Shibito Ashikabi: Legacy of the Mist Demon

Normal speech /thoughts

Demonic speech/thoughts

Jutsu being used/summon speech/summon thoughts

Translations at the bottom

Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto or Sekirei franchises. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and Sekirei belongs to Sakurako Gokurakuin.

Edit AN 8/08/16: As you all can probably tell, I'm going back, and editing the early chapters of Shibito Ashikabi. When the last posted chapter has been fixed, I'll release the next installment y'all have been waiting for. There will some changes throughout the story, an example will be fixing the explanation of why shibito are stronger than shinobi, it's so bad now that I look back on it. Anyway just wanted to show y'all I'm not dead.

Prologue: Betrayal

Betrayal. An act that, while not physically harmful, has the capacity to cause great pain, and able to scar the mind. Those who receive these scars can usually find consolance through their precious people. That is the healing process that is available to those who have been betrayed by a single person. However what about someone who has been forsaken by the masses and even some of the ones that could be considered family and those who stayed loyal were in no position of power that could overturn the decision or had no means to help. How does one heal without anyone to help cope with the agony and scars of betrayal then? That is the predicament that one Naruto Uzumaki has found himself in...but first he has answer the question that everyone has asked in times of trail.

"Why...? " Was the only thing you would hear in the mind of Naruto Uzumaki (AN: You all know what he looks like). All he could think about was the events of several hours prior, he had defeated Sasuke when they fought at the Valley of the End. Before the climax of their duel when they were lunging towards each other, Naruto in his Kybūi-fied state with his vermilion rasengan along with Sasuke in his cursed seal level two form with his powered up white - colored chiori. Even with his mind being all but consumed by the hatred of the Kybūi, he noticed where his rival had aimed his strike- Naruto's heart. With this observation in mind the blonde decided to change his approach. Naruto already had one hole in his chest, he didn't want another. When he launched himself at Sasuke, he held back some so that when he was in the air sailing towards Sasuke, his body was positioned in an upwards striking fashion. With his body in this position Naruto had kept his heart out of Sasuke's reach, and gave Naruto's rasengan a clear shot at Sasuke's chest. Unfortunately for Naruto while his change in tactics protected his heart, possibly saving his life, he wasn't without injury.

Naruto paused from his thoughts to scan the forest around him analyzing it for anything that could be a potential danger to himself. After a couple of minutes of looking he was satisfied, and he carefully removed the long black hooded cloak that the bear - masked ANBU - "Former ANBU," Naruto reminded himself.

"That man sacrificed all but life for me when he got me out of Konoha. I hope he got away from the other ANBU chasing us." - gave him.

With that clarification out of the way he laid the cloak on the ground he then reached into his tattered orange pants pocket, and pull out a small clear bottle of what appeared to be a green gel-like substance. Taking two fingers he scooped some of the geal out, turned his head around so he could examine his back... And his new (and permanent thanks to the Kybui's chakra healing the wound just enough) electrical scars. His eyes lingered on them as his mind resumed the events that gave him these marks.

Naruto's revised attack strategy caught Sasuke completely off -guard, resulting in almost all of Sasuke's ribs being cracked, and on top of that the force and velocity of Naruto's Jutsu propelled the two back where Sasuke had launched from with said boy slamming into the rock which caused even more damage to his body. However, at the moment of impact Sasuke slammed his lightning-covered hand down on Naruto's back, and while the Kybui's chakra cloak prevented the lightning from piercing into the jinchuuriki's back, the cloak could not stop the lighting around it from severly frying it. The burns were at least third degree. The fox's chakra had started to heal Naruto right away but was interrupted as the two boys slammed into the hard rock wall behind them, and was further prevented by the two plummeting down to the bank of the river below them, followed by a plethora of falling rocks. Fortunately for Naruto all those rock landed on Sasuke, knocking him out, and causing his transformation to recede back to normal.

