Disclaimer: I do not own anything Naruto or Zelda that is mentioned in this plotline.
Chapter Two
Sheesh, you are nothing like Link.
Who's Link?
He was your ancestor, Midna told Naruto, he too was marked by the Triforce, and his piece was courage.
Okay, that may explain some things... but Midna... last night... when I had opened that scroll, I thought nothing was inside. So, how did you come into my being?
Through your shadow, as I showed you earlier in that bathroom. I'm staying with you no matter what.
But, what about the Kyuubi, it is apparently sealed inside of me, after what Mizuki told me last night before I beaten his ass up.
Kyuubi's dead.
"What?" He yelled, and got a few looks from some students, but laughed sheepishly, "Sorry, thought I felt something on me." No one believed him, nor cared. One person was watching him, her fingers gently caressing the heirloom necklace that her mother gave to her before she had passed away.
Quiet you idiot blonde!
I'm not an idiot!
Just shut up and listen, yes that fox is dead. I used my magic to drain it of its own power into the same scroll you released me from, and then in its weakened condition killed the foul beast. It was responsible for destroying half of my kingdom of the Twilight Realm anyway, so I got my revenge...
Then why do I have these damn marks on my face?
Because the power is still sealed inside of you, in the scroll I for now placed behind that cage within your subconscious. However taking out that fox took a lot out of me. Besides, if I wasn't in this cursed form of an imp, I would have a lot more power... and trust me Naruto, I am much more beautiful in my true form.
Naruto felt his cheeks begin to heat up a bit.
So for now, I'm just going to take it easy and rest. Just for now, do what you usually do.
And then she stayed quiet. However, her thoughts were on the necklace that the girl with the mark wore around her neck. It reminded her of the necklace that Princess Zelda wore.
=0=0=
"She's alive... well now... I guess I should send her a welcoming gift."
As his hands blurred through a series of hand signs, a swirl of black smoke emerged around him, transforming his outfit into a black cloak that completely wrapped around his body, buttoned along the front. Now the collar that half surrounded him flared outward and he had spines lining down him. He took off his spiral orange mask, and put back up another mask of pumpkin tint. There was a silver mouth piece that looked like a coiled tongue, and the left eye socket had a slant, revealing a glowing red glow behind the mask. For the other eye socket, it was a metal flame-shaped eye piece with a black slit for the eye's pupil. He vanished.
=0=0=
"Team Seven: Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura-"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"And Uzumaki Naruto," he finished despite being interrupted. Now Sakura cried out, while Ino laughed at Sakura for having Naruto on her team
"Your sensei is Hatake Kakashi." I feel sorry for them, "Now, Team Eight: Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, and Aburame Shino. Your sensei is Yuuhi Kurenai. Team Nine is in circulation still. Team Ten: Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino, and Akimichi Chouji. Your sensei is Sarutobi Asuma."
Now, Iruka would have continued, but all of a sudden black little squares began to emerge from no where, and then all charge in a single point until a spiral formed, and left behind a cloaked and masked figure in front of the doorway. From the slit on the left side of the mask, a red glow is seen, as the figure craned his head... focusing on Naruto of all people. All of a sudden he appeared next to Naruto, and Naruto was sent flying from his seat, through the now shattered window, and falling painfully to the ground outside. The wall exploded as the unknown assailant broke through and lands on his feet.
"Naruto!" Iruka yelled, rushing to the hole in the wall. This was also attracting attention from ANBU, who were now coming to investigate, what the hell is going on here? Who is that?
"Naruto-kun," Hinata whispered in fear.
"Hm..." He spies the mark on the boy's left hand, "I see... so, you are the one. The Marked Hero... Hero of the Mark."
"What... are you talking about?" Naruto gasped, spitting up some blood. He coughed up more blood when he was sent slamming into a tree, which snapped at the trunk and fell back with a loud crash breaking part of the stone fencing.
"The mark on your left hand... it is the symbol of a hero... a hero of a once dead warrior of past time." He slowly brushed back his cloak, and lifted up a covered sleeve arm, with multiple tassels on the end, and Naruto grunted as he was lifted, actually picked up off the ground. He was then pulled towards the figure, and he suddenly grappled Naruto, pulling him into a submission. Poofs signaled the arrival of ANBU, the Hokage, and the various Jounin for today's Genin Teams.
"Naruto... reincarnated hero... I highly doubt you can win... you are but a child still." Blood dribbled from Naruto's mouth, as he bends Naruto back more, causing pain to shoot through the boy's body, "I have no doubt she already told you about who I am..." ANBU took this time to launch kunai, hoping to hit the blonde purposely, but an aura sprung up and shielded the figure. The few ANBU who attacked had dropped to the ground, the kunai lodged into a portion of their body that would cause nothing more than a lot of pain.
