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Pushed Too Far
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Naruto looked around the dead bodies of the Uchiha's laying around. There were two things that caught his attention even better then a room full of dead bodies. One living person about to kill the last (barely) living person.
Naruto stared in fear and as Itachi stood over Mikoto.
The matriarch was the first to notice his presence. With the last of her energy she cried one word to the blond.
"RUN!"
This drew Itachi's attention.
"Oh, you're hear Naru-Kun." Itachi spoke calmly. "That'll make my job easier."
Naruto was confused at the statement. It was obvious as to what the Uchiha prodigy was implying, but he couldn't figure out why. Itachi had always been as kind to him as Mikoto. The opposite of Fugaku and Sasuke who only believed in the Uchiha power.
Naruto had only one question. "Why?"
The stoic Uchiha paused as if considering the answer.
"To...test myself." He answered.
"Bullshit!" Naruto shouted "You aren't like that bastard father of yours! You actually care for others and hate violence." He motioned towards the bodies strewn around. "The Itachi I know would never do something like this!"
Itachi stared at the boy in front of him. Outside of his shock at the truth and hate the kid spoke, he was impressed.
He looked down toward his mother. With a simple glance into her eyes, he knocked her out. He turned his attention back to the blond.
"I'm following orders." Itachi admitted.
"Who's orders?" The blond asked.
"Who has enough political power to order the death of an entire clan." Itachi asked "Who would want you dead, would know where you would be tonight?"
Naruto paled as realization dawned on him, Minato had ordered his death.
"I see you understand." Itachi spoke "You know I have my orders and can't let you leave."
The terrified blond took a step back as he faced the Uchiha. He knew he couldn't face him in combat, he didn't have the weapons or skills. He didn't even have the fire of protecting his siblings in him like with Zero.
Zero! Naruto thought with a flicker of hope The power he gave me!
He didn't know what to do, but the thought allowed him to stay his ground. A sight Itachi took note of as he advanced.==get angry
The blond was focusing as hard as he could to do anything.
I need power! He begged his body. Maybe...there is no power!
What if it was all just a lie? Was that man just messing with him, messing with his hopes and dreams? A sick joke made up by a sick minded man. Maybe thought up by Minato.
Or maybe there was power and Minato robbed him of the chance for it. Maybe he killed the Zero before he could do whatever it was.
The thought made him...angry!
'I...can give it...to you.' A weak voice spoke.
"Wha-!"A shock Naruto exclaimed.
The blond looked around for the source of the voice, Itachi thought he was looking for safety. It took half a second for Naruto to realize the voice came from inside his head.
'Do you...want it?' It asked.
"Yes!" He answered both mentally and vocally.
'Then take it...ALL!'
He felt it flow through him, power. It was greater then anything Naruto ever felt and darker. It also felt as if it wasn't the only thing that was coming. He felt anger rush in along with the power, anger and thoughts not his. Naruto felt as if he weren't the only one in his body, as if something was with him.
"I don't know what you're planning Naruto." Itachi spoke calmly "But it all ends here."
Their eyes met.
Tsukuyomi
Everything in the world fell away from Naruto. In place was an endless plain with a red sky. He was in the realm under Itachi's control.
Naruto knew what the technique was, trouble. It was something Mikoto spoke of when entertaining Naruto on her families bloodline.
The look on Itachi's face was one not seen in years, shock. This surprised Naruto, he had always known the Uchiha to be calm whenever the situation called for it.
Turning around, he found out why.
There was something else in the Genjutsu with them.
It was as large as a person and as long as a summons with a purplish color. At the front was a Noh mask as a face with five thick, red like strands of hair. The creature gave off the aura of darkness. What caught Naruto's attention was the Kanji on it's mask.
Zero.
"What are you?" Itachi asked.
"I am the darkness of mankind." It answered shocking the humans. "I am the Zero tails."
"You're the one from one earlier." Naruto stated "The one who offered me power."
"Yes." It answered.
"What's going on Naruto?" Itachi asked "Why is this...thing inside of you?"
"He harbors great hate." It answered. "You have negative emotions as well, give it to me!"
