Naruto ran through the streets of Konoha behind chased a mass mob of enraged villagers behind him.
Dodging out of the way of a stray glass bottle thrown his direction he continued his sprint the cries of civilians already having became a jumbled mess of slurs, yells, death threats etc.
Running to another street Naruto skid to a halt as he entered the shopping district where another mob had cornered him.
"Please leave me alone I don't know what I did but I'm sorry I really am" his tearful plea fell on deaf ears as they advanced on him.
"Its over demon finally once and for all our we shall avenge the Yondaime Hokage" A brave, drunk civilian said stepping forward a roar of approval from the crowd followed him as he loomed over Naruto like a titan, A knife was held in his hand as he lifted his arm in the sky, the rays moonshine glistened off the blade as he brought it down on the young blonde.
Naruto screwed his eyes shut and shoved his hands forward.
Squelch
Naruto heard the familiar sounds and opened his eyes only to be met by a different scenery, he was in a warehouse and was face to face with him a bleeding man only held up by a kunai.
His kunai.
Naruto tried to screw his eyes shut once more, to move, to break free and escape but his body was not his as his arm jerked from the man's chest his body falling to the ground with a dull wet thud.
He saw the blood fly through the air claiming residents upon his person as he looked around at the gathered mercenaries each with a very emotion playing across there face:
Fear
Anger
Confusion
Indifference
It was all there as a mercenary roared towards him, pipe raised to strike only to be stopped by naruto himself a kunai lodged deep within his throat.
The man's figure flickered from a mercenary to a civilian then back as Naruto's eyes widen.
'Please stop' his plea was unable to reach the world as he had no control of his body.
Another mercenary fell.
'Please'
Another civilian massacred
'PLEASE'
Another met their end by his hands by his hands.
'PLEASE!'
Another
Then another
Then another
By the end they had all died by his hands, who were they? Civilians? Mercenary? Shinobi?
He didn't know and he was left numb.
"they all deserved it you know" An emotionless voice said it's presence seemingly coming from nowhere as it echoed around the now silent warehouse.
Naruto didn't respond.
"They don't deserve your kindness, your generosity, your empathy" it continued to entice as Naruto's eyes slowly bled from a bright blue to a dull silver.
"They are your enemy and an enemy is meant to be eliminated" A hint of a smile began to creep into his tone lulling Naruto into a haze as his eyes glazed over.
"Let us be joined as one, to stand above all our enemies" it's voice once emotionless now sadistic in tone "all you have to do is give in to become numb, to become Hollow" it's voice distorted overlapping with itself as Naruto felt wisps of white chakra flow through his body he felt numb, empty, hollow.
His vision slowly faded to black as his last sight was of the reflection of himself in the pool of blood, a sadistic smile threatened to split his face with hair as white as untainted snow and bright shining silver eyes that held a twelve pointed star staring back at him.
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Naruto shot upwards and clutched his chest in an attempt to calm himself down.
'Damn nightmares' he growled mentally, sitting up from his bed he began to get ready for the day since his team had been given a 2 week break from the mission to rest.
Entering his bathroom Naruto looked in the mirror and saw the now familiar sight of his calm and tired form.
"Ironic that the hyperactive knucklehead ninja is tired" Naruto said to himself, brushing locks of his hair out of his left eye revealing a dull silver eye with instead of a four pointed star was a five pointed star.
Naruto Channeled the chakra away from his eye attempting to deactivate it only to fail.
"Dammit I can't still can't turn this off" he cursed, stretching his bottom eyelid to get a better look at his eye. "What even are you? A bloodline? A Dōjutsu?" Naruto questioned his or eye as if expecting an answer, he tried reaching for the strange white chakra only to come up empty handed.
"I don't have a clan, non that I know of atleast, maybe some kind of dormant power? But that can't be right." Naruto tried to figure out just what this power, as he got ready he went through different scenarios in his head to find out what the power was able to do and why he had it.
"Gahh! Why the hell can't I just be told what this damn thing can do!" A bit of Naruto's 'old' self shone through as he, not for the first time, cursed his own stupidity and inability to come up with any actually plausible explanations for his strange power.
"Doesn't matter ill figure it out later" Naruto grumbled as he got out of the shower and changed into a fresh pair of clothes and allowed his hair to fall over his left eye once more after all he didn't need the villagers hatred to once more be reignited, the glares, comments and indifference to his person was more than enough for him.
Leaving his apartment, Naruto was about to make his way to the training ground in order to find out what this power was -
"NARUTOOOOOOOO!"
"GAAAHHH!?"
-Only to not even make it 3 steps away from his apartment before he was tackled to the ground by a purple blur.
"OI! WHAT THE HELL AKUMA?!" Naruto yelled at a girl on top of him.
The girl, had medium length purple hair tied into a bun and amber brown eyes. She wore a open sleeveless pale lavender jacket with a white t-shirt beneath, short black pants that reached her knees, with a kunai pouch attached to her left thigh and a konoha head band around her neck.
"Hehe oh c'mon Naruto-kun~ you never minded it before" she teased standing up.
