Author Note: Hey guys, back again! I have to admit this was a bit tricky to write because of the action but I'm pretty happy with it. There are two things I would like to address to you the readers though.

1st – I just about fainted when I logged on a few hours later after uploading Chapter 3 to see that it had already amassed over 400 hits! The problem you ask? I only have 11 reviews! I'm not asking you to review so I can up my stats; I want to know what you're thinking! Trust me, I care. Nevertheless, because of Chapter 3 I have surpassed the 1,000 hit mark so thank you for caring and reading my story!

2nd – I would just like to give a heads up that this next chapter is going to be graphic. Lemon? You ask…No, just an intense fight sequence. That being said this story is rated M for a reason.

On one other note this chapter is slightly shorter than the others. The reason being that after the fight it needed to end. Now that that's out of the way, enjoy! So please, R&R!

Chapter 4: Demon Released

Hinata was at her limit. No, she was beyond her limit. Standing there hunched over she no longer had the chakra to even keep her Byakugan activated. Her left arm, which had already been injured, was even worse now because of when the rogue water nin had managed to get the jump on her and open a gash from her shoulder down to her elbow. She was sure that she had dislocated her right elbow when she had blocked a kick without having time to reinforce it with chakra and from the way it pained her to breathe, she knew she had a few broken ribs. Just forcing herself to stand was causing her legs to shake and the steady loss of blood from her arm told her she didn't have long before she lost consciousness.

"It can't end like this! I've worked so hard for him to notice me!" Tears began to trickle down her face as her emotions got the best of her. She was tired, bleeding, and in excruciating pain, so it was no surprise when endorphins pumping through her body finally caused her resolve to snap. Her legs giving out, she slumped to her knees as her peripheral vision began to blur, unsure if it was from the tears or the loss of blood that formed a red island around her in the water. "I'm sorry Naruto…" she cried silently to herself. "I did my best…I'm sorry it wasn't enough." With that Hinata's last bit of chakra gave out, and losing consciousness she slipped into the water and began to sink.

Seeing that the girl was finally down for good, Shinsui wasted no time in quickly grabbing the girl before she could sink out of reach. Dragging her up by an arm out of the water, she held Hinata up at eye level and smiled evilly.

"…Hinata…" Naruto whispered to no one in particular. His eyes were still closed and his head was pounding like hell. He tried to move but as soon as he did he felt a heavy foot stomp down hard on his chest causing him to grunt in pain.

"And just where do you think you're going?"

Naruto opened his eyes to see the silhouette of man towering over him and his rather large foot on his chest. Lifting his foot off of Naruto's chest he bent down and grabbed him by the throat, lifting him up off the ground.

"Glad you decided to wake up." He said in almost a whisper, his voice laced with malcontent. "I told you I'd let you watch the girl die before I dealt with you." He laughed viciously as Naruto turned his head slightly and his eyes widen in horror when he saw the woman holding an unconscious Hinata up by an arm.

Slowly, painfully slow, she raised her wakizashi to Hinata's throat. With each beat of Naruto's heart the blade grew closer and closer to slicing through exposed unprotected tissue that gave Hinata the ability to breathe.

There was nothing Naruto could do and he knew it. No matter how fast he moved he would be too late to save her. "Kyuubi help me!"

In the back of his mind he heard the last answer he wanted to hear.

"No."

"What the fuck do you mean 'No'?" Naruto cried out loud in fury, surprising Yama and causing Shinsui to hesitate for a moment to glance over her shoulder at the two.

"I mean no as in, no, I can't help you! Your father reinforced the seal on your stomach remember? All I can do is heal you. You're completely cut off from my power!"

"Look at him, he's finally snapped!" Yama said laughing.

Shinsui laughed as well as she turned back to an unconscious Hinata and prepared to cut her head off in one fluid motion.

Crazed and desperate Naruto acted completely on impulse. Focusing chakra into each of his fingers on his right hand he jabbed them into the seal on his stomach.

"GOD DAMIT!" he screamed, "I SAID GIVE ME YOUR FUCKING POWER!"

