LB: Hey everybody, welcome to another chapter of Mirror Love!

Now, things start getting a bit gorier here, so you are warned.

I'd like to thank TheWolfBoss06 for beta reading this chapter and helping me with the storyline!

Well, with that said, onwards with the fourth chapter!

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Mirror Love

Chapter 4: Broken Object

The month before Naruto's birthday passed quietly for the village, save a few pranks Naruto liked to play every now and then.

Naruko, like always, would wait for Naruto while he has away, either staring out of the window or sleeping to conserve her chakra. Whenever the original arrived, she would glomp him in a hug while also being careful not to get herself killed in the process. They would stay like that for, sometimes hours, sometimes minutes, before getting up and going on with the rest of their day.

Naruto arrived from the academy normally at late afternoon, and, after that, they would go out in the night to a random training field to play like kids and train, mostly Naruko watching the original train while she would use a book to point out his flaws and help him correct his stances, his hand signs, etc.

The sealing training was done during early morning before school if they had time and before they had to go to sleep at night. They also extended their training in holidays and Sundays to better master the art.

By the time October arrived, Naruto was good enough with seals to make storage scrolls, powerful explosive tags, weak gravity seals, weak binding seals, moderate trap seals and a chakra absorption seal. Naruko however, took a liking to gravity seals and decided to stick with then, creating some rather curious seals that made kunai, shuriken and other equipment lighter than normal, without it losing any efficiency. The only problem was that the light kunai and shuriken had decreased accuracy and increased damaging power if the same force to throw a normal kunai had used, Naruko couldn't use her own chakra to make the seals and they had to be place individually, which has quite time consuming.

Obviously, Hiruzen Sarutobi was very, VERY impressed with Naruto's progress after only a month of training in fuinjutsu, and even decided to give him a better sealing book once he managed to master everything in the first book. It looks like Naruto truly have the blood of an Uzumaki running through his veins. Even he and Jiraya took quite a while to master even those very basic seals.

But Naruto himself wasn't happy with the results, oh no. He managed to make a chakra absorption seal. Yet again the exact opposite of what he wanted to do for Naruko. Of course, it's very useful, but NOT for his goal. In theory, he could easily just inject his chakra intro a seal and then put it in Naruko to feed her with his chrakra. He tried it and for some reason, it didn't work.

Naruto tried to directly put his chakra into her, since she is his clone and it SHOULD work. But he only managed to make her cry out in pain the moment he put his chakra into her, like her body is rejecting foreign chakra, even though it is HIS chakra.

Hell, the blond boy even tried to do something really insane that normally worked only in fiction books. He gave Naruko his blood to drink, like a goddam vampire. And, much to his fright, it WORKED, and she LIKED the taste. It gave her as much chakra as a ramen bowl did though, so it's not going to be much help unless she starts going around sucking people dry like a true vampire. It didn't make her any more resistant, however. So the idea is discarded, for now.

Naruko still seemed to want to taste blood more often, but he made a clear point that this is a big no, especially if she ends up liking it as much as they like ramen. Konoha would be a goner in a few days, not that he minded, he just didn't want the few people who are nice to him to become vampire food.

So, as the time passed, Naruto began to get more and more desperate for a way to make Naruko stay longer, soldier pills started to work less, her skin began to get grayish and got a few cracks, she began to get thinner, had a hard time breathing and also got constant chest pains. Even her eyes and hair started to lose their color.

By the time October 10th arrived, Naruko was pretty much a shadow of her former self, requiring Naruto to carry her on his back when they needed to go for long distances.

October 10th… 09:00 AM…

Another day in the Uzumaki apartment, Naruto woke with the comfortable and familiar feeling of having Naruko snuggled up to him. He opened his eyes and saw her cute sleeping face. Even though her skin is gray white and seemed to have a few cracks on it, she is still the most beautiful girl in the world for him.

