My latest story. I'm writing this due to my addition of A New Addition to my "No longer writing" list. This will be it's replacement story, and yes, you will be seeing familiar faces from that story in here. The main difference in Lithak is his SEVERELY altered appearance, doing almost a complete flip in appearance.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own the storyline twists that I created for this story.

Story: On a dangerous mission, Neji, Naruto, and Hinata put themselves in a pickle. Something bad happens and Neji ends up dead. With Hinata taking the blame, Hiashi decides to pass the ultimate punishment on his daughter: public humiliation of the worst kind. Finally realizing what was true all along, Naruto resolves to save her at any cost. This story was inspired by "The Company of the Worthless" by Caike, as well as obsessive listening of the song "The Bird and the Worm", which heavily inspired the title. Another key facter was listening to love songs as well while reading Caike's story. The pairings here are Naru/Hina. Eventual Sasu/Saku. Neji/Ten. Shika/Tema. Lithak(OC)/Naka(OC). And many more...

The Demon and the Princess

Chapter 1: Humiliation

Hinata stood ready alongside her cousin, Neji, and her secret attraction, Naruto. They were silent, with Naruto, ironically enough, the most silent of them all, heavily contrasting his loudmouthed normal self. The long, winding strings of his headbang blew heavily in the dark wind as his spikey blonde hair glistened softly in the rain.

Neji was significantly more characteristic, stoic and quiet. His long, black hair definately showed off his strong sense of dignity. The darkness contrasted the large amounts of white he was wearing. Yet he still managed to remain unseen in the forest. As they waited for their prey, Neji's thoughts began to drift back. He and Tenten had been getting closer over the last few months. And... well, no one else knew, but they had had sex a few times. Once, she had convinced Neji to not use protection, just as long as he pulled out before climax. Neji was happy, though. It would be a lie to say he didn't love Tenten.

Tenten and Neji had actually been scared before the night of his mission. She had thought she might be pregnant, because she was getting sick, but her test had come up negative. Neji had been able to rest his heart knowing he wasn't leaving a pregnant girl behind for a mission.

Suddenly, there was a noise. "On alert, everyone," said Neji, activating his Byakugan. Something caught his eye for a moment, then... disappeared? No chakra signals, or anything. Only a faint outline of...!

In an instant, the figure was on them. Neji was knocked to the ground, and Hinata was blown against a tree. For some reason he could not place, this awakened a deep fear in Naruto's heart. He tossed a kunai, but the figure dodged. It pulled an unbelievably large blade from it's back, and slammed it against the ground. Suddenly, jet black energy shot towards Naruto. Naruto used a replacement and leaped from a tree above the man. With ungodly ease, the man brought the blade upwards, and slapped Naruto with the flat end. Naruto went sprawling into a tree near Hinata, and fell into a motionless lump. Neji stood as Hinata glanced at Naruto. "Don't touch Naruto!" Hinata shouted suddenly, shooting forward with a Jyuuken strike. A smirk crept across the man's face. As Hinata's deadly aimed strike headed for it's target, she found the satisfaction of flesh hitting her hand in seconds. The man hadn't even moved.

It was then Hinata noticed. She glanced from this person's chest, towards there face. A shriek of terror left her as she collapsed to the ground, and threw up. "No..." she whispered through the horrid fluids coming from her mouth. Neji slumped over, and fell down from Hinata's deadly accurate strike. Naruto, finding the strength to move, crawled over to Neji. "Make sure... neechan doesn't... blame herself," coughed out Neji, as he finally died.

The man took to the trees. "Don't follow me anymore, hunters. If you do I'll have to kill you," he said. With that he disappeared.

Naruto turned to Hinata. She was crying heavily, though you wouldn't be able to tell it through the rain, were it not for her soft sobs. Naruto placed his arms around her. She pressed her face into his chest, and further soaked his black and orange shirt with her tears.

They sat there for half an hour before Naruto let go of her, and picked up Neji's lifeless corpse. It took them several hours to get home...

Once they hit the gates of the village, they were instantly swept up by Tsunade's medics. Naruto and Hinata were both sent into light treatment, but... Neji was sent to the autopsy room. Tsunade had permitted Naruto and Hinata to share a room, due to a lack of space, but there was an odd silence. Naruto didn't want to talk, and Hinata couldn't.

The doctors had passed only a single judgement upon damage to her. They had determined that, since she'd not taken a hit, her only disability was the inability to speak. They called it psychological trauma. Though Naruto did not recognize the big word fully, he understood exactly what they were saying. Hinata had been so emotionally hurt by accidentally killing Neji, that she could not speak.

Naruto turned to look at her. She was pretty. He still thought she was a little wierd, but... shortly before the mission. Neji had confided to Naruto about Hinata's long time crush. He had brushed it off as nothing then, but... could she survive without her cousin in her life? Well, at least she still had her family.

