Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkness in Their Hearts ❯ The Beginning of the End ( Prologue )

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, if I did, that would rock but I DON'T…but I do own my own characters, which will be in this story

 

AN: Ok My first stab at a Naruto Fan-fic, I know there may be some errors, but please look around those until I complete my story please. The pairings are Naruto/Hinata…..Maybe some others, but I'm not sure

 

“….” Speech

`….' Thought

`….' Kyuubi

 

Prologue: The Beginning of the End

 

Naruto Uzumaki, now 15 years old, has fought to be one of the best Ninja in Konoha. After three years of training with Jiraiya, the Toad Hermit, Naruto has finally returned to his hometown of Konoha.

 

Naruto has gone through some changes. He is now 5' 11” tall, has many more muscles than when he left, and he finally changed his outfit standards. He now wears a crimson muscle shirt, tucked into a pair of baggy, black cargo pants. The pants are held up by a belt, with a buckle with the kanji for fire etched into it. He wears a black, leather jacket, and black fingerless, leather gloves on his hands. He wears his Kunai holster on his right leg, and his shurikun pouch on his left leg. He wears a sword on his back, it was made for him by a swordsmith, he had protected from an enemy onslaught. He has on a pair of black shoes, that were made for him specialty by a shoemaker, whose daughter he had kept from being raped by 3 ninja's of the hidden sound village. His Konoha headband is no longer on his head, he wears it on his left bicep where he can be sure it is seen.

 

Naruto's hair was longer now, his hair that wasn't spiked, was worn in a low ponytail that went down past his shoulder blades, the rest was just as unruly as ever. He was, as many girls would find out that day, hotter than hell.

 

Jiraiya and Naruto walked toward the gates of Konoha and before they got the the gates, Jiraiya stopped and said “Naruto, go in on your own, I have some business to take care of” and he made a handsign, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

 

Naruto sighed, used to his teacher's behavior and he walked the rest of the way to the gates by himself. He was stopped by two ANBU. The two ANBU that were guarding the gate had on a lion mask and a bear mask. When Naruto was about to show his ID, the ANBU took off their masks. Shikamaru Nara and Neji Hyuuga.

 

“Good Morning, what business do you have here in konoha” Neji asked Naruto. Neji didn't recognise this person until he saw the leaf forehead protector on Naruto's left bicep and then he looked the teen in the eye “….Naruto?” He asked as he looked at the sky blue eyes and the familiar fox-grin.

 

“yeah, Neji, its me” Naruto said, no longer the obnoxious person he used to be, but sometimes he had his moments. “how have you been?” he asked his two friends

 

“we've been fine Naruto, it seems you have changed, I need to fight you again, that's for sure” Neji said as he looked at naruto's muscles ripple under the fabric of his shirt, like a perfect wave in syncronization with the boys…no… young man's body in front of him.

 

“yeah, we do, but maybe later” Naruto said with a grin “I have some business to take care of so I'll see you guys around” Naruto said as he walked through the gates and looked around the city he grew up in. It hadn't changed at all, only one thing had changed and that was that Tsunade's face had been carved into the mountainside, offically labeling her as the Fifth Hokage. `hmm…what should I do now that I'm home?' he asked himself, and then he thought `oh yeah! I need to give Tsunade-baa-chan a visit'. Naruto suddenly changed his body stance from relaxed to crouched, and he ran toward the hokage tower. On the way to the hokage tower he passed people, but to them he looked like a blur of crimson and black…and he was only jogging, not even running.

 

As he got to the Hokage Tower, he jumped, using his speed to soar up through the Hokage's open window. Naruto saw the Hokage at her desk and said “hello, Baa-chan.”

 

Tsunade turned around to hit the offender, and then she stopped short, she looked at Naruto, and she hugged him instead, she missed him so much, because he was like a little brother to her. She held on to the young man for over 5 minutes, until Shizune popped into the room and saw Naruto hugging Tsunade….more like Tsunade was suffocating him with her boobs. When Shizune came in, Tsunadelet go of Naruto and he jumped away from her, afraid of getting almost killed again.

