Hey folks, well heres the next (twack) OOOWOWOWOW what was that for!?

You're nearly three weeks late!! (skip chan repeatedly hits LMD with baseball bat)

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Two Tailed Fox

Bird song woke Naruto from his slumber. He opened his eyes and raised his head slightly to look around. Jiraiya was asleep, leaning against a tree. Takara was also asleep, she was laying in next to the smouldering camp fire. In front of him Hinata was still snuggled into his warmth, her back to him. The girls head was on his out stretched arm. He bent his elbow bringing his forearm around her. Hinata woke and smiled, she stroked his arm with her free hand. Naruto brought his other hand up and held his wrist and pulled tighter on Hinata's neck.

"Naruto what are you doing!?" she clawed at his arm trying to pull him off. He ignored her and pulled tighter.

"Naruto!" She gasped and tried to pull his arms away, he pulled tighter.

"Na…ru..tooo" with an audible snap he broke her neck and she fell limp in his arms. Once that was done, he laughed.

"GAH!" Naruto sat bolt upright, the sudden jerk startled Hinata.

"What!?" she was up instantly expecting an attack. Takara was woken as well and got tangled in her cloak she tripped in her haste. Jiraiya who was on sentry duty jumped up too.

"What is it!?"

"It's nothing….. Just a nightmare…" Naruto apologised after he caught his breath.

"Damn Naruto you scared me" Hinata said rubbing her eyes, she had been comfortable.

"Sorry" he said again. Takara grumbled something he couldn't hear and rolled over in her cloak, it was still late and she was tired. Naruto lay down again and Hinata snuggled into him again for warmth, resting her cheek on his chest. The sleepy women didn't take long to fall asleep again but Naruto lay awake, listening to the cackle of the nine tailed fox echoing in his skull.

"That wasn't funny" he shouted inwardly at the demon.

"It was for me" the fox replied with a sinister tone before once again being pushed behind Naruto's mental barriers. The fox did this more and more often. Using his closeness with Hinata against him. At first their relationship was what helped drive him away and enforced the seal but recently the fox found a way around it. He used his love for Hinata against him. By implanting these dreams of him hurting the girl into his mind it rose his fear that it may happen someday and his fear was eating away at his mental barriers. It was only a matter of time now.

"How far did you say this village was?" Hinata called to Takara at the front of the group.

"Far, relax Kit we're in no hurry" Takara called back with a grin.

"I wasn't complaining I was just wanted to know how far it was" Hinata called back, Naruto chuckled at the face Hinata pulled at Takara's back.

"What was your nightmare about last night?" she asked him.

"Huh?"

"Your dream, it seemed to freak you out, What was it about?" she pressed. Naruto looked away, he couldn't tell her the truth.

"um zombies…" it was the first thing that came to mind.

"Zombies?" Hinata raised an eyebrow at him.

"Yeah it was freaky…" he cleared his throat.

"er okay then." she shrugged.

"All this walking is getting really boring." Naruto said to change the subject.

"Yeah… maybe we could spar later, for fun." Hinata suggested.

"Sounds good." Jiraiya butted into their conversation.

"Hinata would win hands down." Takara called, slowing her pace to allow the ours to catch up with her.

"No chance, Naruto would." Jiraiya countered.

"Weather you meant that or not Hinata, it looks like we're not gonna get out of this." Naruto chuckled.

"Like I said it would be fun." She grinned at the two adults arguing over whose apprentice would win.

They stopped earlier than usual that day, because there was now bets riding on the match. Takara started up the fire to start dinner, it would be cooked by the time they finished their match. Jiraiya was laying out the ground rules. No kunai, no swords, no weapons, it was a simple match. The area they chose was away from the road, with flat-ish clearing with the odd boulder sticking up from the ground and a slow flowing river near by.

"I was just thinking we haven't sparred for a long while" Naruto said.

"Yeah… you'd think we'd spar more than once in the past two years." Hinata agreed.

"Enough chatter, lets go!" Jiraiya called. The teens shook their heads at him and took up their fighting stances.

