IRON FOX
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Bold: demon speak
Italics: thoughts
Underlined italics: inner people
"Naruto-chan": talk
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Iron Fox :Chapter 3 :WEASEL, FOX
A/N: Hi, I may not update for sometime sorry but then again I just may. This is part 2 of ch2. The pairing will change it is chosen.
Ch 3 :WEASEL, FOX
Two years later (Naruto age 2)
Hokage Tower
"I can't do this anymore old man, please listen to me sensei." said a pale man with black hair in purple clothes. His voice held a bit of menace and sad hopelessness. " When I became a Sannin, I thought that I knew how dark humanity really was and what I was fighting for. Now I am being forced to look at this village from a different light, these people ,if that is what you still want to call them, are worse than any demon they are true monsters in human skin. Now they stared to call Naruto a demon, what do they think they are, heroes?"
"Well the villages are still trying to rebuild their lives, but Naruto is a reminder of everything that they lost on that day, Orochimaru." said an old man in a white robe and an large white hat with the symbol for fire on it. His voice too held a bit of sadness and anger but it seemed like he was sad and mad at himself. "But I am also disappointed in this village. Shodai and Nidaime would be very disappointed to see how far their beloved village and the one who they left to protect it have fallen."
"Don't you dare go on telling me that you feel sorry for the villagers, if they can't see the difference between a child and a demon they don't deserve to be felt sorry for. Do you know how many times I had to save him in the last month, 20 times in the this week , and its only Wednesday, so I assume that you can find that this was a slow week for the villagers so they only did half the normal tries by now." said Orochimaru now his voice was getting colder by each passing word. "The sad thing is that Naruto is a prodigy, but if the villagers get wind of that Naruto being super smart they will redouble the number of times they try to kill him."
"What do you mean a prodigy, I know that he is bright but prodigy?" asked Sandaime Hokage "I mean he is Minato's son, but come on he is only two years old."
"I mean that he is a PRODIGY in the same way as all prodigies." said the snake Sannin "He was able to corner me in a game of chess. He nearly beat me in a game of Go. I mean not even you can beat me in a game of Go."
"Aaahhh, wow did he really manage to do that?" asked the Third
"Yes he did, you should have heard him explain what charka is after I transformed a book on charka that is hard for even ANBU to understand to look like a children's book." said Orochimaru
"So I take it that he was utterly confused, right?" asked the Hokage
"Well, he would gave a jonin a run for his money with what he said." said Orochimaru
"Wow, he is a prodigy." said the Hokage
"Unfortunately sometimes I think that the only way to keep Naruto protected is to kill of the village and all who live there." said Orochimaru
"You don't mean that do you Orochimaru, you are a ninja of this village you swore to protect it?" asked the old man
"I don't know but I did promise that brat and my teammates that I will protect Naruto even if it costs me my life and I never break a promise." said Orochimaru as he walked out of the Hokage's office.
Six Month later
Secret Base Under Konoha
The Hokage was in black battle armor with a steel helmet and a long black staff with yellow ends. There were two ANBU following behind him in the dark hallway they were running down. The Third looked worried but it was impossible to tell what the ANBU was feeling because of the masks that they wear. As they ran closer they saw light behind a door at the end of hallway. Then when they got close to the door , one of the ANBU jumped and kicked the it down. Then the ANBU that kicked the door down went flying backwards. He was dead even before he hit the ground. Then the Hokage and the other ANBU ran in to the room. This other ANBU was hit in the torso with ten shurikens and kunais and also flew backwards he too was dead before he hit the ground.
"Orochimaru I can't believe that you will go this far, you kidnapped citizens and killed, you killed your follow ninjas and committed the most hideous crimes in other countries." yelled Sarutobi "Why did you do this?"
"I told you that I will protect Naruto, did I not. I also told you that the best way to protect Naruto is to destroy the village." said Orochimaru in a way that will make people run for their life.
"If your willing to go this far then I guess the time for words has long been over Orochimaru, you will pay for your crimes." said the old Hokage sadly as he got his staff ready to fight.
"If I have to pay for my crimes then so will the village pay for how they treated Naruto, this I will make sure off old man, no sensei." said Orochimaru as a snake came out of his mouth and a sword came out of the snake and Orochimaru grabbed the sword as the snake went back to wherever it came from.
