(A/N) This is Lumenatrum speaking (writing) and here with my latest chapter for Spiral Tailed. Before we start I would like to thank the subscribers and reviewers that popped up the first couple days after I posted this story and it's first two chapters. Honestly, didn't think there would be such a fast response. You guys helped get me restarted with this.
Now I will move onto a question for my readers. Those of you who know what cuss words are allowed in a teen rated story PM them to me. If not you guys will have to suffer through a lot of covered curses. You know like f****, that way I won't be booted off for not abiding to the terms. I don't do this as torture just a way to keep the teen rating.
Before the disclaimer quick fact: since I am not too sure of the age of Tayuya she will be a year older than Naruto, who should be around thirteen around this point. If you disagree on the age of either or both it is a little late since when I have posted this it will be final. Plus since a child having a relationship with someone who is considered an adult is creepy to me. Sorry.
Disclaimer: Really, I am not saying I own Naruto, if that was the case then why post on a fanfiction site? Cat got your tongue? Thought so.
Sandpaper the bumps off and…there you go. A new chapter.
Feral Red
Naruto dragged his heavy feet on the ground as he walked back to Konoha. He learned something about the Kyuubi's chakra today: unless he already expended his charka, his resident's will drain it. Or something like that, he wasn't the best at analysis. If he could he would have the brains at Konoha or at least Shikamaru come up with a reason. But the thought of the explanation was enough to wreak the idea all together.
Really, how was he so dumb? He accepted an agreement with one of the most notorious demons in his land. That alone was dumb, but he did it to save a supposed friend. What a waste, even if in reality he saved himself from imprisonment. He would have murdered the Uchiha, and ended it, if he knew what was brought with this whole ordeal. He probably would not have even accepted the mission.
Naruto sighed; it sounded more of a moan. All these changes were wearing him down. The seal was fully broken, his out look on his friends had changed, he was out one person he thought as a brother, and the Kyuubi started messing with his mind. It was all too much, for someone of his age and inexperience as a full-fledged shinobi. But were the changes going to stop? A gut feeling told him not in a great time. He hoped his gut was wrong, even so he felt like yelling at the top of his voice at everything. Like many who are trapped do.
Within a second of when he felt like yelling, he heard a cry holding the same feeling as his. The same trapped feeling. When he went to investigate, he had no idea how literal the feeling was.
Being the ninja he was, Naruto was able to pinpoint the relative location of the cry. What he found when he got there was more than just surprising. Naruto didn't know what the name of the state he was in nor could he describe it. A giant section of the forest he was in not an hour ago was a lumberyard. Trees and other forest foliage were twisted upon the ground, cut as if by blade. Shikamaru was in this forest, probably the voice. But then Naruto corrected himself; the voice was too high pitched for it to be Shikamaru's. That is, unless Shikamaru screamed like a girl, which would be hilarious and fun to tell the others.
So he searched, since even if it wasn't him the thought still made him forget the day's events. He turned over tree trunks and other things that were now the forest's floor. When he heard a soft breath behind him, he turned around and encountered something that probably was the least of his expectations. He found a girl, a redheaded one to be specific, with her lower body trapped under a log. She was unconscious and seemed to look extremely familiar to Naruto. He couldn't place just where he seen her but in any circumstance he went to help her anyway. He walked up to the log crushing the lower half of the girl; he summoned some clones and some of his strength. With surprisingly little effort by Naruto, the log was launched in the air.
Naruto couldn't help but be very intrigued by the now flying log. When it hit the ground, snapping several others of trees on the ground, Naruto finally shouted. Things were still changing; he thought it odd that only yesterday he would have been shouting for joy. The stress the day brought on him had modified his thoughts on everything. He wished that something ordinary would happen, fast. But he didn't know he woke his damsel in distress.
"Hey f******* loudmouth! Quiet the hell down, I'm f******* dieing here!" A womanly voice shouted at him. Naruto looked to the origin of the shout, finding the same girl he had just saved laying on the ground. Her eyes seemed to spew anger, all of it directed at him. After a moment of silence Naruto finally processed her words. "Why the hell are you yelling at me?! I am the one who just saved you!" he yelled back. "Yeah thanks a f****** lot d***head! Now let me lay here, without you shouting and breaking the f****** sound barrier!" she spat back. She had a comforting sleep in her unconsciousness. But the thud of the log and Naruto's shout happening in succession snapped her from it. But Naruto overlooked that possibility, and again shouted, "At least you can be grateful! Damn is every girl I meet a b****?" he asked the last part to himself. But in his fury he picked a word best left unsaid near a woman. "What was that f****r! Did you just-" Without finishing her sentence the girl hit his shin with her good hand. Naruto fell back in pain, gripping his leg. His back hit a log lying behind him; whip lashing his head and knocking him out.
