Chapter 1: Leaving the Neglectful Family
Hello everyone, here is an idea that I've had for a while of a Naruto crossover with Fairy Tail. In here it will be another neglect fic where Naruto's parents neglect him for his younger siblings since they are Jinchuuriki and I have Purehito, the second master of Fairy Tail and founder of Grimoire Heart, finding him after being assaulted and when he learns of the abuse, he takes Naruto away with him to train in the arts of being a magus.
For Naruto's age it's the same age as Itachi, I had Minato get Kushina pregnant when they were eighteen when they got drunk at a party at the home of one of their friends.
I do not own Naruto or Fairy Tail.
October 10
Minato Namikaze smiled warmly at his pregnant wife due to this day having had quickly turned into one of the happiest days in his twenty-four year old life. His wife, Kushina Uzumaki, was going to be giving birth to twins today, a boy and a girl as they had been told by Biwako Sarutobi and a few medics when they had scanned her a month ago in the hospital.
However, before she could give birth to the children that he just knew were going to take after her if the Uzumaki traits were anything to go by having seen how his wife and their six year old son Naruto acted, special preparations were needed to make sure everything went as planned just like they had six years ago where he had accidentally gotten Kushina pregnant due to a drinking party with their friends, because Kushina was a Jinchuuriki.
She hosted the most powerful of the nine Bijuu, the Kyuubi, and due to the chaotic nature of this specific demon, the seal which held the Kyuubi inside her stomach would be severely weakened during the childbirth and thus everything for the last few hours had been going smoothly, the twins were finally out of their mother's womb, the boy had been born first, after nine hours of Biwako yelling "PUSH!" and Kushina screaming as she crushed Minato's thigh in her titanium grip while cursing him for getting her pregnant again…
Though he knew that she would be back to her normal, quirky self again in a few days and demanding children from him again like she had done after birthing Naruto, making Minato and some of their close friends think she was a masochist.
"What should we name them Kushi-chan?" The blond Kage asked as he held the two babies up to be seen by their exhausted mother after they had been cleaned enough by the midwives, said midwives having learned the first time around to be quick about handing the baby to the Uzumaki who could be like a raging mother grizzly if she didn't see her child quickly enough. The elder of the two was a boy with a small tuft of red hair on his scalp like their now eldest had been when he was born and the younger of the two being a girl that Minato was happy to see had his golden blonde hair sticking up in a tuft like her brother.
"Menma…" Kushina said tiredly as she kissed the boy's head, before she did the same to the girl. "Mito."
Unfortunately all of their happiness suddenly went downhill when they heard a low, threatening voice speak up behind them after Biwako had taken the two to see if they had any problems after birth.
"Hand over the Jinchuuriki and your son will live longer than a minute," Minato and Kushina quickly turned around to see a black haired man with an orange mask that had only one eyehole on the left side of his mask standing over the corpse of Biwako and another midwife. In his black covered arms, resting peacefully was the newly named Menma and the man was holding a kunai to the baby's throat.
"Oh my god Menma! Please don't hurt my baby!" Kushina pleaded as she reached out for her newborn son. Minato himself reached for one of his Hiraishin kunai and spoke up as he tried to keep calm while watching the man hold his newest son, "Who are you and what do you want with Kushina?"
"More worried about your wife than your newborn child, that's rather interesting Yondaime-san," the man chuckled darkly as he moved the blade closer to the infant. "Very well I shall humor your question, my name is Madara Uchiha and I want what was stolen from me, the Kyuubi no Kitsune."
Minato and Kushina's eyes widened as the young Hokage positioned himself between the man holding their child and his terrified wife, "That's a lie, Madara Uchiha died in battle against the Shodaime over fifty years ago!"
"Hahaha that would be true if I wasn't an immortal, as you can see I am very much alive and I have come to take back what is rightfully mine!" The masked man roared before he threw baby Menma into the air above him and made a run towards Kushina.
"Save him Minato, save Menma! We will be alright," Kushina screamed as she grabbed their daughter, before running painfully to the exit of the small cavern that she had just given birth in.
Minato quickly appeared in the air and caught his son before the newborn could become little more than a blood stain on the ground and threw his kunai to Kushina to execute the technique that had ended the Third War, the Hiraishin. In a flash of bright yellow he was beside his crimson haired wife.
However before he could grab his beloved, Madara grabbed Kushina's right arm and yanked her towards him. In a moment of desperation she handed Mito to her husband, "Take them to safety."
