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Dead Fox

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Chapter One

Sighing quietly as he closed his eyes, Naruto calmly stalked down the bridge with purpose as his fellow male team mate, Uchiha Sasuke, remained on the defensive against the Demon Brothers while Haruno Sakura, the lone female member of Team 7, was engaged in combat with Haku and Hatake Kakashi was left to deal with Zabuza. Tazuna, left unguarded by the others, was frozen in place by the immense killing intent that choked the very air he breathed. Everything had been one bad idea after another ever since Sasuke demanded a higher ranking mission. Why couldn't the damn brat just relax and take it easy for a little while?

Standing at 6'2", 18 year old Naruto had shaggy dark crimson hair pulled back in a pony-tail that reached down to the middle of his back while his chin-length bangs framed his face, cold ruby red irises floating in pools of obsidian while black slit pupils sat in their cores, a defined and lean muscular physique, and sun-tanned skin bearing numerous scars of various size and shape. A set of three thin and jagged black lines decorated either of his cheeks, marks he possessed since birth.

Like usual, he was dressed in only a pair of baggy black and dark red camouflage pants tucked into black knee-high combat boots, a black sleeveless turtleneck with mesh sleeves that reached down to his elbows, a pair of black elbow-length fingerless gloves on his hands with a spiked strip of dark metal running across his knuckles, dark red ANBU-style bracers strapped to his forearms with an additional plate to cover the back of his hands, a short length of thin chain hung from his belt at his left hip with a metal pendant hanging from it that was made of a single metal ring with an upside-down triangle set inside of it while a tassel of dark crimson string hung from either side of the pendant with a black feather tied to the end of each of the tassels, and his Konoha hitai-ate tied around his neck on a strip of dark red cloth. Attached to his belt at either hip was a dark crimson satchel-like pouch that reached down to just above his knees with black straps wrapping around his thighs to hold them in place while four dark crimson weapon pouches lined the back of his waist.

Looking at the Demon Brothers assaulting his arrogant team mate, the red haired teen sighed once more before withdrawing his hands from his pockets and stepping between them. Meizu was the first to notice Naruto's sudden presence, but was unable to alert his twin brother when Naruto swiftly jabbed the rogue in the throat with his left hand, the knuckle spikes punching through Meizu's flesh and causing his blood to spurt out while the masked Kiri nuke-nin clutched at his neck with fear. Unable to scream, Meizu suffered from a right backhand from Naruto, making him stumble and turn around slightly. Wrapping his left arm around the man's neck and gripping his chin with his right hand, Naruto paused for a moment and glanced to the side, idly noticing that Sasuke was still fending off Gouzu, who was just starting to take notice that his brother was missing.

Crack!

With a sharp jerk, Naruto broke Meizu's neck before spinning around and kicking Gouzu in the chest, knocking him back a little just in time for the claws on his right hand to sail harmlessly mere centimeters in front of Sasuke's face, who could only watch the metal sheaths slice through the air in front of him with his Sharingan eyes. Taking a few steps closer, Naruto spun around before slamming his booted heel into the side of Gouzu's right shoulder, snapping the bone at the joint and fracturing the socket itself.

"AARRGHH!" The sole remaining sibling of the Demon Brothers cried out, clutching his shoulder with his left hand. Before he could recompose himself or retaliate, Naruto struck again. Swinging his left fist around and striking the side of Gouzu's head with a backhand that ripped a series of jagged gashes into his scalp from his knuckle spikes, Naruto spun with the momentum and struck the shinobi with a right hook, sending his newly scratched metal rebreather/face mask skidding across the ground while moving in closer, slamming his left elbow into the side of Gouzu's neck to stun him for a few seconds. Wrapping his left arm around the back of Gouzu's neck and bending him forward, Naruto drove his left knee into the rogue's chest to keep him from fighting back before jerking his arm with a sharp twist, snapping the neck of the second member of the Demon Brothers.

