A/N: Hope ya'll are enjoying the show! This story returns as well! This chapter may be a tad rough, but I'll give you a warning. Brace yourself, dear reader. For in the pages of this chapters...

"Zehahahahaha!"

~Teach.

The Black Spot

It had been weeks since the now-former thief had put Leaf Island behind him, and Naruto had to confess, he felt he was enjoying his time with the Whitebeard pirates. He was still tentative about it, and his missed his mother something

Naruto had been getting help learning about how to control his new powers from Ace, seeing as they were both Logia type-users, but he wasn't making as much progress as he would have liked...good thing Whitebeard knew how to use Haki. It wasn't for nothing that the power of darkness that was granted by Yami Yami no Mi is the strongest, most dangerous power amongst Devil Fruits.

Naruto smelled the salt air and then noticed something in the water that leapt out onto the deck. It was a large blue whale shark fishman with a stocky build similar to a sumo wrestler and a face that looked like an oni and wore a pale red coat. Naruto's eyes widened. Even he knew who this was.

Without stopping to think, the blond just reacted. "INTRUDER ON DECK!" he shouted, lifting Jinbe up and caused his arms and legs to streatch out as Naruto created a set of small black holes and started streatching him limbs like a wrack.

"Whoa, whoa whoa! Easy Naruto! It's ok!"
"Ace, are you insane?! That's "Knight of the Sea" Jinbe! No way in all Hell am I letting a Shichibukai near the captain!" Naruto said.

"It's all right, he's come here before. Fishman Island is one of the territories under Pop's protection!" Ace said, and he was relieved when his pupil was so shocked, the darkness retracted back into 's body,making Ace consider upping Naruto's training as far as control, then the fire-human helped the Shichibukai stand.

"Sorry Jinbe...new guy." Ace apolgized.

Jinbe grunted, "He was just overzelouse in wanting to defend Whitebeard, I fully understand that. Whitebeard went out of his way to claime Fishman Island as his territory to protect it from the World Government and other pirate attacks simply because he felt it was right to help the people of my home. I understand how badly it would upset the balence of the world should Whitebeard be killed, so I can't blame him."

Naruto gawked. A Shichibukai on friendly terms with a Yoko?

"So what's the occasion for the visit?" Ace asked.

Jinbe sobbered at that "Bad news, I'm afraid. One of the islands under Whitebeard's protection's been attacked."

"WHAT?!" Both Naruto and Ace shouted. The former vanished in an instant.

Naruto lurched forward, grabbing Jimbei by the collar, hoisting him into the air.

"Which island?"

Jimbei said nothing.

"Which island?!" Naruto all but roared! The fishmen turned his head aside, sighed.

"Leaf Island."

Naruto felt a black hole open in his stomach.

"No...


A full moon shone down on that night as well, less bloodthirsty, yet by no means less dire.

Naruto was cursing himself, even as he used his powers as a Yami Ningen-thanks to the Yami Yami no Mi allows the user to control darkness and its unique property of gravity-to shoot up into the air then fly forward at an astounding rate of speed. The air stung at his eyes, cut into his skin, but he didn't care. He had eyes only for the speck in the distance; for his home. This couldn't be happening. He'd been a fool! A stupid ignoramus who hadn't given one iouta of thought to his mother's safety. No...

No...No...No...NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! THAT COULDN'T BE...! IT JUST COULDN'T! HE REFUSED TO BELIEVE IT!

As he used his gravity powers to fly to the island, his eyes widened and he was so horriified he actually lost control of his darkness powers. Bereft of the power to fly he fell, skidding face-first on the hard surface of the island, scrubbing his face raw.

Yet the pain from the impact didn't register with him at all. How could it? Compaired with what was before him...

Naruto looked up, trembeling all over. His eyes wide and cold sweat breaking out from every pore of his couldn't breath as he looked around at the forest of gallows-like gibbets which covered the chared, glassed-over ground which looked like a piece of charcoal due to all the obsidian, in each of the gibbets were the dead bodies of every man, woman, and child he had grown up with. Everyone on Leaf Island was dead.

And above it all, on a lighthouse-sized spike that rose up from the center of the island, was a giant crucifix with one person attached to it: his dead mother.

Hanging from the spikes used to pin his mother's corpse in place was a flag that had a message written in dried blood on it.

PIRATES YE BE WARNED!

The "PIRATES YE" was written along the top, while the "BE WARNED" was written on the bottom, and fraimed by it was something Naruto knew: the Marine emblem of the World Goverment.

Naruto's eyes widened and he felt as though nothing were real. It was like a nightmare. He couldn't breath...couldn't think...this just COULDN'T be real!

Naruto felt his heart stop and he gasped as he tried to breath, yet it was no use. As he gasped and tried to keep from passing out, the black smoke-like substance that visually demonstrated his darkness and gravitational powers started spreading out from his body, picking up speed with each useless gasp that left him. Along with that, there was somthing else...something worse than the dark void that devours and crushes everything, sparing not even a ray of light.

Tears.

"Oh...Nh...Ah...AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRAAAGGGG GGGGGGGGHHH!"

Instantly black cascaded through his mind. He floated...floated away...floated into nothingness. For a fleeting moment, he thought he could hear himself screaming. Then he was lost.

