Yo, Kagami here. This is my first fic, as you can tell. I'm expecting it to be terrible, as I've always thought myself as bad at writing stories. This is a Naruto/The Darkness crossover, something I haven't seen a lot of in my short time on the site. Not sure of pairings as of yet, if I can make myself I want to turn it into a harem, as that is my favourite type of pairing. Well that's all, Enjoy the show.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the Darkness, they belong to Kishimoto-sempai and Top Cow respectively. If I did own them, Naruto would be bad-ass with a huge harem, Jackie would've taken over the world, and Jenny wouldn't have died.

Naruto Estacado

Chapter 1, Darkness Falls.

October 10th. A dark day in the history of Konohagakure no Sato. The day the village was attacked by the Kyuubi no Youko, the nine-tailed fox, and the day the people lost their beloved Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

In the office of the Hokage's tower, the newly reinstated Sandaime Hokage sat at his desk, his wrinkled hands clasped in front of his face. He glanced to the side, watching a cot which had been brought in by one of his ANBU. The wizened Hokage got up from his chair, and walked over to the cot, looking down at the giggling blonde baby it held. He smiled as the boy grabbed his hand when he brought it near. He glanced down towards the baby's stomach, and upon seeing the seal there his smile disappeared.

He had informed the citizens of Konoha about the boy and his 'tenant', and it would be an understatement to say they had taken it badly. It took several squads of ANBU along with some of the more understanding Jounin to stop the crowd from killing the boy there and then. Sarutobi scowled, as he recalled the council refusing to protect or help the boy, instead calling him a demon, and many calling for his execution. All except for Minato's friends and Danzo, who called for adoption into a clan and turning him into a weapon respectively.

'I'm too old for this shit. I should have been the one to use the Shiki Fujin…though even I know Minato wouldn't have allowed it.' An ANBU wearing a dog mask appeared, and bowed.

"Hokage-sama, what are you going to do with him? The council won't allow him to be taken into your clan."

"I will do what I can for him, Kakashi. The most the council will allow is an apartment and monthly allowance."

"But Hokage-sama! Surely it would be better if I were to take him in. I mean, his father was my sensei after all," Kakashi complained, wanting the best for his sensei's son.

Sarutobi's frown deepened at this, before he spoke again. "No, Kakashi. You and I both know that this will only make him stronger, and hopefully he will awaken his ancestors' power."

Kakashi paled at this. "Hokage-sama! Most of the people who have wielded that power have gone insane! The very few that haven't have become isolated and cold, hating the rest of humanity!"

"That is enough, Kakashi. I will not speak anymore on this matter," the Hokage ended, before Kakashi disappeared in a swirl of leaves. 'I'm definitely too old for this.'

Seven years later…

A shorter-than-normal boy of about seven years ran through the streets of Konoha, tears streaming down his whiskered cheeks as a mob of citizens and ninja alike chased after him. Screams of 'demon' and 'scum' echoed throughout the village as the boy was chased into a graveyard.

One bold civilian stepped forward, a large stick in his hands. "Ah, the perfect place to finally rid the village of this demonic brat."

The boy backed away into a side alley of the graveyard. "Please," he whispered, that being the only noise he could make at that moment, "Don't hurt me, I haven't done anything."

"Oh, but you have, demon. You caused the life of the Yondaime Hokage, and we're gonna make you pay."

The boy looked around him, searching for an escape, and his eyes rested on a door leading into a small building on his right. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him, literally jumping through the door, and down the steps leading from the door. Once he was at the bottom, he tried to discern his new location. 'Hmm…a public restroom…disgusting,' he thought, as he took a breath of air. He heard the mob at the top of the stairs, so he ran further into the building, only to find a dead end with another set of toilet stalls, with a homeless man standing over by a sink.

"Through you, I will display my power…" a dark, almost demonic voice echoed within the boy's mind.

He turned round in a panic, as anyone would if they had just heard a voice like that. "Wh-Who's there?"

