Naruto: Bearer of the Satsui no Hadou

"Speach"

'Thought'/'*gestures'

(A/N)

Summary: At birth, Naruto has the Nine-Tailed fox sealed within him.. He was shunned and hated for being the cage to the malevolent beast. Little did those of Konohagakure no Sato know, Naruto had another being within him, who was far more powerful and far more dangerous than the Kyuubi no Yoko. With training from the mysterious figure along side the Kyuubi, will Naruto be consumed by the hatred and evil, or control the power to protect those he deems precious to him? (The story begins in the Forest of Death, after Team seven had already been attacked by Orochimaru.)

Panic. That's all our protagonist felt when he realized just how far this Orochimaru outclassed him and his team. He needed to get his teammates out of this situation. But, what could he possibly do? A group of greenhorn Genin fighting, even escaping a member of the once proud Densetsu no Sannin is ludicrous, even the thought of it would have someone sending you a 'Are you crazy?' glance. Naruto had never felt so helpless in his short life, he had faced the hatred of the village with a stone heart, and unbreakable will. He'd stood face to face with Momochi Zabuza, the favled Demon of the Mist, and he didn't even feel a tinge of fear... This Orochimaru though... made Naruto feel weak, helpless, and that just served to piss him off more than he already was.

His teammates were useless, Sasuke was writhing in pain because of the hickey that snake freak gave him, and Sakura is too busy trying to tend to Sasuke to help.

Orochimaru slowly stalked towards them, an evil, disturbing smirk upon his pale, snake-like face. "Well, well, well. You're all much weaker than I had originally expected" He looked toward Sakura and the Uchiha and smirked "Sasuke-kun has potential, but is blinded by this village. He shall seek me out for the power he wants. In the mean time, how about I dispose of you two greenhorns?" He smirked and turned toward Naruto.

"Shall you be sent to the afterlife first?" He slowly walked toward Naruto, pulling out a kunai, he readied itto end the blonde's life.

Naruto was shocked, 'Is this where I die? Where my life stops? It can't be! I'm not Hokage yet!' These were the thoughts of fear in Naruto as Orochimaru approached him.

Something inside Naruto pulsed, his survival instincts were working on overdrive to settle upon the ultimate decision with baser traits: Fight? Or Flight? His mind chose flight... But two things roaring from the back of his mind chose FIGHT! Within seconds Naruto's eyes unnoticeably became red with fox-like slits.

Sakura could only stare in fear for her teammate, he whom she believed was going to be slain before her very eyes. She couldn't handle it and tears appeared in her eyes, she shut her eyes tightly and spoke to herself. 'Why?! Why am I so weak?!' She then heard her other self berate her. 'It's because we wasted so much Damn time on the EMO that you didn't train! Now Naruto-kun's gonna die because we're so weak Shannaro!' Her inner self spoke to her, waking her from her pitiful state. (A/N: Most likely also dropping an epiphany on her *wink* *wink*)

She readied a Kunai, and threw it as hard as the energy she had left would allow at Orochimaru as he was turned away from her facing Naruto. Orochimaru quickly turns and catches the kunai, and smirks at the young Kunoichi. "Ah, ah, ahh. Did you really think, that such a basic tactic would work on me child?" Sakura looked on in fear and desperation. He chuckled and as he was going to throw the weapon back, he felt a large amount of malevolent chakra explode from the young shinobi behind him, and before he can react, he feels a searing pain in his back as four claws laced with youki tear through his unguarded back.

Orochimaru screams in rage and pain, and quickly turns around. He's met with a sight that brings a twinge of fear into his eyes. Staring back at him, are not the cerulean eyes of the child that just attacked him, but the eyes of the fearsome Kyuubi no Yoko itself. He was momentarily reminded of the fear he felt when he first encountered the beast when he'd snuck into Konoha during the Kyuubi's attack.

Orochimaru's eyes soon lost that fear, and then he smirked. He had an answer to this. He quickly kicked the boy in the stomach, knocking the air out of him, then he held the boy up by the throat. He slid the boy's jacket and under shirt to expose the boy's naval, where the seal was located. With an evil smirk he slammed his fingers on top of Naruto's seal and shouted "Gougyo Fuuin!"

The effect was nearly instantaneous, the overwhelming chakra disappeared almost as quickly as it had initially appeared. Naruto gave a shout of pain, and immediately lost consciousness. Orochimaru spoke "Kukuku... You're lucky girl. I shall take my leave. No doubt your 'oh so great' Hokage felt the burst of chakra. You get to live for now. I've taken an interest in both of these young men. Be sure to keep them safe" he then disappears in a shunshin.

