Five Star Seals: Breaking the Chain That Is Love

Summary

Ino lost her teammate and lover, and slipped into depression and alcoholism, Naruto lost control of the Kyuubi, and lost his fiancé and sanity to five seals connected to his emotions, with four broken he hits a bump, the last one is love, and without Hinata, that's impossible, or is it? A dark Naruto fic, NaruIno, lemons is a maybe.

O.K, I didn't expect this to be out so early. I was hoping for November, but that's not going to be enough time to finish Metal Isn't Always Cold, so I thought I would try to write a couple (2) chapters on this beforehand, I'm barely finding the time to brainstorm for chapter 3, so expect updates about once a month on average, I'm trying to make the chapters longer and I have a shitty computer, but beggars can't be choosers, so I deal with it, read and review peeps.

I don't own anything affiliated with Naruto

It happened again, the pink-haired medic had seen her lying in an alleyway beside that old, run-down bar, she sighed, she was tired of finding her friend beside this bar, but at least it was only one day of the year. And usually she'd find her at the bar reserved for Shinobi, in one of the cots they kept in the back room for the ninja who pass out at the bar, typical Ino. The pinkette grabbed her and started the long walk back to her house.

When she arrived, she was greeted by a usual emotionless Shino, who opted to smile before he seen the drunk blonde draped over her shoulder, and then helped drag Ino up the stairs before depositing her on their bed, he turned to Sakura and gave her a kiss before saying.

"So, you found her by the old Akimichi bar again, am I right?"

"Yeah" Sakura sighed, "But it's only one day of the year, and for that I'm glad."

"The 8th of November" Shino said, "The day he died." He said, and after several minutes of thinking, he turned to Sakura, "We've got to do something about her."

"But..." Sakura said, before Shino cut her off.

"Sakura, she's had four years to get back on her feet" Shino said, emotionless as ever "Shikimaru can't help her forever and Temari's getting pissed, she doesn't like her living with them, and Shikamaru's getting tired of it too, she hardly shows up to work and when she does she's drunk off her ass, we can't leave her alone, she'd drink herself to death."

"Well… couldn't we take her in?" Sakura asked

"No" Shino said "Not with you having one on the way, the house is already packed as it is."

"Let's talk about this in the morning," Sakura said, turning around and walking down the stairs, she turned and said "just leave her here, you and I can share the couch, then I'll make some tea in the morning, for now, let's let her rest up here."

Shino sighed and switched off the light, he walked out of the room, closing the door as he left, leaving the blonde alone with her fitful dreams.

She was remembering again, that day, remembering in her dream, a dream that would become a nightmare.

She had been on a mission, her team and Hinata's, they were carrying plans and charts from Konoha to Sand, a quick mission, yet important enough that two jounin teams were needed. Hinata had the scrolls in her pack, gaurded on all sides. Ino checked her teammates, Shikamaru was staring up at the clouds as he jumped from tree to tree, all good there, she turned to Choji, who was munching on a bag of chips, a hundred percent there too. She looked back at Hinata, who was doing the same to her teammates, and out of the corner of her eye, Ino saw a blur, and stopped, noticing Hinata had seen and stopped as well. Ino quickly made a couple signals to the group, ordering them to circle Hinata and switch into defensive stances, Akimaru sniffed the air and yipped at Kiba.

"What is it boy?" Kiba asked, getting another bark from the dog, he sniffed the air, and immediately his eyes snapped open, a look of fear on his face, he turned to Ino and Hinata and mouthed one word, "Sasuke".

The team immediately tightened the circle, waiting for an attack. Ino was carefully searching the trees with all her skill, till she heard a high pitched laugh come from the trees to her left, she jerked her head to the sound, to lock eyes with Sasuke, not ten yards from their position.

"You Leaf ninja are pathetic" he said with a smirk, "I've been following you for about a hundred killometers and you just now catch me, hmph and at one time I seen all of you as my comrades, you're all pitiful", he laughed again, before turning to Hinata, "Now, hand me those plans, they concern my master, and the information they contain can make him...unpleasant for quite a while".

"You'll have to take them" Kiba growled.

"We cannot let you have them" Shino said, releasing his bugs.

Sasuke laughed again "And here I thought I was going to get robbed of my fun, oh well, mercy has never been my strong suit"

"Fun?" Shikimaru said lazily, "Ugh, this is such a drag" he said as he stretched his shadow around. Only Choji, Hinata, and Ino kept quiet.

"Ahhh" Sasuke sighed, "I get to spill blood," he had a huge grin on his face, "How could I get this lucky, not only do I get to fight, I get to KILL!" he screamed as he launched himself at the group, his Sharingan activated.

