Konoha's Black Shadow
The night was unusually cold. Clouds blot the sky, partially covering the glow of the moon and the twinkling stars. On top the mountain of the Hokage Monument, stood a cloaked figure. He wore a black silk bodysuit and white silk gloves. The footwear worn consists of flat pointed knee-high black boots, the lower legs reinforced with armor, and gold shin guards. The knee guards were diamond-shaped. Running up from the knees were single purple stripes that curved slightly over the stomach and ended at the lower corners of a silver icon. The scar over the chest also ran over the emblem, but the emblem was ruined to show the scar's condition on the skin under the bodysuit. The shoulders had oval shaped guards with a triangular-pointed projection. The forearms were protected with the same type of black armor guards, gold rings around the wrists and gold armor pads for the elbows.
Most of this however was concealed by a heavy dark brown cloak, which exposed only the upper half portion of his face. Profound whiskers were barely seen on the teenager's face, and his eyes were a red glow tint with what looked like purple war paint like Kankuro, shaped like fangs. The fangs start from under the eyes down the cheeks. The head is concealed in a strangely-designed metal helmet with fins that looked similar to that of a cobra's hood. The inside was orange, while the rest was all black. On the forehead point of the helmet, was a blue crystal with four points like a shuriken star. If one was to look very closely into the crystal, you can see the reflection of Konoha's leaf symbol within the translucent gem. And with the wind catching the breeze tonight, the cloak ruffles gently under its cold caress.
"Pathetic fools... you made me who I am today," whispered the cold-hearted young man, staring down upon the so-called peaceful village. His hand brushed up to his chest, the fingers grazing across the scar that mimics the one that he refused to heal several years ago. He held himself from flaring out his aura in spite anger, before closing his eyes and seemingly vanishing into thin air. A cold chill descended upon the village on this night, and no one would understand or explain how.
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Konoha had descended into downtime ever since the death of one Uzumaki Naruto, whose heritage was revealed before the Sandaime's death post-invasion of Orochimaru. Danzou despised losing the Kyuubi as a weapon, but thanks to the foolish Uchiha, his weapon to destroy everybody who stood in his path to some ultimate god-like rule over mankind was dead. Still, he managed to wrangle the position of Hokage. Of course, on that night many years ago, Naruto wasn't the only person to die: the heir of the Hyuuga were also killed by the same Uchiha whom a month later attempted to overthrow the village (and died by Itachi's hand before he died himself). The Uchiha survivors were given no mercy, and all executed publicly (which also caused a bit of anarchy amongst the "Sasuke fan club").
The village was degrading, but on this day, since these tragedies, Konoha was no longer recognized as one of the great five. The new village christen as the new Great Five was a village called Hoshigakure. Danzou had begun the Fourth Great Shinobi war by massacring Hoshigakure no Sato in the same manner that befell the one great Uzugakure no Sato six months after that event. Sunagakure withdrew its alliance from Konoha, leaving them to suffer from the assaults of Kumo, Iwa, and all other minor and large ninja villages that felt Konoha's threat from the hands of the Godaime. A week later, Danzou would once again send his armies (those whom he brainwashed into serving him for the greater good of humanity) on suicide missions...
That is the day the once proud Village of the Hidden Leaf fell at the hands of a person once thought dead. Survivors would speak of an evil man with an aura so cold and unforgiving, and eyes that burned like the fires of hell. He wielded chakra with no seals used; controlling it, commanding it to his will and others would speak of him as a wingless Valkyrie descending upon them with explosive power so eerily resembling the power of the dreaded Kyuubi. One survivor in particular, the last survivor of the Hyuuga Clan, would say that the man had the eyes of his dead older sister. Whoever this man was, he had single-handedly ended the Fourth Great Shinobi War by killing the Konoha ninja populace, killing the Hokage and his Advisors, and bringing the land the village prospered under a burning fire hotter than the black flames.
He was given a nickname by the Tsuchikage: The Black Shadow.
And Naruto... well, Naruto, with the blood-tainted eyes of his precious Hinata-chan, disappeared without a trace only emerging decades later when humanity unleashed the Juubi from its prison (the moon).