AN: So I've been watching Cry (Cryaotic) play Dishonored (a game I've personally beat several times), then I watched None Like Joshua's Dubstep Rap and this plot bunny just popped into my head.

Honestly Dishonored is one of the few good games to have come out in recent years. The lore is amazing, gameplay is fun, plot is interesting, characters are all fleshed out, and the powers are badass.

So here's some basics.

Naruto will NOT be visiting the world of Dishonored nor will any of its characters (other than one) be appearing in his world. There will be allusions to Dunwall, Pandyssia, and its characters (A LOT of that) but nothing from that world will be coming over…per se.

Naruto won't be TOO ooc, but will have some characteristics from Corvo Attano. He will be a true assassin/shinobi and by that I mean he won't be doing anything flashy to attract attention to him or his skills unless absolutely necessary. His jutsu repertoire will thusly be pretty small, only a tad larger than canon.

All in all this Naruto will be closer to canon than anything I've previously done but that doesn't mean he will be naïve or dumb. Naruto will be intelligent (not a genius but smart), very strong, and well you'll see when you read the story!

Pairing. I honestly don't have any clue on this one. It's more than likely not going to be a harem, and if so no more than 2 or 3 girls; IF that.

Right now I'm thinking Kurenai, Karin, Mei, or Anko. Willing to hear you out so if you got ideas PM me! I'll probably end up posting a poll on my profile when I have a more solid list (second or third chapter).

If you've not played the game fret not, only the lore of the game is really being borrowed. I will be explaining a lot of it, and even hint at what happened in the game too so don't worry about that.

Enough of my yammering!

Curtains up!

Winter in Konoha was filled with heavy rainfall and cold chills visiting the normally sunny and warm village. During a particularly heavy rain storm we find a small blonde child shivering, covered only by what could be considered rags, as they were too torn to be actual clothing.

This particular child was Naruto Uzumaki, Jinchuuriki to the legendary Bijuu the Kyuubi no Kitsune and child of the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki; not that the child knew any of that, nor did he really care.

He had spent many a night and waking hour wondering who his parents were and why they had left him. However he soon realized that no one would answer that question and the time he spent brooding over such things was time he could've spent scrounging up some food or finding a place to sleep for the night.

The child was only six years of age, but mentally he was already in his teens, being forced to grow up at an accelerated rate to survive the harsh life of being both an orphan and pariah to his home village.

He had also spent many hours pondering why his own people looked at him with such looks of disdain and why they treated him as if he didn't exist, like he was no better than the dirt they stepped on.

But he had come to the same conclusion that he had about his parents. No one would answer his questions and that was time wasted. Time better spent surviving.

Tonight though his mind was occupied by thoughts of how he was going to make it through this particular storm. Previous winters were spent under the roof of the orphanage but during fall, on his birthday actually, the matron at the orphanage had seen fit to oust him from their care, leaving him to fend for himself on the streets.

This was nothing new to him. The only time he was actually at the orphanage was when he was sleeping. Otherwise he was out on the streets doing whatever caught his fancy at the moment.

However winter came and he was left without a solid roof over his head to keep him from getting soaked to the bone. He wasn't too worried about getting sick as, for some odd reason, he had never once caught any kind of sickness. When the children at the orphanage would be over taken by bouts of fever or chicken pox he was always healthy, never even having a runny nose.

That was the garden variety sickness though. He had no idea how well his body would do being soaked to the bone by freezing cold water that felt like needles stabbing into his skin and being exposed to the chilling winds of this particular storm.

In an effort to give himself some shelter he had run into the forest that occupied a vast chunk of land in the middle of Konoha.

And so it was here - shivering, cold, and hidden in a hollowed tree trunk - that Naruto let his thoughts wander to his treatment at the hands of the villagers and his parents, in an effort to keep his mind off of the bleakness of his situation.

A flash of thunder interrupted said thoughts.

"Interesting. Cast out by your own people. Treated worse than the dirt they step on and abandoned by the two people who gave you life, yet you persevere. You refuse to lay down and die, determined to continue living," came a raspy yet smooth voice.

