The sounds of explosions and battle cries was heard throught the normally peaceful Valley of the End. The two boys that were the cause of the noises were no more than twelve years old and both were fighting with everything at their disposal. The child on the left wore an ugly orange jumpsuit(come on you know it is) with a red swirl on his left bicep, blue sandels on his feet and a blue headband on his forehead with a metal plate with his village symbol on it, showing his allegance to konohagakura,
he also had hair that was bright yellow and looked like a sea urchan. He also had saphire colored eyes that showed innocence and courage.
The other boy was his opposite in nearly every way. The only similarity between the boys were their age and the headband on their foreheads. He had black hair styled like the tail-end of a duck. He wore a dark blue shirt with a red and white fan on the back, the symbol of his clan, the Uchiha. He also wore a white pair of shorts that stopped just above the knee. His eyes were blood red and had three commas slowly rotating around the pupil the most saddening thing were as most boys his age would have eyes filled with joy, happiness, or laughter his eyes were filled with nothing but rage and insanity.
These boys were Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. While they were both fighting for two completly opposite causes they did have one thing in common when it came to how they were fighting. They were both drawing power from a source that was not their own. Naruto was drawing chakra from the nine-tailed fox spirit sealed in his stomach,
while sasuke was drawing his power from the cursed seal placed on him by the snake sannin Orochimaru. One thing came to each boys mind at the exact same moment, and that was that they were almost out of strength left to use.
"I suppose this is it isn't it dobe." Sasuke said with his usual arrogent smirk.
"Sasuke why do you want to Orochimaru, you know he just wants to take your sharigan!" Naruto shouted trying to get through to his mentaly unstable ex-comrade.
"AND HE'LL ALSO GIVE ME POWER, that's all the promise I need to leave Konoha. My hate isn't enough to kill my brother and Konoha can't give me the power to kill him." Sasuke said
"HOW CAN YOU BE SO IDIOTIC, OROCHIMARU GAINED ALL OF HIS POWER IN KONOHA! HE WAS BORN, RAISED, AND TRAINED THERE!" Naruto shouted trying to convince his teammate.
"That doesn't matter, all that matters is a small taste of what orochimaru can offer me is enough to match you and I will become strong enough to beat any one that gets in my way!" Sasuke shouted again, this time with all sanity in his eyes and voice being washed away by rage, hatred, and arrogence.
This time Naruto had nothing to say as he could finally see that his comrade, the person that, for a short time, he had thought of as a brother was gone and in his place was a monster that needed to be put down.
"Alright Sasuke I can see you won't go back to the village but I can't let you go to Orochimaru either. As much as I want you to come back and remake team seven with Sakura, Kakashi sensei, and I it's obvious that won't happen. For your own good I have to kill you." Naruto spoke with a sad tone which given that he was still covered in the Kyuubi's chakra which was literily nothing but pure rage given life said a lot about how dis-heartened Naruto was seeing Sasuke like he was.
"Do you really think you can kill me dobe, I graduated at the top of the class and you at the bottom, I am from a clan of elites while you're an orphan. What makes you think you can beat me" Sasuke shouted re-gaining his usual arrogant tone. He then put all the chakra he had left into a chidori turning it pitch black with the corrupted chakra of the cursed seal.
"Because I made a promise to save you Sasuke and I never break my word, if saving you means killing you than that's what I'll do!" Naruto shouted putting all the chakra he had left into a rasengan turning the rasengan blood red with the Kyuubi's chakra that he had fueling him.
On an unspoken signal they both lept for the to the center of the field and when they clashed time stood still for a second as they looked into eachothers eyes, Sasuke's filled with the usual rage but Naruto's were filled with nothing but pity and remorse. Pity that his best friend and brother had become something akin to a rabid animal and remorse that Sasuke couldn't be saved.
There was a bright flash and an explosion but when the smoke cleared neither Naruto nor Sasuke were there. The answer as to why this happened is that the kyuubi in a rage that his vessal was fighting with the decendant of the person he hated most in this world, Uchiha Madara, and might lose. So the instant their attacks met Kyuubi sent all of his chakra as he could into the hoping that it would either overload the seal that bound it in it's cage or that it would kill the Uchiha. He got his desire but what he didn't know was the effect the seal would have. The seal was made to slowly and safely drain it's chakra and give it to it's vessal but when he shoved it passed the seal it damaged it but not the way it would have hoped. When the chakra went passed it the seal sped into overdrive and converted all of the kyuubi's chakra into Naruto's and left the beast powerless. In it's bid to escape it ensured it would never get out.
