So, third new story within a week. How fun. Last one though (For now at least) What's this one about? According to that story Avi, its a Rinnegan Naruto fic. BWAHAHAHA! The Rinnegan! EVERYONE BOW BEFORE HIS MAJESTY YOU PEASANTS-Nah. While any Doujutsu is nigh impossible to write not OP when given to a main character who comes with plot armor. Imma make it as cool as I can because...well, because I'm the author dammit. I just want to see what it'd be like to write from the perspective of an essiential demi-god. Should be fun. And if it sucks, which it will, who cares? I most certainly don't. I never have. Hope you enjoy regardless.

A/N: Word to Karldin and Freowin. Their respective stories, Birth of the Forest and Nightfall, inspired this fic.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. To that I say, "Surprise" and add jazz hands to accentuate such a statement.

Chapter 1: Prologue

"It just never stops. Well over a millennia and it just won't end. Why isn't Peace attainable? Why must violence and warfare be the status quo?"

Thoughts of a man that floated several feet above the ground in a lotus position. The man was tall and skinny and had deep wrinkles on his face showing his elderly age. He had spiky, shoulder length, pale red hair with a chin-length braid hanging in front of his left ear. He had a long goatee that tapered all the way down to his waist and horn-like protrusions on his forehead. His eyes were the daunting Rinnegan, a purple eye with a tiny pupil surrounded by concentric circles, and in the middle of his forehead was another Rinnegan, though red in color.

On his right palm was a light colored circle and on his left palm was a dark colored crescent moon. He wore a white, full-length kimono with a pattern of six black magatama around a high collar, beneath which he wore a necklace which was also made up of six black magatama. On the back of his kimono was a larger Rinnegan marking with a pattern of nine magatama arranged in three rows of three beneath it.

History books would call this man many names from The Sage of Six Paths to the God of Shinobi. Otsutsuki Hagoromo was his birth name and he was the founder of Shinobi. A man who was born first with chakra in his body. His legend spread through the world as merely a myth due to its absurdity and grandiose feats.

"Fighting off a beast of the Jubi's (Ten-tails) stature before turning it into the moon does seem far fetched old man."

A chuckle escaped Hagoromo's lips before he turned his attention to the deep voice talking to him. The voice emanated from a fox. A gargantuan fox with nine tails swishing behind it and an ominous pair of red eyes. Though the fox's appearance was downright scary, the Sage had no qualms with being in its presence.

"Hearing it myself would make me not believe it also Kurama had I not been there." said Hagoromo looking at the fox. It was just smiling at him which garnered a smile from him also. "What is with that look?"

"You. You're here. I knew you were too great to lose to something like old age."

"But I did die to old age."

"Your body did. Your spirit is strong and I can feel your chakra. You're not fooling me." spoke Kurama getting a smile from Hagoromo. The fox's tails were wagging in excitement that reached all the way to his face. "So...when are you going to spring me there pops? You've been sitting there going through a monologue for several minutes."

"Oh I can't spring you my boy. You're stuck here because I'm only an apparition." informed the Sage getting Kurama to look shocked at that. "I wish. But you're stuck here for the foreseeable future."

And spirit crushed. Kurama hoped upon seeing his creator suddenly appear within the confines of his seal that all was great. He was here, seal would unlock, and Kurama would be free of being inside one of these lesser beings called humans. Hagoromo was a human too but really he was more alien than what these flesh bags were so he didn't count. Until he said he couldn't spring him.

"No. No. No! What?! You're..You're...you! You can do anything!" shouted Kurama in disbelief getting a somber look from Hagoromo. He could see the visible disappointment. "What other reason could you be here for then? To talk about what's been happening?! Huh? Well I've been stuck inside a human for the better part of a century old man. Shit's not fun."

"I know. I really wish I could free you. But even if I could-" said Hagoromo before looking at the baby sleeping casually on the other side of the cage that resembled Kurama's seal. "I'd kill that boy in the process."

"So? His life means more to you than mine?"

"How I feel is irrelevant because his life still means something to someone. Don't be like that."