When there was no answer, he just shook it off as his imagination, before he was plunged into darkness. He thought that the mob had found him, so he braced himself for a beating, screwing his eyes shut. But there was no pain, nothing at all. He opened his eyes to find that the room was still dark, but he could see perfectly, as if his eyes somehow had night-vision. A few seconds later, pain flooded his senses; it felt as if his mind was on fire. Then he realised that his body wouldn't obey him. It decided to walk back towards the door, and the civilians. As he neared the stairs, everything went dark once more.

"Through you, I am born." Came the same demonic voice in his mind.

Light returned, and he noticed black tentacles protruding from his back, swaying in the air like snakes. On either side of him was a larger tentacle, with some kind of head on the end. They had long, sharp teeth that looked too big to even fit in their mouths, and glowing yellow eyes. They looked towards the mob longingly, as if lusting for blood. At the moment, he was in no position to deny them. His body still wouldn't obey as it walked towards the stairs. One of the tentacles reached forward and knocked out a light at the end of the hall, before retracting back to his side like an obedient animal. He looked up the stairs to see a few of the civilians looking down at him, horror present on their faces when they took in his new appendages. He walked quickly up the stairs as the civilians stumbled, trying to escape. But he wouldn't allow them that, hell no. He was going to make them suffer.

One civilian wasn't fast enough to run away and was caught by a tentacle protruding through his chest where his heart used to be, his arms growing limp and lifeless as he fell onto the tentacle. His 'Demon Arm', as he decided to call it.

He walked out of the door to find most of the civilians gone, either from boredom or fear. The ones that remained threw whatever they could at him, stones, broken bottles, even kunai and shuriken in the case of the few shinobi. But it was all in vain. The Demon Arms would protect him from all of these, and he just walked casually out of the building, ready to fight some more. One foolish man had decided to stand right beside the doorway and as a price for his stupidity, his face was quickly grabbed in the jaws of one of the heads before being thrown into the opposite wall. Another man was skewered by the Demon Arm and promptly thrown into another, if not to kill him then to knock him out. The boy crouched down and sent one of the heads slithering across the ground to one of the people hiding behind the larger graves, whose throat was bitten off. Recalling the head, the boy stood up before using two Demon Arms to summon a large portal, which pulled in many of the remaining civilians. The boy smirked at his accomplishment, before the voice rang again in his mind.

"You are nothing but my puppet."

He shook his head, trying to rid it of that voice, before spotting one final person. The man was on his hands and knees praying for mercy. The boy chuckled. After all that they had put him through, they expected mercy? 'No, not today.' He approached the man, who looked up when he heard his footsteps.

"Please, let me live, I'll give you anything! Just let me leave with my life," the man pleaded, his hands clenched and soaked in blood.

"Tell me, do demons have mercy?"

"N-No, of course not."

"Then why should I?"

At this, the man's eyes widened as he tried to back away, failing miserably. "Who or..W-What are you?!"

"You wanna know who I am? Well, my name…is Naruto Uzumaki!" The boy exclaimed proudly, before ramming a blood soaked hand into his chest, ripping out his heart. "Well, guess these guys were all talk, huh?" he asked one of the heads, deciding that they would perhaps be more friendly than the citizens of Konoha. The head nodded, before diving to sniff the heart in Naruto's hand. "Hmm? You want this?" The head nodded once more, before sniffing more forcefully. "Well then, here you go," Naruto said, tossing the heart into the air. The head moved upwards quickly to catch the heart in its jaws, before swallowing it whole. As it travelled down the creature's throat, Naruto felt a small rush of power flow through his body. 'So, those hearts make me stronger, huh? Heh, all the more reason to kill these pathetic villagers.' He thought, before walking out of the graveyard, the heads and Demon Arms receding into his body.

The Next Morning…

Naruto awoke to find himself back in the apartment the Hokage had given him, sunlight blaring through the window beside his bed. He rose from his dishevelled bed before staggering towards the kitchen. 'I think I may have overdone it last night.' He pulled out a ramen cup from his cupboard and filled it with water, before placing it in the microwave. He walked over to his closet while waiting for his ramen, and pulled it open to find a row of hideous orange jumpsuits. 'Why in hell's name did I buy that thing? Oh yeah, I remember, it was all they would sell me. And even this was massively overpriced.' He reluctantly pulled out one of the jumpsuits and put it on. Returning to the kitchen, he sat down to eat his ramen when a knock sounded on his door. He groaned at being denied his ramen, got up, and went to open the door, revealing a masked ANBU.

