(A/N: I do not own Naruto, or their characters. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto)
Ch 2
Seven years ago the Nidaime Mizukage took in a young boy he found in the forest near Konoha. He took him under his wing and showed him the ways of the mist ninja. He even took time out of his hectic days to personally train him, and when he couldn't he had the seven swordsmen of the mist train him. The boy grew strong, stronger than he ever anticipated. During one specific training exercise he released a blood red colored chakra which gave him abilities that have never been seen by human eyes before. Madara knew that was the chakra of the Kyuubi, and he knew who Naruto's family was. Naruto was scared that his sensei and the swordsmen, the only family he ever came to know would abandon him, but they didn't. They accepted him for his power, and never gave up on him. They showed him how to use his power to his advantage, and protect himself, and those he loved. Madara told him everything he knew about Naruto's family and he was happy to find out he had two brothers and a sister out in the world. He also told him that he would locate them and reunite them with Naruto so he could know his true family. Eventually, Madara retired as Mizukage and gave the position to someone else, but continued to train Naruto as best he could until tragedy struck. The Sandaime Mizukage died in battle and Madara took it upon himself to name one of Kiri's other jinchuriki as the Yondaime Mizukage, on the condition he would help Naruto train to control the beast within him, he accepted. Naruto excelled in all his abilities and soon at the age of seven he took the genin exam and passed with flying colors. On another training session he had yet another miraculous thing happen to him…his eyes changed. When word of this reached the Mizukage he rushed to him and saw his blue eyes changed to a light purple stretching all over his entire eyes, and his pupil was surrounded by six rings, Madara was extremely impressed, Naruto unlocked the rin'nengan eye at age ten. He continued to train under the former and current Mizukage and the swordsmen, and soon became a swords master himself, but his sword was different from any in the swordsmen of the mist, because he made his himself. He took a meteorite and melted it with the dust of crushed diamonds, and created the strongest sword in the entire village. Now age thirteen he passed the chunin exams and was the talk of the village, he was recognized as a prodigy of Kiri, and never hesitated to defend the village from any threat. Naruto had the respect of his village, and superiors, he also gained a new dream, to become one of the swordsmen of the mist, and eventually the Mizukage. He truly had an amazing life, and no regrets what so ever.
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In the center of his home was the training room which Naruto meditated in. He sat in the center of the room and meditated just as he always did before training. He sat with his legs crossed and his hands in the tiger sign. He wore wraps around his arms, hands, and fingers, a black ripped up shirt with fishnets underneath, dark blue pants with his kunai holster and shuriken pouch at his waist, a new black chunin vest over his shirt, his sword on his back, wraps over his nose and mouth, and his mist village headband worn proudly on his forehead. He opened his eyes and looked around, the room was completely dark, but his rin'nengan allowed him to see everything as clear as day.
"Training room, level ten." Naruto said.
An assault of shurikens and kunai came flying at him, and without a second wasted Naruto pulled his sword out and blocked off every shuriken and kunai that came his way. After the weapon assault four wooden puppets rose from the ground and charged at him all at once, he used his sword to block all the puppets attacks and then cut all four of them in half , he soon walked out of the training room without a scratch on him.
'To easy.' He thought.
He looked at his sword with great pride, the blade was the darkest black he ever seen, it glossed in the light because of the mixture of the metals in the meteorite and the diamond dust, and he created the hardest metal known to man, the hilt was a normal katana hilt without the hand guard, but this one had a weaved texture all over the handle giving it grip. He sheathed his sword and was going to request a high ranked mission from the Mizukage, but first he would inform Madara of his request. He arrived at his office and was shocked at what he saw.
"Well Madara it all comes down to this." said Zabuza holding his blade at the former Mizukage's throat.
'Zabuza? ' Naruto thought.
Naruto saw Zabuza and one of their hunter nins attacking his sensei. This boiled his blood, one of their own was going to kill his sensei. He slammed the door opened and drew his sword.
"What?!" Zabuza yelled.
"Step away from my sensei." Naruto said as he pointed his sword at Zabuza.
