Chapter 10: Kyuubi's true power

Madara could only look down at the bodies that now littered the ground around him. The unmoving corpses that stained the ground with blood. Kyuubi unwillingly was forced to lick the blood off her claws, the blood of all of Naruto's friends. Madara smiled and walked on over to the Kyuubi.

"With your power, I will be unstoppable." Madara said touching her shoulder. "You should have known better than to…" Suddenly her form melted as if butter left out on a record hot day in the tropics. The remnants sank into the earth and vanished from sight. Madara was about to question what happened but then saw Naruto with blood dripping from his mouth talking to a small glow coming from his wrist. Madara frowned. "So you're still alive then?" Naruto struggled to his feet, every fiber of him was tingling from blood loss and his vision was blurred. He looked at Madara who was standing before him. As he weaved on his weak legs, he remembered a promise he made to the third hokage long ago…

First Arc: After the Mizuki incident.

After all the ninja had been de-briefed from the incident. The third hokage and Naruto sat in his office with a privacy seal set at max.

"I know Naruto-kun that tonight has been very stressful for you I know, but I need to know what you learned from that scroll." Naruto still had dried tears from his eyes as he sat pouting as if he had done something wrong and was unfairly punished. "Naruto-kun please answer me." The third said kindly. Naruto's eyes rolled over the old man. The old man had always been kind to him, never once raising his voice or telling him he was a demon. He was the first family he had ever known.

"You worried the big bad Kyuubi no Kitsune read your secret scroll?" Naruto mocked. Naruto knew he had never implied that but now that the secret was out there was no stopping it. "THAT'S why everyone hates me ISN'T IT?" Naruto screamed at the third with tears remerging from his eyes. "ISN'T IT?" The old man sighed and smoked his pipe. As he blew the smoke into the air, the third thought to himself.

"I'm afraid so Naruto-kun. You see long ago when the Kyuubi was sealed the Fourth made a decree that you should be hailed a hero, but unfortunately they don't see it like that. They see it as the fourth was killed and because of that in the grief they mistook you for their source and blamed it on you. In fact I think you're a hero. You bare this massive burden and yet the will of fire burns stronger in you more then anyone." Naruto upon hearing his words began to cry, not in tonight's events, but at the compliment at which the old man gave him.

"Kage bushin." Naruto mumbled through his tears. The old man remained still for a moment.

"Was there anything else you learned?" It took Naruto a moment for him to battle himself over what to tell him."

"I didn't learn anything else, I didn't have time…" The third knew that he was hiding something.

"But…?" Naruto stood silent. "Naruto-kun I really need to know…"

"But I looked and tried to learn all of them!" The old man's pipe dropped from his mouth. Naruto felt thousands of pounds of guilty pound down on him as he watched the old man's face. The room remained quiet for ages. No slight movements at all as Naruto and The third just stood there, frozen in time. Finally the third's face began to slowly return to normal, it reminded Naruto of ice slowly melting. The old man picked up his pipe and placed it into his mouth. He took the biggest hit he could take and spoke calmly.

"Do you know how to do any of them other than Kage Bushin?" Naruto shook his head.

"I only knew that one before HE found me." The old man sighed.

"So you do not know any other jutsu from that scroll?" Naruto looked off to the side as he thought some more then turned his head back towards the old man.

"I don't know how to do any of them but why does it matter?" The old man stiffened up and Naruto immediately noticed. In a very firm voice the old man spoke.

"Naruto, you will not look at that scroll again so long as you live." Naruto was stunned for a moment as the tone of the hokage. He knew the old man was serious.

"Jiji why? Kage Bushin is harmless and I can actually use it!" The hokage stiffened up more.

"Naruto, I will not repeat myself. There are some jutsus on there that are just high ranked because of their power or the amount of chakra they use, however most jutsus on there are forbidden because of the things they require. There are techniques that were once used that required people's lives to cast them." Naruto's eyes went wide and he began to shake. "I assume you saw the jutsu that was used to seal the Kyuubi no Kitsune in you?" Naruto nodded. "There is a reason that that is forbidden. It's because that technique requires your very soul to use." Naruto's thoughts raced faster than his conscious could interpret them. The hokage got up and kneeled down in front of Naruto. At first Naruto's body reacted as if he was in danger. Naruto didn't know what was going on until the hokage place both hands on his shoulder. "Listen to me Naruto. You must NEVER use these techniques. You understand why right?"

