Author Notes- Hello fellow readers. This is my first time writing a fanfiction and I do hope you all come to enjoy the story. I have been reading Naruto fanfictions for some time now. I guess maybe a year or so. To be honest, I did not even watch anime before that. My friend just recommended me to watch Naruto last year around January, and the story it was beautiful. I instantly fell in love with the characters and the story portrayed by Kishimoto. Although, I do think there are certain facts stated in the main story which did not have enough evidence to support those facts. Anyhow, that's not my concern now. I was thinking about writing an alternate universe for Naruto for a long time, but did not know where to begin or how to proceed along with it. A friend of mine helped with this idea of the story and I must really thank him. He should be given as much credit as me for coming up with this story.

So, in this story I'm not going to make Naruto an orange loving goofball completely. I mean, he will have his idiotic moments but at a lot lesser scale. He will grow up to be calm and collective and he will be strong. Since I'm gonna making Naruto strong, I will also be making certain other characters strong in order to justify his strength. As the chapters keep coming, I will indulge more into the character developments as well as how the story will proceed with accordance to other characters in the story.

[Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.]

Anyway let the adventure begin

Chapter 1: Prologue

Long ago in a time forgotten by the people of the world, was an era of enduring rage and unending wars.

Mankind had been cursed to fight each other in an eternal war. They fought over petty reasons, for performing horrific crimes against one another or for no reason at all other than violence and death. Different factions often tried to better themselves by weakening their enemies so their own military strength could be greater, only for a greater force to overwhelm them later.

Humanity had a curse, a distasteful and infectious curse that all beings were infected with. One, more powerful than any war.

The curse of Hatred

A potent force that can drive an innocent person to become a beast fueled by rage to hunt down those who wronged them. All the while inflicting more pain, brutality and spreading further hatred among people.

Hatred was a like a tree and it only continued to grow as more and more people were festered by it. Those who were directly affected by it and those who bared witness to those horrific outbursts of fury, no one was ever safe from it. One may even say it was genetic and had the possibility to be passed down the generations.

But, what came after hatred? Most would say healing. Healing from the pain of their lives and the pain they brought on others. Only an imbecile would believe that it would bring about a stop to hatred. What comes after hatred would be either of the following things- Emptiness, where a person would lose everything that was ever close to them, their own self: the emptiness it brought forth was like an ever-spreading fire with nothing to quench it with or even more hatred: where the anger would blind people to the truth and make them accept that the world itself was responsible for what happened to them.

Among the humans and their inherited hatred was a tree. A tree of massive height and equally massive power. A tree that was worshiped as a god. This tree had a conscious of its own but very few knew the full extent of its intellect. This tree watched as the humans around it fought and murdered each other and cheated one another for their own gain while turning a blind eye to others. The tree knew that while humanity had the capacity for good and evil, they overwhelmingly chose the latter option. The tree would often look down upon the humans and be disgusted by what it would see. At times it took pity upon them for their short lives and weakness. The colossal tree didn't know whether it liked being praised as a god or feared like the Shinigami. But it did tolerate the level of respect the humans showed it. Even the tree, with all its foresight knew that one day wisdom would be lost, hope would diminish, fate will be turned in different directions and justice would fall. It was merely waiting for that to happen and for humanity to be entirely consumed by hatred.

Every thousand years, the 'God tree' bore a fruit of immeasurable power and destruction, a fruit that held its own power within. The reasons why one could not lay their hands upon this fruit had been lost to ages.

Thousands of years ago, a man named Tenji was the leader of the Land of Ancestors. He desired for peace and tried to avoid direct confrontation with his opponents to avoid wars being wedged. He wished for a peaceful alliance and negotiations with them. One day he came across a lady who could be considered a goddess at first glance in terms of her beauty. She wore a white robe with six tomoes in the front and purple lining near her arms. She had beautiful silky and straight hair, the same color as that of snow. But what mesmerized him were her eyes. They were pupil-less giving off a silvery glow. He saw her gazing at the night sky with such patience. He had not seen this person before in his land, so he spoke to her.

"May I know who you are?" asked Tenji curiously looking at her.

The lady, for her part didn't reply for a while. A few seconds later she turned to look at him. "I'm Kaguya Otsusuki."

