A/N: See. I finally updated this story. I haven't gotten many reviews for it, but hopefully that will change now that this chapter is up.
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Here's chapter 10, Please review after reading.
You should read this guide to understand who's talking in the last part of this chapter.
Inner Sakura: "example"
Sakura: "example"
Demon spirit Black Fang: "example"
Peace be with you, Junemama
Chapter #10
The Snails wasted no time on their assault by waiting for Sakura's command. They began mercilessly killing spiders and wolf ninjas with one swallow of their stretchable mouths and if distasteful they would just kill them with body slams or melt off their faces with their acid spit.
While her conjured Snails were taking care of most of the trouble, Sakura was still busy trying to save the Fox Lord from being killed and eaten by Naraku. She vision of the Spider Lord having all the power of the infamous Nine-Tailed Fox and shivered afraid. Sakura knew if that were to occur all hope would be lost.
She ran towards him at full speed, kunai between her fingers when she threw them, they bounced off his shield of tentacles useless.
Naraku snarled at her slightly annoyed.
The pest of a kunoichi was keeping him from his meal and Naruto looked so delicious hanging in the air struggling like some captured bug.
He was screaming for the human girl to run, he was amused at the fact that she was ignoring him.
He wondered if she was disobeying him to save him or because she hated him.
Without effort he dodged another of her attacks, and threw her into the wall, it exploded upon impact.
Naraku then looked back up at the Fox Lord grinning ear to ear.
"She actually thinks she can save you, aww I think she likes you," he said sweetly.
Naruto was steaming, his demon blood pounding hard in his veins.
Its demand for blood was so fierce it was painful to move, more painful than the suffocating grip crushing his air pipe.
"Damn you to hell," he spat at the spider.
Naraku clicks his tongue in response like some disappointed mother shaking her head. "And here I thought you would be honored to here that your precious bride is willing to die for you."
The Fox Lord shut his mouth, and looked at the battle below him. There she was, in jutsu armor chopping off Naraku's tentacles left and right and still killing spider demons all the while.
She looked up, their eyes connected and Naruto felt a jolt go through him at the sight of her courage.
She was going to save him. She wanted to save him.
He watched as she dodged another attack while sprinting and rammed into the Spider Lord with a powerful punch to the gut.
Her fist went right through him, blood oozed out of him like rivers, he coughed it up his eyes wide in disbelief.
But Sakura wasn't done yet she built up all the chakra within her and quickly clenched onto his heart with her other hand.
In anguish Naraku went down on his knees, chuckling madly as if unafraid of death.
He looked up at her, his blood red eyes stared up at her twinkling.
"You cannot kill me."
Desperately, he used threw down Naruto, the heavy demon collided into Sakura knocked her backwards, on instinct she ripped her fist out of Naraku and caught the Fox lord. She tried to make to finish blow but Naraku had already sprang out of range.
Her anger crackled as she listened to his mad chattering.
"No one can kill me no one! I am invincible! Watch me as I killed every last of you."
To his audience's horror he grabbed his own kin and devoured them.
They did nothing to oppose him, they stood still grinning as each of their master's tentacles snatched them into the air, ripped their bodies into shreds and into his gaping mouth. As he ate he grew rapidly enormous growing bigger muscles, and longer tentacles, soon only few spiders demons were left while Naraku towered above them all having torn out the entire roof as the expense of his giantess size.
Sakura stared up at him, refusing to show her fear. Her snails were gone; too much of her charka was spent to continue their summons any longer. Gratefully, for the moment the wolf ninjas had stopped attacking her and stared awestruck by the sight before them.
"Run," whispered Naruto, his head resting on her shoulder, his full weight now on her back. "You can't fight if your arms are holding me up."
Sakura knew he was right. Running was the best option right now. But to where? Most of her chakra was gone; her very strength was diminishing as her body begged for rest. She was in no condition to be running aimlessly around in circles.
Calculating a plan, looked over at Kouga who was seething with anger, his pack or what was left of it circled around him glaring and snapping up at the towering Spider Lord. "Take the Fox, we came here for the girl!" she heard him shout.
