Dazed Truth
The black-haired paced his hut restless, unable to bear to sit and wait quietly in front of the fire. It was night. Darkest night and Naruto still wasn‘t back. Had something happened to him?
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"What?"
The young demon stood speechless opposite the white fox spirit. He was supposed to be her child? The child of the white vixen who had done so much harm to his beloved friend? He could not believe it.
"You must have felt it yourself, little fox. Your strength increases with each new moon, approaching your mothers. "
"But ... but it can't be! If ... if I am the child of the white vixen, then why...? "
"Then why are you not white yourself?"
Naruto nodded. Not that it was just his fur, which was a completely different colour, no, he couldn't possibly be the child of such a cruel demon!
The white ghost fox was silent for a moment. The young demon's question was more than justified; he had come to him this night to give him the truth he was looking for.
"You know, the white vixen hasn’t always been white."
The spirit rose from its place and walked towards the young demon, circled around him, letting their energies touch. An exchange of spiritual power that would allow him to show Naruto everything he wanted.
“Once, many years ago, there was a vixen in these woods. Her fur was as red as dawn. She was the most beautiful and strongest among the fox demons. But because of her beauty and also her strength, she was unable to find the love she longed for. It’s something that every fox demon is born with; a longing for affection and a place where they can find safety. A home, a family. "
Naruto listened attentively to the words of the white fox spirit, but they made no sense to him. How could a creature, that caused so much suffering, possibly feel love? He thought of Sasuke and what he had told him. The things the white vixen had done to him and his family.
The blue eyes looked down at the ghost in confusion. He just couldn't believe it.
The ghost, however, continued to speak calmly and without judgement. He had already expected for Naruto to misunderstand. The events that had taken place before the birth of the little demon were too great.
“One night, however, when humans had already begun to see evil in the demons and started to hunt them, it was one of the gods himself who descended from the sky and saved the vixen. Minato, the God of Thunder. "
The fox paused for a moment and finally wandered back to the place on the stone from which it had previously risen.
"The God of Thunder?"
Naruto realized how little he knew about himself, his parents and the world they lived in.
“The god of thunder had long watched over the village and its inhabitants, worshipped by the priests. He had noticed the change that had divided humans and demons and had taken care of this matter to end the senseless murders. Touched by his kindness and the good heart of the God, the red vixen fell in love with the god of thunder and they became one. ”
Naruto felt something warm inside. Were that his mother's feelings at that time?
"That ... that means I'm the child of... a fox demon and a god ?!"
The white fox nodded briefly.
"But ... but if I'm her child, why have I always been alone? Why did I grow up in a foxhole?"
He had never met his mother or his father. All he remembered was a fox who had warmed and protected him and her cubs alike. The fox demon approached the white ghost excited and curious. Finally he dropped to the floor in front of him. But the ghost became serious.
"Little fox, what do you know about humans? Or about this world? About a world in which humans and demons can no longer coexist. "
Naruto paused. No. No, did that mean-?
“Even before you were born, people learned about the love of the red vixen and their god of thunder. Enraged, that the demons had taken possession of their god, they sealed the shrine of the god of thunder and locked him away.
Separated from his beloved and unable to protect her and his unborn child, the God did the only thing he had left. He transferred his power to the vixen he had left alone in the forest.
But the priests persecuted her to kill her. They searched for her, combed the woods and left no stone unturned to find her.
Alone and frighened about her own and your fate, she gave birth in her fox hole and then left you to drive the people away or at least to lure them away. Because all she had left was her beloved child. "
Naruto swallowed hard. He was sick because he felt in which direction this story was going. The white fox paused. He was just a ghost and yet he felt the fox demon's feelings as if they were his own.
“Fox demons are weak when they give birth to their young. A short cycle of weakness befalls them and makes them vulnerable. The humans managed to catch the red vixen, but by no means did they immediately execute her. They brought her to the temple of the god of thunder and put her in chains as well. ”
He was sick. Naruto's stomach cramped because he felt what the ghost would tell him.
"Weapons pointed at her, ready to behead her, but it was a priest who took a different path. Why just kill the demon that made their God fall to sin? No. Tonight, they would set an example for all fox demons and all gods. "
Naruto closed his eyes and found himself inside the memories of the past.
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"Red vixen, you dared to desecrate our God and seduced him with your wicked tongue. No god should ever be lured from the heavens by a low creature as yourself. "
The priest raised the consecrated sword inside his hand above the God, whom he once had so faithfully served. Minato took a last look at his beloved vixen, a gentle, apologetic smile on his lips, for not being able to protect her before the weapon pierced his heart and ended the life of the God.
A few seconds passed, the young demon's body motionless as if she had frozen to ice and tears were rising in her eyes before the trembling cry of loss echoed across the courtyard of the temple.
Anger and despair rose inside the female demon, fear of what would become of her child now that she was at the mercy of these people, the sight of her dead love burning deep into her eyes.
The blood roared in her ears as her own shadow building up in front of her and made the priests retreat.
"You will pay for this… Each of you will pay for what you have done," whispered the beautiful demon's voice, before the chains around her limbs broke and the shadow disappeared inside her body, her shape changing in the rising full moon.
Her long, fiery-red hair turned white like the cold moonlight itself, her eyes burning with rage.
She would destroy them. All of them.
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Startled, the young fox demon opened his eyes, felt tears running down his cheeks and drying on the cold ground of the forest.
"That night the vixen lost all memories of her loved one and gave in to pain, hatred and despair until darkness consumed her. You were alone because she left the human world after burning down the temple. Now you know the truth, little demon. "
He couldn‘t believe it. All these things, these atrocities. It was too much. It was more than the young demon could handle. Only a voice pulled him out of his thoughts.
"NARUTOOOOO!"
His head jerked up, his ears twitched up and his scarred cheeks shimmered damp in the cold moonlight. It was Sasuke.
"What should I-?" He wanted to ask the ghost, but it was gone. As if it had never been there.
"Naruto?" Asked the blind carefully when he finally reached the top of the mountain. He felt the fox demon but why didn't he answer him?