He found her voice to be very melodic. "Where do you come from? What do you desire here?" And again, Kaguya didn't reply for few seconds. She didn't know if she could confide to him what she wanted or where she came from. From what she felt of these vile creatures called human, they were filled with anger and darkness. Yet from him she couldn't feel much of it.

"I desire peace. Peace among everyone. A place devoid of wars and hatred." She looked at him and saw the man nod his head.

"I come not from another land in this world, but from the stars". Tenji for his part was surprised to hear this. Wanting to know more about her, he began to make small talks with her.

After that fateful day, Tenji allowed Kaguya to stay within his palace. He was glad there was another who shared the same ideals as him. They began to meet each other more often and spend more time together each passing day. Soon enough the two became lovers. His devotion to Kaguya's cause for peace made him threaten his own followers with death if they dared threaten peace with the Land of That. After Sukazu, the minister of Land of That tried to kidnap Kaguya, Tenji was horrified of Kaguya's godlike powers when he witness her kill many of his soldiers in self-defense. Eventually, Tenji decided to betray his love to prevent a war from breaking out.

However, as the two sides attempted to capture Kaguya, she ate the fruit from the 'God Tree' (a.k.a Shinju) and gained unimaginable powers. With her new powers, she casted the Mugen Tsukuyomi (infinite Tsukuyomi). As Tenji fell victim to the genjutsu, he asked her what she was, unaware that she was carrying his children.

Kaguya Otsusuki, for her benevolence for ending the wars and stopping the spread of hatred was named Usagai No Megami (Rabbit Goddess) because of her two horn like protrusions which resembled rabbit ears.

Like the Shinju, Kaguya was also worshiped as a living god on earth. People bowed before her in respect and reverence for her power and divine will that many considered to have no equal. However, Kaguya had not broken the chain of hatred, instead, merely fractured it. She forced more people to submit to her iron will to stop the hatred from spreading. Her power which was once praised soon came to be feared and instead of being called the Usagi No Megami she came to be known as the Oni (Demon).

At some point Kaguya gave birth to two sons- Hagoromo and Hamura. Both children were born with the same power as their mother. The ability to use chakra. These two boys gained legendary prowess of their own using their own innate ability.

As the years passed by, the Shinju had become enraged that it's fruit was consumed by someone. Angered and outraged that its fruit was stolen, the tree's surfacing fiery hatred had appeared before Kaguya's own magnificent eyes before she even knew the consequences of her actions. The tree underwent a metamorphosis of its own, transforming into a gigantic vile creature whose image mirrored its own hatred. A beast that was christened the Jubi (Ten Tails), for its ten massive tails which could split the land in half. The beast rampaged across the land hoping to retrieve the lost chakra and seek vengeance upon Kaguya for her arrogant acts. The entire world felt the might of the Jubi's hatred. The vile chakra of the fruit had corrupted Kaguya's mind. Thus, upon seeing the beast, Shinju called out to her to become one with itself.

When Hagoromo and Hamura found out about their mother's inhuman act of putting people under her control and using them as puppets, they wanted to confront her. But Hagoromo knew that he didn't have enough power to go against his mother yet. He soon came across a toad by the name of Gamamaru who could utilize natural energy. Intrigued by the power in senjutsu chakra, both Hagoromo and Hamura went to Mount Myoboku along with Gamamaru. There Hagaromo learnt to utilize natural energy (senjutsu chakra).

When he returned to confront his mother, he was further shocked.

Hagoromo was horrified that his mother, who had given birth to him could become one with the vile creature in front of him. During the confrontation, Hagoromo awakend the Rinnegan (god's eyes) due to the pain of harming his brother, Hamura who was being controlled by his mother. Hagoromo was fortunate that Gamamaru had given him a tag with the kanji for 'heal' filled with sage chakra, which he used to heal his brother from the mortal wound Hamura received.

"Why mother? Why would you commit such atrocious acts? Don't you care about the people of this land?" asked an enraged Hagoromo.

"Chakra is everything. Its life and it is soul. It needs to be whole again, you insolent child! You dare betray me?" spoke Kaguya with an emotionless face.

The two brothers fought in a cataclysmic battle that scarred the very earth. The two sons with all their power had fought to the near end of their will to defeat the beast which was their mother. However, the Jubi was connected to the world, just as the world was connected to the Jubi. It was basically immortal. So, if they couldn't kill the beast, then the creature had to be sealed inside a person's body so to not bring about even more catastrophe.

