Birth of a Dark Knight

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything else

Author's notes: Another day, another chapter. I have been reletively happy with how this is turning out. With the last chapter, I got my first flame. That's okay though. All the other reviews were great. So, here are some responses.

deadalus: You know what? After reading your review and looking over the chapter, I realized the same thing. Thanks for pointing it out. Thank you disclaimer so I can't be sued!

Shinigami Sirius: To defend myself, here are some things. 1: The law basically says that the younger generation cannot know of the Kyuubi. Besides, do you think the hokage can keep track of what happens in the entire village? 2: Sakura doesn't try to kill Naruto. Plus, I know it's not original, but it's hard to be truely original these days. I am trying to do better in the later on chapters. 3: I'm trying to do the seperate line thing. You just have to read more.

Sir MIDNIGHT The Dark Knight: Yeah, I've seen Naruto as many different things and the idea of him being a Knight just appealed to me. I'm going to use ideas of what a Dark Knight knows and does from Final Fantasy XI and my own ideas. If you have any, let me know.

"blah" normal speak

'blah' thoughts

'blah' Kyuubi speak

"blah-no-jutsu" jutsus

Now here is the fouth chapter of Birth of a Dark Knight.

If Naruto was shocked at how the temple looked on the outside, he was amazed at what he saw on the inside. Despite being the temple of Dark Knights, it was anything but dark. If fact, nearly everyting was white.

"Did you think it was going to be all dark inside?" asked Zeig.

"Well, yeah."

"Despite what everybody thinks, we are not all dark and scary. We get our name because the techniques we use are of the element of darkness."

"Oh," was Naruto's simple answer.

Zeig the led Naruto through the various halls of the temple. As they were walking, Naruto noticed many of the Knights that were there. They were all different, but had one thing in common; the all wore black.

"Go figures," mumbled Naruto.

Eventually, they reached a pair of large doors. On them were various ornamental carvings, but in the middle were runes.

"This is the entrance to the Council of Elders. You must go in, where you will undergo the rite to be a Dark Knight. I cannot enter, so you must go in alone."

Naruto obeyed and pushed opened the doors, which led to a large circular room. In the middle was a platform, but on the outer edge of the room were what looked like twelve chairs overlooking the platform. In these chairs were what looked like a group of men and women, but the shadow's covered their faces.

"Uzumaki Naruto, please step onto the platform," said one of the voices which probably came from a female.

Naruto did as he was told and stepped onto it. There was a moment of silence, then some mumuring. Finally, a voice spoke up.

"Do you know why you were brought here?" asked the voice.

"All I know is that you have been watching me and wanted me to be a Dark Knight," Naruto responded, uncertainty clearly evident in his voice.

"Thats the gist of it," replied the voice of an elderly man.

"Before you give us an answer, let us tell you one thing. The training you will recieve will be nothing like that of a ninja. It will be much more difficult, since our abilities harm us as well. It's a small price to pay when the damage we do to our enemies is much greater than what we recieve. Do you agree to this?"

"Yes," Naruto replied without hesitation.

"Good."

At that, one of the lights turned on, revealing the head of the council. He looked to be a man that was roughly in his sixties. He wore a black robe with silver designs on it. He had grey hair and had black eyes. Various wrinkles went along his face and he was smiling at Naruto.

"Then welcome to the Dark Knights Naruto," he said, " My name is Zetsuko and I am the head of the council. If you ever need to talk, don't hesitate to ask me or any of the other council members (the lights go on revealing the other members). Zeig should still be outside the chamber, so he will get you situated. Any questions?"

Naruto shook his head.

"Then you may go and good luck."

"Thank you Zetsuko-sama," Naruto replied and he walked out of the room.

Outside of the chamber, Zeig was in fact waiting for Naruto. When he saw Naruto exit, he just gestured for Naruto to follow him. After a few minutes of walking, they reached a room.

"This is where you will sleep while you are being trained. it should have eveything you need, as well as the various outfits you will wear before you graduate. See ya." With that, Zeig just walked off.

Naruto sighed and decide to check out his room a bit. He opened the door to find that it was a decent size. It had a bed, a desk, a closet with some clothes and a bathroom. But what was the weird thing was that their was another bed in the room.

'Maybe I have a roomate,' he thought.

"HEY! What are you doing in my room!," he heard a voice shout.

Naruto turned around to see a...girl standing in the doorway. She had crimson hair that went down to her shoulders. her eyes looked green, but had specks of silver in them. She was a little shorter than Naruto and was wearing a grey robe.

"Ummm...this is where I'm supposed to be sleeping," he replied, a little freaked out. Living in Konoha, Naruto learned to try and not make a female angry, lest he get his butt kicked.

"But...but..." she sputtered out.

Naruto just sighed.

"Do they do this a lot?" he asked.

The girl thought for a minute and said, "They have done it a couple times, but I never thought it would happen to me. I mean, people who share the same rooms become partners and I was always told I would slow everyone down."

"Why were you told this?"

"I'm not really good at anything, but I try...I really do."

"Maybe your focussing on the wrong thing."

"Huh?" she asked clearly confused.

"What do you focus on?"

"The other students say I should focus on power, so that is what I do," she responded.

"That's the problem. Your body type is best used for agility, not power."

"Oh..."

"Maybe we can practice that later after I get situated around here."

"Alright. By the way..." she holds out her hand, "...my name is Luna and it'll be great to have you as a partner."

Naruto just shook her hand and said, " Name's Naruto and same here."

Well, here ends the 4th chapter. Now we get to see what life will be like training to be a Dark Knight. So far, the vote stands at:

Sasame-4

Harem-4

We are tied now. Just in case, if harem wins, I want ideas to who should be in it. Note that I do not want a huge one, but just a decent amount. I'll try and make it believable. I still need to know a decent translator, since I will be using new techniques. See ya.