Summary: Fighting Sasuke, Naruto nearly dies. However, the Mangekyou Sharingan isn't the only thing that gets awakened.
I'm doing this story for the fun of it. I've read a lot of stories. This is an idea I got from reading those. You know the 'what if Naruto has a bloodline' stories. However, as I wrote I went off to the direction of 'what if he had no influence from the Kyuubi' direction. But, I got bored and went in the direction of 'what if the impossible happens, "Kyuubi's killed," and is replaced with a more powerful creature who even the "Lord of the Bijuus" fears.'
I don't know where I'm going in this story. Don't care about direction. Just writing.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Naruto: Choosing 'To Be My Companion'
Prologue: The Awakening
Badump, Badump, Badump.
The beat of a heart in the vast darkness.
Shshhshhhshhhshhhshhhshhshshs
The static sound in the empty void.
'Where am I?' He questions himself.
Bang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A loud crash of thunder.
"Let me out," roars an animalistic cry of fear.
Everything vanishes and he finds himself in the cold sewer of his mind facing a cell where a giant fox is lashing out at the steel gates who's desperately overcome by fear.
He looks around and is shocked to see the sewer walls begin to morph into black walls of dirt with holes containing skull of demons, humans, and such. It was as if this place was turning into some sort of catacomb.
"Hey, fox, what's going on?" the boy asks.
"Let me out!!!" it demands. "Please, let me out." It whimpers.
The boy is especially shocked to see how scared the oversize furball is. Then he looks into the cage to have a better view and is surprised to see a great door with kanji of "Life after Death" on it. A great aura of two colors black and purple swirling together emitted from the door.
"Kyuubi" the boy asks?
"Help me" it begs.
Then the aura from the door grows blasting the door open.
And from the shadows of smoky chakra comes forth a creature wearing a robe crafted from the elements of the darkest night.
From its shoulder blades large spikes are seen that have cut through the garment.
The being steps closer from the door and raises its left arm.
The steel gate, with the seal separating the Kyuubi and the being from Naruto, bends and twists around the giant fox.
The boy is frozen in shock and can do nothing other than watch.
The entity continues to walk towards the frightened fox thrashing around in the ground.
In a last effort to mask its terror, Kyuubi demands, "Who do you think you are? I am the great 'Kyuubi no Kitsune.' I am the great 'Lord of all Bijuu.' Who are you that dares try and frighten me?"
A deep silent laugh rumbles from within the creature's hood. The creature reaches and commences to remove the hood. A bright purple light comes forth blinding all within the mind. And as it finally dims, its face is revealed to be a skull covered in flames of black and dark purple. However, its eye sockets weren't hollow, yet were it by any means normal. Its eyeballs were completely black, darker than the abyss.
Kyuubi gets a good look at the being and gasps in terror, "Its you!!!"
The creature lets out a dark laugh. He conjures a scythe with his right hand and holds it over the bijuu.
Before striking Kyuubi's head off, its eyes gain purple pupils and the scythe's blade turns into a black flame surrounded with dark purple lightening.
The impossible has happened Kyuubi has been killed.
Kyuubi's chakra begins to leave its body and thrash around the room in all direction. Before it can do any damage, the creature grabs a hold of Kyuubi's head and with its flame burns away all the tissue so that all that remains is a fox skull. It then commands a hole to appear in the wall. It rests the skull inside the hole.
Next, the creature looks at the malicious red chakra thrashing around the area. Its pupils glow and gather the wild chakra and send it to be contained within the fox skull.
It walks to the very center of the room and summons a throne constructed from the bones of humans, demons, and such to rise from the depths of the ground.
Satisfied with the result, he sits on his customized throne and lets out a long sigh before turning to the boy and asks, "Now who, or should I say what, are you?"
Naruto gawks and continues to be unable to say a word.
The creature sees his fear and waves him over.
"Come closer. I won't hurt you."
Before doing as asked, Naruto stops and remembers the first time he met Kyuubi.
"How do I know you won't try to kill or eat me if I do that?"
"Eat you?" queries the creature.
"The big furball tried that when we first met."
The creature responds, "There's no gate here to keep you safe from me, if I wanted to do that. So stop wasting time and get over here. I want a better look at you."