Thus, Hagormo sealed the chakra and soul of the beast within himself and the body of his mother sealed off inside the moon which he created with one of his decisive move- Six Paths Chibaku Tensei. The husk of the ten tails was sealed inside the moon as well. So, Hagoromo became the world's first jinchurikii. And like his mother before him, his own power soured to new heights. He, like his mother became a god. One even more revered than his mother, wielding the greatest weapon in the world- chakra.

Hagoromo who later became a monk came to be regarded as the Rikudou Sennin (Sage of Six Paths) while his brother Hamura went to live off his life on the moon where he could be close to their mother. Hagoromo created a religion, one which people would aspire to and believe in and give them hope. This religion was named Ninshu (later known as ninjutsu). He aspired to bring peace across the lands by teaching people about chakra and its uses in a tranquil manner. So, Hagoromo shared his chakra with different people who were willing to follow him in his quest to bring about a change in this world. He hoped, people would connect the chakra with their spiritual energy (yin chakra) allowing others to understand each other.

Hagoromo later in his life had two sons. The elder one was named Indra Otsusuki and the younger one was named Ashura Otsusuki. Hagoromo knew that even with his strong physical chakra (yang chakra) he could not live very long. The reason being the extremely potent and vile chakra flowing through his chakra coils. Thus, he intended to teach his sons and his current followers (who he viewed as companions) to teach all he knew about chakra and ninshu before he could pass on the mantle to one of his sons.

Indra and Ashura had a relatively peaceful childhood growing up. Ashura was extremely close to his big brother Indra, whom he idealized and hoped to become like him someday. Indra, well, you could say he was more secluded out of the two young children but he still cared for Ashura a lot.

When the time came, both Indra and Ashura began to learn ninshu. It was quite clear that Indra was more intellectual and more into his studies and practicing the practical aspects of ninshu compared to Ashura, who would mostly say "It's boring! Why must I study this."

One could say Indra was a prodigy in the field of ninshu while Ashura was the complete opposite. One day, Indra created more practical uses of ninshu by stating that, "One can use various elements of the nature by changing the flow of chakra in their body and molding it in a different manner by going through hand seals – Saru (monkey), Tatsu (dragon), Ne (rat), Tori (bird), Mi (snake), Ushi (ox), Inu (dog), Uma (horse), Tora (tiger), I (boar), Hitsuji (ram), U (hare)." People were extremely impressed by this discovery and some even started whispering about Indra being the one who would carry on the way of ninshu. Although Hagormo was pleased that his son was making progress in ninshu and extending its uses, somewhere he had a nagging feeling that Indra will seclude himself more as his prowess increases while Ashura would remain in his shadow. Still, he had high hopes from both his sons that they would do what he wouldn't be able to in his life- that is bring about a revolutionary change in this world that will make people understand each other even better and create a world filled with love and harmony.

It later became clear that Indra acquired his father's yin chakra and visual prowess (spiritual energy) while Ashura acquired his father's yang chakra and strong body and longevity (physical energy); as, in the following years Indra awakened his sharingan (copy wheel eye) while saving his brother from a rampaging bear. Ever since Indra awakened the sharingan, he seemed to have become more cold towards people. He started visualizing that through power, one can conquer anything and always stuck to what is correct and incorrect and abode by his rules. Compared to his brother, Ashura was not too advanced in the usage of ninshu and he could never keep up with his brother during training sessions. Although, people did like Ashura's more cheerful and easy going attitude which in turn made him easier to talk to compared to Indra.

One day a friend of Ashura came to him asking for his help.

"Ashura my mother seems to be very ill and the cure which I'm looking for is across the forests and getting there through the forests will take time. You practice ninshu yes? Could you help me out? The man said pleadingly. Ashura was considered a friendly and helpful person thus people mostly came to him or Hagormo when in need of assistance.

"Yeah, I suppose I could do that. Just wait here and watch me." Ashura said with a smirk. He did certain hand seals and strong gust of wind was blown from the palm of his hands which tore down a pathway to the end of the forest, making a quick way to the end.

Later that day, Ashura was reprimanded by Indra on blindly helping someone without considering the matter because the man who Ashura helped just wanted the forests cut down for his own selfish gains. Indra later locked the man in a dungeon and warned Ashura not to go near him. Ashura being a forgiving person went to get him out. However, when Ashura got the man out of the cave (dungeon was inside the cave), they came across Indra waiting there.

