Chapter 8: The Chunin Exam end

3 Days later, Inside the Forest of Death.

Naruto looked around and noticed that only complete darkness and silence surrounded him. A massive red double door, covered in chains from the bottom to the top, appeared in front of Naruto. He looked at it curiously, but he had his guard up. Naruto walked closer to the door but the closer he got the bigger they became, "Whats with these doors? Its like they are trying to keep out Satan himself." Naruto said as he walked up to the door. Carefully, he placed one hand on the door, where a small seal was engraved, "Where have I seen this." Just as he touched the seal it lit up in a purple light, Naruto jumped back, prepared for any attacks, but the light died down.

Naruto carefully walked up to the door again and pressed his ear against it. After a few seconds of silence something hit the door from behind, the hit was so hard that it even moved an inch, despite all the chains on it. Naruto took a few steps back, "Just what is this and where am I?" Naruto noticed small amounts of malicious chakra starting to leak from behind the door, "This chakra... Why does it feel familiar? Have I been here before?"

Naruto felt a presence near him, a malicious, inhuman presence. He carefully looked to the side, but only the endless darkness was there. Suddenly, to massive red eyes with slits opened, like they appeared out of nowhere, followed by a massive grin that displayed big sharp teeth. A shiver ran down Naruto's spine, he understood immediately that whatever it is, this beast is anything but friendly and weak. The two stared at each other for a while in absolute silence.

"Who… What are you?" Naruto asked, of course he didn't expect an answer but he still asked. The beast after a few moments of silence opened it's mouth, "You don't even know who I am, yet you still dare to show your face here. I guess you really have forgotten… No, rather, your memories have been sealed, brat." Naruto's eyes widened, "My memories… Sealed? What are you talking about?" Naruto asked, irritated.

The beast's smirk widened and it started laughing, "Well now, it seems I will have some entertainment for a while. Now, its time for you to leave, brat. Don't come back here, until you remember what I am." The beast said, nine massive and black tentacle-like things, obscured in the darkness appeared around them. The beast opened its massive mouth and devoured Naruto.

Reality

Naruto jumped from his bed, panting and sweating. Naruto grabbed his head with his hands as pain shot through his head, as it faded away Naruto looked up as he heard a commotion outside. Naruto could hear screams and fighting outside but his view was blurry and there was a loud ringing in his ears. Despite the situation Naruto remembered that he was attacked by Orochimaru, after looking around he understood that he was inside a hollowed tree trunk.

As more sounds came from the outside, Naruto stood up slowly and while leaning his hands on the walls, he made his way to the exit. He slowly peeked out but the harsh rays of sun made him close his eyes and put a hand to protect them from the sun. Slowly, Naruto moved his hand and opened his eyes. Through his blurry view Naruto barely saw what looked like a wave of sharp air flying towards him, Naruto tried to dodge the attack but as he stepped back he tripped on his feet and fell on his back.

His vision cleared after the dangerous situation and he tried his best to stand up again, he tried to push off the ground but he barely had any strength. As his vision cleared a little again Naruto saw weird black markings on his hands, black demonic fang-like markings. As his vision cleared further Naruto felt a sharp pain in his left hand and he collapsed on his side. Memories of how Orochimaru broke his arm came rushing back. As his head slowly cleared Naruto could finally understand what was going on around him, he guessed that his team was under attack and from the looks of it Sasuke and Sakura were fighting, so he tried to push himself off the ground again.

Sharp pain shot throughout Naruto's head so he quickly grabbed his head and fell to the ground, writhing in pain. Naruto started panting harder and harder as the pain kept growing stronger, it looked like Naruto's fingers will dig into his scalp from the amount of strength he used, but the pain was so intense Naruto could only release a small and silent scream. Blurry images started flowing into Naruto's brain. Images of Konoha. The image Naruto got was very blurry, just a simple image of Konoha's night sky and rooftops. It looked like the view of someone looking at the sky from the street, though it was very blurry and looked like watching a very old movie, then the person who was looking at the sky looked down and saw nothing but destruction around him and blood on the floor. The ringing in Naruto's ears grew stronger and stronger. Naruto turned on his back as he released another quiet scream and turned on his other side, his hands pressing against his ears as hard as they could.

"GAAAAh!"Naruto screamed as he unconsciously released a wave of chakra from his body as he turned on his other side again, the pain and ringing growing more intense and louder. Suddenly, it all stopped, the pain, the ringing even the image disappeared. Naruto was laying on the floor panting, holding his head. Naruto looked up with a blank look on his face, the markings on his body started moving like they were a live, taking on a black color with blood red spots on them and a dark chakra started emitting from Naruto's body as a seal appeared on the back of Naruto's neck and stared releasing a dark purple hue.

Outside

Sakura could only look at the scene before her with wide eyes. While she was taking care of Sasuke and Naruto, suddenly a team of sound ninja attacked her. For a while she held her own but at the end they still overpowered her, then a leaf ninja named Rock Lee entered the scene and tried to help her out but even he was defeated, then Shikamaru, Choji and Ino came to the scene to help her out. After a while of fighting it looked like even they were going to be defeated but Sasuke awakened and started fighting the sound ninja, he even took them on with no problems, but the malicious aura and the black markings on Sasuke's body worried Sakura.

Its like Sasuke was not himself, he fought without mercy, completely crushing any attack that came at him and returning an attack ten fold. She could only sit on the ground and stare at the unfolding events before her.

Sasuke stood there silently before the three sound ninja, "Decapitating Airwave" Zaku screamed as he unleashed two sharp waves of air in an X towards Sasuke, who just jumped to the side to avoid them. Sasuke then took out a handful of kunai knives and with a small spin threw all of them in seemingly random directions, "Where are you aiming at. Decapitating Airwaves." Zaku yelled again and unleashed another pair of sharp waves of air. Sasuke jumped to the side again to avoid the first one, charged forward and avoided the second one by jumping over it. As soon as Sasuke landed on the ground he crouched slightly and disappeared in a blur, appearing in front of Zaku.

Sasuke reared back his fist and punched Zaku, who barely blocked the attack by forming an X with his arms, but the attack still made him take a step back. Zaku gritted his teeth and smirked, "Is that all?" A guy with a bandaged head, revealing only one eye, appeared behind Sasuke, "Don't get cocky." He said as he tried to punch Sasuke near his heart, but the sound of metal clashing resounded through the clearing, Dosu barely glanced up and saw the kunai, Sasuke previously threw, starting to hit one another in the air, changing their trajectories. All of the kunai then turned to Dosu and flew at him from all directions.

Dosu barely had the time to jump back, but his eyes widened when he felt sharp pain in his back, he looked down and saw blood drops on the ground beneath him, "Damn whats with this bastard." Sasuke smirked, drew back his fist and with a spin landed a kick with his heel on Zaku's chin, a kick so hard it almost lifted him off his feet, then Sasuke did another spin and kicked him in the ribs, sending him crashing into a tree.

Kin, the only girl in the sound team tried to do something, so she prepared her senbon with bells attached to them and threw them quickly at Sasuke, who ducked under the first few, sidestepped the second batch and took out a few shuriken with one quick move and threw them at the last of the senbon, knocking them out of the air. Kin stepped to the side just in time as the shuriken went past her head, chopping of some of her hair. As she looked back, she saw that Sasuke already in front of her.

He punched her in the ribs and did an elbow blow on her cheek with a spin on his heel, sending her rolling on the floor. Sasuke turned around with a smirk on his face just at the same time when Zaku shouted, "Decapitating Airwaves Full Power." Two waves of air even bigger than before flew towards Sasuke at frightening speed, though Sasuke's smirk only became bigger as he looked up at Zaku with two red eyes, one tomoe in one and two tomoe in the other.

