Chapter 1: The Darkness Within

"Naruto has stolen the Forbidden Scroll!" The Hokage said while he furrowed his brows. Drips of sweat slowly made their way down his face. He was fearful about what would happen to the blond child, the ninja in front of him would want his head after this latest scandal.

"He should be executed!" Someone shouted and the Hokage sent a glare towards the ninja who had spoken.

"If you find him I want him brought back here…ALIVE!" the Hokage yelled and swept his arm in front of him dismissing the ninja to go and complete the task ahead of them.

"Hokage-Sama!" Iruka yelled as he ran up the steps out of breath. "Is it true? Did Naruto steal the Forbidden Scroll?" the brown haired Chuunin asked and put his hands on his knees.

"Yes Iruka, go and find him for I fear that if any other were to find the boy…" The Hokage trailed off leaving the sentence unfinished.

"Hai!" Iruka said and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

"Naruto…why have you done this?" The Hokage asked himself. He felt an impending doom coming down upon him and he knew that when the feeling came nothing good ever came.

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"All right!" Naruto said with a grunt as he plopped down and looked over the scroll in front of him. "Just gotta learn one jutsu off here and I can graduate!" he said with a small grin. He grabbed both sides of the large scroll and pulled it open slowly. He tensed for a second waiting for some unknown trap to spring as part of the test but when a minute passed and nothing happened he completely opened the scroll and looked at the first jutsu. "Seriously?" he bellowed as he looked at the description on how to make a Kage Bunshin.

Naruto sighed unhappily as he rubbed his temples. "My worse field of…Gah!" he yelled frustrated. He took a few calming breaths before he looked at the scroll again and read the description on the jutsu. As he read his frown slowly turned into a grin.

'This isn't a normal Bunshin!' he thought and stood to his feet with a grin. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"There you are!" Iruka screamed and made Naruto jump backwards and land on his ass.

"Ha! I found you!" Naruto roared.

"No! I found you!" Iruka yelled, making a big head. He eyed the blond carefully and saw that the boy was dirty and had a few minor cuts and scraps on his body. "What have you been doing?" Iruka asked pushing his anger down.

"Well Mizuki-sensei said that if I cold successfully infiltrate the Hokage tower, steal this scroll, and then learn a jutsu or two off it then you would automatically pass me!" Naruto said with a grin. "Only… I only learned one so can I have a couple more hours?" Naruto asked with a hand sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.

"Naruto! That scroll had all of the village's secret and most dangerous jutsu on it! Why would Mizuki tell you to…" Iruka said and trailed off. "Naruto who told you about this spot?" Iruka said with a sudden urgency in his voice.

"Mizuki-sensei did… why?" Naruto asked with squinty eyes.

"Tsk, Now I have to kill you both." a familiar male voice said from a tree.

"Look out!" Iruka screamed at Naruto and he pushed the blond out of the way and took a barrage of kunai and shuriken all over his body.

"Iruka sensei!" Naruto screamed as the Chuunin dropped to the ground coughing up blood. Naruto ran over to the man and crouched in front of him protectively. "Don't you dare touch my sensei!" Naruto screamed and Mizuki laughed wildly.

"Or what? You're going to use your ninja skills on me? Oh wait…you don't have any." Mizuki said with a booming laugh.

"Or I'll kill you!" Naruto screamed and unleashed a very, very small wisp of killing intent that barely registered on Mizuki's radar.

"Were you trying to do this?" Mizuki asked and let a small wave of killing intent wash over Naruto. Said boy crumpled to the ground gasping wildly as he tried to get over the intense feeling.

"Naruto…take the scroll…run!" Iruka gasped out as he slowly stood to his feet. "Get…the Hokage…tell him about…Mizuki!" Iruka said and pulled a kunai out of his leg and threw wit at Mizuki who leaned to the side. The kunai passed by him harmlessly and buried itself in a tree.

"Yeah…run." Mizuki said. "Let the other ninja find you so that they can finally kill you like they always have wanted to!" Mizuki screamed and Naruto cringed.

"W-why do they want to kill me?" he asked.

"Naruto go now!" Iruka screamed knowing what Mizuki was about to say.

