Chapter Ten: Darkness brought to light
AN: Ok, finally! The conclusion of the chunin exams and the nexus of at least four major plot points. Let's hope I can do this chapter justice.
I want to point out something:
Naruto's sharingan during Kyuubi mode: The only change is that it's more effective and has the Kyuubi slit pupil rather then a normal pupil. Other than that, it's still red and still has three black tomoe.
Naruto's Sharingan during Sage mode: The color changes from red to blue and the pupil turns into a crescent. The tomoe are also elongated. I will not explain what special effects it has yet.
Naruto's Sharingan during both Sage mode and Kyuubi mode: The color changes from red to blue and the pupil turns into a crescent. The tomoe are also elongated. The Kyuubi slit pupil is going through the crescent. I will also not explain the special powers this eyes has.
Add on Eternal Mangekyo to all that later(much much later in this fiction, not in two chapters) and... well it's complicated.
Read on my fellows and felines.
"Gaara-San," I questioned.
"Naruto-San?" Gaara returned.
"Are you prepared for battle?" I asked.
"Entirely, are you?" Gaara answered.
"Most definitely," I shot back confidently.
"Very well, proctor, if you will?" Gaara directed to Genma.
"Hmmm, yes, well, let the battle commence!" Genma yelled before jumping away from the fourth battle of the chunin exams.
…...Naruto's deep conscious...
"It is almost time, brother. The long awaited day. The combining of two, the return to power, the creation of what once was once more made true. You do not know how long I have struggled for this day. To see the weak fool that parades our body around fall.
I am a creature of chaos. I wish simply to see everything fall apart, reassemble itself, and then destroy all it has built once more. I do not pretend to understand the enormity of my existence.
I simply connive and whisper, set the dominoes to fall, and then watch you play your cards. I have never wanted control, why would I? If I had to run this body, we'd probably be dead within a day. I have a great lack of self control, of mental forethought of consequences.
But you dear brother, you contain those qualities and an aggression built from years of abuse. This aggression is what I truly love about you, it holds no bounds. If you were facing the entire world without your legs and your arms, this aggression of yours in all of it's primal beauty would rear it's head and you would bite everyone to death.
But when your strength fails, it is the Kyuubi ego of yours who carries you on. A part of you who holds the power of a biju. The might of a god being the closest comparison to the power you hold. The true power you could unlock... but that isn't the point.
Soon, so very soon, your alternate shall be fully ejected from his new seat and you will be in control once more. Then, well then we can take our revenge, and after that. Well, when that day comes, when the sun rises on that day, we shall see what comes to play. Hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahah!"
…...Kyuubi's perspective...
My container was so much more than I had realized. When my first plan had failed, I was so very angry. I wanted to destroy all that I had built, to kill and maim. But then I discovered the beauty of his egos. The fake consciousnesses that roam his mind.
The Yami Naruto, the dark Naruto. The only true consciousness other than the original Naruto. He was there since the beginning, something similar to every human ever born. All humans contain a counter part, just the usual thing that occurs is that the dark ego is never able to speak with the main consciousness.
The Kyuubi Naruto. An ego after my own heart! It was born because of my sealing within this boy. While not the sharpest tool in the shed, his use of my power is extreme, with no remorse and no moral compass distracting the pain he can cause.
Then there was the Uchiha Naruto. The direct result of Itachi Uchiha. The little red eyed human had a far larger, more encompassing plan than I had anticipated. To put his own eye within my container to ensure his plan went as he wished postmortem. Well, he was more intelligent than most humans believed.
But these little egos couldn't compare to the original copy, the real Naruto who at the very moment was locked deep in his consciousness, my self named love. He was the diamond on the ruby encrusted silver. The crowning gym to be precise.
Then there was the rubbish left over. The little egos that had combined like a million parasites to become the Fake Naruto. While this ego was far more pleasant to most from first glance, he was so very wrong. He would not ensure the revenge, he would not make the decisions needed to end people's lives.
Hell, he had already forgiven my container's horrid little blood sister, Narumi. That was not what I wanted.
