Red and Black Among the Setting Sun
Chapter 2- Prologue Part 2
Summary: Sasuke and Naruto: both changed in ways neither can imagine, changed physically, mentally, and spiritually. Both worshiped and hated by different people, villagers, shinobi, and clients. However the difference is that Naruto must chose a path and Sasuke must follow a single one. When both boys make their choices, will they decide to become red or black among the setting sun? Naruto x harem, Sasuke x harem. Main focus on OC's. Rated M for freedom. NO YAOI.
Legend:
Narrative
"Speech"
Thought
"Summons/Demonic/Higher being speech"
Summons/Demonic/Higher being thought
Jutsu
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other characters. Any relation in this story between anyone living, dead, fictional or non-fictional is completely coincidental and has no meaning at all in life. I do however own the plot and any OC's created by me. Any use of these characters without my permission is a big no-no. Please PM me before using any so I can give you my permission to do so.
A/N: hello readers! I am happy to say I got a comment! Please note that I will respond to any and all comments in the author's note before each chapter. Any who I would like to say that I am making a multi part prologue mostly 'cus I can and also so that you can get a feel for the length of me chapters. I will have a poll ups so that you can vote between:
-1000-2500 words every week
-2600-3500 every other week
-3600+ twice a month
Please look at the pole on my profile to vote! Also I will have a vote on the direction my plot will be taking on my profile. The choices are:
-Both Naruto and Sasuke leave with jiraiya
-both Naruto and Sasuke defect to orochimaru
-both Naruto and Sasuke leave on their own to explore the world.
I personally am leaning towards them exploring the world but I have ideas for all three plot lines. Also the plot will not diverge until after the chunin exams around the time that Naruto and Sasuke both leave before the shippuden ark.
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Last time on Red and Black Among the Setting Sun:
"That boys name..." the taller figure looked directly at Naruto, eyes glowing red with the mangekyou sharingan, and he stared back, knowing only one person with those eyes. "That boys name was Naruto." He felt tears beginning to stream down his face, both happy that he knew the source of all his pain, and horrified at being the container for a demon. Itachis mangekyou turned slowly as he said something that would change both boys forever. "Tsukuyomi" and Naruto fell down into a world of red skies and black ravens.
Now: Prologue (part 2)
As Naruto woke up he found he was tied to a wooden cross. Around him he saw ravens, black as night, cawing loudly at him. As he tried to loosen the bonds, only succeeding in rubbing the skin of his wrists and ankles, he began to see, in a creepy black and white movie, all of the times he was beaten, tortured, played in front of his eyes. He watched himself, burned with a fire Jutsu from an ANBU or paralysed with a juken strike from a Hyuuga. He tried to shut his eyes only to find the same pictures playing behind his eyelids. He began to feel tears leak out of his eyes, years of built up pain and suffering that he had hidden behind his mask, finally surfacing.
Suddenly he felt all of the pain, the hatred towards him, stop. He looked up to see the picture frozen of the dragon ANBU, stopping the mob from hurting him anymore. He felt the relief of being saved flood him and as the picture disappeared, there stood a man with the same dragon mask, looking at him with compassion and caring in his eyes. "*Ryu? Is that you? What are you doing here?" he asked quietly. Naruto was suddenly released from his bonds and he collapsed on the ground, weak from the mental trauma he had just suffered.
The ANBU just walked over to him and carefully helped him sit up. "Naruto I am here to deliver a message, more of a mission now that I think of it. It is very important that you help me. Can you do it?" said Ryu. As he reached up to take off his ANBU mask, he heard a quiet reply and, knowing who it was that he was asking, automatically know that he had just accepted. When the mask came of he heard a small gasp and a muttered 'I knew it' before he turned to look at the boy in front of him. "How could you tell?" Itachi asked him with a small smile.
"Your eyes" replied Naruto "I only know one person with those eyes, I knew it was you when you looked at me." he looked around flinching slightly when he saw a corpse being devoured by numerous ravens. "Where are we exactly" he asked quietly afraid of the answer. Itachi looked around before replying.
