Chapter 10: Hero to Zero to Hero

(Naruto does not own me… I do not own Naruto)

Naruto awoke to find himself chained up. He felt weak and his body ached with pain. He looked up and found himself in a dank, dark room; the only source of light was the one above him. His arms were chained as if his captors wanted to pull him apart. Naruto fell to his knees and closed his eyes; he opened it and found himself in front of the kyuubi.

"Kyuubi! What's going on?" Naruto asked shakily. For the first time after meeting Iruka, he felt scared of the world; he felt the same way he felt years back when he was a kid. Every insult, curse, and cruel words echoed in his ears. Every hit, stick and stone that scarred him began to hurt. He was scared of the world again.

"Kid…they got you. They're going to extract me from you." The kyuubi told him.

Naruto's eyes widened. The very thing Itachi feared had happened. Itachi told him that if Akatsuki ever caught him, the world would end. With the 9 bijuus on his side, Tobi would be unstoppable, Itachi realized this when Tobi unexpectedly flashed the sharingan and Itachi felt the evil that could only be Mandara Uchiha. The world fall on its knees and Mandara would turn the ocean red with the blood of the innocent. Itachi's own blood lust shook against Mandara's own blood lust and that's when Itachi began to search for hope. The only hope was with Naruto who was the descendant of the legendary fourth Hokage.

Naruto was the cruel world's last hope and yet he was bound by chains. Naruto began to recompose himself. He remembered his training, the words of his sensei's, and the teaching of his kin. Naruto didn't know how long he had until Akatsuki decided to extract Kyuubi away from him, but he guessed it wasn't going to be long. His body ached with pain, which he found odd, the kyuubi's chakra should have healed him, but he looked down and found that the seal had another seal on top of it. Naruto went back to the Kyuubi…

"Kyuubi, what's wrong with my seal?" Naruto asked.

"It's been re-sealed so that you won't be able to access my powers or gather your own chakra…however, your soul is infused with one of my tails. You've been using it…but you've only been touching the surface. You need to somehow tap the powers yourself." The kyuubi told him.

"What? How?" Naruto asked. He was desperate.

"I don't know, I've never done this before remember? However, when you do unlock it, you'll be like a demon." The Kyuubi told him.

"Because I'll be super strong?" asked Naruto, not really getting what the Kyuubi meant by "demon".

"No because you have one of my tails infused into you. Whatever I can do, you will be able to do as well, mind you, at a smaller, weaker scale…but still on titanic proportions," explained the kyuubi, it clearly enjoyed showing off its powers.

"You mean if I use you power I'll be like the Shukaku?" asked Naruto, who was a little bit confused.

"Strength wise, stronger. But in theory, yes, although you won't be as big as a regular demon, you'll look as you would normally. Ugly as hell." The kyuubi commented.

"Shut up. Why haven't you told me this before?!" asked Naruto annoyingly. Why would the fox keep such important information from him?

"You never asked…" replied the fox.

Suddenly Naruto found himself chained once again. Pein and a woman was standing in front of him, it seems as if they have brought him forth from his meeting with the Kyuubi.

"Naruto Uzumaki. Welcome to Akatsuki's less than secret lair. A certain weasel has been leaking information, how foolish of us to not notice it. And to think we thought it was Orochimaru all along, isn't that right? Raine?" Pein asked the woman.

"Yes. Now, let us talk about your faith jinchuriki. It is necessary for us to…"beat" the kyuubi out of you until you are weak enough for us to extract it out of you. Your daily torture begins now…" Raine said maliciously.

Suddenly an electric shock was sent through out Naruto's body, causing him to trash around in pain, however Naruto refused to scream. Pein raised an eyebrow in surprise and sent another shock, just below the human let-go-threshold. Naruto writhed in pain, but once again, did not scream. Raine smiled, the jinchuriki was pitiful. She sent another shock, one that would have killed. Yet, Naruto stood stock-still and stared a hard, determined stare in her eyes. His eyes were ablaze with fire. The pain was unbearable and with last shock, Naruto felt his heart stop. Naruto felt faint and he could smell his own burning flesh, yet he stood still and stared down his captors, he would show to them Konoha's burning Will of Fire.

After the last shock Pein was afraid that Raine killed the Jinchuriki, but it seemed as if the Jinchuriki was fine. He decided on a less humane way. He made a few clones. Then a clone began to whip Naruto's back while the others beat him down. Yet Naruto remained strong and stared at Rained with defiance. Pein had enough; he walked over to Naruto and roughly grabbed Naruto's chin and forced Naruto to look directly into his eyes.

"Why, Jinchuriki, do you fight to stay alive? Your friends have forsaken you and have left you here to rot. What other purpose do you have to live?" Pein asked, staring deeply in Naruto's determined eyes, looking for a sign of weakness to break him. Naruto merely spat on his face.

