Authors notes- that guy who reviewed saying something about a challenge being accepted, who are you and what's a challenge I don't write stories based upon the pleas of others I write stories that I think would be cool so you're out of luck.
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An impossibly tall man clad in an equally long trench coat stepped off the subway train people giving him a wide berth as he moved.
"Thank you for riding Kawara express I hope you enjoyed your ride" a young lady spoke in a ditzy voice most likely her only role as being eye candy and repeating those same lines over and over.
The man turned to face the lady revealing him to be in his late twenties with a soft face and a beard in desperate need of a trim, he reached up to the crucifix hanging from his neck and bowed his head to the girl.
"Go with god my child" the man spoke in a low baritone heavily accented with Scottish before turning away making his way out of the subway.
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Cold, alone and dark
Water dripped from leaky pipes barely keeping themselves together as they hung freely over a vast expanse of darkness, swirling motes of blackness tinged with red and blue pinpricks being the only light as the usual yellow glow from the ceiling lights had dimmed to a point where not even there shape could be made out from the lack power supplied to them
Naruto continued to move a sense of foreboding overriding the numbness brought on by the absolute cold of the dismal atmosphere, icy cold winds doing nothing to reassure him or warm him either
His feet made sharp ringing sounds as the metal of the pipes creaked and bent at dangerous angles dipping the parts he walked upon like a child on a trampoline, despite all this Naruto never once lost his footing or made fault in his footing
'maybe because its my mind I can't do things I don't want to' Ninja he was but psychologist he wasn't as he had failed almost every test sent for him in both his gennin exams and paper work for when he had finally made it to chunin and because of this he truly had no idea of how the inner workings of a mind should work
Looking up Naruto realised he had come to an area of land as his feet made a soft crunching sound that had usually accompanied gravel, dirt or 'leaves?'
Swinging his head from side to side Naruto took in the area he was in a floating island suspended entirely on the pipes that had once been held up by tunnels and passageways for his mind
Tall trees grew up from the ground twisted in a macabre display that would horrify even most ninja, leaves slowly fell from the trees all stained in a dark red almost black swirling gently towards the ashen ground breaking apart into minuscule pieces before they had even gotten half way
"Its snowing" muttered Naruto slightly dazed at the sight, only once before had he seen snow in a stark contrast to the pure white of snow country this more a murky brown/black of ash and a dirt with the same consistency of dried flaked blood
"It's been awhile Naruto-kun"
Spinning like a top the world blurred for a second before righting itself the snow like ash making a sick yet strangely beautiful picturesque landscape as it fell around a person sitting on a tree stump not a single flake of the grimy substance coming close
"Sa-Sakura-chan... ...but how, you're dead"
Sakura dressed in a pink dress that ended mid-calf daintily drew herself up from the tree stump a glided gracefully to Naruto coming barely writhin a foot of the blond hollow
"Giggle, yes I suppose Your Sakura is dead but I'm not actually the real Sakura you should know after all you did see me die yourself"
"Then if you're not Sakura-chan why are you here tell me NOW" the air rippled around Naruto as a black wave coalesced around his feet knocking ash particles into the air violently
"I'm here because you're going insane Naruto-kun" Sakura looked both hurt and sympathetic like pitying a crippled shinobi or a pathetic piece of offal that was left of a jutsu victim
"What?" Naruto took a step back his hands automatically going into a basic Taijutsu stance before he could stop himself the shock moving the corrupted miasma of spirit particles at his feet seeping back into his body
"Your soul has been ripped apart surely you've felt the empty feeling in you body, the way food no longer has flavour or taste, how even the things that you normally enjoyed don't even seem worth the effort anymore, I'm what's left of your conscience the parts you enjoyed in life before everyone turned on you"
Sakura turned away taking long slender steps that showed off much off her lightly tanned legs as she moved before she pirouetted her long pale pink hair floating in time to her unearthly movements, they appeared unrestricted to normal physics as no human could move so freely
Amazed all Naruto could do was watch his first crush for nearly half a minute until she finally wound down "You know Naruto-kun the reason why I look like Sakura don't you"
"No"
"Its simple really Naruto-kun, even after what I had done to you how many times I had hurt you, you still seen me as innocence and kindness and what was left of your conscience and compassion took this form as it is made up of all your warm memories a good, honest feelings, but..."