"What are you doing Ashura? Did I not tell you not to go near the imbecile?" Indra asked in a monotone voice. His face showing no emotion whatsoever.

"Nii-san, we should give him another chance. Punishing someone for such futile acts is not the way. And he hasn't harmed anyone." Said Ashura.

"It doesn't matter. What he did was against the rules and he must pay the price for it." It was said in such an uncaring manner that it made Ashura flinch.

Ashura jumped in front of the man to protect him. Indra jumped towards Ashura and pushed him towards the tree. Ashura hit the tree before falling to the ground. He wouldn't admit, but his nii-san hits hard. Indra, quicker than a flash had his hand inside the man's chest sparkling with ration chakra (lightning chakra). "NII-SAN WHY DID YOU DO THAT!?" Ashura was astonished that his nii-san could kill someone just like that.

When Indra turned to glare at his brother, Ashura saw the three tomoes in his eyes spinning in a threatening way. That moment he saw the hatred in his brother's eyes. "This world needs order. It needs change. And it is only through power, one can hope to bring about such a revolution."

That's all Indra said darkly before vanishing from the spot. Ashura for his part, could not comprehend why his brother started acting in an uncaring way ever since he awakened the sharingan. He often felt intimidated by those eyes but shrugged it off thinking it was nothing. After a while he made a grave for the man and just stood in front of it in the stillness of the night. When he turned to his right, he saw his tou-san(father) standing beside him.

"Indra has changed Ashura. His eyes are like my mother's. Those eyes give him unimaginable power. He desires order in this world and wants to do it in his way. The way he goes about ninshu is not how I intended it to be spread." Hagoromo said with a tired sigh. After a few seconds of silence, Ashura walked away from the spot.

As years passed by it became more noticeable why Indra was hailed as a genius. He could accomplish anything with little to no effort and started living a solitary life. He primely believed other people would merely inhibit his growth and potential. Ashura on the other hand could do nothing on his own. But through his determination and will, along with the ideals of relying on others, his friends, did Ashura's talents bloom like a flower in spring. While unlike Indra who lead a solitary life believing that others would only hinder him, Ashura became a capable leader, amassing many loyal followers most of whom were his childhood friends. He like his father wished began to spread ninshu to the world through the help of his friends.

Upon his deathbed seeing both Indra's and Ashura's accomplishments did the sage choose between the two of them, the heir of ninshu- The prodigious son Indra or the no-good, untalented Ashura. Knowing of his younger son's exploits and the quality of never giving up on the good inside people, gave Hagoromo hope that cooperation and love would bring about true peace. While lust of power and dominance would only bring about a temporary peace.

Thus, Ashura was chosen as the heir to Ninshu. Hearing this Indra walked out of the room angered at his father's choice while Ashura was shocked.

"Father, why me? Nii-san would do a better job compared to me." Said Ashura.

"While I do believe, Indra is ahead of you in certain aspects but ninshu should be spread to teach love, compassion and be used to bring peace. One must be kind and filled with love and have great patience for that. Those are the qualities I see in you my son."

Later that night when everyone was celebrating, Ashura went to meet his father again. A doubt somewhere in his mind that his father made a wrong choice still lingering in his mind. He came upon the door which led to the hall where his father sat and made slow walk. He soon reached the place and saw his father sitting there with his eyes closed. "Was it the right choice otou-san?" Ashura asked in a low whisper. Hagoromo opened his eyes which seemed to give an eerie purplish glow and had several concentric circles and a small black dot as a pupil. He stared at his younger son for a while and answered "Ashura, the world has always been in constant fighting and wars and have started on some of the most unthinkable things. Human life is a precious thing which should not be wasted in fighting wars. It is my belief that one day, the world shall know true peace. Love and compassion are essential part of that. Indra is turning more and more like my mother each passing day. Bringing peace to the world via power and dominance is only temporary and with time people come to fear the power dominating them as they cannot comprehend it. Come here my son, I shall now pass on to you what is now yours." Ashura approached his father whereupon, Hagoromo touched Ashura's forehead with his two fingers and passed on his yang chakra (also included six paths senjutsu powers).

