Summary: Fighting Sasuke, Naruto nearly dies. However, the Mangekyou Sharingan isn't the only thing that gets awakened.
I'm doing this story for the fun of it. I've read a lot of stories. This is an idea I got from reading those. You know the 'what if Naruto has a bloodline' stories. However, as I wrote I went off to the direction of 'what if he had no influence from the Kyuubi' direction. But, I got bored and went in the direction of 'what if the impossible happens, "Kyuubi's killed," and is replaced with a more powerful creature who even the "Lord of the Bijuus" fears.'
I don't know where I'm going in this story. Don't care about direction. Just writing. This chapter was nothing like intended. But, I think it came out better than I planned.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Naruto: Choosing 'To Be My Companion'
Chapter 1: The Trigger
A great celebration is held today. The Third Secret Ninja War is officially over. It is a time to rejoice and make way for the new age. Everyone in the village of the Hidden Leaf Village is out on the streets preparing to celebrate this momentous occasion. Everyone, that is, except for a few of the shinobi elites, the villages council members, and the heads of the village clans. All these people can be found within the chambers of the council.
An old man attired in the Hokage's robes addresses the crowd, "Today marks the end of this long and troubled war. Too many have suffered loss. Too much have we wasted away valuable shinobi in a time where bloodlines and clans are but extinct by the decisions my generation has made let them be foolish or not. So it is for this reason that I announce to you my decision for retirement. It is plain to see that this world we have lived in for so long is coming to an end. We are the children of war and suffering. However from watching and living within the world of our generation, the new generation wish for peace and alliance. I have decided my succesor must be one who will take this into consideration and most importantly he will maintain the legacy of this village, a legacy that has been passed down from hokage to hokage, and that is 'The Will of Fire.'
I name Minato Namikaze for the title of 'Yondaime Hokage.'"
At this announcement, the chamber is split in turmoil. Half the people were proud of Minato Namikaze for he was village hero who was a great deal responsible for the end of the war. However, they doubt that he is qualified for the position. He's a young man who is well-known for his inability to be, what is the word, diplomatic, I would say. He is clanless. And most of all, he is 'young.' What was he, in his mid or late twenties? This is practically unheard of.
A man dressed in a black robe with bandages covering his head and right eye pressing his weight on the wooden cane with his only available hand, since his right arm was taken in the war, is thinking with a hidden face. 'So after all this time, Sarutobi is still with that nonsense. Damn, I know that Namikaze brat will propably attempt to continue to lead us along the path that senile fool has stirred us too. Something must be done and Now! Only a fool believes in a world of everlasting peace and happiness. It is nothing but a fool's dream. Steps must be taken to ensure the survival of the leaf. I wonder who thinks the same and will be willing to join me.' He looks around and comes across a man with black silky hair, pale complexion, and snake-like features glaring at the Sandaime's successor. 'He'll do.' (This is day that the man known as Danzo begins the plans for a secret organization that will come to be known as "ROOT.")
The man with snake-like features is filled with rage. All his life he has given everything for this village, he is a genius with never before seen potential, and god dammit, he is a sannin. Oh he is upset. He is very upset. If this is the result of all his giving to the village then perhaps its time to begin taking. It is only fair isn't it. He then breaks out mentally in sinister mind-blowing laughter. (This is the day that Orochimaru loses faith in his village and begins to develop selfish desires such as a knowledge of all jutsus that soon involved to search the path for immortality to be able to achieve his goal. However no one suspected that he would be so insane as to even have such yearnings.)
In a hidden chamber deep within the village, a man is seen carving up a body with insane pleasure.
"So Orochimaru, how has your" pause "research" pause "been coming along." A voice asks from a shadowed passageway.
"What is it?" responds the man to the voice in a sweet maniacal nature.
"I have come to kill you."
"Oh," he smirks. "And, why's that?"
"Your actions have not only reached the Yondaime but the council. We can't have your association with 'ROOT' be found out. You must be eliminated."
From the passageway, a hundred kunai fly out toward the man and impale him like a pin cushion.
Orochimaru smirks and bursts into mud.
A scream comes from the passageway into the chamber. The 'ROOT' ninja stumbles into the chamber covered in snakes before falling to the ground.
