บท 8: Chapter 8 New Power
Naruto stood outside the council room. As he waited he looked at the picture of his parents. So many questions answered in a single night. A weight lifted from his shoulders. His parents looked so happy in the picture. After getting over the shock him learning of his parents and the identity of his father. Naruto thought of the fox within him. A constant companion he had never known of. perhaps one who he may never speak to. Naruto felt odd admitting this, but he was always curious. He wished to know the fox within him, a being of unimaginable age who was obviously sapient must hold untold knowledge, much like the Necronomicon, but to a lesser degree.
Naruto pockets the picture continuing to muse on the secrets revealed to him. The council meeting was quiet. Naruto knew what they might be saying. It was on the lines of how his eyes worked. After all the civilian members while ignorant, were only human, and Humans fear the unknown. A notion that always confused young Naruto. He believed the Unknown was something to be sought out and discovered. perhaps this was why he planed on continuing to read from the Necronomicon.
As the thoughts raced through his mind the doors opened. An ANBU ninja motioned for Naruto to follow. As he walked through the room where the council sat eyeing Naruto. He merely Stood straight, playing on his manners so as not to start an incident.
"Greetings Council, I as you know am Naruto Uzumaki. I take it that you have been informed on the Eyes of Azathoth, and undoubtably have some questions from me. I would be honored to answer any questions to the best of my ability", says Naruto with a small bow.
The council seem to ease up (At least the Clan Heads Do) as they fire question after question. Curiously most of the questions from the clan heads seem to come from a Hyuuga. No doubt due to the Dojutsu of there own. Naruto wonders if he feels threatened by an emerging bloodline with an as of yet unknown potential. Naruto answers the Questions to the best of his abilities but as the minutes turn to hours. He finds himself answering the same questions over and over again with only slightly different wording.
All the questions revolve around Naruto's experience since gaining the eyes. Most likely trying to find out any information Naruto may be hiding. An understandable tactic, but one that would not work on a mind as astute as Naruto's. After the clan heads finish there questions, for the first time a civilian council member speaks. Naruto recognizes this particular man, while he hides it well Naruto glares at the man.
This man heads the merchants of Konoha, and is one of the main reasons food other than ramen is so difficult to bye. Making sure that Naruto was always overcharged or given goods of poor quality.
"So the boys eyes give him some interesting abilities, What I want to know is who are the boys parents. Where did this bloodline come from, surely they do not just pop out of nowhere. I say the boy is hiding something", says the man.
"Naruto is not aware of how he came to possess the Eyes of Azathoth. As for his parentage that is a secret to the village, only a select few may know of it. You have only been a council member for little over six months. Precautions must be taken to ensure Naruto's safety, and you have not been a council member long enough to be trusted with that information ", says Hiruzen.
"Fine, The boy's mother was probably some whore anyway", says the man.
Naruto stares at the man in his eyes clenching his teeth.
"What. Did. You. Say", says Naruto as calm as he can, making an effort not to gut the man.
"Enough foolishness Tomi, this is not the place to throw around accusations out of ignorance and spire", says the Hokage Sternly.
Tomi silences himself as he looks back at Naruto. The look of barley contained rage on his face.
"Calm down boy", says Tomi.
As Tomi meets Naruto's eyes the world freezes. Naruto feels himself fade into a back endless void where he sees the old man Tomi floating in an expansive nothingness. The man looks around confused. Suddenly he sees as a massive creature of tendrils, eyes and Mouths floats above him. This creature much bigger than the entirety of the Land of Fire moves around some strange shape. Only moments later does Tomi see this shape is a creature much like the one he had just seen, only much bigger. The first creature is but a grain of sand compared to what can only be described as living chaos. Other such smaller creatures move around the massive beast. The sounds of Flutes and Drums can be heard. Tomi stares at this creature before screaming. Naruto sees this all as if he is some outside observer. Then The world goes black. An instant later Naruto is standing in the council room, looking at Tomi. He stares at Naruto with uncontained fear. He releases a massive scream as he runs off his stool. The other council members back away from him as he attempts to attack everyone who gets to close. He lifts his hands to his own eyes and begins to claw them out.
Amongst the screams of terror Naruto turns his head and closes his eyes as tight as he could. He begins to shake.
"Get him out of here", screams the Hokage.
Naruto looks as a shadow on the floor leading from Tomi to a black haired bearded man, no doubt a Nara. Several men walk in the room forcing the now frozen man into a straightjacket.
"It was chaos, chaos given form", screams Tomi as he lets out the most maddening of screams.
As he is pulled from the room by several ANBU. The council takes there seats. Everyone of them wide eyed looking at the seat where Tomi once sat.
"What the hell happened to him", speaks a man with a long pale blond ponytail, A Yamanaka from the looks of him.
"Some kind of nervous breakdown. He just snapped", says the Hyuuga.
Turning there head to a small sound they look at a whimpering Naruto curled into the fetal position on the floor.
"This is to much for a child, take him to my office", says Hiruzen.
As an ANBU carries Naruto away the room remains silent for a moment.
"C-Can anyone remember what happened before Tomi lost his mind", asks A large armored man, an Akimichi.
Everyone looks around for a moment.
"I am not sure he just looked at Naruto's eyes for a split second before he seemed to snap", says the Yamanaka.
"Do you think that's an ability of the eyes make men insane", asks the Nara.
