To start I've been away awhile, busy with my work and often just want to laze when I get home.
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Naruto, Helluva boss or hazbin hotel or this would be a thing
also this takes place a few years before the events of helluva boss's first episode. And Naruto takes his training a bit more seriously, he's still an idiot tho.
Chapter 1
Naruto was in training ground 44, his usual spot. He had just finished his training for the day with only two days to hone his skills before the Chunin exams start.
He walked away from the training clearing he had found, jumping the metal gate to exit the forest. He strolled down the street, and just as always people pointed whispered and stared at him, they hid their children behind their legs and told them to stay away. This had been what Naruto's life for ever since he could remember.
He could only count five people from the village who never looked at him this way. Iruka, Old Man Hokage, Teuchi, Ayami, and Konohamaru.
A crowd formed around him, he stopped seeing they blocked the path. He remembered why this particular night was an issue as of the moment he began walking the street. He had been so absorbed in his own training that he forgot that today was his birthday. Which layer out the issue, beatings. Whenever he was alone from Kakashi and any of his friends on his birthday the villagers became bold.
The villagers enclosed around him and he knew that even with his low to mid chunin level skills that he would not escape the Jounin in the crowd.
"It's the demon brat!" Said a man in the back in a loud whisper to his companion. "Look he's all alone." Spoke another "remember it's the day of vengeance, we finally get to evoke our revenge just like the fourth meant for us to do!" One shouted, the man was wearing a jounin flak jacket.
Like an ugly snake the group sneered and snapped into action the ninja of the group shot forward, the first three were no more than genin, with a kick out Naruto swept the feet out from under the first two.
He planted his foot and used his other to plant his steel toed boot into the third genin's jaw. An audible crack was heard.
And before Naruto could move a jounin had snuck behind him and used his standard ninja wire to tie Naruto's hands together behind his back.
Naruto retaliated by bending forward in an attempt to land a kick into the attacker, but with trained reflexes the man side stepped, caught the leg and bent down in a show of barely decent speed to tie together the blond's legs.
All the time Naruto struggled. Yet it neared no fruits as when the jounin finished Naruto fell forward ungracefully onto the ground.
With a swift chop Naruto fell unconscious and unguarded into the hands of the demon hating villagers and shinobi.
Naruto awoke to a view of villagers with torches, various blades and blunts. He then realized he was tied to a wood like object, it was impossible to see as he could not turn his head to see it.
various shouts rang out around him.
"It's awake!" "The time is now!" "Kill it, before the hokage sends his personal goons!" And others of the sorts.
The riled crowd encroached their intentions clear. Then just like almost every year before it began. First a bat, then a knife, next a broken plank, a kunai, a strong stick.
Every item began breaking down the blonde, while holes healed fast but the blood he lost did not regenerate quite as fast when the kyubi's chakra was being diverted to closing and healing the fresh wounds.
As the night continued Naruto's vision became blurred and his limbs numb.
Now all the exhausted villagers parted to let a man through, his skin looked wrinkled and scared with burns from the past. "Now I shall enact my revenge on the damned demon!" He shouted while turning to the other villagers.
"Just as this demon fox incarnate set me ablaze all those years ago, I shall do the same!" He exclaimed while turning back and tossing the torch into the pile of sticks, the sticks caught on fire.
The flames approached the main wooden surface he was strapped to. It felt like forever that he watched the flames close in until they finally danced just beneath his destroyed boots.
Naruto screamed as the flames danced up his legs to his torso and across his neck. Soon the flames reached his face and then fully covered his body. Naruto writhed under the searing heat that was dragging his life away from him.
Finally his life seeped away from him and he slipped away.
Naruto opened his eyes to see himself falling. Around him was not but fire and screaming rang through his ears. Before him his body free fell through the tunnel of flames. Soon he the flames encroached and engulfed him, yet before he knew it bubbling red chakra, which had become familiar with his training by Jiraiya. Soon the left the tunnel looking up into the night sky while still rocketing through the air, and soon he crashed into the center of some red lines.