~~45 minutes later~~

Sakura was able to find a hollowed out tree to hide her teammates in. She had set traps on the perimeter, and had a damp rag on Naruto's forhead, and a torn piece of Sasuke's shirt was used as a makeshift rag, which she covered Sasuke's forehead with.

She didn't know why she had used her rag on Naruto instead of Sasuke, she just felt that he needed more attention between the two. (A/N: *wink, *wink, *nugde, *nudge) She was conflicted at that thought. 'Naruto is more important? I love Sasuke don't I?' It was then that her inner self spoke '"Baka! We've always preferred Naruto-Kun! You only chased Emo-sama because you wanted to keep in touch with Ino!'" Sakura's eyes went wide at this remark. She then felt a disturbance outside her makeshift bunker.

She slowly took stalked her way outside the tree to see what the disturbance was, only to see a small chipmunk stalking closely to one of her trap wires. She quickly moved to get the rodent out of the way. After scaring the small creature away she made sure that the trap was okay, and knelt down and finally felt her exhaustion hit her like a ton of rocks. She closed her eyes for a second, then heard three set of feet touch the ground a few yards from her.

She looked up in fright to see the three Sound genin.

The first to speak was a male the looked, in the basic sense, like a Mummy. He had one revealed eye while everything else was wrapped up. He had a large device equipped to

His left (A/N: left or right?) arm. "Where's the Uchiha?"

Sakura quickly replied asking why he wanted to know, to which his teammate replied "We're here to end the Uchiha, we have no business with you. We'll even do you a solid, we'll kill that blonde runt for you too!"

At this Sakura Immediately narrows her eyes. This spiky haired ass-monkey just threatened to kill 'her' Naruto-kun... 'Wait what?! 'My Naruto-kun? What about Sasu-Emo-Queen?' It would seem that she's slowly melding with Inner Sakura in her thoughts on her teammates.

Zaku walks up in irritation of this pink girl ignoring him. He is quickly stopped by his female teammate. She points to the ground and he spots ninja wire in the grass. Letting out a breath of relief that he didn't set the trap off, he yells at Sakura "I'll give you one last chance bitch! Where is the Uchiha!"

Sakura's only reply was to immaturely flip Zaku the bird (A/N: Priceless)

Zaku swiftly moved forward and appeared in front of Sakura, and backhanded her. He was going to attack her again but, before he could react, his face was introduced to a foot. After this dynamic entry, Zaku goes flying back toward his teammates.

The Sound nin stare down at Zaku in shock. Seeing how easily this new person snuck up on, and attacked their teammate, they knew that they couldn't take this new person lightly.

The person was revealed to be none other than Rock Lee, the Green beast of Konoha. He spoke "Why must you most unyouthfully (A/N: blechhh) attack a kunoichi who cannot attack you back?!"

Zaku stood up and replied with a curt "Fuck you! That's why!" He scowled at the green clad shinobi in anger and embarrassment.

Dosu seemed intrigued by this new Konoha brat. He looked at him and spoke, "We only want the Uchiha, give him up and we'll leave her be."

Lee told Dosu that he couldn't let any comrade be hurt, and then he charges the three sound genin, intent on disabling them before they could attack, which would've worked... Had Dosu not had his weapon on his arm. It sent out a powerful blast of sound-waves that focussed on Lee's ears causing him to be disoriented.

In Lee's discombobulation, he didn't here Zaku's cry of "Zankuu-HA!" And could not dodge the splitting air waves, and was completely blown back toward Sakura.

Sakura made a move to help Lee up, but she felt a rather violent tug on her hair, and then realized that the Sound Kunoichi had gotten behind her. The Sound girl spoke in a even, yet angry tone "Such soft hair, it might be even softer than mine. Hair as soft is this isn't befitting of a kunoichi. You're a disgrace to us all. Girls like you are the exact reason that us kunoichi aren't seen as equal to shinobi!" She pulled at Sakura's hair, causing the pink haired girl pain.

She was going to cut her hair, but then out from the bushes jumped out Ino Yamanaka, who couldn't stand to see her best friend being abused so.

Zaku, Dosu and Kin turn to look at Ino, and then two other Konoha shinobi come out of the bushes, the first a rather... Errm... Bulky? Yeah, bulky male comes out eating some chips, and a lazy looking male comes out muttering things about blondes with no tact.

Dosu speaks in a sarcastic tone "Greeeeat, even more Leaf humpers joinging the Fray" this caused Zaku to laugh, and Kin to smirk.