"There was no sign he did anything, they made eye contact multiple times after Tomi's accusation, it could be he just snapped but I don't know", says a woman, an Inuzuka.
" He was old, he is the oldest member here, it could have just been nerves, combined with the news as of late", says a civilian council woman.
"It could have been anything, but why take chances, I think that when Naruto goes home we have some ANBU watch him see if a repeat happens", says the Akimichi.
"I don't want a repeat to happen, if it was Naruto it appeared to be an accident. If we take him in and it turns out it was just dementia then we scared a seven year old for no reason. If it was Naruto, then we find some way to train or block the ability. Until then I will have ANBU watch Naruto for several weeks", says Hiruzen.
The other councilors nod to each other.
"I think it best if you return home. It has been a long day, everyone may go, but Inoichi, there is something I need to ask you", says Hiruzen.
The Yamanaka turns to Hiruzen face showing him being uncomfortable.
"I know what you are going to ask Hokage-sama, but viewing the mind of the insane is not safe even for me", says Inoichi.
"I see, very well take him to Ibiki, see what you can find out. I want to be sure before I do anything rash", says the Hokage.
Inoichi nods leaving the room.
"What a mess", says the Hokage as he sinks in his chair.
Back at Naruto's house the unseen tendrils emerge from the pages of the Necronomicon, they begin to reach out through unseen portals, gaining power as they do. Then the tendrils weave together the shape of an elaborate scroll. They set this scroll on top itself before going back into the book.
"The time draws near" speaks the hollow whispers emanating from the book as they chuckle lightly.
Naruto lays on the couch in the Hokage's office, still trying to will the image of the creature he saw as only an outside observer, imagining viewing it from the way Tomi did he shutters. He looks at the colors of sound in an attempt to take such thoughts from his mind, but is unsuccessful. Naruto recognized the creature he saw, it was Azathoth. While obviously not the real thing, that only makes it worse. How alien could such a creature be that merely seeing what is but a shadow of it cause the reaction Tomi had.
As he thinks this more thoughts went through Naruto's mind. If it was an illusion, how could he see it. Obviously he stayed in that room and not even a second passed in that time. Thinking it over, Naruto's mind wanders to the only thing that could answer his questions. The Necronomicon. Believing it would have the answers he begins to calm. He sits up on the couch waiting for the Hokage.
Finally the colors of sound begin to have it's previous calming effect on Naruto as the door opens. Hiruzen walks in sitting next to Naruto.
"Are you ok", asks Hiruzen.
"I don't know Hokage-sama, what happened to him, it was like he lost his mind", says Naruto.
"Tomi was old, older than me even. The only reason he even had the job was because he was the only one with enough experience after the last councilor of the merchants died", says the Hokage.
Naruto nods.
"Do you think he'll be ok, I mean he was an ass, but still"
"I don't know Naruto, I just don't know", says Hiruzen.
Naruto shakes his head before getting up from the couch.
"I think I will go home, I should get back to the academy tomorrow, It would be nice to be around them again, hope they take the eye thing well", says Naruto.
"I will let Iruka and Mizuki know you are going to show up tomorrow, they have already been briefed on the situation, they know you have a Dojutsu, and they know it's one never before seen. They were instructed not to tell your classmates, that I left up to you, It should not cause any problems I hope", says Hiruzen.
"No I prefer it that way, best hear about it from the source, thanks old man, I'm off to bed", says Naruto.
"If you want, I can walk you home Naruto", says the old man.
"That would be nice, but I have allot to think about. I'd like to be with my thoughts for a while, the last week has taken its toll, I just need to be in my own bed again", says Naruto.
Hiruzen nods. Watching as Naruto walks off.
Naruto makes his way through the streets, He wears a hood to hide his eyes from the civilians. He can see the colors of sound coming from the trees indicating he is being followed, probably by ANBU. Makes sense, after all they probably still don't know what's going on. I may have to not be able to use the Necronomicon until they stop Following me.
Naruto makes his way into his home, looking to see the sun still in the sky Naruto decides instead of going immediately to bed he begins to clean up the twine still decorating the floor. As he cleans his eyes turn to the loose floorboards where the Necronomicon hides. Turning away he continues to clean. Still seeing the ANBU outside his home through the windows. After only a few hours, Naruto finishes his cleaning before removing each nail from his wall. The process takes hours, he looks at the clock.
With only several minutes till midnight he does one last thing. He walks to a drawer and pulls out a picture frame. He sets the picture of of his parents in it before hanging it on the one nail he did not pull out. Noting the holes in his walls are unnoticeable Naruto smiles at his work and smiles harder at the picture of his parents now hanging on the wall. He stretches before going to bed, with thoughts of what the looks on the faces of his peers will be when he reveals his eyes.
Naruto awakens much earlier than usual. He seems to sleep less and less as time goes on. with over three hours until this he must go to the academy, Naruto scans his surroundings. He notes the colors of ANBU there from the night before are gone. Seeing as this would be his chance to read from the Necronomicon for quite some time, he goes to the loose floor boards. He lifts them when he is greeted by a curious sight. Laying on top the Necronomicon is a large black scroll. Naruto grabs it before opening it. As he looks at it for a moment he begins to take on the face of shock and awe. He reads the words at the top of the scroll out loud.
"The Eldritch Beast Summoning Contract"
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