Sith'ari
Kinslayer
A/N: Wow, I received some reviews said 'Naruto is weak' and such, which mean my story progression is working! It was my plan to make him weak/childish and give him a bitch slap to make him grow up, as in branding him. It's nice to know people take my story seriously with serious criticism.
This is the first time I've written a fighting sequence, so if it's bad, do forgive me. I will do better next time...though it doesn't have that much action as you might expected.
Ah, also to that one asshole who voted for that choice I tell you not to vote for...FUCK YOU!...yeah, got that out of my system. Read the chapter to see which name won.
Betaed by hmweasley
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"I am your father," the 'father' said.
Naruto stared blankly at his, supposedly, father for a minute before he suddenly heard a scream in his head.
'FOURTH! I AM GONNA KILL YOU!' Kurama screamed at the top of his lungs. Naruto regained his senses.
"Are really my father?" Naruto asked. His 'father' looked at him sadly and nodded.
"Yes, I am… Are you really Naruto?" his father asked. Naruto's mind, however, did not respond. Because now it was only thinking of one thing and one thing alone, the thing that Kurama had told him years ago.
'Your father was the one who put me in here,' that was what Kurama had said back then, and that was all his head could play out right now. For a long while, he stood still, looking at his father until Kurama shouted.
'You damn runt! Get yourself together!' Kurama screamed, which caused Naruto to shake in surprise.
"Naruto, are you alright?" his father asked.
Naruto looked at his father then. Out-of-nowhere, he laughed. He laughed like a madman, as if some cruel irony had happened to him. Or a great chance that came out of nowhere, as if the universe dropped it for you. This was his chance to kill the one truly responsible for his abuse. His laughter came to an abrupt end, and he replied, shocking his father.
"Yes, father, I am more than alright. You know why?" Naruto asked his father, who did not reply. "Because I finally have a chance…" He paused before screaming, "FOR REVENGE!"
He screamed as he started choking his father with the Force.
"N-naruto, w-wha-what are you?" His father asked. Rather than replying, Naruto used his other hand to start sending lightning at his father.
'Yes! Kill him again! And make it slow!' Kurama shouted inside Naruto's head with glee.
'Finally, something we can agree on!' Naruto replied with equal joy as he continued to choke and shock his father.
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'Ugh, I…need…to…get…out…of…this!' Minato thought. He pulled his special kunai out before throwing it to a nearby wall. Once the Kunai struck, he teleported to it. [1]
'I still got it,' he thought as he looked at his surprised son. 'I don't know what is going on, but if that really is Naruto then why would he attack me?'
Suddenly, Naruto gestured his hand at Minato. Taken by instinct, Minato jumped away. As he looked back, he could see the kunai he left there bent by some invisible force. He was even more confused. Where was he? Why was he alive again, and why was his son attacking him?
When he landed, he looked at his son again. Naruto seemed like he was prepared to charge in. Minato did not know what was going on, but he was determined to find out and make sure his son did not get hurt.
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'What was that?' Naruto asked Kurama.
'That was your father's signature move: Flying Thunder God Jutsu. I think you've already seen what it can do,'Kurama replied.
So he was fighting a person with a teleportation technique? Terrific, just when he thought he could slowly snap his old man's neck. It didn't matter, however.
He knew that his father was a soft-hearted man in his own sense. He would not harm his son, which gave Naruto an opportunity to study some of his father's techniques to adapt and use as his own. And when he was done, he would dispose him. Naruto readied himself and lunged through the air to attack his father.
'Let's see what you can do, old man!' Naruto thought with excitement.
'Don't underestimated him, you fool!' Kurama gave an unheeded warning.
As Naruto came into range and swung his ax at his father, aiming to split his head, Minato pulled out another of his kunai and blocked the swing. To Naruto's surprise, the small assassin blade was able to halt the swing from a battle-ax, but was it the kunai or his father strength?
Minato attempted to counter with his free hand, but Naruto used the Force to push his father away.
'Now that was something, a butterfly knife blocking a battle-ax,' Naruto thought with a little amusement. 'But let's see how you handle this.'
