Breaking the Seal
Chapter 1
The World Went Black
A/N Ok well for those of you who have read my original version I hope you like this version just as much if not more. I changed some things to a darker mood and there is some swear words so do not bother me with message telling me I used the f word. I know I did I Fucking wrote it. Now I know where I am going with this and this one will be a full harem.
The first ten years of my life can fill numerous novels, could captivate the simplest and complex minds for days on end. But as eventful as my life was it could be summed up in a few words. The easiest way to portray my life would be using two words that clarify and show my true life so painfully well it was as if someone created these words with me in mind. Those two words were Pain and Suffering.
Everyday I had to struggle to stay alive. I wondered why I bothered trying to stay alive I still do just not as much. I had no one to comfort me I had nothing to call my own I was allowed to stay in an apartment somebody else paid for. I was allowed to be beaten, to be cursed, to be hated by people I have never even met before. But most of all, the cold void in myself was allowed to grow and grow.
Many people have tried to get close to me. At first I would freely give my trust and enjoyed the attention and caring I thought I received. It was all fake, every smile every comforting thing said everything. I was backstabbed countless times; I lost the ability to try to fill the void. I lost the ability to hope, to dream. I lost all expectations I had of everything. I only expected the worst. If I found some money on the ground someone would claim it theirs and accuse me of stealing it. If someone saw me they would attack me. Everyone was secretly plotting to kill me. Nothing was as it seemed. I became paranoid, I became a ninja.
Over time my paranoia was reinforced. Beatings and belittlements continued, but the weapons lost their sting, the words their bite and I became numb to the world. I started basking in darkness. It became the warm blanket I never had. It never failed to make me feel safer. It protected me from the villagers. It became the loving embrace I always wanted. It protected me unconditionally and never hurt me. I felt right in it, it was the one thing I had.
With the darkness came voices. I would talk to the voices and they would comfort me. The only memorable ones sound distinctly like a father, while the other a true mother. I talk to them when I can. Talking to them keep me sane, even thought people said I was insane fore doing it. So technically I was kept sane by being insane.
One day the Hokage took me to a doctor to have me looked at. He didn't trust others around me, he protected me like the darkness. But I know he is like the rest. He will betray me any second, maybe plunge a knife through my back, curse my existence, and try to burn me alive. I keep my guard up while answering the questions I'm asked lying occasionally to make myself look sane so I won't be forced to take pills. In the end the doctor said I was suffering from paranoia and insanity. I calmly corrected him saying "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it." I meant it and hoped by saying it, it would get me off the hook, after all who would dispute the First Hokage who said the same thing when being called crazy for growing a forest in the middle of nowhere.
The Hokage seemed pleased at my remark while the doctor seemed a little miffed. I choose that time to make my get away before I was attacked by anybody. Every since I started hearing the voices I have been trying to find them. When ever I am able to sleep I awaken in a dark labyrinth of pipes leading in all directions. The voice calls for me to find it but I can not tell which way the voice is coming from. I apologies for my inability and continue searching. All the time thought the voices treat me kindly telling me they are proud of my attempts and give sweet encouragements.
I wake only to try to go back to sleep. The voices sounded so close. I want to find them; no I need to find them. I look around and make my way to the fridge. I find some food in my fridge. I hope it hasn't been poisoned and quickly eat it. I silently remember praying to Kami asking for my food to not be poisoned or tainted when I was younger. I know better now there is no Kami. People who are afraid of death created illusions of an afterlife to feel better and ended up pushing their beliefs onto others.
One of their strongest points was that demons existed in the form of the tailed beasts and that because demon existed angels must have also. And because angels must exist Kami must also. But I know the truth, the voices told me. Humans steal the earth's life energy and call it chakra. The tailed beasts were originally just the planet's reaction to too much chakra being taken from it. The planet struck back and tried to reclaim its life source. Over the centuries humans became dependant on chakra to survive and learned to channel more and more energy from the earth.
The reason chakra have elements is because the life energy taken is originally universal but when it reaches the surface in the forms of nature it becomes more refined. Chakra affinities are nothing more than figuring out how to force the planet's life force to become another of its natural form. Of course it sounds complicate when said like that but it really is just determined by how much chakra is absorbed through which chakra points. There are millions on the human body but only around sixty open and the others remain dormant, the ones that open determine what affinity someone has naturally. But the is an exception to the rule, someone made someone else jealous with a flash jutsu and the other person force themselves to learn it by accidently opening some of the needed pores.
