Looking over the world of the mortals, Odin Allfather sighed sadly as he watched one of his best be sealed away for her help to the humans. Knowing he could do nothing to help her as he had set rules in place that forbade him interfering with human affairs, he took the weapons that had returned to the chamber upon her sealing and spoke, only few words came from his mouth and those words only those of Norse or Greek would understand properly. After he finished speaking, the elderly god pulled back and let loose with his might, both of her swords that went spiraling in a cyclone to the world below. Embedding into the earth that she was sealed upon, going unnoticed by the humans as it landed in a small forest that no one dared enter for their own sake.
Turning towards the gate keeper, Heimdall, a man of great power but chose to serve instead of lead. "Close the gate." Was all the elder god said to the man before he started to walk off.
"My king, what are you going to do of her?" the man asked as he pulled his sword out of the pedestal that he had placed it in.
"I can do nothing old friend, after placing those rules, I myself cannot break them just to help any one person of the court. If the child remains human, I cannot send aid to him." The elder god said to the younger. "I must go inform the others of their sisters fall." He spoke once more before he vanished in a burst of speed.
Several seconds later, Odin reached a large pair of doors that had been designed to look like a massive set of wings. Touching it, the doors opened to show many women in armor and various areas, each with a different weapon set. "Lord Odin, what brings you here?" the eldest asked as she came forward.
"I regret to inform you of one of your sister's fall. Brunhild, she aided the mortals in defeating a giant creature and was sealed by them, for fear of her. I have already sent her swords down to see if the child may grow to be a true warrior and suitable for a station with your sisters." Odin spoke to them with a somber tone causing many a Valkyrie nearly cry that day.
"Do not fear sisters, she shall return one day. Perhaps her container, if they be loyal shall join us." The elder maiden called out.
"Alas, if the child were to join you all, then the Valkyrie would no longer be only maidens, for it is a boy that has her soul and body inside him. There is no need to fret however, I feel that this child is destined for great things and shall be a kind man when he grows." The god told them making several look shocked at the news.
"But Lord Odin, there has never been an attempt to place a sister in a male before." Brunhild said to him.
"That is not entirely true. A long time ago, longer than I care to remember, one Valkyrie was placed into a human boy, as the women of that time were unsuitable to be a host of a spirit. The outcome, was less than favorable. With these laws that I have placed, none may go down without proper reason to do so. None may meddle with human affairs, however sad it may make us to do so."
"By your word, Lord Odin, we hope that this child may become an honorable man. If our sister accepts him as her avatar, then we shall claim him as an honorary member of our forces, and grant him some of our armor for his use. We have plenty in store anyway." Brunhild said with a bow.
"I thank you for your cooperation Valkyrie, if you all wish to, you may keep watch over him but are not allowed to interfere with him unless something happens to favor our intervention." Odin told them, never noticing that a certain warrior watched from a long distance away with a light smirk on his face knowing that the elder god accidently made a loophole in his speech that day.
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It had been several years on the world below, and with each passing year, the sisters all grew more angered by the actions that had come to pass on their honorary brother. They witnessed many things that even angered the great god himself. Odin was very tempted to send his son, Thor, down to tend with the mortals that would abuse the one person that could be considered godly in his own right while still remaining human. They were happy on one note however, as anyone that could have found the swords had never found where they were other than the child who looked on curious of them before he paid his respects to a fallen warrior thinking that they were a grave marker.
One god, on the other hand, seemed to be biding his time, as if he was waiting for something to happen that would garner an intervention of some kind. Many noticed the man's change in visage, none however, questioned it, no matter how odd it may have seemed. The near permanent smirk that lined his face and the gleam in his eyes made many nervous of what the man was plotting, but they all new that he was a loyal follower of Asgard and therefor would never put risk on the people there.
