Brightest of Lights
Summary: When a mob attacks Naruto and finds a dead body of a little girl they go crazy with hate and try to kill him for good. Except a weird swirl causes everything to go haywire and Naruto is transported to another world. Where is he? What really caused the demon marks on the little girl? And why the hell is he in the body of a fox!?
Personal Note: Damn original ideas! DAMN THEM TO HELL! -- I'm only on the 4th chapter, and yet this story is ready to pound me into a pulp like TLotFFH! But anyway, any of you that read that story...it's gonna take a LONG time to update it. But I refuse to abandon it. Hell, I'll start my other stories up after I finish that one. PoTD I probably won't continue though. THe rewrite somebody else did is way better.
Extra Information:
Inspiration Songs: Some people ask me how I get inspiration for my fics. So I thought, hey. Why don't I put them up here? So here's your Inspiration Songs!
Voices & Text:
"Blah Blah Blah" - Regular Talking
'Blah Blah Blah' - Thinking
"BlAH bLah blAH" - The 'thing' talking.
"Blah Blah Blah" - Kyuubi speaking
Disclaimer:-gasp- I forgot the disclaimer! I don't own Naruto
"What do you mean he's gone?!"
"Exactly what I said, Kakashi-sensei. I went to his apartment to check on him, and he wasn't there. I've searched all over Konoha. He's gone."
"This is Naruto we're talking about, Sasuke-kun! He couldn't get out of Konoha without somebody seeing him!"
Kakashi sighed, "We'll have to talk to Sandaime-sama about this. It won't end well." He glanced at Sasuke, who looked a little paler than normal. "Did you see anything else? Any clues?"
Sasuke hesitated, "I...did find...something."
"What is it, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked slowly. Her beloved was hesitating. Hesitating.What could have happened to cause the Great Uchiha to be...scared?
"When I looked through his apartment it looked like a war zone. Blood was everywhere...and so was pieces of orange fabric. Ripped to shreds."
Kakashi looked interested and put his book away. "Go on." Sasuke shuddered and Sakura put a hand on his shoulder which he didn't shrug off. Kakashi looked more worried at that. "What did you see Sasuke?"
"I got worried and looked around more. I found rocks with notes saying things like, "You should have been killed that day." , "Get out of our village, demon." , and many more. I found broken sake bottles, bloody knives, and lots of puked blood. The blood turned out to be a trail so I followed."
Sasuke grimaced and Kakashi put a hand on his other shoulder and kneeled down so he stared into his eyes. "Continue." Sasuke let out another shudder and closed his eyes.
"The blood trail ended at a certain point so I believed he teleported, but he was too injured to go far. I searched more and found the blood under a dumpster. It went behind trash cans. There was a lot of blood puddles so he stayed there long. One blood puddle was larger than the others so I thought he was staring at something."
He took a deep breathe and Kakashi squeezed his shoulder reassuringly. As did Sakura with a worried look directed at her crush.
"I found a body; Of a little girl.(1) Her blood was more crusty so she was dead longer than Naruto was injured. She had...3 huge claw marks going across her stomach. I can't say the state of her more than that; It's too gruesome, but I believe she was three or four."
He took another breathe and Kakashi asked softly, "And Naruto?"
"I went back to the blood puddle. I think he was found or something because he began to run. The trail went into..."
He shuddered, "This dark alley. The moment I looked at that place I knew I wouldn't like what was held within, but I went farther. I wish I didn't. Blood was everywhere, bodies were torn beyond recognition. My desire to know what happened to Naruto worsened, and so I avoided the bodies and went farther. His body wasn't there, but a huge puddle of blood was. If he's still alive after that...then he doesn't have long. Purple was in with the blood too so he was poisoned."(2)
Sakura looked horrified while Sasuke looked like he was going to puke. Kakashi frowned, "This is cause for worry. Are you absolutely sure there were no other clues?" Sasuke frowned, "Well, under the blood puddle was very thin markings of power. I believe there was a seal there; it was shaped like that tattoo on Naruto's stomach, but I can only see it with the sharingan."
