AN: Welp, been gone for how long, half a year at least? Whatever. I WOULD have made an excuse, but can't really be bothered right now.

Anyway, surfing , I found a writer named Mrwriterwriter. I found his challenge… I'll take a shot. The challenge is named: What's in the scroll, and the challenge is this: Whatever you want can be in the scroll that Naruto steals. ANYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

The only bad thing is that the challenge is a bit biased, but I'll try to make it better than my other fics.

ANOTHER THING! Am I using the word 'Though' correct? To anyone more capable in the English language, please tell me.

SO LETS START!

"Blablabla" *Speech.

'Thinkthinkthink' Thoughts. 'With italics' means an ethereal being talks to a human.

*An action, or reactionary sound, like a gasp, grunt or sigh*

Just italics in general mean either a flashback, or a vision.

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All in all, when Naruto actually thought about it, this idea was freaking stupid.

Why did he listen to Mizuki? I mean heck, He might be somewhat dense, but to actually believe Mizuki when he told Naruto this? He felt like smacking himself right now. He should just have gone to Iruka and asked for another chance, maybe another jutsu, or another practical test. Heck, his stealth is the best in his class!

"I'm gonna be in so much trouble when they find me." Naruto mumbled as he landed in a clearing. It wasn't the same clearing as he was supposed to meet Mizuki in, but right now he didn't care. He just wanted to find a place to lay low until someone he trusted ran past… He had to admit though; he was a bit curious about what's inside the scroll.

*Sigh* "I'm already in enough trouble, adding another crime can't make it much worse."

Opening the scroll, he noticed that it was a lot shorter than he thought. The wood-pin thing actually took up basically all the space. Rolled out, the paper was maybe two feet long, forming a square.

"Okay, what the heck is up with this big thing? You don't even need it dammit!" Throwing the piece of wood away in frustration, he then looked at the piece of paper in front of him.

A single word was written in the center of the paper. Inside a circle that was made of many strange squiggly lines, the word 'King' stood written, basically glaring him in the face.

"King? What the…?" He muttered. "Umm… Chakra?" He said as he inserted some chakra into the word.

Nothing happened.

"Dammit, what the heck am I supposed to do then?!" He yelled in frustration.

A memory flashed in front of his eyes. About two years ago in the academy, when they were going to practice kunai throwing. Somehow, all the kunais was gone, so Iruka had let them use his own. They puffed out of a scroll after he used a drop of his own blood on it. He remembers being mesmerized by that, though Iruka never taught him how to make those scrolls.

Blinking, Naruto bit his own thumb and swiped it across the word. He grinned from his own accomplishment when the scroll lit up in a green light, a light that somehow managed to portray the very word that was etched on the scroll.

As the light grew stronger, Naruto had to look away, and for just a brief moment, Naruto shivered as a scream emanated from the scroll, a scream taken straight out of man's darkest nightmares.

Soon the light dimmed, making him able to turn around again. The scroll had burned up, and in its place laid three objects.

The first object was a sword. The handle was a bit longer than a foot, and the crown was shaped somewhat like, well, a crown. The guard curved slightly, and was about half the length of the handle, and looked like it was made of silver. The blade itself was over three feet long, and was made by some sort of dark metal. While this in itself wasn't weird (after all, Kunais are made from a dark metal) It sort of seemed like the light became… Dimmed around the blade.

The second object was a dagger about half the size of the sword. It was almost a perfect replica of the sword, but the guard was curved the other way, and the blade looked like almost like silver.

The last object, Naruto noted, was a black cloak which the weapons laid on.

"What, no crown?" Naruto muttered, sniggering about his own joke. He leant forward and grabbed the sword.

And at that moment, Pain erupted throughout his body.

He got visions of a landscape far away, of a plain where people in armor rode horses, a castle hidden away in a valley, a forest with… Moving trees? What the hell? Grotesque creatures roamed the lands, slaughtering entire villages, an old man dressed in white stood atop his gigantic tower made of metal, staring out at the burning furnace before him.

It moved, and he now saw a white city, bigger than anything Naruto had ever seen. Atop the city, a man ran out of a building, past a white tree, screaming while he burned. Something that looked like dragons flew through the skies and on them rode cloaked men. Another man dressed in white stood atop the walls, having a staring competition with one of the dragon riders, a man that could easily be identified as the leader of the cloaked men.