"Wha...What the hell?" Sasuke hissed out with shock and disbelief rather than anger or jealousy as his Sharingan eyes faded away back to his original coal black irises; Naruto was always declining spars and taijutsu training, leaving everyone to believe he simply refused to use taijutsu for some strange reason. Now that he had seen what Naruto could actually do in a fight, Sasuke didn't know whether he was anxious to fight the red head or, dare he admit...Afraid. What startled him even more was the fact that every move was perfectly executed without any wasted energy or even a single opening in his stance; not to mention the fact it was infinitely brutal. "Since when could you fight like that?"

Standing at 5'11", 16 year old Uchiha Sasuke was dressed in a black skin-tight long-sleeve top, a black cloth face mask pulled up over his nose, white ANBU-styled bracers on his forearms with white armored plates covering the back of his hands, baggy black pants with white cloth wrapped around his legs from his knees down to his ankles, white ANBU-styled guards strapped to his shins, black closed-toe shinobi sandals on his feet, a set of white ANBU-styled body armor covering his torso with a black hood attached to the raised armored collar and pulled up over his head while the Uchiha symbol decorated the back of his armor, a belt of white armor plates around his waist with a knee-length half-cloak of black cloth hanging from it and a length of white cloth hanging down to his knees from the buckle in the front, and a Konoha hitai-ate tied around his neck on a band of black cloth. Strapped to either thigh was a pair of kunai holsters, a set of four weapon pouches attached to his belt behind his waist, a number of hidden spring-loaded kunai launchers built into the underside of his bracers, a couple more kunai hidden in his shin-guards, and two more pairs of kunai holsters stashed horizontally under his body armor in the back along his lower back.

"I've always been able to fight like that. It's the Sandaime who forbid me from fighting with comrades since he knows I'll kill anyone without hesitation." Naruto remarked as he calmy as he glanced as Sasuke over his shoulder, the look in his strange eyes startling the Uchiha; his eyes were cold and void of emotion, giving Sasuke the feeling of his soul being devoured by the empty pits. Looking forward once more without another word, Naruto disappeared back into the mist before Sasuke could question him further. Without hesitation, Naruto headed towards the area Sakura and Haku were fighting, only to come to a halt a short distance away from the two in question, his eyes slowly narrowing with something akin to anger. "Sakura..."

Standing at about 5'4", 16 year old Haruno Sakura had long cherry blossom pink hair pulled back into a thick braid that reached down to the small of her back, hypnotizing emerald green eyes, and light cream colored skin. She was wearing a pair of baggy dark crimson capri pants, a dark red midriff-baring top stretched tight across her C-cup bust with a white ring in the center of her upper back while a low-cut collar dipped down to reveal a decent amount of her cleavage, the broad white cuffs of her baggy dark crimson sleeves hanging a few inches past her finger tips while slender bands of white-colored leather secured them to her arms just above her elbows, a sleeveless fishnet top under her shirt, black sandals on her feet, two pouches strapped to either thigh with one of each pair being filled with kunai or senbon, a medical bag set across her lower back, a weapon pouch on either side of her medical bag, and a white sash wrapped around her waist with one end hanging down to her knees in the front. Tied around her neck on a band of dark crimson cloth was her Konoha hitai-ate.

"Hm?" Haku muttered as she turned to face the red haired male, the senbon-riddled body of Sakura lying at her feet. Naruto simply stared down at his fallen team mate, his normally apathetic eyes suddenly showing signs of the smoldering embers that was his heart, the only visible sign of him showing any sort of emotion towards Sakura's apparent demise. He had never admitted it to anyone and often tried to lie to himself about his feelings, but Naruto had become attached to the intelligent and strong-willed young woman. To see her in such a state...His eyes slowly shifted from Sakura to the masked kunoichi, narrowing slightly.

"...You will pay for that..." Naruto hissed coldly through clenched teeth as his muscles tensed, the only warning sign given. Blurring with speed, Naruto appeared in front of Haku and buried his fist in her stomach, doubling her over and lifting her off the ground with the power put behind the blow. Suspended by the fist, Haku instinctively knew that it was only the beginning.