"I'll…d…d…d…di….die" The hokage nodded.

"Then promise me Naruto that you will never use them." Naruto's eyes filled up with tears as he jumped onto the old man crying into his robes.

"I swear on my life I won't." The old man wrapped him in a hug as he began to relax.

"It's ok Naruto."

End of Flashback.

Now Naruto stood face to face with Madara.

"Forgive me Jiji…" Naruto spoke. Madara raised an eyebrow. "Forgive me for I lied to you back then… and now I'm about to break your promise." Madara wondered what was going on; what was he planning? Naruto kneeled down and took off his sock and shoe. At the back of his heal he pressed and released a seal. Suddenly, 20 kunai lay in the dirt. Naruto began to throw the kunai at Madara. St first Madara thought that he knew Naruto was a bad shot but he was missing ever shot. Madara was about to laugh but realized that Naruto's kunai were flying in different directions and that Naruto had flung a few behind him and to his sides. Madara smiled when he saw the paper attached to each kunai.

"Your father invented that technique. I didn't know you could use it." Naruto let out a soft chuckle.

"I hope it works." Madara raised an eyebrow and Naruto suddenly released his sage chakra and his eyes went frog like. Naruto dashed forward and formed a resengan in his hand. He went through Madara who laughed until he realized that Naruto was smiling. Naruto jumped upwards pounding the tree bark and sending a surprised Madara flying. Madara quickly recovered from the hit and stood up to see Naruto there.

"I see you figured it out." Naruto looked down at Madara.

"Sharingan users are masters of illusion. You create a clone of sorts while casting genjutsu. The clone is different than any other clone I've seen before…. Except one other place." Madara smiled. He figured it out. "Pain was the only other person to use a technique like yours. Your clone and you share sight. My guess is that your clone is your special sharingan technique and that you are able to project an image of yourself in any location. The image shares all of its senses with you in real time."

"Then how am I able to attack? You saw it yourself many times? I'm astral and then I'm solid."

"You substitute. Your switch you and your illusion's place. Furthermore you take it a step further. You are actually able to reverse substitute or substitute the substitute with yourself. This allows the illusion that you are astral. I can't imagine how long that took you to master. In fact I'm surprised no one ever thought to use that. It's so ingenious in nature and yet so simple."

"Indeed." Madara spoke quite impressed. "How did you figure it out I wonder?"

"Because it's useless to hide behind your illusions, with nature chakra I'm able to sense everything around me including the real you."

"Well I'm impressed." Madara stated. "I'll tell you what boy, should you defeat me here and now I will give you your friends back." Naruto growled.

"What the hell do you mean by that?" Naruto doubted.

"That must be where I come in." Kabuto came out of the shadows. Kabuto did many hand signs in a second and slammed his hand into the ground. Suddenly (number) coffins appeared. Kabuto wiped the sweat off his brow.

"In exchange for your friends here!" Madara announced as the coffins opened and the dust flung into the air. Naruto stood there growling. After a few seconds…

"What is this some kind of joke?" Naruto screamed at them. Madara laughed.

"No joke these are your…" Madara looked at the coffin to find no one in them. "Where are they Kabuto? How dare you make a fool of me!" Kabuto backed off scared slightly.

"I assure you, they should have been in here! The only reason is that…"

"They aren't dead…" Said a familiar feminine voice. Madara looked all around but couldn't find where the voice came from. Suddenly Madara was unable to move.

"Shadow possession jutsu success." Shikamaru said from the ground as a bloody smile crept across his face.

"HOW?" Madara screamed angrily. All the bodies began to slowly rise to their feet.

"It was our plan all along; you let your ego get in the way." Shikamaru explained. "You see we knew you would use her like you did back then to destroy everything, however this time we were prepared. We let ourselves be beaten to a pulp and we let ourselves be injured to make the plan work."

"How would you have known Kyuubi was in control of herself or that she wouldn't have just killed you all were you stood anyway?" Shikamaru smiled.

