WHISPER OF EVIL

By Deputy of Kage

Disclaimer: Things that not mine are still not mine and it should stay that way.

Prelude: I suffered. I survived.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

Edmund Burke

Dark

It was utterly dark, very dark that he couldn't see even himself.

What'd happened?

Oh, yes. He had retrieved the Forbidden Scroll that Misuki-sensei told him about. What next? Was it Kagebushin he learned? He didn't even have time to practice. Then, Mizuki-sensei showed up. He told him to send him the scroll. He told his sensei to watch his new move so he could pass the genin exam. Mizuki-sensei said something about annoying brat and he saw kunai…

Oh.

Is he dying? Is this is? His dream, his life, ended by a kunai. IT DOESN'T FAIR! Why him? Why is it always him? He had suffered this long, struggled this far, and it ended by a kunai?

Why him?

Why he has to suffer?

That cold stares, harsh verbal. His pranks weren't that bad. He never hurt someone in his life.

And why him?

He just wanted to be like others. He wanted to be genin. He wanted to be ninja. He wanted to be Hokage. And above all, he wanted to belong. Even Sasuke-teme, that angst bishonen, who acted like he's a loner, get attention, respected and everything that he would sacrifice everything, even his soul, to get.

"Really?"

He jerked.

"Who's there?"

"Did you really mean it?"

"I said who's there!"

"Every thing? Even your soul?"

"Show yourself!"

"If I were you, I won't brag"

That voice, a low whisper but yet echoed a thousand times in his head. If he thought this was bad, the next was worse. It's like the source of that sound was whispering to his ears but the sound was like it was said from thousands miles away. This time, it said in a sing-song melody.

"'Cause Naruto is dying, he's dying, he's dying, he's.."

"Stop!"

He put his hands on his ears.

"Stop!"

It couldn't be. It couldn't be. He couldn't die. He doesn't want to die. Not now. Not like this.

And he choked.

He choked. He coughed. Warm liquid escaped from his mouth when he coughed.

He knew it was blood.

He choked.

And he knew he choked on blood.

His own blood.

He fell.

No. He felt that he fell.

He's lying, in that darkness.

It's hard to breathe, not when his lungs 're filled with blood. He just stared into the darkness, waiting for something he didn't want to happen. He thought about his life. And the saddest thing was that it has no good memories. Not even a single one. It's was filled with cold stares that they had sent at him, how he had been looked down by everyone and the worst, the loneliness that burning through his soul.

It's sad. He's sad. But even this, he still didn't want to die. He doesn't want to die.

And suddenly, the darkness was gone.

He's still lying at the same spot that he learned that jutsu. He's lying in a pool of warm red liquid. The forest was very dark. His body was shaking. He could smell the pine trees surrounding the clearing. He would die an unmourned death. No one would sad. No one would notice. They just abandoned him. Forget him. Just like that.

"Do you want to die?"

That voice again.

"Look at you. How pathetic"

Stop it. Just let him die. Maybe, just maybe, it was the only way for him to find happiness.

"Forget about heaven. Forget about reincarnation. That's what human think up to comfort themselves. Your conscious will be gone when your brain dies. Worms and germs will eat your body. That what will happen. There's no afterlife, no kingdom of god. If you die. You will just disappear. I will ask you again. Do you want to die?"

'No' He thought.

"Again?"

'No'

"Then embrace me. Allow me. I will give you live. I will give you power. I will fulfil your deepest desire. Embrace me"

'What…do…you mean?'

"No time. I will count to ten. When it's ten. The deal is off and you'll die. One"

He coughed again, this time, harder.

"Two"

'My…. desires?'

"Three"

'Is this true?'

"Four"

'Not a dream?'

"Five"

He coughed. He couldn't breath now. He just noticed that there was a kunai embedded in his neck. Steam of blood flow through the hole it made. He started to felt very tired and sleepy. It was almost time.

'Yes'

"What?"

'Yes'

"Again! Say the word!"

'Yes, I agree. Deal'

"Say it!"

'Deal'

"Say it!"

'Deal'

"Say it!"

He didn't know why. He would never know how. But suddenly, a sound escaped through his mouth and he screamed at the top of his lungs.

"DEALLLLLLLLLLLLL………………."

And the world went blank.

End Prelude.

OK. What do you guys think. This maybe a oneshot, maybe not. I will think of it when I finish Thunder Fox.

This maybe some kind of another AU. Instead of Iruka, Mizuki found him first and you know all the deal.

It's officially now that I don't like this Naruto, the one that back from training. He grow into another moron, powerful, but moron. God! I just want to …I don't know. And now all this stuff about Sasuke, the poor little Sasuke who is my friend and I will help him even that he did it to himself and try to kill me. It just make me mad. Will you help someone that try to kill you, intentionally?

As for Thunder Fox. It suffered a great writer block when I tried to fixed the Wave mission. First, I made it too complicated and too much death and agony. Then, secondly, a typical Naruto encounter Team 7, Kakashi's apologize, Naruto suddenly change his feeling about Konoha blah, blah. I hate that village! I said it plain and I said it now. That village is filled with bigots and double-standard peoples. After all what Naruto did to them, I can't see them give any shit about it. Theirs 'we-hate-you-but-this is-your-village-so-you-must-fight-for-us' attitude just make me sick. Oh! Did I mention about ' After all the things we did to you it could be over by just one apologize'?

Really, at first I like this village but now it's nothing but a cheap, downward place.

OK. End it for now. Tell me what you think about this maybe oneshot. Could it turn into longer fic? What path Naruto would take from now?

Bye.