Alright, the last little part of the Naruto vs. Ino fight. Ino had just smashed the memory tablet and Naruto is now using his Fox powers, but the Five Pronged Seal will soon be messing with Naruto's power.
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"Yohoho!" normal speech
"What!" thought/mind speak/ books, journals, etc.
"Boo!" demon speech
Chapter 7: Raging Pain
Ino looked at the golden fox before her as it made an offer to show mercy if she ratted out Uzume. "Don't listen to that trickster demon, Ino," shouted Uzume, "just fight him so we can get all his secrets!" Ino steeled herself as she ignored the feeling in her heart. Foxes are known to be tricksters and 'Naruto' could really just be the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
Ino rushed forward in an attempt to stab Naruto, only to miss as the golden fox leapt into the air and whipped Ino on the back with his tail. As Naruto landed, Ino kicked him in the face causing him to slide back from the force. Naruto wiped the blood from his mouth as he glared at the platinum blond, before rushing her again, this time, scratching her in the stomach.
"Why did you listen to Uzume when you attacked me?" asked the fox as he turned to face Ino, "Was it because she's the Hero of the Village and should be given everything she wants while I get the abuse? Or are you just a simple tool for her to use to hurt me like she did over the years with most of the other students? Or just like my father, you, yourself, are a hostage forced into doing what you heart is telling you not to do?" Ino watched as Naruto talked to her and circling her, like a hungry predator. Why did she listen to Uzume? Naruto had never really attacked her straight forward, but opted to counter her moves. Now Ino had two lashes from the fox's whip-like tail and claw marks on her leg and stomach. Why did she have to listen to Uzume?
"I'll give you one last chance Ino," said Naruto as he sat on his haunches and stared at Ino, "Surrender and tell me who put you up to destroying my father's memory tablet and I will show you mercy and a second chance; continue to fight me and I won't be as forgiving as I will be towards the asshole who put you up to it." Ino hesitated. Should she surrender and rat out Uzume, or get the same punishment as Uzume would? Ino was conflicted between her heart and her loyalty to Uzume as Naruto continued to stare at her.
Kushina was still in the tower when she heard the commotion and Kakashi had called for her. She went to where Kakashi and the other two members of Team 7 and saw Ino and a large golden fox in the arena. "Where's Naruto?" Kushina asked and Kakashi pointed at the fox as he decided to tell Kushina what had happened. Kushina was deeply upset at what Ino had done to the gift she had given Naruto for his shrine, but she was glad that Naruto had given Ino a chance of mercy if she told him who made her do such an act.
Ino was about to surrender when Uzume interrupted her. "What the hell are you doing?" screamed Uzume, "Beat the living crap out of Naruto so we can learn everything about that freak and his powers! Or do you want to be an outcast like him!?" Ino's loyalty kicked into overdrive and threw her kunai at Naruto, only to lightly cut the side of the fox's face. "So you've made your decision," said Naruto as his tail reached into his weapon pouch and got out an orange sphere and swallowed it, "I'll show you that all pain can never be fully healed."
Naruto stood up on his hind legs as the claws vanished as his hands and feet were now covered in the golden fur with the fur on his hand reaching all the way to the floor. His face returned to its normal human shape, save for the ears on his head. "What I just used was a special soldier pill called the Rumble Ball that amplifies my powers and giving me new forms of my Fox/Human powers," said Naruto, "This is my Tao Form; it amplifies my jutsus to where I just have to think about them and I can use them."
Naruto raised his arms, causing animal-looking hands to appear from the mass of fur, and pointed the palms at Ino with the kanji for 'fire' glowing on the palms. "Fox Style: Twin Fox Fireball Jutsu!" said Naruto as fireballs flew from the matching symbols on Naruto's palms. Ino barely dodged the fireball as she ducked for cover, only for one of the fireballs to singe her skirt.
Naruto was about to go for another attack, but a sharp pain in his stomach stopped him. Damnit! Naruto thought as he clutched his stomach were the seal was at, That seal must be interfering with my chakra. I need to be careful. Naruto couldn't move in time before he took a kick to the face from Ino. "Guess you should have gone to the bathroom before the fight," Ino taunted as she threw a few kunai at Naruto. The human/fox hybrid was able to dodge them as the kanji on his right hand changed to 'chakra' and said, "Fox Style: Fox Energy Spear Jutsu!" A beam of energy shot out from Naruto's open palm and it was a direct hit as Ino was knocked down to the floor. The silent victory was short as Naruto felt the pain of the seal become worse.
