Dante: RYE YOU BITCH!
I'm sorry! -cowers away from away from Dante-
Leo: WHY THE HELL DID YOU KILL KUSHINA FOR!
I-I- EEP! -Hiding from both Dante and Leo-
Night: Run... run right now or so help me whatever demonic god is protecting you, I will kill you...
Eeeek! GOTTA GO! -runs away before the guys can kill her-
Leo: Here's the warning and disclaimer... ALRYETAGORY! -Chasing her down with a chainsaw-
WAAAAAAAH!
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, then there would be Yaoi, a lot of it, and certain characters *coughs* Sakura *Coughs* would be used as target practice. But sadly I do not... *sighs*
Warnings: Yaoi, Mpreg, Violence, Language, Lemons, Character Bashing, mentions of rape, Non-con (not sure when) and Character Death (later on)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Kyuubi Tallking"
'Mind Link'
"Demon Language"
Chapter Six: Crossed Paths
Earth; Fernalis
2 Human weeks later
Winter had set in early this year, but Kyuubi had made enough pelts to keep themselves warm and to sell to those who needed them. Gaara learned the trade of tanning and selling the pelts he made from his uncle. Between the two of them they were able to repair the old house as well as stock up on plenty of food, meat they could get when Kyuubi or Gaara went hunting.
Naruto spent most of his time going to the temple and simply sitting their and listening to the serenity of the place or walking around the near by village that welcomed the little beauty with open arms. Naruto avoided the men that Kyuubi said were dangerous and to not accept anything from them.
"Hey there..." called a sly voice, one of the men happened to be very persistent.
"Hello Mr. Sai." He said, bowing his head in a polite manner before he kept walking the arm basket full of hot breads and pies that he wanted to stay that way until he got home.
"You are alone today... where is you guardian and the other one?" Sai asked, looking for the hooded man and the emo redhead.
"They are waiting for me and I don't want my bread or pies t become cold. Excuse me." He bowed a goodbye and began to walk much faster.
"Ooh, come now. Surely you can spare me a moment of your time... I merely want to paint you nude!"
Naruto froze, is face burning red with embarrassment as Sai stood before him smiling. The black haired male always was with a doll's smile, a frighteningly fake one, that made his narrow black eyes look similar to the Kitsune statues that marked the shrines of the fox spirits. Sai leaned in close, waiting for an answer and he got one in the form of a resounding sound slap to the face and being called a pervert as Naruto quick dashed off.
Once a safe distance from the village, Naruto took a pause to catch his breath for some reason his chest felt very tight. He took a few steps before he froze in place, his chest suddenly seizing up and his vision began to bleed black. He collapsed into the cold snow covered grown as thick fluffy snowflakes slowly began to fall anew, coating the land with a fresh layer.
"M- mother..." He whispered before blacking out, feeling the cold embrace of bitter sleep...
Earth; Kyuubi's Hut
Kyuubi had been standing in the door frame to the room that Naruto and Gaara shared, lost in his thoughts of back when he would come and watch his mate, heavy with child, speak softly to her swollen belly, singing lullabies and glowed with that light only a mother could glow with.
'This is torture... damn your mother, but I guess somethings even she can't make you forget.' He thought, closing his eyes, bloody tears welling up in his eyes.
He wiped the tears away, but gasped as he stared at what was suppose to be crimson smears on his hand that turned out to be black.
'Kushina? Kushina, what happened!' He called through the mind link they had, knowing that it wasn't Naruto. 'Kushina please answer me! Kushina- Arrgh!'
Suddenly his demonic energy and his instincts went haywire. He grabbed his chest as his breathing quickened, his eyes enlarged to the point they would pop from his head as his body began to twist and contort, morphing into his demonic form.
But he quickly fled the house and let out a heaven shattering roar of fury, anguish and regret as he transformed completely. Standing at his full demonic glory, he was as tall and wide as the palace of Cardesa,which was rather big. Nine majestic tails whipped the air furiously as black lips pulled back to reveal devil sharp teeth.
