El Mano: hola, this is my first fic, I hope it's good, my friend referred me to this site and I started reading and I love it. I hope you all enjoy it. Alright um, please review and I don't own anything just to make that clear. Have fun guys and I'll try to update as soon as I can.

Chapter 1: Te Amo

Naruto walked throught the streets, life was amazing, first he'd rescued his best friends Sauske and although he hadn't gotten a reward from Sakura he had finally gotten his. He smiled at the memory of her release.

/flashback/

Naruto finally set the paint brush down, three hours of work and three clones later had left the man of twenty years covered in intricate and painstakingly made seals all over his body and the floor of his tiny apartment. Finally something had come out of chasing his friend, he had traveled the lands and picked up many tricks and skills, one being sealing. He had learned all he could to free the only being in the world that had accepted him, the only person who really knew him. Although she would put him down it was always in a friendly way. He could barely contain his joy of finally being able to hold her in his arms, tell her he loved her, and finally kiss those lips he had been dreaming about since his first contact with her those ten years ago. How long it seemed now that he looked back on it, all the scars he had attained, all the knowledge he'd come across. All of it just to free her. His Madonna, his Mona Lisa, his hopefully soon future wife. He formed a complex series of hand seals and finally landed on ram flooding the seals with as much Chakra as he could, the seals glowed to a terrible brightness. Until, like a light everything went off. Naruto's eyes slowly compensated for the dark, and in that dark he saw the pale, beautiful form of Kyuubi. She grinned her devil grin which showed off her fangs and he loved her all the more for it. He slowly walked forward and finally embraced her, He didn't notice the look of contempt on her face as he did so.

/normal time/

As he walked around the village he would hopefully be leading by tomorrow where Tsunade would choose her successor, he had picked up some things that he hoped his beloved would like. He hadn't realized that the day was turning to night and that the moon had risen just to follow him to his apartment. In his arms he held the biggest batch of roses he could buy from Ino at her shop, at discount price and he had bought one of the stuffed plushie's from Sakura's family shop which opened up during his hunting trip to find Sauske. It was a red fox specifically made for Kyuubi with the specifics laid down and designed by Naruto, it had seals that prevented it from being worn out or destroyed. Also when you press its stomach the jaw would open and there lying in its mouth was the humble ruby ring he had bought for this occasion. He was all set and ready.

The door was all that stood before him and his destiny… wait the door had new locks. Naruto grinned at Kyuubi's trickster ways, changing the locks how childish. Naruto took out a hair pin and went to work. After two minutes the lock clicked and he smiled. He gently opened the door not wishing to alert his love. Then he heard something strange, he couldn't recognize it until he fully opened the door. His eyes widened as he caught his lover with his best friend. The flowers, the tiny red fox dropped to the floor its mouth spilling its precious content, the bundle of roses seeming to explode, the petals decorating the floor in the most ironic way of matching how his heart seemed to explode. His heart or what was left of it ached to hell, his breathing stopped, the world went silent, the sound of which his lovers' encounter with his friend was all he could hear. The moans, the pleading of harder and faster. His grunts of approval and his hush and ragged whispers of dirty words to HIS lover burned and etched their way onto his brains. In one final push they both groaned out as they came together, a gift he never had the pleasure of receiving. Her eyes and face showed the pure amount of bliss and happiness she never seemed to reach with him. he stared, his eyes disbelieving until he saw her eyes finally clear from their ecstasy and they widened her beautiful ruby eyes full of fear and confusion. His friend turned and smirked. Sauske's final victory over him; the number one knuckle headed ninja. He had everything and that illusion was shattered by this man, this action spoke volumes, he could have everything but this man could take it if he chose to and the village would approve. They always did.

They didn't move for what seemed like eternity but in reality it was most likely five seconds. The Blond haired Hokage candidate turned away from those eyes that burnt their red hot way into his soul, with the regret of what she had done, but it didn't matter, she didn't matter to him anymore, he repeated over and over. He soon found himself in the back alleys of the village far away from them, keeping to the shadows, the uncalled tears threatening to break loose. Everything had amounted to nothing ten long years, she never loved him, she just used his affection and trust to her advantage. Finally the dam broke loose and in that unnamed alley filled with trash and human refuse, the last shred of humanity was torn from his already deteriorating carcass. He cried, he let all the love and hope he'd foolishly built in his heart melt away from the searing heat of betrayal and down to the deepest part that was himself. It nurtured his hate, his anger, and he watched as it grew, grew so well that the tree of life looked pale in comparison. He let out a desperate cry before succumbing to the tree of hate. The cry woke even the deepest of sleepers, it was the cry of a dying man, and the sound of an old wolf before it slept its final sleep, the cries of the worst of tortured victims.

All who remembered that single cry in the middle of the night would remember it; they would always wish that such a thing would never happen to them.

Naruto leaned against the wall before turning, his back to it, and sliding down, bringing his knees to his chest. Anyone, who walked by the man would call him crazy as he rocked back and forward, hitting the back of his head against the wall covering his once clean blond hair in grime and whispering to himself, words only he could hear; Pain accompanied the downed hero and it surged through him like a brush fire, burning everything away and planting a seed. Naruto sat in that spot until the sun rose. By then, his tears had dried up, his heart shriveled from its lack of nurturing, and a small hard ball of fury, malice and extreme hate settled in his stomach where the fire had been raging, digging its barbed fingers even deeper into him, claiming the man.