My plan was simple now, to build on Itachi Uchiha's plan. He gave Naruto his eyes, to make them more than they ever would. Well, I would give him more eyes. Then, well then Naruto would go on a little trip outside of his comfort zone.
But it was all part of the plan.
…...Real Naruto...
It was time. During the fight with Gaara, I would take back my body. Then I would fix all the shit he had fucked up. To believe he said he didn't blame Narumi! The fucking bitch had watched me get my ribs kicked in and said nothing. She had ruined my life along with Minato and Kushina.
I would not allow this travesty to continue.
Another galling detail was all the other consciousnesses running around in my head. Fake Naruto, Uchiha Naruto, Kyuubi Naruto, Yami Naruto, Kyuubi herself. All their individual plans and schemes.
As far as I could tell, Uchiha Naruto and Kyuubi Naruto were under Yami Naruto's thumb. The three of them wanting me to kill Minato and Kushina,, a sentiment I can believe in.
Fake Naruto was on the path to forgiveness, a path I would not like to take.
However, for the Kyuubi, it was more complicated. She obviously wanted me to kill Minato. But she also has secret plans she has been planning and performing behind my back.
These secrets are not something I like.
But this was all just speculation, for all I know, all the other Naruto's and the Kyuubi want to kill me. All I want to do was kill Fake Naruto, Minato, and Kushina.
…...Fake Naruto...
I jumped high above the large hand of sand. Gaara had from the very start tried to capture me with his power. Then when I had easily escaped his first attempt, he continued to pursue me with his sand.
I formed a rasengan and broke through a thin wall of sand, a large cluster of Sand Shuriken in my wake. I slipped a Kunai loose from my pouch and batted away the sharp clumps. Gaara had simply not given me even a second to retaliate, and for good reason.
I slid under another fist made of sand and using my Tsunade-like strength, punched away the sand. When I returned to my feet, I quickly dashed towards Gaara while palming a true seal I had made for this fight. Just as I was about to jump towards Gaara, I was backhanded away.
When I returned to my feet, Gaara was wielding far more sand than he had originally and I knew what he had done. He had used the dirt and other particles in the soil to form more sand.
I growled in frustration before zooming through a few seals.
"Katon: Flame Burst," I muttered to myself.
From my fists, several dozen fire balls of an orange color flew towards Gaara. The orange fireballs were of course stopped by Gaara's sand, but the sand that it hit was almost immediately turned into glass.
Gaara's reaction was to send more sand towards me as I acrobatically dodged away. Each wave of sand that he sent towards, I easily avoided while sending forth more Katon attacks.
Just as I was preparing another Katon jutsu, I suddenly collapsed to my knees. I put my hand over my mouth and coughed harshly. When I looked at my hand, it was bloody.
"I see that it is finally affecting you," Gaara spoke sinisterly.
"What?*cough cough*," I asked.
"Well, when you turned some of my sand to glass, I could still control it, just not as well as pure sand. So I sent small shards of it into the air and simply let you breathe them in. Now your lungs are full of glass shards digging into them," Gaara spoke lowly.
I attempted to surge to my feet, but even more blood poured from my mouth. Why hadn't the Kyuubi fixed this already?! It never had any problem before! I struggled to my feet, and stood perfectly still.
Around me, sand slowly started to circle, ever closer to my feet. As I concentrated, the sand got closer and closer. Soon the sand was slowly wrapping itself around my legs, inching it's way up to my chest. By the time it had reached my neck, I couldn't move an inch of my body.
Just when the last grain of sand covered my head, I felt the Sage chakra fully meld with my own chakra. I used the power of sage mode to blast away my bindings. When I turned towards Gaara, he looked shocked.
I ran my hand over my face to feel my glasses gone. I hoped my Genjutsu held.
I jumped forth at speeds most Jonins couldn't see and thrust my fist into Gaara's abdomen. He was jetted back against the wall. I stood straight before coughing out more blood. Gaara must have sent more glass shards into my lungs.