Orochimaru rises from within the earth. He looks at the ninja and says, "What do you think of my children. They seem very hungry, but don't worry. I won't let them eat you. No, I already prepared them their meal." The ninja watches as the snakes gradually slither away from him and make their way to the body he had seen Orochimaru butcher earlier. Orochimaru lifts the ninjas face and procede to mentally disect it. He launches his prized sinister smile at the young man and says, "You'll do." He steps back from the frighted ninja and picks up one of the scattered kunai. He cuts along his own arms legs and across his chest. The ninja is disgusted by these suicidal actions from the psychotic sannin. Orochimaru procedes to meditate gathering all his chakra confining it at a specific place deep within his heart. Just before the point of chakra exhaustion, he performs a never before seen set of handseals resulting in the explosive release of his chakra blowing his body apart covering the chamber with his blood, skin, torn muscle, and bones. The ninja is shock in fear for now where Orochimaru once stood is a large white demonic snake, which oddly enough resembled alot like Orochimaru. The snake gives a sinister smile before sinking its fangs in the ninjas neck injecting him with some kind of syrum. The man passes out from fatigue. The snake releases its hold and makes its way to one of the other bodies in his collection. It slithers itself over the body and disolves into pure chakra before being absorbed into the body. Suddenly the body goes through the transformation of taking on the physical appearance of Orochimaru. Orochimaru commands the snakes to clean the chamber of his blood, skin, muscle, and bones. Orochimaru walks to the ninja, picks him up, places him on a table, and procedes to write a special seal where the fang marks were. Soon the seal along with the marks vanish not to ever to be able to be seen by mortal eyes ever again. He dismisses the summon snakes once they were through and proceeds to leave the chamber only to come across a small group of anbu along with his former sensei.
Sarutobi had come expecting a maniac serial killer but finds his best for student.
"What are you doing here?" he asks Orochimaru.
"What does it look like old man?"
"Why are you doing this? To your own people?"
Orochimaru lets out a soft hollow laugh. "My people you say. Tell me. If these were trully my people, then why did they betray me? Why did you betray me?" he shouts.
"What are you talking about? I haven't betrayed you."
"You did the day you chose the apprentice of that perverted idiot for the title of Yondaime instead of me. I have given everything to you and this damn village and got nothing but a title that apparently means squat. Now things are different. I finally have goals of my own. And nothing and no one is going to stop me."
Before Sarutobi could do anything, the rest of the anbu attack. Orochimaru easily kills them with the flick of his wrists.
Sarutobi looks at all the blood and guts covering the chamber. A single tear slides down his face. "When did you turn into such a monster? Where is your humanity?"
Orochimaru smirk then replies, "I'm not a monster, not yet. There is still a bit of humanity left." He looks at his former sensei with warm gentle eyes, proof that his humanity has yet to be destroyed. He walks up to his sensei and places a kunai in his hand. "Before this monster, this tool that you helped this village create leaves, I'm giving you the opportunity to kill me. Do it."
Sarutobi's innerstruggle is beyond anything he has ever experienced. It is just too much to understand. Just what the hell is going on? But just when he pulls himself together, he finds that Orochimaru has long since been gone.
Orochimaru finds himself at the Valley of the End. But he knows that he's not alone.
"You can come out now Yondaime." He says the title with discuss.
"I can't allow you to escape Orochimaru."
"Oh, and why's that may I ask?"
"I can't allow you to go unpunished for the atrocities you have committed against the village."
"Is that so. But what you call atrocities I call research."
Anger overwhelms the kage. His chakra overcomes him as if he is surrounded in yellow aura. In a flash, he shoves a rasengan into his stomach. A perfect whole appears there. He is further shocked to find that the sannin did not instantly die.
Orochimaru proceeds to take out a scroll from within his sleeve. He unravels it revealing a set of over a thousand seals contained within a hundred seals contained within fours seals that are contained in a special unknown specific seal. The sannin performs five unfamiliar hand seals before activating the seal within the scroll. After all the seals are activated, he steps on top of the open scroll. A sinister and evil red chakra rises and surrounds the scroll. Orochimaru takes out a kunai to perform the snake transformation jutsu again.
"What are you doing?" questions the Yondaime.
Orochimaru smirks, "In three months, a great demon will be unleashed upon the village. And, there is nothing you can do to stop it. It's immortal."
