Thank you for joining me again in another chapter! As I said earlier this will be a dark Naruto and this is where things begin. Hope you like it and just so you all know this will be a fairly dark one.

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Ch. 2 The Training Begins

Minato walked back to his house that evening instead of his usual thunder god technique. His head was bowed down and he carried around a look of utter defeat. The people of Konoha were confused and rather scared because they had never seen their Kage act this way before. Generally he would be walking around with a spring in his step and blasting his giant smile.

'How did I not expect something like this from that man? I should have known that he would slither his way into my family. And why did he have to take Naruto? The poor boy has it rough enough with that thrice damned fox sealed within him. Does he want to do what Danzo wanted? An ultimate weapon? I could never do that to my son but could Orochimaru? I pray to Kami he doesn't. Maybe this will be a good thing. Naruto is a genius when it comes to learning and he can never seem to get enough. I swear if he didn't have as much energy as he does he would sit with his nose in a book at all times. Well that or pester Kushina and me about new information. The boy has just started on learning how to mold chakra and but already has a firm understanding of advanced chakra control and use. Maybe Orochimaru can help feed that thirst for knowledge because Kami knows about his desire for it. I will have to keep an eye on Naruto's training but hopefully it will work out for the best. Kami how am I going to break this to Kushina. She may break me! And with that he ran home as quickly as he could praying that all will go well when he breaks the news to his wife.

-With Orochimaru-

"Kukukuku my plan is coming along splendidly," the snake Sannin hissed under his voice while he watched his two current students training inside of his estate. His estate was near the T&I department but far enough out that it was a nice secluded area. He had an underground laboratory and training facility so that others would not be able to watch what he did. He loved his secrets and hated when people saw the results or happening of them before he was ready to show the world. He didn't have a need for a prison because he already had one what he used like a grocery store. He had a total of ten spaces that he kept his experiments, thus ten prisoners he used to further his knowledge. And unknown to the Hokage was that he also used weaker prisoners as practice dummies for his apprentices. One of the first things he had them do was kill someone in cold blood. The person was tied up, defenseless, and Orochimaru commanded them to take the man/woman out with a simple and clean cut to the throat. This taught them how to kill and made any mission they went on much easier. True this was a brutal way of doing this but in his opinion it was better get over the first kill feeling during training than for the child to become a liability out on the field.

"Orochimaru-sensei, what are the plans for today," asked Kabuto. The two had finished their spar. This time Kabuto had won and Orochimaru could see Anko using a med jutsu to heal up the scratches she suffered.

"Very good both of you. Well it is late and I believe that you both have had a long day. I am very pleased to see how far you both have progressed. Now before you both leave I would like to tell you that the final addition to our new team will be joining us tomorrow. I will not tell you who it is but I will tell you that you both will have to pick up the pace if you don't want him to advance farther than you. The boy is very much like myself and has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, the likes of witch nether of you have. That is not to me taken as a slight but as criticism. Now you will meet down here at nine tomorrow morning. I understand that it may be seen as a treat but I will be expecting you to have read this scroll and be able to explain it to me when we meet. It is about the finer concept of chakra manipulations and their uses. The reason I am having you do this is so that you have a better understanding of your chakra and also because I don't want you two being confused when our new companion and me start to discus these things. Now you are dismissed."

-With Minato-

"You agreed to what!" exclaimed an infuriated Kushina.

"I had no choice. It was ether accept the proposal that he gave or a long arduous debate that would have ended very badly and possibly cause that snake to defect. The man gives me the creeps and is a rather evil bastard but is extremely helpful and has contributed to most of our current knowledge of chakra coils. His research may be disturbing but it has aided us in more ways than we could have imagined. I just had no idea that he would have asked for one of our children."

"I don't care what he has done for the village. Why did you say yes? You are the fucking Hokage for crying out loud. Couldn't you have told him our son was off limits and that he would have to choose someone else?"

Minato's face became very serious at that statement. "Kushina, I hate this predicament as much as you do but you know better than any one that I never go against my word. And that I would never pull my rank on someone just to have personal favors. Do you think I want to be compared to someone like Danzo, or anyone else in that damnedable counsel! I will not, I gave the man my word and I will not go against it."