"I ALWAYS MINDED!"
"Ah sorry Naruto-senpai I tried to tell her not to do it but you know she wouldn't listen to me." A boy followed behind Akuma, sheepish smile on his face.
The boy had short, messy dark green hair and bright yellow eyes. He wore a navy blue coat with a chin high rim collar, long brown pants that reached his ankles with a kunai pouch attached to his right and a konoha head band around his bicep.
"Its alright Kishi she's always like that anyways" Naruto got a punch in his shoulder from the remark but didn't budge.
"It's rude to talk about a woman when she's right there you know" Akuma scolded the blonde who promptly ignored her.
This scene if looked at from an outsider's perspective would look odd but for the three individuals it was pretty common.
Akuma Hiyoshi and Kishiko Seiko were both of Naruto's earliest and closest friends, they had first met when Naruto had failed his academy test for the second time and was placed into the same class of the clan heirs/heiresses. It was during this time Naruto's reputation as the 'Prank Prince from Hell' was infamous for both teachers and students alike and two such students had taken an interest in him as he was an upperclassmen despite being their age.
When Akuma and Kishiko had approached Naruto to play with them he didn't waste time and jumped on the opportunity to make friends.
Luckily that's exactly what the three became, rather quickly as well.
Akuma was in a sense a female version of him with her own added characteristics. She was energetic, positive, strong willed and was slightly bipolar. Akuma was the closest representation Naruto had to know just how it felt when he bypassed any barriers and inserted himself into someone's heart effortlessly with a bright smile. She had a powerful sensory ability and had an affinity for learning Jutsu fast, it was only because she was on a bit of the more playful side of life that Sakura had snagged the Kunoichi of the year award.
Akuma's playful persona, energetic persona had easily let them become friends since it, at the time, melded perfectly with his persona. Usually the two would either be playfully bantering with one another or Akuma would be trying to seduce/tease Naruto seeing as the blonde had been her crush for a long time now.
Unfortunately Naruto's denseness and her usual attitude it left him thinking it was some kind of running joke between the two whenever she would suggest they date each other.
Kishiko was the something of the complete opposite of him and Akuma. He was respectful, optimistic, determined and a bit shy. Kishiko had just as easily wormed his way into Naruto's heart without effort. He came from a small medical ninja clan that specialized in the field of combat medics which he was trained to be able to use chakra scalpels in battle and had an affinity for Genjutsu, though he had smarts in spades, others like Shikamaru Nara who are smarter than him and people like Kiba Inuzuka and Sasuke Uchiha who were stronger then him had meant he was mainly overlooked.
Kishiko had looked up to Naruto more as an inspiration than anything in the beginning, A fact that to this day he still had no idea why, but after a few more times hanging out with each other Kishiko and Naruto were comfortable with each other enough to call the other friends.
To this day however Kishiko still has the tendency to call Naruto 'senpai' seeing as he was a grade above them on the beginning thus meaning he had more experience than they had, Naruto had on several occasions tried to stop the whole senpai shtick but only managed to get Kishi to stop saying it in public settings.
"What are you guys doing here? I thought you were with your team?" Naruto questioned.
"Well we have a mission tomorrow and we heard you were back in the village so we wanted to hang out a bit before we had to head out" Kishiko replied.
"Plus I'm pretty sure nee-chan would love to see you again" Akuma added her two cents, a Cheshire cat smile spreading across her face, meanwhile Kishiko chuckled a bit when Naruto blanched.
It was well known among the three that Naruto was scared, scratch that, he was terrified of Akuma's older sister and that was because she would always try to smother him to death whenever he was in her line of sight, having declared the boy her personal cuddle toy when she first met him when he was eight, and unfortunately she was part of the very few people that knew of the little added secret of Naruto's whisker marks, A fact naruto was grateful that neither Kishi and Akuma knew.
It was the only sole reason Naruto felt even spared a shred of remorse for the demon cat Tora when he saw the Daimyo's wife trying to smother the it to death as well.
"Well would you look at that I'm sure I need to get to team now" Naruto tried to weasel his way out only for a hand to grip onto the back of his collar, holding him in place.
"I'm sure they'll understand if your late wouldn't they~ after all were all friends" her sickly sweet voice sent chills down his spine.
Usually Naruto would be able to brush her off but if there was one thing Akuma was determination incarnate and would do whatever she put her mind to, especially when it came to embarrassing him.
Sending a glance to his green haired friend Naruto silently pleaded the boy would help he was not sure his current mental state neither this weird bloodline would bode well with the woman unintentionally trying to kill him.
Instead of a helping hand however instead all the boy did was smile at him.
'YOU TRAITOR!' filing away the reminder to get back at Kishiko later Naruto was helplessly dragged away by his friends.
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Hokage office
Kakashi felt like he was going to die.
Plain, simple and without trial, why might you ask?
Well because that's because the Hokage was currently emitting a lot of killer intent right now that, had a barrier seal not been placed on the office moments prior shinobi would be flocking to their location instantly. Granted Kakashi did feel like he deserved it for his request it didn't feel any less suffocating.