Shikimaru shot his shadow at Sasuke, who dodged quickly to the right, throwing several shuriken, and Shikimaru, who didn't have time to react, felt them pierce his arms, embedding deep into them, cutting several tendons and making them completely useless. Kiba growled and tackled Sasuke, to find himself holding a log, he stood there for a few seconds, dumbfounded, until a kick sent him into a tree. Shino quickly sent his bugs to form a cocoon around Hinata, effectively making her untouchable, he turned and met Sasuke's fist, facefirst, and was sent careening to the ground below. Sasuke smiled, until he was kicked in the head by an angry Kiba, who again stared dumbfounded as Sasuke went up in smoke, he turned around and blocked Sasuke's kick with a smile, till another one kicked him in the stomach, sending him into Akimaru, who had rushed to help his master, both fell to the forest floor, unconscious.

Ino had waited for the right moment, and that moment had come, she quickly did the handsigns for her family's jutsu, and shot her mind at Sasuke. She seen it hit him, she watched as he shrugged it off, she watched as he threw several kunai at her body as her mind rushed back, she was there, she closed her eyes, waiting to feel the knives peirce her skin, she heard the knives pierce flesh, she heard a grunt, and opened her eyes to see Choji's back, he turned to her, tears in his eyes

"Heh" he chuckled " Guess it's a little late to mention our engagement" he said with a forced smile, yet his eyes held sadness, "I don't think I'll get you in front of that altar babe". Choji collapsed, and tried to get up again, but couldn't, one of the kunai had peirced both his heart and lung, he fell and lain there gurgling, until no sound could be heard from him. Ino woke up screaming, in a strange bed, in a strange room, all she knew, is that it was morning.

Ino quickly grasped the fact that she had been dreaming again, she also realized someone had dragged her here last night, a picture of a genin team on the nightstand made her realize she was in Sakura's house, as it was a picture of team 7. She quietly got out of bed and snuck downstairs, hearing Shino in the kitchen yell"Sakura, this is important!", she decided she could let herself out the backdoor.

Earlier That Morning

Shino was fidgeting, he was frustrated about something, but he waited patiently till Sakura had the tea ready, she poured them both a cup and sat down, biting her lip. She knew what was coming, and she didn't want to hear it.

"Sakura, we need to do something about her, I know I said it earlier, but I meant it, she needs to get a grip on herself" Shino said.

"But, she can't, not by herself!" Sakura said "Maybe in a few months we can..."

"Sakura, this is important!" he cut her off, slamming his fists on the table, adding a pause for effect, "It needs to be done now".

"So you want to throw her out on her own and hope she can get on her feet by herself?" Sakura said angrily, "she needs help!"

"Yeah, and apparently her friends can't give it, I was there Sakura, I watched it happen, and I saw her reaction, since then nobody has left her alone, we haven't gave her a chance to try for anything, hell, I haven't seen her sober since she returned." Shino said.

Sakura sighed, looking out the window at the Hokage Mountain, she turned to Shino and said "I wish we could find someone to help her".

"Me too, Sakura, me too" he replied.

On top of the Fourth's head stood a tall man with black hair, but if you took a look at the roots, you could see he was a blonde, he was wearing black denim pants and a blak shirt with the leaf insignia, he had on a large black trench coat wit torn sleeves and black sandals, his eyes though, if you looked at him they would be the first thing you'd notice, they looked like shattered painted glass, pieced back together, and they were a deep slate gray. Beside him sat an old man with white hair, peering down into the hot springs with a pair of binoculars, giggling like s schoolgirl, that is, until a very irate blonde woman punched him in the back of the head, sending him rocketing down to the city below, causing the other ninja to cackle insanely. No, he wasn't completely insane, but ever since the sealing, he had been off kilter. The woman sighed, he wasn't right in the head, yet he could do things even she couldn't, he was becoming too powerful.

The man stared down at the city with unseeing eyes, he wasn't there, he was in his memory. Back when he had a name, a name he cursed, a name he refused to answer to, yet a name it was, and a memory he wished he could forget. That memory was the memory of the day he lost everything, his sanity, his trust, his girl, his adopted family, everything.

It was his last mission as a team, he was with Sakura and his fiance, Hinata. They were escorting a prisoner from Rock to the village, a Sound ninja who wasn't breaking under the interrogation of the Rock ninja, so he was heading to the Leaf, for a meeting with Ibiki.

They had been on a steep mountain pass, a cliff towering several hundred yards on their left, a sharp drop on the right. It was almost dark, and a half-light was all they had to see by, Hinata had her Byakugan activated, she was scanning the area, trying to spot any way down into the forest, according to Naruto this was a shortcut that he and Jiraiya used on his training mission, but it was longer than the way they came.

Using her eyes, she spotted a figure heading their way. The person looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where, until he was within sight of the others. And suddenly, hewas standing right beside her, laughing his cruel high pitched laugh, making Naruto and Sakura turn.

"Sasuke" Naruto growled.