Kakashi tensed and narrowed his eye, "This causes for concern. Go back home. Both of you. I must tell this to the Hokage."
"No."
Kakashi glared back at Sasuke, "What do you mean, no? That was an order."
"I don't give a damn if that was an order. Naruto is our teammate. I'm going." Sasuke growled darkly, eyes flashing dangerously. "Sasuke-kun is right Kakashi-sensei. We're his teammates. We deserve to know what is going on." Sakura said with an out of character conviction. This request wasn't because Sasuke wanted to know. She also did.
Kakashi sighed, "Fine, but don't ask unnecessary questions."
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"This..is very bothersome indeed." The Sandiame frowned while he smoked his pipe. 'It's not too hard to know why the villagers were after Naruto, and why he didn't fight back...but how did the villagers get killed? Naruto couldn't have done it. He's too kind-hearted. Maybe Kyuubi? The seal Sasuke talked about looked exactly like Naruto's seal. Did the Kyuubi use it to break free? The blast could have killed all those people and destroyed Naruto's body.'
"Hokage-sama, I may have an idea what happened, and so do you but..." Kakashi looked at his last two students and frowned. Sarutobi nodded sagely, "They deserve to know the truth. Sasuke. Sakura. What you are about to hear is an S-class secret, and you may speak to NOBODY about it. Do I make myself clear?"
The two Genins nodded their heads and Kakashi picked up where Sarutobi left off. "On the night of the Kyuubi attack...You know the history right?" Sakura nodded, "Yondiame-sama killed the Kyuubi with a jutsu that cost his own life."
"The history you know is false. The Kyuubi wasn't killed that night."
Sakura gasped, "What do you mean?"
Kakashi frowned behind his mask, "Yondiame-sama used a technique that did cost him his life. It was a sealing jutsu."
"He sealed the Kyuubi into the dobe."
Everybody looked at Sasuke and the elders of the room nodded sadly.
"So then all that blood...the sake...knives...notes..." Sasuke eyes were darkening with everything he said.
Sarutobi sighed, "Yes, the villagers hate Naruto and attack him at every turn." "Wait! Why didn't Naruto fight back or run?!" Sakura protested weakly. Sarutobi sighed again; He was getting too old for this.
"The council and the villagers would be after his head the moment the news got out he hurt somebody, and even if he tried to run...well, he knows it's no use anymore. In his mind, they hunt him down, beat him, and leave him alone after. It just turned out this attack turned into a whole new situation."
"Attack? Don't you mean beating?" Sasuke was glaring up at the Sandiame with every ounce of coldness he had in his body. Which is a lot, mind you. "And you never did anything. ANBU guards, send him to another village, ask me to take him in. You know as well as I do that I have a huge compound to myself. I wouldn't have minded him being there."
Sarutobi sighed again, way too old for this. "ANBU wasn't an option. Some hate him. The council would put an assasin in with the ANBU. Wasn't an option. I couldn't send him to another village. They would just turn him into a weapon and use him against Konoha."
"And why not send him to me? Well?" Sasuke sneered at the Sandiame, "Cat got your tongue? Or should I say fox?"
"SASUKE!" Kakashi snapped, "You're talking to the Hokage! Be respectful!"
Sasuke laughed coldly, "Respectful? To him? Don't make me laugh!" Sasuke glared at the both of them. "He couldn't even protect one of his own people. What kind of Hokage is he then?"
The silence in the room was deadly enough to kill. Kakashi's anger. Sarutobi's guilt. Sakura's shock and Sasuke's cold hatred.
Sasuke sneered when nobody answered him and walked out the door, slamming them on the way out.
"Just as I thought."
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(1)- Hey, the marks are important. All I can say. It IS in the summary after all. But to avoid any confusion; yes her brother carried her to the area where he died, with her in his arms. The body just happened to go back to where it was before. :P Just use your imaginations!
(2)- Yea, Naruto doesn't look injured in Shistartisu. It's because the ritual the cloak thingy did healed all his wounds.
Dear Readers,
Blame my friend Taro for the lateness. :'( He distracted me.
Redcrimsonblood
