Make Me Feel ALIVE

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Demon Speech

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Chapter 3: The Secret's out

"Hokage-sama we have something urgent to report." An Anbu shouted as he suddenly appeared in Sarutobi's office. The aged Hokage face became grim if this was something that had his best soldiers in such a state the new could not be good.

"What is it Weasel?" Sarutobi asked.

"While Hare and I were doing our morning sweep we reached the edge of the residential district and came upon the sight of multiple dead bodies." Sarutobi visibly paled for something like this to happen security was slipping. "Upon closer inspection several were impaled through the chest. A dozen more were flattened against the street and one man was decapitated and when Hare found his head in had multiple punctures in one side."

"Is there any way to trace back the culprit to the offense," Sarutobi asked.

Weasel nodded, "When I activated my Sharingan there was chakra residue all over the area… red chakra." The moment Weasel said that Sarutobi's world froze as he came to the conclusion. "Naruto…" Sarutobi whispered. "Weasel get me Yamato as soon as possible this an emergency." Sarutobi commanded and with that the Anbu was gone.

"Yamato what's in the box," Naruto asked his tone lacking any enthusiasm. Yamato paused before opening up the box to reveal a pair wrist bracers, a pair of shin guards, and one sleeveless chainmail shirt.

"Armor," Naruto stated.

"Sort of kid. While these are used for armor in reality these are weight." Yamato handed Naruto the bags of clothing before flipping one of wrist bracers over to show a small seal on the underside. "That little seal adjust the weight depending on your chakra levels. If you need to drop the weight you just pump a little chakra into the seals on the Armor."

Yamato snapped his finger and chuckled," That reminds me the owner wanted me to tell you that all the clothes in his store are unique. By channeling chakra into them they adjust size to fit you, dry if wet, or add a constant flow chakra they produce heat to keep you warm on a colder mission. Also this isn't always used due to the chakra required but if you add a lot they repair damage done to them."

Naruto nodded, "That makes since."

Upon reaching the house Yamato opened the door only to be stopped by an Anbu. "Hokage-sama requests you presence immediately." Yamato nodded while turning to Naruto, "Make yourself some instant ramen to snack on I'll be home as soon as possible." With that said Yamato and the Anbu disappeared.

Sarutobi sighed as Yamato and Weasel both appeared in the room. This conversation would not be easy. "Thank you Weasel you are dismissed." Sarutobi paused as the Anbu exited the room. "Yamato some drastic news has been reported to me concerning Naruto. It seems that last night Naruto killed multiple civilians using the Kyuubi's chakra. Now while I doubt the boy did this unjustly that doesn't mean the situation can be dismissed."

"Your right Hokage-sama but what do you intend to do about?" Yamato asked

"There will be a council meeting to discuss the incident later on today. In all honesty I expect them to have me revoke the law about Naruto's status as a jinjuriki if not demand the boy's death. While I can convince them to let the boy live I will probably have to compromise and remove the law."

"You want me to stop him don't you Hokage-sama. You want me to kill him if he kills again don't you." The aged ninja sighed. "I thought so in all honesty if Naruto was attacked and killed those people in self-defense I can't punish and if he's attacked and kills his attackers I won't be aiding them."

Sarutobi glared and stood from his chair, "You forget your place soldier. If I tell you to stop the boy attacks you will do such."

Yamato met Sarutobi's glare with one of his own, "With all due respect Hokage-sama I can't in good conscience hurt my little brother for defending himself. If he attacks first I'll handle him but unless that occurs the fools in this village will receive NO help from me. They created their own monster and it's their problem. Good afternoon sir." With that said Yamato exited the office slamming the door as he left.

Sarutobi slumped back into his chair, "Things in the village have just made a horrible turn for the worse. I'm sorry Minato I failed to save your son and now he's started on a path to become the thing that you tried to save this village from."

The Village counsel sat patiently as the third Hokage entered the room with a sullen expression on his face. Many had been surprised when their leader had called for an unexpected meeting. Now they waited to hear what had brought out this summoning.

"Council members I bought you here to address an incident that occurred last night. One five year old Naruto Uzumaki was attacked by a mob of villages for unknown reason. In self-defense the boy unleashed some of the Kyuubi's chakra to brutally massacre his attackers." Sarutobi said while gauging the reaction of the counsel's reaction. He was unsurprised when the civilian members immediately began calling for the boy's death but to his shock a majority of the clan heads also demanded the boy be executed. In fact the only people not demanding the boy be killed were the Aburame, Hyuuga, Nara, Akimichi, and Yamanaka even Danzou and his old teammates wanted Naruto finished.

"Enough, Naruto won't be killed due for several reasons." Sarutobi stated angering a vast majority of the counsel.

