The new Sauron
Ch. 1 The perfect vessel and one ring to rule them all
I don't own either Naruto or LOTR… I wish I did, though *sigh* oh well.
Sarutobi was troubled. The now 70+ year old man was REALLY getting too old for this… It was now the October Ninth, a day before his charges birthday. He had hoped and trusted that the villagers and shinobi would have some, if not a lot of goodwill towards the boy. Even though a good number of shinobi was indifferent, and a lot less holding respect, it was painfully obvious for Sarutobi that the grand majority of villagers and shinobi held as much ill will towards him as they would a mass murderer. Incidentally, that's what they pretty much saw him as, a mass murderer and a demon.
The villagers and scornful shinobi would stop at nothing short of torture to kill the boy. What was worse, they had most of the council on their side. Speaking of the council, within it are the greatest threats. Besides the wealthy merchants and civilians that always hire assassins, there were some clans that would not dare to openly harm him… and Danzo.
He has been constantly pushing the council to let him turn Naruto into a weapon. If it were not for the councils fear of giving Naruto power… He doesn't even want to think about it. At this point in time though, he wouldn't put it past him to kidnap the boy, and the bodyguards he assigned are not completely trustworthy, if past experience serves…
What to do? The council has foiled most attempts to get the boy adopted, and most clans does not want anything to do with him, either from hatred or not wanting any trouble.
Sarutobi lights his pipe and takes a long drag on it. He puffs out a ring and then puffs out a ship-looking cloud of smoke that goes through the ring. He sighs and makes up his mind. He can at the very least take him into a sort of protective custody for the next few days. He smiles as he knows how much Naruto enjoys his son Asuma's company. Every time they meet, Asuma and Naruto plays games of shogi, chess, and go. He gets up and decides to get Naruto personally not trusting any ANBU because of… past failures. He sighs as he thinks 'you just cant find good help these days…'
As the man in white and red robes walked through the streets of Konoha, many villagers and shinobi stopped to say a polite "Hello, Sandaime-sama, Good morning, Sandaime-sama" along with waves, polite bows, and etc. But through all the cheeriness, he still couldn't get past a feeling of malice and killing intent off in the distance. He put a bit more hurry in his step, and caught up to the feeling of malice and ki. To his chagrin, a mob that was heading in the direction of Naruto's apartment was the source.
Sarutobi had no illusions of any villagers or nin being kind hearted enough to warn or save Naruto from the approaching danger, so he knew what he must do. Channeling chakra into his feet, he made a great leap and landed in front of the wrath ridden crowd. As soon as he turned around, the villagers and nin's faces turned into ones of joy. But not a benevolent joy, one that was made from excitement from believing that the Hokage finally went to their way of thinking, that they can now escape any negative consequences from their evil intentions… it's a funny thing, ignorance, it can make you believe the dumbest things and is as contagious as the plague.
"Hokage-sama, are you finally going to let us kill the Kyuubi brat?" one says, and more cheer as they think that they will finally get to kill the resident 'demon'. As it were, this pisses off the Sandaime to no end, seeing as the boy is his charge, and unofficial grandson. "Tell me," he begins "Why would you want to kill this child?" at this the entire mob cheerfully gives their answer, ranging from him being controlled by the Kyuubi, to him being the Kyuubi, to him being a servant, to him being a slave to the Kyuubi, to some sick imaginings that made Sarutobi want to hurl. 'What is wrong with this village?'
They continued until a very peeved Sarutobi yelled "enough!" they all turn towards him "I have been lenient, upon all of you up until now, thinking you would have goodwill towards the one who keeps our destruction at bay. But no longer will I stand the excessive cruelty and malice that goes on within your actions!" This royally pissed of the civilians, who were used to getting away with these things because of the council, the shinobi were no better.
