King of Snakes

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Summary: What if Naruto had lost his eyesight, but the Kyuubi decided to give his holder a new pair of eyes from another spirit that the Shinigami placed in him that night. Watch out Sharingan, Byakugan, and Rinnegan users. Enemiessss of the Heir, Beware…

"Parseltongue"

"Basilisk Parseltongue"

"Biju/Summons"

Jutsu

Chapter 1: Cursing's and Blessings

Excerpt from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets…

"Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly that the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. This snake, which may reach gigantic size, and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad. Its methods of killing are more wonderous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it."

A 6-year-old Naruto Uzumaki is running away from a mob of villagers because it's his birthday. But to the people of Konoha, it is the Kyuubi Festival with its most promising attraction. The Fox Hunts. Even after five years, the foolish leaf villagers have not let go of their hatred for the Nine-Tailed Fox that attacked Konoha out of the blue and was then sealed into the newborn Naruto by their beloved hero, the Fourth Hokage, who died that night.

The Councilman have usurped Hiruzen Sarutobi's authority many times to make the poor boy suffer, and never know of his heritage and destiny. But that changes tonight. For as of this moment, the reinstated Third Hokage has escaped the distractions of paperwork to go find the secret son of Minato Namikaze before the villagers kill their pariah. With his trusted Anbu behind him, the Hokage finds a cluster of villagers near the fence of the Forest of Death as they are cheering at their handiwork.

That all comes to a halt when the Anbu surrounds them and the Third Hokage steps forward and gives the order, "Take these filths to Ibiki. Nothing restrained. I want to know who started this, and what they have done to Naruto Uzumaki."

The Anbu restrain the many shinobi and villagers that are now protesting. Most cry that they are only doing what their hero, the Fourth Hokage, had started. One cries, "It's too late! The Demon brat will never see again! Nor will its lying voice taunt us or deceive us with its innocent act!"

That hits a nerve for Sarutobi and the Anbu Weasel and Snake. The female Anbu wearing a snake mask uses her snakes to strike at the Chunin's nose. The poor fool wails in pain as he is taken to suffer more pain while the Hokage picks up the wounded boy that was meant to be seen a hero.

Naruto has kunai slash marks going vertically down each eye, his eyes covered with blood and some sort of chemical to prevent the Kyuubi's healing. A horizontal slash goes along where his throat is, showing that his vocal cords are damaged. His whole body is covered with cuts and bruises from the many beatings the villagers did to him. Sarutobi was shaking with rage at how far his village has fallen. If only Jiraiya or Tsunade were here to help, but they were not heard from in years. He would have to send another letter to the both of them to do their job as his godparents.

The Hokage quickly Body Flickers himself to Konoha hospital with Snake following behind. Weasel stays grounded in his spot as he saw that some of his clan members, the Uchiha, were among the ones that hurt the boy. He wondered if this is what his mother felt when her best friend died during the Kyuubi attack and was still in a state of depression and staying a housewife. Was there any hope, before his father took action against the Hokage and the rest of Konoha?

Meanwhile, the Kyuubi was forced to watch inside his mindscape prison as the boy suffered from the villagers since Naruto's days in the orphanage. If only he could free himself from his cage, he would destroy these monsters in human skin while taking the boy far away from being the human's weapon or plaything. If only he had the power to overcome the Sharingan of that masked Uchiha that forced him out of Naruto's mother, Kushina.

Suddenly, a thought crossed the angry fox's mind. When the Shinigami sealed him within Naruto, he also placed another soul within the Seal that belonged to a creature that was defeated by a young boy that seemed as special as the kit. A creature that was just as ancient and powerful as the Kyuubi himself. Since they were stuck within Naruto, its powers had little to no effect on the Biju or their container. Kyuubi knew that this would be an opportune moment to get his revenge on the Uchiha and anyone who dared threatened his kit.

He trudges to a dark corner of the cage to where his roommate slept. "Hey! Scaly! Wake up! I need to discuss something with you."

The darkness stirs as bulges of dark green scales moves in twisting motions. A giant serpent appears, raising its head from its 70ft long body to meet its golden gaze towards the Kyuubi's red slits. She hissed in irritation for being awaken from her peaceful rest after not having to deal with magical elitists and purges to mess with her mind. Although her caretaker was a great and powerful Speaker. Hopefully the child with the lightning scar and glasses would destroy that terrible progeny of the Great Salazar Slytherin.

"What do you want? Annoying Kitsune." She hisses angrily.

"Our container, Naruto Uzumaki, has been beaten by these foolish humans for the last time. His eyes and vocal cords are scarred by their cruelty. I ask that you help me heal our container so that we can train him to destroy those who'd use their power to make him weak. With your death gaze, snake speech, and my chakra, he will be an unstoppable force against those that are his enemies. Like that thorn in my side and his pretender of a student, Madara Uchiha." The Kyuubi grinned at the thought.