In the depths of the sewers Kyuubi lay there miserable, wanting to help the boy he had grown to care about but unable to. Hearing the last words from Naruto echo through his cage he growled out of anger for being so helpless. Suddenly a soft blue light appeared at the spot where the cage was sealed. Looking up hesitantly, Kyuubi moved closer out of curiosity. In a flash a blue hand consisting of nothing but pure chakra shot out of the light and latched onto Kyuubi's left shoulder, digging into his body. Finding what it wanted, it quickly withdrew to the seal pulling out Kyuubi's own red chakra with it.

Crying out in pain, rage, and astonishment, Kyuubi watched in amazement and horror as part of his chakra stretched away from his body, strained for a moment, then tore away and disappeared through the seal. As soon as his chakra was through the seal the light disappeared and all was dark in his cage again. But on the outside Kyuubi could feel the rage, hate, and raw power coursing through Naruto's body and just like with Pain, he wasn't holding back.

"Kid," he thought to himself, "it looks like I'm not the only demon inside you."

Sakura, Kiba, and Akamaru were running through the woods when they heard the explosion, stopping them in their tracks. Looking up Sakura felt dread envelop her as a red beam of chakra shot up into the air and sudden flash backs of the battle with Pain played before her eyes.

"This is not good." She said turning to look at the other two. "We need to find Yamato sensei and tell him what's happening."

As if on cue a shadow passed over head and looking up they saw a strange white bird flying through the air with her other teammate, Sai, and Yamato on its back making a hard line straight for the source of the chakra.

Without missing a beat all three of them took off following the bird. Sprinting as fast as they could, they watched the bird dispel fifty yards in front of them and the two passengers land on a tree below them. Quickly they arrived to find the other two standing on a branch. Leaping up they landed next to them.

"Sai, Yamato sensei, what's going on?" Sakura asked quickly.

"That's a good question." Sai said turning to look at her. "Yamato sensei and I were training when all of a sudden his hand started to burn with the number six inscribed on it."

Kiba looked at Yamato. "Is this true?"

"Unfortunately it is." He answered gravely. "There is a clearing up ahead where the training ground thirteen is. From what I can tell that's where Naruto is. We need to proceed with extreme caution but get there as quickly as we can, the last thing we need is for the village to fall under attack again."

Nodding, the five of them took off in the direction that Yamato had indicated towards. When they reached the clearing they all froze in their tracks.

"Oh my god." Sakura whispered in fear. "We have to help them!" Rushing forward she was quickly halted by Yamato.

"Stop!" he quietly commanded. "Naruto has already transformed and judging by the looks of it, those two ninja are to blame. All we can do now is wait for it to end and pray that he calms down afterwards." Shifting his gaze from the others he looked out at the scene that was about to play out. "May the gods have mercy on their souls."

What they saw next would haunt their memories for the rest of their lives.

The power that erupted from Naruto as he grabbed control of the Kyuubi was unlike anything he had ever experienced before. Looking behind him he saw that he had six deep red tails fanning out and attached to where his tailbone was. "How can this be?" he asked himself. "I have never been able to control six tails worth of power before. This feels so much different than before though, like it's my own chakra. It feels…good."

Looking at his body he saw that he had the same classic deep red layer of chakra over his body protecting him like armor. Turning his gaze out to the pond, he saw a stunned Shinsui standing with her mouth gaping open. Hinata lay floating on her back in the water in her own blood having been dropped when the chakra erupted from his body.

Hearing a groan to his left he looked to the side to see the earth ninja standing up slowly in pain. Anger suddenly ripped through his body as he remembered what the man had said to him.

"I told you I'd let you watch the girl die."

They attacked them for no reason. They threatened Hinata because she was with him. His body began to shake as pent up rage began to scream to make them pay for what they did to Hinata. His anger was pushing him into the darkness, he could feel himself slipping but it wasn't into the Kyuubi's control. No, it was into his own darkness. His own hate was what was consuming him now and he didn't care. Turning to face the man Naruto finally gave into his anger. Having finally acquired a target he released his rage.

"RRRRRAAAAGGGHHHHH!" was all Naruto was able to get out as the ground under him cracked from the sheer amount of force he used to push off towards the man.