I tried to form a rasengan, but my lungs were to distracting. I would just have to punch the bastard. I once more launched towards Gaara, who had recovered by then, and unleashed a devastating flurry of punches, and ended with a kick to his skull.
Gaara, after shakily returning himself to his feet sighed.
"Well, if you aren't going to fall due to your lungs being cut into ribbons, then I will just have to crush you. Come on Shukaku. I need your power!"
As Gaara spoke, I felt the rise in blood lust and killing intent, before brownish red chakra completely covered Gaara as he spoke. But it didn't stop there, sand swirled towards him before completely encasing him in the material. All over the sand was blue tribal markings, Gaara's body now looking like what I assumed was a tiny Ichibi.
Gaara then lunged at me, his hands now sharp sand claws. I barely dodged his powerful swipes, my lungs feeling on fire. Every moment I didn't attack, I could feel myself getting weaker. The sage mode was the only thing keeping me standing at the moment.
Without help from the Kyuubi, I was going to lose. I formed several shadow clones before jumping away to hide in the foliage that I saw Shikamaru hide in during his fight.
I closed my eyes to focus. I needed to make this quick.
…...Within Kyuubi's cage... Fake Naruto's perspective...
"So, come to seek my aid?" Kyuubi purred.
"Why haven't you healed my lungs? I know you have the power to do so," I questioned.
"Well, that's ever so simple. It's because you're not Naruto," Kyuubi said.
"What do you mean I'm not Naruto, I am me!" I yelled back.
"Well, dear brother, that's where you're wrong. Thanks for ruining the surprise Kyuubi. I had a nice, long, and very evil gloating speech but that's all out the window now," Yami Naruto spoke.
"What do you mean?" I asked confusedly.
"That's simple. You're not the real Naruto, just a copy. He is the real Naruto," Yami finished by pointing towards some shadows.
I tried to peer closer, but a single tail from the Kyuubi blocked my path. I was forced to stand there as a literal carbon copy of me walked from the shadows.
"Hello, Fake Naruto so ve..."
…...Real Naruto's perspective...
"...ry nice to meet you," I said vindictively.
I sauntered closer, my left hand aglow with chakra.
"I see you've been taking care of the place while I was out. But it appears you took a large shit in the middle of the living room. How could you forgive, Narumi! That worthless sack of flesh watched us have our guts kicked in, and used us as her personal person to blame everything on," I growled angrily.
"Wait... hold on. You're the real, Naruto. Then what am I?" Fake Naruto asked.
"I've got this one dear brother. Well, Fake, can I call you Fake, regardless, do you remember when I told you about separate egos and all that jazz. Well, I wasn't entirely truthful. There's me, Uchiha Naruto, Kyuubi Naruto... and then there's you," Yami Naruto spoke softly and slowly, punctuating his words in an oily tone.
"What do you mean by, 'there's me'," Fake Naruto asked.
"You are the accumulation of every single ego that has ever existed in this body of ours other than the real Naruto, myself, Uchiha Naruto, Kyuubi Naruto, and you. You are literally like a clone, so very very similar, yet so very very different," the words seemed to glide from Yami Naruto's mouth.
"Now that Yami Naruto has explained that, what the hell do you think you're doing! Ruining all my carefully laid groundwork, upsetting and knocking down every plan and block that has been set for our revenge. I want to hear your answer," I said.
"Well, I... wait! How do I know you all aren't lying, that I am the real Naruto and that Naruto is the fake! Also, Narumi isn't to blame for our parents mistakes! Sure Minato needs to die, maybe Kushina as well, but she never was the problem!" Fake Naruto cried.
"Another simple answer, the Kyuubi has been here since birth basically. She was sealed within this body mere minutes after our birth. She knows who's who, she happens to know every single inch of this mind and all of it's secrets. She knows you're the Fake," Yami muttered smugly.
"That's why Kyuubi wasn't healing you, to bring you here for one reason. So I can resume control and absorb you, that and Minato and Kushina aren't our parents. We have no parents," I mentioned nonchalantly, sudden devoid of emotion.
