Naruto started charging his rasengan. The stare of hundreds of eyes fixed upon him and Hinata.
Hinata started tying her hair back. This battle would take a while, and having her eyesight constantly interrupted by the long black growth wouldn't help their cause.
"Looking good," smirked Naruto after his girlfriend's new hairstyle. He couldn't help but get distracted by her, no matter how vast an incoming army was, it would be no match for her beauty.
"Naruto-kun, pay attention," said the girl, jumping out of the way of incoming arrows.
Naruto lifted his rasengan, ripping the incoming attacks into splinters and fusing them into his ball of spinning chakra. "This is going to be painful," said the blonde, observing his rasengan mixed with sharp pieces of wood.
The two of them came charging at the enemy, hands joined, side-by-side in unity.
They jumped up, flying into the center of the mass of enemies. Swords were lifted into the air, as a welcoming pad for Naruto and Hinata to land on.
The couple disappeared, reappearing under the enemy and creating a big shockwave along with a crater on the ship's deck. Pirates were flung in all directions, only to be replaced by an incoming horde of their comrades.
Naruto held on to Hinata with his free arm. The girl started spinning, with her boyfriend as the central axis and support. Her legs delivered fatal kicks to the incoming pirates, Hinata's perfect defense around Naruto.
"Separate them!" commanded a big shot pirate with oversized muscles, pointing at the couple, not daring to come close himself. "They have to be separated!"
Hinata landed, and flung Naruto over herself at the noisy pirate. Naruto flew over the crowd of enemies and inserted his splinter-rasengan into the enemy's chest. Releasing his control of the orb, the rasengan blew up like a grenade, half the splinters entering the pirate's body and making him fly overboard.
"Heh," smiled the teen, looking down as the blood-covered brute broke the water's surface in a big splash. Someone grabbed him from behind in an arm-lock, and another pirate came charging at him with a sword. "Damn..."
Hinata pulled Naruto up from midair and shot him back into the crowded part of the ship, while she took care of the two that nearly got a chance to attack him.
Naruto flipped through the air, "damn! Hinata, stop throwing me all over the place!"
The pirates were already waiting for his landing with rusty weapons raised; the idea of the kids separated was too comforting for them. They were wrong, Naruto can handle himself just fine without the help of his girlfriend, and he could for a while now. Same could be said for Hinata, no attack could get close enough to hurt her; anything that posed a threat immediately got countered or destroyed by her gentle fist.
Naruto started creating clones to propel himself through the air. Clones appeared and disappeared at a moment's notice, tossing him in all directions, mass confusion spreading throughout the ship's crew.
Watching this, Hinata couldn't help but burst out laughing; Naruto was making the pirates dizzy, messing with their minds without the use of genjutsu. One by one the pirates either fell down or rushed over to the side to throw up. The ones left standing were now pushovers; she ran up to them and started punching them down.
Moments later they were sitting on a pile of beat up and unconscious slobs, both satisfied to the brink with their success.
"There they are!" came a voice from behind them.
Naruto slowly turned his head to look at the source of the enthusiastic voice. After observing the other three ships starting to invade their current one, he turned back and sighed. "We're in trouble."
Hinata nodded, they were already tired out from disarming one ship, and now three more arrived, releasing a swarm of reeking, unshowered guys with pointy things and sharp objects. "Don't worry, all we have to do is keep them busy until Kakashi and the rest get the chest. After that we run like hell."
"I'm not worried. It's just going to be a pain to fight them, I'm all tired out," replied the blonde. This was not surprising to Hinata; even though Naruto had excessive stamina, his little trick of making the enemy dizzy took a lot out of him.
The couple got up and turned around to face the charging swarm of pirates with various stabbing and slicing weapons. They dashed at the nearest few pirates, using their new and improved airborne fighting style, to give the pirates hell.
The fight went on, ten minutes of constant jumping, kicking and concentration, made them tired and sloppy. They were having a difficult time trying to keep up with eachother.
Naruto jumped off a pirate towards Hinata, she did the same. The move that was supposed to make them spin around eachother and fly back at the opponents, used a lot, but finally failed. As they flew towards eachother, their hands joined to sling them around in opposite directions. Naruto got careless; his hand slipped and they fell to the ground, tumbling into the feet of their enemies.
Several pirates picked them up, dragging them to the mast; they were extremely pissed off.
Neither Naruto nor Hinata could move, their bodies were weak enough from the fighting, and the fact that they were tied up didn't help much. The boy groaned, at moments like these the old Naruto would start doing something stupid like panic. Good thing he had matured since then; he tried to analyze the situation this time, but couldn't come up with a way out. He looked over to Hinata, who was lying beside him. She shook her head too. "Shit," thought the teen.
"Hey kid!" said a loud voice.
Naruto got slightly startled; he heard this voice somewhere before. He looked up at the pirates, nobody was turned to him; they were discussing their own private matters. "Who said that?"