As the blonde trudged towards his rival the chakra shroud disapated into the injuries on his back causing them to heal but, leaving the pattern made by the lightning an angry red that would remain for the rest of his life. The strain on his body caught up to him with a furious vengeance immediately forcing Naruto onto the dirt below him, face a mask of pure pain, body on fire. The absolute worst was his tenketsu- they felt as if lightning itself was surging through them, tearing apart his chakra pathways. He welcomed the merciful bliss of unconsciousness.

Tears welded up in Naruto's cerulean eyes as he remembered what occurred when he awakened three hours later in a hospital bed back in Kohona. The doctors had placed him on his stomach to keep pressure off of his burned back which had been rubbed with the bear minimum of cooling geal since his new scars were still hot, and the amount of painkillers he received were barely half of what he needed turning the feeling of being torn apart by lightning to being baked by the heat of a desert. When he came to, Naruto saw that his teammat Sakura was there . He had expected to be thanked by his pink-haired crush, and maybe dinally get her to at least go out to dinner with him.. Those hopes were soon burned into nothing as his comrade, subjected him to a barrage of harsh ridicule. Sakura mostly threatened his life over how he hurt "Her precious Sasuke-kun" and how Naruto will never be liked or loved by her or anyone else. It would have gone further if not for a massive amount of KI*( killing intent) being directed solely on them. Sakura practically crapped her pants, and looked the source of her suffering- the bear - masked ANBU.

After promptly throwing the ungrateful person out of Naruto's room, bear proceeded to administer the painkillers Naruto really needed turning his feeling of burning in the desert to nothing. The only thing Naruto could now feel was the emotional pain that ruled his mind. He couldn't believe that she said those words to him! Why?! He brought Sauke back like he promised, and yet she were complaining about the condition Sasuke was in!? She knew Sasuke wasn't going to just give up, and come back right? Sasuke had to come back by force it was the only way! His mind unable to comprehend the situation screamed "ERROR DOES NOT COMPUTE!" And abruptly shut down.

Upon seeing Naruto shut down bear's fists clenched with as much force as a closing bear trap, and after taking a couple of very deep breaths to reign in his emotions on the outside that is, but inside, oh boy. Pissed didn't even begin to describe it.

"Naruto deserves a promotion, and a medal for keeping the uchiha brat out of that snake's hands!"

In bear's mind Naruto should be finally getting the respect he deserved for this mission, and for being the container of the Kybui. Bear knew damn well who the boy's parents were. Bear was good friends with Minato, and Kushina having been a regular sparring partner with the latter. He was ecstatic when he found out Kushinai was pregnant, Kakashi the same way.

Then came the Kybui. The control bear had over his anger had melted as it came back with a friend... Rage. Pure,molten,rage. The feeling consumed him as he thought about the attack, however it was not the Kybui he was incensed at no, it was Minato Namikaze the Fourth Hokage. While bear himself did not use fuinjutsu he sure did study it so he knew that summoning the Shinigami was complete overkill, and he had Kushina with him who was an UZUMAKI who were also MASTERS of the SEALING ARTS! Why the HELL DID HE NOT ASK HER IF SHE KNEW ANY OTHER SEALS THAT COULD SEAL THE DAMN FOX, and of course we can't forget about her BIJUU RESTRICTING CHAINS! Bear knew she had just given birth, but he saw that it didn't stop her from fighting, but he couldn't understand why neither of them thought to use a different sealing method. From his own research before the Kybui's attack THREE other methods that worked just as well existed, and didn't require the user to die. It wasn't enough that Minato died no, Kushina had to die as well. On top of that it wasn't enough for Naruto to be parentless that old fool Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, thought it would be a good idea to tell the VILLAGE whose people didn't know a SINGLE THING about sealing that the Kybui who just DEVASTATED and KILLED HUNDREDS of their loved ones was sealed inside of Naruto thinking that he would be accepted!? Yeah, right the first thing the assholes did was call for his death, and the law about not telling the younger generation about Naruto didn't do sh-

"Bear!" a male voice that whispered loudly to him ripped bear from his thoughts . Turning to give his attention to the whoever had disrupted his train of thought. It was a lion - masked ANBU with a black, hooded cloak.

