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From the Mind of 26-Lord-Pain…
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Voice: From tHE DaY of YOUr BIRth I haVE watchED you GRow…
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Naruto sits next to his sensei Iruka, a strange look on his face. "What's the matter Naruto?" Iruka questions while finishing with his ramen and the blond looks over to him before sighing.
"Sometimes, I feel like something is watching me… something dark…" Naruto says and Iruka blinks once before raising a brow.
"What exactly?" He asks and Naruto shakes his head.
"I don't know… but I can feel it everywhere I go, in every alley, in every dark corner… it's there." Naruto says softly and causes Iruka to give an involuntary shudder of fear before the blond turns to him with worried eyes. "And it's getting stronger…" He then says causing the man to wonder what it was that Naruto was imagining… neither of them saw a pair of glowing eyes within the nearby shadows, nor did they hear the distorted, hissing laugh echo as the eyes vanished…
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Voice: And THEn YoU GaVe up ALL of yoUR POWer…
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A much Older Naruto walks down the streets of Konoha, his forehead free of his Hittai-Ate. "DOBE!" A scream comes and another man, this one with black spiky hair, grabs the blond. "What the FUCK do you think your doing?!" Uchiha Sasuke demands angrily and the blond boy merely chuckles to himself.
"What's it look like, Teme… I'm quitting being a ninja." Naruto says simply while closing his eyes and Sasuke snarls once more.
"WHY?! Why the FUCK are you quitting?! I thought you NEVER gave up on anything?! What happened to your dream of being Hokage!?!" Sasuke demands angrily and the blond haired boy chuckles heartlessly in response.
"Hokage? That's nothing more than a title to me now… I have no need for titles; I have no more need for battle… I just want all the killing to stop." Naruto offers and Sasuke narrows his eyes onto the blond before dropping him onto his ass.
"You've changed Dobe…" Sasuke says simply and the blond looks at him with a weary expression on his face.
"Times change, people change, things change… Sasuke… that's how the world works. Why should I be any different?" Naruto offers in reply before pushing himself up to his feet, only to stop when Sasuke puts a hand onto his shoulder.
"Things Change huh? Well I got news for you, Dobe. We have a score to settle you and I. And until we do, I'm going to make your life a living hell…" Sasuke states before stalking off, Naruto turning his head to watch the other man leave before shaking his head and then walking towards his apartment building for some rest…
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Voice: SHE was the ONE wHO MaDe you WeAK…
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Naruto stands in front of the old Konoha Orphanage, before his eyes, memories seem to come to life. Memories of his childhood, memories of his friend. "C'mon, Naruto. If the Caretaker finds us out her at this hour we'll be dead!" A girl with brown hair and chocolate eyes says while trying to get a young blond haired boy into the orphanage. The said boy merely turns to her with a cheeky, foxy grin on his face in response.
"Nah! I feel like taking a walk! Wanna come with Tenten?" The blond haired youth asks the girl as the memory fades and the older blond feels the faintest of smiles cross over his lips. Shaking his head soon after he walks into the orphanage, more memories playing through his mind while the shadows around him twist and turn…
"So many good times…" Naruto muses with a soft smile on his face before turning at a hall and stopping at what was once his and her room…
"Hey Tenten…" The young Naruto calls out once more and the girl looks at him with a raised eyebrow while she lays back on her bed.
"What?" She questions of the boy and he rubs the back of his neck while leaning into the wall beside his own, lumpy and uncomfortable bed.
"Why don't you ever try to get adopted?" Naruto asks and the brown haired girl blinks before giving him an odd look.
"Trying to get rid of me?" She asks with an amused grin and Naruto quickly shakes his head.
"N-No! It's just that everyone else tries to leave, but you just seem to want to stay here… why?" Naruto asks the girl and she gives him a fond smile before crossing her arms over her chest.
"Because… you're my family…" She says and Naruto watches as this memory fades as well, tears in his azure eyes and a soft smile on his face…
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Voice: BuT it NO longER MatTErs NoW ThAt I am HERE…
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Naruto walks the streets of Konoha, his eyes closed as lightning flashes above him. Sighing he walks onward, towards his destination while several ROOT AnBu are gathered down the road. "Well, well, well. Look who we've found." One muses and Naruto opens his eyes to see the ROOT AnBu and merely frowns.
"You might want to leave me alone… I'm not having a good day." Naruto states to the man simply before looking up as it then begins to rain. Shaking his head as his blond hair now laying flat against his face and head.