Kushina's face softened and put her arms around her husband. "I am sorry. I know that if you could have change it you would have. I just don't want our boy to be taken away from us. You know he will demand that the child be given to him. Since he is going to be Naruto's sensei he has every right to do so. Especially since he did the same with his other two apprentices."

'Orochimaru had this all planed out. When he came to me to pass a law stating that the sensei would have the same amount of custody of the child as the parent does.' He had convinced the council and Minato himself how convenient this was and how it would make the student teacher relationship even greater. This would also make the all so praised teamwork of Konoha even greater because the teams would grow to see their teammates as siblings. Also this would make the children grow up faster because they would be away from their parents. Once they put that headband on they were no longer children but adults so they needed to leave the house and, ready or not, spread their wings. 'How was I so stupid!' Minato then looked at his wife with such sadness that she almost wept. "Kushina I will find a way to fix this. He will not take our child away form us." And with that they two parents went to bed to comfort one another and discuss how they were going to fix this.

-Hokage tower 9:00 a.m.-

"So dad I'm going to start my ninja training early?" a young Naruto looked up at his father with a look of excitement.

"Yes son but you have to realize that once you take this you will have to live with your sensei. You are now an adult no matter how young you are so don't be surprised that you wont be living with us any more," Minato said with a fake smile patting his son on the shoulder.

Naruto looked down. "Will I still see you?"

"I guess you will have to since I'm the Hokage and everything," Minato said getting a small sparkle of hope in his eyes.

"Well as long as I get to see you I will be happy," Naruto said with a smile.

'I hate to do this to you son but my hand is forced here. Hopefully you will be able to make it through this dark time.'

The door opened and in came Orochimaru and is two apprentices. "Hokage-sama," the old snake said with a bow, "I hope to find you well."

Minato gave a curt nod. "Yes, thank you, and yourself?"

"I am doing quite well thank you very much." He then turned his attention to Naruto who just looked at him is confusion. "Now I take it you are Naruto. I am Orochimaru and these are your new teammates. The girl's name in Anko and the boy's is Kabuto." Anko gave a smile to the boy while Kabuto simply nodded.

Naruto instantly smiled, "Hi my name in Namikaze Naruto, I'm six years old, and can't wait to train with you."

Minato smiled at his son. 'He is so outgoing I hope he gets along with these two.' He then turned to his son. "Now Naruto it is time to head out with your new sensei. I want you to behave and listen to what he has to say. I will see you when you come in for a mission or when your sensei comes in for a visit." He then looked at Orochimaru and gave a nonverbal 'You better bring my son back on a regular basses or else' look. Grabbing his son by the shoulder and turning him around he walked the boy over to the snake Sannin and handed him over. He then turned around and sat down at his desk. The newly completed team started to walk out when Minato said in a horse voice, "Naruto I love you." But his son never heard it and the group left the room.

-At Orochimaru's Estate-

The group had walked to the estate in relative silence. Naruto because he was feeling a bit awkward, Kabuto and Anko because they had always been instructed to walk in silence when with Orochimaru, and Orochimaru because he was throwing himself a victory party inside his head. Once their Kabuto and Anko started towards their rooms where they were to start on some more book work while Orochimaru began Naruto on his training. Both children felt sorry for Naruto remembering how their first month of training had gone. But if what Orochimaru had told them was correct Naruto would have it easier than they did.

"Welcome home Naruto. I hope there will be a time where you will see it that way. But until then we must begin your training, now follow me." Orochimaru lead Naruto two the center most room in the mansion and towards a spiraling staircase. They went down it passing the library, then the supply level, followed by the laboratory and ending in the training facility.

"Wow that was a long ways down. Why do you have everything so far underground?" Naruto asked.

"Well see it aids in privacy and allows us to train and go about our business in more privacy. Now Naruto what do you think is the most difficult part about being a ninja?"

Naruto looked surprised by the sudden question then answered, "Well I would guess learning the skills to be an exceptional ninja."

