Cold as Death

[Myrdraxxis]

Well......why not?

[Myrdraxxis]

Cold As Death
Chapter 1



Naruto groaned in pain as he woke up in the dank wet sewer that was his mind. He stood up blinking a few times to clear his head.

‘What the hell?’ he thought. He looked around surveying where he was.
A large cage rose up in front of him, with a piece of paper that said ‘seal’ on it. Naruto shuddered as an ominous feeling tingled up his spine.

“Well, well, well. The jailor finally comes to greet his prisoner.” Naruto tensed, eyes glancing quickly around the room before resting on the cage.

“In here, little mortal.” The dark voice echoed from the cage. Naruto gulped and cautiously stepped closer to the cage.

“Wh- who are you. Where am I? Tell me!” he shouted.

“Heheh, you mean you still haven’t figured it out? You really are stupid” Naruto was about to retort when something moved inside the cage. The large figure stepped out of the shadows. Naruto gasped in horror.

“Y-your Kyuubi!” Kyuubi chuckled again at the boys fear.

“It’s about time, idiot.” Naruto scowled, recovering from his fright.

“Hey! I’m no idiot! I’m Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage, believe it! (an: shudders)

“Heh sure whatever kid. You’ve got spirit I’ll give you that much.” Kyuubi yawned lazily. Naruto grimaced and glared up at the giant fox.

“You didn’t answer my question. Where am I?” Kyuubi just sighed.

“I would have thought that to be obvious. We’re in your mind, brat.”

Naruto blinked. “Eh wait, how did I get here exactly?”

“It happened like this brat…..”
Flashback

A Kyuubi-influenced Naruto roared and swung his clawed hand at Orochimaru’s face. The Sannin blocked easily, only to barely miss a round-house kick to the face. Sasuke and Sakura watched the battle in horror and awe.

“Is this really Naruto?” Sakura thought at seeing her teammate in action. Sasuke just clenched his fists in rage.

‘Why does the stupid dobe get that power. I should have it, I’m an Uchiha!’ (an: rolls eyes)
Deciding that he was no longer amused at toying with the Gennin, Orochimaru did his weird long tongue technique thing and grabbed Naruto. Hoisting him up, he blinked in surprise at seeing that Naruto’s once shocking blue eyes were now blood red with slitted pupils. The snake man’s shock quickly turned to amusement.

“Kukuku, so the fox demon brat still lives it seems. At some point perhaps I could have used you, but for now you’re in the way.” Orochimaru’s hand glowed with chakra as he shot it forward, slamming it into Naruto’s stomach. ‘Five Pronged Seal’! Naruto screamed in pain and lost consciousness.


Flashback End

Upon learning what had happened Naruto was, needless to say, freaking out.
“I gotta get out of here and help! Gah, how do I get out of here! Damn, stupid snake freak –“
“Will you shut up and listen!” Naruto obediently fell silent.
“That fight is probably done considering you have been unconscious for a couple of hours. Besides, you are in no condition to even move much less fight. It is taking me a while to heal all the damage to your body.”

“Wait, why is it taking you so long? Usually most of my injuries heal within minuets.” Naruto asked.

“I used up a lot of chakra overloading that ‘Five Pronged Seal’ while you rested. If I hadn’t we wouldn’t even be talking right now.”

“Ok well that answers that, but what am I supposed to do? My team is probably in danger!” Naruto yelled. Kyuubi winced at the volume of his voice.

“There isn’t much you can do except wait. It could take time to heal you fully.”

“WHAT! I CAN’T JUST WAIT AROUND! I HAVE TO MAKE IT TO THE TOWER AND MAKE CHUNNIN SO I CAN BE HOKAGE! WHY ARE YOU JUST SITTING THERE YOU DAMN DEMON!” At this Kyuubi exploded.
“DAEMON! YOU DARE COMPARE ME WITH THOSE PITIFUL WEAKLINGS?! I AM THE KYUUBI NO KITSUNE! I SHOULD DEVOURE YOUR SOUL RIGHT NOW!” Naruto had a confused look on his face.

“Wait, you’re not a demon?” Kyuubi calmed down and glared at him.

“Of course not. As if those pathetic warp-spawn could ever stand up to my might.” Kyuubi puffed out his chest proudly. Now Naruto was more confused than ever.

“Warp? What the hell is that?” Kyuubi sighed.

“Alright kit you might as well sit down, this will take a while to explain.” Naruto did just that.

