Legacy of Naruto

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Chapter One: Going Abroad

Naruto slowly awoke to the familiar sight of the ceiling his hospital room. Usually he would only be here if he was badly hurt, but now he didn't have much more than the imprints of some rough hands on his arms. He sat up...and saw the monster that had killed the men who had been close to turning him into dog meat. He let out a yelp and fell out of his bed...only for an invisible force to grasp him and slowly position him back on the bed.

"I see the younglings of this village scare just as easily as they do back home." Kain smirked.

"Ah, good morning Naruto." Sarutobi said as he came into the room.

"Old man, what's going on?" Naruto shouted.

"Naruto," Sarutobi hesitated. "I'd like you to meet King Kain, he is the one who rescued you last night from the knights who had attempted to kill you."

"What is he?" Naruto stared in awe and fear at the vampire.

"Most of my kind would react rather harshly if spoken of as though they are not present." Kain commented. "Luckily I am above such immature fits of rage."

Trying to process what Kain meant, Naruto opened his mouth to make one of his usual sarcastic comments, but paused as he felt something...burning. "Uh...Old Man, what did they-ah!" Naruto doubled over, hands on his stomach.

"Naruto?" The Hokage started forward.

"Wait!" Kain stopped Sarutobi. "Something is happening...I sense the magic...it is greater than even the Hylden."

Not knowing what the vampire king was referring to, Sarutobi watched as red energy poured out of Naruto, burning away his shirt to reveal a glowing containment seal. The glow died down until only the seal glowed as bright as a star. The boy slowly stood up, and opened blood red eyes. He looked to the two before him.

Kain gripped the handle of his Soul Reaver, weary of the malignant spirit that had taken possession of the child's body and reinforced the new vessel with its very power. This was something that was possibly the equivalent of if not superior to the Elder God, but this was no parasite that fed from the souls of the departed-many of which Kain had slain by his own hand; this was a fire alight from passion, anger, and emotion that Kain had felt in his days as a fledgling when he had began his quest for vengeance against his murderers.

It was as unpredictable and impulsive no doubt, but had a measure of wisdom and understanding in its gaze as the eyes of the possessed boy regarded both individuals before it. When it spoke, it was hard to discern whether it was male or female, young or old. "I suppose I have the blood drinker to thank for my continued enduring of this world, do I?"

"Kyuubi..." Kain could not help but smirk a bit. "Nine Tailed Fox," As he felt the power radiating off of the vessel he closed his eyes. "So this is the power that this village fears so much. I see it from their point of view now, you are quite powerful, I dread ever having to engage you in combat, demon."

Kyuubi scoffed. "If that was an attempt at flattery or to hide an insult behind words, you have failed at both, Blood Drinker." It glared at Kain. "I have heard of your offer, and I find myself wondering whether or not I should step in to halt this plan to separate my vessel from his familiar environment."

"I myself am considered a malignant being, I have done enough to support such accusations, but I am above harming children for power." Kain replied. "I do not seek to bend you to my will Demon, I seek to seek a way to help me prevent my ancient foe from expanding to this land."

"I have heard of this 'Sarafan' through the thoughts and echoes of the souls within this city, and I am aware that they had attempted to assassinate my vessel so as to eliminate me on behalf of those who fear me." Kyuubi grinned. "I guess that demons and vampires are not so different in the eyes of these humans."

"No, they are not, I know that from experience." Kain replied.

"I am interested in this sorcery that afflicts your mortal body." Kyuubi began to circle Kain, looking him up and down. "Not demonic in origin...but through actions that have deeply scarred your soul. A thirst for the life's blood of men, fear of the sun light and pure water...immortality..." Kyuubi grinned. "This is interesting...and ancient, very ancient...but not as old as I am."

"This condition is a curse passed onto me just like many others." Kain replied. "Why would one who lives beyond the weaknesses of the vampires?"

"Because the first vampire I have met is truthful." Kyuubi giggled. "You truly do not seek to use me...though several centuries ago you would have done so gladly. Your soul is mending itself from an anomaly that has deeply affected you..."

How did this entity see so deeply into Kain? It was as though it possessed the omniscience that Moebius and his parasitic master claimed to have had. No, it was as though it literally opened him up like a book and read every line of words his soul had to offer.