Naruto put the tip of his fingers onto his forehead before closing his eyes and concentrating. When he opened his eyes, however, he did not see any effect on his father.
'What?! Why isn't the mind technique working?' Naruto wondered.
'Huh, are you really that stupid, or is the thrill of killing your father clouding your senses? Do you forget how your father manifested into this physical body?' Naruto thought over what Kurama had just said and realized something he had overlooked completely.
'He is a ghost created by the Force.' Now some other questions began to pop up in his head.
If his father was currently a ghost, then how could he attack him physically? Moreover, if he was created by the Force, how could he still be using chakra? And even his original question was still left unanswered: how could his father be immune to mind abilities?
'Enough! He is the Hokage, boy. You've been standing around letting him analyzing you for several minutes. Now, he is probably ready to go on offensive at any moment,' Kurama yelled. This time Naruto listened and dashed forward, determined to kill his father.
When he was close, he could see his father preparing to block the attack, as Naruto expected.
As Naruto's swing was blocked, he jabbed his lightsaber in his right hand forward. His father, however, jumped up and dodged the jab before placing his unoccupied hand on Naruto's shoulder and back flipping past Naruto.
The blonde turned around and saw that his father had already landed. He jumped away again.
'Kid, you are not going to beat him like th-' Before Kurama could finish, however, the Hokage disappeared in a flash of light. Before Naruto could react, his father got a hold of both his arms.
"Naruto, I don't know what is going on, but put your weapon down! We ca-" Before Fourth got to finish or disarm his son, Naruto used the Force and pushed him away.
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'There it is again. There is some kind of invisible force, and it certainly is not wind jutsu. Is it Naruto's doing?' Minato thought about how his son could have such ability. Unless…
'Unless it's a bloodline… No, Kushina would never...' he thought in dismay at the chance that his wife might have been cheating. While unlikely, as a professional ninja he could not rule out all possibilities. But this was not the time to play detective. Now he had to focus on calming his son or, at worst, knocking him out. [2]
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Naruto turned to face his father again, but before he could think of another plan to fight him, Kurama suddenly shouted.
'Runt! Take off your shirt! Now!' Naruto was a bit confused at first but obeyed and took off his shirt. 'Throw it away!' Kurama commanded further, and Naruto did as he said. When the shirt landed away from Naruto, he noticed something on the shirt, several letters in his native language.
'Was that...' Naruto asked his companion, as he recalled some lessons they'd had in the past.
'Yes, that was one of our world's creation, a seal,' Kurama answered. 'He must have planted it on your shirt when he touched your shoulder. Kid, you're not going to beat him. He is smarter, faster, and a lot more experienced, much more experienced.' Naruto's face fell. He had to agree. He would not win against someone like his father, not with the tactics he was using. 'Your only hope is me'
'I am not letting you take over,' Naruto replied in annoyance.
During the many years of their journey, Kurama had tried to lure him to open the seal. It only served to annoy Naruto because he never fell for it. He heard a sigh from Kurama, something he rarely heard.
Before Kurama could speak, the Fourth threw his kunai at Naruto or, rather, seemed to. It was obvious that it was going to miss, but Naruto realized what his father planned to do. He jumped away just in time to see his father teleported to the kunai.
Suddenly, he threw another one. Naruto used the Force and deflected the kunai. His father threw several more at high speed, but all were either pushed away or destroyed by the lightsaber.
Then his father teleported again. He appeared right in front of Naruto. Naruto attacked with his ax, but Minato teleported to his side and elbowed Naruto's left arm and forced him to drop the ax. Naruto swung his lightsaber at his father. It made him dodge and allowed him to unleash his lightning onto his father and crash him into the wall.
Naruto hurriedly picked his ax up while still shocking his father. Suddenly, his father teleported again, out of his lightning range and back safely to where he was a minute ago.
He didn't wasted anymore time and made a hand sign.
"Fire Style! Fire Ball!" Naruto said before spitting fireballs at his father.
Minato ran around the chamber and dodged the fireballs. Eventually, Naruto had to stop because he needed to breathe. Minato took this chance and teleported to Naruto again. This time Naruto jumped away from him before he could do anything.
