Meanwhile, the gang were at the Newspaper Club. Gin had demanded where everyone had gone and was not happy with what he had been told.
"You did what?" Gin shouted at his club members. "You friggin' idiots! Not only did you start something with the academy cops, but then you went and beat one of them up!"
The other club members remained silent.
Gin pounded his fist on the blackboard. ''Didn't I say you'd be in monster trouble if you put one hand on those guys? The academy police is a violent gang formed right at the centre of Japan's monster population. Rotten all the way to Kuyou at the top, it's an organisation of bad guys." He suddenly grabbed Moka and pulled her close to him. "I don't know what I'm gonna do if my beloved Moka-san gets hurt because of you idiots fighting those guys!"
Kurumu frowned. "Um, Moka helped beat up one of them in the first place," she pointed out.
"Ow..." Tsukune winced as he held his shoulder.
Gin looked over and at him. "What's wrong Tsukune? Are you injured?" he asked with a slight tint of concern in his voice.
"I got injured by the academy police..." Tsukune replied.
"I closed the wound with the magic medicine I concocted. But normally it would have been a bad injury requiring a bunch of stitches," Yukari explained as she helped Tsukune put on a clean, new shirt.
Naruto frowned, remembering how much blood soaked the back of Tsukune's shirt. "If I hadn't got there any sooner, things would've been much worse..." he grimaced.
"Ooh, Naruto-kun," Kurumu purred as she latched onto the shinobi's chest and rubbed her body against him. "You're so brave. I know you'll protect me…"
Moka fumed when she saw the way Kurumu was hugging her boyfriend. "HEY!" she shrieked.
"Don't worry," Kurumu said, ignoring the pink haired vampire. "I'll be by your side night and day nursing you back to health."
Naruto frowned. "Kurumu-chan, I didn't get hurt, and could you please let me go?"
"Yeah! GET OFF HIM!" Moka screamed as she shoved away the blue haired Succubus.
"Kyaaa!" Kurumu cried as she was sent flying.
Moka then clung on to Naruto. ''I won't let anyone hurt you Naruto-kun...''
He smiled. "Thank you Moka-chan," Naruto said before he gave Moka a quick peck on the lips.
Tsukune silently groaned when he saw that.
Yukari giggled. "Naruto-kun sure is popular with the ladies, isn't he?"
"I don't get it! Why are you more popular than me?" Gin suddenly yelled, he then wrapped Naruto in a headlock and dragged him toward the door. "That's it, I'm turnin' you in to the police and you're gonna get the death penalty."
"Jealousy is an ugly thing," Yukari sweat dropped as Naruto and Gin began struggling with each other.
"Get off me!" Naruto yelled.
"Give up?" Gin asked as he opened the door.
Naruto scoffed. "Of course not!" he retorted.
"You fools..." a voice from the hallway said. "It is much too late for that now."
Naruto and Gin immediately stopped struggling when they realized who that was.
"Kuyou!" Moka and Yukari gasped as the Commission leader appeared in the doorway with his followers.
The blonde relished the feeling of power as everyone in the room stiffened at his arrival. "You have made it clear that you intend to challenge us," he smirked. "And now it is time to face your judgment."
"Wait a sec," Gin said with a nervous smile. "It was just a scrap right? You can't shut our club down for that…"
"A scrap?" Kuyou practically spat the word. "Shut your mouth you mangy dog…"
"Just tell us what you want Kuyou," Naruto said through gritted teeth.
"What we want, Namikaze, is you…" Kuyou said, his intimidating smirk growing brighter as his minions circled the jinchūriki. "You are hereby suspected of being a human."
Everyone in the Newspaper Club went wide eyed at the declaration. Naruto clenched his fists nervously while Moka held her rosary as if in prayer. Several students who had been in the hallway heard the announcement and a whispering crowd quickly gathered outside the classroom, much to Kuyou's pleasure. He wanted as many students to see this as possible.
"What?" Kurumu finally shouted. "That's insane. No human could be here, besides I've seen-"
"Kurumu-chan!" Naruto cut her off. She looked at him surprised when he stopped her from speaking up in his defence. Naruto just shook his head very slightly to keep her quiet. He then stood in front of Kuyou defiantly. "This will be between you and me, Kuyou." He looked at all the Public Safety members. "All of you will leave Moka-chan and the others out of this. Otherwise," his tone darkened now. "I cannot guarantee your safety."
The crowd of students gasped. The Safety members were furious now. Naruto had the nerve to threaten them? The keepers of the peace?