"Screw you old man!" one arrogant nin said "You've gone senile, if you think that that… De-" his words wore stopped by a kunai to the throat, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood loyal ANBU. "Grrr, Alright boys, this senile old fool has just crossed the line! RIOT! Revolt with me! And we will take over and give the title of Hokage to someone who deserves it!" A jounin within the mob states. "ANBU" Sarutobi started and several ANBU appeared. "They are starting a riot, arrest or kill them." he said as more civilians, crazed by thoughts of revenge against a defeated foe, start joining in.
It was a good thing, really, that there was a large percentage of loyal shinobi in Konohagakure. Unfortunately, them having loyalty towards the Hokaga has nothing to do with liking Naruto one bit.
Nope
And as such they left the child, who is scared crapless by now AND is the target of this outbreak, totally unprotected. Sarutobi, thankfully, realized this in time to intercept a small force of rogue-nin that stuck together in front of Naruto's apartment. "You would do so much as to betray your village and leader, just to sate your wrath upon an innocent? I will be your end to this evil path! You shall not pass!" (hehe, couldn't resist) With that yell of a sentence, he yells Doton: Doryuso! Spikes jut out of the ground and skewer all present into shishkabobs. Sighing, he turns around and enters Narutos apartment, to make sure he was okay. Surely enough, he found the boy hiding under his bed, as all frightened children do at one time or another.
After he was able to calm the boy down, an ANBU came in. "Sir" he started, "The conflict has been resolved."
"Good, Naruto, gather your things" Sautobi says, to a very confused Naruto.
"why Sarutobi jiji?" The wizened old man gives him a smile "Youre going to live with me for now on."
Cheers were heard as an orange blur moving faster than the speed of sound ran all around the apartment. When it was done, a tired looking child was in the middle of the room with a suitcase. Sarutobi blinked for a moment to clear his vision. "Erm, Naruto, I didnt know you had THAT much stuff..." he says surprised by the bulging suitcase. Naruto rubs his head sheepishly and mutters aloud "Actually its filled with instant ramen cups... I hide them all around the apartment so theives won't get them..."
A bit of a silence fills the room, then it abruptly ends with both parties laughing. "But seriously jiji, people DO steal stuff from me." Sarutobi coughs for a moment and thinks 'I'll get to the bottom of this later.'
With that, the two walk to the Sarutobi clan compound (conveniently through a back door because of the 'mess' up front).
*************************************************************************Two years later**********************************************************************
Naruto had settled into the compound quite nicely, no one bothered him, bully him, or beat him, and Asuma had always played chess, go, or any other strategy game with him. He had been -for a lack of a better word- forced to eat a food other than ramen. Naruto finally relented when they said that the ramen woul taste all the better when he does get to eat it at special occasions. Who was he to deny the thought of ramen tasting better? He was also told that he would be entering the Ninja Academy, and since then, hes been training in the basics.
But now, he was bored and was in a bit of a rut. He had no training, as he mastered the basics of the basics and Sarutobi refused to train him any more until he entered the academy. Aside from some people in the Sarutobi compound, he had no friends. He already trained individually for hours, so he was deadbeat tired, but too awake to sleep. So he just layed there in a stupor in the gardens of the compound.
It was at this scene that the Sandaime entered. He sat down beside Naruto and said "bored?" a nod from the vegitable. "Did you train?" another nod.
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Sarutobi throws him into a pond.
SPLASH!
"Gaah! What the hell old man!" Naruto yells as Sarutobi laughs aloud.
After they settled down, an an assassination attempt, they both sit down and enjoy the peace of the afternoon. That was until Naruto raised a point.
"Hey, Sarutobi jiji, dont you have paperwork to do?" The wise old man just coughs and mutters somethin incomprehensible. "Say again?" "I said I got frustrated, said 'screw it', and burned it all!!" he yells.
"Wow, never knew you had it in you.............. Im bored" after a sigh, and a moment of thinking, the Sandaime snaps his fingers and says "Hey Naruto, want to see my lifes work as The Professor?" After an intelligent 'huh?' he explains "During my career as a shinobi, I have gained a number of titles, 'The Professor' being one because of all the jutsu I have mastered and created and because of numerous experiments I did to further and better the life of ninja." With an 'oh' from Naruto, he says "Okay, follow me and I'll show you my lifes work."