"Fuck you! We've got our orders! Get him!" The ROOT orders as the men with him lung at the blond, only for his eyes to glow a demonic red as a black tendril of energy suddenly lashes out of the shadows behind him, two more sets of red eyes then opening in the shadows as Naruto smirks. Screaming in fear two of the men are suddenly attacked by two spiky "Demon Heads" that curve over the boy's shoulders, another man suddenly impaled by a long spiked tentacle, all with red marking/lights over their obsidian black forms.
"GiVE tHeIr SoULS to ME…" A demonic, distorted, and hissing voice orders as the Demon Heads and Tentacle seem to follow its order. The Tentacle suddenly tosses the one ROOT Member to the side, the two Demon Heads reaching into the Chest of their victims and ripping out their hearts before devouring them. The final ROOT AnBu feels his eyes widen as he takes stumbling steps back while Naruto walks towards him.
"What the fuck are you?" The final ROOT questions with wide eyes and Naruto looks down at him with cold blue eyes.
"Truthfully… I don't know anymore… Besides that. I told you I wasn't having a good day." Naruto offers weakly then reminds before moving his hand towards the man, the Tentacle from before lashing out to impale the man before one of the Demon Heads lunge forward, ripping his heart out as the two heads then fight over the fresh meat…
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Voice: I AM your GiFt, Your LEGacy, Your DEStiny, Your CURSE…
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Naruto is sitting before the Kyuubi's cage, his eyes looking down to the water as the great beast looks down on him. "Worthless runt. Why are you here?" It suddenly demands and a hissing laugh answers its question instead, making its eyes widen in shock and what looks to be fear.
"He IS HeRE becAUSe wE no LONGer ReQUIre yOUr PreSENce HeRE KyUuBi!" The familiar voice of The Darkness echoes out as it slithers from every dark corner and corridor in the blond boys mind.
"N-NO! He… THAT LITTLE RUNT IS OF THAT BLOODLINE!?!" Kyuubi demands with obvious fear in its eyes till the slithering tendrils suddenly wrap around the Kyuubi's front legs. "No! You won't devour me! I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune! THE KING OF HELL!" Kyuubi calls out only for the Darkness to laugh at it while Naruto watches on with a morbid fascination as two familiar Demon-Heads then slither towards the cage.
"HeLL haS No FoRM, iT BenDS to MY whIM! If YoU aRE its KinG ThEN I am It's GOD!!" The Darkness retorts with evil laughter as it starts to devour the Kyuubi, the sharps ends of the tentacles digging into it's back and forcing it to the ground while the two Demon-Heads then lunge forward, snapping and chewing the flesh and muscle away from the Kyuubi's bones, causing the mighty demon to scream out in pain.
"All ShaLL be ConSUMed bY ThE DARKness!!" The Darkness calls out as the Kyuubi struggles for it's freedon, trying desperately to escape the ever growing power of The Darkness as Naruto watches on helplessly…
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Voice: And YOU wiLL BE my PuPPet…
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"THroUGH you, I WiLL DiSPLay my POWer…" A voice echoes within Naruto's mind as he runs down a long corridor. Panting, Naruto suddenly falls to his knees, gritting his teeth in pain as the ground, everything around him seems to glow an eerie off yellow color. Gritting his teeth, numerous flailing tendrils then sprout from his back, one arching forward and dragging him over to a corner.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" One of his pursuers cries out with wide, frightened eyes. Seconds later two "Demon Heads" sprout from the blonds Shoulders and snap with long sharp teeth towards the man, the tentacle from before arching forward to impale one of the men and lift him off the ground before throwing him to another man.
Gritting his teeth, Naruto feels several tentacles then wrap around his arms, making him throw Shuriken and man after man while a voice echoed in his mind. "ThrOUGh yOU, I aM BoRN!" The voice calls out while the two Demon Heads suddenly lunge at a man, snapping and chewing away at his flesh while the heads and tentacles pull Naruto, still throwing Shuriken into the men, his eyes glowing a demonic red as he does so.
As a man then tries to hide behind something, a part of the strange black mass forming out of the blond maneuvered off of him. Sliding along the ground it soon found the man and lunged at him, biting into his face before then lunging into his chest, devouring a heart with a snap of it's jaws and click of it's teeth. As it did, the other head suddenly turned blue while a black hole of some kind opened behind the last of the men, pulling them into it, and then exploding, sending all of the flying while Naruto looked on with wide, frightened eyes…
"YoU Are NoTHING BuT MY PuPPet!" The familiar, demonic distorted and hissing voice says evily to Naruto as he looks on with shock and horror to what he has done… "Ha hA ha… HaPPy BiRthDaY, MY nEW hOSt!" The Voice then says with an evil laugh while Naruto feels his body shake with horror obvious by his face…
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Voice: TrY aLL yoU LikE, YoU will NEVER ConTROL Me…
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Rolling out of the way of a strange zombie like creature's sword he then lunges at it, swinging his Kunai and taking it's head off of its shoulders. Breathing out a breath, the young man then walks along a dark path, journeying towards the distant moon. "StoLEn seCRets… yOU'lL fINd OnLy pAin awaTS…" The Darkness hissing tone echoes in the young man's mind, only for him to shake his head and make his way towards the moon.
