Chapter 4
Alright, here's the next one. I promised you gore, and I delivered it in this chapter. I hope it's alright, I kind of felt like I rushed this one a little bit.
Oh, and a special shout out to Wan Shi Tong, XxPyro-SamaxX, and P5yCH0. Thanks guys, I really appreciate what you said.
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Hiashi was intrigued to say the least, at first he was angry, then shocked, curious, and finally he felt respect. He was angry and worried at first for a while when he realized that not only had his daughter managed to slip by not only him, but also the four body guards that were with him. Relieved, and angry when his daughter ran back to him bawling telling him between sobs about how she was being bullied by a couple of big boys and one small kid had saved her. They instantly set out to find and punish the ones responsible for daring to bully and lay their hands on a Huyga. They rounded a corner just in time to see a piece of wood explode on a small blonds face. His guards were just about to interfere when he stopped them. He was not the clan head for nothing, he saw that the boy was not unconscious and was waiting for the other one to get closer. He decided to give the kid his chance while he asked his daughter if he was the one that had rescued her. When she nodded that he was the one, he looked back and started to observe the kid much more closely. He didn't have a lot of time though as the kid was probably going to kill the older one if he kept hitting him like that. He gave a slight hand movement indicating that his guard should stop him. After his guard had restrained him, his mask of cold indifference nearly fell when he saw the face of the blond. There was no doubt about it, it was Naruto. Hiashi was no fool, he knew what, and what Naruto wasn't, but he didn't know anything about who the boy was. What you are is dependent on your genetics, but who you were was dependent on your experiences and how you reacted to them. He had known the boy parents quite well, but that was only a small piece of the puzzle in front of him.
Hiashi watched as Naruto at first struggled in vain, with an angry look on his face, then his face turned to that of shock when he realized who was standing before him, then to horror as he saw his sunglasses on the ground shattered, probably noticed he wasn't wearing them anymore when he felt the pieces of tinted glass in his cheeks, and finally his face turned into a defiant look when he looked right back at Hiashi and make eye contact. As if you say, 'Ya, what are you looking at?'
If the tall pale man was surprised or intimidated by Naruto's eyes, he didn't show it, his face was completely blank. He watched as the man started looking around and Naruto did his best to fallow his gaze. He first looked at the boy that Naruto had just been pulled off of who was still on the ground making weird noises right before he spit out a bloody tooth, which Naruto couldn't help but smirk at. Then he looked in the alley where the other kids were moaning on the ground trying to get themselves up to get away. Right then two Uchiha shinobi appeared on the scene and stopped the boys from getting away.
"Sorry about getting here so late Huyga-sama," said one of them with a slight bow, "we will take it from hear." Said gesturing to Naruto with a sadistic gleam in his eye. Naruto just glared back at the cop, he had never met this one before, but he knew that look, they didn't even know what had happened yet and he was already at fault. Basically what he had to look forward to was, about a week of getting the shit kicked out of him and then being kicked back out on the streets.
Hiashi caught the look in the cop's eye, and the look that Naruto gave him. He had come to the same conclusion that Naruto had and was not going to let that happen, 'I don't know why he interfered and saved my daughter, and it may have had nothing at all to do with her. But he still saved her none the less anyway.'
"That will not be necessary," Hiashi said in a commanding tone. "The boy saved my daughter from those maggots on the ground over there." Hiashi said nodding his head to were the mans partner had tied up, or rather had simply dragged over the other kids and set them down in a heap, they weren't going anywhere.
"I see, but does that really matter sir?" said the Uchiha in an honestly confused voice.
"The boy is innocent, and they are to blame, I don't see the misunderstanding." Hiashi said his voice in a now disgusted tone. The cop visibly winced and nodded, bowed again and left with his partner to take the other kids to the hospital.
"Now, why did you do it?" Hiashi was now facing Naruto and looking at him in the eye again. 'I'm going to have to ask the Hokage about that latter.' Hiashi thought making a mental note of it.
"They had it coming." Naruto responded without hesitation, still not breaking eye contact. Naruto was confused about one thing though, 'where is the girl I 'saved'?'
"I see, did this have anything to do with my daughter?" Hiashi wanted to know exactly why he had done it, he wasn't going to be able to keep Naruto much longer and he wanted to get as much information as possible.
"She had a little to do with it yes, but for the most part the punks were just being stupid and were just 'faking it', I really don't know how else to describe it." Naruto said in a pondering tone, he really couldn't understand why he had felt so angry, he just knew that those kids needed to get there faces broken.
