AN: I don't own them
Pein turned around amidst the light sounds of rain throughout the battlefield as the aura of a barely restrained chakra reached his senses. A slight smirk pulled at the sides of his lips as he saw a girl approaching him.
All around this rain soaked battlefield, the remaining five bodies of the Six Paths of Pein laid motionlessly, all of them missing at least one limb. Now all that remains was the actual man himself to be taken down.
There was silence for several moments as the palm of Naruto's right hand was pressed against Pein's lower abdomen which she had sent the Rasengan into, and neither party moved for several moments. Finally, Pein coughed out some crimson blood, and let his arms fell down by his sides.
"Why?" Naruto looked up, being nearly two and a half heads shorter than the leader of the Akatsuki. "Why did you do this to me..? Why.. Why did you do this to us? Is this the mean for peace you've wanted so much?"
"You…never knew." Pein coughed, and Naruto's eyes widened. "What?"
A strange smiled passed across his pale lips.
"You were a project... I've been trying to wake you up, but you were such a too good project to realize it sooner."
"In the years of the foundation of hidden villages, The leaders of fire country initiated a research program to produce mentally and physically superior human beings with high ability, natural leadership skills and attractive features. The project was conducted with dozens of couples to breed the best individuals of the nation. The people born in the project were designed to become the tools of Old leaders, securing the future of their ideal ninja nation and also depriving rights from cursed Uchiha clan. The head of the project were heads of Senju clan, Uzumaki clan and Elders of Village. After long years of dozens of failures, a shinobi, who's one of the few succeeded projects, was paired with a young woman known for her worthiness of vessel for Bijuu and bloodline. The woman became pregnant, but the man eventually fell in love with her and finally confessed the truth of his 'mission'. Determined to protect his love and offsprings, the man decided flee to safety with the woman. However, they were captured by agents and separated from each other. The man was forced to kill himself by sealing Bijuu into his newborn child and the woman was killed soon later. The baby grew as the system of project; They made her feel the utter loneliness during her childhood, and then as she grew up, they began to feed her slowly with 'friendship' and 'love' which made her too happy and blinded her from any doubts. She grew into a fine weapon for Konoha, who'd willingly sacrifice anything for her 'beloved' people."
Lie...Lie...
"Look at yourself, look at what Konoha has done. Your covered in bandages, and for what? For the same people who'd killed your parents. For the same people who'd planned the very birth of you and every incidents in your life, causing you to believe in foolish heroism."
Bullshit..!
"I found out about the project when I was still young, when I was with my friends Yahiko and Konan, under teaching of your own teacher, ero-sanin. He'd been involved with the project, and he was feeling sick of creating framed weapons for this pathetic world. He'd asked us to protect the child of his pathetic student_ your very father, the Yondaime Hokage."
"I don't believe you." She said, eyes brimmed with tears threatening to fall.
He smiled sadly. "Poor child... " He uttered, coughing out crimson blood. "Don't you understand? The reason they'd titled Senju Tsunade as your new Godaime, the reason the ero-sanin had come to find you... Every elderly around you had been involved with the project, except for those from Uchiha. The Uchihas found out about the project, so they planned coup to prevent further harm from their clan, which eventually led them to be wiped away by a naive, noble-hearted boy who had a faith in his hometown. What Itachi has sacrificed for the village…and what he had suffered…"
No...No...
"Have you ever thought of the reason why Uchiha Sasuke fled from the village depite your efforts..? Have you ever wondered, why you'd been allowed to find friends in heart, while he hadn't? It was their plan. Despite the promise they'd made to Itachi, they made his younger brother to turn rogue by utter anger and loneliness, gaining only fangirlish woos but none of true understandings for his pain in this village."
Why? WHY?! WHY?!
"Oyaji…" Naruto didn't even realize that she had spoken, and Pein smiled a last sincere smile.
Konohagakure no santo, village gate
"Naruto's back! She defeated the damned Akatsuki leader!"
"She's the hero!"
"Uzumaki Naruto! She's the true hero!"
The villagers cried altogether, including every shinobis and civillians.
This scene was what she'd been wished for her whole life.
It was her dream.
Now her dream came true.
But Uzumaki Naruto wasn't smiling back at them. a myriad of visions immediately began flooding her head, then she hit the ground.
Konohagakure no santo, council chamber
The high-ranked shinobis and council elders were gathered in meeting chamber, without Godaime Hokage who's in extreme weak state currently by using her whole chakra to protect the village from Pein's attack.
