright light surrounded the duo as their chest were pushed together by an invisible force. Forcing the duo to fuse with each other. At the same moment a seal on Naruto's forehead appeared before shattering, Naruto didn't registre it since he was dealing with an influx of memories, memories that were definetly not his own since he was pretty sure his name was neither Uzumaki Kushina nor Uzumaki Mito.
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Pain, that was all Naruto felt when the seal broke.
At first he thought all he saw was a dream, but then like a veil removes over his eyes, memories started to flood his mind, memories that he didn't remember before but now he could remember like they were always there.
He remembered her beautiful blue eyes that were a shade darker than his own.
He remembered her beautiful black hair that was always worn as a large braid down the front of her body.
He remembered he beautiful smile that never failed to light up his life.
He remembered her kindness as she took him from the streets at age 4 when he spent the whole winter on the streets and gave him a home.
He remembered her kindness when she took care of him for two beautiful years.
He remembered the wonderfull times he spent with her.
He remembered the look of pride when he told her his dream of being an inryo (medic) ninja like her.
He also remembered his failure to protect her when she was murdered.
But more importantly he remembered he killer, the bastard who killed her, his world, and more importantly his red eyes, like a demons, with three tomoe.
Suddenly, the memories stopped and Naruto found himself falling in a void, his only companion were two people, one who was his world, the other the one who took said word from him.
His mother: Unohana Retsu.
Her killer: Uchiha Itachi.
The revelations made the young Naruto roar in anger.
"They dared to kill my mother, they dared to take her away from me. I. Will. Kill. Them. All. Every. Single. Last. One. Of. Them!" roared Naruto.
Flash Back end.
And that was how Naruto fused with his darkness and became complete once more, he started his training in earnest from day one, he unlocked his chakra and she started training himself using the memories of Kushina and Mito in three things that became the foundation of he was today, Runecraft, kenjutsu and how to use his Uzumaki chakra.
Runecraft being an old fashioned way of sealing that became absolete hundreds of years ago.
Kenjutsu and runecraft were simple, since as an Uzumaki he had a knack for both the arts, moreso kenjutsu than runecraft since the later used a runic alphabet that must be learned and mastered before leaping the craft itself, it was one of the reasons why runecraft was incorporated into Fuinjutsu (sealing arts) since instead of learning another language, a lost one at that, it was simpler to use kanji that they learned since childhood.
As for his Uzumaki chakra, the Hachiman (God of archery and war) that allows the Uzumaki to give form their dense Uzumaki chakra, mostly into chains but some Uzumaki had other shapes like his own Geneiken (Illusion swords). Naruto managed to create the blades but he is incapable of making more of them, but he was still getting there.
When he wasn't training himself to the bones, Naruto was researching his mother's murder. Unknown to all Naruto was an excellent infiltrator and that allowed him to find out about his mother's death. She was killed on orders from the Sandaime Hokage. The trigger man was Itachi and the why is what amused Naruto: The Uchiha clan wasn't feeling needed by the leaf, and might be planning a rebellion, there was nothing concrete at the moment since a majority was against the coup, but the thoughts were there and they were becoming more popular as time went by. In the event that the clan was going through with the coup, Itachi bargained for his brother's life: in exchange for killing off his clan and killing Retsu, Sasuke Uchiha was to be left alone. That strong will in Itachi moves Naruto, for about five seconds, before his anger flared again. If the bastard was willing to kill his whole clan, then Naruto was going to help him with that.
