Chapter 3

Ned opened his eyes. I'm supposed to be dead. Where is dad? Isn't he supposed to be with me now?

Ned tried moving his body, his head was down and when he raised it, he saw that he was nothing.

He was standing on land, dirt, the kind he spent his life working on, the kind that he was raised up on.

Ned dug into the mud, it felt real so, it has to be right? But how is that? Last thing he remembered was that he was speared by three soldiers and then, and then... god!

What was going on!

Ned ran. There was no sun in the sky, it was just bright. There was also no end to this place. There was no tree at the end, nothing!

Ned ran and ran, and then he saw something, something on the ground. It was a large hole. And it was covered with long red bar's. In the center, was a strange symbol which Ned had never seen in his entire life.

Ned looked at the pit and just as he was about to look away, something looked back. Big red eyes looked at Ned. And Ned was scared. He had seen those eyes only once, when he saw his own reflection in his dagger.

"Wh- who are you?" asked Ned.

"Wrong question boy," the eyes replied in a voice filled with power and fury.

"What?"

"I said, wrong question boy. The question is who are you?"

"Me?" The eyes moved, and it looked like they were nodding.

"I am, I am Ned Snow, son of Harlod Snow." Ned said in a voice filled with pride.

"Such pride. It will be the ruin of you boy. Mark my words!" the voice roared out.

Ned took a step back away from the pit. Those eyes they were filled with such, pain? Anger? What is in those eyes? "Of course i'm proud! My father was a brave man, he died proud!"

"You're father was a brave man. And yes he did die proud. But Harlod Snow is not your father."

"What?!" Ned of course knew this, he knew he was not his farther real son, but he didn't care. "So what he still raised me!"

"Don't get snappy with me child!" the red eyes roared at Ned.

Ned was getting fed up. "Always with the bloody roaring, can't you just talk normally?!" Ned screamed back at the red eyes.

"Wh- what did you just say to me?"

"I told you to stop bloody roaring!" Ned looked at the eyes, and then something happened that Ned never thought would happen. The eye's laughed!

"You! Are! Telling! Me! To! Stop! HAHAHAHA" the red eyes said, with a bark of laughter coming out with each word. He did however reduce the volume of his voice.

Ned felt like he was being insulted, "Hey stop it! Stop it before I come down there and beat you up!"

"Beat! Beat me? HAHA oh god you're rich kid! HAHAHA you got spunk kid I'll give you that. Just like your mother!"

That shock Ned to his core. "Moth-mother? You know who my mother is?"

Those red eyes looked at him, they just stared at him. "Yes I do," they finally replied after what seemed like hours.

Ned looked at toes eyes and said something he never thought he would ask, "who is my mother?"

"Now is not the time for that. Listen little one, do you know where you are?"

Ned looked around him and saw, well nothing. "No, where are we?"

"Inside your mind boy."

"What?!"

"Would you keep calm! Let me explain," Ned looked at the eyes and nodded. "Alright kid, you see this is what the inside you're mind looks like. As you can see, not really that impressive." Ned was about to retort but then, "relax kid, just a light joke. Now listen up. Do you remember that time, you were hurt in the woods next to the soldier's?"

Ned nodded.

"You're hurt pretty bad kid, nasty fall. I healed you up."

"You did?"

"Yup. Now kid do you remember what's happening outside?" Ned slowly nodded remembering, "well, don't worry you're not dead yet. I can heal you, but then after that, what are you going to do?"

Ned looked at those eyes, they were right. If by chance what they were saying is true. Then what would he do? He realized then that those eyes were right, he would be surrounded by soldiers!

"That's right kid, you would be dead."

"Wait how do you know what I was thinking!"

"This is your mind guinness. You can never hide anything from me. God no wonder, it's so empty."

Ned looked at the eyes, this was getting irritating, fast. So many questions! Who is this creature? How did how get inside him? And who is his mother, why did she give him away?

"I don't know." Ned whispered.

"What was that?" the eyes teased.

"I said, I didn't know!"

"Alright then kid, I have a proposition for you. Let me take over."

Ned looked at the eyes, "are you joking!"

"No kid I'm not. I have power and the ability to use it. Let me help you kid, you're no use to anyone as a shish kebab."

"A what?!"

"Not important, but listen to me kid. Let me help. I have a shit ton of chakra and if you die, so do I."

"What's chikera?"

"It's chakra! And that not important right now kid! Do you, or do you not want to live?!"

Ned looked at the eyes, he wanted to live. He wanted to survive! He wanted revenge, for his father, for Rowan, for Hida and even for the nameless soldier. And if this creature could do that for him, the who was he to question it?

"Alright then, but I have conditions."