"How else am I supposed to be? All I wanted to be was fucking alone and then scum fuck Uchiha came and used that dumb pink eye. Then it was ginger lady wife of Flower boy." rambled Kurama summarizing his recent years. "Then she got a babier ginger lady to contain me. Which backfired because another scum fuck Uchiha, possibly the original one, came and mind fucked me again. Before sunflower head guy locked me away, half into himself/Death God and half into a chibi clone version of him." continued Kurama before looking at the Sage. "Let's recap. Mindfuck. Prison. New prison. Mindfuck again. Half my body ripped out and locked away into the Shinigami's tummy. Before prison once again. Said prison happening to be the most helpless thing on the Earth. A fucking baby. So how am I supposed to be like old man?!"

Hagoromo merely watched Kurama huff at his emotive statement and merely allowed the weight of his words to fully digest. Maybe Kurama had a point. That was really a fucked up last hundred years. Entirely not how he meant for the beasts to live. But Human Nature was a funny thing was it not.

"Alright. I see your point. Maybe there is something I can do for you though." spoke Hagoromo once again. Kurama opened his mouth but the sage stopped him. "Not kill this child by freeing you. Seriously, I'm not."

"Fine." said Kurama not pleased his idea wasn't an option. "Take over his body and become the Jinchuriki. Then maybe I'll be fine with this stupid cage."

"I'm not doing that either kiddo. Why would I want to redo life all over again. That-" said Hagoromo lazily pointing to the baby. "-was terrible. I'm not doing that again. Besides if another 'me' wound up in the world people would-" the Sage stopped himself before thinking of the possibilities of another him. Kurama watched his creator nod slowly to himself before looking at Naruto. "Hmm, what was that legend of the Rinnegan? Those who possess it would bring about world peace or world destruction?"

"Yeah. But that's just a legend..." Kurama trailed off his speech when he realized where the Sage was going with this. "No! Old man..."

"Why not?"

"What if the child grows up and abuses your power like your descendants did? Your eyes are even stronger than the one that's fucked me over all these years."

"You have a point. The boy could do that." said Hagoromo walking over to the motionless child. "But that's what you're here for. To make sure it doesn't happen." continued Hagoromo standing over the baby boy. "Plus, he's the reincarnation of Ashura. I can feel it. I wonder what it'd have been like if Ashura inherited the full breadth of my powers? Including my eyes."

"No, just fucking no old man. I decline. I hate humanity. I'll have him destroy the world first chance I get."

"...You're right, it is a bad idea." said Hagoromo shaking his head. "That could end badly."

"Exactly you old fart..."

"...So be it. Have him destroy the world then." said Hagoromo getting Kurama to stare at him with wide eyes.

"Jiji..." warned Kurama looking at his creator. "Don't try to pull that reverse psychology crap. I'll have him destroy the world."

"Oh I believe you."

"This isn't a game-"

"Kurama-kun, I respect your fear and understand your concern. But every reincarnation of Ashura has done wondrous things for the world." spoke the Sage with a smile placing a palm to the baby's forehead. "I aim to jumpstart such things. Watch over this boy for me like I know you will. He holds my very essence don't you know."

Kurama said nothing before feeling the chakra transfer and watching a white light expand to cover the boy's entire mind.

(Real World)

A crib sat neatly in the corner of the room that housed the same baby Hagoromo and Kurama were looking at. The baby was sleeping soundly even as the door to his room was kicked in. An old man well into his fifties stood in the room with his eyes surveying it like the battle hardened shinobi he was.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was the man's name and he continued looking around the room before realizing nothing was amiss. Everything was as he left it considering the boy still slept soundly. But Hiruzen knew what he felt. And if the only thing in the room was the baby, it meant it had to come from him.

"Is the Kyubi breaking the seal?" questioned Hiruzen to himself walking over to the baby boy. The golden hair and whisker scarred cheeks of the baby brought a smile to his face. "You wouldn't let the Kyubi loose would you Naruto-kun?"

Maybe he was going senile. He could have sworn he felt a massive chakra spike. And maybe he did. But seeing how everything looked normal, the old shinobi would just pass it off as senility. What else could he do?

(13 Years Later - Naruto Age 13)

"You're not hurt are you...scaredy-cat."

Two kunai stabbed deeply into a snake many times bigger than him, Uzumaki Naruto stood in his orange jumpsuit a few feet from his teammate, Uchiha Sasuke. And Sasuke remembered those exact same words coming from his mouth to Naruto back during their first real mission. A mission that went awry and had them locked against two shinobi set out to kill them.