Understanding the theory and being able to talk with spirits made me unnaturally attune to the planet and I can hear her cries. She screams for death of all shinobi and the return of her energy and I feel compelled to comply. The voices want me to also but they stay my hand. The ask me to wait until I can end all chakra theft and leave humans who aren't able to steal it alone so the balance is maintained.
No one would believe me if I told them what I knew. Some people had it half right and thought they needed to return the tailed beasts to the planet to return its life energy. They only believe this because they are so incredibly powerful that they started to hear the planet. Unfortunately for all of them they were shunned for their beliefs against using the guardians as demons and the villages ran out their strongest shinobi forming the Red Moon organization.
Others that can hear the planets cries usually are so battle hardened that they can ignore it or pass it off as reliving past battles. The first was a great man; he attempted to return the energy to the earth by creating a living forest. Now by living I mean really living, he tied the planets life force to the forest so it would use the forest to reclaim lost energy and create more energy to replace the stolen. I shake my head clearing my thoughts and remember what I'm doing. Must find voices… right!
I go to the bathroom and look for the sleeping pills the doctor gave me. I never chanced taking them before because of the fear of poison, but I need to find the voices. Without them I have nothing but the darkness but the darkness was not enough and little did I know I would gain something I never thought possible, the light.
(Exiting first person for now)
Naruto swallows three of the pills after skeptically reading a note from the Hokage saying he has personally checked all the food and medicine the boy had been given. The boy jumped under the covers to eagerly wait for chemically induced sleep to claim him. Slowly the boy's world turned to black and the all too comfortable darkness embraced him once again.
(Inside the labyrinth)
Naruto made his way towards the voices. He could tell where they were coming from now. They sounded so close to him. He rounded a corner and saw a white light at the end of the passage way. He sped up and hurried towards the room. The light got brighter and brighter while the voices kept egging him on. For better or worse he was going into the light to confront the voices.
Blinding white light engulfed Naruto and he temporarily lost his ability to see. Slowly his vision cleared leaving some color spots floating in his vision. He was able to identify a prison and a dark shape with red eye's leering at him.
"Hello mortal. Bout fucking time you decided to show up." sneered the dark shadow.
"Now that you're here I can explain some things to you and tell you what you are going to do… and for Fuck's sake stop looking around like you expected to meet your parents or something! I created the voices to get you here" continued the shadow. Naruto looked at the shape. He saw the shield and everything quickly fell into place.
"So you are the great Kyuubi the greatest work of the planet." Naruto said it more as a fact then a question. "And I suppose that you needed me for something, most likely wanting me to give you control of my body so you can reclaim 'moms' blood right?"
"Well it seems you were able to retain some of my teachings, and as much as I want to do what you suggested I can't so I'm going to do the next best thing. I will exit your body and remerge myself with the planet. Now I only waited to do this so I could tell you what the changes will be and to pass on some knowledge and a mission." finished the fox. He waited for and received a nod of understanding before explaining in greater detail.
"Now when I leave all of your chakra pores will open and you will eventually become an avatar like I once was myself. You will be immortal but can still be killed by decapitation. I will leave behind some knowledge on how to use your affinities in combination but it's up to you to figure out the rather violent uses humans have come up for them. I will also give you all the human anatomy and biology knowledge I have. I … um also I sigh I wanted to tell you to enjoy life a little bit and to try to find a little happiness.
Now on to a more serious note I want you to absorb shinobi's chakra cores and transfer them to the planet allowing her to over time suck chakra from humans and other forms of life to create a balance. All people have a chakra core but shinobi develop theirs allowing them to pull more life energy from the planet. In the end the planet can't reabsorb the chakra once it has been used so it just floats around the planet's surface and is absorbed by humans again. By using the cores the planet would be able to suck chakra out of the atmosphere and create a cycle that would allow shinobi to exist and would prevent the earth from dying. Originally the other guardians and I thought it would be better to just kill off all the shinobi but I have had ten years to think things through."
The whole speech left Naruto speechless. He half expected the save the planet part but never thought anyone, let alone a millennia old guardian, would care enough about him to wish him well and actually mean it. Just the something changed in Naruto. The bottomless void just received a bottom and it didn't seem so deep. He had a purpose, a meaning for his existence other then the basic the basic human code of survive and repopulate. The void was sealed off and he realized how much it meant that something cared whether he lived or died, he was hooked to the genuine care and wanted more.
The two beings eyes met and they understood each other perfectly, one was ending their lives work for the other to continue,but it was more than that, Kyuubi wanted him to be happy as much as he wanted the mission complete and Naruto would do anything Kyuubi asked of him. They shared an understanding nod before Kyuubi dissipated into a red mist and for Naruto the world went black.
