Summary: Failing to rescue Sasuke, Naruto starts to see the corruption spread throughout Konoha when the council banishes him from his home. Furious and sad, Naruto awakens the blood of Sparda within himself, all his promises to Konoha broken by their actions. Kyuubi, feeling pity for the blonde, decides to aid him...by sending him to another dimension. Too bad he arrived falling.

Naru/Harem

Current Harem: Not yet decided.

Chapter 1: In the blood

"After receiving the mission report from Kakashi Hatake," Shimura Danzo said within the council room. "We regret to inform you- Naruto Uzumaki- that due to a majority vote, you have been banished from Konohagakure No Sato until such a time as you have complete mastery over the Kyuubi's chakra. You are to leave within 48 hours. If you do not, you shall be executed for trespassing."

The civilian council were smirking. Koharu and Homura looked distressed, looking at Naruto with sadness. Danzo remained emotionless outwardly, but was frowning inwardly. The Shinobi council glared at the civilians in disgust. Tsunade was holding her head in her hands, trying to hold back her tears.

Naruto Uzumaki looked on in disbelief. "WHAT?! WHY AM I BANISHED?!"

Danzo sighed through his nose. "In Kakashi Hatake's mission report, he noticed traces of the Kyuubi's chakra with his Sharingan. After annalyzing the destruction in the valley of the end, he made a conclusion that you caused most of the destruction and were very close to killing the last Uchiha when your mission was to return him to the village."

Naruto's fist clenched. "But...the Hokage has final say in case of all Shinobi, be it their fate if one betrays the village or otherwise!"

"Normally you would be correct," Danzo agreed. "However, the Fire Daimyo has decided that- in this particular case- the Hokage's vote is just like a normal council member."

The blonde felt his heart stop for just a second. All this hard work...everything he had done...for this?! He had taken down Gaara! He had saved the Nami No Kuni, and opened a trade relationship with Konoha! He had done the same for the Haru No Kuni! Konoha had prospered more than ever, because of him!

At that moment, the blonde felt something in him snap. He lowered his head, his hair shadowing his eyes. Slowly, very slowly, he undid his headband and let it slide to the ground. When he next looked up, everyone in the room cringed. Naruto's eyes and face showed no emotions. There were not any feelings. No anger. No sadness. Nothing. It was as Naruto had no reason to exist. He simply...was.

"As you wish," Naruto said emotionlessly as he heard Tsunade sob into her hands. He turned around, walking to the door. He stopped and looked back. "All promises I made with Konoha and it's people...are broken." Naruto slid off the necklace of the first Hokage and threw it to Tsunade, who caught it in confusion. "You were right baa-chan...being Hokage is a fool's dream."

"SHUT UP!" Mebuki Haruno screeched. "ALL OUR HOKAGE'S WERE NOT FOOLS, DEMON!"

Naruto glared back to Mebuki. "And yet you clearly thought the Yondaime was one."

"WE DID NOT!"

He snorted. "Then why did you try to kill me as a child?"

"BECAUSE THERE WAS A CHANCE THE DEMON COULD TAKE OVER!"

"So you thought that you, civilians, knew more than arguably the greatest Hokage to ever walk this Earth?" Naruto asked. "It shows just how much faith you had in your Hokage."

The civilian council were silent at that.

"That's what I thought..." He turned. With his piece said, Naruto walked out of the council office for the final time.

Naruto soon arrived at Training Grounds 7. He stared at the stump before walking over and pressing his right hand against it. "It was here..." Naruto mumbled. "That we became a team..." Naruto's emotions rushed out of him, showing anger, sadness, betrayal. He roared and something seemed to click. He began to change.

Naruto's body began to groan and he fell to his knees, yelling in pain. He began to grow taller until he was 5'7. All the baby fat on his face seemed to burn off. His arms grew longer as well. His hair took on a silver tint. His whisker marks greatly faded, and his hair fell flat against his head without his headband. He now looked about 15 or 16 instead of 13. The largest change- however- was in his right arm.

It began to convulse, growing slightly bulkier than the rest of his body. The skin turned into a dark crimson. Cracks seemed to spread along his arm, leaving a black void in the place the cracks spread. All of his fingers sharpened, as if they were claws, and also turned black with the cracks. Soon however, a blue light spread along the cracks and filled his fingers, giving his arm a slightly demonic appearance.

These changes proved to be too much for Naruto, and he fell into unconsciousness.

Naruto awoke in the sewer that was his mind. He groaned and slowly sat up, and flinched when he saw his right arm. "Wh-what...WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"

A cold chuckle came from the cage in front of him. "So...the blood of that traitor DOES still live..."

The blonde looked up with cold eyes. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN FUZZBALL?!"

