Title: The Child of Darkness
Rated: T (most likely going to be changed)
Category: Naruto
Pairings: None
Summary: He wasn't as idiotic and weak as they thought. No… in fact he was strong, raised by the darkness they left him in.
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I thank you guys for all of the reviews, favorites, and follows. I got up this morning and my phone exploded with emails. Now this story progresses kind of slowly. And as for my grammar mistakes, I apologize. I don't look at what I typed in the past often because I type much too fast. Without further ado, I present to you the next chapter of the Child of Darkness.
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Chapter 3: Academy Attack
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The skies were grey and gloomy and it was pouring with rain. Birds cooped up in their nests tweeted softly, their melodies mixing pleasantly with the pitter-patter of the rain. The wind blew softly, the smell of wet earth and rain making him sigh softly as he started blankly out the window. Mizuki was teaching class today because Iruka was called in by the Hokage. The blond frowned, feeling Mizuki's grey eyes on him.
"Uzumaki, would you be so kind as to repeat to me what I just said?" Blue eyes swiveled over to Chunin in annoyance.
"You said that chakra control is important to ninja of every kind," the blond muttered. Mizuki sneered.
"Correct. However, I'm not teaching outside Uzumaki. Face me like the rest of class and pay better attention." The blond went right back to staring out the window. A small feeling of foreboding started churning in his stomach, making him paranoid. He, along with the whole class, jumped when lightning struck and the lights went out. The children started screaming and cuddling closer to each other. "Settle down everyone! It's just a thunderstorm! The power will be back on in a few minutes." The kids didn't listen to him as they kept talking to each other frantically. The grey haired Chunin sat down at his desk and leaned his head on his hand.
Blue eyes concentrated on the outside, trying to see through the rain. That small feeling was now overtaking him, making his hands clammy and his body tremble every now and again. He growled at himself. 'Get it together, Naruto. You've been through much more than this. A little lightning isn't going to kill you,' he thought. He took a deep breath, closing his eyes. There was a crash out in the hallway and the students started scrambling and screaming. Mizuki shot up out of his chair.
"Hey! Sit down! You guys are ninja in training, not little kids! Now sit down and shut up!" None of the kids listened to him.
Naruto's eyes widened as he saw a kunai come straight at him through the rain. He dived down on the floor right before the glass of the window shattered, sending glass crystals everywhere. The kunai buried itself in his desk. It was completely silent for a moment before all hell broke loose. Students near the window jumped out of their seats and all of the windows around the room burst into tiny shards one by one. Students ran out the doors, screaming in fear, tears rolling down their faces. However, Naruto stayed, still in his spot on the floor. He stood up slowly, peering into the grey of the outside.
"Naruto." Said blond snapped his head to the right, tensing up. He relaxed when he realized it was only Sasuke. The young raven had a cut going across his right cheek but was otherwise uninjured. "What are we going to do? We're under attack." The younger boy nodded.
"I want to know who's attacking though," he said, still staring out the window. Sasuke pulling on his sleeve.
"Come on, let's get out of here. Too much glass." Naruto nodded and followed the older boy. The hallway was dark but the two boys continued to walk, heading towards the exit of the Academy. Naruto tensed up as he heard the whistling of a kunai cutting through the air and jumped in front of his raven friend. "Naruto what are you..." Sasuke trailed off as the Jinchuuriki took three kunai to the torso. "Naruto!" He grit his teeth and flew through hand signs. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" The fireball lit up the hallway and fried the two unsuspecting ninja, burning them to a crisp. Sasuke panted, growling at himself. 'Too much chakra.' He grabbed Naruto under his arms and dragged him past he two burning ninja, pushing the door to the Academy open. The rain had settled to a light drizzle though the sun had yet to start to peaking through the clouds. The raven laid his smaller friend on his back, frowning at the kunai.
"Well, well, well, look at who we have here. A young Uchiha." Sasuke whipped around, glaring at the tall man who managed to sneak up on him. The man grabbed Sasuke by his collar and held him up in the air. "They say that the Uchiha clan is the strongest clan in this village. But what can a little shrimp like you do?" Sasuke growled at the man. The man grinned at him and flung him at a tree, making him cry out in pain. He tried to stand up but he fell back down. "Ha! How weak and pathetic." Sasuke's head snapped up towards him, and the man chuckled. "Would you look at that. Thanks to me, your famed Sharingan activated itself." Sasuke's eyes widened. "However, that means I have to kill you. I know that Sharingan can copy pictures to memory as well as jutsu." The man pulled a long katana out from the sheath on his back. Fear began to etch itself on Sasuke's face. "Don't be so afraid. At least now you'll be able to join your blond friend in the afterlife."