The creature gave no warning as tendrils pierced through the Uchiha.
Impossible! Itachi thought frantically I should have complete control!
But he wasn't, Itachi couldn't move, it was holding him firmly in place. He tried to dispel the Genjutsu but found he had no control. He was trapped in his very own technique.
It took only a second for the Uchiha to realize he was being drained. Not just of chakra, he was also losing emotional energy. He was feeling horrible, as if his heart was being crushed in darkness.
As Itachi began to feel himself be drained, Naruto felt the opposite. He felt the renewed energy flow into him and away from Itachi.
"Surrender Uchiha, or else." Naruto spoke coldly, feeling the power course through him.
"No." Zero spoke "We drain him dry!"
When Itachi heard that he felt something he hadn't felt in years, fear. It was something that washed over him in waves as the realization dawned on him. The Zero-Tails took great delight in Itachi's predicament.
Fear made most people irrational, but Itachi wasn't most people. He had spent most of his life in dangerous and situations, this wasn't that different.
He used the last bit of control he had.
"Naruto?" A innocent voice called. "What's going on?"
Naruto turned his attention to the source of the voice. It was the two people Naruto cared for above all else, his brother and sister.
They bought a feeling to Naruto that the Zero-Tails couldn't stand. It was a creature of pure negative emotions. Things such as hate, fear and despair both fed and drove it. Emotions such as love, courage and hope was it's very bane. They were exactly what Naruto was feeling as he looked at his siblings.
"NO!" With a cry of defiance it lunged toward the Uchiha.
Just as the Genjutsu world broke away.
"Itachi?" A voice spoke "What happened?"
Itachi looked around, he was free of the Genjutsu.
He looked towards his savior and saw the devil made human. It was a man wearing a flame patterned mask and a single eye hole. A man who called himself Madara Uchiha. Itachi had many doubts to the claim but had been forced to submit to the claim.
"I...was caught by surprise." Itachi answered as calmly as he could.
The man named Madara eyed him for a moment before turning towards Naruto. The blond had simply stood there with a vacant look on his face.
Naruto began secreting a transparent, purple aura as well as black chakra. The aura began forming the snake-like being of the Zero-Tails.
"Ah, the Zero-Tailed leech demon, the false Tailed beast." The masked man spoke "Begone."
"You...are darkness!" The demon spoke.
More tendrils, just like the ones used on Itachi, flew towards the Sharingan user. They pierced several parts of his body and latched to him. Itachi hid his shock of the tendrils connecting with the other Uchiha.
"I said begone." Madara spoke as he narrowed his eye.
Zero didn't know what compelled his to obey, but some invisible force did. The demon made it's way back into his young host. Wordlessly the boy collapsed into a heap.
Madara drew a kunai.
"What are you doing?" Itachi asked.
"Ending it."
"Wait!" He spoke uncharacteristically.
Itachi didn't know what, but something compelled him to try and stop the other Uchiha. He didn't know what, but he knew exactly why. The possessed boy had been able to do something he doubted he ever would.
He hurt the masked man.
"Maybe we should let him live." Itachi spoke after composing himself "For the plan, who knows, this Zero Tails could be of use."
Madara knew exactly what Itachi was scheming. He wouldn't admit it, but the blond child made him nervous. When the Zero-Tails had pierced him, he felt a part of himself be pulled away. As if it had been ripped away and placed somewhere else!
He had a feeling as to where.
"Fine." He decided to play along for the time being. "The woman?"
"...She's of no threat." Itachi spoke hoping to save her.
"...Fine."
With a bow, Itachi disappeared in a Body Flicker. A minute later Madara heard a scream he was sure came from Sasuke. Madara just seemed to fade from reality, making sure to give a final glare to the blond.
When Naruto woke up, he found out he had been asleep for whole day and a half due to chakra exhaustion. It was thanks to the Uzumaki vitality that he was no longer bedridden.
Thankfully Tsunade had been watching over him and Mikoto in that time. They saw past the old rivalry their clans had because of their affection towards Naruto.
"How are you feeling?" Tsunade asked for the Nth time.
"I'm fine grandma." Naruto stated "Can I leave now?" He hated hospitals.
