(a/n: so this is my first time on this app so yh. anyways I hope you enjoy, no pairings yet, and this a Naruto fanfic. I don't own any characters nor the show I'm just a weeb who enjoys better endings then Boruto or just like What If)
Warnings:
Swearing
Mature Content(later)
Possibility of Dark Humor
Gore
Child Abuse(not for long)
This is a what if Naruto was a dark prodigy
A young boy that looked to be around four years old was running around frantically looking for a place to hide. The boy turned the corner and fell into a hole you would have to know was there to find it. The drop wasn't that long, but since the boy gained more then one injury from his assailants he passed out.
The boy had woken up and immediately started looking around though it was useless because it was completely dark. Let's get into the description of the boy. Although you couldn't see who it, he had blonde hair that looked almost brown due to forced neglect, he was skinny making him look smaller and younger than his peers, he wore a white shirt (turned brown) with an orange Uzumaki swirl at the back, he wore black shorts with two orange lines down the sides of it. He was malnutrition and even a blind man could see that.
After a few minutes of looking around in the dark, he got up. As he made his way around what he guessed was a hideout, candles flicked on, giving the place some light. As Naruto looked at the walls he realized a sharp pattern on the walls. 'Whoever did this must have had a lot of time on their hands', along with resources.' Naruto continued on his way until he met a door, slowly opening it, he got hit with a foul stench. Covering his nose Naruto went into the room.
What he saw was enough to make even the toughest pale, but Naruto not really knowing how sick this was put it to the side of his mind. Naked bodies of both genders chained to the wall, dead. Their bodies had started to decay and mold. Jars of body parts and liquids all labeled. Journals and random notes was neatly stacked on the desk. Shelves full of jutsu, books, and notes on failed and successful experiments. In a two corners lay a stack of transparent coffins, dead bodies occupied them.
Room by room, Naruto went. Each room was worst then before, but in Naruto's case the only thing getting worse was the smell. By the last room, Naruto subconsciously normalized death and unusual and cruel things such as human experiments. As he read a few of the notes he became fascinated with what whoever did this. They had a brilliant mind to Naruto, the person was great. To bad they abandoned it.
Out of the entire hideout only two places didn't stink besides the hallways, it was a bedroom. The room had a single king size bed, a desk covered in notes and a few books, shelves from floor to the ceiling. Not one shelf was empty. The only wall that didn't have a shelf was the door.
The second place was the kitchen. It had molded, old, food, so to some extent it did stink, but far less than the other rooms. In the kitchen it had a refrigerator. Apparently whoever this belonged to stayed down here.
Naruto decided he would start living there. He was kicked out of the orphanage and the Anbu watching him have yet to report to the Hokage about this. So because of this, he was currently homeless and a target for angry mobs. Shinobi and civilians alike.
Naruto despite seeing the great effort and excellence it took for these experiments to be done, knew they couldn't stay. The experiments here we're all failed and dead. If it was a success, they weren't important enough for the original owner of the hideout.
Naruto decided the first place he should clean out was the kitchen. He went through the village quietly and emptied people's trash bags and brought them back to where he was. When he returned he wasted no time. He emptied and threw away everything besides the fridge, which was now empty. Throwing the old food in a dumpster, Naruto dragged his trash bags back to his new hideout.
Making sure it was safe Naruto went to the main street of Konoha to steal some needed cleaning supplies and other things. Luckily for Naruto none of the civilians were up and the Shinobi were either asleep, getting ready for a mission, or doing some training. Stealing the needed items and more was relatively easy. He even had enough time to steal food to restock the kitchen. He grabbed the few things he would have liked to enjoy in his bedroom like a bean bag, fresh pillows and comforter.
When he returned he put the food in a new trash bag he bought/stole from the stores.
After a few hours the kitchen was cleaned and food was put away. Naruto moved on to the bedroom which was pretty clean besides the dust that littered the surface of everything. He neared up the shelves and desk putting the notes in a folder.
Getting a towel Naruto dusted everything, when he was done he quickly swept and changed the comforter. The previous was gray, while the new one was darker than midnight at it's darkest. So were the bean bag and pillows.
Naruto started putting in his items, like a dirty bin, the bean bag, and a small rug. After everything was set he moved a mini fridge into the room.
The next room was what Naruto called the wheel of fortune. This room had a wheel with people tied to it. From the looks of things this was used for when the previous owner randomly picked his experiments, giving them mental strain as they feared being picked but wanted the suffering and pain to end.
Naruto bought in the body bags and undid the chains with a key on the table. Each room with chains had a key somewhere. Naruto quickly filled the body bags up, tossing them into the hall. He then started to clean off the blood and mold that covered the floor, walls, and ceiling.
It had took Naruto a total of three weeks to clean the hideout out. He kept things he saw important like the books, notes, jutsu, and a lot more. On the last day of ' redecorating ' Naruto found out that this hideout led to an underground training ground and weaponry.
In total Naruto counted over a thousand bodies in the hideout. If you added the training ground it added around a hundred.
It's been a couple years since Naruto discovered the hideout, eight years to be exact. Naruto gained a lot of weight that he turned to muscle after getting real food. Since he had a place to eat and hold food, all that was required was for him to steal food and from multiple places so it would stay unnoticed. The plan worked and now Naruto is a healthy twelve year old. He grew up to be a little taller than the rest of the academy students and peers. His knowledge seemed almost boundless since whoever lived here was a student of the third Hokage meaning they had the knowledge of him too.
Years ago, Naruto knew being smart or strong would subconsciously install fear and the hatred towards him would grow. So instead of showing off his skills he played the role of the dead last and kept to himself. He pulled pranks, but only to release some anger. After a few villagers went missing Naruto decided the best way to release his anger at the village was to prank them. Unless they wanted more missing villagers.
Naruto found out he had three affinities, water, wind, and lightning. The water and lightning went together, but if he added wind he could make a storm combining the three.
Naruto also found scrolls about his clan or specifically a single person, Uzumaki Kushina. Naruto had deduced the possibility of this being his mother to hundred. There was no way to deny it. After this he found out about the secrets behind the Uzumaki Clan.
Naruto started using kenjutsu and would only study fuinjutsu. Naruto was now able to use elemental affinities in his kenjutsu style. Due to the unlimited amount of research Naruto applied different styles of kenjutsu to make his own.
As Naruto made his way to the academy he looked different. He didn't wear the mask he always wore meaning he wasn't smiling, his eyes were dull, and he looked cold. He wore all black and instead of a jumpsuit, it was a flat jacket, cargo pants, and a cloak.
Today was the day Konoha saw the true Naruto. After eight years of no sign of the blonde besides on his way and from the academy, he's back.
(a/n: alright so that's the end this part had no speaking but the next one will. This first part was more of a prologue. It was to get a feel of what he could do but leave gaps. The next part is the genin exams. And yes I did get this from multiple different fanfics. I'm just adding my own spice to it. Anyways I don't really feel like Naruto would fit on any team since he's so far ahead it'll be pointless. So I'm thinking of placing him on a team by himself. Anyways bye I hope you enjoyed this, future parts will be longer.)