"Kain of Nosgoth...vampire king, Balance Guardian and Scion," Kyuubi announced. "I will entrust my kit to your care, but be warned. Should you or one of your stagnant minions bring any harm to him, I still have enough power to destroy any foe."

"If you do then why have you not used it to continue your attack on this village?" Sarutobi asked.

"Because I had no interest in the village in the first place. It was not my will that I devastate this village, but that of the being who drove me into my rage." Kyuubi seemed to lose some of its fierce anger, looking more heart broken than enraged. "At first...I never had any intent of attacking this or any other village. I resigned myself and my kind to an isolated existence within our world. But then...many millennia ago...they appeared in legions, once fair and beautiful but corrupted by their existence within our world, which was not meant for those who were born in this material realm. They became twisted, hideous, corrupted, demonic."

Sighing, Kyuubi set down on a chair. "I was the queen of my tribe. Despite popular belief I was not truly a demon, but a pagan spirit, worshipped by farmers and hunters of a now long dead region. We lived in peace in our piece of the world until these monsters began to include my kin in their conspiracy to escape back to their world."

"The Hylden," Kain said. "I must beg your forgiveness then, for it was the first Vampires who were responsible for the exile of the Hylden to your realm. They constructed nine pillars, each defended by a Guardian-"

"And these pillars are the lock that binds the Hylden, now only barely keeping them back in their reduced state." Kyuubi glared at Kain. "I see what you have done Kain. If it were not for the fact that I see that you are no villain I would kill you and allow these Pillars to either choose their new guardians or rot away. The Hylden being taken out of my kind's world would be a benefit. They murdered many of my people and attempted to tame me and send me into the human world to destroy the vampires, luckily I was too out of control and they lost track of me rather quickly, but I did not regain myself until I was sealed in this boy."

"Retribution can be arranged in the future...but I have come to fight the Sarafan now, not the Hylden. Their Elder God is the true threat." Kain said. "It is a spectral monster of great strength that drove the vampires into war with the Hylden and caused their occupation of your world. It has caused all of the strife through the countless years."

"In that case I shall meet with this Elder God one day...and then it shall see just how easily I can crush the life from it." Clenching Naruto's hands, the spirit queen hissed. "Take my kit Kain...give him what he needs to fight...and I shall do what I can to support him also. I shall see to it that this Elder god is destroyed and his precious Wheel of Fate is used properly. I was well aware of it before your mind spoke of this Elder God and I had wondered why so many of the souls from the realm that it rules over were drained of their energy as they passed into it. It transcends this parasite, and he has merely corrupted it with his very existence."

"Your kind knows of the Wheel?" Kain asked.

"We do...I cannot stay, the boy is strong in spirit and with training will be a powerful warrior one day. Take him Kain...but tread carefully, or I shall make sure you burn in hellfire without the mercy of reincarnation."

"Tell me Spirit...what may I call you?" Kain asked.

"Dea...my name is Dea." Suddenly the body went limp, the demonic energy vanishing.

"Dea...goddess." Kain commented.

The Hokage and the Vampire King exchanged a glance.

"Elder Fire Shadow...I see we have all been affected by my foe. The Sarafan serve it, therefore they are both my enemy and yours, their master brought this spirit's wrath down upon you." Kain said. "Allow me to train the boy and I shall make sure that the Sarafan are vanquished from this land forever."

"I have taken in what would take days to explain to the village in detail...it all seems to impossible...gods...spirits...this wheel..." Sarutobi said. "But the Spirit Fox allowed me to see its thoughts...I don't know how I know they belonged to her but they did...she is a woman wronged and is truthful. IF the Sarafan do threaten the stability of this land then I shall do what must be done to destroy them. Take Naruto Kain...he needs a kinder life than what this village may provide for him."

"And I shall see that he receives such a life." Kain replied. "I spent many centuries giving nothing but death and misery...if I can begin with one act of kindness, perhaps forgiveness is not beyond me."

"Who has enough power over you for you to wish for their forgiveness?" Sarutobi asked.

"No mortal or immortal that sill lives Fire shadow." Kain whispered. "Only myself."

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When Naruto had finally processed the information, he had jumped for joy. He hated life in the village. Except for the Ramen Stand Owners, the Weapons Store Owners, and several children and their families Naruto received little kindness from anybody else in the village.

Kain allowed him to bid farewell to his old life for three days, and then the vampire stood in the mist at the southern gate of Konoha.