Hinata turned to him, she didn't hear anything. So fear for Naruto's sanity arose in her. "Who said what?"
"Don't talk to yourself kid," said the same voice.
Naruto remembered. The voice he had tuned out earlier, the voice of the dangerous beast inside him. "Oh it's you..."
"You look like you could use a hand"
"Bug off loser, I'm not going to release you."
"I don't know... You look like you're in a pretty tight spot," teased the fox.
Naruto knew that the fox was correct; a pirate nearby was sharpening a big axe, a Naruto-neck sized axe. "Fuck..."
"Looks like your girlfriend is going the same place that you are, you might want to save her..."
"Shut up!" yelled the kid, this time panicking. The fox was trying to release the reckless Naruto and use that fool to its advantage.
"Oh look, they even have head-sized baskets ready."
"I said shut up!" screamed the kid out loud.
A pirate came up to him and kicked him in the stomach, "pipe down dipshit."
The fox started laughing, "Oh! Are you going to take that? Shouldn't you do something to him in return?" Thoughts were racing through Naruto's head, plans of escape, but the Kyubi kept interfering, "oh, that's kind of risky. Could get you both killed. I wouldn't want that, I'm part of you, I don't want to die..."
Naruto had enough. He closed his eyes and faced the Kyubi's deadly stare and sharp smile. "I said shut the fuck up!"
"What are you going to do about it?"
"I'll shut you up!" screamed the kid, charging into the cage.
The Kyubi wasn't too surprised, its host was in love and didn't want to release a demon, and it could only hope that Naruto hadn't found out its weakness. "You can't fight me you foolish little worm..." Replied the fox, snapping its jaws at the kid, making him fly back.
Naruto got up smirking, "wanna bet?"
The Kyubi became uneasy, if Naruto had found out why Hinata was a threat to him, it would mean trouble for the fox. "Yes"
"I'll warn you, fox. I've sensed your fear ever since I saw Hinata. I couldn't figure it out for the longest time," the blonde looked up, "But now I see."
"Shit..." thought the fox.
Naruto gave off a dangerous smile, one that pierced the beast. "I'm in love Kyubi, and I'm not going to let you fuck that up for me."
The fox kept its smile unchanged, but the eyes showed fear. He could no longer come out of the kid; the kid was becoming stronger from an unknown force. He had to do something now, before the kid could realize that he's much stronger than the fox. "You're weak kid, you need me to get out of all your messes. Without me, you're nothing!!!" screamed the fox in a thunderous roar
Naruto stood his ground; he had caught the Kyubi's bluff and was now calling the fox's all-in bet. "I don't need you to get me out of messes, I've got Hinata now."
"Hinata is useless right now! She's tied up!"
"I'm not weak. You make me weak. You're nothing more than a burden of mine. And Hinata's not useless right now at all. She's the one that's driving me to beat you down. From now on, you'll be nothing than a power switch to my full chakra capacity."
The fox was speechless. A monster such as the nine tails to be used as a mere tool, only the world's number one surprising ninja could think of something so crazy. "You're mad, do you really think that you can match my strength?!!" screamed the fox, sharp red chakra filling the room to the brink.
Naruto calmly closed his eyes in bliss. "Yes," replied the whiskered blonde, "I can match it and I can exceed it!" screamed the enraged teen charging into the cage again.
"Don't flatter yourself!" screamed the fox pumping all of its chakra out. The pressure of seventeen thousand deaths fell upon Naruto, glowing red chakra dominating the cage.
"I'll put a fucking leash on you!" roared Naruto, his soothing blue chakra pushing that of the fox's back. "You know death! But I know love!" screamed the blonde, jumping up into the air, and tackling the fox's might straight on.
The buff pirate with an axe came over to the couple. "Put them on their deathbeds!" commanded the brute, as several pirates picked up Hinata and Naruto, and put them on a table, leaving the heads hanging over two head-sized baskets.
"Do you know who I am?" asked the blonde, opening his eyes and turning his head to the pirate, who had already started swinging the axe but stopped. "Do you know what you just did?"
The foul smelling man smirked, "it doesn't matter, close your eyes and die!" swinging his axe at Naruto's neck.
Glowing blue energy engulfed the ship. Naruto's ropes ripped apart and he started levitating upwards. Hinata stared at him in awe, pirates in terror.
Hinata's ropes disintegrated, and the soft blue light lifted her up to join Naruto's side. She was confused beyond belief, "what is this? This amazing chakra..." she stared around, all the pirates started fainting; their spirits couldn't take such a heavy blow of chakra. "Could this be the Kyubi?" thought the girl, "no... This chakra is too soft and kind to be the Kyubi's. Is this Naruto?"
Author's note: Hey everyone, I'm definately back, only two or so chapters left to write though. It seems that I'm losing readers, but I don't mind. If you like reading my fanfic, I'm grateful and happy, If not, I still like to write. Feel free to criticise me, I'm always open to suggestions that could make my writing better. Thanks for reading, Silencer299 signing off.