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Review: Chapter 10

Kyuubi bared his teeth in a demonic grin; finally he was free, he could kill anyone he wanted, and he wanted to kill the ninja right in front of him. They were Naruto's precious people, the people Naruto would risk his life for and the people Naruto cared the most for. He would definitely squash them, give them a most painful death, all while Naruto was watching from inside his conscience and could do nothing about it. He crouched low against the ground, preparing to attack, before lunging towards the ninja.

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Chapter 11: I Couldn't Do Anything

Shikamaru's team reached the village where Naruto's team was supposed to be late that night while everyone was asleep. Something worried Shikamaru; in the back of his mind he knew something wasn't right. The town was peaceful as could be, not a soul was walking around in the streets and he could hear the crickets making their peaceful melody in the moonlit night. He looked around him, scanning the area; the Kyuubi was supposedly attacking, there should be mass chaos in the area, but there was none. He and his team walked around the city and finally found the Daimyo's house where Team Kakashi's client had lived. He knocked on the door while the rest of his teammates stood restlessly behind him.

Silence.

He knocked again.

Nothing.

Shikamaru turned around and addressed the group, "Something is definitely not right; Kiba and Neji, you two take four ninja with you and search the perimeter of the house; send Akamaru if you find anything."

The two nodded and jumped away, out of sight.

Skikamaru spoke to the remaining ninja, "We're going to search the inside of the house, stay in pairs of two."

Everyone nodded before Shikamaru turned to the door and opened it, walking cautiously inside. He walked through the living room, it was clean and tidy.

'Nothing out of the ordinary.' He thought. He continued down the hallway with Shino and found the dining room, which surprised him a bit. There were seven spots set at the table, food still sitting on them, as if the owners of the said food instantly disappeared, leaving the food to rot. He also noticed a metal tray near the entrance to the kitchen that had been dropped on the floor. A glass tea set was shattered around it and a teapot that had a large crack in the side and was leaking green tea onto the carpet, soiling it. His face studied the room curiously, yet suspiciously. He walked toward the kitchen door and cautiously walked through.

'This is definitely not normal.' He though as he observed a destroyed kitchen; the faucet was running and the water had filled the sink and began to splash noisily to the ground; dishes were shattered and broken on the floor; the table and chairs had been overturned; this was defiantly evidence of some kind of struggle, though he had no idea why. He continued walking, passing through the kitchen and came to a door that led outside to the back yard.

'Now this is what we're looking for.' he thought as he saw cut ropes near the door and felled trees and upturned rock all around the yard. He noticed that some of the trees had been yanked out, some burnt to a crisp, and some destroyed into splinters and sawdust.

"Must've been some fight." Shikamaru commented to no one in particular.

"Naruto is still here." Shino dully stated as one of his bugs landed on his outstretched fingers, "She can taste his chakra nearby in the air, although it is mixed together with another chakra."

"Yeah, I guess that'd be Kyuubi's chakra." Shikamaru replied.

Bark, bark, bark!

Shikamaru and Shino looked to their right to find Akamaru running towards them. The dog stopped in front of them and then started running back where he came from, stopping and looking back every few seconds.

"Let's go." Shikamaru said as he began running in the direction of the dog.

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Naruto growled in irritation, "Ya damn fox! Let me out!"

Naruto grabbed the steel metal bars of the cage and shook furiously, when his hand accidentally slipped and he hit his head on one of the ginormous bars, hard. He growled again, clutching his now pounding head. He had tried, so hard to take control of the fox, but his chakra simply wasn't enough to overcome the fox's. Now he just sat there, sometimes standing and pacing, either way, he was doing nothing except watching the fox bastard fight his teammates. He could tell that the fox was only toying with them and knew there was no hope for his friends, so he watched, horrified as Kyuubi caught his first victim, Sakura.

"Hahaha." Kyuubi's voice echoed off the walls of the cage, "Watch, Naruto, as I torture your precious friends!"

Naruto did watch, he couldn't help but watch as Kyuubi's feral grin emerged and he slammed Sakura down to the ground and held her there with one large paw as he lengthened a claw, sharpening it with chakra, on his other paw and began dissecting the girl alive. She screamed; she screamed in agony and pain as her stomach and chest were deeply cut open revealing her internal organs; her intestines, her lungs, her heart. Kyuubi's grin, if possible, grew more wild and insane, fed by the girl's painful cry. He reached forward and touched the girls, quickly pumping heart, a heart that would soon stop with blood loss. The girl stiffened and stopped making noise, she could feel it, the demonic chakra enveloping her heart, creeping through her insides, she jammed her eyes shut, not wanting to see the end coming.

"Goodbye, Sakura-chan." Kyuubi stated maniacally. His chakra squeezed the girl's heart and her once closed eyes bulged open in pain as she gasped, her body trembled, and then she was dead.

