Chapter 4: Kyuubi to save the day!
10/10/16 rewritten, unbetaed
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The butterfly's way of flying is like teasing Naruto; it goes up so high he almost gives up and go back to Sebastian then it goes down almost to the ground and occasionally stop, resting on a low branch of a weed flower. In response to this the young boy pouts, making some spectators heart go "kyuun" and their cheeks redden. If only the butterfly has sense of adorableness, it will submissively come to the boy, because it wouldn't be immune to the ultimate-kitty pout of Uzumaki Naruto, a pout that even Sebastian the great demon, have a hard time resisting it.
But eventually, it came to a stop on a man's hand.
He is big, as big as his loyal companion, his buter, but shorter and wore ninja gears that unfamiliar to his eyes. Naruto doesn't know what to do. Sebastian always mentioned and warned him about stranger danger but because of his curiosity he cannot recall any of this. Moreover, this is officially his first time at confronting someone without Sebastian there to protect him should something happen.
He wants to come to the man to look at the pretty butterfly and to study him in more detailed, since he is now pretty sure that this man is a foreigner. But there's a chance of him being hostile and he can't just run back to Sebby and expect the man to leave him alone now that the man has seen him.
Then the man made his decision for him.
"It's pretty, isn't it?" the man asked with rumble in his deep voice, somehow reminding him of thunder from a distance.
Seeing as the man did not immediately attack him, the two years old boy replied, "Yes, may I see it, sir?" he asked politely, smiling, and missing the man's smirk.
Well, the man seems not bad, yet; even when Naruto can feel some unpleasantness about him.
"Sure, come here," the man smiled and gestured to him to come closer.
The boy then eagerly comes. The moment the butterfly is lowered to his eye level. Everything goes black.
Kyuubi is humming in his cage, busy drawing seals on the floor of his jail which surprisingly void of water ever since Sebastian moved Naruto to the mansion; he doesn't go poking the kit's memory or senses to know what's going on. He is very busy indeed.
'I'll be out of here in no time, and get at least my human form back…' he thought pleasantly, already imagining the taste freedom, something that denied from him in the past seventy years.
Evil laughs vibrating through Naruto's mindscape.
After some beating that intentionally or unintentionally destroy the stall whose owner gave particularly nasty look at Naruto earlier, the reaper finally gives in. He then told the butler about his 'job-relocation' and that really doesn't know about Sebastian being here, 'It was pure coincidence! Honest!'
However, he didn't expect the second round of beatings he gets from the enraged demon. He just saw Sebastian looking at his neglected groceries, and the next second he was back and resuming the beatings; his poor, poor face.
"What is it now?! I've answer your bloody question! I demand some respect as fellow immortal, curse you soul-sucking cre—Ugh!"
Sebastian chooses to ignore his outburst and resign to his fate with a final kick to the gut. "Because of you, now my Young Master is gone."
The reaper's ears perk up, even while lying helplessly on the ground. It was good that they're away from the main road lest anyone saw him in this pathetic state.
"So~, you can't ignore me, after all~," Grell said in sing song voice which not so appealing, even if you ignore the amount of dirt on him.
"You wish." Then the demon butler went off to start searching his Young Master.
"Wait me, Sebas-chan…!" The reaper then got off from the dirt and frantically looking for the butler.
'He got another pitiful human, eh…' the red haired shinigami mused; already anticipating exciting future, what with Sebastian around to entertain him.
The moment he regains consciousness, Naruto felt like a potato sack draped on someone's shoulder. The man's shoulder is kind of skinny and hurt his tummy badly, since the man is now jumping through the trees.
Apparently, the kimo-nin is lucky enough that he could get away from the patrolling ninja and got away with his prize. The Raikage's Council would be pleased as he got an Uzumaki. The Hyuuga heir was guarded, and he was caught in the act it was miracle that he can even escape to the market place to blend in for a while and it's just his pure luck to see the Uzumaki boy fascinated by his butterfly. And when the child was set to the ground by his butler, he knew it was his chance to 'guide' the brat to him. And knowing the brat, he wouldn't know what's happening to him, so he should be able to bribe him to be quite until he left this tree-hugging village.
