And, now...

*drumroll*

let the show... Begin!

Chapter One: The Bonds that break Fate

In which a boy awakens his inheritance, and drags another off the path of darkness.

Part One: Eyes and Chains

Shouts broke the air of the once-quiet valley as two boys fought, and a blinding light flashed across the sky as their attacks collided for the first time.

"Chidori!"

"Rasengan!"

The two were blown back by the concussive force of the two attacks meeting.

One, clad in a dark blue shirt, glared across the waterway between them with the red eyes of the Sharingan, boring into the other's blue eyes.

"Sasuke!" shouted the orange-wearing blond at the raven-haired teen.

"You've grown Powerful, Naruto." as Sasuke said this, a strange pattern began to spread across his face. "but I'm still better that you!" he shouted.

The two charged again, one holding a glowing blue sphere, the other with lightning crackling along his outstretched hand.

"Chidori!"

"Rasengan!"

The two shouted, each not giving ground to the other. Seconds before the attacks met, the blond's concentration wavered, just for an instant. But that instant was enough. The glowing ball destabilized, and both boy's eyes went wide.

The lighting dissipated, and Naruto's arm hit the ground thirty feet away.

Red energy broiled out of his pores, and Sasuke leaped back as it flash-boiled the water that came in contact with it.

Naruto bit through the pain. "I'll... do... this..." he choked the words out, forcing down the red haze that tried to swallow him, "...My...self...or... not..." the burning red energy began to pull into him, his eyes now shut from the pain and concentration. "..At All.." Naruto felt something, a kind of tingle in the back of his mind, and reached out for it. It was power, he could tell, but it wasn't the burning red energy that he struggled against now. It felt like his own. "Damn...FOX!" he roared, and the powerful red energy dissipated like mist before a storm. Seconds later, his eyes and body burned.

Sasuke watched, disbelieving, as Naruto gasped and panted through a field of steam. His Sharingan had seen that the attacks would have the same effect as before, a simple blast, throwing them both off, and thus had aimed to block more than injure. So how had he hit Naruto? It was...

He had an instant for his eyes to widen in shock before a glowing, electric-blue chain with a pointed, almost kuni-like end shot out of the smoke and embedded itself in his left shoulder.

Naruto felt... right. Like he'd found something he should have always had. He was running on pure instinct now, letting things flow in what seemed the right way.

He didn't even notice that he was seeing with his eyes still closed.

Sasuke was now gaping in shock as dozens, no, thousands of the strange chains erupted from the steam that continued to rise around where Naruto knelt. Most were so small even his Sharingan could barely see them! But they weren't...

The chains lashed into the arm that sat on the ground some distance away, weaving together.

Then they withdrew with the same lightning speed, dragging the arm through the air.

Sasuke heard a sickening sound of the arm meeting the shoulder that it had been severed from. The steam finally cleared, and Sasuke gaped anew. The chain that had embedded itself in his shoulder terminated in Naruto's damaged shoulder, which was, at this very moment, healing his severed arm back on. Naruto's eyes remained closed, but three more chains lashed out with viper-like speed and struck Sasuke in the right forearm (his other, he noted, was numb) while two more coiled around his legs like serpents- (he paused his thoughts for a second. Where the hell were all the snake-related analogies coming from?) and watched, utterly dumbfounded, as the arm that had just been on the ground some fourteen seconds earlier clenched into a fist. 'What the hell is going ON?' he shouted mentally.

Naruto looked around. This was the mindscape where he normally found himself face-to-face with the Kuubi, but...

It was different. The rusted, leaking, and chaotic pipework he expected was nowhere to be found. For that matter, so was the massive chamber that housed the demon-fox. Instead there was a corridor, with clean, shiny piping that looked much larger and more orderly than he expected. Then he heard a soft and decidedly female voice from behind him.

"Naruto..."

He turned around.

Sasuke's eye's widened further as three golden chains of a different design shot from Naruto's chest, ripping what remained of his jumpsuit, and pierced the three markings of the cursed seal on the back of his neck. Agony flooded his senses, but he could see, in-between the links of the chain, that it was drawing something... foul out of him. And suddenly, the pain stopped. And the golden chains dissipated, taking the oily foulness with them, and Sasuke's mind suddenly became clearer. He blinked. Twice. What had the dobe just done?

Then Naruto opened his eyes.

Sasuke gaped. His mouth hung open. The normally inexpressive boy looked as though someone had struck him with something rather heavy.

Naruto's eyes were red.

Not the malevolent, slitted eyes of the Kuubi, but a calmer, deeper red.

With a the circular line and single, stationary tomoe of newly awakened Sharingan.

Naruto had the Sharingan.

Sharingan.

The same eyes as him.

That meant...
That meant however distantly, however buried it was, that they were blood-relatives.

He couldn't believe it.

Sharingan.

Naruto.

The Dobe.

Had the Sharingan.

Sasuke's brain was shocked out of its recursive loop when Naruto's eyes reverted to their normal cerulean, and promptly glazed over, closing. The chains binding him dissipated, as Naruto began to fall over.

Without thinking, Sasuke caught Naruto mid-fall and sped towards Konoha.

A/n: yup. Someone's been meddling!

So obviously, this is chakra chains-and-Sharingan!Naruto, although it'll be some time before he's able to master either. He'll have better chakra control, and the Sharingan memory of stuff after his awakening, and, of course, it'll be some time before he's able to use full Sharingan, and he still won't ever have the control for the more advanced stuff (like, for example, Tsukuyomi or Amaterasu) but the 'lolIcopyurjutsusuka' stuff will be present (though in many cases it'll require control Naruto just doesn't have, awakening the Sharingan improved his control significantly, but he still has simply ludicrous amounts of chakra.) And yes, the pervy-sage is still gonna be here, but he's gonna have a much more interesting time of it.

The chains, well, those are going to be more threatening to Kuubi than anyone else, mostly because, well, they're fecking chains made of solid chakra. Even with Naruto's ridiculous reserves, they'll take a lot out of him. they're also kind neon-blue-glowy from being made of wind chakra (which is blue because I say it is) and are therefore about as subtle as a thirty-foot pink yak carrying an arena rock stadium to any ninja above Chunin level (and only nabbed Sasuke because he was too distracted trying to figure out how the hell the semi-precognitive powers of the Sharingan showed one thing, when something massively else happened) thus, you'll see more sage-mode, Jinjurikiness, and the SUPER RASENSHURICAN than throwing chakra chains everywhere.

And ohhh-boy will folks in Konoha have some 'splanen to do...

real good thing that the Teme's gonna be a bit shell-shocked by the whole 'Naruto...Sharingan...wat.' thing, and the Dobe's gonna be insensible for some time...

Ryo for your thoughts?