When he was far off, he could see that the place he was standing had some kunai laying on it. That meant those kunai his father threw earlier were just a distraction to land the real teleporting blade. For Naruto, this was not going well. Fighting in limited space against a foe who could teleport was suicidal.
'Kid we need to talk...in here,' Kurama said, since he saw the chance.
'I am not letting you out! And even if it's not about that, I can't just sit down and go into my mindscape and let him rope me or something,' Naruto countered.
'Then go behind one of the pillars and send your clones out so we can talk,' Kurama said. Now Naruto noticed that his voice was surprisingly calm. Naruto mentally nodded.
He jumped behind one of the pillars. He made a hand seal and created three copies of himself.
"Stall my father and make sure he doesn't notice me here." The clones nodded. Naruto gave each of his clones his weapons: a lightsaber, an ax, and a dagger. As the clones jumped out of the cover, he could hear the sound of steel clashing. No doubt the clone with either the dagger or the ax had already attacked his father.
Naruto sat down on the floor before closing his eyes and concentrating.
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Naruto appeared in his mindscape. Kurama was waiting for him within his cage.
"What do you want?" Naruto asked, annoyed.
"How far will you go to kill your father?" Kurama suddenly asked.
"This is not the ti-" Naruto was cut off.
"How far will you go to kill your father?" Kurama raised his voice and asked again. Naruto stared at the fox for a few seconds before replying.
"He was the one that put me through all of this. The fault was on him alone. Because he choose to overlook his duty as a… father, he used me, his own son, as a vessel of you. Subsequently, he is responsible for all the abuses I have been through. Because he choose to overlook his duty as a ninja, rather than waiting for others to back him up, he acted alone and chose… this, even though there are better alternatives." Naruto gave a small pause before continuing.
"Because he chose to ignore his duty as a human and allowed you to live, to continue destroying everything in your path, to corrupt people who were allured by your power and to cause so much misery. I don't hate you for that though, Kurama. You never wanted any of that. I know that in your heart all you wanted… was to be left alone… just like me sometimes." Naruto stared into Kurama's eyes, and likewise, he stared back. Maybe the two of them were more alike than both of them knew.
"And worst of all, because he chose to ignore his duty as a husband… he allowed my mother to die," Naruto said with great bitterness in his voice. [3]
"You… care for her that much? Even though you two have never met?" Kurama asked in surprised, despite his calmness.
Naruto mind slowly thought back to the first time he had seen it, the memory of the night that it all happened, the night of his birth.
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On one day, Naruto was curious as to what his parents looked like and had asked Kurama to show him, so Kurama did. The result was not what expected
Young Naruto was sitting still, and in front of him was a scene similar to when he watched the Third Hokage's meeting. It was a memory of the night he was born.
He watched it from the beginning… might be a bit too early even, since he had to go through his own birthing process, which was very… disturbing for a seven-year-old to watch.
In any case, as he watched on, the events of the scene became more absurd. It began when he was suddenly teleported along with his mother to the location of the Nine Tails. Why would his father put him and his mother back into danger?
After that, his mother used what little stamina she had left to create several chains made of chakra and locked Kurama in place. It also created some kind of barrier to prevent Kurama from escaping. His father looked like he did not object. She was already exhausted, nearly dead even. Why let her do that?
Then he performed some sort of ritual and a hand made out of chakra sprouted out of his chest and went for Kurama. The hand pulled something out of Kurama and sealed it within his father. But what was it and wasn't that enough?
Soon after, his father summoned some kind of ritual circle around him. But before he could perform the ritual, Kurama tried to attack him with its claws. That was when both his mother and father blocked the attack using themselves as shields. Naruto was shocked.
From what he could see, he understood that both of them willingly came in between him and the Nine Tails, but he also saw that his father had a chance to shove her away. Yet he didn't. Why?
"You thought that was absurd?" He suddenly heard Kurama say.
"What do you mean?" he asked back.
"I will let you see my part of the story," Kurama said, and then snapped his finger.
The scene changed, and the same event began to play out, only this time, it was in Kurama's perspective. The event went on the same way until the certain part that caused Naruto to question his father's intention.