Sasuke jumped into the air and landed on a branch, upside down. With no time to waste he crouched and jumped at Zaku at full speed. Zaku could only stare with wide eyes as Sasuke appeared before him. The markings on Sasuke's body grew even darker and the amount of markings increased, Sasuke reared back his fist and punched Zaku on the chin, sending him into the air, Sasuke followed him into the air and with a spin landed an axe kick on Zaku's abdomen, sending him crashing into the ground, creating a small crater as he landed.

Sasuke extended his hand upwards and caught himself on a branch with one hand, just as Kin's senbon flew where he was supposed to fall. Then Sasuke swung his legs backwards, then forward and after creating enough momentum he let go of the branch and landed on a different tree just as Dosu destroyed the branch he was on. Sasuke looked up with with his sharingan glaring at Dosu, who was defenseless in the air. Sasuke crouched on the side of the tree and jumped with so much force, it created a small dent in the tree. He flew forward and punched Dosu in the gut, both of them falling to the ground and landing so roughly, that the dust picked up.

After the dust settled down it revealed Sasuke standing over an injured Dosu, "You won't dodge it at point blank, bastard. Don't underestimate me ever again. Full Power Decapitating Airwaves." Zaku screamed, standing just 4 steps behind Sasuke, his arms already creating the airwave. Sasuke didn't bother to look back, he stood there with a smirk on his face.

The airwaves left Zaku's arms and slowly traveled towards Sasuke, the other leaf ninja stared wide eyed at what was going to happen, they knew they wouldn't be able to stop the attack. Sasuke's smirk only became bigger, "You're slow." Suddenly an Ice Mirror formed itself from the air, blocking the attack.

Zaku stared wide eyed at the mirror, "What the fu-" He didn't finish his sentence as the reflection of Naruto appeared on the mirror, black demonic fang-like markings on his body, the bandages on his arms, messy and fallen off at some places, his hair covering his eyes, a black round image of a fox in a tribal pattern on his neck and Haku standing behind him in the mirror. Naruto looked up, his hair moving to the side, revealing one eye, instead of a blue eye it was replaced with a dark purple one, "Who the hell are y-" Zaku didn't finish his sentence as Naruto's bandaged arm shot out of the mirror and grabbed Zaku by his mouth. Slowly, Naruto moved his right hand to his mouth and extended one finger and pressed it to his lips, showing Zaku to keep quiet, "My head hurts, shut up."

Naruto slowly emerged from the mirror. As soon as his second leg came out of the mirror, chakra exploded out of Naruto, quickly surrounded his second leg and Naruto kicked Zaku in the gut, sending him crashing into and through a tree. Zaku was lying on the ground with wide eyes, "What th-" a glob of blood escaped his mouth and he fell unconscious. Then Naruto slowly looked towards Kin with a blank look in his eyes, she raised her hands in a signal she was giving up, "Wait a-" Naruto disappeared and appeared in front of her in a flash. Standing in front of her with his head tilted.

Kin started shaking from Naruto's immense and malicious chakra, "I-I g-giv-" She didn't finish her sentence as Naruto grabbed her by her mouth this time, "I told you to shut up, my head hurts." He looked at her with a blank look in his eyes. Sweat started pouring down her face. Naruto took one step behind her and reared back his hand with her head in it, preparing to smash her head into the tree behind them, but as Naruto looked down he saw a kunai on the ground. His image reflecting off it. He stared at it blankly for a few seconds, looking at how different he looked, "Is that me?" He quietly thought in his head.

Naruto narrowed his eyes and let go of Kin's head. She fell on her knees, wide eyed and sweat pouring down the side of her face. Naruto started walking back towards the hollowed out tree, "Tired." As he took a few steps forward his knees gave out and he fell to the floor, face first. A small seal on the back of his neck stopped shinning and disappeared like it was never there. Naruto blankly stared at the kunai beside his face reflecting his image, as the purple color faded from his eyes and was replaced again with a blue color, then the blissful unconsciousness took him.

Some time later

Naruto slowly opened his eyes and saw the dark sky, which showed that it was night currently. A moon and stars were shinning in the endless darkness. What looked like damaged rooftops near the edge of his view, "Tired. I feel so tired. Where is the bed? No, wait… The chunin exam is in progress. I need to find strong opponents. I… I need to become stronger… I… I'm tired..." Naruto slowly said.

"KILL" A deep dark voice resounded in his head. Naruto's eyes widened, suddenly his view started braking apart, like a television losing signal. He slowly looked down, his eyes widened. Nothing but blood and destroyed buildings around him, "What… Is this?" Naruto tried to look to the side but he couldn't control his own body. His body started moving on it's own and slowly started shaking and looked down at his palms, smeared with blood. The deep dark laughter resounded in his head, "YESSSS" Slowly, Naruto grabbed his head, "No… I-I… Didn't want… to..." His vision started breaking apart again like a television losing signal, it blurred and blurred until it was nothing but a high pitched ringing sound. Naruto closed his eyes.

Reality

Naruto shot up from his bed, panting. He quickly looked around, seeing he was in the hollowed out trunk again. Naruto inhaled deeply and exhaled, to calm himself down, and looked at his palms, as clean as they could be in his situation, "A dream?" Naruto sighed as he looked around and saw no one else was here, only quiet voices coming from the outside. Naruto slowly stood up and walked out of the hollowed out trunk, there he saw Sasuke and Sakura sitting near a fire.

Sakura looked up at Naruto, "Ahh, are you alright? You shouldn't be moving around yet." Naruto raised one eyebrow, "Why?" Sakura and Sasuke exchanged glances, "Well..." Sakura said uncertainly, "Do you remember what happened during the day?" She asked. Naruto glanced at her then at Sasuke, he looked like he started thinking about everything that happened, "Not really." Sakura sighed, "We were attacked." Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly, "Who? When?" Sakura shook her head, "Doesn't really matter anymore. You and Sasuke defeated them."

Naruto's eyes widened, then he glanced at Sasuke for confirmation, Sasuke only nodded, "We? I… Don't remember." Sakura looked like she didn't know what to say, "After both of you defeated them, you took a few steps and passed out. Its only been a few hours after the attack." Naruto stared at her, trying to remember anything that happened, "All I remember are… That weird dream and a loud ringing in my ears." He thought in his head.

"Anyway, its not like we will move while its night. Your hand is broken and that happened not too long ago. You should rest up till the morning. We got the scroll we needed from the team that attacked us so we will go towards the tower in the morning." Sakura said, with a worrying voice. Naruto sighed, "Fine." He turned around and walked back to the hollowed out trunk.

The next morning the team moved to the tower and finished up their mission. After meeting up with Iruka they talked a little bit and then they were allowed to rest up as the exam finishes up.

Naruto's room.

Naruto walked to his room and walked in front of the mirror, then took off his top and the bandages on his left arm. His body looked completely fine, except for the injured arm, "Its healing slower than it normally would." Naruto said as he lightly touched his arm. His eyes caught a strange symbol on his neck. A round symbol of a fox in tribal style. He put his fingers on the mark, memories of Orochimaru started resurfacing, "That's right, that time Orochimaru did something to me. Sasuke also had a mark. Did he do the same to me?" He said as he looked at the mark.

Naruto sighed as walked back and sat down on his chair, various memories rushing to his head, "I did something I have no memories of. Could that be because Orochimaru did something to me? Even that dream…" Another surge of memories came rushing back, Naruto looking at his own reflection as his eyes changed color and he passed out, "Ugh" Naruto grabbed his head, "What the hell is going on."

