DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN EITHER NARUTO NOR DEVIL MAY CRY, THIS FICTION IS WRITTEN FOR FUN ONLY AND NOT FOR ECONOMICAL GAIN. THIS DISCLAIMER IS TO BE HOLD TRUE FOR EVERY CHAPTER OF THIS FICTION.

Legends of Old - Prologue

( Konohagakure no Sato )

It was a quiet evening in the shinobi village of Konohagature no Sato ( Village Hidden in the Leaves ) and in a little rundown apartment lied a boy of approximately 7 years of age, curled up in the corner of his bedroom with the bangs of his mop of golden blonde hair covering his deep blue eyes that at the moment showed nothing but dullness and pain, not the fake cheerfulness usually displayed in the village and picked by no one, in fact, everyone, be it civilian or ninja, couldn't pick up the immense sadness and anger that plagued the boy.

Uzumaki Naruto, that's his name, was once again crying to himself after a beating at the hands of the villagers, he displayed bruises all over his body and a broken arm that was already healing by its own accord. No matter how bad the injury, Naruto always seemed to be fine the morning after and it left the doctors baffled, not that they cared about his health, since when taken inside the hospital they usually threw him in an abandoned part of the structure if not in the presence of the Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, the only person who acknowledged Naruto and tried to give him a semblance of normal childhood. These beating were not uncommon, usually once or twice every week mobs chased him in the village until he ran out of his legendary stamina and cornered him in an alley and proceeded to beat him within an inch of his life and Naruto didn't even understand why everyone despised him so much; the glares, the hatred that emanated from villagers and shinobi alike, except from a couple of ANBU assigned to him, one with a Neko and one with an Inu mask who tried to protect him as best as they could.

This time however was a special occasion for Naruto, today was October the 10th and his birthday, other than the anniversary of the attack of the Kyuubi, a nine-tailed demon fox that attacked the village the night he was born and led to uncountable casualties between ninja clans and civilians. The day started pretty well, he woke up, played a little prank on the ugly lady of the grocery shop who refused to sell him food and then went to lunch with Sarutobi-Jiji to the Ichiraku ramen stand, the only place that sold him food and consequently the place where he spent most of his time when he wasn't escaping the ANBU after a prank. After an afternoon spent strolling in the park he went to his apartment before dark.

That's were everything went downhill. As he was passing the centre of the city he spotted a mob in the making searching for the "demon brat", he immediately went on the alert and tried to hide himself behind some dumpster but wasn't fast enough, as a chunin spotted him and pointed him to the mob.

"THERE HE IS! I FOUND HIM!"

The villagers immediately sprung into action and began to run after him. The chase went on for two hours before they cornered him and gave him the worst beating of his life so far, they then left him in the alley with blood pooling under him, with a broken nose, black eyes, cracked ribs and a broken arm, other than the usual cuts and a kunai imbedded in his left hand. Then after an hour of suffering he was healed enough to the point of being capable of dragging himself to his apartment and in the corner of his room trying to sleep still battered and wet.

"Why do they hate me so much? What have I done to them to deserve such treatment? Sure I may have pranked some of the villagers but..."

It was with these thoughts that he cried himself to sleep.

( Meanwhile inside the seal )

The mighty Nine-tailed demon snarled inside the cage he was confined to since that fateful night of seven years ago. Sure, he may be a creature of pure chakra, full of hate and malice, but even he couldn't understand how those pitiful ningen could treat one of their own kind this way, a kit nonetheless. He was from a noble clan of Kitsune and the first of his race to reach the necessary power to have a ninth tail and for this was respected and honored even among his kin and the concept of beating a kit, a child, didn't even enter his mind in his darkest moments.

It was during his musings that he noted the presence of his jailor entering the mindscape he was in. He saw him approach the bars of the cage and peer inside in naive curiosity.

"Where am I...?" The boy asked himself.

"It's my prison" he replied, not expecting the boy to jump out of his skin and into the waters that composed the sewers that were the mindscape. He let out a booming laugh that only served in angering Naruto.

( Naruto, a few minutes earlier )

Naruto found himself waking up in a sewer of sorts, but he didn't recognized it, which immediately set him off, as he usually utilized the sewers of Konoha to hide himself. The water reached his ankles and there were pipes that glowed blue and one pipe which glowed red and led him further inside the sewers. Deciding on impulse he follower the red and pipes and he arrived in a large hallway of sorts with an enormous cage with golden bars kept together by a tiny piece of paper with the kanji for Fuin ( SEAL ) on it.

He peered inside and it was pure darkness and asked himself.

"Where am I...?"

A booming voice, and by the sound of it amused, replied, "It's my prison".

