Written by Bukiyo-Nikku and El-Chico-de-Fuego
"Yo." Naruto speaking in demon form, and Kyuubi
"Yo." Normal Speech.
To Keep a Promise
Summary: Naruto's battle with Sasuke is proving too difficult for him, what is he willing to sacrifice in order to keep his promise to Sakura? No real pairings, maybe NaruxSaku if I right more chapters.
The sky had begun to darken around the valley, all forms of life desperately trying to run from the intense onslaught of raw power and speed. The sky had flares and flashes of white and red, each opponent trying to overcome the other only to have their attacks countered. Now they stood on the two monuments, each glaring at the other. One second later they were getting ready to attack again. One's hand started to glow with black and white lightning, in the other's a sphere of rotating red and black chaos. Both of them, seeing the other's attack, began to put their full power into it. They both jumped from their perches, and sped towards the other. Then the attacks hit and all that was heard was "Rasengan!" "Chidori!" and then a flash of white light ensued. After the light subsided, there was a lone figure standing over the other. "Naruto, you tried your best, but I'm still stronger than you could ever hope to be." Said the raven haired boy. But, unbeknownst to him the boy he was standing over was in front of a dark and ancient looking cage.
"Oi, Baka-kitsune! Give me more power!" Naruto yelled into the dark space. The only reply was a barrage of laughter and a grin of non other than the Kyuubi no Kitsune. "And why should I do that Gaki? If you take anymore of my power we would die, not to mention the power would be released in an explosion that would destroy everything in a three hundred mile radius." answered the snide fox. In a pissed off way, Naruto looked at the Kitsune that wouldn't help him. He put all of his emotions and the remainder of his chakra into one last attack. He jumped into the cage and placed a chakra enhanced kunai onto the fox's neck, right over the jugular. "Either give me the rest of what you have, or I'll kill you." said the now angered preteen. The fox stopped with his attitude and looked at what had just happened. He knew then that he was in deep, deep shit. If he tried to kill the boy he would in fact be killing himself as well, and in the worse possible way, but he also knew that if he didn't do anything the boy would kill them both anyway. So he chose to do what the kid asked, but he knew that the kid would die from that kind of power, so he had to improvise. "Ok, Gaki, but this is gonna hurt like a son of a bitch." He said. "I don't give a fuck how much it'll hurt teme! Just give it to me, NOW!" the blond brat said. "So be it." And immediately after that Naruto's vision began to blacken sending him back into consciousness.
All he saw was that teme Sasuke standing over him looking smug. He got angry at the sight. But before he could do anything about it his body started to glow and was racked with pain, the most intense pain he had ever felt, and with his being beaten to near death before, he was surprised. Sasuke looked at his now glowing form and began to back away "So Dobe, you still got some fight left in you after all huh?" Sasuke said as he got into a comfortable taijutsu position. "Heh, you have no idea, but like I said, you're coming back with me, by extreme force if necessary. Prepare yourself." He said in a demonic voice, it was still his voice, but it had the word death all over it. Sasuke just looked back at him scared when suddenly the glowing became brighter and red energy leaked out all over him. The energy created one tail, then another sprouted, then when the third one spouted something strange happened the tails became actual tails, fox tails. Sasuke looked at him with clear shock and was locked in place by the small amount of killer intent leaking from the tails. Then another tail sprouted and the energy started to pick up the dirt and water around him, disintegrating it as it reached him. The matter simply started to gather around Naruto diving into the seal on his stomach. The matter wouldn't stop coming to him as he grew his other five tails. After the ninth tail had grown in the matter that shot into his seal began to disperse throughout his body. He screamed out in pain as he began growing, his legs curving into those of a fox, his hands and feet becoming paws, and his face beginning to form a muzzle. The matter stopped flowing into him as he reached the same height and form as the Kyuubi. The only thing that could distinguish Naruto from the Kyuubi was his fur and eyes. His eyes were still partially sapphire blue with ruby red mixed in and now slit and his fur was the same golden blond, but now had black tips on his tails, paws, and ears. Sasuke looked at him and nearly shit his pants. Naruto gave him one swing of the paw, and he was thrown into the cliff and knocked out. Naruto grabbed him carefully with one of his tails and began to walk towards Konoha. As he began to walk off, Kakashi jumped out of the bushes and stared at Naruto. As he was looking at the now three hundred foot fox boy, he noticed that Sasuke wrapped in one of the tails. "Shit! Sasuke! Naruto must have released the Kyuubi!" Kakashi was panicking wondering what he could possibly do. Then he did the only thing he could and began to fire up the Raikiri. Naruto looked at him like he was nuts, took a tail and grabbed him and Pakkun, who had just walked out of the brushes, then started his run towards Konoha again.
