Naruto stared out at what was left of the battle field. The sight only brought him despair, Hinata was sprawled about twenty feet in front of him her legs where bent at an impossible angle he knew she would never walk again as he looked at her threw his bangs. The rest it seemed had died or were dying the White Zetsu were completely overwhelming all of the remaining shinobi. Madara was slowly crawling out of the crater.
Madara was extremely injured mortally even as he noticed his chest cavity was open for him to see. He absentmindedly noticed that he was standing on his own intestine. As he looked over at the one to grant him freedom from this madness he had suffered from living in Obito's body. A soul was not meant to reside in another's body the pain was excruciating and it was only after he entered it did he find out that he couldn't leave, shortly after that , he realized that he couldn't die ether. Or so he thought. That last rasenshuruken had been made with solely the biju's chakra. Looking down and not seeing his normal regeneration was at first shocking, then anger, anger like that which he had never felt. Madara had hated or at least what he truly believed was hate but the feeling that overcame him was far stronger the pure loathing was acutely focused on to one being, Uzumaki Naruto would die. As Madara grabbed a kunai from his leg pouch he realized he couldn't make it to where Naruto was laying. As he stared at his most hated enemy he noticed that he didn't even have the decency to look at him as he died. What was he looking at he thought, that girl is alive, looks like he noticed it as well. I can kill her at least Madara thought as he jumped as far as he could.
Naruto Stared at Hinata he realized they were all dead, he couldn't believe it what did it matter anymore they were all dead. As he looked tears leaked from his eyes all of the anguish was freely displayed for the world for there was no one left to look. He didn't need to hide anymore. Hinata chest raised a fraction of an inch then another before collapsing again. She is alive? He thought thickly. She's Alive! Hope surged threw him if even only she was left he would move the world to just save her. He saw Madara jump he couldn't comprehend it at first half of his chest was gone and it looked as if he was desolveing from the wound out. How could he move? What is he doing? Hinata! With ever last bit of strength he and Kyuubi still possessed Naruto focused on Hinata he would get there in time he had to but he hadn't mastered Hirashin and he didn't have a marker but it would work it had to work with the chakra in place Naruto closed his eyes and stepped forward.
Hinata was numb and for that she was grateful. She was surprised that her reserves were almost full she must have been hit early in the fight, she couldn't remember. Byakugan Flaring to life the world around her became visible as was the injury to here leg and spine as well has a small hemorrhage in her brain. Eyelids still closed she focused healing chakra to her brain slowing the leak to a minor bruising concussion. Madara lunged at her she couldn't move she was going to die. At least it will be painless. She focused on her lifelong crush he was motionless 20 feet away. Naruto was holding her. This is nice Hinata thought as they were enveloped in darkness even with her Byakugan active the dark still wasn't frightening. Though she knew that on some level the dark should have terrified her. Naruto was holding her and he did this so she would have faith in him.
Naruto was holding her he made it he couldn't believe it he looked up to Madara to see him smiling still in the air arm outstretched kunai less than an Inch from his heart. He blinked and Flashed one more time and all went dark.
Hinata opened her eyes an unfamiliar landscape laid before her as she turned her head still in Naruto's arms; her heart sank Kyuubi stood before her in all his glory although there was the noticeable lack of his oppressive aura. Why was he looking at them like that focused like they were the most interesting things on the planet.
"You are Hinata." Karuma stated as she looked down at her jailer and the women in his arms.
"My jailer has done the impossible once again." She said more to herself than to the two legged female in front of her. As she looked him over she saw now what had been done but for all her knowledge she couldn't comprehend how.
"Naruto wake up." Karuma thought at the boy she could feel there link still as strong as it had been these last 16 years. As Naruto's head rolled to the side at his command Karuma saw what he was he already knew to be true. The mark of the kitsune was displayed just over his left collar bone it was her mating mark how he had it and how he freed her remained a mystery but she knew as soon as they appeared her that she was free in every sense of the word. Freedom, it had been almost a hundred years since last she had true freedom. Well maybe not true freedom If Naruto died she was sure that she would as well.
"Wake up Naruto." Karuma said to him again sending him a pulse of energy along with the command.
Naruto rolled his head forward moaning as he slowly regained consciousness Karuma's Chakra burned him less now then ever though he was still uncomfortable from the sudden influx of potent chakra.
"What is it Karuma, I'm in an absurd amount of pain at the moment."
"You have done the impossible again Naruto although this time, even I an unable to comprehend it. You have freed me Naruto yet bound us even closer as a result, how I am unsure yet you have bound yourself to me as mate without the mating. Don't you wish to see what you humans would call your wife in all of my glory?"
