"You've got to grow up sometime." ~Winona Ryder

Cold... Yes, that could be the word to describe it. It felt cold to the young brunette haired girl, colder than any material she had touched before. The metal was cold, but as the girl started fondling the Kunai and felt the warm sanguine running down her head, the kunai and the trail of blood bleeding slowly from her neck, she could only release a sigh, with eyes of shame and fear threatening to blur her vision with tears. Soon the girl started to weep as she fell to the ground knee first; clutching the kunai tightly causing more blood to flow from her small developing hands. She continued to mourn as she looked at the two charred bodies infront of her, "K-kaa-chan.. T-tou-san.." She started to cry more as her previous home began to burn down, much to her dismay. She couldn't worry about her possessions or dead parents as several bandits and a rouge shinobi had the young girl trapped and surrounded.

"It's all over now little lady," The rouge ninja said as he slowly prowled to the young weeping girl, "It's time for you to just... DIE!" The shinobi shouted as he kicked himself off the ground, jumping a great height while unsheathing his cat sabre sword.(1) Just as the smug man thrusted his sword for a killing blow, the girl looked up at the man with a fury of monstrous proportions. Though it wasn't her hateful glare that had the rouge scared out of his life, with the sword mere inches from her face frozen in place, he could see her eyes, had changed somehow. Instead of her pristine charcoal black eyes, he saw a cherry color red start to emerge in her iris with a black pinwheel beginning to form in place.

Suddenly the man found himself waking up on a cross, and the world was red and black. He froze when he saw the angry young girl again, "This is my world, and it's your death!" she yelled in anger as he soon began to watch his flesh be burnt over and over only to grow back after each time. "Only 30 hours and thirty minutes..." The girl spoke with venom in her voice.

Soon, on the outside the girl started looking at each of the bandits in anger, as the bandits were shocked when the rouge ninja fell on his knee and started coughing up blood, "Damn..." the rogue spoke as he fell on his back. All the bandits ran in fear as she looked at them with anger, 'They destroyed my life' she looked down at the rogue coughing and ignored him, looking up at them, her left eye flexed as it produced a powerful chakra burst 'Amaterasu!'

The group of ten bandits were completely obliterated by the black fire of heaven as the girl fell to her knees and coughed up blood, 'I-I used all the chakra I had..' she thought as she felt immense pain in her eyes and tapped her face and looked at her fingers. "B-blood?" She was taken out of her musings by the coughing chuckle of the rogue, "You just got the gift and already used it, what a natural."

She instantly looked at the home invader with fury, "What the hell do you mean! What do you know of this power, why did you kill my parents!?" The man chuckled, and spoke way too slow for the impatient child, "T-take off my mask, and f-find out." The girl slowly took off the mans mask, 'Am I seeing T-tears?' she was correct in the assumption he was crying. "H-Hello Kurisshi..."

Kurashiki slowly coughed blood out and leaked more tears, "W-why... Uncle, Why!?" Kurisshi's uncle slowly opened his eyes and she gasped when she saw his eye iris had transformed into a sanguine and black color, the black slowly formed a flower petal design. "W-what is that?" Kurisshi slowly asked in fear 'That doesn't look like a regular Sharingan'. The man coughed roughly for a few seconds, "here..." he took off his headband, the leaf headband crossed out and put it in front of her eyes. The young girl gasped again, "W-what is this?"

Her uncle gave a weak chuckle, "It's funny... Someone so weak, was destined to have such amazing eyes..." The girl stared in shock, "w-Wha-?" Her uncle cut her off again, "Your father, was going to start a revolution with Uchiha and the Village hidden in the Stone, to take over the Leaf." Kurisshi couldn't believe this, "B-But why?" Her uncle gave another weak chuckle, "He wanted to follow in his fathers footsteps I guess..." The man slowly started gasping for air and Kurisshi though she was angry with this man and wanted to kill him herself, could only hold onto him in a hug as he held her tightly, "I-I am sorry," the man slowly spoke, though his face was mainly covered, "I always loved my sister, and I've loved you my niece, and your father was a respectable kind man, but I did this, so Th-that the village c-could survive."

"I-I don-" The young girl stopped as he held his hand up, "You don't have to, Just keep your Sharingan a s-secret, don't let anyone know how p-powerful you become until you need it; and r-remember, don't let the v-v-village fall, this is the pride and joy of the U-Uchiha, a land of p-p-p." Her uncle couldn't finish as he slowly fell back from holding her and writhed on the ground a minute before his last breath came out and he was at peace.