"Were in a genjustu" as he saw Naruto begin to make the ram seal he quickly added "don't try and dispel it. It's a special genjustu, related to my kekkei genkai." he walked around the small boy, who was still trying to stand up, before lending him a hand. "You will be here for 72 hours, at least to your mind, and only three seconds will pass on the outside world. I brought you here so that I could tell you the most important thing that you will ever hear. It's a mission and I must deliver it to you personally. It will take time to explain and we don't have much so I used this to maximize our time. But before I do anything we must find my brother."
"So he's here to huh? Who is your brother exactly? And how can we both be here and not be in the same place as each other?"
"Slow down a little OK? First, yes he is here, and second my brother is Sasuke Uchiha. I believe that he is in your class at the academy right?
"Yea he is. I don't like him much, and I do believe he's gay. I mean he has all those fan-girls and not one girlfriend." replied Naruto. Itachi chuckled a little before continuing.
"Well I really hope he isn't. We can't have a gay clan head now can we?" Itachi said with a small smile.
"Yea that would be... wait Itachi aren't you the clan heir? Why did you say Sasuke was going to be clan head?" asked Naruto with a frown. Although he wasn't part of a clan himself and none of the clans had any special relations with hims, he did know enough about how they work that he could understand the only ways Sasuke would become clan heir. One was if the current clan heir was killed, disowned or willingly stepped down from their post. He really hoped Itachi was stepping down.
"I will explain everything to you in a short amount of time as soon as we find Sasuke. Now for your last question the way that you can both be in here at the same time is because I made a kage bunshin and had it put Sasuke under mangekyou sharingan. The reason you're not in the same place is because this area," he said pointing to the world around them "Is actually a separate dimension. It has many areas for both torture and peace. I cannot send a person to a specific area but I can send the in the general direction. I tried to send you to a place filled with the happiest of memories. Unfortunately I missed and instead sent your to... where you were." he said sadly while looking at the ground. Clearly he was feeling guilty about what he had put Naruto through, and was aggravated at himself for it. "I tried to send Sasuke to a similar place so he shouldn't be too far away. Come on, I still have much to tell you and Sasuke"
As they continued to walk, Naruto became fascinated with this alternate dimension and what it could do. I wish I had a kekkei genkai. Then maybe everyone would stop hating me. Or they would say that the damn fur-ball took over my body and has come back for revenge, He thought unhappily.
Suddenly a deep voice echoed throughout the alternate dimension. "What was that you filthy ningen? Are you calling me a fur-ball?" Both Itachi and Naruto froze at the sound and both began to search for the source before in front of them a black hole materialized. It gradually began to grow bigger until it was almost a hundred feet in diameter, when a large red paw came through and slammed down directly in front of them. Itachi grabbed on to Naruto's shoulder before he shunshined both far away from the area. A large red snout poked through the hole followed closely by blood red eyes with a black slit down the middle. As its lip curled up into a snarl it let out a low growl, shaking the ground beneath them. As the rest of the neck appeared Itachi noticed a black collar around the kyuubi's neck and relaxed slightly when he realized that it was still sealed. As the next paw came through the portal an unconscious Sasuke could be seen dangling from a single claw.
"Sasuke!" Itachi cried when he saw the limp form of his brother. The kyuubi quickly closed its paw around the boy before the rest of its body emerged from the portal. "Don't try anything ningen, move even a single inch and I won't hesitate to crush this boy." It said as it began to walk towards the two.
"Kyuubi! What did you to him?" Itachi yelled at the approaching demon. He began to run towards it only to find that around fifty feet in front of the demon there was a wall of demonic chakra. Not wanting to be burned, he quickly retreated to the unblinking form of Naruto. Itachi could only growl as kyuubi stopped only sixty feet in front of them. As it stopped Naruto began to regain his senses and quickly ran through his mind on the only ways kyuubi could be in the dimension. He came to the conclusion the someone had either summoned it here or the seal had been broken, both of which he quickly realized were imposable to happen without him knowing. Lifting up his shirt and focusing a small amount of chakra to where the seal would be, he confirmed this as the seal appeared undamaged.