It started simple enough, a few traded blows. Then the pace quickened, Hinata's speed made it hard for him to hit her and her consent dodging left her without any sort of foot hold to counter properly. Eventually Naruto decided to dial it up a bit, using a little fox chakra he increased his speed. Hinata sensed the change in his chakra.

"Cheater!" she called playfully as she jumped out of reach.

"No one said anything about fox chakra" he called back with a grin.

"Oh! In that case" Hinata nipped her thumb, twisting her vambrace around she smeared it on Fiesu, summoning the fox, she kept her small only the size of Akamaru.

"Hey! Now that is cheating. Two against one!" Hinata stuck out her tongue and both her and the fox returned to the fight. It was soon apparent that the two of them was too much for Naruto to handle so he tipped the battle in his favour by creating a multitude of shadow clones.

"Oi!" Hinata shouted, "Now who's cheating!" they where now having too much fun to really rein it in anymore Fiesu dealt with most of the clones with her claws and teeth while Hinata tried to track down the real Naruto. She tripped a Naruto and he didn't puff into smoke when he hit the ground.

"Found you!" she chimed and laid into him.

"Epp" he rolled to his feet and countered her attacks, meanwhile Fiesu stepped up the attacks on the clones since there was little danger of injuring the real Naruto now. The fight went on and Hinata was beginning to lose out to Naruto's stamina, her chakra was running out where as Naruto drew from the fox.

Then it hit her, why couldn't she, back before she became a chuunin Takara taught her a move that absorbed chakra. Drawing chakra back into herself she struck at him, pulling some of his chakra to herself.

"Ah…" she jumped back and held her forearm, it was tingling strangely. "What was that?" she looked for any injury on her arm, there was none.

"Better question, what is that?" Hinata looked up to Naruto, he had forgotten the fight and was looking at Fiesu. The fox looked at the two of them with a 'what-did-I-do' look.

"Nee-chan…" Hinata called, unable to take her eyes off the fox.

"What?" Takara responded, she was too busy cutting vegetables for the stew to look up.

"I think you should see this." Hinata called back.

"What is it?" Takara looked up, "FUCK!" she jumped up from her seat.

Fiesu was sitting nearby, with two tails waving around behind her.

"That is wrong on so many levels!" Takara shouted pointing to the fox.

"Calm down, it's only Fiesu." Jiraiya put a hand on the hyperventilating woman's shoulder.

"Foxes should only have one tail!"

"Relax!" he said more forcibly, Takara was visibly shaken at the sight of the multi tailed fox.

"What's caused it?" Hinata asked Jiraiya as he walked over and crouched to look at Fiesu.

"Did you touch the fox?" he asked Naruto.

"Nope"

"I absorbed some of his chakra…" Hinata chanced.

"huh… it must have been passed on to Fiesu, Tell me, do you sense a difference in the fox?"

"Now that you mention it, yes." Hinata rubbed the fox's head. "Nee-chan check this out."

"I'm good over here thanks." Takara was staying well away from Fiesu, at least while she had those other tails.

"So what do you reckon caused it?" Naruto asked before scoffing his dinner.

"I'm not really sure." Jiraiya said scratching his chin with his spoon. "It's possible that when you absorbed the fox's chakra it was channelled to a more preferred form, since you and Fiesu are still connected even when she's left your arm."

"So the fox chakra went through me and supercharged Fiesu?" Hinata asked.

"Well, in laymans terms, yes."

"Wonder why Onee-san reacted like that?" Naruto mused to himself. "I mean it was like Fiesu scared her." Naruto had checked around before he said that, Takara was off cleaning the cooking pot in a nearby stream.

"She was." Jiraiya said bluntly, Hinata was silent and stared into her bowl, Naruto was confused.

"Huh?" the boy looked to Jiraiya for an explanation.

"You have to remember Naruto, Takara was at the front lines of Kyuubi's attack. It's not surprising she was a little freaked out about Fiesu." Jiraiya said seriously.

"Oh…. Yeah…" Naruto gripped his stomach, he remembered the last time the four of them were together, Hinata asked Takara about Gata, her younger brother, he had been killed by the Fox, he sort of understood now. Hinata broke the silence by posing another question.

"If the fox's chakra can super charge Fiesu would it be worth developing it as a technique?"

