Chapter Two BICHES. I do not own Naruto. Note at the bottom will reveal some stuff, read it.

I DO NOT OWN THIS SHIT. THE NARUTO CANNON I MEAN. MY STORY, THAT IS AWESOME (I hope)

ALSO I HOPE YOU GUYS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE WHAT IS A FLASHBACK AND WHAT IS NOT


"How did you know the scroll was in his house Naruto?" Kakashi Hatake asked him. Naruto couldn't see his face beyond the mask, but he was sure that it was smiling right now.

Kakashi was one of the few people Naruto felt better about, someone he cared for dearly. He was not a psychopath as some people said he was, he was just, addicted to killing people. But even addicts have someone they love, and sometimes, the people you love are destroyed by your addiction.

-x-

"Do it Naru-chan. Come on, you can do this"

Naruto was crying, maybe he shouldn't have cried, but he was. The tears in his eyes began reaching his lips, he tasted salt. It had been a long time since he had cried. after that day, he had sworn to never, ever cry again.

"I can't, Miko-chan, I can't do this" Naruto was sobbing.

"Yes, yes you can" she said, stammering. She was in pain, stabbed obviously. She was bleeding, someone had worked a number on her.

"End my existence now Naruto, you know you want to" she said to him.

"I am a demon, is that why you want me to finish you?" Naruto asked her, screaming. He was now crying unashamedly, choking on his tears, like the nine year old child he was.

"You are a demon Naruto" she said to him. "The good kind, the kind that protects, even when he hates it, someone who does his duty, regardless of his feelings. You are a shinobi of the ROOT Naru-chan. Come on, do your duty. Kill the- kill the traitor" she said to him, she was crying now too.

"NO" he said to her. "Never, I will never kill you, I will not become that fox, I can't" he said, sobbing.

"Naruto- you" she held a hand out to him, rubbing his face, inadvertently smearing blood on his face. Her blood, the blood that Naruto was so addicted to, when he watched it fall from his victims.

"Please, I am in pain. I want to go, Naruto. PLEASE" Miko shouted, mustering every bit of energy she could.

It was a second, but felt like an eternity before he stabbed Miko in the heart. It felt like another eternity as he watched life leave her eyes.

"Promise Naru-chan, promise to protect this village no matter what" she said to him.

"I- I can't. I hate this place" he said to her.

"Naruto. Please, promise, please" she said to him.

Naruto sighed. He nodded. "I promise"

Miko smiled, she gestured for him to come even closer. It took all she had to raise herself and plant a wet, bloody kiss on Naruto's forehead.

"You are Naruto Uzumaki, protector of the leaf" she said to him. More tears welled up in Naruto's eyes. "You- you are a great boy, and you will be a great man some day" she said. Any second now, she would be dead. "Remember Naru-chan, I will watch over you, don't you dare-" she paused. "Don't you dare break the promise" she finished. Naruto nodded.

"I won't" he said to her, and he meant it.

"Good. Be good Naruto, protect, kill the guilty, protect the innocent, and remember. From here on out, no matter what happens, I will watch you, and I will always love you" she said to him.

Those were the last words she ever said to him. And then pain blinded him.


Embracing The Demon Inside


"It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf."
― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

The people you love, destroyed by your addiction. Miko-chan. Naruto knew Kakashi was saying something, but he was not listening. When he spoke next, almost half an hour had passed.

"I can't believe Hokage-sama gave me such a shitty job to do, babysit" he said to Kakashi, almost spitting those words out. Kakashi looked at him sympathetically, if anyone knew what it was like being miles above everyone else, it was him.

"I feel your pain little brother" Kakashi said. Naruto was like a brother to him, after all, he was the son of his teacher, perhaps the greatest Shinobi to have ever walked the land in his time.

Naruto knew who his father was, and surprisingly enough, did not hate him for what he had done to him, he had seen Minato's actions as a logical conclusion, if he was a normal person with a child, he wouldn't want it to be the host of a demon container, but if he was the one to seal the demon, then he'd have to use his son, because he wouldn't put the child of someone else in danger.

When Kakashi asked him if he hated the fourth, all Naruto said was "I don't hate. I kill"

"You are the power of human sacrifice Naruto" Kakashi said to him, as Naruto scoffed. It was apt, considering where they were standing, the memorial stone, where names of the shinobi killed in action were engraved upon the grave stone.

"What happens if you're urged to kill the girl Naruto?" he asked him. "I've heard that she is very annoying." Kakashi said to him. Naruto just stared at the stone, searching out Miko's name among the several that were already present.