Minato only nodded and disappeared in yet another yellow flash, bringing the two newborns to the room in the hospital they had planned to move Kushina to after the birthing and laid them gently in a crib. Then he used his prized jutsu again, coming back into the cave.
But the cavern was now deserted, save for the dead bodies of Biwako Sarutobi, the Anbu guarding them and the midwives.
Outside of Konoha
"That was so heartwarming, the two of you would have made a great family," 'Madara' said as he chuckled darkly at the woman he held captive, before he placed the prone form of Kushina on a stone altar. He then stared into the Uzumaki's violet eyes and Kushina could faintly make out the three tomoe of the Sharingan, a Kekkei Genkai that the Uchiha clan was famous for, behind his mask as it began to rotate wildly. Kushina stared back blankly and deep within her mindscape a roar of great primordial rage could be heard echoing through her.
Suddenly Kushina screamed as she felt her stomach burn like a bonfire had been set upon her soft, currently pale skin and a dark-red cloak of bubbling malevolent chakra surrounded her body. Behind her the chakra was gathering and slowly the concentration increased, until she could make out a giant fox with nine tails squirming to break free from where it was bound behind it.
'No not the Kyuubi… I have to stop it from escaping… it is going to destroy the village and my babies!' Kushina thought as she tried to stand up to seal the demon back inside her stomach, but she was just too exhausted.
'Madara' laughed darkly at her attempts to get up, "How fitting for the Bijuu to kill its own Jinchuuriki! Kill her, Kyuubi!"
The fox roared in anger, wanting to crush his container after being imprisoned for so long, yet wanting to do it of his own will and brought his colossal claws down on the spent Uzumaki, destroying the ground as it struck, however to both the Bijuu and the madman's surprise when the dust cleared there was nothing there.
"Looks like I was just in time." Minato said panting as he held his injured wife in his arms.
'Madara' glanced at the Yondaime and shrugged as if the black haired man didn't care that the Jinchuuriki hadn't died yet, "It doesn't matter, I have my pet back and that's what I wanted. Now destroy Konoha my tool!" 'Madara' yelled as he landed on the beasts head and he quickly disappeared, his body becoming a swirl of shadows, after a minute of waiting the Kyuubi puffed out of existence as well.
"We have to stop the Kyuubi and that man before he destroys the village and our family!" Kushina exclaimed.
Minato nodded and he disappeared in a Yellow flash to drop Kushina off with their children.
He just knew that tonight was going to be one of the most painful of his life, knowing exactly what he had to do if he wanted to keep his family alive and safe.
4 years after the Kyuubi attack
A shadow was sitting in an alleyway as it basked in the silence that permeated the night air of October 10th. Underneath the glow of the lunar object in the sky, the shadows covering the form were instantly removed to show a boy no older than ten years old whose crimson hair seemed to glow like blood under the light of the moon. Even though his eyes were half-lidded due to exhaustion from being unable to return to his home; his violet eyes still glowed brilliantly with a royal purple in the night. His face was covered in dirt and small cuts that had been formed from some of his scrapes when he fell down or was brushed aside by one or several villagers going about their business during the Kyuubi Festival.
His skin was fairly tanned, a feature he inherited from his mother along with his violet eyes and crimson hair. He was wearing a white and blue shirt that had multiple dirt stains and rips in it. His black cargo shorts that he had gotten on his ninth birthday had holes on the sides and back showing their poor condition. His white shoes had holes on the insides as the soles hung down.
The tired crimson haired boy's breathing hitched when he heard the sound of a pair of feet and a loud voice nearing his location.
"Little demon where are you~?" Came a deep voice that sent chills up the boy's spine, before the man appeared at the entrance of the alley he was currently hiding in. "Don't worry we won't hurt you little demon~… much!"
The boy inched back into the furthest, darkest corner of the alley behind the dumpster and curled up into a ball in the hopes that this insane man and his brother wouldn't find him.
The redhead shut his eyes and prayed to anyone that was listening to save him from these insane men that enjoyed inflicting harm upon his person whenever they could. They had started last year when the boy was nine and had once again been locked out of his house while his parents held a massive party for his younger siblings. These two men would beat him every chance they got during the year, however that was only the small hits that would leave light bruises, unfortunately as the redhead had found out, they enjoyed inflicting large amounts of pain on the boy during the Kyuubi Festival and his parents never believed him when he told them about how he had been attacked by two of the 'loyal' shinobi of the Hidden Leaf.
The two not wanting to believe that their ideal village would harm a member of their family.