"Don't see why not." The older man said with a shrug.

"Won't it be dangerous to channel that amount of energy through Hinata to the fox?" Takara reappeared holding the now clean pot.

"I can limit the amount of power I summon from the fox." Naruto said sounding confident.

"I dunno, it sounds dodgy to me" Takara was reluctant but after much bugging and begging she finally agreed to let them try again the next day under strict supervision of herself and Jiraiya.

"It's your turn to watch tonight Takara." Jiraiya called across the fire.

"I know, I know…" Takara stretched and wrapped her thick travelling cloak around herself before going to find a comfortable spot to sit for the night.

"I'm gonna turn in." Jiraiya curled up near the fire and was soon asleep.

"You think it would be dangerous to try this tomorrow?" Hinata asked Naruto, the two where still sitting up.

"I don't think so, I can control a fair amount of the fox's power." Naruto boasted. Hinata smirked at him.

"I'm glad your confident." She sat in between his legs and he wrapped his arms and cloak around her.

"Well I wouldn't let anything happen to you," He said leaning his chin on her shoulder, he was fiddling with her little fox pendant, tracing his fingers over the tiny engravings.

"Same here" She reached behind herself and stroked the beginnings of a scruffy beard on her boyfriend.

"Guess I should shave?" he said but it was more a question to Hinata.

"No, I like it." she said with a grin.

On the other side of the camp Takara mimed retching.

"Oh yeah! Your just as bad when you're with Gai!" Hinata countered.

The next day they decided to stay where they were for the little test. Takara grabbed a few hours kip after the others woke up, if she needed to step in it was better if she was alert. Jiraiya agreed.

"Rested?" Jiraiya asked.

"Yup, I needed that." Takara stretched and her joints popped. "Okay, you know what you're doing?" she posed the question to the teens.

"Nope…" Hinata replied

"Not really." Naruto called. Takara turned back to Jiraiya,

"I'm filled with confidence…" He grinned at the woman's sarcasm then called to the teens.

"Take it away, start small though."

"Okay!" Naruto called up some fox chakra and focused it into his hand to form the rasengan ball. Hinata hovered her hand over it and absorbed the chakra, her body tingled strangely as the foreign chakra ran through it. Nipping her thumb she summoned Fiesu, the fox was bigger than she intended, all the fox energy was channelled to the Branded Summon, Fiesu gave a rumbling growl deeper than usual and again had two tails whipping behind her. Hinata was sure she heard Takara whimper in the background but her fascination on the fox drew her attention. Now the size of a horse the creature towered over her.

"How are you holding up?" she asked Fiesu, the fox nuzzled Hinata to signal all was well with her. The teen stroked the fox's neck while Naruto grinned behind her.

"Success then" He chimed and petted the other side of the fox.

"Seems so, extraordinary…" Jiraiya muttered as he looked over the giant fox, "Wouldn't you think?" he turned to Takara, they woman had a cracking smile and her face was pale. The fox was now using the Kyuubi's energy, one that she remembered all too well from the day of the attack, it was scaring her.

"Its okay, Hinata has full control over the fox."

"but to what level?" Takara muttered to herself.

"Lets try again, but with a little more this time." Naruto suggested.

"What do you think Fiesu." the fox nodded her furry head and returned to Hinata's arm after dispelling the Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto focused more energy to his hand and formed the orb of chakra again.

Hinata absorbed it as before, but the surplus of energy seemed to cause a throbbing sensation at the back of her skull, she wondered if Naruto felt this while he used the Kyuubi's power. She summoned Fiesu again the fox was still the same size in height, but with thicker limbs and three tails waving around behind her. The tips of her ears where tinted black, her fur seemed to bristle and her upper lip was twitching as if snarling. The fox was swaying back and forth on her front paws and glared with cold eyes.

"Something's wrong!" Hinata said suddenly.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"That's not Fiesu!" The fox turned her eyes on Hinata and over their mental connection, she sensed blood lust and rage. It was the nine-tails, trying to take over her branded summon. Hinata quickly recalled the fox, dissipating the Kyuubi's energy.

"What happened?" Jiraiya asked.