His father summoned some kind of toad and dropped it onto Kurama, pushing Kurama down with its weight. With Kurama incapacitated, it would give him and the ninja around him a chance to finish Kurama off or seal him again, but he did not. Instead, he teleported Kurama off to where he intended to perform the ritual he saw in his memory.
Now Naruto was shocked and confused. It was obvious that back then he could finish him off. So why didn't he just do so and be done with it? Naruto tried to think positive and believe that his father cared about the village so he teleported Kurama away from it. Yet another questionable moment happened.
During the time he prepared to seal Kurama, Naruto could see the Third arriving and banging on the barrier his mother had created. Why didn't his dad let them in to help? Surely if he did so, both of him and his wife would have survived. Didn't ninja need to work as a team? Then why would he act on his own like this?
Moreover, why him? Why choose his own son? There were many other shinobi who were willingly dedicated to die for the village, yet his father chose him. An infant who was incapable of telling whether he was willing to be the vessel of this monstrous being or not.
As Naruto watched the same tragic ending, he put his face into his palms. 'Why?' was the only word within his head right now. So many options, better than the one he chose, yet he was still going with the bad one.
Naruto gritted his teeth. His confusion slowly changed to anger.
He might never know why his old man chose those options, but because of his actions, he and his mother had to pay for it. If he would have chosen differently, everything that happened to him could be avoided. His mother might even still be alive, for Adas' sake!
On this day, Naruto had found something he hated more than Konoha: his father, Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage. [10, add in later]
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Naruto mind drifted back to the present then he looked at the fox and continued.
"You have told me of what happened that night, Kurama. The night that it all happened. Everybody there… Nobody actually had a choice except him. The ninjas, my mother, and even you were doing everything according to what was their duty. All were presented no choices, but my… father." Naruto said that word in disgust.
"He had many choices, yet he choose to go with one of the worst alternatives. He could have saved my mother… He got her out of your way… yet he allowed her to come back… and die." As Naruto muttered his last word, an emotion he hadn't felt for so long came back to him: sadness. [4]
Many nights after he was told of the event he had been wondering, what would his life be if only his father had chosen not to bring them back into the fight. It was because of him that he was an orphan. It was because of him that he had to face persecution from everybody around him, and it was because of him… that he would never experience his mother's warmth.
"And the masked man?" Kurama asked, since he remembered he did tell Naruto about the masked man who was responsible for all of this in the first place.
"So far all he did was release you. But don't make a mistake, I would still kill that man for being part of what happened to me, but not now."
"You still didn't answer my question. How far will you go to kill your father?" Kurama asked again. Naruto took several deep breaths before finally giving an answer.
"I would go up against every Sith spirit on Korriban just to have a chance to kill him. I would swim in the sea of acid on some faraway planet just to have a chance to kill him. I would murder my way through the entire city planet of Coruscant just to have a chance to kill him." At this point, he began to raise his voice.
"I would sell every part of me: my heart, my brain, or even my soul to the devil just to have a chance to kill him! I would give anything! No, everything!" Naruto finished. Kurama stared down at Naruto behind his cage; his eyes seemed as if they were analyzing his very soul. Then, he signed.
"Kid… during these past few years, we have become… companions," Kurama said. "I remember a better time. When I was with Sage of Six Path, it was so… peaceful. You reminded me of those times, not only because we are in the middle of nowhere, but because of you. You reminded me of him, his determination, his charisma and his… soft heart." He paused. "That is why I offered you this: a partnership."
"A partnership?" Naruto asked, surprised that someone like Kurama would propose such thing, but then again, Naruto never knew Kurama before he was put in him. Maybe there were more to him than Naruto could imagine. Yet there was still doubt. "Why now? And last night you also left me to die," Naruto said with a bit of anger.
"Back then I did not realize how… alike we are, or I at least didn't want to admit it, but I see it now. Now you know how it feels to be tormented even though all we do is go on with our life. Now you understand how I feel, and like I said, you reminded me of the only person I ever… cared about." Kurama said that with sadness in his voice. "So… Will you take it?"
