Hello everyone, KidOtaku here. This is my first fic, so I decided to keep this one short. If you like what you see, please send me a PM, and tell me your opinion. I am also in need of a Beta Reader for everything else, if people seem to like the concept. Feel free to point out any weak points in my writing or if I have a grammatical or spelling error somewhere. No pointless flames, thank you.
Ja ne!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Duh.
Hell. That's exactly what this was. Pure hell. If there was something else that could possibly describe what this was, it would be what Naruto was feeling. Having close to nothing that gave you happiness and being hated by everyone. They didn't show it, oh no. But you could tell. Being hated was bad enough, Naruto could handle it. He took it. He played the fool for so long, and he had to pay the price. He did it because he had felt alone, and wanted something to hang on to. Flunking those tests and being dead last in the class. But as that poor boy walked over the remains of his burned down school, he had never felt as alone as he did now. Naruto Uzumaki, was truly alone.
A tear found its way down his cheek, staining the earth. Naruto forced back his tears and choked back his sobs. This wasn't the time for self pity. Snapping his head up, he remembered why he had come back here. Trudging on, continuing to search his broken village for survivors.
Naruto had barely managed to take a couple steps when he took a look back. Something he promised himself he wouldn't do, but ended up being something that would save his life so many times over in times to come.
Naruto turned and saw a pale hand from under a piece of burnt wood. A cute, small pale hand with wondrously soft skin, and slightly chipped pink nail polish. But that meant someone. Someone who hadn't been slaughtered. Who hadn't been taken away for god knows what. A person. Naruto broke into a sprint and jumped over a pile of ash to get to the hand, his wounds forgotten. He quickly began rummaging through the wood and ash, slowly making out the shape of a person. Like him, she was wounded badly. Naruto had managed to move most of the dust out of the way and pick the girl up. That much was obvious, with the way she was dressed. But when Naruto saw her face, he nearly dropped her in surprise.
"Hinata-chan?"
A barely audible groan was his response.
Naruto smiled softly, despite his- no, their predicament. He carried her wedding style, heading where he hoped was southeast.
3 hours later
Naruto dragged his feet, falling then catching himself in an awkward manner due to his cramped left leg. As Naruto trudged along the land, Naruto noticed a small village ahead of him. Coughing up blood, he choked on it and spit it on the ground. He had to keep going. For Iruka and Kakashi-sensei. For Hokage-jiji, and for Teuchi and Ayame. Naruto smiled darkly at the thought of them. The thought was shaken from his head, and he continued on.
Naruto had long since draped Hinata over his back, and was carrying her piggyback. Struggling forward, he was still about half a mile away from the village. As Naruto moved forward, he tripped over a small rock, nearly knocking himself out despite the small fall. Even though he had fallen, he felt the sleeping Hinata snuggle closer up to his body, clearly cold.
"Oho, what do we have here?" a voice asked, emerging from the forest.
Naruto managed to move his head up, with major effort.
"Pl-ease," Naruto croaked. "Help us…"
The man chuckled.
"I think I will." said the man. Naruto sighed in relief, ready to pass out on the ground. "I'll start with the pretty lady, and come back and kill you once I'm done." the man finished, with an evil grin. Naruto looked up again at the man who had begun lifting Hinata off me, giving her still developing body a lecherous look.
"No… Stop this…" Naruto croaked again, reaching a hand out towards the man.
The man ignored him, and began walking away with Hinata. 'This girl that I had been forced to neglect. The girl that had tried everything to make me feel better. But I had to push her away, for she might hurt me, just like everyone else in the classroom. But, as Neji would say, it was fate that led to her, huh. Fate that let her and I survive. I'm not going to let that fate go to waste after all our troubles.'
But Naruto couldn't. He was pinned to the ground, his energy had long since faded. He had cuts all over; from the battle with Gaara and the destruction after.
"Use it, boy."
Someone had flipped a switch in him, somewhere. Anger flooded his body, and with it, energy. Naruto shot up, and was by the man in an instant.
"Huh?" he said. "Weren't you on the ground? Eh, doesn't make a difference. You should learn to stay down, kid."
To his credit, he actually drew his sword quite fast. But as Naruto was now, he may as well be moving through concrete. His hand shot out and grabbed his wrist, snapping it in half. His other hand went to his neck, slamming him into a nearby tree, forcing him to drop Hinata.
Naruto looked up at him, seething, his eyes a burning red. The look Naruto saw on his face was one of shock, pain, and pure terror.
"W-what are y-you?" the man squeaked, desperately trying to get free. He had pissed himself.
Naruto let out a low growl that rumbled through the forest.
"I am your end."
And with that, he snapped his neck, letting the criminal drop to the floor. Naruto stepped back, and moved to pick up Hinata. When the exhausted teen got to her side, the burst of energy he had was nearly gone. Naruto tried again to pick her up, but fell onto the grass next to her. A hand wrapped around him, and Hinata snuggled closer once again, appreciating the body heat in the cold night air. A soft sigh of contentment escaped her lips, and with that, everything faded into black.
Naruto woke up in a cold sweat, gasping for air.