"WHat are they?" asked the eyes, a little excited.

"First, I was you to answer all my questions when we can. I want to know everything, who my mom is, what is this chakra thing is, and what this shish kebab this is."

"I promise when we talk next, I'll tell you everything. Is there anything else?"

"Yes. Tell me what is your name?"

Those red eye's opened wide, it was almost like someone had never asked it that. Those eyes just looked blankly at Ned, "do you really want to know?"

Ned nodded.

"Then, my name is Kurama. Now lets go kick some ass!"

Ned smiled and closed his eyes.

The next moment, he was looking at the son, there was unimaginable pain in his stomach, like it was ripped open. He looked down, his gut out of his body. He looked back at the sun, the wind on his face. Was that all a dream? Did that mean he was going to die? Was that mean he couldn't do it. Couldn't avenge them all?

"No."

Ned then saw red, and Kurama took over.

The soldier, were celebrating. All the bodies were burnt and there no witnesses. The only one who escaped was Lord Karstark, and now he knew first hand of their might! They did a good job. Too bad there weren't any woman there left. They would have to settle for the mead instead.

They were all in a camp. The soldiers were setting up and waiting for their lord to grace them with his presence. None of them saw the body of a blond five year old child pull himself of three spears.

The body then limply feel on the ground. The hands went to the gust that were outside the body. It pushed it back in and then the body started steaming. The body healed itself. Slowly, painfully. The wounds closed up, bones grew back, organs repaired themselves and then moved to the right spot in the body.

With every nerve ending with fixed itself came new pain. THe body felt it, and Ned even though he was unconscious felt it. But the being possessing the body now, smirked. It was going to have it's revenge.

Ned's body got up, the last of the injury healed. Ned's body opened it's eyes, but Kurama's eyes was there.

Ned's body moved, one leg forward. It fell, head first, the body was new. Kurama forced itself up, it had a promise to keep.

It went to the campsite.

"Hey look over there!" one soldier cried out. Those was the last words spoken before the battle, no, the massacre. The moment those words left the man's mouth, Kurama was in front of him, Kurama drew an arm back and thrust forward through the man's stomach and spine, cutting a hole in the man.

Kurama drew the hand back, pulling the man's gut out with it. Kurama looked at the now blood soaked hand, it was covered with the man's lunch and blood, disgusting. Kurama looked away from the hand and unto the soldiers taking their blades.

He smirked and then he began the killing spree.

The first one down was a boy, probably a squire. His vocal cords were ripped out. An instant death.

The next one to die by the demon's hand was a soldier with a spear. When he thrust it at Kurama, all the demon did was catch it bare handed. The soldier dropped the weapon in surprise. Kurama took the spear, turned it around and cut the man's head off.

Then came a squad. They all had their swords at the ready, twenty men in full steel. They all died in three seconds. Each one was killed in a fraction of a second, and the last one was powerless as he saw all he fellow brother in arms die.

Kurama's hand was now drenched in blood, pure anger rolled out of him. He looked at the people there. He was often called a demon along with his brothers and sisters. But in all honesty they were the guardians of the world. They protected the world when their father died, it was their duty and privilege. And now he faced real demon's, demon's that killed raped and pillaged. This world was one of chaos and death. He would change that, he would teach this boy the meaning of peace. The meaning of justice. And make him a symbol, of hope and peace.

Kurama the rushed at the rest of the soldiers. In this time they were all in a group and they charged at Kurama. He killed the first row of people, but there were just too many, and they were all organized. Kurama's arm was cut, it was split till the bone, holding together only by the skin that was not.

The pain, oh the pain! Kurama grunted through the pain, he looked straight ahead and put his hand back, his chakra rapidly healing the arm back.

The soldier looked on in surprise, this was not a human boy they were fighting.

Kurama knew he had to finish this fast, so it was time to use that. He grunted, it was going to hurt this body but it had to be used. He closed his eyes and when he opened them again he had a cloak of red around him. There were ears on his head and two tail behind him.

Kurama then moved the tails in front of him, he gathered his chakra, split it to positive black chakra and negative white chakra, then combined it into one huge ball of pure power.

Then for the first time ever in the world of Westeros, a jutsu was used. Kurama said, "Tailed Beast Ball!" Then the ball of power was launched into the soldier ranks.

It was total destruction. There was nothing for a twenty feet radius. It was completely destroyed, the landscape blank just like in his mind. Kurama looked around for survivors. Most of the men left ran away carrying with them the story of the red demon.

Kurama saw one such man running away, time for answers thought the demon. He jumped and landed on the man's back pushing the man down. He pushed on the man's head into the ground and pushed his body weight on him making sure he was held in place.