She turned to him her previous happy demeanour ruined by long tear streaks and red pussy eyes
"Its gotten so cold so quickly and I feel what's left of my life fading as your hollow side grows, it hungers for more and yearns to be released and is slowly devouring us and trying to leave you with only your bestial instincts"
Falling to her knees Sakura clutched her stomach, her elegant dress staining red as a deep wound opened itself up along her abdomen the exact point where there was a hole in Naruto
"Please Naruto-kun don't let it take you over, if you do not conquer it you'll disappear and I'll never be able to see you smile again"
Within seconds Sakura had faded becoming thousands of Sakura petals that drifted away and before he knew it Naruto had begun to wake up
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Naruto woke immediately rolling out of bed his hand moving to where his kunai holster should have been, gripping air Naruto remembered that he did not have any weapons on him and he wasn't under attack and slowly righted himself brushing off wrinkles in his clothing
Closing his eyes Naruto centred himself and begun to think about what to do pushing the simulated voice of Sakura and her words from his thoughts
'What should I do, I can't trust the people here they don't 'feel' right, almost as if their under a henge or Genjutsu'
A small part of his mind spoke up telling him that they threatened his existence despite that none of them seemed to have any power to speak of
'I can't stay here so first things first is I make my escape and then I can figure something out from there'
Opening his eyes Naruto dressed himself and opened the window and jumped outside and landed on the soft green grass of the side lawn of the Kurosaki's clinic
Drawing on what was left of his corpse's chakra Naruto ninja jumped onto the wall and started running letting his arms fall to his sides and his mind wander
'I'm in a foreign world, no money, no resources and no contacts, plus I've given myself away to one possible enemy in a family of unknown strength and I myself have become an unsure factor, that and I have yet to come across any form of shinobi or samurai presence'
Something most ninja paid little attention to was the large difference between areas where trained people like shinobi dwelled and places untouched by them had a very different feel to them as the only real way to describe it was that the air felt thinner in areas that had little to no contact with people with chakra reserves
This however was much different to areas that had shinobi who hid there presence as the air was still thick but there was a glazed feel to the keen senses that ninja possessed telling any experienced shinobi that there was danger in waiting
But Naruto even without looking could feel that there were no people experienced with the finer points of body and mind energy manipulation
'Hunger, I'm so very hungry' moaned Naruto mentally his eyes glassing over slightly as he looked at a young woman dressed in a business suit and made to track her absently licking his lips as he hopped from roof to roof his eyes not leaving her for a second
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Shuna felt uneasy as a feeling of impending doom hung around her like the bad smell on an otaku that hadn't showered during a three week binge of anime
Her high heeled shoes clipped sharply on the concrete ground as her pace quickened, her heart rate skyrocketing as mental images of every woman's worst nightmare danced through her head, her hand dipped into her purse and tightly gripping the chemical mace that was known to be the best friend of possible assaulted women everywhere
Her breath was coming out in short gasps as the anxiety and sense that someone was following her increased her eyes wildly darting left and right as she looked over her shoulder her pace once again increasing
Turning down an unfamiliar street Shuna almost broke into a dead run her palms sweating as her heartbeat tha-thumped in her ears heavily drowning out all other noises of far off traffic and the hustle and bustle of those who had risen early for work
Paranoia was on high as she looked at each garbage can and bag of refuse that to her looked like another hiding place for whatever was following her each one looking more and more sinister the farther she moved shadows playing tricks and making her shake in fear, desperate to get away
Turning another corner Shuna came to a dead end and with a shaky breath slowly turned ready to face whatever waited
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Naruto could feel the fear rolling off the woman in droves and it felt so thick it was enough to cut with a knife and to him it felt like a drug, his mouth salivated in anticipation and his head throbbed in a sense of clouded judgement his mind having given way to more base urges
His mouth extended fangs growing and nails lengthening, his blue eyes shined brightly like stars twinkling in the night sky as they glowed and pulsed with power
He crouched on the overhang of the rooftop and without a sound dropped behind the woman grabbing her arm with the canister of mace and gripping her neck with his free arm
He looked straight into the eyes of the woman strangely excited at what he saw. Fear, hate, loathing, defiance and even acceptance it was all there emotions raging just under the surface of her face her deep brown eyes showing her entire soul to him
The woman struggled kicking him right in the crotch to no effect and scratching at him with her arm that held her purse only moments before, he brought his face up close her neck drinking deeply the aroma she gave off of scented shampoo and the pheromones that ran through her body
She shook like a leaf in the wind continuing to struggle bruising her body more then his and breaking her nails in the attempts to thwart her attacker
Smiling a cruel smile Naruto opened his mouth wide incisor teeth gleaming in the dawning light that trickled into the alleyway and her eyes caught sight of this and she began to whimper her deeply curved legs almost giving out on her as her resolve broke
Naruto licked along her neck taking in the simpering sounds the woman made and savagely sunk his teeth into her neck
Euphoria would do no justice to what Naruto was feeling, power flooded his very being as energy trailed through his body making him feel more alive then he had ever when he was human, nothing could beat what he was feeling and didn't want it to ever stop and without his conscience to remind him what he was doing was wrong he continued to drink from the woman taking great satisfaction that her whimpers turned into moans and gasps the more he drank
Finding that she had nothing left in her Naruto let Shuna limply drop from his uncaring arms and wiped the blood from his mouth and let out a deep sigh of content
He then stared at the body numbly for a good five minutes his brain slowly processing what was happening now that he had fed and his higher brain functions had begun to realign themselves and start back up his body finally telling the mind what has been happening
"Kami-sama what have I done" the words he spoke were barely above a whisper but they were heavier then the weights Lee had once tried to make him wear and made reality come crashing back down around his heels
'What am I gonna do... wait I drank blood from her so It's obvious I just put blood back in her and she'll be alright'
Looking at the rapidly cooling body of the curly haired brunet Naruto knelt down and bit his wrist and moved his bleeding arm to the woman's mouth and hesitated he could feel that something life changing would happen if he healed her but if he didn't...