The rasengan takes a precise amount of chakra to function properly in it's standard version but Naruto Suddenly felt his already immense chakra levels multiply one hundred fold. The rasengan he was useing was so overpowered that with the clashing of Naruto new immensely powerful rasengan coupled with the corrupted chakra Sasuke was using ripped a hole in the fabric of space time itself. Both boys were flung through millions of years and dimensions all within one second. Normally this would confuse people because their brains couldn't process that much information that quickly but unfortunately for Naruto he had had practice dealing with sorting through memories quickley because of him constantly using his shadow clone jutsu. the explosion that created the rip also severly injured both boys and while Naruto gained increadable regenaration from absorbing the kyuubi's energy the mental backlash from veiwing millions of places all in the span of one second put him under severe mental strane. The real suprise however was when he began growing orange, tigerstriped fur, a tail, fangs and claws. His eyes stayed blue but gained a slit pupil. Then the pain truly began. His muscles began to grow bigger and more defined. He could feel them tearing and reforming hundreds of times in a matter of seconds. By the time they were done he had a musculer build. Not overly large but obviously built for both power and speed. He laid on the ground, exahsted from both the fight and his transformation.
Sasuke on the other hand did NOT have and way to repair his body and the moment they both landed on the ground in the middle of a forest he sucumbed to his wounds and died.
As they both laid on the ground, one in agony and the other a dead body, two what looked like mutated coyotes(1) came walking out of the trees and began sniffing the boy and a half (sasuke makes me wonder) on the ground. Naruto managed to turn himself over to see what was going on and he saw one of the cur eating sasuke's dead body and the other about to take a bite out of him. For some reason he felt like he should swing his hands at the monster.
The result saved his life. He swung his hands and one of his new claws slash the cur's jugular. It's blood spilled out as it tried to move over to it's partner but it couldn't get there quickly enough and it fell over dead, still close enough to it's companion to alert it to it's death. It looked over at Naruto, standing up and panting. It snarled and left Sasuke's half-eaten corpse to charge at Naruto, jumping up and going for his throat. Naruto protected himself with his forarm, the cur clamping down on it, and they began wrestling, Naruto trying to get it off of him and the cur trying to get a shot at his throat. Naruto suddenly felt a huge amount of rage, his muscles bulged even more, his face elongated, his hair turned red and migrated towards the top of his head until only a long line going down his head to his mid back(2). With this transformation done he pushed the cur off of him as easily as he would a sheet of paper. When the cur tried to charge at Naruto again he grabbed it and, as hard as he could, threw it against a tree, snapping it's spine and neck.
He was just standing, panting in exhaustion, when the transformation left him and he suddenly felt his feet give way out from under him. His vision began to grow dark when he suddenly heard a female voice, "WHAT THE- ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?" It was loud but it was more from worry than anything else. He managed to turn his head and see a femenine looking figure. The only big difference was she had a tail and was covered in fur that had a tiger pattern, just like his. The was last thing he tought before he blacked out was, 'She's cute.' and he was out like a light.
When Naruto finally came to he was in what looked like a treehouse. He looked around and saw another bed, a dresser, and a nightstand. It was obvious that whoever set everything up here intended for it to last as long as possible.
He heard the creeking of floorboards coming from a staircase that lead to down. He got up quickly and was about to get into a fighting stance when he suddenly felt a throb coming from the arm the cur had bitten. He looked down and saw that it had had been bandaged and, if the wetness around his arm was anything to go by, washed.
A voice suddely spoke up, "Well it's good to see you're finally awake."
Naruto's head turned quickly to where the voice origionated. The voice came from a girl that looked like she was half tiger, just like him. She was wearing a pair of cloth pants and a belly button shirt. But for some reason Naruto thought she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, even if she was covered in fur. He quickly realised he was staring and stopped before she began to think he was weird.
The girl began wondering why he was still not talking, "Can you speak? I'd imagine you can, woren are instinctively able to understand eachother."
Naruto looked over at her, "Woren? I have no idea what a woren is. All I know is I look like I'm half tiger and I'm definately not where I used to be. Can you tell me where we are?"
The girl answered with the same neutrol tone she had used the entire time, "We're in Ceder woods, north of Mcneil village. I found you unconcious when I was out looking for food...why were you out anyway?"
Naruto began telling his story, "Well a team of some of my friends and I were going after someone that was trying to leave to a very dangerous criminal named Orochimaru. We each split up to deal with the body guards that were sent to make sure that he got to the criminal. We kept spliting up until it was just me and Sasuke,
the one who tried to run away. I eventually caught up to him and we started a fight to the death. It ended when our attacks collided and created some sort of rip in the sky. We both were hurled into it and, while he died, I was turned into a woren, I beleive you called it, and woke up to see some mutated looking coyote about to eat me. I swung my hand and managed to get it with my new claws but the other turned away from eating Sasuke and started going after me. It bit my arm and managed to get me to the ground. Then something strange happened, I started becoming even more tiger-like. My face elongated to look like a tiger, my muscles grew huge, and my hair turned red and became a mohawk going down to my mid back. I also felt a lot of anger but other than that, just stronger. Anyway, after I changed I threw the little monster off of me and it flew into a tree and broke it's neck and spine. I changed back, began to black out, saw you, and woke up in this bed."