"...what do I have to do?" Naruto asked darkly.
"Unseal the gate." That was all Kurama said. Naruto was silent. He would really give everything, everything, to see one of the people who had caused his abuse dead, but this… If he did this he would give himself over to Kurama and become his slave. Would he take the fox's word on it? Naruto took a deep breath before walking forward toward the seal.
His hand reached for it and pulled it out.
"Now pour some chakra into your hand. Then place it on the seal on your belly. Then rotate it," Kurama instructed.
Naruto did as he was told. As he slowly rotated his hand, he could see the circular lock behind the paper seal begin to rotate.
When the lock was undone, he felt the surge of energy in his body. Suddenly, Kurama punched forward and broke the gate. His fist landed a few inches away from Naruto. Naruto looked up to see that the fox was smiling but not a sly smile or a triumphant smile, a sincere one.
"Ready to kill your old man?" Kurama asked and lifted his fist in front of Naruto. Naruto smiled back.
"Fist bump, really?" Naruto asked amusedly. Kurama laughed.
"Or we could go with a blood pact like in that holomovie," Kurama joked.
"Oh! Ok, the great and mighty Lord Kurama, let's make a pact so you can suck out my soul," Naruto joked back, and they laughed. When they'd both calmed down, Naruto fist bumped with Kurama.
"Ready?"
"More than ever."
Kurama slammed his hands into each other before channeling his chakra. Naruto then did the same.
"With you by my side…"
"No one can stand against us…"
"And in the end…"
"We shall have…"
"Our revenge!/Our revenge!"They both shouted in unison.
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'That was the last of them,' Minato thought as the last of his son's clones disappeared. It took him a while to realize that all of them were clones, but despite that, he still knocked them out to make them dispel rather than using lethal force against them. They might be just a part of his son, but even that still made them his son.
Now he had to find where Naruto was hiding.
'He should still be within this ro-' His thought was interrupted when he felt a surge of power, a very familiar power. He looked to where he felt the surge and saw orange light glowing from behind one of the pillars.
'Oh no!' he thought. Before he could move in, the power wave was sent out from behind the pillar and created a strong gust of wind that pushed Minato against the wall. Worse for him, the power continued to grow.
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XoXaan was resting in her holocron, waiting for her apprentice to return. Then, suddenly, she felt it, a strong burst of power within the Force, here on Korriban. She remembered the signature of this energy.
'Kurama?'
So this was how strong his power really was. It felt as if the Force itself tipped into the favor of the darkside… She needed to see this for herself, to see how powerful her apprentice's prisoner really was.
With that, she gathered her power and left the tomb. Unknown to her, she was not the only one.
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All over Korriban, every Sith ghost on the planet was awakened from their slumber by the surge of power. It was unlike anything they had ever felt.
This energy, the dark aura it produced, was alluring for the ambitious men and women of the darkside. They needed to see it; they needed to know what it was. And so many of them did the same thing. They cut chains from their bound and went to the nexus of where this power came from.
Like bees drawn to honey.
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At the Jedi Temple, it was but another peaceful morning for the Jedi. Some were training, some were studying, and some were doing other things. All in all, it was just another morning for the Jedi.
Until… they felt it. The massive surge of energy within the Force that sent shivers down the spine of everyone among their rank. It was as if the Force itself was shaken by something, something that tipped the balance of the Force towards the darkside.
Master Yoda was looking out of the window in his meditation room, wondering what that sensation was. The door slid open. Yoda turned around to see Mace Windu walking in. Mace walked up beside Yoda and looked outside the same window. He then turned to Yoda.
"Did you feel that?" he asked.
"Hmm, yes. Great power, that was. Belong to the darkside, I am certain," the green man replied.
"Should we find it?" Mace asked.
"No. Come to us, I believe it will," Yoda said grimly.
And as the two masters continued to stared out the window, they hoped that whatever the future held for their order, they would triumph over it.
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Darth Plagueis had never seen anything like this before. That sensation within the Force was one thing, but what it did that no one could see was much more… remarkable. When the surge started, not only the Force was affected but also its symbiotic partner the Midi-chlorian. Through his microscope, he could see a single Midi-chlorian moving and changing.