"Come on", he began "The councils, and the Hokage are meeting to discuss the retrieval mission, and what to do with lord Uchiha, and the demon brat. It's our shift to guard the meeting chamber". Bear nodded using every iota of his self control to restrict himself from taking a rusty kunai out so could he slowly cut lion's balls off. Using shunshin the two ANBU teleported to their separate hidden posts within the council chambers. Bear ignored most of what was being said as it focused on the injuries, and the battles the other members of the Sasuke Retrieval Team, Shikamaru Nara, Neji Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Choji Akimichi fought. While he did take note of their bravery, and thought to congratulate them when his shift was over, bear was looking foward to seeing what the Uchiha's punishment was for his treachery.

He wasn't the only one either, the heads of the Nara, Inuzuka, Akimichi, and Aburame clans were as well. In their opinion Sasuke was finally going to get what he needed, a good ass beating. The Uchiha had gone on long enough thinking he was able to get away scott-free with anything, especially with his deeds in the academy. During spars he purposely broke his fellow student's bones, and used brutal taijutsu techniques to win the fights while his opponents were limited to the style taught at the academy. It was thanks to the teachers playing favorites with the Uchiha that he didn't get the proper discipline that he sorely needed. They did not approve of the villagers constantly inflating his ego, contributing to the Uchiha's belief that he was a god in human form. If not for the them, then this would not be happening.

"Now that the debriefing is out of the way" Began a civilian council member. " We can begin to discuss executing the demon." Silence. Wait for it...

"WHAT!?" Four voices, and an unknown, unseen fifth shouted out in surprise, and anger. As the civilians were looking around for the fifth voice, the shinobi were starring at a wall(which had a hidden compartment for a certain ANBU) in complete shock. Coughing into her hand the Godaime Hokage, Tsunade Senju, captured evryone's attention.

"With that distraction out of the way", she shot a quick glare at the wall. "We will focus on the current matter. Tell me, civilian. Why should I execute one of my shinobi for accomplishing a mission that we told him to do whatever it takes to succeed, and do I need remind you of a certain law that is still in effect?" She asked sternly.

"This is not about the mission," he started off, "It is about how the... boy accessed his other power." The council member answered forcing himself to use the word "boy". Tsunade did not say anything using her eyes to signal the man to continue. The council member admittedly had some good points, his focus was on the highly corrupting nature of the Kybui's chakra, and how by using it more could eventually turn Naruto against Konoha, even if he is not relying on it, the possibility was there. Another matter he addressed was the villagers; In the villager's eyes Naruto would need to be killed as no doubt Sasuke had told the doctors of Naruto's use of the bijuu's chakra. It would only be a matter of time before enough people knew, and when they did, there would be a massive riot calling for the blonde's head. The point of execution was to keep the village under control. There was not enough shinobi available for crowd control, as they were still repairing the from the combined invasion of Suna and Oto.

When the councilman finished his piece he left an internally shocked shinobi council. They had not thought of any of the situation that could- no would, it would happen the villagers, they HATED Naruto. Wanted nothing more than to see him dead. Sasuke on the other hand, was worshipped by them. He was their god. Naruto had injured him. Therefore it was completely logical to assume that yes, the villagers would rise together to slay what had harmed their god. However this was not an easy decision to make for Tsunade. She loved Naruto, she truly did, but, her duty as Hokage had to come first; she had taken an oath to put the villager above all else. Heavily preparing herself mentally for what she was about to do, taking a deep breath, and hardening her heart she said the words that unkowningly would free Naruto from Konoha.

" This decision will be voted on,Minato, Kushina, Naruto forgive me." She had no idea of the future consequences her choice would bring.

Pain was what woke Naruto up. The pain of someone slapping your recently electrified back hard. Talk about a crappy wake up call. He would have screamed but a gloved hand quickly covered his mouth.

"Shut up," A harsh, and cold voice whispered. Naruto turned his head to see two ANBU; one with a lion mask, the other wearing a hawk-like one. The two had apparently taken off all of the medical equipment attached to him. Before the jnchuuriki could question them, his face was shoved into the pillow on the hospital bed, his arms were bound behind his back with ninja wire, the same with his legs, and there a kunai pressed against his throat. What the hell was going on!? Visible eye darting in every direction at neck -break speeds they finally settled at the ANBU with the lion mask, who had his knee pressed into Naruto's back, causing said person much pain, and was also the one shoving Naruto's head into the pillow sideways so the restrained blonde could see above him.