The worst thing to come from the yearly experience of the October tenth beatings was the fact that the younger brother of the two knew how to use medical ninjutsu and would always heal him up perfectly when they had finished and left him unconscious.
The redhead was quickly shaken from his thoughts when a chuckling voice alerted the boy, "Why hello there little demon, we found you~."
The boy looked up in terror to see that the younger brother of the two had found his hiding spot and was currently staring down at him from next to the dumpster. As he attempted to scramble away he saw the two brothers sporting their usual Chunin flak jackets begin moving towards him before they both stood in the middle of the alleyway, blocking him from getting out.
They both had spiky brown hair with matching brown eyes that showed the latent cruelty they felt like inflicting on the boy tonight. They both wore smug grins that promised unbearable amounts of pain for the child in front of them. The only difference between them was the fact that the younger of the two was several inches shorter than his brother and he had a medical cross patch on the front of his vest to show that he was a medical nin. "Are you ready to have some fun little demon?" The older brother asked smugly as he leered at the cowering child before him.
The child released an exhausted sigh as he shut his eyes and bit down on his tongue, having long since learned that when they wanted to hurt him, that there was no escape unless he was with his parents or out in the middle of public. However there would be no way that he would give the two of them the satisfaction of hearing his screams of pain.
The sadistic brothers broke into a fit of demented giggles when they noticed the child's actions.
"Giving up already are we little demon?" The older one taunted as he grinned evilly and started moving forward towards his victim. Both men grabbed a hold of kunai from their side pouches and began to move towards the child.
However before they could get close enough to the tormented child they noticed a man had appeared before them and was also looking at the defeated crimson haired child. They both turned their eyes towards the mysterious man in curiosity.
The man standing between them and their prey was tall and well-built with a long grey beard and mustache; he was wearing what looked to be a suit of black armor. On his head and face was a horned helmet that was shaped almost like a shinobi happuri. He was wearing a long black cape that was left open as it moved slightly in the wind. His black pants were held in place by a large leather belt and were tucked into the leather boots that covered his feet. In his hand was a wooden staff that held a strangely shaped winged symbol at the top of it. The most noticeable feature of the man however was his purple left eye that was gazing down at the child while the other was covered with an eyepatch.
The brother on the left looked at the armor covering the man and whistled in appreciation as he wondered how many mission paychecks it would cost him to get something like that.
"That is an impressive set of armor you got there friend. Are you here to help us kill the demon-" That was all that was said before the chunin's body exploded much to the shock and horror of the younger brother. The man's head fell to the ground with sharp thud at the moment it connected with the hard ground beneath him.
The brother of the bodiless head cried out in horror before his anger kicked in when he turned back to glare at the man that had allegedly just killed his sibling without so much as lifting a finger.
"You bastard why would you do that when we are trying to save the world from that dem-!" That was the last word the man would ever utter as his own body exploded in a blast of gore when the older man's purple eye turned to glare at him.
"There is absolutely no reason to attack a child in this world," the man's voice echoed through the now silent alley as he glared at the remains of the two chunin he had just killed, a red glow emanating from beneath his eyepatch. "It doesn't matter if they are a demon or human."
The old man stared impassively down at the two heads for a moment before he moved towards the disembodied skulls and formed a flame in his hand before turning the remains of their bodies to ash to avoid traumatizing the young boy he had stopped them from attacking.
Once done the mysterious man turned back to see the crimson haired boy still against the wall trembling. Reaching out he placed a comforting hand on top of the child's head only for him to flinch in response.
The man's stoic expression cracked since he could just tell this boy was terrified, making him wonder what had been going on in the village since he was here last. It was his first time in Konoha since his protégé Kushina Uzumaki's husband had been nominated as the Yondaime Hokage and within the first thirty minutes of entering the Hidden Leaf, he finds two shinobi assaulting their son that he hadn't seen since the boy was three and begging to be played with.
He would defiantly be asking the two why their eldest child was being abused when he met the boy's parents. If he recalled correctly from the rumors he had heard while exploring the Elemental Nations, today was supposed to be the birthday of the boy's younger siblings, Menma and Mito, so why wasn't their elder brother with them?
"It is quite alright little one," the older man said in a soothing, grandfatherly voice as he patted the Uzumaki's crimson hair. "I will not harm you. I promise."
Naruto felt the man's hand rustle through his hair and slowly let his eyes open so that he could gaze up at the older man that had just saved him from a large amount of pain.
