Hey everyone!
Just to let you know, I am not one of those writers who lets their readers know something before it happens in the fic. That just kills it. Everything will be explained in time as to allow a good rhythm to flow with the fanfiction. The only thing I will tell you though is this fic is rated M for a reason. Naruto will have to wash his clothes everyday, yes he will…
On with the Fic
SHOUTING
Kyuubi
Thoughts
Speech
Two figures ran as fast as they could toward the Iwa/Konoha border. Their objective was complete, to find and steal the forbidden scroll of Konohagakure. They applauded their own full proof plan. Killing and then henging into the local chunin teachers in Konoha ninja academy proved to be easier than expected.
Expecting to face problems, the duo's plan was surprisingly efficient as the scheme immediately bore fruit. The two nins soon coaxed a naïve academy student to steal the scroll, convincing the ninja-in-training that it was a drill. The rest was simple as they knocked the academy student out and took the scroll when he presented it to them. As the two Jounins made a beeline toward the border, they began to reminisce on the last two years since the beginning of the great Iwa/Konoha war.
After their tsuchikage, Aoshi Obunaga, verified it was indeed Konoha, specifically Konoha's Shinigami, Namikaze Naruto, who was responsible for their Daimyo's murder, war was quickly declared. Allies of the two nations as well as neutral nations made it clear they would not get involved. Konoha and Iwa were fighting alone, making the war then seem more like a grudge match between the two nations. Spurned by the call of blood from the public, Obunaga made the first move as he formerly declared war on Konoha, three days after the Daimyo's murder, and attacked a Konoha outpost near the border killing everyone there.
Konoha seemed much too ready however for an attack for their retaliation afterwards was swift and crippling as they blew up a shipping yard full of precious metals Iwa needed to make kunai and shuriken. The Konoha dogs didn't stop there though as they initiated battalion after battalion of shinobi to match Iwa's massive numbers. Though Konoha still had the numerical disadvantage, the amount of shinobi amassed in such a short time surprised them.
The Konoha leaders proved to be strong and very intelligent as well and Iwa, for the better part of the first six months of war, had to constantly be on the defensive, only surviving Konoha's strength because of their numbers. Quickly realizing what could be another third ninja world war massacre scenario, Obunaga struck back hard when he introduced new formations in ninja squads specific for targeting one person at a time.
Though the thought seemed useless in an all out war environment the teams did well as they guaranteed the elimination of any target. Key leaders in the Konoha force were targeted and eliminated in the hopes to stir confusion and disorganization in the Konoha troops.
The strategy worked and though Iwa faced losses due to the tactic, the pros definitely out-weighted the cons as Iwa gained the upper hand in the war. With many Konoha commanders being assassinated by Iwa's cloak-and-dagger tactics, the hokage, Sarutobi, opted to send his ANBU to deal with the assassination squads.
Suddenly the task of eliminating the Konoha commanders became much harder and just like that, the scale was tipped in Konoha's favor. In response to the counterstrike for his strategies, Obunaga, after waiting for a year into the war finally unleashed Iwa's gem, the tsuchikage's daughter herself.
Tsuchikage-sama only one daughter, Yukina-sama, however, and she was at the prime of her fighting capabilities. The mere fifteen year old girl already was known as Iwa's princess, so when Iwa forces found out she would be joining the war effort, their moral skyrocketed. The constant back and forth of advantages and disadvantages in both nations seemed like a proverbial tug-of-war and quickly made apparent the war of attrition bound to happen if things continued this way. Sarutobi had enough of it though as he finally sent his elites to try and end the war completely. It was at that point; Iwa met their greatest fear since the Yondaime hokage.
A righteous fear indeed for when the name of Iwa's fear was spoken, a shiver always ran down every nin's spine. He was the killing machine. A man worthy of his two titles known worldwide: the infamous Konoha's Shinigami and just recently, the second flash of Konoha. A man, who in just the first few days of battle with Iwa forces managed to destroy half their army.
A man known by Iwa as death itself, Naruto Namikaze. The two nins jumped from another branch and looked at each other shivering at the image in their heads. The blonde hair very similar to that of Iwa's late arch enemy, the cold icy eyes, the feral appearance, all but aggrandized in his apparel of long black ANBU style pants, a mesh shirt, and a long, high collar black cloak with a big, blood red Uzamaki symbol on the back of the cloak right over an orange-red nine-tailed fax. He also carried a sword. A katana cursed black in color to the very blade. It was a perfect weapon for a man who shed so much blood.
Yes, they knew the Namikaze heir very well being the very few survivors of his first crusades, when he was still a little green to the use of his miserable father's jutsu. The two Iwa ninjas running towards the border quickened their pace subconsciously. That demon left them stabbed and bleeding with only two other survivors under a pile of corpses that only four hours ago, had been their fellow comrades, compatriots, allies… friends.
They limped back to their camp only to find it in flames. That's when the two nins realized the stories of what Iwa's top brass said about the of the blonde jinchuuriki were true. Namikaze killed ruthlessly. He was a machine programmed to inflict death on whatever happened to be in his warpath. He arrived as soon as Sarutobi ordered him to. Even though he came with Konoha's elite, featuring such names as snake mistress, Anko Miterashi, Sharingan Kakashi Hatake, Genjutsu mistress Kurenai Yuuhi, one of the twelve ninja guardians, Asuma Sarutobi, and the green beast of Konoha, Maito Gai, they only contributed a very small part in Iwa's defeat that day and the days after it. For even with these power play shinobi at his command, the blonde haired demon's first battle and more after it in the war was marked as him alone against the Iwa forces.
