A note from ME! Heya, this is my first Naruto fic… Major OOC, I'm afraid… And yeah, it's a SasuNaru… I'm a major fan girl…
And if I owned Naruto, this would happen. And people would probably hate Naruto…
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The Fox Unleashed
Kakashi tightened the bolts on Naruto's arms as he writhed and howled, his shirt lifting up to reveal the old seal. Sasuke and Sakura watched in horror as Naruto pulled on the chains binding him, growling and snapping at his teacher.
"Kakashi, what's happened to Naruto?" Sakura asked, frightened and clutching to Sasuke's arm. Kakashi sighed and frowned.
"The Kyuubi in him has come out so far, that I doubt he'll be able to push it back… even with the seal…" Sasuke's and Sakura's heads shot up in shock.
"Kyuubi?"
"You mean… Naruto…"
Kakashi simply nodded.
"There is a flaw in the seal which keeps the demon locked up, which lets Naruto draw on it's Chakra as well as his own… However, sometimes, whenever he's angry, it comes out without him calling it…"
Sasuke frowned, thinking back to the forest when the change about his normally carefree friend happened…
They had been assigned a simple task when they had been ambushed. He didn't know who by, or for what reason. All he knew was that one moment they were racing through the woods, and the next he was waking up, bound to a tree. Opposite him were Sakura and Kakashi, similarly bound and both unconscious, and he supposed that Naruto was on a tree next to him. A muffled groan caught his attention and he looked to his side as much as the ropes would allow to see a shock of blond hair.
"Sasuke, are you alright?" Naruto whispered.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Where are we?"
"I don't know… I've never been in this part of the forest before…"
Sasuke frowned, and pulled lightly on the ropes binding him. He heard a clatter of metal beside him, and tried to lean forward to see what it was.
"Naruto…"
"Yeah?"
"Are you tied up by chains?"
Another jingle met his ears.
"Yeah. Aren't you?"
"No… just rope…"
"Oh…" He could tell that Naruto was troubled by this, but before he could delve deeper, a moan from opposite them made them look up, and they saw Kakashi slowly raise his head. For a moment, he simply looked groggy, but when he saw his current predicament, he was instantly alert. He looked around, taking in his surroundings, assessing every inch of the little clearing. He looked past Sasuke and Naruto at the small fire just beyond the clearing they were in, and the dark figures that were moving there. Suddenly, the figures stopped moving, standing still. After a while of hushed whispers, they all started towards the Ninjas.
"They're coming…" He whispered to his students, and shifted in his ropes. Sasuke's and Naruto's eyes widened.
"So…" A drawling voice drifted across the clearing, and a tall man dressed in pitch black stepped across the threshold.
"This… is the famous Kakashi… and the only Genins he has ever taken on all the way up to the Chunnin exams…" He spat on the floor.
"Pathetic…"
Kakashi watched him silently as the man paced up and down, looking at each in turn.
"Kakashi… Better known as the copy ninja… Sakura, who apparently got the highest marks in written tests out of everyone in the ninja school… Sasuke, one of the only two Uchiha's alive… And, of course…" The man paused, and stared at Naruto for a long time, while Naruto simply stared back. Them the black clad man broke the silence.
"The destroyer of families, homes, whole villages…" Naruto flinched, and the man bent down closer to him.
"I see… despite laws forbidding it… you know… don't you? You know what you are…" The man smirked, but it soon turned into an ugly sneer as he punched Naruto in the stomach. Naruto tried to curl in, but the chains binding him stopped him, and he simply hung his head.
"Now… who would be best to torment you with before we kill you…?" The man stood up, and walked to the opposite side of the clearing. Two gorilla-like men followed him.
"The girl? No… I don't think so… there's not a strong enough connection… how about the Sensei, the man who must have saved yours and your friends lives so many times? No… I know who…" He clicked long, pale fingers, and nodded towards Sasuke. Sasuke immediately stiffened, his hand reaching for his Kunai, only to find that there weren't any…
The gorillas lumbered over to him, and Sasuke felt a blinding pain as something connected with his head. Blood dripped down his cheek, and his head flopped forward, only to be brought back with a barely held back scream of pain as first one huge man punched him, then the other, their blows connecting to his stomach like bricks. They would have probably gone on to even more terrible things that he didn't want to think about when a low, hate filled voice drifted across the clearing.
"Don't hurt Sasuke…" The chains binding Naruto snapped and he flung them away like broken dolls as he landed on the floor with more grace then Naruto was associated with.
"Don't touch him…" He whispered, but the deathly silence that had arrived in the clearing magnified his voice. No even the wind raised its voice above his, the normally almost ear deafening noise the rustling leaves were meant to make were silent.
"Or I'll kill you…" He finished, and no-one awake in that clearing could doubt his words. Sasuke caught a glimpse of a deep red haze and Blood red eyes as Naruto walked into his field of vision before he blacked out…
"Naruto…" He whispered. Sakura gave a little sob, and clutched his arm even tighter. For once, Sasuke did not push her off.
Suddenly Naruto bucked again, and the trio could practically hear the chains straining to hold him. Kakashi walked over to Sasuke and Sakura, and touched Sakura on the arm lightly.
"Come on… we need to tell the Hokage about this…"
"Why?" Sasuke chocked out. "What could she do? You said it yourself; Naruto is to far gone to be brought back… Tsunade can't let Kyuubi out… the only thing they could do is… is…" Sasuke shuddered to a hold, and stubbornly held back the tears that threatened to engulf him.