Black tears continued to fall, staining brilliant strawberry blond fur as molten red and gold irises surrounded in black stared with a madness beyond imagination at the heavens. He had felt it; pain and anguish and then nothing. He couldn't feel Kushina's life force anymore.
Roaring once more he took off, in a blind rage, for the mountains, he would climb to heaven and he would kill the one who took her from him...
Heaven; Fehra
"Remove the corpse," Ora growled turning away from the guard as he walked over to the duvet and bit back a gasp of shock and horror.
The once very beautiful lady of the house was all bloody and covered in wounds, bruises and what looked like knife wounds. Her face was completely distorted and swollen. He gingerly picked up the corpse, only to jump when Kushina coughed blood into his face, a raspy breath breaking through as she wheezed in his arms, a small hint of blue telling him that she had opened her eye and as looking at him before it closed and tears began to fall from her face.
"The lady is still alive! Quick summon a healer-"
"Let the whore die!" Ora growled, glaring at the guard. "She sleeps with anyone but me! Let her die like a common whore!"
"... No." The guard said firmly.
"What?"
"I said, No. I will not let Lady Kushina die! If you were an ounce of the man she married then you would know she has never once been unfaithful to you, but it seems you are far too damn drunk to know that you are hurting her and your son! Sir Kyuubi takes better care of them than you and he is only a demon..." Te guard hissed.
Ora growled and was about to attack when he noticed something on Kushina he never noticed before. Walking up to the guard, who quickly backed up only to hit the duvet as Ora grabbed Kushina's hair and pulled it off of her shoulder.
He had never noticed it before bu there was a scar right over her heart, as if she had been stabbed by a hunter's blade. But that's not what was strange. It was the the fox paw print like birthmarks just above her breasts. He touched one and felt a searing heat burn him as they glowed with dark demon magic.
"Witch!" He screamed, but dared not touch her again. "She's been sleeping with that demon!"
The guard stared at the marks and smirked. Kushina was gutsy to lay with a demon as dangerous as the one she brought to protect her son, but he knew these marks he had seen the demon place them on her when she bound with him the day of Naruto's christening.
"That's the binding mark, you fool. Even if Sir Kyuubi has removed his limiter he is still bound to Lady Kushina and if she dies, so does that bound and if that bound is broken then he may turn wild once more and kill you son... you nearly killed him now by doing such a thing to your wife... think about what you will tell his majesty when he hears that the very demon you sent to retrieve your son killed him because you killed your wife out of jealousy..."
with that the Guard turned and ordered that a healer be summoned and carried Kushina out of the room and into the servant's quarters where she would be safest from her abusive and ill mannered husband. But the damage was done, word quickly spread that Ora accused his wife of adultery and nearly killed her over his own drunken misgivings.
The fires were blazing and now anyone who saw Ora without Kushina would hiss spite and mistrust of Ora wherever he went. Word even reached Danzo and he frowned, looking at the servant that had told him of the gossip he heard when he went to fetch Danzo's favorite wines.
"Prepare my horse! I'm off to see Lady Kushina..." The servant did as ordered and Danzo growled. Ora's temper was waning on his patients. The man had better not have laid his hand on his wife.
'I will not have him in my trusted circle if he abuses his wife...' he thought. 'I will need her to manipulate her son... His demon will be killed as soon as they return. I will have absolute order!'
He walked out of his palace and mounted his Pegasus and took off for Ora's home. As soon as he touched down he walked up to the door as the healer was leaving, the elderly saint gasped and looked at him as if he were looking at death.
"what are you doing here?"
"I- I was summoned... L- Lady Kushina-"
He didn't stay to listen he stormed into the mansion, bellowing Ora's name as the servants all bowed and scurried out of his path.
"Ora, you oaf! Where are you!" He bellowed, the heavens turning black as thunder roared loudly, stormy winds ripping through the clouds and affecting those down on earth, but he didn't give a damn.
Ora, who had polished off three more pitchers of honey wine, looked up bleary at the fuzzy image of Danzo with a scowl.