Kurisshi slowly clutched the rogue headband and the bloody kunai again. 'My uncle killed our family, and I-I Killed him' she thought as she started crying even more, and soon rain started pouring down from the heavens, as if Kami was weeping for the child. Unbeknownst to her, a slow vortex started taking shape, and a man appeared from the vortex. Wearing an orange swirl mask with one eye hole in it, and a big black cloak with red clouds designed on the cloak, he slowly walked to the girl who continued to weep in the rain in silence.

"Child." the man spoke in a deep smooth voice, waking the girl from her trauma as she looked up at him, "W-Who are you?" The man adjusted his mask so she could slowly see the Mangekyo Sharingan forming in his eye, "A clan member, and honorary uncle..." She slowly formed an almost matching Mangekyo eye and the man nodded, "I can take you away from this disgusting village, you can help me achieve peace for this world." The girl thought that peace on this world was silly, but perhaps it was better going with this strange masked man than sitting in a village getting pity and being reminded of her horrible past few hours? "Okay," she nodded, "I will make peace on this world." The man nodded taking her hand as they both swirled in a vortex.

Soon enough after they left, a squad of Anbu with the Third Hokage in decked out battle gear had shown up to the scene, The Hokage grimaced at the bandits burning in a strong black fire, Kazuto on the ground dead, but he had somehow managed to defeat his brother, and he felt especially sad seeing Kazuto's sister dead on the ground by his own hand. The man truly loved their village, he was willing to kill his family who supported a revolt. "Men, it seems we failed here, everyone is dead, look for Kurisshi now, we must find her and keep her from harm!" The Anbu nodded as they all launched off, 'What have I done...' The aging man thought as he shook his head in sadness.

A FEW YEARS LATER

Life in the leaf village had never been better, the village had won several conflicts with other nations, people drank and sang every night, children would frolic through the streets. An older man dressed in white robes was polishing off four pictures in an office that overlooked the rest of the peaceful village. The old man smirked when he saw a yellow flash in the corner of his eyes.

"What are you doing in my office?" The older man asked with a smirk while the younger spiky blonde hair smiled in return, "Well, you passed it on to me I thought?" He questioned making the third Hokage Hiruzen chuckle. "Yes indeed, I believe I did give you the office."

Minato smiled and walked over to his newly earned desk and broke out a bottle of Sake, "I know Alcohol is a dangerous game, but lets make a toast!" Minato said with a grin making its way onto his face as Hiruzen nodded, "Yes, A toast," He said as he received his Sake glass from the younger man. "To new beginnings!" Minato said as Hiruzen nodded, "And to the leaf, and your incoming children."

Minato's grin grew goofier as he nodded with an even bigger smile, "Yes! Kushina has been moved to the tent in advance so that we can keep an eye on her and the seal, Jiraiya is supervising things as of now and I'm going there in an hour, will you come with me?" The Third nodded with a chuckle, "Of course," replied with a smile as he lit his pipe and blew out a waft of smoke, "Let me help with paperwork."

A few hours had past as the two Kage continued to work in the office, when an Anbu landed in the room, "Lord Hokage, Kushina-san is in labor." Minato snapped at attention, "Alright, thank you." He said holding onto Hiruzen and in a yellow flash they were gone.

A few hours of Kushinas excruciating yells of pain, and two baby boys were born. The oldest by a few minutes was finally wrapped in a blanket and he had a small patch of blonde hair and had Kushinas Violet colored eyes. The younger baby had a tuft of blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes. While the babies were sleeping peacefully, Minato wrapped his arm around his soon to be wife, "What should we name them kushi-Chan?"

Kushina smiled at the baby with violet eyes who had woken up and peered at his mother, "I like the name Zēn for him, I think it fits." Minato nodded happy, 'Zen is a fine name.'

The fiery redhead then set her eyes on her younger son, "We should name him Naruto ," A small smile appeared on Minato's face, "I love it Kushi-Chan."

Minato and the Third went across the room to get more towels for Kushina, when all hell broke loose. A series of explosions sounded off outside, as a vortex appeared in mid air next to the weakened Kushina. Two hands grabbed the bundle containing a sleeping Zēn.

A man dressed in a black cloak and a black and orange tiger striped mask stepped out of it, the vortex closing behind him. "Who are you?!" Minato hissed, angry the man took his child. "I think I'll just kill this baby, and retain the ninetails."

"Wha-?" Before the Blonde man could finish his thoughts, the masked man threw the baby up in the air. The fourth caugh his crying baby, but was too late to save his wife as the man teleported her and himself away.

