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A/N: It's my first time doing a Naruto fanfic. I hope the reception is good... Well, here goes nothing. Please leave a review. I like getting feedback from my work. It might seem a little angsty but that's just the start. A more interesting plot will happen further on in the story. I always suck at giving a good vibe for the beginning. T-T
Summary: What if Naruto's seal of the Kyuubi no Kitsune broke prematurely and began to eat away at Naruto's body? The chakras fight out, human and demon, and no one is for sure who will have control. Naruto is at the end of his ropes when the seal crippled and the fiery pain engulfs his body letting it burn and then heal. Burn and then heal again, in a never-ending cycle. In hours of pain, he stood back up after ending up unconscious due to chakra depletion. The fox is now gone but Naruto is still alive. What does this all mean? Naruto can't go back to the village now. There were too many questions that were left unanswered and if he has to find them, he knows that Konoha won't give it to him. With the help of a mysterious friend, he sets out on a new journey to become stronger. And learn the truth of the Kyuubi's new whereabouts.
NOTICE:
“Ordinary speech dialogue”
Thought dialogue
“Kyuubi dialogue”
Name of attacks/defense and techniques
Past memory monologue/narration
VOLUME 1
The Alternate Worlds
--- CHAPTER I ---
Release
In the dire coldness of the night, a young orange-clad boy gazes at the scenery before him. Leaves would fall and crickets would sing, but nothing will distract him to the events that will soon unfold. He made sure to cover himself behind some bushes before eavesdropping. A lot of things have happened during the last hour and he's not sure what to think after what his teacher told him. He, a mere boy of 12 years old, is a container of the demon fox that attacked this village? He found the idea ludicrous at first but he begins to doubt himself for that. If there is any reason for the villagers to hate him so much then that reason alone is enough to verify the truth. But still... he can't believe it all.
“Face it, Iruka,” Mizuki said. “If Naruto still lives, then the Kyuubi will surely come back and end more lives. We need to destroy that monster before he gets away.”
“You're right. The Kyuubi may truly come back if we keep Naruto alive, so...” Iruka trailed off but Naruto expected a hostile continuation. Not even Iruka believed in him and he hit himself inwardly to think that he actually felt the same as he did. The brunet persuaded him in his sympathetic lies and he can't help himself to break down and cry. But what Iruka said next gave Naruto a shock of his life. “I will still refuse to believe such utter bullshit coming from your worthless mouth. Go ahead and think what you want! Try and persuade me to do your dirty plans but I warn you... my mind is dead-straight with my beliefs. Naruto went through a whole lot these past 12 years without even knowing why he's treated this way. He goes through everyday with a smile on his face. Not a forceful smile but a real one. Even in the situation he is in, he still has the time for a smile. And for that, I respect him.”
“Iruka-sensei...” Naruto was wrong. Iruka does understand what he was going through.
“He goes through the taunts and teases like it's no big deal. He goes through the occasional beating like it's no big deal. He goes through all the hardships in his life like it's no big deal!!! Naruto is not just a container for the Kyuubi no Kitsune. He is also Uzumaki Naruto of Konohagakure!”
“Iruka,” Mizuki stated with a voice as cold as ice. “Shut up.”
Mizuki throws a kunai straight to Iruka's heart striking him down with that final blow. Iruka let out a final death rattle as darkness ate away his vision.
Naruto stared in horror at the sight. IRUKA-SENSEI!!!! He shouted inside making him deaf if that was even possible. The blond paced together his feet and attacked Mizuki with blind rage. The deceiving nin expected Naruto to attack at him like that and immediately sent him a swift kick to the gut. Naruto went flying to one of the trees nearby.
He didn't know what to do. He knows he's weak so what help can he actually do? If this is the best that he can do then he is no match to a Chuunin like Mizuki. Anger gave way to his feelings as he looks at himself like a foolish, helpless, and even useless ninja. He's a disgrace. Nothing will come upon him. But as Naruto spat out the blood from his mouth, his vision began to go blur.
That was when Naruto feels something erupting inside him. Strong emotions overwhelming him with incalculable amount of chakra. A chakra fueled with the color red. A chakra so demonic that it definitely does not belong to Naruto himself. The feeling then came to his stomach. He felt it churning for some reason making him wince a little at the pain. Soon the chakra enveloped his whole body. Naruto clenched his fists as the demonic chakra began eating away at his body.
His eyes turning from oceanic blue to a crimson red was not a good sign. His fingernails grew longer getting sharper by the second. His canine fangs became more broad and sharper as well. Then he can feel his voice and attitude began to change too. His voice got darker in tone and more sinister in speech. His attitude had the same effect. He can only think of destruction and bloodlust.
And lo and behold, his eyes are now set on a particular ninja gaping at the boy's strange transformation.
Naruto quickly commenced an attack on Mizuki when the nin threw a shuriken at him. He no longer run on his legs but on all fours. A trait that pointed him closer to the Kyuubi's behavior. Mizuki tried to turn around and run but Naruto beat him to it. Using his new razor-sharp claws, he sadistically scratched away at Mizuki's pleading form. His nails dug through the man's ninja outfit, blood visibly trickling down with every slash from his claws. Mizuki screamed in pain but no one can hear him inside the vast forest but Naruto who seems to enjoy every minute of this torture.