Naruto turned his gaze to the entrance of the tree where the voice was coming from. There, literally floating above the ground, arms crossed, and cloaked in an inky black aura was a man dressed in a fine black suit. The man's hair was a short greasy black, and the man himself looked rather intimidating. What both scared and enamored Naruto were the man's eyes.

There was no pupil, just two pools of what seemed to be never ending darkness, not unlike the darkness that shrouded the man.

"You interest me Naruto Uzumaki," came the man's voice again.

Naruto was surprised at hearing his name and expressed such, "How do you know my name?"

"The same way I know the name of your Hokage, of all your Hokages. The same way I know the name of the woman who kicked you out of the orphanage," the man replied vaguely.

"Who…who are you?" asked a slightly frightened Naruto.

The vibe this man was giving off was not at all welcoming. In fact his entire being had been screaming at him to run as far away from him as possible the instant Naruto saw him.

"My name has long since been lost by your people. Where I once had hundreds who worshipped me, I have since been replaced by those you call kami. But when I was worshipped they called me….The Outsider."

"What do you want from me?" Naruto asked desperate to get away from this Outsider.

"Like I said you interest me Naruto Uzumaki. I can see the paths of every man, woman, and child and the decisions that will lead up to those paths. Yet when I look at you….from you come so many different paths and because of you so many other paths and destinies will be changed," was the Outsider's monotone reply.

"What does that even mean? And what does it have to do with you?" Naruto shakily asked.

"Simple, I wish to give you a gift. A gift that has not been seen by your world for several millennia. Use my gift as you see fit. Find the ruins of my shrines spread across the land and sea. Find the runes and charms bearing my mark, and with them do as you please. I can not wait to see what you will do with them," The Outsider finished.

Before Naruto could even blink or say anything else he felt a searing pain burn into his left hand. It felt as if someone had taken a branding iron and pressed it to the back of his hand. In the face of such pain Naruto did the only thing he could think to do, curl into the fetal position and clutch his burning hand.

When the pain finally ended after a few seconds Naruto gazed at his hand and there sat what looked to be a tattoo of some sort. A series of black markings made up some sort of intricate symbol on his hand. For the briefest of moments a voice echoed in his head,

The Outsider's Brand…(1)

Deep within the confines of Naruto's soul a massive beast stirred from its slumber. Enormous glowing crimson eyes opened and were greeted by the sight of the same mark on Naruto's hand now present covering the large wall across from its cage.

The crimson eyes narrowed.

"It seems that The Outsider has seen fit to grace the world with his mark once more. I wonder what my jailer will do with this new…addition. Hmm. Things have become even more…interesting…"

It was several years later that we find a chuckling Naruto running from a flock of chunin. He had decided that the Hokage's tower could use a nice makeover and so had painted several…"murals" on the outer walls of the massive tower. How he was able to do so in broad daylight no one could guess.

In fact that wasn't the only instance of such happenings where the blonde was concerned. For the last two years Naruto had been able to pull stunts that left even the Hokage stunned.

The young boy was capable of out running and out lasting most seasoned Anbu and the one time the Hokage had decided to join the hunt for the mischievous Uzumaki not even he could catch the blonde. Not due to Naruto's speed, in fact the Hokage had actually cornered the blonde and had been prepared to give the boy a lecture about his pranking only to be cut off before he could even begin said lecture.

The Hokage had seen Naruto literally vanish from his spot against the wall only to appear several feet behind the Hokage.

What had shocked Hiruzen was that he saw the boy had done so consciously. He had seen Naruto clench his fist, a light blue glow surrounding the fist. When he opened the fist, it pointed in the direction he was going, Naruto had blurred from sight. What was even more shocking to Hiruzen was what had happened between Naruto's seemingly instant teleportation; a trail of light blue had followed the young blonde.

For the briefest of moments Sarutobi Hiruzen had sworn he could see a ghostly image of the Yondaime hover above the grinning Naruto.

That had been the only time anyone had actually seen the boy use the skill. Hiruzen knew that Naruto was using it to help him pull his pranks but no one could actually see him doing so, only that he would seemingly disappear from sight for the briefest of moments.