"Loser." The girl scoffed under his breath as Naruto was slipping into his mindscape.
There he was in the corridor-room that heralded the Kyuubi's cage. The Kyuubi still lying in the center, curled like a cat resting. If it wasn't so damn big it might of looked, not scary. Cute was to far a word for this fox. "What is wrong boy, girl trouble?" the fox boomed, and then snickered at its own words. Naruto was taken aback; he wondered how the fox knew. It must have showed on his face cause the fox then said, "I can see what you see. We are in a connection right now as I'm not in my cage." There was a pause, "You yelling is refreshing you know that." Sarcasm was dripping from the last statement. Naruto noticed and got irritated, but wasn't going to shout for that was what the fox wanted; he just knew it.
"So what do you want? Or did you want to point that out to?" Naruto said venom in his voice. Things got quiet after that, although it put off Naruto it allowed him to reflect upon what happened only a little bit ago. At first he was wondering on the strength that manifested when he picked up the log. He must have thrown it more than a couple yards in the air, which in itself is amazing for anybody. Then the girl made her way into his mind. He didn't know why but there was something about her. It plagued him, what was it about her? He just couldn't place it, and it irritated him.
Laughter boomed in front of Naruto, the sound coming from the fox. It looked on the verge of tears in front of him. Naruto was puzzled as to why the beastly demon was laughing. The fox then answered his thoughts, "You, boy, are what I'm laughing at! You're such a simpleton; really leave it to you to not know your own feelings." Naruto became more pissed as the fox talked "What are you getting at?" The fox just laughed harder, it almost wheezing as it laughed. "I'm obviously suggesting something boy. If you get it I will not dub you as king of imbeciles. Although as the most likly canidate this should just give you a headache, now shouldn't it."
Naruto sat there for a while; digging deep into what the Kyuubi might be getting at before it came to him. "What the hell you bastard! Why are you suggesting that.?!" The Kyuubi smirked; this was getting fun for it. "Well boy, if it came to you then you must have thought about it. Right?" It stressed the last word a lot. Naruto couldn't get a come back for that, he was stuck with the fox taunting him. His face turned bright red, and he spoke above a whisper, "Shut up." he cursed himself for the childish retort. His anger peaked and feed up with the beast Naruto yelled, "I'm not going to take this from a trapped animal!" with that said Naruto left.
Again a low chuckle was heard bellowing from the demon. It held a feeling of it getting a helpful surprise. "Well now as soon as I'm out I will have my first minion." It laughed again but this time more manically than what was previous. "Good, good, an underling of a psychopath is easier to convert that anyone in Konoha."He decided to give Naruto a little gift that may come in handy, mostly for his own gain. But Naruto will just see it as a helping hand. And besides this will just help in the plan.
The girl sat there staring at the unconscious Naruto. She was debating with herself about just what Naruto's motives were. Where she grew up everything anybody did were for personal gain. Even while she was in Oto, especially when she was in Oto it was an eye for an eye. So what was the kid's motive, then she got a look at his headband.
A leaf of course, really it was dumb of her not to see it before. It was there on his head, displayed to the world. He wanted to take her for questioning, for her and her team's little extortion of the Uchiha. She was, in fact, still in their territory. The boy was probably trying to get some medal for capturing an enemy.
Then she took another good look at the boy. He seemed familiar, then she saw it. He was that brat trying to get that Uchiha back. She remembered him running after Kimimaru when he took the Uchiha after calling her and her teammates failures and promising to come back and kill her. The boy was still alive after having a run in with Kimimaru? She shook the thought, crazy maybe he had a twin. Yeah even if it had its holes the theory made more sense than Kimimaru being defeated by a genin by the looks of it.
Naruto started to stir, yawning as the came to. As he woke up, he remembered how he fell asleep. He scratched the back of his head in remembrance, the fall hurt. He then focused on the girl; she was staring directly at him. In reflex from the attention he turned away and blushed when the words of the Kyuubi replayed in his head.
