This was inspired by Jenna Moreci, Turn of the Hero and Gaara going from evil monster to good guy.


Naruto shivered with rage as Jiraiya, once again, left him to go drink and whore as he always did. Sitting down, Naruto tried to calm down and breathe but he was so freaking angry that he just couldn't focus. As he breathed, trying to regain some semblance of control, there was a tugging sensation in his chest and he found himself back in his own head, in the sewer basement place where the Kyuubi resided.

"What do you want Fox?"

Only it wasn't the Fox that answered... it was Naruto's own voice, only meaner, colder and darker. "Not the Fox, idiot!"

Turning, he saw himself, only his eyes were black and red and filled with hate. "Who are you?"

The other him sauntered closer. " I'm you, the darkness, the pain, the hate, the parts you are too weak to handle. In other words...I am the real you."

"That's not possible, I am me!"

"Not all the way, idiot... it's why you are here, you summoned me forth, you were so close to actually accepting me, your collective darkness, that you came here." The Other him grinned, a terrifying image. "Why so angry?"

"I... I ..."

"You were tired of being treated like garbage by the biggest garbage human of them all?" Naruto could not entirely argue, no matter how much he wanted to. "Just leave him, not like he's actually that useful. He barely taught us the rasegnan, tossed us down the canyon and stole from us, he even left us to be nearly kidnapped. You hate him, you hate most people really... "

Naruto shivered, his other self's words hit home darker thoughts he had pushed aside before. Things he never wanted to admit. "No, I -" a

"Yes, yes you do. There is nothing wrong with hate, it's part of us, our true nature."

Naruto collapsed the words as heavy as Tsunade's punches. "I have nowhere to go, it's not safe to leave the Pervy Sage..."

The Dark Naruto nodded, walking towards the Real Naruto. "You are right, the Old man is keeping us safe... but what if we didn't need him?"

"How?"

"What if we can find more scrolls on jutsu, tai and nin and gen and whatever. A scroll helped us learn the Shadow clone jutsu, so what else can we learn from scrolls?"

"Where do I get them?"

Then, as one, they both blurted out. "The library and the academy!" They beamed, only one was meaner and colder. "

Dark Naruto cackled. "The academy has a ton of scrolls on all sorts of subjects and so does the library, we all were taught that...we were just too lazy to invest the time to read up before."

The Real Naruto grinned back. "We aren't far from the Leafe, we can go when it's dark out, use our clones to get as much as possible then make our way back to Jiraiya and no one would ever know."

"Copy the scrolls though, not steal so we don't get caught."

"Awesome,... we leave tonight."

"Tonight and soon... we leave forever."

Naruto froze... then, shocking his other self, nodded. "I hate to admit it, but you are right."

"You'll find I usually am."


Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.

This was fun to write.

Love, your Ninja Overlord.

Mika.