“There are two planes of existence. The material realm which is everything physically existing such as trees, rocks and even planets, and the Immateriam or The Warp. The Warp is a plane of chaos, and raw emotion given form. It is said to be the result of sentience and a dark reflection of the material realm.” Seeing that Naruto was paying rapt attention, Kyuubi pressed on.
“Many eons ago, my race was semi-sentient beings who fed off of the energy of stars, where we were discovered by a race of beings called necrontyr. We were worshiped by them, earning the name of C’tan or Star Gods. The Necrontyr were in a war against another race known as the ‘Old Ones’. They hated the Old Ones for their extremely long lives and thus wanted to wipe the Old Ones out. While only living short lives, the Necrontyr had extraordinary technology. Using a type of living metal known as necrodermis, the built bodies for us to help them in their war against the Old Ones.” Kyuubi started to chuckle. “The C’tan known as The Deceiver tricked the Necrontyr into building bodies of necrodermis for themselves, to be buit for war and live forever. The Necrontyr readily agreed and they transferred their consciousnesses into the bodies. Slowly their minds and senses dulled, making them warrior slaves for us to use. We used them to win victory after victory over the Old Ones and eventually drove them almost extinct. With nobody to feed on, we turned on each other and began to devour our fellow C’tan.” Kyuubi paused, seeing Naruto’s wide-eyed look, before continuing. “Nine of us fled the carnage, looking for other means of food. We found this planet, and a colony of Old Ones who were desperately trying to find means to defeat us. We devoured them, which in turn kept us from eating each other. By the time the planet was devoid of life, only four other C’tan besides ourselves remained. The Nightbringer, The Deceiver, The Void Dragon and The Outsider. The Old Ones, in their desperation, had invented new races to the galaxy in order to drive us back. One race however turned out to be the Old Ones’ undoing. They were the Enslavers. Having a strong psychic link with the Old Ones, they were able to push their way into the material realm and began killing millions upon millions of life forms and driving the Old Ones to extinction. With no life to feed upon, we Ctan fell dormant until the universe had properly repopulated for us to feed upon again. The Nine of us who fled to this planet lay dormant for millions of years. Upon awaking, we discovered a race of humans who had strange psychic abilities which they called ‘jutsu’. We began to feed again only to be pushed back. We greatly underestimated their powers, and they sealed us away one by one until only I was left. In hunger I turned to a nearby village and set upon it, only to be sealed away by that blasted Yondaim of yours.”

Naruto’s eyes widened.

“So the reason you attacked Konoha was because……” Kyuubi nodded.

“I was feeding.” Naruto felt dizzy as he let all the information sink in.

“damn.” He muttered. He slowly turned to look back up at the massive fox.
“So what happens now?” Kyuubi thought for a minuet.

“Well, some time passed during my speech so your body should be fully healed by now. I’d recommend trying to see what’s going on.” Naruto nodded for getting kicked from his mind.


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Naruto sat up and surveyed the dense forest. “ Hey, where are Sakura-chan and Sasuke-teme?” he asked in confusion.
“I think you got abandoned kit.” Kyuubi’s voice rang in his mind. Naruto’s eyes
widened.


‘Wha? No way! They would never abandon me, we are a team!’ Naruto shouted in his mind.

“Since when have they ever cared for you? That boy is just an emotionless bastard and the banshee has never shown any appreciation for you, and cares only for the Uchiha.” Kyuubi growled. Naruto scowled.

‘Sakura-chan does care for me! She just doesn’t show it.” Kyuubi growled in annoyance.

“Oh please. All she ever does is hit you and push you down. Do you know how many concussions I’ve had to heal from her beatings?” Naruto frowned and looked at the ground suddenly feeling very depressed.

“They……..really don’t care about me?” he asked weakly. Kyuubi sensed his despair and sighed.

“Forget about it kit. There are more important matters at the moment.” Naruto blinked.

“Like what?” he asked Kyuubi dejectedly.

“The fact is kid, you’re weak. And don’t argue with me you know it is true! You always rely on me when it comes to major fights!” Kyuubi barked when Naruto opened his mouth to retort. Naruto sighed.

‘Well why can’t you just help me like you did with Haku and the Wave mission?’

“You can’t handle that much raw energy. I was pushing it then and you could have died on that mission. I only used it because it was a life or death situation.”

Naruto sighed in defeat. ‘Why do you care?’

“For two reasons. One, I won’t have a weak container, it’s embarrassing. Two, if you die I die and I don’t feel like dieing any time soon.” Naruto sighed in defeat.

“Well I don’t have much to offer you except guiding your training. Maybe you could ask some of those Jounin to help you.” Naruto frowned.

‘So you point out that I am weak and need to step it up…..and don’t have any idea how to help at all?!’ He practically screamed in his mind.

“Yep.” Naruto sweatdropped.
“Well might as well get going.” He said to no one and started running. He got about fifteen feet when he ran right into……….a rock. Yep a ninja ran head-on into a rock.
“Ita! What the Hell?!?” Naruto muttered rubbing his bruised head. He could hear Kyuubi snickering quietly in the background. Naruto turned and glared at the rock. It was at least as tall as he was, and was a dark black that seemed to absorb light. In the middle of it was a strange hieroglyphic symbol that seemed to glow acid green. All in all it was a very odd piece of work. And it was lost on Naruto.