But the girl took it a different way, and got pissed. "Hey! It was your fault in the first place! Really, is b**** a word to say to a lady!" Her anger rising as she went on. Naruto recoiled in surprise, he felt as though that came out of nowhere. Naruto was about to start yelling again, but better judgement told him other wise. The looked down, and said the two most overused words ever. "I'm sorry." But they seemed to work for the girl, so he continued. "I haven't had the best day today. Really way too much has happened happened to me and I sort of took out my anger on you." Naruto looked away again as the girl seemed to take the apology to account.
"Fine you bastard. I accept the apology. Now leave." She said curtly. She didn't want to here what the leaf ninja had to say. But Naruto stayed there, looking at her funny. He stood there just staring at her with a look fixed on her face that said 'are you crazy'. Then he made an observation, "You won't be able to walk with those legs."
"Oh really." she replied with words filled with sarcasm.
"You need help?" Naruto offered
"You're a medic nin?"
"No but I can take you to my village and we'll go to the hospital"
Before she could refuse, Naruto picked her up on his back. The sudden movement caused a surge of pain to shot through her body. Being in the position she was she ended up screaming into the young blonde's ear. Which caused him to jerk, which sent more pain to course through and make her scream again.
Not wanting the girl to yell again he gently let her down on the ground. He got up close to examine her legs. But that ended up with him being knocked on the head by her for being so close. He was going to yell but the pain in his head set in making him flinch. He was about to say something but the girl beat him to the punch.
"You dumba**ed clumsy bastard! Really, you couldn't give me a damn warning! My legs were under a damn tree! You think I'm ready to go piggyback! You're a dips***, really you are!"
"Fine! Damn, you could use better language you know!" he answered back. He then knelt down to pick her up again. This time bridal-style, only she punched him in the chest and knocked him to the ground after he was up. "It still hurt dips***!" she yellled again. He laid there with her on his chest constricting his lungs.
But then his head started to hurt; he was about to blame her when he felt something close to what he felt after his fight with Kimimaru. He started to remember foreign information. Oddly enough they were healing techniques. Guided by the false-true memories, he again gently set her down and focused his chakra to her legs.
Hone saisei no jutsu
At that moment the girl's pain settled, although it still felt broken. This kid was good, and a liar, but still needed to work on his tech. But still he was a liar, and she hated being lied to. With her now almost healed legs she tripped him, she could get past the pain.
"What the hell was that for?!" he yelled
"You're a f****** liar! That is what that was for." She mocked him at the end. "You said you were not a medic nin!"
"I'm not, it just is part of the weirdness of today."
She then looked down, she was wondering why he was helping him. She then voiced it, "Why the hell are you helping me."
"I don't know but I help those in need and right know you are in need. So, I guess that is why I'm helping you."
The girl decided to take advantage of the fact that the boy didn't remember her. "Then can you help me." She asked as innocently as she can. Naruto was more than a bit put off by the sudden change but decided to do what he can. "So what do you want?" She decided to lay it on with this one. She pouted her lips and made a pleading face, "I need a place to hide, can you help me with that?" She would have not asked him that if she didn't think he was a total imbesile, which she did.
"Sure" was the simple answer. "What is your name?"
"Tayuya." She didn't ask him his name, but that didn't stop him. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki! Nice to meet you Tayuya. I promise to hide you, and I never break my promises."
Naruto picked her up bridal style again. "So where do you come from Tayuya?"
Something in her head told her to tell him the truth. "Oto" she answered simply with a toothy smirk. Although afterwards she regretted ever saying it.
But Naruto did nothing as if it wasn't a problem. The only thing that when through Naruto's head was that he made a promise and he planed to keep it. He smiled in a toothy smirk and said, "Ah, I hate that place." and chuckled afterwards.
Then Naruto commented to himself that he felt as though he just used the Kyuubi's chakra again. But he shirked it off right now he had to worry about getting Tayuya across the Konoha boarder wall.
Inside Naruto's mindscape the Kyuubi chuckled deeply again. "Good, test complete. This will be very good."
Chapter End
(A/N)Chapter three down and it was more of a cliffhanger. Kinda, well for those of you who want an explanation for some things…here
Hone saisei no jutsu (technique of bone regeneration/ but don't fully believe it all the way it wasn't a good translating site.)
Just a little earlier Tayuya was taken over by the Kyuubi. I was because it was making Naruto subconsciously channel its charka into her. So she would agree and it could test something. As you can see.
For those of you who don't like Naruto/Tayuya the warning was in the first chapter. I tried to make the first meeting more real but time and the end of a day of typing made this ending. Still hope you like it. Hope to hear from you. And don't be afraid to ask question. If the answer won't spoil anything I'll answer it.
With that…later.