"Oh god, was it all a dream?" he muttered to himself. As he began to wake up, he took notice of his surroundings. Naruto was in a sewer, but it was clean and had no sewage. Up on the roof of the sewer, tons of pipes ran in all different directions. Like, hundreds of them. Most of them were gray, with no Chakra coming from them at all, but a fair amount were blue, and Naruto recognized the feel of his own Chakra.
"What the hell? Where the flying fuck am I?" Naruto yelled, freaked out from seeing his Chakra. Naruto continued looking around with a small feeling of awe. He found that on the bottom, a single, giant red pipe that split off into pipes of the same size throughout the sewer. He thought he was about 10 feet away from that red pipe, and could still feel that immense and powerful Chakra coming from it. However, little did Naruto know, he was going to surpass this red Chakra with his own… In a matter of minutes.
Slowly, his mind put two and two together, and Naruto realized that this must be his Chakra network.
If this was his Chakra network, why was this red pipe here? Suddenly, his feet started dragging him in a seemingly random direction. Naruto realized his feet were following the red pipe, and quickened his step to let his feet take him to the source of the red Chakra. Naruto eventually was led to a opening in the sewer, which had a large room. He strode intro the room, wondering what awaited beyond the entrance.
The room was a faded concrete gray, with bars surrounding a large portion of the wall.
"So, you finally show up," a voice purred.
"Huh? What? Who are you? Where am I?" Naruto yelled, frantically looking for the source of the voice.
"Whoa, whoa, slow down on the questions, kit. Plus, what kind of jailer asks their prisoner questions?"
Naruto could practically hear the smirk in the soft animalistic tone.
"Look, I have no idea where the hell I am. I know this is my Chakra network, but there was this really big red Charka pipe, and that led me here. Why don't you come out from wherever you're hiding and give me some answers?" Naruto said, glancing around the barred room.
The voice chuckled. From behind the bars, a tall, powerful-looking female with fox ears, emerged. The most peculiar aspect, however, was the 9 long tails that swished behind the fox/human quite lazily.* "Hey, kid. You said you wanted answers? I got some."
Naruto scrambled back in shock, gaping at the tall and beautiful woman.
She stood at a tall height of 6 feet and 6 inches, very tall for her gender. Compared to short Naruto, she stood more than a foot above him. Soft, tan skin contrasted against a red low cut kimono, which revealed a portion of her chest. Despite her tall appearance however, her feet were rather small, but somehow didn't look out of proportion with the rest of her body. Moving upwards, her legs were long and fit her hips perfectly, showing off her very toned tummy that was obvious even with the shirt. Along with her legs, her arms were also lean, but not to the point where it was undesirable, in her opinion. However, when looking at her, nothing comes to the regular mind except powerful. The tall woman's figure demanded presence, to say the least. Her feline looking hands, with blood red nails sharpened to a point at the end of her long fingers. Upon the thin neck that vampires would die to clamp on, sat an equally stunning head. Long red hair went down to her tailbone, flowing like a burning river. Equally red eyes, which seemed to look through you, rather than at you. A stunning slender and exotic face, which was home to that luscious hair and deep eyes, also had a small petite nose, and cute pink lips. She opened her mouth to smile, showing feral teeth slightly sharper than Naruto's.
Had this been any other situation, Naruto would have probably blushed a deep red, and tried to run away from the foxy bombshell. But, the look on the fox's face scared the crap out of him, literally. He almost shat his pants.
"W-what are you?" Naruto asked, his back hitting the concrete wall behind the cage.
The fox recoiled in mock offense. "Zing, kid. Right in the heart." The fox grinned devilishly before continuing, raising a paw to her chest. "'It' as you said quite eloquently, is the Kyuubi."
His jaw hit the floor.
"Yes, yes, hold the applause. I am the 9 Tailed Fox, that had destroyed your village. If you would like to know, I didn't do it of free will. Damn Uchiha." The fox growled, but then winced once she realized what she had said, and how Konaha was now. Luckily, Naruto didn't seem to be paying much attention. 'Oh crap. Probably shouldn't talk about destroyed villages anytime soon. Note to self: Remove destroyed from vocabulary.' "Anyway, that red Chakra pipe was mine, and that's what you used to take out that rapist earlier. Kid? KID?"
A dribble of drool escaped his mouth, onto the concrete, for he had realized what the woman was wearing.
"Oh, shit. I didn't kill you, did I?"
Naruto shook himself out of his dazed stage, and looked at the Kyuubi.
"Wasn't the Kyuubi a guy?" Naruto asked stupidly, wiping the drool from his mouth.
The Bijuu let out a sigh. "First 'What are you?' now 'Aren't you a guy?' Where did you learn you manners, kit? Plus, shouldn't you thank me for giving you that energy boost there?"
"Oh, Hinata! Where is she? I have to get back to her!" Naruto said, realizing he had left himself and his friend on the floor.
"Don't even try to do anything right now. You should be ok in a couple minutes if I fix you up, but stay here for now." said the Kyuubi.
"Why are you in my Chakra network, anyway?" said Naruto, confused.
