Chapter Three

Escape, that was all that occupied his thoughts. This was Naruto Uzumaki; he was four years old and experiencing the worst day of his life so far. So far, he had been kicked out of the orphanage that he had been living in, shouted at and insulted, and now a damn MOB was chasing him, could things get any worse? He ran to a training ground, while trying to lose his pursuers in a dense patch of trees, he tripped." God damn it," he thought, "could this day get any worse?" He hit the ground, and a small hole opened up and he fell through.

"It looks like I spoke too soon." He thought out loud. He looked up, the hole was too deep to climb out of, so he looked around the hole. After a few minutes of inspection, he found something, another hole, curious, he decided to investigate further. The hole was just big enough to allow him to fit if he crawled. Seeing no other option, he crawled through. When he emerged on the other side, he couldn't see, so he stumbled around the cave in an attempt to find a wall, after feeling around the cave for a few minutes, he fell down another hole.

"Oh dear god, another hole? I'm goanna die in here because I can't find a way out!" he exclaimed.

When he fit the bottom of the hole he looked around, there was light! That meant that he didn't have to wander around blindly into holes again! He stood up, after looking around for a few minutes he spotted something, a beam of sunlight. He walked towards it, as he approached it he noticed something, a stand, and it had a book on it. He stepped up to the book and opened it, he began reading the first few pages.

Hello, Uzumaki. If you are reading this then it should be somewhere between the years of 1260 and 1270, if it is before that time period, than skip to the end of this book, if it is after this time period, then if they still exist, remind the Uchiha and Senju clans of their duties. If you are not an Uzumaki than the seal will teleport you away and force you to forget what you have seen here in one minute.

I predicted that someone would eventually fall into this hole, and I planned for it to be an Uzumaki. I am the Sage of Six Paths, I am one of your ancestors, I am the creator of ninjutsu, the man who sealed the Jubi, created the tailed beasts as you know them in your time. I am also not from your reality. I was an agent of the foundation, the SCP foundation, and the jubi was an SCP, I was dispatched with my task force in order to contain, and hopefully terminate the jubi, which I knew as SCP-682, the most difficult of the SCPs to kill. The worst thing was that it could adapt to anything we could think of, but I found a way to kill it here, a seal, it would be imprisoned for centuries, but that prison would break. Naturally, I planned for this to happen, and I created and enacted a plan to stop it.

The Uzumaki, Uchiha and Senju clans all had their roles in the plan, but your clan is likely destroyed by now, your role is the last line of defense should something go wrong with the prison. While the Uchiha can control demons to some small extent, and the Senju can suppress them, the Uzumaki are much more powerful, they inherited my eyes, the Rinnegan, it is the only ability that will let you have a chance of fighting a demon on even ground, figuratively speaking. To activate it, you must experience the loss of someone precious to you, when they die a violent death, you must witness it. This book contains details about what has happened in the past roughly one thousand or so years. If you skip to near the end of the book, you will find a ninjutsu to use, as well as the route out of this cavern, but take this book with you.

He flipped to near the end of the book. He saw what the hand seals were, just a single, cross of his middle and index fingers with his thumbs touching. He read what the book said about it.

This is the Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu. It creates solid clones. It splits your chakra in half each time it's used, meaning that only someone with high level reserves can use it to its fullest extent. The memories of each clone are transferred to the original, making this jutsu useful for reconasance and, if you have enough chakra, training. Just a warning though, if you dispel too many at once, your brain will not be able to process the information fast enough. If you create too many clones, dispel them in bursts of up to ten at once, then wait for another hour or so, then dispel ten more. When you dispel shadow clones in small groups you gain more experience. If you create and train with four clones and dispel them all at once after sixteen hours, you will get eighty hours of experience. However, if you dispel one every hour you will end with one hundred eighty hours of experience.

"Wow," Naruto thought, "that sounds really useful!" The book continued

Shadow clones can also be used to disarm traps because they are solid, they will be necessary to get out of this cavern alive. Create one hundred and send them out, each time they come across a new tunnel, a group will split in half, one will escape, use it's memories when it dispels. I created this cavern and used a ninjutsu to keep it sealed until someone with enough chakra to safely use at least one hundred shadow colnes falls into it. The only ones that could have a chance of that would be jinchuriki, the living containers of demons. And judging by the location of this book, you are the jinchuriki of the Kyubi, the nine tailed fox, but you are not the fox, I was the jinchuriki of the jubi, something seemingly infinitely more powerful than myself. To communicate with the fox, you must meditate. No go, escape this cavern with the book, on the front cover you will see a design that you may pull out, it is the key to the door at the cavern's exit.

"T-The Kyubi? That monster is inside of me? Why didn't the old man tell me about this? What other secrets could he be keeping from me? And what in the hell does this Rinnegan do? And why me?" he wondered. "Wait," he thought, "this shadow clone thing can help me get out of here. I may as well try it." "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he shouted. More clones than he could count appeared. "alright," he ordered, "find me a way out of here! You should know what to do, the book already explained it!" the clones ran off deeper into the cavern. After a few minutes, he received the first of the memories from the ones that went the wrong way. "Ouch," he winced, "I'm glad I listened to the book, if I had went that way, I would have been killed." Not too long after that, he got memories of where the door was. "Yes," he said, elated, "I can finally get out of here!" He ran off in the direction that the clones did earlier.

After a few minutes he came to a fork in the tunnel. "now," he wondered, " which way did they go again?" A clone dispelled. "that way," he said as he received the memories of another clone. "Left," he said to himself. He kept going like that until the last fork in the tunnel, at least, that's what he could remember from the clones. "Last clone," he muttered, "let's hope this is really the last fork before the exit." A clone dispelled. "Ha! This really is the last one," he exclaimed as he received the last of the memories, "time to get out of here." He headed right. After what seemed like an eternity, he saw the door. "Finally, no more of this place." He said to himself with some satisfaction, now to unlock this door." He took the design out of the book and placed it in the hole. "I am finally out of here," he said as he pushed on the door. It didn't budge. "What the hell," he wondered, "why isn't this working?" he kept pushing, it still didn't work. He backed off and looked at the door. After a minute of looking at it, he saw another hole in it, with the word "push" written next to it. "How did I not notice that before," he wondered. He then tried pulling the door, it worked the first time.

When he got to the surface he saw that the sun was low in the sky. "it must be getting close to night," he thought, "and I have nowhere to go since the orphanage kicked me out. It looks like I'm going to have to sleep in a box or something for tonight. Maybe I'll ask the old man if I can get somewhere that's not a box to sleep in tomorrow," he said while heading back into the village. About an hour later, he found a box in an alley to sleep in. Laying down in it, he fell asleep almost instantly.