….Darkness…
It surrounded him.
Who was he?
What was he?
Where was he?
He was clueless. Lost in an endless abyss.
He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out.
He opened his ears, yet no sound reached them.
He opened his eyes but no sight penetrated them.
He laid there…
In pure darkness, lost in the endless void.
He lays and lays and waits. Yet, there is no sign of life.
Just death.
Just sorrow.
He begins to doubt that if even he is alive.
Wait!
There!
What is that?
A light?
The ball of 'light' which was more of a florescent glowing ball floated in front of him. He reached out his hand. .. and grasped it, within the palm of his hand…
(?)
He was standing by a river streaming around him. Senses overwhelming him. He whipped around sensing something odd in the wave of smells and sights that bombarded him. He looked and saw… himself.
His old, cheerful, happy-go-lucky self. Standing on a bridge with two others. It looked like a banshee for lack of a better word with pink hair and a boy who looked paler than Michael Jackson.
'Wait a sec. Who the fuck is Michael Jackson?'
He approached them and listened to what they were saying. His old self bobbing up and down excited. He would have smiled if he had retained any emotions. In fact, he didn't even trust himself to think he HAD a soul.
Just a memory that ghosted through time. For some odd reason he watched their mouths move but only heard gurgles like something was smothering their voices. He did pick up a few words though.
"..Mission..."
"…Seal…"
"…Orochimaru…"
By instinct alone, he scowled slightly at the name. For some vaguely odd reason he just couldn't stand snakes.
They were sly and sneaky and would attack and destroy everything in range.
'Wait a sec. I could integrate snake based jutsus into my battle tactis. Why restrict myself to powerful jutsu, because of its stereotype with evil?'
He began to turn around when they stopped talking and split up along the bridge. The banshee and MJ were on one side while he and his counterpart were on the other.
The thing that puzzled him was that the mini-me seemed as if he was looking straight at him. But… that was …impossible…right?
Little Naru smirked at him. Then began to make hand signs which strangely he could understand.
'Are those... Anbu signals?!'
He said roughly the following:
"Don't worry. You'll be fine. Good luck! You're in for one helluva ride though! Oh! Remember, sometimes the purest light can conquer the darkest of shrouds!"
'Wow... that's pretty random...'
He wondered what that meant. It was obviously directed at him, for he couldn't sense anyone else chakra signature except for one far away by the memorial stone.
Before he could continue his thoughts, the world around him distorted and darkness enveloped him once more.
(?)
(sigh) 'I'm really getting tired of this...' He looked up.
"Hello there, young one."
He jumped up. "Who are you?"
The women dressed infront of him in pure white giggled. She actually radiated purity and innocence. She was absolutely marvelous!
'Surely she's not human?'
'He's gonna kill me when he figures I did that again.' She thought.
"Excuse me, but could tell me what the hell I'm doing here?"
"I'm afraid I can not tell you that."
"Well then where am I?"
"Elencia."
"What?"
"My name. It's Elencia."
(blink)
"Oh, I'm... actually... I don't know my name..."
"It's ok. You aren't supposed to yet and plus I have completely erased your memories. Me doing that will help completely remold you an restart your whole existance. Now you might be wondering why I did such a thing. I would tell you..." Elencia left off.
"...but?" He prodded.
"But... then that'd be boring!" She exclaimed while thinking, 'He can't know just yet'
"That would destroy the purpose of your purpose after I complete my purpose, which is to send you back in time to complete your purpose."
...
"Okay, let me get this straight." He started. "You have taken all my memories in order for me to fulfill some purpose."
"Yep. That's about it."
"Right. Now just point me in the direction of the closest Psychiatric Ward, so I can get my head checked out, because I'm obviously seeing things."
"Ok. Let's try again. I'm Elencia and I'm your guardian angel!" She smiled.
"Ok..."
"Until you complete your purpose your name will be Anei and I'll go ahead and take away your emotions while I'm at it as a bonus."
"What? Why Anei and what's my purpose? I don't realy care about the emotions though, they tend to get in the way."