Before Yama could react, before he could even blink his eyes, he felt fiery hot pain rip through his chest. In the time it took for his heart to beat once the creature in front of him had closed the distance between them and now had both of his hands buried in his chest. Coughing up blood he gasped for air and in pain as the creature's hands began to burn his insides alive. Screaming in agony he felt himself being lifted off the ground, his vision becoming dark as he felt his insides literally begin to sizzle and cook inside of him.

Naruto was relishing the pain he had this man in; the bastard deserved to suffer and he was more than happy to be the cause of it. Raising Yama off the ground, Naruto smiled insanely under his mask of deep red chakra as the screams of agony reached his ears. In one quick motion he jammed his right hand deeper into Yama's chest grabbed the round organ he was looking for and pulled it out.

Yama's eyes widened in horror as he realized that he was staring at his own beating heart. For a split second the only noise was the sound of the man's heart still beating in Naruto's hand. The next second it was gone, crushed in Naruto's hand causing an explosion of blood to erupt from the man's throat. The man's lifeless form spasmed violently and then went limp in Naruto's hand but he wasn't done. Jamming his right hand back into his body where his left hand already was, he found the man's backbone. Grasping the boney column in each hand he pulled against it, screaming again until a sick dull crack was heard followed by the tearing of flesh and entrails as Naruto pulled Yama's body apart in a bloody fountain of spray. Tossing the pieces to the side he slowly turned on Shinsui.

After watching her partner literally get torn to pieces in a matter of seconds, Shinsui knew she was in trouble. Desperate for a way out, she grabbed Hinata and held her blade to the girl's throat.

"If you take one more step towards me the girl dies!" She yelled hoping that she didn't sound as desperate as what she was feeling.

Naruto cocked his head to the side and sat back on his haunches. Raising his fist plunged it down into the earth. There was a moment's pause, then out of nowhere Naruto's fist burst through the water between Hinata and Shinui landing a devastating upper cut. Completely caught off guard the blow crushed her jaw bone and she choked on her own teeth as she went spiraling up into the air as Hinata fell away unharmed.

Within seconds Naruto had raced across the pond, scooped up Hinata, and brought her back to shore. Setting her down gently, he examined her body's condition closely. She had multiple cuts and a particular nasty gash that ran from her left shoulder down to her elbow. However, the worst part was her extremely low chakra level that was bordering zero. He knew she didn't have long before she would be past the point of help.

"Kyuubi, I need your help."

Kyuubi's voice appeared somewhere from the recesses of Naruto's mind. "I can't do anything boy."

"God damnit! Why not?"

"Because the girl is almost completely out of chakra, she's basically running on fumes now. Her chakra coils are failing her."

Naruto's rage rose higher due to his helpless situation, his emotions so out of control that he began to make himself bleed because his claw like fingers were squeezing so hard in fists.

"We have to do something! I can't let her die, I won't allow it! I care too much about this girl to lose her."

"I know you do kit."

Kyuubi closed his eyes as he half heartedly tried to find a solution. He hated to see Naruto like this; he hated the desperation he was feeling because of the boy. Feeling Naruto's emotions every day had definitely caused him to become more empathetic. He didn't want to admit it but he cared for the Hyuuga girl too, at the moment probably more than Naruto himself. He knew that she had suffered just as Naruto had and that she drew her strength from Naruto, and, when she found out about Kyuubi living inside of Naruto, accepted both of them.

"I'm sorry kit but this is it for her. Chakra coils are weird sensitive things, once it starts to fail its game over."

Naruto closed his eyes in an attempt to block out the tears he felt forming. It didn't stop them and as they fell onto his cheeks they sizzled away due to the tremendous amount of heat coming off of his body. He knelt there beside Hinata as he felt the tears evaporate away.

"Fading away, that's all she's doing right now…Just fading away and there's nothing I can do."

It was an overload of emotions for Naruto; rage, despair, helplessness, sadness, all tearing and eating away at him on the inside. Just when he had finally found someone that accepted him for who he was, before the Pain incident not afterwards, and loved him unconditionally, was about to die before his very eyes and there was nothing he could do about it.