"Lets go." both of them yelled at the same time as they rushed at each other. The two weapons meet each other as they clashed. Then a monkey's head came out the staff and tried to bite Orochimaru's hand. When Orochimaru saw the monkey head come out of the he quickly jumped back and charged at the Hokage again. The old Hokage rammed the staff into Orochimaru's stomach. Orochimaru was forced to double back and then he rammed the hilt into the Hokage's forehead sending the old man to the floor. Then Orochimaru did something he had not done since he was a genin, he ran from the fight. The Third Hokage got to his feet but did not chase after his old student. Then the staff turned into a old monkey in black robes.
"Why are you not going after him Sarutobi." asked the monkey king
"I'm sorry Enma, but I don't think that I can catch up to him and he was my student." said the Third
"That kindness of yours will one day get you killed." said Enma
Two years later (Naruto age 4)
Hokage Tower
"Weasel I have B-class mission, do you want it because you are the only one I trust to do this mission." asked the Hokage
"May I ask what the mission entities for me to be the only one to be able to do it?" asked Weasel as he took of his mask showing the young beautiful face of Uchiha Itachi.
"I need you to watch over Uzumaki Naruto, or as it should be Namikaze Naruto." said the old man
"The Jinchuriki is the son of the Forth Hokage?" asked Itachi with a look of surprise on his normally emotionless face.
"Now I am sure that you are the right person the watch over him." said the Hokage
"What do you mean I'm the right person?" asked the Uchiha clan heir.
"You called Naruto a Jinchuriki and not a demon." said the Hokage with a smile on this face.
"Why would I call him a demon even a blind person can see that he is a child and not a 300 foot fox demon." said Itachi
"If only the rest of the village were to see things like you do Itachi, if only they would." said the Third with sadness and disappointment in his voice.
"If I am the only one then I will take the mission Hokage-sama." said Itachi with a shadow of a smile on his face.
"Okay Itachi the mission starts now, go find Naruto he may be in his apartment." said the old man as Itachi put on his weasel mask and jumped out the window to the nearest roof and kept on going.
Two weeks later
It was late at night when Itachi was going home and only two more weeks until the Kyuubi festival and Naruto's birthday. But unlike Itachi, Naruto was not going home. He was running away from another mob. They always get braver as the festival comes closer but this mob was full of civilian and ninja so Naruto was in even more trouble than normal.
"Come over here demon brat we just want to show you something." said someone from inside the mob.
"Ya, we want to show you how sharp our blades are as they tear through your fake human skin." said another person from the mob.
Now Naruto knew that he had to run even faster if he wanted to live. So he turned to a ally to try to get away from the mob, but he was not so lucky it was a dead end, and he was trapped in-between a wall and his death.
"There, the demon is in the alley." yelled one of villagers
"Lets kill the demon when its still weak and no one to help it." said one of the ninjas.
So when faced with death Naruto did the only thing that he could do, he screamed at the top of his lungs for help. This only seemed to make the mob even more happy.
"No one is going to save you demon, nothing is going ever save you." said a ninja in an fish ANBU mask.
Scene Cut
Over the Roofs
Itachi had just got a cold feeling run down his spine, there were only three reasons he had that feeling.
1) The fangirls were near and ready to hunt him.
(yes ,this has become a instinct for the clan heir.)
2) Someone wanted to hurt his pokey or his "precious".
(Do you really want to know what precious is?)
3) His charge was in trouble and was about to die.
The fan girls were nowhere near him. The pokey and precious were safe as they could ever be. So the only thing left was Naruto. Naruto was in mortal danger and he was god know how far away.
'Naruto, where are you.' thought Itachi as he took off to where he saw smoke. 'I have not failed a mission yet and I won't start now.'
The alley
The villagers took every sharp weapon that they had and stared to cut apart Naruto's 4 year old body. The only luck he had at that time was they all struck at the same time and could not move the blade, they had to pull the metal out of his body before they could attack again. As soon as they pulled out the weapons they stared to slash his body to ribbons. Soon this became too much pain for Naruto and he feinted in a grunt of pain.
Unknown
Drip. Drip. Drip. All that Naruto heard was the dripping of water on a cold hard stone floor. The ice cold feeling was working it's way up Naruto's small waking body. As he opened his eyes all he saw was pipes running in a horizontal pattern across the circler wall that surrounded him. There was also the cold water on the floor and the warmth stealing icy wind being blown in the tunnel.
