Writers: HmmYaoi and Flightless Bird

Disclaimers: Neither own it, if we did, there would be snow in hell

Warnings: Yaoi,

Pairings: Itanaru and open poll

Rating: M

Summary: After making a deal with his inner demons Naruto is forced to go back to his genin days and learn control once more. But this time a very different kind of person will be showing him how to control himself.


Fire and Ice:

Chapter 1:

Change


Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice

-Robert Frost


The steady dripping of water falling onto hard earth resonated around the large room filled with cloaked figures. All these figures were facing a hologram of a certain hyperactive blond. Smooth skin held tightly onto a perfect frame as the blond stretched his muscles, shirtless, and alone.

Such an easy target if not for the one problem the cloaked figures were facing...

Who would go get him?

The figures remained on one side of the pool of water, there but not really. The blond couldn't feel, hear, nor sense them. But it didn't mean his tenant couldn't. As the teen turned an illusion formed, a lithe creature with bloody hair and matching eyes glared at them,

"STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!"

The group stepped back; they rightly feared the beast that lurked beneath childish eyes. Pein wondered if they would ever be able to extract let alone control such a monster that could feel and communicate with people that weren't there. The illusion flickered as the boy walked away from the group, oblivious to his onlookers. The monster continued to look at them as it died away,

"I am going to hunt you down, and send you to hell."

There was heavy silence as the blond slowly exited from view, taking the demon with him. An awkward silence followed as the light from the illusion died. Finally one member decided to break it, "Itachi can get it."

--

"I'll kill you!" Kyuubi roared behind his locked gate doors as Naruto, unknown to him, started swaying his hips,

"Yes Kyuubi you will come and kill me and in the process kill yourself. What an excellent plan!" Anyone could hear the amusement in the blonde's tone.

Hissing in frustration Kyuubi put himself on guard to, once again, bump against the gate. As he did so though there was an odd feeling of being watched. Not the feeling that someone outside Naruto was watching him, but inside.

As Naruto disappeared, sinking into the water, a sign that he was conscious again, Kyuubi looked around the watery prison. In the corner a figure leaned against the way, its shiny pearly eyes fixed on him.

"What would a nightmare be doing here? Go back to the shadows you scum of a broken mind!' The creature stepped forwards, it was a silhouette of a human, but that was all. A matching pearly smile reached its lips, a sound like shattered glass reached the demon's ears,

'But dearest demon, the shadows have already come this far' it pointed to the dark corner from where it came, darkness swirled, and Kyuubi narrowed its eyes. This did not bode well.

Suddenly everything started to shake as the darkness stretched its way toward the entrance that the blond had left in, forming a hand like structure as it crept along. A small bit of panic pulled at Kyuubi as he knew what would happen if his Jinchuuriki allowed the darkness in his mind.

Kyuubi really didn't want to spend quality time with the hyperactive blond...ever! Growling he turned his crimson eyes to the nightmare and stuck his tails though the bars, the water bubbling as the hot fur glided over it.

The nightmare snickered and jumped backwards, away from the oncoming tails. His pearl teeth gleamed in the light as the water around them lowered a few inches. "There's no point demon your vessel will fall to the darkness!"

Ice shot forwards in retaliation, the Nightmare howled in insane laughter. Kyuubi flinched, he may be cruel and sadist creature, the list going on with such things, but truly insane was not one of them. The nightmare started forwards.

"Every Jinchuuriki cannot handle the darkness on their own. He has kept to himself every since his best friend, and secret crush tried to kill him!" The shadow continued to laugh.

'He will come to me, considering what you mean to him.' It sneered,

The nearly blinding rage in Kyuubi's tone caused even the nightmare to shudder with the tiniest ounce of fear. "Do not touch my vessel filth!"

It took a moment before the nightmare was able to control itself. When it did it snickered and started laughing like a mad man. Control took it longer to gain before he said, with a snobby tone, "As if you can do anything to me demon." It laughed again, "You can't even get out of your seal!"

Kyuubi howled and rammed against the bars of his cage, spitting out curses in demon tongue. The nightmare grinned wider if it was possible,

"I, however, am only contained within the mind!" There was a pulling sensation and the young blond boy appeared, looking confused and dazed,

"Wha-" the boy looked around, immediately seeing Kyuubi's anger and the Nightmare. Turning towards it, he was quick to ask,

"Who are you?!" The room groaned and the water level in the room rose.

Bowing the shadow smiled, as warming as being stark naked in the Land of Snow, "I have no name, but I have a offer, an offer to give you the power to bring back your dear one." It stretched out his hand,

"No! Boy, do not listen to it! Whatever he offers I will double it!"

Naruto looked at the fox in shock, the Kyuubi, destroyer of anything, was offering him twice the power that this nightmare was offering? "Uh..." There was no answer for him to say. As much as he wanted power, would it be morally right for him to take it from another source?

The Nightmare snorted, "I am not another source dearest child. I am more apart of you than that hulking beast." Its glass eyes flickered towards its competition. Naruto shifted, if that was true, why was Kyuubi so furious. As much as he hated the monster it seemed frightened, but still-

"Why can't I choose both? It would be more of an advantage to me then." Naruto wrapped his mind around the idea; it was like turning both of them down without saying anything. He doubted they would work together.

