AN: In all my other stories there's like a little bit of darkness in Naruto but in the core, they're pretty good people. But in this story…

Well… Naruto's going to be kind of a scumbag.

But a cool one.

My First Dark Naruto Fiction.

Enjoy.

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It was a rainy day.

The sky was covered with dark gray storm clouds angry about something only they could know about. The sun refused to shine or even share its warmth in a bout of childish selfishness. All the birds had escaped to find shelter and the animals had gone home to tend to their young and family. Even the people of Kohagakure no Sato stayed home on this day feeling that something sinister was afoot. There was something in the air that made people cringe when the thunder clapped and lightning flashed.

A tall pale man stood, watching a baby sleep in a crib.

He was a in a plain room filled with a steady beeping of a heart monitor. He watched the blonde baby that was in a capsule like crib. The room was completely white and devoid of life. Most hospital rooms were that way. What was the point of decorating a place where people came to die and to have their dreams crushed? Most people died here. The difference was whether it was a physical death or a spiritual one.

The baby had been crying hysterically when he was first brought in. But now he just lay in his crib, despite being connected to a dozen different machines, sleeping and snoring faintly. The man licked his lips as a reflex, tucking one of the long strands of his black hair behind his ear. His finger brushed against the cloth of his forehead protector. He felt a faint smile touch his lips.

Orochimaru wore the Konohagakure standard ninja uniform, the dark blue slacks with bandages tied around his pants and the green chounin flak jacket. His hand which had just tucked his hair behind his ear went towards his hip pouch which contained kunai, scrolls, shuriken and various other weaponry that he so favored.

He half twisted his body in an instant, throwing a kunai behind him.

The kunai stabbed itself into the wall making a little crackling noise.

But the baby did not awake.

A slender youth with a shock of white hair stood by the door way, one eye closed and the other wide with shock. His hair dropped a little bit to the front, covering parts of his face in shadow. He had a crutch on one side but it dropped to the floor with a loud sound. Most of his face was covered by a mask that extended to his torso.

"It's rude to spy on your elders," Orochimaru muttered with a smile. "Boy."

Kakashi stood frozen by the speed that the sannin had just displayed. He knew that if Orochimaru had wanted to he could have killed him right there and then. Kakashi had been in plenty of life and death situations but this…

It was almost as if death had already been decided.

"W-what are you doing here?" Kakashi gulped pushing his fear to the back of his mind. "Are you here to look over Naruto?"

Orochimaru turned his gaze back to the boy. It was a pity that Kakashi had the Sharingan. If Orochimaru had gotten his hands on it earlier perhaps he could have taken it for himself but by now it was most likely already completely adapted to Kakashi's own chakra system. Kakashi was a talented ninja even without the sharingan but having it would most likely get him more famous than he ever would have. The only reason that Kakashi was able to use it was because he received it only a short time after the sharingan had been awakened. If the Sharingan had been possessed by the Uchiha for a bit longer it would have rejected Kakashi's chakra.

But such a thing was life.

Full of chances and missed opportunities.

Orochimaru licked his lip once more, feeling his long tongue wet them.

Perhaps it wasn't a missed opportunity yet.

"I-If you don't answer my question," Kakashi stuttered, bending down and picking up his crutch. "I'm going to go grab someone."

In a display of casual speed Orochimaru appeared behind the young jounin, already having closed the door. Kakashi leaped forward towards the crib where the blonde baby lay only for something to wrap around his ankles and trip him.

It bit him.

Kakashi felt the poison spread around his nervous system immediately, almost as if one drank a cool glass of water on a hot day. It spread from his leg to his stomach to his head to the tips of his fingers. Kakashi tried to scream when the muscles in his throat contracted. The only sounds Kakashi heard were his own strangled chokes and his feeble attempt to breath.

Kakashi saw form the corner of his vision Orochimaru's ninja sandals. The soon to be known as the copy cat ninja turned over, clutching his throat and his eyes red. He tried in vain to make some kind of noise but only some kind of choked gurgling sounds came out.