Ino watched as Naruto clutched his stomach with one arm while one of the symbols then changed to the kanji for wind. "Fox Style: Fox Whirlwind Jutsu!" said Naruto as a gust of wind flew from his palm and pushed Ino farther away from him. He's so powerful! Ino screamed in her mind as she pick herself up, only to see Naruto down on one knee holding his stomach. It must be a side effect of that Rumble Ball, Ino thought as an idea entered her mind, Time to see what a second one will do.
Ino summoned two clones to hold Naruto in place, using the excess fur on his arms to wrap his palms and hold his mouth open. The real Ino then walked towards Naruto and grabbed a Rumble Ball from his weapon pouch. "I wonder what happens if you took another one of these right now," said Ino, ignoring Naruto's struggle. Naruto tried to focus his chakra to burn the fur holding him, but the pain from the seal was getting worse as he tried to concentrate. He couldn't even change his shape as the same seal was messing with his powers. Damn you Orochimaru! Naruto thought as he tried to physically shake Ino's clones off, tearing tiny strands of his fur off.
"Ino don't do it!" cried Kiba with fear in his eyes, "You don't know what a second one will do to him! I've seen it and it's too much for Naruto to handle! Let him go!" Ino ignored Kiba's pleas and shoved the soldier pill down Naruto's throat and the clones closed their prisoner's mouth to where Naruto had no choice but to swallow. "Time to take your medicine," said Ino as she watched Naruto's eyes roll to the back of his head, "Demon Brat."
The Ino clones vanished as Naruto fell limp, and as Ino and the proctor was about to check on Naruto, the boy's body began to convulse and grow at a violent rate. Naruto's clothes were completely hidden as golden fur cover his exposed body and nine tails grew from behind him; three tails had cherry blossoms floating about, another three were made of wire, and the last three were just bones. Naruto's body was twice the size of the Yamanaka flower shop and just one of the tails was actually able to demolish the statue and rip the screen of the wall. Now complete, Naruto was now a smaller, golden version of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and with each roar, a monstrous amount of Haki erupted from the fox.
Ino looked at the monster before her and realized the mistake by releasing a skull-piercing scream. The monster turned its head to face Ino with emotionless, empty eyes and cocked back a fist. Before Naruto could throw his punch, Gai had kicked the beast in the head and made it relent. "RAAAAAOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!" roared the beast as a large amount of Haki launched from its throat, knocking out most of the competitors out. It soon slammed one of its wired tails to the ground and the whole building violently shook and the beast showed off its power.
"RAAAAAOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!" roared Naruto as clouds formed around him. Ino regained her courage and rushed towards the beast before her, only for it to grab her with its hand. Ino took out a kunai and stabbed the hand that had her in its grip, only for the attempt to make the beast mad. "RAAAAAHHHHHH!" roared Naruto as Ino was assaulted by a barrage of lightning bolts. Screaming in pain, Ino felt her body shake from the electricity and looked into the emotionless eyes of the beast.
Now grabbing Ino with both hands, the beast squeezed the small kunoichi causing ribs to break. "Naruto stop!" said Ino as she coughed up blood, "You don't have to do this anymore, I forfeit!" Those words fell on deaf ears as Naruto threw Ino into a wall as a sickening slam was heard upon impact. "RAAAAAAAOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!" roared the beast before it started to attack the other competitors.
"Why's Naruto attacking everyone?" asked Kakashi as he revealed his Sharingan eye. Minato could only watch in fear as Naruto continued his uncontrolled rampage as the jonin senseis and proctors began to fight Naruto. What in Kami's name had happened!? Minato thought to himself, stunned by both the beauty and the destruction caused by the beast…his son.
Kushina looked at the rampaging beast…no…Naruto and saw the terrifying power that one little boy could possess. She saw lightning spark spontaneously in the air as tails appear from the floor and swing around. Kushina soon saw ANBU rush towards Naruto, only to either be launched into the wall by a finger that had stretched like rubber or become pin cushions as storms of senbon launched from Naruto's fur. She even overheard Kiba saying that Naruto isn't in control as the second Rumble Ball had caused him to lose his mind as he had to hold Hinata back. She then saw the blood dripping from Naruto's mouth and realized something: this form was using so much energy that it was killing him!