"The nine tails tried to take over." he looked around it had been Takara who spoke. "the reason it stays at bay in Naruto is because of his own will power and those charms." Naruto clutched at the first's gem and the Lock gem hanging around his neck. "Fiesu is nothing more than an off-shoot of Hinata's personality, it has no real will power of its own, Si and So are the same. she will act on the strongest influence, which is normally your will Hinata, but if enough of the Kyuubi's power gets channelled into her, the dominant influence will change."

"Nee-chan?" Hinata rubbed her arm, it was still tingling.

"It's better not to pursue this." Takara said.

"Hold on, you said its all down to influence. Right?" Jiraiya asked.

"It is"

"Over time does that bond between user and the branded creature get stronger?"

"Yes, there have been a few times where mind manipulators have tired to take over my panthers. It works on the same concept but its no longer a problem. What are you thinking?"

"If Hinata can increase her hold over Fiesu she could control more of the fox's power…"

"No Jiraiya!" Takara snapped. "That demon should never be given another form"

"Nee-chan, it's okay, I know you're worried about me but if we can learn to use this it would be a great advantage against the sound." Hinata interjected. Takara looked over at her worry was etched on her face.

"Hinata…"

"If we start with only two tails we can slowly work our way up, even then, with two tails Fiesu was almost ten times stronger, so we may not even have to work up." the teen argued.

"I could limit the power further" Naruto added.

"Three against one then…" Takara ran her fingers along her scar. "If this is what you want then, but go slowly, I don't want you getting hurt."

"Don't worry about it Nee-chan, we'll be careful." Takara offered a weak smile, she hoped she was wrong about this.

Hinata and Naruto experimented with the fox's energy for the rest of the day. Takara was always standing nearby, Si and So laying at her feet ready to restrain the fox if needed, she was still not comfortable about this. Jiraiya on the other hand thought it was a great idea and was trying to get the teens to try other methods.

"Stop egging them on…" Takara hissed.

"Will you relax, Naruto is limiting the amount of power he feeds Hinata and she has complete control over the fox." Jiraiya said, Takara just gave an un-amused look.

"That's enough, its getting late" Takara called.

"But we're making great progress." Naruto objected.

"Nah, nee-chan's right Naruto, I'm getting pretty tired." Hinata wiped sweat from her brow.

"I guess then…" Naruto scratched his head and followed Hinata back to their camp, night was beginning to fall.

"Hinata it's your watch tonight." Jiraiya called.

"Yeah okay…." she lent back against a tree to take up her watch, Naruto bunked down and was out cold in no time.

"Guess it took more out of him than he let on." Jiraiya said as he lay down next to the fire.

"Seems to be…." Takara settled down as well, "Keep an eye out then"

"It's not the first time I've done sentry duty." Hinata chuckled, Takara gave a smirk and rolled over to get comfortable.

"You've been having fun with my powers haven't you?" the fox's voice leaked out from behind the sealed gates.

"What's it to you!" Naruto snapped back, he was standing in the shin deep water in front of the gate keeping the fox at bay. "and why did you bring me here?" it had been a long time since the fox spoke to him face to face.

"A few things really. First to congratulate you, channelling my power into an empty vessel was a good idea." the fox sneered.

"So?" Naruto snapped, the fox chuckled.

"secondly, drawing on so much of my power has left your barriers weak."

"What?" Naruto's eyes widened, the fox's chuckle turned into a full scale laugh. The fox rose his head and rammed forward, slamming against the gates. The seal stretched and groaned as the fox tried to break free.

"NO!" Naruto ran forward and tried to push the gates closed again, at the most prevent it from opening any further. The Kyuubi's chakra leaked out from the gate and surrounded Naruto, all the while the fox laughed.

Hinata yawned and looked around the area, it was quiet, the others were asleep and she was tired. It was quiet. Hinata played with her fox pendant, but after a few minutes she noticed something, a raising chakra level. Hinata pulled out a kunai and crawled over to Takara, looking around the surrounding woods, she tapped on Takara's shoulder, the woman was instantly awake.

"What is it?"