"WE didn't… HE did." Shikamaru pointed to Naruto. Madara growled. "He told us to trust her because he trusts her. We did and as it turns out he was right. That trick apparently doesn't work on her anymore." Madara growled. This is not how it was supposed to end. No! It will not end!

"How does it not work anymore? It worked back then…What's changed?" Madara began to formulate his exit strategy.

"Who knows? Apparently you're not as strong as you think you are." Shikamaru bragged. Madara suddenly dropped his act. Everyone noticed he relaxed.

"I see… so Kyuubi no Kitsune is out of my reach then…" 'What is he up to…?' both Naruto and Shikamaru both thought. "Well then…" Madara closed his eyes. "I have no choice but to use…" Madara's left eye ripped open as he yelled "THIS!" Suddenly they all fell to their knees as it felt as though gravity became 15 times more powerful. Ino was the only one to fall all the way down. Everyone else fell to their hands and knees now as the pressure increased. "If I can't have her then I will make sure her host dies!" Suddenly Kyuubi came flying out of the trees in a rage. She slashed at him only to switch places with his illusion. Now that Shikamaru did not hold his shadow possession, Madara was free to do what he wanted. "Ah there you are…" spoke the illusion. "I give you an offer, come willingly or watch as your host and his friends die!" Kyuubi growled menacingly. She looked back at Naruto who was the only one strong enough now to remain on his hands and knees. She cared little for his friend but knew how much they meant to him. Suddenly Naruto collapsed on the floor and Kyuubi's heart sank.

"NARUTO-KUN!" She screamed as she dashed to him. However once she hit the area which was effected by the intense gravity, she slowed down immensely. Her once fast speed was little more than a run. She made it over to Naruto and checked his wounds. She heard his raspy breath and saw his wounds. These where normally very mild wounds, she made sure that nothing close to vital was hit, however because of the gravity's effect crushing his body, those less serious wounds were now critical. She began to heal him.

"Kyuubi-chan." Naruto spoke. Kyuubi placed a finger on his lips. Naruto watched as tears streamed from her eyes.

"I won't let you die." Naruto couldn't move her finger off his lips because he couldn't move what so ever. Instead he tried to speak through her finger.

"Kyuubi-chan, I love you." Naruto spoke.

"I love you too Naruto-kun."

"Kyuubi-chan…"

"Please don't talk your too weak to talk." Kyuubi's voice began to crack as she desperately tried to heal his wounds. The pressure made it extremely difficult. If she closed the wounds and tried to stimulate the repair from the inside, he could bleed out internally and cause more problems. If she kept it open, the blood would drain but because of the pressure any healing attempts would be slow. Madara watched and figured it out.

"So that's why you aren't affected…" Kyuubi growled at the mere sound of his voice. "You are in love…how absurd…a beast like you in love with a human… it's really disgusting. I wonder does he love you back or are you forcing him to love you? Is he that afraid of a creature like you that he pretends to love you?" Kyuubi tried to take the insults as calmly as she could but it was getting on her nerves. She needed to heal Naruto, there was no if ands or buts. She continued with her treatment. "Tell me something, how do you even fall in love with someone like that? Weak and pathetic… both of you." She slashed at him with her tails trying not to take her concentration off Naruto. Tears fell from her eyes as she was beginning to see the last of his wounds close. She begged for forgiveness.

"Please…Please forgive me for doing this to you." Naruto smiled up at her.

"It's ok Kyuubi-chan. I told you to remember?" Kyuubi's tears began to fall onto Naruto's body.

"I know… but still… I never want to… do that again." Naruto smiled and used what little strength he had to wrap her in a hug. Kyuubi at first just laid there with tears falling from her eyes. Before long she wrapped him in a hug. Meanwhile a certain Uchiha was getting pissed that he was being ignored.

"If you two want to be together… go…to…HELL!" He screamed as he increased the pressure yet again. Naruto groaned in pain as the pressure began to re-open his wounds as blood poured from them. Kyuubi, in fear of Naruto's safety, quickly formed a sphere around both of them using her tails and darkened the chakra to allow them to see out but outside couldn't see in. Kyuubi held her lover close to her as she made quick progress healing his wounds. Sweat appeared on her forehead as her tails now took the burden from Madara's attack. She breathed heavy as Naruto watched her work hard to keep him safe.

