Naruto Fanfiction

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto...

Author's Note: This chapter is mostly a flashback actually, to explain the prologue and so you can, obviously, understand the next chapters… Please let me know what you think of it!

Have you ever felt the distinct imprint of your hope being crushed by lies? Bringing a change in yourself is close to impossible, since you simply are who you are. It takes a lot to make it easy. Turning yourself away from the path you have always wanted to walk will be the confirmation of your own decisions. Admitting hate towards the ones you had learned to trust would be hard, if you would still care at that point.

It's not easy to walk away, but it's even harder to look back and reflect on your own choices. Although in some cases it's easy, when hardship is the only way you knew how to go through life. In that case, you craved to return and repay certain 'debts…'

One might wonder, how someone full of light… can turn into someone with nothing but darkness?

A Massacre's Carnage

Chapter 1: Betrayal

He had been training all day and all night and decided to call it a day... or night. So he was sluggishly walking back to his own apartment. It was already late and the streets weren't crowded, just the way he preferred it, so he wouldn't notice the many cold glares. Now there were only a few, so he was bothered with it a lot less.

He caught the scent of sake and moved his gaze from the ground towards a man who was desperately trying to walk in front of him.

'He's drunk… '

Naruto planned on just walking passed the drunk man, but the man punched Naruto on the shoulder. Naruto didn't feel it, but he stopped walking and glared at the stranger.

"De-Demon!!"

The man threw another punch, but missed miserably and fell on the ground before Naruto. He screamed in pain, before he was asleep. Naruto scratched his head in confusion and walked away again. He was forced to stop walking again as many others arrived at the scene.

"Yuh-You Demon!! What did you do to him?!" Someone yelled.

Naruto swallowed nervously and his heart started racing a bit faster. 'What? They think I did something to him?'

"Monster!! How dare you attack him!? I knew you would do something like this!!"

Naruto desperately shook his head. "N-no! I didn't attack him!!"

"Shut up!! Don't deny your evil pranks, little demon!" A woman screeched.

"B-but… Can't you see… He, he's drunk!! He fell on his own!!" Naruto stuttered.

"What a convenient excuse!! Like always!! You don't deserve to stay in a Village you almost destroyed!!"

Naruto tried to come up with anything to say, but sighed and ignored all the accusations and screams. He turned, sighed again and started to walk away. That was, until a stone hit him hard in the side of his head.

"You deserved that, demon child!!"

Naruto fell to the ground and blood was seeping out of the side of his head. Naruto was already tired from his training and the pain didn't help. He struggled to get up but another man came up at him and struck him hard across the face with solid tree branch. Naruto fell hard on his back. He groaned and as he opened his eyes and saw a few stones descend towards him. One landed exactly on his nose and another on his forehead. He didn't even feel the others as the stones rained down upon him. With the power he had left in him, he rolled sideways and ran away as fast as he could.

But he didn't cry… He would never cry… Never again…

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When Naruto woke up the next day, he checked himself in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single wound on his face. He would never forget what happened last night, but there wasn't much he could do about it.

'Will it ever change? Why did they have to… attack me like that?'

He had a meeting with his team today, so he would get that done first.

Walking out of his apartment onto the streets reminded him of last night even more. He shook his head to get rid of the memory and put up his famous smile.

Team 7 wasn't as cheery as normal, ever since the 'incident' involving Sasuke. They were all just gloomy, even Kakashi, who tried to cheer them up occasionally. Naruto sighed as Kakashi took them out to another training area.

It was at that point that he realized that there would be no point asking Kakashi for help. He was sure Kakashi had gone through terrible things in his past, otherwise he wouldn't wear that gloomy expression at some times. But he wouldn't understand him. Kakashi simply couldn't be compared with him. So, during training, he managed to fool them and put up the 'loudmouth'-façade.

Deep down, Naruto knew even his own team detested him… Kakashi never showed he really cared for Naruto and if anything he had put the others in his team above him… He wondered, no, now he knew WHY. There was one person who really cared for him, but even Iruka-sensei, when truly faced, would admit the same… he also disliked Naruto…

He should have realized this sooner. He thought everyone was slowly appreciating his presence, but that was just a false hope.