"This is the Hokage's decision to make, and her decision only." Kakashi said sternly. Sasuke looked away.
"Now come on…"
"Yeah… You guys go on ahead… I'll catch up…"
Kakashi and Sakura looked at Sasuke.
"What? You're not coming with us?" Sakura asked.
"I just… look; I'll follow you in a minute, ok?" Sasuke answered.
"But-"
"Sakura, let him." Kakashi said sternly. Sakura looked from Kakashi to Sasuke, and then nodded. She made her way to the door of the dank dungeon Kakashi had chained Naruto in, and turned, waiting for Kakashi.
"Sasuke… I want you to follow in five minutes at the most. If Naruto starts breaking free before then, come immediately." Kakashi ordered, and turned towards the door. He paused when he reached it, and turned back to face the two boys. Sasuke had moved to the slab of stone that Naruto was chained to, and cautiously put his hand on Naruto's arm.
'They may not seem like it, but those two are far more then rivals. Sasuke and Naruto are probably the best friends either have ever had… In fact, Sasuke's probably the closest thing Naruto's ever had to family, and Naruto is more like Sasuke's brother then his own brother is… and maybe… just maybe… they might mean more to each other then even that…' Kakashi smiled sadly, and then turned, beckoning to Sakura to follow. She cast one more look at her team before following.
"Naruto…" Sasuke whispered. His hand let go of Naruto's arm, and travelled up, before lightly landing on his face. His eye's snapped open, and Sasuke gasped, stumbling back.
Naruto's eye's, instead of the usual friendly azure, were blood red. However, it wasn't that which made Sasuke want to turn and flee. Inside, all he could see was an animalistic pure hate for all living things.
"Na… Naruto?" Sasuke whimpered, his commonly cold exterior evaporating.
Naruto ignored him, and pulled on the chains binding him. They snapped easily, and Naruto sat up, looking around him when he finally looked directly into Sasuke's eyes. Sasuke couldn't help but flinch, and Kakashi's words shot through his head.
"If Naruto starts breaking free before then, come immediately"
But he couldn't move. Naruto's eye's bored into him, stripping him away until he could see his very soul.
"Naruto…"
Naruto stepped forward, a sly, devious grin creeping onto his face.
"Boy…" He hissed, stepping forward again. Sasuke scrambled backwards until his back hit the wall and he was forced to stop.
"Please… Naruto…"
"I'm not Naruto. Naruto is not here any longer. From now on…" He paused, and crouched down so that he was eye level with Sasuke, and grabbed his chin, forcing him to look at Naruto. Sasuke shut his eyes tightly, and Naruto grinned.
"Is mine." He finished. Sasuke opened his eyes, and glared at him, taking all the hate he had for his brother, all the pain he had caused, and directing it at his friend turned enemy.
"Fine, Kyuubi. You're right, you're not Naruto. You are the… the thing that caused Naruto fourteen years of pain, of people ignoring him, of people hating, no Despising him. You are the creature that brought him down, that tried to wipe his very existence out of this world. But I promise you, you won't. Not while I'm alive."
Naruto smirked.
"Oh really? And what is Naruto to you then?"
"I'm the person who didn't push him away. I challenged him, and he challenged me. He's my best friend, and…" Sasuke leaned forward until he could feel Naruto's breath ghosting his lips.
"He… is my first love." And Sasuke leaned in the last centimetre, catching Naruto's lips and holding them.
NO! GET OUT! He could feel Kyuubi screaming in his head, trying to drag him out as he forced himself into Naruto's mind.
GET OUT!
No. Let Naruto go.
NEVER.
Sasuke? A quiet, almost inaudible voice crept into Sasuke's head.
Naruto?
Sasuke… So… tired…
Hold on Naruto. I need your help too.
I'll… I'll try…
Sasuke was aware of the growing need to breath, but ignored it.
NO! YOU WON'T! YOU CAN'T!
Come on, Naruto… he's almost back… just a little more…
Yeah…
Naruto and Sasuke pushed Kyuubi back with their minds, towards the seal. After what seemed like hours but must have only been minutes, he was trapped, and Sasuke used the rest of his strength to help Naruto redo the seal which held him in place.
Sasuke opened his eyes, and broke the kiss, inhaling a much needed breath.
"Naruto?" He whispered hesitantly. Naruto opened his eyes, and Sasuke was relieved when what met him was fear filled blue, not hate filled red.
"Sa… Sasuke?" A single tear dripped down his nose, and he threw himself forwards into Sasuke's arms.
"So… so helpless… I couldn't breathe… couldn't move… couldn't do anything…"
Sasuke rocked him back and forth, whispering to him under his breath.
"It's okay Naruto… You're back… It's okay…"
The last coherent thought Sasuke had was that for some reason, Kyuubi had gone easy on them, before he fell asleep, Naruto in his lap, with his face resting against his chest and Sasuke's hand resting on his spiky hair.
Deep inside Naruto's soul, Kyuubi stopped cleaning his wounds and created a ball of Chakra which acted like a window to the outside world. He smiled at the sleeping boys, and went back t cleaning his wounds.
"It's about time… the things I do for that boy…" He tutted, and laughed.
A note from ME! Yeap… I surprise myself with my fangirlness…
Hey, I'm thinking about doing another chapter for this, just a conclusion explaining why this guy attacked them, if Sasuke and Naruto really end up together, stuff like that. Tell me what you think!
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