Moving too quick for the unaided eye to track, Naruto retracted his hand, spun around on his left foot while swinging his right leg up, and slammed the heel of his boot down on Haku's back, his heel connecting between her shoulders. Crying out in pain as she was smashed into the stone floor, Haku found herself paralyzed with agony, her face bloodied from her broken nose as her mask slid across the ground. Just as her body bounced off the ground from the impact, Naruto backflipped in place, kicking Haku in the face with his right foot. The impact was powerful enough to cause a resounding clap of sound to echo through the mist as the kunoichi was kicked back up onto her feet. Not even missing a beat, Naruto swung his left leg out to the side before his right foot could touch back down, but once it did, Naruto's shin made contact with the middle of Haku's ribs and sent the now-unmasked young woman flying off to the side.

"ARGH!" Haku cried out in even more pain as she slammed into the stone railing that ran along either side of the bridge, a small section being cracked and chipped by the impact. Going limp and falling to the ground, Haku found herself unable to force her body to move as she watched Naruto slowly walk over to her, a small vicious smirk forming on his lips. Her eyes remained locked on his four ivory fangs, a cold sweat forming all over her body.

"...You killed her..." Naruto muttered quietly as he crouched down half-way to her for a moment, picking up her mask with his left hand and examining it for a moment. Slipping it into the satchel-pouch at his left hip, Naruto continued on his way before crouching down once more, this time reaching down and grabbing Haku by the neck before lifting her into a sitting position with his hand still wrapped around her throat, staring into her eyes as he contemplated what to actually do with her. At that moment, Haku found herself feeling truly afraid for her life for the first time and it wasn't because of the promise of death; it was the man's eyes. When he spoke, his voice was quiet and as sharp as any blade, his words dripping with a venomous rage. "You killed her...and now...I'm going to kill you. You should feel special...I don't normally feed in the presence of others..."

"Urk..." Haku choked out as her eyes widened greatly, the red head's fangs buried in the side of her neck. A feeling of utter cold developed around the bite mark before it began to spread throughout her entire body, her vision going dark within seconds. Pulling back from her and a little breathless, Naruto couldn't stop the grin from forming on his bloodied face. Wiping the blood from his mouth and chin with his right hand, Naruto parted Haku's robes with his left hand before painting a circle on her chest with an upside-down triangle inside of it, using her blood for it.

"Jujutsu: Shitai Guujin Ketsueki Shoji." Naruto stated calmly as he formed a single handseal with his right hand while holding his left hand over the mark. Instantly, his and Haku's skin turned pitch black as white stylized skeletal markings decorated their blackened flesh. Without waiting another moment, Naruto and his new puppet stood up simultaneously and took off down the bridge. It took only a moment to locate Kakashi and Zabuza and after distinguishing them from one another, Naruto mentally commanded his new puppet to aid him in attacking Zabuza for a moment.

"What the-Haku?! What the hell is going on?!" Zabuza remarked, blocking Haku's kick, only to have a boot impact the back of his head while he was distracted. Rolling forward and springing back to his feet, Zabuza raised Kubikiri just in time to block the spiked fist with the flat side of his zanbatou, but he couldn't react in time when his attacker kicked him in the side of his head again, but the jounin managed to wrap an arm around the limb, lifting Kubikiri with his free hand to slay the figure. Letting the blade drop, Zabuza was shocked to find the spiked knuckle plate of Naruto's other glove blocking the zanbatou's cutting edge, a malicious fanged grin on the red head's face. Zabuza also took notice that Naruto's skin was black and white just like Haku's.

"Try again, 'Buza!" Naruto taunted before kicking the man's left knee in with his free foot, dislocating and destroying the joint, only for Zabuza to have replaced himself with a Mizu Bunshin at the last second. Raising his arms and crossing them over his head as he turned around while regaining his footing, Naruto blocked Kubikiri's blade, his grin still in place. Naruto's grin suddenly became a slight frown of confusion while his eyes widened slightly when a second Zabuza appeared behind him, swinging Kubikiri in a horizontal slash. "Uh oh..."

A moment later, the blade cleaved through his spine, gliding through the flesh of his lower abdomen before slicing through the Mizu Bunshin Zabuza had used to distract Naruto. Gritting his teeth out of sheer malice towards the red head for somehow desecrating Haku's precious corpse with some kind of kinjutsu, Zabuza stared down at the two halves that had once been whole. Then he noticed something. Naruto's left eye brow...it was twitching...