"I'm going to ask you something very important," Kurama said in a voice which sent shivers down the man's spine and making him piss himself. Kurama criged at the man's cowardness, "and I want you to answer me."

The man nodded his nosed rubbing the ground hard. Kurama moved his head sideways and looked at the man straight in the eye.

"Who do you serve?"

"Lord- Lord Bolton"

Kurama looked at the man's armor, and there was the symbol of the flayed man on it. "Why, why did he ask for all this pain and destruction?"

"H-HE wanted to-to scare Lord Karstak. THere has been an arg-argument over this land here for a long time, and he wanted us to attack these lands here. He wanted us to-to kill everyone. No witnesses."

"Where is the bastard now!"

"He was coming to visit us!" The man replied panicked by the anger in Kurama's voice.

Kurama looked at the man. Lord Bolton, he would be the first man to face Kurama's justice. He looked at the soldier. He smiled taking his weight of the man slowly. The man thought he was free. Just as he stood up, Kurama used on of the tail and stabbed the man through the heart.

He threw the body away and looked at his handy work. There was a large empty field there now. He looked at all the bodies there. The boy would be happy, his father was avenged after all. He looked around and jumped away from the battlefield. It was time to have the talk to 'Ned'.

Kurama for one was looking forward to it. For the first time in his life he had found someone who actually asked him for his name. If the boy had come to him and then demanded for his power, then he would have treated him like every other human he had met, but this boy needed him.

Kurama had lived a long life. And in that life the only ones who need him were his siblings and his father. And now this boy, and even though he would never admit it, he liked the fact that someone needed him.

He arrived at the boy's now broken house, the house the boy lived in was burnt and the main house was also gone. Kurama sat the body under a tree and turned of his chakra. He closed the boy's eyes and went into the mindscape.

Ned saw it all happen. With every death, he grew happier and happier. Those bastards finally paid. Kurama, he owed the thing a lot.

Ned blinked and suddenly he was back standing next to the hole and looking at Kurama's eyes again, "thank you. Thank you so much Kurama."

The eyes just looked at him, they were filled with, compassion?

"Hey listen kid, I think we still have deal right?"

Ned then remembered the promise the demon gave him. He looked at the eyes, "yes, we do Kurama sir."

"Now now none of this sir crap kid. It's just Kurama. Now sit down, have I a story for you."

Ned did just that, and Kurama began.

He started from the first, the ten tails, and the nine beast's that was taken from it. He explained how the ninja villages came to be, and how he was sealed into the first Hokage's wife.

"Wait, wait, wait, I may not have the knowledge of a high born, but I think even I a peasant would know this if that was how the kingdoms were made."

"The thing is kid both stories are true." Ned just looked at Kurama blankly, "this is the fun part kid, you see you are not from this world."

"What!"

"Yes kid you are not from this world, and good thing too everyone here is just an asshole. You kid are from the world of ninja's. Were walking on water and breathing fire is normal. Even what you think magic is is pathetic when compared to ninjutsu."

"What's ninjutsu?"

"It means 'ninja arts'. And that is what you are kid. You are a ninja."

Ned was shocked, he had just been told he was what most people, himself including, would call a god, and he was one! "Does that mean I can be like you? Strong?"

"If that's what you want kid. I'll help you if I can. Now let me get back to the story, where was I, oh yes the first Hokage. After the first Hokage's wife died, I was sealed inside a very, very short tempered girl. Her name was Kushina, and I must say she was what I would consider as scary."

Ned began to get scared, Kurama was strong, and if she could scare him, well...

"Anyway, then there came a day, your birthday. On that day, the seal on Kushins was weakening."

"Why?"

"Because the weakest point in the seal, is during childbirth."

"But, that, that means."

"Yes Naruto, Kushina is your mother."

Ned was taken back, he heard it. He heard his mother's name. Wait, what did he just call me? "Wait what did you just call me?"

"Naruto. That's name kid, you're real name. I swear your mother wouldn't stop calling you that. That woman was something else."

Ned, no Naruto looked at the eyes. They looked like they were telling the truth, he looked down at his hands, they were shaking, it was just too much for him. His eyes were getting cloudy, Naruto huh? Well, that sounded right, that sound really nice.

"And, and who was my father?"

"He was the fourth Hokage, and some say the most powerful ninja in the world. He was what you could call a king Naruto. Hey I guess that makes you a prince huh kid? His name was Minato Namikaze."

Ne-Naruto, god the name thing was confusing, Naruto looked at Kurama, a smile reached his face, he loved his father, Harlod, but knowing that he had a real one was, was something he needed to hear.

"What happened to them? Why did they leave me?"

"That" would be because I killed them.