"Oh. Well, technically, I'm inside you, not your network." The fox blushed and turned even redder at the accidental innuendo. "I mean… Well, you know what I mean."
Naruto cocked his head sideways, wondering why she had blushed and was acting weird.
"Thank god for your innocence, Naruto." The fox said with a relieved grin. "Anyway, it looks like I have to tell you the long story. When I went on a rampage, controlled his the Uchiha, I was stopped by two people. Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
Naruto sighed. 'I guess even the fox thought I was dense.'*** "My parents, what about them?"
It was the fox's turn for her jaw to hit the floor. "You knew? Did Sarutobi tell you?"
"Nope. Maybe the fact that I have my mom's last name and nearly look identical to The Fourth gave it away a couple years ago." Naruto said calmly, internally laughing his ass off.
The fox looked around awkwardly, or as awkward as a fox could look. "Well, I suppose I could tell the rest of the story. Kushina used her clan's chains to hold me down, while The Fourth sealed me into a child." Understanding slowly dawned upon me as Naruto realized what she meant.
"Me, huh. The child was me. That energy I used in the Chunin trials also came from you?" The fox nodded, wondering how Naruto would take it. Standing up, Naruto began to pace around the room, turning his back to the fox. "So, why did everyone hate me? Just because I had you in the seal on my body?"
Sighing, the fox looked at him. "People don't like what they don't understand. You weren't understood by many, so the general of the village disliked you."
Naruto turned slowly, his shaking body expressing his sadness and anger. "Disliked?" he said, almost a whisper. "DISLIKED?" He asked again, his voice increasing in volume.
The fox, not liking where this was going or the slightly suffocating and killing intent from Naruto, made a rash decision.
"Ehe… It's not like you have to worry about that anym—" The fox stopped, realizing what she had said.
The temperature in the sewer dropped drastically.
For the second time in her long life, a feeling came over Kyuubi. Something she hadn't felt since the Sage.
Pure, raw, all compassing fear.
The twisting in Naruto's eyes said all he needed to say. They began to flicker from ice blue to a hot red, and from that to a furious, deep black. Somehow, he had managed to draw the Kyuubi's Chakra without her permission, and something… else.
"Come again, what was that?" Naruto growled, his killing intent coming off of him in waves.
Naruto walked with purpose, clearly telegraphing to the fox that he was NOT happy. Slowly, he began dragging out his steps towards the fox.
'This power… What is he? This is nothing like what he did to that rapist back there.' The Kyuubi thought. This thought however, was pushed to the back of her mind as Naruto appeared.**
Naruto stepped closer and closer, till he was nose to nose with the fox. Or rather, chest to nose, but he somehow was looking down on the Kyuubi as he stepped toward her.
"I know we just met, but you seem to have felt what I felt for a while. So you should know the pain I felt when I was ignored. And yet… You say something like that… It is one thing to be left alone, but at least I had people I cared about. Now, I can count the people I care about on one finger." Naruto continued, his voice a vessel for pure emotion. However, his voice changed as he continued. "As I understand it, you can't kill me because I'm your host." A terrifying grin spread across Naruto's features, one that had never been there before, ever. "However, there's nothing preventing me from killing you, right, Ky-uu-bi?" said Naruto, the 'Kyuubi' sound like a deadly song, making the syllables clear in his voice.
The Kyuubi had actually begun shaking in terror. Forcing herself to think a way out of this situation, she began thinking desperately.
'Wait, even with his intent, he's still a human, right? Just because he has the intent, doesn't mean he can follow through with it, right?'
Forcing her fear down her throat, the fox spoke, lacing her voice with her own killing intent. "I think you forget who you're talking to. Don't forget, Naruto, I am the most powerful of the— erk!"
The fox had been cut off by a hand wrapping around her throat that she had worked so hard to clear earlier.
"I don't give a shit," said Naruto, his sing-song voice gone. He tightened his grip on the fox feeling her neck muscles twist and twitch under his hands.
"If you ever, EVER bring that up again, I will kill you." And with that, he dropped Kyuubi back on the floor, and left his mindscape with a poof.
The Kyuubi sat on her haunches for a quite a while, in shock of being so overpowered like that.
"What… was THAT?" The Kyuubi began babbling to herself, trying to figure out what had just happened. "I never thought that little gaki could do something like that! And those eyes… something tells me that wasn't just anger… There was something there… Something that gave him that power. Could it be a bloodline? No…"
As the famed 9 Tailed Fox began to file away at how her container could possibly do that, she realized something. A large red blush overcame the Kyuubi's naturally tan color, putting Hinata's past blushes to shame in comparison.
Naruto's display of strength and dominance… had turned her on a bit.
Kyuubi sighed, heading off in a direction to change, her legs still wobbling under her.
"This was my favorite pair, too."
*(A/N: Imagine a larger and far more mature and human version of Vulpine, for you Pokémon fans out there. Also, more tails than Vulpine, I think. God, I'm such a nerd.)
**(A/N: Imagine a larger and far more mature and human version of Vulpine, for you Pokémon fans out there. Also, more tails than Vulpine, I think. God, I'm such a nerd.)
***(A/N:You are, Naruto. Just not this Naruto.)