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''it's been a year''--normal speach
'i have to ask him'-- adressed character thinking
WAMBABALOOBAB BAB BA--The kybui being a pra- ahem the Kyubi's Speach
''No way'/ so it began-- Emphasis
Chapter 3: Vanity of a devil
The bustling streets of Konoha were bathed under the warm smile of the sun, Children were laughing, the eldery continuing thier daily rounds and the shinobi, the Backbone of the blessed village were making thier entrances and exits, beginning and completing what was laid in front of them, be it a rather mandatory clean up of a certain section of the village, or the capture of a runaway shinobi.
Which was something the Fifth was unable to contemplate, irregardless of continuity of certain events.
Four days had passed since Naruto had returned from his fatal battle with Uchiha sasuke, the last of the Uchiha clan save his brother, who destroyed those foundations. Brushing aside what was lost, She was not able to understand, what kind of Will had carried naruto through his Life destroying battle.
'It is clear to me that his lung was punctured...i could feel the sharp fragments of bone lodged into his right lung...he also suffered irreversaible Chakra burns...over his entire body! but then how? Even the Kyubi must have its limits!'
Tsunade was bewildered. Naruto was
meant to be dead. She was able to continue on because he was not, and
no amount of alchohol could drown the thought of losing another
distant, yet close person. He did not earn her grandfathers necklace
by accident, and she had grown to care for him. It was a shame she
could not ever look at him with the eyes of a sister, not as Hokage.
Like he would let her. Being called 'Obaa chan' was
justone of
those things...
She heard a knock on her door.
''You may enter''
A tall man with Razorwhite hair entered the Hokage's office. He wore the face of a man who has really seen many a theme written in the lives of Konoha, but tsunade was clearly not impressed. Her former teamate always was a pervert, after all.
she did not bother to frown
''what do you want?''
Jirayai was not blind to the amazing beuaty his former team mate possesed, even at his age she retained her everlong appearence of a woman in her mid twenties. And a bueatiful woman at that. However Jiraiya was not one for games when the tatse of the situation, four days ago was ever so fresh in his memory. His dark eyes turned into steel, catching the attention of his comrade.
''What i want to know is whether Naruto is in greater danger, and a greater danger to us all now.''
Tsunade shrugged at his comment. She knew to well that the Kyubi was the result of his miraculous healing ability but naruto had come back from the Dead. From the point his vitals cancelled out. It was clear that he was drawing more power from the Demon lord. Perhaps the Seal of the Hokage was weakening.
''Are you listening?''
Tsunade snapped back at Jiraiya
''Your speaking almost as if it is a bad thing. Had he not possesed that...'connection' then he wouldnt be here...with...us..''
Jiraiya sighed as if expecting her answer. He sighed knowing that out of perhaps everyone, it was his responsibility to raise naruto into his students ultimate prodigy, and to honor his last wishes. Jiraiya saw that the boy was marked by fate, His father's image was seared onto him, along with that obnoxious personality and Unorthodox method of fighting. He cared for naruto jus like his previous student. Not even from knowing the young boy--His connection with the Fourth's son was one of fate.
''i want to take him away. Train him and prepare him for whatever trials lie ahead. You do know that he could be next. After you.''
Tsunade realized his words. Yet she knew what he had proposed was no bad thing--Naruto needed to be taken away, and he needed to be kept away from the villiage at such fragile times. Atatsuki had already left there mark on Uchiha Sasuke who was now under Orochimaru--under his own free will. Naruto needed to be kept safe, away from the village and attracted dangers. However it was clear that if he stayed in the village now, he would begin to lose his control over the Demon within him. Being forced back to life, was clear evidence of it. Jiraiya was not versed in any demonic arts, however his training would rigourously attune naruto to full control over his own body, allowing him to tame the uncontrollable power within, at least to a point of sanity. So she feared-
She steepled her hands infront of the mahogany desk. ''Very well. He is recovering, but it seems he will be up in no time, knowing that idiot'' a soft smile crept onto her delicate face, picturing the said brat attempting another escape attempt from his ward. Even pinned down with restrains.