"What, you're going to absorb me! No! I will keep control of this body, I finally have a mother who loves me, I am proving my strength in front of the entire village in this exam, and I am free to live how I please! I will not let you take this from me!" Fake Naruto shouted.
Fake Naruto lunged for me and I grabbed him by the throat with my left hand. The chakra dripping off of my palm in a manner akin to water soaked into the Fake's skin. "You have served your purpose, maintaining my mind while I recuperated. While you have made wrong choices, it is not your fault. Now rest eternally!" I shouted, filling the room with my voice.
The last sight I had of Fake Naruto was of his shocked face as he was absorbed into my hand.
"Now that's that, we have one more thing to discuss brother," Yami Naruto spoke up.
"What is it?" I wondered aloud.
"You aren't finished absorbing egos, this is still a fractured mind. You must also absorb the Uchiha Naruto and the Kyuubi Naruto if you ever want to fully control the powers that comes with having a biju and a Sharingan," Yami explained
"They have agreed to this?" I questioned.
"Yes, on the agreement to two promises. One is that you must eventually unlock the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. The second is in line with the first, never use the Mangekyo to control the Kyuubi's power," Yami explicated.
"But how do I unlock the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan?" I asked.
"Absorb them, and you will have the knowledge needed."
I grabbed both of the egos who simply smiled as my hands lit up with chakra. As they drained away, I felt the difference brought by their knowledge almost immediately. I knew what I had to do.
…...Real world...
My eyes flew open, and I set chakra alight in my hands. The chakra converted a moment later into flame, and I lunged towards Gaara who was finishing off my last two surviving clones. My sharingan whirled as my sage chakra faded away, only to be replaced instantaneously by Kyuubi chakra.
I unleashed a rapid combo of jabs into Gaara's torso, and finished with a sucker punch to the jaw. Gaara merely growled painfully before returning the favor with several hard swipes to my chest.
I backed away as I felt the influx of chakra that Gaara was wielding flow into the dirt beneath our feet. As Gaara prepared whatever he was doing, I began to form a long trail of seals for a powerful jutsu. With each seal, Gaara's chakra seemed to increase but I had no time to worry about what he was doing.
Just as an explosion of sand burst upward to swarm around Gaara, I finished my last hand seal. I quickly intoned, "Suiton and Katon: Elemental Combination: Alchemist Flame." (Not a blood limit. Look up Sandaime Hokage jutsu combinations. He had jutsus similar in the way that was similar to toad oil and fire and stuff)
All around my body, blue flames exploded forth. The flames looked ghastly, and spectral in the eerie light it made itself. The flames quickly circled around me before encasing my arms, and forming in my very palms two long, serrated flame blades.
I threw the blades, new ones reappearing in my hands as soon as the other ones left them. The flame blades exploded as soon as they hit Gaara's sand. With each explosion, I could hear the roar of pain of whatever was within the veritable sand storm Gaara had created.
Suddenly the sand storm ceased to be and in it's entire glory was what appeared to be the Ichibi. But it wasn't the Shukaku. I could see Gaara controlling the sand monolith from it's forehead.
I jumped upwards, and brought my flaming arm back. As I did I muttered, "The bigger they are," Within two seconds I was in front of the sand giant's snout and roared, "The harder they fall!"
I launched my fist directly into the fake biju and sand flew everywhere n the stadium. Large clumps landing on civilians and Shinobi alike. Gaara fell to the earth limp, patches of sand clumping to him.
I landed a few feet away from him and fell to my knees. My lower right arm was missing. I guess my jutsu and Tsunade strength don't combine very well. As I returned to my feet, more Kyuubi chakra bolstered my body. Before my very eyes, red strands begin to extend and weave itself around a rapidly growing bone.
I watched in disturbed awe as each knuckle and muscle grew back. When my arm was fully restored, I slowly walked over to Gaara who was barely standing with the aid of his sand. His body looked completely devoid of injuries, but I could hear his panting. He was tired, and his biju's chakra was fading away.
