Konohagakure no sato
Konoha was one of the most powerful hidden village out of the great 5 villages or simply Great Five. Great Five was the name of 5 villages that stood at the top of Elemental Nations. The village had produced so many legends that were feared through the entire Elemental Nations.
However no matter how great Konoha was, there were still tons of dark side that will make a person shivers upon the sight. Despite being a the greatest military village, the other side of Konoha was the most corrupted village out of the 5. Dozens of crimes were spotted in Konoha, but were hidden by some upper classes.
Uzumaki Naruto, at first sight, was a simple orphan, that for some reason was hated by everyone in the village. Despite that the boy earned for knowledge and little by little started to realise how wrong was the world that he was living. Being constantly abused by drunkards and chased away sellers caused the young boy to mature a lot faster then his age should. The boy had been through a lot for a boy at the age of 5. He had been lied, used, tricked and even being mollested. All of that made Naruto realised that this world must change.
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Naruto was at his usual spot, the highest tree of Forest of Death. For some reason, the wild animals there found his presence comforting and welcomed him with ease. He was basically a friend to all the animals there.
"This world is just wrong, no matter how I look" mused Naruto looking at the night sky, which was pitch black like abyss. The boy glance to his right and saw the full moon shining bright through the night.
"Hmm, the full moon is as great as ever. Really a sight that I can admire foreever" whispered Naruto to himself admiring the beautiful sight in front of him. Suddenly he felt a present behind him, but he didn't bother to look back to see who was that. Because he already that person's identity.
"As expected, you are here to watch the full moon, Naruto-kun" said the newly arrival behind the 5 year old boy.
"Well, you are the only one that knew where I am at this hour" retort Naruto, his gaze still never left the moon.
Said person chuckled and approached Naruto closer till he was only a few feet behind the blond boy. The figure was clad in standard ANBU uniform with a tanto striped to his back. But the most notifying feature was his weasel mask.
Naruto finally decided to turn around to face the figure behind him.
"How was your mission, Itachi-san? Everything is ok, I presume?" Naruto asked, now identified, Itachi with a calm voice.
"Yeah, everything went smoothly" replied Itachi with his usual emotionless voice.
Satisfied with Itachi's reply, Naruto decided to sit down on the tree branch that he was standing and stared out in the distance. It took him some minutes of silence, but suddenly Naruto asked abruptly.
"Itachi-san, what do you think about the current world? Do you feel satisfy with it?"
If Itachi found the question was too mature for someone of Naruto's age he didn't show that. Since the moment he met him, Naruto was far more mature than any child his age. And despite being at the age of 5, he was a master in stealth and the most terrifying information broker he has ever knew. He was the same age as his little brother, but he didn't act his age. Naruto's eyes were that of icy blue color, on the font of the full moon his eyes were much more mesmerising, but at the same time much more. Naruto still haven't told him, why he was the way he is now.
At first, he simply was ordered by Sandaime Hokage to protect Naruto from the shadow once in a while. But Naruto, for some reason, managed to always find out his location. The deal was, Naruto was also one heck of an actor. He played the role of a helpless child that had been abused by the villagers too perfectly that Sandaime and everyone in the village truly believed that scam of image. But, for some reason, Naruto trusted him enough to reveal his true self to him. Itachi could already see that Naruto will be the one that will shake the foundation of Elemetal Nation. The question the boy just asked also proved his point.
"Why you suddenly decide to ask me that question, Naruto-kun? You want to say that this world is wrong?" refute Itachi looking straight at the back of the mysterious boy in front of him.
"Correct" nodded Naruto and continued. "This world forced children to kill for living, forced women to whore themselves out for money or fame, the corruption was everywhere and a lie could easily become a truth, vice versa. Kill for money is wrong and that's not the world that I have seen in my dream". Naruto turned around slightly to look at Itachi's masked face.
Itachi was totally confused by the boy's words. "But that's Elemental Nations! Our main job is being shinobi, to kill for the sake of the village. Yes, killing is wrong, but we have been doing this since time of Rikudou Sennin. We can't change that! Besides what kind of world did you see in your dream?"