The Midi-chlorian's color changed from blue to reddish orange. The change, while seemingly little, was not something to be overlooked. After all, ever since it had come into existence, Midi-chlorian never altered itself after it attached to the host. Never.
He needed to dig deeper. Maybe there were other changes to the Midi-chlorian, and he had to hurry before this event ended.
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Father was resting on his throne when he suddenly felt it. When he felt the surge, he got up from his throne in shock, mouth hanging open, then collapsed back into his seat.
What he felt… was something he had never felt before in his long life. The whole balance of the Force was leaning towards the darkside, but how was it possible? His Son was still on Mortis, and there should be no other being so powerful that it could suddenly come into existence and tip the balance.
Father rested his hand on his forehead. Despite his worry, there were nothing he could do. He could not leave his children or else the balance would be damaged even more. All he could do was hope that they could take care of this.
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"What was that shock? Where did it come from? Who did it?" Confusion asked her sisters.
"I don't know, but is this not exciting?" Joy replied.
"No, it is not. Many people will feel it. Many of them will be left confused and scared," Sadness said.
"Whatever it is, we must find it!" Anger said.
"Sisters, we must remain vigilant to what it is that has caused this," Serenity, the leader of the Force Priestesses, said. [5]
"But how? We could not even sense it, as if it doesn't connect to the Force," Confusion replied.
"We shall wait. If it was power enough to create this sensation in the Force, it will come seek us out eventually."
All her sisters nodded before disappearing into light. They would be prepared for the one that was powerful enough to tip the balance.
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All over the galaxy, any force-sensitive being, race, person, or even animal could feel this surge as well. From the Nightsister on Dathomir to the Blackguard on Mustafar. From the Jedi sect of Altisian to the Sith splinter group of Prophet of the Dark Side. From the lowly parasitic bug that was Orbalisk to the space-born husk-like creature Starweird. All could feel it.
On this day, every force-sensitive group marked this event into their history. On this day, 10th Relona 24998 AFR (After Formation of the Galactic Republic) by the Galactic Standard Calendar, the event that would be known in Galactic Basic as 'The Surge' happened. [6]
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Naruto opened his eyes. He could feel it, the power. He looked down at his hand then panicked. His hand was aflame with orange energy. He examined himself. Not only his hands were covered in it, but his whole body.
'Relax, Naruto. This is just your new power,'Kurama said.
'What is this?' Naruto asked him.
'This is what happens when I lend you my chakra. Though I must say I didn't expect something like this, but then again, I never gave any of my previous hosts my true power.'
'So what can I do in this form?' Naruto asked again. Then he heard Kurama chuckle.
'Well, it increases your speed, it increase your strength, and some more, but I think we should deal with you father first,' Kurama said, and Naruto mentally nodded.
He walked out of the pillar's shadow and saw his father getting up from the ground. Before he could fully recover, Naruto moved at high speed beyond what the eyes could see and delivered a kick to his father's face. Minato was sent flying back into the wall.
'Such speed,' Naruto thought as he himself was shocked at his newfound power.
'Kid, pin your father down,' Kurama said.
Naruto walked up to his collapsed father. He grabbed him by the throat and pinned him against the wall. Suddenly, his father teleported again to his leftover kunai on the floor.
"Hmm, useless action," Naruto mumbled. In just a split second, Naruto moved around the room before appearing in front of his father. In his hand were all of his father's kunai that had been scattered across the room.
"I believe these are yours," he said as he dropped all of the kunai on the ground before proceeding to grab his father's throat and pin him to the floor.
'I pinned him. Now what?' Naruto asked Kurama.
'Pull your father's chakra out. Concentrate on extending your chakra into hands, and rip it from your father,' Kurama finished.
Naruto focused. Soon, hands formed out of his back and grabbed hold of Minato. The hands began to pull, and within a few seconds, they ripped Minato's chakra out and absorbed it into Naruto. For a moment, Naruto felt even more powerful, as if he could take on Adas himself, but the feeling slowly subsided.
'What was that? Another surge?' Naruto asked.