"Heh, I don't kill comrades, no matter how much I may hate them. That bitch will be dead within days if she keeps up with the way she is right now" They were talking about Sakura Haruno of course, the top ranked female ninja in the batch.

"Will you protect them?" Kakashi asked Naruto. "Will you protect her? If she's in trouble"

Naruto looked at him, there was a promise he had made four years ago, a promise he wanted to keep no matter what, something he would never break. "She is the village, and I protect the village Kakashi. So yes, the answer is yes, I will with all I have" he said to him.

Kakashi smiled.

-x-

"YOU'RE LATE NARUTO BAKA" a voice shrieked. Naruto had trained himself to resist torture, and yet he found this shriek unbearable. He stared at Sakura and Sasuke, Sasuke was not looking at him, Sakura on the other hand was hitting her fist and her open palm. She almost looked cute, thinking that she could even touch him if he hadn't let her.

He didn't quite know what to say, it was true though, he had been late by a couple of hours and a half, there was no excuse, but he knew Kakashi well, the man was one of the closest people in his life, one of the final few bonds Naruto had left. Naruto would have hated to admit it, but Kakashi was more than just a senpai to him, he was like family, the only person who cared. Naruto liked that.

"It appears so" Naruto finished. He looked at Sakura, who was blocking his way from the chairs, where he was planning on sitting. "Would you-"

"HOW DARE YOU ASK ME FOR A DATE AFTER COMING LATE BAKA" she shouted as she moved to hit him, Naruto moved and caught her arm, before twisting it. Sakura's hissed and her face contorted into a painful expression, tears almost threatening to come out.

'Such weakness, she won't live long if this goes on' Naruto thought as he stared at the almost crying Kunoichi.

"I was going to ask you to move, to let me sit" Naruto said to her. She looked at him shocked, he had always asked her for a date, so what was different now? Why was he hurting her.

"Dobe" Sasuke said, speaking up for the first time. "I understand what you did, but I think you should let her go now, you are hurting her beyond what is necessary" he said to him. Naruto looked at Sasuke, before nodding and releasing Sakura's arm, he walked towards the seat at the back of the classroom they were waiting in. As he walked away, Sakura swore she could hear him say 'pathetic'.

"Don't try hurting Konoha Shinobi" Sasuke said to Sakura, in a tone that almost sounded like chiding. And then he walked away as well, leaving Sakura to her thoughts, and her almost broken arm.

Naruto stared at Sasuke, impassively, Naruto liked Sasuke actually, here was someone who was doing everything he can to fulfill a promise he had kept to someone, just like he was, Of course in Sasuke's case, the promise was made to himself. But Sasuke was not dark, Sasuke was like the fucking sun compared to the darkness Naruto harbored inside him.

'I have half an hour, what do I do?' he thought. For someone like Naruto, he had to keep himself occupied every second of the day with something or the other, even in his dreams, and more often, nightmares. Naruto spent the next half an hour dreaming about mutilating a corpse. He would start with the eyes, and then the penis if it was male, the clitoris if it was female. Naruto laughed at the thought of performing a clitorectomy on Sakura Haruno. His laugh was sinister, and Sasuke and Sakura flinched as they heard him.

-x-

Naruto laughed maniacally as he stared at the face of the enemy ninja. The one thing Danzou Shimura had failed to beat out of him was this, the emotion of pure bliss at killing someone that was always there. Sometimes this was the only thing that kept him alive, the killing.

The ninja in front of him was horribly mutilated, his penis stuffed inside his mouth, his hands ripped from their sockets, soaked in his own blood, with weird paintings everywhere. Most of them were pentagrams.

It was hard for Danzou Shimura to remain impassive. This kid, was truly a monster. The most impressive one he had ever seen in his life.

"I AM GLAD TO FEEL ALIVE" Naruto shouted.

'What did they do to this kid?" Danzou thought to himself.

-x-

"Earth to Naruto?" Sakura asked him. Try as he might, droning out her annoying voice was difficult for him, and the minute he thought he had succeeded, she broke free and appeared in his ears again.

"What the fuck do you want?" Naruto snarled at her. Sakura was taken aback by this, never had Naruto spoken like this to her, ever. He was always jovial, and even took her rejections in stride, so why was he different now.

"I want to apologize-"

"Apology accepted. Fuck off" Naruto said to her, before turning his head and looking in the other direction.

-x-

'THEY NEVER LOVED YOU'

'STOP. STOP IT NOW.'