Naruto's eyes glazed over recalling one particular dream that showed a world totally different the the one he knows.
"It's kinda hard to believe. But that was a much more mordern world then that of ours. I saw lots of high buildings, lots of 4-wheeled vehicles and some 2-wheeled ones too. The clothes that people wearing were very neat and comfortable. The children were laughing and teasing each other while on the way to school. There were no slums, no dirty hidden alleys. It's like… Utopia" Naruto described the dream he had seen. He never dreamt of something like that before. Hell, he never dreamt. He only ever received nightmares from the abusings from the villagers.
Itachi stayed silent for some minutes after the description of Naruto's dream. From Naruto's words, it certainly felt like an ideal world. But that was merely a dream, something like that can't become a reality.
"It certainly is Utopia, from your description. But that's just a dream, the product of your imagination, Naruto-kun" refute Itachi with a shake of his head.
Naruto stared at the ANBU for a bit longer then the former anticipated, which creeped him out a bit. Finally, the blond boy replied.
"That's where you are wrong, Itachi-san. That world certainly exists, but haven't been made into reality yet"
Itachi's eyes widened at Naruto's argument behind his mask and retort.
"Y-you want to say that, that was the world from the future? But how is that possible? Are you even sure that it was not your imagination, Naruto-kun?"
Naruto shook his head in negative and then started to enlist his reasoning.
"It's not my imagination, because I can prove it. One, the ones in my dream speak in a language that I can understand. Two, I can recognize lots of familiar faces in that dream. Most of them were probably the descendants of the people that are living in this world. Three, most of their technology were the upgrade form of the ones we are using now!"
Itachi still had the look of disbelief behind his masked face. But Naruto's earnest expression got his attention. As far as he knew Naruto, the boy never lied to him. He might lied to others, but not to him. Their bonds were as close as that of blood related siblings. Itachi knew fully well that Naruto's loyalty was not belong to Konoha. The village had put him through hell and beyond, so he absolutely held no love for it. There were obviously some exceptions, but that alone didn't make Naruto attached to Konoha. Despite that, Itachi knew Naruto was destined for something much greater. His icy blue eyes, whererever he looked at them, he felt an ominous feeling within him.
"You want to say that the dream you saw was some kind of message from the future? That's absurd!" exclaimed Itachi shaking his head in denial. Itachi knew that in this shinobi world, humans could capable of lots of crazy things. For example, Nidaime Hokage created a jutsu that reanimated the dead and bind them to his will. Shodaime could created a forest with his kekkei genkai. And Uchiha could brainwashed people or put them to sleep with their Sharingan. Or Yondaime Hokage that could teleport within a flash to where his marker was located. But hearing a vision of a farway future was a first to him.
"I don't know for sure, Itachi-san. But it was a sight, I have never seen before. And then there was this 'feeling', that urged me that I must be the one to make that Utopia a reality" replied Naruto with conviction. The blond boy then recalled something else. "Oh, that's not all by the way. My dream didn't end there. When the image of that Utopia from the future ended, there was another image appeared. In this image, people were still shinobi and fought each other to death. The children were sent to war and the blood flowed like river, as one by one shinobi killed each other. That's not all. Those that returned alive were so stressed that they released all those tensions through… 'mating'. But in case, women refused em, they resorted to rape. If the other image was Utopia, then this one is pure hell. The sight I saw in dark alleys were probably a light version of what I saw in my dream. But it will slowly turned out worse with each passing day"
Itachi kept silent for a while after hearing Naruto's statement.
"So what you intend to do Naruto-kun?" Weasel ANBU asked the boy, but clearly already knew his answer.
"If that was truly the message for me by the future, then I can only response to that. I know that it will be hard path and I might become insane on the way to achieve my goal, but even so I will make certain that the Utopia will become a reality rather then the Hell that is in the making" replied Naruto with a melancholic smile.