Flash Back start
Naruto had decided to take revenge on all the Uchiha clan for what Itachi, the bastard did to his mother. He knew that what he was doing was wrong, but as he was right now he didn't care, so here he was, at night in front of the Uchiha clan compound, it was guarded by two Uchiha clan members, but he passed by them without them ever seeing him pass by their side, he was using a unique wind style jutsu that he created, the first he ever did. Trivia, when Naruto decided to use chakra paper to know his elemental affinity, he found out that he was a Fuuton user, a very powerfull one of his shredded paper was any evidence, he started learning elemental manipulation, complètent the first step: leaf cutting, from Kushina's memories since her husband was a wind style user too. Anyway Naruto's unnamed jutsu was a wind suit where Naruto wraps his body in a whirlwind. The wind suit gives Naruto the ability to reflect light, by reflecting the light, Naruto becomes invisible, which gives him the opportunity to launch surprise attacks. However, the wind suit takes a lot of chakra to maintain, and only lasts for roughly ten seconds, but on the bright side Naruto is capable of drawing his scent and dampening the noise thanks to the wind suit. He made his way to the Uchiha clan main gardens and saw his reason for being here, a mild-featured eight year old child with brown hair swept back, with a strand hanging down his face, alongside very manacing eyes. The child was dressed with a black kimono with the Uchiha clan on the back. His eyes were the sharingan with one tomoe in each one, his name was Uchiha Aizen and he was the next Uchiha Itachi. At the age of seven he unlocked the Sharingan and now a year later he already had a single tomoe in each eye. He was practicing the Fire ball jutsu near the River. Naruto did not really care who he was, but who his father was, Uchiha Kaname, one of the most influencial people in the Uchiha clan. How he knew, well his predecessor Kushina was friends with Mikoto Uchiha, the Uchiha clan matriarch, that was how she managed to acquire such juicy details. Well let's stop living in the past, let's focus on the present, Aizen so focused on his training did not see Naruto behind him not that it mattered since Naruto was using his wind suit, when he suddenly felt a prick of a needle in his arm, he looked at it and saw a senbon, he tried to reach but the remaining air that Aizen had in his lungs was sucked out and he could not breathe anymore air in, within seconds Aizen grabbed his own throat and he began hold onto it. As he tried to breathe, if someone was whitenessing the scene, and could see Naruto, it would seem as if The jinchuriki was choking the life out of Aizen by using some kind of invisible force. A few moments later, the Uchiha fell, dead. Seeing his job done Naruto decided to leave the grounds the same way he came in. Tomorrow the Uchiha clan found their rising star dead in the gardent with no whitenesses. All the victil had was a small prick of a needle on the arm.
When faced with the victim, poison then asphyxiation were the only logical conclusions, but the corpse would leave behind no evidence for either hypothesis. As far as assassinations go, this one was one of the best executed one's in konoha's recent history.
Time Skip : seven years after kyubi attack.
The last half a year has been very satisfactory to the blonde jinchuriki, he had achieved more control over his bloodline, managed to make his plans for the Uchiha clan move forward, and he was making plans to leave konoha, not immediately, and that would be temporary, until he finally managed to leave konoha once and for all.
Speaking of his plans for the Uchiha, his plan was spot on, it seems that when the Hokage's med nins tried to do an autopsy to the Uchiha kid he killed they came back with nothing, that made the Uchiha clan very furious and distrustfull of the current regime and under the leadership of Kaname they started actively preparing a coup against the current Hokage and the village. That was Naruto's plan, you see Kaname had half of the council in his back pocket, either through political favors or the fact that they wouldn't be on the council in the first place if he did not allow it. Now seeing his only son killed had made the man very paranoid since the best med nins in the elemental nations were unable to diagnose what killed his son, that made the man think inside job, then think Hokage and finally he had managed to make the majority of the clan on board with his plan of the coup. Well he was right about it being an inside job, but he was wrong, it was not a useless old man that was doing it, nor was it an overzealous war hawk that wanted to rule konoha and make it in his image but it was him, HIM, Unohana Naruto, son of Unohana Retsu and the one who had his mother killed by the Rising star that these bastards worshipped . Anyway, the Uchiha clan coup was not going to happen, since the hokage, may his soul rest in the deepest pits of hell, had two whistle blowers named Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui. Shisui had a plan to use his mangekyo Sharingan on the Uchiha clan to stop them from going through with it but Naruto could not allow that to happen so here he was tailing Shisuii while using his trademark and newly named wind suit jutsu, the kaze no mantel (wind cloack).
Scene change.
Shisui had short, unkempt, dark-coloured hair, black eyes and a relatively broad nose and well-defined eyelashes, that were turns upwards at each end. In the anime, however, these lines are broken instead of whole. He wore the standard attire of the Uchiha clan which includes a high-collared, dark-coloured outfit along with a tantō strapped to the right side of the back of his shoulder. He also wore what appeared to be a harness for his tantō which ran across his chest and fastened over both his shoulders. Said Uchiha was watching the village after a meeting with the Hokage and his advisers.
flash back within flash back.