Naruto sat in silence and finally sighed, "Forget it. No point in trying to figure out something I have no idea about. I will focus on my objective for now and eventually I will find out everything I need." Naruto said as he put his kimono top back on. After trying to move his left arm, pain shot through his arm, "This will be a hindrance if I have to fight any time soon." Naruto sighed and moved his hair out of the way, "Something is going to happen, I have to be ready." Naruto quietly said as he clenched his fist and narrowed his eyes, "I have to become stronger. There are too many opponents, whose strength I can't even fathom. No mistakes will be allowed."

The next day

Everyone stood in a large room, what looked like an arena. Everyone that passed were lined up and the Hokage was giving them a small speech about the next exam, "… So, I will now explain the rules of the third part of the exam. But before that, I have to say is that there are too many of you right now, so we will be having a preliminary round of the exam. You see, the third part of the exam is meant to test your abilities, while at the same time showing the public the potential you have. As you are now, we would take forever to show each and every one of you. So the preliminary round will be something to cut down on the numbers here. The rules are simple, all of you will be having one on one fights. Your opponents will be picked at random. Fight will all you have, if the victor is obvious, either the proctor of this exam or your sensei can end the fight. In that case, you will be disqualified. Now, Gekko Hayate, the proctor of this exam will step forward."

A sickly looking ninja stepped forward and after coughing a few times started speaking, "We will now begin the preliminary rounds, but before that, are there any of you here that would like to leave. If you can't fight for any reason you have the chance to withdraw now, otherwise you will have to participate in the battles." The genin started looking around and whispering to each other.

Naruto looked at his left arm, "Damn… I have to fight sooner than I thought. I thought that they would give us more time to rest before the final exam." Naruto gritted his teeth, "I have to fight, otherwise, I will only be running away again. I'm tired of running. I… want to be the one to win. With my own strength."Naruto grabbed his left arm and gritted his teeth harder, "But… If I fight now, there is a very big chance I will lose and will only worsen my injuries, I will have to wait even longer to continue my training. But if I win as I am now… What do I do? What is the correct choice here?" A small pain shot through Naruto's body from his neck. He grabbed his neck, "Damn, there is also Orochimaru's seal. I have no idea what it does."

Naruto never felt the stare from Ayami directed at him, "Whats wrong with senpai? He looks… Like he is in pain." Kagami looked at the direction Ayami was looking at and glanced at Naruto, "Don't worry, its senpai we are talking about. How would he drop out if we haven't faced each other yet." Akame gave him a blank look, "You really are an idiot." She said with a sigh, "Maybe senpai got a few injuries that could be a problem for him. As strong as he is, even he isn't invincible." Kagami glanced at Akame then back at Naruto, "Maybe. He isn't invincible but he isn't weak." Akame sighed again then looked at Ayami, "Though, for him to make such a face, the injury isn't light most likely." Ayami put her hands together, "I won't forgive him. We finally meet again and he will drop out just like that? There is no way. If he does, I… I will beat him up so much that he won't have time to worry about a small injury." Ayami said with fire in her eyes. Akame only sighed, "Right, right."

Naruto narrowed his eyes and bit his lip, "I withdraw." A man with gray hair and a ponytail raised his hand, "I am low on chakra so I wouldn't be able to fight." Hayate nodded his head, "Name?" "Kabuto Yakushi." Hayate wrote down something on a clipboard, "Alright, please leave the arena." Kabuto put on a smile and walked towards the exit.

Naruto looked down, "Damn." He grabbed his neck even tighter, "What do I do? Should I risk it or no?" Memories started rushing to his head again, "Black Hand fighting rules nr3: never fight if the risk outweighs the reward, if possible." Naruto sighed and unclenched his fist, "Damn, even if I don't like it… Its true. I will have plenty of opportunities in the future, no point in risking serious injuries for a chance that might not happen." Naruto, reluctantly raised his hand with a frown, "Naruto Uzumaki, my left arm is broken, I can't fight." Hayate nodded his and Naruto turned away and started walking out of the arena, ignoring the surprised glances from those who know him. Naruto gritted his teeth and clenched his right fist tightly.

In the next room.

It was a spacious but dark area filled with pillars. Naruto slowly walked forward then turned on his heel and punched one pillar with his right fist, "DAMN IT!" Naruto yelled, "Its frustrating. Its so god damn frustrating. I haven't done what I came here to do. No, it only got worse. Its so, god damn frustrating being so pathetic, its like nothing has changed." Naruto reared back his fist and punched the pillar repeatedly, until his fist started bleeding and he started panting. Naruto took a few steps forward and smashed his forehead against the pillar, "Just what on earth do I have to do to escape this curse. Somebody please tell me." Naruto gritted his teeth as hard as he could.

After a minute Naruto sighed and stood up straight, "No, I don't need anybody to tell me what I have to do. Its been clear to me from the beginning. I simply have to become stronger. All of them… Orochimaru, Zabuza, Hokage… Each and every one of them didn't become strong after a few days. I will train, I will become stronger." Naruto clenched his fist, "No point in standing here, I won't become stronger by bashing my head against a pillar." Naruto inhaled deeply and exhaled, determination shinning in his eyes again. He started walking towards the exit.

After walking for a while Naruto heard somebody talking, instinct kicking in Naruto hid behind a pillar and suppressed his chakra. Silently getting closer to the voices, "Yes, master. Everything is proceeding according to plan." Naruto stopped when he heard the voices, "Kuku, excellent. Now, its only a matter of time until I crush Konoha." Naruto's eyes widened, "Trying to crush Konoha? I don't particularly care, but what kind of moron would take on the strongest ninja village?"

"You did a good job, Kabuto. Though you should be careful from now on. Konoha will be on full alert for the final part of the exam. We wouldn't want our plans exposed at the last second." Came the voice of the unknown person, "Kabuto? The guy who left before me? Isn't he a leaf genin? No, perhaps he is a sellout or a spy." Kabuto smirked and pushed up his glasses, "Please rest assured. The leaf ninja or so stupid that getting around is easier than stealing candy from a baby. Honestly, I this is so easy I am getting bored, no challenge at all. I smuggled in so many sound ninja that I don't know where to hide them anymore." The unknown person chuckled, "Good to know. Now then, you should hurry up and go. We wouldn't want people getting suspicious. I will await your next report, when you finish the preparations." Kabuto smirked and bowed, "Understood, Orochimaru-sama." Naruto's eyes widened, "Orochimaru? Why is that bastard here? No, more importantly, most of Konoha's top ninjas are here including the Hokage. How is he going around without being noticed? Is it a forbidden jutsu?"

"Well then, stay safe, Master." Kabuto turned around and started leaving, "Oh, Kabuto." Orochimaru called out. Kabuto stopped and turned his head, "While you are on your way out. Would you mind dealing with our little mouse here? He seems to have heard more than he should have."Kabuto smirked and pushed up his glasses, "Oh my, and here I thought you were going to let him go. You let him listen on purpose so I would kill him when he knows everything. Then die in despair, knowing he won't save his village. You truly are cruel, Master." Orochimaru chuckled, "Oh please, you shouldn't think so deeply about it. I noticed him just now." Kabuto pushed up his glasses "As you say, Orochimaru-sama. Well then, little rat, will you come out on your own or shall I come to you?"