When he couldn't find any deception in the man's single eye for the words he had spoken, Naruto eased himself up from under the man's hand so he could look at him unobstructed, before speaking up in the politest tone he could muster in order to not offend the elderly man, "Excuse me, but who are you?"
The man smiled softly at the boy and cleared his throat so he would be heard clearly, "My name is Purehito young master Naruto, though you may call me Hades, I am an old friend of your mother from her days as a genin."
At the mention of the red haired woman, his lone eye narrowed at the sight of the young Namikaze tense considerably at the mention of his family.
"Is it not your brother and sister's birthday today? If so why are you not at home celebrating with them?" Purehito asked as he internally frowned at the reaction he received from mentioning his old student. Naruto shuffled slightly in place as his eyes quickly found the dirt of the ground beneath their feet to be the most interesting of places at the moment.
"Um, since it is their birthday they took Menma-chan and Mito-chan to get ready for the party," Naruto said quietly, wondering if he had done something wrong in his parent's eyes as he said the next sentence. "Then Minato-sama and Kushina-sama locked me out again. I was going to go to the festival like last year, but two chunin attacked me again like they did the year before and I hid here."
Purehito raised an eyebrow as he wondered why the boy refused to call his parents, mother and father.
'That doesn't sound like the Kushina I know,' the elder thought as he stared down at the child that could pass for his grandson due to their shared eye color. 'Kushina was always ecstatic when she learned that she was going to have a child. When I visit them tonight, I will ask them about Naruto and why they haven't been looking out for him. Hopefully their neglect hasn't gone too far.'
Hades then looked up towards the end of the alley, 'If they fail my test then I will take him with me and train him before I return to Fiore to start Grimoire Heart.'
"Naruto-chan, if you would follow me," Hades said as he held out his armored hand to the boy. "I will take you somewhere that you will be safe from these types of people."
Naruto moved over to the man before the elder and child walked out of the alley and out to the streets through the Shinobi District. As they walked, the tension in the child's body soon faded to a relaxed nature as the two of them entered the Clan District where his family lived.
Though he became nervous again when the elderly man led him into the Uchiha compound where many of the Sharingan wielding shinobi directed their infamous Uchiha glares in their direction, the clan members mainly wondering why there were two outsiders in their compound. Hades just ignored them as he led the child further towards the house of the Clan Head.
As they drew closer, Naruto began to smile brightly when he saw the familiar house in the center of the compound that belonged to a friend of his mother and her son that he liked to play with sometimes.
Once they arrived, Purehito stepped forward and knocked on the front door gently with his armored fist as he and the much smaller ten year old waited in a comfortable silence.
They didn't have to wait long as the sound of a few hurried footsteps echoed from inside the home, before the paper thin sliding door slid open to reveal a stoic faced boy that was the same age as the Uzumaki at his side.
This boy had deep, black eyes that matched his hair which was worn in the beginnings of a ponytail, his bangs were short. He had on a black shirt with the Uchiha fan on the back with bandages around his ankles and black sandals.
At the sight of them, the boy's black eyes widened.
This was Itachi Uchiha, the eldest son of Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha, the head family of the Uchiha clan. He was surprised because first off there was a armor covered old man standing before him that gave off a grandfatherly, yet intimidating presence. Secondly, the person he was getting ready to go find to make sure he didn't get injured like last year, was standing next to the old man.
"Itachi-kun!" Naruto exclaimed happily as he launched himself at his fellow ten year old and clung onto the Uchiha heir.
Itachi looked down at the top of his best friend's head with a curious gaze before he too matched the infectious smile on hyperactive Uzumaki's face. After getting Naruto to remove his vice grip, Itachi turned to look at the older man that had accompanied the redhead and silently motioned for the two of them to enter the house as he turned around to walk back into his home.
Purehito waited until the young Uchiha had taken a seat next to the happier Naruto before he sat down on the tatami mats and spoke to him, "It is good to see you again Itachi-chan. I assume all is well with your family?"
Itachi stiffened slightly with a questioning gaze directed at his friend's savior. Shifting with unease the Uchiha looked at the man that was somehow familiar with him, though he himself had no recollection of the man.
"Hai," Itachi responded in an even tone that was nearing monotone, just as his father taught him for dealing with people he didn't know. "Though if I might ask, who are you? And what are you doing here with Naruto-kun?"
At the mention of why he was here, Naruto visibly deflated with a forlorn expression, "Minato-san and Kushina-san locked me out again and those two Chunin came after me."
Naruto sighed as he looked down once finished, once again beginning to wonder what he had done to offend his family.
