Chapter Twenty Five:
The fallen flower….
Naruto's Rage!
"You tell me that my peace is false, but there is nothing more false than the belief that people will one day be able to truly understand each other," Pein told the downed teen.
"Ero-Sennin believed in that! He had the faith and the belief that people could all one day come together!" Naruto replied.
"You who have no answers yourself, have no room to talk," The man stated and then proceeded to pierce Naruto's body with several more chakra rod's completely immobilizing him. "I've avoided all your vital organs and the piercings are shallow, but you will no longer be able to move on your own..."
"Hang in there Naruto-chan!" Shima called out to the boy. "No matter what he says, you can't listen to him! You were the destined child! The one who will save the world! Jiraiya-chan and Pa sacrificed themselves because they believed in you too! If you fall too, then there will never be peace!"
"Such a noisy frog!" Pein stated and shot the female toad away.
"You bastard!" Naruto yelled.
Neji and Hinata looked on and had seen everything that had transpired.
"Naruto…. It's over now…" Neji said sadly.
"Naruto-kun…" The girl said his name softly. "How come it is times like these that I can do nothing but think back to before this all happened?" The girl thought back to the time when everything changed. After the Sasuke retrieval mission her world was turned upside down. She was cast out of the Hyuuga clan and Naruto took her in. He fought her father in her honor and then they soon became teammates. Then after Naruto almost died fighting Sasuke they truly became a couple. So many things happened, they went on many dates, most of them very simple but to her every moment with Naruto was special and they made her truly happy. Then the big date right before Naruto left for three years, and the promise they made to each other. "Uzumaki Hinata…. One day we were going to…" The girl stopped her tears and decided for herself what she needed to do and ran off.
"Hinata-sama, where are you going? Come back!" Neji pleaded with the girl but she did not listen.
"Alright now… it is time I took you back. I'll return for the Ichibi later…" Pein told the teen. It was then that the two men noticed a presence leap above and over Pein and land beside Naruto. It was at the sight of Hinata's arrival that Naruto's heart began to break.
"Backup is it?" Pein questioned.
"You… I won't let you lay another finger on my Naruto-kun!" Hinata told the man fiercely.
"N-No…. Why… What are you doing here! Hurry up and get away Hinata-chan!" Naruto pleaded with the girl.
"No…. I won't…. For once I'm going to be selfish…" Hinata replied.
"W-What?" Naruto asked in shock. "L-Look I don't get it, but it doesn't matter. You can't be here, it's too dangerous. This guy's killed Ero-Sennin, Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke, and so many others… Please! I'm begging you please leave!"
"Naruto-kun… I'm here by my own choice, I refuse to run away. You know the old me… I'd always just run away and cry… But you showed me the right path… and then from there you gave me your heart… It was always you… You changed me… you loved me… I'll never be able to repay you for everything you've done for me," Hinata told the boy.
"Hinata-chan please…. Just please…." Naruto replied desperation deep in his voice.
"I'm not leaving… I'm not running away. I'm not afraid to die to protect you… Because I'll always love you…" The girl finished and then charged in at Pein. "Juuho Soushiken!" The girl yelled as she attempted to strike Pein only to be blown away. The girl pulled herself back to her feet and charged again. The result was the same. She tried again and again to land a strike. The girl was thrown and tossed all about, she was beaten and battered and bloody and even then she would continuously get back up. After ten minutes of this Pein shot her upward and into the air and allowed her to crash harshly into the ground beside Naruto. Naruto watched in horror as his beautiful girlfriend was thrashed repeatedly and now even after all the damage she was slowly dragging herself closer to the man she loved.
"You're all so foolish…" Pein stated in a low tone as he watched the girl try to pull the rod out that was trapping Naruto's hands.
"H-Hinata-chan…. Please…. Stop…." Naruto begged as tears fell from his face.
"N-N-Never…." The girl replied as her strength gave out. Pein had finally seen enough and pulled the girl harshly toward him. The girl crash landed right at his feet. Pein produced another chakra rod and then stared down at the girl coldly.
"N-NO!" Naruto yelled. "Don't do it! STOP!" Naruto screamed and then watched almost in slow motion as the rod struck the woman in the chest. The man pulled the rod out and blood went flying everywhere. A trail of blood slowly flowed all the way over to Naruto.
"I believe it was very similar to this… that my parents were killed by Konoha Shinobi right before my very eyes…." Pein stated and then stared at the blond. It was in that instant, that moment that everything went completely dark for Naruto. The Naruto that everyone knew died and from that death a blood curtailing scream rung out. Naruto's eyes instantly turned complete red and his entire body was engulfed by violent and malicious red chakra, not purple but blood red chakra. The skin on Naruto's body instantly evaporated and was nothing but the bloody chakra and seven tails shot out from his back, and bones began to form that were a very similar structure to that of a certain fox demon. The entire village was alerted by the evil chakra, many who had never felt it before were frightened and even those who had been there had a chill up their spine.
"Do you hate me?" Pein asked looking on at the beast with a sort of emotion on his face. A light began to shine outward from the boy and it attempted to engulf him. Pein noticed the boy reach inward and pull out the familiar necklace that the teen always wore. The boy now transformed crushed the necklace and then charged at Pein. "Shinra Tensei!" Pein shouted attempted to blow the boy away but was shocked to see that the beast's tails had stabbed into the ground preventing it from blowing the teen away and then somehow fired it back on Deva Realm Pein sending the man flying through the air. "H-He defended against it and somehow turned it on me…" Pein flew through the air and collided with a piece of the village wall. Naruto then stood there as the balls of red and blue chakra began to float in the air like bubbles. The beast then suddenly started to pull them in and combine then forming an ominous looking black ball. Pein using his abilities had a huge boulder hovering over Naruto and proceeded to drop on the beasts head as he finished gathering all the chakra for the demonic looking ball. The boulder caused the ball to explode, the power engulfed several hundred feet of the surrounding area and completely destroying it. The explosion caused the aftershock to be felt throughout the entire village.