"Because." Mizuki said and disappeared in a whirl of brown leaves. He reappeared in front of Naruto with a kunai holding his chin up. "They hate the nine-tailed fox." the silver haired man said and brought his kunai around and slashed down at Naruto's face. "AND SO DO I!" he screamed.

"No!" Iruka screamed and tackled Naruto out of the way. Naruto tumbled as Mizuki's kunai slashed a deep gouge in Iruka's cheek. Naruto watched as Mizuki growled and kicked Iruka's weak body and walked towards the blond.

"S-stay away from me!" Naruto yelled in fear.

Mizuki chuckled and reached for a Giant Shuriken that was on his back. He unclipped it and twirled it around his hand in an elegant manner. Naruto watched the razor sharp edges catch the moon light and sing a song of death. "I think it's time for the Fox pup to be put down don't you?" he asked and Naruto.

"What do you mean? The Yondaime killed the Kyuubi!" Naruto screamed.

"You can't kill a demon you little shit! Their Immortal, if you're smart enough to know what that even means." Mizuki said and Naruto glared at him with tears in his eyes.

"No!" Naruto yelled.

"Don't you find it weird… you were born October 10th…the Kyuubi attacked on that same day, know one likes you, you have whisker marks, and you have a heightened senses." Mizuki said and Naruto shook his head as the truth burrowed into his mind.

"No, please no!" Naruto begged.

"You…are the KYUUBI!" Mizuki screamed and reared his arm back and threw the Giant Shuriken. It soared through the air spinning in a perfect circle. It was flying straight towards the boy's heart so it would be a quick kill.

"NO!"

SQUELCH!

Naruto held his arms in front of his face as a shield, waiting for the biting sting of metal to enter his body. He sat like that for what seemed like forever until he slowly lowered his arms and found himself next to someone else. He stood looking at Iruka who was smiling at him, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. Naruto let his gaze lower and found the giant shuriken buried in the mans chest. It was no doubt…piercing his heart.

"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto said as a lump began to form in his throat.

"Na-Naruto…" Iruka said and Naruto could see the mans effort. "Y-you are not…the Kyuubi… It may be…sealed…inside you…but you…are…this villages…greatest…hero." Iruka said and Naruto saw a glaze slowly make its way across the man's eyes as Death slowly took him.

"Iruka sensei! NO! YOU CAN"T DIE!" Naruto screamed unaware that Mizuki was laughing at the scene.

"Naruto… to bad…we couldn't have…ramen…just one more…time." Iruka said and slowly reached up to grab his forehead protector. He pulled it off and dropped it into Naruto's hands. "There…you go…you're gonna make…a fine ninja…and someday…a…Hokage…" Iruka finished. These were the last words of Iruka the Chuunin.

"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto screamed as he dropped the forehead protector to the ground and reached up to shake the mans shoulder. Iruka's head lolled to the side and he was no more. Naruto stared at the only person who truly cared about him and his sad gaze slowly became one of sheer hate and anger.

"Well…that's one." Mizuki said with a sigh and grabbed his other Giant Shuriken off his back. "time to die Kyuubi…brat?" Mizuki asked and stared at Naruto as the boy slowly stepped away from Iruka and let his gaze drift up to meet Mizuki's.

Naruto looked different, he felt different. He felt amazing power surging through him, wanting to destroy the man in front of him. Naruto bared his lips and snarled at Mizuki as his hair grew longer and spikier. His canines elongated and became sharper and his whisker marks became blacker and more prominent.

"I WILL KILL YOU!" Naruto screamed in humanly.

'Yes, destroy him…use my power and avenge your sensei!' a voice in Naruto's head roared and Naruto happily obliged.

Naruto screamed in haltered and pure anger and began to run at Mizuki. The sliver haired Chuunin reared his arm back and threw the giant shuriken at Naruto and the metal weapon hit the boy straight in the stomach and he slid backwards, hunched over. Naruto slowly straightened up and Mizuki saw that he had grabbed the shuriken with both ands and was holding it in front of him.

"Is that it?" Naruto asked evilly and snapped the metal weapon in two and hurled it to the side. "My turn!"

"Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Hundreds of clones began to appear around Mizuki and they all bore the same look of hatred that the original Naruto had. Mizuki stumbled backwards before chuckling nervously.

