Chapter 29

"You claim you are a force for good, yet you hurt your own people so that you may have more material gain. That to me is a prime example of how corrupt your species is."

"Shut up demon. You know nothing."

"You continue to say that, yet if I knew nothing, why do you even respond?"

"Only because I am courteous enough to tell you to shut up."

"Wouldn't your teacher, Crow, or was Kenshi, say something along the lines that you need to be more creative."

"CLOSE YOUR MOUTH BEAST! YOUR NOT WORTHY OF SAYING HIS NAME!"

The nine tails and Naruto were currently fighting so to say. Naruto's bitterness was due to the current situation. The fact that his beloved teacher and father figure was currently in the hospital, in intensive care.

"Ah, but what is a name but a designation. To you, my name is demon, beast, nine tails, fox, and bastard. If that is all that you shall describe me as, then what reason do I have to listen to you, after all, a beast has no sense of reason," the nine tails countered, smirking as he did.

The reason for Naruto going to his mindscape, well, it is because he had no other place to go. All those he knew were too busy, or out on missions. Quite the inconvenience for him.

"A name defines who a person is," Naruto angrily shot back.

Kurama replied somewhat hotly, "Then I shall call him murderer. I shall call you hypocrite. I shall call your esteemed grandfather, devil. After all, do those not define who they are?"

"You have no idea! You have no name," to which the nine tails narrowed its eyes, "You have no understanding of humanity, all you are is a filthy beast! You never have and never will understand humanity!"

"Yet by your definition, are humans not beast," the Kyuubi asked darkly, and then mindlessly said, "Therefore, on some level or plane, we are all equals."

"What's this definition you speak of," Naruto mocked, "I don't recall ever fetching a dictionary"

"It is quite simple," The nine tails said, who then yawned, "If it thinks of destruction, it is a demon. If it cannot reason well, it is a beast. Your species kills itself to satisfy their foolish pride, they kill each other for sport, they cheat each other for profit. It is a stupid thing to do, to hurt your own race such. The interesting thing is my level of reasoning seems to be higher than yours. If by your definition I am a beast, I wonder, what does that make you?"

"Shut up fox," Naruto snarled.

"Ooh, and I am once again back up from the terms demon and beast. Perhaps your starting to recognize my greatness."

"If you're so great, then how was the Fourth, a human, able to beat you, huh," Naruto challenged, suddenly smirking.

"Well," the fox drawled, "It was most likely because he had to call upon a God to do anything notable to me, and he died in the process. As did your mother."

Naruto's smirk suddenly morphed to hatred. "I hope you suffer demon. I hope you end up in hell and suffer on its worse level."

The nine tails smirked before replying, "Well, after all the good karma I've created, I'm confident I might shout a greeting down to you from heaven."

"Your kind is not worthy of heaven," Naruto said icily.

"My kind? As in all the little fox boys and fox girls that prance around in the forest," the fox asked chuckling?

"You nine demons are the worst parts of creation. I really want to ask God why he created abominations such as you."

The nine tails suddenly adopted a face of hatred, and coldly replied, "I wonder the same thing about humans. Why create such a race, that hates itself so much. Why create a race whose very nature is hatred. Why create a race that hurts itself? You think my kind the tailed beast are bad, that we have caused horrible destruction. It amounts to nothing compared to what your race has done to itself."

"You have destroyed entire cities of people," Naruto accused.

"As have your kind! And as for I, what accompanies the legends of me, of what I destroy. Where do I appear," suddenly shot back. "Where is it the legends always say I show up."

Naruto didn't respond, but suddenly had a conflicted expression.

Where the darkness of humanity culminates. That is where the nine tails was said to attack.

Naruto then responded, slightly weaker than before, "And how could you be sure that innocents weren't hurt." He continued, this time stronger, "What about the innocent people who just happen to live there, who couldn't escape it!"

The nine tails darkly responded, "And how can you be sure of the people you kill? Are they guilty, or did they just not pay their protection fee? Didn't you once say that your secret forces 'create missions'? Oh, my mistake, you said 'make', not create."

Naruto gritted his teeth, before leaving his mindscape, as he did, he heard the nine tails mutter, "Foolish humans."

Naruto once he was out, dropped his head. He looked upon the emergency treatment doors, and then started to walk away. He continued to walk, and eventually ended up in his room. He stared upon his mask, most likely thinking upon his friendly conversation with the nine tails.

Perhaps he was thinking about how things were simpler wearing a mask. How one had less troubles to worry about. Naruto then placed his mask down and walked outside once more. He stared upon the Fire Shadow Monument, and asked to the last one, "Dad, what do you think?"

Naruto walked. And he walked. His destination was the Fire Shadow building. He entered the normal way, through the front doors of the building, rather than the doggy door. He gave the secretariat the code that would allow him to see the Shadow immediately.

When he entered, he found him franticly looking over maps, charts, and papers alongside Dog. They looked up and the Fire Shadow asked in a rushed tone, "Can I help you Naruto?"

"Gramps," Naruto quietly said, "Why do we fight?"

The old man's eyebrows rose slightly alarmed at the question, before responding, "To protect the village and the land of fire."

"Then why do we create chaos, why do we 'make' missions happen? Isn't that counterproductive to why we fight?"

"Naruto, what brought this line of questioning on," the Fire Shadow asked.

"There was no one to talk to about...Crow, and so," Naruto said before swallowing, "I talked to the demon, the fox, and he...challenged my sense of humanity."

"Naruto," the Fire Shadow calmly but firmly said, "For one, I told you not to converse with the beast. It is a demon, it will try to deceive you for its own gain. As for your question, it is because we are not perfect. The nine tails wants to think that it is perfect, so it will challenge everything that it is not. Humans are not perfect, it is our nature. We do things that hurt others so we can help those we love. We have and will always put our loved ones before others, so that our loved ones can live happier. To deny our nature is to deny our humanity, and to deny our humanity is to become beast. We always need to make a decision between two evils, and always take the lesser one. Wouldn't be wrong to let our loved ones be unhappy?"

Naruto lacked any response, and instead nodded, though slightly brightened up.

If we don't do what we do, others still will, and will become more powerful than us, and try to destroy us as a result. It is a necessary evil. The demon is still wrong.

"Thank-you gramps," Naruto said, now smiling, before left the building.

As he walked away, Naruto thought he heard something in the back of his head of how foolish he was.


And cut! There is chapter 29. I hope it was enjoyable. This is another chapter revealing how Naruto's viewpoints are changing. I'll give you a warning for the upcoming chapters. You will likely notice a change in the style. This is because I have learned new techniques for writing. Make sure to tell me whether or not you like the changes.

If your complaints are about how you don't like how I changed a certain character themselves...well theirs not much to do about it.

Another thing about the next chapter, we will be introducing a very familiar point of the Naruto universe. See if you can guess what it is!