"Minato, Biwako and I will handle things here and protect your children." Hiruzen said in a commanding tone, the yellow flash already flashing away to Kushinas tagged seal.

The scene the fourth came to was a horrifying one, a bloody Kushina on the ground gasping, and her seal broke as kyuubi no kitsune chakra started pouring outside. "It is far too late for you, Namikaze." The stranger spoke with a venomous tone.

"Why are you doing this?" Minato shouted in a commanding tone, "The ninetailed beast belongs to me!" The masked stranger shouted as the Kyuubi became fully complete on the outside.

The masked man went through hand signs, "Fire Release:Great Fire Annihilation" A huge wall of flames went bursting across the landscape, but the Yellow Flash was quicker, as he quickly hiraishin'ed to his wife and flashed her to a hospital room. Telling the Staff to treat her as best as they could, he rushed back to the battlefield and laid his eyes on the masked man.

Minato started running towards his opponent and pulled chakra in his legs to gain faster speeds, as soon as he had the masked man in his grasp, he revealed his hidden Rasengan, only for the Rasengan and himself to phase through the man. 'Damnit, anything I throw at him, he could phase through... unless'

Quickly, Minato threw out a three pronged kunai at the man, and took a run for the man as he formed a second Rasengan. "Distractions will get you no where." The man muttered as the Kunai phased through him, only for the masked man to get fearful seeing the lightning flash. In an instant, a Rasengan was planted in the back of his head and he was on the ground.

Minato possibly would have killed the man, but a vortex appeared again, "This isn't over Namikaze." He then disappeared along with his transportation as Minato set his sights on another problem... The Kyuubi.

A few hours later

The ferocious battle had taken a toll on the leaf village, hundreds if not thousands had died defending the onslaught of the great ninetailed fox. Hiruzen sacrificed his life sealing the nine tailed yin half and soul into Zēn, and the yang chakra into Naruto.

Kushina was saved from a death of losing her tailed beast and bleeding out and Minato was just greatful his family was together. Kushina was in her hospital bed coddling her two babies while Minato smiled from afar, but he had thoughts about his child who received the kyuubi's soul, 'Zēn's hair is slowly turning red, is the demon taking control?"

7 years later

The Namikaze-Uzumaki family, and the leaf village have had several years of peace, since the unfortunate incident with the tailed beast attack. Life had been good for everyone, Minato was constantly kept busy but interacted with his family. Kushina retired from the shinobi life, but she continued to train to stay strong. Naruto has been living a good life, he had many friends, and all of the civilians and shinobi sucked up to him, but he took it with pride and happiness. Though not everything was okay for everyone, all of his life Zēn had been feeling alone. Even being a literal prince of Konoha did not help when half of the village looked at him in disgust. Yes, the villagers somehow found out that he held the fox that killed all their family was within him. Rumors spread can cause a lot of damage.

The villagers never overpriced him, but they would all glare at him and call him names. With his near perfect hearing, he learned he was the container of the demon fox early on, and when his parents told the village the truth of both of their sons, the praise for Naruto grew, he was the son of their hero and was a spitting image. But the civilians abuse on Zēn got worse, they linked his two whisker marks on each side of his face and his pure red hair as signs of the fox.

'Pfft, I'll prove these idiots wrong, I'll join the academy next year and become an amazing ninja and how wrong they were to reject me.' Zēn thought as he walked down the main village street. He also noticed it getting dark outside and the drunks were starting to come out, making him very nervous for good reason. He tried to hurry home but he was stopped by crashing into a fat gut. The full on redhead looked at the big drunkard infront of him and fear was shown in his violet eyes, yes he was fast but not tough enough to fight even a drunk.

The drunk capitalized on this and gave a disgusting grin, "Sooo, the little demon thought he could get away?" the man asked as he took his Sake bottle and threw it at the boy, hitting him in the head with it. Zēn coughed as his head started bleeding, 'I can get away from this guy,' he thought as he started staring at the growing crowd, who started reveling in the boys predicament, 'But I won't be able to get away from this crowd that's circling me now,'

A blonde haired woman with green eyes and a regular civilian dress began shouting to the crowd, "I don't know how you all feel, but I've had it with demon trash wrecking our village!" The hateful woman smirked at seeing her words inspiring the crowd to grow restless, "Let's get our revenge right now, and make the Yondaime proud!"

"YEAHHHH!" The crowd roared.

"Kill the Demon!" A drunkard yelled.

"It's time for revenge for destroying my family!" An older man yelled.