Zabuza let a laugh out and looked at the hunter nin.
"Haku, take care of the pest." Zabuza said.
The hunter appeared behind Naruto and made a hand sign with one hand.
"Crystal ice mirrors." said Haku.
A mass amount of mirrors appeared around Naruto and Haku entered one of them.
"What the hell is this?!" shouted Naruto.
"That would be Haku's blood limit, however it's very different from yours Naruto." Zabuza said.
Naruto suddenly felt pain all over his body, and when the pain stopped he saw dozens of needles sticking out of his body.
"Just look Nidaime your greatest student is no match for mine, and I'm going to keep you alive just long enough to see him die." Zabuza said.
Madara said nothing, he knew that was a strong jutsu, but also had full confidence in Naruto, he watched him grow so much, and get stronger than anyone ever expected. He was sure that nothing would stop him. Naruto got right back up and looked at his sensei.
"Don't worry sensei, as soon as I'm out of this we can take down Zabuza together." Naruto said.
"It's useless, no one has ever survived my jutsu before." Haku said.
"Yeah, but I be none of them was as strong as I am." Naruto said.
"What are you talking about? I've already killed three of the swordsmen of the mist, and Zabuza-sama and I going to finish the others off when were finished with you and your sensei." Haku said.
Naruto stood up and started laughing and Haku. He sheathed his sword and continued to laugh.
"What is he doing Madara?" asked Zabuza.
Madara smiled and kept watching Naruto.
"You'll see Zabuza." Madara replied.
Naruto continued to laugh at Haku, and as he kept laughing it started to sound more and more demonic.
'What is this power…it…it feels like pure evil.' Haku thought.
Haku looked at Naruto and saw that his eyes changed from light purple to blood red and his pupils became slits, he grew claws that ripped our of his wraps, his visible whiskers became thicker, and soon blood red chakra started pouring out and cloaking Naruto's body giving him chakra ears and a chakra tail. Both Haku and Zabuza looked in fear at Naruto. It didn't take long for Haku to launch another attack, but this time not one of his needles made contact, and Naruto let a roar out and destroyed all the mirrors.
"WHAT THE HELL?! BUT THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!" Zabuza yelled.
"Hehehe, oh Zabuza…you're so full of yourself that you forget other peoples powers." Madara said.
Zabuza looked at Madara and saw his eyes change. They both turned red with three red dots around a black pupil, and three black bars expanding outward to the edge of the iris.
'What…What is that?' thought Zabuza.
He looked over at Haku and saw that for the first time in his life he was scared.
"Haku come on!" he shouted.
Zabuza and Haku ran toward the window and fled the scene. Madara deactivated his sharingan, and looked over at Naruto who was calling off the Kyuubi's chakra.
"Are you alright sensei?" Naruto asked.
He walked over to Naruto and placed his hand on his shoulder.
"I'm fine Naruto, and you?" he asked.
"I'm ok, I was just worried about you." Naruto said.
"I want you to come with me." Madara said.
Both Madara and Naruto walked over to a door that leads down under their mansion. They walked for a good ten minutes, but they arrived at a dead end. Madara made hand signs and the walk sunk into the ground. They both walked in and saw a group of people wearing black cloaks with red clouds on them.
'Who are these people?' thought Naruto.
"Naruto, I'd like you to meet the akatsuki." Madara said.
Naruto looked at him with a confused look.
"The criminal organization?" Naruto asked.
"Well Madara it seems he's know about us for a while, yeah." said a blond man on the ceiling.
"Yes, I've been training him for this day, and thank you for the tip Kisame." Madara said.
"It was no problem Nidaime -sama." Kisame said.
"Kisame? What are you doing here? I thought you were dead." Naruto said.
Kisame walked over and kneeled down to Naruto
"That's what I wanted everyone to think. I've known about Zabuza's betrayal for a while, so I needed to disappear." Kisame said.
Naruto smiled at the man who trained him for several years, and was glad that he was alive.
"So why are we here sensei?" Naruto asked.