'NEVER EVER LOVED YOU NARUTO. YOUR MOM, THE UCHIHA WHORE. YOUR DAD, THE SO CALLED HOKAGE. ALL THEY WERE GOOD FOR WAS SEALING THE DEMON INSIDE YOUR PIECE OF SHIT BODY'

Knife hitting throat, the pain as blood rushed out. Promptly followed by healing. This woman was torturing him. It hurt so bad.

'MAKE IT STOP' Naruto shouted. 'PLEASE- PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF'

-x-

"GOD" Sakura shouted. "How long is this going to take, this baka sensei" she said to no one in particular, although Naruto was sure the Raikage in Kumo would have heard her.

"Hello genin" said a voice as the sliding door opened, and in stepped the silver haired, masked Kakashi, one eye protected by his head band, th other one seemed to be smiling at the genin, in an act that Naruto found impossible, and yet, here he was doing it.

"YOU'RE LATE" Sakura shouted.

'Sigh'

-x-

"Is sleep easy for you you piece of shit?". It was the torture lady. She was an Uchiha. She had abducted him, taken him into the forest.

"YOU ARE NO PIECE OF SHIT ARE YOU BOY?" a voice inside him rumbled. It was the demon. He shook his head.

"GOOD. SEE YOUR EYES. I CAN TELL, YOU WILL BE A STRONG ONE. GO AND SHOW HER YOUR POWER" the demon said to him.

His hands were tied behind his back, but the lady had underestimated him, made a mistake. And Naruto powered by adrenalin capitalized, wrenching his bonds, before rushing her. It was unexpected. She was caught off guard. The knife pierced her chest, and she fell back, amazed that a kid had even managed to jump that far.

That was not the only stab though.

"FEEL ALIVE" the demon rumbled inside him. The one stab became two, soon, several. The woman was still alive, but was on the verge.

'Please' she said, looking at the possessed eyes of Naruto Uzumaki, there was something red around him. It was the demon. 'Please stop'

'NO' Naruto shouted as another stab followed.

"YOU SEEM TO BE PROUD OF YOUR EYES" the rumbling had stopped, it was Naruto who sounded demonic. "LET ME TAKE THEM AWAY FROM YOU" he said as he ripped the eyes out of her socket. She screamed in pain.

'I need to save these eyes, something tells me they will come in handy'

As Naruto limped away, the woman lay there, the pain she made him feel was now the pain she was feeling. She passed three whole days later, suffering in pain the entire time.

-x-

Naruto stared at the eyes in the jar. This was the second night in a row he couldn't sleep. Miko-chan thought he wasn't a monster, Naruto scoffed. A monster was all he was. A monster bound by a promise.

The test was going to be about teamwork, something he didn't expect either the girl or Sasuke to ever deduce. Naruto sighed. This was going to be tough.

-x-

You. You killed her.

Naruto stared at Danzou.

An ethereal warrior took shape around Naruto as Danzou realized that the inevitable had happened. The student had turned.

"This was the day I was waiting for" Danzou said to him.

"Good" Naruto mumbled. "I hope you make me FEEL ALIVE" he shouted as he charged towards Danzou.

-x-

Danzou stared as his final Sharingan shut down, he was left with almost nothing. His one eye, his own eye, the only thing in his body that he could call his own now.

"Come here Naruto" Danzou said to him. Naruto stared at him, incredulously. And then he walked towards him.

"You are part Senju" he said to Naruto. "This will be easy" he said as he handed Naruto a syringe.

"What is this?" Naruto asked him.

"A gift" Danzou said. "From Hashirama-sensei. The Shodaime Hokage of this village" he coughed out, also coughing blood.

"What I did" Danzou said to him. Sputtering blood. "I did for the village"

"FOR THE VILLAGE. YOU KILLED MIKO-CHAN FOR THE VILLAGE?" Naruto shouted. Danzou nodded.

"She had served. Served her purpose Naruto, she knew she had to die, she had accepted it, but then you came, and she learned to love again"

"YOU STAMP OUT EMOTIONS" Naruto shouted. "YOU KILL THEIR SPIRIT"

"Not everyone. No Naruto, not everyone"

Naruto stared at him.

"I killed her, because I knew you'd kill me. I was the test Naruto, the final test. You are ready" Danzou stared at him. In his last moments, he realized why Sarutobi was the greatest man he had ever known, because when he'd die, people would mourn him. Danzou had no one to mourn.