"Whaa!" he slurred and glared at him.
Danzo was tempted, oh he was greatly tempted, to smash the fools head into the stone table that sat between them.
"You hit your wife? And accused her of being an adulterer!"
"The bitch won't sleep with me! She's fucking the damn demon!"
"..." Danzo sighed and walked around, grabbing Ora's blonde hair he slammed his face into the stone table a few times before pulling him up and looking boredly at the bloodied face. "Why would she sleep with the demon when she has shared your bed for the last 18 years? Think you damn drunken fool..."
"... B- bastard..."
"Huh, at least I don't hit a weak woman." he dropped the fool and crossed his arms. "If Kushina has truly cheated on you then where is the demon's mark? Demon's mark their property."
"Her chest... paw prints of that damned beast..." He hissed, holding his aching face as head head began to pound from both the alcohol and the bashing Danzo gave him.
Danzo narrowed his eyes. 'Paw prints? That's for bindings... stupid drunk mistook the binding marks for the demon claiming a mate...'
"Where is she?"
"Don't know... ask my traitorous staff." he hissed glaring at the servant that were looking into the room.
"Girl, where is your Lady?"
"The servants' quarters, my lord... We moved her there away from the brute." The girl said, glaring at her lord as he sneered at her.
Danzo ordered her to take him to see Kushina as the others went back to their duties, giving cold and dirty looks at their Lord...
Danzo thanked the girl as he walked into the room. A team of servants were just laying Kushina onto the bed when they noticed him. They quickly covered the lady and bowed before leaving. Danzo stood at the door, from this distance he could see she was badly hurt and would be in pain for days.
Her body was nearly completely bandaged from head to toe, her hair was messy and her normally healthy skin was a sickly pale with garish black and blue bruising all over. He noted that a cushion had been set between her legs and he could only guess that Ora in his rage raped her.
"Lady Kushina?" He called, she twitched and turned her head, but her eyes would not open, swollen shut. Her lips as well.
He could see Ora's hand prints on her neck where he strangled her and the imprints of his rings on her face where yellow salve had been placed to prevent infection since they could not cover those areas with bandages. He walked over and took a small stool and sat on it.
"My Lady, I am hear to find out if you have been sleeping in with any besides Ora..."
She moaned, lips parting only a hairs with to let out a small no.
"Then you are not sleeping with the demon?"
He got no answer this time and noticed that she had fallen asleep. The Saint must have given her a sedative to help her sleep through the pain. So he carefully stood over her, begin careful not to touch her wounds as he looked at her chest. There was a scar and above it just above the start of her breasts where the paw like birthmarks that came with the binding. Those were the only demonic markings he could see so he knew now that Ora had foolishly lashed out in drunken fury.
Getting up after recovering the injured woman with the blanket he walked out of the room, the servants bowed and entered setting to work taking care of their lady as instructed by the healer before he left.
Walking back to Ora's study, he snatched the sixth pitcher of wine from the fool and threw it at the fireplace, making the white flames blaze in protest before settling back down.
"You fool! You left her in such a state that she can't even talk! She was not sleeping with the beast! Those marks are for binding!" He took hold of Ora and shook him hard and then slammed him down on the table, pulling out a crude looking blade and slamming it into the table beside the man's throat. "Now you will listen to me you drunken mule! You are going to stop drinking and you are going to find your son! If Naruto does not come home of his own free will or the demon refuses to return him, then use his mother! And for that she needs to be ALIVE!"
"But- but she would never come near me again!"
"Then you'll have to figure out how to get her near you. We have the finest medicine makers in all of the Realms..." He told him, smirking maliciously as his eyes got wide with realization. "I'm sure one of them is willing to make you a drug to dope her with. She'll be too high and drugged to know that your will is not her own and if we use a potent one on her we can use another on your son so he won't refuse me a second time."
"Drug them?" He asked in disbelief, and a bit hopeful as well.
"Yes! Drug them! How do you think I've bedded so many gods and goddesses? I sure as hell didn't waste my time and effort wooing them!" Danzo hissed. "Now pull yourself together and move it! I have a meeting with the council regarding your actions towards your wife and you position in my court."
