The Hollow Jinchuriki:

Summary: Naruto dies as a result of a betrayal by Konoha; he dies in despair and in hatred of everyone and everything. He is attacked and devoured by a creature, without anyone being able to see him or help him. He becomes part of a hollow, but we all know that Naruto never backs down…

This is my second fanfic – I am still doing the first one, it is just I had an idea of just Naruto being in the Bleach Universe (a bit overused but I am trying to take a different angle to this fanfic). I am going to focus only on Naruto this time and no others back in Konoha. Only the prologue will have Konoha/Konoha's group in it.

I hope you enjoy the fanfic and please if you see anything I could improve upon, by all means send me a PM or review.

Disclaimer: I do not own ANYTHING – I'm literally just doing this for the sake of it :(

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Prologue - The Pain of Betrayal:

The pain of death is nowhere near as painful as it is to be betrayed. It literally feels like someone has taken a white-hot knife and stabbed you repeatedly in the back. A lot of people experience this in their life in some shape or form. However, unfortunately in the shinobi world this is a common thing; as soon as someone's back is turned there is always someone trying to one-up you… people will do anything for power…

Naruto lay there, unable to move with a flurry of emotions passing through him; fear, hatred and despair are the big ones. The 16 year old, blonde shinobi lay on the dusty ground caked in blood from head to toe. His clothes were shredded with blood leaking out of several very large lacerations and a slit throat. In fact, if not for the fox, who was busy desperately trying to save himself (and Naruto as a collateral); Naruto would have been dead a while ago. Over him stood two figures silently cleaning their kunais – Naruto couldn't see them properly as they were hidden in the shadows of the trees not 5 meters away from the him.

It was funny, in a way – okay fine it wasn't funny at all – Naruto had gotten up earlier that day, to head back to Konoha for his final return after leaving for training with Jiraiya 3 years previous. Only for Naruto to start to head back and eventually reach the forest of Konoha (the forest outside Konoha; ninjas try to stay away from the paths as it is more likely they could get ambushed… irony is everywhere around here), just as the sun was hitting early evening. The shadows lengthened over the forest – it was quiet, too quiet… however, the knucklehead as always wasn't attentive to the darkening atmosphere.

He had no idea of the trap that he had landed himself into; he saw a flash of light and then two blurs, and before he knew it, he was being beaten, cut, stabbed and left dying on the outskirts of his beloved village. He lay on the ground unable to move because of the pain that racked his body. Somewhere, deep in his mind, he could hear the fox yelling at him to get up. His will never faulting – he forced his arms to move; ignoring the agonising pain of the movement, he started to get up ready to fight while the 2 figures as they were distracted with their tools. All he knew was he had to win. As he slowly and as silently as he could, got up so he was on his knees, he tiredly looked at the figures before snaking his arm into the left over remains of his leg bag. He fiddled around quickly looking for anything he could use. He found 2 shuriken.

'…ah good, I just need to pull off two shots then I can get baa-chan to fix me up.' - He was being a wishful thinker as always but he was going to find out the hard way…

Taking aim as best as he could, trying hard to shake off the waves of dizziness and encroaching darkness of unconsciousness, he threw them as hard as he could at the 2 figures in the shadows. They headed straight for the figures backs and struck them cleanly and deeply into the cervical vertebrae severing the spine from the neck, killing the 2 figures instantly. They dropped like two sacks of potatoes with their heads barely connected to the rest of their bodies.

That was until he heard deep, dark laughter come from behind him. He didn't even get a chance to turn around before he was hit on the side of his face fracturing his skull. He landed hard on the floor before stopping just short of the two 'dead' bodies. Naruto spat out a mouthful of dirt and blood before painfully looking up to see the 'bodies' crumble to dirt.

"D-damn, r-rock clone." – Naruto wheezed in-between painful breathes. The laughter was still ringing in his ears and around the area. The 2 figures strolled out of the shadows and into the light of the area; they wore completely black suits and cloaks. However, what took the very breathe away from Naruto was the fact that the 2 were wearing masks – animal masks. Now what the hell would be so terrible about 2 figures randomly attacking you while wearing animal masks? Well the thing is; Konoha is the only village to have ANBU that wear animal masks. And Naruto recognised the animal masks – he had been chased by the two very same animal masks after several pranks he had pulled 4-5 years ago.

Naruto looked up in shock before asking the question that had been on his lips since first getting attacked. "Who a-are you? W-why are y-y-you doing this?" he stuttered still rasping slightly due to the loss of blood.

One of the ANBU looked at him and crouched down to the fallen Naruto before saying, "Sorry boy, nothing personal, but orders are orders." Naruto could have sworn he was smirking behind his wolf mask. Naruto did not even notice the bastard ignoring the first question.

"W-what are you talking about?" – Asked a very confused Naruto. He felt a cold, dark ball of dread drop into his chest at the two ANBU around him. The 2 ANBU chuckled humourlessly at the situation. They seemed to take great pleasure of doing this…

"Oh you didn't know, what a shame – what do you think Raccoon [the second ANBU], should we tell him?"

"Yeah, your lucky you sorry excuse for a shinobi we're even telling you this but seeing as you will be dead anyway soon, why not?"