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The child, a young boy that had golden colored hair with red streaks going through it and a set of three whisker marks on his cheeks, gazed around the village as he sat atop the heads of the mountain. Sighing to himself as he always felt someone watching his moves even when he trained alone and made sure there was none to watch him. Looking around, he took note that the sun was setting and was a brilliant red unlike what most sunsets were these days in autumn, with the leaves changing color from their normal green to a deep red, the sun usually set in a blaze of orange or yellow.
Moving over to the ledge, the young child noticed that there were several people that seemed to be waiting with various types of tools or weapons. Sighing to himself, he shook his head before he took several steps back from the edge that he had looked over. Steeling himself, the eight year old started to run at the edge before he took a leap and spread his arms wide as if he was an eagle. As he fell, he felt his eyes change like they did at different times. With is new vision, the child could see a crate of some kind on a roof nearby that he was headed towards.
Smirking as he fell, the boy looked down at the villagers that had crowded around the base of the mountain. As he looked at them, he saw the faces of shock as they never expected the child to jump and seemingly glide from the mountain for several hundred feet. As he hit the crate, a low 'puff' emanated from it as feathers and leaves flew up. Hopping out, he started to walk off of the roof with a small smile on his face. Having learned that he could escape the people if they saw him do something nearly suicidal, he laughed lightly as he thought of it.
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The Valkyrie on the other hand, looked on in shock as they saw him do this seemingly impossible stunt. Never seeing any human do so before, for that far anyway, they were utterly shocked with only a select few wondering about it. Only the eldest took note that his eyes had changed color from their normal bright blue to a more dense golden color, only for a second but the women took note of it and soon came to realize what had happened over the years that they watched him.
'His eyes that would explain why he was always wearing that smirk. Damn, he figured out some way to help him. Damn you… and thank you… Heimdall.' The eldest thought to herself as a smile spread across her lips.
The others wondered why the woman was smiling but chalked it up to the fact that the boy she viewed as a son and brother had escaped his pursuers and landed safely on the roof of the building. Elsewhere, Heimdall had a small grin on his face as he had successfully changed the circumstances on the humans and the boy. He knew that his full power would not awaken for some time and that helped with the tradeoff that he was getting.
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This occurred many times over the years, the child running from the villagers and occasionally making them awed at his suicidal attempts. On many occasions the gods seemed to be tempted to go down, not entirely for his pursuers anymore. One of the attacks however was far worse than any of them had predicted and caused them all to cringe at what had happened to their young brother/ unwitting host.
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The people of the village had taken to chasing him even harder on his birthday and the day that the fox had attacked the village, to the point that it seemed to become a game or favored pastime of theirs now. One particular occasion, however, had been especially brutal.
After he managed to run from the normal mob that was formed, the boy ran right into a second larger mob that cornered him in an alley before a ninja of all people, someone that should know the difference between the boy and his so called demon, came up to him with a katana pulled out. Laughing while claiming it as the will of the dead kage, the man sliced the boys right arm of at the shoulder, directly on the shoulder blade, causing many of the Valkyrie to flinch while some looked on in shock as the child simply held in the pain as he saw his arm fall.
After it hit the ground, they saw him seemingly flash from his spot to being behind the people with an angered look on his face, behind him, the fallen forms of the mob lay, all knocked unconscious from his sudden movement, the blood dripping from his shoulder nonstop while he started to move away with his arm grasped in his left hand. As he walked down the village, the people that were still out, looked on in shock as they saw the demon child walk with blood flowing from a wound and his entire side drenched in the red liquid, certainly a wound that would kill any other, and he seemed to not notice it aside from the annoyed look that filled his face as he glared at the people as if warning them to stay out of his way.
Upon making it to the small apartment that the kage had given him after he was kicked from the orphanage, the young child went to his small room and pulled out a first aid kit that he had stashed away for emergency use and proceeded to wrap his shoulder in it causing the blood to stop flowing from the wound getting a sigh from him before he took a cloth and wrapped his now useless arm in it.
Sighing to himself, the young child soon went to bed after taking off the clothes that he wore, trying to sleep as he ignored the pain. That night even Odin had a hard time quelling his anger as he went to one of the grounds that had been established, proceeding to demolish it several times over, his resounding hits echoed throughout the city of Asgard causing many a god to worry for their king and the humans that had angered him.
