In a swirl of cold mist Naruto found himself assaulted by a rain colder than he had ever felt, it stung his skin like ice; glancing over his shoulder he saw that the man who had taken him from Konoha was unfazed. The man looked up at the sky and glared, he knew exactly where he was but he wasn't pleased about having to take Naruto here; Amegakure wasn't the kindest hidden village. In fact little was known about Ame other than it was a village hidden by constant rain, no one knew exactly how the Shinobi of Ame were trained; but they were ruthless and void of mercy when in battle. The man was taken out of his thoughts by Naruto's sudden thrashing, the boy was now frantic to get away; the man had held him for too long and was bound to be contaminated by his taint. Naruto did not like to be touched, he was rarely beaten by someone's bare hand; hands were covered and feet were covered; burying it into Naruto's mind that he was tainted by the Kyuubi's evil. Tears began to well in the child's normally dry eyes, but they were hidden by the rain; after what seemed like an eternity Naruto couldn't help but give a pained whisper.
"Let me go." He murmured painfully, "Let me go before you are tainted." Naruto said.
The man's eyebrows furrowed as he heard the child's plea, he did not think that the child was tainted; not even the teachings of Jashin knew of taint. With a strong grip the man lifted Naruto up by the scruff of the neck to get a better look at the child; blood red hair and blue eyes greeted him as did the whisker marks of a pariah. With a light grunt the man set Naruto down, he was surprised when the child didn't run but backed away; his body shivering from his rags being drenched. The boy's skeletal frame was visible; the rags clung to the light curves where his ribs were sunken in, his spine could be seen as well. The man didn't know what to say as he glared at the damaged boy, stoic eyes looked back at him even though marked by tears; the child was beaten into thinking that his skin held some form of taint. Little did the man know that he had stolen away a Jinchuriki, the man was only going on faith; he had hopes that the broken boy before him would embrace his faith and make it his own due the boy's abuse.
"Why would a little shit like you be tainted?" The man said, "I follow the lord Jashin and He knows of no fucking taint."
Naruto flinched at the man's crude language,
"You don't understand… You don't know what's inside of me." Naruto said falling to his knees and hugging his body.
Naruto didn't know what the man was trying to say, ever since Naruto could remember he was called tainted; only now he knew why. His body was housing a great evil that not even the man before him could comprehend, the man said he had a lord; perhaps the man could help him be rid of his taint. The Kyuubi's growl rumbled through the boy, Naruto's eyes closed tightly in fear; he knew better than to think the Kyuubi could be removed from him without both of them dying. The Kyuubi did not want to die, nor did Naruto want to face the Shinigami; Naruto looked up at the man with broken eyes and slowly tried to get to his feet. The man gave a growl and picked up the boy and threw him over his shoulder once more, the treatment Naruto got from the man was rough; yet it had some speck of compassion in it. The man gave a grunt at how light Naruto really was; the boy could probably be thrown a decent distance; Naruto once again began to writhe against the man.
"By the way, my damn name is Hidan." The man said, "If you want to call me anything other than Hidan, call me Father. No Sir or Mister bullshit, I'm a holy man not fucking heathen."
Naruto gave a light nod, confused as to why a holy man would have such harsh language; but with Hidan there was nothing up for questioning. The rain continued to pound on the two, Hidan often shifted Naruto on his shoulder so the rain was sure to thoroughly pound at the boy's back; it hurt at first before the pain actually became like a cols massage on the boy's spine. The Kyuubi was working double time to try and keep Naruto warm, going so far as to start to produce the burning steam from Naruto's skin; Hidan gave a hiss at the sudden heat and lightly tossed Naruto off his shoulder before once against gripping Naruto by the scruff of his neck. Hidan glared at the steam coming from the boy, for a moment he thought that Naruto was trying to burn him but when Hidan touched the boy his skin was warm to the touch; for a moment Hidan thought about letting Naruto walk beside him but he had a feeling that the villagers of Ame would get an idea in their mind to try and take the boy away.
The villagers of Ame didn't see Hidan as a holy man but as a sadist, Hidan enjoyed making live human sacrifices to his Kami; many of them were men who enjoyed torturing others. They didn't understand why Hidan chose to pick off the stronger and more sadistic men of the village, once in a great while a woman or child would go missing but they blamed those losses on the holy man as well; little did they know that Jashinism was a form of pacifying one's own pain through the pain of others. When someone inflicted pain on Hidan he only needed to ingest a few drops of the offender's blood and stand inside the symbol of Jashin drawn on the ground in blood to become a conduit for a deadly curse; his body would turn black leaving solid outlines of his bones. The curse's effect was to inflict the pain Hidan caused himself or was inflicted on him onto the cursed, be it a broken arm or a kunai stabbed through the stomach to the more devious of sliced throats. Hidan's immortality let him feel the effects of the curse and even feel death itself creep through his body. Hidan had plans to show Naruto how to perform this curse, if he showed signs of becoming a conduit than Hidan would raise the child; if the child died than it was of no grand loss to Hidan.
