O yes, I am back for the thirteenth time.
I have found that this fic is getting to point where people are starting to try and get me to change things that they don't agree with. I am going to say this once, and only once before I start to flame and rant and pull all of that shit out: WHAT I SAY GOES, IF YOU DON'T AGREE THEN YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF.
That's not to say that I don't want to hear your opinions, quite the contrary. I want to hear your outlooks and the like but at the same time I need you to understand that I am not obligated to change my writings to what you believe to be the truth.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I have read over my entire fic and by the time you get to read this, all of the spelling, grammatical, and content errors for all of the chapters should have been fixed (all of the ones that I found or saw fit to change).
ANOTHERE IMPORTANT NOTE: I am thinking of changing the title survival into another title: survival: there will be blood. So if you can't find my fic under survival, then you know that I changed it. If you agree with the change in title, please let me know. If you don't like it than let me know also; I would also appreciate other title suggestions.
I would now like to thank all of my reviewers for the reviews and encourage you all to continue to review and all of you who haven't reviewed to start; or I will open the god damn bag.
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Naruto awoke gradually to the welcoming abyss that was his shadowy bedroom. All around him was shade and shadow, because of the fact that the sun had yet to rise and shine through his grime covered window. Naruto felt, well, good, actually.The kyuubi had followed through on her deal and had ceased screwing with his emotions and chakra usage. Without the light to aggravate his eyes, waking up wasn't as painfully annoying as usual either. Realizing that now was as good as ever to start his early morning routine, Naruto silently slid out of his comforting getaway of a bed. He then proceeded to make his way to his linen closet; making sure to use his arms as a guide because of how his eyes weren't quite in tune with the darkness yet. Soon after reaching the closet and getting a plain white towel from within the confined space, Naruto made his way to his shower. After walking in and shutting the door, Naruto progressed to pull the curtain away from the left side of the tub before stripping and getting into the revealed space.
The warm water that pelted his body seemed to rejuvenate his senses and further ease his mind frame into something akin to 'comfortable'. After washing his untamable locks and making sure that he was indeed clean, Naruto turned off the revitalizing water before rapping his recently acquired towel around his slightly damp frame. He then made his way to his kitchen for a bite to eat. Naruto never really ate much for breakfast; maybe some toast or an apple, and today wasn't that much different. He decided on some toast and therefore found a few pieces of bread within his seemingly ancient bread box and placed them in his almost equally as primordial toaster. After the commencement of his breakfast creation, Naruto went back to his room in order to get dressed and prepared for his early morning exercises.
Naruto first went over to his closet and picked out his normal outfit consisting of a black short sleeve shirt, the same type of shinobi pants that he had worn during the survival exercise yesterday, and his black ANBU style shinobi sandals. After going over to his balcony and checking the temperature, Naruto also picked out a long sleeve plain white shirt to wear under his black one; in turn assuring that his arms would remain warm. After getting dressed, Naruto went over to his dresser to the left of his bed and opened the top compartment to reveal several rolls of white wrapping tape. He then proceeded to take one at random before walking over to the edge of his bed, plopping down on top of his divan, and starting to wrap his forearms in this white cloth. After completing this routine process, Naruto moved down to his legs and wrapped the tape around his calf and up around the bottom of his pants; thus securing his pant legs in place.
After getting dressed and wrapping his appendages, Naruto started to ready his shinobi equipment. He gathered his many scrolls that housed special apparatus' such as his large cleaver and his hand blade, to your average kunai and shuriken. He also made sure to strap on his kunai holster and thigh pouch. After he gathered his equipment, Naruto went on to get his single fingerless, metal plated shinobi glove from atop his kitchen table and slide it on. He then grabbed; and quickly devoured his recently created toast and headed out the door towards the Hokage monument. As Naruto walked through the dark and empty streets of Konoha, he was able to see something that made his blood boil. Apparently he wasn't the only one that the drunks all over the village decided to take advantage of. Just as the drunks had tried to end his existence, the drunk that resided in an ally way only a few yards away seemed to be trying to commit an act that looked an awful lot like rape.
Naruto's anger towards the man only increased exponentially as he watched the man beat the woman with his fist and glass beer bottle. Naruto knew all too well how that felt, and the scene in front of him only made him remember all of those horrible memories. Soon Naruto found himself shaking all over and balling his hands into extremely tight fists that seemed to coax a steady stream of blood to flow freely from Naruto's now lightly cut palm. Naruto then walked slowly into the scene in front of him and just as soon as he had reached the drunken man; it had ended. Naruto had finished him off before the man had even known that he was there. Naruto kept his shaking hand on the mans crushed skull for a short few moments as he allowed the bloody chunks of bone and flesh seep down between his fingers and the wall that the man's head was now smashed against. The woman in front of him was in complete shock as her previously shed tears flowed down her now pale face. The woman in front of him looked to be about sixteen years of age and had brown hair that made its way to her mid back if not longer. She had pale blue eyes that at the moment only conveyed her state of shock more explicitly than her tears and shaking body did. She was of a lithe frame and appeared to be about 5'6" or 5'7". After a few moments of silence Naruto's muscles relaxed and he let out a long, drawn out sigh as he let the bloody cadaver slide down the wall and land with a small "thunk" on the ground. The woman muttered a small "thank you" as she began to regain some of her composure. "Now you know what it's like" was Naruto's only dwindling, almost whispered statement as he slowly walked away back towards his destination. The woman could only stare in shock.