Naruto soon displayed several other surprising skills. Whenever he was cornered a swarm of rats would seemingly appear from nowhere and begin to bite and scratch at those who had cornered the boy. Using that distraction Naruto was free to flee from the sight. Using his crystal ball the Sandaime had also seen Naruto conversing with the rats like the Inuzuka did with their dogs.

Then there was Naruto's uncanny ability to know who and what was around him, even in the darkest of night. Hiruzen had seen the ability firsthand when he was watching the Jinchuuriki with his crystal ball. He saw Naruto stalking through the Hyuuga compound at midnight one night. Had it been anyone else Hiruzen would've called the Anbu but seeing Naruto was carrying several cans of paint let him know what the blonde was doing.

However what caught his eye was when Naruto would avoid the guard patrols. It looked nothing like he had memorized their paths, as they had none, and was actually able to see where they were instead. That was nigh impossible as Naruto was doing so while under the veil of night and while looking through walls. If Hiruzen didn't know better he would say that Naruto had the Byakugan or that Naruto was a damn good sensor.

All of this was just not adding up for Hiruzen. The things Naruto was doing were things exclusive either to high level jutsu or kekkai genkai, both of which Hiruzen was sure were out of reach to Naruto.

That's why the once chuckling Naruto was now staring down his Hokage. The chunin had yet to catch up and Hiruzen knew that if Naruto had anything to say about it neither would he.

"Naruto-kun I need to talk to you about something, and no you're not in trouble, so please come to my office," was all Hiruzen said before shunshin'g back to his office.

Naruto shrugged before he leapt to the nearest roof and waited. Soon the chunin that were tailing him stopped on the roof below him and were about to leap up and catch him at last.

Before they could do so though, Naruto clenched his fist a familiar blue glow surrounding it, the mark on the back of his hand glowing a bright white. He thrust the limb out and opened his fist before he vanished from the sight of the chunin. To their surprise his appeared behind them, several roofs between them.

Naruto smirked and uttered one word, "Blink."

He then leapt off back towards the Hokage tower. The chunin all slumped to the floor, too tired to even try and chase after the stamina demon.

Hiruzen was actually mildly surprised when Naruto opened the door to his office camly and sat himself in the chair across from him. Usually the boy barged in like he owned the place or used that ability of his to appear in the office, which had almost given the Sandaime a heart attack the first time he had done it.

"So what'd you wanna talk about jiji?" Naruto asked.

"Well how are you-," was as far as Hiruzen got before Naruto interrupted him.

"C'mon jiji you and I both know that's not why you asked me to come here."

Sarutobi only sighed before his eyes took a steely glint to them.

"Naruto you have been displaying several abilities that I have only seen be used by nin many years your senior or those gifted by a kekkai genkai. I am wondering how it is you are capable of such feats."

Naruto looked the man in the eye, which was quite a feat for one so young. Shinobi many times more powerful would often look away from the gaze of the man known as the Kami no Shinobi.

Naruto though was…different from them.

And so it was Naruto began to talk, "I was given a…gift by a man several years ago."

Here Naruto lifted up his hand and showed the aging Hokage the symbol that had been etched into his skin when he was but a boy.

Hiruzen was by no means a seals master, but that didn't mean he wasn't well versed in the art. In fact the only people alive who could best him were his own two students, Orochimaru and Jiraiya of the Sannin.

Even still not even he could begin to fathom just what the mark on Naruto's hand was. It obviously held some form of power, but what power and how it worked were a complete mystery to Hiruzen.

"The gift he gave me is what is allowing me to do all of those things. I don't quite understand how it or the techniques work, all I do know is what I can do with them," Naruto explained.

"And who was this…man who gave you that mark?"

"I don't know his real name or where he came from. I only know that he has existed since before even the Rikudou and that the people who worshipped him called him The Outsider."

Hiruzen was shocked by this revelation. He of course knew who the Rikudou was, and despite many these days believing him to be naught but a myth, Sarutobi knew that the famed creator of the Shinobi way had indeed existed. But that had been hundreds upon hundreds of years ago and anything from that time was difficult to find. For Naruto to claim that the man who had given him these powers had existed even before that time was astonishing.