"Hey Kybūi guess what?" lion asked in a sickly gleeful voice.

"Hehehe, the councils, and Hokage have reached a vote." He began with a sinister chuckle.

"That vote was for your execution." Eyes widened to an impossible as degree Naruto stared in disbelief.

"Hokage-sama has finally started taking her job seriously. Ah, don't feel bad. Look at it this way, your death will make the entire village happy." lion finished adding the last two parts when he noticed the tears began to cascade down Naruto's face.

"Come on, let's go," hawk interjected,"the sooner we deliver the demon the sooner we ca-" THUNK! SQUELCH! Hawk's sentence, and both of his and lion's lives were literally cut off via a kunai through hawk's mask that sunk deep into his forehead, and lion's quite literally due to having his head chopped off by a tanto. Through his vision, blurry due to tears, Naruto could just barely make out the figure of a man. The figure was gently laying down what was most likely the bodies of the two recently killed ANBU so as not to make a sound. Vision still blurred Naruto could see the figure make its towards him, causing Naruto to try to wiggle away but, two hands grabbing his shoulders prevented this by putting his body in a siting position. He felt a hand remove itself from his body, closing his eyes he waited for the blow... But instead he felt something wiping the tears out of his face.

Confused Naruto opened his eyes, and was greeted to the sight of a bear masked ANBU. The man reached up to his mask, taking it off to reveal dark, brown eyes, however the eyes only furthered Naruto's bewilderment, the ANBU was...crying? Why? No the better question is how? This was an ANBU. These guys underwent training that taught them to turn off their emotions. They were the most composed and calm shinobi in the village, they were the ideal shinobi: Stoic, and in complete control of themselves. So... What had caused this one to cry? Naruto was so absorbed in his thoughts , that when the ANBU grabbed him again he jumped in slight surprise only to thrown into shock when he was pulled into a tight hug. Mouth agape, eyes wide Naruto was completely flabbergasted, and only one thought in his mind... WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON!?

Bear let go of Naruto, stood up used his wrist to wipe the tears out of his eyes, and donned his mask. Looking at the bodies, and the rather large pool of blood that had formed. Cursing himself for not controlling his emotions bear took out a sealing scroll that he used for wanted nuke-nin, and bandits. Quickly putting the lifeless bodies, along with the blood in the scroll, bear unsealed a pair of black pants, and a long, black, hooded cloak. Handing the clothing to Naruto-who quickly put them on realizing what bear was planning- the ANBU then proceeded to carry Naruto in a piggyback position. Giving the room a quick scan to see if there was any evidence of his betrayal, bear whispered to Naruto.

" I know your confused, when your safe everything will be explained. First I have to get you out of Konoha,like we should have done twelve years ago, soon you will remember." Bear thought the last two parts to himself.

Finally, Naruto would be away from this hellhole, but first bear had to get to Naruto to the only other person who truly cared, who - unknown to Naruto - had protected him from the shadows with bear's help.

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I promised Kushina I would protect you before you were born, and I have no excuse for not always being able to defend you from the village's hate, however it ends tonight. I just have to get you to him". With that final thought, bear jumped out the hospital widow, onto the rooftops . Soon the ANBU had spead his way out of the hidden leaf with his once-more charge, never noticing the small splotch of blood underneath the mattress on the hospital bed.

Prologue end

Yo Grey-blueflames here with the adopted Uzumaki, and the Wagtails. First thing before anything else, I would like to thank Haseo55 for allowing me to take over this story. I have big plans for it. The Prologue is done, and the second post will be the first chapter. Next post I will explain some of what i have plannned. I don't really wanna say anything else cause i wanna get the first chapter up and running ASAP so I'm just going to ask for some constructive criticism since this my first fanfiction. R&R, and flamers shut up or I'll send Karasuba to your house.