"So you are telling me" Hiruzen began "that after four months of begging, two sleepless months of trying to work the team placements to perfection and having to dance my way around the council for you to get your team"
"You want to remove Naruto from your team?"
Kakashi heard didn't hear the venom in the man's voice as it had been perfectly hidden behind his stone cold façade he'd perfected over his years as a Hokage.
"Explain Hatake and you better have a good explanation or else you can kiss your entire team goodbye" Hiruzen ordered.
Steeling himself for the conversation Kakashi knew he would have to tread carefully.
At best this conversation was a mine field, at worse it was a death trap.
"Hokage-sama my reasons for my team to be rearranged is for the reason that it is currently highly unstable, each of the members individually and collectively" Kakashi adopted his emotionless ANBU voice he used when he was still a part of the organization.
"as It stands Naruto Uzumaki is a threat to the team's stability and as displayed abilities unknown to us" Kakashi hated what he was saying about his blonde student but he knew it had to be done.
"Elaborate"
"Hai, As my report on the wave mission stated, during the battle atop the bridge Naruto displayed Ann increase level of skill in hand to hand and weapon based combat, he also showed to have a strange ability to drain away the blood and crumble cells in the body as the medical team examined from Gato's body"
"His mental health isn't any better either, he had taken several lives and showed an increase in anxiety levels over the rest of the time at wave. His sleep schedule was cut from what I guess were nightmares of the lives he had taken making him even more tired than he would have been naturally."
"I also suspect that he has a multitude of personal mental disorders born from his childhood and was unconsciously fostered in his mind before recently resurfacing, DPD (dependent personality disorder) and he depends on his team to keep his masks intact, there is also a possibility of a schizophrenia as I have observed him spacing out on occasion or erratically looking around whatever area he was in as if looking for something but that could be attributed to his anxiety."
Hiruzen joined his fingers together in front of him as he delved into his own thoughts. He knew Kakashi brought up good arguments for his decision.
He had for a while knew of Naruto's 'extra burdens', after all he had every existing medical file on him as his legal Guardian. He had hoped that this team would work out for the better and improve upon their characters to be better since right now the team was a major flight risk.
Sasuke's troubled past involving the Uchiha massacre, and his constant thirst for revenge.
Sakura's insecurities and low self esteem that she hid with her inflated ego and constant need for validation.
Naruto's childhood in the village and the several burdens and expectations people place on his shoulders.
And Kakashi's own self deprecating personality that he developed after the passing of his original genin team.
The team was like a walking bomb or a structure trying to hold itself together, if one pillar crumbles and isn't replaced in time the rest are soon going to follow and in this case Naruto crumbled.
It also did not help that if this mysterious bloodline Naruto had if was to ever become public knowledge the uproar that it would be created from two bloodline users being on the same team would be unstoppable and that wasn't even accounting the masses of spiteful villagers that would claim it's the kyuubi's power/influence.
"You do bring up valid arguments that I do find myself agreeing with, though I personally dislike your decision as Hokage I commend you for being at least open minded enough to bring this to my attention and place him on another team rather than just try to remove him from the shining program." Horizon sighed, dispersing his killer intent he saw Kakashi visibly relax from the release of oppressive air.
Reaching underneath his desk Hiruzen went trough a small set of seals before in a puff of smoke a scroll appeared.
What? having even the bear minimum knowledge on an enemy could be detrimental.
Unwilling the scroll Hiruzen saw the similar storage seal most if not all shinobi has seen, once more went through a string of hand seals he undid the seal and in a poof of smoke a stack of file rested atop the scroll.
"These files have information on 'problematic' or non functional teams that either don't have the correct set of skills for the team or don't work well with their current team." Hiruzen explained, handing the files over to the masked ninja.
"Report this development to your team at the earliest and be sure to come a with a decision by the end of the week, you are dismissed" Watching Kakashi exit his office Horizon allowed himself a tired sigh as his gaze turned towards the village.
Just what had become of the place that had at one point been considered the most peaceful village? When had they fallen to darkness? Had things always been like this?
Questions formed were answered then replaced with more questions.
"I'm sorry Kushina, Minato I just hope that Naruto lives a long and fruitful life in the future" Hiruzen quietly apologized. It was his last hope he still fell back on, that all what Naruto was going through would equate to future karma that would make his life easier.
As The gears of fate were once more shifted, A path previously shrouded in obscurity made its presence known as the unknowingly set their favorite blonde down this route of life with a seemingly harmless act.
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A/N: As you just read I am planning on placing Naruto on another team midway through his tennis career since I haven't seen anyone do this idea yet.
Also if you have any problems with Naruto having DPD you can research what it is and can see for yourself why I had him develop said disorder seeing as the symptoms tie in closely with Naruto's mask.
And no I am not going to make him some angsty teenager that blames the world for everything and airs out all of his problems However there will be some angst filled moments throughout the story so you don't have to worry about that.
Again criticism is welcomed and I hope you enjoyed.