“Stupid rock! Who the hell would put a rock right where I’m running! Honestly!” He shouted in indignation. He then took notice of its strange appearance.
‘Whoah, what’s with this thing? What do you think furball?’ Kyuubi had gone strangely silent
‘Uhhh Kyuubi?” Kyuubi started to chuckle which turned into a full blown maniacal laugh.

“hehehehhahahaWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!” to say that Naruto was a little freaked out would be an understatement.

‘Ummm Kyuubi? Are you ok?’ he asked cautiously, wondering if the bump to the head had somehow affected the sealed C’tan. Kyuubi’s laughter slowly died down.

“Eheh oh man kit, I never thought I would see one of these again. I think I just found a way to make you stronger.” Naruto’s eyes widened with glee.
‘Really? How?!?’ Kyuubi smiled evilly from within the seal.

“Well kit, if this obelisk means what I think it does, then you could become the most powerful person on this planet.” Naruto’s eyes widened to comical proportions.

‘TELL ME TELL ME! I MUST GET STRONGER! I MUST PROTECT MY PRECIOUS PEOPLE!” he vowed/shouted to Kyuubi.

“Well now judging from the way this obelisk is faced, I’d say that you need to head into that cave over to your right.” Naruto blinked.

‘There is a cave here?’ Kyuubi sweatdropped.

“Some shinobi you are. Anyways yes there is a cave. I want you to head into it as far as you can go.” Naruto nodded and entered to cave. It was dark and dry as was to be expected, but there was something off about the cave. It seemed as though no life existed in it and it seemed to suck the life right out of you. Naruto shivered as he walked further in. He could barely see and almost lost his footing when the ground started to slant downward.

“Head down there kit, what we seek lies deep within. Very deep.” Kyuubi instructed. Naruto continued to follow the path until it was almost impossible to see. The only light came from the rapidly shrinking entrance that Naruto had came from. He entered a giant cavern that to be at least the size of half of Konoha.

‘What am I supposed to be looking for, fox? I don’t….” and then he saw it. A large structure loomed up in front of him. It was made from the same material as the obelisk and radiated an aura of fear and death. The building was shaped like vaguely like a giant pyramid with elaborate walkways running all up its sides and spires jutting up to the cavern ceiling above. The whole thing put Naruto on edge.

“Yes! We have found it! So it still remains after all these years.” Naruto started at Kyuubi’s voice.

‘Found what, furball?’ he asked, glancing around nervously.

“All will be revealed soon kit. I want you to climb to the top. There will be a central platform there. Get to it!” Naruto eyed the structure.

‘you want me to climb ALL the way up there?!? How?’ he asked incredulously

“Use your chakra moron. Like the tree-climbing exercise you did with that poor excuse for a teacher of yours.”

‘Oh, right’ was Naruto’s smart response. Kyuubi resisted the urge to smack himself.

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Naruto panted as he finally pulled himself over the edge to the top of the pyramid-like structure.
‘Damn (cough) fox! (pant) Why does (pant) it have to be so high up?!” Naruto rasped as he slumped to the floor exhausted.

“Quite your bitching. Now get up and go over to the center. You want power don’t you? To protect your ‘precious people’? Kyuubi growled at him impatiently. Naruto stood up with new determination and strode over to the center of the platform. There was a raised section that was square in shape. Naruto noticed that it had strange hieroglyphics stretched around its border, as did most of the structure. Stepping onto the platform, Naruto got a sudden sense of foreboding.

‘What exactly is gonna happen fur face?’ as if to answer his question, Naruto felt his chakra flare up, lighting up the cavern slightly and then shoot out of him along with something he couldn’t identify. A dead silence hung over the entire cavern.

‘What the hell did you do Kyuubi?’ Naruto asked in an alarmed voice.

“I woke them up.” Was Kyuubi’s cryptic reply. Naruto narrowed his eyes.

‘Woke who up?’ he asked. Kyuubi didn’t respond. Suddenly he heard a strange shuffling sound and whipped around, glancing into the darkness around him.

“The soulless machines.”

Naruto could make out figures slowly walking towards him from the shadows. He whipped out a kunie.

“Destroyers of worlds”

Naruto glanced around to see that they came from all around him. Their humanoid shapes glided against the shadows and their eyes glowed an acid green color that seemed to pierce into his very soul.

“Slayers of life”

Slowly the figures stepped out of the shadows one by one. Naruto gasped and stared in horrified awe.
“Slaves of the C’tan”

The figures stood as tall as humans with green metal plates covering their bodies, making them look like machines. Emotionless glowing, green eyes stared back at him through metallic masks of death, bathing their faces in an eerie green glow.

“The Necron.”

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