Naruto gritted his teeth, "Damn it, there is no way I can beat them as I am now. But I have to play along for now, maybe I will get an opening." He stopped concealing his chakra and walked out in the open. Orochimaru smiled, "Well now, isn't this a pleasant surprise. Who would've guessed we would meet so soon, Naruto. Maybe we are bound by fate." Naruto frowned, Orochimaru chuckled in response, "Well, you had enough time to think about it. Have you changed your mind? Its not too late to join me. Also, how did you enjoy your present?" Naruto's eyes widened, "What is this exactly?" Naruto pointed to his seal.

"Its what I call the Cursed Seal of Heaven. Its a seal I created on my own. Its a special seal that grants the user a boost in power. I only give it to special people I personally choose. How about it, you liked it? I can even increase its power if you come to me. You will be invincible." Kabuto fixed his glasses, "Oh my, Orochimaru-sama, you know this person?" he asked. Orochimaru put on a thinking pose, "Well, he is a potential comrade. If he agrees that is."

Naruto grimaced, "So its either I join you and gain what I want or I refuse and die?" Naruto asked. Orochimaru chuckled, "No, nothing like that. I wouldn't stoop so low as to use threats." Naruto clenched his teeth, "Yeah, I could get a lot of power if I came with him. But at what cost? This guys is the most infamous Missing-nin alive. There is no way he would come to me and just give me power like that. This deal is too dangerous. However, I will be disposed of if I disagree." Orochimaru sighed, "I am surely hated, aren't I?" Kabuto smirked, "Then how about I give him some motivation?" Orochimaru nodded his head with a smile, "And you call me cruel. Do as you like."

Chakra surrounded Kabuto's hands and formed a scalpel, the next second Kabuto dashed at Naruto. Gritting his teeth, Naruto stepped to the side to avoid the first blow, ducked under the second and did a back handspring to avoid the third. A knife fell out from Naruto's sleeves into his hand, he switched into a reverse grip and slashed at Kabuto's hand, who jumped to the side to avoid the slash, "Oh, that was close." He said with a smile. This time, Naruto charged, "Judging from his technique and from his talk earlier. He is a medic nin and a spy at the same time. His forte isn't direct combat so I have the upper hand. I can't let him have the time to create a strategy."

Naruto started slashing at Kabuto with perfect accuracy, the seals on the knife lighting up and small currents of electricity running through the blade. Naruto slashed again, Kabuto dodged the attack with a step to the side and extended his hand towards Naruto's leg, "This damn arm is in the way." Naruto thought in his head, as he tossed the knife in the air and did a fast cartwheel to the side, as soon as he stood up he caught the knife, switched it into a forward grip and slashed at Kabuto's throat. Kabuto grimaced slightly, took out a kunai and blocked the attack at the last second, the electricity already climbing to his neck, like dozens of hands reaching out to strangle him, "That was close." Naruto heard a chuckle from behind, "Careful, Kabuto. Unlike you, he can fight whether its while hiding or direct combat. If you underestimate him, you will die."

Kabuto broke the locked blades apart and jumped back, "Sounds like that came from experience." Orochimaru smiled, "Did you say something?" Kabuto smirked, "No, not a thing." Naruto switched the blade back into a reverse grip, charged again and slashed at Kabuto's waist, he dodged the attack by pulling his waist backwards with a small step, then he slashed at Naruto's arm. Naruto switched the knife back into a forward grip and they locked blades again. Kabuto chuckled, "Is that all?" He spun on his heel throwing Naruto's arms to the side and kicked him in the face, sending him rolling on the ground.

Naruto immediately stood up and blocked another kunai attack, Kabuto didn't stop and kneed Naruto in the gut and used his second hand to smash his head into a pillar, "I am disappointed. Orochimaru-sama, are you sure you aren't mistaking him for the person's you fought weak young brother?" Orochimaru chuckled, "Careful, if you look away, you will die." Kabuto looked back and saw Naruto glaring at Kabuto from behind his hand, "Oh my, what a fierce glare. But if you want to blame anyone blame your own weakness. Orochimaru-sama, is it fine if I dispose of him?"

Naruto's eyes widened, a small ringing in his ears started again, distant voices calling out, "Get him." started repeating themselves. An image flashed in Naruto's head again, a blurry image of villagers standing before him yelling, "Get him." The vision blurred like a TV losing signal again, "What's this? Memories? Whose? Are these… Mine?" Naruto thought in his head. The image appeared again, the group of people grabbed baseball bats, metal pipes, anything they could find, "He is becoming too dangerous! This bastard is turning into the.." A loud ringing sound resounded in Naruto's ears, "Gah" Naruto screamed and unconsciously kicked Kabuto in the gut sending him tumbling on the ground, "What the?" Dark chakra surrounded Naruto. A small seal appeared on the back of Naruto's head again.

"If it goes on like this the… Will become free again. We have to put this dangerous beast down!" One of the villagers yelled. Naruto grabbed his head, "Who will become free? What is this?" The group started slowly walking towards Naruto, the vision blurred out again and appeared, disappearing and appearing again. An incredibly sharp, high pitched ringing began all of a sudden in Naruto's ears, "What the hell is this? What is happening to me?" The ringing stopped and it was silent only one soft voice, "Demon." Naruto's eyes widened. He gritted his teeth, "I am… I am not..." Kabuto fixed his glasses and observed Naruto carefully, "Not… A… Demon. I am Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto yelled and unleashed a wave of dark chakra. His eyes turning dark purple, the seal reacting and demonic fang-like markings spread out across Naruto's body.

Naruto glared at Kabuto, "I am not a demon." he said quietly. Kabuto grimaced, "Is he alright in the head?" Orochimaru chuckled, "This is a side effect." Kabuto seemed confused, "A side effect of a fool screwing up." Orochimaru said with a dark smirk, "Now, I am going to use this side effect to my advantage." Orochimaru said while licking his lips. Naruto disappeared in a blur and appeared before Kabuto.

Naruto reared back his fist and puched Kabuto, but he leaned to the side at the last second, dodging the fist, his smirk in place. Naruto's fist passed by Kabuto and smashed into a pillar behind him, as soon as the fist hit the pillar cracks started spreading on it and the place it was hit in collapsed. Kabuto's eyes widened and he immediately jumped back, "Orochimaru-sama, if I didn't know better. I would say you are trying to kill me." Orochimaru just chuckled in response, "No way. I am trying to jerk up Naruto's memories. Now, awaken them. The memories of your past self and destroy the seal placed on you."

Naruto's eyes turned into an even deeper purple, he roared and charged at Kabuto. He punched him once, Kabuto avoided with a step back, Naruto punched again, this time Kabuto ducked. Naruto jumped into the air and with a spin tried to kick Kabuto in the head. The attack was too fast and Kabuto could only bring up his arms to the side to blocked, the attack hit him and the force was so big it started pushing him backwards and sending him flying into a pillar and breaking it apart.

Memories rushed into Naruto's mind again, "But the Hokage will become furious if he hears that we did it." One man said. Another man walked up to him and grabbed him by his collar, "Are you stupid? Who are you more afraid of? The hokage or the demon…?" He said as he pointed his metal pipe at Naruto, "Wrong. I am not a demon." The other villagers yelling in agreement, "We put up with him for long enough. I believed in the Fourth's seal, but lately the brat is going out of control. At this rate the demon… Will be set free again." Naruto grabbed his head, "Who will be set free? What am I? No, I am Naruto Uzumaki. A human."

Naruto glared at Orochimaru, "What are you doing to me?" Orochimaru chuckled in response, "Nothing. I am merely setting you free. Now, you need more motivation. Tap into more power of the seal and see your past with your own eyes. See just how Konoha has wronged you. What unforgivable mistake they made." Orochimaru snapped his fingers and a few sound ninja jumped out into the open.