As Naruto open his eyes still not understanding what Karuma had told him, he was amazed. She was bigger outside his seal much bigger. She was at least 200 feet tall towering over the trees by at least 100 feet she was probably 500 feet long if she stretched her tails strait although that was unlikely as they always seemed to be moving in a hypnotic dance.
"MY WHA?" Naruto said aloud startling Hinata out of her thoughts. As he said this Karuma started to shrink until finally she was the size of a large dog before once again resuming her transformation into that of her humanoid form.
In a burst of light, blood, and chakra on her hands and knees crouched a women. As Naruto looked at her he noticed first that she shared his whisker marks although hers where much more pronounced than his. She had hair down to her ankles the same burnt orange as her fur. Her eyes were dark red the color of arterial blood almost black in the shadow of her bangs. As her saw her face he noticed that she didn't look human her nose was not defined enough, a gentile ridge from her upper lip from her cheeks and from the bridge between her eyes. Her ears were pointed and almost 3 inches long they also appeared to have hair an the back sides of them, her face was to elongated to be human and her eyes matched it well they were slanted and at more of downward angle than any human he had ever seen. As she stood he saw that she was about 5 ' 8' maybe 125Lb she was not well endowed or wide in the hips. She was lean and little lanky but her body was mostly human except for the rusty orange colored layer of fur about a millimeter in length that covered all but her face, palms, and the pads of her feet. She had claws he realized as he saw her hands just under an inch long and razor sharp by the look of them. As he looked her up and down Hinata moaned in pain bring him back to awareness. As he looked down at Hinata his heart broke he couldn't heal her injuries and they were life threatening he couldn't move her and he couldn't heal her he realized she would die if someone didn't find them soon.
"I can heal her if that is your wish" Karuma stated her voice still deep for a women yet decidedly more feminine in this form than her real body. "It will be different then when I heal you Naruto she has never experienced the fire of having yokai forced threw her body she will be burned alive then born anew. I don't know what will change but some things are going to."
Naruto stared down at Hinata watched as her eyes fluttered then closed. "Do it."
Hinata couldn't hear what they were saying and it was getting hard to focus her head hurt but that was it nothing else felt hurt. But she could see her legs. 'That should be horribly painful.' She thought to herself as her eyes started to blur the world went red. Agony she couldn't comprehend fill ever cell of her body it was like being dropped in a volcano and being unable to die. And she screamed a short burst of air and silence as her voice box burned away.
Naruto to watched mouth open in horror at what he saw Hinata was being incinerated in levels first the skin then the muscle and finally organs and bones. She was no more than a blue mist amongst a red ocean. As he watched the mist became darker and bones started to grow into complete skeleton then organs. Naruto's belly churned in revulsion the muscles grew and finally skin she was taller and leaner her hair had red highlights now and he noticed she had received his whisker marks and her face was a sharper more angular than before but that looked be the extent of the changes. Naruto crawled over to her and felt her for a pulse it was strong and steady she was sleeping then as he looked at the scrolls he had on his belt he saw that he still had his scroll that had all of his household possessions in it. As he looked over his four outfits two pictures his frog wallet and his necklace that was it all that was left he didn't even have his hiati anymore. As he looked over at Karuma he saw that she was unconscious and even looked a little pail he dresses both women and the unsealed his gear scroll. With camp made he moved both girls into the tent and closed the flap. Convinced he could stay up for at least a few hours to keep watch.
Eragon synched up his cloak as Saphira cut threw the night sky. He was about a day and a half travel from there new home Hvitr Fell.
White mountain was not truly a mountain but it was the perfect location for him and Blodhgarm to build a castle a large rolling hill of granite over five miles in diameter was in the middle of hundreds of square miles of oak forest numerous rivers flowed threw the forests all running to the sea to the south east. The wildlife was plentiful and soul rich. It had been a year since he had left Alagaesia they had finished constructing a hatchery and living quarters building most of the rooms and halls to scale with the buildings of Doru Araeba but with so few of them even with the Eldunari it was slow work but it was paying off. The wind was picking up and the darkness consumed them as they flew just over the trees. Eragon was worried as he remembered the wave of energy that had washed over Hvitr Fell almost two days ago was worrisome he had never felt anything like it ever before in his life. The initial terror induced by the aura was intense but at such a distance it was shrugged of quickly but he had opened his mind to find its origin two humans and a humanoid being, they glowed brighter than any beings he had ever sensed. Eragon focused on them closer and saw that the brightest figure was smothering it aura over the dimmest figure. He would help them if he could Eragon vowed as he watched them with his mind from his room. As he came back to the current he realized that he would reach them in a few minutes. Eragon probed the mind of the brightest being and was amazed at the depth of its mind it was like an elves mind he pulled back it would do no use to lose himself in the madness that was its mind.
