Scythe of the Black Cloud - Naruto OC story

Prologue - Birth of the Black Cloud

The story opens up to a small desolate building on the outskirts of a large village. Inside this small building a similarly small boy sits alone at a table, his pitch-black, naturally-spiky hair falls over his dull grey eyes.

The boy sighs to himself as he idly pushes the slop around on the plate with a single chopstick, he seems to be too stuck in his own head to even attempt to eat the grey goop in front of him. That is until what seems to be sunlight shines into his dark world as a bright, blonde haired boy runs in and jumps onto the smaller boy, a big smile stretching across his face.

"Hehehehe" the blonde chuckles as he latches to the grey-eyed boy. "I bet I surprised ya, Kama, Datebayo." He says with a cheeky smile.

A small smile creeps onto the now named Kama's face as he responds. "You really did Naruto."

These two 5 year old boys were Kama and Naruto, and currently they resided in the small orphanage on the edge of Konohagakure. No one knew how it occurred but these boys were inseparable, much to everyone else's displeasure. What they didn't realise was that it was due to their own displeasure and hatred of Naruto that led to him getting close with the self made loner that was Kama.

However, right now we don't care about the relationship between the child of prodigy, Naruto, and the mystery that is Kama. Instead we're looking at what caused Kama to be such a mystery in the future.

So we go to later in that day in the local park. After playing until sunset, Naruto and Kama decide to call it for the day.

"Hey, Kama, how about a race?" Naruto said as he started jumping on the spot, almost getting ready to bolt at any second.

"What for?" Kama questioned as he shifted on the spot awkwardly.

"Whoever... loses... has to EAT THE OTHER PERSONS BREAKFAST SLOP TOMORROW!" Naruto shouted as he ran off without even waiting for confirmation from Kama.

Kama seeing this went to run after Naruto but before he could even get out of the park he tripped over, cutting all up his knee.

Tears welled up in his eyes as his hands quickly went to hold onto the cut, he held back the sobs that threatened to escape from his throat. What made all of this biting pain in his leg worse was that when he looked up to see if Naruto had stopped to check on him, he saw no one.

After a minute of trying to hold back his tears from the searing pain of his knee, he finally stood up to hopefully walk back home, but when he did he felt the presence of three people approaching.

Looking over, he saw three boys that looked barely a year or two older than him, all with mean looks on their faces as they slowly walked over. Feeling like something bad was going to happen, Kama tried to run away but due to the still aching pain in his leg he could only hobble which meant it was very easy for the boys to catch up and push him to the ground.

"Ow." Kama said as he hit the ground before rolling over to look up at the boys. "W-what do y-you want?" He asked as he tried not to cry.

The three boys all smiled devilish smiles down on to the younger boy as the one in the middle with slicked back brown hair replied. "We've seen you hanging around the little demon so we're going to teach you what happens to the friends of demons."

"D-demon? D-do you mean Naruto?" Kama questioned as the mention of his friend gave him enough courage to stand up.

"Of course we do." The one on the left with long shoulder length dirty blonde hair replied before punching his fist into his other hand.

"Enough talking, let's get to the lesson" The chubby boy with a buzz cut on the right butt in before he punched Kama across the face, causing all three of them to start laughing.

It took all he had to stay on his feet after the punch to his face. The laughing he could hear from the other boys made him feel so small compared to them, he just wanted to crawl into a ball and cry but he knew if he did these boys would just laugh even more.

Then he thought about it, hearing the boys laugh it made him remember Naruto's laugh. Why did Naruto's laugh sound so good to hear but the laugh he could currently hear was the opposite, Kama couldn't understand it at all. After thinking about Naruto, he remembered why these boys were attacking him, they called his friend a demon, his best friend... a demon. That almost made him... mad.

A burning filled his throat as Kama looked up with anger in his tear filled eyes at the laughing boys ready to lash out at them, he knew he would lose but he didn't care anymore. 'How dare they...' he thought, 'how dare they call Naruto a demon.' The burning in his throat was different to the burning in his knee, this heat made him feel powerful, like it was telling him to attack.

Right as he took a step towards the three boys who were finally calming down from the initial punch, he suddenly stopped. His nose and mouth were itching, like he had a giant sneeze coming and it was way too big for him to ignore it.

As he started sniffling to try and hold in the sneeze, the boys overheard. "Aaaah going to start crying are you." The chubby boy said as he started chuckling.

The brown haired boy took a step closer as he smiled an evil smile. "I wonder if this will make him stop crying." His arm went up as he was ready to punch Kama to the ground.

Before he could, Kama sneezed. It wasn't an ordinary sneeze...

BOOM!!!

A few minutes earlier on the opposite side of the village, an elderly man dressed in robes sat at a desk. Stood infront of the desk was a young man with spiky black hair and stubble on his chin.

Currently the two of them were in an argument, however this argument came to a sudden halt when an explosion was heard. Looking out the window of the old man's office they saw the explosion came from the a lot further into the village.

"An attack!!" The young man said in shock.

"Neko, Inu, Itachi (as in weasel)" The old man said as three people dropped down from the shadows and knelt in front of the desk. "Go see what that was quickly, try to keep everyone safe, I'll be there shortly."

All three of them vanished quickly without a word as the old man got up, put on his hat and made for the door. As he did the young man followed.

When they arrived at the site of the explosion they were horrified. The explosion happened at a park and the victims of the attack were three children. All three of them were charred completely, covered in dark red burns and black soot. Blood smeared up the wall they were up against. They were dead. The explosion was so strong and hot that it had seemingly boiled and burnt away the children's very eyes.

"My god what caused this." The young man said as he inspected the scene. On the ground he noticed the char marks from the explosion, they extended out towards where the boys are from a single spot. "What do you thi-..." he went to say when he noticed the old man was gone from his side.

"I believe it came from here." He heard the man say as he looked over to find the old man in front of the park slide. The old man stepped aside to show a child covered in soot and dirt lay unconscious on the slide with blood dripping down his head.

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That's it for the prologue

1365 words

Next chapter will be the start for the actual series.

Kama means scythe in Japanese and was apparently one of the options for Kakashi's name originally by Kishimoto.

I've got a bunch of other things I want to say about this story but I'll say them in notes like this at the end of chapters that they're relevant. Mainly it's things about Ash release.