"Hmm? ANBU-san, what brings you here?" Naruto asked, itching to get back to his favourite meal.

"I am sorry to interrupt you, Uzumaki-san, but Hokage-sama requests your presence in his office."

"Very well, allow me to eat me breakfast and I will be there."

"Apologies, but Hokage-sama did specify that this is urgent and cannot wait."

Naruto frowned, before sighing. "Well, if you insist. I guess I have no choice. May I ask what this is pertaining to?"

The ANBU was surprised at the boy's choice of words, but answered as protocol dictates nonetheless. "I am not allowed to divulge that information, Uzumaki-san. Please come with me."

Naruto shrugged, and grabbed onto the masked nin's arm as they disappeared in a swirl of leaves. They reappeared in the lobby of the Hokage tower, just a simple room with a couch, a few vases and the secretary's desk. He walked towards the double doors leading to the Hokage's office, but he was stopped by a voice.

"And just where do you think you're going?"

He turned to see the smirking face of the secretary. He always knew she hated him, and he was content on making her pay along with the rest of the village.

"Ji-san sent an ANBU for me, I am going to speak to him."

"He told me he wanted no visitors today. So if I were you I would get out of here before you make him mad." 'God, I love a chance to mess with the demon brat. If I get my way, he'll never meet the Hokage,' thought the secretary, with an evil grin.

Before either could speak further, the double doors flew open revealing the Hokage and a man with gravity-defying silver hair and a facemask who Naruto quickly recognized as Kakashi Hatake shooting heated glares at the secretary, before Sarutobi's booming voice sounded throughout the tower.

"Haruda-san, clear your desk and leave by the end of the day. I am hereby ending your career here," he said, making Naruto smirk in victory and the secretary glare at the blonde-haired boy.

"Good morning, Ji-san. You wanted to speak to me?"

"Ah, Naruto. Just the person I wanted to see. Come into my office, the matters I intend to discuss should not be privy to the ears of the public."

"Is Hatake-san coming too?"

"Indeed, but you can drop the formalities Naruto. I'd rather be more like an older brother than an elder and superior," spoke Kakashi in his usual cheerful tone, complete with his signature eye smile. With that, Naruto followed Sarutobi into his office, with Kakashi bringing up the rear, closing the doors behind him. With a quick hand sign from Sarutobi, the corners of the room glowed a bright green.

"Just a simple privacy jutsu. Now, Naruto, I heard about what happened at Trinity Church last night." At this, Naruto gulped. "There's no need to worry, I realise that you did what you needed to. They would've been sentenced to death for breaking one of my laws anyway."

"Which law would that be, Ji-san?" Naruto asked, completely innocent and unknowing.

Sarutobi's features became serious, which made Naruto nervous. "Naruto, in order to understand what I'm going to tell you I will have to tell you a secret that has been kept from you since you were born. You can't tell anyone, for I fear what they would do if they found out. Do you understand?"

"Of course, Ji-san. What is it?"

Sarutobi sighed, then began his explanation. "Naruto, do you know what happened to the Kyuubi no Youko seven years ago?"

"Uh-huh, the Yondaime sealed the fox in me, right?"

Both of the older ninja had wide eyes and looks of shock on their faces. Both of them thought the same thing. 'How in hell did he know?!' Both were left speechless, but it was Kakashi who finally voiced their thoughts.

"Naruto, how do you know that?" he asked as calmly as he could.

"Well, it wasn't hard to figure out. I mean, my birthday is the same day as the Kyuubi attack, plus the villagers weren't unhelpful." Naruto replied, with a considerable amount of venom in his voice.

"Well, if you've figured that out, then this won't be too much of a surprise. The Yondaime's name was Minato Namikaze Estacado…your father."

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"WHAAAAAAT?!?!"

Chapter End.

The end of my first chapter, a milestone in my writing career. So, in the next chapter there will be a time skip of about 5 years, so Naruto will be 12, and leaving the academy. Sakura and Sasuke will be bashed, so be prepared. Just remember this: Don't like, Don't read.

Ja ne.