Cautiously he walked towards the kyuubi, slightly frightened before passing the wall of chakra without harm. Both Itachi and the kyuubi were shocked as they both knew it was imposable to be unharmed by demonic chakra. "S-stop there ningen." kyuubi called; slightly worried by this power his container seemed to have. Naruto stopped before looking up at the kyuubi and asked a simple question that both he and Itachi wanted to know.
"Why did you take Sasuke? What are you going to with him?" Naruto stood there, terrified at being so close to the most powerful of the bijuu, but confident that the seal still worked and would prevent the demon from harming him.
"I came to make a deal, a trade really."
"A trade for what?" asked Itachi scared for Naruto's well-being.
"This boy for my container" stated kyuubi. Itachi was torn between the love of his brother and the one he saw as his brother. He hesitated before Naruto spoke up for him.
"Deal. Just put him down first" he called without a hint of hesitation
"Naruto! What do you mean deal? You do realise that you're dealing with the kyuubi right?"asked Itachi, wide-eyed at the thought of giving up his honorary otōto to the demon.
"Don't worry Aniki" called Naruto as he too recognised Itachi as an honorary family member. "The seal is still in place. The baka kitsune can't do anything to me." He looked again to the fox obviously waiting for it to put Sasuke down. As said fox lowered his paw to the black ground of Itachis genjustu, Itachi rushed forward, scared that the demon had harmed his otōto. Kyuubi laid the small boy close to Itachi before turning to Naruto and looked at him.
Naruto, understanding, walked over to the demon. With a wave of its paw the kyuubi open up the portal again and began to walk through. Naruto walked forward with it and, just before he passed through the swirling mass of chakra in front of him, turned to wave goodbye to Itachi. Itachi, holding his brothers head in his lap, waved back sadly before Naruto turned and entered the portal.
_-~Ayshun Dragon~-_
On the other side of the portal Naruto came across some of the most horrific sights he had ever witnessed. There, tied to crosses, were dozens of people being tortured in various ways. Watching loved ones die, disembowelment, constant stabbing, cutting, burning, dismemberment, and crushing were only some of the many terrors waiting for him. Unable to handle to sudden sights assaulting him Naruto turned and threw up what little food he had had that day.
Calmly kyuubi walked past all of the victims, occasionally adding a little fire-nature chakra to a pyre underneath one of them or throwing a little KI (killing intent) at a small group or family. As Naruto slowly recovered ha quickly ran towards the kyuubi and, careful to avoid looking at the people and covering his nose so he couldn't smell the burning flesh.
After a few minutes of walking they exited the torture area and entered what looked to be like a clan compound. Kyuubi calmly pressed its snout against a large, complex seal matrix painted on a solid black wall, and Naruto could feel the large about of chakra flowing into it. The seal glowed yellow for a few seconds before turning green and sent some sort of chakra pulse towards a large door to Naruto's left. As the door swung open into what looked to be like a courtyard. Kyuubi calmly walked in and lay down in the middle of a large shallow pond.
Sighing in relief kyuubi noticed that Naruto was hesitating at the entrance of the courtyard and, using one of its tails, gently pushed him inside before closing the door. Resting its snout on the grass the kyuubi began to think about what to, and not to tell its container.
Still nervous but confident in the yondaime's seal, Naruto walked forward and sat on the grass ten feet from the kyuubi. "So kyuubi," he called out "why do you want to talk to me alone?"
"Kit, it's simple, all I wanted to do was tell you some things that you deserve to know, and also I want to help you."
"Help me? Why would you want to help me? I'm the one who imprisoned you"
"Well I'm not helping you out of the goodness of my heart you know. I wanted you here so we could make a deal. My knowledge, for something only you can give me. Do you understand?