Itachi frowned at the eldest son of the Hokage, the Uchiha main family were all too aware of the neglect that the Yondaime and his wife had been showing their eldest while they doted on the two four year old Jinchuuriki, Menma and Mito, and he and his parents had done what they could to try and help the boy.
After all, he was his mother's godson, making him just as much a member of the family as any other Uchiha.
Hades proceeded to wait until Naruto was calmed down by the Uchiha next to him before he tried to talk with the Uchiha heir. Once Naruto had quieted down to mere sniffles, he turned to the black haired boy and filled him in on what he had come across when he saw the two chunin about to harm the Uzumaki before he killed the two men and decided to bring Naruto here.
"Naruto-kun how would you like to train under my guidance to become a magus?" Hades asked when he turned to the boy as he finished telling the Uchiha the tale of how he had saved the redhead.
Naruto looked up with shock; no one had ever offered him such a thing before in his life, often times saying that they were too busy or saying that they would do another time and then forgetting about their promises.
Even his parents rejected training him, the two of them stating that Menma and Mito would need it more than he did because of the Kyuubi sealed inside of them even though one of them could have trained him while the two Jinchuuriki were still too young for training.
His violet eyes quickly became determined as he turned his head up to look at the older man before him. The Uzumaki heir clenched his hands as he remembered how he had been slowly neglected by his family and several of the friends he had had before all of this began and nodded to the man before him, not questioning his words about being a magus, though Itachi's eyes did widen as he remembered his mother telling him about a man that matched Hades' description being one of the few magic wielders on this side of the planet.
"Very well then youngling, I want you to write a letter to your parents to tell them that you are leaving with me," Hades said, his eye sharp with purpose as he inwardly seethed at what his protégé and her husband had become. "When you have finished, I will take it and leave it at your home."
Naruto nodded in response and Itachi came back from the kitchen holding said parchment and a pen that he handed to his redhead friend.
As the Uzumaki clan heir excused himself and left the table to write in the corner so that he could think about what he wanted to say, Hades began holding a small conversation with Itachi, the older man wondering why the Uchiha was a shinobi at such a young age before said Uchiha decided to speak up.
"Hades-san, I would recommend that you let the Sandaime and my parents know that you are taking Naruto-kun with you before you leave with him for your training," the Uchiha heir said with the no nonsense he had inherited from his mother. "The three of them and a few others are the ones that have been taking care of him when his parents ignore him."
Itachi looked up at the man he had heard stories about from his mother about her younger days when she and Kushina were still in the Academy and as young kunoichi.
"I will remember that," Purehito said as he stared at the young boy before him. "First I want to know why his parents are neglecting him and why the hell they are allowing their shinobi to assault him."
"We don't really understand why Yondaime-sama and Kushina-Okaasan are ignoring him," Itachi said as he thought about how things had been ever since the Kyuubi Attack. "They started doing it three years ago, about a year after the Attack and they began focusing more of their time on Mito and Menma, telling Naruto-kun that they have to do this or that when he'd ask them for things. It has gotten worse over the last year or so where they would begin locking him out of their house unconsciously as if he didn't exist and Kaa-chan noticed one time how they forgot to set a place for him at their dinner table when she ate with them."
"In the past few months Kaa-chan and Tou-san started really noticing the neglect and would often times have me invite Naruto to stay the night or eat dinner with us after the Academy ended for the day because he'd be forgotten by his parents," Itachi continued, annoyance rising up in his tone as he thought of his godmother. "However for the past year, those two chunin that you killed decided to surface, showing them to be one of the more advent Kyuubi haters and since they couldn't take their anger out on the Jinchuuriki without being executed personally by Yondaime-sama and Kushina-Okaa or many of the shinobi of the village, they decided to attack Naruto instead. They would beat him normally and just leave small bruises, but on the twin's birthdays, they would escalate the attack and sometimes go after him with jutsu or weapons until either I or Kaa-san stepped in and they would disappear; after that we have stopped trying to tell the Namikaze's about it because they have the idea that Naruto has just ensnared us into an elaborate lie to gain attention."
"Hmm that is troubling," Hades said as the old man wondered what the hell had happened to make Kushina begin to ignore her own flesh and blood. "I intended to test the two of them, but I'm not so sure anymore. I will most likely just leave the letter and leave tonight with Naruto while everyone is busy with this pathetic festival."
Itachi nodded mumbling how that was a good idea before he turned to see how his best friend was coming along with the letter, just in time to see the crimson haired Uzumaki make his way towards them.