"What reasons do you have to keep it alive after the beast has showed its true colors." Tsume Inuzuka shouted.

"First the boy will be an extremely valuable asset to the ninja force once trained, second his actions were in self-defense, and finally the only single person capable of killing Naruto refuses to do so. I also remember part of our deal was that Yamato would not be required to kill Naruto." Sarutobi replied thinking the last part.

"Well if that is the case your law regarding it should be nullified. If for nothing else it will protect our children from the demon." A tall member of the civilian counsel demanded.

Sarutobi cringed. The fact that everybody seemed intent referring Naruto as demon and beast and the fact that he had been dead on in his assumption was slightly unsettling, even for him. "Fine my law will from this point on is nullified. Naruto's status as jinjuriki, from this point on, is open to the public. Meeting dismissed."

Naruto looked at the mirror. With his new outfit on he was pretty intimidating. The boy glared at the mirror and drew out some Kyuubi's chakra. "Now if they want to call me a demon I can show them a demon." Naruto mumbled to himself. Naruto looked at the weights in the box. "Might as well."

Naruto then proceeded to take off his shirt and jacket and put on the chain-mail shirt. Replacing his shirt and jacket Naruto added his wrist bracers and shin guards. For a moment the boy thought they were defective but then his body almost collapsed at the sudden weight added to his person. "Wow it feels like somebody dropped a ton on me."

"Well the weights tend to increase while you sleep because that is when chakra is recovered and capacity is increased. So this is the only time you'll feel such an increase in weight during waking times. Also don't ever take those weights off. It's more effective that way." Yamato said coming into view behind Naruto. Naruto nodded and Yamato both walked into the living room.

"Naruto there is something I need to ask you." Naruto nodded so Yamato continued. "What happened last night with the mob?"

"I killed them and I know about the Kyuubi." Naruto replied simply leaving Yamato shocked. The boy had just answered the question like they were talking something like the weather. Yamato paused for a moment longer to collect himself before continuing. "Well there was a law preventing people to talk about you and the Kyuubi. Cause of murder incident that law about talking about you being a host will be dropped. Now making friends will be near impossible."

"I don't have friends now. I doubt I will need or want them so can we just start training." Naruto answered. Yamato nodded hesitantly. "Naruto… why couldn't I have been there to protect him, then none of this mess would have ever happen."

"Alright this it's kind of late I will start you off with taijutsu and physical training. Every morning I want you to sprint five laps around the village. Once you're finished I want you to do one hundred push-ups, two hundred sit-ups, and two-hundred squats. Once you finish that we will work on the taijutsu form in this scroll. Right start your laps." Yamato said as he pointed at a path frequently used by taijutsu experts to run around the entire village. Naruto nodded before taking off down the path.

Naruto sighed, "These stupid weights make this impossible." The young blonde was only in his second lap and it had taken him a couple of hours already. In fact the blonde was so immersed in his mental ranting he didn't notice the person walking in his path him until he ran into them. The with Naruto's greater speed the collision resulted in the Naruto to fall on top of the person. Naruto brought from his shocked looked to see he was currently on top of a girl around his age with lavender eyes that had no visible pupils. Naruto was about to say something when a voice shouted out, "The demon's attacking the Hyuuga heiress!" Within in moments the two children were surrounded by mob so large that Naruto was surprised he didn't notice all the people in the area.

Getting up slowly Naruto glanced around him to see how many people there were. "Leave me alone." He growled. His voice caused a few people to back off but a man with to triangles under his eyes smirked. "The fox has finally grown a little back bone. That's interesting but I hate to inform you I'm one of the best chunin of Inuzuka so you're going to die demon brat." The crowd cheer for the man's threat and he smirked. "Now demon, DIE!" the man shouted throwing a handful of kunai and shuriken at Naruto. Suddenly tails of Kyuubi's chakra shot from Naruto's lower back and blocked all the projectiles leaving a stunned crowd.

"I warned you." Naruto said with a sadistic grin painted on his face. Naruto shot his arm forward and a chakra arm extended out capturing the stunned ninja. "Now fool, DIE." Naruto closed his hand causing the chakra extension to mimic him. The group looked to see a puff of smoke and Naruto chakra hand enclosed around a crushed log. "Cheap trick, come face me like a man." Naruto growled.

Suddenly one of the tails shot to the left of Naruto. The young blonde looked to see the tail was blocking a kunai that was posed to strike him in the skull. The Inuzuka chunin gaped at the red appendage blocking his weapon while Naruto frowned.

"You're boring." The man glared and was about to respond when suddenly the distinct sound of flesh being pierced echoed through the area. The man looked down to see one of the chakra tails sticking out of his chest. The tail then ripped upwards splitting the man neck and head in half. Naruto then glanced around at the rest of the group before he smirked, "whose next."