Jiraiya smirked. Naruto could touch the hearts of even the stiffest, overly obsessed with alchohol, inhumanely abysmal gamblers but one of a kind women in the world. The thought was good enough to set him of on an edition of come come paradise featuri-
''Whats so funny?''
Snapping back before the obvious read-of-face occured ''no-nothing.''
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The room was a pale blue. Calm. Quiet. Safe.
However those once deep blue eyes began to freeze.
Ice.
Naruto awoke to the sounds of the birds chirping thier afternoon songs. It felt surreal. He knew what he had recently experienced--what he had seen was never able to be questioned as a 'dream'. It was burned into his mind.
He moved his half bandaged head to the left, looking towards the fresh Lily which had been placed in a delicate looking vase. the water was crystal, the scent light yet pleasent.
I SEE YOUR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF AN INTENSIFIED FRAME.
Naruto did not flinch, nor did he scream or wonder. The voice felt only too familiar.
'...i suppose i am...'
YOU SOUND RATHER PATHETIC, IF I MIGHT ADD.
'wouldnt it be better if i was in your stomach?'
Naruto could hear the snicker that resonated from it's Jaws.
I THINK, WE ARE GOING TO GET ALONG.
Naruto stared into the wall, and stared into each visable pigment of colour his naked eye could take him, and then gouged beyond. The recent revelations had changed Naruto completely. He wanted to know. Why. It was all kept away from him, the 'truth' which was far to explicit to even be considered a lie. Sandaime Hokage was the one who raised naruto early on his life, until he was able to provide and subside for himself--a private apartment granted to Naruto from a young age, from the third's planned resources. Naruto had always looked at him as a gaurdian but ever since his dream of becoming Hokage caught the glint of his eyes, he become louder, and hungered for recognition from anyone-perhaps even casting aside his dependancy alltogether. Yet he knew that sandaime did care, when he was Alive. Sandaime was the reason he had survived up until Twelve. Yet his mind Killed for an answer.
'Why...did they not tell me? Why?'
YOUR ASKING THE WRONG DEMON. TRY SOMEONE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THAT.
'Whatever...im not in the mood to argue with you.'
IF YOU WERE NOT SO WEAK THEN YOU WOULD. DO YOU REALISE THAT YOU 'DIED' FOUR DAYS AGO? I WAS FORCED TO EVISCARETE YOUR RATHER PATHETIC ORGANS FOR PERFECTION. LITTLE DO THOSE INSECTS KNOW WHAT I PLAN TO GRANT YOU. YOU MAY ALREADY BE DEAD OTHERWISE.
Naruto gritted his teeth and clenched his cracking fist. 'Why the hell should i listen to you? I dont even know what ''Eviscarete'' means! and you dont know them either! they wouldnt...do a thing anyway! to hell with your 'gift' just leave me alone!'
WAAA WAAA WAAA HAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU TRULY ARE A CHILD INDEED. UNABLE TO SHOULDER THE TRUTH BUT HEY-- ITS ALLRIGHT. UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME IM STUCK WITH YOU UNTIL YOU DIE. SO I MAY ASWELL PRESERVE MY EXISTENCE--LIKE HELL IM GOING TO LET YOU FALL WHEN MY EXISTENCE IS ALSO THROWN INTO THE TOW, SO YOU GOT ANOTHER THING COMING. HOW DARE YOU ALLOW THOSE INBREDS TO TREAT YOU WITH SUCH DISRESPECT, DO THEY NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE? YOU BEAR ME---THE MOST POWERFUL DEMON IN EXISTENCE, DONT FORGET THAT, I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU.
Naruto felt a pulse from the center of his stomach. And at that moment, he was at the mercy of his prisoner-
''What are...you doing to me?''