After the training, Naruto walked home alone, as always and ignored the cold stared around him. Suddenly, a woman spoke up and noticed he was completely fine and had recovered completely from what happened yesterday.

"Hmph! Seems like you don't even bleed long…"

Naruto's eyes widened. 'They… they aren't ashamed at all for what they've done to me?'

"Next time… we'll make you bleed longer…"

Naruto closed his eyes and covered his ears as he ran away as fast as he could. But not before hearing another sentence…

"We'll make you suffer… and ultimately make you bleed to death, demon child…"

Even though he had tried his best to prove himself, defeating Haku, Kiba, Neji, Gaara and going after Sasuke. He went on many dangerous missions FOR the Village's sake! Yet they still hated him and would give anything for his death…

And there was no one in Leaf Village that could understand him…

He ran towards his apartment and instead of going to bed… he started packing…

And ran away from Konoha…

'Things will never go the way I want them to go… For this… I'll give them what they want!!'

Gaara woke up with a start as he heard his siblings speak in the room next to his, which was the living room. He had finally managed to control his demon this much, that he could sleep better. It had taken a few tries and he was ashamed to admit that he was 'afraid' to go to sleep, but the first time it worked out, he couldn't get enough of it and now slept a lot to 'catch up.'

The days in the Sand Village were straight out boring. The missions were too easy for him and even though he had changed his behaviour towards others, the villagers and even his siblings still seemed to be afraid of him. Most assumed Gaara didn't care, but he did and it actually hurt him. He hated living like this, but loved it at the same time too. As life should be, some would say.

Thanks to Uzumaki Naruto he knew how to start over and try to gain 'precious' friends. He decided to start with his siblings. A lot of time has passed since the Sasuke-retrieval mission for the Leaf and he had gotten a lot closer to Temari and Kankurou.

Gaara yawned and couldn't help but listen in on the conversation Temari and Kankurou were having.

"You know it's still a liability, Temari! Elite Hunter-nins are not sent on missions just so they can stay in the Village and patrol here." Kankurou's voice could easily be heard through the walls.

Temari's voice was softer, but it could still be heard. "I know, Kankurou. So… are you going for the Hunter-nin title too?"

Gaara couldn't see, but he knew Kankurou was nodding his head as he answered. "Yes. As a Hunter-nin gets to learn the better techniques of our Village and I have access to most of the Scrolls, too. Besides… if I want to fulfil the last mission our father gave us…"

"I know, I know, Kankurou! Don't remind me!" Temari yelled, but continued in a whisper. Gaara could still hear, though. "I'm going to join the Hunter-squad too when I'm ready. And then the plan will finally be executed…"

"We'll succeed, Temari… It's a perfect plan!" Kankurou said and Gaara could hear he was playing with either Karasu or Kuroari, probably recovering some parts from the last mission.

"I know… But he IS our brother…"

Gaara's eyes widened… 'They're talking about me? I'm the only brother they have… right?'

"Don't say that too loud, Temari… You might wake Gaara up." Kankurou responded and Gaara nervously swallowed. Gaara faked to be asleep as the door cracked open. He heard Kankurou whisper very softly after he sighed in relief. "He's still asleep…"

The door closed again and Gaara performed a technique that allowed him to move underground. He was sure Temari and Kankurou were talking again about this 'plan' and he was also sure they were now a lot more quiet, it was obvious they wanted him to hear them. He left a Sand Clone in bed and moved underground towards Kankurou and Temari, careful to hide all of his Chakra. Temari and Kankurou had become quite powerful, but Gaara was just far more powerful.

Being situated in under the living room, Gaara was able to continue listening in on Kankurou and Temari.

"He trusts us now, Kankurou." He heard Temari whisper. "It takes a little more, but he's already willing to protects us. He isn't stupid either, he knows when something's off during a mission. The plan will have to be executed when we ourselves are elite hunter-nins."

"That long? That takes at least more than a year for me. And you're not even a Hunter-nin yet. Gaara is becoming more powerful by the day… You do realize that, right? It will take all of Sand Village to kill him…" Kankurou whispered in response, while Gaara, underground, was shocked and wasn't listening in anymore… He returned to his bedroom and just slept…

The next day, Gaara walked into the living room and saw Kankurou and Gaara having breakfast. They greeted him politely and Temari handed a plate over to Gaara.