Hiashi studied the boy for a few more seconds and nodded satisfied that he was telling the truth.
"I don't like being in anyone's debt. Here take this as payment for services rendered." Hiashi tossed Naruto a bag of coins after the guard had released him.
Naruto nodded accepting this and had just put it away when he caught a glance of a girl peeking around the man he was talking to, apparently hiding from him. She had the same pale eyes as her father, but her face was red. 'Is she sacred of me, mad at me? Why is she hiding, it's not like I can hurt her.' He just shook his head, girls were so weird.
After Naruto left, Hiashi tuned around only to realize that both of his daughters were hiding behind him. He was puzzled for a moment until he caught sight of the blush on his older daughters face. His younger daughter looking confused was probably just following her sister's example. 'Oh great.' Hiashi inwardly sighed. He was about to say something when he froze in place. 'Oh kami.' Hiashi's face paled even more than was natural as he remembered his former friend's exploits and what a 'lady-killer' he had been. The picking up of women on missions, the bragging about it later just to piss in off. All of this was passing though his head as he looked down at his Hinata and audibly groaned as he remembered his earlier thoughts on genetics and stuff. 'You be dammed Yondaime!' was the only thought he had as the first emotion seen on his face in public in years surfaced, a mixture of anger, and horror. He was sure he could see his old friend/rivals face in the sky laughing at him.
Naruto decided to cut his day short after that and just head back to Kakashi's place; he doubted anyone was going to sell a knife to a beat up kid anyway. After he got back to the apartment, he went into the bathroom and started to pick pieces of the sunglasses out of his cheek, he was going to have to figure out another way to hide his eyes. 'Might as well buy some new ones with some of the three-thousand yen that that Huyga gave him. With that in mind, he went to sleep.
Naruto's mindscape
Naruto opened his eyes and immediately knew where he was, back where that fucking demon lived. He gulped and swallowed down his fear as he set off to find the thing and get this over with. It didn't take as long as last time, but it was defiantly harder this time now that he knew what was going to happen. He took a deep breath and settled himself for whatever lay ahead, and started to walk into the chamber.
"Are you afraid now boy?" the demon said with a sadistic glee in its voice.
Naruto scowled, 'this thing knows full well that I am.' Naruto thought while he was contemplating just telling the thing to go fuck it self but he decided against it, and held his tongue. "Yes, yes I am." Said Naruto in a now annoyed voice. He was only to get even madder when he was responded to by a deep rolling chuckle.
'Interesting indeed, his is afraid, yet not afraid to admit it.' "We need to talk; the first of subjects is about your current caretaker, Kakashi." This caught Naruto's attention. "Tell him to come and pay me a visit, in private."
"In private?" Naruto was wondering if that meant he was going to have to wait in the sewer/hallway while they talked or something like that.
"I can hear what your thinking, so please stop, or at least try not to be an idiot. Just tell him and he will know what to do. Now on to the real reason of our little get together, our contract." The monster was now grinning which was making Naruto both very nervous, and scared. "Yes, we never really got to finish our little discussion from last time, did we?" Naruto was unsure if he was supposed to answer that or not, so he just shook his head. "Unfortunately that is why I have to talk to that mortal Kakashi, you're too stupid to have that long of a conversation with and remember it." Naruto nodded dumbly, actually thankful that he wasn't smart enough, he wanted to be around this monster as little as possible. "Now, part of the deal that I can explain to you is going to force you to become something you already want to do, become a ninja."
For one perfect moment Naruto's whole world lit up, he was going to become powerful, strong, he was… and then he felt it. Bloodlust that was radiating out of the prison stopped all of his thoughts in a second. It was so strong that he dropped to his knees. It was almost like being infected with a virus, a virus that targeted every atom in his body, it felt like liquid fire running through his veins, he wanted to kill, butcher, and torture. He felt sick with it; it almost felt good to be this completely consumed by just an emotion from this monster. It stopped as suddenly as it came on. Just the fact that he was having dry heaves and convulsing in his own mind was enough evidence of how potent it had been. He wasn't even sure how he was supposed to feel about it. The monster however, continued to go on as if nothing had happened at all, though on the inside it was chuckling having done that on purpose, just to see the boy in the fetal position he was in now was an amusing enough reason to expose him to that.