Just as the sannin's body bursts, the red chakra engulfs all that was once the sannin before it finishes transforming into a snake, turning Orochimaru to nothing but ashes.
Back in Orochimaru's chamber the 'ROOT' anbu member awakens finding himself tended to by a medical ninja. He looks around to see the chamber occupied with anbu, jounin, and medical staff. The medical ninja escorts him on his way out pass the other ninjas. He's glad he doesn't attract any unnecessary attention. Can't have ROOT being exposed after all.
All of a sudden, he starts to feel sick. Then his body starts to move on its own accord. Next thing, his bones, muscles, and skin are changing rapidly. He grabs hold of the medical ninja.
"What's wrong with me?" he asks the ninja.
The ninja smiles and injects him with a needle. The body then goes through a rapid drastic change. Soon no longer was there the body of a ROOT ninja but of a certain snake-like sannin. The body opens its eyes, stands up, and stretches, releasing a long held sigh.
"Reibou."
"Yes, Orochimaru-sama," asks the medical ninja.
"From now on, we will stick to the curse seal."
"Yes, Orochimaru-sama."
The two vanish into the night and depart the village.
As Orochimaru and his servant depart the village, the Yondaime is found in the hokage chambers going over books confiscated from Orochimaru's private laboratory. What concerned him was that all the books were nothing more than fairy tales, things about demons, death gods, and fate. All things were just fiction. Like who really believes in demons nowadays. Sure there are demon summoning, but, well they're summoning. They're no such thing as a real demon, all pure evil and malice. He focuses his eye on a certain book, "The 9 Bijuus of Pure Evil Sin." A tick breaks out above his left eyebrow.
He yells out loud, "God damn it. These are nothing but children tales."
Then a thought comes to mind, 'Soon I'm going to be a father.'
"Oh happy me," runs out the door and into the streets dancing up a storm.
Deep within a cave in another dimension for about the last three months, a giant nine-tailed red fox demon has been growing very irritable. It has no idea why, but its chakra has been acting up elevating it rage and restlessness to bloodthirsty levels. It has had enough. It needs an outlet for all its frustration. Then all of a sudden, its chakra departs its body and forms a giant red sphere taking away eight tails worth of its power and reducing it to the size of a woodland fox. The sphere engulfs the fox before vanishing.
The fox finds himself in another dimension. Before he could move, all his power returns but the chakra was more bloodthirsty, more malicious, more terrifying. He regains all his tails ands grows back too his original size. With a crazed look, he turns his attention to the location of a large group of chakra signatures. He heads to Konohagakure to let out its hostility.
The Hokage is walking the streets whistling joyful that anytime soon he is going to be a father. Just the idea of being called dada is something he has been very much been looking forward to, when all of a sudden large quantities of smoke rise from west of the village. Flames are seen spreading rapidly in a wildness of hunger. And above the flames can be seen a huge nine-tailed fox. It raises it head to the sky and shoots a giant ball of flame four times its size into the sky. For the next three days, hundreds of tiny balls of chakra covered in red flame fall around and in the village while the fox stands unmoving witnessing its work of destruction. On impact the balls will explode with anything. After the third day, the village is in near ruin.
In an underground, base the Sandaime is calming down the village while the Yondaime is going over something in his office.
'I can't believe this,' wonders Minato. 'How could this be happening? The Bijuu were nothing but fairy tales. But here is the 'Kyuubi no kitsune', the 'Lord of the Bijjus' nonetheless, attacking the village. What to do?'
From the corner of the room, he spots a scroll of seals. 'Wasn't this confiscated from Orochimaru. I wonder what it is.'
Inside the scroll he finds a certain jutsu.
He reads, "Upon using the nine hand signal combination, the jutsu user makes a contract with Death - he gives his soul to Death, and in exchange, receives the power to also take the soul of the one he wishes with him to the underworld. To accomplish this, he must have a hold of the opponent, and Death then extends his hands from the jutsu user's body to extract the soul of the opponent. Only the jutsu user and the targeted opponent can see the Death god, and this causes much pain to the jutsu user. Upon extraction, the soul is then sealed within the jutsu user, and they are both consumed by Death, where they are destined to a hellish eternity, forever fighting each other. The jutsu user is then left with a mark upon his belly once the souls have been sealed."