Suddenly, the door burst open, and Hiashi Hyuuga came striding into the room. "Hinata Hyuuga..." he said. Something in his voice... it seemed distant. It scared Naruto. It seemed like he wasn't viewing her as a daughter anymore. "You are under arrest by order of the Hyuuga clan. You are to be taken to the complex, and you will be publically humiliated and then executed. The nature of your humiliation and execution is in the hands of us, and will be named in a more... private place in the Hokage's presence." Hiashi shot a look of scorn at Naruto. Naruto was about to speak, but Hinata just looked at him, and smiled. She walked over, and silently planted a kiss on his cheek. She blushed, and turned, following her father out the door. With that they left, and Naruto sat for hours, wondering about Hinata.

Would he really never see her again? Never see that beautiful smile. The cute way she glanced at him when she thought he wasn't paying attention. The way she modestly bound her breasts, so that she could give it her all without distraction. How she would always be, and had always been, the only one besides Iruka sensei to get him a present consistantly on special occasions. Would he never see her again...?

... He would not allow that... Naruto slid out of the bed, and raced out the window, heading for the Hokage's mansion...

Naruto now stood before the Hokage's office. He glared at Tsunade, his eyes unnaturally serious for his personality. "I know you know, baachan," he said, walking towards her desk. "What the hell are you talking about, Naruto," she mumbled drowsily, tired from a hard day's work. "Hinata!" Naruto said frantically, slamming his fist into her desk as his wiskers furrowed, "tell me what they're gonna do to Hinata-chan!" Tsunade growled. "Calm down," she commanded, "I normally wouldn't do something like this, Naruto, but... I'll tell you. Because Neji was killed by a Jyuuken wound, we deduced that Hinata was the killer. We would have let her go, but.. this is Hyuuga business. And they've chosen their punishment. They're holding the ceremony now. They've decided that Hinata is to be raped publically. They're going to defile her, and then torture her to death for killing a prized member of the clan." Tsunade slammed her hand down on the desk. "Naruto, if you tell anyone I'm permitting you to go and stop this ritual, I'll kill you! Now go, dobe! Hurry up and get her before they defile her." Naruto could feel the Kyuubi stirring in him as he leaped from the window and shot towards the Hyuuga complex...

Meanwhile, Hinata was not so lucky as to be furious. In fact... she felt nothing. She could die now, with only one regret. She had kissed Naruto... hopefully conveying her feelings more clearly now that death was staring at her. Her only regret was that her virginity was not Naruto's. She had always secretly wished that Naruto would be her first. But now, some old Hyuuga was going to defile her and torture her. But she refused to cry. She'd be strong... for Naruto. Hiashi stepped forward. "Hinata..." he said, "are you to be defiled by the heads of the clan, excluding myself. They'll take you in every way, then slowly let you die for your sins."

Hinata's eyes met the floor. Her lavender orbs... they were just about the only things Naruto had ever commented on her. He said they shone like the moon. The thought made her smile as two men, one middle aged and another elderly, moved to be the first to take her. The two stripped down, and then proceeded to strip Hinata. They tied her up so she was suspended in midair, legs spread. Her vagina was on open view, and her breasts, though not large, were still out. The elderly man positioned himself at her back entrance, the other man ordered Hinata to open her mouth. She shuddered and took his penis into her mouth. It was disgusting. She hated his taste, and gagged as he mercilessly fucked her throat. The elderly man thrust his dick into her ass, not caring for the searing pain that shot through her body. Still, she did not cry.

Suddenly, the entrie complex seemed toshake. Though the men did not stop raping her, Hiashi ordered a few men to discover the cause of the turmoil, and continued his viewing. The middle aged man came in her mouth, and ordered her to swallow it. She did so shakily, and almost threw up. "Naruto..." she whispered so only she could hear, "I love you..." She could feel cum leaking from her ass now, and both men crawled away from her.

Naruto was four walls from Hinata. Several Hyuuga tried to attack his one tailed form, only to find their hands burned. Naruto roared, and sent them flying into a wall. A second tail appeared, and he roared once more. "Hinata!!" he called out in a fury.

Hinata sat there, preparing herself for what she knew was going to happen once more. The humiliation and violation of her shame brought down tenfold upon her. "Hinata Hyuuga, prepare for..." said Hiashi. He was suddenly cut off by a loud roar, and the building shaking. Among the roar, Hinata could swear she hear her name. At that moment, Naruto, in his 2 tail form, broke through the wall. With a roar of fury, he called out, "Hiashi!!" as he shot towards the head of the Hyuuga clan in a blind rage.

Hiashi was too slow. Naruto's claw connected to him and he was sent into a wall. The others backed off as Naruto's kyuubi chakra faded. However, he stayed in his initial Kyuubi form, with claws, fangs, red eyes, and furrowed wiskers. He turned, and stepped towards Hinata. He slashed through her bindings, and caught her before she hit the ground. She looked up at him, and pressed herself to him. She only spoke his name, over and over again. He looked at her condition. Noticed her widened, torn anus and the smell of the naked men's seed on her. Naruto glanced at them. "If you follow... I'll kill you all," he whispered, dashing from the complex with a still nude Hinata in his arms. He soft breathing caused his rage to fade. "You're safe now," he whispered to her, as she continued to mutter his name.