Bloodlust filled me, an all-consuming rage for the puny being who chained me in this helpless form turning my eyes a malevolent red. I screamed, inhumanly, a baby's wail echoed throughout the cavern.

"The fox must die," they whispered, I laughed, how insolent these humans, to think they control me.

A white-haired man stepped into my vision, long sword gleaming in the candlelight. "Minato," he whispered in the dead quiet, "forgive me".

Blood spurted from an innocent child.

Words echoed from a future lost

I will save you from the pain

Save me...

Save me...

Naru--