"Naruto" was his reply, he was standing not five feet from the edge, with Hinata still at his side, Sasuke smiled, before saying "Naruto, do you remember Kakashi's test, what he said near the end.." he moved behind Hinata and pulled out a kunai, placing it on her neck, saying "Kill both Sakura and that piece of trash or Hinata dies" , he started laughing again.

"Grr, you bastard!" Naruto yelled, stepping foreward.

"AH, ah ah" Sasuke said, shaking his finger, his Sharingan glinting in the failing light, "You wouldn't want her falling off the edge would you?, So be a good little demon and do as I say."

"You son of a bitch" Naruto growled, trying to hold in his rage "FUCK YOU, I should've killed you when we fought at the valley"

"You couldn't, you're too weak, now do it." Sasuke said, pulling the kunai across Hinata's throat, just a centimeter, but pressing hard enough to draw blood, causing her to gasp and squirm, struggling to get out of his grip.

The blood sent Naruto over the edge, he found himself standing in front of the cage, looking at the fox.

Let me kill him

(Just as long as she is unharmed)

Agreed

(Then do as you wish)

The air around Naruto started to sizzle, Naruto's features started to change, his eyes became red, his fangs grew longer, he positioned himself on all fours, red chakra forming an outline of a fox, with four tails.

"Naruto, NO!" Sakura shouted as he charged Sasuke, she couldn't do anything, she was the one gaurding the prisoner, so she stood there and waited for the worst.

Sasuke frowned and threw his kunai, not at Naruto, but off to Naruto's right, the boy didn't care, he charged into Sasuke and the fighting began, with poor Hinata in between them. it was a symphony of terror, Naruto slashing wildly with Sasuke using his arms as a shield, and watching as the precious appendages were shredded, Hinata was being drenched in blood, and Naruto wasn't stopping, she managed to wiggle out of the two combatants, and sat there staring as her fiance tore apart his former teammate. Eventually, she realized what he was doing, and she screamed.

He was eating him.

The sound of the scream made Naruto snap out of his madness. He looked over to see Hinata shaking by the edge, he rushed over to help, only for her to shriek as she slapped his hand away, yelling.

"Get away from me Demon!!"

And from that point on, he hurt. The kunai had killed the ninja, their mission had failed, but Sasuke was dead, but none of the three noticed that the body changed as they walked away, Naruto was caught up in his thoughts, and Sakura was trying to comfort Hinata. They made their way back to Konha in good time, Hinata heading straight to the Hyuuga compound, Sakura off looking for her boyfriend Shino, and Naruto to the home he shared with Hinata, alone. The next day Hinata cancelled the engagement, fully moving back into the Hyuuga compound. Taking her stuff with her.

Naruto tried as hard as he could for two weeks, trying to fix things,and failing, till he went to the compound on the next tuesday, his day off.

He was reluctantly let inside the compound, the gaurds still didn't like him, and escorted to the gardens where Hinata was supposed to be, he went into them and followed the path to where he had proposed to her, a cherry tree, beside a small pond, with a little white bench off the path. There he seen her, and someone else, he seen a friend, a close friend, he seen Hinata and Kiba, kissing, sitting on the bench, he seen Kiba move his hand up her leg, till it was touching her thigh, then, he felt pain, pain and betrayal, by the one person he truly loved, the one who was supposed to love him, then he felt a more real paun, a sharp pain in the back of his head, and he blacked out.

He came to on top of Hinata, who was terrified, he stared into her eyes, seeing nothing but fear, he looked at his hands, noticing that they were covered in blood, but it wasn't Hinata's, he turned his head to the side to see the unmoving body of Kiba and realized what he had done, he turned to Hinata, tears falling from his face like rain, he leaned foreward, and watched as Hinata flinched, he steeled himself and whispered.

"I always loved you, remember that, I-I-I'm so sorry, but I'll do this, one last thing for you, my parting gift, my love.", he kissed her, the most loving kiss he could give, then he stood, and walked to the tree, right in between it and the pond, right where he had proposed, he smiled and pulled out two kunai, and swiftly slit his wrists, he sat down, waiting for death, the fox had stayed quiet the whole time, and didn't even bother to heal Naruto, even to save his own life. Naruto watched, with his fading vision as she went to check on Kiba.

(Well, I guess it's for the best, Hinata I love you) he thought as everything went black.

Naruto woke up in chains, heavy ones. Stretched out, naked, with Tsunade and Jiraiya sitting beside him, tears falling from the old man's face as he looked at his student, one he had trained for six years, a boy almost of age, a man who had lost everything.

"DAMN FOX, I TOLD YOU NOT TO HEAL ME, I WANTED TO DIE" Naruto screamed, staring up at the cieling of a unfamilliar room.