Banishing his indecision Naruto placed his wrist to the young woman's lush lips, thick globes of black red blood trickled along the jagged rip made by his teeth into her open mouth
Several seconds passed before anything happened Naruto almost giving up hope that his spare of the moment plan was going to work and had almost removed his wrist when he felt a tongue lap at his arm before biting down experimentally on his offered wrist
The woman's eyes snapped open tinted red in the iris appearing feral, bestial even and after drinking for a short time Naruto dislodged the woman from his wrist throwing her against the wall in the process
the woman who he had just murdered was dragging herself to her feet re-adjusting her business skirt to cover the top of her pantyhose stockings and brushing off the dirt on her suit and giving herself a once over straightening her neck tie as she turn to face Naruto
He now got a good look at her and was pleased at what he saw, tall and slender she had the look about of someone who made a job of looking the best, her hair had deep curls of a light brown and her previously deep brown eyes now tinged a light red, her complexion was pale, extremely pale as what colour that was in her face had been drained and didn't seem to be returning anytime soon
She was dressed in a grey business suit with matching mid-length skirt and black stockings under two inch high heels and had an expensive gold watch on her right wrist and a plain silver necklace on around her neck.
"Master what you need of me" Bowing her head she kneeled in front of Naruto catching him completely off guard making him stutter incoherently.
"Master... but, what? How? Why?" Flailing his arms for emphasis Naruto continued to splutter out random words in the vein hope of saying something positive.
"Silly master don't you know you just linked myself to you" slowly things were making sense unlike his ninja training where he was 'taught' how to do something the actions and knowledge of his hollow side were immediate and just like the instinct of fight or flight it was inbuilt into his psyche and the psyche of every single hollow
His mind, he could feel it slowly waking like he had just opened his eyes for the first time 'It all makes sense' Instinct being a powerful force drove him forward understanding things that would take him years to learn and decades to master, the attacks he used to save Yuzu, how he made this girl even how he himself turned into how he was
But there were gaps, parts of his mind clouded in a thick blanket of fog impenetrable and impregnable, it would take time but eventually it would clear and then he would truly 'know'
"Your name? Its Shuna?" Naruto asked unsure as images of the woman's life flashed in front of him 'memories of her blood' he thought as he walked in front of her gently cupping her chin and tilting her head to meet his deep blue eyes
"Yes Master"
Naruto smirked for once he was in charge, in a place of power
"And this world, what can you tell me of it Shuna" his voice echoed off the cavernous alley most of the light dying away to a soft gloom
"I can find you the place where you would become most powerful"
His grin deepened 'Yes it is mine, all mine If I cannot be Hokage then I will rule Japan'
'It is my right'
'My purpose'
'My existence'
'I am the King'
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End chapter.
I took some liberties with a lot of things in this chapter, I figured the story wouldn't progress right if I had him spend the morning with the Kurosaki's (my reasons to my own for the moment) and him going to school wouldn't fit well either (also something I'm going to keep to myself) instead I had him run off and make the first steps to creating an army, next chapter will properly be a villainous monologue where Naruto will spill all his secrets of world domination or something along those lines.
Naruto doesn't exactly have a conscience more a resolve, a need to lead others if you will and because of that driving force he'll be able to keep his former mentality and drive himself to greater heights.
About the hollow and 'knowing' - How I see it the hollow don't actually learn per say its just something they're capable of like when Ogihci (Ichigo's hollow side) spun Zangetsu by the hilt wrap using a style that most would never consider let alone try especially considering Zangetsu's immense size.
Because of this I believe that Hollow are for the most part weaker then Shinigami in terms of raw power but excel when it comes to actual knowledge of their skill, they do it as easily as a human walks or a bird flies.
-Blood memories- A technique that while draining blood also takes the condensed Reiatsu within the blood along with the thoughts and past experiences, if you know what you're looking for then its possible to isolate certain things like knowledge of astronomy or physics, it also forms a link between the two when the drained person if fed blood back to them.
The creature made by this blood transfer isn't actually a hollow as it is still trapped within its body but much like the Quincy they can use reiatsu to boost their bodies to inhuman levels even to the point where Sado (Chad) would envy their endurance.
I based them off vampires in the Lunar legend Tsukihime and partly in Hellsing anime in that they follow orders like mindless drones and have intense loyalty to their creator but still maintain their former personality and habits i.e. smoking even though they don't breathe.