Disclaimer:
I don't own Naruto or Prototype. I can't even imagine the type of cash I'd be pulling in if I did. I just want to say one more time, I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR PROTOTYPE.
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That's right chapter one is here.
True Power
Chapter One: Awakening
It was cold.
This was the first thing to register in Naruto's mind, as he he opened his eyes to a white sheet covering his face.
Why was there a sheet covering him? Where was Sasuke? Where was he for that matter? What happened to The Valley of The End?
All of these questions began swirling in his head as he sat up, letting the sheet fall off him. Naruto then realized one piece of information that he hadn't picked up on.
He was naked.
Even more important, he was naked, it was cold, and he was on a metal slab that was just as cold as the air around him.
He shivered as he swung his feet over the edge and hopped off of the metal...thing he was on.
"Ow... did anybody get the name of the cart vendor that ran me over?" He thought to himself.
Naruto finally looked around, and recognized where he was with dread.
"Why am I in the morgue?" He asked aloud, as he remembered one of the D-rank missions where they had to help scrub out the drawers where they kept the bodies.
He quickly banished the memory from his head as he walked up to the door and pushed against it.
It didn't move an inch.
Naruto started to get more worried as he started to pound on the door with all of his might.
"What am I going to do if I can't get out of here? Am I going to die frozen in the morgue? What's going to happen?" Naruto thought in a panic. He hoped someone was out there, that someone would hear him.
All of the sudden a blinding pain shot through his arms. A strange black and red energy started to swirl around them, changing them. His arms turned pitch black and nearly foot long claws of bone shot out and surrounded his fingers. The pain lessened to nothing as he gazed upon The new wicked looking claws his hands had become. He could tell just by looking at them that the new claws were sharper than any kunai or shuriken that he owned.
His awe quickly degenerated back into the fear he was experiencing before. What was happening? The information and surprise finally got to him, and he passed out, collapsing to the floor, as his mind withdrew inward to try and make sense of the situation.
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Naruto's Mindscape:
Naruto awoke in the familiar sewer that was his mind, and sighed.
"Why am I here, and what's happening to me?" He asked aloud to himself.
"Brat, come here." The voice of his prisoner reverberated off of the walls of his mind. Naruto just stood there, contemplating whether or not to do as the voice suggested.
"Brat, I will not tell you again. Come here if you wish to know what is happening to you." The voice ordered again, much more forcefully.
Naruto's curiosity got the better of him, and he started to walked towards where he knew the seal was located.
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Hokage's office:
Tsunade was distraught as she looked at the assembled genin, chunin, and jounin before her. She knew that they knew what had happened on the Uchiha retrieval mission, but she had to tell them herself. It was her duty as Hokage.
"I have called you all here to inform you that Uzumaki Naruto died just a few hours ago due to an assassination technique to the chest. He was killed by one Uchiha Sasuke."
"Sasuke-kun wouldn't do that to one of his friends." The blond heiress to the Yamanaka clan interrupted defiantly.
"Ino, shut up." Nara Shikamaru stated fiercely as he glared at his teamate.
For once, Ino didn't have the nerve to speak up against her childhood friend as he stared at her with barely suppressed rage and guilt. Rage at her for defending the traitor, and guilt for allowing Naruto to go alone to fight him.
"Thank you, Shikamaru." Tsunade told him gratefully as she started to continue. "As I was saying Uzumaki Naruto was killed by one Uchiha Sasuke, and as such he is to be placed in the bingo book as a C-class missing nin with a return dead or alive order on his head." She said as she looked upon the children's faces. They were set with either grim determination, like Kiba and Shikamaru's, or near suicidal depression, Like Saura and Hinata's. Tsunade imagined that if she didn't have to sit behind her desk her face would look like a combination of the two.
Tsunade took a deep breath, preparing herself to continue, just as an explosion ripped through a part of the Tower.
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The Seal:
Naruto walked up to the bars of the Seal and looked inside.
"What do you want Fox?" Naruto asked forcefully.
"Foolish whelp." The Fox growled angrily as it's massive form appeared behind the bars of the Seal."I go ahead and save your ass and you still treat me with such disrespect."
"What do you mean Fox?" Naruto questioned as he looked into it's malevolent, blood red eyes.
"What I mean, Boy, is that I gave you a gift that saved your life. I gave you something that would ensure your survival, and you still think you're better than me." The Fox said as it glared through the bars at Naruto. Naruto, didn't insult the Fox for once, as he was more interested in finding out what the Fox did to him.
"What is this 'gift' Fox?" Naruto asked, curious.
"I gave you something that none of the other jinchurikki can boast." The Fox stated in glee.
"Stop dancing around my questions and answer me already." Naruto demanded, his patience wearing thin.
"You, dear child, can do something the likes of which hasn't been seen in thousands of years. You can shape-shift." The Fox informed him with a chuckle.
"Huh?" Naruto so intelligently asked, as he stared at the Fox, with cnfusion all over his face.
"I guess it doesn't really do it justice to call it 'shape-shifting', when that's really only one facet of it's true potential." The Fox said as it smirked down upon the naked blond.
"Will you just tell me what you're talking about you...you... YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Naruto screamed as his composure was finally lost.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaha..." The Fox laughed. "Such language from one so young, what is the world coming to?" The Fox asked sarcastically.
"You bastard, now you're just trying to piss me off." The blond haired youth growled, looking into the bloody eyes of the demon before him.
"It is one of the few things that gives me pleasure, being stuck within you isn't as enjoyable as you seem to believe. I am stuck in a cage inside of an idiot's mind, and you wonder why I want to kill you." The Fox stated, boredom evident in it's voice. "Anyway, I decided that I would give you a gift when you were younger, it just didn't kick in until you died."
"Wait a minute, what do you mean died?" Naruto asked, already dreading the answer.
"You woke up in the morgue, and you're wondering what I mean?" The Fox asked in disbelief. "I guess I overestimated your mental faculties."
"Just answer the question..." Naruto stated. "please." He added as an afterthought.
"Well, this is new. You're being polite." The Fox said humorously. "I guess I can answer the question, but you have to promise not to interrupt. Agreed?" Naruto merely nodded his head as he looked at the Fox before him. "Good. I'll start at when you were stabbed through your chest by your so-called friend.
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Author's note:
That's chapter one. Please tell me what you think about it. I know I made it a cliff hanger, but I wasn't sure how to continue with what I want to do without making another chapter, sorry.
Read and review please.