"Too bad. The girl is mine now, she'll make a pleasing appetizer before I have my meal of Nine-tailed Fox raw," said Naraku laughing. One of his tentacles went to grabbed her, before she could react Kouga punch through it, another came a crushed the logs that was Sakura and Naruto.
"That little wench. She used a substitution jutsu," said Naraku.
Naraku looked around the rumble of the torn on mansion, he sense she wasn't among the debris. The coward had run out into the forest, he knew she wasn't far. She could only run so fast and so far with Naruto on her like a dead weight. Kouga and his followers were sniffing around searching the shadows.
"Spread out," barked Kouga "Find her now."
Ninjas in small groups fanned out around the area. Looking for their sacrifice that mysteriously disappeared.
"Where are you Sakura? Come out, Come out." the giant Naraku taunted knocking away the roofs of rooms with a swipe of his hand or tentacle.
They came from above rushing downward like a missile. Naraku felt the pain cracked open his skull as Sakura and Naruto crashed down into it. Her sword had pierced the hard bone and pools of blood in a sea of hair washed over her.
Feeling restraint Sakura slid the sharp blade all the way through combine with her charka and that of the Fox Lord the sword was ablaze with it as it burned through Naraku's head sizzling off his hair and killing him from the inside out as traveled in lighting gold waves.
Naraku screaming in rage smacking at his balding head trying to stop the burning and kill Sakura in the process.
"AHHHH. It burns. It burns." Naraku tried to call on his minions but they were all gone the ones he hadn't ate fled abandoning their crazed Lord for freedom. Soon their combined chakra exploded throughout the gigantic demon incinerating him to a burning skeleton and a pile of ashes.
The expert female ninja jumped onto a nearby roof and landed then caught Naruto before he plummets to his death.
Sakura scanned the area and notice the only ones left, for her to deal with was the annoying pack of ninjas and their idiot leader Kouga.
Though against it all, Sakura remained standing holding the heavy demon in her arms, staring at the remaining wolves, the coppery scent of their dead comrades' blood filled the air.
Kouga stood far from the brave woman who had singularly killed Naraku, a feat he had only wished of doing.
His eyes narrowed as he examined the situation.
Keeping his rage in check he scanned over the dead bodies of his pack brothers and sisters, they had lost many, possibly too many.
He looked over at Kohaku, the only one trained in dealing with a demon as powerful as the Fox Lord.
The young exterminator was bleeding severely on his side, two of his ribs looked broke, and Kouga knew the boy was in great pain just by standing-putting up a brave front to impress the pack no doubt.
His eyes went back to Sakura.
The determination and fieriness he had witness upon arrival had never left from her.
He was impressed, and felt she was just as strong as one of his pack brother.
He scanned her from head to toe, and liked what he saw.
The battle jutsu wore off, and she stood in her kimono again, noticeable curves showed through.
He bet her natural scent was like the pink blossoms of her hair color and her ferocity in battle surely equal that in bed.
Kouga was sure, in another situation he would have taken this human as his mate.
He sighed regrettable.
He removed the ceremonial dagger from his back sleuth, upon recognizing it Naruto hissed, "Run Sakura. I won't let them touch you."
Sakura looked at him, "You're too weak to even stand. So stop trying to be the hero. If it wasn't for me you would be dead by now."
"Watch out," he warned sharply. The female ninja moved just in time, Kouga's blade only nicked her arm leaving little blood.
Sakura glared at him, her charka burning, her slugs couched low ready to attack.
"This is your last warning. Leave or die," she told him.
"I don't plan on dying anytime soon."
He ran towards him moving faster than the wind. Sakura her charka aimed at the soles of her feet so see could move with him and effectively blocked his attacks.
He fought did as quick and accurate as her own fellow ninjas and Sakura had a hard time dodging his sharp blade that he continued to aim at her stomach.
"The stomach is a main charka point in the system, if he stab you there the Wolf Spirit will be released and it will take control of you," advised Naruto.