Blue eyes watch with fear as the man brought his sword down towards Sasuke. A feeling of loneliness crawled up his spine and burst into hot flames that licked at his heart strings and made his chest tighten. He clenched his eyes shut. "NO!"
There a sickening squelching noise and a pained gasp. All the blood drained from Sasuke's face as a warm liquid splattered on his face. His breath quickened and he started shaking, feeling light-headed and scared. Slowly, pale eye lids opened to reveal frantic onyx eyes. Sasuke touched his face, pulling a hand away from his face to see blood on his hand. He quickly scanned his body and only found a few small cuts and bruises along the back of his arms. He looked up and gasped, seeing his would-be murderer hanging in the air by a black tendril that wrapped around his body before piercing straight through his heart. The man dropped his katana, clawing at his chest. Blood bubbled in his mouth and he spit a glob of it to the wet grass below. Both Sasuke and the man looked over to Naruto, who was on his stomach, hand outstretched. The blond was panting hard and sweating, face pale and blue eyes dull. The blond's arm dropped and his eyes rolled in the back of his head, his body slumping over to the side. The man grit his teeth, garbling out his lasts words.
"D-damn... brat."
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It was dark. Heh. No surprise there. It was always dark when he came to. He opened his eyes, expecting to see the darkness of an alleyway loom over him. He hissed and clenched his eyes shut when he was met by the stark white ceiling of the hospital. He peeked his eyes open this time and let them get adjusted to the light. Whilst scanning the room, he sat up, leaning against the headboard of his hospital bed. A lone nurse who was walking by glanced into his room and sneered before continuing on down the hall. Not soon after, the Hokage was escorted to his room by two Anbu. The old man smiled at him, taking a seat in one of the chairs next to his bed. "Good morning, Naruto. How do you feel?"
The blond shrugged. This was one of the few times he woke up in a hospital. There's not much of a difference from here and waking up in the ally. This is only cleaner. "Fine. Not sore or anything like that if that's what you're asking." Hiruzen nodded.
"Good, good. Do you remember what happened?" Naruto blinked. That was a very good question – what did happen? Suddenly, it all came rushing back to him and his eyes widened.
"Sasuke! Is Sasuke okay?" Sarutobi laughed.
"Yes, my boy. Sasuke is quite alright. He's been trying to get in here and see you this morning. You did a very brave and noble thing, protecting him and all." The Hokage's cheery mood sobered and the old ninja stared at him with a hard look in his eyes. "What else do you remember?"
Naruto frowned but told his story anyway. "Well, we were outside and there was this guy trying to kill Sasuke. When he was about to strike Sasuke with his katana, this feeling burst in my stomach and I reached out, like it was supposed to do something. I blacked out for a moment and when I came to, the other ninja was hanging from this black thing with a hole in his chest. After that everything went black and stayed that way." The old Hokage hummed and nodded.
'These black tendrils could be the doing of the Kyuubi... He said he felt a burst from his stomach that was triggered by seeing his friend almost cut down. With Kushina, all of her demonic transformations were triggered by emotion. So it could very well be the Kyuubi trying to protect its host, and, essentially, itself. Then again... Kushina had that bloodline. The chains that helped her keep a cap on the Kyuubi's chakra. However,' Hiruzen glanced up at the relaxing blond on the bed, 'Kushina's chains were white. And these are tendrils not chains. Nor are they white.'
"So... when am I getting out of here?" Naruto asked, jolting the old Hokage from his thoughts.
"Well, the medical ninja have to check a few more things. If everything clears, you'll be out of here by this evening." The young blond nodded, pleased with the answer.
'The sooner I get out of here the better. Besides,' Naruto thought with a smirk, 'I'd like to test out these new abilities of mine.'
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See, what had happened was, I finished this chapter about three hours after I posted the other one and I didn't want to post them on the same day so I held this one off. Then I forgot I finished this one and kept putting off 'finishing' it. I just found the time to finish only to find out it was already finished. Fail. Utter fail. ._.