They prepared their kunai and charged at Naruto. His chakra became more potent, "No, this must be one of his forbidden techniques or the seal that's messing with me. I have to get away." Naruto dashed to the side at high speed. Slid beneath one attack, stood up from the slide and did a front flip over another ninja and landed on the side of a pillar. Quickly he jumped from pillar to pillar in high speed.

"After him. If he gets away, you won't see tomorrow." Orochimaru said. The ninja nodded their heads and dashed after Naruto. Orochimaru turned to the pillar Kabuto was smashed into, "Get up now. It wasn't so bad." A small chuckle came from the pillar, "You should try receiving that kick yourself." Orochimaru chuckled, "Why? That's why I have you here." Kabuto stood up and dusted his clothes off, "Anyway, what was that? Has he started breaking down and going insane?" Orochimaru chuckled, "No, not even close. Its just that my old and foolish teacher created a man made demon and sealed him withing the boy. So, the boy has a difficult time keeping his mind intact." Kabuto raised one eyebrow, "I don't really understand."

Orochimaru laughed, "You see, there is a seal on Naruto. Inside that seal there is a demon sealed but as long as it wasn't touched it won't react or do anything. So my best option is to make Naruto unconsciously draw upon the energy of the seal and to set the demon free." Kabuto cleaned his glasses and put them on again, "Are you referring to the Nine tailed fox?" Orochimaru shook his head, "No, there is that. But I just said 'A man made' demon." Orochimaru chuckled, "You see Naruto has two demons sealed inside him. The Nine Tailed Fox and a demon which was created by my foolish sensei. A few years ago..."

With Naruto.

Naruto dashed through the forest at high speed. A ringing in his ears started again, Naruto grabbed his head with one hand, "Damn it, again?" An image started showing itself again. The same place, the shinning moon, blood and destroyed buildings. The person was looking at his own bloody hands, "No, I didn't mean to. I-I j-just… Wanted them to stop. Why did this happen?" The vision blurred again, but this time water started falling on the person's palms, "Is he crying?" Naruto asked as the ringing became more intense. Sob, Sob, "Why?" The person hit himself on the head, "I hate it." He hit himself on the head again, "Why me? What did I do? Am I really a demon? Nothing but an abomination." The person looked up and saw that Sarutobi was standing there, in his battle armor, his anbu guard around him. Sarutobi stared wide eyed at the person, "You..." The person looked up at Sarutobi with a sob, "WHAT? WHAT AM I? TELL ME? Are you also going to call me a demon? I mean, what kind of person could do this? Its obvious I am demon. I was born a demon. I will always be a demon. The person known as..." The boy literally started seeing red, at that moment the image faded again. Naruto looked up through narrowed eyes, "Just what happened?"

The malicious chakra combined with the cursed seal was crashing in Naruto's body, "Damn it, such intense chakra. I feel like I will lose my mind. I can't give up." Naruto heard shouts behind him and saw sound ninja slowly catching up to him. Naruto took out a scroll and kept it in his hand, just in case. The ninja finally got closer and started throwing shuriken and kunai one after another. Naruto gritted his teeth and jumped off a branch, while opening the scroll in his hand. With a cloud of smoke Haku appeared and while Naruto was running Haku was flying around him, blocking all the projectiles.

After a while, after the ninja were close to Naruto, he landed on a branch, quickly turned around on his heel and jumped towards the ninja, passing them by. While all of the ninja's attention was diverted to Naruto, Haku quickly flew towards one ninja showered him with poisoned senbon, killing him, the poison made sure. Haku flew through the ninja and in front of Naruto. He jumped down from the branches to the ground, the ninja immediately followed him.

While falling Naruto took out another scroll and while turning around activated it and threw it into the air. Dozens bottles of water appeared from the scroll. Haku opened his palms towards the bottle and channeled some chakra. The bottles exploded in the air and then the water flowed into and shaped two massive Demon Wind Shuriken made from ice. The shuriken started spinning in the air and flew towards the ninja. Surprised, two less experienced ninja couldn't dodge the attack and were cut in half by the shuriken. In response the two surviving ninja went through some hand seals, "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique." A fireball came out of the mouth of the first one, "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough" The wind and fire jutsu merged and unleashed a massive wave of fire towards Naruto.

Naruto landed on the ground and moved Haku in front of him. Haku started channeling chakra again and ice started forming around them. The fire smashed into the ground where Naruto was. The two ninja jumped around the place where Naruto was and waited for the smoke to clear out. After the smoke cleared Naruto and Haku were standing in the middle, completely fine, traces of melted ice around them, "Ice Release: Ice Rock Dome of Magnificent Nothingness" Naruto said quietly.

The two ninja charged again. Naruto dodged a kunai slash, with a cartwheel around the enemy while using his second arm to control Haku to clash with the second ninja. Naruto landed on his feet and jumped up and with a spin kicked the ninja in the face, sending him flying on his back. Haku jumped back and started showering the enemy with senbon while flying around him at high speed. The enemy started dodging the senbon, but some of them still grazed him.

"GAH!" He heard behind him. The ninja looked back and saw that his friendly ninja was behind him and that the senbon hit him instead, "Shit!" As he looked back forward he barely blocked Haku's kick. Naruto appeared behind and kicked him in the head, making him take a few steps to the side. As he turned back around Naruto was already there and kicked him the gut, sending him flying. As he was flying backwards Haku appeared above him and did an axe kick, crashing him into the ground. Haku then jumped up and showered the ninja with senbon.

Naruto started panting and his right knee gave out, making him fall to the ground. Three more ninjas landed in front of Naruto after a few seconds. Naruto stood back up and wiped off the sweat from his forehead. He inhaled deeply and then exhaled, while attaching the strings to Haku.

The three ninjas separated and did a pincer attack. Naruto gritted his teeth, "Damn, even with the adrenaline rush my arm still hurts. Its seriously hard to use it." Naruto jumped back on to a branch and made Haku fly forward and clash with the ninja. One ninja from the side did an axe kick and broke the branch Naruto was standing on top of, but Naruto made it just in time to dodge the attack and jumped to a different branch. As soon as Naruto landed he had to jump back again, as the second ninja immediately smashed the branch, Naruto moved his fingers and Haku flew back, showering the enemies with senbon from behind.

The two ninja jumped to separate sides and did another pincer attack on Naruto. Naruto gritted his teeth and quickly created one shadow clone and made him take over Haku, while Naruto jumped back, barely avoiding an attack again. Just as Naruto was in the air again the second ninja appeared above him and kicked Naruto in the gut, sending him crashing into the ground. Naruto flew through the trees and into an opening, crashing into water. Naruto stood up and looked around, he saw that he was in a small lake in the middle of the forest.

Just as Naruto looked back one of the ninjas landed in front of him and punched him in the gut, sending him flying even deeper into the lake. Naruto sent chakra to his feet and with a flip landed in a crouch, sliding across the surface of the water. As pain shot through his stomach Naruto grabbed his stomach and coughed up some blood, gritted his teeth and unsealed Crow King. The two ninjas did another pincer attack on Naruto. Crow in response started shooting out spikes like a rifle.

The two ninja danced around the spikes, while closing in on Naruto. Just as they were a few steps away from him miniature crows shot out of Crow's cloak. Explosions rocked the waters, creating big waves and a shower of water. When the water was falling back down the two ninja jumped from the smoke and continued with their pincer attack, but chains quickly shot out of the water, though one of them managed to dodge the attack the other wasn't so lucky and was impaled.