"No!" Moka said, standing beside Naruto now. "I won't let Naruto-kun face this alone. I'm coming too."
"Stop it!" Kurumu yelled, having heard enough. "Let them go!"
Kuyou's eyes hardened at Kurumu. "Move," He ordered.
Everyone in the room cringed when Kuyou suddenly released a terrifyingly strong aura. Naruto once again felt something familiar with him. Kurumu fell back on her ass at the severity of the energy. Even Kuyou's own followers jumped back as if they'd been burned. Some of the students in the hallway actually passed out.
"Yukari-chan!" Moka yelled as she ran towards the young witch who had dropped to her knees at the fearsome display.
Kuyou chuckled and snapped his fingers. In an instant, two of his enforcers rushed forward and roughly grabbed Moka by the shoulders.
"As you wanted, I'm afraid I cannot let you go Akashiya Moka," the Commission leader said. "According to our information, you were aware of Namikaze's secret. Let's go."
With that, Kuyou and the Public Safety Commission dragged Naruto and Moka away.
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Gin was fuming as he paced the floor of the classroom. "A human, he says. I can't believe I'm such an idiot. I'm sorry I had anything to do with the bastard."
"Don't tell me you actually believe those creeps!" Kurumu exclaimed. "There's no way that Naruto-kun could be a human! I've seen him transform a bunch of times," both Tsukune and Yukari nodded in agreement.
"Into what exactly?"
For that, the three had no answer. They'd all wondered what exactly Naruto's true form was, he told them that he was a ninja, but they'd never seen powers like his before. They'd never even heard of anything like most of them.
"I didn't think so," Gin said. "I mean come on. He has no aura whatsoever, just like a human. Hell, now that I think about it, he even smells like a human…"
"But there's no way a human could be here…" Kurumu argued.
"Yeah, and even if he were, they couldn't do anything to Moka," Yukari agreed hopefully.
"Of course they could," Gin shouted. "If Naruto really is a human then he's going to be executed, plain and simple. If Moka knew, then they'll kill her for harbouring him. They might even sentence all of us along with them to set an example!"
"What?" the young witch gasped.
"It doesn't matter, we've got to go help them," Tsukune said.
"Now hang on, this is Kuyou we're talking about," Gin replied. "You felt that energy right? Even in his human form, that guy's demonic aura is unreal. What's worse is that he thinks he's the good guy, and until the school says otherwise, he's got the support to back it. If we go against them we're gonna be in some deep- Hey, listen when I'm talking!"
The two girls and the boy had already filed out of the classroom. Forget him, Kurumu thought as she led the way down the hall. When it comes down to it, he just doesn't want to save Naruto. We don't need him anyway.
"Damn!" Gin growled hitting the wall so hard it dented. "If this keeps up we're just going to see last year happen all over again… I really hate crap like this."
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Moka clutched Naruto's arm tightly as the Public Safety Commission led them through their headquarters. From the outside, the building had looked much smaller than they had expected, but once inside they had been led downstairs into an enormous dungeon. The halls were lined with cells that contained several students. Some of the students were wailing in misery, others were roaring in anger as they shook the doors of their cages, and others just sat feebly on the ground, shaking with fear.
"Naruto-kun, what are we going to do?" Moka whispered desperately to her boyfriend. "We can't let them find out about you."
"What I want to know is how they found out in the first place," Naruto whispered back. "Besides, I was invited here. The Headmaster knows about me, so even if I am human, it shouldn't be a problem. None of this makes any sense."
"Let us out!" the inmates screamed. "Let us out of here!"
"All I did was bad mouth the academy police a little!"
"All I did was refuse to pay them off and they put me in here!"
Fury built up inside of Naruto. This was not justice! This was not justice at all!
"How dare you falsely throw me into prison!" one inmate yelled at Kuyou. His arm turned into a claw and reached for the bars at Kuyou. "Let me out of here Kuyoooouuu!"
Kuyou smiled a sinister smile. "You low class monster. What do you plan to do to the likes of me?" Fire erupted from his body as he put a hand on his assailant.
"Ugh!" was all the monster could say as he collapsed from the flames. Naruto and Moka shielded themselves with their arms from the after fire.
So fire is his element? Naruto thought. I shouldn't underestimate him.
Kuyou smirked at his fallen attacker. "We are the protectors of the peace at this academy. The sacred keepers of justice!" he then put his foot through the bars and stepped on the fallen monster's head. "Anyone who turns against us is an evildoer who has turned against this very academy! I must purge this academy of such evildoers in the name of justice! In order to make this academy a beautiful place for only those who obey the law!"