He let go of Naruto, but he was still levitating in mid-air, suspended by the figure's magic. He cried out as a vivid aura sprung around him, as something was ripped right out from the boy. The aura vanished allowing Naruto to collapse to the grass. The figure now held a scroll in his hand, which was leaking forth a familiar energy. The Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto was levitated up again, and pulled to him, as the tongue folded back, and opened, revealing pale blue lips and white skin.
"You are no hero... I will destroy you, Hero of the Marked, and those marked as well." A red glow formed, before it slams into Naruto. Naruto was launched, where he flailed against the grass, and lands next to Kakashi's feet. He however was unconscious by the time his body stopped. The ANBU attacked again, but once again, their kunai were deflected by a black aura.
"So much for your power..."
"Oh no," Sarutobi whispered, catching Kakashi's attention who was holding Naruto up, "that scroll..."
"I feel it as well. Somehow, this man, if he is a man, extracted the demon."
The scroll's seal that it held, it was the same paper seal that was on the cage within Naruto's mind. He took a fingernail, and peals it off, slowly flooding the village with the Kyuubi's energy until he seals it back again. The tongue mask reformed over the mouth, and taking one last glance at Naruto, vanished, taking the stolen power with him. Sarutobi kneeled down next to Naruto, and he and Kakashi watched as the whisker marks on Naruto's face slowly vanished, leaving unblemished skin.
Naruto! Naruto! Wake up Naruto! Midna yelled, however he did not respond, Please... wake up... she called out, growing more weaker, and weaker, until she too was rendered unconscious.
=0=0=
It has been a full week since that mysterious attack on Naruto, and he was still unconscious. Sarutobi kept his most trusted to watch Naruto, because the entire village have felt the Kyuubi's chakra leaking from that scroll that materialized out of Naruto's body, via tiny black squares that had tiny squared lines of red. This figure infiltrated the village somehow, appeared in Iruka's classroom, and in split seconds broke several of Naruto's ribs, broke his right arm, caused a bit of damage to his back. However, he was healing rapidly, which apparently was a lingering effect from the Kyuubi; something which has happened in the past with Naruto's fast healings. However, this time it was different. An unknown assailant attacked Naruto, virtually extracted the fox from Naruto through the seal which no longer exists, and now... the strongest demon in the world was now in the hands of this unknown enemy.
Why the hell did his pipe have to break that morning? Whenever his pipe breaks, it meant that something bad would occur, and something bad did occur. He needed Jiraiya... Sarutobi entered the room, and saw that Naruto was looking out the window. He's awake. That's good... just a week ago he had learned about his burden of having to hold the strongest demon in existence, but now, in just one day of finding out the village secret, the demon was taken out of his body, and he was still alive with the side effect of rapid healing. Tests were done, and his chakra levels were still freakishly high, among other health concerns which there were none, except he nearly died from those crushing blows. I mean, how a human body, much less a child, can survive after his body was sent crashing into a tree, which snapped from the force of impact.
"Naruto?"
Naruto looked over. This was now another change. Naruto seemed a bit more... calmer... he still has those bright cerulean eyes, and that smile came to his face.
"Hi, ojiisan."
Still the same Naruto, only after that attack, he's somewhat changed.
"Naruto... it's been a week."
"Really? What happened?"
"The demon fox... do you remember the discussion?"
Naruto nodded. That was good.
"Well... it's gone now."
"I know... Sarutobi, I know what happened. I felt it... being ripped out of my body. Who was that person who attacked me?"
"I have no clue. We sent our most experienced ninja, but we could not find that person. He just suddenly disappeared."
"Okay... so what happened now?"
Sarutobi sighed. "The Council demanded an emergency meeting, because the entire village felt that wave of chakra coming from that scroll which held the demon fox sealed within. They wanted answers to what had happened, and I had told them that your seal was gone, your whisker marks vanished..."
"Vanished?"
Sarutobi handed Naruto a mirror, and he looked at his face. He no longer held that light blemish of whisker marks.
"Anyway, I told them that some unknown cloaked being had attacked you, and had extracted the demon fox from your body, without it somehow triggering the seals that would had killed you and the fox if someone was to forcibly extract it, but that never happened. The Council voted to have Yamanaka Inoichi to use his jutsu to take a look into your mind."
"Ino's otousan?"