Throughout their battle, Sasuke was needed to save Naruto. Naruto was unprepared for the true dangers of a ninja and Sasuke made sure to let him know about it. Naruto just happened to return that gesture in magnanimous fashion.

"Oh, you've grown up so interesting." spoke their current enemy, a kunoichi from Kusagakure. Her tongue elongated before snatching Naruto up in an uncompromisingly strong vice grip. The tongue was positioned in a way that showed the boy's belly which had an intricate design on it. "Hmm, and there goes the seal."

The woman's five fingers glowed purple with chakra before she slammed them directly atop the seal. Naruto's eyes bugged out at the powerful strike as a noiseless shout left him. Five markings showed around the seal before Naruto simply passed out. The woman chuckled before launching Naruto away without a care.

"Naruto!" shouted Naruto's other teammate, Haruno Sakura. She managed to launch a kunai that pinned him to a tree. That fall was over a hundred feet. He could have been hurt even worst. "Sasuke-kun, Naruto might be a klutz and not always there mentally. But at least he's no coward..."

Those words from Sakura got the Uchiha to finally snap himself out of it. She was right. And more importantly, Naruto was right. He needed to stop being a punk.

Sadly, they would find out later that they were facing Orochimaru of the three Sannin. The Sannin being a trio of three of Konoha's most legendary shinobi. They were no match at all. But while all this happened, a certain Bijuu was internally panicking within his Jinchuriki.

(Naruto's Mindscape)

Kurama was a wreck. He simply sat shaking his head over and over at the current predicament.

"That seal cut me off from the boy..."

Normally, this would be a problem. Naruto himself wasn't all that impressive a shinobi. Any real danger, Naruto relied heavily on Kurama's power to stay alive and survive the dire circumstances he found himself in. Kurama stopped all those certain death scenarios for him.

But that wasn't the only thing Kurama stopped. Located just outside his cage sat a black and white chakra settled in a yin-yang pattern. Hagoromo's chakra given to him all those years ago. Kurama had kept that powerful chakra away from Naruto since that moment thirteen years ago. He didn't want Naruto to ever garner access to it. However, the seal Orochimaru placed on Naruto cut him off from his Jinchuriki and that chakra was finally free to flow. And flow it did.

"Seems you finally got your wish Jiji..." said Kurama shaking his head as the chakra slowly filtered into Naruto and melded with the boy's own. "If he destroys the world you so wished to protect, it is on you."

Kurama simply shook his head as the chakra began to work its way into Naruto's chakra pathway. He could already feel Naruto's body beginning to adapt to the new chakra flowing through him. Kurama didn't care to keep watching and just shut his eyes to sleep. He'd deal with this when the time came.

(12 hours later)

Pain, definitively, is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. Naruto had felt such a pain from the battles he found himself in or even training. Most of those pains were physical and Naruto always shrugged those off in a matter of minutes or after a night's rest.

Mental pain, such as the migraine he had, was something Naruto was not used to. He hadn't remembered ever having a headache. Let alone any kind of ailment. Which made the pounding in his head and the pulsating pain behind his eyes extremely painful.

Throughout the pain, Naruto's mind was assaulted by images of another life. They were fleeting but Naruto managed to catch them all. Some of him looking at a goddess like woman and calling her mother. Watching that woman merge with a tree that then turned into a beast. Fighting alongside his..brother and sealing the woman into the moon and the beast itself into himself. Sharing his chakra with the world and searching for peace and stability. Finding love. Having children. Approaching death. Separating the beast's chakra into 9 beings.

An entire lifetime showed itself to Naruto in the span of several seconds before it just ended. When it ended, so did the pain in his head and the pain behind his eyes. Now over, Naruto found his other senses and took in his surroundings with his eyes still closed. Hearing being the first as he heard voices that didn't belong to his Genin team.

"Someone should really wake him up...this is embarrassing." spoke a boy with a bored look on his face and black hair that stuck up in a ponytail.

"Shikamaru" thought Naruto recognizing the voice before hearing another.

"We could kick him. Can I kick him first?" asked a portly boy with reddish brown hair and spirals on his cheeks.

"Heh, Chouji."

"Stop it you idiots. Maybe he has their scroll. We could take it while he is out." said the girl of the trio with platinum blonde hair and sea foam blue eyes.