However being a master of seals he sees another way it can be used. He wonders, 'What if by first splitting the Nine Tails' chakra into its Yin and Yang counterparts, I seal the Yang into an object, and seal the Yin into myself with the jutsu? The object of course will have to be a living and newly created creature like a new born child to be able to contain this substance and adjust its chakra coils to be able to contain or support it.'
A jounin rushes to him, "Hokage, the fox has moved it's at the village gates. Our ninja are doing everything they can, but it's useless. What do we do sir?"
The Yondaime rises and commands for everyone to fall back and no longer engage the fox. He will soon go deal with it. The ninja leaves and the Hokage writes a note.
It says, "To the one that will take my place as Hokage. I am about to perform a forbidden jutsu to deal with the fox. I will do away with its physical form, but trap its spiritual form and a great deal if not all of its power in a boy. The boy will be a container of the Kyuubi. He will be the only thing keeping the village safe from the Kyuubi. For this, I wish for him to be seen as the hero he is. If he doesn't exist, there will be no longer a village to protect. His true name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, my son. However, no one must no my connection with him, not even the child. I don't want my enemies hunting him down. He must not know his heritage until he is ready and can defend himself. When the time comes and he wants answers of his heritage direct him to the Sandaime or my sensei, they are the only ones who know the answers."
He leaves to the hospital. At the hospital, he looks into the blue eyes of the newborn. He asks the nurse, "Is this the child?"
She responds, "Yes, this is the only one that was born today. The mother died during labor. Her name's Kushina Uzumaki. We have no clue who the father may be."
Tears slide down his cheeks. His mind is covered with regret and heartache. He takes the boy and heads off into the night.
He stands on top of lord Gamabunta with a small bundle in his arms facing off the great demon himself. The fox send a large force of killing intent at this opposition. The bundle in the Hokage's arms lets out a wail, revealing it to be a human child. The fox expresses amusement.
"You plan on stopping me with a baby, a human one no less. What do you plan on doing, have me go deaf by its crying? How rich." It goes into laughter once again.
The Yondaime's face is set in stone with great determination. He goes into his new version of the Fuuin Jutsu Shiki Fuujin or the dead demon imprisonment. The nine hand signal combination are made. The Death God appears, however unlike the original Shiki Fuujin, this one allows the Death God to be viewed by anyone in the vicinity. The demons physical body is destroyed and its spiritual body and power are placed into the child. The jutsu is complete once the Death God takes the Yondaime's soul. Lord Gamabunta vanishes into smoke same as the Kyuubi's body. The Yondaimes's body, along with the child in his arms, falls to the ground. Ninjas watch as their late Hokage's arms open allowing the small bundle to come crashing to the ground faster. Once it makes impact the Yondaime's body come crashing down over it. Medical ninja quickly come to examine their Hokage. They are depressed to find no pulse. Then, they hear a strangled cry coming from underneath the body. They lift the body to find a small newborn child wrapped in a blanket. There is a lot of damage to the poor kid. His bones were broken. He lost a lot a blood. There was just too much damage for any hope for the poor child to survive. They could tell he was in a lot of pain. But as a ninja takes out a kunai to put it out of its misery, the child starts to emit a strangely disturbingly familiar foul red chakra. All its injuries begin to heal on their own accord. Everyone is disturbed.
In the realm of the afterlife, the shinigami is escorting Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage, to his new home.
The shinigami stops and pulls out three blank sheets. "I've decided you are worthy to use these." He hands the sheets to Minato and continue walking.
"What are these?" he asks.
The Death God answers, "They are the sheets of fate. Write down a name on each single paper with your spiritual power and it will tell you the fate. The name could be of a person, pet, animal, god, demon, place, thing, anything. If it has a name it has a fate. Remember, one name per sheet."
"What is spiritual power?"
The great shinigami looks over at the human spirit.
"In this form, your chakra is your spiritual power. All living creatures have two sets of powers, the mortal power, which the living use and call chakra, and the spiritual power, which only the dead can use and call chakra. Mortal power is often viewed as a blue aura. Spiritual power is often viewed as a yellow aura. Spiritual power is also more powerful than mortal power. Also, not one being can use both powers. It is rumored that before the time of existence, that is before me and Kami. There was one such being. But, he couldn't be considered a being. He had more power than a god or a demon. He wouldn't kill. He would totally erase fate from existence. However it is just a fun tale to pass around. No such thing could ever exist. Its just impossible."