"I can't do this. I can't handle this much pain, Kyuubi. My heart just can't take it…"

In an instant Kyuubi's and Naruto's eyes snapped open as the same thought crossed both of their minds.

"Do you think it will work?" Naruto asked hopefully, desperate for a yes.

"I have no idea but it's worth a try. At this point what do we have to lose?"

Naruto nodded grimly at what Kyuubi said. "So how do we do it? A slow steady stream won't work, it isn't fast enough. It has to be big and fast."

Kyuubi nodded at what the blonde haired ninja said. "That's true. I have an idea so just go along with what I say, okay?"

You got it."

"Okay good. Now do as I saw and be quick, we don't have much time left."

Sakura felt as if she was going to feint in horror as she watched Naruto work over Hinata. Naruto quickly tore away the mesh armor that covered Hinata's stomach and leaned in closely as he appeared to examine it for a moment and then actually sniffed her, as if he was looking for something. Then, holding his left hand vertical out in front of him he brought one of his tails out and pointed it directly at the hand about five inches away. Suddenly chakra began to drip off of the tail and gravitate towards his hand forming a small dense ball of chakra. He continued until the entire tail had melted away and had formed a sphere in his hand. As the six tail melted away, the thick red chakra armor around Naruto dissipated away until a loose cloud of red transparent chakra surrounded him instead.

Sakura had no idea what was going on but she suddenly became concerned for Hinata's safety. This escalated even further when Naruto took the sphere and placed it about an inch above Hinata's stomach, slightly above her belly button. Standing up quickly, Sakura was about to burst from their hiding spot when she felt a pair of jaws clamp down on her ankle and three pairs of hands grab her arms and other leg.

Looking at them wildly she couldn't understand what they were thinking.

"What is wrong with you?" she practically yelled. "We need to stop him before he kills Hinata!"

She struggled to break free but froze immediately when she heard her sensei's commanding voice.

"Sakura that's enough."

Turning her head, she looked pleadingly at Yamato.

"But sensei, he's about to kill her!"

"We don't know that for sure Sakura." Kiba said quickly and quietly. "Did you notice how he no longer has six tails? Now he's down to five and his chakra armor is no longer surrounding him."

"Besides," Yamato said as his face became grim, "even if we wanted to, I don't think we could stop Naruto. I've been studying him since we've arrived and although it has the Kyuubi's signature chakra it isn't controlled by the Kyuubi. It appears as if Naruto has ripped the chakra away from the Kyuubi and is in control of it. I can't seal it since it isn't in controlled by the Kyuubi. Plus, if Naruto was angry enough to steal chakra from the Kyuubi then he may be in such a rage that he would attack us."

Images of when Naruto attacked her at the bridge when Orochimaru taunted him flashed before Sakura's eyes and she suddenly felt helpless and embarrassed for trying to rush into a dangerous situation.

"But what if he kills her? We can't just stand by and do nothing!" Sakura knew that Hinata was important to everyone, especially Kiba and Akamaru since they were on the same team.

"That is true." Sai said quietly yet deliberately. "But shouldn't we trust in our teammate to do the right thing? Don't forget how he acted when he fought Pain with Hinata right there next to him."

Sakura was utterly dumbfounded at what Sai said. He wasn't known for being very emotional or even understanding them very well but at the moment he was acting more emotionally mature and like a teammate than she was.

Nodding dumbly Sakura knelt back down next to her companions and a collective sigh was heard. Turning their attention back to Naruto they felt their blood run cold as they watched Naruto do the unthinkable, and Sakura was forced to clamp her hands over her mouth to suppress the scream she felt in her throat. Horrified, they watched as Naruto raised his right hand above his left and then brought it down quickly, slamming it into his left hand and forcing the ball of chakra one third of the way into Hinata's stomach. The jolt of energy caused Hinata's body to jump briefly and she did so two more times as Naruto hammered the ball of red demon chakra all the way inside of her stomach.

Before any of them could react, Sakura had burst from their hiding spot hell bent on punishing Naruto.