As he was running, he put them on his back. Pakkun was the first to speak up "Oi, Naruto, why are you a giant fox?" Pakkun simply asked. "Explain later, ok?" Naruto said as softly as he could. Kakashi's eyes bugged out as he looked at the fox noticing the strange features it didn't have the first time. Blond fur and partially blue eyes, strange features for any fox, let alone one of death and destruction were on this one Pakkun just called Naruto. "Oi, gomen nasai Naruto, I over reacted." Kakashi said sadly as the fox's ears perked up. "That's ok Kakashi-sensei! What else could you have thought?" came the simple and truthful response from the fox boy. As he drew nearer to Konoha, he began to pick up familiar scents. Shikamaru was the first scent he picked up, and with his that girl from sand. With that taken in he noticed four other scents with theirs, namely Kiba, Kankuro, Gaara, and Lee. He went to the spot where they were trying to pick Kiba up without hurting him. Naruto noticed and walked up to them picking them all up except for Kiba. A few of them nearly crapped themselves as Naruto picked them up, while Gaara simply said, "Uzumaki Naruto, good of you to join us." The others looked to Kakashi and he pointed towards the head of the fox. "Yo!" Naruto said in a Kakashi like manner. Everyone except for Gaara sweat-dropped at his mimicry. He placed a tail over Kiba and poured a trace of chakra from him to Kiba and Akamaru. Their wounds got a little better and Naruto deemed them travel safe. He put them on his back and started running again. He ran into the woods towards Konoha and picked up Neji and Chouji on the way using his tails as a stopper for Neji's hole in his right side and supplied chakra to Chouji so his heart wouldn't stop. Then Kiba and Akamaru began to feel the effects of Naruto's chakra, their own chakra reserves widened greatly, and as an added effect, they both became a little more feral. Their canines grew longer and so did their claws, their hair got a bit wilder and started to change color a bit, Kiba got two streaks of red in his hair while Akamaru's fur became a darker shade of white, with a single red streak running down each side from mid shoulder to hip. Kiba looked over his and Akamaru's new changes noticing a tingle in his hand, more specifically, a tattoo of a fox head with nine tails circling it. Akamaru had the same thing on his paw. He also noticed he could read Akamaru's thoughts, and vice versa. "Oi, baka-kitsune! Arigato Gozaimasu!!" he said excitedly everyone now noticing Kiba's changes. "Heh, no problem inu, it'll only work on you though, seeing as how you're more closely connected to animals than the rest of them." Satisfied with his answer Kiba fell asleep from exhaustion.
About fifteen minutes later Naruto & Co. arrived at the gates of Konoha while the villagers were screaming bloody murder about the Kyuubi returning to finish what he started. Naruto smirked, while the rest of them (Minus those unconscious and Gaara) looked at him scared, most of them knowing how badly the village treated him. Then a giant toad appeared and a man with long white hair on top of it yelled "GET AWAY FROM HERE YOU MONSTER! YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE ALREADY!" Naruto looked back at Jiraiya and Gumabunta. "Ero-sennin, I'm hurt you think that I did any real damage, I mean my pranks were big sometimes but there were no lasting damages, 'cept of course the mental damage. The word 'pancake' still work?" At the word Jiraiya jumped. Then He and Gumabunta registered something… "GAKI???/NARUTO???" They yelled. Naruto just gave a foxy grin, as a fox it really worked, then jumped over them and landed in front of the hospital. "Oi, Tsunade-baachan! Get to the roof NOW!" he yelled as a big busted woman appeared on the roof as Naruto laid the injured in front of her. "We're talking about this later gaki." She said. The rest got off of him as he shifted to a near human form. He still had his tails and ears. She got to work on the group immediately as Sakura walked over to Naruto. "Na..Naruto…THANK YOU!!" She yelled as she hugged him. "Hey Sakura-chan, are you happy now?" he asked. "Of course! You brought him back just like you promised!" she exclaimed happily. He smiled and said "That's good... that means I did the right thing." "Huh?" she looked at him now noticing the tails and ears. Her eyes bugged out and she looked distraught with guilt, wondering 'What happened to him? Did the promise he made to me make him do it?', then he said "I just want you to be happy, even if it cost me my humanity." He said with a weak smile and walked off.
We hope you like this, it's kinda our first fanfic of naruto, not to mention working as a team to write.. Please review! We need all the help we can get!