Itachi looked the boy with grim expression. Naruto had gone through so much, that he no longer value his life. It's a really sad sight. The boy his age shouldn't think like that. He should enjoyed his life, should laughed and played with his friends, should be spoilef by his parents. But Naruto never had anyone to begin with. He somehow managed to form bonds with Ichiraku family and him, but that was obviously not enough to cover the emptiness inside his heart. But despite that Naruto's heart was generous and big enough to dedicate his life to create a better future for everyone else.
"You know that will be like torture. The path you chose will eat away your heart and sanity. It's... far worse then death" Itachi tried to convince Naruto to back away from his decision.
"I know that, Itachi-san. I know that I need to totally destroy the current world to smithens and recreate it. I know that I will shed so much blood that the Shinobi Wars of the past will be paled in comparison" replied Naruto with a heavy sigh. "But, for start, I need power. Lots of power and I won't care where I will get that. I will be called 'Evil Incarnate' either way. I don't expect you to follow me on my path. But if you could give me a bit of your power, then I will be very grateful for you, Itachi-san"
Finishing that statement, Naruto bowed his head before Itachi. Right now, Naruto only had stealth and don't have anything else. He wanted for Itachi to train him in shinobi arts, so that he, at least, not so helpless when the villagers decided to gang up on him. He lost faith in Sandaime a long time ago, when he asked why the old Hokage couldn't teach him some moves so that he could defended himself. At that time, Sandaime's excuse was that it was still not time and he wanted for him to enjoy his childhood a bit longer. Naruto knew immediately after that, that Sandaime didn't want for him to be able to stand up for himself from the beginning. There must be some kind of reason, that Sandaime wanted for him to remain in the village and depended on him.
After some investigations and information gathering, Naruto finally founded out the reason. The clues were actually right there from the very beginning. The villagers and shinobis called him 'demon brat'. Some drunkards screamed that he had killed their sons and daughters while hitting him. On October 10th, Kyuubi, a demon fox, that appeared out of nowhere started his rampage and destroyed a quarter of the village. But he was stopped by Yondaime Hokage. The demon fox was just not any kind of monster, but an entity made purely of chakra. That means it can't be killed physically, by any means. Therefore, Yondaime sealed the demon in a newborn. And that newborn was him.
Itachi was having inner fight within him. On one hand, he was shinobi of Konoha and needed to fulfill his duty. On the other hand, he saw how much Naruto had suffered from the hands of Konoha and wished to help the boy to relieve that suffering even a little bit. He also knew that their will come a time when Naruto will decided to sever the ties with Konoha. But despite that, Naruto's goal was grand and noble. He also didn't cling to the fairy tales that people will one day understand each other. He looked at the situation realistically and will try to achieve his goal no matter the cost. The boy was currently lacked power and authority, so he can't accomplish anything the way he is now.
"Alright, Naruto-kun. I will teach you the basic of shinobi arts to help you defense yourself better" Itachi finally made his decision. "If I am not wrong then that will be enough for you. As knowing you, you will be able to proceed from that point on your own feet. Right, Naruto-kun?"
Itachi believed that Naruto was a prodigy like him. So he would be able to learn the basic of shinobi arts in no time. And from there will proceed further.
"Yeah, learning basic shinobi arts will be enough for me to figure out how to progress further. Since the day was nearly beaten to death when Sandaime had gone to a political trip to Iwagakure, I received something called eidetic memory. The ability to momentarily engrave the image my eyes had seen like a picture. Basically what I had seen onve I will never forget that again. I also noticed there were some ancient arts that shinobis had completely erased from their memory. Not that many had known about them"
"Oh? And what are they?" asked Itachi, feeling very curious about that revelation. Since the blond was the best information broker of the Elemental Nations, yes, he could definitely said that with confident, the information he mentioned should be quite interesting.
"Fuinjutsu and Onmyojutsu" replied Naruto looking pointedly at Itachi. His reply made Itachi's eyes widened in shock.
"I understand Fuinjutsu, since even with limited knowledge shinobis still using them. But what is Onmyojutsu? I have never heard of that!"