 

“Naruto!!!!” Shizune said as she saw him “I'm glad your okay, where's Jiraiya?” she asked as she looked around the room

 

“He's not here, he left right before I got to the front gate” he said in his deeper more masculine voice, that would make any girl weak in the knees.

 

“I see” Tsunade said, unaffected by Naruto's voice, she sat back down at her desk and said “I see you've grown more powerful, and you've changed your clothes”

 

“yeah, I'm stronger than the Ero-Sannin, and he made me change out of my orange clothes into something `less noticeable' but I think he was right, I like this new outfit” he said as he gestured to his clothes.

 

“Stronger than Jiraiya, huh?” Tsunade asked as he looked him in the eye “Then I challenge you to a match, if you win, I'll promote you to chuunin, if you lose, you have to help me with my paperwork” she said

 

“that works….” He trailed off his sentence, because he was looking kinda bummed

 

“what's wrong, Naruto?” Shizune asked the sulking boy

 

“I though she would say I could be hokage if I could beat her” he pouted as he walked towards the door.

 

Tsunade caught him by the shoulder and hugged him from behind “I can't do that right yet, because I know the council will never agree to it, but only if you can surpass everyone in the village” she whispered into his ear.

 

Naruto grinned as he turned around and hugged her, then he swore to himself, `I will be the best of the village' and he walked out of the office, with Tsunade following him. He walked toward the training ground with the monument for all the Ninja who had died in battle.

 

When they got to the training grounds, Naruto took one side of the field, and Tsunade took the other side of the field. They crouched low, into their fighting positions, and they began the fight. Naruto jumped away, into the bushes as Tsunade started doing handsigns for her Ranshinshou (chaotic mental collision). Naruto came out of the bushes, just as Tsunade finished the handsigns and made the electrical chakra go to her hands.

 

Tsunade hit naruto with the Ranshinshou, but then Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke. `damn, shadow clone' she thought as she turned around, and was assaulted by 5 shadow clones. Naruto was holding back, he didn't want to hurt her more than he had to, so, he had all 5 of his clones draw a kunai from their leg holster and charge.

 

Tsunade dispatched the clones, and when there were none left, she knew Naruto was still hiding. She had the Ranshinshou still in her hand and she waited for Naruto to come out. Naruto knew he had to end it now, so he focused his chakra and did a technique Jiraiya showed him, the Body Flicker.

 

Naruto reappeared behind Tsunade and he put a kunai to her throat and asked “finished?”

 

Tsunade smirked and thought `great speed, I think he is stronger, but I'll give him a run for his money' she did the handsigns for the substitution technique and her body was replaced by a log. She came up behind him and hit him with her Ranshinshou, but that naruto also disappeared in a puff of smoke `damn he doesn't waste time does he?' she asked herself as she moved out of the way, right before a brace of kunai hit her.

 

Naruto watched and he performed another body flicker to appear behind her “Your chakra is dwindling, Baa-chan” he pointed out. Her Ranshinshou was eating all her chakra away, so she disabled it and said “Fine, you win, that was almost too easy for you, wasn't it?”

 

“No, you are a good fighter, and yes I was holding back, I didn't want to hurt you” Naruto said as they walked back toward the Hokage Tower.

 

When the the two walked into the Hokage tower, and Tsunade sat at her desk. “what can I do for you, Naruto, other than the promotion to Chuunin?” she asked as she pointed to the chair, wanting him to sit and talk to her about what he needed

 

Naruto sat down across from the Hokage and asked “first, I want to know, is my apartment still available? Then if it isnt too much trouble, could you tell me how much money I have in my bank account?”

 

Tsunade looked through the records on her desk and said “ok, your apartment is still under your name, and ill have Shizune look into your bank account” she said as she paged Shizune.