"So gaki, what the fuck do I call you?" Hidan said; his voice cutting through the rain.
Naruto gave a faint sigh and looked over his shoulder at the immortal.
"My name is Naruto… not many people use my name though." Naruto said, slightly ashamed by that fact.
Hidan came to a short stop, he recalled the villagers referring to the boy as a demon rather than a child; for a moment Hidan pondered the reasons why before he shrugged lightly and continued to walk through the rain; he could see the village gates and closed his eyes. Naruto also decided to close his eyes, he didn't want to see the faces of the strange villagers as Hidan carried him through the village; it was a strange village filled with people that Naruto didn't know. It made Naruto feel odd being in a strange village for the first time; he had imagined his first time being outside of Konoha being as a Genin at the age of 10 or 12, yet here he was at the age of 5 being carried through Ame by an immortal that plucked him from Konoha. Naruto felt Hidan's grip on him tighten as if the immortal expected the villagers to pull Naruto from him, Naruto unknowingly had also gripped Hidan's cloak; shivering as the cold liquid ran through his fingers. Naruto's eyes were closed so tight that he could feel tears pressing through his eyelids before the pitter patter and chatter of village live invaded his ears, it sounded so different as the voices of the villagers clashed with the heavy rain; however the voices seemed to lower to hushed whispers as Hidan walked through the busy street.
The sound of Hidan's footsteps in the rain soon seemed to be the only sound that Naruto could hear, save for his own heart-beat and the Kyuubi pacing in its cage. The village seemed to wither into a muted state before the sound of rushing footsteps came up from behind the immortal, Hidan opened his eyes and jump just in time to see an Ame Shinobi skid through the muddy street holding a sword in his hands; the young man had aimed to stab Hidan through the heart. Hidan grit his teeth and reach behind his back for his scythe; Naruto's eyes widened seeing the rope that connected the scythe to Hidan's arm, it was almost as shocking as the fact that Hidan's scythe had three blades. Naruto opened his eyes long enough to see Hidan throw the scythe, he closed his eyes tightly once he could hear the sound of rope being pulled and maneuvered through the air. The villager whom had attacked Hidan was an Ame Shinobi, his headband displayed proudly on his arm; however as Hidan maneuvered his scythe he managed to clip the young man on his side. A dark grin grew over Hidan's expression as he drew his scythe back into his grasp; his tongue swiping over the blood before he shifted Naruto around onto his shoulder so Naruto could watch him work.
"Take heed child, for this is the power of my faith; this fucker wants to inflict pain without knowing its meaning." Hidan gave a dark grin before pulling out a kunai and violently slashing his leg open, "I will show this heathen bastard the meaning of pain, in the name of Kami!"
Naruto gulped and shuddered as the scent of Hidan's blood hit his nose, Naruto couldn't help but watch as Hidan drew a circle on the ground; his eyes were full of a child-like curiosity as Hidan made a triangle in the middle of the circle. The young man froze in terror before he shook his head and gave a cry, charging at Hidan with his sword poised to the strike; the villagers around them cried for the young man to stop before he did something that he would regret. Naruto gripped Hidan's shoulder tightly, his finger's painfully digging into Hidan's skin; Hidan winced out of the tight grip to his shoulder but he noticed that Naruto didn't fail to see the man also wince. Hidan darkly chuckled as he straightened his posture, offering his own heart to the blade that was charging his way; Naruto gasped watching as Hidan's skin turned black, the solid white tracings of his bones becoming visible. Naruto buried his head in Hidan's shoulder only to have Hidan make Naruto watch as the blade grew closer to him; Naruto could see the aqua colored eyes of the man who was going to end the life of the man who offered to help him.
Hidan's mad laughter burst from his body as the sword was driven through his chest, not only driving through Hidan's heart and lung; but also into Naruto's calf. Where Hidan's laughter was mixed with pain, Naruto gave a pained yell before a growl came from his throat; the growl was inhuman and Made Hidan's laughter turn into pained chuckles. Steam rose from Naruto once more, this time it burned through Hidan's cloak; thus also burning the man's shoulder. The man was alive long enough to begin to feel the burning of Naruto's steam as well as the pain of something sharp cutting through his own heart and lungs, Naruto watched as steam rose from the man's shoulder before the steam stopped; Naruto winced as the sword was yanked from his leg roughly as the young man fell to the ground. Blood mixed with the rain as the soil greedily seemed to absorb the pooling blood, Hidan's symbol was only just washing away before he waved his hand, dispelling his curse and letting the symbol be washed away by the rain; Naruto's leg would need to be looked at but for the moment Hidan could only stand there.