Naruto smirked and replied with mirth. "Oh, that was an art that even more ancient than Fuinjutsu. That was an art that used to connect and borrow the power of deceased after all. I happened to stumble on that information, when I was forced to hide in a cave underneath the Forest of Death. It was pretty far from here"
"L-like Niidaime-sama's Kinjutsu?" stuttered Itachi with eyes still widens from Naruto's revelation.
"Nothing like that" scoffed Naruto in disdain. Manipulating the death disregarding their will was simply unacceptable. "It's the art where you became a medium and summoned the death back to temporarily inhabits your body. But there is more too that"
Naruto explained with amusing tone and enjoyed the look of bewildment on Itachi's face.
There were not many things, that could made Itachi shock, but learning the existence of Onmyojutsu was definitely one of those things. Just to be sure, Itachi decided to ask.
"So, does that mean anyone can learn Onmyojutsu? Like shinobi arts?"
Naruto shook his head in negative and respond. "Nope. A certain factor need to happen for you to be able to learn Onmyojutsu"
"And what is that factor" asked Itachi, feeling more impatient for some reason.
Naruto's eyes widened like he became insane with a widened grin match his eyes.
"Why? That is for you to be able to see spirits!"
With that reply, Itachi really thought that Naruto had become insane.
"Huh? You didn't make any sense, Naruto-kun! How can you even be able to see spirits? Scratch that! Spirits and ghosts shouldn't exist in the first place" retort Itachi with look of total disbelief.
"You really think so? How do you think I became the best information broker, when Sandaime keeping his gaze on me all the time? By the way, his trick didn't work here, because the Forest of Death was created by Senju Hashirama himself. This was basically the place he created with his kekkei genkai to become both his training ground and the place for whenever he wanted to be alone. The lingering ghosts of death that have lingerings and attachments to living world, that refused to move on became both my allies and helped me gatheredany information I need. Yes, I can see spirits and ghosts" retort Naruto with a raised eyebrow, challenge Itachi to refute him.
At Naruto's form assessment, Itachi could only stared at the blond with a blank look. Itachi's common sense began to crumble with each revelation Naruto made. But Itachi still needs to confirm one thing from Naruto's mouth.
"Naruto-kun, correct me if I am wrong. If you are capable of learning Onmyojutsu. Does that mean that an advance Onmyojutsu could actually resurrect the death"
Naruto thought to himself for some minutes before he replied. "Indeed, but the ressurrection condition is that person or people didn't for more then 1 week. That way, using advance Onmyojutsu, I can resurrect them all"
With that answer, Itachi finally saw Naruto as someone out of his caliber. It's like he was in the presence of a living god. And that was Naruto hadn't accomplish anything yet and we only sharing his knowledge and ambition. But those knowledge akready made him beyond human.
"Anyway, it was a pleasure to talk to you, Itachi-san!" stated Naruto with a light grin. "It's time for me to go to bed. And don't worry, I am not returning to Konoha for that"
Itachi replied the boy with a quite happy grin, which is very out of character for Uchiha prodigy.
"Thank you for trusting me that much, that you even shared those precious knowledge with me, Naruto-kun! I am really appreciate that. And don't worry, you have earned my trust and loyalty after this discussion. My vision were pretty narrowed, but you expand them more than I could hope for"
Naruto nodded in acknowledgement and replied. "I am glad that my vision helped you a bit. The village is not everything. And the Konoha's higher ups philosophy about Konoha's top priority, while the rest will be put down aside is a fuck up propaganda. Don't let those warhawk to brainwash you, Itachi-san". The boy was hesitant for a moment, but decided to add. "And also you don't need to get involve too deep with me, Itachi-san. I am walking a path that will eventually made what the names that villagers calling me now come true. I am downing on that path alone. I don't want to drag anyone with me into that infinite pit of hell"
Itachi tried to refute, but the blond already left the scene. The Uchiha ANBU stared at the place Naruto was standing a bit longer before he Shunshined away. But unknown to him, during the conversation with Naruto there was a spirit of another Uchiha present there.
"Young Uchiha, eventually Uchiha's patient will ended and they will plan a coup. Buy I will not let that happen! Wiping out Uchiha was Tobirama's plan all those years ago and it is slowly come to fruition. It's hard to believe that a shaman was born the shinobi village. But with his help, I will prevent the extinction of Uchiha" The spirit of unknown Uchiha uttered to himself.