"NARUTO!" she screamed, "How could you?"

The last thing she remembered as she cocked her fist back was Naruto glancing over his shoulder and a mixture of annoyance and concern flicker across his face. The next second there was a blur as something slammed into her chest, sending her rocketing back the way she came. Lucky for Sakura though, Sai and Kiba both caught her as she flew back towards them, but they skidded several feet back in a trail of dust and only managed to stay upright by focusing chakra in their feet. Not even a second after Sakura had reached her teammates was there an explosion followed by a soft rain covering the immediate area.

"That's it, we're going in." Yamato ordered and with that Yamato, Kiba, Akamaru, and Sai charged ahead.

"Are you sure this will work?" Naruto asked with concern.

"The hell if I know, but what do we have to lose?" retorted Kyuubi.

Naruto didn't say anything after that; he just performed according to Kyuubi's instructions.

"Don't forget, it has to be fast with no distractions or pauses." Kyuubi reminded him.

Naruto gulped. "Well, there's no holding back now."

With three quick hard hits Naruto pounded the chakra ball directly into Hinata's chakra coil in an attempt to jump start it.

For a few breathless seconds Naruto watched Hinata's unconscious face. Then, finally, her eyes slowly opened and came into focus.

"N-Naruto?" she whispered quietly.

Naruto let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding and smiled. "It's okay Hianta-chan, I'm here." he said softly. "You're going to be fine."

However, no sooner had the words left his lips did Hinata's face suddenly contort in pain and she screamed out in pure agony as her body began to spasm wildly. Before he could react though, an unpleasant voice reached his ears.

"Suiryūdan no Jutsu!"

Looking up quickly, Naruto stomach dropped as he saw the female water ninja standing thirty yards in front of him with her hands held together in the bird sign, the next second a giant dragon made completely of water formed around her and shot straight towards Naruto and Hinata. Unfortunately things got even more complicated when he heard a second voice behind him.

"NARUTO! How could you?"

Glancing wildly over his shoulder, Naruto's stomach dropped even further when he saw Sakura charging at him madly with her fist raised. Time seemed to slow down as the cross fire aimed at Naruto slowly closed in.

"Wonderful, not only does she want to kill me, but she's going to be in the direct line of fire from that jutsu!"

"Let's just take this one step at a time. Cover the Hyuuga girl, get your annoying teammate out of the way, then we'll kill that water bitch."

"Sounds great and all but I can't do two things at once!"

"Just cover the girl and leave your teammate to me." Kyuubi growled.

Naruto didn't have time to argue, the water jutsu was barreling down on top of him so he leaned over Hinata and pulled her close to him making sure to protect her head and neck and waited for the inevitable attack that was about to strike. Just before it did he felt four of his tails come up and cover his back and head while the fifth tail shot out somewhere behind him and smacked something away. Before he could ask what it was he felt the insane pressure of the jutsu crushing down on top of him drenching him and Hinata and causing water to spray everywhere.

Looking up slowly he saw that he and Hinata were now hunkered down in a small crater created from the pressure of the jutsu and they were now alone. Standing up shakily, he held Hinata close in his arms bridal style in the best protective way he could manage. For the time being, Hinata's screams of pain had subsided to whimpers.

"Hinata." He called softly looking at her.

Her eyes opened for a brief second and then closed again but it was all it took to cause Naruto to gasp in horror. Hinata's once beautiful soft lavender eyes were now a bright blood red color.

"Kyuubi!" Naruto hissed, "What the hell is wrong with Hinata?"

"There's no time to explain." Kyuubi said quickly. "She needs to get to the hospital now. At the most, we've bought her an extra hour."

Before Naruto could demand an explanation he heard another voice.

"Naruto!"

Naruto turned around quickly to see his sensei, Kiba, Amakaru, and Sai facing him all in slightly defensive positions.

"Yamato-sensei, what are you doing here? How did you find us?" he asked.

"It's okay Naruto," Yamato said slowly, "we're not here to fight you. We're here to help."

"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked incredulously. "Ah! I don't have time for this!"

Before anyone could move, Naruto closed the distance between himself and his sensei.