"Hai, hai. I'm not a total idiot you know. So what can I give you and what are you going to tell me?" asked Naruto slightly intrigued by the deal the kyuubi was proposing.
"Well kit its simple, I give you free access to all of my chakra, without the bloodlust, and you get the rest of my chakra back."
"What do you mean rest of your chakra? Don't you have it all right now?"
"Well actually no, I don't. To explain, first let me explain something that is key to explaining my chakra. The Rikudō Sennin, the founder of both the Uchiha and Senju and possessing the blood and powers of both, made all things. Using the power of Yin Release (Inton), originating from the spiritual energy governing imagination, he created form out of nothing. With the power of Yang Release (Yōton), originating from the physical energy governing life, he blew life into those forms. The Bijū are also one of those... He used Yin-Yang Release (Onmyōton) to create every Bijū from the Ten-Tails' chakra. You see kit, when the yondaime sealed me inside you, he also split my chakra into its yin and yang half's. Inside you, is the yang chakra, and I want you to find and absorb my yin chakra. Understand?
"Hai, kyuubi but what's so special about the other half, why do you need it so much?
Kyuubi sighed and shifted its massive right paw so that it lay to the left of Naruto. It then created a small light through the power of its chakra. It then tilted its paw so that one side of it was lit and the other was in shadow. "To make it simpler I'm going to do a demonstration, this side, in the light it the yang chakra and the side in the dark is the yin chakra. As the sun moves from east to west, light and dark gradually change sides revealing what was obscured and obscuring what was revealed." It demonstrated by moving the chakra ball towards the shadowed side. As it continued to move the previously sunny side became shrouded in shadow, and the previously dark side was lit by the light. "Yang, the lit side, is described as fast, hard, solid, focused, hot, dry, and aggressive; and is associated with fire, sky, the sun and masculinity. Yin in contrast is described as slow, soft, yielding, diffuse, cold, wet, and passive; and is associated with water, earth, the moon, and most importantly femininity."
"Ano, I'm pretty sure I understand what you meant by '...and most importantly femininity' but could you tell me why femininity is so important?" asked Naruto hesitantly.
"BECAUSE I AM A FEMALE! THE FUCKING YONDAIME SEALED THE MALE HALF OF A FEMALE BIJU INSIDE OF YOU! EVERY TIME I TALK AND HEAR THIS KAMI FORSAKEN MALE VOICE COME OUT OF A THROAT MEANT FOR MY BEAUTIFUL VOICE, IT MAKES ME WANT TO KILL SOMETHING! So please kit, I want my better half back please?" she screamed, finishing with a cute pleading look similar to the puppy-dog eyes jutsu. Well as similar as a hundred foot tall angry kitsune can get at least.
Naruto just slightly shocked was staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the female biju. O.k. he was more than a slightly shocked. He was probably terrified. And needing a new set of pants. But it was all fine because he was in a genjustu and in the real world he wouldn't need a new set...probably. he sighed, scratched the back of his head in defeat and caved in. "fine, but first I want to know what the extra chakra will do to my seal."
"Fine kit. It's simple you get the chakra, seal absorbs chakra and ." She finished quickly
Naruto, not fooled at all by the quick speaking decided to play along. "What was that last part? Something about your yin chakra and the mortal world? Care to repeat kyuu-chan." Saying the last part with a slightly teasing tone.
"Well...ano...you see...no! Get out!" as he was quickly expelled from the genjustu and placed back in the real world slumped against a tree.
Across the lake he could see Itachi looking over at him. He saw the figure give a quick nod towards him and Itachi turned back to face his unconscious brother. Naruto gave a quick wave even though he knew Itachi couldn't see him, and quickly went back the way he came towards his apartment, hoping that the mob had left and there was enough of a bed left to sleep in. If he had waited a second longer, he would have seen Itachi pull out a kunai knife and calmly place it an inch over his brothers face.
A/N cliffhanger no jutsu! Just like last chapter. I'm evil. Anyway one more prologue chapter then Chapter 1! Please review; it gives me motivation to update faster.
-Ryu= dragon