Naruto, not expecting an actual answer freaked out and fell in the muddy waters on the floor. A laugh that sent shivers down his spine was all he got in response and he jumped back to his feet angered that whatever it was was making fun of him.

"OOOI, who are you and don't laugh at me you coward! Show yourself!"

As he watched inside the cage he saw two crimson eyes with slitted pupils opening and a growl answered.

"Who are you calling coward you little wimp?!"

"I'm not a wimp you freaky red eyed weirdo!" Naruto shot back.

"I'm not a weirdo!" Snarled back the voice.

"Yes you are!"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are!"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes!"

"Not!"

"Yes!"

"Not!"

"Fine, you are not a wierdo, but what are you doing here?" Asked Naruto with a curiosity-laced voice.

"I am a prisoner here, we are in your mind. I'm sealed inside you"

"What do you mean sealed?"

It was in this moment that the figure advanced and Naruto could outline the body of the fox with angry red fur and nine tails swishing around him in annoyance.

"K...K...KYUUBI!" Whimpered out Naruto.

"Yes kit, I'm the Kyuubi no Yoko and I'm sealed inside you. What you have been told about the attack seven years ago has been a lie, the Yondaime could not kill me so he went with the next preferable option, he sealed me inside a newborn: you"

Seeing that Naruto was speechless and frozen in fear, the fox decided to continue, he usually wouldn't have conversed with a blasted human but after a century of being imprisoned every bit of intelligent conversation was a gift from Kami. "If you are wondering, yes, I am the reason the people of the village hate you, but before you start accusing or else, I want to apologize for your treatment, I wouldn't have imagined that you humans could hate a kit so much and in the end, it wasn't even my fault I attacked the village..." And finished with a grumble that Naruto couldn't understand.

"What was that?" He asked timidly.

"Sigh.. I said that I was controlled when I attacked Konoha that night, and besides, your father asked that you be seen as a hero for keeping me at b..."

"MY FATHER!? YOU KNOW WHO HE IS!? TELL ME!"

"You don't know?" Asked the fox dumbfounded. "Your Hokage surely knows, he was there in his final moments".

"You..you.. You mean that Jiji lied to me all this time..?" Asked the boy while trembling a little and unconsciously channeling a portion of the Kyuubi's chakra.

The Kyuubi, now a little wary of telling the boy, found himself curious as to which reaction he would have after knowing his parent's name after so long. "Well.. It would seem so, you see, even if I am in the seal, I actually saw only the bad parts of your life because I can sense negative emotions, so I can't actually tell if this Jiji of yours lied to you or not, but considering your reactions, yes I hazard that the didn't tell you on purpose, other than the fact that he kept you from your inheritance".

"How.. How do you know about this things?"

"Well..." Answered the fox while getting comfortable and laying his head on his front paws, "For the inheritance part I know because I spent a lot of time sealed inside one of your parents, your mother was Uzumaki Kushina and I know this because she was my previous Jinchuuriki so I talked to her from time to time and I knew she was pregnant with you. Your father o the other hand is the one who performed the sealing, Minato Namikaze... The Yondaime Hokage".

The Kyuubi watched attentively the reactions of his host and found none, he simply stood there with his fists balled and shaking, not saying a word.

After a couple of minutes he tentatively asked "Are you okay? I know this is a lot to take in a little time.." He stopped himself as the very air he was breathing seemed to become heavier, the pressure suddenly rose to unimaginable levels and even he found it difficult to breath.

Naruto meanwhile was in a flurry of thoughts, and his emotions were indistinguishable from one another but the predominant one were hatred, anger and betrayal. Channelling the demon's chakra for the second time for the night, he began to glow an unholy red while his blood began to boil in his veins. "YOU MEAN THAT THOSE.. THOSE.. THOSE PESTS OF VILLAGERS THAT MADE MY LIFE HELL FOR SEVEN YEARS, THE SAME WHO HUNT ME DOWN AT NIGHT AND CHEER MY DEATH AND MEANWHILE CELEBRATE THE YONDAIME, MY FATHER" Said Naruto venomously, "ARE THE ONES WHOSE LIFE HE SACRIFICED HIS EXISTENCE AND ONLY SON FOR?! THE SAME BASTARDS THAT THEN DISRESPECT HIS DYING WISH BY SPITTING ON HIS SON AND BEATING HIM EVERY NIGHT... I WILL KILL THEM, I WILL KILL THEM ALL!"

All of a sudden he dropped to the ground screaming his throat hoarse, while the chakra he was using entered his body in quantities it was not supposed to for at least years to come.

