Authors Note: Sorry for the wait dudes, stuff came up; ANYWAY here is the next chapter! Please enjoy.
Disclaimers: I do not own Naruto, World of Warcraft, The Overlord, or Lord of the Rings.
Naruto looked around warily as he and Gnarl descended a flight of stairs. The atmosphere got darker the farther they walked. Gnarl seemed to embrace the creepy atmosphere with a smile on his wrinkled face. They kept walking until they came upon a large black iron door. Gnarl pulled out a large ring of keys before going through them, muttering a curse when one didn't fit.
When he finally found the correct key, Gnarl gave a low chuckle of triumph before opening the large door, allowing a large cloud of green mist to exit the threshold. Naruto's nose was assaulted by the pungent odor of death and his nose scrunched up to express his discomfort. Gnarl gave him a mirthful look. "Don't worry master, you'll get used to it….after a couple months." He added the last part under his breath. As the duo walked into the room, Naruto looked around with a mix of curiosity and excitement. All over the room, men in long, billowing, black cloaks worked over alchemy labs, their faces shrouded by a black hood.
"For now you won't be training with Kel'Thuzad, I sent him on a mission that will take an unknown amount of time." Naruto tilted his head in confusion. "So who is going to train me?" He asked. Gnarl chuckled before pointing ahead of them. Naruto looked to where the ancient advisor was pointing before his eyes widened. In front of him was a large stage, on it was an equally large work station filled with beakers and other such containers filled to the brim with sickly looking liquids.
Toiling away with his back to them was a man, he wore a large black trench coat, atop his head was a wide brimmed hat, Gnarl cleared his throat loudly, the man turned to show he was wearing a wide bird mask, his eyes hidden by reflective glass, he resembled the plague doctors of old. "Hello young master." He replied in a smooth tone that seemed the opposite of his appearance.
Naruto bowed, "What should I call you?" Naruto asked. The man brought a hand to his mask in a thinking pose. "I am the Apothecary, but you can just call me Doc. Shall we get started? Follow me!" he said in an excited tone. Naruto looked at Gnarl with a questioning gaze; the old minion gave a small smile before shooing off the young lord.
Naruto quickly caught up to the man that would be teaching him the ways of death. "First and foremost I will teach you the art of making poisons and plagues!" Naruto grinned at the thought. "What am I going to learn first?" He asked his tone laced with excitement. Doc kept walking until they reached a rusty door. As he opened it he spoke. "Before we begin we must get rid of the largest setback in my line of work." Naruto's eyes grew wide, there in the middle of the room, strapped to a chair was one of his Chunin attackers, gagged and blindfolded "One's humanity." Doc finished darkly.
Naruto quickly regained his composure. "What must I do?" he asked his tone cold. Without saying a word Doc reached into his coat and produced a small syringe, filled with dark green liquid. Naruto took the needle carefully and approached his assailant. Doc removed the man's blind fold and gag before punching him in the face to wake him up. The man snapped awake his eyes darting around the room fearfully, before they landed on the two in front of him. "W-where am I?" the man yelled while visibly shaking.
Naruto walked over to him before placing the needle to the man's neck. "What is that?! W-what are y-you doing?" he asked, his voice trembling. Naruto jammed the needle into the man's neck before taking a step back. Almost immediately the man screamed in pain his body convulsing violently, his eyes rolling back into his skull, blood started to leak from his mouth, ears, nose, and eyes. His skin rotted in front of Naruto's eyes, green bile spilled from his mouth.
Soon his screams of pain gave way to strangled roars, as the man's nails grew into claws and his teeth became sharp and rotted. Naruto looked to the floor in shame, he was still somewhat human. His head was forcefully grabbed and lifted, Doc hissed in his ear. "LOOK! This is what we are, what YOU are, accept it, embrace it!" letting go of the young lord, Naruto fell to his knees, his shoulders shaking uncontrollably as if he was crying.
A low chuckle was heard before the young man burst into an insane fit of laughter, his eyes wide as the last bit of his humanity left him. Doc looked on with a grin behind his mask; sanity was for the weak anyways. "All right enough of that, I will have a novice come in here and clean up this mess, now come we have much to do." Naruto calmed down and followed the Apothecary out of the room.
Gnarl came back to relieve his master only to find the young boy grinning as he mixed several chemicals over a table, his demonic eyes gleaming with joy as he created liquid death. "So I take it you enjoyed yourself?" Gnarl asked sarcastically. "Oh I had a wonderful time Gnarl-sensei!" Naruto replied with a glint in his eyes that Gnarl was delighted to see; after all it was much more fun to have an insane leader than a sane one. As they left Naruto gave a hearty wave goodbye to the alchemist in the room.
As Naruto settled down to sleep he remembered that the Kyuubi had wanted to see him after he had met his trainers. As the young lord entered his mindscape he ran to the fox's cage. Kyuubi chuckled at the boy's eagerness. "Ah, didn't think you would show up." Kyuubi said with clear sarcasm. Naruto fixed an annoyed glare on the giant fox. "Well what are you going to teach me first?!" the white haired boy asked with joy at the thought of more training.
The fox smirked. "Actually before we begin I have a gift for you." Naruto looked at Kyuubi with a puzzled expression. "What?" the fox grinned as a black hole opened up and a blonde man with black chains ascended out slowly. The man looked up, black bags under his eyes; he had clearly seen things that no one should see. As he saw his only son Minato's eyes widened. "N-Naruto?"
"Kit, let me introduce the man that ruined your life, Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage."
Naruto's eyes widened before a feral grin stretched across his face.
Authors note: AAAAND done, hope you like it, anyways the polls are still open
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