Naruto looked shocked, the person he now trusted most in the world just told him he killed his parents.

"Let me explain," Kurama quickly added.

He then told Naruto everything, about the Uchiha who controlled him. And even his father sealing half of Kurama into Naruto and the other half into himself, and what he did to stop that.

"Why? Why did you do that?!"

"Because I had to!" Kurama yelled at Naruto. "Back in our world, I was the a guardian. I had responsibilities! And because I was sealed away the first time, the rest of my brothers and sisters fell apart! They caused chaos over the land, and eventually they were caught also! I had to save them, and I had to save the ninja world like I promised my old man I would. And if I had to kill to do that then yes I would!"

Naruto looked at Kurama, he wondered, is this Kurama's reason to live? "Then how do I know I can trust you now?"

"Because this world needs saving. I can't exist in this world without taking over your body, and I don't want to do that. You have been too much and I don't feel like it would be right to take over you, there by killing you."

"But you were ok with doing it before!"

"I didn't have choice then! But now I do. I want to keep my promise boy. To protect you human's that was what I promised my old man, and I intend to keep it."

Naruto looked at the pair of red eyes. He didn't know what to do. He wanted revenge, on Lord Karstark, on Lord Bolton. He wanted justice. And that was what Kurama wanted as well.

"You have yourself a deal. red eyes."

"Hey kid can you see me?"

"What?"

"Can you see my body?"

"Well, no."

"THen I suppose we have to properly introduce ourselves. I am Kurama, the nine tailed fox, the kyuubi no kitsune!"

Out of the pit came a big furry orange fist, it was closed into a fist and it was right in front of Naruto. Naruto grinned a fox like grin. He dumped his fist with Kurama and said, "I am Naruto Namikaze, son of Minato Namikaze and kushina uzumaki! Nice to meet you!"

And then Naruto could see the figure in the pit, it was a giant fox! It had nine tails each powerful and deadly. The fox looked at him and grinned.

Naruto blinked his eyes and he was back to the normal world, he looked around and saw it was night time. He got up and winced, the pain. His skin felt like it had been pricked by needles.

"Sorry about that kid."

Naruto looked up and around he couldn't see a giant fox so where was Kurama?

"I'm in you're head idiot. I'm sealed inside you! Oh for god's sake I really hope that you got some of your father's intellect in you."

Naruto got ticked of. He then thought, hey Kurama what should I do know?

"We need supplies kid. I know it might be hard, but we need to go into town and get what we can."

Naruto nodded and got up. His legs burned they were paining. Naruto winced and gripped his legs. This was going to be a long walk.

He moved to his house, it was burnt down, this life is over, he thought. It's time to move on.

It took him twice as long to reach town, or at least what was left of it.

He moved along the wreckage. He saw Robua's hammer. He then looked ahead and saw his father's body. He ran to it, the pain in his legs forgotten. He looked at the man, his father in all but blood.

"He died an honorable death Naruto. You will make him proud."

Naruto nodded, he looked at his father's body he was smiling, it felt like he was finally at rest. Naruto then spent the hour burying his body. Then after the hour, there was a tomb. In the center of the town was a tomb for a great man. It's tomb stone simply said, 'his last act so one of love'.

Naruto now went to the camp site. He saw the spears that stood there, that once he was impaled on. He looked around but he could find the soldier's body or Rowan.

He went around the camp, stepping away from the bodies. He looked through their packs and gathered what he could.

By the time he was done, he now had a leather bag. Inside was a few maps, once marked with information on Lord Bolton's troops. There even a few book's Naruto however couldn't read the titles. Then was a few silver stags and a handful of golden dragons. He then went to squire he remembered Kurama had killed. He stripped the boy and wore his clothes. It was too big for him.

He grabbed a sword, it was a bastard sword, but way too big for him. He then went to the site where he was impaled. He saw his dagger there and grabbed it.

He walked into town and looked at his father's tomb again and touched the stone.

He looked at the stone and as he looked at the stone, he remembered stories. Stories of him and his father. Thier trips into the forest. The times he helped him with the harvest.

He looked at the tomb stone and cried. He was not strong enough! He had failed his father. But never again, he would never do that to anyone ever again. He would be strong, so that no one else had to suffer!

And just as he made that resolve the sun came up. It was a new day, and Naruto Namikaze, previously Ned Snow, walked out of the town.

Hey Kurama, thought Naruto.

"What kid?"

You never answered my question.

"Oh? Which question?"

What's a shish kabob?

Kurama laughed his ass off.

Unknown to Naruto and Kurama, they were already a legend. The soldiers that had escaped told their stories to anyone who would listen. The story of the Red Demon.