The first one wasn't even fazed by the death of his comrade and stepped around the chains and started running towards Naruto again, throwing shuriken and kunai one after another. Crow took out his katana and started blocking the attacks but one after another they started getting past Crow's defense and hitting him. Naruto moved his fingers and Crow flew forward and clashed with the ninja.

The ninja loosened his arms and moved them to the side, making Crow fall to the side, then with a spin kicked Crow in the torso, crushing through the wall of miniature crows and sending Crow flying. Then the ninja went through some hand seals, "Fire Relase: Great Fireball Technique" The fireball traveled towards Crow. Naruto bit his lip and knowing he couldn't do anything he shot out as much of the spikes from Crow's wings as he could and threw his sword into the air. The spikes traveled through the fire and only half of them emerged from it and continued towards the ninja. The ninja dodged a few but a couple still grazed him, some lightly, others a little deeper.

The fireball engulfed Crow and an explosion, blasted it to pieces. A shower of water started falling down from the massive explosion. Naruto looked up to the air and caught the katana just as it was falling. Naruto started panting heavily, "Damn the injuries and exhaustion is piling up. I don't think I will be able to hold on to my sanity if this goes on. The seal will take over if I won't finish this fast enough. "

Naruto prepared the katana in one hand and dashed forward across the water, the ninja followed him and they clashed in the middle, creating a small shockwave from the collision. A violent exchange began between Naruto and the ninja. Both of them dancing around each others attack and trying to end this in one attack. Though it was obvious the poison from Crow's spikes was starting affect the ninja, but Naruto was faring no better. His vision was blurring, his body was getting heavier and it was getting harder to keep the seal at bay.

The ninja started landing a few cuts and blows, Naruto's attire was already torn apart, the kimono top was already untied and hanging loosely, blood pouring out of his wounds from the many cuts on his body. Naruto already looked like a bloody mess from all the damage he sustained.

The two clashed and locked blades again. Naruto's katana was starting to get chipped from all the exchanges and the ninja had to already replace a few kunai. Naruto called on all of his chakra and started pushing the ninja, but he was barely giving any ground. Then, Naruto stopped pushing and immediately jumped back, making the ninja lose his balance and lunge forward from the amount of strength he used. Naruto landed on the ground, took one step forward and with a drawing motion of the sword slashed at the ninja, but he sacrificed his right arm, he dropped the kunai, knowing he won't block it and caught the blade barehanded, his hand was almost cut off but the ninja endured and decided to pull back so he used Naruto's body as a spring to jump back.

Naruto took a few steps from the amount of strength the ninja put in. But he gritted his teeth and forced his body forward, he reared back his entire arm with the katana and threw the katana. The katana started flying and spinning so fast that it seemed like black, flat disk was flying at the ninja. The ninja couldn't dodge the attack so he used his already injured hand to block it, though he had to pay for it dearly, as the attack cut off his arm just below the elbow.

The ninja screamed in pain, as blood started pouring down to the water below him, in what looked like an endless stream. The ninja gritted his teeth took out a kunai into his uninjured hand and dashed at Naruto. Just as the ninja was near Naruto he was surprised as Naruto raised one of his hands and visible chakra threads shot out from his fingers and into something above. He looked up and saw Haku flying towards him in top speed from the air, though he was slightly damaged and Haku's performance had dropped, it was nothing beyond repair. Haku extended his hands and channeled chakra, just as he landed on the water big Demon Wind Shuriken started forming out of the water. The chakra around Naruto was visible, showing just how much chakra he was pouring into creating the shuriken.

One after another they started spinning and dozens of them started flying at the ninja, just as one flew off another started forming in its places and flew off again. Naruto pumped as much chakra into the jutsu as he could and bombarded the ninja with shuriken. The ninja hand no chance as the injuries piled up and after he dodged a few, the other started creating deeper injuries and eventually the onslaught of shuriken tore the ninja apart.

Just as the ninja fell into the water, Naruto sank into water and barely caught himself below the water, using his chakra to keep himself from sinking entirely. Naruto started panting and coughing up blood.

Naruto weakly looked up just Orochimaru and Kabuto landed in front of him. Orochimaru clapped his hands, "I am impressed. You really are something. However..." Orochimaru snapped his fingers and the sound four landed around Naruto. All of them with confident faces and smirks. Tayuya snorted, "Orochimaru-sama, no offense. But we are supposed to beat him up?" She said as she pointed at Naruto, "He looks like he will die even if we leave him alone." Orochimaru chuckled, "Doesn't matter. Let him have it."

All of them smirked, "As you command." some of them cracked their knuckles. Kabuto sighed from the side, "Isn't that a little too much?" Orochimaru shook his head, "No, it needs to be at least so much." The sound four attacked Naruto, he couldn't even resist the attacks as he was exhausted and beyond his limit. The four started beating him mercilessly, without holding back. Naruto could already hear his bones breaking from the heavy and numerous attacks.

His blurry vision couldn't tell what was happening, his tired body could barely feel the pain and his clouded mind couldn't form a single thought. Naruto was so tired and the only thing he heard was the sound of his own bones breaking and his heartbeat.

"Use my power." A deep dark voice resounded in Naruto's head, "Who? And… Why does this phrase… Sound so familiar. Like I heard it so many times before." The was nothing but silence for a while. Everything was swallowed by pure darkness. Naruto looked around blankly, "Hell?" A small chuckle resounded from the endless darkness, "Nothing like it."

Naruto looked to the side, from the darkness two red eyes with slits manifested, followed by a massive grin, "So, you have started remembering… But it is not enough." Naruto stared blankly at the massive faceless demon. He heard a massive pounding on the door. He looked to the side and saw the red door that he saw before. But, unlike before, now it was cracked, some of the chains were on the ground and someone was pounding on the other side, trying to get out.

Naruto glanced to the demon again, it only kept its grin, "Go on" Naruto slowly started walking towards the door, another massive hit on the door and a chain flew off and landed beside Naruto. As Naruto was walking near the door, the ringing in his ears appeared again, the closer he got the louder it became. Along the way small images would appeared and disappeared just as quickly as they left. Naruto walked up to the door, the ringing became so intense that he had to cover his ears. Slowly, Naruto raised one tired hand and planted it on the seal on the door. A purple light illuminated the endless darkness around him and surrounded Naruto, swallowing him, making Naruto cover his eyes.

Naruto moved his arms and saw that he was standing in an empty street in what looked like Konoha. Naruto looked around, "This place… Is the same one as the images." Naruto quickly turned around when he heard shout, "Get him!; Grab the demon!" Just as Naruto turned around a small boy, very young, ran into him. But the strange things was that the boy didn't collide with him, he just ran through Naruto, like he was a ghost. Naruto just stood there, confused. He looked up when he saw a large crowd running through the street and just like the boy they ran past him like he was a ghost.

"We have you cornered now, demon." One of the villagers yelled. Naruto turned around, but his view was blocked by the crowd. He walked to the side where there were fewer people and saw the boy standing there. Naruto's eyes almost popped out of his head when he saw the boy. Golden hair, blue eyes and three whisker marks on each cheek, "That is… me?" Naruto asked as he stared at the boy, a spitting image of how he used to look when he was younger.

The boy stood there, his back to a wall. One of the villagers walked to the front, "We will dispose of this demon now, before the real demon emerges." Naruto immediately caught the words 'the real demon emerges', "What do you mean?" he asked, but he got no response. No one even glanced at him, as if he was a ghost, only being able to look at things, never meant to interrupt or change anything.