His entire body rattaled in sharp spasm like motions, each limb blasting out chakra from where any arm or leg was waved, uncontrollable razors of energy that had began to forcefully surface. His room had darkened considerabbly as The unholy Chakra, the blood red, grabbed him again. Yet this time it suffocated his soul. The Lily was cut. The Window smashed.
A gift that would end his Life
Save if he gave into the pain.
''ERGHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!''
YES...THATS
IT...CAN YOU FEEL IT SLIPPING? AS YOU LOSE YOUR GRIP ON ME, I WILL
ENRICH YOU WITH THE POWERS OF THOSE, RIVALED BY GODS. I WILL BLESS
YOU WITH THE DEMONIC FORM OF OF FIGHTING. IT IS NO TYPE
OF 'JUTSU'--THE DEMON ARTS HOLD NO SUCH 'LIMITATIONS' IN EVEN THIER
NAMES. IF YOU DIE NOW SO BE IT. SO I WAS UNABLE TO STAIN THIS
DIMENSION ONCE MORE. CAN YOU HANDLE IT, UZAMAKI NARUTO, SON OF THE
MORTAL WHO 'DEFEATED' THE LORD OF ALL DEMON KIND?
His body Was coated in a searing red Chakra, reopening every cut and graze and at the same time splitting open the burned skin on his wrecked body. It filled each cut like a molten wound of agony, as naruto screamed for help. The private rest room was tarnished asunder in ways only the eye could acknoledge. Its pale blue walls once served to calm nin and help them make a swift recovery, was now a ash black, burned by the combustion of the demons Chakra and Naruto's now unrecognizable face, melted beyond Replacement.
And in the wake of eternal pain
Everything stopped.
His naked foot followed by his naked frame, Freed from the light patients robe the young thirteen year old genin was wearing--slowly Landed on the blackned cold floor with inhuman grace.
Something had changed. Something had changed...
''What...have you done to me?...why am-''
Naruto looked into a peice of shattered glass lying in the corner. The suns rays once again penetrated the room through the broken glass windows, and out of the shards that escaped the uncontrolled chakra that devoured all that it came int contact--he walked towards that shard and raised it with an unfamiliar hand.
The reflection in that peice of glass looked back a long time before it spoke.
'What the hell? my face--my body whats happened!'
The most striking feature of all--aside from the spotless skin unmarked from any imperfection, the ever so slightly longer hair which now gently fell on the sides of his face and his Body--now broader for his age with the initial signs of defined muscles beginning to surface---His eyes were now that Frozen blue, which he had seen his Father bear. A ghostly blue, resonating with power, confidence and conviction.
...IMPRESSIVE. PERHAPS THERE IS A CHANCE.
'What? What the hell have you done to me you damn fox!'
STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT I SEE. WELL LETS PUT IT THIS WAY KIT...I HAVE CHANGED THE VERY STRANDS OF LIFE THAT MAKE YOU. YOU ARE NO LONGER A COMPLETE HUMAN BEING. AS YOU GROW...YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THE MEANING OF MY WORDS.
Naruto opened his free hand and felt the power screaming through his veins. Every strand of power simplified every action. The cut that accidently formed from the shock of a reflection, the gripped hand dripping drops of blood--dropping the shard of glass, Naruto looked at his hand and the Wound closed.
Instantly.
'Whoa!'
THAT IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE FLAME. FROM NOW ON YOU MAY BREATHE POISON, FOR NO EXTERNAL CALAMITY SUCH AS 'DISEASE' CAN EFFECT YOU. I HAVE ALSO ALTERED THE WAY YOU WILL GROW...AS YOU CAN SEE FROM YOUR BODY. I PREDICT IN THREE YEARS YOU WILL BEAR THE PHYSICAL POWER AND FORM OF A MAN IN HIS PRIME. YOUR BODY WILL RETAIN THAT. FINALLY...GATHER CHAKRA INTO YOUR HAND.
