THE DARK GATE

A NARUTO BASED FAN FIC

WRITTEN BY:

KYUBI-X

Chapter 1: THE DARKNESS…

A/N: Okay, big thing that I was told about that I need to make a correction of, (thanks to thestoneox for bringing this up, I said that they were still gennin cause I wasn't paying any attention to what I was doing. They are all chunnin just to let everyone know… and now… on with the show!

Sakura moaned as she work up, but immediately her ninja instincts kicked in and she kept her eyes shut. She knew that she was in an unfamiliar place just by the smell; it had the husky scent of mildew and old sweat. She slowly opened her eyes only to find that she was in a very dark room. She got on her hands and knees and began to feel her way around until she felt a foot. She followed the foot up only to find that the person was chained to the wall. She gasped when her vision cleared a bit and saw that she found Naruto chained to the wall.

She quietly shook him awake and began to feel around for her ninja gear only to find that it had all been taken. She cursed under her breath and then gasped when she heard footsteps coming to the door. Suddenly, light flooded the room as the door was kicked open which awoke everyone else with a start. They all looked up and gasped when they saw Morino Ibiki standing in the door way. He looked over all of the nervous faces with a strange look in his eye.

"Listen up! The following is not only a training exercise but it is also an evaluation in your endurance to torture. Your sensei's say that they are sorry for knocking you all out, but we cannot reveal this location to anyone but our special ops torture team." Morino said calmly watching the fear of torture flood over everyone's faces except for the blonde boy chained up to the wall, he just had a simple frown on his face.

"Oi, aren't you the loudmouth from the exam? Well don't worry my friend, your first and let me tell you now, we will not hold back from torturing you, but we will try our hardest not to leave scars on your pretty little bodies. And you should feel special blonde, you get me as your personal torturer…" Morino said to Naruto while taking him down from the chains.

Everyone watched in utter fear as Naruto stepped out of the room with Morino without making a sound. Still, none of them could understand what had caused the change in their friend, but they were soon to find out. As soon as Naruto and Morino had left the room, a group of other ninja came into the room and forcefully rounded them all up. Knowing that they were out numbered and out skilled, the chunnin's simply followed the orders of the other ninja's and were lead into a room that had a large mirror in it.

After everyone had sat down, they were all shocked to see that the mirror was actually a two way mirror showing them what appeared to be, a torture room. The next thing they saw was Naruto being lead into the room by Marino and chained up to the wall. After he was finished, he simply left the room and entered the room that the group was in carrying a box.

"Everyone listen up! This is how the exercise is going to work, you will each receive a scroll with one word on it, this is your safety word, if at any point in time the torture becomes to much for you, scream out the safety word. This will symbolize the fact that you were broken and gave up information to the enemy. We do not expect any of you to complete this exercise without breaking, because that isn't the point. This exercise has a two fold lesson. One, this will give you a small taste of what its like to be caught behind enemy lines and tortured for information, and second, it will give us a general idea of how long you can last under the pressure of torture. I know that you are all scared but I want to remind you that this is something that could happen to you as a ninja, so if you wish to continue your role as ninja then you will complete this exercise or you will give up your headband in disgrace. One other thing that you need to know, part of the exercise is learning not to break down if you see one of your friends being tortured. So it will be required for you to watch each and every person get tortured, to help you with watching, we have decided that if someone stops watching then we will make the torture for the person currently being tortured even worse. So if you care about your teammates then I suggest that you don't look away, no matter what…" Marino said with authority but also with a hint of sadness in his voice, for truth be told, he hated doing this exercise to young children like them, but he also knew that it was necessary to keep Kohona safe.

The group watched in silent horror as another man went in and showed Naruto his "safety word" scroll. He then left the room as Marino entered in. Without making a sound, Marino walked up to Naruto and cut open his shirt so he could rip it off. The sight that they saw made everyone gasp and Sasuke flinch. Right around where Naruto's heart was, there was a jagged scar that ran right across his chest in a vertical cut.

Everyone continued to stare at Naruto so he wouldn't be hurt worse, but Sakura spoke the question that was on everyone's minds. "Did you do that to Naruto when he brought you back Sasuke?"

There was a horrible silence in the room until Sasuke gently cleared his throat and muttered out an ashamed, "yes…I did, with the chidori." The silence that entailed could only be described as quiet as the grave.

"You tried to kill your on teammate? What kind of monster are you?" Kiba asked shaking from rage and fear of the thought of torture.

Sasuke kept his eyes locked on Naruto, but bowed his head slightly and began to tell them the story of the second rescue attempt's battle at the valley of the end.

A/N: Okay, look I hate putting quotations, so until someone else speaks, this is Sasuke talking…

We met up again at the valley of the end, what a fitting thing for the two of us. I decided that this battle I was not going to pull any punches, I instantly activated the level 3 curse seal that I had and fell into the darkness. I can still remember though, that damned red charka of the Kyubi swallowing him up and making him look like an actual demon. I charged at him and started up with a volley of kicks and punches that he easily dodged. We went back and forth like this for a while, neither one of us really landing a solid hit, that was until Naruto pulled a strange style of genjutsu I had never seen before, I went to swing a punch at his jaw but he bent his back down as far as he could, then used some charka to spring himself back up, he hit me straight in my jaw with both palms and sent me flying straight up into the air. He leaped up and being to bombard me with insanely strong punches and kicks.

He ended this attack with a flip kick straight in my face. I flew down but did a flip and put some chakra into my feet so that I wouldn't break my ankles. He came down a few feet away and I started up my chidori. Naruto told me that this was the end and began to spin his rasengan in his hands. He threw the one rasengan up into the air and formed another one, when this one came back down he pulled the two together to form a giant rasengan. I charged my chidori up with as much charka as I could muster and ran out him screaming out a battle cry. He rushed me too and I knew that this was the moment of truth.

But then, there it was, Naruto hesitated for only an instant and I took advantage of his hesitation. I slammed my hand threw his heart and I knew that it was over. I remember feeling his blood spray over my body as a look of pure shock hit his eyes. Slowly, the rasengan faded away as his eyes started to haze over. I pulled my arm out and watched his body fall to the ground. I slowly started to walk away, until I felt the impossible, I felt his charka explode back into life.

I spun around on my heel and saw him standing there surrounded by red and black flames holding a scroll. He didn't even say a word as he opened up the scroll and cut his wrists with a kunai. I watched as the blood sprayed all over the scroll from his wrists and heart until the wounds closed up due to the Kyubi's charka. Then, I heard the voice of Naruto scream out "Summoning no Jutsu: Amida Nyorai!" (Amida Nyorai is the Japanese god of paradise whom they turn to in their moment of death.)

Suddenly, the spirit of Amida Nyorai entered into Naruto and he began to glow with golden fire. The last thing I remember is his fist hitting my face and then everything blacked out, when I woke up, I was in Kohona's hospital and Naruto hasn't been the same since.

Everyone in the room was in utter shock at the words Sasuke had spoken; Sakura and Ino had tears in their eyes and muttered that they hated him while the other just had looks of disgust on their faces, not daring to turn their eyes away from their friend.

And then it began, Morino took out some of his "tools" and said, "Alright, let's begin…"

A/N: Sorry for the cliffhanger, but you know it's my style, please read and review because it is most appreciated!

P.S: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!