The spirit Uchiha knew that Naruto had managed to gather lots of important information from all the spirits that he had encountered in this village and they all decided to give him their support and knowledge. Some of them from amcient times when Konoha had yet existed and some of them from different shinobi era. The fact that it had been millenia since a shaman showed up in this world made Naruto's existence much more valuable for spirits and ghosts.
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A figure clad is in samurai armor wielding an incredibly long nodachi which he held the blade on his right shoulder. That was a male with a dark skin and very long dark crimson hair that reached his ankles. But the most captivating feature were his blood colour eyes and a grin which fit the appearance of a demon. The figure was sitting on his throne playing with Uzumaki clan symbol in his hand with an insane grin.
"Hoh! Finally things starts to get interesting. The Uzumaki that will shake the world to it's foundation had appeared. Even though my clan managed to save lots of Uzumakis and scattered them away since the sudden invasion of Uzu, lots of them had lots the fighting spirit and decided to live a peaceful life. I was pretty disappointed by that, but acknowdledge their decision since we were allies in the first place"
The figure suddenly grinned wider and continued his speech. "But I only did that because Ashina-jiji left me one hell of revelation. He told me that there will come a time for Uzumaki to rise again and this time he will conquered the world and bended it to knees, completely decimating the current system"
Suddenly a figure appeared beside the demonic samurai. The darkness completely hidden his looks, but you can hear his calm like water voice speaking.
"It's time we pay back the world for what they had done to Uzumakis"
The demonic samurai glanced at the newcomer from the corner of his eyes and retort.
"Not yet, Kyoshiro. First, We will send a scroll that has the entrance to Time Chamber together with an arts to divide a body in two. If Ashina-jiji was right all along, then our sket will understand everything you once we deliver yhat to him"
The figure, which now revealed named Kyoshiro, replied his partner with a nod.
"Yeah, I am to impatient, Kyo. I forgot that our sket is still a little boy. He is lacking a lot now, but he will catch up to us in no time. Uzumaki and Mibu will rule the world this time"
Mibu clan was a clan from ancient times, that secretly associated with Uzumakis after the later helped them prevented the self-destruction of Mibu. Mibu was once a clan of individuals that were so gifted that they were considered gods at their time. The clan was too powerful to the point that they desired nothing since everything were within their reach. Mibu started to grow so arrogant that the membered decided to challenge themselves and see who will be the strongest within the clan which nearly annihilate the clan themselves until the first Uzumaki clan leader accidentally saw what happened and stopped them with his seals. Since then Mibu and Uzumaki became allies.
During the invasion, Mibu decided to fight till the end with Uzumakis, but Uzumakis were a much more benevolent clan and didn't want for their allies to be annihilate together with them. Ashina Uzumaki read the stars and managed to find out that they will get their revenge at a certain point in the future. Mibu also used their techniques to foresee the future and there was an indeed a boy born from a tomboy Uzumaki woman. The powers that the boy will wield in the future were so enormous that the Elemental Nations will have no choice, but to unite against his might.
"Uzumaki Naruto. Our leading star. I am awaiting for our meeting!" Kyo screamed out with his booming voice and laughed like a mad man.
A/N: That's it for the first chapter, I guess. This story take place in Narutoverse, but will have characters and elements from Shaman King and Samurai Deeper Kyo. Naruto will be nearly omnipotent here, being able to use both furyoku and chakra, plus senjutsu.
Mibu and Uzumaki were allies, but Uzumaki kept Mibu existence in secret for a reason. Uzumaki were wiped out by 3 major villagers through rumors. But in reality, ROOTS, specifically managed to find out about the connection between Uzumaki and Mibu and thus conspirated with the other major villages to wipe them out. Of course, ROOTS stayed in the shadows and erased any evidence of Konoha being involve in the genocide.
Ah, I am babbling too much. Need to avoid as much spoilers as possible. Till next time
Ja ne!