Sarutobi nodded. "Inoichi confirmed that the fox was no longer behind the seal, as if the seal had never existed in the first place. So, Naruto... things are going to be very much different. You see, the Fourth did wish for you to be seen as a hero, for holding back the most dangerous demon ever, but now that the demon is no longer in you, but instead stolen right from your body through some unknown jutsu technique, I revoked the Law that protected you when you were little... you have a lot of friends Naruto. Your classmates were surprised at first, but many of them accept it, because if you could hold back a dangerous demon from causing anymore chaos and bloodshed, then you were definitely a hero, like the Fourth Hokage wished of you to be."
There was a knock on the door. Sarutobi got up, and opened it.
"H-H-Hokage-sama, a-am I interrupting s-something?"
"No, not at all Hinata-san. In fact, Naruto woke up. You can talk to him if you wish; I am going to contact the doctor I appointed to be Naruto's physician."
Sarutobi stepped out, and closed the door behind him, as Naruto looked to Hinata.
"So, you don't think I'm evil?"
"No... a-at first many thought y-you were because you held that demon f-fox, but you were not... it took some reasoning, but y-you don't have t-to worry about b-being hated anymore..."
"Hinata... all my life I grew up alone, with no friends..."
Hinata blushed a bit. "Can I be your friend?"
Naruto smiled softly. Hinata saw the smiles from Naruto for such a long time, but she could remember that they were just fake masks. This smile however, it was a genuine smile. "I would like that."
"Naruto-kun..."
"Hinata... can I see your hand?"
She blushed, as he grabbed it, and looked at the birthmark she had.
"That... that is just a birthmark I was born with."
"Hinata... that is no birthmark, this just proved my theory. Do you remember that guy who attacked me?"
She nodded.
"You're just like me, marked by the Triforce."
"What... what do you mean?"
Naruto lifted his hand, revealing his mark as well. "The man talked about the Mark of the Hero... you see, Iruka when he said that Mizuki tried to turn traitor to the village... It's a lie; he tricked me into stealing the Forbidden Scroll of Sealing from the Hokage Tower, which I flawlessly got in, and left without being discovered until a minute after my escape. Mizuki was hoping to frame me for stealing this scroll, and before I got that fox ripped out of my body painfully, wanted to murder me. But you were there... that is the whole truth."
"Naruto-kun..."
Naruto frowned.
"I have the Triforce off Courage, which would explain my sudden maturity... and you would hold the Triforce of Wisdom, making you the reincarnation of your ancestor Princess Zelda. My ancestor is a hero named Link."
"How do you know all of this?" she asked, in her meek voice. She was still somewhat sky, something she was going to work on, so that she could better be a close friend to Naruto.
"Midna told me."
"Who's Midna?"
"Midna was around a long time ago. She is actually called the Twilight Princess, however that man you saw a week ago, that was the same man who attacked her when the nine demon beasts were destroying the world. He casted a spell on her, and cursed her into becoming an imp again."
"Again?"
"It wasn't the first time she was under this curse, however this curse is different, as to break it, that masked cloaked dude has to be defeated..."
Naruto's shadow twisted, until something pulls away, and floating there was Midna. As Naruto said, she looked like an imp. She did have characteristics that defined her of the female figure. Her eyes looked like glowing sunsets, and her hair was tied into a ponytail, and was almost like flames.
"Naruto... when he was struck by that energy, somehow, he tapped into his own life force, and saved me when he was out cold, however it now links me to him, but I now have the ability to be out in the open. Hello Hinata... I am Midna, by the way."
"K-Konnichi wa..."
She blinked.
"It means hello."
"Oh... hello then. Naruto... Naruto is marked to be the next Hero. That man he fought, was one of my kind, he is of Twilight, now that I saw the way he teleported into the room... he was also the same man who cursed me this way. The last person who was evil and held such intentions was a bastard was known as Zant, but he was killed... now, someone took Zant's place..."
Naruto looked to Midna. "Midna... I may not know much, but if it makes you feel better, I can certainly help you..."
"Like I said earlier you are going to help me... however first, you must learn to use a sword, because your ancestor, Link, defeated many an evil with the use of the blade, that is until I could figure out a way to find the Master Sword again..."
"Master Sword?"
"It is a sword that defeats the bane of evil. It will be a highly effective weapon that can break through that evil bastard's defenses, but this world, I just know is so much different from the land I once knew... Hyrule... Naruto, first off, I need to see a map of the world, if you people do have one."
"Oh, hold on..." Hinata left the room, and soon returned two minutes later with one, and spreads it out on the nearby table. Midna, with her great memory, memorized the entire map. She rolls it up, and holds it close to her.
"I'll keep this for now." The door opened, and Midna had instantly vanished back to Naruto's shadow.
It was Sarutobi and Naruto's appointed doctor.