"Oh, great they ripped me apart, healed me and threw me in the sewers, next they will tell me that old man Hokage is not a pervert." said Naruto trying to put some humor in this sad and near hopeless situation. Then Naruto looked ahead and saw a light at the end of the tunnel and ran toward it. There at the end of the tunnel was a gate of great size made of what seemed to be bronze. On the very center of the gate was a slip of paper with the word 'seal' written on it. Behind the gate stood the dark form of a great fox with glowing red eyes. Naruto saw it and began to approach it gate with steadfast face of calm.
"So you're the reason why everyone tries to kill me, huh fuzz ball?" asked Naruto with arrogance.
"Watch your tongue hairless monkey, you may be my jailer but I can kill you a million times over and a million times back without breaking a sweat. Now you are in your mind and let me be the first to tell you to get your head out of the gutters and now let me tell you that you are about to die unless you accept my help." said the demon fox wanting to save his own ass as will the young brats.
"Looks like I have no chooses in this matter, yes I want your help." said Naruto with a smirk on his face.
"You must rip part of the seal of, no I won't be fully free but free enough to see the world." said the large fox then saw Naruto follow them. "I will turn that what they take as their most prized weapon in their worst fear. I will steel all hope from them. (pun intended) Now leave!"
Real World
As the villagers were getting ready to kill Naruto, charka erupted out of his body. At first it was Naruto's blue charka and quickly it became Kyuubi's red demon charka. The charka covered Naruto's body and made him float a few feet in the air. The villagers becoming scared started to move backwards.
"Look see he is a demon we must kill him to protect our children, we must not let him return to his true form." yelled a brave ninja in the crowd. The mob stared to rush at him once more but froze as Naruto's charka turn from red to sliver and his eyes open doing the same. At that moment Itachi arrived at the scene and had to watch as the sliver charka lifted up his charge's hand.
"Kinzton: Scrap mill wind" was heard as the metal in the weapons broke into pieces and started to impale the mob only the high class ninjas were not killed but most were hurt badly. The fish mask had his face showing. His red eyes had commas in them and they looked like Itachi's eyes.
"Die demon bastard Koton: Great Blue Flame Koi ." yelled the once fish masked Uchiha
A large blue fish flew at Naruto. But the boy did not seem to notice. He was once again in dreamland. Itachi knew that he had to protect Naruto, but that meant he had to kill his best friend Shusui, in a split second Itachi had made up his mind.
"I will not let you do this Shusui Suiton: Water Dragon Blast." yelled Itachi as he sent a water dragon to put out Shusui's fire fish. The dragon ate the fish whole and went after it next target, Shusui. "Oh shit." was all he could as the water dragon forced itself down Shusui throat and ripped his insides apart. Itachi turned around and picked up Naruto and ninja ran to the hospital.
2 weeks later
Konoha General Hospital
(A/N: this next part may be hard for some readers, but this part is needed later on.)
Naruto slowly opened his eyes, only to see that everything around him was white and smelled like lemon scented disinfectant. He looked around and saw that he was in a hospital, he hated hospitals as much as they hated him back. There he had no feeling of safety being locked in a small room surrounded by people who hate you . They are able to come in to his room and kill him, the only thing stopping them was old man Hokage. He looked at the desk near his bed and saw no get well cards, no flowers, no nothing. But he did not let that get to him most wanted him dead anyway. Only reason they want him to get well was so they can bring him back to the edge of life and death once more. To beat him senseless, to let him drowned in a pool of his own blood, to take blame for their rage and mishaps, to at last painfully kill him. 'This may be my reason, to die.' The dark thought had crossed his mind many times before. ' They called me a demon before now that I killed I may be really be one. The Kyuubi has kill many more, did his demonic sins crossover to me when he was sealed into my body by "that man". Are the villagers right do I have any right to live, to breath, to be even near other people. Am I truly a monster, a unholy demon that took up a human form. Will I end up kill everyone that I know, will I take pleasure in kill millions that I don't even know. What am I ningen or oni, am I a human with a demon inside or a demon that looks like a human.' These thought came at the young four year old like some one saved by turning to god. They came and dug in to his mind the thoughts started a new mind inside Naruto. But he won't know this till it was too late but Naruto's mind had yet to come brake and let the new personality take over. But he knew that his mind may not be able to take another crash like what happened two weeks ago. A knock at the door stopped the dark thoughts for the moment.
