Birth of a Monster
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Kishimoto does.
"Hurry! Condition is stable but… Chakra is too low…" I pushed my eyes open and saw green blur in front of me. My eyes forced themselves to close again. The voices returned. I couldn't make out what they were saying but each time they would speak it would get fainter and fainter.
The darkness came once again and took me from consciousness. What came from the darkness terrified me. Nothing good ever comes from darkness.
2 Days Later
Hyuuga Compound.
A messenger hawk dropped in from the sky and delivered its contents to a very impatient Hiashi Hyūga. Restless pacing back and forth, Hiashi had grown more and more worried. Only 2 days earlier, the village had spotted a return team blow through the gates.
The team had been carrying a very injured Orochimaru, and in tow was a small cart that had been covered up. Rumors had been circulating around the village that Orochimaru had single handedly rescued The Hyūga Prince.
Rumors say that Hiro, had died in battle. Other rumors, mention that Hiro had lost a limb. They only fueled, the despair in Hiashi. Word from the Hokage's office had forbade Hiashi from seeing Hiro in the hospital, until the Hokage allowed him too.
Hiashi opened the letter and exhaled in relief. The letter mentioned that Hiro, was going to be okay. Hiashi decided to walk back into his office before he was stopped by a winded Hizashi.
"What's wrong Hizashi?!" A now repanicked Hiashi exclaimed.
Hizashi pulled out a small black book and gave it to Hiashi. Opening to the creased page, Hiashi couldn't believe what he was reading.
Hiroaki Hyuuga
Affiliation: Konohagakure
Age: 6-7?
Height: 4 ft
Weight:?
Jōnin-sensei: ?
Bloodline: Byakugan
Wanted: Massacre of Academy Class. Over 30 students and 2 Chunin instructors, and 1 Tokubetsu Jōnin were confirmed. Orchestrated attack on Village, and connected to Densetsu no Sannin, Orochimaru.
Bounty: 15 million ryō
*Only Engage if Alone*
Hiashi dropped to his knees. "No. That can't be! Hiro wouldn't do such a thing!" Hizashi went and picked up Hiashi from the floor.
"The Office of the Sandaime, has called a council meeting brother. You need to ask him if this is true."
Hiashi could barely contain the grief building up inside him. Shakily getting up, he made his way out of the compound.
Day 1
I awoke what must have been at least a few hours later. I knew something was wrong when I found myself unable to move my body again. " *sigh* I've been captured again..?" I opened my eyes to find myself in a pitch black room.
I struggle to move again before a man steps forth from the shadow. A single light shines from the ceiling down on to him. Only an X shape scar on his chin is visible.
"Ah, Hiro-San, you're finally awake. We were wondering when you would wake up." The man got closer and pulled out a kunai. He cut the ropes binding me to the bed. "Do not worry, child. I mean you no harm. You are safely back in Konoha."
I stared at the man before it finally hit me. "Danzo…?" Was the only word I could get out.
"Ah, so you know who I am?" Danzo walked to the side of the bed and sat down on a chair.
I began to feel queasy. For two days in a row, I had been in the grasps of two monsters. I began to breathe hard. "Y-es. Orochimaru-sama, told me you would be the only one I could give the scroll too." I sputtered out all to nervously.
"Yes. That is true my child. Do not be nervous" Danzo chuckled. " I have retrieved the scroll already. As it turns out. You could have very well have saved our village Hiro-san."
Danzo stood up and retrieved a small letter. He hesitated a moment and turned back to me. "Do you love this village Hiroaki?" He looked at me searchingly.
"Oh Kami! Why!? Please don't ask me anything!" I began to reply, "More than my own life, Danzo-sama." I was silently panicking inside. Only my famous Hyūga mask was showing.
Danzō smiled. "Would you be willing to do anything to ensure the safety of Konoha?"
"Oh crap! What do I say!" On the outside it took me a few seconds before my body responded. "Yes." I mentally screamed out for making such a response.
Danzō's smile grew. "Join my Ne forces. We are the primary defense for the village. Someone as loyal and as gifted as you would thrive in our environment. The regular forces will not suite you. No one would be able to teach you anything. They would assign you to pointless and wasteful assignments.
"Join Ne… That's one way of getting access to training. Except they get brainwashed. Don't they.?" I stayed quiet for a few more seconds. "I do not think, Hiashi-kun would allow me to join."
Danzō stood. His smile began to shrink. "Think it over, Hiroaki-San." Danzo handed me the letter and began to walk out. "You might want to.. Rethink recent events before we allow you to..Go home." Danzo walked out.
Only anger started to rise in me when I finished reading the letter. Konoha was having me take responsibility of a so-called "Massacre" done in an Iwa Academy Class. They were also rewriting what happened! Everything has already been written out!
They went as far as to cover tracks of the Iwa nin pushing as far they did in Hi no Kuni. Saying it was Nuke-nin that had ambushed us. This also decides to mention that I was already a Genin of Konoha!