With a bored look, the lazy looking male speaks "Kagemane no jutsu... success" The Sound nin become confused, until Kin realizes that she cannot move at all, she tries to warn her comrades, but a quick shout of "Shintenshin no Jutsu" cuts her off as her mind is over taken by Ino.

Ino in Kin's body, lets go of Sakura's hair, and turns to her teammates, and pulls a kunai to her own throat.

Zaku calls to Kin, "What are you doing you stupid bitch!"

Ino replies speaking out if Kin's body "Drop your scroll and leave, or I'll make her slit her own throat."

Zaku laugjs loudly, and looks at Ino/Kin with a smirk. He raises his hand and puts his palms outward. "Zankuuha!"

The attack hits Ino/Kin and, just minorly hits Sakura as well.

Zaku spoke "You think I care about that bitch?! My only care is for the mission!"

This statement shocks the Konoha ninja, who had been raised to hold teamwork and teammates above all else. Well... Everyone but Lee, who had fell unconscious from the pain... And bloodloss... Err... Moving on.

Zaku turns his attention back to Sakura, who at this point can't even move because of the pain and exhaustion. Zaku raises his hand directly to her face, knowing that death is 100% the outcome at this range. "Now... One last time! Where the fuck is the uchiha?!"

Sakura stays silent, and Zaku back hands Sakura, then pulls her back up from her hair. Shikimaru and Chouji are unable to help her as they are tending to Ino, who passed out when she was forced out of Kin's body.

Zaku gains a smirk, "You must have taken such a long time to grow this precious pink hair of yours'! Now, let me take those years away!" Zaku says this and with a kunai, cuts her hair. Her long cascading hair that used to flow down to her buttocks had become shoulder length in seconds. Without the long hair to give Zaku a grip, Sakura fell to the ground, tears falling from her eyes.

At this very moment, an overwhelmingly malicious power explodes from the tree where Sakura's teammates were residing. It didn't feel like Chakra, it felt like pure evil, and destructive power.

Out from the hollowed tree where everyone present sensed this power came our protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki. But, he was different; His orange jacket looked as if someone forcefully ripped off the sleeves. This showed off is toned yet not overly muscly arms. The zipper seemed to have been brought down three quarters of the way down, showing off what is visible of his pectorals, and slightly showing his eight pack abs. It also seemed that he ha forgone his shinobi sandals as well as he was barefooted.

The greatest changes to him were his eyes and hair, his hair now stood up even more than it did before (A/N: Base Akuma styled). His eyes had changed to a chilling red, that seemed to just glow with evil intent. If you looked close enough, you could see his lower canines jutting from his mouth, and on either side of his forehead, you could see small bumps that resembled horns, giving him the look of an Oni (A/N: *wink*wink*nudge*nudge).

He looked toward Sakura who was still crying in pain and the loss of her hair, and his eyes widened in rage. He slowly stalked forward until he stood beside her. At this point everybody was just staring at Naruto (A/N: Ino had awoken when Naruto's Satsui no Hadou flared, Neji and TenTen have just appeared on scene)

Even Zaku who stood over Sakura was frozen in place by fear. When Naruto finally reached Sakura, he gently put his hand on Sakura's chin, and pulled her face up to look eye to eye with her. Secretly, every other girl in the vicinity had an unexplainable amount of jealousy exploding from them, but they chose not to act brashly.

When Naruto's glowing crimson, nearly Amethyst eyes, meets Sakura's bright emerald and Sakura unexpectedly or... Errm... At this point? Expectantly blushes. Naruto sees her bruises and her cut hair, he then frowns and speaks "Sakura... Who did this to you?"

Zaku who had been out of his initial shock since Naruto stood before him. He smirked and spoke "I did that to the bitch, what are you gonna do about it chump!?" Quicker than anyone could could react to, Zaku went flying through three trees before he was imbedded into the fourth.

Naruto stood with his outstretched arm, a look of rage passing his face. "Then I shall end your pitiful existence!" Naruto takes a weird stance (Base Akuma's fighting stance and gestures) "In one instance... Die one thousand Deaths!"

~~A few word from me~~

Hey all of you beautiful people that took the time to read my crappy story. Read and review.

Also, I'm 99.2% sure that Akuma no Kage will stay in it's indefinite hiatus, I've lost the motivation to write it, but I'm hoping that anyone of you that have read it, and like it can adopt it for me. If you want to, just send me a PM of the title that you'll have it under, and give me some props in a Author's note area, something o the like.

Anyway, more to come, I promise that I'll get this story going.