CHAPTER 7

Seeing Through the dark

Night came and went with the sun having already risen hours ago. With Naraku currently getting ready for his first day. His first day in the village, his first day in the academy, his first day living with his tormentors. As naraku left his apartment buildings his hearing was assaulted with the noises of his obnoxiously loud new village. He couldn't help but imagine the day when all he could hear in this village was the sound of rotting corpses. He had a quick chuckle at the thought. He walked through the streets towards the direction of where the ninja said the academy building was. He received no greetings and kept entirely to himself; he wished it to be this way.

As Naraku came closer to the building he became aware of a great disturbance heading in his direction. As it came closer he could hear the strangled shouts of a young boy. "IM TOTALLY GOING TO BE LATE SENSEI IS GOING TO KILL ME, AND ON THE FIRST DAY TOO." The boy ran past him without comment. He went colliding through doors. Naraku followed suit albeit in more calmly manner. Naraku reached the room that a ninja directed him too. As he stepped over the threshold he waited for the sensei to acknowledge him. After a few seconds waiting a young man asked, "Are you the new student that Lord Hokage mentioned?" Naraku merely nodded. The young man continued, "Well why don't we find you a seat then?" He took a moment and then lead Naraku by shoulder to a currently empty seat. "Here why don't you sit next to Sasuke." Naraku didn't even act as if though he acknowledged his sensei's words.

Sasuke began glaring at the new arrival out of the corner of the eye for a minute and then began to ignore him like the rest. Iruka waited for the class to settle before he called attention to the newest arrival. As he was doing so he noticed that said new student was being yelled at by the classes resident harpies. He immediately scolded them for their rude behavior, "SAKURA INO QUIT YELLING AT HIM THIS INSTANT," They immediately stopped their tirade on the clearly unaffected boy. "For your information you two I sat Naraku their so you'll just have to find other seats." Sakura and Ino huffed and glared at the boy but eventually walked to two seats a row behind them. Sasuke let out a quiet a breathe of relief and Naraku remained as stoic as the Uchiha. Iruka walked in front of the class and asked Naraku, "Well since we have that out of way Naraku why don't you tell your classmates about yourself?" Naraku didn't even miss a second answering with, "No…" The class immediately began laughing at his blunt refusal and the baffled Iruka. Iruka eventually recovered and responded cooly, "well then how about I fill them in, huh?" Iruka waited for a response and when none came it only inspired the class into another set of giggles. Iruka took this in stride and gathered the classes attention, "Well then since he's a little shy I'll introduce him. This class is Naraku. He is originally from Kirigakure and has transferred hear to become a ninja of the leaf." This statement got the classes attention. Iruka decided to get a little revenge at being snubbed by asking, "Does anyone have any question for him?"

Naraku was immediately besieged with question from the completely idiotic to…no they were all completely idiotic. After ten minutes of endless questions Iruka finally called the class to attention and began to teach the (in naraku's point of view) Substandard lesson. Naraku nearly cried out in joy when the lesson ended. He waited for the rest of his classmates to leave before he left. After walking out he heard the voice of the boy from earlier. "Sensei why do I have stay after today I wasn't even late?!!" Iruka sighed exasperatedly, "Hikaru, Lord Hokage asked me personally to give you extra help with your lessons. Because quite frankly you have not done well in past years and he wants it to be different this year." This Hikaru huffed and said, "why would dad ask you to ruin my year? Besides I don't need extra lesson cause I'm already destined to become Hokage." Naraku walked past them both; anger completely consuming him. Naraku began to let what he heard rant through his mind. Naraku kept hearing the same thing, "Father…Father, father. The boy must be my age. Their wasn't two of us when I was born. Lord Hokage must of adopted. Im so glad that I am so close to his mind." After several minutes fuming Naraku realized that it changed nothing he hated the man before and he will always hate him. All this Hikaru is, is just an unexpected way to help destroy his target. I cant use him yet though; I must become A ninja first.

With a dark determination in his soul Naraku admitted to himself, "this will be a long year."

Timeskip 1 year

Day of Academy Exams

Naraku was waiting patiently for his final day of listening iruka ramble on, on the must simplistic of ninja basics. He didn't have to take the same exams as the others considering the fact that he already has a nice variety of ninjutsu and other ninja skills that the other students couldn't even imagine. As the exams came to a close every student was handed a headband except for one. Hikaru had failed the basic clone jutsu. Throughout the year Hikaru had proven himself an idiot through and through. Hikaru watched as the other students received their headbands from a corner until he was accompanied by Iruka's assistant Mizuki off to probably consul him. It mattered little to Naraku for he would be assigned his team tomorrow. Naraku began walking towards his favorite spot in shaded tree at the edge of the forest. When he reached this spot he immediately found the same branch he always sat on and listened to calming quiet. After several hours of resting he was disturbed by the sound of two men. Normally he would just ignore them but their conversation had caught his interest. The older man spoke first Naraku recognized him as Mizuki, "I already have a way of getting to the scroll tonight. Will the cloud keep to their side of the bargain?" The second man spoke he had a much larger chakra level than Mizuki stronger than most jonin Naraku had met, "Unlike you the cloud can be trusted." Mizuki seemed pressed for time as he frantically said, "Kabuto I don't care about your personal dealings but if you don't have the scrolls to your former master's curse seals than you will never lay hands on the Fourths jutsu!!" Naraku had become completely absolved in the conversation now. Not because of the betrayal though no not that. He will achieve that on his own terms. But the prospect of curse seals powerful enough for kabuto to believe that Mizuki will trade for the Fourths Sealing scroll. Naraku reveled in the possibilities, 'Mizuki may be useless but this kabuto may open all new doors for me I will have to shadow them.' Kabuto chuckled at Mizuki's empty threat, "And if you dare refuse me that scroll I will kill you." Kabuto let that hang in the air before plowing on, "Not to mention you will never obtain the power of Lord Orochimaru's curse seals; a daunting prospect no?" Mizuki stayed quiet for the longest time before replying with, "Meet me back here at dawn tomorrow make sure you have the scrolls; I need to go retrieve my end of the bargain." Kabuto bemused by Mizuki's commanding tone he replied with, "I'll go fetch mine as well then…oh and Mizuki don't keep me waiting." Mizuki didn't respond and just sped off Kabuto took this moment to send a chakra wave over the area to sense for spies. Unfortunately for Kabuto Naraku had been trained in the village of assassins he had himself hidden so well only if he chose to reveal himself would Kabuto notice.