"Kankurou, Temari… I want you two to train with me today…" Gaara ordered.

"But, why? I have a meeting with the Kazekage today, Gaara." Kankurou objected.

"I want to see how strong you two have really become. Who cares about the Kazekage? I will kill Baki if he dares to disturb our training." Gaara responded and Kankurou nervously swallowed, knowing Gaara was being serious.

"A-alright, Gaara! We'll come with you!" Temari said with a nervous smile.

Gaara smiled back. "Perfect…"

They continued to eat breakfast in silence.

When they arrived at a random field, Gaara suddenly spoke up in a restrained voice.

"I know of the plan… I heard you two last night…" Gaara said as he turned around to face his two siblings and glare viciously at them. Kankurou and Temari could clearly see the blood veins in Gaara's eyes.

The two of them immediately looked around to find somewhere to run to, but found that Gaara was already using a massive amount of sand to surround them. "Do not try to escape… If you come too close to the sand, it will slice you in pieces…"

Kankurou released both his puppets. "So it has come to this, little brother! We have grown stronger, a lot stronger, all for our father's last mission! To destroy you! Me and Temari both will give our all to bring you down!"

Gaara snorted as he saw Temari perform her strongest Wind Technique on the Sand Walls around them. "Kuchiyose, Kirikirimai!!"

Gaara shook his head. "Ï know all of your techniques. No matter how powerful they are, my defenses will always be better… as will my attacks…"

Temari continued. "Sanjuu, Dai Kamaitachi!!"

Gaara's shield of Sand kept every attack of Kankurou's dolls out and it didn't allow the dolls to come too close. "You two don't seem to listen… Karasu and Kuroari will never be able to touch me and your pathetic wind attacks will not even dent my defenses…" Gaara smirked evilly. "Try all you want…" Gaara paused and for a moment he looked sad. "I trusted you two! To think you would betray me after I allowed you two to come close to me! This is all life will ever give me, isn't it! I shall play along then and show I will dance in everyone's blood!"

Kankurou and Temari despaired as the ground crumbled and the sand walls around them were transforming. Gaara insanely chuckled. "Die!! Suna Shuurajou!!"

Temari gasped out blood as three huge hardened sand spikes ripped through her body. Kankurou wasn't even allowed to scream or gasp as his face got impaled by two sand spikes.

Although both were dead, Gaara continued to slice them apart, until there was nothing but blood all around him. And then… he let the sand absorb all of the blood…

As he let the sand walls drop to the ground, he saw Baki stand in front of him with a whole group of Hunter-nins…

Gaara smirked as he stared at all of them. "I seem to have lost Kankurou and Temari…"

Baki snarled and disgust was evident on his features. "Gaara, you monster! The time has come to dispose of you once and for all!" He looked at the strongest Shinobis of the sand around him. "Get ready, everyone…"

"Idiots… I sensed you nearing this place long before you arrived… Do you really think I was unprepared or surprised?" Gaara darkly grinned. "Ryuusa Bakuryuu!"

Baki and all of the others tried to run from the humongous wave of sand coming at them, but most were drowned. Gaara continued and ignored the ones who managed to get away. "Sabaku Taisou!!"

The huge Wave had already landed and most Sand Shinobis were under it, and then Gaara squashed all of them under it to death. Gaara turned around and noticed that many Hunter-nins had already fled. Two were left as they stood next to the Kazekage.

And that was when Gaara half transformed into Shukaku… "Oh, great Kazekage… Let's see you face off against the real me!!"

The fight never lasted long and Baki got ripped to pieces, just like the remaining Hunter-nins…

This was known as the 'Massacre in the Sand.' Gaara left the Village with all of the talented Shinobis in it dead…

It has been years since he left Leaf Village. He lived in normal Villages and had a normal job in a small restaurant. But when he wasn't working, eating, drinking or sleeping he was training non-stop. Working on his Stamina, his power and speed and tried to invent Jutsus of his own. He often wandered from Village to Village and had temporarily apartments. But he slept in forests, trees, most of the time and hunted for food when he couldn't get into a Village.