"I won't let you die." Naruto just lay there, silent. Kyuubi finished her healing but saw the look on Naruto's face. "What's wrong Naruto-kun?" She asked holding him close to her. Naruto thought on how to ask the question.

"Kyuubi-chan…" Kyuubi gripped him tightly. She knew something bad was on his mind. "I love you Kyuubi-chan. It's because I love you that I can't allow you to fall into Madara's hands." Kyuubi stood stunned at his words. He was planning on something. "I know Madara controlled you fully, even though you had some control, you still can be controlled." Kyuubi looked away for a moment then replied to his comment.

"So? I regained control. It means I can fight it." Naruto looked away.

"It means that you can fight it. But I think the only reason you kept control like you did was because I was there. If we got separated then he would make his move and get you."

"I wouldn't let that happen!" Kyuubi replied. Naruto took a deep sigh and wrapped her in a hug. She returned it this time and cried happy as she felt his warmth radiate from him.

"Kyuubi-chan, no matter what happens today, know that I love you."

"I love you too Naruto-kun." She nuzzled him and kept him close to her.

"and Kyuubi-chan?" Kyuubi was enjoying herself to much in his embrace to notice the small glowing from his arm.

"Yes Naru-kun?" Naruto steeled himself.

"If I don't make it… know that I love you and I want you to be happy." Kyuubi felt a strange turning in her gut.

"But I'll be there with you Naruto-kun." Naruto frowned.

"Forgive me." At this point Kyuubi noticed the seal active. She panicked and went to stop him. "Seal Kyuubi-chan." At the end of the phrase she froze as she felt herself being pulled back into the seal. She looked at Naruto's face just before she was pulled into the seal. After Kyuubi was pulled into the seal Naruto dropped to his knees and began to cry. He didn't want to endanger her. During his crying he felt this burning pain in his arm as he ignored it. The burning got hotter and harder to ignore and finally Naruto addressed it. He watched his arm as Kyuubi battled to get out. 'She must be pissed at me for doing this to her. I'm so sorry Kyuubi-chan. I don't want you hurt or used.' Suddenly a light erupted from Naruto's wrist that blinded everyone. When the light dimmed down, Kyuubi stood in front of Naruto. Naruto was shocked. How could she escape? When he looked for the mar on his wrist he didn't find it. He looked but up at her to see tears fall down her face as she fell to her knees and wrapped him in a hug. She gripped him tightly as she cried into his shoulder.

"Don't you EVER do that again." Kyuubi pushed out in between her tears. She stood before him not pissed or upset but sad. She grabbed him and pulled him close to her. Instead of beating him up like he expected she dug her face into his jacket.

"But…how?" Naruto asked looking down at her. Kyuubi wiped away her fresh tears and explained herself as she regained control over her emotions.

"My power and my will are one in the same. When I am angry so is my chakra. This was always my disadvantage. Whatever I felt is how my chakra reacted. Most of my life I was angry…and upset… and because of this my chakra was red and angry like me. I love you too much Naruto-kun so now my chakra is reacting to my emotions." Naruto didn't know what to say. Suddenly he noticed her chakra was no longer red, but a light pink. "My chakra is my will, and my will is what I feel." She repeated. "Do you know what I feel right now Naruto-kun?" Kyuubi asked softly. Naruto shook his head. "I feel love. I feel it coursing through my veins. I feel every fiber of my being crying out for you…I know you sealed me because you felt love for me. I could feel it inside you. Your father's second seal was to break when my chakra was this way." Suddenly Kyuubi turned her attention to Madara who was watching this whole ordeal unfold. "As for you. You no longer can control me!" Madara scoffed.