Kabuto began heading off along the edge of the forest. Keeping to the trees leaping only through the shadows disguising his chakra and scent. But he could never lose Naraku for naraku was following him by his heart beat something that if he chose to hide he leave himself vulnerable. As kabuto went deeper in to the forest Naraku steadied his step readying for the finishing blow. Kabuto reached an open clearing and began to go through hand seals. Upon finishing an underground tunnel opened revealing an overwhelming stench of long dead bodies. Once on the steps down toward the tunnel Naraku felt an increase in kabuto's heart beat. The answer immediately hit Naraku, 'I've been discovered!!' Kabuto was already turning around rapidly ready to strike down the attacker when Naraku had struck him. It had happened so fast that kabuto hadnt even felt the blade going into his side. He immediately collapsed body going into shock. Naraku drew his beads and prepared for his special jutsu. As he began draining kabuto of his chakra he noticed that his arm was tingling. And as this happened he heard the clinking of a blade he reached for the one that he left in kabuto and felt nothing. The blade had fallen out and yet there was no wound. An idea suddenly coming to Naraku grabbed the blade once again and drew it across kabuto's stomach. He immediately ungloved his hand and put it on the wound. To his amazement he felt it sealing under his finger tips.

For several seconds it remained as thus, the crippled boy holding onto his paralyzed prey. Naraku began to laugh out loud until he removed his mask and put his mouth to kabuto's ear and whispered, "You will be a great help in making me complete." He lifted himself a little and drained kabuto of his chakra until he felt sure he had just enough to live but not enough to attack." He withdrew his hand drew his second hand blade and reached for kabuto's face without warning he began to dig carefully around kabuto's eye. As he plucked it out of the writhing nin he pulled a single bead off of his necklace. He placed it near the eye and began to release the chakra stored within. A sudden burning whipped across Naraku's face. And the darkness swam across his vision as he viewed the world for the first time. Kabuto's chakra still healing the socket. He looked at the white haired teen below him and began to laugh in insane mirth. Eventually his laughter died and he whispered, "Finally I have left the darkness and you have proven to be a most profitable find and now its time to complete my liberation." As Naraku reached for the other eye, Kabuto looked at him with his one hazel eye and said, "Im sorry to disappoint you my friend, but I've never been that cooperative." As he finished that he opened his vest revealing several burning notes. Naraku immediately ran from the spot. As it blew Kabuto from this world naraku waited for other ninja to appear at the blast. When none came within five minutes he relaxed. "It seems that the leaf are too busy with Mizuki at this time," He returned his attention to blast crater and smiled while saying, "well Kabuto I suppose an eye for an eye, huh?" Finally taking in the scenery of the forest he found the half caved in tunnel. Following the steps down closing the doors behind naraku followed into the dark ready for anything.

After an hour of walking naraku found a room filled with shelves of human animal and other parts. Walking past an operation table stinking with the scent of years of pain and death. Naraku eventually found a small scroll as he opened it he found depictions of people in complete agony. The nature of the seals was to draw upon the human vessels potential drawing from the darkness in one heart. Transforming the chakra into a sort of imitation of demonic chakra. Absolutely thrilled about these finds he grabbed the scroll and any other useful items and ran down the tunnel and after a few minutes he reached the end. He tucked the items away and turned to the tunnel. He went through a long list of hand seals and the water on the lake rippled in the likeness of a dragon which went sailing down the tunnel destroying all traces of his findings. He immediately collapsed on the ground hacking up blood. He managed to wheeze out a, "Damn shouldn't have pushed myself." closing the doors to the watered tunnels he headed home at a bullets speed.

"This will prove useful in the future." He said as he reached his doorstep.

To be continued…

Sorry once again this story had to be attacked by my impatience so I left a lot of questions to be answered. They will be but in later chapters. I just had to give him the eye thing. It was getting annoying avoiding the blind spots. Sorry to all kabuto fans but he had to die plus Naruto needs to be able to read the scrolls. Other than the rushed part whatcha think? Review Please. Oh and thanks to all who have reviewed so far you made my day. Oh and to the person who guessed the jeepers creepers thing I have to write a different way to recover now. But good guess.