The nightmare looked at the fox while the fox looked at the nightmare both their faces shadowing surprise at the blonde's idea. In actuality it wouldn't be hard to do that but the problem would be if the Jinchuuriki would be able to control the power.

"Brat I'm willing to work with this nightmare if you want." Surprised the nightmare nodded weakly in agreement.

Why was it that his idea's always seemed to end up working? Naruto felt like he was going to be frozen from the shock of them agreeing to work together, "Really?"

The Nightmare nodded, overcoming its initial shock, "Yes," It said smoothly, Naruto felt temptation writher inside him in the darker corners of his mind like snakes wanting to warm under the sun. The Nightmare inwardly smirked, it could feel it.

"O-Okay." Naruto nodded, the Nightmare howled in glee, Kyuubi shifted,

"You sure, you won't be able to turn back." Naruto nodded again,

"I am Naruto Uzumaki and I never go back on my word!" The Nightmare snorted, Naruto turned towards him,

"Let's see if you can keep that promise shall we?" The monster lunged towards Naruto, at the same time ripping the seal off of the Kyuubi's cage. Soon Naruto was overcome by the beasts.

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Itachi walked ever so slowly as he felt the chakra of Naruto's start to grow, in an unusual way. Almost like someone were giving the blond the chakra. There was an odd flavor to the wind, nearly that of fire burning everything. It had to be Kyuubi who was giving Naruto this power, nothing else could fuel the Jinchuuriki like the Bijū could.

But there was a frozen taste in the air. It made Itachi's insides lurch and bile try to climb his way up his throat. After at a moment of hesitation he crossed the distance to where he could see the blond. Itachi's eyes widened as a burst of dark black chakra blasted through the woods. That was defiantly not Kyuubi.

Looking at the blond he felt the bile climb higher. He was standing in a large crater. White eyes stared at the starry sky in wonder and pain. The blonde hair had grown out and whipped around his body like the chakra. Black and red burn markings began to cover the body. His body was arched, his mouth open in a soundless scream.

It was the sight of a beautiful angel going through hell by disobeying the lord above. The sight sickened him to no end but he was an Uchiha, he would not throw up with or without someone watching. It would disgrace his pride to let anyone see that. So he kept his mouth shut tight and his eyes locked on the writhing blond.

The black chakra whipped a few more times before it was replaced with a red one, this one not wrapping itself around the blond but enveloping his body. The pain on his face was so obvious that Itachi felt the need to stop this pain, to help the little blond. But once again pride kept him in place.

He would not help the blond while the chakra burned him alive.

Slowly the chakra ebbed away. Leaving hell's love and Heaven's scorn behind, long golden hair, and pale skin adored the fallen and cast out angel. The markings on his cheeks were darker, and deeper. Long sharp deadly claws adorned his hands.

The boy knelt down, and weakly put his head on the scarred ground.

Then the screaming started.

Writhing once more in pain the blonde's hands gripped at hair, pulling at it as a high buzzing sound echoed in his ears causing everything to go blurry. There was no end to the pain as the buzzing grew more and more until finally it threatened to explode and split his head open.

The insane laughter in his head was growing louder and louder as the pain continued to burn a hole in his mind. There were no words to describe the pain and how much the blond wanted to kill himself in that second.

Itachi himself watched in horror as he saw the blond losing more and more of his sanity to the chakra inside him. Every second that he just stood there the more likely that the blond would turn into a monster and kill everything in its path.

Including him...

Silent as a ghost the raven reached into his cloak and pulled out a lone kunai and a paper bomb. It had worked against Shukaku so perhaps it would work against Kyuubi as well.

Quickly Itachi wrapped the bomb over the handle and threw in so it landed a few yards away from the blond who didn't seem to notice at all. With a lone hand sign he shot a bit of his own chakra at the metal and ducked behind the tree.

The explosion should've rocked the land, but there wasn't much left of it anymore. As the smoke cleared the blond lay passed out. Itachi smirked, Itachi: 1 Insane charka: 0.

As he began to move forwards, he felt Jiraiya's chakra flare and dash towards them. Narrowing his eyes, Itachi recounted the points, and added a player. Itachi: 1, Insane Chakra: 0 and Jiraiya: 1. Damn, no one would have ever thought that Uchiha's kept score but they did. And they remembered every number.

Silently, and inwardly cursing the raven took a step back. Jiraiya would help the kid now, and he will watch. Watching until the boy is stable, and then steal him away in the night.

With a hint of a smirk the raven released what little chakra he wished to use and blended into the environment around, his ruby eyes never once leaving the blonde's trembling body.


Now a word from the writers:

Flightless AN: Like never done before, or dared. I, me, muwa, and HmmYaoi are co-authoring! That means we switch writing every other paragraph, or half page. Any who, there is an open poll for other pairings. So cast your vote, and we will see if we can hint and/or slide it in like sneaky authoresses do. Ha, Authoresses is a funny word to type…..

HmmYaoi: Awesome readers!!!!!! xD i thank you all for choosing this fic to read and hope u like it and look forward to and update. Now my partner, Flightless Bird -FLY-CHAN!- and i plan this being itanaru and will do our best to keep with ur expectations.