"Why do I fight? It's because of those who despise me, those who hate me, those who have forsaken me. A murderer told me I was the only hope, and after seeing the man's eyes of sorrow, I knew he wasn't lying. I live to try to protect those I love because I believe everyone deserves a second chance!" Naruto whispered, he could barely talk…

"Ha! You're a demon. Nobody loves you." Raine told him.

"Enough talk," Pein said and the beating continued. They could only wonder what was going on in Naruto Uzumaki's mind…

Every whip stung. Every punch hurt. Every grunt of the clones sounded like an insult. Blood dripped from the boy's mouth. He was kicked hard and his rib couldn't take it anymore and it broke; yet he didn't wince in pain. He didn't yelp, he didn't dare lose the fire in his eyes and he didn't lose hope. He was up on his two feet staring down Pein and Raine, it was like the waves trying to break down a rock. No matter how much they throw at Naruto, he remained with the same annoying look in his eyes. The harder they throw at him, the stronger his will became.

Naruto's eyes shook in pain as he bit his tongue from screaming. The blinding pain accompanied the sickening sound of his arm breaking, just like it did so many times years ago. Just how much more could he take?

Five hours later yet the fire in Naruto's eyes did not waver, if anything, it had gotten more intense. Naruto had to escape…but how? Suddenly, as if life was finally going to give Naruto some slack, there was a huge explosion. The clones stopped their current beat down and poofed away. For a few minutes it seemed as if everything was quiet, then suddenly…

BOOM!

Deidara dropped through the ceiling and creating a massive hole, causing light to flood the cave.

"Yo! Naruto!" shouted Kakashi from the roof. It took a few hours, but the whole force of Konoha finally arrived. Kakashi was extremely relieved to find that they did not start the extraction.

"Hey, Kakashi-sensei, you're late!" Naruto told him with a grin. Konoha did care for him.

"Your foolish attempts are futile, Kakashi. Pein, gather up the rebels, we will destroy Konoha ourselves." Said Mandara, who appeared from the last remaining shadow, he was enjoying the show Naruto was putting up. Pein hesitated at the order; Konoha was a force to be reckoned with…

"Have you no faith? The rest of Rain will help, after all Konoha did attack…" Mandara said. And it was true, from the looks of it, it seemed as if Konoha was attacking Rain. However…

"Hmm, you do have a point…but you point is pretty much useless after the Hokage speaks to your kage. And Rain will be more than welcome to accept help from the leaf to help out taking out the rebels" Kakashi pointed out.

"Yeah. By the way, they beat you up pretty badly eh, Naruto?" Jiraiya piped in.

"Heh. 4-on-2, Jiraiya-sama; what chances do you have against the top leaders of Akatsuki?" Mandara asked.

"4-on-4,"

"Ah, Itachi. The traitorous little bastard. And Kisame is with you I assume?" Mandara asked.

"Sorry Tobi. Make that five on three." Said Deidara from behind Naruto.

"Diedara?! Heh, for someone who plays with explosives, you were awfully quiet." Mandara commented.

Pein and Raine turned around to take out Deidara but they were too late. Deidara had covered Naruto's chains with his clay and then…

BOOM! The chains exploded and so did the ones behind Pein and Raine's back.

"Heh, looks like its 6:3 now" huffed Naruto. But Mandara merely laughed.

Suddenly, the three remaining Akatsuki were gone and with them was the statue containing the trapped bijuus. Deidara helped Naruto up and the others jumped down.

"Itachi-san, what about Sasuke?" Naruto asked.

"…He fled shortly after I told him exactly he killed." Itachi answered.

"Killed?" Naruto asked.

"He mistook Sanada for me."

Naruto's eyes widened with anger and shock. Sasuke was so stupid. How far in the darkness was Sasuke in? His anger, hatred and desire for revenge had corrupted his mind…Naruto was unsure if he could still save his friend. Naruto could only imagine what had transpired during Sanada Uchiha's final hour…

Earlier that day…(sorry for the lack of Sasuke VS Sanada in the last chapter, hope this helps)

Sanada stopped suddenly as he felt a sudden murderous intent. He only had enough time to block the kunai thrown at him. He felt an intense and evil chakra emanating from the shadows. Suddenly, a dragon covered in flames came from the direction, almost burning Sanada into ashes. Sanada's sharingan flared up as he charged at his attacker. Sanada made a sudden stop and appeared above Sasuke with his katana above his head. Sasuke brought his own up to stop Sanada's, he flashed his own Sharingan that burned with hatred.

SORRY BUT I DECIDED TO ABANDON THIS STORY DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF PLOT HOLES AND INCONSISTENCY. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.