"You will not die Naruto Uzamaki, even though that is the punishment for killing a Leaf ninja, as you have, your master has bargained for your freedom, at the price of five seals on your body, I would rather kill you and get it over with, as it seems that's what you want." Tsunade said to him.

"Just fucking kill me, I've got nothing left to live for"

"SHUT UP!!" she said "Now, get him hooked up to everything before Jiraiya starts drawing the seals" she said to a group of medics, who hurried to get Naruto hooked up to a bunch of machines. Once that was done she turned to Jiraiya and said "Begin"

Jiraiya drew five seals on Naruto's body, on his shoulders and thighs, with a large one directly over his heart, Naruto didn't move or make a sound, he just waited till the old man was done on his body, when Jiraiya had drawn all five seals on his body, and had moved to drawing a large seal around him, he turned to Tsunade and asked

"Any chance I might die?"

"A large chance, either you die, or go insane"

"Good"

Jiraiya finished the large seal and moved about five feet away and drew a small seal, he slammed his hand on it, pumping chakra into it, yelling

"FIVE STAR SEAL"

Naruto's body was enveloped in a white glow, then five distinct colors rose from the seals drawn on his body, the one on his left thigh, started glowing first, yellow with the kanji for 'regret' on it, next came the right thigh, it started glowing blue with the kanji for 'loss', the right shoulder glowed green with the kanji for 'pain', the next one was glowing red, with the kanji for 'hate', the last to glow was the one on his heart, and it started glowing purple, an had the kanji for 'love' on it, and when it started glowin, Naruto started to scream, and the other four grew dimmer as it grew brighter, till it was the last.

"Lady Tsunade, Lady Tsunade, his brain just shut down, and he's going into cardiac arrest!" one of the medics shouted.

"Shit!" Tsunade said, she turned to Jiraiya, "How much longer?"

"Not...long...now" he puffed.

"Hurry, if he dies now the Kyuubi will be released!" She ordered.

"He'll...be...released...if...I...stop"

"Damn!"

Naruto stopped screaming, and the purple light grew dimmer, until it faded completely.

"His heartbeat has returned, and his brain is functioning as well" one of the medics said.

"What's the damage?" Tsunade asked

"Well, not much, the seals appear to be interrupting the flow of nuerons, especially the ones that carry the hormones for emotions, along with blocking several for his self control, also, there is severe damage to parts of his cerebrum that seem to be connected to the seals as well, basically, he's a psychopathic loose cannon with no self-control."

"Well, it's better than what I expected to be left with." Tsunade replied.

"And that would be?" Jiraiya asked, looking at his pupil, passed out from the pain.

"A corpse." She answered simply, gathering the medical team and equipment, she left, leaving him alone with the boy, he turned his attention back to the boy when his left thigh started glowing yellow, then the boy burst into flames, the seal burning off and being replaced with a pentagram, and not moments later, Naruto's insane laughter filled the chamber.

That was two years ago.

He was brought back to the present when he heard a name, spoken softly in hopes that he wouldn't hear. Jiraiya had gotten back up and was speaking to Tsunade, but only one word in their conversation struck his interest, 'Hinata'.

"Hinata" he said, gaining the attention of the other two

"Naruto" Jiraiya said, "Come on, don't lose your temper,"

"That isn't my name!!" Naruto yelled, before looking back down at the city "I loved her".He started shaking, then he turned to the two behind him, his eyes red as blood, "Do not follow", he said, then blinked, his eyes returning to a slate gray, another thing that had changed, after the sealing, his eyes weren't blue, they were either red or gray, it wasn't natural for him. he shot of into the new day almost too fast for them to see

"I think he broke another seal" Tsunade said, "That's four now, we need to redo it"

"You can't just redo it, it'll kill him, along with whoever is doing the sealing." Jiraiya replied.

"Well how else are we gonna control him then?"

"He's not a lab rat, nor is he a puppet, Tsunade, maybe you should learn that." Jiraiya said as he stood up to leave.

Naruto didn't care where he was going, he just ran, he stopped at several places as if he was looking for something, until night fell, then he started heading home, he was almost halfway home when he ran into somebody, literally.

Ino had walked around the city all day, shopping, eating, waiting for nightfall, and when it came, barhopping, she had almost made it when somebody slammed into her side, sending them both rolling into an alley. Ino was the first to recover, and being Ino, she slapped him across the face.

"You insensitive fucking jerk, what were you fucking thinking, running down the streets!" She screamed at him. And continued her rant, until he lifted his head, and she met those slate gray eyes.

"N-N-Naruto?" she said.

His eyes flashed red.

alright, read and review, I hope you like, I'm writing it all on paper before I type it, so like I said, updates will be a long time in the making, even though I'm gonna work on this three days of the week, every week, enjoy and again, please review. Oh, if you are reading this it means I've went in and fixed several grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes, seeya.