"Hinata, you can wait outside. Once Naruto gets checked out he can head to the academy with you. It's time that we finally get the Genin Teams assigned to their Jounin senseis."
"Hai, Hokage-sama." She bowed to the old man and left the room.
While the doctor was granting many tests, Midna hid under the bed when no one looked. She then vanished quietly. She had gotten a closer look at the other map, specifically "Hi no Kuni." She decided to wait at Naruto's apartment.
=0=0=
"So, that is all I have to do? Hope within my heart to infuse a portion of my energy into you, and allow you immunity in my world?"
"Yes, Naruto, now concentrate."
He did so. He closed his eyes, sitting cross legged on the floor of his small apartment. Before long, a small teardrop shaped sphere of light emerged from Naruto, and shot into Midna. She grunted a bit as the light coursed through her, before it faded. She emerged fully from Naruto's shadow... and did not feel anything... that poisoned feeling of Shadow within the Light. She looked to Naruto, glad that he pulled it off, but he was out cold. She sighed, and carried him towards his bed and tucked him away.
"Well, you did it, but now we're linked... but now I wonder how I will be able to get back to my kingdom... how much has changed over the centuries...?"
She clenched her fists. She still remembered that mask, that glowing red light behind the slit of an eye, the evil laugh before she was sealed away, cursed into this form one again. Just thinking of that brought another memory to her.
Link...
A tear escaped.
She remembered Link so well... how he did everything he could to save her when Zant had dragged her into the Light World, leaving her to die... how he did not give up until she was saved...
"I miss you, Link..."
She not only missed the hero from Ordon, but was in love with him... but she would never be able to tell him those three words, because she cowered out at the last second before shattering the Mirror of Twilight. However she looked towards Naruto, who was sleeping peaceful despite pulling off a bit of his own life force to infuse into her. She reached up to pull off her helmet, but then remembered that the Fused Shadow had been destroyed by Ganondorf centuries ago.
-- One Month Later... --
Team Seven, consisting of Kakashi, leading Genin Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke, were led form the village on a mission to Wave, escorting a drunken bridge builder. There was a bit of tension in this team, and between many others, but there were still the few people who did except him. Sakura however is still a hardass when someone taunts or mocks Sasuke. It was as if things were normal, just that it was now known Naruto was once a Jinchuuriki of the greatest demon sealed away by the Yondaime, the Fourth Hokage. Sasuke gave him only a tiny shred of respect, but is still an emo. And so far, only two people know of Midna's existence: himself, and Hinata.
Anyway, they still went on the mission, but now they had requested backup by Team Eight. As they traveled an alternative route to get to their destination, Naruto suddenly stopped. Hinata stopped as well, as she was walking next to the boy. Kakashi looked back, and the rest had halted in their tracks as well.
"Naruto?"
Naruto however ignored everyone else, as he started going into the forest.
"Naruto-kun, wait..." Hinata gave chase. Kurenai followed as well. Kakashi sighed and also gave chase.
As Naruto traveled deeper and deeper into this forest, it seemed to get darker and darker. He soon made it past a clearing, and in this clearing, the top of the trees was still very much visible, and there seemed to be an unnatural fog crawling along the damp grass. Naruto walked up to the center, where there was a half broken pedestal, and stuck in it was a broken blade piece.
He heard Midna gasp, and materialize beside Naruto. Only Hinata was the other person who saw the Twilight Princess. Naruto... that's the Master Sword, but it's broke...
Master Sword...?
Naruto walked up to the broken ledge, and grabbing the blade, he winced as he drew blood from the blade's sharp double-edged sides as he pulled it out. The mist seemed to clear, and an unnatural breeze blew through. However, the darkness seemed to fade just briefly.
Take the sword, find the other half, and bring forth The Sword that Destroys Evil.
Midna, you heard that?
Yeah...
"Did you just hear that voice?"
Kakashi looked around. "No... I heard nothing Naruto..."
"I heard it in that wind that just blew by..."
"It was just your imagination Naruto... but Naruto, why would you take that blade? A broken one at that?"
"It felt important to me..."
He shrugs. "Whatever Naruto. Hand it to me, I'll seal it away in a scroll for you."
He hands the piece to Kakashi, who inspected it for a moment. He never seen such intricate designs on the blade before, but he sealed it away anyway. However, Kakashi would be thinking more about that blade's artistic designs that laminate the blade's surface later on in the mission.
"Let's get going."
Naruto... I never would have thought the Master Sword, one wielded by your ancestor, can be broken... you have to find the other piece!
To answer some questions... there will be some items (recreated for ninja affairs) that will make an apperance in this story, and not just from Twilight Princess.