Hello and welcome to yet another series. MasterNaru is back with a 'what will happen if' story. I'm not going to give anything away. Special thanks to hunter,phillips.98096 for assisting me with this story. So let's go into the first chapter of The Demon Within.

Prologue

The Nine Tails, a vicious beast, was rampaging through the Hidden Leaf Village, Konoha. Many ninja died in taking on this beast. Lord Third with his ANBU entered the fight, but as they continued they got tired. The Fourth appeared catching the beast's attention. It prepared an attack and launched it. The Fourth's unique kunai was placed in front of his hands that were extended. A portal appeared catching and sucking it in and shot in out behind the Hokage Monument.

Later

The Fourth along with his wife and their newborn baby stood in the beast's view. A reaper appeared behind the Fourth with a knife in his mouth. Catching on to what's going to happen, the beast tried to stop it by killing the new born. The parents of the child stood in front of him and a large fingernail drove through them. With their last breath they saw their child become the jinchuuriki of the beast.

4 years later

The boy sat underneath a tree by himself. He let out a sigh closing his eyes. Just that moment all memories of people glaring at him, negative comments, and the repeated beating came into his mind at once. Tears could be seen escaping his eye lids and dripping onto the grass. The one question on his mind was why everyone hates him so much. Feeling a hand on his left shoulder the boy got startled and opened his eyes letting the tears run free. He was met by the most gorgeous face he has seen yet. A small and light blush formed on his cheeks.

"Hey, are you ok?"

"Yes I am."

"Well why are you crying? You should be smiling. Would you like to play with me?"

Seeing the girl smile made him feel better somehow. "Alright, let's go!"

He runs off leaving the girl in his tracks. She chased after him and after a while caught and tackled him. They laughed and stared at the sky watching the clouds. They would point out shapes and sometimes argue what shape the cloud is in. Time passed and the sun was setting. They stood up and looked at each other.

"I had a great time with you today."

"Me too. My name is Ino Yamanaka."

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki."

"Nice meeting and playing with you Naruto."

"The same to you Ino. Maybe tomorrow we can play again?"

"Sure, same spot. Bye Naruto."

"Bye Ino."

With that she waved and ran off to her house. It left him smiling all the way back to his apartment. Memories of them playing blocked the murmurs and hardened glares. He opened the door and went inside. He jumped into his bed and went asleep to get tomorrow started. Ever since that day they would play until they reached the age to go into the academy. As the years went by they forgot about their encounter and friendship. Until one faithful day...

6 years later (present day)

"Hey Naruto get back here!" shouted a ninja chasing Naruto.

"Yeah right, as if I'll do that!" exclaimed Naruto as he ran with paint.

He had just finished his ultimate prank yet, painting the Hokage stone faces. He vanished from view causing the ninja lose sight of him. He jumped off in a direction to pursue him, but Naruto put down his fence disguise and began walking. As he rounded the nearby bend he crashed into someone causing paint to not only cover him, but also the other person.

"Watch where you're going idiot! Now I have to go back home to bathe and change clothes!"

"Wow, it's just paint, it can wash off."

"You ruin everything, don't you?"

"No, well maybe."

"What's your name?" She squinted her eyes a little. "So I can make sure put you at the top of my kill list."

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki! Believe it!"

"Naruto huh? Well I'll make sure you'll be the first person I get revenge on. Just remember Ino Yamanaka will be the one getting you back."

"Bring it on!"

Since that day Naruto kept on his toes expecting something to happen knowing any day he would be pranked. He already cleaned up the paint on the faces, as if it wasn't punishment enough. It gotten to a point he got relaxed and just went outside like any other villager. As he walked two ryo caught his eyes and he looked around and went to pick it up. As soon as his fingertips were almost touching it something tugged his leg with immense force.

He soon found himself upside down with a rope attached to his ankle. Laughing was heard from behind and it was making its way to the front. Soon blonde hair, light blue eyes and an undeniable face was in view. Ino stood there with her arms folded, but it soon turned to clapping. Naruto let his head hang in defeat.

"Didn't I tell you I was going to get you back?"

"Ok from now on we're officially enemies."

"So a war is breaking lose?"

"It already started."

"Ok then. I was going to help you down but since we're enemies I trust you'll get out of there yourself. See you later Naruto."

Naruto helplessly watched as his only hope of leaving was walking away. He screamed out her name that caused her to turn around smiling. A blush made its way to his face in embarrassment asking her to help him. She moved closer and unloosed the knot. Naruto dropped to the ground hitting his head. She squatted down to his level and whispered in his ear.

"This war begins now."

She gave him a quick and light kiss on his cheek, deepening the blush he had. She stood up and walked away leaving Naruto there. Naruto could only wonder what will happen next.