Truthfully he was feeling better than fine. When he had awakened, he felt as if he had an extra weight in him. It was in a positive way, like the weight was what he needed. He just didn't know what the weight was.
"You just survived a massacre and you're telling me you're fine!" Tsunade screamed "You aren't leaving until I've run every test I can!"
Naruto gave a depressed sigh, being the head of the hospital meant she could run every test.
"Don't you want to go see Mikoto-Chan?" She asked hoping to cheer him up.
"Has she awakened yet?" He asked only for Tsunade to shake her head. "Then no, I don't want to see her like... that."
"I understand." As a medic, she had come to understand the sympathy of patients.
There many things he wanted to take care of. Unfortunately, his grandmothers watchful eyes forced him to do something drastic. He crept out of the hospital.
-Senju clan vault
Naruto stared at the array of scrolls in front of him, there were hundreds. He felt a childlike giddiness he hadn't felt in ages. He was on his way to unraveling a mystery.
Naruto hadn't been entirely unconscious during the Zero-Tails possession. He had heard a few lines that caught his attention.
"Ah, the Zero-Tails, the false Tailed beast."
Well, I better get started. Naruto thought I won't get any answers just staring.
Like a kid in the candy store or Uzumaki at a ramen shop, Naruto dived in. Scroll after scroll, he tore through them as if he were sure they would vanish if he didn't get to them. He wasn't able to find much on the Tailed Beast at the moment because of his low scroll supply on them. What he did find he memorize them for later use.
"Hello Naruto." A voice he hated spoke.
Naruto turned to see Minato watching him and the scrolls with a cryptic eye.
"Those scrolls are pretty advanced." Minato asked "What are you doing here?"
"I know." Naruto spoke with no emotion "I could ask you the same thing."
Minato had been banned from the Senju scrolls after his neglect. Now that Naruto was the heir, they belonged to him.
"Do you need something Hokage-Sama?" Naruto asked in monotone.
"I came to see how you were fairing after the massacre." Minato answered without missing a beat "I know how much you cared for the Uchiha's."
"It's a tragedy." Naruto stated as anger began to build "Not something I'd assume Itachi to be capable of."
"...How did you escape Itachi?" The Hokage asked
There was no way Naruto was going to tell the truth, he hadn't even told Tsunade yet.
"I don't know." He half admitted "I guess I just got lucky."
"It's not like Itachi to leave a job unfinished." The Fourth spoke as he took a step forward causing the younger blond to take one back. Minato began reaching into his pocket for...
"Hello Minato." A voice called catching their attention.
Minato turned around and removed his hand.
"Hello mother." He greeted "I was just..."
"Leaving." Tsunade spoke, cutting him off before turning to Naruto. "Mikoto's awake, want to see her?"
"Yes!" Naruto quickly answered.
"Later mom, Naruto." Minato called as he turned his attention to Naruto's scroll "Interesting topic."
The youngest blond managed to catch the comment just as he was pulled away in a Body Flicker by Tsunade.
When they arrived in the hospital Mikoto was awake and waiting.
Cautiously, Naruto "How are you feeling?"
"Better." Mikoto stated after a minute "Naruto...are they...all gone?"
"Only you, Satsuki and Sasuke are left." Naruto answered.
Mikoto took this in as best as could be expected. Her oldest child had just killed her clan but left her and her twin children alive.
"W-what did Itachi say?"
Naruto thought of not telling, but she had a right to know. So he told her what Itachi told him and she came to the same conclusion.
The blond watched as Mikoto came close to tears. They never had the chance to fall before someone entered the room.
"Mikoto-Chan!" Kushina shouted with her kids in tow.
"Aunt Mikoto!" The twins cried as the hugged the Uchiha.
"How are you feeling Mikoto?" Kushina asked sweetly, too sweetly.
The remaining female Uchiha looked at the red head with so much hate that everyone flinched.
"How am I feeling?" Mikoto repeated "HOW AM I FEELING?"
"Mik-"
"Your husband just ordered the execution of my entire clan!" Mikoto hissed. "From my own son no less."
A gasp of shock could be heard from the twins as the heard this. The look on Kushina's face went straight to a neutral glare.