 

Shizune walked into the office with some papers and asked “what do you need, Lord Hokage?”

 

“please check Naruto's bank account, he wants to know how much money he has in it” Tsunade said as shizune nodded and walked out of the office, only to come back in 3 minutes, with her jaw dropping. Tsunade saw this and asked “whats the matter Shizune?”

 

Shizune snapped out of her shock long enough to look at Naruto and back to the Hokage and she gulped “he has over $50,000 in his bank account” she informed them.

 

Naruto didn't look surprised in the least, either he had known, or he had reigned his emotions enough to do what was needed, Tsunade wasn't sure, but when she looked at Naruto, he had a foxy grin on his face

 

“How did you get so much money Naruto?” she asked

 

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and he said “well, while I was away, the Ero-sannin didn't let me have any money, I hunted for food, and I didn't really need to buy anything, and when we went out on missions, I guess that all the money accumulated from them…” he said with a wide grin

 

“I see” Tsunade said as she looked at the boy with respect, he had bested Jiraiya and herself, this boy was something else.

 

Narutos expression change from embarrassed to one of extreme pain. In his pain he yelled out “AHHHH!!!! GOD!!!WHAT'S HAPPENING?!?!?!?!” his stomach felt like it was on fire, he collapsed out of the chair and fell onto the hokage's carpeted floor, he hit his head on the edge of the desk and passed out.

 

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To say Shizune and Tsunade were upset would be an understatement, they were by Naruto's hospital bed. Naruto had a bandage wrapped around his head, from the fall, and he was shirtless, showing off his tanned muscles that would make any girl drool. Kyuubi's seal was glowing and then all of a sudden the seal stopped glowing and it faded into Naruto's stomach again.

 

“What happened, Lord Hokage?” Shizune asked while looking at Naruto's pale face, Naruto had a high fever and was pale and clammy.

 

“I'm not sure, Shizune” Tsunade said as she checked Naruto's temperature again…It was still 102 degrees. “damnit” she said as she charged her chakra and used her Mystical Hand Technique. She put the glowing blue hand on Naruto's forehead and started healing the boy, making the fever drop considerably, but as chakra started flowing through Naruto's body, the seal started glowing again and it forced Tsunade's chakra out of Naruto's body.

 

“all we can do now I wait” she said as she felt her chakra leave him…

 

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Naruto woke up in the dark, dripping recesses of what he knew was his mind. He knew he was here for a reason, and he didn't want to know why, but he would soon find out anyway. Naruto walked along the corridor that had a pipe dripping above it, and continued walking, even though his mind seemed to be on fire.

 

As he walked, Naruto encountered some of his more unpleasant memories, people yelling at him for what he held, calling him a demon, a monster, and a rat that deserved to die. He didn't know what he had done to make the townspeople so unhappy, but he learned to deal with it over the years, but the memories in this area, were so fresh, they re-opened old wounds. There was something he had to do before the memories stopped plaguing him, or he would be lost in his own mind forever…

 

All the words kept repeating over and over again `monster, demon, rat who deserves to die' then Naruto finally thought of a way out of the torture, he had to forgive and forget, but it was so hard, he had to deal with the problem himself…he closed his eyes, but as soon as he did, the memories, which were up until that point silver mist, became solid adults of konoha, and the adults started attacking him, but when he opened his eyes, they stayed still. `hmmm….i guess this means I have to face my problems head-on' he thought, but since he was in his mind It came out to him as if he was talking to himself, and I gave him a small measure of comfort.

