Title: The Child of Darkness
Rated: T (most likely going to be changed)
Category: Naruto
Pairings: None
Summary: A rare power bestowed upon him, tainted by the hate he was surrounded by. He wasn't as idiotic and weak as they thought. No… in fact he was strong, raised by the darkness they left him in. Now he's going to rock the Shinobi World by becoming a world renown SSS-rank ninja... Get ready. Grey!Naruto EventuallyExtremelyPowerful!Naruto DarkFic
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Hey guys! I'M SO SORRY! Chapter 10, this chapter, was where chapter 9 was. I'm so sorry! NEW SUMMARY! This was actually spurred by a comment made on this chapter! ^_^ There was no chapter yesterday because I fell asleep before I could start. *sheepish grin* However! I had a snow day today! So no school! Which means I can type to my hearts content. Also, WE HIT 100 FOLLOWERS! WOOT! In fact we have 111! And we have 81 favorites and 56 reviews. Seeing as the end of the month is tomorrow, maybe 90 favorites, 120 follows, and 60 reviews? I can only hope. I noticed we didn't get too much love for the last chapter but whatever. ASLO! Our story is in a community now! HURRAY! The community is called Chaotic Disorder. On a side note, we have 9,009 views and counting! Although not a lot of people keep reading after the first three chapters... guess they don't like it... -sad face- On ANOTHER side note, I changed my name. Miss Dark Authoress Blackrose! It's it GENUIS?! Anyway! Reply Time!
Guestie: Yes! This allows for a lot more stuff I can do with Sasuke since he's not hellbent on revenge. And Sasuke was a gullible child in the manga, no offense to Kishimoto-sensei, so I think that's why he bought it. And in this chapter, you will ^_^ And yes! I hate when someone makes a grave mistake and Naruto's all forgiving.
War12345: No problem!
Lupe Jiminez: I will, no problem!
Demenciae: Awwww thanks! And I got praise from another someone in another country! I feel special :3
Stallion6 of Deviantart: Ikr? When they did the whole Uchiha Massacre thing, I had feeling there was more to it. I mean, it was so spur of the moment and the fact that there wasn't a big sense where the Hokage sent a bunch of ninja after made me suspicious.
Evil-Pain: Yep! Allows for more of my creativity to flow.
Super Guestie: Hehehe you always leave that comment ^_^ Thank you much!
Prettyflower34: OMG I made you cry? O.o I never knew I could do that! Yesh, Sasuke will accept Naru-chan. Yeah and plan on keeping Team 7 together because they're a funny team to me. I dunno what I'm gonna do with Sakura though. And your last question, yes Sasuke will get bitten and leave but Naruto's going with him. That way, I can do the timeskip and come back with them in the same spot for the most part.
Myrddin767: Ah ha! You caught me! Yes I plan on doing something with Mikoto. That's why I had Itachi run back into the compound instead of just disappearing. Good Job!
Posted: February 27, 2013
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Chapter 10: Secrets
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"Be strong, for the both of us, little one."
Sasuke jerked awake with a yell, hissing when bright white light assaulted his eyes. He screwed them shut and slowly opened them again, blinking. 'Where am I?' he thought, taking in his surroundings. "Oh, the hospital." He plopped back on the uncomfortable pillow and sighed. Not long after, a doctor and his nurse came rushing into his room, others behind them. "Um, hello. Can I help you?" He coughed, finally realizing how parched he was.
"Uchiha-sama! Here, a cup of water," the nurse said, passing over the cup. He drunk it all in one go, sighing in content. "Hokage-sama!" The crowd of medical staff parted when their leader walked into the room. The old man smiled at him but he couldn't find it in himself to smile back.
"Hello, Sasuke-kun, how are you feeling?"
"I'm fine," he mumbled.
"Really? No headaches or dizziness when you sit up?"
"No, none of that," he said. 'Aniki said it was a mission, and Anbu missions are top secret, so maybe I shouldn't tell the Hokage I know,' he thought. "What happened?" A grave look took over the Hokage's face.
"Sasuke, don't you think you should wait until after you're well?"
"I'm fine, I just want to know why I'm here."