Hades nodded to the son of his old friend and Naruto placed the letter in the man's armored palm as the much older male stood up from his position on the floor. Walking out Purehito made his way towards where he knew the Uzumaki clan compound to be located, dozens of questions still fresh on his mind despite the talk he had just had with the Uchiha heir. The resounding taps from his staff somehow making many of the partiers stop to stare at the man as he passed them by with an aura of mysteriousness and power surrounding him.
Uzumaki compound Mansion, five minutes later
Purehito gave a sigh as he walked down the cobblestone pathway that led from the gate to the mansion that hosted the Uzumaki-Namikaze family. As he got closer to the large building he could hear the sounds of people laughing and celebrating the birthday of the two Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi.
Stepping into the open front door he was greeted with the sight of numerous shinobi and civilians all scattered around the entrance, living room, kitchen and backyard. Purehito was sure that most of these people were here for the sole reason that they would be noticed by the heads of the family.
Any and every form of politics had always disgusted the old man since it always led to corruption and people becoming power hungry. Looking around he ignored the group of what appeared to be the four year old clan heirs that ran past him in favor for glancing at the people dressed in kimonos or whatever they had chosen to party in, all of them drinking some form of alcohol or juice for the children and joking with each other.
The old man groaned in annoyance as he was not able to locate either of the two adults he was currently looking for, nor was he able to spot his old friend, the Sandaime, and his one time student Mikoto, which made him frown slightly. Hearing Kushina's girlish laughter from the crowd to his right Hades turned and he found himself staring at Minato and Kushina who were standing behind what he believed to be Menma and Mito who both wore million-watt smiles from all the attention they were getting and the prospect of opening the massive pile of presents laid out before them.
The boy that he figured to be Menma was basically a male version of his mother with his crimson red hair and violet eyes that he shared with her and his older brother. His hair was however spiky and only came to the top of his neck with the exception of his bangs that reached down slightly past his jaw that were tied in bandages. He was dressed in a forest green coat that had a high collar that reached to his jaw-line, for his pants he wore miniature black Anbu pants that ended in the new civilian brand sneakers that he had heard were made in the Land of Claw.
To the boy's left was a girl that he found himself guessing to be Mito, who like Menma was a female clone of her father, only instead of the spiky hair her brother and father had, she inherited the silky straight hair of their mother and she had violet eyes just the same as her two brothers. From what he could see Mito was wearing what appeared to be Kushina's old orange Academy yukata, only the obi having been replaced by a red one. Her hair was tied up into a bun with a small braided ponytail in the back. Other than that, she was wearing black biker shorts and orange shinobi sandals.
The old man watched as people gave the twins gifts, one being Kakashi Hatake who the older man recognized as Minato's student followed by Rin Nohara, who he had heard had been turned into the Sanbi Jinchuuriki by Kiri in the hopes she would destroy Konoha in the last war. They gave the children several jutsu scrolls and a kunai set, Kakashi eye smiling before leaving though he noticed that the Nohara had looked around for somebody else.
Next was the Ino-Shika-Cho trio that he remembered from the last time he was here, the three of them walking forward with their children, two boys and one girl. He could see that they gave the twins different objects, an all you can eat coupon from the Akimichi, an encyclopedia on plants and their uses from the Yamanaka and a meditation statue carved from wood only found in the Nara's forest from the Nara.
Hades turned away from the proceedings as he noticed Jiraiya of the Sannin walking up carrying the scroll of his summons. He ignored that the two children signed the contract as he made his way up the stairs to what he believed to be the bedrooms, not knowing or caring that he had been noticed by Rin and Kushina, though the redhead only brushed it off even as she wondered why her old teacher hadn't come to greet her or her babies.
Opening the door once he found Naruto's room, Purehito's face became covered in surprise that quickly turned to rage as the only thing he saw in the room was a small bed with only a top sheet for warmth at night, his anger was so great that he had to fight to keep the pressure of his magical power from breaking free from its restraints so as to not make many of the guests of the house choke from an invisible force or in a rare moment, destroy the entire mansion from the outflow.
Moving over to a small bed, Purehito placed the letter down on the pillow of the bed. With one final glance as he fought to keep his temper, Hades turned and left the room before he closed the door and was greeted by a small group of people standing in the hallway.
The first he noticed was the Nohara girl that had noticed him going up the stairs staring at him with a curious defensive stance. Standing beside her was the Sandaime Hokage and one of his old friends; Hiruzen Sarutobi was dressed in an old kimono that he usually kept for circumstances like this. Behind him was Mikoto Uchiha the mother of Itachi and the actual mother figure for Naruto as he found out earlier.
