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Prologue

Death Awaits

Konohagakure no Sato

It was a peaceful night, just like many others. There wasn't anything special about this day in particular, in fact some people from Konoha would say it was just another day.

For many of the peole living here it was a relief to have one of these 'normal days', after all the destruction that the strongest Bijuu, the Kyubi, caused was still remembered by many. Considering what happened that fateful night it was no surprise that people here craved for normal days and normal lifes

Lifes in wich death was not around the corner

Sadly it was not only death and destruction the only things that the Kyubi left after his attack. No, he left something much more personal and dangerous

He left fear.

Humans are not perfect. They make mistake, and they let their feelings get the best of them most of the time. It was because of this that such a simple feeling like fear can turn into something much, much powerful

Hate

Fear turns into hate, and that hate will make people do insane things. It is their hate that blind them, and that make's them comite such crimes that it would make any sane person to feel ashamed of even beign the same species as them

And such type of ordeal was happening right now

A young boy, definitly no older than five years of age was running, running like his life depended on it, and it may as well be

What made this situation so unique was three little facts

The first one beign the fear evident in the boys face. His spyky golden hair beign even more wild than normal, his blue eyes that normally were filled with optimist were now full of nothing but dread and dispair, and his clothes, wich were just a wite shirt and blue pants, were teared and ragged at different places

The second one was the boy's location. It was a forest, but not any forest. It was the feared training ground 44 of Konoha, also known as the Forest of Death. Of course such a place was definitly not for children, but sadly the young blonde didn't have a choice in the matter

The third fact was that the boy wasn't alone. No, he was beign hunted like an animal. While he was running through the woods there were people watching him, their faces showing sick pleasure at seeing the boy they consider a monster beign so scared of them

To understand this situation completely you need to kow of a few facts. The young child, who's name was Naruto, was definitly not loved by the people of his village. He was infact despised, for something he had no control, or even knowledge of.

Today it looked like any other day too for the young blonde. He had done everything he normally did, like eating at Ichiraku's ramen, wich was one of the few places that treated him like a normal child, and lazing around in the Hokage's Monument.

Sadly that sense of normality dissapeared once the moon stood high on the sky. Naruto was definitly shocked when he had woken up in some sort of forest he didn't know. The last thing he remembered was walking to his home, so how had he woken up in a place like this

The answer came when four guys, all obviously Shinobi of Konoha, appeared in front of the boy, wearing expresion that the young blonde recognized inmediatly as ones that promised pain for him, so he did the only thing that he could think off at that moment

He ran

Wich brought us to our current situation, wich was of a young innocent kid running for his life while four Shinobi, who's job was supposed to be to protect people like Naruto, chased him, their objective to inflictas much pain as possible in the young Jinchuriki

Naruto runned like a kid possesed, his natural stamina allowing him to run far more than any other kid his age would. Sadly he was still a five year old child, wich meant that he would not be able to run for ever

His escaping was cut short when Naruto, while looking back to see if someone was still chasing him, triped and felt to the ground face-first, his face, clothes and hair becoming dirty thanks to the natural soil of the forest

"Well well, look what we got here" said one the men while Naruto tried ti stand up. This of course brought once again the same sense of dread to the young blonde's heart, and when he turned he was met with the sight of the four Shinobi, all in front of him and wearing sadistic smirks that innmediatly brought more fear to the poor child

"Didn't people tell you to not wander around at night?" said another one in a mocking tone, making Naruto walk bakwards untilhe felt once again, his eyes showing nothing but terror

"P-p-please don't h-hurt me. I d-din't d-do anything" begged the young blonde, truly fearing for his life at this point. He had some rough encounters with people like these in the past, but Naruto knew that this time it was different

Oh how right he was

"You didn't do anything?! That's rich you little demon!" snarled the third man, his face making one of the ugliest expresion Naruto had ever seen in his short life, and the young blonde had to control himself to keep the tears that were threatenning to escape his eyes

"Let's just get this over with. No reason to allow this demon to keep breathing" continued the fourth Shinobi while taking out a kunai, putting more dispair into Naruto's heart

The young blonde was now openly crying, knowing that what would come will probably be the worst thing he would ever feel, and probably the last one too. Naruto closed his eyes after seeing the four Shinobi aproaching him. He just sat there, waiting for the inevitable, tears escaping his eyes and in his mind begging for someone to help him

Lucky for him he was not alone.

