Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Any deaths, relationships or otherwise has nothing to do with the ideas of Masashi Kishimoto or the Naruto storyline.

Notes:

Jutsu name – the name of a justu, translations at the bottom.

Thoughts/Flashbacks – what a character is thinking or remembering.

Prologue:

His name was Kami Kujaku. He liked it. He thought it represented him. Kami was born into the world a normal child. And it was planned that he would stay that way forever. He was to grow up with a happy family and live a good life.

Everybody of any trusted importance whatsoever knew of the bijuu. They were beasts with numerous amounts of tails, ranging in number from one to nine. Their names were as such. Ichibi, Nibi, Sanbi, Yonbi, Gobi, Rokubi, Sichibi, Hachibi, and Kyubi. They traversed the worlds, leaving destruction in their wake. But eventually, the nine of them were sealed, not into objects, or into Hell, but into people. These people were known as the Jinchuriki, the powers of human sacrifice. And sacrifices they were.

They were outcasts, loners, pariahs. They were rejected by society. Kami was one of them. But not the Ichibi, for that was Gaara. And the Nibi wasn't sealed inside of him like it was in Nii Yugito. The Sanbi ran wild. Yonbi inhabited an old man. Gobi chose a teenage girl. Rokubi an elderly sage. Sichibi a man of great power. Hachibi, a snake-obsesee. Kyubi, which would inhabit a teenage boy with spiky blond hair. Kami wasn't any of those things. He was the Jinchuriki for the Jyubi, the ten-tailed bijuu.

Being so strong (because a Jinchuriki's power depends on the number of tails its bijuu possesses), he was unstable. They kept him in a prison cell, in the dark. There were guards outside his door night and day. They made certain he didn't escape.

One day, however, when his food was brought in, he killed his guards. He escaped, donning one's black traveling cloak. As he set off into the night, he smiled to himself. This was a new beginning.

He was supposed to live a normal happy life forever. But even forever isn't eternal.