"First, you need to get out of the city and into the surrounding forest. I will briefly summarize on what you are to do once you get out there." The kyubi then told Naruto, who was still lying in the fetal position, how to survive out in the wilderness. Although he left a lot out, simply telling him the basics on how to survive, leaving him to figure the rest out on his own. Then he told him about basic strengthening exercises to do. "oh, and one more thing, if your not out there within two weeks, well we will start to have extended visits you and I." the kyubi said this with a wicked grin clearly stating that those visits would not be pleasant. Naruto quickly nodded, and then as if nothing had happened at all, he was back in Kakashi's apartment. Naruto promptly ran to the bathroom and threw up.
The next day Naruto set out to find a weapons shop. It was a little harder to find than he thought it would be, but he got what he was looking for. His brand new knife that cost him four-thousand yen was a work of art. He bought it out of a ninja store so it was very well made. It was a reverse grip trench knife, with the blade on both sides. It was about two and a half inches wide, the blade it self being eight and a half. The smith had also somehow figured out a way to forge the blade black, so it wouldn't reflect light. Then there was the built in steel knuckles, while not bladed themselves, still could cause a lot of damage. He couldn't wait to test it out on somebody's face. The sheath and belt was designed to wrap around him, one loop went around his mid section, while an additional strap that was connected went over his right shoulder leaving the knife to rest in the front on his right ribcage.
Later that day he spent an additional five-thousand yen on different clothes and equipment that would come in handy, a hatchet, and flint stones were among the things he bought. He bought some combat ready clothes for every part of his body; this covered everything from gloves, to socks. He would never understand why everyone didn't where combat ready clothes, they helped you blend in with camouflage, they had a lot pockets, they were easy to clean, and easy to repair if they happened to get torn. They almost never wore out though, they were designed to last, how can you go wrong? He was the most proud of his cloak though. It could hide him, keep him warm, and had a lot of built in pockets. It was a dark green color, making it perfect for the forest. It was worn over all of his other clothes on his shoulders, and had two very well made clasps that strapped it to his chest, rather than his neck. All in all, he looked like a completely different person now, albeit a very young and small person, but looked different none the less. He soon ran out of money though, but was still satisfied with his purchases, though it had been hard to find stores that were willing to sell anything to him. He did however find that he was most likely to get a good reaction out of stores whose owners were either ninjas, or had ninjas in there family. So he kept an eye out for them and made a mental note of where they were for future reference. He knew that he knew almost nothing about living in the wilderness, even if it was very close to Konoha, he was going to be on his own. But he figured that he was prepared as much as he could be.
Kakashi was three days late, which Naruto was beginning to expect, but he also had a present ready for Naruto.
"What's this?" Naruto asked eyeing the box Kakashi was holding out to him as he accepted it cautiously.
"It's a present," Said Kakashi with an eye smile. "To help you out when you get to the woods." Naruto's eyes widened at this.
"How did you know?" Naruto replied, the shock in his voice evident. Kakashi had literally walked in the door a minute ago and had somehow figured out where he was going.
"The Anbu that were watching you told me about it when they reported to me. It's pretty obvious where you're planning on going based on the gear and equipment you've been buying." Naruto nodded at this, expecting that he was going to be followed. Sometimes he could have sworn that he could feel someone watching him. "What made you want to head outside the city though?"
Naruto took a deep breath. "The monster told me too."
Kakashi's eye widened, "ok, tell me what happened." Naruto proceeded to tell him just a brief summery, saying it hadn't told him why, just that he had to.
"But it also wants to meet you, in private. It said that you would know how to do that." Naruto said in a relieved tone.
'I don't blame him; I don't relish the idea of meeting that thing either.'
"Ok, here's how this is going to work, I'm going to put you to sleep, and then ill do my thing, you will be asleep for the rest of the night, so you can leave in the morning. Ok?"
Naruto nodded, wondering if he was going to hit him and knock out or something, but Kakashi just got on his knees and reached for the metal plate with the leaf symbol covering one of his eyes. "Are you ready?" Naruto nodded. Kakashi raised his haitai and Naruto caught a glimpse of Kakashi's sharingan spinning before he fell asleep.
Kakashi took a deep breath, 'alright, here I go.' He lifted Naruto's eye lid up and entered his mind. Kakashi found himself in the sewer that was Naruto's mindscape. He took another deep breath and started walking down the corridors, following a killing intent so potent that you could almost see it in the air. It wasn't long before he came across the great gait with the seal on it.
"Kakashi Hitake, we meet again. Well, lets get this on with. First let's start with all of your questions; list them all, I don't like being interrupted when I talk." The Kyubi stated as if its time was being wasted. Kakashi nodded.