Orochimaru stepped over Kakashi as if he was stepping over a puddle. The snake that was coiled around Kakashi's leg unwound itself, going back into the sleeves of Orochimaru's pants. The Sannin approached the baby once more cocking his head to the side as if studying a new type of specimen.

"You know," He began to speak, ignoring Kakashi's animalistic noises coming from his attempts to breathe. "I plan to leave the village soon if not tonight." He smirked and looked at Kakashi whose face was turning purple as if they were sharing a joke. "But you should already know by now that since you heard this you must either die or I plan to leave the village tonight."

Kakashi was doing anything but paying attention to the snake sannin's words, clutching his own throat, forcing chakra into his own body and doing whatever he could to regain a sense of control.

"But I'm all too alone in this endeavor." Orochimaru looked down at the babe. "I get lonely easily you see."

He cast out a hand and stroked Naruto's cheek. "I could use a loyal servant."

He turned around leaning on the crib and lifted one hand in dramatic flair, sighing heavily. "It would be better if I could take his body for my own but… unfortunately his status as a Jinchuuriki prevents me from doing even that."

Orochimaru shrugged and the smirk found its place on his face again. "But then again, I could simply just use him as one of my loyal enforcers. Jinchuurikis, with just the right amount of control and training, can become very powerful very fast you know."

"Don't you think so Jiraiya-kun?"

Jiraiya sat on the window next to the crib hunched over. He was wearing the same clothes as Orochimaru minus the hiate. His body was wet with the rain that was pouring outside. His long white hair dripped a few droplets of water on the capsule. One of the drops landed on the baby. Naruto started frowning and cringing in shock of the coldness but fell asleep once more, the sounds of his snore and the beeping of the heart monitor becoming synchronized once more.

"Orochimaru," Jiraiya's tone was friendly but his eyes were anything but.

They were screaming murder.

"Get away from him this instant." The last part of his sentence came out in a half growl.

"No can do Jiraiya," Orochimaru turned around slowly facing his former comrade. "I plan to take this child with me."

"The ANBU and Sensei is on their way here right now." Jiraiya inched a bit closer to the baby. He cursed himself for the impatience when Orochimaru's eyes flickered to his foot then back to the man's face.

Kakashi was half passed out. He wouldn't die. His chakra should be forcing the poison out of his system by now through the sweat glands.

He got ready to fight.

Orochimaru took out a kunai with one hand stabbing towards Jiraiya. The toad sannin jumped off of the window sill taking out a kunai of his own and throwing it at Orochimaru. The snake user leaped away to the corner of the room, sticking on the ceiling corner like some bizarre spider out of a bad science fiction movie. He hissed and opened his mouth, shooting out a snake which shot out towards Jiraiya. Jiraiya formed hand seals immediately in response, his white hair elongating and shrouding the man in his own hair. The snake, too late to respond, wrapped itself around the man constricting him. The hair, which were as hard as steel needles, pierced through the snake. The snake hissed once before dissolving into skin and nothing more.

"You always were too slow." Orochimaru taunted.

Jiraiya's eyes widened.

Orochimaru sat on the window sill of the room again holding the crying Naruto tucked underneath one arm.

Jiraiya's hair receded and returned to normal.

He cast out a hand towards the two. "L-let him go Orochimaru… please. He's just a baby." Jiraiya frowned almost as if crying. "Please… if you have an ounce of humanity in you left… let him go."

"Shut up." Orochimaru snapped, the melodic tone in his voice leaving him, replaced by something ugly. "What do I care?"

Jiraiya put one arm behind himself and narrowed his eyes. "Orochimaru… if you do this… it doesn't matter how many times Sensei pardons you. There will be nothing left of you. I will find you, track you to the ends of the earth, to even hell itself and rip you apart with my own hands."

"I'll kill you."

"I'd like to see you try."

Orochimaru fell backwards through the window.

"NARUTO!" Jiraiya screamed immediately following suit.

