Neglect

Chapter 9

So after reading Fire & Ice by Neonzangetsu, I went and saw the movie Frozen and I must say, it was pretty awesome. Saw one thing coming and it was the villain. The Song, Let it go, was pretty good, the best song in the movie to be honest. Now…I kind of want to do a Naruto/Frozen crossover myself, but I don't know what to do for it. Oh well.

Also, I want you guys that is will be a little bloody near the end, so yeah, far warning.

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Juugo felt….odd as he leaned up against the tree that Fu had back handed him into. He felt power from the tree and he felt that it was watching him specifically. Before he could get up to help Naruto, he felt himself go frozen and his mind go blank.

Juugo opened his eyes again to see he was in a grassy field but with the same he had been leaning on in the middle of it. There was also an old man in the clothes of a monk sitting under the tree with a serene look on his face.

"Who…who are you?" Juugo asked.

"I have no true name my young friend. I am simply a being that exists. However, I must apologize for my old stigma that you carry around in your body." The old man replied sadly.

"What do you mean?"

"Your ability to take in Nature Chakra has been hampered by my old self, when I was an Evil Tree. Your clan was dubbed the Cursed Clan because they worshiped him and I made them go insane when they gathered Nature Chakra. That is what made them outcasts in this land. However, as we fed on each others insanity, it attracted the attention of a Clan of Purifiers and they cured me, but decided not to cure your clan, feeling it was already to last for you."

Juugo looked sad at that. That seemed like his life. No one giving him a chance…except for Naruto.

"But there was one boy, who was connected to nature and I helped him. With his power, he was able to create a whole forest." The old really smiled at that part. "Still he saw a chance to help your clan despite his own place in that warring era. He courted a young woman of your clan but it was not meant to be as your clan was forced off the continent. Still, he managed to help your clan since you are his descendent and I am about to help you as I helped him."

"How?" Juugo asked in uncertainty. He really did want this, but he was not sure it could really work.

"Simple, drink this." The old man replied as he brought out a bowl of water from behind him. "With the purifiers gone, the people of this village call it Hero Water. It is my gift to them to protect themselves. However, what I am giving you will take away the taint and give you powers similar to the boy I mentioned, after all, you have his blood in you. Now drink the Nature Water."

Juugo tentatively took the bowl before quickly downing the liquid, hoping for the best. At first, nothing happened, but as he was kicked out of that field, he felt his body burn. No. It felt worse. It felt like he was burning alive!

"ARGH!" Juugo screamed as he felt the nature chakra entering his system and burn away the darkness that he felt as insanity. Then his body began to change. His orange eyes took on an emerald green, his air waved like the wind as it extruded power. And finally, skin took on the appearance of wood.

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Shibuki panted heavily as he stared at Suien. He had though that his teacher was a fair and honest man, if a bit too realistic. Now, now he just saw a power hungry man that had hurt his friends! He knew he was a coward, but this time, he would use his teaching for his friends!

Shinbuki ran forward, momentarily forgetting that he stood a chance again someone with the Hero's Water, and sent a punch at his old teacher.

"Feh, too slow weakling!" Suien shouted as he dodged the punch and then kneed the boy in the gut, knocking the wind out of him in a harsh way. Then, Suien brought both fists down on Shibuki's head, knocking him out.

"Shibuki!" Two voices rang out, making Suien look to see who spoke. Sneering, he saw it was Shin and Kaeru.

"Oh please, you think that Kirimaru's distraction helped, then you're wrong and if you think you actually stand a chance then you are stupid!" Suien declared when he saw that Kaeru and Shin were nearly on him. He merely ducked under Shin's punch and the came up with his water sword technique in a diagonal slash, putting Shin down for the moment. He then followed up with a fast and powerful punch to Kaeru's gut, knocking the wind out of her pretty bad. Jinchuriki or not, that hurt pretty bad.

"No, you are the idiotic one. Betraying your home for something stupid like power." Naruto sated as he walked up to the group. "You had a great life here with people that looked out for you. So what if you thought the place was weak, you could have gone another way to remedy that."

"Feh." Suien growled out as he listened to Naruto speak as Fu walked up next to him, further angering him. How had he returned her senses?

"He is right." Juugo stated as he too walked up to the group in his new form.

