Chapter 10: Kyuubi Wants Out

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After that one event, Hinata's faith and her life had been crushed. Her father hadn't made it easier either. Ever since his wife had died he seemed to blame Hinata for what happened. With a small whimper, Hinata started to cry. She tried not to, but it didn't help that her father had emotionally abused her during their "training sessions." Hinata laid down wrapped her blanket around her body and cried her self to sleep.

Naruto was ecstatic, he was sure he was going to graduate and become genin. In one night he had learned the Gokakyu. He hadn't mastered it by any stretch of the imagination, but he was proficient enough to not burn his tongue like he had the first fifty times. At sun up the next day Naruto lay exhausted on his futon, even though he had more chakra than most jonin, he had used it all up. He imagined his training spot would have been burnt to a crisp if he hadn't pointed his mouth at the edge of the cliff.

Naruto glanced at his alarm clock, and gave a sigh of relief.

'Whew! It's only one o'clock, I still have five hours until the start of the graduation exam.'

With that thought Naruto promptly fell into a deep slumber.

When Naruto came to, he was soaked.

'Not again!'

Glaring at the waves crashing upon him Naruto quickly scrambled of his rocky perch and onto dry land. Waking up too find himself soaked to the bone was really starting to annoy Naruto. He wondered what the Kyubi wanted this time.

"I want you to come over here Uzumaki."

Naruto turned around in the direction of the voice. He had expected it to be like last time but it seemed like Kyuubi had other plans. What he saw when he turned around surprised him, a lot.

Kyuubi was standing in front of him and instead of his menacing, and not to mention gigantic fox form, Kyuubi was in the shape of a man. He had a mane of crimson hair that flowed down to his waste. His outfit was an intimidating combination of red and black. The hakama pants he wore were jet black, almost as if it sucked in the light around it, and the haori he wore was the color of blood. Naruto glanced at Kyuubi's neck and saw something strange. It was a black leather band with the kanji's for "Death Seal" engraved on it. The band looked pretty restrictive too. Before Naruto could question the Kyuubi, he was broken off with a command.

"Follow me."

And for half an hour that was all Naruto did. It looked like Kyuubi had changed the direction of his place, because instead of going through the tropical rainforest, they went around it. They arrived at cliff jutting out into the ocean, and situated right on top of it was a old and traditional Japanese style house. It was made of wooden frames and the walls were made of a tough paper like material. Kyuubi slid the door open and Naruto followed him inside.

They both sat down in what he supposed was the "living room."

When Kyuubi turned to face him, he didn't even say anything. He just kept staring at Naruto with his slitted red eyes. For what seemed an hour to Naruto, they sat there looking at each other; it was starting to unnerve him. When Kyuubi finally spoke up, it was with a voice almost as deep as the one in his previous form; Naruto was almost startled, he had grown used to the silence.

"Why do you think you are here Uzumaki?"

'How am I supposed to know that?' thought a bewildered Naruto.

Seeing his confusion the lord of all kitsune spoke again.

"Think Uzumaki, what did I tell you the last time we met?"

Naruto's eyes widened, he remembered now. Kyuubi was going to talk to him about the second part of his "help."

"I gather you recall what I said, yes?"

The blond just nodded in reply.

"The last time I made a deal with you, only you gained from it.

Naruto gulped in apprehension, it looked like the pervert had been right all along; you don't accept help from a demon and not expect to give something back. Kyuubi wanted his due.

"To put it bluntly, it's my turn Uzumaki… I want out."

Naruto bugged out.

"Hell no! Even if I don't like the villagers, I promised Oji-san I wouldn't let you go free!"

"I will set myself free my little Jinchuriki, with or without your help, you might as well agree so it will be easier for both of us. And don't worry; your precious village won't be attacked."

Naruto stared hard at Kyuubi's eyes; he wanted to see if he could call Kyuubi's bluff. But what he saw immediately disproved that line of thinking. Kyuubi's right eye was raised as if daring him to not believe. It was intimidating to say the least. But he knew that the fox was serious. And anyway, what he really wanted to know was how the Kyuubi was going to free itself. Hadn't the Yondaime made his seal fool proof? Hadn't he made sure that the demon would never be able to escape? But then Naruto stopped himself, the Yondaime was only one man and no matter how strong a ninja he was, he was nothing to the Lord of all Kitsune.

"You want to know how I'm going to do it don't you? I planned this from the very beginning Uzumaki. Since the day I was sealed, I searched for a way to get out, make a jailbreak as you humans put it. And it came to me in a stroke of genius; why not use a demonic summoning seal? Your pathetic excuse for a leader couldn't possibly know of them and therefore he would not be able to counteract them. So for the first five to ten years of your life, I made a special summoning seal that would free me. I slowly but surely put one together, one that would counter act the Yondaime. Look at your abdomen Uzumaki and you shall see it."

