Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Naruto or DMC.
"Don't let it get away!"
"Kill the demon!"
Shouts of malevolent glee filled the air as a five year old Naruto ran for his life. Once again it was October 10th, once again he'd ignored the Hokage's warning not to go out today and once again the villagers were out for his blood.
"But I didn't do anything!" Naruto cried, tears beginning to blur his vision as he was overtaken by fear.
"You killed my husband!"
"You murdered my entire family!"
"You Monster!"
"Demon!"
Naruto gave a yelp as he tripped over his feet and landed painfully on the floor. He barely had time to turn over before the villagers were upon him. Heavy blows from blunt and sharp objects alike rained down on his tiny body. Curling up in a ball was all he could do to defend himself but even that was soon rendered ineffective and the little boy felt himself begin to drift away from the pain and misguided hatred.
Within seconds he found himself in front of a large cage sitting neck deep in a pool of water.
"Unbelievable" an annoyed voice muttered "He's a five year old child!"
Naruto struggled to his feet flinching as he reopened some of his more serious wounds.
"Umm…" he started, unsure of what to say to the large, and extremely annoyed furry… thing.
"That's the second time this week that he's been attacked and I'm the one that has to pick up the pieces…They won't be satisfied till he slaughters them all."
"Ummm…. Excuse me…. Mr. fuzzy thing?"
Kyuubi stopped mid-rant to stare incredulously at the child.
"What did you just call me…?"
Naruto just stared at him blankly.
"Umm…"
"Not one for intelligent answers are you?"
Not knowing the meaning of the word 'intelligent', Naruto began to stare again and would have continued to do so but a deep gash appeared on his chest soaking his shirt with blood.
"Ow!" he face first into the water clutching his wound as Kyuubi looked on disinterestedly.
"Get up, it's not that deep"
Kyuubi would have ignored him some more had the water around him not begun to bleed red.
"…Dammit." Kyuubi cursed as he began to heal Naruto's wounds. This had been going on for long enough. It seemed like every other week Naruto was beaten within an inch of his life and Kyuubi always had to clean up the mess lest he die along with the blond brat.
"Damn the Fourth Hokage, Damn the Uchiha -" Naruto groaned and rolled over as Kyuubi's charka began to take effect. Unfortunately the relief was short lived- the villagers began to attack him with renewed vigor when they saw his wounds healing.
"And Damn this village!" Kyuubi growled stopping the healing process for a moment to think of a new course of action. If he healed Naruto, they'd just keep attacking him, so the only option seemed to be to get him away from the villagers.
"No place in Konoha will be safe tonight… or any other night for that matter. And even if he were to go to another village, he'd just be sent back. It has to as far away from the elemental countries as possible…" With that Kyuubi began to summon up as much of his charka as he could without killing Naruto. He'd teleport them as far away as he was able while healing the most life threatening of his wounds.
'And damn that shinigami too' he thought before everything went black.