The vision shifted again, the cloaked leader stood on his knees in front of a woman, having just been stabbed by someone shorter than Naruto. And then, for just a brief moment before he was skewered by the woman's sword, Naruto felt that the man stared at him through his helmet, that even though Naruto wasn't there, the man could still feel his presence.

And then everything faded to black before he was returned back to the clearing, one hand clutching his chest while the other clenched the handle of the sword.

"What… What was that?" Naruto muttered as the pain went away. *As a thousand needles in my heart* went through his mind, which made Naruto jump. He looked around desperately, but he neither saw nor heard anything, not even animal life, which should have made him creeped out, but in his current state of mind, he didn't notice.

He looked back at the other two items, noticing that the sword was surprisingly light, and after a moment of hesitation, he picked up the dagger.

… Nothing happened.

He let out a sigh of relief, but then a thought entered his mind.

"How the hell am I supposed to get all this back?" He muttered before noticing something inside the cloak.

Two scabbards and two different belts, one for the sword, and one for the dagger.

He took another glance at the dagger, feeling uneasy touching it to be honest, and then a ghastly voice rang through his mind.

'A blade only to be used in the direst of situations, against the strongest opponents, never to be used carelessly.'

He paled. "I'm going insane." Naruto muttered to himself while he sheathed the weapons and secured them around him, the dagger at his waist and the sword at his back since he was too short to have it at his waist.

A moment later, the voice came back, screaming 'DODGE' and Naruto dodged to the right, a big shuriken embedded in the ground where he just had been.

"Dammit!" A familiar voice grunted, and Naruto paled even more as he turned around and stared at the silver-haired man, his academy teacher Mizuki.

"Naruto, where's the scroll." Mizuki said, jumping down from the tree he stood in.

"W-What's going on here?" Naruto said as he took a step back.

Mizuki looked around the clearing, dismissing the weapons Naruto carried, and noticed the ashes near the black cloak.

"You little shit, you burnt the scroll!" He screamed, a fury like nothing Naruto had ever seen before clear in his eyes. He somewhat composed himself, a cruel grin stretched across his face.

'Yes,' he thought. 'That'll probably break his feeble little mind.'

"Hey Naruto, ever wondered why you are so hated?" He said to Naruto, his voice sugarcoated so much it made Naruto sick.

He didn't even wait for an answer. "As you know, almost thirteen years ago, the Nine-tailed fox attacked the village and the fourth Hokage killed the fox, right? Well that is a lie! He didn't kill the fox, but he sealed it! Can you guess what he sealed it in?"

"It can't be." Naruto whispered, taking a step back, a cruel laughter ringing in his head.

"YES! The fourth sealed the fox into a baby, and that baby is you! YOU ARE THE NINE-TAILED FOX!" He screamed, madness seeping from every syllable.

Naruto trembled, shock entering his mind, then a thought flew by his mind.

"Wait, how can I be the fox if the fox is sealed in me? That's just stupid! That's like calling a scroll with a kunai sealed in it the kunai!" He yelled back, anger beginning to rise.

"I DON'T CARE!" Mizuki screamed, grabbing the shuriken on his back before throwing it. "JUST DIE!"

Naruto saw the shuriken come closer, and without thinking about it, he crouched down, grabbed the handle of his sword, and slashed at the shuriken, somehow managing to send it back at the murderous man.

Both of them looked a bit shocked that Naruto managed to do that, but despite that minor, Mizuki dodged out of the way and ran faster than Naruto thought he was capable of, delivering a hard kick to his stomach, sending him crashing into a tree.

*Cough* "Dammit." He grunted, still holding his sword as he stood up shakily.

'Let me do it.' He heard.

'What?' A shadowy visage entered his mind.

'Let me… Help you.' It whispered.

Naruto hesitated for a moment, but a moment later he nodded.

"Okay."

Mizuki had no idea what just happened.

The scenario was almost perfect. The demon brat was hurt, and he was running towards him, intending to finish him off. Then a moment later was sent flying back through the air by the same brat after a punch in the face.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" He yelled, staring at the boy.

With his head bowed, Naruto took a step forward, the sword being dragged through the grass.

"This body…" Came from the boy, and Mizuki took a double take at that voice.

That was not the brat's voice!

"What I would give to have a body like this in my era." A slithering voice said. "Stronger than any human was, stronger than even me… My master would have endeared this body…"

"W-Who the fuck are you?" Mizuki meant to yell that, but his voice came out as barely a whimper. What was the most terrifying about the voice wasn't that the brat said it, but that it was a corrupted mix of the boy's voice and… Something else.

