Flames of the Heart – 03
22 Years Later…
Naruto, now 22-year-old, sat cross-legged on a superheated rock, deep within the body of a rather active volcano.
As a baby, he had been rescued by a nearby dweller.
That dweller could see the pillar of fire from his logging, and quickly rushed to the scene, only to find a baby among the blacken earth.
Naruto had no control over his manifested power at that time, but the man who he came to know as his second father did his best to help the boy.
Sadly, the man passed away when Naruto was only fifteen, leaving him with all his worldly possession, which wasn't much.
"Are you going to be here forever?"
The floating flames near the boy asked.
Its voice seemed to be everywhere, bouncing off the chamber's earthly wall.
Naruto opened his bright blue eyes as the scattered flames quickly comes into together, forming a fiery apparition with its hollowed-out eyes and nine flaming streams of fire behind its end.
"Why do I have this power? I can't touch anything without burning it unintentionally…"
Naruto said, looking down at the red-hot liquid surrounding him and his piece of solid stone with magna vein covering it.
This volcano was his home for the last seven years.
The only person he knew was his deceased father, who Naruto couldn't even touch until the very end.
Naruto only did it then, so he could turn his father's remains into ash.
It was for him to feel the man who had raised him at least once before allowing that man to go with the wind.
"I don't know. I'm bored here, and I can't leave your side for too long or my flames will go out," The fiery ghostly being said.
When it first appeared, Naruto freaked out and tried to kill it with his power, only for it to grow in to astronomical size and burned down the surrounding forest.
Since then, they have been long-time friends after getting to know each other a little better.
The effort was greatly accelerated by Naruto willingness to make a friend.
He never had one and rarely come in contact with the outside world.
"Where do you suggest, Kurama?" Naruto asked curiously.
Any place he went to will quickly have a climate shift from whatever it was previously to very hot, making it difficult for him to stay at any place for very long.
"How about somewhere with endless winter, we have never been to such place before? Or any places for that matter," Kurama suggested.
The climate around Naruto never changes, and the fiery apparition had never seen snow before.
Snow was something it always wanted to see and perhaps touch as well if that was possible for a fire incarnated demonic entity.
Naruto decided to do what his companion suggested since he had stayed in one spot for his entire life.
The blond man stood up, as flames began to materialize around him and wrapped itself around his leg.
It lifted him into the air and up through the volcano's only opening.
"I'm going to miss this place," Naruto said, looking down at the magma chamber one last time.
The flames began to cover his body entirely as the incarnated sun continued his ascend.
"You know… people will freak out at you for being butt naked!" Kurama said almost mockingly.
Naruto quirked his eyes a little and just sighed.
It was not like he didn't want to wear clothes, but the cloth didn't last very long as Naruto's power tend to go wild and uncontrollably, burning everything around him.
"Another thing as well, if you just sat there all day, then you never will fulfill your prophecy!" Kurama continued.
Naruto scratches his cheeks a bit.
His adopted father had heard of the prophecy associated with his birth and didn't think much of it.
The man unable to believe how someone could murder newborn simply because what it might do in the future.
Still, Kurama said the first few lines already came to pass which aroused interest in the blond.
A sun will be born on tenth of ten,
its birth place will cease to be,
in 15 summers alone once again,
even if two halves met and stay,
the sun flames cannot be drain,
for it marks the dawn of a new day.
"Cryptic… fifteen summers. Does that mean fifteen year and what does it meant by two halves?" Naruto frowned and questioned the long dead seer's words, as it had been relayed to him by his adopted father.
The sun and demon flew through the sky, heading north where ice and snow would be found.