 

Naruto thought about it, and thenhe finally realized what he had to do….he had to leave these people behind, and look to the future, no matter how hurting those people had been to him. He looked at te solid forms of his memories, the adults of konoha, and said out loud, in his mind anyway, `I don't need you, and I never have, I know what you see me as, but it seems I can't change your minds for you, but when I become the greatest hokage, you will recognize my strength'

 

As he said this, all the adults of Konoha seemed to disappear one by one, and when he finished talking, all the adults were gone, and the mist that had been them was gone as well. He continued on the path of his mind…

 

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Tsunade and Shizune had to go attend to their other duties, but they left two ANBU in front of his room to guard him. The Two ANBU were Sasuke Uchiha, who had just finished his ANBU training course with Kakashi as his leader, and Hinata Hyuuga, who had also finished training to be an ANBU, and she was stronger and more confident than when Naruto had last seen her.

 

As the two ANBU stood outside the door, there was someone in the room watching over Naruto. That person was The copy-ninja himself, Kakashi Hatake. Kakashi was recently reinstated into the ANBU, when he started training Sasuke to become an ANBU official too.

 

Kakashi watched over Naruto and the newly reinstate ANBU member made sure no one could infiltrate the room and kill the Kyuubi container. He sat in a overstuffed armchair by Naruto's bed, he dosed lightly, but he kept his sharingan eye open, even though the forehead protector was over his eye, he could see through it, allowing him to see the room.

 

Everything seemed peaceful in the room, for now….

 

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Naruto had challenged three more unhappy memories, each more potent than the last. He defeated them all by doing what he should have done at a certain point of time, he let go of everything he had to let go of, all the hatred, fear, and insults, from the rookie nine, the genin who had promoted before him, and even the teachers he had before Iruka. He fought through all those memories and he came to the next one….the hardest one yet.

 

Naruto stood in the silver mist, and it took the form of Hinata Hyuuga…and what was more, is she was alone, and saying things he knew the real one should have said to him. `I hope he does ok', `You can do it Naruto', and ` does he know I love him?' were the most potent….but others were `I hope he notices me', `does he love me?', and `I hope one day I can tell him how I feel'. He had had a feeling the Hinata had liked him, but like an idiot he pursued Sakura, the one he used to have a crush on, but now she was still in love with Sasuke.

 

Naruto looked at Hinata with love in his eyes, she was the only one who really ever cheered him on, in the Chuunin exam's, when he was sparring with their team, and even she cheered for him when Kiba was fighting him, and Kiba was on her team. He looked at the memory, locked his strong, brave gaze with her shy, meek gaze and said the words the real Hinata Hyuuga would hear soon enough, when he finished what he needed to do…'I love you, Hinata Hyuuga'

 

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Kakashi had seen the seal glow brightly with an eerie red glow, and then he felt the chakra wave that was sent out of the boys body, through the town and out toward the Demon Vessels that were left. Hinata and Sasuke burst into the room, and Kakashi stood up from the chair and they heard the words that came out of his mouth past his mind…”I love you…Hinata Hyuuga”

 

Hinata heard these words and smiled happily and said quietly in a voice she hadn't used in a long time and said “I love you too…Naruto Uzumaki”

 

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Meanwhile in the Wind country, in the hidden village of Sunagakure, Gaara of thedesert felt the Shockwave sent by naruto and the Kyuubi. Shukaku awakened from his sleep and he started what Kyuubi had emphasised in the blast, only a demon to demon communication….

 

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In the Waterfall country, a drifter, 30 years old, known only as kogamaru, along with his 14 year old son, Krymaru, felt the wave of energy sent by the Kyuubi, and Krymaru, who had inherited the 8 tailed elemental wolf demon's abilities felt the wave too, and the 8 tailed elemental wolf, Kyuuji, started what was requested by the Kyuubi, the strongest of the tailed demons….he began working on the father and son, like Kyuubi requested….

 

AN: Ok Prologue done, next we will see what happens to Naruto and the last 2 remaining demon vessels. Please R&R, I would like some positive feedback, and flames are welcome if they are constructive, please, not cussing me out….its my first time writing a fan-fic, period…I hope you all like it, and any feedback is good feedback….thanks.