"Very well," Hiruzen said. He motioned for the staff to leave the room, which they did slowly. "Now Sasuke... Your clan was murdered a week ago, by your brother, Itachi Uchiha."
"...Everybody?" The Hokage nodded.
"Just about. We couldn't find your mother's body. It's safe to assume that had a fight and he disposed of her. She was a famed Kunoichi before she retired." This surprised the young raven.
'That's right! Aniki never killed Kaa-chan. So he took her with him.' He stared mutely at the sheets of his hospital bed, trying to hide the smile that wanted bloom on his face. "I hate him..."
Hiruzen sighed. "I understand, Sasuke-kun."
"When can I leave here?"
"We'll discharge you now if you'd like. Would you like me to get you an apartment?"
"Yeah... What are they going to do with the Uchiha district?"
"Well, you're the sole heir to the clan now. It's up to you."
"...I want to keep it. After it's cleaned up I want to move back in there." Hiruzen nodded. "How long have I been here?"
"A week. We've deduced that you were put into a Sharingan induced temporary coma. You've had quite a few of your classmates try to visit you."
'Fangirls,' the young raven thought, rolling his eyes. "If we're done, can I leave?" The Hokage nodded with a smile.
"I'll get the nurse in here right away," he said, standing from his chair. Right before he walked out the door, he turned around. "Now Sasuke-kun, if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm always in my office." Sasuke nodded and the aged leader left. Sasuke sighed and laid back down, his hands in his lap.
'I need to talk to Naruto. I want to know what Aniki was talking about,' he thought. The nurse from before entered the room, and smiled at him, a plate of food and a set of clothes in his arms
"Hello, Uchiha-sama!" she chirped, setting the plate on a table near the bed. "Surely you feel better, right?" He nodded, wincing slightly as she removed the IV from his arm. She gave him the plate of rice balls and stood away from the bed. "When you're finish eating, I'll give you a check up. Then you can change and you're free to go." He nodded again, eating quickly. He handed her the plate and scooted to the edge of the bed so she could run her green chakra coated hands along his body. "Alright the, nothing seems to be the matter, so," she handed him the clothes. "You can go!" Sasuke nodded his thanks and slipped of the bed to go change.
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Sasuke walked down the street slowly, trying to find out where his blond friend would be – maybe should've asked for the blonde's address before. He huffed – it was the weekend so the only place he could think to look was their usual training grounds. With that in mind, he set off towards his destination.
"Hey look, it's the Uchiha kid."
"Oh how tragic."
"Yes, I know. He's an orphan now."
"And to think his own brother did it."
"I wonder how he's handling it."
"He needs someone to talk to."
"My daughter is in his year. Hopefully she can become close to him and help him. Besides, they'd look so cute together."
He snorted at the last one, annoyed. 'Can these people be any louder?' He finally escaped the main street of the village, to the more secluded areas. There were a lot of training grounds in this area, so not a lot of civilians were over here. 'Which means away from the gossip.' Sasuke finally came upon he and his blond friend's usual training grounds. It was a little out of the way but it was good enough. He hummed, brows creasing a little – Naruto always wanted things out of the view of others, like he was paranoid. 'Maybe it has something to do with what he needs to tell me.'
"Sasuke!" He looked up to see Naruto running on to him a happy smile on his face, so big that it forced him to close his eyes. "Hey man! Ya disappeared on me!" Sasuke frowned, noticing the frown on his friend's face was fake.
"Drop that act. You know what happened." The smile faltered before dropping all together. Sasuke blinked, shocked by the amount of worry present in blue eyes.
"I was worried, ya know..." he started off. "I know I shouldn't have been. I mean, you're an Uchiha, you can handle yourself way better than I can. And then..." He paused, trying to find the right words without hurting the raven's feelings. "Your brother did it so I know that must've hurt, more than I can imagine." He dropped his head, bangs falling in front of his eyes. "When I heard you were in a coma, I didn't know what to do. I felt to useless. I mean you may not consider me, but I feel like you're my best friend and the only I can trust... Famous clan or not, you're still or not, you're still a kid like me and I don't think a kid would be able to survive a coma without coming out seriously messed up. To have your clan slaughtered is one thing but then to be forced into a coma, by your own clan's doujutsu no less... And your brother is crazy strong. I thought you wouldn't make it," he whispered, shoulders starting to shake. "A-and I was so scared... I didn't want to be alone anymore." Sasuke was shocked into silence.