Infuriated, I crumbled up the paper and threw it as far as I could. Pain shot through my arms and legs. My body might have been healed but by Kami sake was it crippled by agonizing amounts of soreness. I begin to look around and see that I'm in a hospital room.
"This room doesn't look so scary now." Getting up, I walk over and pull the curtain open. "Nighttime. I wonder what's going on the Hyūga compound today. Oh KAMI! Hiashi is going to kill me! Then Hizashi will kill me again!"
I walked back to the bed. I noticed a black hitai-ite on the nightstand. Anger began to well up inside me. "So this is how they promote me! Even after everything I went through! They don't even have the decency to give me a ceremony or even a Kami-damn test!"
I went and picked up the hitai-ite and noticed how worn out and bloody the headband looked. "Why would they give me an old headband?" In an instant I was taken back to that morning. Seeing Orochimaru, undo his Hitai-ite and ascend me to genin. "Why.."
Any anger I held had dissipated. I held the hitai-ite and went to get dressed. Sitting on a chair was an all-black shinobi outfit. I approached and saw a note. "Seek me out when you awaken.-Orochimaru."
I looked over the gear he left and noticed that no shuriken, kunai, nor the Tanto were there. It only had the room number he was in the hospital. "Why would you leave me the clothes but not any of the gear?" Confused I began to put on the black sleeveless undershirt. I slid inside the black pants.
On the chair were black hand wraps. Taking them I put them on to just below the elbow on each arm. I took the black cape on the chair and put it on. Lastly, I rinsed the blood off the Hitai-ite and wrapped it on my forehead.
I sighed when I realized I had nothing to wrap my long brownish-auburn hair. Looking into the mirror I sighed. "This isn't me. This isn't my face." I turned away from the mirror and walked out of the room.
Hiro exited the door and immediately ran into two ANBU guards. They went and blocked my path. "You cannot leave."
"I'm just going to another room. Orders of Orochimaru." I show them the note. The one on the left looked at the note. He nodded and they both began walking toward the room at the end of the hall. I simply followed them.
They opened the door and I walked through before they closed it again. I looked around and found him sitting up in the hospital bed. He was staying out of the window. Bandages strung all over his body and held up his left arm.
I looked at him and tried to compare it to what I knew of him from the show. "You wanted to see me?" I said to the man in front of me.
"Why didn't you leave. Everyone and anyone else would have left. So. Why did you stay?" He asked in a very serious tone.
"You saved my life. More than I can count. I couldn't just let you sacrifice yourself for me." I replied as honestly as I could. "I think Jiraiya-sama and Tsunade-hime would have stayed for you." Sensing the still dark mood, I tried to say it in a comforting way.
Orochimaru gave a bitter chuckle. He rose up from the bed and looked at me with his glowing eyes. "Where are they now?" He stared at me for a few seconds and turned back to look out the window.
"He feels..alone?" I walked forward and stared out the window with him.
"What are you planning on doing now?"
I stared out and continued thinking. "Go home. Hiashi must be livid."
"Kukukuku. They didn't tell you." He put his hand on my shoulder and squeezed.
"Tell me what..?" I began to think the worst. "Had Hiashi gone to get me? Had he gotten himself killed?!" Panic was rising in me again. I turned and looked at him.
"They've removed you from the Hyūga clan. They refused to send anyone out to look for you. They left your things to the Hokage." Orochimaru stepped away and continued talking, "They've abandoned you. As soon as they heard word you were captured, they had already submitted the paperwork."
Hiro stood there motionless. Still registering what he had heard. His face looked as unemotional as ever. Hiro slowly began to look downward.
A small chuckle could be heard. Every second the chuckle grew louder and harder until it grew to full burst of laughter. The young boy had finally snapped. He fell to the floor laughing as hard as he could. Tears began to form on the corners of his eyes.
The laughter began to quiet down, but the tears only flowed more. The laughter had turned into crying. The boy cried and cried. Harder than he had ever cried before. The boy now realized that he was alone. Alone in a foreign world that he wanted nothing to do with. Hiro was truly and utterly alone.
A/N: Hello! First thing I'll address here is if people believe that Orochimaru is acting OOC. I personally believe that he is a lot deeper of a character than most people are willing to look into. Orochimaru has basically been abandoned by almost everyone since a very early age. Even those who stood close by to him didn't necessarily believe in him or give him any real support. Hiruzen didn't even really back him in anything. I also believe he had been used for his power until he slowly began his descent into madness which really began when he lost his parents. He tried getting his immortality because of the wars that inevitably traumatized him and the countless death he saw. Jiraiya and tsunade did abandon him. Danzō used him for his own gains. Hiruzen didn't try to help, he just looked the other way. I think the last straw into Orochimaru's fall was not being selected to be Hokage. That's where Orochimaru began doing his experiments and other "interests". So in this story hasn't progressed to the point where Orochimaru has full lost himself.
Leave your feedback and questions! Enjoy!
Question: What do you think will happen in the big council meeting?