"Okay blondie, we received orders from Konoha's council. Both the shinobi and civilian side – of which, none of them tried to help save you – all elected for you to die. We even have the mission report signed from your beloved village for your execution…" – The two ANBU took great glee away from the look of horror adorning Naruto's blood covered face. "…It turns out that even Tsunade-sama, felt the need for you to go! You are just too unpredictable and with Akatsuki turning their eyes over to the village… well the village wins!" The wolf-masked ANBU held up the report… with the HOKAGE'S stamp of approval on it, just close enough for Naruto to read it and confirm the official seal. Not that Naruto could see much with the blood encrusting his face and over his left eye. The ANBU continued talking, well gloating actually; enjoying the feeling of superiority over the Jinchuriki. However, Naruto was far away thinking of the last couple of comments he had heard, no-one wanted him! Even Baa-chan had abandoned him for the sake of the damn village. It turns out that hatred is very close to love or devotion.

In that moment, a sense of realisation hit the dying Naruto; he was betrayed by the entirety of Konoha. He was left dying without anyone to help him, his friends, Baa-chan, sensei and as far as he knew Pervy-sage had all left him. He was stabbed in his back from quite possibly everyone he knew – even Sasuke had betrayed him 3 years ago. He had never had a proper friend in his life; and it had left him empty inside. It just took 16 years of misery to finally realise.

As he glared at the 2 smug, laughing and arrogant shinobi, Naruto dropped the mask of the naive, knuckleheaded prankster. It took 16 years of burying the pain and loneliness of all the hate and emptiness he had to endure but it had finally boiled in his chest for too long. It came bursting out in red chakra – before the 2 'victorious' ANBU knew what happened they were in pieces… literally! Just 2 lightning quick strikes were all Naruto could manage but his claws tore through them before they had even stopped laughing.

Naruto then fell to the floor and felt the pain again catch up to him; the red chakra receded back into the seal and he was left paralysed from the pain. He could feel the cold hand of death slowly spreading across his body. He knew this was it – he had felt the close hand of death several times during his childhood and earlier career of being a shinobi.

The pain was so intense that the only thing that equalled it out was the stabbing pain of hatred and betrayal. It was the only thing that was more agonising then the lacerations and cuts that were reopening spilling more blood all over the dirty unforgiving floor.

"Sorry o-old f-fox, guess this i-is it, I can't go much longer…"

In his mind, he could hear the ancient fox sigh in anger and disappointment.

"Its fine kit, the injuries you have received were too much, you actually sealed the deal when you took some of my chakra. You sacrificed yourself for revenge. I'm so proud of you Kit!" – yelled the Kyuubi, surprising Naruto from the near complete attitude reversal from the gigantic fox.

"Why the sudden changed? What happened to the whole escaping from the seal and devouring me?" asked a confused Naruto, now talking inside his mind as his jaw no longer worked.

"Well nothing I can do will solve anything now kit – even though you're dying the seal is still as strong as ever so it looks like we will be together forever. I have no idea what happens in the afterlife but I guess you're not too bad Uzumaki." – Naruto was understandably shocked from the confession of the strongest Biju in the shinobi world.

"Well, no matter where we end up… no more mister nice-guy! I've had it with the innocent friendly blonde boy Kyuubi – I need to be stronger! I will get stronger no matter what!" – Naruto's thoughts turned into delirious psychotic yelling throughout his head towards the end from the lack of oxygen.

Kyuubi never got a chance to reply to him before, against all odds (sorry Masashi Kishimoto), Naruto died in physical, emotional and mental agony. However, not even 2 hours later just as the body, that once held Naruto's soul, was turning cold did a silvery version of Naruto start to float out. Once it had finished fully exiting the old body did the soul version of Naruto stand up now looking fully alive without any previous injuries or anything.

When Naruto came to; he was absolutely shocked to see he was somehow still 'alive.' When he voiced this to Kyuubi he did not get the reply he was looking for.

"Kit, you're not alive, you are DEAD! We are both dead. You are in your soul form right now." – The Kyuubi yelled in frustration, to be fair he had managed to live on this world for millenniums. "Naruto also it turns out in your 'soul form' has no chakra, neither do I now. It has been replaced with another type of energy. A lot of it actually."

"I'm dead! No… NO I never got my revenge against those damn bastards! Soul form? Man I'm confused Kyuubi."

"Slow down Kit, first yes you and I are both dead now. As for the your revenge – do what I do and keep all that hatred and anger deep inside, it makes it more entertaining for me to watch when you snap." – Kyuubi seemed quite laid back about it all and it worried Naruto to no end.

"Okay fine… so Kyuubi what is this new energy?"

"How am I meant to know; this is my first time dying as well you know! Anyway, this new energy is kind of bursting out of you. In fact, I have no idea what it is but it is flowing off you by the bucket load."

Naruto was about to reply when he felt a cold shiver down his spine. Then out of nowhere a dark hole opened up right in front of him and before he could do anything, some sort of masked creature came out of it and in less than a second had devoured his soul completely.

As this happened Naruto and Kyuubi both had one thought:

'HOLY SHI-!'

And with that a Hollow devoured Naruto's soul and then returned back to Hueco Mundo after his huge meal of spiritual pressure.

He never got to curse the lives of Konoha, those that betrayed him. He was eaten while feeling angry, emptiness, despair and hatred… a lot of it. It would later on define the new Naruto that would emerge from the darkness of being devoured by a hollow.

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And that's it everybody. This is my first chapter of the hollow Jinchuriki. Just so you know guys, Naruto won't be stuck like that for long – I wanted to go another way for this fanfic. It seems an interesting way to go for the story.

Please feel free to leave a review or PM on your thoughts on the new fanfic.

Hope you enjoy the read,

Hollow Lives.