"Ino, how opportunistic..." thought Naruto feeling the person kneel next to him before reaching a hand out. "Stealing our scroll? You could have asked first Ino."

"Huh? Oh! Naruto-kun...hi! When did you wake up?" questioned Ino nervously. Her hand was held in Naruto's grip as she sighed. Cranking her seduction up to 11, Ino prepared to weasel her way out of this until Naruto opened his eyes. "Your...your eyes..."

Naruto's eyes had always been pretty. A shade of blue that matched the bluest of ocean water. You could take a dip in them it felt like. They were very emotive and you could tell everything Naruto was thinking or feeling if you looked at them. It was about the only thing attractive about Naruto as far as Ino was concerned.

Now though, his eyes were the exact opposite. Cold and emotionless. Purple eyes with a tiny pupil surrounded by concentric circles. They were staring at Ino and she could feel the unbridled power within them. It was like they were looking at her very soul and she was finding it hard to breathe. Ino also found herself enraptured by the eyes because she wanted to look away but noticed she couldn't at the same time. It was just something about them that-

"What about Naruto's eyes?"

Ino blinked hearing that question from her teammate. Upon blinking, Ino saw Naruto's eyes were their regular blue. There was a dopey look on his face as Ino shook her head wondering what happened. Was she hallucinating?

Her teammates both looked away to assess the current situation as Ino looked back at Naruto. Though there wasn't a dopey look to his face anymore. It was different. His blue eyes were the exact same but right now they held something different. The infinite brightness was there but there was something else that Ino just couldn't describe. And having seen what Sasuke just did, Ino couldn't help but wonder.

"What happened to you all in here..."

(Two days later)

Ino was livid. 48 hours had passed and she'd found little of nothing about Naruto. The fact she'd been spending 48 hours trying to find out something about the dead last in her class irked her to no end.

"Those eyes...and the way he looked..." thought Ino remembering the look. He hadn't shown either again since that moment. The same dopey Naruto she'd always known. "I know what I saw. Is he trying to hide it?"

And there she went again thinking about him. She was supposed to be spending her time thinking of how to get Sasuke to marry her. None of her focus should be on the dead last of her class. But the gossip in her, her clan's nature in being adept at information gathering, kept her hooked on Naruto. And it would until she figured out what it was all about.

Sasuke's freaky power had apparently been given to him by Orochimaru. The same could be said for Naruto all things considered. But Naruto's wasn't as evil feeling or tainted as Sasuke. It felt like she was staring into the eyes of Kami. Like she was-

"Kick his ass Naruto! Shannaro!"

"Kami, Forehead is so loud." thought Ino looking at her rival/best friend cheer for her teammate. The same teammate she herself was thinking so hard about was currently in a fight. "Maybe this fight with Kiba will shed some light. Even if he'll lose."

Naruto stood in the arena floor with a far off look on his face. He didn't even acknowledge Sakura's cheer for him from the balcony overlooking the arena floor designated for the preliminary fights. His mind was elsewhere shifting through the memories he now had.

"Hagoromo..or Naruto..." thought Naruto having a crisis at the moment. Memories were what made you you. Having another man's memories gave Naruto some pause. "Am I Hagoromo...am I Naruto? Who I am?"

This was what was plaguing Naruto during the past 48 hours since awakening. He hadn't told anyone about the eyes he held. The Rinnegan as his new memories told him. Eyes that were a step up from the Sharingan his teammate and sensei had. He would have told someone about them but he himself didn't fully comprehend yet. It wouldn't-

"Oi! Pay attention while I kick your ass Naruto!"

"Oh yeah, I'm in a fight..." thought Naruto dodging Kiba and his dog partner, Akamaru. The two had come at him in a flurry of claws that wouldn't do well to get hit by. "I don't have time for this..."

"You won't escape me this time. Gatsuga (Fang over Fang)" said Kiba launching at Naruto once more in a tornado.

Naruto closed his eyes before his Rinnegan came to life. He could feel the chakra within him and marveled at its potency. Picking an ability he could remember Hagoromo using, Naruto felt his body augment substantially. Ducking the tornado, Naruto rose immediately as Kiba passed halfway over him with a punch that hit Kiba flush.