The younger Naruto looked through the crowd, "How is this my fault? He was the one who bumped into me." He yelled. One of the villagers looked at him with a glare, "You might not be at fault, but there is something inside you and its obvious its going to posses you soon. We won't let that beast rampage here again and take our loved ones!" He yelled, the other yelled in agreement.

The boy seemed confused, "Huh? Nothing is going to posses me. Why won't you just leave me alone!" He yelled again. One of the villagers scoffed, "Yeah right, what about you turning so violent recently. Just like an incarnation of a demon." The young Naruto's eyes widened, "I-I'm not a demon! I… I am Naruto Uzumaki, a human!" The older's Naruto's eyes widened, "No mistake, he is me. But… What do they mean? Its obviously just one big misunderstanding. And… Why do I have no memories of this?" He asked.

"But the Hokage will become furious if he hears that we did it." One man said. Another man walked up to him and grabbed him by his collar, "Are you stupid? Who are you more afraid of? The hokage or the demon…?" He said as he pointed his metal pipe at the younger Naruto. The other villagers yelling in agreement, "We put up with him for long enough. I believed in the Fourth's seal, but lately the brat is going out of control. At this rate the demon… Will be set free again." Naruto grabbed his head, "Why can't I hear what they are saying? Just what is inside me?"

One villager turned to Naruto, "Sorry, kid. Nothing personal, you aren't at fault, its the demon inside you. but I can't let my family experience that tragedy again." He said as he looked at Naruto with terrified eyes, "Please forgive me and die quickly, without suffering." He swung his metal bat and hit the younger Naruto in the gut. Another villager came up and also hit him, then another, until everyone joined in. The younger Naruto sobbed, cried and screamed but everyone put on faces like they were the ones suffering and continued. The older Naruto just stood there frozen, "H- Hey, wait a sec… Th- that's just a kid. HEY, I said wait one god damn second! What the fuck are you doing to a child!" Naruto yelled and tried to push them away, but his hand phased through the villagers, "Will you wait one fucking second. This is only one big misunderstanding!" The older Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Why are you the ones with those faces, like you are the ones suffering. Just what the fuck do you know about me? What in god fucking damn it are you doing? I said stop!" The older Naruto yelled as he tried to protect his younger self, but he couldn't stop anything. His every attempt was shrugged off like nothing. Only the realization that he could only stand and watch the terrifying scene, with wide eyes came to him. A scene like out of a nightmare, "What the fuck...Wipe those god damn looks off your faces, why do you look like you are being hurt. You are not the ones being beaten up over your fucked up delusions, you fucking assholes!" Naruto yelled.

Suddenly, Naruto heard a voice, "Use my power and you won't be hurt anymore." Naruto looked around to see where it came from, "That voice..." Red chakra started surrounding the younger Naruto. The older Naruto could only stare at it with a horrified face, "What… is that?"

One of the villagers started beating harder and faster, "Ahh! Its emerging. The demon is coming out. Put your backs into it and kill him!" He screamed with a terrified face. The younger child stood up with a roar that knocked away all of the villagers. The older Naruto simply stared at his younger self, who was engulfed in red bubbling chakra, it formed the outline of what looked like a fox with one tail. With blood red eyes the boy stared at the villagers and after unleashing a ferocious roar he charged forward, slaughtering everyone. Ripping them limb from limb, tearing their hearts out and beheading them.

Naruto could stare at this nightmare, "Enough..." But it didn't stop. The boy kept on massacring the people, "I said enough." The older Naruto grabbed his younger self's shoulders but he phased through him again.

After a while only the two Narutos were standing there. He looked at his younger self with pity and sadness written all over his face, "What the hell." Sob. Naruto looked up and saw his younger self looking at his palms and crying, tears falling down on his small bloody hands, "No... I didn't mean to. I-I j-just… Wanted them to stop. Why did this happen?" Another few sobs, "Why?" the young Naruto hit himself on the head, "I hate it." He hit himself on the head again, "Why me? What did I do? Am I really a demon? Nothing but an abomination. I am nothing but a monster." The boy started hitting himself on the head repeatedly, "Whats the point in me living. I don't want to live… I want to die… Someone please kill me." The boy collapsed to his knees, as he fell, blood splattered to every side and the boy started bawling his eyes out, "Mommy… I want my mommy..." He stopped and after a realization hit him that he was all alone and had no one to rely on he started bawling his eyes out even harder.

A few tears rolled down the elder Naruto's cheeks and he slowly walked towards his younger self, dragging his feet with no energy he almost tripped on himself a few times. As he came closer he collapsed to his knees, "I'm... sorry. I'm sorry... for being unable to protect you. Please… I beg of you... Forgive me." Naruto hugged the small boy in the middle of this nightmare. The boy started crying even louder and harder, as if he heard his voice and felt the hug.

The older Naruto looked up and saw that Sarutobi was standing there, in his battle armor, his anbu guard around him, "You..." Younger Naruto looked up at Sarutobi with a sob, "WHAT? WHAT AM I? TELL ME? Are you also going to call me a demon? I mean, what kind of person could do this? Its obvious I am demon. I was born a demon, I am a demon and will always be a demon. The person known as Naruto Uzumaki never existed. There is only this ugly demon here." The boy screamed. Sarutobi's face fell and it looked like he grew older at least by a dozen years, "Naruto, you are no demon. You are a human."

The younger Naruto looked at Sarutobi like he said the lamest joke of the century, then the boy started laughing through his tears, "If I am human, then why did this happen? Could any human do this? Can any kid in Konoha do what I just did?" Naruto stood up as the chakra engulfed him again, the amount of tails started slowly multiplying, "Don't act like you know anything about me." He charged at Sarutobi. His eyes became blood red.

The older Naruto tried to grab the younger one, "Wait!" But he couldn't do anything again. The boy appeared in front of Sarutobi, he just stepped to the side and delivered a quick chop to the back of his neck, applied a youkai suppressing seal on his forehead and quickly caught him before he fell to the ground. Sarutobi then hugged Naruto, "I failed. I failed so miserably. To drive an innocent child to this point. I am a failure as a leader, no, I am a failure as a human being. I can never earn your forgiveness, but if you have to blame anyone, blame me for being weak and powerless." Sarutobi picked up Naruto, "Anbu, deal with this. I will take care of Naruto."

The scenery shifted and it showed a dark room. Sarutobi was standing there, with a couple of people with expensive looking kimono, "Lets begin the sealing." Naruto looked to the side with a blank look and saw his younger self laid down in the middle of a big sealing array. All of the men in the room started going through hand seals then pressed their hands to the sealing array. It immediately lit up and after a few seconds the younger Naruto started screaming and thrashing around. Blue chakra rose from Naruto's body slightly and took a shape just like Naruto.

After they applied more chakra to the array the blue chakra from Naruto started rising higher, but it looked like and sounded like it was being ripped from Naruto. The older Naruto simply stared at it with blank eyes. The younger Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs, as if his very soul was being ripped away from him, though that was what it looked like. Naruto noticed that a part of his chakra/ soul, had a very big red stain on it, different from the normal blue.

Sarutobi walked to the middle and planted his hands on the array, a chain of letters climber up on Sarutobi's arms and he grabbed the red part on Naruto's chakra/soul and started ripping it out. Naruto's eyes widened, "Seriously?… They even took away my soul?" Naruto grabbed his heart. Sarutobi finally ripped away the red part and after chanting something for a few minutes he created a seal on the back of Naruto's neck and transferred the red part there, along with the letters from his hands.