"Sonuvabitch! That fucking hurts, asshole!" Naruto suddenly roared at the man, honestly scaring Zabuza greatly, not knowing that one of Zabuza's greatest fears was a fear of the 'undead'; zombies, simply put. Then again, such fear was to be expected when the bisected corpse lying on the ground one moment started screaming and cursing at him the next. Tendrils of crimson chakra reached out from the bloody flesh and latched onto the opposite half of his body, quickly pulling them back together and allowing his extremely powerful healing factor to seal the wound and recombine both halves while every last drop of his spilled blood was pulled back into his body. Standing up, Naruto ripped his ruined mesh top off and tossed the scraps to the side before cracking his neck. "You ruined my favorite shirt, too..."

"Wha...What the fuck is going on here?!" Zabuza howled, only making Naruto look at him quizzically before cackling madly, having commanded 'Haku' to keep Kakashi from interrupting. So long as they were under his control, his 'corpse puppets' had the same healing factor as himself, making them truly powerful weapons in their own right.

"Hahaha! Welcome to my fucked up and twisted world, Momochi!" Naruto howled as he suddenly shot forward, smashing his head into Zabuza's face and knocking him out. Zabuza's world went black...

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"Ngh...MM! HMPH, MMM!" Zabuza stirred with a groan before he was jarred awake by the memories of the creepy red head that wouldn't die. He found himself gagged and tied up, a length of rope running from his bound ankles to a large rock set off to the side. They were at the incomplete end of the bridge and it was about mid-day, probably the day after the incident on the bridge. That's when he was smacked across the side of his head as Naruto entered his line of sight, having returned back to normal. Grinning madly, Naruto leaned back against the wall and started cleaning under his nails with the tip of a kunai. Accidentally slicing through his pinky, though, Naruto's mood darkened in an instant. His eyes became cold and apathetic as he watched rivulets of blood trickle from the tip of his finger, only for the flesh to stitch itself back together.

"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact...same fucking thing...over and over again, expecting...shit to change." Naruto began as he started twirling the knife around in his hand, his sentences broken with momentary pauses, almost as if he were searching for the needed words or struggling to describe what he was thinking in a way someone else might understand. That, and he was rambling almost senselessly. "That...is crazy; but the first time somebody told me that...I dunno, I thought they were bullshitting me, so bam- I stabbed him. The thing is, okay...he was right. And then I started seeing: everywhere I looked, everywhere I looked, all these fucking pricks, everywhere I looked, doing the exact same fucking thing...over and over and over and over again thinking: 'This time, it's going to be different; no, no, no, no, no, please...This time it's going to be different.'"

"..." Zabuza stayed silent as he stared at the red head with defiant eyes, something that was obviously bothering Naruto as he pushed off from the wall and started pacing anxiously as he talked. Getting fed up with it, Naruto decided to address the apparent issue.

"...I am sorry, I don't like the way you are looking at me...Okay, do you have a fucking problem in your head? Do you think I'm bullshitting you? Do you think I'm lying?" Naruto started talking, getting progressively louder and more rabid in tone. He then brandished the kunai in his hand and swung it, cutting a thin and shallow gash across Zabuza's forehead. "Fuck you! Okay? FUCK YOU!"

"Ngh!" As Zabuza let out a brief, muffled cry of pain, Naruto forced himself to take a deep breath and calm down. As he did, he sheathed his blade and stepped back.

"I'm gonna chill, brother. I'm gonna chill...The thing is...alright, the thing is, you were killed once already...and it's not like I am fucking crazy. It's okay...It's water under the bridge." Naruto responded before putting his right foot on the rock and giving Zabuza a blank, emotionless stare. Zabuza's eyes widened with fear as he realized what was about to happen. "Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"

"MMmmff!" Zabuza tried screaming through the gag as the rock was kicked over the edge, quickly pulling the rope taut. Futily clawing at the stone floor, Zabuza was pulled over the edge, plummeting to the water as he stared up at Naruto, who stared down at him blankly up until the man disappeared into the dark, cool depths of the strait separating Wave Country from Fire Country.