After effectively calming himself down, he took note that the Valkyrie were there as well, albeit on a different ground than him, but they as well, had come to blow off steam and to try and keep themselves from killing the mortals.
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After that day, the child, that they had eventually learned was named Naruto, was seen walking around with only his left arm causing many of the people to grin while only a few had sad looks on their faces. The select few that liked the boy could be , sadly, counted on one hand. The kage, an elderly man that reminded many of their king, two ramen stand owners, a father and daughter that caused many to smile from Asgard as they served the young boy, and finally, a weapon smith and his daughter, these two reminded some of their own weapon smithy for his fun loving attitude but extreme strictness when it came to handling any of his weapons.
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As he walked to the Hokage office, Naruto sighed to himself once more. 'Why can't these damn villagers leave me alone anymore. I mean really, isn't taking my arm good enough for them?' he thought to himself as he walked. After the night of the arms loss, Naruto had decided to bury it near the pair of large swords that he often visited when he felt he needed to, often times it happened to be on his birthday or the days that were near it.
"Hey old man." Naruto spoke as he entered the Kage's office, causing the elderly male to look up from his desk and large amount of papers to wince once he saw the boys arm. Ever since that night the kage had trouble looking at the boy as the very sight of him without an arm caused thoughts of failure to rise from him.
"How are you today Naruto?" he asked with a sad look on his face.
"I guess I could be worse, after all I think they are starting to leave me alone now. Can't say the same for the festival days though. "Naruto said to him getting a small nod from him.
"We can only hope Naruto. Did you still want to join the academy this coming year?"
"I was thinking of it, though it will be hard with my arm." Naruto replied to him as a frown formed on his face, the glare that nearly never left his face causing a rather terrifying image to render itself known with is hair and missing arm.
"Yes, I was meaning to mention that as well. If you do this, you know that you will be older than the others right?" the elderly kage asked trying to make sure and possibly dissuade him.
"I know, it may be the only chance that I can actually pass the tests if they think I am handicap and too stupid to be a danger."
"Sadly that may be the case here. I wish it wasn't so but I hope that you can stick it through if this is your wish Naruto." He said getting a light nod from the boy, "then I wish you luck, after all you will need it with the clan heirs in your class." Naruto heard him say getting a sigh from him.
"I know, most of them don't know how good they have these things until they lose them. Hell the Uchiha brat thinks that he is some kind of god or something and that everyone should be kissing his ass." Naruto said with an irritated look on his face.
"The council spoils that boy far too much. Is there anything else you wanted to talk about Naruto?" he asked as he felt he needed to return to his work.
"No, not today old man. See you later. " Naruto said as he turned to walk out.
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"Freya." The king spoke as he sat on his chair.
"Yes?" was her reply as she turned her attention to him.
"Is our young Naruto under your creation?" he asked getting a confused look from him.
"The young boy that holds Valkyrie?" she asked to make sure. Getting a nod from the man, she shook her head sadly to him. "Sadly, he is not. It is as if he simply appeared out of nowhere, he is the only being that I am unable to do anything with. It is as if he happens to be a black slate, a new card dealt in the deck of fate per say." She told him.
"I see, then maybe he is able to complete his dreams after all. He may become powerful enough to give even myself a run for my gold." The king spoke before he released a booming laugh that echoed through the city.
"Why did you ask sir?" she wondered out loud.
"That child, he has faced through many sufferings since his birth and the seal of Valkyrie, it is nice to see that none may control him even if they wish to. He will be a force to be reckoned with, especially if he is able to wield the swords of Valkyrie herself." Odin said as he laughed causing a faint smile on the lips of Freya.
'Indeed, he may. I hope that the child may prove to be loyal to someone and not try to destroy the cosmos for the transgressions of the land he was born from.' Freya thought to herself as she nodded to the king.
