Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Flame of Youth ❯ The Flame of Youth: Prologue ( Prologue )

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Prologue

 

It had been five long years since Oto destroyed Konoha. Such devastation had not been seen since before people could remember. The only survivors were Shizune, Naruto, Akamaru, and Hinata. The rest of the rookie 9, Gai-sensei's team, and Naruto's Precious people fought valiantly but were eventually killed.

 

Sakura and Tsunade died when one of the wounded turned out to be an Oto spy who set off an explosive tattoo that converted his chakra and body into a massive fireball that took out the entire field hospital. Shizune barely survived, losing her right arm in the explosion. Jiraiya fell when Orochimaru stabbed him through the heart with the Grass Longsword.

 

Ino used her family's vaunted Mind Destruction jutsu on several Sound ninja before Sasuke arrived and put a Chidori into her chest. Chouji plowed through many Sound ninja and giant snakes, until he was hit with a subsonic blast that turned his insides to jelly. Shikamaru led the valiant rearguard that attempted to protect refugees while they escaped, and it would have succeeded if he had not overused his shadow techniques and got sucked into his own shadow, depriving the rearguard of effective leadership.

 

Shino and Kiba died while facing down a swarm of summoned giant snakes in the Clan districts. Hinata collapsed when she found the Hyuuga compound ablaze, bodies strewn everywhere, as her father bored down on her, madness in his eyes, as it was he who slaughtered his own clan, insanity reigning in his heartless soul. He would have succeeded in killing her if Akamaru had not arrived and tore out the throat of the madly gibbering Hiashi. He then lifted Hinata onto his back and ran from the village.

 

Ten-Ten, Lee, and Neji died while serving in the rearguard. Only the ashes of Lee's burnt out body were found. No one ever discovered Ten-Ten and Neji's bodies.

 

Kakashi, Kurenai, Asuma, and Gai sacrificed themselves so that Shikamaru could lead the survivors to safety. It proved a fruitless effort, however, as they were killed by the Sound Four.

 

Naruto was charged with leading the survivors to their allies in Suna. This did not bode well for our hero, but he was the only one that the Kazekage Gaara trusted in Konoha, and without him the survivors may have been treated as intruders and slaughtered. So, despite his reservations, he was forced to flee Konoha.

 

3 years later a man would arrive in Suna seeking council with the Kazekage and Naruto. He came to warn them that Orochimaru was amassing large numbers of ninja near the border of Suna, and may be planning an eventual invasion of the Village hidden in the Sand. He then revealed that he was The Dark Heart of Chigakure, the Village hidden in the Void. He proceeded to train Naruto for the next two years in jutsus, Strange and Familiar, but always powerful, so that he could protect his precious people, few they may be.

 

 

So how did you like my prologue? Quite depressing really, but I'm a depressing kind of guy. I've read several fanfics about Naruto and the only two that angered me were Mended Heart (Naruto betrayed his Nindo in that story) and the one where he went with Sasuke to the Sound and would eventually (I think) mate with the Kyuubi (Can't remember the Stories name nor did I fully read it). When I'm done with this story I might see how Zeiguwa reacts to the Dark Heart, who has come to force him to repent. But only if the author lets me. I do not want to piss him or anyone else off.

 

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