"What are the specifics on the contract signed, what does Naruto have to do to keep his end up, how has this changed him both physically and mentally, why are you helping him, why do you want Naruto out of the city, and…" Kakashi took a breath and added his own question that he had been wondering for seven years. "Why did you attack Konoha?" Kakashi was hoping that would be the extent of his conversation with the Kyubi, it was unnerving being this close and seeing it again through the gait. Though he suspected otherwise, there had to be something it wanted if it asked to talk to him.
"Very perceptive Kakashi, but know that I can hear your thoughts in here, I may be imprisoned, but I own this piece of Naruto." Kakashi had to control himself not to gasp; he really didn't like the idea of this thing in his head. "I don't feel like going into specifics of the seals that make up the contract, but I can tell you what exactly it requires of both of us." The Kyubi then started to tell Kakashi what exactly had started to happen when Naruto had signed it. "And that's all I have to say about that. Physically, it simply increased his overall potential, he may be a little stronger now, but he will have to earn the strength that he can achieve now. As far as mentally, nothing has been done, there was no need to change any of that, you made sure that he was everything I could ever want." Kakashi wanted to ask what the fox meant by this, but held his tongue. The Kyubi simply rumbled a chuckle, Kakashi assuming that it had read his mind. "You humans never cease to amaze me in how stupid you can be. The fact that the boy could even be bonded with me means that he would have ended up somewhat like he is now no matter how he was raised. Just like his sire. Lets think hypothetically for a moment, pretend that I wasn't in the equation at all, and consider this. Your counsel intentionally put a natural born killer in a violent area, and let him raise himself. Knowing how powerful he could and probably would become. You know that I'm not the only reason why he is dangerous. Like I said, just when I think that humanity couldn't possibly do anything stupider, you somehow manage to pull it off." The Kyubi laughed this out and Kakashi realized it was right. It was entirely there fault that Naruto ended up the way he was, 'what were they thinking? Were they trying to create a monster in it self. Even without everyone hating him for the Kyubi this could not have possibly turned out much different.' Kakashi shook his head and felt disgusted at the stupidity of the counsel, and shame at himself for not seeing this sooner and getting him out of there, the law be dammed. "As for why I want him out of the city, that is so he can start to get stronger and get used to living life a different way. It will make it easier to adapt to different things in the future. Then there is the matter for which I summoned you here, you will allow him to become a ninja. As for why I am helping him, that is the simplest answer of all. It is fun, and I'm bored. We are done here, leave. Oh and to answer 'your' question, I did it because I could do it, and that is it. There is no conspiracy at work, or any evil deed that I was punishment for, I felt like it, and that is all there is to it." The last thing Kakashi saw was the Kyubi smiling that nightmare of a grin while it laughed a deep throated roar.
Kakashi opened his eyes and found himself on the ground trembling and sweating. 'What a monster.' Was his only thought.
Naruto left the next day, it turned out that Kakashi's gift was a pair of very decent boots, when Naruto asked why he was giving them to him; Kakashi just told him that he wanted to give them to him because that is what friends do. Naruto didn't know what to make of this, but accepted them anyway.
'Before I head out, I need to make one stop first.' Thought Naruto while he was smiling and patting his knife. He was going to track down that kid that slit his throat and thank him for giving him the opportunity to go were he never thought he would be able to. Of course, he was going to die somewhere in the thank you process. It wasn't that hard to find the kid, it was the middle of the night when he finally did, but he wasn't alone. The kid was living with some other gang rejects on the bottom floor of an abandoned building. It was also raining by the time he got there which was good for cover. Naruto had counted three on the inside that he could see, and one outside standing guard. Naruto had never felt this alive in his entire life, every part of him was coiled to spring, his senses were sharp, he could hear and smell like he didn't know was possible, and never had everything been so crystal clear. He didn't know why, but his instincts were telling him to get above the guy outside, he didn't see why not, so he climbed up on the opposite side of the building and made his way across the roof to the fire escape that was right above the guy. Naruto climbed down until he was about ten feet above the kid, who was preoccupied reading a porn magazine. Naruto threw a rock across the way to get the kid out in the open. He waited for the kid to walk out a little ways and then with his blade already drawn, simply stepped off the railing. He landed with both feet on the kid's shoulders while he buried the blade all the way up to the hilt in the kid's skull. As the kid collapsed, he smoothly did a back flip and landed quietly in a crouched and on guard position.