"Here," he said as he thrust Hinata a little unceremoniously into Yamato's arms, "she needs to get to the hospital now."

He could see the concern in Kiba's face and Akamaru whimpered lightly.

"It's okay," Naruto said reassuringly, "she'll be fine if you leave now. Sakura can monitor her on the way there. Speaking of which…where is Sakura-chan?"

The rest of the group looked at Naruto in surprise.

"You mean you don't remember?" Kiba asked.

"What are you talking about? Remember what?" Naruto asked scratching the back of his head.

"You attacked Sakura when she charged you only a few moments ago. We left her unconscious in the bushes back there." Sai said evenly.

"What are tal-" Naruto stopped short.

"Kyuubi…do you have any idea what they are talking about?"

"Heh, maybe." Kyuubi said with a slight nervous laugh.

"You mean to tell me that you consciously attacked my teammate?" Naruto's voice becoming dangerously poisonous.

"I didn't have a choice!" Kyuubi yelled in exasperation, "We were crunched for time so I got her out of the way as fast as I could. Granted that it was a little hard but the bitch did kind of deserve it."

"I don't give a shit! You should have been gentler!"

"Well if I hadn't there would be a good chance she wouldn't even be here boy." With a huff he receded from Naruto's mind.

"Naruto?" Yamato asked with worry evident in his voice.

Scratching the back of his head Naruto smiled sheepishly. "Sorry guys, but if I didn't get her out of the way then she would've been hit by the jutsu. I guess I got caught up in the moment and was a little rough." Then his voice and face turned serious. "But right now I need you to get Hinata-chan to the hospital."

"First I want you to explain some things." Yamato said with authority. "I'm still your sensei and I want answers."

Hinata, who had been silent for the entire conversation, suddenly yelped out in pain and whimpered loudly while trembling.

"In case you haven't noticed, Hinata is in extreme pain. She needs to see a doctor immediately." Naruto said as the frustration in his voice rose.

"I can see that and we will just as soon as you explain yourself." Yamato retorted slightly irritated.

"But she is in serious trouble!" Naruto yelled as his anger began to creep back.

"I can see that, but first you're going to quickly answer some questions of mine."

"I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT YOUR QUESTIONS!" he screamed as the demon chakra swirled around him and his tails began to sway more violently back and forth. "Right now I need you to get her to the hospital! I promise I'll explain everything to you when I get there!"

Stunned silence was the only thing to answer Naruto as the group stood there staring at him in shock. The only thing heard was Hinata's whimpers and finally Kiba broke the silence.

"Come on sensei, let's just get Hinata to the hospital. I trust Naruto to explain everything when he gets back."

Yamato was quiet for a moment and then sighed. "Okay, but just this once."

"Thank you, sensei, now please hurry." Naruto said relieved as he began to turn around to leave.

"Naruto." Yamato's voice stopped him in his tracks.

"Yes sensei?" Naruto asked with his back turned.

"Just this once I'm letting it go. If you ever speak to me again like you just did there will be consequences."

Naruto's shoulders tensed, not in fear but in anger, his fists clenching together tightly. "Just get her to the hospital." he said with a strained voice and started to walk away.

"Don't worry, we will Naruto." Kiba said with determination.

"Where are you going?" Sai asked.

Still walking away, Naruto raised his hand to his mouth and wiped away the blood that was still on his chin. Without turning around he spoke, his voice now dark and laced with venom and his body radiating killer intent. "To go even the score."

In the blink of an eye Naruto had vanished before the group.

"God, that kid can be scary sometimes." Kiba exhaled.

"No," Yamato said with as much fear as admiration in his voice, "that man can be scary sometimes."

With a collective nod they quickly gathered up Hinata and Sakura and made their way quickly to the hospital.

Shinsui's brain was going crazy as she raced through the forest away from her opponent. Not only had she lost her partner, but she now had to report to Madara that her mission was a complete failure. She sighed and picked up her pace.

"Madara-sama is not going to be pleased with this." She said to no one in particular.

"No he isn't." A voice rang out through the trees.