The magical Queen of Serpents hisses in contemplation at making a Snake Heir in this realm. She remembers viewing in Naruto's memories that snake Anbu watching out for the boy while also being belittled as the Snake Mistress. Perhaps the boy can become a summoner to these chakra wielding snakes, while also maybe turning a mistress into a princess. And later a Queen.

"Very well. We shall bless this child with our gifts so that he may in turn destroy our enemies. Bring respect to our names and species. And bring about a great change to these Elemental Nations." She hissed in reply. The Kyuubi and Basilisk get to work as the two pour their red chakra and green aura into Naruto's body. Planning on how they will introduce themselves to the child.

Scene Change

Naruto slowly woke up to find himself not near the Forest of Death where Hebi-chan lives. He concludes that he is in the hospital, from what he could feel and hear of hospital equipment beeping. His body all bandaged up like a mummy that he only had his fingertips free so that he could feel the hospital bed sheets. Naruto is happy that Jiji and Hebi were there to save him before he met his end. However, the moment was ruined when a large hand grabbed Naruto's chest. Pinning him down so he couldn't get and up and press the help button to alert Hokage Jiji and Hebi-chan.

The shinobi's free hand moves up to pull off the bandages on Naruto's eyes so he can see the look in the Demon brat's glassy eyes before he kills it for good. He removes his hand from the jinchuriki's chest to pull out a special kunai that Danzo and the Council gave him. With all that has happened, they had no need for a broken weapon.

When the bandages are off, the Chunin gasps in surprise at seeing that the boy's new eyes. The vertical cut marks are now nearly healed, but the would-be blind eyes are now a creepy golden yellow with slit marks, like the traitor Sage, Orochimaru. But the yellow colors all around his eyes except for the abyssal black slits, that held no white that could be seen. Giving Naruto a more bestial look.

It was the last thing the Chunin saw before falling backward with a dead look in his eyes. A nurse walks in and screams in alarm at the fallen body that Sarutobi and the Snake Anbu, Anko Mitarashi, come running towards Naruto's room. Before they could enter, Naruto hears a voice inside his head. Telling him to cover his eyes while he wonders in bewilderment on what just happened.

'Naruto cover your eyes from Jiji and Hebi. Don't let them see your eyes until we tell you to.' Listening to the deep voice in his head, Naruto puts both hands on his eyes when the Third Hokage and Hebi enter and see the dead body. The Hokage notices the kunai in the attacker's hands and knows that he would have words with his advisors for this. But still, what could cause a Chunin to die with a scared look on his face? Perhaps Inoichi could investigate that, but right now, Naruto was top priority.

"Naruto, my boy. Its Jiji. Hebi is here too. What happened? Why do you have your eyes covered? The doctors said that you are now permanently blind. Can you actually see?" the Hokage questioned the boy while trying to move Naruto's hands from his eyes. Only to find that the Uzumaki boy was stubbornly keeping them shut.

"Naruto, its Hebi-chan. Please show us your eyes. If you do, I will show you my sexy face." She smirks mischievously as she removes her mask to show her brown eyes and flawless features to go with her spiky purple hair. Hiruzen rolls his eyes at Anko's flirting but he notices that Naruto's scrunched up face has softened.

Naruto then feels a tingling feeling wash over his eyes as if another layer was placed on his eyes like contacts, but more magical. 'You can show your eyes now hatchling' a feminine voice hisses in his head. 'Tell them if Jiji and Hebi want to learn more about your changes, bring the Yamanaka and join them in your mindscape.' The other voice spoke to Naruto.

Naruto opens his eyes to find that Anko had one of her snakes on his lap that made him jump a little before speaking in a hissing sound that no human could understand. "Wow! Huh…Hebi-chan got me good with that prank. I'm so going to get her for that"

"What? How is this possible? Even Lady Anko or Lord Orochimaru do not possess the gift. It is an honor to meet you Speaker." Anko's snake hissed back, making the occupants widen in alarm at this unexpected development.

"Wait? Hold on? Speaker? As in, I can talk to snakes and understand them now? Awesome, Dattebayo!" Naruto clapped for joy at his new cool ninja skill.

"Calm yourself, Speaker. There is much my mistress and the Hokage would like to know about your new eyes and skills. Can you try speaking in the human tongue?" the snake asked the boy.

Naruto wanted to learn more about his eyes, but he complied to what the snake was saying as Jiji and Anko looked at him in confusion and amazement at his mysterious changes. He opened his mouth to try to say how beautiful Hebi-chan looked, only to cough in pain as his throat hurt in trying to speak like he normally did. Anko patted his shoulder while Naruto calmed his breathing so that his throat didn't hurt anymore. He looked to the snake summon that lay on his lap as he stood up in his bed and began hissing frequently on what he needed her to say.