Who could blame him, he had never tossed a mean word, never held others down to support himself and he was faithful, painfully so. In the end however all he got was a broken tower of hope, and a dark tree of hate as his reward. The tree's fruit as bitter as the best of medicine and as deadly as the best poison spread in the man planting more reasons of hate, it was rightful hate of course, he knew, but he had hidden the pain of the memory, deep within his mind he couldn't just forget it, instead locking it behind double barred steel doors and multiple traps. He wouldn't dwell on it, he wouldn't cry. Not again.

Today was the day that Tsunade would name a successor, he was sure he could wrestle it from HIM but still a lingering voice sounded in his head "they'll never take you, who could ever love a monster, a demon!, like you." Naruto closed off his mind; he ignored the insistent voice, trying his best to drown out the sounds of the voice. His concentration was broken when kids ran past the alley. Naruto looked up at the sun which signaled mid-day, how long had he stood there he asked himself before starting the short trek to the village center where Tsunade would name the next Hokage.

/Kyuubi/

Kyuubi had just entered the village center she had been searching for Naruto, to say… anything. She didn't want to end something that was…was, special like that. How could she just let things go? The look on his face tortured her through the night. She thought she had almost found him last night because of the inhuman wail of pain which woke up the village and which she had followed. All she found was a dirty alley and no sign of him. However that wail, it hurt her, somewhere deep in her core. Yeah she had a thing with the blonde haired ninja but it wasn't anything really intimate, yeah he was cool, sweet and could make her laugh but she needed something more. A creeping little seed of doubt said "you know it was more to him, you should've kept it in your pants you idiot and told that man straight up, he deserves more than what he got you bitch."

Kyuubi squashed that train of thought and kept walking forward next to Naruto's best friend Sauske, he knew how to please a woman. She stood quietly thinking to herself "I couldn't have hurt him that bad, he'll bounce back, and he knew where their fling was going." she was brought out of her musings when she saw her new lover turn his head and smirk at the ruined Naruto. She turned to look and gasped at how he had changed over night from blonde handsome ninja to… what ever it was he turned to.

/Naruto/

He watched with bloodshot eyes as Tsunade hushed the crowd that eagerly awaited the news of their new Hokage. "CITIZENS OF KONOHAGAKURE… IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THE NEW HOKAGE". The people stared at the Hokage tower as the leader paused for dramatic affect. The whole village was on the balls of their feet and they all held their breaths for the moment that would change history. Tsunade looked out at the vast village and continued shouting "THIS CHOICE WAS MADE WITH GREAT DELIBERATION, AND WITH THE TOTAL UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THE COUNCIL AND I, WE HAVE NAMED….. SAUSKE UCHIHA AS THE NEXT HOKAGE." The village let out a roar of approval, money exchanged hands, people were hugging each other and everything and everyone radiated happiness and hope for a better tomorrow. All except for him, Naruto Uzumaki, the unwanted child and the much needed sacrifice. The ball of hate grew. How could it not. Without noticing it, Naruto was panting, gasping for air, small tendrils of smoke seeped out of his mouth.

/Kyuubi/

She could only stare on in horror, as the handsome blond man had change drastically since last night when she saw him in the door way the moon highlighting him In a pure white glow. She saw then how badly she had tainted him, turned his white aura into something black and soulless. She realized she was like the humans that had surrounded her; she was a true demon sent to corrupt him. And she didn't mean it in a good way. His skin burnt to a coal black, his face became more angular, giving him a dark evil look, and two black horns adorned his forehead creating a mock crown. His hair, his wonderful blonde hair changed in front of her eyes, like ashes being blown away, the blond cracked and flew with the wind, his hair was now darker than the man standing beside him and more beautiful. And the worst thing happened. His sky blue eyes glazed over and red lines etched into his skin appearing from no where, drawing arcane, glowing red runes on his cheeks and then to his forehead where they stopped and cooled leaving behind quickly healing scars that still glowed in the darkness of the alley. He was no longer the laughable, handsome man, who could rally his friends to him with a few quick words and that goofy smile. No, now he was something less and more at the same time, he was ugly but beautiful in a way that shouldn't have been possible. His gaze found hers and they held each others gaze, he hated her, he hated everything that she was and would be, he wanted her to die and burn and be reborn an infinite amount of times in the nine circles of hell. His eyes turned to a fiery red to a dull grey as he slowly stepped out of the shadows, tendrils of smoke escaping his mouth and rising in the forgotten air.

Kyuubi never realized that the Uchiha had not noticed Naruto's change, for he was on the podium waving to the people, and smirking his smirk. All she could do was ask herself what she had done. Tsunade looked down and shouted "THE NEW HOKAGE WILL TAKE POWER AND AUTHORITY NEXT WEEK EFFECTIVE WHEN THE CURRENT HOKAGE STEPS DOWN. PLEASE CLEBRATE THIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENT HE HAS EARNED IT!" people immediately left to enjoy the festivities, not only was the Uchiha the village leader , they also never saw the demon. Everything was going to be okay.

Kyuubi alone could hear the soft cries of a lonely child and the haunted laugh of a dying man.

El Mano: thank you to all those who read this I hope you enjoyed it, um, remember I don't own anything and yeah, I hope you all had fun take care.