Not giving anybody a chance to reply Naruto swept his chakra arms out knocking a chunk of the crowd into the distance. The young blonde then slammed his chakra arms into the ground creating a mini earthquake causing the people to lose their balance Naruto then brought his chakra arms in and formed them into blades. Before anybody could recover Naruto spun rapidly while the arms extended and slicing people apart as he spun. Within a couple of seconds every civilian was dead and sliced into pieces. The only people currently standing were a few ninja who had managed to avoid the attack and Naruto. One of the ninja glared at Naruto when suddenly his eyes turned crimson with two tomoe inside each. "Kid you may have been able to take out that Inuzuka and some civilian but now you're dealing the elite in this village not even you can stand the might of the Uchiha demon. Naruto glared before shooting a hand at the man. His chakra hand's fingers then extended and converged on the Uchiha from different angles the Uchiha then jumped into the air while dodging the fingers.

"Some elite," Naruto mumbled before making the fingers of chakra close on the man. The boy glared when all his crushed was log. "You guys don't seem to have a lot of variety." Then seemly proven him right one of the chakra tails shot to the left of his head. Naruto sighed and looked to his left only the see the man with his chest expanded while he was inhaling. The man exhaled and a large ball of flame directly in Naruto's face. The man jumped back as smoke covered the area.

"And the demon finally dies and by my hand!" The Uchiha shouted

"No not quite but I am kind of ticked you could have singed my clothes." The Uchiha froze as he listened to the voice coming directly behind him. Turning slowly the man almost pissed himself when he saw Naruto staring directly behind not even showing signs of being touched by his jutsu. "What happened to the arrogant elite now all I smell is a pathetic little man." Not given the man time to reply Naruto thrust one of his chakra arms through the man's stomach. The man gasped but in one act of desperation strung through a short series of hand signs before expelling another fireball through his mouth.

The Uchiha male let loose a gasp when the smoke cleared and one the chakra tails had extended and completely wrapped the young blond. "What made you think doing it a second time would increase the chances of success?" Naruto replied.

Naruto ripped his chakra arm out of the man chest taking a few organs with him and watched as the man crumpled to the ground. Naruto then stopped when he noticed there were several men just staring paralyzed in fear. "Oh my goodness where are my manners? How could I forget about all of you? Sorry let me make amends." Naruto stated in mock embarrassment. Naruto the made the chakra tails plunge into the ground. Two of the men were too shocked to move as the tails emerged from the ground and plunged into their skulls but the final man ducked and jumped back to avoid the deadly tail.

"Hey demon just let me live. I promise I will never attack you again." The man begged as he backed away from Naruto.

"Would you have let me live if I couldn't defend myself?" Naruto asked with a glare. The man opened his mouth but nothing coherent came out. "I didn't think so." The man panicked and began looking around franticly but Naruto was nowhere to be found. The man sighed in relief and began walking away. Then before he could take five steps he grasped his throat as it began to bleed out profusely. Standing right next to the man was Naruto as he was admiring his trench knives.

"These babies are just too nice." Naruto murmured to himself as the man fell over. Sighing in contentment Naruto wiped the blood off his blade with a clean patch of the man's shirt. Naruto started to walk back home when he stepped on something that made a soft grunt. Looking down Naruto noticed it was the person who he had ran into earlier.

"Hey get up it's over." Naruto said in a dead voice. The little girl slowly got up and looked at Naruto in from what he could tell fear… and awe.

"W-why did y-you kill all those p-people?" she asked her body trembling as badly as her voice.

"They would have killed me." Naruto replied plainly.

"W-why?" The girl asked.

"I'm only a monster. A monster that they believe needs to be killed." Naruto answered.

"Y-you don't lo-look like a m-monster." The girl responded. Naruto looked her in the eye before drawing some of Kyuubi's make his eye glow red and turning his pupils into vertical slits. The girl tilted her to the side while looking at Naruto's eyes in interest.

"They s-said you're a monster b-because you have kitty eyes." The girl asked confused

No! They're not kitty eyes. They're fox eyes, the nine tails fox's eyes. I have it sealed inside me and everybody blames me for the people it killed." Naruto replied.

"Did you k-kill t-those people?" The girl asked. Naruto just shook his head. "Then w-why d-do they b-blame you." Naruto was about respond when he found he didn't have an answer. Then Kyuubi's hearty laughter bellowed in his head. "Leave to a child to realize something a vast majority of your village couldn't" the demon bellowed through his chuckling.

"Well I should be going." Naruto said as he began to walk away.

"W-wait what's your n-name?" The girl asked. Naruto didn't even stop. "I'm Hinata."

Naruto paused. "Naruto," he said before continued to walk on.