"We should present Naruto as a rising savior and seek alliances from other nations." One of them pointed out.
"The people of shinobi nations will worship this beautiful, self-sacrificing hero."
"We'll make Konoha as ancien régime by presenting her as our symbol."
The force of that impact caused the two ANBUs standing guard to be rendered unconscious. And when the smoke had cleared away, everyone could see the visage of one Uzumaki Naruto standing there with an impassive look on her face.
"Naruto? You look fine now. But what does this insolent barging means?" One of the Shinobis asked.
Naruto kept silence. Slowly, her blue eyes morphed into a medium purple tone, before they bled to the crimson eyes of Fox.
The great Fox was in front of her again, bobbing his head as he fumed a smoke from his nostrils.
"Stop the berserk, kit." He whispered. "Or if you're really gonna do it, then do it more ravishly, idiot."
Naruto panted. Tears were streaming from her bleeding eyes, strange mixture of crystal liquid and crimson blood rolling over her cheeks.
"Tell me what to do." She whispered desperately. "They'd took everything away from me."
"Now you're asking advice from me." The fox growled. "Kill them all."
"I can't... Kill... Obaa-chan." Her words faltered for a mere seconds. "Obaa-chan... Kaka-sen... Iru-sen... my rookie friends..."
"You're the incorrigibly perfect project. What are you going to do? Slaying everyone in Konoha save for them? You utter idiot. Do you think any of them is your true friend?:
The girl began to sob, rage and despair breaking her once innocent heart.
The fox stared at her, chewing thoughtfully on his claw.
"You must know what they'd been doing through the history... Tell me, Kyuubi! Tell me about it! Tell me what to do, Kyuubi! Now you're the only thing I have..." She cried out.
"How touching." The Fox huffed once, shaking his giant head at her. "This foolish program of greedy humans started ever since the battle of valley of the end."
"Valley of the end...? You mean... You and Madara's fight with Shodaime?"
"Yes, kit. After I was sealed into that horrible woman of Uzumaki, the leaders of Senju clan and Uzumaki clan initiated a research program to make a slavery weapon for their future, to create ancien régime of Konoha." He sighed. "I never liked Uchihas. But it doesn't mean that I liked others. I hate every human being, no matter of what clan they're from."
"But-"
"Silence! I watched, laughing, as they transferred me to your mother, and then to you in the end. Your damn father had to be the human sacrifice for his betrayal against his masters, and your mother swore a vengeance to the bastards, saying 'Even if I die, my child will have our revenge on you!'"
Tears fell from her eyes again. "My mother..."
"But you've received your father's pathetic DNA too much. Instead of having a single doubt at the crazy world around you, you chose to resume your damn heroism. You chose to be their scapegoat, to be their eternal tool for their fantastic goal."
Tired. Exhausted.
"You have never understood. If I didn't interrupt, you'd have grown into an unfixable loyalty and wouldn't have believed a single word from Nagato or even me."
"You... interrupted?" She widened her eyes.
"For your sake, and also, my sake? hn." The fox snorted. "I didn't want to be part of those foolish humans' program. So I kept watching you, and pour anger and hatred to your mind as much as possible, so that at least you'll have a chance to be suspicious in any case. Fortunately, it succeeded."
Her voice trembled as she forced the words out of her mouth. "I admit. I'm an idiot."
"kit-"
"But then, what should I do now...? What should I do? They'd took everything away from me, they'd took my parents, my entire life! Tell me what to do, tell me!" She sobbed again.
Silence. Then the fox nudged her body with his big nose, almost looking like comforting her. Keeping on weeping, she hugged the nose.
"We don't have much time left. Now, listen to me. There's one way to change everything."
"What_? Bu-but how-"
"I'll send you back, back to the time before the era of hidden villages. But it'll cost my life. You'll reborn into new flesh and blood. You'll have enough time to prepare yourself for future, so prepare well."
Naruto perked up. "Wait, but that's-"
"And remember, no matter what family or friends you gain, do not be hasty in your judgement. Watch and learn. Learn how to captivate the people around you, how to use them as your tool. Learn how to push them into utter happiness/despair without a single handseal. I'll pour all of my demonic allures into your newborn flesh...!"
"Don't leave me, Kyuubi. You're the everything I have!"
"Not Kyuubi... My name is Kurama. Don't worry kit, I'm going back to past as well, so we'll recognize each other still, except that I won't be sealed into you... Remember, you're not the only hope of yourself, but also of myself."
And the world became dark.
End of entry
The idea of this story was inspired by famous manga 'Monster'.
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