The 'boy' raised his head, and Mizuki's eyes widened.

Those eyes. So empty, like looking into the darkest pit in hell, like a spiraling madness without relief. The black orbs of death himself.

A wicked grin spread across the boy's face.

"Impudent human, talking to me like that… Let me show you what true fear feels like."

A scream echoed across the clearing, a scream filled with so much terror and torment that Mizuki crumbled to the ground, shielding his ears as much as possible from that horrible noice. So many ways to die, his own death shown in more ways than he thought possible blocked his eyes.

And then it stopped, yet Mizuki couldn't manage the strength to rise from his fallen position. He couldn't do anything else than to quiver where he laid as he heard soft footsteps come closer to his position, and that constant sound of the sword being dragged.

"Weak, pathetic being. Even the humans from my time didn't fall over like this." It said, coming closer.

"But I will not take this kill… No. Rather, the new one shall do it… This world shall once again fear the wrath of the Nazgul."

Naruto had seen it all. He heard what that man, that… Nazgul, as he called himself said. He felt what he did, and that scream. So terrifying. Yet, Naruto could at most only feel a shiver run up his spine.

'Finish him.'

Naruto gulped, hesitating. 'I… I have to do it sometime. It's a part of my j-job after all.'

Breathing deeply, he looked down at the sobbing man. He raised his sword, and with a quick slash, the head rolled of his body.

He stared at his sword, that dark sword that seemed even darker somehow. The blood slowly slid down the blade, and Naruto followed it slowly with his gaze.

"I… I should feel… more than this." He muttered to himself, falling to his knees.

He sat there for several minutes, just looking at the body, not a single thought entering his mind. The blood from Mizuki's neck had stopped flowing, and had begun to clot, which made Naruto take a look at his sword. For some reason, not a single drop was left on the blade.

With a shaky breath, Naruto stood up, clutching the sword in his hand. He looked around and noticed the black cloak. He walked to it, bent over, and picked it up when he heard a gasp.

Spinning around, he stared at the newly arrived person. None other than his other teacher, Iruka.

Despite seeing his best friend dead, he quickly scanned over the area, noticing several things. Near the first thrown shuriken was an imprint of sandals that was deeper than other places, meaning that whoever stood there, probably Naruto had jumped away. By the imprint, he noticed that Naruto must have stood with his back turned, which meant that Mizuki probably attacked first.

'But why would he…' Iruka mused.

"I-Iruka sensei?" Naruto stammered, clutching his sword. "Are you here to kill me too?" He almost growled, glaring at his teacher.

Iruka snapped his eyes at Naruto, and before the boy could blink, the man was fussing over him.

"Naruto, are you okay? Are you hurt? What happened here? Why did you knock out the Hokage? Where did you find this stuff?"

He knelt down in front of the boy that seemed to have entered some kind of shocked state.

"Naruto, I need you to tell me what happened here. Did Mizuki plan this?" he said seriously, his eyes boring into Naruto's eyes, eyes that had returned to their normal blue hue.

'Lie'

'But… He's Iruka! I can't lie to him!'

'Lie, or remain weak.'

He took a deep breath.

"Mizuki… Mizuki tricked me into trying to take the scroll of sealing. After I knocked out the Hokage with my henge, I took the wrong scroll in desperation. It was really only a storage scroll with some reserve equipment, but I didn't notice that before I came here. I decided to train a bit before Mizuki found me and then…" He hesitated, but not for the reason Iruka thought.

"He attacked you, and you defended yourself, am I right?" Naruto nodded, a tiny bit of relief on his face before it hardened.

"When were you going to tell me about the Kyuubi? Out of all the people to tell me, Mizuki had to be the one." He muttered, scowling at his teacher.

Iruka sighed before hugging Naruto to him.

"I meant to do it after you graduated. I didn't want you to be bothered by the thoughts of Kyuubi before you became a gennin… This is a rank I think you have earned after stopping a traitor to Konoha." He said.

"Close your eyes Naruto." He muttered, taking of his head-band when he noticed Naruto closed his eyes, and put it over his head.

"Congratulations gennin Naruto Uzumaki." He said, smiling while he held the boy's green goggles.

He expected to be crushed by one of Naruto's hugs, but instead he got a boy that looked at the ground.

Sighing, Iruka put his hand on Naruto's head.

"It hurts Naruto, it really does, hurt to take another person's life, but in time, the pain becomes a bit more bearable." He said, hugging Naruto again.

'But… I don't feel bad for doing it'.