Running without stopping, even for the men in his way, Naruto grimaces while seeing flashes of a dead man appear as lightning strikes down near him. Shaking his head he avoids Shuriken, Kunai, and the strange weapons that he'd found in this disturbing, forgotten land. Rolling to a stop at the bottom of a hill Naruto's eyes narrow before he runs up the side of the hill, a tree now before him, frowning Naruto closes his eyes and calls forth The Darkness…
Now before him is a disturbing sight, three horribly wounded and bleeding men are hung upside-down and right side-up on a strange pillar made of two elongated X's… "By Kami-sama…" Naruto whispers with horror and disgust clear in his voice before grasping his head with pain etched across his face.
"DEAth… OnE of THE FoUr…" The Darkness states while Naruto pants heavily before looking back up and sees two old swords in the hands of the lowest man on the strange pillar. Walking to it, he stops when the lowest man's eyes open and look at him with empty sockets.
"Do you know, the word of Hope?" The being asks in a haunting, raspy voice and Naruto slowly lowers himself down to one knee and leans forward to whisper into its ear.
"Tenten…"
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Voice: The DARKness shall DEVour you…
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Grunting and gasping in pain Sasuke drags his bloody, battered form back, away from the creature Naruto has become. "This IS ThE LasT One, FINish hIM!" The Darkness orders a familiar blond as he walks towards Sasuke. Looking up with wide eyes the dark eyed Uchiha he sees the blond slowly stalk towards him, azure eyes distant before he throws several shuriken around the room, the bladed weapons shattering the lights around the room instantly.
"WhEN He DieS, I OWN You." The Darkness whispers into Naruto's mind before the blond shakes his head slowly.
"You just had to kill her didn't you…" Naruto whispers with a strange dark tone before seconds later his body is changed, becoming a demonic amalgam of himself and that of The Darkness, Sasuke's eyes widening in shock and horror.
"TaKE His liFE SO ThaT I CaN TAKE yours!" The Darkness whispers into Naruto's mind as he walks silently towards the other man, eyes cold and distant.
"K-Kami-Sama! What the hell ARE you?!" Sasuke demands loudly before gasping as Naruto levels one of the two Darkness' Blade at his throat…
"KiLL Him aND lOSe YoUR Soul TO mE!" The Darkness urges as Naruto sighs softly before closing his glowing eyes, opening them only a second later to glare fiercely into Sasuke's own eyes, the head of The Darkness Snapping and biting…
"I Am MEreLY WhAt YoU haVE MaDe mE, TeME…" Naruto says darkly with the Darkness' own distorted Hissing voice.
"P-please Naruto! C-Calm down, w-we d-don't have to end it this way!" Sasuke says while fiding his back is to the wall and his body shakes, the Darkness laughing viley as he does so. "PLEASE! I'm begging you Naruto, Forgive me! I was being rash! Just like you are! I'm begging you on my soul to forgive me!" Sasuke exclaims while Naruto merely narrows his glowing eyes on him.
"FoR mE, mAKe The maGGoT SuFFER." The Darkness orders and for once… Naruto doesn't resist his own inner demon as he reaches down and graps Sasuke by the front of his clothes…
"No… nO SaSUke… fOR yOUr CrIMEs, OnLy DEATH awaits…" Naruto utters in that same vile, evil tone as the Darkness…
"Do IT NaRUTo, NOW!" The Darkness orders once more, and Naruto closes his glowing eyes once more… before finally using his weapon to end this game once and for all at long last… "NoW YoU aRE MiNE… Mine!" The Darkness voice echoes as he does so…
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Naruto: And that… was the end of the line…
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NU: THE DARKNESS…
Voice: NoTHING EsCApes FrOM ThE DarkNEss…
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TBC…?
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AN: An Idea I had while listening to some of the music from and playing a little more of the Xbox 360 game "The Darkness". One of my personal favorite games actually as it just kicked more ass than a normal one. I still like DMC, MGS, and GOW, but I have a bit of a Soft Spot for a game that looks into The Darkness in and of one's soul… literally in this case. Tell me what you think, and if you think I should make this into a full length story… if not, well, maybe someone else would like a try… As a side note, not all of these scenes are in order…