After everything ended Naruto was on the ground, sleeping. Everyone else was panting, "Naruto's very soul became tainted by the demon fox. We had no choice but to seal away the tainted part so it wouldn't spread out and take over Naruto. Everything that happened here will stay in this room, understood?" Sarutobi said in a harsh tone. Everyone else couldn't answer back because they were exhausted so they simply nodded their heads.

"The demon fox." Naruto tied to together the pieces, "I see… So I have the Kyuubi no Yoko sealed inside me." Naruto remembered the black being inside him, "Then that thing is the Kyuubi and those doors seal away the tainted part of my soul." Naruto looked up and smiled, then he started laughing, "What the fuck… So it was all nothing but a big misunderstanding. The villagers always punched and kicked me, but when I reached my breaking point and started fighting back they thought I was taken over by the Kyuubi, so in fear, they came together in order to eliminate a potential threat? How fucking stupid can this get?" Naruto looked at his sleeping younger self.

Slowly, Naruto walked towards his younger self, got on his knees, took off the top of his kimono and covered his sleeping self with it, "Rest... From now on I will protect you, I promise. I won't let you experience that nightmare again. So, rest up… And leave our future in my hands." naruto said as he gently stroked his younger self's hair, though it phased through. Naruto stood up and flared his chakra, breaking the memories.

During Naruto's memory traveling, Reality.

Naruto was floating in the middle of the lake, all bloody and beaten up. Tayuya sighed, "What the? Its already over? Orochimaru-sama could you give us tougher opponents? You could leave this job to the lower ranked ones." Orochimaru chuckled, "Simply watch. From now, you will get your tough opponent." All of them were confused and looked at Naruto's body. Kabuto glanced at Orochimaru, "Meaning?" he asked in a whisper. Orochimaru chuckled, "Its obvious Naruto will now leave the wheel for a while. He will have to deal with his inner problems. So, who will be there to hold back all those raging emotions and the numerous demons inside him?" Kabuto's eyes widened, "So, that means, that one of the demons inside him will take control?"

Orochimaru smiled, "Well now, I wonder about that myself. Its only a theory after all." Suddenly, a beam of dark chakra shot out of Naruto's body, so potent it obscured him from view, "What the fuck?" Tayuya shouted. The chakra settled down and its showed Naruto standing in the middle of the lake. Ukon swallowed his saliva, "Didn't we just beat him into a bloody pulp? How is he even standing?" The dark markings spread over Naruto's body, covering more and more of his body, until the markings fused together and only a black silhouette was standing in Naruto's place. Orochimaru looked pleasantly surprised, "The cursed seal second level. My oh my, you are a hungry one, aren't you, Naruto."

The markings started fading away. Naruto's golden hair had turned into pitch black and slightly longer. His eyes turned pitch black, only in one eye there was a blood red iris with a slit in it shinning from the black and in the other eye a dark purple iris was shinning from the black eye. Naruto's skin had turned into ash gray and two thick black lines traveled from his eyes down his cheeks. His fingernails had become long and sharp, like a beasts and his entire body was very lean body packed with muscle.

All of the sound four immediately put up their guard and activated their own cursed seals. But before they could do anything Naruto disappeared and appeared in front of Jirobo in a second. He raised his arms and blew him away, sending him flying out of the lake and into the trees. The he turned Ukon and disappeared again and appeared behind him and punched him so fast he could barely see. To his luck Sakon blocked the attack with his arm. Naruto's fist started overpowering Sakon's and pushed it back. Suddenly Naruto grabbed Sakon's fist and pulled him towards himself, tearing him away from the main body. Then Naruto did a powerful kick at Sakon's gut sending him flying high up into the air.

Just as Ukon turned around Naruto spun around and kick Ukon sending him flying like Jirobo. Kidomaru had already jumped back and was aiming at Naruto with his bow. When Naruto turned his back to him he shot an arrow at Naruot's neck. Naruto turned around and with one move slashed the arrow to pieces. He raised his fist and smashed it into the water. A torrent of water exploded and rose into the air, obscuring the view.

Before the water settled down Kidomaru saw a shadow above, as he glanced up he saw that it was Naruto, just at the same time Naruto did an axe kick and sent Kidomaru crashing into the bottom of the lake. Naruto slowly turned around dodged around Tayuya's summoned pets, before he charged at her at a speed she could barely react to.

Naruto passed her and kept on running straight towards Orochimaru, after a second blood shot out from three wounds on Tayuya's body, "When?" Naruto appeared before Orochimaru and unleashed a flurry of punches. Orochimaru met the punches head on with his own punches, as fast as Naruto was, his speed wasn't above Orochimaru's so he could easily keep up with Naruto. After a few punches Orochimaru jumped back and glanced at his arms, all broken, bones sticking out of them, "Oh my, even if I can match his speed I can't match his power? Well I guess this isn't anything to be surprised about."

Naruto appeared before him and punched him in the gut with his fingers extended, tearing a hole in Orochimaru's stomach. In response Orochimaru chuckled and while smiling opened his mouth. Another Orochimaru emerged from his mouth, completely fine. Naruto didn't stop, he simply threw the body to the side and with a spin kicked Orochimaru while he was still in the air, all in two seconds.

Orochimaru flipped in the air and landed on the ground, he looked down and saw that his left arm was broken again, "Taking on his attacks is bad for my health." He said with a small smile. Naruto appeared before him again and unleashed a flurry of punches. Orochimaru did his best to dodge every single one of them with snake-like movements.

Naruto raised his leg and kicked the water, sending it flying everywhere, obscuring his view. As the water settled down Orochimaru looked behind him and saw Naruto was gathering chakra in his hand. A small black ball formed at the palm of his hand. Naruto clenched his fist with the ball and with the same fist punched the air. A second after the punched a massive blast of black chakra flew out of Naruto's fist, towards Orochimaru. Evaporating the waters around him and traveling out of the lake and into the forest. After the attack hit the trees a massive explosion occurred there, creating a massive crater.

After the blast settled down, it showed Orochimaru standing there, half of his body missing. He opened his mouth again and emerged from it. He fell on the water in a crouch, "I guess its about time." Naruto charged at Orochimaru again and just as he was about to reach him Orochimaru turned around with a smile, "Time to come back, Uzumaki Naruto." The markings started fading and with one massive wave of chakra the old Naruto returned and fell on the water, unconscious.

Orochimaru turned to Kabuto with a chuckle, "Take care of it. I entrust Naruto to you. Deliver him to our base." Kabuto sighed as he readjusted his glasses, "As you wish." Kabuto said with a bead of sweat dropping down the side of his face, "Just what kind of monster is he?" Kabuto asked nobody in particular. Then with a sigh got to work.

Chapter END

This is all I have for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed. I really think this time it was a lot better than the original, but its just me. Anyway, those who read my original work must have noticed that I have changed a few things.

In my original work I wrote my fight scenes very detailed but I thought that made it hard for people to actually imagine it so this time I wrote them less detailed and left more place for imagination. I was very curious if it was better like this or it was better with more details. Maybe even this style of writing the fights is bad and I should change it. So, drop a review and let me know about it.

I don't really have anything else to say. If you think there are places where I should improve, please don't hesitate and point them out. I always try to make my work better and it would help me out, because right now I don't know if my writing is good enough or not, and if not, then what I should change.

This was my also first attempt at tragedy and drama stuff. I don't think it turned out perfect, but atleast while i was reading it, i think that it wasn't very bad for a first attempt. I also know what i have to do to improve it in the future. But just in case, if you feel like something is missing from those parts, please tell me, maybe i missed it and it would be helpful to know in the future.

Anyway, this is all for this time. Drop a review with your opinion on it. Have a wonderful day.