Hello readers, It is I LivingLie, back after a long hiatus. Now I'm sure some of you are going to be disappointed but here's what my plans are. I'm going to do over 'The Masked Beast'. Meaning I am going to start from the beginning but the changes I'm going to make are grammatical. I will only tweak the story here and there. That is so I feel comfortable with the story I have so I can continue without any nagging feelings. So without further ado. . .
P.S. Naruto's look resembles both in physical form and personality that of Cody Rhodes (WWE) with his mask, just add look will be applied in future chapters
Mask Of Insanity
Chapter 1: Birth of the Beast
October 10 12:00 Am
It was a peaceful night in the Village hidden in the leaves, night had fully consumed the land and everyone except the village guards were awake. What could be seen from the outside anyway.
But that changed very quickly.
All the sudden the air was filled with such malice and contempt that everyone immediately woke up and started to gasp for air.
The shinobi of the village made their way out to face who disrupted their peaceful night, and when they finally reached their target on the outskirts of the village borders, most froze by the sight.
It was the strongest Bijuu in the world, the nine tailed fox, the Kyuubi no Kitsune.
After a few seconds of starring at the snarling beast, one brave chunin began shouting.
"Come on men, we need to hold off the beast until Hokage-sama arrives."
With that brave declaration the men charged, not aware of the gruesome fate that awaited them.
Konoha Hospital- 11:55pm
"AHH! I hate you Minato, I hate you, I hate you, I HATE YOU!" The red headed woman shrieked.
"Keep calm Kushina, just think in a few minutes you'll be a mommy." Minato stated slightly smiling, holding her hand, while the doctor assisted with the birth process.
"Fuck you Minato you don't have life coming out of you va..." Kushina shouted before being interrupted.
"Congratulations, you have twins." The hooded doctor said in a monotone voice that lacked enthusiasm.
At that moment Minato was caught a bit off guard, one by the lack of energy from the doctor but he chalked it up as the late night work stress. And also because he was only aware of one child (his daughter) and now he has two, this night couldn't get better.
"Well Minato-kun (pant) we're finally (pant) parents (pants) what should their names be? Kushina asked.
"Well I kinda promised Jiraya to name our boy after, a book character of his. N..." Before Minato could finish saying anything Kushina butted in.
"I want to name our daughter Anci." Kushina said ignoring what Minato was saying.
"A beautiful name for a beautiful girl." Minato smiled brighter.
"What did you say you were going to name the boy?" Kushina asked.
"As I said I was going to name him Naruto, for Jiraya-sensei."
There was a slight chill in the air, as Kushina's smile had disappeared.
"Minato," Right there the blonde haired man knew that this wasn't going to end well. "you're not only going to name our boy after a perverted character in that disgusting book, but a name that also means fishcake, as in a ramen topping?"
"Y-yes?"
"That name is terrible!" Kushina exclaimed
"I know, but it's an homage to my sensei and he has done a lot for us." Minato argued.
"That doesn't matter, our last name won't be connected to something as stupid as Naruto." Without any warning, the room filled with a cold chill.
"Ku ku ku ku ku, Kushina you really need to learn to watch your mouth, you're bringing your precious children into the world, is that what you want them to hear first in their lives?" The pale man asked.
"Orochimaru! How in the hell did you get here!?" Minato seethed.
"Poor Mina-kun frustrated that his little defense was rendered useless." Orochimaru responded in a sickenly innocent voice.
Minato glared at the snake, with two things in mind. One he was trying to figure out why Konoha's most infamous missing-nin was able to breach HIS village and get into the room with HIS wife and HIS kids in it. The other thought happened to be how could he capture this bastard before he does any damage, but his thought process was interrupted by said snake.
"So how are you and your demon wife feeling this fine night?" The pale man asked hinting at something Minato forgot.
'Shit' The blonde thought 'That reminds me I need to start sealing before the Kyuubi is released.'
The blonde man ignored the snake to tackle the much more dangerous foe, but before he could...
"I would move away from the jinchuuriki, or your newborn won't live to see dawn." The pale man said
Minato was about to ask how exactly his foe was going to accomplish that when the blonde noticed the doctor that helped with the birth was over
"Thanks for the offspring Kabuto-kun."
The doctor removed his hood to reveal himself as the newly identified Kabuto.
"Thank you Orochimaru-sama." Kabuto responded giving Orochimaru Naruto.