I stepped within two feet of the red haired boy, his sand vainly attempting to rise in front of him to form a wall. I raised my foot above his chest and kicked him into the dirt. Then again. And again.
Each successive stump caused Gaara to retch bile, as well as attempt to attack me with sand. Finally after over a good two dozen stomps, I saw his eyes finally close as he faded into unconsciousness.
I backed away and fell onto my rear while the Kyuubi chakra finally ceased in it's flowing through my coils. The chakra was exhausting! As Genma declared my victory, I sighed. I had just one more fight to go.
…...Thirty minutes later...
I watched Hinata through squinted eyes, the sun glaring into my face in a harsh manner. I had drawn the short end of the stick on which side I had to begin on. Genma explained to the crowd that this was the final fight and basically riled them up for the last fight.
Hinata was being strange. Like bipolar strange. She would suddenly look confident and ready to fight, then suddenly turn timid for a few moments before switching back and forth.
I stepped back and forth between my feet, nervous energy of what I was about to do.
"Fight!" Genma yelled.
Hinata immediately rushed forward for a powerful lunge.
I sidestepped it and grabbed Hinata's wrist.
"I'm sorry, Hinata," I whispered into her ear as I held her still.
"For what, Naruto-Kun," she asked confused.
"This," I shoved the Kunai in my hand directly under her solar plexus into her lungs and heart. Unknown to the crowd, my sharingan which had been attempting change for the past two minutes fully morphed and the design turned into a spiral similar to the Uzumaki crest.
I had the Mangekyo.
…...Kurenai's perspective...
"What is he... DOING! Hinata, NO!" I yelled as I jumped down towards the arena.
He just shoved a fucking god damn Kunai into her heart! Naruto just killed Hinata.
As soon as I hit the ground floor, I rushed towards Hinata's crumpled body. A small trail of blood snaked from her lips, her cream jacket now the recipient of a jagged hole and red blood. Her white eyes staring blankly towards the sky.
I collapsed onto my knees, tears running down my face at her sudden death, deaf to the world around me. I barely noticed Hiashi trying to reach Naruto, his face alive with anger and his fury barely being stopped by Kakashi and Gai. I also barely noticed the single tear of blood leaving a red trail down Naruto's face.
…...Hiashi's perspective...
I furiously sped through my clan's taijutsu, trying to force Kakashi and Gai from my path. I had to kill the demon who had just murdered my daughter!
"MOVE! LET ME KILL HIM! HE KILLED MY DAUGHTER! YOU SHALL MOVE OR DIE WITH HIM!" I screamed hysterically.
The Uzumaki child must die!
…...Narumi's perspective...
I sat next to my mother in the crowd, having been released from the medical ward after only five minutes there. I had spent most of the exams watching my Nii-San easily beat most of the competitors.
Then he stabbed Hinata. He stabbed her. Just out of no where. Naruto just grabbed her wrist, took a blade, and ended her life. Other than the several Jonin who had leapt into the stadium to aid either Hinata, kill Naruto, or stop those who were trying to kill Naruto, the crowd was in pure silence.
A loud boom occurred and everyone turned to the Hokage's seating area.
"Everyone calm yourself. Cease all further attempts to enter the battle grounds. The chunin exam has been won by Naruto Uzumaki-Senju. Anbu, please escort the winner to the Hokage building. The rest of the people who are involved with the death that occurred in this final battle, follow but do not attack Uzumaki-Senju.
For the rest of the crowd, this concludes the exam. Please enjoy the luxuries my village has to offer," my father ordered loudly over the stadium. Several Anbu than appeared, grabbed Nii-San by his arms, and disappeared. Hinata's father and Kurenai quickly followed after.
Sound then suddenly returned to the crowd, an uproar of conversation on what had just happened. I simply didn't know what to think.
An: Finished for now. Also, I might not be able to upload for a month. It depend on whether I will be able to access a computer that has program to write in like Microsoft word or LibreOffice Writer. If you must know, I am visiting relatives during that time period.