An: And here is the 5th chapter, a bit of history of X. Sorry for the long wait.
Dream/Flashback
The Hyuuga branch member laughed wildly as he stood surrounded in the middle of the dark street. Anbu and jounin ringed the man in a deformed circle, all on guard. Blood poured out of the man's nose, mouth, and even the corner of his eyes a sure sign of chakra overdose. Veins usually only appearing around the Hyuuga's eyes when their bloodline limit was activated, bulged out all across his body. Another warning sign of chakra overdose. This man was hopped up on more then one soldier pill.
An Anbu with a hawk mask dropped down in front of the slightly insane man. "Hyuuga Hitaro, you are charged with the murder of your infant son, six branch members, and 3 main house Hyuuga's. Surrender now and your sentencing will be more lenient." As hawk finished his words, a group of Hyuuga's led by Hiashi appeared. An elderly Hyuuga stepped forward and made a bird seal with his left hand while thrusting his gnarled right hand at Hitaro.
Instead of screaming in agony at having his curse seal activated, the man laughed madly and charged forward towards the shocked man. Hitaro struck the elder twice and sent the man towards the ground where he received a kick to the ribs. The old Hyuuga skidded on the ground until he was stopped by Hiashi. The Hyuuga elder coughed up blood as he gasped in Hiashi's arms.
Hitaro straightened out and laughed once more. "I am free!!" The branch member removed his leaf headband. The caged bird seal was present. So were a number of hastily drawn seals around it. The new seals were still wet, a reddish color that looked suspiciously like blood.
"My newborn son saw to it!!" the man dropped the headband onto the floor. "And now I will destroy the main branch and anyone who stands in my way!" No one moved at the insane branch members bold if slightly disillusioned statement. Most were horrified at what the man had done, but many also understood what had pushed him to take this road even if they did not agree with his methods.
Another branch member stepped out from the mass of Hyuugas. "Brother, it does not have to be this way!" the woman exclaimed.
The psychotic man turned his pupil less eyes towards his sister. "Yes it does Yukira! They will never change! So I will change them!"
The woman stepped further forward and continued pleading with her insane brother. "Please stop this insanity Hitaro. There are other ways that does not involve bloodshed!" These words had a reverse effect on the man as he snarled and clenched his fist so hard that blood seeped out of his hand.
"I killed my son so that I could free us!!" Tears rolled down the man's eyes. "Are you saying he died for naught?! That I.. I.." the man chocked up. "THAT I KILLED HIM FOR NOTHING?!!" Everyone could hear the grievance in his voice. Hitaro's mouth curled into a snarl. "Even if there were other ways, it is too late. I will destroy the main branch, and then join my wife and son!"
Hitaro lunged forward with his left arm cocked back to strike his sister. A kunai flew out of the darkness and embedded itself inches away from the moving man's foot, causing him to whirl about to face his attacker.
"Do you honestly think you will be going to where your son and wife are?" The voice was young and unbroken, still holding the softness of a child.
Naruto stepped out of the shadow in the branch where he had watched the drama unfold.
"Somehow, I doubt you'll be welcome there." The masked ten-year old leapt from the branch onto the floor in front of the glaring Hitaro. A second figure landed next to the blonde, and stood up revealing herself to be Anko.
"Alright, everybody back up! My little bro's about to open a can of whoop-ass!" She herself backed up with the curious crowd. Soft murmurs were heard as the group stood back to observe the match between the ten year old hunter-nin and the twenty-seven year old branch member of the Hyuuga clan.
"By orders of the Hokage, you are to be terminated on site." The emotionless voice of the short blonde sounded robotic as he got into a basic fighting stance. Hitaro sneered as the veins near his eyes bulged out even further signaling the activation of the Byakugan.
"I'll eradicate you first demon!" He shot forward and slammed his palms into the blonde's chest. "2 palms" A flurry of strikes followed as he spun about jabbing the young boy faster and faster until his arms left blurred afterimages. "4 palms, 8 palms, 16 palms, 32 palms, 64 palms!!!"
A final devastating blow sent the ten year old crashing into the ground where he lay unmoving. The watching crowd stood looking on silently. "Don't even try to get up." Hitaro turned around to face the main branch family once more, but stopped when his Byakugan caught sight of the masked blonde standing up.
Hitaro slowly turned to face his rising foe and watched in surprise as the hunter-nin straightened up. The young boy moved his left arm experimentally while staring at it quizzically. (If a quiz is quizzical what's a test? Lol couldn't help myself) "How odd."