Naruto heeded Kyuubi's words and sure enough, there was a summoning seal at the center of the original seal jailing Kyuubi. However, he wanted to know exactly how Kyuubi would make a new body.

"How are you going to make a new body? How is that possible?"

"I realized that once I freed my self I would need a new body, my old one was dead. But because of the Shiki Fujin I couldn't take yours, so I decided that I would make one. And it's simple really, I told you my chakra can make anything in your mind, yes? Using my chakra I will make the body of a fox in your mind. As the Lord of all Kitsune, I can add the fox I've created to the list of summons in the summoning seal. Once the fox is added, either you or I can summon it to the real world, but it will be easier for the both of us if you do it. As the fox is summoned I'll imbue myself into it. As an unfortunate side effect, most of the chakra I have left will go to you, but I will regain that chakra once I'm out. "

Naruto was no seal master, but the way Kyuubi had planned out his escape, it sounded fool proof. The demon fox was really going to escape his cage, with his help of course; but he couldn't believe how the fox made it sound.

Then, before Naruto knew it, the demon fox had his right hand in his abdomen! And even though it was his mind's body, it still hurt like hell. Strangely enough no blood was pouring out of the wound. Shocked, Naruto stared with wide eyes at kitsune.

"Wh, What are you doing?" He gasped out amid the pain."

Kyuubi stared back at him with a strange expression on his face; it was full of amusement and anticipation at the same time.

"This is part of my plan, don't worry it'll only sting for a little while."

With a flash of light, a fox started forming in front of him. The bones appeared, then slowly but surely muscles started to wrap around the bones, soon the thing was covered in red fur and a fox the size of a lion was staring back at him. The fox's eyes were eerie, for there was no life in them, just an empty shell. Naruto shuddered at the sight.

The kitsune gave out an amused chuckle.

"Mold chakra towards the summoning seal on your stomach, Uzumaki; I am anxious for freedom."

Naruto hesitated apprehensively, he could still do the right thing, but then he decided the right thing could screw itself, it never helped him before. He decisively molded chakra at his navel.

With that action, the expressionless fox and Kyuubi started to swirl into a red vortex. Picking up speed, the twister spun towards Naruto's navel where the summon seal was located.

"Sayonara for now, Uzumaki Naruto."

With another flash of light, Kyuubi and the fox were gone…

Hyuga Hiashi sat in his office, doing nothing really. He was supposed to be filling out paperwork, but he decided he would take a break from the pile that was in front of him. What he was really doing was thinking about today. Today was the start of the graduation exam at Konoha's Ninja Academy; but it was also the anniversary of his wife's death. His hands clenched tightly he thought about what happened. It seemed the events that day had been a blur, at least up until he saw his love's corpse on the forest floor. When his wife had knocked down his door to tell him their daughter was missing, it was like a frigid cold spear had pierced his heart. But before he could reply, she had already left…
Flashback:

The first thing Hiashi did was alert his brother, and then he checked on his younger daughter, Hanabi, he had faith that his wife could at least stall the kidnapper long enough for him or his brother to help. Hiashi's heart went in to overdrive as he used his Byakugan to check his daughter's room. He wanted to make sure she hadn't been taken away from him either. When he saw that his other daughter was okay, he darted out of the compound after his wife. For what seemed like an hour he jumped from tree to tree, cursing how far away he was from his wife and his eldest daughter. What he saw when he finally reached his wife, would haunt him forever.

Hyuga Hina was bent over the kidnapper, a blade protruding out her back. The kunai she had held against the kidnapper's throat landed with a thud next to her…Hiashi couldn't move, he couldn't breathe…But what shook him out of his trance was the cold laughter of the shinobi as he pulled his sword from her chest and leapt away. Bent over his wife, he took her pulse, desperately hoping that she was just unconscious, but she was dead. Her body was already starting to feel cold and lifeless. Seeing that his wife was already past redemption he looked around for his daughter. He spotted her, quickly appearing by her side, he checked her pulse to make sure she wasn't dead either, she wasn't.


A thud alerted Hiashi of someone behind him, immediately he turned around poised in the stance of the Gentle Fist. But it was only his brother, Hizashi.

"Is Hina dead?"


His brother, asked full of sorrow. Hiashi's wife had been like the sister he'd never had.


Hiashi only nodded.


Hizashi stared hard at his twin brother… it was as if they were in agreement of what should be done, with a curt nod Hiashi leapt after the kidnapper. Vengeance would be his.


Hiashi's eyes narrowed as felt the kidnapper make a break for Konoha's border … If he didn't catch up, the murderer would escape. Putting an extra burst of chakra into his legs he quickly caught up. With an even larger burst of chakra he leapt and back flipped over the kidnapper. Landing on his toes, and making sure he was dealing with the real thing; Hiashi immediately started his own form of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms. He ended his onslaught with a chakra strike to the shinobi's heart. In the span of five seconds, the shinobi was dead. Hiashi picked up the corpse and leapt back towards the Hyuga compound.