The next five seconds had to be the quickest in The fourths life, because as Minato decided to heed the snakes warning, Orochimaru flashed through hand signs that made Kushina glow red. But just as soon as the red appeared it dissipated. Although the blonde was a little confused at first he soon figured it out. The Kyuubi was free.
Back to present time
The happenings on the battlefield would be considered slaughter, plain and simple. The shinobi of Konoha stood no chance in hell against one of it's residence. None of the ninja were spared, and because of the Kyuubi's nature, the hell spawn didn't let the brave fighters die a quick death, but a long and drawn out process.
Some suffered internal bleeding that, when applied in the right area they would literally drown in their own blood...Slowly and painfully.
Despite the horrible offenses that the ninja provided, they still flung themselves at the demon fox hoping the could delay the destruction of their precious Village.
"Don't fucking stop! Kill this son of a bitch already!" A jounin commaned.
Sadly this was in vain as the rampage continued.
Konoha Hospital-12:03
In the span of a few minutes Minato's life from cloud nine to the 11th stage of hell. After Orochimaru released the Kyuubi, surprisingly he returned Naruto, albeit not gently, and the action landed Naruto next to his ill mother while receiving cuts on his face. But still being in shock both future sound-nin escaped from the fourth. To make matters worse when Minato snapped out of his trance he noticed his wife was on the verge of death. He knew what he had to do, but he didn't like it.
"Kushina I'm sorry, but I need to seal the Kyuubi into one of our children."Minato said solemnly looking at his wife's dying form.
"Anci will be the one to become a jinchuriki." The redhead stated.
The blonde was actually stunned that she would let their daughter that they wanted for months and ACTUALLY planned to conceive, would be immediately chosen to become accursed with the title of jinchuriki, until she explained however.
"I feel that if she becomes the Kyuubi's jailer that she can set a better image for others like her in other countries. She will already be highly respected as our firstborn and the clan name she bears will also help." Kushina with the utmost sincerity.
Minato was taken back by this, for several reasons. One was how his wife made such a hard decision on a moments notice. Also how she had no remorse for what would happen to Naruto. But since this was her dying wish and it made the blondes' task of deciding easier he decided not to argue.
"Ok, my love, I will honor your last wish." With that the fourth hokage grabbed his daughter and disappeared in a yellow flash.
Kushina turned her head over she stared at Naruto, and with death slowly creeping up on her she made her dying declaration. "Anci Uzumaki-Namikaze will become the greatest Shinobi in Konohagakure history, I know it. And Naruto...I love you so much." With that last statement her head rest on the table which she was on, completely still,
Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze was dead...
Battlefield, an instant after Minato left.
"Hokage-sama is here, we're saved!" A young chunin exclaimed as loudly as he could.
As the other Ninja stopped and stared on in awe of leader, that currently was staring at the 9-tailed fox beast known as Kyuubi with an icy-cold glare. He sighed realizing what he had to do, but before he started with his fuuinjutsu he took out a small piece of paper and scribbled furiously on it, quickly finishing whatever task he was doing, and held it in his hand. Next he took out his sealing materials and, I think we all know what he did after that.
After the sealing 12:20
Two men of a mature age walked out onto the battlefield to find their student and former leader dead next to his newborn daughter with a hand on her stomach. The near-by area was completely destroyed trees leveled, earth torn from the ground, it appeared like the nuclear holocaust had just took place here.
One of these men was the newly reappointed third hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi who was wearing the Hokage hat, a black t-shirt, with ninja pants that had stockings on his calf. His shoes were basic sandals. and the other, the toad sannin himself Jiraya. As they shared a downcast look on their face Sarutobi decided to cradle the crying little girl, as Jiraiya noticed the note fall out of the deceased blondes hand.
Although the writing was smudged due to the still wet ink being compressed the basic jist of the message was that Anci was to be named as the heir to the Uzumaki and Namikaze clans, while over a period of time gaining the vast fortune of the clan over time. Her heritage shall be known to all, and guards to protect her from potential angry rock-nins coming for their revenge.
The most interesting had to be the point in which the note blamed Orochimaru for the events. And in this note neared the conclusion the end read "Final statement of the fourth hokage Minato Namikaze." No mention of Naruto anywhere.
Jiraiya took a deep sigh and smiled at the little girl in Sarutobi's hand, as he looked at his sensei and said "Looks like we got a future apprentice of mine here, but for now we need to call upon the council to spread word of this little girl, Anci I believe her name is." Jiraiya said handing the letter of to the third.