"Hm...Stay dead this time, will ya?" Naruto muttered before turning around and walking back down the bridge, whistling a dark tune as he stuffed his hands in his pockets. As he passed by the large blood stain that scarred the bridge, Naruto recalled the glorious slaughter he wrought upon Gatou and his henchmen after knocking Zabuza out and having a Shadow Clone leave with the man's body to hide him for a little while. He then recalled when he first came to worship his Lord, Jashin. At the time, he had been only...five, was it? He no longer cared and thus, he no longer remembered properly. Anyways, he had stumbled across an old hideout of some sort while running from another mob that had been fully intent on killing him that night. There, he found a large scroll containing a handful of kinjutsu techniques, including the one that turned him immortal at the cost of having to drink blood kind of like a vampire to keep his strength up instead of eating food like a normal person, the pendant at his hip, and a new form of ninutsu; jujutsu, which was also known as sorcery, black magic, and voodoo to name a few.

Jujutsu just sounded better to him, though...

He never regretted performing the kinjutsu and what he told Zabuza about the definition of insanity? He was telling the truth. He had actually been in Zabuza's position at the time he had performed the kinjutsu, too. Well, kind of. The man that tried to end Naruto's life that night gave him the same monologue before stabbing him in the chest and turning to walk away. However, not wanting to die, Naruto pulled the large kitchen knife from his chest and formed the handseals needed for the kinjutsu, stabbed the man in the leg before he could react, and licked the man's blood from the blade.

That was all it took...

Unlike what the Jashinist cultists believe, there was no actual god called Jashin and there was no need to sacrifice in 'His' name. Jashin was actually the creater of the kinjutsu used for their immortallity and the first of them to come about. However, the man did start the cult, brainwashing his followers and making them believe he was a god. It wasn't until about a decade later that he mysteriously disappeared, which only proved to turn him into a martyr amongst the Jashinists back then. As time went on, the number of cultists gradually began to dwindle until one of them discovered the scroll containing Jashin's kinjutsu, thus becoming the first 'immortal acolyte' of Jashin. That was a long time ago, though, and thus, unimportant to him.

The truth was that the person that used the kinjutsu simply needed to make sure they either drank the blood of someone once a month, at minimum, or came into direct contact with a certain amount of the crimson liquid and letting it soak into their skin. All other acolytes tended to sacrifice, thus coming into contact with copious amounts of blood, however, it wasn't as effective as actually consuming that blood. Even if one were to completely submerge themself in blood, absorbing it through the skin would only last about a week at the most while draining a single average adult person dry of blood would last the acolyte almost a full month. Normally, the kinjutsu would stop the body from aging, but Naruto had discovered that if he fed primarily on animal blood, he continued to age normally without losing his immortality, but he was left slightly weaker than what he would normally be at.

Then again, everything came at a price...

"...Naruto?" Kakashi asked from off to the side, breaking Naruto from his thoughts and making him realize he was already at Tazuna's home. Cocking an eye brow and looking at the jounin, Naruto stopped in his tracks with a flat look on his face. He knew this would happen. The jounin was going to question him about his 'abilities' and his actions back on the bridge. "Did you make sure he was dead?"

"...Huh?" Naruto responded dumbly, blinking a few times out of confusion. Of all things, how did he know about that?

"Did you make sure Zabuza was dead before you left?" Kakashi asked again, but Naruto still seemed to be confused as to how the jounin knew about it. "I'm a jounin for a reason, Naruto. One of the things I'm best at is tracking. Just before Gatou arrived, I noticed that your's and Zabuza's scents went away from the bridge even though you yourself never left. That brings another question to mind; where did you learn the Shadow Clone technique?"

"...First question first...Um...No, but I put a chakra suppression seal on him and took all of his pointy objects before he woke up. Also, the rope I used has steel wire in it, meaning he can't cut through it anyways. Besides, the knot I used makes the bindings pull tighter the more he fights. He'll drown before he can escape." Naruto answered, listing off the precautions he had taken. "As for the second? Weasel."

"...You mean..." Kakashi trailed off, recieving a nod from Naruto. It was unwise to mention Itachi's name around Sasuke. "When?"