Orochimaru was falling backwards with the rain, clutching the crying baby with both arms, hugging it to his chest. His long black hair, which was tied into a pony tail, was pointed upwards at the side. Jiraiya was a few feet above Orochimaru his posture the same as if he was diving to reduce wind resistance and catch the snake sannin.

Orochimaru pointed his legs towards his former teammate. From both sleeves of his pants a snake shot out, coiling around each other and heading for the toad sannin. Jiraiya took out a kunai, holding it in reverse grip and beheaded them just before they could reach him.

Another snake was right in front of Jiraiya's face.

The white haired jounin looked for just an instant to see Orochimaru wiping his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt. Jiraiya cursed himself for forgetting about that part. He quickly flung his head down, channeling chakra into his hair. His hair became hard as steel again, the spikes impaling the snake, which had its jaws open, in a dozen different places.

Orochimaru flipped at the last second, landing lightly on his feet. He ran towards the edge as Jiraiya landed right behind him with a loud crash, throwing up a small cloud of dust. Jiraiya chased after his teammate while forming hand seals.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu." Jiraiya muttered while forming hand seals while holding the kunai flat like a scroll. At the last seal he purposefully nicked his thumb on the kunai leaving a bit of blood on it. Then channeling the chakra into the kunai that he molded he threw it towards Orochimaru.

Orochimaru leaned to the side almost as if he could sense the weapon coming. The kunai, its tip wet with Jiraiya's blood, stabbed itself in front of Orochimaru only to create a large cloud of smoke. The snake sannin cursed and stopped as the cloud cleared away.

The rogue ninja recognized the orange and blue toad as Gama, one of Jiraiya's favorite summons. It was currently wearing samurai armor and charged itself at Orochimaru, its body poised for a shoulder tackle.

The jounin leaped over it at the last second, using one hand to touch its head.

Then he slipped.

'Shit,' Orochimaru cursed inwardly. 'It's body is covered with oil.'

The toad turned around and opened its mouth shooting its tongue at the snake user. Orochimaru felt the elongated organ wrap around his ankle much to his ironic displeasure, and slam him on the ground.

Jiraiya appeared on top of Orochimaru, meeting him face to face with a kunai poised at his neck.

"Release him Orochimaru," Jiraiya growled. "That's enough."

"I'm surprised I was even able to reenter the village," Orochimaru said with a smile, holding Naruto to his chest. "I can't believe my little joke about 'traveling the world' worked."

"We trusted you." Jiraiya snapped back. "We thought… we thought you'd changed. That the rumors were untrue… that…"

"What?" Orochimaru cocked his head to the side. "That I'm not the monster everybody thinks I am?"

"You're NOT!" Jiraiya yelled.

There was silence.

Jiraiya looked at his friend. Orochimaru had come back to the village and went to the Sandaime first thing. Jiraiya had been summoned to the village as well since it was a time of crisis. Jiraiya though it was fishy that the snake sannin had only decided to come back now but he didn't voice this, trusting his teacher's good will. But they both knew that something was up, that the slimy bastard was plotting something. Maybe he came back to gather the data of some of his old experiments or to perhaps take Anko with him.

But they'd never have imagined that Orochimaru would kidnap Naruto.

"I trusted you…" Jiraiya muttered, his face downcast. "I thought of you as a brother."

"That's too bad." Orochimaru muttered. "Because I don't."

Then he melted into mud, being washed away with the rain.

Jiraiya's eyes widened.

"When-" Then he realized it.

Orochimaru, after jumping out of the window, had a split moment out of Jiraiya's line of sight. He must have created a clone and used a transformation technique or something else to get away. He didn't need his clone to fight. He just needed it to run in the opposite direction.

Jiraiya fell to his knees, clutching the mud which was escaping through his fingers.

His screams were lost among the flashes of lightning and the claps of thunder.

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AN: Ending it here for chapter one. Did you like it? I know Naruto didn't appear at all but.. well… don't worry. Next chapter will be a LOT LOT LOT longer. Review plz.