"Try to understand Naruto, I did everything for this village" he said. "And now, you have to do the things I had to do, you have to carry the torch Naruto"

Naruto just stared at him in disbelief.

"Konoha" Danzou said, sputtering more blood. "It's a tree. Sarutobi is the leaf, soaking the sun, representing the leaf, making it look attractive. I on the other hand, was the roots. The roots that were hidden, silently giving life to the tree, from the shadows"

Naruto understood. It hit him like a ton of bricks. It finally dawned on him that he was not wrong, the world was wrong, and in a wrong world, no one knew who was right.

"I wanted to be Hokage Sarutobi, like you, I wanted to be better than you" Danzou said. In his last moments, the man was thinking of his best friend. His former best friend. "But Naruto is here now, he is the leaf and the roots" Danzou said. "He will protect the village"

Danzou then looked at Naruto. "I have some eyes, using some genetic experimentation, I've managed to fix them for usage, your own usage. You can't continue to use these eyes, you will go blind. So take them, and that syringe, is the cells of the Shodaime. You being a Senju means you can tolerate those cells, they also give you enhanced physical strength."

Naruto stared at the old man. Was he showing emotion, now of all times. Is this what death was, did it bring out the inner most thoughts in a person.

"I leave the safety of this village in your hands Naruto Uzumaki. May you prosper, like our home tree"

The last words Danzou ever said to him.

-x-

Naruto Uzumaki was no ordinary ninja. Kakashi knew that. Naruto loved to kill, it was something that happened to him because of the incident in the woods. He was the one who found Naruto, the one who calmed in down. He knew Naruto would find redemption, become the innocent kid he used to be. Somewhere deep down, he knew it.

Naruto was a man of many talents. He could kill silently. The people who knew him said of him that when Naruto killed someone, it took the murdered person a few hours to realize that he was dead. He knew that much already. Naruto was also a genius. He was more like his father than he even knew, when Kakashi taught him the Sharingan, it took Naruto about one week to perfect it. The sharingan gave him a repertoire of jutsu that matched, if not exceeded Kakashi's own, but no one knew.

When Naruto was five, one day after he was rescued from the woods, he was sent to Danzou, to train, maybe kill off the emotional hurricane he was at the time. Danzou trained him differently because the Sandaime was aware of this. There was no seal on his tongue, he was trained to kill, and he became proficient at it. There he met someone named Miko, Naruto never talked about her, but she was like a sister to him, from what he had heard. When Miko was taken away, Naruto finished Danzou, and the Sandaime feared that Naruto was going to turn on the village.

It never happened. Naruto often told him that the reason he had never turned on the village was because he did not shit where he ate, but Kakashi knew about the promise, the promise to protect.

The fact that the promise did not destroy him told Kakashi that he was no ordinary psychopath, he was a salvageable psychopath. Someone who could be saved.

At the tender age of nine, Naruto joined the ANBU by night. During the day, he went to the academy, behaved like an idiot, because that was what the village expected him to be, just like Danzou, who acted like an adviser to the Hokage while he was much more than that. In the ANBU, Naruto formed what Kakashi liked to think was a bond with him. Often Kakashi did things that made Naruto smile. His smile was beautiful, not the maniacal smile, the genuine smile that few had ever seen. Kakashi and Miko were perhaps the only two people who had seen it.

He was S-Ranked, perfect Ninjutsu, fearsome Taijutsu, god like Genjutsu, and some tricks up his sleeve that Kakashi would rather not even think about for the fear of it being deciphered by someone else. Naruto often said that Danzou gave him something as he passed away, but the Mangekyo Sharingan never seemed to hurt Naruto like it had hurt him. Maybe it was because he was an Uchiha, but he did not know.

Naruto's mother was Kushina Uzumaki, but not many people knew that Kushina was not pure Uzumaki. She was a bastard child, and that was the reason she had been cast aside. Some wandering Uchiha had impregnated Kushina's mother, and the Sharingan gene remained dormant. But the intense torture that Naruto had felt was the reason it activated. Naruto in that moment in the woods was so scared that something deep inside of him, the Sharingan, formed.

Naruto was indeed the best of both his parents, but he was more like his sensei than anything. And he had told him to come at him with intention to kill. What the fuck was he thinking.

Sasuke Uchiha did not know that Naruto was the closest familial tie left, maybe he would never know, that was something Naruto would chose to reveal. Sasuke was talented, nowhere close to where Naruto was at the moment, but that was to be expected. Maybe someday he would become fearsome, as fearsome as Naruto was. But he wondered if that would ever happen.