He wanted nothing more than to put her in a bear hug, but he knew that if he did that, there could be a risk of her going up in smoke and dying without even saying 'good morning' to him.

So, he settled for getting closer to her and putting one of his hands in her hair. He stayed like that long enough for the female clone to wake up. He smiled at her, looking at her discolored blue nearly gray, tired looking eyes.

"Good morning Naruko-chan…" He said to her, smiling gently at the one who gave him affection for nearly half a year.

"Good Morning, Naru-kun…" The clone smiled, putting one thin hand on his cheek, as if to memorize the feeling of his face in her very soul.

They slowly got up, Naruto first to get ready for the day, and then Naruko, who insisted she could get ready by herself, probably embarrassed at the idea of Naruto bathing her.

After they got ready, they decided to sit again in the bed, and stayed there for a while.

"Hey, Naru-kun?" The gray skinned girl asked to her male counterpart, looking intently at him.

"Hmm?" Naruto asked, turning his face to look at her.

The blond got quite surprised when Naruko suddenly wrapped her arms around him, her face getting closer and clos- Wait, what?

"Mmm…" Naruto got a kiss, in the mouth. He seemed surprised at first, but then quickly wrapped his arms around her thin frame, kissing her awkwardly. What they both felt at this moment could only be described as pure happiness, a happiness they didn't want to end, so, even after separating, they just got right back to kissing.

The kiss, while passionate, wasn't deep, or messy, it was like a light kiss, an innocent one where they kept savoring the happy feeling it gave them. At last, after around 10 or so minutes of this, they separated, both smiling gently, with a blush on their faces.

"Naru-kun… Happy birthday…" She said with a big smile on her face, grinning softly at him.

"A.. kiss… This, this is an expression of love…" Naruto closed his eyes, and then, hugged her once more.

"Thank you, thank you, Naruko-chan… Thank you…" Naruto was nearly crying now, a expression of love, a true expression of love, from the girl he cherished the most.

"You are welcome, Naru-kun… And, I'm also feeling happy…" She rested her head on him as she said that, sighing happily.

And as such did they spend their birthday. Since today is a holiday due to being the day the Yondaime killed the Kyuubi, they don't have to worry about going to the academy for the day, so they have the full day to spend their birthday with each other, this time, without any training, only having fun with each other.

Their time together had to be briefly interrupted by both the Sandaime, who gave Naruto a pair of goggles and a big set of kunai, shuriken, a new pencil and chakra ink, and Iruka, who appeared to take Naruto out for Ramen. The boy had to go to keep up appearances, and, while he felt bad about leaving his clone behind by herself, he still had fun with his father figure.

That is not to say that Naruto didn't return home without anything for his dear clone, as he was heading home, he stopped by a store when he saw some rather beautiful necklaces. Looking away, the blond quickly found an alley, entered it and, with a quick henge, altered his appearance to that of a normal brown haired boy.

He entered the shop and managed to buy a necklace without any troubles, a cute, silver necklace with a tear shaped, bluish crystal, called an Aquamarine. Apparently, it had healing properties, being good for breathing and recovering from infections, being a symbol of good luck and happiness by ancient sea travelers.

He didn't believe much that it had those powers, but by the symbolism, he immediately bought it. It cost a lot of money, but since he saved enough money, he could still afford it.

By late afternoon, Naruto was already arriving at his home.

"Naruko-chan! I'm ho- Ghah!" A hand shot out, grabbed him, shoved him inside, locked the door and then, Naruto got tackled by a blond girl. After calming down, the boy smiled.

"Hahaha, sorry, did I make you wait too long, Naruko-chan?" The boy asked, hugging the thin girl's frame closer to him.

"I missed you… Now you have to stay the rest of the night here with me!" She exclaimed, burying her face in his chest. While she only wants what is best for her original, she still can be very selfish sometimes, especially when it came to their time together.

"Don't worry, I will stay the rest of our birthday together with you." After staying in the ground for a while, like always, they got up and headed to their bed, sitting beside each other.