"Naruto, I told you I would help you find your family…and I've found one of your brothers." Madara said.
Naruto didn't know what to say. He was so happy to finally meet a member of his family.
"Nagato present yourself." Madara said.
A man about seventeen years old with red hair that covered half his face, and a mass amount of piercings walked forward and presented himself to Naruto and Madara. It took Naruto a second, but he saw that they both had the same eyes, the rin'nengan eyes.
"Nagato, this is your little brother, Naruto." Madara said.
Their eyes met and they instantly knew it was true. Neither of them asked how they were separated, and now didn't care.
"Just as I promised." Madara said.
Nagato gave him a smile, and Naruto did the same. They couldn't hold it in any longer and gave each other a hug for the first time. Naruto looked up at his sensei, and could express how happy he was at that moment.
"Thank you sensei." Naruto said.
They let go of each other and were ready to hear the reason they were called here.
"As all of you know an attempt to kill me by Zabuza Momochi has just occurred, there's also a good chance he'll attempt to kill the Mizukage as well. This can't go unpunished, if he gets in our way again it could put a stop to our plans." Madara said.
"Our plans?" Naruto asked.
Madara looked down at the young ninja, the boy who he considered a son.
"Yes Naruto, Kisame is a member of akatsuki, as is your brother, and I…I am the leader." Madara said.
Naruto didn't know what to think, he heard the villagers talk badly about akatsuki, and now he finds out his sensei is their leader.
"I don't understand." Naruto said.
"I didn't tell you because I didn't think you were ready to join, but now I know. Naruto, you are stronger than anyone in this room, including me, you are ready to join." Madara said.
"But…but I thought akatsuki are missing nin who want world domination." Naruto said.
"No, we are not." Nagato said.
Naruto looked at his brother and wondered what that meant.
"Naruto, you were trained to join since the day I found you." Madara said.
"We want world peace, and we believe you can lead us to our goal." Nagato said.
"World peace?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, but people wont see it as that. They see it as world domination, but soon they wont. I'm asking you Naruto, will you help our cause?" Nagato asked.
Naruto just found his brother, and all thanks to his sensei. He did want to help if it would bring world peace, but didn't know if he was truly strong enough, but he knew his family wouldn't lie to him.
"Ill do it." Naruto said.
"Thank you Naruto." said a blue haired woman next to Nagato.
"Naruto, I think you should get to know everyone here. I'm going to report the attack by Zabuza, and put a wanted poster up. Nagato you're in charge of Naruto." Madara said.
"Yes leader-sama." Nagato said.
Madara walked up stairs and left Naruto alone with the akatsuki. It took him a minute but he was ready to find out who he was going to be working with from now on.
"I know your nervous little brother, but don't be. I wont let anything happen to you." Nagato said.
Naruto instantly felt better knowing he had flesh and blood watching over him.
"I am Konan, and this is Yahiko, we're your brother's partners." The blue haired woman said with a guy with orange spiky hair.
Kisame walked over to him and help introduce everyone.
"The one on the ceiling is Deidara." Kisame said.
Naruto looked up and saw the blonde staring back at him.
"This is Kakazu." Kisame said pointing to a tall man who wore a mask.
"I am Sasori of the Red Sand." said a red haired man.
"I am Itachi Uchiha." said a man with the same sharingan eyes as his sensei.
'They have the same eyes and last name, are they from the same clan?' Naruto thought.
"And we are Zetsu." said a man with a black and white face, and a venues fly trap on his body.
A few hours passed and Naruto was getting to know the akatsuki and their plans for the world.
"So you need the Kyuubi's power to do so?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, normally we would extract it's power, but that would kill you in the process. So leader-sama found a better way to complete our mission." said Nagato.
"How?" Naruto asked.
["Make you the host of all nine bijuu."] said black Zetsu.
"How will that bring world peace?" Naruto asked.