"Forgive the Speaker, Hokage and Anko-san. The damage to his vocal cords was deep that he can only now speak the noble tongue of the snakes and nothing else. Oh, and mistress, he says you have a very pretty face, that it is, as you say… sexy." The snake summons replied with Anko blushing at Naruto's reply while the Hokage gave a silent giggle.

"Naruto, do you know how this happened?" asked Sarutobi Jiji. Passing a mirror to Naruto to look at his new eyes. Naruto gasps as his new eyes now showed they were a bluish turquoise snake eyes that flashed yellow when he turned the mirror to his sides. Naruto hisses to the summon as it translates for him.

"I do not know Jiji, but I have been hearing voices in my head." A cold shiver runs up the Hokage's spine as he hoped that the Kyuubi would not reveal itself so soon to Naruto. But what were the other voices in his head?

"The voices say that you must summon the Yamanaka Clan Head and have him take Mistress Anko and yourself, Hokage-sama, into the Speaker's mind in order to find the answers. Anko-san, will you summon me again to accompany you all to the Speaker's mindscape? I must return to Ryuchi Cave and inform Manda-sama and the White Snake Sage of this development." The snake disappears in an exploding cloud of smoke as Sarutobi tells Anko to get Inoichi here immediately.

A few minutes later, Inoichi and Anko return as Anko once again summons her snake familiar as they prepare to enter Naruto's mind. The Hokage, Anko, and snake hold onto the Yamanaka's shoulders as he places his hand on Naruto's forehead and they all enter Naruto's mind.

Mindscape

The Hokage and his entourage travel down the dark wet hallway towards the large bars where the form of Naruto was waiting for them. Naruto had no idea that this is what his mind looked like and he felt sad a little. The Hokage and Anko weren't doing any better, feeling guilty on how such a special boy to be put through mind shattering experiences that made his mindscape so dark and foreboding.

When they reached Naruto the eye of the Kyuubi opened as his giant form revealed itself to the spectators. "Greetings, puny humans. I am the Nine-Tailed Fox." Kyuubi introduces himself.

"Wow! You are so big Kyuubi! But if you're inside me… does that mean the villagers were right in calling me a demon?" Naruto's attitude went from amazement to depression at realizing why the villagers hate him so much. Not realizing he is talking normally so everyone else could understand him.

The Hokage quickly went to comfort the boy and then get some answers from the Kyuubi. "Naruto, you are not the Biju. You are simply the scroll that holds the kunai, not the kunai itself. I tried to give you a normal life Naruto, but the pain of the Kyuubi's attack is not so easily forgotten or let go of by the people of Konoha. Speaking of which, why Kyuubi? Why did you attack us and letting many families be destroyed the night Naruto was born?!"

"Silence monkey! I wanted nothing more than to leave your pitiful village after being released from my previous holder. But the man who freed me also took control of me using the same blasted Sharingan that Madara used to force me to battle Hashirama. Although the mask man claimed to be Madara Uchiha, I know it wasn't him." Kyuubi growled in irritation while the Hokage and the entourage were stunned at learning that a rogue Uchiha was responsible for the disaster six years ago.

"Your lying! How do we know that for certain demon!" Sarutobi retorted, not fully accepting the nagging feeling inside him that it was not entirely the Biju's fault. Afterall, Biju are considered beasts made entirely of chakra that had no mind or heart. Yet here they are, having an intelligent conversation with the strongest of the nine tailed beasts.

Kyuubi snorted before waving one of his tails onto the watery floor to show Naruto's memory of that night. The audience, including Naruto himself, were stunned to see Naruto being the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and a beautiful red head named Kushina Uzumaki. They watched as an orange masked man with one eye hole showing the Sharingan used newborn Naruto as a hostage before taking Kushina away as Minato prepared to do the unthinkable to save Konoha and his child. The scene changes with Naruto on the sealed pedestal as Kyuubi is bound and about to be sealed inside Naruto while Kushina argues with Minato against this action.

Hearing his parents' final words after being stabbed by Kyuubi's claw, the memory disappears, and Naruto starts crying at finally knowing that he had loving parents and what they thought of him. Anko gave the young Uzumaki a hug with her snake summon giving a coiled hug too. The Third Hokage and Inoichi bow their heads in shame at the truth of the revelations and how low the Will of Fire was barely a candle of itself after what the village has done to their savior's progeny.