"You shouldn't make such accusations." Kushina whispered "Especially when you no longer have an political power to back anything up."
"What do you mean?" Mikoto asked "I am the Matriarch of the-"
"Now dead Uchiha clan." Kushina stated venomously "Three members do not make a clan."
"...I seem to recall you being the last members of the Uzumaki clan." Naruto spoke drawing their attention "You and Minato of the Namikaze clan seem to be doing well...for the most part."
Kushina looked ready to retort when Mito cried out.
"Stop it!" Everyone turned toward the container. "Stop it!"
"Mito..."
"Daddy wouldn't order the death of an entire clan!" She stated "He's a kind Hokage!"
"He was willing to kick his own son out of the clan." Mikoto stated "Why wouldn't he be able to kill others?"
"W-what?" Mito looked at her brother for answers "You said he sent you away for punishment!"
"What kind of punishment last for two years?" Mikoto asks "And needs a person to change their name?"
"Mito..." He stuck his hand out to comfort her.
she smacked the limb away. "No, no I don't believe you!"
The distraught little redhead ran out the door. She needed to get away from all...this!
Naruto wanted to go after her but felt he would only do more harm then good.
"Do you see what you've done!?" Kushina roared.
"Consider it the beginning." Mikoto stated vaguely.
Mito couldn't take all of the emotional turmoil at once, she was only eight!
"Why did he lie to me?" She asked herself. "Why would daddy do something like that?"
None of it made any since to her! Her father was a loving man and righteous leader. Why would he banish his own son from the clan? Why would he have an entire clan executed? That wasn't the person who raised her.
She just wanted the pain in her heart to stop!
'Hate them.' A dark voice spoke.
Mito knew this was bad! The Kyuubi only talked when her anger was high enough to manipulate, like now. Calm down Mito. She just needed to calm down and think happy thoughts. Like ramen.
'Destroy them.'
The problem was happy thoughts wouldn't cut it today. With the feeling of anger and betrayal hanging on to her, anger seemed like the lesser evil.
'Do you want the pain to stop?'
The question was enough to distract Mito, enough to give Kyuubi an opening.
Suddenly Mito cried out.
She was in pain, as if her insides were burning away. Each wave of heat brought a wave of anger, constantly building anger.
And power.
As the fire washed through her, she began to lose herself. Everything was becoming a blurry annoyance. She just wanted to get rid of it all.
She wanted to destroy everything!
"Mito!" Naruto gasped.
The two kunoichi had finally stopped their arguments at Naruto's comment. It seemed they felt the presence of it just as much as him.
Naruto stood up and made a mad dash for the door. He was stopped by a chakra chain holding him in place. He looked to see his mother was the one holding him.
"Where do you think you're going?" Kushina asked.
"I'm going to help my sister." He stated.
He tried to free himself but she held him firmly.
"What can you do?" She asked "You'd only be in the way."
Naruto said nothing in reply to her comment, but he did stop struggling. A black and powerful aura began
Dark chakra?! The matriarchs thought shocked.
The chains holding Naruto began to loosen on Naruto before falling limply to the ground.
"I'm going to help my sister." Naruto repeated without looking back.
Interesting. Kushina thought.
Naruto arrived on the scene in a matter of minutes and paled. His mother and brother arrived behind him with the same reaction.
Mito Uzumaki Namikaze was losing control, she was already growing a second tail. She seemed to be doing her best at controlling herself, but she was slowly slipping. Already the Kyuubi's powerful tail was whipping around causing devastation.
NO, she's not ready! Kushina thought desperately. They had never made it past the initial stage in her training.
"Mito, you need to calm down!" Kushina shouted "Remember your training!"
If Kushina's words made it through to the demonic child, she didn't show it. All she did was move around in a blind rage.
"No choice." She grumbled before turning to her 'son'. "Nawaki, just like we practiced!"
"Y-yes ma'am."
As one they shot out a volley of golden chakra chains. They grabbed the Kyuubi induced Mito and held her in place.
Kyuubi knew what these chains were from experience and didn't like them. The demon began pushing more chakra into the girl forcing her to fight back.