"What the fuck? Oh so a new form for your Cursed clan eh?" Suien taunted but the thing was, he felt Juugo's immense power and was unsure if he could take it with just the Hero's Water under his control.

"No, I have been purified by the tree and I am now one with Nature in this form." Juugo commented, making Suien curse.

"So give up now." Naruto demanded.

"Please, do the right thing." Shin gasped out from his position on the ground, trying not to bleed out as he laid next to his unconscious son.

"Fuck you! I always thought you were weak! Too weak to take what we need from the larger villages." Suien barked out before he brought out a vile of golden liquid. "With this, we can go past the Hero's Water!"

"What is that?" Fu asked, immediately on guard as the power inside that vile felt familiar.

Suien gained a crazed looked as he smiled at Fu. "You of all people should know girl. But I guess you really don't. See, the people of this village would rather ignore your very existence, but that is a mistake! Your power can be used in a different way!" Suien then gestured to the vile again. "This 'nectar' was formed from the excess residue of your demon's chakra that seems to just leak out of your one certain days."

Fu eyed the vile with distaste now.

"Yes, your power…will save us all from the pathetic existence in the ninja world!" Suien shouted a she uncorked the vile with his teeth before downing it himself. The power of the Hero's Water, mixed with the power of the 7 tails rang through his body, making him stronger. However, it brought noticeable changes to his body. The veins around his eyes lit up with red as his own eyes shone brightly. His muscles bulged and ripped through places on his skin. Finally, two deformed wings shot out of his back in a bloody shower. "Argh! NOW DIE YOU WEAKLINGS!" the man shouted in a twin voice of rage and hate.

"Well, that is not good." Kaeru groaned as she joined the group.

"No, it is not." Naruto growled. "Ranmyaku Zenshin!" Once again a dark red aura exploded around him. Naruto's eyes turned red with an animalistic quality about them and he gained the same whisker marks on his cheeks that his siblings had, but they were far fiercer. Finally the aura itself felt dark with emotions such as hatred and anger, but mostly anger. Plus, there were dark lightning like strikes running along his frame every now and then.

Kaeru nodded as she saw him power up to be handle Suien's new power and it seemed that would need to as well. With a nod to Fu, they both went one tail in hopes that it was enough.

Suien just smiled cruelly, thinking they couldn't defeat him in this form, especially after the glowing veins around his eyes expanded to the rest of his body. He felt even stronger! What he didn't know was that the two powers with in him were actually killing him. Humans could barely stay alive with the Hero's Water and normal people couldn't handle the power of a Tailed Beast's chakra. So with then both in his body, it amped his body to the peak, but it would come at a price.

With a laugh, the man rushed the four genin with the speed of an S class ninja. Utilizing only Taijutsu, he managed to bang them up pretty badly. Still, Kaeru and Fu did pretty well. They dodged and weaved as best they could, but they were limited in their power use.

Most people thought that all jinchuriki could handle all the power of their tailed beast right from the start. But that was false. They were like most people, adapting over time. But, there were people who forced the Jinchuriki to use all of it and they often lead to their deaths and the deaths of all the people in area. So Fu and Kaeru were still getting used to their Tailed Beasts' power.

Naruto watched carefully as the two fought Suien's monstrous form and shook his head, not because of the stupidity of the battle, but because of his anger. The Chaos Drive made him often act like a wild animal. But he needed to win this battle!

He watched as Juugo came in from behind, but the man's deformed wings batted him away, but that is when he saw it. The wings shook a bit and cracked. That had to be his weak point. That had to be the reason why his wings looked so bad.

"Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto growled out and then slammed his hand on the ground. In a poof of smoke, a young looking monkey appeared. However, it looked different from Naruto's other summons so far. This monkey was obviously a girl and looked almost human. She had a red battle jacket with skin tight black pants and a bow tied scarf on as well. Finally, Naruto noticed the red and gold tipped bo staff.

"Naruto? What's going on?" The girl asked, noticing the fight and how her summoner looked a little different.

"Diplomatic Mission gone to hell, Sonson. I need to your help in taking this guy down. My teammates will be quickly overwhelmed soon."

"Well then, let's make sure they are positively whelmed." Sonson badly joked, making Naruto sweatdrop, even in his anger fueled state.