The fact that this man had worshippers though struck a chord in Hiruzen. The only thing this man could be is some type of god.

"And what were his stipulations upon giving these powers to you? And why did you in the first place?" Hiruzen asked.

"He didn't give me any stipulations at all. He said to use them as I see fit. As for why me? Well he said that I 'interested' him," Naruto shrugged.

"Has he come to you since he gave you those powers?"

"Only once, a year after I was given them. He came to tell me what basic powers I had revieced from him and that if I wanted to make the powers stronger or gain new ones that I should look for things called Runes and Bone Charms."

Hiruzen leaned back into his seat, his gaze still on the mark on Naruto's hand.

"I see. And what pray tell exactly are those powers?"

"Well I showed you probably my most useful one, the one where I teleport. It's called Blink. I know that it has a certain range right now and is limited by what my eyes can see, meaning I can't pass through solid objects with it," Naruto explained.

Hmm so it is in theory a very limited version of the Hiraishin, nonetheless it is a useful skill.

"The Outsider said that if I improved it by finding a Rune that the range would become farther and the amount of chakra I use would also lower, but even the basic version takes less than it does to perform a Henge."

So with that Rune he could essentially recreate the Hiraishin to a degree…

"And what other abilities do you have?" Hiruzen continued.

"Well it's not really an ability so much as it is a gift, but I can communicate with rats and ask for their help. Again though with a few Runes the Outsider said I would be able to summon a swarm of special kind of rats known as Plague Rats."

"What is special about these 'plague' rats?" Hiruzen asked curiously. The skill sounded an awful like a summoning contract.

"The Outsider showed them to me and well…they're bigger, much bigger, than normal rats. Other than that?...they're carnivorous and can strip a man of his flesh and leave nothing, only blood stains as evidence in less than a minute…" Naruto said uncomfortably.

The memory of what the Rats had done to a bandit had been forever etched into his mind. The things had devoured the poor bastard alive and ate the corpse in almost a minute flat.

Hiruzen was equally disturbed by the thought of dying in such a horrid manner. He had lived long enough to see some grizzly deaths but that was definitely something he hadn't seen and never wanted to.

After swallowing Hiruzen nodded, "Anything else?"

"One last one yeah. It's called Dark Eyes and lets me see through walls and even the sounds I make and if others can hear them as well."

Hiruzen was floored by this. It was almost exactly like the Byakugan, except exchanging the 360 degree view for being able to see sound waves, which any shinobi would kill for.

"Again I can upgrade that to Dark Vision which expands my seeing range, allows me to see chakra, making it easier to spot shinobi in a crowd, and reduces the amount of chakra the ability uses."

By this point even Sarutobi was getting jealous of Naruto. This Dark Vision essentially combined the most useful attributes of both the Byakugan and Sharingan. It was the perfect tool for a shinobi, and with the abilities needing as much chakra as a Henge Naruto could essentially become the Nidaime Kuroii Senkou with the kekkai genkai of both the Hyuuga and Sharingan.

There had to be some sort of downside to it all though.

"Is there any downside to any of these abilities?" Hiruzen asked.

"Well Dark Eyes and Dark Vision don't really increase how far I can see, and because of the change of color I have to pay more attention to my surroundings due to some things blending in with each other. Also it kind of hinders me in big open spaces," Naruto confessed whilst pouting, mad that his awesome eyes had some pretty big flaws.

Hiruzen nodded his head. Everything had an upside and downside.

"And what of that Blink ability?"

Naruto sighed, "Well I can't really chain Blink one right after the other, doing so actually takes more energy out of me. Right now I can only chain maybe 3 or 4 Blinks before I start feeling tired. If I don't chain there's about a three second wait for me to rebuild the lost chakra. If I do it that way I can Blink almost endlessly."

Hmm so he really can't recreate the Hiraishin using this Blink ability. Minato was able to jump hundreds of times within a second without worrying about becoming tired. With that upgrade though he could still come pretty close to it.

Hiruzen then turned his chair so that it faced the window and rose to his feet, lost in thought.