Naruto did not question his 'teacher' he began to gather chakra---but it resonated in a wavy red aura. He effortlessly formed a Rasengan in his right hand, almost by accident. It gleamed like a red ruby, Fueled by a fainter chakra that recently exploded from the Genin's body but still commanded presence from its resonance.
'Oh...Yeaaah...'
Naruto could not help but smile. Even after changing his life, Naruto appreciated the strength he felt coursing through his soul. He appreciated the Paw the Lord of Demons had extended. Raising him, maybe even believing in him. He could feel the Demon smiling at his gain. Acknowleged By the King of Demons. There was Much to earn. Much to Acknowleged. Yet Naruto smiled.
'Kyubi..th-'
Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
The wooden door slowly opened. Naruto turned his face matching the speed of that door only to let his jaw drop to the floor when he saw his unexpected visitor.
''Narut-to ku--''
The shy girl from the Hyuga clan was able to say that much before looking at the young genin kneeling down and getting one hell of a view from his naked side. In a moment of three seconds, she was on the floor. Unconcious.
''Ah shit!''
HAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHAHAH LOOKS LIKE THAT BODY OF YOURS MAY REEL IN MUCH MORE FOR YOU IN THREE YEARS!
Naruto hesitently got up, dispersing the now silenced whirr of chakra in his hand and looked towards his right and left, leaning a head of blonde hair outside the door. The corridor was clear and fortunately the nurses had not heard the hell that had encompassed the sound of naruto's private room.
Like any of those D.r's or nurses cared. If it came from his room.
He shakily picked up Hinata who was beet red and still breathing, placing her on a very convinently placed chair outside narutos room. He unzipped her jacket revealing a black ninja vestmant and a healthy looking bossom-
ALREADY PLANNING TO CARRY YOUR SEEDS INTO THE FUTURE? YOUR DOMINATING FRONT IS IMPRE-
Naruto almost shouted and turned beet red 'No- no! You got the wrong idea you Pervert fox! damn! why are all the Old people perverts? i bet that Orochimaru bastard is no different than Ero Sennin! to top it of your old enough without being well you know!''
The Kyubi was barking in laughter
KIT...WE ARE GOING TO GET ALONG JUST FINE...KAKAKAKAKAKAKA
Naruto Zipped the 'borrowed' jacket around his waist as a makeshift 'loincloth' and walked towards the shattered window, locking the door behind him. He effortlessly jumped over and made his descent through the air with speed, over the white wall surrounding the Konoha Hospital. He Speedily hopped from electric power post above the roofs and the eyes of Konoha. Seeing his apartment situated high above those very eyes he landed on the red roof with relative ease and was presented with a clear view of Mount hokage.
And he looked at the stone carved image of his father.
''Dad..''
WHAT DO YOU SAY KIT. DO YOU WISH TO HONOR THAT MAN?
It was not the first time Naruto had looked upon the carving of His father. He had even defiled it along with the previous Hokage's in a prank--Yet now he looked upon it with warmth. And Pride.
''I will Honor you, Father. I will Become Hokage. And i have never taken back anything i say---That is My way of the Ninja!''
CHEESY. BUT RESPECTABLE
Naruto ignored Kyubi's remark and slid open the panel on the roof of his sky high home. Entering those long missed scents of Ramen bowls and Miso, He began to change into a set of now undersized Pyjamas and walked towards his bed. To continue the rest he did not need, but felt he wanted.
THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE FUN WHEN THEY SEE YOUR LITTLE BREAK OUT...KAKAKAAKAK
Naruto grimaced at the thought, the last thing he needed now was the fifth Hokage chaining him to the infirmaries rather stiff beds.
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Shizune rushed open the doors of the Hokage's office and panted as she tried to convey her message to the slightly annoyed Hokage, who was slacking of to a helping of Sake.
''Ho..Hokage-sama...Naruto-san...He is...Missing!''
''WHAT?''
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To be continued