Naruto was right though, even if Suien was deteriorating, his strength kept and quickly took out Kaeru and Fu, who dared not to bring out another tail in case they lost control. Juugo seemed to be keeping his own, but it looked like the battle was taking its toll, still not used to his new form.

Juugo was wacked over to Naruto and he said, "A little help would be nice."

"On it," Sonson replied, catching Juugo's attention. "I need you get him into the air."

"I can do that much." Juugo stated as he rushed Suien again. However, he came up sort from actually hitting the monster man and instead punched the ground, making his tree like hands fuse with the ground before it exploded underneath Suien, a tree stump of sort catching him of guard and knocking him in the air like Sonson had wanted.

"Fuusetsuzan!" she cried out as she jumped up, drilling her staff into Suien gut, before hitting him multiple times, mostly in the head and chest to keep him daze.

Despite being powered down to not go berserk, Kaeru and Fu saw a chance and took it.

Kaeru took out Zabuza's old blade, making a slash motion in the air as a wave of chakra flew out. "Chakra Blade!"

Fu held out her hand and a swarm of beetles appeared as she fused both her chakra and her tailed beast's chakra within them. She then threw the swarm at the man alongside Kaeru's attack. "Beetle Explosion!"

The result was a pretty large explosion that seemed to stun Suien, making him fall to the ground, back first, just what Naruto wanted. "Perfect!" Naruto growled as he held a rather large swirling sphere in his hand. "Dust Style: Swirling Energy Ball Canon!"

The large ball of dust energy struck true and it grinded on his back. The energy engulfed his wings, seeping into its very being before disintegrating to nothing as if they were never there. That was when Suien regained himself and disengaged himself so the rest of him wouldn't be destroyed.

That was when Naruto saw his mistake. The wings were not just weak point. They were what was hold back a lot more power and keeping his body from deteriorating even more. Realizing his mistake, he shouted for Sonson to get back to her realm before it was too late. She did so, very reluctantly after a glare from Naruto. She now knew he was just looking out for her.

Suien roared as his body was suddenly racked with pain and his mind broke. The full might of the human body was now his to control, but he would soon be dead because of that. Human's were not meant to use their full strength AND a massive amount of demonic chakra.

Not even noticing this, he smiled and rushed Fu and Kaeru, slamming them into the ground to knock them out, making craters under their bodies. As he did this, his skin all fell off.

Next, he punched Juugo, creating a trench in the ground and Juugo tried to stop his body from going too far. Suien's back then exploded in a shower of blood as the muscles ripped open.

Juugo tried to get back up, but then he noticed that his body was back to normal, his power with Nature had worn off. "NO!" He panicked before he saw a shadow overcome him and his world went black when Suien's foot kicked his skull into the ground, his leg now exploding in a gore shower.

"Shit!" Naruto growled. That event had happened to so quick that he barely had time to help his teammates. Before he knew what was happening, he felt a fist in his gut, instantly knocking him out of his Chaos Drive and onto the ground, gasping for air and slightly comfused with the man's arm muscles exploded.

"Weak fools. I am god in this form." Suien spoke calmly, the power clouding his pain receptors. Otherwise, if he had them, he would be on the ground in absolute pain. "Now die." Suien stated as he brought his fist down to crush Naruto's skull.

However, he never not a chance to because in that moment, a blade of lightning exploded out from his chest where his heart would be. Finally, thing came into focus for just a moment for Suien. The power quickly disapated and he felt pain. So much pain. With his skin gone and most of his muscles ruptured, all he felt was an earth shattering pain as he left out a silent scream before his fell to the ground next to Naruto, dead.

Kakashi was left standing, face full of rage as he stared at Suien's dead form. "Trash." He muttered before he turned his gaze to a shocked Naruto. "You ok?"

"Yeah, what happened to you?" Naruto asked weakly as he sat up and winced.

"Suien hit me with a paralyzing seal. What he didn't take into account was that I know a few things about seals, but I guess not enough to get out quick enough to stop a lot of the pain you guy went through."

"Ugh, no one is perfect." Naruto groaned as he held his stomach in pain. That punch could have and by all intents and purposes, should have killed him. He was luck to be alive.

"Come, let's make sure everyone is ok." Kakashi replied as he help Naruto up.