The crowds buzzed with whispers as they watched the blonde seemingly shrug off one of the Hyuuga clan's most devastating attacks. Hitaro snorted as he watched the blonde experiment with his body. "I'm impressed you stood up, but with all your major chakra points sealed off, you won't be able to summon any chakra at all. It's hopeless for you."
"Oh?" The short hunter-nin made a ram seal and tried to summon his chakra. Nothing happened. "It appears you are correct in your assumption." 'Kyuubi.'
"Thought you'd never ask runt."
The blonde made the ram seal again as Hitaro laughed. "There's no way-" he shut up as a burning red chakra exploded out of the blonde's body and surrounded the boy. After a few seconds the demonic chakra receded and the stunned shinobi watching picked their jaws up from the ground.
"You were saying?" There was no hint of mockery, or even concern in his voice as he faced Hitaro.
"Wohoo! Go Naruto! Kick his ASS!!" The loud outburst from Anko got her a lot of incredulous stares. The young blonde ignored his adopted sister's antics and instead threw a kunai at his opponent. The blonde missed by nearly three inches. Blank eyes stared stupidly at Naruto.
"What the hell was that?" he sneered at the motionless ten-year old. "Hunter-nin standards must have lowered since my days." Hitaro ducked as a dozen shurikens flew up from behind him. Where the kunai once was, there stood a shadow clone of Naruto still in the throwing position.
As Hitaro straightened up, the real Naruto launched himself forward at a blinding speed, driving his knee into the surprised man's stomach. Back flipping in midair, the masked hunter-nin snapped a kick to the man's jaw sending him towards the clone. The clone kicked the man viciously in the back before pivoting on his right foot and reverse kicked the Hyuuga back towards his real self.
"Fire spell: Grande Fireball!!" An enormous ball of flame three times larger then the blonde summoning it exploded out of his mask and enveloped the airborne Hitaro. The onlookers had to raise their hands and shield their faces from the intense heat caused by the fire spell. When the fireball died out, a whirling wall of chakra took its place.
"Kaiten!" A slightly beat up Hitaro came to a halt and faced the blonde once more. His lips pulled back into a leering grin, "Not bad kid. Not bad at all. Now it's my turn!" The Hyuuga charged forward, prepared to deliver devastating blows to the child in front of him.
Not a single strike landed as the blonde evaded each blow with fluid grace, ducking and dodging between each blow. As the frustrated man continued his futile assault, the dodging blonde made a cross shaped seal. "Ninja art: Shadow Clones." Scores of replicas appeared and hurled shurikens towards the surrounded fugitive.
"Kaiten!" Hundreds of shurikens were deflected into the crowd of spectators, forcing them to scatter to a safer location. Throughout all this, Naruto watched impassively. As the spinning man came to a halt, Naruto spoke up "That's a very interesting technique." The breathless man glared at his opponent. "By sending a large amount of chakra from your tenketsu points, you create a solid field of chakra, and by rotating and swirling the chakra together, you get a sphere of protection that can block attacks from any direction."
The black clothed hunter-nin placed one hand forward, and one hand stretched behind him as he widened his stance. A surge of chakra encompassed his body as he began rotating. The crowd watched in awed shock as the boy replicated one of the Hyuuga's most jealously guarded techniques. The Hyuugas watched in anger as their most prized technique was stolen. A certain porn reading Cyclops watched in interest wondering if he could do the same.
As the spinning boy came to a stop, the panting Hitaro rushed forward towards the slightly disoriented boy. A kunai thrown by a shadow clone stopped his advance, and gave the real Naruto enough time to recover. The original hunter-nin stood stock still staring at his opponent either asleep or in deep thought. Hitaro blinked in confusion and stared back. After a minute or so the irritated branch member cursed at the blonde, "What the hell are you doing? We're fighting here!"
Naruto cocked his head to the left before answering. "So there is a weakness in the Hyuuga's so called perfect defense." The slightly insane man stood confused as the short boy nodded to himself. "No technique is perfect, not even Kaiten." Naruto signaled with his hand and his clones threw their remaining projectiles towards the Hyuuga before disappearing in small pops.
The man once again began rotating to deflect the incoming blades. "It's useless, nothing can pierce Kaiten!" The blonde front flipped forward, and stopped his momentum when he was directly over the spinning man. Dropping headfirst towards the mass of rotating chakra, Naruto gathered chakra into his hands and rammed it into the top of the spinning Kaiten. For a moment, he balanced perfectly on top of the sphere, but slowly, his hands began to sink into the mass of chakra like a hot knife through butter.
