Author: Heh, this is the Naruto fic I finally promised to the few readers of my Inuyasha fic I've written so far. I've had like three ideas bouncing around in my head and finally chose one.
This is my first attempt at anything remotely angsty, so even though the category isn't angst, there should be some quasi-angst in it.
Uh...don't own Naruto...and unless I add an OC (which I don't think I will) I don't own any of the characters appearing in this fic.
Also, I accept all reviews, and I urge you to criticize, and even flame if you must. Please it means a lot to me to have reviews with something in them.
Last thing...I tend to drag some things on (like my 3 chapter fight scene in my other fic) so beware)
Oh well, enjoy.
Chapter 1:
The high was fading away. The intense heat, the lust for blood and battle, the need to fight for no other reason than the fun itself. The disregard for an opponent's well being...it was all fading away now. A few more deep breaths and the fox would be contained once more in the recesses of the boy's soul and mind.
Breath in
Breath out
Breath in
Breath out
Naruto felt his consciousness coming back to full control, the Kyubi pushed back to his gates again. His body ached a bit from both the battle that he hardly remembered and the effects of trying to handle Kyubi's chakra.
Slowly, the battle he had done little more than passively witnessed from behind crimson eyes and the events leading up to it, began to return.
"Hey Naruto!"
"What Kiba?" Naruto turned to stop from his current walk through Konoha's streets. He was a bit aggravated because he was on his way to go attempt to win Sakura's attention by defeating Sasuke (knowing that it wouldn't work but wanting the fight anyway). He turned his attention to the smiling boy that was casually strolling up to him, with his pup resting on the top of his head.
He slowed to a stop when he was in conversation range.
"Are you doing anything now?"
"...why?"
"Just a question, well, are you?"
"...I was gonna go fight Sasuke because I'm bored and the ramen stand is closed for renovating or something like that. Why?"
Kiba sighed a disappointed sigh and turned to leave.
"Oh well, good luck"
Naruto was a bit confused at what just happened, the confusion turned to anger, and the anger kinda settled down into normal Naruto-ness.
"Hey, hey, HEY!!!!!"
Kiba turned, the smile from moments ago changed to one of boredom. "What?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Doesn't matter"
Naruto growled under his breath and ran the short distance, stopping once he had cut Kiba off.
"Tell me"
"No, go get yourself pounded in the ground by Sasuke" the smile returned. "I was just gonna ask if you would let me do it instead, but there are others that pose more of a challenge I guess."
Kiba closed his eyes and began to chuckle and a wide dog-grin crept on Akamaru's face.
Naruto turned red.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT MORE OF A CHALLENGE!!!! I BEAT YOU IN THE CHUUNIN EXAMS, IF ANYTHING, YOUR NOT A CHALLENGE ENOUGH FOR ME!!!"
Checkmate
"You sure about that one?"
"Positive" Naruto turned and pouted, he could've kept ranting for a good time, but something about Kiba's unusual calm kept him from doing so.
"Then let's go." Kiba walked right by the pouting Naruto, and was quickly followed by the boy thereafter.
Eyelids revealed fatigued blue eyes as Naruto finally opened his eyes back to the surroundings. Even he could smell the sweat, dirt, and blood in the air, he took a moment to take get an idea of what exactly happened. He was pretty sure he had won, the fox would make sure of the, but what about...
His heart skipped a beat.
Not five feet away was Kiba's crumpled form. It lay on the ground, jacket completely torn, and the boy bleeding all over. It looked like he was breathing...but not much.
A faint whimper alerted him to the presence of the boy's nin-dog a few feet away in a soft patch of grass that he seemed to have been set on...by Kiba no doubt.
Sweat began to pour down Naruto's face and under his jacket as panic took hold of him. He could feel Kyubi's sick satisfaction with the work he had done in the back of his mind. A single thought floated across his mind in the voice that he had begun recognizing as Kyubi's.
...he brought it upon himself...
Kiba skid to a screeching stop with the Akamaru in clone form right behind him. He was breathing hard and was starting to feel the limits of his chakra coming on. He dropped the chakra keeping Akamaru in human form, turning him back into a red pup.Fighting without food pills was more difficult that he thought, he'd have to go try and get them back from Kurenai's house later today.
"Kiba, stop trying the same move...its not going to work" Naruto boasted, his head held high and his chest puffed wide. His breathing was a little heavier than normal, but he wasn't nearly as fatigued as his opponent.
A small smirk wound itself on Kiba's face as he pulled himself to stand firmly on two legs.
"Alright then, if that's what you want. Akamaru, you know what to do"
There was a bark in response from Akamaru and a confused "huh" from Naruto as Akamaru laid all the way down on the grass and shut his eyes.
"What, you got yourself a new technique then? Wanna match it against mine?" Naruto challenged, not waiting for a reply before starting up a sparring level Rasengan.