The death of the young man was washing over the immortal like a drug, his body became numb and soon he found his world tumbling onto its side. Naruto winced and crawled onto his side; Hidan was still smiling even as he watched Naruto hug his leg to his chest. Naruto couldn't help but let out a whine of pain as dirt and rain pounded the hole where the sword had pierced his calf; he could feel his blood run from the wound but it burned as well, there was something closing the wound that made more steam rise up. Naruto know it was the Kyuubi, but what he didn't know was that the steam rising from his leg was taking the form of the Kyuubi's face; snarling up at the sky and marking the boy as Jinchuriki. The villagers of Ame soon looked at Naruto with disgust; they had heard tales of Jinchuriki losing control of the Bijuu within, but the Kyuubi's life was bound to Naruto's life. If Naruto were to die the seal would effectively force the Kyuubi into Naruto's corpse for all eternity, thus killing the great demon before it had a chance to escape.
"Jinchuriki…" A woman gasped, holding her children close to her.
Murmurs of murdering the boy soon spread through the crowd as Naruto clung to Hidan, hoping that the man was still alive. Hidan's eyes were glazed over as his smile reused to fade; Naruto's only hope was that Hidan began to twitch lightly in his right hand. Cerulean eyes danced about the strangers, some holding their families close while others glared in thought; if Hidan had brought a Jinchuriki to Ame it was ether stolen or it willingly went with him to be a sacrifice. In the villagers' minds Naruto was dead even if they let Hidan take it to the temple beyond the main village, the only difference was that the villagers would give the child mercy; with Hidan the boy would be tortured for sure. Naruto froze at the word Jinchuriki, he knew what it meant and before he thought about it he tried to hide under Hidan; the immortal gave a deep groan before blinking.
"The fuck is going on now?" Hidan growled causing the villagers to back away.
The woman holding her children couldn't help but glare at Naruto.
"You bastard, you brought a Jinchuriki into our home!" She yelled in fury.
Hidan's eyes narrowed as he tried to figure out what the word Jinchuriki meant and what that had to do with the boy he brought to Ame. His expression soon turned into a glare when he realized what the boy meant by being tainted, sitting up Hidan couldn't help but glare down at the child; Naruto's shaking form showed no sign of injury but yet Hidan' couldn't help but feel slightly pleased. If the boy could heal from wounds as quickly as he did, Hidan had little doubt that Naruto would make a fine Jashinist one day; but that was if he could survive becoming a conduit. The process would require an iron will to live and to be able to inflict pain without regret; an enemy would never regret inflicting pain upon either of them. They were both seen as demons, Hidan for being an immortal and Naruto for being a Jinchuriki; however Hidan didn't know which tailed-beast the boy held inside of him. If he had perhaps the immortal would've given it more thought before plucking the boy from the lush village of Konoha, but Hidan wouldn't admit the feeling of wanting to protect the boy from the villagers; he had a feeling that if he didn't show up when he had that Naruto would be dead.
"Bitch, I didn't do shit." Hidan said before getting up, "All I did was show some fucking mercy to a kid facing his damn grave."
Without another word Naruto was once again slung over Hidan's shoulder, but a light grunt Naruto gave a faint whine before his stomach growled. Hidan's eye twitched at the sheer force of the growl, it sounded like Naruto hadn't eaten in a while. With a roll of his shoulders Hidan tilted his head towards Naruto.
"Hey kid, when was the last fucking time you had a decent damn meal?" Hidan asked, once again making Naruto stiffen.
In all honesty Naruto couldn't really remember his last meal, all the food he had ever eaten had come from trash; he was lucky enough to find at least a bite to eat before the insects did. At worst Naruto would have to endure the taste of writhing worms crawling through a lump of meat that had been thrown out earlier in the day. Naruto's silence did little except that Hidan didn't have a very long patience, within a few moments Hidan' lifted Naruto up by his leg and dangled him in front of the immortal. Naruto's shirt flew up making the child blush before trying to cover his skin, he could tell that the man could see his ribs but he didn't know that the seal for the Kyuubi was burning a bright red against his skin.
"Kid, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to use you for a Jinchuriki?" Hidan asked suddenly, his eyes glaring at the seal.