"We'll see about that…" Madara activated his mangekyō sharingan and tried to control her. "Kill him!" He ordered. She stood there with the same light pink chakra swirling around her. She scoffed. Suddenly her chakra wiped at him and straight at his eye. He tried to dodge or teleport but the chakra was too fast. With one blow, Kyuubi had taken out Madara's sharingan permanently. Suddenly he disappeared and reappeared just a few feet from where he was. Madara was panting and made his attack. Yuubi used two of her tails as projectiles but he just disappeared on contact and reappeared a few feet to the side. Madara cast a fire ball. Kyuubi dodged it with ease and before she could do anything he disappeared. She waited as he was no longer in the dimension so she waited to feel his chakra signature. She felt it come quickly behind her as she defended herself from fire balls raining down on her. Madara grunted as now his left eye closed, never to be reopened. Madara disappeared again. Kyuubi looked around as she waited for his next move. Suddenly she felt his presence appear and disappear a whole bunch of times. Fire balls from all directions closed on her. She inhaled, sucking in all the fireballs like spaghetti. She aimed at were his chakra signature was. The trees were incinerated on impact and turned to ash. Madara's signature disappeared again. He appeared to punch Kyuubi from behind but his hand sunk into her back. Kyuubi grabbed his arm and threw him into the trees. He disappeared before contact with a single tree could hit him. 'That's getting annoying. Too bad he couldn't close that eye.' Kyuubi thought as she awaited his next move. He appeared behind her again, predictable. She swung her arm at him and her chakra took form and stretched out to kill him. Madara dodged quickly as Kyuubi's claw followed him. Naruto formed his hand seal to create shadow clones but Kyuubi wouldn't have it.

"Naruto-kun, please don't get involved. I need to do this on my own to avenge your father and atone for what he made me do so long ago." Naruto understood and stood down. Meanwhile, Kyuubi felt Madara's presence get closer and blocked the incoming attack with one of her tails while one tail slipped behind and grabbed his foot. She slammed him into the ground as hard as she could, causing him to groan. Two tails latched on each of his arms. One more latched on his leg. Kyuubi smiled and bore her claws as she charged to end it all. Madara cringed as he had no choice now. Kyuubi's attack went right through him and he disappeared. She let loose a roar that caused most of the trees in the area to be nearly uprooted. She did the roar as long as she could, knowing he just used his last eye, she planned on making him waste it. However, he punched her in the face causing her to go flying. Madara teleported above her and began to flame the area that Kyuubi was knocked into. Kyuubi, however, preformed a flame attack of her own which not only countered but overtook Madara's attack causing him to be burned instead of her. He teleported out of the flame before it hit him. Madara smiled and watched as Kyuubi charged her special attack. The dark matter gathered in her mouth and was violently let go towards Madara. Madara dodged it with ease and threw Kunai at Kyuubi only to have her take the hit. She groaned in pain as her attacked ended. Madara smiled, a hit on her was a start. Kyuubi smiled and removed the kunai.

"Thanks Madara-teme… now you will die." Madara scoffed. She plunged her hand into her side, with the wound, and removed it stained with blood. "You ready to die?" Madara didn't have long left on his Inzagi and decided now to end it.

"Now we end this!" Madara screamed charging at her.

"Forbidden Demonic Technique: Poison Blood!" She splattered her blood all over the place and even on Madara who laughed when his Inzagi negated the death effect. Madara put his whole arm through Kyuubi's heart. Madara laughed as he watched her caugh up blood. Naruto went wide eyed. She couldn't die like that!

"Where's that high and mighty spirit now huh?" Madara said laughing. "The Kyuubi no Kitsune is no more!" He said ripping out his arm. He expected the next few seconds to see Kyuubi fall over but instead she stood. Madara's emotions went from laughter to anger. "Get down!" He said swinging his balled fist at her but stopped shortly after throwing the punch. Nothing stopped him. There was nothing there. Kyuubi smiled in triumph.

"Such a pathetic mortal fool. The you were never a match for me." Madara growled.

"How are you able to resist my sharingan? HOW?" Madara demanded.

"The sharingan is unique in that it's a rare bloodline that has the ability to "suggest" to the opponite what they should do. The sharingan in it's most powerful form like yours takes advantage of the hatred we Bijuu absorb. We harness the hatred and you use your sharingan to "suggest" how we use it. It's brain control. You put the ideas in our heads and now I am immune to it."

"How are you though? I don't understand! You should have been under my control…"

"Someone like you Madara could never understand the power that a female's emotions can be. Your "suggestion" is cancelled because the hatred in me that you manipulate has been replaced by my eternal love for Naruto. So think again if you think that I will turn on him. You had me before but now you cannot, no one can! I AM FREE!" Kyuubi bellowed.