Kyuubi laughed. "That arm is a result of the blood of a certain devil in your body, gaki. The blood of the legendary demon knight, Sparda. That little arm of yours was once used by one of his descendants. It is called Devil Bringer."

Naruto looked to the smirking face of the fox demon, before looking at his new arm. He clenched his fist. "Oi...Kyuubi..."

"Hm? What?"

He glanced up. "I...look. I don't like you. And you don't like me."

"Stop stating the obvious," Kyuubi rolled it's crimson eyes.

"But we should at least learn to get along," Naruto continued. "So I propose a deal."

Kyuubi hummed. "What kind of deal?"

Naruto gulped. "You clearly have experience with this arm of mine. So I assume that you'll be able to help me out with it and these...changes to my body. If you help me master this power and train...I will let you out of the cage." Naruto raised his new arm as Kyuubi began to speak. "I will not be granting you freedom. But- as a show of my trust- I will open the cage and let you out. I assume I can also change the scenery in my mind scape, so I will also make it better for you to live in."

The demon with 9 tails remained silent for a time, considering the offer. "Interesting...you make a good deal...but I refuse."

Naruto grit his teeth. "And why?"

"You get more out of the deal then me," Kyuubi said simply. "I want my freedom. If you release me, I will help you out."

He sighed. "I can't! If I release you, I'll die!"

Kyuubi grinned. "Ah. THAT is where you are wrong. That arm symbolizes more than you think. That is proof that your blood has activated, turning you into a half devil. If you were only human you would die since your coils have been adjusting to demonic chakra all this time, and the sudden loss of it would kill you. However, you are a half devil now. As such, you will have your own store of demonic chakra, meaning you will not die."

Naruto looked to be having an internal debate within this already internal debate. He looked to his arm...then Kyuubi. He sighed through his nose. "Anything else?"

"Yes," Kyuubi smirked. "Four conditions. One: You drop that god forsaken mask of stupidity. I can't deal with that if I'm training you. Two: You shall owe me 2 favours to be redeemed at any time, no matter what they are. Three, you get rid of that atrocious outfit! I refuse to train you while you have that!"

He growled, but reluctantly nodded. "And the fourth?"

The demon grinned now. "To get away from this world, you will let me transfer you to another dimension. We will both leave this world. Konoha will never pursue you. Akatsuki will never get to you. And because their plan won't be able to be completed, this world will never die."

Naruto looked horrified now. Leaving Konoha was one thing. But...the dimension? The world he had known all his life? Could he really do that? Naruto grabbed his head, trying to make a choice...he looked up. "I have a condition of my own then..."

"Name it," Kyuubi told him.

"Your name."

The Kyuubi blinked. "What?"

"I want your name," Naruto repeated. "I refuse to call you by your title. I will free you. We can leave this dimension, I'll get rid of the jumpsuit, and I'll owe you two favours to be redeemed at any time no matter what they may be, in exchange for the training AND you telling me your name."

The demon sighed through it's nose. "Very well...my name is Kurama."

Naruto nodded. "Nice to meet you Kurama. Just to be safe though, I'll free you AFTER we leave the dimension. Is that acceptable?"

Kurama nodded. "Very."

The blonde sighed, turning. "I guess I can finally wear that outfit I've been hiding for awhile...good thing it's probably the right size now..." and with that, Naruto faded from the mind scape.

The demon giggled as it's voice became more angelic and feminine. "Soon Naruto-kun...you will be all mine...and nobody shall stand between us..."

Naruto awoke in front of the stump. He looked up. It was night. The sun had been setting when he arrived, so he had been asleep for about an hour or so. He got up and headed to his house. He used a Transformation Jutsu to look like he normally did. He didn't need anyone beating him up because of his arm. Once he arrived at home, he undid the transformation.

Taking a deep breath, Naruto removed his jacket, shirt and pants. He threw them into a trash can, mumbling, "Sorry...but I don't need you any more..." He then walked over to his bed and pulled a suitcase out from underneath it. He undid it, taking a deep breath as he slowly opened it and put the clothes on. He was now wearing a long, black-purple and red coat with a strange, blood red sword insignia sewn into both shoulders. He also wore a red zip-up hoodie/vest underneath his coat, a navy muscle-shirt beneath that, and a pair of dark blue pants.

In addition, he wore two rings on his normal hand: one on his index finger that had the same insignia as on his shoulders on its face, and another on his ring finger which had a rose design on its face, identical to the designs on his belt buckle, coat clasp, and coat buttons. (Think of Nero's outfit from DMC 4)

He then pulled out a guitar case out from underneath his bed and opened that. A silver device- which Naruto had dubbed a gun- lay there. He lifted it up and pumped some chakra into it. Pointing it to his bed, he pulled the trigger and a bullet of chakra fired into it, making a solid hole in the bed. "Perfect." He slid the gun into it's holster in his jacket. He then looked at the other parts in the guitar case. Reaching into it, he constructed it, until he was holding another weapon.