Naruto couldn't help but shudder at the immortal's tone in regards to the Kyuubi's seal.
"It… It was the Yondaime Hokage." Naruto murmured, his voice was small and ashamed, "He died sealing the Kyuubi away… But if I die, the Kyuubi dies too." Naruto said, making Hidan's eyes widen.
Hidan had heard of the Kyuubi attacking village but he didn't think that it was Konoha, with a satisfied grunt Hidan threw Naruto back over his shoulder; he knew from that answer that there was no way in hell that Naruto had known of decent food. In fact, Hidan was certain that his own rough treatment was gentle compared to that of Konoha. The villagers glared at both the immortal and the Jinchuriki, Naruto couldn't help but close his eyes but Hidan grunted and swung the boy around so that Naruto sat on Hidan's shoulders; a silent message not to let the villagers bother him. With a cautious sound Naruto nodded and took the chance to look around, to his surprise it looked like the villagers were confused at whom they wanted to be angry at; the immortal many elders watch grow with them, or the young Jinchuriki taken from his home. The fact that Naruto wasn't the only one being glared at made the boy feel more confident, he wasn't the only one being glared at with such eyes of hate; a few of the villagers even looked scared of them. Naruto didn't understand why he was still hated, even though he wasn't from Ame; they still looked at him with loathing, but he wasn't alone for once.
"Ne, where are we going... Father?" Naruto said, he wasn't sure if he comfortable with calling Hidan Father; but if the immortal was a holy man what harm could it do.
Hidan gave a small smirk at being called Father, it drove his conviction harder into his being.
"We're going to the church of Jashin." Hidan said, "I'll probably start a fire for your shivering little ass then go get supplies so we don't starve for a while."
Naruto nodded, he was silently proud for not flinching at Hidan's harsh language but he wasn't sure how he felt about how Hidan treated him. The immortal didn't treat him like the villagers but perhaps over time, Naruto would come to see Hidan as a father-figure; even if it was in a religious sense. Hidan was content to see that Naruto wasn't as jumpy about his language, it humored the sadomasochistic holy man to think that one day Naruto would catch his scathing tongue. That would be the day Hidan thought about crafting Naruto a scythe of his own, Hidan had taken his scythe from the temple when he was 50; it was the only one that time hadn't touched and served him well over the decades. The scrolls of Jashinism had taught Hidan that it was the duty of a preacher for Jashin to hand craft the scythes of each person in their faction, with a grin Hidan thought about what type of metal would suit Naruto well before shaking his head; he couldn't get too excited about making scythes until Naruto passed through the eyes of Jashin.
As the temple came into view, Hidan couldn't help but sigh with relief; the church was worn by rain but the symbol of Jashin was firmly engraved into the doors. Naruto was amazed by the size of the building, though it was covered in moss in some parts; the stained glass windows showed men and woman impaled on pikes. They looked to be enjoying their torment as others fell to the ground, the symbol of Jashin in the background for all to see. Hidan rumbled something that sounded similar to a prayer as he walked Naruto through the doors, the inside of the church was covered in a film of dust but it also looked lived in. Naruto could make out Hidan's foot-prints in firm trails throughout the church yet they seemed to fade into the gloom, the pews had been brunt and some were heavily coated in ashes and charcoal. At the pulpit was a black book, Naruto has a feeling that Hidan stood there for hours; pouring over the ancient texts left behind by his Kami. True to his words Hidan had walked until he came to the door leading to the catacombs; to Naruto's surprise the catacombs were a series of halls leading to living quarters. Hidan had only taken Naruto through the first set of halls before finding a fire place and starting a fire.
"Alright kid, you stay the fuck here." Hidan said making Naruto sit on a pillow, "If anyone walks through this door, stab them with this fucking thing; even if you think it's me." Hidan said pulling out a small rod and flicking it, turning it into a solid metal pike.
Hidan did little more than put the pike in Naruto's hands before walking out of the door, slamming it behind him and leaving Naruto alone with a not only a pike; but with a demon laughing in the back of his mind.
Daring Naruto to aim for the heart no matter who entered the room.
A/n: Okay, so I've been getting reviews about this type of story being done before but I'm not sure how to tie the Akatsuki into it or a possible pairing. The Akatsuki could go either way with Hidan raising Naruto; however with that in mind I don't know who could possibly be paired with a sadomasochistic Naruto. Let me know your thoughts on which pairing you want and why. (Please no Naru/? Or I'll stop reading, I'm taking all the reviewers into account) I'd also like to know what you think about Naruto having a cursed form; would you rather see it be like Hidan's or have the Kyuubi influence Naruto's curse form. Let me know :3