Child of the Touketsu Jurin

By: Death's Spear

Chapter 2

Four years today since the great Kyuubi no Kitsune was defeated by the fourth Hokage, and every thing was going fine. People of the village known as Konoha, were busying them selves with new buildings that were in need of being built or repaired, ninjas doing their missions or training, commoners going to and from grocery stores, and restaurants were serving the public. Shops were overflowing with customers, buying what they needed for the festivities that were to be held later today; October 10, the day the demon was 'killed'. People walking and talking too and fro, laughing and visiting the dearly departed that had fallen to the 'demon'. Everyone was pretty happy; well not everyone…

On the other side of town, the village orphanage was preparing for the festivities that would take place that night. And for one small under weight, mal-nourished child the festivities had already started. It started with a kick in the side, and a one way trip to the cold, hard floor. This festivity was not one that the boy liked, but to his 'caretakers', was one of the best ones. After getting up off the floor he was left alone so he could use the restroom, and then as soon as he was out, picked up and thrown out of the orphanage door with out breakfast. Once out side he was immediately pelted with rotten food and even stones from the public, young and old alike. To escape the onslaught of falling food, and words of hate and malice, the boy picked himself off the ground and ran.

The boy ran and ran, until he came upon a group of drunkards. The drunkards turned, saw him and laughed. They picked up knives, broken bottles, small poles of sorts and chased him towards the outskirts of what would soon be called the Touketsu Jurin, in just a couple of months. The boy, not fast enough to escape the drunkards was glad they were drunk for once, because they fell over their own feet a lot of the time as they were chasing him. The boy turned a corner, and came to dead end. He only had a limited amount of time and the boy knew it was either find a way out, or he was going to die. Two minutes pasted and he come arcos a small hole in the left corner of the wall, just big enough for him to pass. By the time the drunkards found him, he was already through most of the hole and was almost free. He was again glad for the stupidity of the drunkards, when one of them stepped and tripped over an empty can of red bean soup. In turn made of the bastards fall, giving the time he needed to getaway.

Now Naurto, the boys name; escaped but not without injuries. He was hit with a broken bottle after the drunks started to chase him, plus the bruises from the onslaught of stones and food from before. Right now, he had no time to worry about that, he had no home to go to anymore, nor had he had any food all day. After his escape he was tired, hungrier than he was before, cold and last but not least bleeding. He started to think this was the end. Naruto found what he thought to be a berry bush with some ripe berries on it, and soon wasted no time in moving towards it and savagely devouring the bush of its berries. When Naruto was finished there he made his way deeper within the forest to find some water; but alas found none. That night he went to bed with a semi full stomach and a dry throat, he had covered him self with leaves that had fallen around the ground, and fell in to a dreamless sleep. Had he realized earlier, he would have noticed that his wounds were almost or totally gone.

The next morning was rather interesting to Naruto. The first thing he noticed was he wasn't kicked out of bed like he usually was. The second thing was he smelt no breakfast! What he did smell was the fresh crisp smell of the forest. He sat up and opened his eyes to a sight that was breath taking, well to him anyways. There were birds singing and playing around all the while looking for food. He saw squirrels hunting for nuts and cleaning their bushy tails. But the weirdest thing he saw, was an eerie, totally white 'dog' thing looking at one of the slower squirrels and then hunkered down and slinked its way towards it, and attacked and effectively killing the squirrel. Naruto watched this action of attacking when the enemy (squirrel) wasn't looking towards the 'dog', and first thought 'that's mean! Why would the dog do that? It didn't have to kill the squirrel! The squirrel might have shared it's nuts with him, if he didn't kill him." Then Naruto watched it some more and finally realized that the 'dog' was hungry and wanted to eat something, not only was the 'dog' hungry it was more like the dogs around the village, didn't like nuts, or veggies, so it ate the squirrel. 'Well… it maybe mean but I would do the same thing if I was hungry, which I am NOT!' he told himself, but his gut argued back by growling, and pretty loud too.

"GGGGGRRRRWWWWLLLLL!" Naruto flushed at his own embarrassment. He noticed that the every creature was now looking at him, the birds, squirrels, and a rabbit that came out when he was thinking to him self earlier; were now staring at him with scared expressions. The thing that he didn't notice was the white 'dog' wasn't in front of him anymore. When he felt breathing on the back of his neck, he turned expected to see a small creature that was afraid of him and didn't move out of fear. Was he ever wrong…

What he found was the white 'dog' glaring menacingly, it looked ten times more freighting than when he was beat by the villagers. He was looking into his own death and couldn't do anything about it. He opened his mouth and said the only reasonable thing for any kid his age to say…

"N-n-nice d-doggie!" As soon as he said that the 'dog' snarled at him and pushed its face even closer towards Naruto. And then…. it attacked. It felt worse than anything he had ever felt before. Even the when the lady at the home smashed his hand in the door and then open the door and repeated two more times. He screamed and cried at the 'dog' and also did it for the pain. He wanted the 'dog' no, monster to stop he did every thing he could and failed to get the beast off of him. He kicked and punched at it and it didn't work. Finally after trying every thing he could think of he stopped and fell into darkness. All the while the beast was still snarling, growling at him, all the while biting and clawing him.

The next thing he knew, in a long, dark, musty hallway and something was calling his name, but it wasn't like the old man said his name, it was more of a deep and evil way. "Naruto-o-o-o!" He looked around to see where he was, at first he thought that the 'monster' was the one that said his name, trying to get the boy's attention before it attacked him, but when he turned around, it wasn't there. Nothing was. No birds, no squirrels, no bugs, no trees; just a long dark, musty old hallway. "Where am I? And who are you?" The boy heard nothing, and decided to try to find what had said his name. He got up and started to walk around, only to come to giant cage. A giant cage with the kanji for 'SEAL' donned upon it. The only thing he saw besides the cage was a small bluish-red icicle. He walked over to the icicle and picked it up, suddenly the icicle started to vibrate and glow. There was a flash of ice blue, and then… "Hello Naruto. You are indeed a child of Shiva! Welcome to your mind. I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune, and I have a proposition for you child." With that sudden piece of information, Naruto fainted again.

End Chapter 2

Sincerely, Death's Spear

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