"Now it is your turn Namikaze," Kuyou said turning back toward the jinchūriki. "Show me your true form."
"What?" Naruto asked, still trying to get a grasp on the situation.
"It should be easy enough, shouldn't it?" Kuyou claimed stepping on the face of the student who had tried to attack him. "If you really are a monster, then just like this thing here transform and prove it to us."
Before Naruto could blink, Kuyou had closed the distance between them. The Commission leader kicked the boy hard in the gut, slamming him against the bars of a cell. Moka rushed over to him, frightened tears falling down her cheeks.
"Why are you wasting my time?" Kuyou spat with a sadistic smile. "Get on with it. Just change and clear your name! Or is it all true…?"
Moka couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't bear seeing her boyfriend being treated that way, so against her better judgment she got between the two. "Please stop! Naruto is… Naruto is..." She couldn't finish that. She knew what he was and there was nothing she could do. What could she do? The next thing she knew, there was a crushing pain in her gut. Kuyou had punched her with resounding force. The vampire girl was unconscious before she hit the floor.
Naruto rose to defend her but pain crushed his face and he felt his body hurt all over. He didn't expect that kick to be so powerful and his mind began to take everything in. He had been in these kinds of situations before but they all shared the same thing... it always ended up being very, very painful.
Kuyou was hitting him all over. He was dragged by the collar of his uniform, slipping in and out of the darkness as he was beaten into a near unconscious state. Naruto then began to wonder why the Kyūbi's healing abilities haven't kicked in yet, but with the beating he was taking, he didn't think ponder about it for long. He could feel his body getting heavier and heavier with each passing moment. His vision would cut in and out every few seconds and when his vision was working all he could see was a shower vision like he was looking through a sliding door they kept on the showers. He couldn't even see Moka anymore.
Then without warning, Naruto's body was engulfed by flames. His mouth opened in a silent scream of pain as the fire exploded over his body. As quickly as it had come, the blaze disappeared. The jinchūriki's body smoked from the powerful fire and he collapsed to the ground.
D-damn... you... Kuyou... was the last thought Naruto had before his mind was lost to the darkness.
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In Naruto's mindscape
Naruto was on his knees and was holding his head in his hands. "It hurts... my body... it hurts... Moka-chan... I'm sorry... I couldn't protect you..."
The Kyūbi's face then appeared from behind the bars. He smirked as he saw Naruto's trembling form. "If you want the power to protect her... to defeat that man... give in to your hatred... let me help you... I will destroy everything... erase everything that hurts you... entrust your heart to me... I will save you... from your suffering..."
...
"No..."
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Meanwhile
"Wah, I'm scawwwed," Yukari bawled as the three girls approached the headquarters of the Public Safety Commission.
"This sure is a creepy place," Tsukune said as he looked down the row of torii (Japanese gateways) that led to the building.
"Let's go you two," Kurumu said, steeling her resolve.
"Didn't I tell you to wait?"
The three looked up in surprise to see Gin sitting atop one of the gates.
"You realize you're only gonna make things worse right?" Gin yelled down at the three. "You really think you can fix things by marching in there and beating people up?"
"Then what would you do?" Kurumu yelled back. "Naruto and Moka are in danger and you want to just sit there and plan? You're always like this," she was officially pissed off now. The rest of the group had faced trouble whenever it came, and Gin had the nerve to lecture her? "All you ever do is keeping yourself safe without thinking about anyone else. You're pathetic, so just go hide in a hole and stay out of my way!"
"FINE! Then do whatever you want, you cow!" Gin roared at the Succubus. He dropped to the ground and stormed past her. "What are you so emotional about anyway? Would you really go to save him even if he is a human?"
Everyone froze at the question. Yukari looked at the Succubus nervously. Gin turned back and fixed her with a hard glare. Even Tsukune looked at the girl with baited curiosity, as this would affect him too since he was also human.
For a moment Kurumu hesitated when the others looked so intently at her. For a moment she hesitated at the thought of her friend having lied to her these last few months. For a moment…and only for a moment.
"Stupid…" she gave Gin an amused smile. "Of course I would…"
Gin's eyes went wide at her declaration. It made no sense how she could still care about someone who had kept such a big secret from her… How she could care about a human…!
"Right…" Tsukune said, tossing Kurumu a comforting grin. "It doesn't matter whether he's human or not... and besides... I... I'm... human too..."