"Close your eyes." Naruto said. His twin, confused, did as such. She felt his arms around her neck, and then, something cold being placed around her neck. She opened her eyes with surprise when he kissed her softly.

"Happy birthday to you as well, Naruko-chan." The boy grinned at his counterpart, who could only stare in shock at the blue jewel. She got up, walked to the mirror in the bathroom and stared at it for a good three minutes. Then, she walked back, sat besides Naruto again, turned in his direction and hugged him tightly.

"Thank you, thank you very much Naruto-kun, thank you, thank you, thank you..." She kept repeating thanks yous over and over while rubbing her head against him. Naruto could only smile and held her.

For as this is a day where both of them can be happy, their birthday, the happiest birthday they had in all their lives.

All the while, a very bored Anbu was 'watching' his charge to protect him from any immediate harm. It's been a good while since Naruto had any attempt on his life and, while glad, it made Kakashi a very bored Anbu.

Kakashi never really watched Naruto like a hawk since no villager, genin or chunin could get past him easily, even when he didn't pay attention to his job. This mission could very well be paid vacation for all that he knew.

Of course, Kakashi DID know some of Naruto's habits now. The boy frequently got out during the night to go to a training field, usually taking a clone with him to help him train. This made the copy-nin wonder a little, the clone usually had a scroll in its hands to help him correct mistakes, but he never sparred against it, maybe he wanted to preserve chakra? Or maybe someone to talk to? It's not rare for ninja that knew the Kage Bushin to talk with their clone to get an outsider's perspective on training after all, those things can be quite smart when they want to.

Also, it seemed that Naruto allowed no one inside his house, which has strange. During one of the boy's night escapes, he went into his apartment and found nothing ordinary that could possibly clue him on why he had that short of behavior, maybe he got paranoid after the villagers tried to stone him? That could be it.

Kakashi sighed. Another boring, dull day. Oh, how he wished some action could take place to kill his boredom. Yes, the anbu would regret this line of though in the not so distant future.

A few days later…

Tragedy, this is the only thing that such a day could be called. On a day that seemed like any other, with a sunny morning with singing birds and laughing kids in the public parks of Konoha, who would've ever though such a tragedy would occur?

The Uchiha Clan had been annihilated, every single member killed, save for a young Sasuke, by a single person, Itachi Uchiha.

When the Anbu figured out what has happening, it was already too late, for the massacre was already over, and, they had no choice but take the sole survivor to a hospital and have a very intense search around Konoha for the traitor.

Every single Anbu in Konoha had been summoned forth to abandon whatever it is they're doing and search every nook and cranny in the village. Every single Anbu, even Kakashi and his ninja dogs, had been called forth to help in search of a serial murderer.

Near Naruto's house…

Such a fortunate day, every single Anbu in the village is too busy to notice a small party of 7 aged genin, a few of them crippled, in front of a normal looking house.

Every single one of them used to be genin at the time the Kyuubi attacked, they had dreams, they had loved ones, they had promises never to be realized, they had stories that had fallen in the most bitter bad end imaginable.

Some of them had been unlucky enough to be near the beast, and lost their abilities to be ninjas for the rest of their lives, but what all they had in common is that all of them lost everything that drove them forward, and such, even the ones who aren't crippled didn't manage to even reach chunnin, and were regarded as failures.

All of it, all of it, the fault of a wretched beast, who currently is inside a boy. They would take revenge for their loved ones and for their lost dreams, they would make sure to kill the beast, and kill it for good, or die trying. They no longer cared, they just needed to KILL THE DAMN THING!

All the while the twins had been blissfully asleep, completely oblivious to the tragedy that was about to strike them with force, and, since Naruto has very tired from pushing himself in his training and Naruko could no longer bother to pay attention to her surroundings, they never noticed the lock of their house being picked.

They never noticed the 7 genin getting closer to their bed. And, by the time they did notice a foreign presence, it was already too late. The invaders had sprung into action, separating Naruko from him and wrapping both with ninja wire.

