Birth of the Hyakki Yakko

by Ethorin

Many Years ago, those Tales which gained enough Fear would give birth to beings of great power. Many Years ago, an Onmyouji of great skill but little respect for the balance of the world, shattered the delicate balance. By creating a Shikigami which Devoured Onmyouji and Ayakashi alike to remain, and to grow. Now, Many Years Later, that Shikigami is gone, and Fear flows once more..

4. The Gathering:CH3: Hagoromo Gitsune

Birth of the Hyakki Yakko

Chapter Three

Hagoromo Gitsune is Born Anew

This occurs at age Ten for Naruto

I can feel it... the strength coursing through me... I was surprised. When He came to me that night, and offered to 'Awaken the one known as Hinata Hyuuga to who she Truly Is'. When she had skeptically asked the cost, she had been surprised by the response 'Only what would have occurred eventually. That we be comrades.' Naturally still suspicious she asked him what he meant... and that was when he told her to activate her Byakugan... And then she learned the truth... Her nighttime visitor was not human... but nor did he bear the tainted chakra of a Bijuu. More, when she did as he asked and turned it upon herself, she discovered similar chakra resting deep within her core, hidden by her human chakra. 'If you do not come, if you are not awakened, then your Fear will consume you, and nothing will be left of Hinata Hyuuga.' Her response was, 'You say that like I will die no matter what.' His reply was, 'But of course, to awaken your Fear is to cast aside your Human limitations, but also, a portion of your Humanity...' She argued with him until two in the morning... when suddenly, mid sentence, he was gone...

He returned the next day, and again we argued until two in the morning... again and again we argued through the night, until, on the seventh day, we argued until sun up... and his Black and White hair melted back into his head, his five foot stature shrunk, and his sharp, narrow, golden eyes softened, rounded, and changed to blue... sitting where my nighttime guest had sat before me every day of the past week... was Naruto...

Naturally, I fainted... when I awoke he was gone...

The next night however, my nighttime visitor was back... and this time, he introduced himself, 'I am Nurarihyon, or rather, that is the name of all those who bear this Fear, after the first to do so, The Lord of Pandemonium. But you know me better in my Human Guise, Uzumaki Naruto, who I was originally.' I, naturally, began stammering and stuttering and blushing and poking my fingers together... oh, how embarrassing, I had been arguing with my crush...why, we had almost been having...nearly...a lovers spat *faint*, as I fainted I barely heard a muttered 'Hoh'

When I woke up, I was most definitely not in the Hyuuga compound, for one thing, the compound does not have a pitch black lake underneath it... or a bunch of livers near it... Nurarihyon, Naruto stood beside the livers, as I lay naked in the pitch black waters of the lake...'To awaken your Fear, and cast aside your human fears, consume each of livers after dipping them in the lake water, never lifting more than the hand that places the liver into your mouth and your head from the waters'

I complied... I did not really have a choice... and that leads us to the now...

Oh...this is GLORIOUS I can feel myself changing... shifting, I can feel my hair lengthening, my tail growing, my new ears growing out as my old ones are consumed... and yet, there is no pain... only pleasure, the pleasure of removing a too tight suit you have had on for long enough you no longer noticed the discomfort and finally having clothes that fit, and oh, was the fit glorious... I reveled in the sensations my new body was sending me, loving the feeling of the strangely oily water on my skin.

When he offered me Sakazuki, I accepted immediately, there was no doubt in my mind that Nurarihyon could help me attain my ambition, and if I had to become his subordinate... well, I would undoubtedly outlive him, how I knew this, I did not know, I just did...

AN: Ok, so, now you can probably guess how I see Hagoromo Gitsune... when she has a Goal, she is impatient, she wants it NOW, when she doesn't... well, she has all the time in the world, doesn't she... but more than that, Hagoromo Gitsune is somewhat fickle, she is only loyal so long as YOU are dependent on HER... Hinata probably won't be that fickle... but she will definitely be rather flighty when not acting toward her aim... oh yeah, next chappie is the Legend of the Hagoromo Gitsune(as The Lands know it)