"Naruto, are you awake?" came a beloved voice from behind the door.
"Old man! Ya I'm awake, come on in." yelled Naruto in a loud voice that now had a good reason to get his mind of those saddening thoughts.
"Naruto its good to see that you are feeling will, and back to your cute loud self." said the Hokage happy to see his adopted grandson was back to his happy self.
"Hey, old man what happened in the alley?" Asked Naruto "All I remember is being cornered and cut apart by angry villagers, I guess the medic-nins must pros by now after all the times they fixed me up. Hahahahahah."
"In that alley the villagers attacked you out of drunkenness, they were meet with an force that they did not expect, you. Well they did not expect you to somehow get a bloodline." said the 3rd hokage. "The bloodline lets you control metal, from what Itachi told you use a justus called 'Kinzton: Scrap mill wind', it ripped into many non-ninja civilians, killing them and most of the ninjas were hurt but then Shusui, Itachi's best friend, attacked you but Itachi was then forced to kill him, which let him gain Mangekyo Sharingan, it is the full form of his bloodline. The people that were killed were evil, good work Naruto."
"Hey, old man can you tell me why they hate me so much." asked Naruto in a soft sad almost "dead to the world" kind of voice. "Can you tell me why they want to kill me, to erase my existence, to destroy my reason and will to live." 'Will my death allow them to live happily. If I take my life will the pain go away, will I see and be with my family. Why did the damn fourth Hokage have to curse me with the task of something he could not do himself .
"No I can't tell you why they hate you but know its not your fault Naruto, its something no one control over. Please Naruto don't ask me of this again, I told you all that I can tell for now. No one change who they really are on the inside Naruto just as no one can look past true hate." said the Hokage "I'm sorry Naruto I have to leave now."
'The old man is right this is not my fault it's the fourths, he put this curse on me, he made me the hate of the village he made me the living punching bag, I will curse him like he did to me. The old man is also right about no one being able change and never being able to see past the hate. Maybe the villagers are right may be I am better off dead. Then I will be able to see my family. Maybe I will go to some place where I belong some where I will be free of this pain. Both the pain in my heart and on my body. I'm always hoping that the pain will just leave one day, for it to just die maybe it will leave with me dieing. No one here will miss me, the old man dose not even trust me enough to tell me the truth about Kyuubi, and Itachi is just protecting me because that's his mission. No one here will miss me if I just die. Death may be better than life, because my life is already a true hell.'
Naruto's apartment
(A/N: who in their right lets a 4 year old live on his own.)
It's 8:00 at night, Naruto has just been discharged from the hospital yesterday and his thoughts were getting more and more suicidal, more disturbing. A Yamanaka had a look inside his head they may be in a coma or go crazy. The thoughts that had crossed his mind are some that not even a emo will think up. Thoughts that should cross or even have a place in the mind of a four year old child' mind. The thoughts had took they toll on Naruto. We find young Naruto holding a short rope with two loops on it one on either sides of the rope. He threw one side of the rope up in the air and it got caught on a blade of the ceiling fan and the rope tightened its loop around the fan blade when Naruto pulled on the rope. The rope now hung a few feet of the ground, Naruto now had brought a chair and put it under the rope. The second loop was a few feet above the head of the rope. Naruto then stood on the chair and put the noose around his neck and put the toe of his right foot on the head of the chair and the heel of his left foot on the edge of the chair. Then he kicked the head of the chair and with a sad smile, knocked it from under his feet knowing that from here on in there was no going back. Because he will never be able to be go to heaven for taking his own life, but then again ninjas are killers and will never be in heaven either.
Outside
On a roof over looking Naruto's house was a ANBU with a dog mask hiding his face from the world. His face may have been hidden but anyone who looked could have known that he was happy, very happy. It just so happens that Itachi was on his way to look after Naruto. There he saw the dog masked ex-ANBU captain, the one who's job he now had, sitting on his watching spot. 'What is Hatake Kakashi doing here, is he here to watch after Naruto also. No he is not one to like Naruto and is untrustworthy when it come to Naruto. And why is he so happy.' "Hatake Kakashi why are you here shouldn't you be lost on the road of life reading porn or at the memorial stone where uncle Obito's name is engraved and look at it until you lose track of time or something?