Shisui was kneeling in front of the four most influencial people in konoha, the first starting from the right was Homura Mitokado, in his old age, Homura is depicted with grey hair, a beard, glasses as well as a constant frown that he's always worn, even in his youth. He also has a strong jaw-line a facial structure he has retained even in his old age. As a member of the Konoha Council, he wears similar garbs to those that Hiruzen would when acting in his capacity as Hokage. by his side was Koharu Utatane, In her youth, Koharu was a beautiful kunoichi with dark eyes. Her hair is pulled back in a twin bun locked by a traditional Japanese hair pin with two pearls dangling off the side. She also had fringes that covered her forehead protector. Her shinobi outfit consisted of a simple black outfit, a grey breastplate, arm guards, fishnet tights with a skirt over it, a pouch strapped to her back with bandages, and regular shinobi sandals. In her old age, she maintains her original hairstyle without the bangs. The pearls on her hair needle have also increased and tassels were added to the other end. Her earrings are also considerably longer. As a member of the Konoha Council, Koharu wears a simple long kimono, closed by an obi, a jacket, and a sash over it. Koharu has also taken to squinting, barely opening her eyes at any point in time. The third person was Hiruzen Sarutobi, The only consistent physical feature Hiruzen has displayed has been his below-average stature, all his other attributes having changed over the years: During his youth he was tan-skinned and had dark brown, spiked hair, adding a small goatee to his look after becoming Hokage; Towards the end of his life his skin is lighter, his hair is grey, his face is gaunter, and he has the wrinkles and liver spots of old age. He initially had a single line running vertically under the outer corners of each eye, which stretched down into his face as he aged until they reached his cheeks. While Shisui respected all the people present it was the last person that had him on edge, situated on Hiruzen's left was Danzo Shimura, Danzō appeared as a frail, old man, who would normally walk with a cane. He had black, shaggy hair, and his right eye was bandaged — concealing a Sharingan underneath. Danzō has had an x-shaped scar on his chin ever since his youth. He wore a white shirt, with a black or dark grey robe over the top of it covering from his feet, to just over his right shoulder. The robe conceals his right arm which was bandaged, and covered with three large golden braces. As Shisui was continuing with his report Danzo kept his eyes closed.
"... as it stands, the coup is still in motion." stated Shisui dutifully.
"I see.." said Hiruzen, Danzo oppened his eyes and turned to his old rival and said
"Hiruzen what's your plan now? If we remain idle for too long it's going to be late." as he saw the lack of reaction for Hiruzen he continued "Look, as the head of the village, sometimes it's necessary fo you to make hard decisions. Isn't now the time to do just that." and he waited for the Hokage's answer but was interrupted by Shisui who said
"please wait" causing all to look at him "If I may, I think I have an alternative, there is a plan I'd like to try if you let me." now that caused Hiruzen to ask
"a plan you say?" but Danzo said " This is a waste of time, there are no other options right now" Hiruzen ignored the warhawk in favor of listening to Shisui
"what is this plan Shisui?"
"I will use my mangekyo Sharingan on the clan" said Itachi causing all the elders and the hokage to be surprised before hiruzen said
"do you truly realise what you are saying? You will forever be branded with the sin of using the jutsu against your own clan."
"I understand, but still it's worth protecting what I hold dear. Lord third please." causing Hiruzen to sigh before he answered
"If you believe in this, I won't stop you. Do what you must." Shisui sighed in relief before bowing and said
"thank you sir!"
"however'" continued hiruzen "you may step back and cancel your plan if you change your mind. Remeber, there is still time for all of us to think about other alternatives. Understood Shisui." Shisui left after that and now one saw the scheming look in Danzo's eyes.
Scene change.
Uchiha Shisui was not having a good day. First he found out that the coup d'etat was going to take place tomorrow, then he had to miss his student's birthday party because he had to report the the Hokage and the elders, then he is given the order to place the Uchiha clan head under his genjutsu to control him, and now before he could make it to the Uchiha Compound to preform his mission he was intercepted by Danzo.
Shisui had already known that Danzo would have some kind hidden agenda so he was ready. This fact alone was the reason that Shisui still had both of his eyes. Danzo had tried to give him some kind of speech about protecting the leaf his own was and came at him with the intention to steal his eye. However Shisui caught his wrist and put him under a powerful Sharingan genjutsu. He knew it wouldn't last though.
As soon as the Uchiha activated his Sharingan he noticed the chakra in Danzo's right eye. It was the same chakra color as a Sharingan. Shisui immediately realized that the only reason that Danzo would have the Sharingan was to use the Izanagi, a forbidden jutsu of the Sharingan that allows the user to alter fate. However the cost of using it is blindness in the eye that was used.
He quickly Shunshined to his left and sure enough the Danzo that he was looking at disappeared and another reappeared right behind where he used to be standing.
"How did you manage to see through my Izanagi" Danzo asked annoyed.
"Did you really think that any illusion could escape my sharingan?"
The one-eyed man sighed, "I suppose I'll have to approach this differently then."
Danzo signaled for his ROOT to come out of the shadows and appear before him.
Five shinobi wearing blank porcelain masks and redular ANBU attire Shunshined onto the battleground.
"Danzo..." growled Shisui
"All of you juts stay back" said the war hawk to his drones.
"What is the meaning of this? Why are you standing in my way!?"
