Chapter 2:
They woke up, the sun hitting their faces.
'Was it all a dream?'The young fox-faced boy thinks as he tries to move around realization hitting him as a pale arm snakes around him.
"Leaving so soon, Naru-chan?"Asks a boy his age a smile gracing his pale features.
"Sas-sasuke?"The kyubi vessel utters out a whisper as if speaking too loud would break the spell. "Yes?" The raven haired boy asks as he holds Naruto closer.
"Is this real?A joke?What is it?" The other boy looks away after he says this containing the sadness gripping him as the minutes pass.
"What do you mean?" Asks the sharingan wielder puzzled.
"Didn't you have, enough Sasuke?What do you want from me?There is nothing else I can give you, that I haven't tried to give you already." Says the shaking blond boy as he suddenly stands up to face the Uchiha.
Those blue eyes full of pain, exhaustion, sorrow and anger. No longer the laughing shinobi he was, no longer the Naruto Uzumaki Konohagakure knew.
"I love you Sasuke, that is true but the things you have done, not the defection of our village, but your blindness to what is visible to what was right in front of you from the very beginning. Sasuke Uchiha, I tried to be your friend. I risked everything I had and will ever have for you. And for what? To gain nothing more than a scar across the chest and rejection at its greatest. Do you have any idea how many times I remember the Valley of the End? My only friend tried to kill me to gain power. I could withstand being abused and mistreated by my own village, but you..." The blond saddened boy trails off as the Uchiha stands and looks into those blue orbs.
Every word burning scalding his heart.
"Naruto...I-I'm sorry." The words strangled within Sasuke's throat at the pain.
"Did you ever once think?I hated you so much it hurt. Why?Because in a sense, you had everything I did not. You had a chance that was given to you because you are an Uchiha, I on the other hand, am and always will be nothing more than the demon of the village. I will live the demon life and die the demon life. I am Naruto Uzumaki I don't and will never have a clan."Those sky blue eyes are distant now.
The shinobi clad in black, sunlight hair and ice blue eyes turned walking away from the only person he could ever love. Sasuke stood there as his friend, his love walked away. Then determination hit.
"I won't let you go Naruto, we are no longer children. If there is something good about the Uchiha bloodline is that we never give up on our objective. My objective is you." Said the stubborn Uchiha as he cut quickly across the path of the other shinobi, facing him and taking his hand in his.
"You have me."As the raven haired boy said this placed the kitsune's hand on his chest for a moment then bringing the hand near his lips and softly kissing the fingertips, and in a swirl of leaves he disappeared leaving a sobbing blond in his wake.
"He wont give up, you know. Kit, he really does love you." Yubi spoke to her holder, trying to put some sense into him.
"You think I don't know that, Yubi? He's an Uchiha of course that bastard isn't going to give up easily. But this is something he lost so long ago."Said Naruto as he continued walking towards his apartment.
"Kit, you're talking like an old man, you're barely fifteen. I am over 900yrs old but yet will never understand another human as much as I do you. You have your reasons to hate him, but ask yourself why you fell in love with him in the first place?" He smiled at this and frowned a bit.
"I don't want to think about that right now, Yubi-kaasan."He could see the her smiling at him from her spot in his mind.
She is the only mother he has ever known and she no longer holds hostility for her host, but has and will always see him as the son that was taken away from her long ago. Her kitsune.
"Naru-kun, where would you be without me?" They reached his apartment and he smiled at that.
"You always manage make me feel like a child, Yubi-san." He replied as he sat down on his couch.
"A child that was always mine. You were wrong when you said you will and would never have a clan...because my kitsune after all these years..."The fox trailed off sadness in her voice and a look of sorrow and uncertainty.
"What is it Yubi-kaasan?"Asked the young boy, worried about the tone in her voice.
"Will you still love me, my child?"Asked the anguished motherly voice of the fox.
"Yes, you know I will, mother. What is it you have to tell me?"Asked the puzzled voice of the blue eyed blond.
"You remember, the day it was revealed to you, about our connection?" She asked tentatively.
"Yes, I do it was the day Mizuki made me steal that scroll right?When Iruka-sensei tried to stop him from telling me?"He said, recalling the anger and confusion he felt that day.
"The Sandaime told you also about the wishes of the Yondaime, that you be treated like a hero for incarcerating the soul of the nine tailed fox. The Sandaime, did not know one fact that I was told by The Fourth Hokage himself before he died as he sealed me into you..."She trailed off again the pain in her heart unavailing itself in her crimson eyes.
"What was it, Yubi-san?What did he say?"Curiosity eating at the young boy
"I will show you, my memories are locked away from yours, but there is the door of neutrality in your mind were our memories collide and connect, there is where you will find your answer, my son." She finished this as the young shinobi entered their linked mind and walked toward the door.
Light enveloped him as he walked through the door. A scene beginning to form as he stood to the side.
'Kyubi-sama, I understand what this village has done to you in the past. How your son was taken so ruthlessly from you. I was sent here to stop you and murder you as the only capable shinobi the Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves, but I will not. I do not see a monster destroying our village, but a mother in sorrow of her lost child. I Arashi, will give you something dear to me and hope that you will see this as token of apology. My life may end today as I give you my only son. You will be sealed within him, but my hope is that you raise him as your own.' The Fourth's aristocratic features were strone in agony and loss as both breath and child were denied him, that day.
