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The Devil's Masquerade

Chapter Two

At the Behest of Her Betrayal

The streets of Konoha, which were at one point bustling, soon became an empty alley of nothingness as a certain blonde haired girl walked over the dirt pathways and past storefronts to her old apartment. Anything that was too close to her was thrown aside or smashed into the ground and very few were able to see her face, but those who did would wish that they hadn't.

Her eyes were narrowed and a very prevalent line could be seen on her mask, showing her disdainful scowl. Black lightning would crackle over her form every so often and the ground would quake as something broke under the pressure of the primal Force she used. It wasn't until she finally came to her stairs that things began to get worse.

She walked up the stairs to her old home and was confronted by a smiling old man, the very same man who would overcharge her and leave her with nothing to eat on a regular basis. Her eyes widened and flashed with the dark lightning before he could even speak, causing him to cower and back away into his office before closing the door with haste.

Narrowing her eyes once more, she trudged up the stairs and soon came to the only haven she once had. No longer caring, she hurled her arm forward and blew the door from its hinges within the blink of an eye, the wooden barrier becoming lodged into the hallways wall. She walked inside and let loose a very baneful roar as she swung her fist out, causing the Force to leave a very large dent in her living room wall, shattering the pictures that hung there.

Lifting her hand, the subpar television rose from its rotting table as it was bent to her will. Crushing into a fist and swinging her arm, the TV crumpled and it smashed into the ground. The carnage wasn't over, though. She let loose a powerful scream of anger and betrayal as her body lit up with the destructive element of lightning and she lashed out at everything around her. Nothing escaped her rage and pain…nothing was spared as her dark power decimated everything around her…

Time went on and soon the sounds of lightning and thunder died…leaving only the soft weeps of a girl…weakened and betrayed… She fell to her knees and let her tears fall to the charred floor. She lifted her head slightly and looked around her and saw the power of her anger…the power that her master had given her. Thoughts ran through her head at that instant…thoughts of treason and murder! Plans to get back at the man that would manipulate her with her feelings!

'That bastard…THAT BASTARD! I should kill him for what he would do with me! With MY power! I should tear him limb from limb! I should scorch his flesh and peel it from his bones with he still lives!' Reacting to her emotions, the Force around her began to swirl slightly, picking up the ashes of her home into a black tornado.

Her eyes opened sharply and all of her hatred was within them. The part of the floor that she was staring at began to smoke and very soon it burst into flames that spread in a circle around her, controlled by her subconscious connection with the Force. As she was about to stand and try to calm down, something happened that she really didn't want. She felt the chakra signature of the Sandaime Hokage appear behind her…

"Naruko! What is all of this commo…what in Kami's name?!" The sight that the Hokage happened upon was nothing short of something from a child's worst nightmare. The black ashes of scorched apartment swirled around her and as she sensed his approach, her head turned, her yellow eyes glowing eerily through the black tornado and her hair whipping through the air. "Hokage-sama…"

He held up his hands and backed up slightly. "Naruko…what is wrong?! What happened to you? Has the Kyuubi been re…" He never got the chance to finish the question before an invisible force dragged him up face to face with the now standing and turned Naruko, now unable to move. He cringed slightly at the face she made towards him.

Her mask was pulled down and he saw the full extent of her true rage. Her mouth and teeth were clenched and her brow furrowed so tightly that she looked to be the Devil Incarnate. Her eyes glowed with an aura of death…and the malice coming from them combined with the color…it reminded the old monkey far too much of his old student, Orochimaru.

"Naruko…please calm down, child! Please just calm down before something happens that we both regret!" Naruko's eyes narrowed even more if it were even possible before she brought her now clawed index finger up to his heart through the black torrent. "Do you mean…that seal…Hokage-sama?" Sarutobi's eyes widened and he tried even harder to move but was stopped when she jabbed him with her surprisingly sharp claw. "Don't you dare try to get away you sour old MONKEY! I found the seal during the four years I was away! Your pathetic little Deadman Seal…" 'Deadman Seal…I only posed the seal as a possibility! I never implemented it!' "…was child's play to get rid of…but I still didn't want to believe what I had begun to think true…the thoughts that made me wary in the first place…"

Coughing from the ash that entered his mouth, Sarutobi spoke up to try and quell her anger. "You have to understand, Naruko…steps had to…be taken to quiet both sides of the Council! The Civilian Council wanted you dead! We put the seal on you to please both sides! You have to understand, child…" "DON'T CALL ME A CHILD!" she jabbed his chest again, this time drawing blood and she began to anger the Hokage. "BUT YOU ARE A CHILD! HERE YOU STAND THROWING A WRECHED TANTRUM OVER NOTHING! YOU HAVEN'T GROWN UP AT ALL IN YOUR ABSENCE!"