They were helpless.

"…! W-what is going on?!" Naruto woke up with a start, trying to move himself, but found out he was unable to.

"…What?" Naruko also woke, much more slower than Naruto, but she still got startled when she found out she was unable to move.

Then, they saw it. Seven figures surrounding them, 2 making sure Naruko didn't move and the rest with Naruto, looking down at him with disgust.

"We are here to finish you once and for all, you blasted demon!" One of them spit on his face, and stomped on him.

"Ghah!"

"L-Leave him alone!" Naruko shouted, at this point, she has beginning to tear up at her helplessness.

"And who the fuck are you?" One of the guys lit up a lantern to her face, and got quite shocked that she looked exactly like the demon brat on the ground.

"W-What is this… Is… Is the demon spawn multiplying?!" He exclaimed, and got quite a reaction of the others, who quickly got to her and began to touch her and look at her using the lantern.

"Ahh… Stop it, this hurts! Ahh!" She tried to struggle, but it was to no avail, she couldn't do anything, she was too weak to even try to move her face. Their rough grip has taking all of what has left of her chakra to kept her body intact.

"YOU BASTARDS! LEAVE NARUKO ALONE!" Naruto kept shouting with all his force, putting even more force on his bindings, but his shout only made them angrier.

"What did you say, demon?! You dare try to tell us what to do? Hah!" The guy who said that went over to him and stepped hard on Naruto's stomach, making him yell in pain and Naruko to claim for mercy on him.

"Like hell we will! The bastard fox didn't had pity on our loved ones!" The guy kicked Naruto away, and took a kunai out of his pouch.

"So it only just that WE KILL HIM NOW!" The guy stabbed Naruto's shoulder, deeply, making him yell even louder.

"This is for the dreams you destroyed!" Once again, he stabbed Naruto, this time on his other shoulder. Naruko was now crying at her counterpart's pitying bloody form.

"And this is for every single person you killed!" The guy stepped away from Naruto, he got quite a distance from him, and then, began running in his direction.

"DIEEEE!" He rushed at Naruto.

"No…" Naruko though.

"Nonono…"

"Nonononononono!"

"NONONONONONO!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Time stopped at this moment, the world got dark, and she found herself in front of a gigantic gate in the middle of some sort of sewer.

"You amuse me, little fake. I have decided. I'm going to grant you my power to protect your original self." From between the gate's bars, a red shroud began to run towards her, and she felt it. Power.

"Go, use my power, we will talk later." And thus, she found herself back in the real world.

She didn't know what gave her strength, but she thanked it.

"AAAHHHHHHH!" She yelled with tears in her eyes. She could feel the rest of the chakra in her body get wild and unstable, but she didn't care. The red aura that the voice gave her allowed her to survive just this moment longer. The wires wrapping her exploded with the force she was making, and, without a second though, she ran forward.

"… Ahh…"

A knife wound. Naruko got stabbed.

"N-Naruko…"

The girl has holding the arm of the ninja with all the power she had, she got stabbed in the stomach, and she could already feel that her body has going to disappear.

"W-what?" The ninja in question, could only stare in horror as she used all of her power to hold his arms, and then, she looked up at him.

Her eyes are bloody red.

"No… Naruko! Why?! WHY?!" Naruto looked on in horror, her body was starting to disappear in a black mist that has returning to his body. She was dying, she was dying. The only, the only person who showed him love and affection that he needed… Was dying in front of him.

She used her last powers to look back at him, a gentle smile on her face.

"A… Kage Bushin's… duty… is to… protect… the original… no… matter… what…" Half her body has gone now, but she still kept smiling kindly at her original.

"Naru…kun… please… live… remember… I… love… you…" And thus, her body disappeared completely, the Aquamarine necklace he gave her, falling on the ground with a loud ring. He paid the dark mist entering him no mind, only looking at the necklace that fell in the ground.