The girls and Gin sat there stunned at Tsukune's confession. But then Yukari thought at how Tsukune helped Kurumu with the newspapers and how Naruto had always put himself at risk for the others. How he'd defended her when she didn't deserve to be defended, and she found there were no doubts in mind either."Then what are we waiting for?" Yukari asked before racing down the row of torii. "Let's goooooooo!"
"Yukari, wait up!" Kurumu shouted as she and Tsukune raced after the little witch, leaving Gin standing there, still lost in his own shock.
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"It looks like you really are human, Naruto-kun..." the voice of a woman said as she smirked at the beaten, unconscious form of Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto. "This means I can have my revenge by killing you all right in front of everyone."
Naruto remained silent.
The woman's smirk grew even wider and more sinister. "You remember who I am... don't you? My head of snakes bit into your body. That was when I realized your true form, because what I tasted was without a doubt human flesh," the head of a snake suddenly appeared on the tip of one of her braids. "How dare any human do something like this to me...!"
"Hey, move it Ishigami..." Kuyou ordered as he approached her. A powerful aura enshrouded his body and his hand suddenly burst into flames. His predatory eyes locked on Naruto as the flames danced around his fingers without hurting him. "Now that we know that Naruto is human... we have plenty of reasons to destroy the Newspaper Club. That useless lot must be killed according to the law. And that is my duty... as an academy police officer."
Ishigami frowned. "Come on... but I get to kill the rest of the Newspaper Club."
Kuyou smirked. "I don't think so," he then pointed his fiery palm at the jinchūriki. Flames burst forth from it and rushed at the boy. They exploded with such force that Ishigami had to shield her eyes from the blast. It was like a bomb had gone off in the room.
"Bastard!" the Gorgon hissed as the flames died down. She then looked at the flames that Kuyou had fired at Naruto. What heat, she thought. What is Kuyou if he can control fire like this! If a human were exposed to these kinds of flames there'd be nothing left but bones."
"Damn woman…" Kuyou said simply, ignoring the former teacher. Ishigami looked back at the site of the explosion and was surprised to see that Naruto had been cleared of the blast by a certain pink haired vampire.
"Akashiya Moka..." Ishigami hissed. So she pulled him away, she thought, glaring at Moka's sitting form over Naruto's still limp form. Not bad. This has become more interesting than I had anticipated...
The force of the explosion stirred Naruto. "Mo...ka...?" he whispered, opening his blurry eyes.
"Naruto-kun..." Moka sobbed at how weak he looked, the boy she loved, the one who had always faced danger head on for her. "Take off my rosary," she instructed. Naruto looked up at her tear stained faced and she smiled gently at him. "It'll be alright, even if everyone else hates you for being human, it'll be alright. You've always protected me... now it's my turn."
Naruto nodded weakly and reached for the cross that bound her power. Just as his hand skimmed the silver seal…it fell back to the ground. Naruto collapsed into Moka's chest, the pain too much for him to bear.
"No…!" Moka wept hugging her boyfriend tightly. Why is this happening? He doesn't deserve this!
"Do you understand what you're doing?" a voice growled behind Moka. She turned in horror to see Kuyou standing over her, a sinister rage in his golden eyes. "That boy is a human and still you try to protect him… You're nothing but a traitor to all monsters!"
Moka clutched Naruto all the tighter as the man's demonic aura grew to terrifying levels. His presence alone seemed to be burning her. She held Naruto protectively, prepared to do anything she could to save him, no matter how little it might be.
"You have gone against me and this academy. For the crime of treason I hereby sentence you to death," Kuyou chuckled as a cloud of fire appeared in his hand. It struggled against some invisible bonds to reach out and consume the two, almost as if Kuyou was holding an inferno in the palm of his hand.
Naruto-kun… all hope was lost to Moka as the Commission leader pointed his blazing fingers toward them. She was going to die with the man she loved. That was still a good thing in her book. They'd be together in the end.
Suddenly, several vines exploded out of the ground and ensnared Kuyou's wrist, pulling the fiery hand away from the students. He was locked in place and couldn't move his arm.
"I knew you'd be in trouble without me…" a voice sighed as a familiar pair of black wings separated Naruto and Moka from their tormentor.
"Kurumu-chan!" Moka exclaimed in astonishment and relief.
"Naruto-kun looks hurt," a little brown haired witch proclaimed summoning a doctors bag from thin air. "I have to put medicine on him right away! Tsukune! Come here, I need your help with this!"
"You too Yukari-chan, Tsukune-kun?" Moka cried tears of joy as her friends appeared.