"Mom, I can't hold it!" Nawaki shouted.
No sooner had he said that did his chains retract. Nawaki had never trained in restraining Mito past her initial state. Even then he was just barely able to hold her. Kushina grimaced as she looked at her children, one losing control and the other to weak to help. Then again, she doubted she could hold the beast controlling her daughter for long.
Dammit! She cut the connection and allowed the possessed child to continue the rampage.
What do I do? Naruto looked around frantically.
'Such anger.' A demonic voice spoke.
Where have you been? Naruto asked.
'I was...forced away.' Zero answered.
That was the only way to describe the affect of those eyes.
The leech had let out a small chuckle at the thought, those eyes were dark. Zero admitted that even after what had happened, he liked those eyes. That was why he took them.
Help me! Naruto begged.
'...No.' Zero answered.
Before he could make a statement a flash of yellow caught his attention. Looking to the source he saw his 'father' standing on a roof.
Naruto actually let out a sigh of relief as he waited for Minato to stop Mito. As much as he hated the man he knew he was Mito's only hope. That was until Kushina joined his side. Naruto saw her whisper something into his ear.
Their eyes met.
Minato took a step back and smirked as Naruto's eyes widened in disbelief.
The demon had refused to help him save one of his few precious people. He could at least understand that, it was his nature. The fact that Minato wasn't going to help his own daughter!
That made him angry! That made Zero happy.
'Use it!' Zero commanded.
Naruto didn't know what the demon was talking about but obeyed. Just like the last time he felt as if he weren't the only one in his body, this time he knew he wasn't. He didn't put up any resistance as he was guided through a needed series of hand-signs and spoke the words he only read about.
Dark Style: Dark dragon
A small dragon made of shadows the size of a horse pulled itself from the ground. It was an Eastern Chinese type with a trunk like nose.
Tsunade had told Naruto tales of her grandfather summoning a wooden one the size of Kyuubi. It was capable of draining chakra and that was exactly what he needed. He hoped that this one made of dragon was capable of the same.
It had always been a favorite story of Naruto's.
"I-impossible!" He heard his mother gasp.
It's what brought him back to reality.
It seemed Kyuubi was familiar with this technique because it quickly attacked.
Naruto didn't know how to control the wooden dragon, but it did react. It latched itself around the demonic Mito as she attacked and began to drain the foul chakra.
Naruto was actually losing chakra as well by trying to maintain the dragon. The Kyuubi however could keep pushing it's demonic chakra into Mito, just as it was doing.
"Need...more...POWER!" Naruto shouted.
Whether it was out of kindness or some devious plot, Zero gave Naruto chakra. It was so foul that it drew the Kyuubi-Mito's attention from the dragon.
Their eyes met.
Naruto's eyes began to ache before darkness began to fill them. His eyes continued to change until they were as black as a void, they changed even further. A single red dot formed in each eye as they glared at the Kyuubi.
Before Naruto knew it, he was on another plain.
Naruto looked around and saw that he was inside Mito. In front him was a large cell that held the source of his current problem, Kyuubi.
The fox looked down at the boy and gave a glare that could kill a man. However the glare simply brushed past Naruto as he looked for Mito.
He saw her wrapped in the Kyuubi's chakra. It seemed that she was actually in pained as it covered her.
"Who are you?" The fox asked.
Naruto paid the fox no mind as he made his way to his sister.
Without a second thought, he grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. This surprised the fox, it's chakra should have turned the child into ashes, yet here he stood.
"How can you touch my chakra!" The fox asked in outrage.
"Kyuubi." Naruto spoke, never taking his eyes of Mito "If you ever do anything like that to harm my sister..."
"I am immortal and more powerful then you could hope to be!"Kyuubi stated smugly "What can you do human?"
"Simple." Naruto finally turned his attention Kyuubi with a look that sent the demon fox a step back. "I'll seal your power away and then kill you over and over again."
The fox felt something no being has ever caused it, fear! He had the feeling that the child would actually follow through with the threat!
The fear was soon replaced by anger.
A human, a child, had dared to threaten the Nine Tailed fox demon. A being of rage and hate incarnate! None had dared that since...