His mind broke.

"NARUKOOOO!"

The genin there began to laugh loudly, after all, that is the exact same way they reacted to losing people who are close to them. Revenge is a plate best served cold after all.

"GRAAAAAAAHHH!" They stopped laughing at once when he yelled like a beast. With shocked expressions, they watched as a red shroud took hold of his body.

He exploded out of the ninja wire, before getting up slowly. Three red chakra tails swinging behind him. His whiskers are much darker than usual, and, along with his long fangs and blood red eyes, gave him a truly demonic look.

Pure hatred and despair, that is the only thing one could describe by seeing his eyes, glaring at them with all the hate in the world as well as shedding a continuous flow of tears. He took one step towards them.

And they yelled in fright.

The first had his arms plucked out and then torn in half before he could do anything, the second had lost both his legs and got beaten to death with them, the third, one of the cripples, got his eyes gouged out and shoved in his mouth before Naruto tore his neck off with his bare hands, the fourth, the other cripple, got slashed several times before having his head smashed into pudding, the fifth, got a hand shoved into his chest and died as he felt him smash his heart, the sixth, got all of his members tore out from his body, and has left there to bleed to death as he yelled in pain.

Now, all that was left was Naruto and the one who killed Naruko.

The unfortunate bastard could only stare in shock and horror as the boy bathed in the blood of his friends, by the time he finished, all the orange in his clothes has now red. He looked like a true visage from hell, and he was after him.

Before he could even yell, he got a powerful punch in the stomach, with had him vomit blood, then, he got shoved into the ground, and Naruto forced him to look into his eyes. He felt fear, he felt terror, he felt despair.

The demonic boy then proceeded to bit the fingers of his hands one by one, with his teeth, ignoring the man's screams of terror and pain. After that, he tore both his arms out and threw then somewhere in his bloodied house. He got to his legs, and twisted then, hard enough for then to break, he continued twisting his legs until they also got tore out of his body. All the while, the genin has screaming in pain, crying for him to stop, to kill him already.

His screaming was annoying, so Naruto created a solution. He put one hand in his lower jaw, and, with care not to kill him, tore it off as well. The man has visibly convulsing now, his eyes open with pure terror while he could only make weird noses with his nonexistent mouth.

To make him suffer even more, Naruto took the kunai the genin used to kill Naruko, and shoved it into his eyes, making the man let out a loud noise of pain from his vocal cords. The boy didn't even bother to remove it from him, and just left it there.

To finish his revenge, he shoved his hand into his stomach, grasped his intestines, and pulled them out, winning another strange scream from the man. After that, he put his guts around his neck, tightly enough to make it painful to breathe, but not enough to kill him, he would be left there to die painfully.

Naruto got up, ignoring the sound the dying man made, and walked towards the window. Konoha, what an eyesore, Konoha, he would crush it, Konoha, he will kill them all, Konoha, will pay for killing Naruko, Konoha, Konoha, Konoha, Konoha, Konoha, Konoha, Konoha, KONOHA!

With Hiruzen…

Everything was quiet, but not because of the Massacre the Uchiha had just gone through, oh no, it's because of it.

This terrible chakra, this terrible feeling. Something had happed to Naruto, and, by the huge red explosion that originated from the spot he lives, he was afraid what could happen.

"ANBU! Let's go!"

With Naruto…

"GRAAAAHHH!" His house was gone to dust now, the bodies of the people he killed had flew out somewhere, but he didn't care. He was going to destroy everyone in the village next, that is all he could feel, pure, unadultered hatred for the world.

Before he could take a single step forward, however, strange wooden heads appeared out of nowhere and bit him. He could feel his chakra being sucked, so he started to destroy the things, but he was stopped when the Third Fire Shadow slapped a paper on his forehead.

Naruto looked up, seeing the stern face of his grandfather figure. The strength faded from his body, and he fell forwards in the arms of the Hokage unconscious.

Chapter 4: END!