Kuyou stared at the vines with a snarl. He knew they couldn't be real. He couldn't burn it. They also came out of the ground through concrete. He knew of only a few monsters that could do that, but he wasn't sure a Succubus could do it without it being… He growled and stared at her.
I see, he thought. He raised his youki and used a spell of his own. A phantom trick! He broke the spell. "Ridiculous… Trying to halt my movement with a child's trick…!" His youki destroyed the rest of the spell that remained. He was free again. "I'll turn you all into ashes!"
"Stop!"
Kuyou, stupidly, stopped.
"I told you guys to wait but you never listen," the voice sighed as a lone figure stepped through the door. "Now you've gone and turned this whole thing into a crazy show…"
"Morioka Ginei…" Kuyou hissed as the Newspaper Club's leader walked into the room.
So they're all here… Ishigami thought. She had jumped behind the boiler as soon as the reinforcements had started to arrive. Now she smiled at the turn of events. I must admit, this is truly an artistic sight…
"Why?" Kurumu asked bewildered. "You said-"
"We'll talk later," Gin sighed scratching his head. "If you're gonna go this far then there is nothing for it… I'll just finish this quick…"
"Now isn't this amusing…" Kuyou chuckled, drawing everyone's attention. The flames surrounding his body burned brighter as the man laughed. "You've all come together to bare your fangs at me… Don't you realize that I am the ruler at this school? You've all lost your minds!"
"Maybe your right…" Gin said taking a step forward. I can't believe I'm risking my life for these idiots, he thought as his pace increased. But then again, I guess it's not that strange... His hands covered in gray fur and sharpened into claws. After all, these guys took away the people I cared about last year… His face grew fur as well and his jaw stretched forward to become a canine's snout. And watching all my friends stripped away from me is something I don't want to have to see… He was a blur now. His wolf-like face became more pronounced as his fangs erupted in a vengeful and feral grin. ...EVER AGAIN!
Kuyou turned his fiery fist toward the charging beast but for all his strength and skill it was like trying to catch the wind. In an instant Gin had rushed by him. The wake of his charge extinguished the flames leaving Kuyou stunned. The shock was short-lived however as the effect of Gin's assault took its toll. Kuyou felt the first punch strike his face even as he saw his enemy behind him. Two more to the face and the man was spitting blood, even though Gin hadn't moved from his place. Two to the right shoulder, one to the throat and Kuyou lost count of the sheer number of blows dealt to his torso as he crumbled to the ground.
Everyone was frozen by awe as the Commission leader fell. Even Naruto with his weak consciousness was stunned by the incredible display of strength and speed.
"Justice or not," Gin growled as his human form began to return. "I'll mess you up for just putting a hand on my club members! Remember that fool..."
"Way to go, Gin-senpai!" Kurumu cheered racing toward her club leader in thanks. Before she could give him a grateful hug, Gin's hand reached out and squeezed her breast.
"My reward for saving you," the werewolf chuckled with his tail wagging.
"Isn't it great Naruto-kun?" Moka whispered to the shinobi as Kurumu slapped Gin across the face. "Everyone heard about you and they still came."
"Yep," Naruto replied weakly, but smiling all the same.
They're quite the gang, those Newspaper Club scum… Ishigami thought from her hiding place as everyone gathered around Naruto. But did they really think it would be that easy?
The gorgon smirked in pleasure as an enormous aura shook the building and the room burst into flame.
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"Everybody get down!" Gin called to the others.
Everyone backed away as Kuyou's aura erupted in a spiralling flame that was tearing the room apart. They could hear the man's sadistic laughter echo around them as the burning tornado whipped at them with furious heat. The one's that were hurt most were Naruto and Tsukune who were both on the ground breathing hard.
Naruto wheezed with each breath. He once again felt something familiar with the leader of the Safety Commission. The air around him was so dry that he was struggling to breath. The problem with Tsukune however, is that since he was human, the incredible amount of youki radiating off Kuyou was too much for his human body to handle, as humans are not accustomed to that kind of power in their world.
Moka sat next to her shuddering friends, checking on the two. The rest stood protectively in front of them. Gin and Kurumu watched the fire with nervous expressions but steeled resolve, ready for whatever they might face. Even little Yukari had her wand out in courageous defiance.
I'm glad I stayed for this, Ishigami thought from her place behind the boiler. You paper boys did well but you don't stand a chance against the artistic beauty of Kuyou's true form. Now you suffer for everything you robbed from me.