"Kotoamatsukami... a visual jutsu that creates false experiences. Such a great power, but what a wast to use only to stop a coup. How unfortunate that an Uchiha doesn't know how to use the Sharingan. If you used your visual prowess on your clan... as long as the Uchiha clan exists, it's highly doubtful that another coup can be avoided. And even if it worked it would be just for this instance. There is no guarantee that the same thing will not just happen again. On the countrary, it probably will happen again. Sooner or later, the village will have to deal with the Uchiha clan. If so by exterminating the Uchiha clan now... the future of the village will be assured, don't you think?"
"Danzo, you were planning this all along..." growled shisui but the warhawk just lookled at the sky before saying
"this is all for the sake of attaining true peace for the village" then he looked at Shisui and said "Shisui... don't worry. I will make good use of your eyes." and then he charged Shisui who quickly draws his tanto and counterattacks. After a few minutes of high speed taijutsu between the two shinobi, where both shisui and Danzo proved their metel as superior shinobi both fighters jumped back and strted breathing heavily to reagain their breath, after a few seconds Danzo said
"How persistent, you have clearily earned your reputation as the strongest Uchiha. I suppose I must force an opportunity upon you" and he made a signal for his drones to attack Shisui. They threw Kuni nd Shuriken at him but Shisui used his tnto to get rid of them but he didn't realise the warhawk sneeking up on him until it was too late and the elder had his eye, but Shisui was not ANBU for nothing and using a smoke bomb managed to give them the slip.
Scene Change
The sun had set and itachi was worried. Shisui had never been this late. he heard movement in the trees above them.
"Is that you Shisui?" Itachi asked.
"Come!" Shisui said, still not visible. They went to the Naka river, where he knew Shisui would be. he found him looking at the waterfall on the other side. They walked up to him and faced his back.
"It's too late to stop the Uchiha's uprising. If civil war breaks out, then it will undoubtedly lead to a full scale war. I was going to stop the uprising with my Kotoamatsukami but, Danzo took my right eye." He turned around showing his face with one less eye. "He doesn't trust me. He intends to protect the village his own way, no matter what it takes or how it looks. I know he'll come after my left eye soon enough. Itachi, I'm giving it to you.". Shisui ripped his eye out of its socket. Itachi's eyes widened and then got a sad look. 'Shisui…' he thought. Itachi held out his hand and Shisui dropped his eye into it. Itachi closed his hand. "You really are the only one I can trust. Protect the village and the honour of the Uchiha name. Itachi I'm going to give you something as well. The Mangekyo Sharingan." Itachi's eyes widened.
"Shisui, you can't." Itachi said in a begging way.
"It's alright. I've already left behind a note." He began walking back towards the river.
"Wait! Shisui!" Itachi yelled.
"Don't stop me." He smiled and leaned backwards with a smile on his face. 'If you're my friend, my brother, you'll trust me.' Itachi ran to Shisui to try and grab his hands, only to fall short and watch his brother fall into the Naka river with the smile never leaving his face.
"Shisui! Itachi yelled. His body disappeared in the currents.
"Shisui…" Itachi muttered, he then started snickering until it turned into full blown out laughter before he said "man for the strongest of the Uchiha he sure is naive. But never the less Rest in peace. Shisui." Itachi then shimered before revealing a smirking Naruto who was smirking at how easy it was to trick the Uchiha clan's best shinobi, well all he needed to do was repeat what Shisui just said to him to Itachi as Shisui and then watch as the madness unfold. Before leaving though he thought of something about how he deceived Shisui
'Futon: Maboroshi no Sekai (the World of Illusions.) my way to cast my own genjutsu field. Inside my zone of influence, he can control his opponent's senses the same way a classic genjutsu would but without the need to 'inject' his chakra into their brains. I mean what is sound, but the vibrations of air, what are images but the light pasing through the air and impacting on the retinas, I who controls the air can literally control their senses, the best part is that they can't tell that they are being tricked, since they are seeing what they are seeing and experiencing what they are experiencing, it's just not real. What an amusing paradox.'
So with a spring in his step Naruto left the clearing.
Flash Back end :
And that was all it took for Naruto to handle the Uchiha clan and start Itach's punishement, now all he had to do was disappear with the wind. That was the reason that he chose to be on a team with Hatake Kakashi: first he is a jounin with a sharingan, that meant that a genjutsu was 'impossible' against him, so when he reported his death, the higher ups will believe it without further thought. Second, Uchiha Sasuke is so simple to manipulate, all he needed to do was show him up at every turn and let the moron stew in his own hatred, eventually the weakening was going to betray konoha, all he needed to do was make sure that he 'failed' the mission of retrieving him and let Kakashi take the bait: Naruto alone in a location after a battle with a 'superior' opponent, all he needed was put on a pink bow on gift wrap himself, and like an idiot Kakashi walked right into the trap.