He never was alone

The air of the place suddenly went cold unlike anything the Shinobi's or Naruto ever felt. Naruto still sat there, waiting for a blow of pain to hit him, but it never came.

Ever so slowly Naruto opened his eyes, and he was shocked when he saw the horror stricken expresion of the four Shinobi's while looking at him. No, they weren't looking at him, they were looking behind him.

Of course Naruto turned around, curious even in a situation like this, and what he saw almost made him yell in fear and shock

There, just floating behind him was what could only be described as a monster. Slender and inhuman white legs with a golden end. Long arms that ended in claws, covered in white long gloves. It's whole body covered with a black coat with red details and a belt with a golden skull. It's face, if it could even be called that, was a white helmet that was separated in two parts: The face part, wich had two completely empty wholes that worked like eyes, and the jaw part, wich was point and long. What looked like a cape made of nothing but cuffins was behing this entity, attached to It by silver chains. They were eight coffins, each one with the same painture of a completely white woman holding a sword. The monster also had what looked like a sword, it was longer, perfec to fit It's body, and completely black too.

To say that Naruto was scared now would be an understatement. He now didn't know what was worse, if the appearance of this monster or what was just about to happen to him a few minutes before

Naruto tried to move but his whole bodie, just like the bodies of the four man, was completely frozen thanks to nothing but fear.

The monster didn't make any sound, but Naruto, beign closer than anyone else to It, could hear some sort of low growl that the beast was causing. It made him shiver even more in fear, after all that growl sounded so inhumane that Naruto didn't know anything could make such a sound

Then without any kind of warning the monster dissapeared, surprising Naruto a lot. For a moment he thought that the beast had left, but he was proved wrong when he heard the same monstrous grown on his front, only that this time it was louder

When he turned he saw something out of a horror film. The beast had moved to the back of the group of four Shinobi, and without making a sound It's claw went directly through one of the man's chest, or to be more specific the area where his heart was.

The monster's white claw was now painted in crimson red, and the man wich It had just killed would now foreved held a look of horror on his face.

This brought the other Shinobi's out of their fear induced shock, and now even more scared of the monster they jumped out of where they were, spliting themselves. One of them, the most stubborn one, started doing hand-seal, his objective obviously to attack the monster that had just killed his friend

Sadly it was not meant to be

Slash

As soon as he got to the last hand-seal, wich was the horse, both his hands were chopped of by one single cut of the monster's black blade

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" the man yelled in anguish, falling to his knees with the lumps that used to be his hands closeto his chest, his two formed hands failling to the ground, blood filling the ground in wich the man kneeled.

Said man would have continued to yell in pain, but he was no more once that the monster's sword pierced his skull, killing him in an instant. The monster got It's sword out of the man's body, making it fell limp while the sword was now too crimson in color beside it's black tune

The monster's cape was also working. As soon as the beast attacked one of the man one of it's coffins opened, and from there multiple black chains jumped out, their objective another one of the group that tried to attack Naruto.

The man was able to do nothing as his whole body was tied by the chains, he couldn't even scream in pain. The chains's links had razor multiple razor blade's attached to it, so now the man was truly feeling how beign stabbed my hundreds of knifes truly was

Then the chains pulled the man's bledding body to the coffins from wich they came from just before closing in once again. The yells of the man could be heard for a few seconds before no more sound escaped the coffin

Then the beast's attention went to the last of the four Shinobi's alive, who was once again paralized in fear at seeing his friend's gruesome death.

Then, a completely black circle filled with some marks that Naruto had never seen before appeared just under the last guy. The man was able to look down just before his whole body was covered by black energy that he circle created

And then came the scream

Naruto didn't knew someone could yell so much. He didn't know what was happening to this man, the only thing he knew was that the circle was causing him pain, and that the monster created that cirlce.