One day, he had slept for more than one day, but there was a reason for that…

For in his sleep, he was facing the cause of all of his problems…

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"So you have finally decided to visit me, little whelp?"

Naruto glared at the demon Kyuubi in front of him. He was glad it was trapped, but he didn't show any signs of being afraid. "Kyuubi… I have come to talk."

"I want to talk too… So far you have made one right decision in your pathetic life… and that was to leave that ignorant Village you came from. Konoha it was called, wasn't it?"

Naruto nodded. "I agree with you partly… but I did more right things in my life."

The Kyuubi snorted as he glared down at Naruto. "You're going the right way and you've been training yourself nicely these last few years… But you've definitely taken your time coming here in front of me!"

Naruto shook his head. "Couldn't you have contacted me?" Naruto paused as Kyuubi growled. "Anyway, I've been training my ass off and my Chakra stamina, my power, my speed, they're all good…"

Kyuubi snorted. "Good? Fool, what you have is nothing!"

Naruto glared, angry that the Kyuubi interrupted him. "But my Jutsus… It gets harder coming up with new ones every day…"

The Kyuubi growled again. "Fool! So you have only come before me to ask for techniques?! I can show you everything, not just techniques!!"

"Show me, then!" Naruto screamed back.

"Ignorant whelp! How dare you scream to me?!" The Kyuubi paused. "I offer you my knowledge of everything, but… for a price!"

"So, what is it?" Naruto asked, not surprised at the turn of events.

"The protector of your old Village was a smart warrior, one I would definitely enjoy ripping apart if I would see him again. But that is unfortunately not possible. The seal he has created only allows my Chakra through it seems… If you even lift the Seal now, it would be no use… Most of me has 'grown' onto you… Except for my appearance and my knowledge…"

"Alright… so the situation is hopeless for you… What do you want then?"

"I want you to be like me! Soul to Soul transfer, whelp! I want your permission to slide my soul directly next to your own! To others you would seem… what's the term… Schizophrenic. But, when the only thing of me remains is my soul, you'll have all my knowledge and my power, speed, everything! The trick of the one who sealed me in you was that I would eventually die, but this way, I'll stay alive inside of you, without a cage, but also without control."

"I don't understand… You are alive inside of me already. This seems like I have all the benefits." Naruto said. "You're tricking me, aren't you, Kyuubi?!"

The Kyuubi chuckled. "I wish it were so… But I prefer to be alive inside of you, who will be like me, as you will promise. I'd rather have that than be killed by time… something I never had problems with."

Naruto nodded. "Fine then!"

The sensation that came next was a complete adrenaline rush. Memories came to him, battle registrations, techniques, hand seals, understanding hit him and he felt himself become stronger… a lot stronger…

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The next day, Naruto woke up without feeling much different. It was until he looked into the mirror that he noticed. Red eyes, the whiskers were gone, his hair had gotten darker blonde and as he flexed his muscles he could feel the power surging through them. That's when he noticed many changes. For example, he had a thirst for blood and got excited just by the thought of killing something or someone. 'So this is what it's like to be like the Kyuubi…'

He also knew many techniques as the hand seals came naturally to him. He literally 'felt' the world around him. Chakra levels, small and big were easy to read for him, even when concealed. 'Perfect…' Naruto thought as he smiled in the mirror. When he did, he noticed long fangs too…

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A year later, Naruto was still training every day and was simply living in the forest. And that's when he sensed, saw and smelled two, stronger than Konoha Jounin, men. He had waited for a challenge and jumped down to meet with them. Naruto grinned even more as he recognised them as Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame.

"Damn brat, you have no idea how long we've been looking for you…" Kisame commented as he stared at the dark blonde before him.

"Uzumaki Naruto… Come with us." Itachi ordered.

Naruto tilted his head in amusement. "I've always wanted to fight you, Uchiha Itachi… Just to see how strong Sasuke has to get to beat you… I'll beat you and fish-face over there right now! You two will do as dinner tonight…"

Itachi narrowed his eyes.