"..." Ora paled, he knew he wouldn't be moving up after this unless Danzo showed him mercy and lied to get him out of the hole he dug himself into...
Earth; North of Fernalis
He moaned, he felt warm, but he was also very sore. Turning his head towards where he smelt the fire burning, he tried to open his eyes, but they felt heavy, almost glued shut. After a few tries he blinked them open, the room was dim and the objects inside were all fuzzy with the haze still over his eyes from sleep.
"Ohh? Are you finally awake?" asked a kind voice, making the boy jump.
Naruto sat up and pulled away, falling off the bed with a yelp but he backed into the corner of the room as his vision cleared and he stared at the human standing in the room holding a tray that had soup and medicine on it. He wasn't sure if the man intended harm or not, but he would be wary.
"Please calm down... I'm Father Iruka." The man introduced himself. "I'm currently traveling with others to help those who need it and we came across you. You were collapsed in the snow and suffering with hypothermia. We almost lost you and weren't sure if you would recover."
Naruto blinked. The man was wearing robes of the cloth, but none that he recognized. The high collar had fine silver trimming and it hugged him like a glove, the rest was a deep blue, almost black with strange designs, also in silver, decorating the torso. As soon as the robe got to the mans waist it became loose and had four slits, one in front, two on the sides and one in the back.
He was sure that no priest of any of the gods, angels or even the saints wore such dark clothing. But the man was kind and his aura was pleasant. Naruto looked up at his face and noticed a large scare of the bridge of his nose, but it did little to take away from the warm glow of his face.
"There's nothing to fear, I'm not going to hurt you... Could you tell me what happened?" He asked, having come to kneel before him, setting the tray of food before Naruto and sitting back on his own knees with a piece of bread, nibbling lightly on it.
Naruto quickly sat up properly, even if he was sitting on the floor, and thanked him for the meal before taking a bite of soup. It was simple, chunks of potatoes and carrots, flavored with spices and chick stock, but it was still delicious. After a couple of bites Naruto wiped his mouth and cleared his throat.
"I-I was walking home when I felt this pain in my chest... I couldn't breath and everything around me became black. I didn't even realized I had fallen over... Oh no! My guardians must be really worried!" Naruto panicked, his hands flying up to his head and pulled on his hair, but he hissed in pain when he tugged on something that felt too soft to be his hair.
"Easy! Easy, you're going to rip your ears!" Iruka cried, quickly pulling Naruto's clawed hands from his head and then gently looking over the abused ears, smiling when Naruto purred and nuzzled into the soft hands touching said appendages.
Then it clicked in Naruto's mind what Iruka has said. His eyes shot wide as he shakily touched his own ears, but instead of the rounded shells that he was use to, they felt like Kyuubi's ears, twitching at every little sound, perking up and flattening or swiveling back and forth. He jumped when something soft brushed over his arm and he caught it an gasped when he saw it was a fox tail attached to his own body.
"Wh- what happened to me! Why do I have fox ears and a tail!" He asked, eyes wide as he looked around his body and nearly screamed when he saw more than one tail. "What did you do to me!"
"No, nothing! I didn't do anything... please calm down! We found-"
"We?"
Iruka held his hands up in a calming gesture, but it only seemed to upset the blonde foxling more. But before he could try again or even speak, the fire in the house turned black throwing both into darkness. Naruto screamed as Iruka pulled him close and looked around, his eyes wide and wild.
"I know you are here! Show yourself!" Iruka called, holding Naruto closer to him, sensing that they weren't alone.
Naruto whimpered, his ears perked up and swiveled in the direction of the sound he heard what sounded like a guttural growl. Whimpering he looked up and screamed when he saw a large darkness demon standing not too far from them. Iruka turned and gasped, pulling Naruto tighter against his chest as he backed away from the creature.
"Be gone! We have nothing of value to you!" He yelled.
"... But you do priest... that delectable... ripe... little godling..."