At these words…everything stopped. The tornado of ash vanished and the Hokage fell to his knees as the invisible force let him go. Naruko stared at the man as he choked on the ash in the air and scowled to the point that she began to form a growl within the pits of her throat. The Sandaime heard this and looked up slowly, almost fearing what he would see, but before he could look her in the eyes, she swung her arm with such fury that he would've flinched if he were still there. Instead, though, he flew out the door with only the sounds of wood breaking and her roar of indignation following him as he smashed into the roof of a house.

Back flipping and landing on the tip of a water tower, he cast off his robe and summoned Enma with such haste to have him transform into his adamantine staff. Prepared for a fight, people who had begun to fill the streets once more looked up in awe as they saw their old Hokage ready to fight…but they knew not who it was that he fought against…not until the voice of his opponent roared throughout the air of tension.

"THIS 'TANTRUM' IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE BETRAYED ME! YOU BETRAYED THE ONE YOU TOLD THAT YOU WOULD ALWAYS PROTECT! I HAVE GROWN YOU PATHETIC OLD MONKEY! I HAVE GROWN SO MUCH STRONGER AND NOW YOU ARE GOING TO WITNESS THIS POWER FIRST HAND FOR YOUR SINS! NO ONE IS ABOVE REPROACH, HIRUZEN SARUTOBI!"

The blur that came from the building was faster than anyone was able to track. It smashed into the Hokage and sent him flying, but didn't stop to watch its handiwork. Instead it stayed on the move and went up into the sky out of their distinguishable sight. When she stopped, Naruko used the Force to hold herself up and held her arms up to the sky, her dark lightning crackling over her arms as black clouds swirled into existence.

The old Hokage looked up to her with true fear in his eyes, watching as the clouds sparked furiously with black lightning. 'What in Kami's name have you become, Naruko?' He stood from the rubble of the wall his body destroyed and started making hand seals, summoning Kage Bunshin of his Adamantine Staff and using chakra strings to send them up at her to try to stop her, but black lightning lashed out and burst them from existence.

As Naruko's power began to build up, she spoke in a slightly softer voice, but it was still heard by the Hokage and everyone else. "I just…hoped that it wasn't true…I wished for so long that my thoughts wouldn't come to be truth. The thought…the thought alone that you would use me as a weapon…conditioned by your own sentiment…I thought that you were better than that. But…YOU ARE NOT! AND NOW FOR THAT YOU WILL SEE MY POWER!"

"NARUKO! STOP THIS NOW! FOR THE SAKE OF YOURSELF STOP THIS MADNESS NOW!"

The words and voice pierced the tension in the air like a hot knife through melting butter and caused Naruko to gasp as she looked down to see her Kaka-nii-san standing atop a roof, his hands cupped over his mouth so his voice would reach her. Her eyes softening and her torrent of Force powers dissipating, she lowered to the rooftop where her guardian was, the clouds above swirling away into nothingness, and she collapsed into tears before him. He knelt down to her and wrapped her tightly in his arms, hushing her gasping sobs and running his hands through her hair to calm her faster.

Behind him appeared the Hokage and he sent the man a death glare; an uncharacteristic reaction from the one-eyed legend. "Something between you two set her off…and I intend to find out just what it was, Hokage-sama." Sarutobi was shocked that his most loyal Shinobi would say something with such venom in his words to him. He frowned, though, in slight anger and set his Adamantine Staff into the rooftop. "Don't you dare say such things to me, Hatake. Whatever quarrel she has with me is strictly fiction! What more, that power she used was nothing that you could've taught her and I demand to know where she learned such destructive techniques! Such power could very well become a danger to this village! For all you and I know, it could've come from the Kyuubi having control of her!"