The man's hand went to his head, his body failling to his knees, his mouth open and a screamof pain and horror escaping his lips. The man could feel it, his souls beign crushed, destroyed, oblitirated, killed until there was no more.

The man's body went completely limp this time, his whole face pale, his eyes rolled to thr back of his head and his mouth wide open, showing that his last moments were nothing but a scream of terror

This whole chain of events happened in nothing but a few minutes, but for Naruto it felt like hours. It was nothing short of a miracle that Naruto stayed consious during all this, after all it was not everyday that a five year old boy watched how a monster killed four man in a row like that

The monster's 'eyes' focused on Naruto, making the poor boy pale and once again fear for his life. He had after all just seeen how easy It was for It to kill those man, so what chance did he have?

None

The beast floated towards Naruto, scaring the child even more for each 'step' It gave. The monster stopped once he was just at arms level to the boy, and Naruto couldn't help but to look up in horror at the beast's metalic face, wich opened slightly, showing that the metalic mask was It's complete face

Naruto couldn't keep it together anymore, so he fainted right there, the last thing he heard were the ominous voice of the monster, wich seemed to resonated in every part of his head

"Thou art I, and I am thou..."

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Meanwhile

In a dark place, a rather old man was on his knees, sweat pouring out of his head, his hair disleveled just as his white beard, and his grey eyes had nothing but horror in them

"No, it can't be... This can't be happening... It's imposibble" mumbled the old man repetedly, while passing his hand through his face

Then another person entered the rather dark room, but unlike the old man, she was rather young. A young woman with long blond silverly hair that reached the middle of her back and grey eyes. The young girl, who was probably around fifeteen and sixteen years old had an etereal beauty. Her pale skin practicly glowed and her whole body had no blemish. She had a percect hour-glass figure, with c-cup breast and a face that would have any man becoming a munbling idiot, with deseable pink lips and a small nose

The young beauty kneeled beside's the old man, her beautiful face showing an expresion of concern and worry

"Ojii-sama, what happened?! Are you alright?!" asked the young woman, her voice melodic and just as perfect as her appearance. The old man's attention went to the young girl, his eyes still showing so much horror and fear that the young beauty couldn't help but release a gasp

"It's has started... he has appeared... he has choosen someone...Death is now walking between us" continued the old man, getting a panicked expresion from the young blonde beauty, who now understood what was happening

"B-but how?! he couldn't have found someone! Who would have accepted the contract with him?! asked the girl, not wanting to believe that such a thing had happened. Sadly for her the old man just shoke his head, looking now at the young girl with sadness in his eye

"It is true, my dear. I don't know who did it, but I felt it... It has already started" said the man just before standing up with the help of his young companion. Said girl put a hand on her mouth while her eyes showed the sheer fear she was feeling just by the thoughts ot what she had just heard

"T-then what will we do? How can we stop him?" asked the young girl, wanting to find some sort of hope on the know dark future that the whole world would face, but sadly for her the old man had no answers. He just released a defeated sigh, his gaze to the ground and his hands on his beard

"We can't... The only one that could do anything is the contractor himself... but I fear that someone who would accept the contract is someone who's path can not be changed" said the old man, knowing that the next years for the Elemental Nations would be dark ones

He knew that, whoever the contractor was, would be the person that would forever change the Elemental Nations, there were no ifs or buts.

It was a fact

After all now that Death had managed to find a contractor, It meant that the end would begin. He always wondered if he would live long enough to see the end of the world he loved, but now that it was starting he didn't know what to fell

"In the end Death awaits us all" mumbled the old man, remembering the words that his father had told him a long time ago

And now, it was that. The beggining of the end.

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Another idea that popped in my head one day and didn't dissapear. Oh well, at least it will allow me to write a darknes fic than my other two, and also my chance to write something with no Fairy Tail in it

In case you're wondering how the monster looks like, just check the cover image for this fic (cookies to those that knows from wich saga I got him!)

Next Chapter: The Academy years with a different Naruto!