'When your father sealed me within you, he also sealed half of me, my Yang half, within himself and took it with him to his grave. Now that we ripped all his chakra out of him, I also regained my Yang half back. I am whole again, not to mention the few extra perks you got,' Kurama answered.
'What perks?' Naruto asked.
'Shouldn't you be dealing with him first?' Kurama reminded Naruto.
Naruto did not speak back and turned his attention back to his father. He looked around the room. When he spotted his ax, Naruto extended his hand, and the ax flew into his hand.
He raised his ax up high, prepared to strike down his father.
"Any last words?" Naruto asked. Minato looked up at his son and into his eyes.
"Why?" he asked weakly. Naruto stood still for a second before replying.
"Because you let my mother die," Naruto answered plainly. Minato looked at him in shock. Then his expression turned to sadness and pain.
"I am sorry," he said.
"...don't be. You made me what I am today," Naruto said as he finally swung down his ax.
In his last moment, one single thought ran through Minato's head.
'What have I done?'
Then, the ax's blade met his neck, and his head toppled onto the floor.
Much to Naruto's disappointment, there was no blood. Nevertheless, the job was done. His father was dead, again. His father's body slowly broke down into light and disappeared.
"When I put you through this test, I expected a simple duel, but what I got was much more."Naruto turned to the statue and saw Ragnos emerge. "With the power that you hold, you were sure to be one of the greatest Sith this universe will ever know. And that fight was the most entertaining thing we have seen in millennium."
Naruto was confused by that.
"We? What do you mean by 'we'?" Naruto asked.
"Oh, come now, young man. Are you truly that exhausted from fighting your father? Try sensing your surroundings," the Sith lord said. Naruto closed his eyes for a second before instantly opening them in shock. He could feel it all around him. There were Sith ghosts, unseen but there.
"So this is your true power, eh, Apprentice?" The familiar voice called to him and caused him to sneer. His master emerged beside Marka. "You would be my greatest achievement yet, Naruto."
"No," Naruto replied, causing XoXaan to look at him in surprise. "Naruto is dead. He died last night when you branded him. Now you've got me. I am not him. I am not that naive weakling. I am…"
Naruto began to think. He would have no ties with his old life. It had died last night with his… innocence. Now he was a new person, somebody else that would stop at nothing to see Konoha destroyed. But what would he call himself now? Then he remembered.
The Sith of Old often changed their names to 'Darth' when they turned into a new person, just what he was doing now. What would fit him?
As Naruto was thinking, the 'flame' across his body continued to dance, and the light produced from him in this mode was very bright. It made him think of Korriban's sun: Horuset… Horuset. It always appeared on the new day. It always brought something new. It always radiated the brightest, and it was always the most powerful star in the system: Horuset.
"I am the Sith who shall make this universe tremble. I am the Sith who will bring new order to the galaxy. I am the Sith who shall bring the new dawn upon all civilizations. I am Darth Horuset!" Naruto declared. [7]
Both Sith were stunned for a minute. Then, suddenly, XoXaan laughed.
"Horuset!? A fitting name for your appearance," she said while laughing, which seemed to cause some disturbance to Ragnos. "Very well, Darth Horuset it is. But do not forgot the purpose that you came here for, apprentice."
Naruto turned to Ragnos.
"This ax is mine now, correct?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, the ax is rightfully yours. Disregard the previous owner, whoever he was. The ax made by Adas is not something to come by, Horuset. And beware when you use it. The poison will not harm its true owner, but the same can't be said for people surrounding you."Naruto nodded.
He walked to pick up his shirt, but before he did so, he recalled his lightsaber before igniting it.
"And one more thing, master." Naruto caught his master's attention.
Naruto moved his lightsaber at high speed and made slashes on his own back, creating an 'X' shape across his back on top of his branding symbol.
"I reject your mark, and when I am finished with your training, we will see who is the one in charge," Horuset said. He deactivated his tail beast mode before recalling all his items. [8]
Before he turned around to leave, XoXaan flew to her apprentice. Her face dangerously close to his.
"I will look forward to that," she said maliciously to him with a threatening smile. Naruto smile back, equally malicious. [9]
"So do I," he said before he turned around and left. As he walked on, Marka muttered to himself.