Minato thinks to himself, 'That's what I thought of the Bijuu. But, who am I to question the shinigami.'
With his spiritual power he writes on a sheet of paper, 'Konohagakure.' The name highlights in gold color. Underneath the name is written, 'This village will continuously be bathed in its own blood and betrayal.'
Minato is shocked from what he reads. How could this be? He couldn't accept this. There has to be more to it than this. He tries again on another sheet.
With his spiritual power he writes on the sheet of paper, 'Sasuke Sarutobi, the Sandaime Hokage.' The name highlights in gold color. Underneath the name is written, 'Unable to fulfill his duties, due to the prejudice of the village. Will die at the hands of his student.'
Minato is further shocked. How could the village hold such prejudice and against the 'old man.' Who will kill him? Is it Orochimaru? He tries to find out the most important thing with the last sheet.
With his spiritual power he writes on the sheet of paper, 'Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze.' The name highlights in gold color. Underneath the name is written, 'Will only know hurt, loneliness, heartache, misery, and betrayal. Will die at the hands of the one he calls brother and friend. He will be a master of masks to hide from the wrath of the village. No one will no who he truly is, not even his inner demon. But he is gifted with the new direction of fate and few will call him hero.'
Minato is torn over the fate of his son.
He asks, "Can this be undone?"
Shinigami looks at Minato before taking back the three sheets and placing them in his robes. He answers, "Fate is definite. It can never be changed. You humans believe that you can change fate. Truth is no human knows what his or her fate truly is. So, how could they change it? No, what you do to change it is all really fate's design. You can't escape fate, nor can I."
Shinigami falls to the floor in pain. He loosens his robes as the three sheets of fate fall burning in purple and black flames.
Before seeing the papers disappear into nothingness shinigami whispers, "Impossible! Fate can't be erased."
Within the mind of a child within the chambers of 'Life after Death,' a creature of immense power is strapped on a bed covered with many seals. On the outer ring of the seal that connects them all are five key gate seals. Once each of the five are activated, the seals will break releasing the creature. The first activates and the creature laughs saying, "The seal is drawn." The second activates and the creature laughs again saying, "The Shinigami is called." The third activates and the creature says, "A demon's soul, chakra, and power are here. Hm, I wonder which of my powers is it." The fourth activates and says, "The vessel's parent dies." The fifth activates and says, "The seal is complete." The seals break and the creature is released. He conjures his black robe and puts it over himself. He conjures his scythe and uses its power to tear open the door preventing him access from the mind of the vessel.
He stumbles into the chamber of the Kyuubi.
"Who goes there?" demands the demon. As it takes a good look at the creature with the skull head and scythe, it says in a frightened voice, "It's you. What are you doing here? You don't exist."
The creature smiles at Kyuubi before raising its left arm. The steel gate, with the seal separating the Kyuubi and the being from the mind of Naruto, bends and twists around the giant fox. The creature lets out a dark laugh.
"I don't understand it myself. It seems I have a Contract of Companionship with your vessel. Or should I say former vessel. I can't wait to meet him I wonder what he's like. He has to be something for me to have acknowledged him."
He holds his scythe over the bijuu.
"Now, I'll be taking the powers you stole from me back Kyuubi. You pathetic excuse for a human, trying to pretend to be a demon."
Before striking Kyuubi's head off, its eyes gain purple pupils and the scythe's blade turns into a black flame surrounded with dark purple lightening.
The impossible has happened Kyuubi has been killed.
The creature then proceeds to change the room to his liking after containing the powers of the Kyuubi in a fox skull.
What is the Contract of Companionship?
A special contract between the creature and vessel.
A special time jutsu is used to place a special trigger seal on the creature, so it will awaken sooner.
Both vessel and creature will have no memory of what happened before the drawing of the contract.
Creature will only remember that there is a contract between he and vessel, no one else.
Creature will look after vessel and heal his body during day.
At night, it will be the same, but creature will bring vessel into his mind so that he may care and interact with vessel.
Creature is interested in collecting any information on vessel and the world in general.