His body bounced off the ground about 3 times before crashing through a wall and into the next wall where his movement had stopped. He rose to his feet confused as to his predicament. Red demon looking creatures looked at him with pure astonishment. "Hey boy, you alright?" Questioned a wolf like creature who looked slightly concerned. Naruto though had been through worse, especially on his birthday.
More murmuring sounded out around him, saying things like: "is that a human boy?" And "However did he survive such a fall?" Naruto squinted his eyes and stood popping his back with a quick stretch and moving through the store while speaking "I'm alright, just a small fa-" he immediately stopped speaking as he noticed that the hole, which was quickly closing was around as tall as the hokage monument. "Well that's unexpected" he said a smile breaking out across his face.
Naruto took off through the street turning through a random alley way and jumping up the wall to a building's rooftop, he took a lookout here, he needed to return home. The exams were now probably about a day away and he did not want to miss them. Naruto continued on rooftop to rooftop in attempt to find a familiar landmark or building. Looking down at a random red demon Naruto yelled "Hey you, do you know the way back to Konoha!?"
The demon looked up at Naruto with a confused look " What Konoha?" Naruto merely blinked before yelling back "never mind!"
He continued on to the next building doing just the same and getting similar responses like "What's a Konoha?" Or "don't know what you're on about kid." When he stopped Naruto was on top of a particularly tall building, he walked to the edge and sat down, kicking his legs out over the edge and sighed.
"How come nobody knows where to find Konoha?" He questioned to himself out loud, he was not expecting a response. "Because where we are, it doesn't exist."
Naruto was familiar with the voice and knew it was not a person or demon thing, but it was the kyubi itself. "What do you mean, we were just in Konoha?" "We died, and I saved your ass from becoming a demon like me." Was his response.
Naruto sparked and deflated at the realization that even if the kyubi was lying, there would be no explanation of the demon creatures Naruto had been seeing parading around the city.
"So no returning to Konoha huh." Naruto half asked half stated as a dejected expression centered itself on his face. "No but perhaps the might be for the best kid."
"And why's that?" The blonde questioned "Because demons here are definitely better than the humans in our world." The fox stated "our world?" "Yes our world, I've seen both hells and ours is a lot meaner than this one." "Both?" "Yes both, our world and another one have been connected for thousands of years, dating back to the time of the great sage. Although there was a very slim chance we could show up here."
A moment of silence prevailed over the two before the blonde just let out a sound of acknowledgment. "One more thing. I'll be going back soon to regenerate in three years, but there is some stuff you need to know." After a pause the kyubi continued "the bit of chakra I used to sustain you has effected your coils and blood, from what I can tell you may be able to use my emotion senses and possibly another bloodline, but due to the excessive use of my chakra in your coils your reserves have diminished. You might still be able to make about ten shadow clones, but that might be it until your reserves fully recover."
Another silence persisted, though this time it was a shocked one. "What's your name?" "What?" Was the stupefied response of the fox. "Your name, what is it?" After a second Naruto heard a laugh that lasted for a solid moment. "I tell you all this and that's your question. Hah, fine the names Kurama, Kurama the kyubi no kitsune." The blonde proceeded to process the name before nodding. "Goodbye Kurama, and thank you for keeping me alive as long as you did."
The fox merely blinked then smiled, although Naruto could not see it. "You're welcome kid, and goodbye." After the words had been spoken the fox faded away, and Naruto could feel him disappear. It felt so uncomfortable to no longer be connected with the kyubi no kitsune.
Naruto stood, one clear thought in his head. He was going to need to train, his reserves were lacking and his senses blared with emotion from the demons, mostly lust and anger. Naruto jumped away off the roof and to the next before moving in a random direction out of the city and into the next chapter of his life- no afterlife.
Ya so I'll see y'all In the next chapter, by the way the red lines were not on the ground but in the sky just so you know.