"Their just regular old Bunshins oh well!" he managed to say but he doubted that fact.

"Guess we're about to find out eh?" Naruto said and the Bunshin charged, covering Mizuki who screamed once before a clawed hand ripped out his throat.

After ten minutes of brutally slaughtering Mizuki Naruto dispelled the clones and stood over a barely alive Mizuki. The man had amazingly survived but his life was at an end. His throat had a large hole in it, he was missing a arm and a large chunk of his leg. His face was torn apart around the jaw and he had a large hole through his chest. Mizuki looked at Naruto in fear and the boy let an evil grin cross his face.

"DIE!" Naruto screamed and slammed a fist into Mizuki's face.

Mizuki's head exploded as red chakra flashed brightly and then disappeared. Naruto stood panting over a mutilated and headless corpse. Blood soaked his body but he paid it no attention. He struggle over to where Iruka was pinned to a tree and began to pull the shuriken out of the mans chest when a single kunai embedded itself in his leg.

"Halt you fucking demon!" a Konoha ninja screamed and Naruto turned around anger flashing in his eyes.

"What did you say?" Naruto growled out and red chakra began to swirl around him.

"Under Konoha law, and by my jurisdiction you are be killed for the murder of not one but two Konoha Shinobi!" the man said and Naruto screamed and red chakra began to swirl even faster.

"Make that three then!" Naruto screamed and disappeared at inhuman speeds before reappearing in front of the man. The man stared at him at shock and his eyes wandered down to where Naruto's hand was clenched tightly. In it was the mans heart. Naruto squeezed his hand once and the bloody muscle exploded and the man collapsed dead.

'Yes, that's it. They all hate you, everyone of them. There is no one in this village who has any respect for you or your curse. Even your hokage bares hatred towards you! I'd say kill them all but you're not strong enough now. Leave now and take that scroll with you. You will be strong soon enough!' The evil voice said inside his head and Naruto chuckled evilly.

'You're the damn Kyuubi aren't you?' he thought as he picked up the scroll with bloody hands.

'Yes…I am the Kyuubi no-'

'Shut the fuck up.' Naruto thought and began to flee the village and those in it.

'I think I'm going to like you…' the Kyuubi said and Naruto let and evil look cross his face as he furrowed his eyebrows and set his mouth in a straight line.

'Can't say the feelings mutual.' Naruto replied before breaking the mental connection.

"Good-bye Konoha! My revenge will come and you will all be sorry…oh…you will all be DEAD!" Naruto screamed as he disappeared into the night.

"Oh Kami…what has happened." The Hokage said as he sat back in his chair breathing heavily. His Crystal ball replayed all of the events over again and he saw how everything went down. Naruto was in the clear at first but then he killed the Konoha ninja with out explanation. He then stole the Forbidden scroll and fled the village. The Hokage had no choice.

"Kakashi! Get in here now!" the Hokage screamed.

In a swirl of leaves man with a mask covering the lower half of his face and a Hitai-ate covering his left eye appeared before the Hokage with his hands in his pockets.

"Yo!" Kakashi said and Hokage shook his head.

"This is important!" he shouted and Kakashi became serious. He took his hands out of his pockets and his eye brow furrowed.

"What is it Hokage-sama?" he asked.

"Naruto…has stolen the Forbidden scroll, kill a Konoha Shinobi, and has now fled the village." The Hokage said and Kakashi stared ta him in horror.

"W-what?" the Jounin asked in shock and the hokage nodded.

"You mission is to gather together a group of ninja and track him down…try to bring him back alive." The hokage said and Kakashi nodded.

The man began to walk away when he suddenly stopped and looked at the Hokage. "You know…I doubt we an catch him now, he did pull off all those pranks and was never caught. You know that you have to put him in the bingo book." Kakashi said and the Hokage nodded.

"Yes…he is a genin…so he only makes c-rank but considering the fact that he has a Forbidden scroll and the Kyuubi sealed inside him…he is B-rank." the Hokage said and Kakashi raised his eyebrow.

"I thought he failed." the man asked.

"Iruka passed him before he died…technically he is a genin." the Hokage said and Kakashi nodded.