Sakura on the other hand, would need more work. She was talented, no doubt about it. Her perfect Chakra control was something the medic nins envied, but if the way he took her down today was any indication, she would need a lot of work.

"I have the bells you know" Naruto said to Kakashi, who smiled. He knew that already, a genjutsu so subtle even he didn't pick it up for a whole ten minutes.

"So..you think they'll figure it out?" Naruto asked him.

"No" Kakashi said. "Maybe they will, that's what we have to see" he said as he pulled out his orange porn book.

Naruto smiled. This was genuine. "Still reading porn Kakashi-nii?" Nartuo asked him.

"Nii-san?" Kakashi asked him.

"Yeah, you are my brother right, brother from another mother?" Naruto asked him. "If you are my sensei Kakashi-senpai, I have no problem at all" Naruto said.

"Maybe you'll develop affection for the other two brats too" Kakashi said to him, at which Naruto scoffed.

"I doubt it, I don't respect them, they don't respect me. They turned down my offer of working with them" Naruto said to him. Kakashi sighed, this was not good.

"Who do I tie to the stump?" he asked Naruto, who shrugged.

"Don't tie them, when I see people tied up, I feel like cutting their private parts" Naruto said. Half joking and half serious. Kakashi sweat-dropped. Yeah, some things would never be fixed.

-x-

"A fucking technicality" Naruto said to Kakashi. He was with the Hokage. They were discussing the team performance.

"Ah, don't sweat it Naruto, soon you'll be promoted to Chunin, where you can do some real missions" said Kakashi, sheepishly rubbing his hair.

'Naruto, is there hope for you?' Sarutobi thought as he saw Naruto smile, again, this was not maniacal.

"Sharing food means teamwork Kakashi?" Naruto asked him, he was incredulous.

"Naruto" the Hokage said to him. "Can you work with them?"

"Sasuke yes. Sakura is unbearable. I want to kill her"

"Then change her, soon. There is going to be upheaval soon Naruto, you need to do your part"

Naruto stared at him. In his life, Naruto inherited two things. Pain, from the Uchiha in the forest. And protection, from Miko and Danzou. He was going to save them, the whole village. He would do it from the dark if he had to, but he would.

Naruto groaned as he left the briefing. He was getting soft.

-x-

'Thanks for the pillow nee-chan' Naruto said to Miko holding up a pillow with a toad on it. Miko smiled at him.

'This is made from the softest of silks Naruto. Soft is good'

-x-

Is it Miko? Is soft really good?


So you must be thinking what I've done is bullshit, that is your personal opinion. Leave it in the review. Now here is my plan for this story.

Naruto is grey, he is pragmatic, a master pragmatist, an awesome strategist. He is plain awesome, and as the story progresses, he will become a badass. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Eventually Naruto will become 'soft'. His love for killing will never go away, but he will form bonds, because this is a fanfiction based on Shounen manga, and Shounen manga is all about bond forming biches.

Yes, he does have the Mokuton and the Sharingan. He is S-Ranked, but he won't develop as rapidly as he does in cannon, what I've done is skip the development and jump straight to the stuff. So for example, while in conventional Naruto fanfiction, you see Naruto develop, here you see a developed Naruto using his skills, doing regular missions. The story will go way beyond, and I will finish it as long as I am able to. Expect a 100 chapter epic for this one.

The Kushina stuff was just a convenient way to give Naruto the key to all the three families, yes friends, even this psychopath Naruto is the key to saving the world from itself. Just read on, it gets better.

It might seem like I'm bashing Sakura, but I'm being honest here. About Danzou, I feel like he was never a bad guy if you look at his intentions, and during his cannon death, he did seem to regret doing the stuff he did.

The Kyuubi, will feature, he has to, if Naruto has to match Madara and Tobi, he has to be even stronger, but that is a long, long way away.

Naruto will not be paired, not yet. Maybe someday he will form a bond that is both emotional and sexual, but this is not romance oriented, for Naruto. Also, he will have a lot of sex.

More will be revealed soon, so please read on bitches. Also leave a review, it helps.

Here is Naruto's profile.

Naruto Uzumaki, The Demon Of Shadows

Rank: S

Ninjutsu: S

Taijutsu: A+

Genjutsu: S

Fuuinjutsu: B (he will improve here)

Hobbies: Mutilating people, gardening.

Favorite phrase: FEEL ALIVE.

Sorry for no fighting, but that has been done to death. There will be plenty of time for that soon.