It had an ornately etched base, and appeared to be modelled after Kirigakure No Sato's popular blade, which was called the 'Great Knife', but its most unique feature is that it seemed to have been specially customized with a strange gear-like shift which, when pulled, would spray a flammable propellant across the blade and opponent, greatly increasing the power of its blows.

"Red Queen and Blue Rose..." Naruto said with a happy sigh as he strapped the sword on his back. "Honestly never thought I'd be able to use them." He looked to the mirror, staring at his new look. His whisker marks had all but faded, only being visible if you were very close. His hair now fell flat against his head without his headband. His silver tinted blonde hair seemed to glimmer in the lights above him.

'Okay Kurama," Naruto thought. 'I'm ready...'

Kurama actually frowned within the seal. 'There isn't anyone you want to say goodbye to?'

Naruto let out a hollow laugh, and Kurama cringed at the sound. "Kurama...we both know that very few people in this village care for me...one of them being Tsunade, and the other being Iruka and the Ichirakus...I don't want them to see me in this state..please...let's just go."

The kyuubi sighed. 'Okay. Just make the hand seal in the order I say.'

Kurama began to instruct Naruto, and he started making the hand seals at a rapid speed, his chakra building as he did so. Finally, he landed on the final seal. "Demon Arts: Dimensional Portal!"

Tsunade was drinking sake. Normally, Shizune would have taken the sake from Tsunade before she could do so, then the Hokage would do her paperwork. But this time, Shizune didn't stop her. Because of Naruto's banishment. She knew that Tsunade desperately needed this more than anything. The last senju sobbed as she drank her sake.

Suddenly, an ANBU appeared. "Hokage-sama! We have detected high levels of chakra coming from Naruto Uzumaki's apartment!"

Tsunade stood up. Even if Naruto was being banished, she wouldn't let anything bad happen to him. "ANBU! We are heading to his apartment now!" With that, she and the hidden ANBU vanished in a swirl of leaves.

Naruto stared at the blood red portal. "So this is the portal huh?" He observed. "It looks...different than I thought it would."

'What did you think it would look like?' Kurama asked curiously.

"Not important," Naruto said. He stepped towards it, when he felt presences behind him. He turned and saw Tsunade with an entire squad of ANBU behind her. "Shit..."

Tsunade glared, not recognising him. "Who are you and what have you done with my godson?!"

Naruto's eyes widened and his jaw set. "Excuse me...?"

The blonde Hokage growled. "You heard me! What have you done with my godson?!"

He roared. "YOUR MY GODMOTHER?! YOU LEFT ME IN KONOHA TO SUFFER?!"

Tsunade paled and stepped back as she realized that THIS was Naruto. He seemed to have changed...could he have used an illusion like hers to hide his appearance. "N-Naruto, I can explain."

"SHUT UP!" Naruto said through gritted teeth. "I was right after all...I can't trust any of you!" Naruto walked pulled out his gun and stepped into the portal. The ANBU tried to rush to him, but Naruto fired a bullet at their feet and they jumped back, surprised. "If any of you see me again," Naruto said darkly. "It will be because I'm visiting Ichiraku Ramen or Iruka. I never want to see any of you or the Rookie 12 again!" The portal closed, taking Naruto away from Konohagakure No Sato and the Elemental Nations.

Every one of Naruto's friends who heard of the events that occurred that day cried. They swore that, one way or another, they would find their friend and bring him back to Konoha...he was supposed to be their Hokage some day, after all.

Naruto walked out of the portal, glaring back through it as it closed. "Hmph. Stupid Tsunade...stupid ANBU...she was my fucking god mother and she left me behind!"

'Uh, gaki?' Kurama said, but Naruto didn't listen.

"What made her think I wanted to listen to her explanation?!" Naruto roared. "She shouldn't have left me behind to face the village! She should have taken me with her and taken care of me like a godmother should! But did she? NO!"

'Gaki.' Kurama said, a bit more forcefully, but Naruto was on a roll.

"What is there to explain?! I trusted her! I helped to bring her to the village! The least she could have done was tell me where the fuck she was all of my childhood?! Oh wait, I know! Drinking away her fucking sorrows with some god damn Sak-"

'GAKI!' Kurama roared.

"WHAT KURAMA?!" Naruto demanded.

'Look down.'

Naruto blinked, then looked down...only to see he was standing on nothing, high above the clouds. "..." he began to fall. "OH SHIIIIIIIT!"