After the Uchiha Matriarch was her husband Fugaku who was staring at the older man in veiled curiosity as if trying to figure out his elder's reason for being there in a glance. Lastly, the last of the group was a tan-skinned young man of about fifteen with pineapple shaped hair that Hades had never seen before that was wearing a chunin flak jacket and had a scar across his nose.
After a few minutes of contemplative silence, Hiruzen gave his old friend a warm smile that was almost grandfatherly in nature. "Well, well, if it isn't Purehito, I haven't seen you in ages you old goat, how have you been?"
"It has indeed been a while Hiruzen-dono and while I may be older than you, you are catching up rather quickly," Purehito replied with a chuckle in his tone that had a depressive aura form over the old monkey's head and before Hiruzen could retort and hopefully redirect that quip at his age back at the older man, Mikoto stepped forth with a glare.
"What were you were doing inside Naruto-kun's room, Purehito-sensei?" Mikoto asked as she took a defensive stance, not knowing her mysterious sensei's intentions. Hades sighed as he raised an armored hand to calm the woman down before her killer intent alerted everyone at the party to their location, he wanted to just leave the village with his new student and train the kid before going back to his homeland.
"Calm yourself Mikoto-chan, little Naruto is perfectly fine at this moment," Hades said as he looked the Uchiha female in the eye. "Naruto-kun is currently with your son Itachi right now at Uchiha district. I left him there after I stopped those two chunin he reported as abusers from harming him."
Mikoto backed down when she heard that, knowing the only way the man could know that was if he had talked to her son or Naruto. Inwardly she chided herself, remembering that the grandfatherly man that liked to show off his beard as an object of pride would never willingly harm a child.
"What happened to the chunin?" Hiruzen asked as he returned his gaze to the older man, the stern look he had as an Hokage, retired or not, returning as he heard about the repeat offenders.
"The two of them are currently enjoying the boat ride to the afterlife after I blew them apart."
That got an almost imperceptible gasp from Fugaku and Rin, the Uchiha head remaining stoic as they looked at him in question.
"Now then," Hades said gaining their attention. "If you would please follow me back to your compound, little Itachi and I can tell you about what we have planned."
Mikoto and Hiruzen nodded before leading their group towards the doors of the mansion, Rin and the man he found to be named Iruka staying behind so they could keep an eye on things. Hades joined them and they narrowly avoided meeting Kushina as the woman attempted to get through the large birthday crowd in order to greet the man that had taught her to use her chains.
Uchiha Clan house
Mikoto sat with Naruto placed in her lap as she, Hiruzen, her husband and Itachi listened to Purehito retell how he had run into the Uzumaki heir and killed the two chunin attacking him along with how he had devised a plan with Itachi to take Naruto with him and train the boy to be a magus like he was, getting widened eyes from Mikoto and Hiruzen.
Both of them and even Fugaku had become increasingly pissed and sickened by the fact of the Namikazes neglecting their heir.
"That sounds like a good plan Pure-kun," Hiruzen remarked as he thought of the prospect of Naruto becoming a magus like the people over in Purehito's homeland, especially the Wizard Saints that he heard could rival the Kages of the Hidden Villages. "But what will you do on the off chance they find out what you are doing and try to stop you?"
Hades spared a glance towards his new apprentice, though the older man did not seem to be worried in the slightest after having learned how the two parents barely paid attention to the boy from Naruto himself. Hades leaned forward with his elbows on the table and focused back on the three shinobi.
"Both Naruto and I believe that no one will find the note for at least a month since I left it in his room and after seeing the amount of dust covering everything except the bed, along with how forgetful his parents seem to be I wouldn't put it past the two to only notice when one of the two Jinchuuriki bring it up," the Nidaime Master of Fairy Tail said, getting nods from the adults and Itachi, while the youngest Uchiha of their current group began helping Naruto pack what he would need. "However, seeing how those two acted. I am going to go out on a limb and say that they are a bit spoiled and probably only pay attention to their brother when he does something they don't like, like taking away the attention they are given."
The three adults nodded to his words just as Itachi came back into the dining room with Naruto; a new black backpack on the redhead's back filled with what the four adults thought were most likely storage scrolls, especially if the white paper sticking out the top was anything to go by.
"Are we ready to go Hades-sensei?" Naruto asked as he looked towards the old armored man with hope in his violet eyes. The adults and young Jounin could tell that he was eager to get away to his new life.