And off they went, through winding corridors, dark stairwells, and reinforced doors. Finally, they came to a dimly lit room. In the middle was an unlit candle with a ring tied above it, so that the hole faced the ceiling and floor.
"There it is" stated Sarutobi proudly. "What? A ring in a dimly lit room, sixty feet underground?" "Yes-I mean, No! Watch." The Professor stutters as he moves to the candle and lights it.
"Ummm, nothings happen-" He was cut off as glowing runes appeared on the ring, and casts a larger version upon the wall.
"Wow, thats... New. How does it do that jiji?" He states then asks. "They appear by the warmth of a flame, how exactly, I do not know but I can tell it uses a source similar to chakra, but at the same time at a whole different level..."
As Sarutobi continued on about the runes, Naruto felt somthing tug him towards the ring, he started to feel mesmerized about the curious object... "-uto? NARUTO!" He snaps out of his hypnosis... hypnosis?
"Yea?" Naruto said, trying to sound like he was listening. "I was saying, since I am getting old, and my work as the Hokage is a drain on what little time I have, I dont think I'll be able to make any breakthroughs anymore. So, for those reasons, I was wondering if you would take up my work in trying to decipher those runes.
At this, Naruto beamed, his grandfather figure and role model (next to the fourth Hokage) was asking him to basically continue his work, to succeed (or try to) where he failed.
Naruto eagerly accepted.
"Yea!... But I'm only eight, and everyone in the academy says that I'm an idiot..." Sarutobi sighed... You really CAN'T find good help these days. " Naruto, you are not an idiot, you're just undereducated, a problem you wouldn't be having if the teachers at the academy actually did their jobs, and God forbid if the ninja council will actually let me fire any of them..." The old monkey paused for a moment, grumbling about wanna-be userpers, "Don't worry though, I have a plan."
Naruto looked up at him, "Really whats your plan jiji?"
"Well, Naruto, since you agreed to carry on my work, I can now take you on as my apprentice!" Naruto got wide eyes "Of course, it cant be for the position as Hokage, BUT for the title of 'professor', what do you think Naruto?"
"To be completely honest, jiji... It kinda stinks." Naruto deadpans.
Sarutobi slowly gets a 'I know somthing you dont' look on his face as he says "Well what if I told you that I was going to implement a new system that would allow nin and villagers to gain official titles, and through those, various rewards and trophies?" Naruto smiles "Then it rocks!"
Sarutobi smiles as he walks over to the ring, "Good then, with you as my apprentice, you'll have a weekly paycheck as long as you bring in results from your training," He picks up the ring and hands it to Naruto. "and this, if you unlock its secrets, you will gain a new title to go with 'The professor' title once you are done with your training."
Naruto looks in amazement, not from all that Sarutobi said, but from the larger ring that was meant for an adult shrinking down to child size. "Well," Sarutobi starts with wide eyes "It seems as if this ring has a few more surprizes in store for us."
Naruto puts it on, near breathlesslty from the massive amounts of anxiety in the air, it slowly inches onto his finger...
In Naruto's Mindscape...
Kyuubi opens one eye as he feels a familiar presence, outside his cage a red ball crackling with powerstarts to expand into a large lens of fire. The fire itself was spreading out from the middle, where a slit like pupil as dark as the pit to hell... It reminded Kyuubi of it's own eyes. Thats when it hit him, this was his former master, the one it had seperated from all those eons ago... "Sauron"
The fiery eye focused on Kyuubi, and said in a voice of a thousend malevolent whispers, "Hello, well if it isnt the ninth aspect of my power? Enjoying your self-awareness? Oh hows about your freedom, eh? Seems as if that fourth Hokage sure did a number on you, sealing you in this child and all." the Kyuubi just snarled "Well at least I Didnt get my ass handed to me by a hobbit!"