Unbeknownst to him, Naruto, being a smart boy he is, he knows what's happening to him, he is being kidnapped! But that doesn't mean he knows how to proceed even with this fact. Fortunately he knows the consequence of not getting ready and sit quietly at four o'clock in the evening. He will miss tea time.
'If I can't get away now, I will miss tea time and Sebastian's delicious cake and cookies.'
With that thought; using the flexibility of toddler body, the boy bent his body to the point that will make Orochimaru proud, and bit the Kumo-nin's shoulder.
The man's yelp at the unexpected bite, and drop the boy harshly.
'What the fuck!' Is his thought seeing his bleeding shoulder.
"Yuckky! You tasted bad mister." The boy makes a face, clearly expressing the unpleasantness of his taste, and somehow it annoys the fake-kumo-ambassador greatly.
Naruto gets up, now there is distance between them. His arm hurts, as it lands first. But now, he is terrified. The man is angered. Even if he runs, the man is a ninja. And he will have no chance of escaping this man.
'Sebby… save me…' he pleads in his mind.
When the man's fully facing him, and ready to get his revenge, there is a red flash. And a man he really never expected now standing in front of him and cackling madly.
"Papa! You're here!"
"Papa You're here!" the relieved tone doesn't get unnoticed by him.
"Huh?" Kyuubi stopped his mad cackle and turn around to face the familiar voice of his kit. He can see that the boy is slightly out of wear with some cuts on his face and arm; and not to mention the dirt that covering him. Looking at the boy's is being hurt awakened something inside him that has been asleep for too long, a fierce protectiveness only reserved for his siblings long ago before they pick their own paths. In his mind, he pokes the boy's earlier memories and get even more enraged.
"How dare you laying your filthy hands on my Kit!" Kurama howled, his ruby eyes flashing.
But, the man seemed unfazed. No, he ignored him, The Kyuubi, a Demon Lord, and the lowly meat-bag ignores him.
"The Bastard!" He growled. And he then molds his youki, and fired a youki powered Fire bullets at man. But, the attack just flew through the man unfazed, unharmed.
Sudden realization stops him short. He can't harm the man. The question, why? But he doesn't get the chance to think, because he saw the man charge at his at him. At least, he thought so until another realization hit him harder, the man ignores him up till now, the man never see him, this filth is charging at his kit! His weak, undefended kit! Shit!
Before he knew it, the man is dangerously close to him, intent to hurt his kit. Then he used his body as a shield, since he can't think of anything else at the short amount time.
But, as he suspected, the man ran past him. Through him, to be exact. And he can't do anything as he saw his kit receive a vicious blow from the nin and make the small boy fly, knocking him out. Out of instinct he ran for the boy and caught him before he landed on the hard forest floor.
'What the—?!' Is the synchronized thought on both Kurama and the Kumo-nin.
Kyuubi, for he can actually touch and hold the boy. And on the Kumo-nin's part; for all he saw is the boy now hanging in mid air, in position like being held by an invisible being.
Sebastian runs through the forest, following the faint chakra signature of his little charge while trying to re-open his mental connection to Master Kurama. But he need not to search for long, for suddenly he feel Master Kurama's chakra signature burst past normal level, something that will alert anyone with demonic presence sensitivity to shudder.
'Kurama-sama must be out then…' he concluded, then change his direction to the youki source with Grell tailing closely behind him.
'What is this power? So strong, so… overwhelming…' Grell thought with dreamy eyes as he follows Sebastian to change direction. He even mimics the demon to cover his presence, though he can't really hide with his flaming red-hair.
Thus, both immortal creatures set off to rescue the masters.
-to be continued-
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