As Naruto walked, he took another deep, calming sigh. He lifted his slightly bloodied palm and inspected the light spasms that it was now experiencing. 'Look at me, not even able to take the life of such scum without emotional exertion; pitiful.' Naruto continued to walk until he reached the base of the Hokage monument. After waiting a moment to place his thoughts aside, Naruto hopped onto the front of the mountain and ran silently up the rough terrain to the flat surface that resided on top of the rather large monument. He almost immediately started his morning exercises. He started with shuriken target practice. He picked a notch on a near by tree and proceeded to throw his newly resurrected shuriken from his thigh pouch at the target. The results were immediate.
He had missed the target by two inches. He then threw his next; which missed by an even greater margin on the opposite side. Naruto could only stare and indulge in another, long drawn out sigh. He was letting his emotions get the better of him; something that can only hinder a ninja useless in battle. 'I must gain control…' Naruto then decided to meditate; in hopes that he could relieve his burdened mind. Naruto soon found himself in his sewer of a mindscape: 'son of a bitch…' Naruto walked through the familiar labyrinth and into the large room that housed the cage of his prisoner: the demon fox. "I am glad to see that you have found your way here" was the Kyuubi's greeting as she came into view: still in her 'human' form. "I see that you continue to try my patience with your petty antics" was Naruto's continually monotone statement. "Awe-, you don't like to see me anymore?" "What did you bring me here for; I need to" "-what, throw your useless toys at a tree?" was the demon's ever mocking statement as her lips curved up into a smirk. Naruto only closed his eyes in exasperation and ignored her statement. Seeing that she was not getting anywhere fast, Kyuubi stated her purpose: "seeing as though you aren't doing anything of much importance, I need you to fulfill your part of our arrangement." Naruto remained silent as he awaited his instruction. "The first step in freeing me is gathering animal flesh that is of equal or greater mass as myself." She began. "If there is not enough mass to match my form then my body will be disfigured, and I will not tolerate such a screw up" Naruto's neutral visage formed into a scowl; the Kyuubi was starting to agitate him further.
Naruto just turned and walked in the opposite direction: opting to let the demon bitch dwell on thoughts of uncertain freedom. He would get around to completing the ever daunting task: eventually...
Naruto soon found himself awakening from his disrupted meditation. He was soon greeted by an ever rising sun from below the horizon line. It was a mesmerizing sight; even for him. It seemed to melt his pent up pressure and renew his sense of control and security. His moment of detached nirvana was interrupted by the sensation of a possible enemy approaching his position. Naruto immediately verbalized his knowing of the intruder's existence: "what is your business interrupting my solitude?" was Naruto's semi demand and semi question. "Naruto, you act as though we have never met" was the trespasser's seemingly humorous statement as he stayed at his position only a few yards away from Naruto watching the ever-rising orb that was the sun. "Oh lord Hokage, of what do I owe this occasion to?" Naruto asked with only a slight hint of amusement being the undertone of his statement. "You are not required to uphold such formalities in my presence my boy" Sarutobi said with a much defined line of amusement coating his sentence. "I must insist Hokage-sama, I cannot allow myself to lack such formalities around our wonderful leader" Naruto made sure to express the word wonderful with an ever so slight hint of sarcasm as to show his unspoken opinion. "Fare enough" was the Sandaime's lingering conclusion as he waited a moment before continuing with the actual reason he had come to speak with the young man in front of him. Naruto stood up and turned to face the old man that was the shinobi leader of Konoha and devoted his full attention to the matter at hand. "Kakashi-san was diagnosed with a minor concussion yesterday, he has since recovered and has gone to gather supplies for the mission that I just assigned to your cell" was the old man's now serious statement as he continued. I went to visit him and found the cause of his injury to be from you…" "He had stated that you are of astonishing skill for a genin and are worthy of the simple c rank mission that I assigned to you." "He also warned me of something rather, disturbing…" "Naruto, what is happening with the kyuubi and what of the seal?" Sarutobi asked in his still stern voice with a visage to match. "Nothing that is of your concern, my dearest Hokage" Naruto said in a rather distant voice. His answer reminded Sarutobi of what his old prized pupil acted like. Hints of twisted thoughts were carried throughout Naruto's declarations.
"Naruto, as the leader of this village, if I find that you are breaching the code of law; I will act accordingly." Naruto only chuckled lightly as he walked away towards the edge of the cliff and jumped down; landing lightly on the ground below. He left only a worried Sandaime in his wake to show that he was even truly present; well that and two stray shuriken.
Naruto walked with a small smirk on his face: 'maybe I will do as the damned fox wants: if only to coax the senile old fool into taking the initiative in the battle that I so desire…' Naruto thought as he headed home to prepare for his first genuine mission of his shinobi 'career'.
'Only then can I take my revenge…'
'Only then can I have utter redemption…'
'Only then…'
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Finally it is finished.
I am sorry that it took slightly less than two weeks to post; I was extremely busy.
I hope that I can update sooner than I did this chapter.
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