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Five days later, we see Shin with a heavy bandaged chest, Shibuki to his right, and Fu to his left. Fu looked a little better than Shibuki, but still tired looking They were at the waterfall entrance outside of the village seeing Naruto's team off.

Naruto looked fine, if not a little beat up. After all, he had stay back somewhat to come up with a plan. Kaeru's wound, like Fu's, had healed up, but she still looked tired. And Juugo was the worse off. His head had split open from Suien's powerful kick and he was lucky that it just didn't cave in at the time. So it was heavily bandaged.

Kakashi sighed as he looked from his students to Shin, Shibuki, and Fu. During their rest time. Naruto, Kaeru, Fu, and Shibuki had become good friends, despite Naruto still wanting to be alone. They had all rubbed off on each other in same way and that made Kakashi and Shin happy.

Juugo was another story. They quickly found out that Juugo' clan used to live in Waterfall and that they had a bad history. However, Shin and Shibuki accepted him, but they were unsure how the rest of the village would take it. After all, the Cursed Clan had become their boogie man. While accepting Fu since she help save the village, Shin was frightful of what would happen if Juugo was revealed.

"Well, I guess it is time to go." Kakashi replied. The mission might have been an epic fail when it came to diplomacy since worse came to be and it was all a ruse, but they had won in the end.

"Yeah, and Juugo, please keep what I said in mind." Shin stated, making Juugo nod as he held onto a very old looking scroll. The scroll detailing his family's past and their jutsu that could be converted into his new Nature form.

"Heh, I guess we'll see you later." Kaeru replied. "Do you think you will be at the chunin exams?"

Fu shook her head. "While I may be strong, I still need some work. This last battle taught me that. Plus, I don't have a team."

"Oh, right." Kaeru replied sheepishly before a smile crept on her face as they began to leave. "Oh and good luck you two!"

"What do you mean?" Kakashi asked.

"They got feeling for each other." Naruto replied with a half smirk.

"Yep and they confessed after they woke up." Kaeru replied dreamily while also thinking about her and Naruto.

"Good for them." Juugo replied

"Yeah." Naruto said.

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Back in the village, Minato sighed as Kakashi had explained to him about their recent mission, with covering up Naruto's Chaos Drive just in case. Kakashi explained that Naruto had done pretty good and got a 'lucky' shot in with the wings.

That info made Minato slightly happy that his son was being useful, but soon, he felt that he needed to be angry at the boy for making things worse, however, fought it just a bit and smiled.

"Good, but just think more the consequences next time Naruto." Minato stated, making everyone's eyes widen at the fact that Minato didn't out right berate him. Minato noticed and inwardly nodded. There was something wrong with him, that was for sure.

"Alright, I am bumping it up to A rank like I thought it would be. Kakashi, please give me a written report later. Dismissed."

As the group left, Minato left out of his chair in pain. "The fuck is going on!?" He had been fighting this hatred for his son ever since he left on that mission and he had been wracked with pain.

He knew for a fact that should hate his son and he could not really figure out why he even did other that his subconscious tell him that it was Naruto's fault that the Kyuubi was released by that man. It was all Naruto's fault for being alive at that moment in time.

"Why?! Why should I hate him for that?!" Minato raged as he felt his chest hurt.

"Because I told you to. I need you to keep on hating him my dear." A voice rang out both inside his head and in the room.

"What? Argh!" Minato grunt before falling unconscious as black lightning raced along his body.

"I am losing control….damnit." The voice replied as he walked out of the shadows to reveal themselves as Kushina, but with a different. There were black streaks in her hair, her eyes were demonic red, and she had a black aura around her. "No matter, the deed will be done at the Chunin Exams and then I can leave. I have gathered almost enough Hatred from these people. I just need a little more!"

With that, 'Kushin' closed her eyes before becoming normal again and collapsing next to her husband.

Something dark was about to happen soon and that meant things were going to get worse.

A lot worse.

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Ok, I am ending it right now because I am tired. Plus, I would be getting into the next chapter anyway. Now, we finally see Minato fighting the Parasite's control over him. In the Chunin Exam Finals, the gravity of what he has done will give him the need to push to keep it out of his head. We also see that Kushina is NOT in control at that point.

Next time, we are going to the chunin exams…finally!

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