Kisame chuckled and grabbed his sword. "Fool… We are of the Akatsuki… It's been six years since you went missing-nin now and we do expect you to be stronger, but you should not overestimate yourself…"

"You're the fool…" Naruto countered. "I am the next Kyuubi! I can easily read, see and smell both your Chakra and can safely say you both don't stand a chance…"

Kisame narrowed his eyes now, too… 'This kid… He must be bluffing… I do not want to fight someone who can use the full Chakra of a demon…'

The next thing Kisame knew was Chakra all over the place. And as soon as it came, it had vanished. "Just a taste of what's to come…" A voice came from all around Itachi and Kisame. "I know you sword drains Chakra, fish-face! But as soon as it tries to drain mine, it will burst!! And my Chakra will simply return to me!"

Itachi could not sense or see Naruto with the speed he was using. "Kisame… He's right… He's more powerful than us, my Sharingan can't keep up and he knows how to counter my Sharingan too, it seems… I suggest we leave, we didn"

Itachi got cut off as his right leg seemed to break all of a sudden. Kisame's eyes widened as Itachi grunted in pain. Kisame looked all around him and before he knew it, his sword was out of his hands.

"Stupid fish-man… What are you, without your sword?" Naruto's voice echoed throughout the forest.

Kisame watched as his Samehade landed about a hundred meter in front of him. He looked sideways at Itachi, who had recovered his right leg already, using Chakra. "Damn… He's become too strong…"

"I think the Kyuubi has something to do with this…" Itachi said.

Naruto was still running around them in unimaginable speed. "Aren't you going to attack me?!"

Kisame screamed in pain as the left half of his face got slashed by Naruto's right claw as Naruto soared passed him. Itachi's right leg got broken again…

Suddenly, Naruto appeared in front of Itachi and Kisame. "I have a request… Take me to your so-called leader… If you listen to his orders, he must be pretty strong… Perhaps he is a challenge for me…"

Gaara went through almost the exact same thing as Naruto and also encountered a pair of Akatsuki Members. He requested the exact same thing, but he found Naruto as the Akatsuki Leader.

"Uzumaki Naruto… I remember you… How did you become the leader of this organization?" Gaara asked as he stood before a grinning Naruto.

Naruto chuckled before he answered. "I challenged the Akatsuki Leader and killed him… Now I am the leader… I assume you want to challenge me, Gaara?"

Gaara narrowed his eyes at the blonde. "You are the only one ever who has managed to have defeated me. I expect you to also be a lot powerful than before… However, as it seems now, perhaps there is no need for us to fight… Everyone here" Gaara said as he looked around and motioned to all of the Akatsuki Members. "is weak. You and I will form a perfect leadership towards them…"

Naruto narrowed his eyes at Gaara. "What makes you think I'll believe you?"

Gaara had already noticed Naruto's red eyes and didn't seem too afraid of it. "Your reason… Your reason to live was to protect your precious ones, was it not? What changed?"

Naruto glared at Gaara. "I was betrayed… Now my goal is to eradicate everything I do not like…"

Gaara nodded his understanding. "The same has happened to me. And our goals seem similar…"

Naruto smiled. "Before I accept you by my side, Gaara… I wish to see how powerful you have become… Will you accept my challenge?"

Gaara nodded with a grin. "With pleasure…"

TBC

Aaaahh!! I have no idea what I am doing!! Uhmmm, do you want this fight to described by me in the next chapter? I could do it, but in the next chapter it's pretty much: blood here, guts there, gore beneath, limbs above, heads rolling, organs being thrown around and all that lovely red stuff… Which means it will become very dark from here on out… I'll change the rating… What rating do you suggest, btw? Oh, another question is, who do you want to see tortured most? Ghehehehehe….

Oh! And it does seem Gaara had it worse than Naruto considering what made him change… again… So, I might alter Naruto's past in this one a bit… More incidents with familiar ones, that is… Perhaps more blood, too… I like writing like this… I'm making it up, because There Where When is Now, Book 3 is becoming so… neat. Perhaps I should change that soon… Oh! I've got two new oneshots coming up soon, by the way! Hope you'll read those too!

Also, there might be many grammatical, normal and obvious (stupid) errors in here, because I just uploaded it when I had finished it!