The look he gave to what seemed like a sea of eyes shaded by Iwa headbands…. It was indescribable. How? Why? How can he stand without flinching? Why does his eyes already seem dead? These were the questions they, as well as their friends, asked to themselves as Naruto started to walk towards them, sporting an enigmatic look.
The walk was accompanied with a darkening of the clouds, as if the heavens were trying to warn the Iwa nins of the inevitable. Naruto's walk turned quickly into a run and with it a strange but familiar kunai was revealed in his hand. The kunai, that both surprised and terrified the now quivering army. One down.. six down… ten, twenty, one hundred; the army was being picked off, and the supposed battle turned into pandemonium and chaos. They were two of the four survivors of the blood fest, but it was only possible because they hid their chakra signatures and he couldn't smell them lying underneath corpses' gruesome smell covering their scent.
Through a small orifice in the pile of bodies, the four survivors glimpsed Naruto's face. A face showing the first emotion from the boy the whole battle as the boy thought he was alone. The Iwa ninjas gazed at blonde maelstrom's eyes, and found a myriad of emotions. More noticeable than most though, the hiding nins saw the dominant look the blonde was giving as he stared down the bloody battlefield. It looked like the Namikaze boy wanted to prove something.
But to whom? And why did he look sad as well? What is this? The nins had no time though to verify what they just saw because just like that, when they looked up again to look at Konoha's Shinigami, he was gone. Disappearing like a specter in the night. The four nins including the two scroll stealers climbed out of the body pile looking at the battleground and the thoughts of Naruto's expressions disappeared, forgotten in the thunder, rain, and tears.
Word spread fast and rumors blanketed the Iwa army of the new threat. From then on, it seemed Namikaze's battles were always accompanied with rain. An omen hidden in the downpour, never to be discovered in the fierceness of the rain. It was like God himself was trying to wash away the torrents of blood constantly blanketing his precious earth.
With seemingly no emotion, the last thing people would see was his eyes. A cold, apathetic, dead look. The eyes of a man already dead. If Naruto's enemies looked closer though, they would have seen his conflicted spirit like the first four survivors did.
At first, many Iwa commanders thought all Naruto could do was the hiraishin and worked to repress it, coating potential battle grounds with seals straight form the R & D of Iwa to negate the teleportation abilities of the dreaded jutsu. The seals worked, but the result was something, no one in Iwa expected. Faced with having to use others skills than the hiraishin, Naruto unleashed his arsenal. Though heavily outnumbered, the number balance only helped Naruto use his more devastating jutsu, ripping ninjas apart until there was no one left. If it wasn't for yukina-sama's arrival soon after the one-sided battles, Iwa would have lost everything to just a teenager. Luckily, Iwa's princess pulled through and stalemated the blonde monster in a one-on-one battle.
Just as the two ninjas started thinking about their princess's battles with the Namikaze, a strong wind blew knocking the Iwa nins off a tree branch and onto the ground. They slowly got back up checking the forbidden scroll only to see it was gone. "Are you looking for this?" A dark voice said directly behind them. Who the fuck are you!" One of the Iwa nins shouted turning around only to freeze in pure unbridled fear as he recognized the dark cloak, swaying in the wind. "Who is it Suzaku.. one the ninjas began only to be silenced once he turned around himself and saw the signature blonde hair. The Iwa nin now recognized as Suzaku started to inch forwards, constantly staring wide-eyed at their attacker. "Tsuryu, listen, run far away I'll hold him off as long as possible but you have to run as fast as you can." "What no, never. I will never leave not after everything we've done." "Shut up and listen! I'm older and wiser, we don't have a ghost of a chance, just go."
Tsuryu looked down at the ground, making his hand into a fist before breaking in the opposite direction. Suzaku turned to his death, only to find his executioner absent. A shriek was heard behind him and he stopped and closed his eyes, completely scared of what he would see if he turned around and opened them. Slowly, he proceeded to look in the direction of the shriek to see his partner and friend skewered on a pitch black sword, the sword and body dripping blood.
Suzaku turned to run, but bit back a scream when a second later two shuriken embedded themselves into his Achilles heels, making him fall like a sack of bricks.
"You will not be going anywhere," Naruto chided as he walked slowly toward the shivering ninja.
"Why did you kill him, and why don't you just kill me" Suzaku pleaded, wanting the nightmare to end. "Hnn" was Naruto's only reply as he disappeared and reappeared next to Suzaku. Giving him a chop to the neck, Suzaku was knocked out, and Naruto picked him up and began his trek back to the village, forbidden scroll in hand, an Iwa nin on the other.
"Foolish Iwa nin, I didn't kill you because you didn't run away. Your fate though does not favor you as Ibiki has longed for another POW." Naruto knew this Suzaku could not hear, but he didn't care. He quickened his pace back to Konoha as thunder clouds began to gather.
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know, the chapters will get progressively longer, so I should probably pump out a ten thousand word chapter by chapter ten or eleven. My limit will be ten thousand a chapter though. Seriously, that's a lot of words. Anyways I hope you liked Naruto's intro after the two year time skip. It will only get better from here. Like I told you in the beginning though, I have a code against revealing anything in the fic. All I can say is I already have every thing worked out and you will be entertained.
Till next time and remember to review!
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