"Just wait and see" Kiba ducked down and pressed his hands together, forming the basic seal and began to channel his chakra. He shut out the world and began to focus, feeling the vicinity for any creature that could serve his purpose, and avoiding Akamaru's.
"It took me forever to get a hold of our family scroll so I could learn this technique. As a matter of fact, I get to bathe all the dogs in the house every other day for two months for this. But it's worth it."
"Quit yappin and get a move on!" Naruto shouted, idly holding the Rasengan in his hand.
Kiba continued to wrap his chakra around the minds of the beasts in the nearby forest.
"You don't even want to know what I'm doing then Naruto?"
Naruto sighed "Fine then Kiba, what does this technique do?"
"I'm glad you asked"
Kiba mentally counted the forest creatures he could command now and prepared to send them after the distracted Naruto, but something caught his attention. A faint mind, and very primal. It almost felt as if it wasn't there, but he knew it was. It was dark, and from what he could gather from it, very powerful...of course he wanted to control it.
He focused on the presence a bit longer until he finally located it...it was close, really close. As a matter of fact, it seemed like it loomed around Naruto's immediate vicinity, but that was all he could identify. He began to wrap his chakra around the mind, and felt the last of his chakra reserves being tapped. The presence struggled, but Kiba ignored it.
"This technique lets me control any primal mind close enough for me to get to. Right now I can hold up to 20 creatures in about ¾ of a mile around."
"Huh, what are you-"
Naruto couldn't finish the rest of the sentence as he suddenly fell to the ground. His eyes widened involuntarily, and he could faintly hear Kiba yell out the name of the jutsu, but couldn't comprehend it in his current state.
...so the kid thinks he can control me huh...
...not a good move kid...
...not a good move at all...
Naruto fell to the ground completely and felt his consciousness slipping away, not to black, but to red. Kyubi's hate was starting to burn up within him, and he could feel the fox pushing at the boundaries of Naruto's mind and seal.
Score:
Naruto: 0
Kyubi: 1
Naruto stood to full stature, eyes closed. The whiskers on his cheeks deepened and his nails transformed to claws. A cold laugh curdled in his chest. He could hear some 15 assorted forest creatures making their way to his location, but that didn't matter...he was free if only for a while, and he had one person to thank for it.
He flared up his red chakra and opened his blood-red, feral eyes.
"Thanks kid, I've been needing a breath of fresh air for a long time now."
Naruto created a Kage Bunshin that ran over to pick up the injured dog, while he slowly and carefully picked up Kiba's battered form.
He jumped into the nearest tree and took off for the hospital, the words "I'm sorry Kiba" being repeated to his now injured friend. ==============================================================
He had been wandering the streets for a few hours now. None of Kiba's blood managed to get on his clothes, and his hands were conveniently placed in his pockets.
'What have I done now?' Naruto thought 'This is all your fault you stupid fox'
No reply
'I hate you, I hope you burn in...wherever you go when you die'
The image of the foxes trademark grin burned itself in the boy's mind.
Then there was a jolt, a sudden impact colliding with his back. He fell to the ground, hearing the hushed and alarmed reactions from the villagers.
He lifted his face off the ground to yell at whoever had knocked him down, but was stifled when he saw that it wasn't a person who knocked him down.
A few feet away from him was a large dog with a dull brown fur coat looking as if it was ready to pounce. It was muscular as far as dogs go, in a way it reminded him of Akamaru...only bigger and meaner.
The dog growled at him but the growl was soon accompanied by another from behind the boy.
Naruto pushed himself up with his hands enough to get a look behind to see an identical dog with the same expression on it's face.
The crowd begun to distance itself from the boy and the dogs as a young woman the boy hadn't recognized came into the clearing.
She stood tall, with long black hair in a ponytail that came down to the middle of her back. Her outfit told him that she was a chuunin, the red streaks on her face told him that she was Inuzuka, and burning scowl in her eyes told him she was mad.
Naruto knew why
"H-h-hello...I bet your wondering what happened. You see...hehe...it was all an accident" Naruto began, trying his best to quell the woman's anger, and wishing that he had been better with words.
She didn't show any signs of physical reaction, she didn't even breathe. She merely spoke, coldy and harshly"
"Ginmaru, Chimaru, attack"
Author: Wow, that really sucked...that's gonna get a lot of flames...oh well. Yeah this may not see another chapter because...well, I'm not sure if I'm any good at writing fics for Naruto. Inuyasha is one thing, but Naruto fics are completely different. Oh well we'll see.
Oh, yeah I did make up the names for the woman's dogs and I'm gonna give her a name too because the only names I ever caught form that family were Kiba, Akamaru, and Kuromaru. So. If anyone has a problem with the mom being names Kirara and the Dad being names Akira (or if u have better suggestions, please let me know)
BTW, does anyone know what all the suffixes mean, like san, sama, chan, kun, and dono?