Naruto wanted nothing more than to embrace this man he admired him for years and now even more, his father had given everything for his village, his son and life. Pain gripped the young boy's heart as he saw his father fade and die. The boy always wondered why no one in the village looked like him and now he knew. He took after his father. The blue eyes the stunning blond hair. He truly was the son of the Yondaime. As he walked out of the door, he whispered a promise.
"Father, I will make you proud. I will become Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves." Tears marred his vision as he closed the door.
"Yubi-kaasan, can you..hold me?" Asked the shuddering boy. Yubi-san looked down at her kitsune and smiled of happiness and joy as she embraced her son.
"Why now?Yubi-san why do I know this until now?" He asked as she held him against her.
"The reason, for that is what I saw in his soul, before he was taken...he let me see. Arashi-sama was one of the most powerful Hokage for more than one reason. His power might have rivaled mine. Have you ever wondered why, there is not one soul you have ever met, that have the exact same eyes as you? The reason for that, my kitsune is that of your own bloodline limit." The fox finished this and smiled at the reaction on her son's face.
He stared at her, gaping unbelievingly.
"But, kaasan I'm not...I mean he wasn't known to have keke-genkai. He was amazing yes, but all that is known about his abilities was that his speed was incredible but never a bloodline..."
"That is because he was the first in his clan to develop it, his clan was not known to have any special traits and they never knew. He first used it unknowingly in battle when he was fifteen years old. To everyone else in the shinobi world it does not exist, but to us demons and nether beings it is known as 'the aphotic doce sight' or 'aphoticdosit.' One of the first keke-genkai and the most powerful too."She smiled at his gaping mouth.
"But..but how do you know I have it?What does it actually do?"He asked still scared to know the answers.
"I know this because..I saw the same in your soul when I was sealed within you. In the name of this ability lies half of the answer; aphotic means dark, doce in Spanish means twelve or the number of hell converted into a haven of sanctity which combined with sight means to see the good and evil within. Speed is the key to unlocking it, once you have mastered the level of speed in which you can see the line separating two worlds from each other then you have mastered the first stage; The Prime:aphoticdosit which allows you to wave the law of time for the period in which you stay straddling the line-"She was cut off by a hurried question from the blond.
"Yubi-kaasan?What stage did father reach?"He asked wanting to know more than anything.
"Arashi-sama had mastered the first step to its fullest when he died..." Yubi trailed off then trying not to bring sad memories to her kitsune.
"What do you mean 'to its fullest'?" He asked still confused and stunned.
"What I mean, Naru-kun is he could control time to his advantage for at least fifteen minutes, which is one of the greatest feats...because you see, staying within the confines of two worlds at the same moment in time can tear through the mind, soul and flesh if control is not found. Now moving on. The second stage;The Center:aphoticdosit. This stage is...what some might call willing suicide, why?Because, this can only be reached risking one's own mortality for another; a precious being. This is called 'The Center' for the purpose of this stage..." The fox stopped at this unsure if she should go on or not.
"What is the purpose of this stage, kaasan?" Asked the curious blond.
"You remember when you met the branch clan member Hyuuga Neji? Well, his ability just barely graces the surface of your own potential. The byakugan has a total line of 360° vision whilst yours can reach beyond that, not only seeing what is impossible for a Hyuuga but also being able to break and shatter the Mangekyo Sharingan of the Uchiha clan." This shocked Naruto even more than anything he had learned today.
"But...that is impossible. Why, why is it called 'the center' Yubi-san?" He asked still not willing to believe.
"The reason for that is that this ability does not need an excessive use of chakra energy but uses the soul as a source, the core of a being. 'The Center' and by risking this mortality of yours, your vision increases and your own life source changes. A sacrifice that only one of a pure heart would make willingly for...true love. By making this sacrifice your life is no longer that of a mere mortal and in turn you take the gift of chance renewal. Your humanity dies but your soul is reborn again; holy reanimation. Naruto-kun when the center is reached you reach the power of a half demon. Half human and half demon a gift from both the heavens and the netherworld. Evil and good combined; doce."She pauses to let him take this information in.
"Yubi-san you mean..he would have lived, had he reached this stage?Why?Why couldn't he..why didn't he?And now I am the only one left.No one else..."He finished the sadness and regret visible in his eyes.
"Kit, don't ever regret being alive. Never. Your father the Fourth Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves gave his life for your own don't question his decision. He loved you more than anything in the world and now you will make him proud."She scolded her son knowing his father would have never wanted this feeling to take over his own child's heart.
"I won't Yubi-kaasan but once I reach this stage what will happen to you?"He said simply remembering his promise.
"That is for you to decide my kitsune, your decision alone will decide my path, whether I live or die is what you make it."She finished this statement sadness seeping into her otherworldly features.
"I won't let you die, I wont let you fade mother. You will live that is my solemn vow. This seal may be what connects us now but there is more. When I change you will not perish but live to be known as the mother of the future Roukadaime."Her son spoke embracing her as he smiled.
"You are your father's son. Never in the world will there be another Naruto Uzumaki."She said this as tears fell from her crimson eyes.
"For now this will be enough to know. I will train you myself my kitsune. You will become stronger. We still have the Akatsuki to worry about...But we will be ready for them. Your speed is increasing everyday but it is not at its greatest yet, we will have to improve it if you are to defeat them."He grinned his trademark fox grin and she smiled down at him.
"I will, make father proud. I won't let them take you from me Yubi-kaasan. I will kill them if they try." He smiled genuinely this time. His first smile in years.