Sarutobi looked at Jiraya confused, the old man knew of his students disdain for the council but as Hiruzen skimmed over it he nodded his head and responded "Indeed Jiraya, we need to make sure everyone knows what kind of hero this little Anci-chan is." They were both off.
Council room 12:30
This occurrence was actually a lot less conflicted than the sannin or the Hokage thought. Usually jinchuuriki were negatively received by the mass population, but not in this instance for the new information of the note and Anci's heritage, no one dare go against the last wishes of their beloved hokage. Not even Danzo would tread on this ground. So after the council agreed upon revealing the identity until they received disturbing news from a Chunin who just entered the room.
"Hokage-sama(pant) Orochi(pant)maru is in(pant) the town square!" the tired ninja exclaimed.
"What!" the group collectively responded.
Town square 1:00 am
Orochimaru stood smug in front of the crowd of injured ninja and frightened civilians some of which watching from their house, the others came out to see what the commotion was. The weirdest thing about this entire scene was the fact Orochimaru was holding a little blonde boy with whisker marks. The same boy that layed next to his dead mother a few minutes before.
'I have failed with the Kyuubi, damn I really shouldn't of underestimated it's power but I can sure as hell ruin Minato and Kushina's little family ku ku ku ku' Thought Orochimaru.
The pale man stayed silent though until he was surrounded by the shinobi side of the council, his old sensei, and his old teammate.
"Orochimaru-teme what are you doing with the boy!" Jiraya shouted
"Oh just showing the boy the town, I do owe him a lot." Orochimaru said
"What do you mean, you owe him?" Sarutobi asked
"Well if it wasn't for this little guy I wouldn't of been able to do what exactly I did tonight." Orochimaru lied through his sick smile.
"Are you saying that he played apart in all of this?" Jiraiya asked getting angrier by the second.
"Well most definitely Jiraiya-DOBE, If it wasn't for little Naruto-kun I wouldn't of done this, I wouldn't of killed your fourth hokage, his wife and many ninja here." Orochimaru lied again, with the same smirk.
The whole crowd turned it's attention to the innocent boy, with killer intent on full blast, which in turned made him cry.
Luckily it was the professor who realized something was wrong and decided to speak up.
"How exactly did this baby boy provoke you to do all this?" Hiruzen probed the question.
"Ku ku ku ku ku that's for me to know, and for you to be eaten alive by." With those words the snake man placed the baby on the ground, and threw a smoke bomb on the ground.
Now for any regular Ninja surrounded by a kage and a sannin with other ninjas around them this would've been pointless. But Orochimaru is no ordinary ninja so this is all the time he need to use his jutsu that allows him to blend with the environment that basically ensures a getaway. As the smoke dissipated the hokage motioned for the ninja to search for his rogue student. As the ninjas left those that remained were stunned civilians, the hokage himself, and Jiraya. Once everyone regained their bearings their attention was turned towards Naruto
"Kill him!"
"End his life before he does ours!"
"Orochimaru planted the baby, It must be here to spy on us!"
"Sarutobi-sensei although I loath to admit it, the child does pose a risk if snake-teme had anything to do with him. I say we end the boy before the villagers attempt to kill him or until he kills us." The toad sannin with a regrettable.
Sarutobi looked upon the child who was still crying and had the same feelings that the crowd was chanting except for one fact. He had no physical evidence that Naruto did anything. Sure the snake said that Naruto was involved but that was not a reliable resource, and imagine if the a kage listened to the greatest traitor of his village and killed potential civilians over what was said. The old hokage explained his thoughts to the crowd, and though Jiraya reluctantly agreed, the crowd wasn't so excepting.
"But Hokage-Sama why..." The female civilian that was in the immediate vicinity was cut off.
"I don't want to hear it, This night has already been to much, Just bring Naruto-san over to an orphanage, I'll deal with him later." The Hokage ordered the civilian woman, With that, the last remaining Ninja left the area.
Hesitantly the woman that objected earlier, went and picked up the boy from the dirt road. As she cradled it next the her bosom she was shocked when the baby hugged her thinking she was his mother. Needless to say she was repulsed by the action and held him out in front of her as if he was contaminated waste. She walked out of the crowd heading to the nearest orphanage. The crowd eventually left the background, but not before shooting killing intent at baby Naruto. He started crying out of fear when the woman suddenly pulled him back into her. Then she whispered something that could make a grown Ninja cringe.
"Don't worry you won't die little one. I'll make sure you live through your ENTIRE punishment." She said maliciously, with an evil smirk.
Thus started the life of Naruto, son of Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze.
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