"Shrewd nine tails, shrewd, but that does bring me to something speaking of children and all." Kyuubi eyes him, his master, well as of now ex-master, for Sauron was known as a easily tempered individual. With that said he picked his words carefully, keeping in mind his former master still has power... and just exactly who is on what side of the cage. "Okay, I guess I can answer any an all questions you have, just know before you ask that my knowlege from the last eight years is limited to this... Gaki's experience and knowlege." The Kyuubi said in his best non-condescending tone he could ever make (which is unsurprisingly very little.)
"Well, that makes things easier for you, because I only want two a few important details about this child. I.E. His willpower, and overall stength of his soul, I have a good feeling about this one..." Kyuubi sighed, of coarse he would be interested in such details the most, his former master wants all of his power back, and can only do so by bonding with a soul of another. This is because Sauron is an incomplete soul, a powerful soul, a very powerful soul, but an incomplete one nonethe less. For this reason he must bond with anothers soul to once again be in complete reighn of his power, even if it means doing so by association.
"Hmmm," Kyuubi grunts as he lays down on his forepaws, "I would have to sayhis willpower is constantly at a staggering one hundred twenty percent, taking into account that the civilians constantly treat him like trash, no, lower than trash, and he still wants to be their protector and earn their recognition... As for his strength soul-wise... I must say on a scale of one to ten, a thirteen, he has a naturally strong soul, but the seal that keeps me in permamently augments his strength."
"...That is all I need to know, kyuubi."
"Wait! There is one more detail, right now he may be an eight year old, but this child is dead set on becoming Hokage, he is already too influenced to change his goals. What I suggest is working whatever ambitions you may have from his ambitions, in other words go with the flow."
"...Thank you Kyuubi, pull him in here and explain things about yourself and how you came here while I disappear for a while. Be a good fox while I'm gone okay?" Whith that Sauron shrunk into a ball and vanished.
"Damn bastard... 'sigh' better sooner than later." Kyuubi grumbles as he gathers his strenghth to pull Naruto's consciousness in...
Real world
"... Nothing happened." states Naruto as he and Sarutobi let out a breath they didn't know they were holding. "Well Naruto, I guess we can now head up-" he was cut off as a red pulse came from Naruto with an audible ThaThump. Naruto hears Sarutobi calling his name as he fall towards unconciousness (and the floor).
Back to Mindscape (that was short)
Naruto slowly flutters his eyes open, trying to figure out what exactly happened. All he could gather was one minute he was becoming the Old Man's apprentice, and another...
He finally got his bearings as le looks around, "Some kinda sewer." He mutters as he looks in front of him and gasps, for in front of him was a giant cage with a peice of paper that has the kanji for 'seal' on it as a lock. But it was what is behind the cage that scared him, giant red-slitted eyes peering down upon him from a pitch darkness, analizing what was in front of it like a lion analizing its next breakfast. What really got him though was the teeth that was freaking bigger than an adult!
Slowly, ever the definition of calm, Naruto backs up towards the only nearby exit. By the way for slowly, read hastily, and calm, panic.
As Naruto nears the exit, though, it is slammed closed by trails of red chakra. "Kit," Kyuubi starts "we need to talk."
"Wh-who are you?" Naruto stated, fear radiating from him like a rabbit almost skewered by a kunai, it was all Kyuubi could do to not at least try to eat him.
"I am the the one, the only, the incarnation of all flames foxy, the powerful, the bold, the most intelligent and cunning of all kitsune..."
"And humble, dont forget humble." Naruto deadpans, fear forgotten only for a second.
"THE KYUUBI NO KITSUNEEEEE" Kyuubi finishes with a pose and a weird, drawn out 'yoh' sound in the background.
".... Well... Damn. I guess this kinda explains alot, why people hate me and all... but just to make things clear, why are you there and where am I? Am I in hell?" says the slightly unnerved youth.