"Naruto WAKE UP!" Karuma screamed at him as she started building energy to change into her true form. As she looked up threw the trees she shifted at the first glimpse of shadow and swiped her tails as hard as she could. She crouched low over her mate and Hinata as whatever she hit crashed threw the trees with incredible force. Whatever she hit had been huge larger than Manda and felt hard as a rock if she hadn't put chakra into her tail and wrapped them together she doubted that she would have knocked it out of the air. "It entered my mind without contact or line of sight Naruto watch out I'm not sure what its intentions are." Karuma stated Growling threateningly, she pulsed the strongest killing intent she could it was enough to crush most mortals in fear.
Eragon's shock was short lived as he shook himself on Saphira's back. "Are you ok Saphira?"
"Yes little one. What is that creature it just appeared out of nowhere?
"I'm not sure but lets find out though." The growl the filtered threw the trees was so deep it shook the leaves from the trees. As soon as they heard it their bodies' convulsed sheer terror gripped them. Their own gruesome deaths replayed over and over before there eyes. Eragon heaved as he threw up. What could spread fear like this this was insane he couldn't move he could breath and by Saphira's shaking she two was immobile.
"Naruto grab Hinata and jump to my head we can fight or flee if need be."
Naruto could feel the residual KI hanging in the air and truly feared for the ones it was directed at. As he landed on Karuma's head he sat down with Hinata and focused his chakra to stick.
"I'm ready Karuma"
Eragon could feel the ground rumbling as whatever had hit them walked closer the terror wave They were facing only grew stronger as what ever it was walked up to them. It looked like a fox with multiple tails swaying behind it. It was unnaturally large as big as Saphira even. Its eyes were dark red and its ears were long and droopy with its teeth bared was a truly terrifying sight.
Naruto saw what appeared to be a dragon roughly the same size a Karuma it shone blue in the light of the stars it had a rider on its back.
"Karuma enough!" Naruto shouted loud enough for the others in the clearing to hear.
As the pressure lessened Eragon gasped as he gulped air into his oxygen deprived lungs "Eka ai fricia un Shur'tugal. I am a Rider and a Friend. Who are you?" Eragon gasped coughing as he regained his bearings.
Naruto heard the man speak but he could not understand what he said. "Karuma can you understand them?" Naruto asked aloud incase the man could understand him.
"To a degree I am communicating with the dragon by transferring images it looks as if he is a hero to his people slaying a terrible king and allowing someone better to take the thrown. Give me a minute I am almost fluent in the language the man first spoke in I will translate shortly. As Saphira finished saying the words to the fox and showing it images representing she was amazed at the speed at which the creature started speaking.
"Where are we?" Karuma asked to the best of her ability showing images of Kanoha and fire country. While also transferring the knowledge of the language threw her bond with Naruto.
Saphira heard a deep feminine voice it was laced with a growl although it didn't seem threatening.
"Where are we?" it asked first surprising Saphira and Eragon. "Repeat what the dragon says in your language as well human so I can learn to speak your language as well. I will remember it all so I should understand quickly." Karuma said as she filled in the gaps by projecting images and feelings to the dragon when she could.
As Eragon and Saphira explained Alagaesia and the uncharted land that they now live in Hinata woke at first starling all in the clearing with her Glowing red eyes
"Naruto my Byakugan won't shut off but its not drawing chakra I can see everything for miles the smallest grain of sand to the Dragons? There are dragons about 5 miles that way she said pointing east towards Hvitr Fell.
Eragon saw the women point and sensed two wild dragons and a hatchling riding on ones back about 4 ½ miles away coming fast. No way could she see them did she sense them that was interesting. Who where these people the fox could speak somewhat but it was slow going.
Saphira and Karuma looked to the sky as the three dragons appeared over the trees coming in low landing between them. The two that flew where young very young they were two of only three to hatch in the last year and they were barely twenty five feet long. The third dragon was a hatchling no more than two days old what was it doing here. As the dragons folded there wings they walked over to Karuma and knelt the Hatchling spread its wings and for the first time flew to the top of her head and landed. A little wobbly it walked over to Hinata and Naruto and stretched its neck out to Hinata touching its nose to her right palm. Light erupted, Naruto grabbed Hinata to jump away but she held her ground a silver mark etched its way forming a symbol on her hand.