Seeing no other alternative he stands in front of the creature.
It then demands, "Look into my eyes."
He finds himself reliving his past from now to the day he was born. He sees when the person he considers a brother shoves a fatal Chidori through his body, he relives everything in the Chunin Exams, his time in Wave Country, his association with Haku, his beatings from his precious Sakura, being used by his teacher Mizuki, his discovery of ramen, a kid pretending to be his friend so that he may be led outside of the village so that he may be attacked and left for dead by a group of villagers, his first friend brutally killed for being a "Demon Lover," and also the constant attacks and near death experiences. And as he anticipates on what his parents may look like, especially his mother, he is shocked to see whom his father is, so much so that he loses the opportunity to learn who is his mother before he is brought back to the room with the creature.
The creature watches tears run down Naruto's face before the kid falls to his knees.
"Interesting life kid. Must be tough learning not only is the man you look up to so much is your father but he's also the same man who cursed your life with so much hurt and misery."
Naruto beams a smile, "But I finally saw my father. I have a father."
The creature smirks, "For such a great man, he hardly left you with much of an inheritance, unless you count hurt, heartache, misery, and betrayal."
Naruto gives an unwavering glare at the creature.
"Shut up, you bastard. I don't want to hear it."
The creature is suddenly bathed in its own chakra, aura, or whatever the strange power is. His power only intensifies as Naruto increases his glare, before the creature finally breaks out into laughter.
It looks at Naruto and says, "You should feel honored. I have decided not to take your soul. Instead, I will give you two choices: 'Be My Servant' or 'Be My Companion.' The choice is yours."
"What do you mean?" asks the boy.
"If you choose Servant, from this day on you will do whatever I say. You live to serve me and no other."
"There's no way I will be ok with that," declares the boy.
"Then there is Companion. We will go back in time right when the Kyuubi was," he pauses. "What was that word again? Ah, yes!! It's sealed. Sealed! We'll go back in time to right when the Kyuubi was sealed in you. I will do what I did here. Kill the demon and take its power. Then during the day, I will look after and heal your body. At night, it will be the same, but I will bring you here so that I may care and interact with you. I want to know more about you and this world of yours. What do you say? The Choice is yours."
"Ok, being your Companion sounds alright. How do we do this?"
The creature lifts his arms over his head and yanks off his skull with a good tug. He places the flaming skull on his lap and says, "Come here and place your hand on my head and don't let go no matter what."
Naruto looks cautious but does it nonetheless. As soon as he touches the skull the purple and black flames travel over his arms and into his body down into his feet. The pain is far more excruciating that anything he experienced from using Kyuubi's chakra.
"Hurts, doesn't it?" comments the skull. "But don't you dare let go."
Power gathers at his legs and grows higher to his waist.
It feels as if hot lava is thrown over his lap.
The power travels up his stomach into his chest.
It feels as if his insides are about to explode.
"Come on. You're doing great. We're almost done. Don't give in."
The power travels up his throat and into his brain.
There is a great burning sensation and the feeling of lightning gathering into a ball about to explode from within.
The white of his eyes suppress the red veins that were appearing. The blue of his eyes vanish and is replaced with black from the darkest abyss. His pupils turn dark purple.
"You can let it go now."
The fox skull glows with the former bijuu's power. It directs a beam of chakra to the boy's body covering him in red chakra. As soon as all of it enters his body. His pupils glow and a great blast of chakra and power is released from within his body.
What has happened you may ask?
Well using the power of the creature, Kyuubi, and his own, Naruto has without completely understanding sent a trigger into the past to signal the awakening of the creature.
What does this mean and what is the trigger?
The trigger is the activation or more precisely the completion of the seal that defeated the Kyuubi.
Meaning five factors must occur that will trigger the awakening of the creature.
First, the seal must be drawn.
Second, the Shinigami must be called.
Third, Kyuubi's soul, chakra, and power must be placed into the boy.
Fourth, Naruto's father dies.
Fifth, seal is complete and Shinigami departs the mortal realm.
Once all this occurs, the creature will be awakened to perform the same tasks as before.
It will kill the Kyuubi, take its power, change the layer, and commence to raise Naruto.
But here is the question. Will the boy's life change from before?
And if it does, is it for the better.
Only time will tell.