The punishing swirl of Kuyou's energy finally settled and the fire slowly began to recede. Everyone looked in fearful anticipation as the last towering flame died away to reveal Kuyou's true form.
"N-No way…" Kurumu said wide eyed. "That's what we're up against?"
Standing before them was a large yellow fox. Its long golden fur was waving as if was a flame all its own. Red spirals were etched into its pelt that seemed to glow deep red, much like the foxes eyes. Last but not least, were the fox's four tails, each one a stream of flame that waved around wildly.
"Yo...Youko…" Gin stuttered in terrified awe. "One of the strongest monsters in Japan… They've even been known to be worshiped as gods!"
"Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto…" the yellow beast resounded. "You... really are a human, aren't you? We must kill any human who knows of this monsters only academy! That is the academy law! As you might reveal our existence to the outside world. Newspaper Club... why is it that as monsters you protect such a dangerous human? How far must you defy me before you'll be satisfied... the whole lot of you... shall be buried right here by Kuyou, the administrator of this academy's justice!"
The man's words struck at Naruto's heart. This whole situation was because of his humanity, because he was different. Different. He remembered the time back in Konoha when most people had despised him, just because he was the jinchūriki of the Kyūbi no Youko. He eventually proved himself, and everyone loved him for it. Then he had come to Yokai Academy. He'd found friends who accepted him. Hell, more than accepted, they literally loved him, especially Moka. Now those same friends were in danger because he didn't belong either. It was almost too much to bear.
"Naruto-kun, don't make that face," Moka said. Naruto looked at her to see her bright smile beaming at him. "It'll be okay. Because you're here with us, where you belong…"
Moka-chan…
"That's right," Kurumu chimed in. "You're already hurt, so stay right there."
"I'll help heal your wounds later," Yukari said raising her shaking wand again.
"Don't worry Naruto-san," Tsukune said climbing to his trembling legs. "We'll finish this now." Even though I can't do anything...
Kurumu-chan, Yukari-chan… even Tsukune-san... Naruto thought as his friends readied themselves.
"What is your true form anyway?" Gin sighed scratching his head. "If you really are a human or something then man you're a freaky one at that. And now you're gonna make me and the girls do all the work? Wimp.""
"Sorry we can't all look as cool in a fight as some warp-speed werewolf," Naruto shot, though he grinned despite himself. "And who said I was gonna let you do all the work?"All the girls protested as Naruto pulled himself up.
"You people disgust me!" Kuyou howled. "Despite the human blood in this boy's veins, despite the threat he poses, you still protect him! You scum are beyond redemption and now I'm going to end you…"
The Youko's tails all began to spin in a clockwise motion like a helicopter blade. The fiery appendages became a blur that shone with a bright orange ring of flame.
"What is he doing?" Tsukune yelled as the swirl of energy returned.
"He's concentrating his energy on the tips of his tails for some reason," Gin called back.
"Now bow before me!" Kuyou roared as the blazing ring flew forward. "Hazy Rolling Flame!"
Shit! Gin thought as the flaming disk approached. There's no way they can dodge that! And if I move…
The group braced themselves for the impact. They felt the ring's explosion as it threatened to send them all flying and the heat from the terrible flames that would reduce them to cinders. But when they opened their eyes they were all still standing.
The smoke had turned into a suffocating black mist. They all watched nervously as it began to clear and reveal…
GIN! Kurumu screamed in horror at the sight of the club's leader. He was standing with his clawed hands outstretched. All the fur had been burned off and his body was covered with darkened ash.
"Idiot…" he coughed as he fell to the ground. "I'm such…an idiot…"
"Wh-why didn't he dodge it?" Kurumu cried in disbelief. "He's faster than any of us…!"
"He…protected us," Tsukune whispered.
Kuyou roared with twisted barking laughter. "And I thought werewolves were supposed to be fast! It seems he was nothing but a bug after all!" He once again started gathering youki in preparation of his next attack.
"Bastard…" Naruto growled dropping to his knees beside the unconscious Gin. The boy's irises turned red and his pupils became slitted, with black rings surrounding his now berserk-looking eyes. "You fucking BASTARD!"
A crimson aura suddenly enshrouded Naruto. His nails and canine teeth grew longer and sharper and his blonde hair grew longer and spikier. His whisker marks widened and thickened, becoming more pronounced and adding to his now feral like appearance. Then, his injuries began to heal at a rapid pace.
When the transformation finished, a smirk formed on Naruto's face and he spoke to the surprised Kuyou. "I'll kill you."