Naruto looked away, he couldn't stand it; he let the tears fall from his face, it didn't matter anymore.

"Sakura, I'm sorry, it was completely fault; it was my fault, DAMNIT!!" His voice had started in a whisper rising in volume until his voice echoed off the wall like Kyuubi's had. "You freaking, damn, idiot!" He punched the wall of the cage with each syllable, not caring that his skin was bursting open with the impact and blood and began dripping from the open knuckles. He was only thinking of one thing, how he had been so weak as to let the demon fox take over and kill everyone.

"Ah, look what we have here, Sasuke's pretty little replacement; Sai, wasn't it?"

Naruto couldn't look, it was too painful. He didn't want to see how Kyuubi would torture the only precious people he had. He couldn't watch as Kyuubi tortured his friend as much as he could before they breathed their last. Kyuubi had other plans though, and forced Naruto to watch. Every time Naruto would tune out the second conscious in his mind, Kyuubi would force his way back to the front of Naruto's brain, forcing him to watch as he slowly pulled each limb of Sai's beaten body before burning him alive in a ball of fire. The screaming, the blood, it was all too much; Naruto thought he would go insane. Kyuubi made him watch as he finally caught Kakashi by throwing a kunai made of chakra through the man's hand and pinning him to a nearby tree; Kakashi held down a painful yell, instead focusing on Kyuubi, or rather the person he knew was still conscious within Kyuubi.

"Naruto!" He shouted as Kyuubi slowly approached, grinning ferociously, "Naruto, I know you can hear me!"

Naruto could; he saw his sensei's panicked demeanor, he heard his teacher's panicked voice.

"You have to take control, you have to stop Kyuubi!!" He screamed.

Kyuubi laughed lightly as he lowered his face to meet Kakashi's, breath hot against Kakashi's skin.

"Silly human, Naruto may still be alive, but it's useless, he hasn't the power to do anything." He smirked and he stood back up to his full height. "Now," Kyuubi thought tauntingly, "What should I do with you?" He paused as an evil and amazingly splendid idea popped into his mind, partly because it was what Naruto kept repeating for Kyuubi not to do. "Good idea gaki, I think I'll do just that!" Kyuubi reached down and grabbed Kakashi's body, yanking his hand off the tree. "I was getting quite hungry and I'm sure you'll make quite a nice snack."

Kakashi's eyes almost jumped out of his head in terror. He screamed as Kyuubi slowly stuck the jonnin into his mouth and chewed.

"Mmmm, this chakra has a very nice, rare flavor." He licked his claws, although there was nothing on them. He looked towards the last remaining ninja, Nobuyuki; he had already killed all the other ninja in the village, he had wanted to save the best for last.

Nobuyuki's body shook in fear, he couldn't think, couldn't move, couldn't call for help; there was no one left to help him. He watched, frozen, as Kyuubi slowly walked towards him. He closed his eyes, not wanting to see Death approaching him.

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After Kyuubi had finished with Nobuyuki, he decided to hide out and wait in Naruto's form for the backup ninja called from Konoha; he would have Naruto suffer more as he slowly tortured and killed those ninja as well. He would kill them all while Naruto watched helplessly, everyone he ever cared about dying painfully I front of him. Kyuubi grinned insanely at his magnificent plan as he transformed into a beaten up Naruto. He lay down underneath one of the few remaining trees and closed his crimson eyed. All he had to do was patiently wait until the rest of the ninja came to him and then, then he would feast.

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POPO-CHI-POPO-CHI-CHA-CHA-CHA

A boy grudgingly lifted his arm in the direction of his alarm clock that had oh so loudly woke him up from his fitful sleep. His head was still face down in the pillow as his hand, seemingly of its own accord, searched for the off button on the alarm clock.

POPO-CHI-POPO-CHI-CHA--

He mumbled incoherent words to himself as he slowly made himself stand up, get out of bed and walk to the bathroom. He flipped on the lights and looked in the mirror. He reflection shone back; his wild, disheveled blond hair, the dark black bags hanging below his crystal azure eyes due to the little amount of sleep he had gotten that night, and the thick black markings on each of his cheeks. He ran some water and splashed the cool, refreshing liquid over his features, then grabbed a towel and dried off his face. He looked at his reflection again and spoke to himself, "Man, what a nightmare."

A/N: ok, im soooo sorry that it took me a month to post this chapter! burn me, torture me, hang me upside down by my toes, but don't kill me 'cause i have more goodness waiting to be written and posted! i really hope you enjoyed this story; message me with requests or preferences in the next story!! it should be comming soon, i've almost got the first chapter done. again, thanks for all your reviews and hits, i call this story a pretty good success for my first fanfiction story, but im definitely looking to do better onthe next fic -- so far it's really interest, i love it already and i dont even know what im going to write in the next chapter! yay! well, until next time waves and cries as the train pulls away from station" Sayonara!