"I'll explain it. When countries are at war they tend to use other smaller countries land as their battle fields, and that causes people who aren't even involved to feel pain. Then those countries will be in need of help, that's where we come in. If you hold the power of all nine bijuu then you can either transform into them of use them as summons, and we can save the country and its people from a war that they don't even want part in. If we use their power to fend off the other nations then word of this will spread, then other nations already at war will call upon us for help, and the cycle continues." Nagato explained.
"Then wont that bring war instead of prevent it?" Naruto asked.
"That may happen, but when it does, we attack them instead of their opponent, word will spread on how powerful we become then everyone will be scared to start war, therefore an era of peace will exist, and akatsuki will always be there to make sure that peace will strive through war." Nagato said.
"And we're going to do this for free?" Naruto asked.
"No, all we will ask in return is to have a base in their nation, two new members of akatsuki from the village so we can grow with the world, and medical treatment for any injuries." Nagato said.
Naruto had to admit it was a solid plan and it could work, but he didn't know how his body would react to all nine bijuu in him, but if it would bring world peace then he was willing to go through whatever could happen.
"I do want to know something though." Naruto said.
"What would that be?" asked Nagato.
"When do I get my cloak?" Naruto asked.
"Although you are a member of akatsuki you are still a young child, and if you wear our attire then people would think we are corrupting children and they will believe the rumors of world domination." Itachi said.
"True." Naruto said.
"You will get your cloak at sixteen, when you wont look like a child." Nagato said.
Naruto was ok with that, he learned that it is best to wait most of the time, and he was already an official akatsuki member as is.
"When you turn sixteen you will also start your missions, and since you are a jinchuriki you will be able to sense out other jinchuriki and bijuu." Kisame said.
"Do we really have to wait that long? What the hell are we going to do until then?" asked Kakazu.
"We need to stay hidden, and gain associates and land for new bases. That is our main priority." White Zetsu said.
"And to locate Orochimaru." Itachi said.
"Who's Orochimaru?" Naruto asked.
"He's a former member of akatsuki, and the one who separated our family." Nagato said while looking at the ground.
When Naruto heard that, everything in his mind repeated that name. He never met him, but he made him angry for what he did to his family.
"He's mine." Naruto said with an evil glare in his eye
"Come again?" Kisame asked.
"He's mine…I want the mission to seek him out and make him pay for what he did to my family." Naruto said.
"Naruto, you are strong, but he's one of the legendary sanin, even leader-sama would have problems against him." Itachi said.
"I don't care, when I find him, I'm going to kill him. Him, that traitor Zabuza and anyone who gets in my way." Naruto said.
"Don't be so hasty Naruto, we will give you the chance." Kisame said.
Out of nowhere everyone heard and explosion coming from upstairs. The akatsuki headed to a trap door that lead out, but Naruto went the other way and tried to go upstairs and get his sensei, but Nagato grabbed his arm.
"What are you doing? We need to save sensei." Naruto said.
"Leader-sama will find a way out, but you need to come with us. I'm responsible for you." Nagato said.
Naruto tried to break the hold Nagato had on him, but had no luck. The only thing he could think about was if sensei was alright, and it didn't matter who got in his way he would save him. Nagato kept his grip, but could tell Naruto was putting up a fight as he tried to break free.
"NO! LET ME GO!" Naruto shouted.
"Come on, we have to go now." Nagato said.
Naruto broke free of his brother's grip and ran back upstairs and saw the mansion in flames.
'Sensei…' Naruto thought.
The only thing on his mind was getting his sensei to safety and leaving the mansion. He ran through the mansion until he found a stack of flaming boards on top on a man wearing Madara's battle armor.
"No…no this can't be happening." Naruto said.
All he could see was the hand of the man, and as much as he didn't want to believe it, he knew his sensei was the only on in the building when this happened Naruto fell to his hands and knees all he could think to do was punch the ground over and over again. Nagato and Konan caught up with him and helped him up and ran out of the mansion with him. They met up with the other akatsuki along the shore of the village, then everyone got in a boat and started leaving the island. Naruto looked back and saw his home up in flames, tears came to his eyes as it burned. It was the saddest day in his life, the only person who was a father figure to him had died, and he lost his home again.