"This boy might be the second greatest Sith to ever be born," he said as Horuset walked on. "But I wonder if he senses another parasite within him or not."
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[1] You might wonder 'how does Minato get his kunai?'. Well, when he was resurrected by Edo-Tensei he still had them as well so it is...logical.
[2] I don't plan to make Naruto have a bloodline. Since this situation was brought up, I thought I might as well talk about it.
[3] One of the best philosophical dilemmas to disapprove any action, whether for good or ill, is the duty dilemma. One has a duty that is this, and they also have a duty that is that, and when he chooses one duty over another, people will use the fact that he ignored one duty to accuse him. But don't be a hypocrite who uses this teaching please.
Also let me rephase you a speech I like, and a good example of why Naruto hates his father more than Konoha. Here it is-
'It is human nature to seek culpability in a time of tragedy. It is a sign of strength to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one's head and succumb. Inevitably many will fault the hands upon the sword which felled Typhon, the Ordo Malleus. But the Inquisition merely performs the duty of its office. To further fear them is redundant; to hate them, heretical. Those more sensible will place responsibility with those who forced the hands of the Inquisition. With some fortune, they may foster this hatred into purpose, and further rule their own fate by coming to the Emperor's service.'
-Gabriel Angelos: Dawn Of War series
[4] I rewatched that scene a few times and thought there were actually several options Minato could go with, but the way he choose… well, I wouldn't say it was a 'bad' choice, but there are better alternatives when you actually take other factors into account.
[5] Not their official name, but there was no other word to identify them without confusing you. In case you don't know them, they are the Priestesses who kind-of-but-not-really people who allow people to officially become Force ghosts like Qui-Gon Jinn.
[6] Hope you like the cameo, and that year system is made up, the Republic founding one that is. The month is official in the Star Wars universe. Also, the reason I choose 10 Relona (9th month of 10) was because it is similar to Naruto's birthday, 10 October, kinda.
[7] Yup. Darth Horuset won. Darth Khain came in as second and Siqsa as third. Also, from now on Horuset or Darth Horuset is going to be another name used to address Naruto.
[8] I wanted him to say 'I am going to kill you', but she's kinda… you know, already dead.
[9] XoXaan seemed not to mind if her apprentice had his own idea of Sith as proven by Darth Krayt, who was very much making Sith into something that all older Sith disapprove, yet she still helped him rather than reject him.
[10] This is my first time writing flashback sequence, so I have no idea if I did it right. The reason I added this part was because one of my followers, who is more of a Star Wars fan and less of a Naruto fan, was kinda confused by the scene. Which is totally understandable and really reminded me that not everyone that reads this knows of Naruto, so I added that part to help everyone with understanding it.
Character profile:
Name: Minato Namikaze
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Sexual orientation: Hetrosexual
Age: Roughly, 24. Decreased.
Homeworld: Unknown.
Allegiance: Konohagakure
Profession: Ninja; Hokage rank.
Birth date: 25th January
Religion: Shintoism
Relationships: Naruto Uzumaki/Horuset, son. Kushina Uzumaki, wife. Kakashi Hatage, student. Obito Uchiha, student. Rin Nohara, student.
Appearance: Average young adult height and weight. Blonde short hair. Blue eyes. Hokage robe with normal shinobi wear underneath.
Bio: Minato Namikaze was once a Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village. He married Kushina Uzumaki, the vessel of the Nine Tail Fox.
On the night of Naruto's birth, immediately after the childbirth, he and his wife were attacked by a mysterious masked man. The masked was able to unleash the Nine Tailed Fox, but was stopped by Minato.
However, to stop the Nine Tails, he recalled his wife and son to his location with the intention of sealing the Nine Tails within his son due to the belief that his child was the 'Child of Prophecy'.
He was able to do so, but able to seal only half of the Nine Tails at the cost of his life while another half he took with him to the grave. Due to the method of sealing, he and his wife were able to put some of their chakra inside their son and await the day that their son needed to take the Nine Tailed Fox's chakra came.
That, as we know, did not happen.