Then, Naruto calms down from his comforting hug with Hebi-chan and walks on over to the Kyuubi. He is small enough that he squeezes through the large bars while Anko, Sarutobi, and Inoichi are scared on what the Kyuubi might do to the boy. Naruto looks into the Kyuubi's eyes before saying, "I should be mad at you for killing my parents that night… But you didn't want to or ask to be sealed into humans like me. I'm sorry for thinking the same way the villagers think of me. And thank you for helping me survive these past few years and giving me these new cool ninja powers." Naruto then hugs the Kyuubi's muzzle which startles the Kyuubi and the entourage at this display of forgiveness and acceptance.

Kyuubi comes out of his bewilderment and inwardly chuckles before using his tails to pull Naruto off his nose and place the boy down to talk to him. "Your welcome kit. I may be a powerful chakra beast, but I've learned to not place the sins of the parents onto the children after what you've been through. And although I have helped your Uzumaki genes in healing from most wounds, the eyes and snake speaking are not my doing."

Kyuubi then moved to the side as Naruto and the others heard something coming towards them in the darkness of the prison. Anko's snake had slithered towards Naruto and wrapped herself around his neck to see if the White Snake Sage spoke truly. Out of the shadows came the towering form of a giant snake that looked smaller than Manda yet held more power and majesty. Anko had never seen such a beautiful creature.

The great serpent hissed before staring at her container with everyone watching. "Greetings child. Although your father summoned the Reaper to seal the Kyuubi away, he did not realize that the reaper held my spirit as well. It would seem the gods deemed you needed my help on your journey in life. I am the Basilisk. King, or in this case, Queen of the Snakes!" the Basilisk introduces herself. Everyone being able to see and understand her inside Naruto's mindscape were amazed at this.

Naruto and the others are surprised that Naruto had not one, but two powerful beasts sealed inside him. Anko's snake, who was still coiled around Naruto, went to greet the legendary serpent. "Greetings Chiefest and Greatest of the Serpents. I am one of the Snake Summons of this realm. We have heard of your legend and have wished to bask in your grace. The leader of our summons, the White Snake Sage, foretold that you would come. What would you ask of us, your majesty?"

"I ask that you allow this child, whom I have blessed with my eyes and our noble tongue, to sign your Summons Contract. He shall be instrumental in bringing your clan to greatness, along with your present summoner." The basilisk then turns to talk to Anko. "Snake Anbu, please help train my heir so that you both may surpass your hated former teacher. Only then can you reap vengeance upon him by becoming true sages under the teachings of the Snake Summons."

Anko was stunned at that blunt remark on how to get back at Orochimaru. However, she rubs the back of her shoulder where Orochimaru's Curse Mark stains her body, chakra, and soul. She would not dare enter Ryuchi Cave until the cursed brand is off. The basilisk notices the woman's distress and then turns to Naruto to give him later instructions. She will help destroy the mark, once she is free from the seal with Naruto's help.

"Naruto. For you to access more of the Kyuubi and myself, you must unlock the seal in order to free me from this confinement." The Hokage's eyes widen at that remark and is quick to retort.

"He can't! Naruto does not hold the key to the Seal. Also, if you and the Kyuubi were to be released chaos would follow across the village." The Kyuubi rolls his eyes at the monkey's overreaction.

"I will stay inside the boy even when the seal is unlocked. I am not comfortable leaving until that wannabe Madara is dead and nothing remains of his or Madara's ashes. But Naruto will have full access to my chakra once he passes the Biju tests."

"I on the other hand am only a spirit. I shall require your help Naruto in my rebirth. But this will only be privy to Naruto and the Snake Summons." The Basilisk hisses at the Hokage. Sarutobi grits his teeth but submits to the beast's conditions.

Naruto squeezes back through the bars as the group prepares to leave the mindscape. Before Naruto exits with the others, he turns to his two tenants. "See… or hear you later. But what are your names? Kyuubi sounds like a title and the Basilisk just sounds more like an animal name."

The two promise to tell Naruto once they are out of his mind. He accepts that as the humans and Snake Summon exit the mindscape.

Back in the hospital room, the Hokage commands Anko and Inoichi to keep this S-rank secret from everyone. He then heads to his office where he will send a message to the Toad Summons on getting the key to the Kyuubi's Seal. Inoichi heads home, and Anko stays with Naruto as she talks to her future pupil on training plans.

Naruto isn't hearing though. He listens as the basilisk names herself first with the Nine-Tails following afterwards. "I was named Kendra by my maker. Call me Kendra, Little Storm." She teasingly calls Naruto who blushes at his cute nickname.

"And I'm Kurama. You better get stronger for all our sakes."

Thank you for your patience. I see that many wanted on my poll to write this story. Review on how you wish for the story( or my other stories) to continue. I am right now working on the Second Chapter of Rise of Uzushio. As soon as I finish and post the chapter, I will then continue with The Mummy. Unless you guys want to read something else.

Have a Great Summer. And Stay Healthy and Safe, everybody.