Rei couldn't beleive what she was hearing. Sitting in front of her was another weretiger. He was turned into a woren and then a weretiger somehow but still, another weretiger. She may have finally found someone that wouldn't run away from her when they found out.
She started talking, trying to help in whatever way she could, and possibly get him to want to stay around, "Well there was a half eaten body when I found you. It was probably this Sasuke person. Did he have blaack hair in the shape of a duck's ass?"
Naruto wasn't expecting to hear anything like this but when he did he couldn't stop the roaring laughter that exploded out of him. Rei could only watch this for so long before she joined him in laughing until their guts hurt.
When they finally stopped they looked at eachother for a second before Rei got up, "Well as fun as this has been food should be done cooking by now. I hope you like pork."
Naruto's eyes began to shine, "Are you kidding!? I love pork almost as much as I love ramen!"
Rei found his outburst funny and had to stiffle her giggles. After she managed to calm down she walked to the stairs and turned towards him, "Well come on then, it'll get burned if we don't go and eat." With this said she sped down the stairs with Naruto following close behind. Damn worens are fast.
When they got down to the ground level not only was the pork perfectly cooked but it was also a whole boar! Naruto couldn't stop the drool running down his face. He quickly remembered that Rei was next to him and tried to look like he had some manors but when he looked over to where Rei was he didn't see her. He looked back at the boar and saw her tearing bits off of it. He just shrugged his shoulders and joined her, attidute, apitite and all.
By the time they were both full all of the boar was gone and they were rubbing their overstuffed bellies. They looked at eachother and, on an unspoken signal, got up and headed for bed.
Their last thought before going to sleep were both filled with hope.
'I hope he decides to stay, he seems like such a great person.'
'I hope she lets me stay, this is such a great place and she's such a nice person.'
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When Naruto opened his eyes he noticed two things. One, Rei was still asleep and two, it looked like she was having a horrible nightmare. She was sweeting and breathing quickly. The more worrying thing though was that she was thrashing around in her bed, not arms flailing and legs kicking, but she was definately moving more than she was supposed to. He quickly jumped out of bed and ran over to her but stopped at the foot of her bed to hear the things she was saying, "No, please. It's not my fault, I can't control it. Please take me with you. Please...MOMMY, DADDY!" After she shouted this she shot awake covered in sweet. Tears were streaming down her eyes and her body was shaking. She saw Naruto looking at her with worry clearly on his face. She quickly cleaned her tears and began to get out of bed but Naruto quickly spoke up, trying to help, "Rei, you talk in your sleep. If something is so terrible that it gives you nightmares like this then it's something you need to talk to somebody about. Tell me what happened to you?" His tone made it clear that he wanted to help her very much.
Rei couldn't beleive that someone not only wanted to listen, but she didn't even ask him to. She begn telling him her story, "Well my parents were a part of a group of traveling woren. I went with them and, for a few years, it was fun. But about two years ago we were passing this village and I was playing by a stream when a bear suddenly attacked me. It had cut my arm deeply and was about to finish me off when I suddenly blacked out. I was later told that I turned into a weretiger, like you did. The weretiger is seen as a curse by worens because no one has ever been able to control themselves while in the form. Not even my parents loved me anymore. They tied me to a tree and left. I stayed there for a day until I finally managed to break the ropes but by then they were long gone and I was all alone. I spent a whole year making this treehouse and another three all alone here." She lowered her head when she said this, bad memories coming back and making her worry that Naruto will leave as soon as possible.
Naruto couldn't beleive what he was hearing, "This is insane, why would your parents leave just because you're different? That has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
Rei couldn't stop the happy tears that began to stream down her face again. Someone knew her biggest secret and they didn't care. What he said next though would plant the seeds that would grow into love for him, "I can control myself when I turn into my weretiger form, so I'll find out why I can control myself and help you gain control of yourself."
Rei couldn't stop herself after he said this, she tackled up and hugged him, wispering 'thank you' again and again into his chest. Naruto was shocked at first but after the initial shcok wore off he hugged her and began rubbing her back telling her that everything will be alright.
Naruto knew that life was amazingly strange at the moment but it was going to get better.
Alright, I hope everyone liked it. I know that first part of the chapter was the same as my other fic but it does have one or two changes to it.
(1) Monster: cur
(2) He's a weretiger but he can control himself. He just feels angry when he's using that form.
(3) Naruto - fs47/i/2009/203/6/4/Rei_Breath_of_Fire_III_by_
(4) femREI - art/BoF-3-Rei-girly-69367683