'That was great, that was more fun than being on Kakashi's back while he was runni…. How the hell did I do that!' Naruto turned back around to look at the body, which was still spurting blood out of the giant hole in the dead center of the top of the head. He couldn't explain it, it just came to him, it just felt right. Naruto looked at his blade that was coated in blood that was dripping off and onto the rain soaked ground and shrugged, 'oh well, just go with it I guess.' Naruto was never one to question and ponder over things that he couldn't make sense of, he just accepted it, and moved on. Naruto made quite a stunning figure, in his full combat attire, with the hood on his billowing cloak drown up as he cautiously snuck into their base. The first one he found was in what they were calling a kitchen poring a glass of milk for himself in a piece of plastic tuppaware. Milk was hard to come by, so he waited for the kid to finish pouring it and hold it up to start drinking it before he made his move. Just as the kid was about to drink, Naruto snuck behind him and smoothly slit his throat with the knife in his right hand, while his left hand gingerly took the plastic container of milk when the kid let it go to grab his throat. After Naruto finished the milk, he crouched down next to the kid and smiled and waved to him as if to say 'bye bye' as the kid bled out. He got out lucky, he really didn't suffer. He carefully crept through the rest of the place until he herd voices arguing over a game of cards, 'hey Lee go and see what's taking sonuoske so long with the fucking chips" that was the kid. 'That voice is definitely his.' Thought Naruto excitedly as he waited for the bastard's friend to walk out of the room. The next kid was a little bigger than the other two, not that it really mattered, they were all at least five years older then him anyway. Naruto waited behind a corner that he knew the kid had to come by to get to the kitchen and positioned himself and the knife so that the kid could just walk into the blade, but that wouldn't have been as much fun. As soon as the teenager rounded the corner Naruto pushed the blade all the way into his solar plexus and pulled down as hard as he could. The blade gutted him like he was paper, and all of his insides, from intestines to organs spilled out of him like a wet sack of meat splitting open. The kids lungs were apparently nicked or something as he appeared to be trying to scream but couldn't make a noise. As Naruto was walking back towards the game room he herd a toilet flush as he walked by an apparent bathroom. 'I didn't think there would be running water here.' He thought idly as he waited right in front of the door with the blade ready. As soon as the kid opened up the door he slashed with is blade and cut at least three quarters of the way threw the neck, right before he got a wonderful view of the inside of all of the necks different arteries and veins and other things he couldn't recognize as the weight of the head peeled back the wound like it was one of those handheld pezz candy dispensers that he saw rich kids playing with, he realized that it was a girl that he had just killed. Though he was only moderately surprised that this didn't bother him at all ,and he enjoyed killing her as much as the others.
Naruto was standing right behind the kid who had almost killed him. Normally, he would already be dead; people generally think that there is some kind of honorable and a right way to kill someone. This is complete bullshit, at the end of the day, even if you poison your enemy or kill him in there sleep, you are still breathing and they are not. What gets people in trouble, especially when its vengeance there after, is that they want the person to know that there going to die. But Naruto knew this and was prepared to kill him right away if something went wrong, or it wasn't convenient. But as it was, he had a chance, so he hit the kid in the back of the head with the brass knuckles part of the blade knocking him out. He then drug him into the center of the room, took some kitchen knives, and crucified his hands and feet to the floor. Just as he was waking up he noticed the kids club thing, he smiled, sheathed his blade and went over and grabbed it.
"Ahhh!," the kid screamed in obvious agony. "Who are you, what do you want?!" Naruto just pulled his hood off and smiled.
"I just," Naruto grinning when he saw that the kid recognized him. "Wanted to say thank you." Then Naruto hit the kid in the face with his own club, but I got stuck on something so Naruto tugged hard, and in doing so, tore out his right eye. The kid was now screaming for his friends and his mama to come and save him, as he was doing this, Naruto thought that his mouth made an excellent target, so he hit him in the mouth next, wriggled it around a little and tore off a piece of the kids jaw, and most of his tongue. Before the kid died, Naruto mounted him and pulled his blade out and smiled into the kid's one working eye. He then started punching the kid's already mangled face smiling the whole time. It didn't take long before his whole face caved in, and there was nothing left to identify him by any more. He had even managed to somehow remove the kids jaw by punching him. Naruto got up and considered burning the place down, but got a better idea. Instead, he used the blood and spelled on the wall, "I AM BACK!" Naruto stepped back and laughed as he wished he would be able to see the look on the faces of whoever found this mess.
Naruto left the building, found were he had stashed his expensive camping backpack with all of his stuff, and left in the direction of the woods.
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Ok, that's it. I am proud of that last scene, please review.
