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.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Naruto: Choosing 'To Be My Companion'
Chapter 3: The Scavenger Hunt
For a year now, he has done everything his father has asked of him. He lives in the forest away from human kind. It is safe here. All the creatures of the wilderness fear him. He appreciates them; for unlike how man displays fear through hatred, torture, and abuse, the animals show only respect and pride. Through the power that his father blessed upon their first meeting, he has developed the ability to connect with nature. And through this connection he has learned patience from the snake, he has learned determination from the boar, he has learned agility and teamwork from the wolf, he has learned detection from the eagle, he has learned cunning from the fox, and above all else, he has learned respect from all creatures but of the human.
It is late into the night. It was to be another of their simple scavenger hunts into the village of the humans. They are the scavengers of the forest who enjoy occasionally orchestrating hunts into the village. They have been doing this all their lives and recently the human boy has been joining in. They appreciate his knowledge. It seems that before he entered the realm of the forest, he lived in the village. We knew of this for we watched from a distance as he grew. We watched how he was terribly treated. We even watched that twisted ceremony they performed on him a year ago before throwing him out. However, we were no better. After he came to us, we left him to die alone. After all he has to be no good for his own kind to treat him as such.
But after watching him as he stumbles to survive in the wilderness alone, and how those hunters would stop killing them in order to have more time to hunt the boy, we soon found our selves pitying the boy. We soon realized who are the true monsters and when we reached out to him we found a great surprise. The boy could communicate to us. It was not a communication through the voice or mind, but of something deeper, the heart. We communicate everything to each other, thoughts, actions, feelings, desires, everything is communicated through eye contact, touch, ear, or smell. Who expected the boy could be capable of such a thing. We later found that this is a gift granted to him by a being he calls 'Father.' So since then he has become one of us. We taught him everything that makes us who we are. He learns patience, determination, agility, teamwork, detection, cunning, and respect. These are things human take credit for possessing. But it is we who are the ones who taught them such things. We are the true masters of these abilities.
Already the human has made such progress in what he has learned from us, being able to enter the village undetected by the humans as he search for possible targets. However though he can avoid the normal humans he can't avoid the special ones they call ninjas. We can't even avoid them! They use an ability to detect other presences that we just don't have the ability to teach or master. It is a power that they were gifted with by more powerful creatures. This power is what humans call chakra or we call power. The higher beings blessed all living creatures with two powers, mortal and spiritual. Even we animals have these powers, but we were never taught how to use them. The humans learned from demons and gods. This is why we are here with the human. We alert him to the presences of the ninjas, so that he may escape. As of yet we have never let him fall into human hands, but you can never let your guard down. Those damn special humans have those damn things they call jutsu.
However today is just too intense. For some reason, all the humans have decided to be out on the streets. This is just too dangerous. But for some reason, there is also more human food than usual, so they just have to stay and do a little bit of scavenging.
Then there's a cry from a human. I look and see a mob forming. I start to have an eerie sense of déjà vu before the flashbacks comeback reminding me that this is the day the human was hurt badly by his own kind and tossed out of his home by the humans. I see the mob attack the boy. We intervene to protect our brother but the humans are too much. The last thing I do before dieing is command one of the young ones to retreat and report back to the others.
The raccoon hides in a trashcan watching as those monsters kill his family. He sees how they make their way to the human boy, his brother, to strike him down with one of those strong weapons. He sees his brother fall to the ground. Before turning to return to the forest, he sees an old human in white surrounded by a small group of humans in black pick up his brother and take him away. The raccoon is full of anger as he returns to wild.
Deep within the mind, the being known as 'Father' sits on his throne with his right hand covering his lower face in a deep thoughtful manner. He sighs as he bows his head and lowers his hand. A soft sound escapes as that of a chocked sob. But as he raises his head he reveals a sly smile and lets out a deep laugh. The white of his eyes suppress the red veins that were appearing. The blue of his eyes vanish and is replaced with black from the darkest abyss. His pupils turn dark purple and begin to glow.
"So my son," he laughs, "It seems your trials will begin sooner than expected."
Let's see.
Where to begin?
On his fourth birthday, Naruto is attacked and thrown out of the village.
Coincidently, after being attacked and sent to a near death state, he visits his mindscape and meets 'creature' that at the end of this meeting offers to become his true friend. 'Creature' then proceeds to take on the image of Naruto's father and from then on is known as 'Father.'
'Father' gifts Naruto with the 'connection.'
Naruto is invited into the animal community of the wilderness.
For a year the animals of the wilderness have trained him.
On his last scavenge to the village, he is discovered and attacked. His friends are killed.
The Sandaime Hokage saves him.
-Up until now, the hokage has no clue that naruto has been missing for a year.
-Like I mentioned before, he tries to avoid reminders of the past. He is like his student Tsunade, when it comes to naruto, so that the last time he talks or thinks about the boy was a year a go. In fact, he had only remembered during the festivities that he still needed to visit the boy like he always does on his birthday.
-After today, he will begin taking more of an interest on the boy.
However here is a question? How are the animals of the wilderness going to take what happened during this scavenger hunt? Especially since they really care for the human boy.