"Well to answer those questions, I just picked Ying, because it fits your kekagenkai. First of all you come from the Kumori Clan who specialized in the manipulation of shadows, much like the Nara's of Konohagakure no Sato."
"So I'm a Nara?"
"No! Silly! The Nara's, while extremely talented at this art are not nearly as efficient as the Kumori. In fact, the Naras were a branch off of the Kumori. The only problem was that during the Great War, the Kumori was sought after from both sides and treason and treachery grew in the clan until the fighting between all but destroyed it. In the end, there were only a few that survived, your mother being one of them. She took the clans Jutsus and fled the Land of Whirlpool where the Kumori clan was founded. That's when she changed her name to Kushina Uzumaki, named after the land of which she left. It is said he remaining members died off from assasinations."
"Wow!"
"I know. Then, she eventually found herself in none other than the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Here, she met your father, the Yondamie, Arashi Fuushukun, and last remaining survivor of the Fuushukun clan. The Fuushukun clan where renowned for their own Kekagenkai, the Jikokugan. The Jikokugan, also know as the Time Eye, basically controls time to some extent. I, myself, know little about it, because Kami, for some reason, doesn't give that information to any angel. The whole clan, san your father, supposedly died when Arashi's brother, Mayowasu, went insane and killed the whole clan while Arashi was out on a mission. When the killing was done, Mayowasu came back to his senses and kill himself out of grief and sorrow."
"How do you know all this?"
Elencia bonked him on the head. "Angel! Duh!"
"So what can I do?"
"Well you're gonna have to look for most of your techniques by yourself, but your Kekagenkai allows you absolute control over darkness and shadows. Once you become skilled enough, you'll be able to control it almost without even purposefully thinking about it."
"Wow! But, even though this sounds cool and all... all things have an opposite right?"
"Correct."
"So what is the Uzumaki Clans weakness?"
Elencia sweatdropped. "Hey Anei!"
"Yea?"
"How do you get rid of a shadow?"
"Light?"
"Yep"
"But you still didn't answer my question!"
(and cue facefault!)
"It's light you dummy! The weakness of the Uzumaki Clan is light!"
"Ohhhhh"
"Yea. Now, I need you to always remember to believe in yourself."
"Why would I need to do that?"
"That is a question you must answer yourself."
They both turned as there was a rumbling in the distance.
Anei had just noticed that there looked like a gigantic castle in the background. There were legions of men attacking it. He saw these wierd contraptions that hurled rocks at its walls and fire rained from the sky.
Elencia frowned.
"Well, it looks as if our time is over. Time for you to go back."
"What is with you and your riddles?! Go back WHERE?" Anei had to resist from pouting.
"Back in time, silly! Now get ready!"
She kissed his forehead and there was a flash of light. If you were witnessing this you would see his poture change and his eyes grow a dull blue.
Faintly he heard something.
"NOO!"
"... it...true... NO!...Don't...us...no..."
Silence...Then there was breathing. Raspy breathing. It seemed as if it was coming closer and from behind him. He whirled around.
A figure in a black robe approached him through the almost blinding light.
'Wierd... a normal person right now would be running in fear, but I just can't understand why I could care less about the thing before me."
It reached out its hand.
"Sssssucumb to the ssshroud of ssshadows."
It shot out a black beam of evil energy that hit Anei right in the midriff and everything went dark.
He opened his eyes and blinked and heard the door knocking.
"…."
Wait.
Knocking?
TUK: Sup everyone? How'd ya like this chappy?
Naruto: I thought it was awesome! Except… where am I?
TUK: Oh! You're dead!
Naruto: WHAT?! (runs around) NOO! How am I gonna be able to be Hokageeeee?
TUK: (sticks hand out and grabs Naruto) Oh stop your whining you WERE dead. Now you're not.
Naruto: Really? (nod) YES! I'm soo happy! (Begins bouncing off the walls) REVIEWWWWW!
TUK: SASUKE! TOBI! Baby-sit, NOW! Ja-ne everyone!