"Well, the night before that night, he left me a scroll with a note that said not to open until I graduated from the Academy. I can only imagine why..." Naruto responded before looking up at the sky. "Because of the kinjutsu I had performed on myself combined with my tenant, my chakra control was fucked up, causing me to fail twice due to being unable to perform the Bunshin technique. I got pissed off, opened the scroll, and discovered it was the Kage Bunshin. I then proceeded to learn and master it in a single night because I needed to vent quite a bit of anger. That same night, I spotted Mizuki and...Well, you know the rest..."

"Yes, I do..." Kakashi muttered in reply, cringing slightly at the memory. After catching up to Mizuki, Naruto had learned of his 'burden', the Kyuubi no Kitsune. The chuunin had thought it would affect Naruto and give him an opening to kill the brat. What he didn't realize was that Naruto was simply lost in thought and even after having a giant shuriken embedded in his chest, Naruto was still 'alive' due to the kinjutsu he had performed on himself when he was a kid. After that, Naruto had started laughing maniacally, which had been heard for a great distance as it cut through the night air. Which was shortly followed by a blood-chilling wail of agony that was Mizuki's prolonged death rattle...

Mizuki was later found by ANBU after Naruto returned the Forbidden Scroll of Sealing, but the man wasn't in one piece. His skin and flesh had been flayed and torn from his bones, his blood painting everything around his remains within a ten foot radius. Naruto had painted the Jashinist symbol on Mizuki's skull for some reason, never mentioning its purpose. Kakashi, who had been amongst the ANBU present, was only one of several to purge the contents of their stomach at the sight...

"Hmm...Good times...Well, I'm going hunting." Naruto muttered with a slight grin before stating, turning on his heel and walking into the forest, leaving Kakashi to shiver, still haunted by the horrifying image. Whistling another dark tune with his hands in his pockets, Naruto walked for what seemed like an hour or two before eventually coming to a stop at the edge of a clearing, the hideout Zabuza had been using resting at the other side.

Staring up at the suspended structure, Naruto stopped whistling and gained a faint smirk, only to vanish from his spot and reappear inside the building via the open door and a quick burst of chakra-enhanced speed combined with a jump. Walking down one of the short halls, Naruto came to a door and opened it, stepping into the room and shutting the door behind him. Lying on the table in the middle of the empty room was Haku's body, stripped of her clothing and runes painted all across her body in blood. The floor, walls, and ceiling were covered in a massive seal array, also having been done with blood. The main reason most jujutsu techniques were classified as kinjutsu was due to their heavy reliance on blood for the techniques to work. That, and the occassional dead body and/or live sacrifice, though the second varied between animals and human beings depending on the jujutsu being used.

"Let's get started, shall we?" Naruto inquired of no one in particular as he approached Haku's corpse while cracking his knuckles. Using a kunai, Naruto sliced open his left palm and slipped the weapon back into the pouch it came from before rubbing his hands together, coating his hands in his own blood before running through a long string of handseals. Falling on the final handseal, Naruto put his hands on the dead body's abdomen, calling out the name of the kinjutsu as a reddish smoke-like energy poured out from his blood covered hands and into the corpse. "Jujutsu: Akuryou Fukkatsu no Yokusei!"

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"Mmm...Wha...What the hell just happened?" She groaned out quietly, her eyes squeezed shut and body racked with pain. Slowly forcing herself to sit up, she put a hand to her head and groaned again, her head pounding with a migraine. Her eyes snapped open at that thought. Hand? Looking at herself, Kurama discovered that she was no longer in her glorious Nine-Tailed Kitsune form, now having the body of a young human female. She was also naked and lying on a table in the middle of an empty room. "What the hell is going on?!"

"Hmm...You're finally awake, eh?" A familiar voice inquired from behind her, making Kurama turn around and glare at the person, only to grow light-headed and dizzy from the sudden movement, causing her to lean down and take a moment to recover. A quiet, dark chuckle escaped the person. "I wouldn't suggest anything too...strenuous...You aren't used to your new body yet."

"What...What are you talking about?" Kurama wrasped out, slowly looking up to find Naruto standing there, leaning back against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest and a fanged smirk on his face. Nodding over to the side, Naruto's smirk only grew. Glancing over to where he had motioned, Kurama saw a full-body mirror propped up against the wall. Glancing back at the red haired human that honestly creeped her out ever since he came across that kinjutsu scroll, Kurama cautiously stood up from the table, taking her time in gaining her balance and stability before walking over to it.

