Tails of blood

After returning from his 3 year training with Jiraiya Naruto finally gets to return home. Leaping through the trees at lightening speed, leaving all the animals in the forests with open mouths.

All through his mind all he can think about is all the fun he will have when he gets back, seeing Kakashi, Sakura and eating Raimen…

Eventually he reaches the Bridge leading to the hidden leaf village. Naruto jumps down from the trees to inspect the entrance.

But something was wrong. The bridge, it had been vandalized. Broken bits of wood litter the forest floor, burned, cut and blown apart. Naruto feared the worst so he began to speed up his movements, crossing the almost collapsing bridge.

Death was the smell that was in the air when Naruto reached the centre of the village, all the colours, all the love had been drained away. It was as if someone had dyed the village gray.

"This is bad," Naruto muttered to himself. "Hello?" he shouted at the top of his lungs.

Nothing, not even the birds were tweeting. It was only black. So Naruto carried on walking.

Every house he passed, every street he walked through, was empty and destroyed. Even the Raimen restaurant was empty and yet in every place he checked all of the resident's belongings where there.

As Naruto reached the town centre he spoke. "Where the heck is everyone?"

Suddenly a loud groaning noise sounded out through the empty village. It was close. Very very close…

Under that section of rubble! About 10 steps away from where Naruto was standing.

"Hello?" Naruto said quickly.

The rubble was thrown up into the air, bursting out of it was a creature unlike anything naruto had ever seen before…

Its head was human; its body was human, but it was lifeless. No hint of life in its eyes, its libs hanging loose and tenticals bursting out of every part of its body.

It stopped in its tracks and sniffed the air, with its rotting grey coloured nose.

Suddenly its head snapped towards the direction of Naruto and it jumped! It flew up about 50 feet into the air and landed right next to Naruto. Within a split second 3 of its tenticals smacked Naruto into the near by wall.

"Oh wanna play hard do ya?" Naruto shouted as he spat out blood. "Well fine, have some of this!"

Naruto reached into his back pockets and withdrew a throwing disk and launched it at the creature.

Direct hit! Right in its head. The creature let out a loud scream, higher pitched then its original grown, and to Naruto, Horribly familier!

The creature, with its dead eyes, discusting tenticals and sent for blood, was Sakura!

"Sakura!!" Naruto shouted as blood and puss burst out of Sakuras deformed head.

She fell to the floor with a wet cracking. Naruto ran to her body.

"Na…. Naru….. Naruto" Naruto lent down next to her.

"Sakura!"

"Naruto… please… help me…It… it hurts"

"Who did this Sakura? Who!?" Naruto shouted through the tears.

"A man… with a tattoo of a skull on his arm… Naruto please …. Please …. Kill me"

"Sakura I can't!"

"Please Naruto it hurts"

"Don't make me do it Sakura! We are friends!" he said as he picked up her bleeding corpse and held it in his arms.

"It's because we are friends that I'm asking you to do this…. Please naruto."

The rain began to fall and coated the grey village in a sea of black muck, as Naruto reached into his back pocket and pulled out a dagger, he gave Sakura one last hug before he plunged the dagger into her chest.

"Thank you…." She whistbered into Naruto's ear as her body gave up and died.

Naruto then cried, cried more then he had ever cried in his life. He clenched his fists together and made them bleed. Then something deep inside him awakened.

The explosion of the Nine Tails chakra flowed out of his body, engulfing him in it once more, his eyes became slits, his teeth lengthened to points but this was not like the the other times he had used the chakra. It didn't just flow off his body, it binded with Naruto and became a second skin, the imfamous nine tails burst out of his back and flowed free as if the horrible fox had been reborn.

Naruto stood up. Everything up to his neck had been binded in the Nine Tail's chakra and was blood red along with the veins on his face.

Even if there was anyone left in the Hidden village of Leaf they would have heard the Roar the now most deadly creature on the planet.

Nothing would stop Naruto until he had found the man with the Tattoo of the skull on his arm.