'Their all being drunk and stupid,' Zēn thought with a face palm, his parents didn't show him enough attention over Naruto, but they'd be pretty angry still for the village hurting their flesh and blood. The problem was that they never had time to listen to him. He soon saw an opening and started running, "Stop him!" A man yelled all for naught as the red haired boy slid on the dirt under a drunks leg.

'Hahaha, keep running Zēn!' the boy thought to himself as he ran until he found himself at a dead end at the east end wall of the village, 'Fuck...' he thought as he noticed the angry crowd show up, "We have you now demon!" A random drunk yelled. "Time to finish what the fourth started!" A chunin yelled as he pulled out a kunai and threw it at the boy, the kunai going through the middle of his hand pinning him to the wall behind him.

"Hsssh agh!" the boy hissed in pain as he tried to control himself, seeing the pleasure in the angry mobs eyes when they saw him in pain. 'Can't show weakness' was his only thought. Many hours of a man with a club clubbing the boy, a chunin stabbing him with a kunai over and over, and civilians punching the boy in the face, the crowd finally wound down and a Jonin stepped forward. "Let me finish him and we wont have to worry about him anymore, he won't corrupt our precious Hokage and his wonderful family anymore."

Amongst cheers, Zēn spoke up feeling betrayed, "But, I am apart of his family! He's my father too!" The Jonin glared at him, "You are just a demon in disguise who they love, but you would serve nothing more than a weapon for our mighty military, but we don't need you." The man stated sadistically as he knocked the boy out and brought a kunai to his neck.

Inside Zēns Mindscape :o

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Darkness covered everything, but he could make out he was in a field so he started walking forward. Soon, the dark was penetrated by light and he could see the field better. A valley that went on for miles, a mountain rose above the clouds, and infront of him on a huge rocky plateau, laid the Kyuubi no Kitsune in all it's glory.

"So you've come to finally visit me, kit," The Fox spoke neutrally to the boy as if it didn't bother of his presence, which pissed Zēn off.

"What do you mean finally? I honestly didn't want to visit you at all!" The red-haired boy shouted at the fox, causing the fox to gain a huge tic mark, "OH YEAH BRAT? WELL JUST GO OUT THERE AND GET KILLED!" This caused the Uzumaki to give the fox a blank stare and sighed.

"Do you have a way to help me survive?" The boy asked, shocking the stubborn fox, it didn't think the boy would care for his opinion or help. "Let's make a deal." The fox spoke non-chalantly.

"What kind of deal fuzzball?" The boy asked curious, the fox's eyes twitched rapidly, "You... Pest, I AM THE MIGHTY KYUUBI NO KITSUNE!"

The boy shook his head, "Whatever, So your fancy deal?" The fox calmed down and nodded, "You let me smell, hear, see what you do, let me feel the outside world, even your pain and I will allow you to have access to my chakra." Zēn raised an eyebrow, "Is that all?" The fox nodded slowly, "I accept my situation of being held hostage, but I wish for freedom from this accursed prison."

Zēn nodded his head, feeling bad that the fox was this trapped, "Alright, help me foxy." The fox just hissed but had what appeared to be a.. Blush? "Fuck off you runt, take some of my powerful chakra and end their accursed drunken lives." The fox responded as a wave of chakra started surrounding the red-haired boy slowly and ate him up.

In reality

Before the Jonin could end the demon boy, a wave of Killing intent flooded the area, "W-W-what?" The Jonin asked frightened as a chakra infused claw grabbed his hand and ripped his arm from his socket. The chakra started flooding Zēn's system and to what the crowd could make out, he was an actual monster. Before any of them could get away, his head snapped up and just by a look in his hate filled eyes, half of the civilians dropped dead or down on their knees in horror and panic.

"Raaaaggggggggghhhhh!" With a mighty roar, his chakra spread out in the alley vaporizing every human standing in the twenty feet radius, to the point where he was now left completely alone, body imprints left on the dirt ground.

"I.. Need to control my chakra better." The boy spoke quietly as he started limping away, finally feeling safe but tired. "We will teach you to control it much better kit," he heard the fox In his mind say. Zēn just nodded, 'Must be able to talk because of our new connection.'

The fox felt an odd chakra disturbance and widened at Zēn's eyes, the ripple pattern in his eyes were insane. 'Father?' the Fox thought with curiosity. 'Better keep him protected from potential enemies until he's ready,' the fox thought as it initiated a genjutsu over his eyes to appear normal, only breakable by other Jinchurikii and Biju chakra.