A few miles away, two dark figures stood on a rock bluff, staring at the moon. The shorter of the two spoke up.


"Did you succeed, Orochimaru-sama?"


The taller figure was wearing an ANBU mask carved in the shape of a snake.


"No Kabuto, thanks to that fool of a woman… But no matter, I gained some valuable information from the Hyuga Compound that I can use in the future… Did our disguised cloud shinobi fool the clan head?"


The shorter figure, Kabuto, had glasses, and he adjusted them as he answered his cohort.

"Yes, Orochimaru-sama… those foolish Hyuga and Konoha will never suspect a thing."


With a malicious smile on both their faces, the two figures disappeared in a whoosh of leaves.

That event had nearly crushed Hiashi's will to be clan head, he had even considered giving his position to his brother, but what happened later ruined any chance of that. The death of the cloud shinobi had occurred in the most inopportune time. For a few years Konoha had been at war with Kumogakure, but recently both sides had called for a cease-fire, a truce of sorts. But as soon as the Village Hidden in The Clouds learned of what happened to one of their shinobi, Kumogakure demanded that the body of Hiashi be delivered to them as compensation as directed in the terms of the treaty they had both signed. At the time, both sides had lost a lot of ninja; and Konoha did not want to start another war. So they did the only thing they could do, a certain someone from the Hyuga clan would have to be given up as a sacrifice.

The Hyuga clan clamored for a different solution, they did not want to give away the secrets of the Byakugan, but Konoha was backed into a corner , they had just recovered from Kyuubi's rampage and if they didn't give into Kumo's demands, their village would become a pathetic shadow of its former glory. Hiashi's brother, Hizashi, volunteered to be killed instead of Hiashi, thus saving his life. Hiashi was absolutely opposed to the idea of his brother taking his place and leaving his young son, Neji, but before he could prevent his brother from doing so, Hizashi disabled him in one blow. Hizashi told his brother that he was not doing it to serve the main house, but because they were brothers and doing so was his way of going against his fate. In the span of one month, Hyuga Hiashi had lost a wife and a sibling.

You would think that someone who lost his loved ones would be grateful for the remaining little he has, but that was not the case. Hiashi's daughter, Hinata, was the mirror image of his wife. Every time he gazed at his daughter, he would see his wife, bent over with a sword coming out of her back. It almost made him go crazy. So in his frustration, he did the only thing he thought he could do. He did not want to lose either of his daughter's; so he decided he would make them strong, stronger than himself. He would work them to the ground if it was necessary.

In their training sessions he would train both his daughters to exhaustion, but only Hanabi would get back up, Hinata so painfully like her mother, would hold back or never pull through. Every time he saw Hinata fall in exhaustion in their training sessions he would yell at her to get up, because anytime she showed weakness, he would see his wife covered in blood with a sword impaled at her chest, and it reminded him of his own weakness. This went on for years, and Hinata only got worse. Unlike her sister, she had no apparent strength or pride, she only had weakness. But today Hiashi would find out if his eldest daughter had the strength to become a ninja. After four years of attending Konoha's Ninja Academy, Hinata would hopefully graduate, because the graduation exam would commence in exactly one hour…


Terms & Jutsu:

ANBU: ANBU is an organization that serves under the direct command of their Kage. The term ANBU is actually short for Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai, translated: Special Assassination and Tactical Squad). The ANBU are similar to SWAT, a specialized unit in many American police departments, trained to perform dangerous operations. ANBU protect the village from exceptional threats, conduct high-risk missions into enemy countries, and deal with extremely strong ninja. They are also responsible for carrying out assassinations and missions requiring specially trained ninja.

The ANBU wear porcelain animal masks in order to distinguish them from normal shinobi and to conceal their identities. They also have standard uniforms consisting of black and gray armor, arm guards, and a signature spiral tattoo on their left shoulder. All ANBU carry Ninjaken, which are usually strapped to their backs, and they all know the layout of the human body in detail. Certain ANBU wear black cowls over their standard uniforms, and squad leaders may wear white cowls.

Kumogakure no Sato: "The Village Hidden among Clouds" is located in the Land of Lightning. As one of the five great Ninja villages, Kumogakure has a Kage as leader, the Raikage. In that past, Konohagakure and Kumogakure were at war, and during peace talks, the head ninja from this village tried to kidnap Hinata Hyuga to obtain the Byakugan. Hiashi Hyuga killed him before he could do so, causing the village to demand Hiashi's body. Its ninja specialize in lightning-based jutsu.

AN: The next chapter will be a doosy, at least twice as long as this one, so for all that think my chapters are too short…prepare yourself...

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