"Mhmm," Hades hummed as he looked to the boy while grabbing his staff from the floor next to him. "Let me grab some supplies from the shopping district and we will leave soon."
All he received was a nod before Naruto sat down with Itachi at the table to talk one last time to the people that had basically adopted him after he had been shunned by his parents and Hades walked out the door to grab the supplies he spoke of.
Four Hours Later
It was close to midnight as Hades led Naruto towards the village gate with the redhead wearing a black cloak to disguise him from the guards. Suddenly Purehito grabbed the back of Naruto's cloak, pulling him to a stop. Naruto look up in confusion at the man before he noticed a couple Anbu jumping down to speak with the chunin guarding the gates.
Naruto and the much older man watched as the four shinobi conversed for a short while before the two Anbu nodded to them and leapt off to the roofs before beginning their trek to somewhere else. Once Hades let go of his cloak after five more minutes, they made their way out of the gate, only stopping once to tell the chunin their false reason for leaving and giving them fake IDs that Hiruzen had given them that said that Hades was an old farmer and Naruto, or Kuro in this case, was his grandson that had wanted to see the festival. Once they got clear of the gate and had started down the road, Naruto turned back to look at the village that had been his home for his entire life.
"Naruto-kun?" Purehito asked as he looked back at the boy to find him staring at the village a few feet behind him.
"Sorry sensei," Naruto said without looking at the man. "It's just that this is the first time I have ever left the village; I just wanted to take the moment to gather my thoughts."
The older man nodded and leaned against the tree to his right, remembering the time he had left the Fairy Tail guild for his long journey, his thoughts turning to wondering about how Fairy Tail had turned out under the leadership and guidance of Makarov after he had left the stunned forty year old midget in charge.
He sincerely hoped that his old home had survived the rigors of the rambunctious guild members that couldn't tell the difference between small damage and full scale destruction… especially if he heard correctly about the rather absent minded Guild Ace Gildarts that had come around after he left.
Naruto's eyes hardened as he looked at the village that had tormented and sheltered him all his life and turned his head back to the road laid out before him one last time… He had made his choice.
Turning back to the road and his new sensei, the two started off down the road towards whatever destination the older man had planned on using to train the boy. Activating a magic that he informed Naruto was named the Requip, and promising that he would teach him it, he handed the redhead an old leather bound book that looked like it had seen a lot of use in its life. "I want you to start reading this; it will be the first thing I teach you Naruto-kun."
"Thank you Hades-sensei," Naruto said as he smiled at the older man before looking down at the cover of the book he had been given.
Its title…
God Slayer Magic.
Hello everyone, Iskander here I hope all of you liked the story, in here I have it where Naruto is Itachi's age sort of like in my Unlimited Blades fic and after Purehito, the second master of Fairy Tail stumbles onto the scene of him being abused by two chunin, he steps in and decides to take Naruto as his apprentice in the ways of the magus. While I didn't have the neglect from the parents as the hitting their child, I did have them locking him out of the house at times, not including him when they go out to eat with the twins or including him in family activities. Along with not training him at all, even though he should have some form of training since he is in the Academy.
I will be having Hades teach Naruto several different magic like the Lost Magic: Lightning God Slayer like that big guy in Sabertooth has; Rune Magic to add on to the Fuinjutsu Hades will teach him as a part of his Uzumaki heritage, Requip Magic to summon weapons and clothes (his version will be close to the knight, but he won't be equipping armors like Erza), he'll have Spear Magic since I am going to have him forge a spear as his main weapon and lastly he will have Light Magic. I had thought about giving him Fairy Law, but that would make him too god-like.
For the last part if you are wondering about the timeline and how Hades is here in Konoha and alive, this chapter takes place about seven years before he begins Grimoire Heart and no, Naruto won't be a part of it. I will be having Hades train Naruto for four years before leaving him to learn on his own while he returns to Fiore. In the age department, Naruto is a few years older than Ultear and Erza; they are more around the twin's ages, maybe a bit lower.
Lastly, Purehito's involvement in the villages I have going back to Kushina and Minato's Academy and genin days where he taught Kushina the use of her chakra chains since he has his chain magic and he also taught Mikoto for a little bit. I had him meet Hiruzen when they were younger when he first left Fairy Tail on his quest of enlightenment and after meeting Hiruzen and helping the village a bit, he goes off wandering around the Elemental Nations to learn what he can, though he did return to teach Kushina and Mikoto or visit them several times after that.
Hope you liked it, until next time Iskander Mandoraekon signing off. Ja Ne.