The young blonde began to rotate in sync with the man below him as his hands inched closer and closer towards Hitaro. The surprised man tried to stop as he felt hands grabbing his head. As Hitaro slowed down, Naruto strengthened his grip and sent chakra out of his body and continued increasing the momentum of his spin. A crack accompanied by the sound of mangled flesh being twisted at impossible ways filled the dark night. A flash of chakra blinded the spectators. Even Kakashi put his book away long enough to see the outcome of this fight. The light died down and a headless body could be seen standing still. A fountain of blood erupted from the neck region, spraying the horrified onlooker closes to the fight. Screams and curses could be heard as people rushed to get out of the bloody rain.
An impassive blonde landed on his feet, still holding the head of the shocked looking Hitaro. "Tenketsu points exist all over the body except near the head and neck regions. Naturally, the top of the Kaiten would be the weakest because it does not have a direct source of chakra pushing outwards, but instead relies on the spinning motion to siphon chakra from the lower regions upwards." The ten year old dropped the head and walked towards the laughing Anko.
The dark haired trench coat wearing beauty wrapped her arms around her shorter companion's neck and rubbed the top of her chin on her adopted brother's head. "Let's get something to eat kid! All that blood is making me hungry!" Naruto nodded wordlessly as he followed his bloodthirsty sister away.
End Dream
Naruto felt himself slowly regaining conscience, but decided to keep his eyes closed when he felt the chains holding his body up against a wall. "Loved the final move on that faggot."
'No doubt only because there was blood.' The great demon roared with laughter.
"Don't think even I ever sprayed blood onto the spectators before. But then again, I prefer to eat my opponents."
'Hmm.' Naruto extended his senses around the room he was trapped in. He was alone. Cracking one eye open, he discovered himself in some sort of dungeon, filled with chains hanging from the ceilings, and more then one restraint table. Naruto himself was chained to the wall furthest from the door and as he tugged on the thick manacles, he noticed the seals etched onto the bloodstained metal. 'Chakra restraints.'
"I pronounce us now royally fucked." The seals allowed for the internalization of chakra, but if he tried to enhance his strength in order to break free, the seal would absorb all the excess chakra. A ray of light blinded Naruto momentarily as the door opened. Blinking to adjust his eyes to the sudden brightness, he winced as one of the figures by the door switched on the rooms light, illuminating the dreary dungeon. "I take back what I said earlier. Now we're fucked." Naruto's reply was cut short as the two men came into view.
"Well fuck me with a ten foot pole. This guy is either a big fan of Ibiki, or his long lost twin brother." And indeed, the man on the left was so scarred, he bore great resemblance to the infamous Konoha interrogator. Around his bald head, he too wore his headband as a bandana. Instead of the black trench coat Ibiki favored, this man preferred a trench coat resembling Anko's light brown. He had intense brown eyes, and scars decorating his face, and mutilating his nose.
Naruto shifted his eyes to the other man. The Ibiki look-alike was not surprising in such a setting, but this man looked totally out of place. He was no doubt a doctor or scientist of some sort if his lab coat was any indication. His red hair was slicked back with too much hair gel, and a single greasy strand dangled over his left eye. A thick pair of lenses perched on his stubby nose, and he seemed to have a permanent smirk pressed onto his face.
Glasses spoke first. "Make him talk, but don't kill him. We still need him." With that said, he pushed his glasses up his nose with the palm of his hand before turning around to leave. The Ibiki imposter stared at the trapped blonde until he heard the door shut. Crossing the room with a few quick strides of his long legs, he stopped in front of the hunter-nin and continued staring for a good minute.
At last he spoke. "They say with one look in the eyes, an expert interrogator can tell if someone will speak or not." Silence met his proclamation. He sighed. "I know you won't tell us any information willingly, but I'll ask anyways. Will you cooperate with me?" Again, silence was the only answer to his question. "I've never tortured a child before." There was a note of hesitation in his voice. "And I'd rather not if I could avoid it."
When Naruto still refused to answer, the interrogator closed his eyes, and rubbed his scared face with a gloved hand. When he reopened his eyes, they had changed. Though still dark brown, they now held a certain cold determination to them. "We'll start small, with truth serums and drugs." He turned around and headed toward the side of the room. Opening a cupboard, he revealed a shelf filled with a mass of bottles, needles, and other harmful looking liquids. Pulling out a syringe, he filled it with urine colored fluid.