Naruto howled, tears running down his face, darkness spreading forth from his body, covering the whole island. The pressure of gravity hanging over the dead land-his former home-spiked to an insane degree, at least a billion times its normal amount. And still, Naruto screamed until his throat was raw until he lost his voice. And still he screamed and wept, blood replacing tears as they fell from his eyes. Yet noting was real...nothing mattered...nothing, except his morning.

As the gravity caused the island to shake, something fell loose from his mother's corpse, yet he took no notice of it.

"Kabutowari!" Whitebeard's voice roared and Naruto felt a massivly powerful blow strike him from behind and spots danced before his eyes and he passed out from the force of the blow from Whitebeard, as Naruto lost consciousness, the darkness stopped frowing out of him and the island stopped shaking as the gravity around it returned to normal.


Naruto awoke in his quarters on the Moby Dick. Yet he bitterly aknowlaged the fact. He was alive. He was alive, yet his entire world was gone...gone forever!

"Yo, Naruto."

He turned over, unwilling to deal with people, so he ignored Ace's voice.

"Naruto...I know this isn't the time, but there's a letter adressed to you...and it's about what happened on Leaf Island." Ace said, his voice as remorseful as Naruto felt.

He sat up and snatched the letter from Ace's hand, nearly ripping it in the process, and poured over it. He needed information...he needed to know who was to blame for this.

Naruto...that IS your name, right...? I hope you haven't forgotten me or what you did to me.

Thanks to you, I still owe you since you took from me the very Devil Fruit I desired for over two decades...But I don't hold loosing the Yami Yami no Mi against you since you ate the WHOLE FRUIT. Rather, I thank you for it! I was a fool to think the power of darkness that reduces anything to nothingness from the Yami Yami no Mi was truly invincible and the strongest power amongst Devil Fruits, but I confess I was wrong. I now posess the almighty power of the Jikan Jikan no Mi-the time time fruit!Zehahahaha! If you hadn't attacked me and eaten the entire Yami Yami no Mi, I wouldn't have sought out an even greater force since I didn't bother to look for one, thinking that it was the power of Darkness that was absolute! Zehahahaha!

And it is because of that debt that I wanted you to know about this happening to Leaf Island, I hope you know the World Goverment thought the Leaf Island was a pirate port, same as Tortuga. THAT'S why they killed everyone and everything you ever knew and loved. And knowing about the World Government's power to release information on anyone as they please can often lead to the truth being suppressed, altered or ignored all together, you know this'll be either twisted to suit their "Absolute Justice", or supressed compleatly. I was the one who sent you that letter with the 'return home' message on it when I knew they were heading for your home.

Marshall D. Teach.

The World Goverment had thought his home was a pirate port?! How had they gotten THAT idea?! And Teach had been the one to inform him?! How had he even KNOWN about this? But none of that mattered to Naruto. No...what did was that "And knowing about the World Government's power to release information on anyone as they please can often lead to the truth being suppressed, altered or ignored all together, you know this'll be either twisted to suit their "Absolute Justice", or supressed compleatly" line...they were going to dismiss slaughtering an ENTIRE ISLAND?! The idea if made his blood turn to magma in his veins.

To dismiss this...to dismiss the Goverment's guilt...was to dismiss the lives of his loved ones!

He snarled. Hate errupting in him. The Black Spot was the mark of death to a pirate. And the Goverment had turned his home into one! All on assumption! A giant black spot of death!

Naruto was brought out of his vile feelings as Ace brought him something. "Here...this was all that was left on the island other than...you know..." he said, handing Naruto a sheathed sword.

As he took it and drew the blade, looking it over, he felt something... there was something about the sword that appeared to have a mind of its own,that it seemed bloodthirsty, the feel of the sword's presence mixed in with and meshed perfectly with Naruto's greif and anger.

The sword was a katana-type with the temper line made of red steel in a flame pattern, the hilt itself was wrapped in silver cloth, and held inside a red sheathe. The edge was sharper than any sword even should be, making it easier to use for cutting.

He grinned, knowing why it felt that way all of a sudden-as if the blade were hissing whispers into his ear. "Shodai Kitetsu...a cursed, Saijo O-Wazamono Sword that brings horrible death...perfect!" Naruto said, eyeing the blade with a near-phychotically ravinous look in his face. "You and me, Shodai...we're gonna drown the world with the Goverment's blood!" he said, channeling his Yami powers into the blade, just as Whitebeard did with his bisento and Gura Gura no Mi abilities. At Naruto's words and the darkness flowing off it from the Yami Yami no Mai, the Shodai Kitetsu seemed to shiver with pure elation.

Naruto had to confess he wanted to use this Kitetsu as his primary weapon from now on. After all, this way he wouldn't need to use the daisho sword pair his mother had given him the last time he had saw her alive (the thought was like a cannonball punching through his stomach), since use brings about wear, tear, and rust and he had to take care of them now since the daisho pair were the last remnint of his mother he had left, and he hadn't wanted to take them in the first place anyway.

'Those damn marines...they won't get away with this!'

A/N: Well...damn. The Black Spot indeed! I wonder what could've caused the marines to massacre the people of Leaf Island? Is there more to this than meets the eye? Or was it simply a case of bad information? Will Ace still pursue Blackbeard?! And what will become of Naruto?! Find out next time in...MASTER OF SHADOWS! Yoho, and please don't forget to review until my ears fall off. Although, being a skeleton...I have no ears to listen with! YOHOHOHOHO! SKUULLL JOOOOKE! Look forward to plenty of action of next chappy people!

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