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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So I figured enough spam posting until today. Maybe a chapter tomorrow.
Wrath (Guest): Uh... I googled humoculis, which spell check is trying to correct, and nothing came up. But I did get referred to another word that meant a little human being. Dunno where you're going with that so let me know.
Nwspor: (I already sent you this in a message but the general people must know.) Oh yeah! I know that Hiruzen kept all that a secret. ^_^ However for my storyline to progress, I needed it to be disclosed. And it's not necessarily Kushina he kept a secret but the fact that Minato had any relations a secret. Although, none of that made practical sense to me, even though I understood why, because he ended up telling everyone of the appropriate age of Naruto's Jinchuuriki status but not of his linage even though he wanted Naruto to he a hero like Minato wanted. And after telling everyone of him being a Jinchuuriki, he might as well have thrown Naruto's linage out there too after he saw negative reaction. Except Suna, no other village just threw the information of their Jinchuuriki out there. Nobody even knew Kushina was a Jinchuuriki either. So this is how I felt it should have went.
Chapter seven! Woohoo! ^_^ Review! Also, on a side note, I want to hit 100 follows and favorites by the end of the month. As of right now, we have 71 follows and 54 favorites. I know we can do it! Maybe 30 reviews by the end of the month, which we have 22 of. Challenge accepted!
Posted: February 22, 2013
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Chapter 7: A Sense of Betrayal
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Drip. Drop. Drip. Drop.
The sound was an awfully peaceful one to come to. His eyes lids fluttered. 'Where am I?' Blurry blue eyes opened and he blinked a few times, feeling the water around him. "...water?" He stood, letting the knee deep water cascade off his body without getting him wet. "Odd..." he mused, looking around. "How did I get here?" he asked aloud. "Where is here anyway?"
"Kit..." He whipped around in the direction of the corridor where the whisper came from.
"Who's there?" he asked frantically. He was a wee bit afraid – he couldn't get his shadows to move to save his life and that voice sound far from human. The voice chuckled, causing a shudder to rack his body.
"Why don't you come find out? If you're man enough," the voice trailed off. He took a deep breath and started to walk slowly down the corridor. The water gradually thinned out as he got farther and farther down the corridor. Fear settled into the pit of his stomach as he came across a set of large steel gates, ominous red eyes shining from behind them. There was a slip of paper with the kanji for seal on it, making him come to one conclusion. "Oh, so you actually came," the voice teased. "And judging by how you're glaring at me, you know who I am."
"The great nine-tailed fox... Kyuubi no Yoko." There was a low, grumbling chuckle that turned into full blown laughter, its boom rattling the whole room.
"While you're the spitting image of your father, sans the whiskers of course, you defiantly are just like your mother." Blue eyes widened in remembrance. "And before you ask, yes I know your parents, your mother quite well in particular. But you know that. Of course, you read that book. I'm surprised they have a book with that much information in it. At the same time, I'm not surprised that none of those dimwitted ningen discovered your full name and heritage. Everyone thinks the fourth Hokage and his beloved wife's child died that night even though you were much too conveniently born the same day with no parents. They're too blinded by their hate and grief." Naruto relaxed slightly.
"Well nobody goes to the library anyway."
"On top of that, there was no point telling them of your heritage – after all, what would it change? I'm pretty sure the old coot knows anyone with a brain can connect the dots if they were motivated enough. He's quite clever, I have to give it to him." Naruto narrowed his eyes.
"What are you talking about? It would change everything!"
"I'm willing to bet that he was planning on telling the village of your heritage but after getting such negative feedback about being my host, why bother? There would be people who would still want you dead, people who would worship the dirt you step on, and higher ups who weren't exactly friendly with your parents. The two feuding groups would possibly cause a civil war within the village. He also knew that since the villagers were too blind, blinded by their hate, for the thought of you being related to their hero to even cross their minds, he just never said anything about it. Well, that would stand for your father. Besides the fact that a lot of people would connect you to him if he told of your mother, why make the information about her confidential? There are a lot of great ninja from here, and my first Jinchuuriki's status wasn't hidden. So he just let it play out like it did." Naruto fell silence.