Orochimaru nodded and said, "That is one of the difficulties but in my opinion it is also the most enjoyable part of our job. What actually is the most difficult part about being a ninja is death. We are the bringers of death in this world. People higher us to assassinate people, to guard them and kill off any attackers, to fight wars, and to do a multitude of other jobs. The problem with being a shinobi is that we must kill. The first kill is always the hardest and tends to stay with you throughout your whole life. The second is still very difficult but not as bad. You continue along this path until you get to the point where you barely feel it any more and it becomes more of a robotic action. The problem with the first kill is that when it happens most people freeze and are unable to cope with the fact that it happened. This makes you a liability upon the battlefield and that could cost you your life or that of your teammate. So in order to prevent that form happening you will perform your first kill right here and right now." After hearing this Naruto's eyes grew in fear. "Do you see that shadow in the corner?" Naruto nodded. "That is your target. You are to walk over to him," Orochimaru hands him over a kunai, "and use this to make a clean incision over his throat. You are to watch his eyes as the life drains out of him and once you are done you are to walk back over to me and tell me what you saw."

Naruto looked down at the kunai in his shaking hands. 'Orochimaru wants me to kill someone right now? But why were they a bad person? Do they deserve to die? Is this a test in order to become a shinobi?' all of these thoughts and more were going threw his brain. He then turned to Orochimaru and asked a very simple and childish question, "Was the person bad?"

Orochimaru sneered at this and replied, "Yes, in fact he is a criminal and was order for execution. Your father has given me all of those who are to be executed to use as I wish. Now before I decide to toss you out of this house for your incompetence, kill the beast and get this over with. I am waiting to hear your assessment of the first kill."

After hearing that the unknown being in the shadows was in fact an evil person who deserved death he obtained the resolve to carry out the kill. In fact the fact that he was a child and was told that it was ok made everything seem not so real. So the six-year-old blond walked over to the shivering shadow and once he was close enough looked directly into their face. This person was not what he was expecting, not at all. When he though of an evil criminal he always pictured a hulking ugly brutish man but before him was a young girl, no older than fifteen. She was crying making almost no sound threw the gag that she had placed in her mouth. Naruto froze, 'She doesn't look evil, why would she be sentenced to death if she doesn't look like she deserved it.' On a whim he reached down and took the gag off. She was tied up still but could breath easier and was able to speak. But what Naruto was not expecting was for her to let out a blood-curdling scream that seemed to shake his very soul. He covered his ears until he she stopped screaming.

Orochimaru sat there rather surprised that Naruto would take the gag off. The past two times he had given this test nether of his older apprentices attempted to talk to their soon to be victim. 'Kukuku this should be interesting, I wonder what Naruto will do now.'

Once the woman stopped screaming the blonde brought his hands down and asked in a very serious tone that seamed wrong even to Orochimaru's ears, "What did you do that deserved death."

The girl stared up at Naruto very confused before the boy started to speak then that confusion turned to fear. Once she got over her fear and realized what the boy had asked she grew angry, "I killed my father for forcing me to marry someone I didn't want to instead of the one that I did. The old bastard deserved it."

Naruto's face darkened and took upon a look that should never appear on the face of someone so young. He closed his blue eyes but when he opened them they were blood red. The girl screamed in so much terror that it sent chills down Orochimaru's back, and that is saying something. Naruto was fed up with her screaming and lashed out his had to grip her throat with more power than a child his age should have. The teen couldn't breath let alone scream and her eyes started to bug out in both suffocation and fear.

"By what I see you deserve death," and with that he slowly brought his kunai across her throat. He watched as she drowned upon her own blood and held on to her throat until the light left her eyes. Once he was sure that she was dead he dropped the body and turned around. When he did Orochimaru saw what cause that dreadful scream to come from the girl.

'This is better than I could have imagined. I had no idea that he could access it yet!' Orochimaru thought looking directly into Naruto's blood red eyes. The boy then closed his eyes and when he opened them they were back to their original blue but a noticeably colder color.

Naruto looked right into Orochimaru's eyes and asked one simple question in a tone that made the snake Sannin almost jump for joy, "Did I pass?"


Well, how did I do? Criticism is always appreciated and any cool ideas you may want to see in this story may apear and full credit will go to you. Hope you all enjoyed this, also how is it coming along for a dark Naruto? This is my second story so I'm still kinda new at this:) Well until next time!