Chapter 2

In hindsight, perhaps it was a foolish thing to do. After all, what could he hope to accomplish that a village full of super-assassins couldn't accomplish?

But it was the sounds of the dying crying out as they were being massacred that led him to his current situation. Here he was, running at full speed down the streets of Konoha, hoping to see what was transpiring as he rounded each corner. "Where are they?" Bruce questioned.

Finally, after one more bend in the streets, Bruce found himself face to maw with a mountain-sized fox. To say he went pale would be a gross understatement. The small man backpedaled a few steps, only to bump a wall. The fox took another step forward, crushing several buildings as it threatened the man's existence.

"Human, you reek of chakra, yet you have such a small pool," the giant east noted, its eyes spinning with three tomoe as it was being controlled.

Bruce shook his head as he stared on in fear. "I-I... I d-don't know what you're talking about," he tried, feigning innocence.

"It doesn't matter, I'm still going to eat you, pathetic worm." True to its words the fox moved to snap its jaw closed around Bruce.

What the fox failed to notice were the eyes of Bruce widening before flashing green. The next thing the village saw and the fox knew was a man pushing its teeth wide open. "Hulk not food! GGRRAAW!" the green, muscle-bound man cried as he forced the tightening jaws open and leaped to the ground.

The nine-tailed fox looked on in disbelief at the man now on the ground. "Impossible! No one is that strong!" Kyuubi declared as he gathered yin and yang chakra from the air, creating a Bijudama (tailed-beast bomb – This attack creates an orb of unrivaled destructive force by absorbing yin and yang chakra, focusing it and releasing it as a single burst).

"Die, human!" Kyuubi challenged as he let loose a blast of black light, cutting a swath through the village and the forest behind the green man. With a smirk the beast observed the massive amount of damage it had inflicted on the village.

That was until it made out a tiny dot in the distance coming closer with several leaps and bounds. "No... It can't be," Kyuubi asked in disbelief, Several villagers paused in their attacks, not that any could cause even the slightest damage to Kyuubi, as they felt the ground vibrate.

Many ninja looked up, but most looked around, aimlessly for the source. Suddenly, with the force of a small earthquake, the green man landed between them and the Kyuubi, glaring with hatred. "Hulk the strongest one there is!" he challenged before letting loose a primal roar that shook the nearby houses, shattering a few windows.

The Kyuubi swiped at the man, only to have its paw caught by both hands of the green man. "HULK SMASH!" he thundered as he actually hefted the giant monstrosity in the air and spun the Kyuubi several times before throwing it to the treeline in the distance.

Not letting up for a moment, the green man leaped high into the sky, ripping through the air with the sheer force of his muscles. The ninja all pulled back, watching in awe as a single man was fighting toe-to-toe with the Kyuubi, and appeared to be winning!

Hulk came down with ten tons of force on top of the Kyuubi's head, forcing the fox to bow. "Hulk no like fox!" he informed as he delivered a powerful one-two combo into the ribs of the demon.

Kyuubi roared in challenge and sent its nine tails at the Hulk, sneering as the man dodged several swipes. The ones that did land were hard enough to cut swathes out of the mountainside. "DIIIEEE!" Kyuubi roared as he sent flames from his breath at the over-sized man.

Hulk rushed headlong, running right into and through the flames, ignoring the licks and uppercut the fox, sending it on top of its back. The fox quickly got back to its feet and swiped a paw at the man, knocking him end over end across the entire surface of the mountain and down the other side back into the village.

Kyuubi began to laugh at the overwhelming show of force he had to resort to when he saw the green man push the debris of a fallen building off of himself before clambering to his feet. "Owww... You hurt Hulk! Hulk no like you the most! GGGRRRRAAAWWWW!" the man threatened as he charged forward, fist cocked back, telegraphing his punch as he raced over the mountain peak.

The Kyuubi, his attention fully devoted to the man attacking him, never saw Minato flash through the handseals for his sealing technique, neither did he see the Shinigami appear until it was too late. Just as the chakra-construct was readying for another Bijuudama he felt himself being tugged into the belly of a little blonde baby.

"What? No! This isn't fair!" Kyuubi griped as it felt itself being dragged into the navel, all of its power being drained from the outside world. He felt himself ripped in half and watched as half of his power was sealed within Minato. 'I see... So the Namikaze was jealous of his woman the whole time?' Kyuubi thought ruefully.

His thoughts were sidetracked when he watched the green man punch the Shinigami right in the face and actually send it flying back, crashing into a building, destroying it. For a moment the fox actually smiled, just as the last of its energy was locked away inside of the blonde baby, Kushina's child. 'Poetic Justice? I hate it,' the Kyuubi thought darkly of his situation.

Just as The Shinigami regained its footing, it grabbed the green man and dragged him into the belly of a random child in the village. "Damn upstarts! Always think they can fight me?" the god of death stated as he dispersed, taking Minato's soul and body with him.

Kushina looked up at the death god, waiting to be taken as well. However it merely vanished, leaving her alive. "W-what the hell? But, I'm supposed to die too! After all, the Kyuubi was dragged out of me, and ripped my chakra network to shreds," she groused, feeling her body already repairing itself. It wasn't quite as fast as it normally would have been, but it was certainly faster than the average ninja healed.

Elsewhere, on the other side of the village a little baby boy wailed, angry at life for giving him lemons. He was already a year old but even now, no one could sense his chakra networks, and no one could tell he would ever become a ninja. It was as his parents', both mother and father, breathed their last breath that the Shinigami's arm reached through the rubble, plucked him out, repaired his body and placed a seal on his abdomen, sealing the green man within.

"Next time you get out, you won't be attacking me. Will ya, jolly green giant?" he asked in a condescending tone, receiving guttural roars in reply.

The boy cried louder, allowing a search and recovery team to locate and save him. The ninja in a mask noted the seal on his belly before it faded away. He assumed he had imagined it and left it out of his report.

AN:

Thanks for reading this short story. I just wanted to write a fight between Kyuubi and The Hulk. I can't say the Hulk would have won as the Kyuubi never runs out of energy. But, no one can deny the Hulk is the strongest brawler ever devised. I mean he plucked jets out of the sky and uses them as bats. He takes full force missiles to the chest and keeps coming. And if that's not bad ass enough, he can leap an entire town in a single jump.

I recall as a child once hearing that Hulk is estimated to leap up to 8 miles at a time. He can go as high as low earth orbit, and he weighs several tons. He's pure muscle, refined and unadulterated. He has the mind of a petulant child and wants things his way.

I thought the scene with the death god getting a sucker punch was priceless. If I continue this story it will be as another arc. Any way, Rate and Review...

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