'So the Yondiame is my father and the Red Death my mother... Why wouldn't he tell me?' he thought.
"I don't know, kit. That's a good question." He could see the fox grin sinisterly. "Maybe you should... talk to him about it."The fox fell into another round of laughter. The young blond ignored the fox's howling in favor for thinking, trying to fight off the feeling of betrayal that was spreading throughout his body.
'Does he not trust me? I mean why would he? I'm the host of the thing that killed his successor and ruined his village!' His breaths started coming out in harsh pants. Kyuubi glanced up, blinking at the sight of the small blond falling into panic.
'I mean I know he has to be mentally scarred from his past and maybe all this information has overwhelmed him but geez. Damn humans.' Kyuubi huffed, standing up. "Kit. Hey kit! There's no need for having a panic attack! Just go talk it over with the old man."
"NO!" Kyuubi blinked again, snorting. "Why should I talk to him? He betrayed me! After all this time, being all nice and such, he was just acting!" Giant red eyes rolled, and snort was heard.
"I never said that..."
"You didn't have to... I mean... That's something he would tell me... Right?" Naruto blinked a few times as he walked up to the gates of the cage and slide down to the floor, leaning against one of the giant steel bars. Tears welded up in his eyes but he shook his head.
"The better question would be why are you trusting me? I mean, I'm just the demon who ran rampage on your village just eight years ago."
"B-but finding out who my parents are through reading a book while he told me they abandoned me? That's just...!"
"He was probably doing it to protect you." Naruto glanced back into the cage, seeing a big black nose, a row of sharp teeth, and the same gleaming red eyes.
"To... protect me?"
"Kids aren't exactly the best with keeping secrets, you know. And your whole front with being a loudmouthed idiot sure as hell didn't help. Remember what I said earlier about people probably still wanting you death for one reason or another?" Silence took over again and Kyuubi sighed – this kid was a headache.
"I guess you're right," Naruto mused. "But as you also said, why should I trust you?" Red eyes widened before glaring at him.
"Oh don't go and get all speculative on me after you were just all eyes and ears, brat." Naruto laughed lightly, the hurt and betrayal fading away.
"Where are we?"
"You're mindscape. It's like a representation of a part of the body or something of the sort projected by the imagination of the person."
"So we're in my mind?"
"No, idiot. We're in your gut. Which I thought would be obvious seeing as I'm here. Only people who can get to your mind are the Yamanaka and really good genjutsu users." He finally started looking around the room, noticing the pipes running along the ceiling and walls. There a lot of big pipes, blue ones that faded to red as they got closer to Kyuubi's cage, and little red ones that traveled all across the walls. "The red are obviously my chakra pathways and the blue are obviously yours. The ones fading from blue to red symbolize how I'm at the center of your chakra system and how my yokai is being converted to your chakra."
"What about the black ones?" Both looked over at the pipes and Kyuubi raised an invisible eyebrow.
"I dunno. They're new. Probably a result of your shadow manipulation or whatever." Naruto nodded, the statement making sense. "And before you ask me any questions about that, don't. I'm tired. Now leave, brat." Naruto frowned but nonetheless stood up and started walking away.
"Thanks, I guess," he called over his shoulder before he disappeared from sight. Kyuubi snorted, sharp teeth pulling back into a small smirk.
"Brat."
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And that's the chapter! Kinda lame to me. Not much really happened. But at least Naruto has met the Kyuubi now... If that's really a plus. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and the story overall. Not a lot of love for this story but I guess that's expected. I fell off the face of the earth for about a year. _ Whoops. Review people! And recommend this to your friends! I have no idea when I'll get the next chapter up, even though it says tomorrow at the top _, but it should be soon. I really like typing this story! Next chapter is back to the academy to start with elemental manipulation. ^_^ Ja Ne everyone!