Around them the rooftop shook and Naruko sprung up, her rage and vigor reborn but her tears still falling to infinite capacities. Her clawed fingers found their ways around the Hokage's neck, but he felt no pressure applied to the potential threat to his life, like she was fighting her baser instincts to kill. "Don't you EVER say that she would control me! SHE LOVED ME MORE THAN YOU EVER COULD YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"

Though her voice was normal once again, the pain within it was all the same and it hit the old man hard. Finally deciding that his act was through…he hung his head and sighed. "I might as well no longer hide it… Yes…I was planning on controlling you through your loyalty to me…but I swear it was all for the good of this village, Naruko!"

At his words, though she knew them true already, she was enraged further and smashed him against his staff, the strong rod holding true to its power as she held its wielder up high on it. Kakashi stood off to the side in shock of what he heard the Hokage say. "I knew it! I knew you would only use me! You would simply use me and my power to control the world!"

Sarutobi narrowed his eyes and roared back. "NO YOU IGNORANT CHILD, NOT THE WORLD! I ONLY WANTED THIS VILLAGE SAFE! THE VERY SAME VILLAGE THAT THE YONDAIME HOKAGE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR! YOUR FATHER! EVERYTHING I DO NOW IS TO HONOR HIS WISH FOR YOU! THAT YOU LIVE HAPPILY!" When these words came out, Naruko gasped and let him go, causing him to fall to his feet and he quickly picked up his staff, ready for a fight…but the first punch never came for him.

Naruko simply stood there, her glowing yellow eyes widened with surprise. Her body was twitching with her ragged breathing as she replayed the words she had heard in her head, over and over. "That's…that's not true! You told me that…you told me you never knew who my parents were!" The Sandaime sighed and looked down. "I lied to protect you, Naru-chan…I only wanted your safety…"

"THEY WHY DID YOU LET ME LEAVE?!" He looked up and she saw the glimmer of a tear in his eyes. "I saw how you were that night…I saw how my law against them failed… When you asked to leave…I could only think of how right you were to go, so I granted your request but sent Kakashi with you to make sure that no one else captured you or beat you."

Her eyes were wide and she took a few steps back. "B-but…why lie to me about my father?! YOU KNEW I WANTED TO KNOW! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HORRIBLE IT FELT; GOING TO BED DAY AFTER DAY THINKING THAT YOUR PARENTS SIMPLY DIDN'T WANT YOU!" The Hokage took a step forward, trying his best to reason with her. "Please, Naru-chan…understand that your father had many enemies! They would've come for you to get revenge on him for the things that he did!"

Shaking her head with both disbelief and shock, she turned full circle and shot off to nowhere. She cared not where she went, just so long as she wasn't listening to the things that he was saying to her. Kakashi sent a glare to the Hokage and shot off after her, hoping that she didn't destroy anything in her state, leaving the Sandaime to his own devices.

He stood there with a frown on his face and soon left thereafter, leaving the unknown party to all alone. In the center of where everyone stood, an astral projection of the Force. It stood in its black robe and its mask, though unmoving or shifting, sent a very dangerous look after the Hokage towards the Tower. "Naruko may not have the control and affinity to read your mind due to the overpowered chakra systems of the Shinobi on this world, Hiruzen Sarutobi, but I know your real self. I know your true plans for her. You have dodged a bolt with my apprentice…but I am not so easily fooled by your tricks. There are none who can fool Darth Revan." His words spoken for no ears to hear, Revan dispersed to return his soul to Naruko.

XxXxX

Naruko stood in the middle of a field with her eyes narrowed in rage. Using the Force, she picked up a tree from the ground and ripped it in half with a roar of anger. "HOW COULD HE! HOW DARE HE! HOW CAN HE EVEN SAY THAT! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU, SARUTOBI!" Smashing the two halves of the tree into the ground, debris and dirt flew everywhere. This was the sight that her guardian came up to.

"Naru-chan…please calm down…he only wanted your fathers dream to come true for you." Naruko turned and glared at Kakashi. "YOU DEFEND HIM?!" Kakashi held his hands up in defense. "I wouldn't defend him after lying to you for so long, but he only wanted your father to have his final wish come true and have you live a happy life. Honestly, I never knew that my old sensei…would have had a child and not tell me. But I guess I should've known…heh…your face looks so much like your mothers and your hair is damn near a dead giveaway."

Naruko perked up at one word. "My mother? Please, Kakashi…who was she?!" Kakashi sighed with nostalgia and smiled a bit. Taking steps towards his little nee-chan, he looked her in her eyes as he spoke…her desperate and pleading yellow eyes that looked to be tearing up to the brim with anticipation. "Your mother's name was Uzumaki Kushina, the only surviving member of the Hidden Village of Uzu. My sensei, your father, The Yondaime Hokage, rescued her and brought her back to this village. After some time they fell in love, the typical hero complex. But they loved each other, no matter how it happened. They married…and had you! But then Kyuubi, as you say, was controlled and attacked this village."