"That not going to happen," she said, as she grabbed the wolf's leader arm and bent it in the opposite position, he hissed painfully then unsuccessfully tried to kicked her. Sakura took hold of his ankle, lift him up over her shoulders and slammed him to the floor all her body weight crushing into him.
She took the dagger from him, and held it to his neck. "How would you like to be stabbed, and possessed by a spirit?"
Kouga's smiled. "It would be an honor; sadly our goddess favors female vessels."
Naruto screamed, "What are you stalling for kill him and be done with it?"
The wolf looked up at her, a smug grin on his face. He ignored the pain of his broken arm and instead said "Yes, listen to your master like a good little slave,"
"WHAT?" Sakura froze.
The opportunity came to him and he took it, and plunged the dagger into Sakura's lower back inevitable hitting her stomach.
"You let your guard down idiot!" spoke Inner Sakura
The pain swallowed her whole she rolled off of Kouga squirming gasping in pain.
She looked at two Kougas both who were grinning, one held a dagger smeared with her blood, while the other dagger the real Kouga was holding disappeared in a puff of smoke.
A shadow clone jutsu I should have known.
She looked over at the clone, he held the real blade.
Naruto sounded like a babbling child as he yelled and screamed for Kouga to stop, to fight him, to kill him, to leave his mate alone.
Kouga's kept his attention on the dying girl on the floor, kneeling down beside her. He wiped her sweaty brow as she spat blood at him, her body shutting down slowly at every passing second.
"You won't win," she wheezed. "I'll fight it. I won't let a demon control me."
He continues to pat her wide forehead brushing away her silky strands of pink hair.
"You fought valiantly young human," he replied soothingly. "Sleep now and become immense in the glorious spirit of our goddess the ultimate queen of wolves Wolf bang."
She could hear them chanting. The stupid wolves and their leader, chating in a weird mystical language.
Her vision started to turn blurry, as her mind numbed out against the pain. As she fought to stay awake-alive an aching coldness entered and traveling slowly into her body starting from where the clone had stabbed it. It felt like ice cold water was rising up within her, to drown her from the inside out.
Inner Sakura screamed and fought against the powerful waves that slapped against her, yet she held into the rope of life as the water was summered het from the neck and below. The power behind it was too much.
The Ten-tailed Wolf Spirit Black Fang had arrived.
The creature was inside her, the presence of it made her want to sleep, to relax.
Sakura held into the rope too, and wondered why she couldn't just close her eyes for a minute.
"Stay awake, stay awake!! Don't let the rope go!" yelled Inner Sakura.
"Don't listen to her; she just wants you to work. Why don't you just sleep? Move on," replied a soft gentle voice. Everything's going to be fine. I'm here now."
"Shut up! Listen to me you can't give up! If you let go we're gone for," pleaded Inner Sakura.
"But I'm so tired and holding this rope hurts."
"Then let it go you don't have to anymore."
Little did Sakura understand she was within herself, in the place where her Inner self lived, now it was flooded with an ocean of spirit energy that didn't belong.
Sakura looked at the pink glowing rope in her pale hands she held it up over the cold water they were floating in, it led into the darkness behind her. She turned looking at the light before her and listening to the sweet ringing voice that spoke from it.
"Just relax and let go," it said. "You don't have to worry anymore. I'll take care of everything."
Sakura liked the sound of that. She wouldn't have to deal with that annoying fox anymore or feel the pain of holding this rope.
"No she's lying. The rope is our life line Sakura. That's the demon spirit. She just wants t take our body. NOOO. GET OUT. GET OUT," yelled Inner Sakura holding on to their life line even tighter.
But it didn't matter if she held on she was only half of Sakura, and her true self had to hold on too, or they both would perished.
Sakura looked over at the stronger version of her and said "She doesn't sound like an evil demon."
"Get it together girl. All demons are evil. Remember that Spider dude. And that wolf one they were evil and crazy. Imagine this one she more powerful than the Nine-Tailed Fox. We can't let her win."
"It's alright. I'm just here to help... you must be tired,"replied Black Fang calmly and understandingly.
"I am," Sakura answered wearily. "I am so tired of fighting."
A/N: Thanks for reading, now review please!!