"No, kit, you're in your mind," Kyuubi starts with a deep chuckle "as for why I myself am in here, I have been sealed in you." Kyuubi finishes.
"How the hell did that happen?"
"It just did, kit. But the remaining fact of the matter is that I am stuck with you, and you are stuck with me. Ya just kinda learn to stick with the flow of events when you've been around as long as I have..."
Naruto nodded, accepting all the information in stride (though maybe a bit disbeleif).
"So, what now? y'know, now that you've shown yourself." Naruto said, secretly hoping to get back to reality... being in a place that you don't use very often fealt kinda weird.
The Kyuubi gave a smirk "Now I will let me introduce to you, the father of the 9 strongest bijuu."
"WHAT?! You have a father?"
At that sentence, the roof that wasn't there started to chip off peice by peice. What it revealed afterwards will have been engraved into Naruto's eyes forever... A giant eye with a darker-than-the-blackest-abyss slit pupil, and hellish fire seeming to radiate from the naraku-pupil.
"Wh-what is that?" Naruto managed to stutter.
"That, my dear kit, that is the father of chakra, the nine strongest, demons, false gods, monsters, and all the kekkei-genkai this world has ever known, be it direct or indirect... and beleive it or not, he can still die! Aint that somethin'?"
Naruto stood in awe and fear at the being, the creature that, apparently, created everything he has ever learned about (He pays some attention, you know).
"Hello, young one. Do you have a wish? I can grant you anything that you desire."
"What? Why are you granting me wishes?"
"Hmmmm, that is a smart question, young one...no, Naruto, is it?" Naruto stood firm, he often needed to do this to negotiate for whatever he was buying. Or... in this case, the conditions for the wishes.
"The reason is, Naruto, is that you posses a strong will, and soul, which are the two requirements for me to bond to one's soul for the longest amount of time. In other words, I want... no, need, to bond with your soul."
"... Anything, huh? I want, a family."
"... wow, this would have been the easiest wish that I have granted so far. In any case, it is to be expected, consider it granted."
Elsewhere, in Naruto's mind... in a room that houses a blue flame...
A black glowing flame whirls around it, and slowly combines itself with the brightly glowing blue flame.
Back in the Kyuubi's chamber...
The imaginary ground beneath them was shaking, large chunks of wall were falling, and above it all, a voice was laughing.
The ambience was growing silenter and darker by the second, until everything was pitch black and silent as the grave.
"Are we dead yet?" Naruto says, beleiving that the deal was a trick.
Then the lights came back on, like somebody flicking a switch, and eyes focused on a new landscape... well kinda new.
The room was now decigontal in shape, with Naruto standing at the side with the only available door. Directly across from him is the Kyuubi's cage, with an altered seal; Instead of the kanji for 'seal', it has the kanji for 'nine'. The Kyuubi looked amused at the changes, by the way. To the left of the Kyuubi's cage was an identical cage with the kanji for 'eight', to the right was 'seven'. Basically, to the left is all the even numbers from 'eight' to 'two', and to the right is all the odd numbers from 'seven' to 'one'. From each cage, there was some gratings in the ground protecting some pipes that lead to a large circular 'stage' in the middle of the chamber. On the 'stage' was a tower that ledto a now existing ceiling, and where it connects to the ceiling is where a large network of pipes are, stemming to everywhere and anywhere. On the tower itself, though, were nine levers that were obviously placed so anyone can get to them. Each lever faced one cage, and it just so happens that the one lever facing the foc's cage was glowing a malice-red.
"Wow... this is new... what happened exactly?"
Itz a cliff hanger!... sortof.
Please note that I will be working on another fanfic project, so if you want mo Sauron Naruto, ya gotta leave good reveiwws that have helpful advice! I dont care if it is poorly tiped with bad grammer, as lng as it is at the very least helpful. By the way, no more reveiws on pairings, I already have a good idea of who I want in the harem. No flames, by the way. They are just in no way shape or form helpful.