"Fourth!" The fox understood now! The boy was that man's child, that meant his mother was her!
The fox let out a roar full of it's chakra, hoping to kill the child. Instead Naruto's dark chakra flared, creating an aura of the Zero Tails.
"Hello fox." Zero spoke.
"You!" Kyuubi roared.
"We'll be leaving." Zero spoke "As soon as I take something."
A single tendril lodged itself into Kyuubi and drew it's chakra. Before anything could be said or done, Zero removed it and Naruto's mind went blank.
Only to awaken back in reality.
Naruto looked down, in his arms was an unconscious Mito. Around him was a crowd of both civilians and Shinobi looking at him in wonder. In the front was his so called 'family.'
"That's my boy!" Minato shouted gaining a cheer from the crowd.
What's he planning? Naruto thought.
Before he could try to figure it out or even deny the accusation, Naruto fainted.
When Naruto woke up, he was inside his room in the Senju compound. At his door he could hear yelling.
"I don't care if you're the Hokage!" Tsunade shouted "You aren't taking him away!"
"He's our son!" Kushina shouted.
"Wrong." Tsunade spoke "When you two exiled him from your clans you gave up all rights to him! I took him in and gave him part of his heritage back."
The argument went back and forth.
As Naruto listened he began to feel another presence in the room. Looking around he saw that Mito was sleeping beside him. She looks so peaceful, I hope she's okay. He thought.
'She is unharmed.' The Zero tails spoke as it partially manifested itself.
"What's going on?" Naruto asked.
'They know you're special now.' Zero spoke in his head 'They want it.'
"Special?" Naruto asked.
'Like you always wanted.' Zero commented 'You were given the power of darkness, my power.'
Naruto looked at the leech demon, something seemed...off. It wasn't acting as shady as it once was.
"What do you want?" Naruto asked. "Why are you...different."
"...To be complete." It answered. "I-we are already on the right track."
"...How?" It seemed fully healed to him.
'What do you want?' Zero asked in return. 'You have power that makes you special, but there's something else.'
What do I want? Naruto asked. He had what he wanted from the start, but where does he go from here? He looked at Mito.
Zero looked at the fox container 'Being near her makes the darkness in you brighten.'
"She's my little sister." Naruto answered "The most precious of my few people precious people."
'...She is in danger.' Zero spoke.
"What?" Naruto asked.
Zero didn't explain, at least not in the conventional way. A single tendril shot from his body and pierced Naruto's head and mind.
Then he saw it. From both the Zero's mind and the masked man, Naruto saw all of it.
The Rikudo Sennin.
The moon.
Madara Uchiha.
Akatsuki.
The Tailed Beast.
Juubi.
When Zero removed the tendril Naruto fell to the ground.
Now I understand! He thought.
The Zero Tails wasn't a true tailed beast, it was the consciousness of the Juubi. While the Gedo Mazo held the body of the Juubi, Zero held the mind. It's purpose was to collect the essence of the tailed beasts and recreate the Juubi.
But an organization called Akatsuki was in the way. They too wanted to recreate the Juubi, but they wanted it for a different purpose, to control it.
Naruto looked at his little sister, she was in danger of Akatsuki. I have to protect her. He thought.
To save her he needed help. He looked at the Zero tails. It had a purpose, but it couldn't do it alone, it needed a host to sustain itself.
It had already started the process with the Kyuubi. Now it had eight more to go.
Naruto realized he knew what his new purpose was. He needed to destroy Akatsuki to keep Mito safe.
"I help you become whole." He spoke "You help me with my dreams."
'Deal.'
It was no longer a parasitic relationship between the two with one benefiting the other. Now it was symbiotic, both mutually benefiting.
Naruto looked at the window, then his little sister.
"Goodbye Mito." Naruto whispered "I'll be back and we can be a family again."
"Promise?" She asked.
Naruto froze, then slowly he relaxed. It seemed that Mito was only talking in her sleep.
"I promise." He answered.
Giving her a single kiss on the cheek he left into the darkness.
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I would have updated sooner, but my computer has been giving me trouble.-I will try to update Friday.
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