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The Canalized River	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 944 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter
Twelve: A Soft Spot

Again
Naruto told no one about this encounter. I don't have to, he tried to
convince himself that he was right in doing so. It does not matter,
because I won't accept their offer anyway. And still he could not
help thinking about the stranger, and most of all, the name of Uchiha
Madara kept ringing in his ears. He was sure that he had heard it
before, but he could not remember where. He had never been good with
names.

When
they rested, he kept himself apart, thinking again about the
stranger, though he had already convinced himself that he was not
worth thinking about, and searching his memory for the situation
where he had heard the name of Uchiha Madara before. He searched so
hard for it that he began to feel as if he was really inside his head
which seemed like a big, old deserted house, full of chests and
cupboards and shelves for all his memories. Searching everywhere, he
went from the attic to the cellar, where of course he found the
kyuubi behind the bars of his cage.

„You
should have come earlier“, it said. „You should have
realized that you just have to come to me when you search for a
memory, because I remember everything you do, and much much more.“

Naruto
did not have to ask any more where he had heard the name of Uchiha
Madara, because being here again, he remembered it as well.

„You
know about him“, he said. „You told Sasuke about him,
telling him that his chakra was as strong and sinister as that of
Uchiha Madara.“

„Yeah,
the Uchiha boy. He is strong indeed, and one day he might surpass his
forefather.“

„Forefather?“

„What
else?“

„I
had thougt that Madara was a distant relative of Sasuke, some
prodigious son of the Uchiha clan.“

„There's
only one prodigious son of that clan, and that`s Itachi. Madara was
the founder of the clan, and one of the founders of Konoha.“

„But
he should have been dead for hundreds of years!“

„Fifty,
actually. He was killed by the Shodaime in the Valley of the End.“

The
fight against Sasuke was still one of the most ambivalent memories of
Naruto's life. He had been happy to hear Sasuke call him his friend,
he had been proud that he had finally been able to make use of all
his power and stand his own against Sasuke, but he would have
preferred it not to be a fight about life or death. And now to think
that at the very same place the Shodaime had killed a man who must
have been his friend, or at least his companion when Konoha had been
founded...

„Madara
was one of the strongest shinobi of his clan“, the kyuubi
continued, „maybe the strongest, with the exception of that
boy.“

„You
speak as if you had met him. How is this possible – even if
he's been dead not for five hundred, but only for fifty years.“

„You
forget that I have existed since the beginning of the world.“

For
a minute Naruto stood in awe. Then he remembered that the kyuubi, old
as it was, was not a venerable deity, but a demon.

„I
have been present at the foundation of Konoha. Madara had a rare
power, rare even among those who have the Sharingan, or one of its
precursors. He was able to summon me from the depths of the ocean, or
the voids of outer space, making me take form again. The Shodaime
would then order me to cut a hole into the mountains, so that Konoha
would be protected from three sides by natural walls of rock. Then I
had to build the wall on the forth side, and at the same time defend
Konoha from enemies who would have loved to destroy it in this first,
vulnerable stage of its existence.“

„The
Shodaime ordered you“, Naruto repeated. „But it was
Madara who summoned you.“

„Exactly.
Madara could call me from the four corners of the world, but he
needed the Shodaime to give the orders. He was Konoha's first
jinchuuriki.“

„But
he was loved by everyone.“

„Not
loved. Respected. No one loves a person who willingly takes a demon
inside their own body. Later he turned crazy and killed his friend.
That's what happens to most jinchuurikis, sooner or later. The power
wants out.“

Nice
to tell me that, Naruto thought.

„That's
why they were reluctant before they allowed for another jinchuuriki
in Konoha“, the kyuubi went on.

„Were
there more of them?“

„Two
more between the Shodaime and yourself. You did not learn much
history at school, did you?“

„I
learnt about the Hokages and how they put their life on the line to
protect Konoha.“

„They
did so, all of them, and most of them the Shodaime, sacrificing not
only his life, but also his soul and his happiness on this earth. But
they don't like to talk about the jinchuuriki, or about myself,
because it is a bad mark on their otherwise spotless record that they
have relied on a demon to maintain their position as the most
powerful ninja village of all the five big powers.“

„But
they hate you. And they hate me because of you.“

„Of
course. Needing the help of a being you detest does not make you love
it, but rather makes you hate it even more. And jinchuuriki have
never been loved, because of the power they hold.“

„But
you attacked and nearly destroyed Konoha! They have a reason to hate
you! Why did you do that? Why do you hate Konoha?“

„I
don't hate it. I am the thunderstorm, roaring in the air, following
only my own nature, seeking to fulfill my desire which is to roam
wild and free. I don't attack anything, because I don't know of
hatred, nor of love, but what is in my way will be destroyed. Though
actually I have a soft spot for Konoha, having assisted at its
foundation and having protected it so many times.“

„But
then why did you attack it?“

„I
was summoned. I was ordered to do it. I was controlled.“

„The
stranger controlled you.“

„He
summoned me. Orochimaru controlled me, but later they broke up, and
now he's dead.“

„And
now they want me to control you and to order you what they order me
to order you.“

„Probably.“

„But
I cannot control you. I have tried so more than once, but I cannot.“

„So
we are both lucky, aren't we?“

A/N:
I wrote this story during the Pein-versus-Jiraya-arc, when I did not
know of the recent revelations, so I had to make up my own theory
about how and by whom the kyuubi can be controlled.

Also
I decided that Tobi is not Madara but just somehow has got into
possession of Madara's power. Somehow I dislike the idea of the
founder of the Uchiha clan being evil, and I still hope that things
will turn out to be a bit more complicated in the canon, even if the
members of Akatsuki have accepted his claim that he is Madara.

Spoon:
Today I have time to answer you! :-) - Hm, Naruto not accepting
Tobi's offer because Sasuke would not approve of it – I must
admit that I have not yet thought of this possibility.

Lexjamandme:
I got your review only this morning. I will answer tomorros.
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