"Shurado (Asura Path)"

Kiba's spin stopped cold as he hunched over Naruto's fist. Kiba felt like he got hit by metal before he simply blacked out at the intense shock of pain. Naruto dropped the out of it Inuzuka and he didn't get back up. Akamaru whimpered by his out cold owner as Naruto turned his Rinnegan off and opened his eyes to look at his right hand. Scratches were all along it as Kiba managed to catch him still.

"I'm not as good as Hagoromo was...this body needs work." thought Naruto.

"Shousa, Uzumaki Naruto." spoke the proctor of the prelims before he turned to Naruto. "Hell of a counter kid. Didn't know you could do that."

"Heh, guess I got lucky is all. Thanks." said Naruto goofily before heading back up the steps. Naruto stepped back on to the balcony before seeing another one of his classmates standing before him. "Hinata-hime?"

"Hime?!" thought Hinata looking wide eyed at Naruto while a blush immediately rose to her cheeks.

"Hmm, Hagoromo's little brother, Hamura, calls her hime because she holds his power. Doesn't mean I should have...mah, oh well." thought Naruto seeing the container held in her hands. "Is this for me?"

"...Hai Naruto-kun...nice...nice fight." spoke Hinata with furiously red cheeks. Naruto smiled at her before accepting the gift with a hug and thank you. "Naruto-kun is hugging me..."

Hinata held up for the most part, throughout the entire hug, as she felt the warmth from her crush's hug. Naruto let go of her and walked off as Hinata finally let herself pass out from the close proximity with the apple of her eye. Her sensei caught her as she smiled at the girl.

"Way to go Hinata. That was good." thought Kurenai, Hinata's sensei, before she looked at Naruto amble his way to his team. "I thought he was a dunce? He beat Kiba with one move. A Taijutsu strike at that and that's Kiba's best art..."

Kurenai couldn't fathom Naruto growing so much in the months since graduating the Academy. But he just beat arguably her best student with basically minimal effort and minimal damage. How intriguing. Maybe this was what her female student saw that no one else did?

Naruto arrived back to his team and looked at all of them. Sasuke was giving him a smirk. Sakura was fist pumping his success. And Kakashi was giving him an eye smile. Those three reactions got Naruto to smile to see them happy with his win.

"See you in the finals. Don't lose until you face me." said Sasuke.

"Hell yeah Naruto! You beat him in one move. It was like Whoosh and then Wham Pow!" said Sakura continuing her fist pump.

"Congratulations Naruto. Very impressive." said Kakashi looking at the blonde with a smile. While cordial outside, Kakashi was curious internally. "That counter should be impossible for someone like Naruto. But it wasn't. When did he learn that? And that chakra I felt..."

Kakashi would be left stuck wondering about his student as well. Something had happened to Naruto. That much he knew. He would find out later. For now though, he'd let his student bask in his success of passing. All his questions could be answered at a later time. For now, he was the sensei of two Genin that reaches the final stages of the Chunin Exam.

"Oh my cute little Genin. They grow up so fast don't they." thought Kakashi before giving Naruto and Sasuke patronizing pats on the head. Pats the latter didn't too much like and the former didn't pay much attention too. "Just so..fast."

While Kakashi was messing with Sasuke and Naruto, sharp eyes were looking at Naruto. Sarutobi Hiruzen looked even older as he donned red robes and a red hat to watch the preliminary fights. The last one catching his eye.

"I remember that chakra. It was the same one I felt over 13 years ago." thought Hiruzen seeing the far off look on Naruto's face as Kakashi ruffled his hair. "My boy..what happened to you in that forest?"

For now, Hiruzen would continue to watch the prelims. But he'd definitely be finding out what's happened to Naruto. Something changed within Konoha's Jinchuriki. What change? Hiruzen aimed to find out as soon as possibles.

YOSH! And scene. Naruto has the Rinnegan. And Hagoromo's memories. That'll be fun to shift through in the coming days. Seriously, if you don't wanna watch a beast ass Naruto I recommend to not read this story. Because yeah, Rinnegan Naruto is a beast ass Naruto. Enter God Mode Son. There's no question that's what about to happen. This is purely for my entertainment. If it entertains you too then swell but if not, I still enjoy it.

Once again, shoutout to Freowin and Karldin. Their stories are located in my favorites and made me create this. Mainly because they haven't updated theirs. But they are still beauties despite that. Until the next one.

-Hamp