In another part of the village, Indra had just killed his two most loyal followers with a tear stained face have a single thought in his mind "whenever someone close to me dies, my sharingan evolves". Soon, his sharingan evolved to the Mangekyou sharingan; three tomoes converging in together to take the shape of six pointed star. Furious over his father's choice and being denied what he felt was his, Indra challenged his father's decision. Overcome with anger, jealousy and hate, Indra attacked Ashura trying to claim what he felt was his birthright. However, Ashura with the help of other's chakra converging with his and his rikudou (six paths) powers, awakened the ability to use mokuton and could defeat his older brother. Indra, not taking his loss lightly left the area before stating he would never follow his way of ninshu and spend his life trying to destroy him.

A few weeks after Indra had left, Hagoromo was counting his final few months on his bed. He knew, he didn't have very long to live. He also knew once he dies, the Jubi would be free again.

To prevent that, he separated the chakra of the ten tails into nine separate parts and using Omnyoton: Banbutso Sozo (creation of all things) made bodies for the nine chakras ranging from ichibi (one tails) to kyuubi (nine tails). He later breathed life into his nine children (Hagoromo called the bijuus his children) and put the chakra in the respective bodies, each bijuu having a different ability.

A few months later, Hagoromo went to his mindscape to have few last words with his nine children. He looked at Kurama (kyuubi) with a somber look on his face. Kurama had a few tears rolling down his face athough he was trying hard to keep up the tough act. He was his eldest child and knew how much it would hurt him.

A few seconds later he looked at all of them with a serene smile on his face a said "I will not live much longer. Shukaku (one tails), Matatabi (two tails), Isobu (three tails), Son Goku (four tails), Kokuo (five tails), Saiken (six tails), Chomei (seven tails), Gyuki (eight tails) and Kurama (nine tails). Even if you are far apart, you will always be together. You will be in different sizes from how you are now and have different names. But there will come a time when you will be lead down the right path. I hope you learn what true strength is..."

Hagoromo looks at Kurama and smiles slightly and says "...before that time."

The feud between the brothers escalated between their respective families, causing war to erupt between them which continued for ages to come. Never ending through the generations, endless bitter hatred.

Indra's descendant took the name Uchiha. The flames of their hatred continuously burning. While Ashura's descendant would later be called the Senju clans, inheriting their forefather's ideals of peaceful coexistence and love. Later down the line, a man named Saito Senju left his brethren who were more concerned with the war era. Saito himself was a peace-loving man. As the years passed, Saito changed his name to Saito Uzumaki and mastered the arts of fuinjutsu and kenjutsu to an impressive degree where he could call himself a master in those fields. He soon married a woman named Toshiri Kurahara and lived his life away from the fighting. Although he did keep close relation to the Senjus. (Saito lived 4 or 5 centuries before the warring era state)

However, something occurred that had not been seen before. While the two brothers died, their chakra remained even after their bodies were destroyed. Causing the brothers to reincarnate themselves into other individuals throughout the history within their descendants, fueling and continuing the brother's bloody battle. And with each transmigration, the reincarnations would grow stronger. Thus, after several generations, came the story of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, the reincarnations of Ashura and Indra Otsusuki. They too started out as friends and saw each other as brothers. The two often fought among themselves, but it wasn't something they couldn't shake off. Eventually, the Senju and Uchiha clans founded Konohagakure No Sato (Village Hidden in the leaves). But somewhere along the line, especially after the death of his brother, Izuna Uchiha, Madara started to see what he currently believed in was only a hollow truth. That his current belief wouldn't bring the kind of peace he and his brother wished for and coupled with the pain of his brother's death, made his belief waver and his hatred towards the shinobi world increase. So, Hashirama and Madara battled again; continuing the feud between Indra and Ashura. Madara eventually fell in battle against Hashirama. Soon, Hashirama too succumbed to his extreme injuries and passed away.

Once again Ashura and Indra would reincarnate in their descendants. This time stronger than before and somehow, they both knew their battles in this life would escalate to become more gruesome, bloodier and would be a path that would turn them topsy-turvy.

Okay. So, that's the end of the prologue. I did not want to extend it too much and yes, I know I kept extremely similar to the cannon. There will be several unexpected twists as the story goes, which, I'm pretty sure it will make the story more interesting to read.

The next chapter will be coming a week later, mostly on December 7, 2016. Next time, the story will entail the birth of Naruto.

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