During all of this the mighty demon watched as his host screamed ad no one and then dropped screaming. He watched as his body went through several changes, his body became lean and taller, muscles developed leaving no trace of the malnourishment previously present, his facial features became more aristocratic, his distinctive whisker-marks were nowhere to be seen, his hair turned from sun-kissed blonde to silver and his eyes gained an icy shade not there before.

When all this ended, the boy remained unmoving to the ground, groaning, and the fox behind the bars suddenly smelled something thought lost centuries ago, something even he didn't face for fear of his life.

"So the blood of Sparda still lives..." Muttered to himself.

Unfortunately, it seemed the boy not only changed physically but acquired heightened senses. "What are you talking about baka-fox?".

"This scent... The same scent you are emanating even now, belonged to fierce warriors that I met in my younger years, warriors so firesome that even I, the Kyuubi no Kitsune, hesitated in front of them. I thought they died but as it seems they mated with some humans if you are here..." And then proceeded to speak to himself so low that even Naruto couldn't hear him anymore.

In the meantime the boy was examinating his body and the changes that happened a few minutes prior.

"Wait, you mean that you know what happened?"

After a moment of hesitation, the Kyuubi responded. "Yes, it seems you are the descendant of a some warriors I met in the past, they were half demons, sons of Sparda, a very powerful demon that sacrificed his powers to shut the door demons used to enter the human world and his sons later on helped him by eliminating the stray demons that escaped in this world and ultimately only nine of us remained here, you probably know us as the Bijuu".

Naruto nodded, even if he wasn't taught shit he still found some books and scrolls in the dumpsters and taught himself some history of the elemental nations and knew of the existence of the Bijuu.

"So why is this important and what happened to me?" Asked Naruto a little bit warily.

"Even if you didn't realize, you were channeling a lot of my demonic chakra and it seems it awakened what little you had of demonic blood in you and heightened, as of now, you could be considered half demon and I wouldn't be surprised if a few more changes will take place in the future".

"So...hum... Why are you speaking to me like this? From what I've heard or read you are described as a rabid beast with no reason" Said Naruto I obvious embarrassment.

"Well, firstly, all of us Bijuu are sentient, well maybe Shukaku... But I digress, you humans think we are mindless beasts because you actually are the ones who attack us first and we retaliate and the distraction we cause is enough for you to think that we are simply mass of destruction". Said the fox.

"Ah. Hum... Okay, what's your name?" Asked innocently the newly dubbed half demon.

The Kyuubi, not expecting something like this, actually remained silent for a minute, trying to wrap his mind about the fact that a ningen not only had not asked for his power yet, but asked him his name. It was... Strange, but pleasing for a change to have his host talk to him like a peer and not a source of chakra to keep confined.

"Kurama... My name is Kurama."

"Well nice to meet you Kurama... What now?"

"What do you mean?" Asked Kurama confused.

"What do I do!? The villagers will kill me now!" Said a frightened Naruto.

"..."

"..."

"Why don't you leave?"

"What!?"

"What do you have in this village anymore? The old man lied to you and I don't remember you having someone to remain it his shithole anyway. They won't even recognize you, just walk out of the gates and if you want to come back you will do so in the years to come."

Naruto spluttered "Yeah but... What about my dream? What about becoming Hokage?"

Kurama arched a non visible eyebrow ad the boy, "Really? What do you want to become Hokage for? For these stupid humans who do nothing but belittle and beat you? Don't make me laugh, and you know this as well as me now that you know the reason they hate you, they will never accept you".

"Yeah.. You're right" said Naruto bitterly.

"So what will you do?" The Kyuubi couldn't contain his curiosity.

"First thing tomorrow morning I will leave this god forsaken place and will travel the lands while training and will go by a different name obviously, I don't want to attract the attention of thi assholes.. Then maybe in some years I will come back to claim what is mine".

"Good, good I know a few places where you can stay in some countries, have you already decided which name to use?"

"Yes... My name will be Nero... Nero Sparda".

Author's Note ( short I promise! ): I want to apologize in advance for grammatical error in the story, english is not my main language so try to understand if sometimes I make a few mistakes and feel free to point those out! ( via PM not reviews ).

I also want to clear a few points for this fiction, Kurama ( the Kyuubi ) is quiet friendly, he just doesn't like being sealed inside a human, but seeing the pain his host goes through ( namely Naruto ), he wants to help him some. I also want to inform all of you that I'm not really good with description, more often than not I'll leave a link to an image just for simplicity. Naruto is a chibi-Nero, and yes, that means that in the future chapters he will acquire the distinctive trait of Nero ( if you don't alredy know what it is wait for the future chapters ;) ).

Thank you for reading.