Squirting out a few drops to make sure the needle functioned properly, he nodded in satisfaction. He turned around a faced the silent blonde once more. "Last chance kid."
Silence was his only answer. Smiling grimly, the trench coat wearing man walked over and plunged the needle into Naruto's exposed arm.
Dream/Flashback
His eyes snapped open and he rolled out of bed just in time to avoid the jab headed for his temple. His pillow was not so lucky. The chakra infused fingertips punched straight through the pillow and into the futon Naruto had been sleeping on. Dislodging her hand, his assassin took one step forward sending both her palms straight for his chest. Grabbing one of her hand while ducking, the ten year old managed to snap her left wrist, causing a sharp cry of pain from his assailant.
Twisting the arm about behind her body, he felt the shoulder joint dislocate as she groaned in agony. Grabbing the unsheathed wazashaki hanging off his bedroom wall, he slammed the short blade into the back of his assassin's head. The blade punched through and reappeared on the other side of her face where the mouth was, spraying his futon with a mist of blood. He dropped the still warm body carelessly onto the floor and removed the blade from the corpse. After wiping the bloody blade off and hanging it back on the wall, Naruto tore off the dead woman's mask. It was the Hyuuga that had tried to reason with Hitaro. "His sister right?" growled the Kyuubi.
The blonde nodded dismissively. 'Something like that.'
End Dream
Naruto drifted in and out of consciousness, having dreams of his past. A cloudy mist seemed to have settled on his mind, and he could no longer discern reality from dream.
"How is he?"
"He hasn't talked yet. Not a word. I think it's time we use more conventional means."
"Give it another day."
"If he hasn't broken under 3 days, I doubt another day will do anything."
"Even so, give it one more day."
"You're getting soft." A hushed silence. "Will your conscience not allow you to torture a child?"
"Not if I can help it."
"Need I remind you, this so called child, killed our Raikage, and took out more then a fifth of our forces, leaving another additional half of them in critical condition?"
The two angry arguing voices faded away into the background as the blonde lost conscience once more.
Dream/Flashback
Two Hyuuga's charged out of the front gates of the Hyuuga clan home. An alarm was sounding inside the dark grounds of the ancestral grounds of the Hyuuga. Naruto dropped the heavy corpse he was carrying as the two branch members closed in to engage him.
"Kaiten!" A surge of chakra, and the blonde was spinning on his feet, sending both guards flying backwards and slamming into the partially open front gates. A crack marred the oak doors as the hunter-nin calmly picked up the woman's body. Walking over, he kicked the gate fully open and was greeted by a group of angry looking Hyuugas lead by an equally angry looking Hiashi.
"What is the meaning of this Uzumaki?" growled out the Hyuuga head. The ten-year old dropped the corpse onto the ground, and a few branch members gasped as they recognized the dead woman.
"If you wish to kill me Hyuuga-sama, you should send more then one assassin."
The man's nostrils flared as he glared at the blonde. "I assure you I did no such thing. If I wanted you dead, I would kill you myself."
The hunter-nin nodded as he continued observing the growing crowd of Hyuuga's. "I don't doubt your word, but would you be willing to vouch for your entire clan?" The Hyuuga head remained silent at the truth in the blonde's word. "Someone in your clan wishes me dead, and I will not leave until I find out whom."
Hiashi shook his head as a group of Anbu's arrived, landing silently on the walls protecting the Hyuuga home. "That woman was the sister of the man you killed earlier tonight. No doubt she was blinded by her grief and sought to gain vengeance for her brother. Her attack holds no connection with this clan."
"Is that so?" the blonde's voice was as cold as the arctic winds. He glared at Hiashi under his mask and unleashed his killing intent. While a few backed away from the prone
ten-year old, Hiashi stoutly stood his ground, glaring right back. A second figure landed next to Naruto. It was the third Hokage. He placed a hand on the young boy's shoulder.
"Naruto, what are you doing?" The blonde shifted sideways so that he faced the old man.
"A Hyuuga tried to kill me. I'm here to find out who sent her, so I can kill them."
The old man's face turned livid with rage as he looked up at Hiashi. "Is this true?"
The man averted his eyes and stared at the dead woman's corpse instead. "Yes, however that woman was acting on her own, not on the orders of the main branch."
"Then tell me this. Why does her curse seal glow?" a hush fell over the crowd of restless Hyuuga's at the Third's cold accusation. After being activated, the curse seals glow did not fade for a few hours. Someone had activated her seal before her desperate attack on the young hunter-nin.