"Peace out!" Kakashi said and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

"I hate this job…" The hokage said and sat back in his chair pondering his thoughts on what he should do.

"Did you hear?" Sakura whispered to Sasuke.

"Hn." Sasuke replied not caring what the girl had to say. They were walking towards the academy to get their team assignments.

"They say that the strongest ninja, the smartest ninja, and the weakest and dumbest ninja are all put on the same team which means it will be you and me and maybe Shikimaru. Good thing Naruto didn't pass right?" Sakura asked and Sasuke ignored her.

They walked into the classroom and found everyone seated with the hokage standing in front of the class with a grave look upon his face.

"Okay you're all here now…please sit." the Hokage asked and motioned to the chairs and Sasuke and Sakura nodded.

"As you noticed Iruka-sensei is not here…I regret to inform you that during a mission within the village last night… your teacher…" The hokage began. He realized that the kids deserved to know the truth incase they ever encountered Naruto in the future.

"As you know Naruto failed the exam and wasn't allowed to become a Genin. Mizuki told him that all he had to do was steal the Forbidden scroll from the Hokage tower and learn a jutsu off it at a secret location. Naruto of course did so not seeing the truth behind it all. Mizuki wanted to kill Naruto and take the scroll and leave the village with it." The hokage began.

"Is Naruto All right?" Ino asked curiously. She didn't like the boy at all but she was still concerned.

The Hokage ignored her and continued on. "Iruka found Naruto and told him what had happened and Mizuki appeared and attacked the two. Iruka was injured and Naruto was cornered and Mizuki tried to kill him but Iruka intercepted the attack and received a fatal blow to the heart…I'm sorry to say that…Iruka-sensei died last night." The Hokage said and it became deathly silent in the classroom.

"Wh-what?" Kiba asked as his eyes widened.

"Dead?" Sakura whispered unbelievably.

"Wh-what about Naruto the normally lazy Shikimaru asked.

"He… lost control of him self…he found an…enormous power within himself and used it to kill Mizuki to avenge Iruka. But a Konoha ninja found him afterwards and accused him of killing both Mizuki and Iruka in cold blood. Naruto became enraged and…killed the ninja and then fled the village with the scroll. He is now an B-ranked missing ninja." The hokage said and everything was deathly silent as people in took the information.

"But he didn't graduate…" Sakura muttered.

"Iruka passed him before he died so he is a genin." The Hokage said before flicking his fingers. Suddenly the room flashed white for a split second before it faded and everyone was looking around. "I made a decision to tell you this because some of you may encounter Naruto on missions in the future and I tell you this…DO NOT FIGHT HIM!" The hokage roared and everyone cringed in their seats.

"What I am about to tell you is a SS-ranked secret punishable by death." The hokage said. "For those of you who pass the final test with your Jounin instructors you will retain this memory while those of you who fail will forget it…" The hokage trailed off before taking a deep breath. "12 years ago the Kyuubi attacked this village. The Yondaime fought the beast and defeated it but…not like those of you believe. He sealed the demon in a newborn baby. That baby was Naruto." The hokage said and everyone gasped. "So I warn you, Naruto is dangerous and none of you will stand a chance against his power, be warned." The Hokage said and left the room.

"Have I made a mistake by telling them this?" he asked himself.

A/N: Done. First chapter is complete. For those of you who haven't read any of my stories then you should probably know that what ever dark and sadistic nature you see in this story isn't what I usually write ablout. I mean yeah I kill in stories and what not but this story is going to be much darker. Anyways here are some basic thigns you gotta know.

Naruto has made contact with the Kyuubi mentally.

Naruto knows about the Kyuubi.

Naruto's personality has changed after events and has become darker (Explained next chapter hopefully).

Iruka is dead.

Mizuki is Dead.

Naruto has killed two ninja.

Naruto has left village.

Naruto has the Forbidden scroll.

Naruto is a B-ranked missing ninja because Iruka made him a Genin just before he died. (Basically he screwed Naruto over.)

The Rookie 12 all will know about Naruto & Kyuubi right away.

I will have an O.C filling in for Naruto.

This story has a plot.

Pairings…? Votes in the future?

Reviews are nice. They make me want to write more.