"...Naruto are you crying?"
"I'm sorry..." The two stood in silence for a moment before Sasuke started talking.
"...Itachi told me that you have a secret..." Naruto's head whipped up, red puffy eyes wide and scared.
"A secret?" he asked. 'Surely he can't be talking about the fox... right?'
"Yeah and that I should accept you no matter what it is." Naruto gulped, fear of rejection forming a lump in his throat. "Remember that day at the academy, when you told me that you'd tell me when you found out?"
"Yeah... You promise you won't get mad? Or tell anyone?" Sasuke nodded, determined. "Okay... Well what do you know about the Kyuubi?"
"It was the nine-tailed demon fox that attacked the village eight years ago right?" he asked. Naruto nodded. "Then the Yondaime killed it, giving his life in the process."
"That's where you're wrong. The Bijuu are masses of endless chakra. You can't kill chakra. But what can you do with it?" Sasuke hummed, thinking.
"Oh, that's right! You can seal chakra, right?"
"Yeah. But the Kyuubi is the strongest of the Bijuu so you can't just seal it in a pot or a scroll or anything. So they have to seal it in a human, more specifically, a baby."
"So what does that have to do with you?" Naruto sighed, fear keeping him from saying it.
"Sasuke, when was the Kyuubi attack?"
"October 10th, eight years ago."
"Right, and when's my birthday."
"October tenth... Oh..."
"I was that baby," the blond muttered, waiting for the raven to call him names and run away.
"...Why would the Yondaime seal it in you though?" Naruto's eyes widened – Sasuke wasn't rejecting him?
"What I'm about to tell you is also top secret. The Yondaime can't do to someone else's baby what he wasn't willing to do to his own." Sasuke's eyes widened.
"You mean you're the son of...?" Naruto nodded.
"You know the Red Death lady your mom was partnered with?"
"Yeah, you never told me who they, well she, was."
"While I was looking her up, I found out her name was Kushina Uzumaki, the only other Uzumaki in the village other than the first Hokage's wife. She was a Jinchuuriki, just like me."
"A Jinchuuriki?"
"Yeah, people with Bijuu sealed inside them, like me." Sasuke nodded. "And then I found out she was married to the Yondaime. She was pregnant – which was how her seal came undone and the Kyuubi got loose – with a child. Everyone just assumed it died with her but it was actually me." Sasuke nodded, suddenly staring hard at the blond. "W-what?"
"Now that you mention it, you do look a lot like the Yondaime. With your blond hair and blue eyes." Sasuke's face got really serious. "And now I have something top secret to tell you." Naruto nodded, childish excitement building in him at the thought of sharing secrets that only a handful people knew about. "My Aniki didn't just slaughter my clan in cold blood. They were planning on taking over the village. Itachi, being a protege in our clan, was told and he in turn went to go tell the Hokage. The Hokage made it a mission and Itachi took it. But he spared my mom and I, and took my mom with him to make it seem like she was killed too. In fact, he's spying on an organization that is hunting people like you down, the Jinchuuriki."
"Really? What's it called?" Sasuke blinked before frowning.
"He never told me." Naruto frowned as well.
"I guess we need to figure that out." Sasuke grinned, a feeling of needing to protect the younger blond overcoming him.
"For now on, I'll be your older brother." Naruto's eyes widened.
"...O-older brother?" Sasuke smiled, putting his arm around the blonde's shoulders.
"Yeah! When my Aniki left, he was basically passing on the torch of being an older brother on to me, kinda. So now it's my turn to be an older brother to you!" Naruto smiled warmly.
"Okay!"
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And cut! So in this chapter we see Naruto's sensitive side. I mean, a child ostracized by society has to be affected mentally somehow. So this is how I did it. And it also ties up Naruto and Sasuke's brotherly relationship. Unfortunately, I didn't get to Naruto's inheritance. I think next chapter I'm going to do that and finding Naruto and Sasuke a sensei. Then chapter twelve will start after the timeskip, to the Genin exams. Anyway, review!