Kushina steeled herself and ran towards Naruto, hand seals flaring. "Kushina, get out of here!" said Minato as he Hirashined next to his wife, "Naruto isn't in his right mind!" Kushina flashed the last hand seal as golden chains began to wrap themselves around Naruto's body. "Our baby boy needs our help," shouted Kushina as she added more chakra to help hold her child in place, "can't you see that his body is tearing itself apart!" Minato wasn't sure about what to do as he watched his son struggle in the chains and more blood dripped from the fox's mouth. Hoping to slow Naruto's rampage down, Minato used a genjutsu to try to put the beast…no…his son to sleep and to his surprise, his idea work as Naruto began to fall asleep.
Both parents carefully approached the giant sleeping fox in awe and fear. "How do we reverse this?" Minato asked out loud, before Hinata approached the Hokage. "You need to get him in water," said Hinata, "His body weakens in water." Kiho had recovered from his fight and overheard Hinata and took out a scroll. Pumping chakra in it, the scroll exploded as water flooded the arena. Weakened by the water, the giant beast reverted back to Naruto's human form.
Both parents rushed towards their fallen son as Kushina pulled Naruto from the water while Minato used his Hokage robes to cover Naruto. Kushina carefully picked up her son and gently rocked him back and forth as she whispered comforting words in his ears, taking him to the hospital. "Lord Hokage," asked the proctor as he and everyone elso took note of the destruction, "what should we do?" Minato looked at everyone and saw the distraught looks on their faces. He then saw Ino in a crumple heap in a puddle of her own blood, but she was still alive. This is going to be hell for a while, Minato thought as he made his decision.
"The last few rounds of the chunin exams will continue," said Minato, "I'm going to launch an investigation as to the reason why this would happen and why Ino and Naruto were involved. Until further noted, neither Naruto nor Ino will be allowed into the final part of the exams for medical and psychological reasons respectively. Now, I'm going to check on my son." After Minato had left, everyone looked at Ino as she had completely lost it and then at Uzume, thinking she had a hand in this. Kakashi went to where the shattered pieces of the memory tablet rested and then studied the destruction. Naruto, thought Kakashi as he looked at the destroyed arena, I wish you can find peace with your inner monster.
Naruto walked around in complete darkness as he walked on the Thousand Sunny in his mind. The ship was beautiful, but now there was graffiti all over it with words like 'seal' and 'restrict' that symbolized the added seal on him. Naruto soon found the hallway leading to each of the individual rooms the Straw Hat Pirates had, with the exception that the normal wooden doors were now replaced with steel bars and a fog-like residue.
Naruto was then violently pulled off of the grand ship and into the murky water. The blond struggled, only to see the same writing on him and he was being pulled deeper and deeper. Naruto tried to change the scenery, but he couldn't as the seal was messing with his focus. The seal was draining his power!
Naruto soon stopped and was tossed back onto the Thousand Sunny as everything became clearer. "Naruto," said Robin as she hugged the blond lovingly, "that seal was messing with not just your chakra, but our powers as well." Naruto returned the hug, glad to see his family again. "Seems like that seal is vanishing," said Zoro as he watched some of the writings disappear, "Someone had to have removed it." Franky threw his fists into the air in his signature pose and said, "That means Naruto is back to his SUPER self!"
Naruto was glad that the stupid seal was off as he began to fade. "Seems like I'm waking up," said Naruto as his body slowly vanished, "Talk to you guys later." After Naruto vanished, the Straw Hats knew of what was coming next. "Everyone felt that power, right?" asked Sanji, "Kid must have gone Demon." Robin looked of the side of the ship as a large scroll appeared before her. Soon Naruto, thought Robin as she added the Straw Hat's Jolly Roger on the scroll, you will have the power of the Thousand Sunny at your side.
Naruto has finally went Demon from the overload of chakra provided by the Rumble Ball. I also decided that if Naruto was going to lose control, whoever was in his path was in for a lot of trouble. Yes, Naruto will be able to summon Thousand Sunny to his side, but you will not see him until his big fight with Gaara.
Ja Ne