Several humans were awaiting also, and it was obvious that they were not giving Naruto a final good bye.

Fading into the mist, he waited for them to come out. Two men stepped out.

"Where did it go? It was standing right here!" One said.

"We should leave. Just let it take the fox!" The other said.

In agreement, they both moved to flee before being cut in half by the Soul Reaver as Kain manifested behind them. Drinking their blood by calling it to him with his telekinesis, Kain immolated the bodies next, pouring in magic until they were ashen skeletons. A simple spell was all it took to make them turn into dust entirely.

Satisfied and ready to depart, Kain looked to the main road as the eight year old child appeared in his vision. He was accompanied by Kurenai and a woman with long dark hair tied back in a pony tail and curtained hair that partially covered a white and red mask that represented a fox. She wore a pair of dark pants and a sleeveless shirt, grey arm warmers and fingerless gloves, sandles, and had one of the Shinobi Katana hanging off of her back.

She was an ANBU, one of the most Elite of the shinobi, and no doubt she would be a challenge and would possibly defeat most vampires from fledglings to those who were old enough to form their cloven hands. She hesitated to step near Kain, but with her hand grasping Naruto's she kept moving.

"Good bye sis." Naruto hugged her.

"Good bye Naruto," The woman said, taking off her mask.

For a moment Kain forgot to breathe as he examined the woman. She appeared so much like Umah in some ways, but he could tell that he was not her nor her reincarnation.

Kain remembered how Umah had helped him fight against the Sarafan. In a justified treachery she stole the precious Nexus Stone from him, the one thing that could resist the Soul Reaver. She accused him of wishing to do nothing but conquer, and that he would destroy the vampire resistance known as the Cabal in his quest for domination...and she was all to right. After defeating the Sarafan Lord and the Sarafan Armies all over Nosgoth Vorador had become an obstacle to the corrupted fledgling Kain.

He decimated the Cabal and sentenced Vorador to a fate worse than death, to be sealed in the Tombs of the Clans. It was an underground structure where the fallen and greatest warriors of his children were buried if they were killed. It had a secondary function, to act as a place of healing and nourishment for a vampire. The last he had seen of Vorador while corrupted by Nupraptor's insanity was him being sealed within a crypt where a small amount of blood, manifested by magic would drop from a drain and into the elder's mouth, just barely keeping him alive. He was unable to move, die, or sleep for three hundred years after Raziel had finally captured him and decimated him and his vampire followers and their army of humans.

Kain had rescued Vorador almost immediately, and the vampire was recovering, in a comatose state with hundreds of his vampire followers. Kain had resolved to set all of his actions right.

Perhaps he had the chance to do something right to begin with instead of having to correct a wrongdoing.

"Lord Kain, the Sandaime Hokage of Kohonagakure no Sato hereby transfers custody of Naruto Uzumaki to you." Kurenai handed Kain some documents. "But he will be required to return here in six years time for graduating class of the Genin Academy, and you will have to teach him of his culture and the shinobi arts."

"I have collected enough information to adequately tutor him." Kain nodded. "Do not worry for the child, he will want for nothing."

"So...does this make you my...dad?" Naruto asked.

Almost caught off guard, Kain thought back to his first born son, who had been but three when Kain was slain and resurrected. He had found that the child had perished after the pillars collapsed along with Kain's mortal family. "Yes Naruto...I am your father."

The look on Naruto's face would have amused Kain before his purification, but now it only made Kain feel better as the child leaped up and hugged him, not caring for his hard, armoured, reptilian green flesh.

Kain looked at the Fox ANBU, Yoko. "Are you close?"

Yoko nodded. "I've been one of the few Shinobi willing to defend him when needed and without specific orders. I will miss him Kain..." She smiled. "Naruto, you're like a little brother to me. Come back one day and prove to this village that you are destined for great things!"

"I will sis, believe it!" Naruto shouted with a big grin.

"Farewell, Kurenai and Yoko. Naruto...prepare to see your new home." Holding the child up, Kain teleported, vanishing in a flash of white light.

"...you don't think Naruto-chan will have the urge for his steak to be bloody, do you? Kurenai asked.

"I suppose we shall see." Yoko replied dully, staring at where her little brother had vanished from.

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End of chapter...rather short, decided not to put too much detail into this one since I needed a time skip badly.