Shinsui skidded to a halt and immediately went into a defensive position, straining to sense where the voice came from.

"Then again," the voice continued, this time closer, "I'll make sure you don't have to tell him."

Looking up above her, she saw her target standing on a tree limb twenty feet up in the air.

Shinsui smiled. "Not bad brat, I didn't think you were still alive. But now you are all alone and nothing can stop me from completing my mission." "I still may be able to call this a success after all."

Naruto smiled back at her evilly causing Shinsui to take a slight step back.

"That may be true." he said casually, "But, I came prepared this time."

With a sudden burst of energy the red chakra cloak enveloped him again and the five tails flailed freely behind him.

Shinsui chuckled. "You think that can stop me? I know what you're capable of and in that form you have no hope. You caught me off guard once but it won't happen again. I will beat you"

Naruto smirked at her and for some reason that was enough to silence the forest around them and cause Shinsui's confidence to fade.

"I doubt that." Naruto said quietly. "But as I said, I came prepared just in case."

With that he raised his right index and ring finger vertically out in front of him.

"Release!"

In an instant, Naruto's demon chakra seemed to calm down and become more placid. Around his eyes orange circles appeared and his eyes themselves now had a horizontal slits as well as a vertical slits.

Naruto smiled again, this time full of confidence. "Allow me to introduce the nine tailed sage mode."

Shinsui couldn't move. She was actually afraid, her actually afraid of this boy. "No," she thought, "This is no boy. I don't know what he is."

Up in the tree Naruto stared down his opponent, no, his prey. His anger had pushed him to the edge and he was near the point of collapsing. "My sage mode will only last five minutes and judging from how much chakra I pulled from Kyuubi that only has about five minutes left as well. I need to finish this thing quick."

Digging deep, he prepared chakra in his legs and quickly flashing his smirk again he pushed off from the limb and closed the distance between the two in less than a second.

Shinsui jumped back just in time to doge the devastating blow that left a crater where she once stood. Without even looking at her, one of Naruto's tails shot forward and wrapped around Shinsui's arm. Before she could counter it, it slingshoted her back towards Naruto who was waiting to deliver the finishing blow. Closing her eyes, Shinsui tapped into her bloodline limit and at the last second she turned her chest into water and drew her blade out in front of her just in time to feel the water explode out her back from the impact of the blow.

Opening her eyes she expected to see her blade sunk to the hilt in the jinchūriki's chest. What she saw instead amazed and shocked her. Naruto's hand never actually touched her; in fact, it was a good five inches away from her chest with the tip of her sword just poking his chest.

"H-How?" was all Shinsui could get out.

"That's the beauty of natural chakra. When in sage mode I can manipulate it to be an extension of my body."

In one quick motion he disarmed her and then had three other tails grab the remaining arm and legs. Shinsui tried to use her bloodline limit again to get out of the imprisonment but she couldn't. Instead, all she felt was a burning numbness spreading throughout her limbs.

"You bastard! What have you done to me?" She cried out desperately as she struggled to free herself.

"And that," Naruto said with an evil smile, "is the beauty of the Kyuubi's chakra. It's rather, how do I put it, unrefined, rough, and unfiltered. To put it simply, the Kyuubi's chakra is like a virus. It is invading and overcoming the chakra in your limbs making them completely useless."

Shinsui felt a shiver of fear run up her spine causing Naruto to laugh.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you." Naruto said rather unconvincingly. "You still have a promise to keep, all that information up there in your head could be very vital to me and my village. So…" Naruto trailed off as he slipped his hand into his pouch and pulled out a seal tag. "…I think I shall accompany you back to my village so I can personally introduce you to the head of our interrogations department."

With that, Naruto slapped the sealing tag on Shinsui's forehead and she immediately went limp. No sooner had this happened did Naruto's demon chakra and sage chakra flicker out causing both Naruto and Shinsui to collapse to the ground.

After catching his breath, Naruto slowly pulled himself to his feet, slung Shinsui over his shoulder, and began to run back the way he came. The only thing on his mind now was a lavender eyed girl fighting for her life, and he was going to make damn sure he would be there to do anything he possible could to help.