These abilities are indeed a boon to Naruto but they also cause somewhat of a problem. While Naruto would be perfect for assassination and espionage he would be near useless in a team. I doubt he can Blink with other people as I'm sure that mark on his hand has something to do with it.

On top of that regardless of his massive reserves he has become adept at using smaller bursts of chakra and hiding himself. He would still be a great ninjutsu specialist but that would essentially waste his new gifts as they have no place on wide scale front line battles.

But that makes the Academy all but useless to him. We would be wasting his talents by putting him on a three man cell with an instructor.

He's much too young and inexperienced to be directly placed in Anbu which is where he would shine. What to do…

Hiruzen rubbed his beard in thought. What would happen to Naruto? He was still a jinchuuriki and thusly could not be cast aside, and now with these gifts he was even more useful to Konoha as a shinobi, but their regular shinobi corps was just not for him.

Suddenly a grin spread across Hiruzen's face as a thought occurred to him.

Yes that's perfect. I'll be able to make up for my lack of action in Naruto's life while also ensuring he is capable of defending both himself and Konoha.

With that thought in mind the Sandaime turned to Naruto, "Naruto my boy. How would you like to receive some extra training?"

Naruto grinned, "That'd be awesome jiji! But what would happen after my training? And what about the Academy?"

"Do not worry about that, you won't be attending the Academy after today. And if you are successful at the end of your training you will become the first ever Royal Guard. You will be my right hand Naruto and as such will receive only missions I give you while also protecting me from the shadows. You will become the Konoha no Kage (Shadow of the Hidden Leaf)."

"I'll ace your training jiji! I guess you can say I'll be becoming a Kage in a different way though huh?" Naruto asked while chuckling.

Hiruzen only smiled, "Indeed you will Naruto. Indeed you will."

That night Naruto fell asleep on his bed with a huge grin on his face, excited for the next day's events.

However he awoke to a place that he had become somewhat familiar with. It was the home of the Outsider, known simply as The Void.

It was an endless swirling mass of purple with what looked to be whales in the distance. There was seemingly no gravity as chunks of land floated in odd positions here and there. There was also ruins of what looked like some highly advanced civilization left here, actually of several different civilizations.

There were even pieces of what looked to be Konoha floating here and there in the abyss.

Naruto had asked what this place was and the Outsider had answered that, "It is the place where all things begin and where all things shall end."

When the Outsider emerged from the inky black aura that Naruto was all too familiar with the blonde merely turned his gaze on the being.

"You surprise me yet again Naruto. You knowingly show your whole hand to a man who still hides several cards from you. And why? To feel needed? Do you think that by doing what he asks of you that you will finally gain the acknowledgment you've sought your entire life?"

Naruto remained silent, knowing that The Outsider did not expect him to answer those questions.

"While Hiruzen Sarutobi appears as a kindly grandfather figure he is a man entrenched in lies, secrets, and failures so dark that they may well consume him. His hands are drenched in the blood of both the guilty and innocent. And yet you chose to reveal to him the truth. How…interesting of you Naruto."

Once the Outsider had said his peace he retreated back into the blackness that surrounded him and left Naruto to fall into a dreamless sleep, the grin on his face now gone.

AN: (1) - It's literally the mark of the Outsider. I really can not find a way to describe the damn thing so just go look it up yea?

And that's that guys! Hope you enjoyed that little thing. Bit of an intro into the whole setup of the story and already what some of Naruto is capable of, though not giving away a lot. Some of the lore is being explained as well so hope you guys enjoyed that.

Also if you're wondering, yes the Outsider will be playing a rather large role in Naruto's development and will be somewhat important to the story.

Now I have some questions for you.

Should The Outsider give anyone else his mark? And if so who?

Note Naruto will not instantly be godlike but he will be pretty damn strong, so yes people like Kakashi, Pein, etc. will still give him some trouble in open combat. In terms of espionage and assassination though? He will have no equal as there are very few TRUE assassins in the Shinobi world.

That's about all I've got to say so pm me, review, share, and all that other good stuff!

Till next chapter!

Peace out