Naruko turned and sniffled slightly. "I always thought that they had abandoned me…" Kakashi walked up slowly and put his hands on her shoulders. "They never would've done that, Naruko…never. I am the only person alive trained by your father and I know that he would've cared for you more than anything ever in the world. Your mother, while very temperamental at times, was also just as caring as he was. Only thing about her though…her cooking sucked…our team went over to Sensei's house one time and he introduced us to Kushina-san. She looked pregnant, but I never thought anything of it. Anyways, we ate something she called 'Sunday Special'. Kami forbid I ever eat that monstrosity ever again!"

This caused Naruko to chuckle a little as the words brought a small smile to her face. "Thank you, kaka-nii-san…I'm sorry for losing control like that earlier." Kakashi shook his head and turned her to him. "You had and still have every right to be angry, Naru-chan…just…don't give into your darkness so easily, ok?" She smiled up at him and nodded. Kakashi smiled back and let go of her before turning. "Now, I'm sorry to have to leave so soon, but the Hokage and I have some things to discuss."

"No problem, Kaka-nii-san." He waved and disappeared, leaving the impressionable young Sith alone in the field of destruction. Soon after his leaving her, she sat down and felt the presence of her Master in her mind. 'How are you feeling child? I take it your mind isn't the calmest of place right now, is it?' 'Not at all master…all of this information coming to me so quickly…it makes my head hurt so much. But with the information just comes newer and more dangerous questions to ask. Why didn't Sarutobi tell me and make me keep everything a secret, instead of just hiding everything from me? Why put the Deadman Seal onto me? Did he fear my potential power so much that he wanted a quick and easy way to kill me? So many things that I can't answer, Master Revan…so many things…'

'I can understand your distress, my apprentice. At one point, when I was still alive, I was defeated and my mind was wiped. Throughout the course of my journeys afterwards, I came into contact with people who brought back visions of things that I thought were the future or some abstract time…but they were, as I soon learned, visions of my own defeat years before. The people who did it to me, were the very people who taught me to be a Jedi after they did so. They wanted to control me! THEY FEARED ME! Ahem…sorry…but I can understand the feelings and questions you have right now. Trust me…in time, everything will show itself to you.'

Naruko nodded to this and rose from her sitting position. 'Thank you, Master Revan. I hope that you are right about this.' With her mind cleared for the moment, Naruko jumped off to her adoptive older brothers, tired and ready for the next day when she would take the exams to become a Genin of Konohagakure no Sato.

XxXxX

A man in black robes kneeled in a circle of light before another upon an obsidian throne, his body hidden in shadows as the man gave him a report. "Sir, the container has grown in power over the years…I am beginning to think that a kidnapping of her would be very ill-prepared despite any contingency taken and every precaution thought of."

A deep and gruff sigh was heard as an inhumanly deep voice spoke out. "You are sad…my apprentice… You fear the challenge of someone stronger than you? Is the purpose of this report you voicing your inability to face a child?" The kneeling man was startled and jumped up. "Of course not master! I do not fear the power of a child taught by a weakling! But her unpredictability would cause many a problem in any plan to capture her to collapse rather quickly."

Another sigh from the other man and movement beyond the darkness caused the apprentice to become surprised, but he stood his ground as he heard footsteps approaching him. "Never fear the possibility of a challenge, young Rangvieg. If you fear the challenge, then you will only hold yourself back." As the man spoke, Rangvieg felt his throat close off as he was lifted into the air. Fearing for his life, he scratched at his throat and gargled for breath. His master was soon standing in front of him in the light, but he was not able to look at his still shadowed visage.

"And if I EVER sense hesitation within you EVER AGAIN! I will remove you from this plane of existence! I will strip you of the mortal coil! No apprentice of mine shall show any form of hesitation! You will look for the challenge! You will find those stronger and you will crush them! If the weak get in your way then you will send them to oblivion! The strong are here for US to become stronger! The weak are here to either be RULED by us or to DIE! Am I understood?"

The apprentice was released as he coughed from the assault of air to his lungs. "Yes…*cough*...Master…"

"…Nihilus…"

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