"Now what the hell is going on?" Nara Shikamaru asked.
"Naruto-kun is using what looks like the chakra of the Kyuubi despite what we've been told… I know this because one of my clones is with him," A Katsuyu clone told the group.
"What happened?" Inoichi asked looking concerned.
"Hinata-san… She was taken down right before his eyes and from there Naruto-kun lost himself afterward…" Katsuyu replied.
"Hinata was…" Shikamaru managed to say despite his shock. "I see… if she was killed then…"
"Hope hasn't totally been lost yet…" Katsuyu replied.
Deva Realm Pein pulled himself from out of the rumble and looked on as Naruto in his seven tailed form also began to emerge from the wreckage.
"There are no words that can describe how truly wonderful the power of the Kyuubi is…" Pein stated as he, tattered clothing and all took off seemingly fleeing from the village and Naruto promptly gave chase. Neji looked on with his Byakugan.
"Hinata-sama…." Neji muttered the fallen teens name as Sakura suddenly arrived on the scene.
"Neji! Are you okay?" Sakura asked looking down at the injured teen. Neji merely nodded and continued to focus on the actions of Pein and Naruto.
"It would seem that Naruto and Pein are leaving the village," Neji stated.
"Neji… is it true? Is Naruto really using seven tails?" Sakura asked with fear in her voice.
"It is…" Neji replied. "Hinata-sama gave up her life to try and save Naruto… that is what triggered it," The teen said sadly.
"No… D-Don't give up yet! She might still be alive!" Sakura told the teen.
Pein continued through the forest, little did Naruto know that he was leading Naruto to be within range of Pein's real body so that he could use a certain technique.
"That's it… he's in range…" Nagato stated as the Deva Pein performed another technique.
"Chibaku Tensei!" Deva Realm Pein yelled and formed a small black ball in his hand and then shot it into the sky. The ball then began to pull everything upward, the ground, the trees, everything. The beast that was pursuing Pein also fell victim to the attack and was pulled upward and then was soon engulfed by terrain.
"Nagato… why did you have to take such a risk?" Konan asked.
"It doesn't matter…. What matters now is that the Kyuubi has been captured," The man replied.
Naruto was deep inside his mind. The boy was on his knees holding himself tightly, his claw-like hands digging into his skin.
"Why…. This wasn't supposed to happen…" Naruto sobbed. "Ero-Sennin…. Kakashi-sensei….. Sasuke…." The boy continued to cry as blood dripped down his body from the wounds he was inflicting upon himself. "He killed with Hinata-chan….. Hinata-chan… I…" Naruto suddenly snapped inside his own mind and screamed outward. "Hate….. Hate…. HATE! I hate him! I HATE HIM!" Naruto screamed viciously his eyes fully were a dark, crimson. "I want to destroy him!"
"Naruto…." A certain beast called out to the boy from behind his cage. The demon looked down at the child almost with sorrow in its eyes.
"He took her from me…. I'LL CRUSH HIM!" Naruto shouted. "I NEED MORE POWER!" The obsessed blond screamed and then looked at the cage before him.
"Naruto… you have to calm yourself…" The beast said to the teen that now slowly began to rise to his feet. "Naruto… this isn't the way… I've watched you grow and become stronger; you've impressed me with your powers. I have even come to fully acknowledge you. In saying this, you must think this through. If you remove what little is left from the seal then I will be unleashed… Even I myself won't be able to stop it!" The giant beast tried to reason with the boy who made his way almost zombie-like toward the cage.
"I will destroy everything!" Naruto yelled. Naruto's shirt suddenly ripped open and the seal that had long been missing from his naval suddenly reappeared and then opened up. A mass of a dark, black liquid poured from the seal and into the water-like substance below. "I WILL DESTROY HIM!" Naruto let out one more scream before he approached the seal that was already over three quarters removed from the encounter between Sasuke and Naruto over three years ago.
Back outside of the teen's mind, the beast burst through the giant rock-like formation that had now been hovering high above the ground. The beast had eight fully formed tails and took the complete physical form of the fox, the only difference was the last missing tail and the beasts lack of skin or fur.
"I see… he's even stronger than I could have imagined," Deva Realm Pein said looking on at the beast.
"Naruto…. Can you no longer be reasoned with?" The beast asked the teen who was now right before the seal about to finish removing it. The beast sighed sadly at the teen. "Very well then… When I am freed I will destroy the man who had caused you this tragic pain and I promise you I will leave immediately after and never been seen again…. I will not hurt your village further… That's all I can do now that you can no longer hear my voice…" The beast told the teen as it closed its eyes and waited for the seal to be removed.
It was then that both the beast and Naruto could hear two voices call outward.
"Naruto…" A strangely familiar male voice called out.
"Naruto-chan…" A soft female voice also called out. The teen reached for the seal and began to tear it when two hands firmly, yet gently grabbed the teen's hand, forcing him to stop. The teen awoke inside his mind only to find himself seated on the ground and looking upward. He was shocked at what he saw. Standing before him was a man with bright yellow hair and blue eyes and he wore what looked like standard shinobi pants and a Jounin vest and over that he had a white cloak with red flames at the bottom. Next to the man stood a woman with long red hair and had violet eyes and she wore a long lose-fitting dress.
"Y-You're the fourth Hokage…" Naruto muttered looking up at the man. "You're my… dad…" The boy said quietly and then looked at the woman. "Then that… would make you… my mom!"