Sarutobi looked solemnly at the crowd of shuffling Hyuuga's. Nobody dared meet his eyes. "Hiashi, I cannot have your clan administering what they feel is justice. If you cannot prove that she was working alone based on nothing but your word, you will be putting your clan at risk of termination."
A shocked gasp ran through not only the Hyuuga's, but even the Anbu present. Termination was the wiping out of a clan that had turned rogue on it's own village. This was not a practice in Konoha, and the closest thing was the famous Uchiha Massacre that had occurred a few years back. The loss of Konoha's two major clans would deal a devastating blow to the village's economy, but the Third never spoke lightly.
Immediately, Hyuuga's began glaring and accusing each other. People began to point and yell until fights broke out. "Enough." The quite command from the stoic ten-year old brought silence to the rowdy crowd. "Hang her corpse on you front gate for a week, and all shall be forgotten."
The blond hunter-nin leapt onto the walls and stared up at the full moon. "Should the Hyuuga's cross me again, I will not hesitate to ensure my own survival." They blinked, and he vanished into the inky night.
End Dream
Naruto blinked warily as he stared around the dimly lit dungeon. 'How long have I been out?' A low grumble echoed in the back of his mind before the fox's lazy reply drifted into his mind.
"They pumped you full of drugs for four days straight. Congratulations. You can now honestly say you're a drug addict." The door clicked open, and in walked the scarred interrogator. An assistant followed closely behind with a tray full of instruments, many of which Naruto recognized.
"Last chance kid." The man crouched down so he was at eye level with the chained blonde.
"Do your worst," croaked the disoriented blonde. "I won't tell you a thing."
The interrogator nodded at his assistant. "Thank-you Inu. You many leave."
The woman nodded hesitantly and took one last glance at the prisoner before leaving.
'He looks so young without his mask. Hard to believe he killed so many.' She shut the door gently and stood outside, waiting for her superior to do his thing. Not a sound came through the door.
3 days later
The scientist that had been there when Naruto had first awoken, watched in fascination as the skin on the blonde's arm creped back together and sealed up as if it had never been broken.
"Incredible! Kaji was right when he said you represented the future!" The man gleefully slid the scalpel across the hunter-nin's stomach. Naruto gritted his teeth as his intestines were exposed to the stale dungeon air. A few seconds later, his stomach stitched itself back together.
The scientist watched and gave a grin as his experiment recovered. "Marvelous. Absolutely marvelous! It seems your body heals all life threatening injuries almost instantly as long as you have chakra," he glanced over at the bloody six inch nail impaling the blonde's left wrist, "though it seems you can't heal if there is foreign matter in your body." He scribbled something down on his clipboard. "It truly has been a wonderful experience working with you Naruto-kun!" He stood up from his stool.
Using his left hand, he pushed his glasses back into place. "We'll see if you can regenerate digits tomorrow! Then we'll move on to whole limbs!! Won't that be exciting?!" He smiled again and walked out of the dungeon humming a strangely jaunty tune for a man that had just tortured someone.
"What a freak." Finally alone, Naruto allowed himself a small groan of pain. A very small groan.
"Bastard left the nail in my wrist." This was very worrisome for Naruto. He couldn't heal if the damn nail was still in his wrist, plus he was quickly losing feeling in his left hand. The door reopened and admitted an ordinary looking man. His face would have blend into any crowd, and his clothing would have been perfect camouflage in any throng of people had it not been for the huge bloodstain on it. A bloody scalpel was clutched in his right hand. As blue eyes met dull brown ones, the smiling man allowed his lips to curve upward into a slow smirk.
Walking over, the average looking man wrenched the spike from the blonde's wrist. Naruto grunted in pain as the red coated nail was dropped carelessly onto the floor. The man studied the boy for a moment before smiling again. "Pay back time."
The smiling intruder pulled back the hand holding the scalpel and slammed it down on the manacle, shattering the bloody piece of steel. With his right hand freed and left hand healing, Naruto grappled with his other hands chain while his scalpel wielding savior freed his legs. Rubbing some feeling back into his numb wrist, the blonde scowled at the man. "What took you so long?" The man reached into his pocket and pulled out a familiar scarred ivory mask. "Thought you might want this back."
AN: Oh I'm a bad boy lol. For some reason, I feel like ending the chapter here. Please, feel free to tell me how evil I am.