“Don't kill me! Please, don't kill me!” Mizuki begged for his life at the orange-clad boy. “I'll do anything. Just please don't kill me. I don't want to die! I'm not ready for it...” Tears flowed down his cheeks as he breaks down from the thought of dying.
Naruto stopped himself from scratching the poor guy any further. He can already see the amount of damage done. The man's uniform is utterly torn up by his claws and the claw marks covered his body in every part. Blood covered him like he had been showered of it. He can even smell a pungent scent coming from the man's lower abdomen. He wet himself out of fear.
Naruto gestured to release the man from his hold. Mizuki widen his eyes knowing that he won't die today. Before Naruto completely released him, he suddenly grabbed Mizuki's neck with his left hand and muttered, “Death comes for us all...”
The blond squeezed his grip on the poor man's neck making him yelp out of the sheer tightness. His throat is slowly getting crushed by his monstrous strength. He couldn't take the pain anymore and soon struggles to get some air. When he opened his mouth widely enough, Naruto sought the opportunity to insert his right hand inside Mizuki's mouth. Of course, Mizuki resisted but the blond still has his sadistic grin plastered on his face.
Four of his fingers are inside Mizuki's mouth with the thumb gripping at the area behind the chin. Naruto now has a firm grip over the man's jaw. He hated his speech when he talked about him and the Kyuubi. He hated his speech with Iruka-sensei when he tried to persuade him to help kill him. And he also hated his little plea for sparing his life. Naruto only had one thought about his former teacher: He loathes him.
With all his strength concentrated on the hand inside Mizuki's mouth, Naruto did the most horrible thing he has ever done. He literally pulled Mizuki's jaw out of his head. Mizuki could no longer scream that loud but he was jabbering his death rattle as blood soaked his chest and Naruto's. But the guy still held on for dear life. He refuses to let go and let death take him away. He kept himself from collapsing by holding on to both of Naruto's wrists.
Naruto looked at him, eyes still blazed with a crimson color. He won't survive for long. Naruto grabbed Mizuki's head and twisted it 180 degrees. There was the crack of bones before Mizuki collapsed lifeless on the ground. The blond then shouted with all his might. For the times that he was ridiculed for being a container that he never asked for. For the times that he had been hurt and abused by the villagers for a reason he did not yet know. And now for failing to save the only one person other than the Third to acknowledge who he really is.
It was then that Naruto began to feel a burning force emanating from within him. His shouts no longer stand for his depression, they were now shouts of pain. Even the villagers hundreds of yards away can hear the hair-raising scream coming from the forest. They were, to the say the least, afraid at who or whatever is screaming. The blond braced himself for menacing jolts of pain stabbing everywhere in his body. Not AT his body but IN it. He feels like a bomb had set off within his stomach as he growls his voice out from the unbearable torment.
“N... Na... ruto...” Iruka was barely alive and had enough strength in him to mutter out these few words before his voice can no longer register any type of sound. He's breathing heavily and losing a lot of blood. He's lucky that the kunai Mizuki threw didn't reach his heart but it went deep enough to leave the chunnin temporarily paralyzed.
Naruto, however, didn't even hear or see that Iruka was still alive. Well, barely alive. He is too preoccupied with himself and the nine-tailed demon forcing itself to get out. Without any thoughts going through his mind or even a place to go to, Naruto ran away. He didn't know where he should go. He didn't know what he should do. But it was better to run away from this place where bad memories sting and sights that can haunt him in his nightmares. It was just too painful for Naruto to even relive and even though he keeps that smile all the time, he still weeps on the inside.
Jumping from tree to tree had been a painful and difficult ride for Naruto. Each movement he makes reacts to the excruciating pain he feels. The red chakra engulfing his form, Naruto noticed, feels like it's growing and as it grows even stronger, Naruto, on the other hand, is getting weaker. He lands on a nearby clearing while wincing with every shouts and curse words he heard of. What was happening to him? He asked himself that but nobody is even there to answer the question for him. Without any knowledge to how he will end up after all this is done, he can only turn towards the only answer he has: Death.
Death never felt so right. With pain constantly attacking your mind and body, you wouldn't even deny having death take you away. Naruto's no different. He wants death right now. He already lost a lot from this world, what else can he live for now? Iruka-sensei is dead. He failed the Genin exams again. He got tricked and stole a forbidden scroll from the Hokage. The list goes on about his utter failures and ignorance to the fact that he is nothing but a worthless outcast.
To the rest of the world...
He's just a nobody.
And his dreams of being Hokage one day...
Has already been shattered.
Sarutobi once again looked into his crystal ball, silently praying that all hope is not yet lost and that the seal will stay in control. If ever the nine-tailed demon would come out, it can already mean the end for Konoha. There's nothing else he can do if the worst case scenario happens.
He winces right to left as the demonic chakra overwhelms his already fragile body. He can feel his vision darkening and the pain slowly subsiding. Probably from his nerves going numb from the intense pressure of being in such a state that triggered the doors of death opening into Naruto's soul. His mind can barely picture the oncoming events and his willpower weakening to help his soul into entering the world of the dead. There was nothing Naruto can do now but await the unknown powers of the other side to come and take him. But with all that has happened and how he fails to even resist the powerful chakra from eating away at his body, he sheds one final tear before his body finally hits the ground.
No more demonic chakra covering his body.
No more pain bothering his nerves.
No more... life is left within this little boy's body.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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