"Oh my god..." She whispered, seeing herself as a human for the first time since the Sage had divided the Jyuubi, creating her and the eight other Bijuu. She stood at 5'9" with waist-length dark auburn red hair, skin the color of light cream that was free of blemish, the same exact eyes as Naruto's, and the kanji for 'Slave' staining the flesh of her toned and flat stomach. Her figure was slender, yet voluptuous bearing broad hips, a slim waist, long legs with muscular thighs, huge and perky plump breasts that she guessed to be around H-cups, a firm and meaty rump, and full pink lips. Spinning around and glaring at Naruto, Kurama quickly charged Naruto to attack him, only for the 'Slave' tattoo to flare up, causing pain to shoot through her body and make her drop to her knees, wrapping her arms around her midsection as she grit her teeth to keep from crying out in agony. "Y-You...bastard...What...What did you...do to me?"

"I gave you freedom. Limited as it may be, it is freedom, nonetheless." Naruto remarked coldly, glad to see that the Slave seal worked properly. While Kurama's spirit inhabited the body that had once belonged to Yuki Haku, the Kyuubi's chakra had been left behind in Naruto's body. Orginially, the Evil Spirit Restraining Resurrection didn't require the runes that had decorated Haku's corpse, but Naruto didn't want anyone getting suspicious as to why a dead woman was still 'alive' and applied a set of seals on the body that would change the body to properly match the personality and 'mental image' of the spirit that would inhabit the body, creating an entirely new person altogether. The Slave seal was both a symbol of her standing and a control seal to keep her from intending harm on him now that she wasn't contained by the seal that imprisoned her within him. The stronger the feelings of ill intent, the greater the pain she would be forced to endure. "I decided to give you some simple comforts and let you escape the confining prison you had been in previously. Might not exactly be to your liking, but at least it is something."

"..." Kurama said nothing as she was covered with a baggy hooded black cloak, but she was grateful nonetheless and clutched it to her naked frame. That was when she noticed the hand held out to her, causing her to glance up at Naruto. Although her eyes showed defiance and hatred, she couldn't help noticing how nice he was being at the same time. Normally, Naruto would have just dropped the cloak on the ground and walked away, letting her fend for herself. "...Why? Why are you being nice?"

"...Because you're the only one that never left me, that never betrayed me. You're the only one that never hurt me. Not on purpose, at least." Naruto remarked quietly, helping Kurama to her feet after she grabbed onto his hand. Wrapping an arm around her waist to help support her, Naruto led her out of the room and to the master bedroom, however plain as the entire place may be. Attached to the side of the room was the master bathroom, but for now, he led her to the bed, letting her sit down and rest for the moment. "Do not mind the Slave seal. It was a part of the kinjutsu I used to free you and it also gives me some semblance of protection. Like when you had tried to attack me earlier..."

"..." Kurama said nothing in response, simply pulling the cloak around her body more tightly and keeping her head bowed. Sighing heavily, Naruto made his way to the door, opening it and pausing in the doorway. He then reached into a pocket and retrieved a storage scroll before setting it down on the dresser beside him.

"Some clothes. Go ahead and get some rest. We'll talk later." Naruto told her before finally stepping out, gently closing the door behind him. Glancing up at the door Naruto had just left through, Kurama stayed quiet before glancing to the bathroom. Deciding to listen to what he said, Kurama pushed herself to her feet and made her way to the bathroom, fully intent on taking a shower before getting some sleep...

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Jujutsu: Shitai Guujin Ketsueki Shoji- Sorcery: Corpse Puppet Blood Possession

Mizu Bunshin- Water Clone

Jujutsu: Akuryou Fukkatsu no Yokusei- Sorcery: Evil Spirit Restraining Resurrection

A/N: Those of you that have read this before may notice, but Dead Fox is being rewritten, though the first chapter hasn't really changed much. Anyways, I'll be continuing to write Dead Fox, so don't worry. It WILL be getting finished...Eventually.

-Winterfang