"So what are you waiting for? Finish it." Madara spoke. "You won. Now kill me and have your revenge." Kyuubi speared her hand and slammed it down. Madara was expecting death but found she purposely miss next to his head.

"What will give me closure is able to watch as they torture you in Konoha prisons for the rest of your miserable life." Kyuubi said watching Naruto run over to her.

"Kyuubi-chan that was amazing!" Kyuubi smiled and looked at her hands that glowed with pink chakra.

"My chakra is stronger than ever. I have you to have for that Naruto-kun. Thank you." Naruto placed his hand on her shoulder as he smiled at her. She turned to meet his gaze. She saw his face, so sweet and with a big grin on it and smiled herself.

"I love you too Kyuubi-chan." He grinned brightly at her as she smiled back.

"My name is Kou. It's a name given to me long ago. I thought it was time you knew it. It wasn't a secret or anything I just remembered it myself." Naruto let out a smiling chuckle.

"Ok Kou-chan." She smiled sweetly at him. "What do we do about him though?" Naruto pointed at Madara who was still face down in the dirt, defeated.

"Our mission was to capture him wasn't it?" She smiled at him. Naruto was surprised, she was so different than before, and her chakra was warm and gentle now. She turned to Naruto's friends who had been lying on the ground watching all this. She scowled at them. "Don't worry I'll get to you guys now I guess." She didn't sound particularly overjoyed.'She still only nice to me I suppose' Naruto thought as he sweat dropped. Kyuubi lifted her hand and aimed it, palm open, at them. A light pink wave was emitted from her hand. As the wave passed over everyone, their wounds were healed and their scares and bruises banished. Each one of his friends stood up, including Kushina. Their wounds were gone and they felt like they just woke up from a 12 hour sleep.

"Thanks we'll take it from here." Shikamaru said immediately shadow possessed Madara and tied him up. With his eyesight gone, Uchiha Madara was no longer a threat. The fourth great shinobi war was averted.

"You may have defeated me boy…" Madara spoke to Naruto as he was lifted up. "but your true destiny lies in defeating Sasuke." It was true, Sasuke was still out plotting and trying to destroy the leaf village in hopes of avenging his brother. Madara, however, was put to an end. Kyuubi's true power was released though and now with her safe and the seal gone she was free. She smelled the air and looked at the scorched earth. She frowned. Naruto put his hand on her shoulder and she turned her head to him.

"I'm sure you could do something about this, right?" She forgot she showed him her other power before. She nodded and kneeled before the scorched earth. Suddenly, slowly a single flower grew from the soil. The flower grew and blossomed as pedals sprouted from the center. A small pod lay in the center. The top of the pod pealed back like a banana would and began to fling tiny glowing spheres all over the ground in the area. The wind took the tiny spheres all over the hellfire land. Kyuubi smiled and turned to Naruto and smiled.

"Grass will grow in 2 days, flowers will bloom in 3 weeks and trees will be fully grown in 4 months." Naruto smiled.

"So Kou-chan, don't you think we should head back to the village now?" Kyuubi nodded and they were about to leave when they heard someone clearing their throat behind them. Naruto turned because he knew who it was.

"Forgetting someone?" Kushina watched as Naruto stumbled to get his words out. Kushina sighed and walked past them. "Let's just go." Naruto and Kyuubi both walked hand in hand back towards Konoha. Everyone else had either left or was packing up. The mission was over and they had to report back. They began to head down the trail with Kushina beginning to ask tons of questions. "So… you and Kyuubi-chan huh?" The one topic he hoped to avoid was the first thing asked.

"Yeah, me and Kou-chan." Kushina looked at Kyuubi in disbelief. She didn't believe this would work out.

"Doesn't it unnerve you that she will live for thousands of years after you? After all she might get someone else after you're gone." Kyuubi's ears went back and a soft growl reverberated in her throat. She resented that comment. She got enough flak from other people but to imply that she would lose interest in Naruto was more than absurd.

End of chapter.

Next chapter: A new mother?

A/N: The next chapter may be the last chance to have a one shot with a woman.