"Now now little Itachi don't fret, can't you see that I'm happy. I'm trying to enjoy the view. It's a once in a lifetime view we will never see it again." said Kakashi who was still looking through Naruto's window the whole time.
"What the hell are you looking at?" asked Itachi as he turned his head to see what Kakashi was looking at. What he saw scarred him for the rest of his life. Naruto's little body was hanging from a rope tied to the fan in the apartment, the body was swinging back and forth like a swing. Itachi yelled "Oh my god!" as he tried to jump through Naruto's window only to find that he was stuck. He look behind him and saw that Kakashi had grabbed his arm. Then Kakashi used his free hand remove his mask and said "If the monster wanted to die then who are w to try and stop him." with a sick sadistic smile showing on his cloth mask. Itachi then turned his head back to Naruto's window and using charka he jumped and forced Kakashi to let go of his arm wail he jumped through Naruto's window. Kakashi soon followed him in to the scene. When they looked at Naruto's dead body they saw on his was one of his foxy-smiles. "Ahh, the little monster died happy, that's more than what he disserves at least he will be in hell where he belongs." said Kakashi happily. Itachi could no longer stand this as he swings around he punches Kakashi in the jaw sending him to the have a date with the wall. Then Itachi took out his kunai and cut the rope around Naruto's neck. He felt Naruto's neck, there was no pulse. So he lowered his mouth to meet Naruto's. Then performed CPR on Naruto and also used a small thunder justu to restart Naruto's heart. After that the felt a small pulse, Naruto had stabilized. Itachi had no choose but to bring Naruto to the hospital.
Naruto's Mind
Naruto was once again in a dark cold world. All he was able to see was the darkness. He sat griping his legs to his chest and his arms around his legs. He was rocking back and forth. There was no one to help him in the dark. He tried to recall what had happened, all he had remembered was the darkest of his memories. How he had gotten the bloodline, to how he happily had hung himself in his apartment. What, wait he was support to have died. How was he in his mindscape. 'Someone must have saved me.'
"Bingo, see I knew that we were smart.' Said a cold childlike voice.
"Whose there, Kyuubi if its you then its not funny keeping me alive." said Naruto
"Oh please, the fox went back to his nap." the voice now had a human-like look, but was still not all there. "We should brainstorm about what to do when we wake to cold world, king."
"Who are you and why do you call me king?" asked Naruto as the voice became a human with sliver hair and eyes. The voice was wearing the same jumpsuit Naruto but in gray. "And why the hell do you look like me?"
"To let all of what you asked be answered, I am you, but a you made of all the darkness in your heart and made in to a living person in your mind." said the voice. " But you can call me Tetsu Zorro." (Iron Fox )( Japanese Spanish)
"I don't want to go back to the cold Zorro. I am scared that they will hurt me." said the 4 year old Naruto. "Can't you go in my place Zorro and live in the real world as I try to gather the parts of my broken mind."
"All right King, I will do as you ask but be warned the only thing that differs between a king and a prince is time." said Zorro with in a chant. "I will only serve someone who is strong, so wail you're here get strong or you will lose your mind.
"I better do as he says and train." said Naruto and with that Zorro disappeared in to the real world.
Konoha General Hospital
Now as Zorro or in this case Naruto was waking from his sleep the first thing he noticed was that he was in the hospital once more. But this time both the 3rd and Itachi were in the room with him. They were looking very worried about the young metal user. They then noticed that Naruto had awoke from his sleep. Then the first thing Naruto said was "Why?" with a sad look in his eyes.
"Why, what Naruto." asked the Hokage.
"Why am I alive, why did you save me , why did you not tell me about the fox?" questioned Naruto to both the 3rd and Itachi.
"Naruto how did you know about the fox?" asked the old hokage
"I believe I asked first." said Naruto
"You are alive because I saved you, I saved I had to kill my best friend to keep you alive and for that you will never do that again, you will never kill yourself am I clear?" Said Itachi with a hell lot of rage as he said the last part.
"And I never told you about the fox because I thought you are not ready to know about it." said the Hokage
"I found out about the fox when he gave me my Kekkei Genkai . The fox now sleeps and the Naruto has taken shelter in our mind. I am a part of him, I am Tetsu Zorro the Iron Fox.
A/N: I will not update for some time sorry. Polls end on 3/18/08