"Do you sense that?" Takara was still for a moment,

"Yes" she threw off the cloak and got to her feet partially drawing her katana she scanned the surrounding woods. "Where is it coming from?" she asked Hinata, the teens ability to sense chakra was far surpior to hers with her Byakugan.

"Behind!" Hinata spun and glared across the camp fire, Takara stared into the darkness with her serpents gaze, she could see nothing. A wave of dread hit Takara, she knew that energy.

"Nee-chan?" Hinata heard the rattle of metal and looked over to Takara, the woman was shaking, her sword rattling in its sheath, her face was pale.

"The fox!" she shouted. Hinata swung around to look at Naruto, a red energy surrounded his body as he drew himself up to full height, with an evil sneer he flashed pointed teeth, slit-like eyes, bristled hair and his whisker marks had multiplied on his face.

"Naruto?" Hinata dropped her guard. A strong hand gripped her shoulder and pulled her back, Takara stepped in front of her holding out her sword.

"This is why I asked you to stop! Wake Jiraiya!"

"Nee-chan?"

"Do it!" The other woman snapped. Her tone was enough to get Hinata to go and kick the man.

"What!?" he sit bolt up right, and after seeing Naruto, he was wide awake. He scrabbled to his feet just in time to duck as Takara flew over head crashing into a tree, bringing it down.

"Takara!"

"Nee-chan!"

"ow…" the woman got shakily to her feet. "Down!" Takara shouted, in a red flash Naruto rushed past them, knocking Jiraiya off his feet.

Naruto was on her before she knew it. He gripped Takara's throat tightly and punched her face repeatedly, she kicked at his legs and torso but it had little effect.

"Naruto!" Jiraiya shouted. The Kyuubi paused in his assault still holding the woman's throat he turned to look at the other two. He sneered with malice in his eyes, slowly he tightened his grip on Takara's neck.

"Enough!" Jiraiya bellowed and pulled the seal from his pocket and ran for Naruto.

"come any closer and I'll snap her neck like a twig." a cold menacing voice threatened, the Kyuubi hoisted Takara higher, her feet left the ground.

"Nee-chan!" Hinata skidded to a halt next to Jiraiya at the threat. "Why are you doing this!?" she demanded. At her question the Kyuubi chuckled.

"Why? Because I've been trapped in this mortal body for eighteen years. My great power reduced to a plaything for a child!" the demon snapped, to emphasize his point the threw Takara down forcefully at their feet. The woman choked trying to get air back into her lungs. Hinata pulled her to her feet and again Takara placed herself between the demon and Hinata, despite the open wound on her forehead. "Once I kill you his anguish will tear him apart, allowing me to rip this body apart and release my full power and return to my true form!" the fox shouted and charged forward. He jumped and thrust his knee into Jiraiya's chin cracking the mans teeth and sending in him sliding backwards. The seal was ripped from his grip and fell to the ground. Naruto jumped again and slammed both feet onto the old mans chest.

"GAHH!!" Jiraiya shouted out and a rolled to his side clutching his chest. Takara retrieved her dropped sword and swung for Naruto the fox caught her blade and grinned at her. Takara just managed to get away from the retaliation.

"The Seal! Get it on him!" Jiraiya shouted trying to get back to his feet.

"Shut it you old fool!" the Kyuubi shouted, "And stay where you are!" the fox flipped Takara's sword around and threw it like a javelin, the blade went through Jiraiya's leg and buried itself up to the hilt into his flesh and the ground below. While the fox goaded over the sannin's pained scream Takara dived for the seal holding it in her palm she launched for the demon, the fox spun in an instant and grabbed her wrist while his other hand charged chakra. Takara quickly grabbed a kunai from her belt and rammed it between the bones in his forearm. The kyuubi didn't release or even lessen his grip, he only grinned manically and twisted her wrist sharply, had she not segmented her bones it would had broke her wrist. The fox pulled her forward and slammed his chakra charged palm into her stomach.

"GRKK" Takara spat blood and stared at the ground in shock, she was doubled over, the fox was laughing. He pulled his arm back and Takara fell to her knees wheezing, the Kyuubi drew his hand back again.

"Night Onee-san" he jeered, Takara looked up in time to see the chakra charged palm in front of her.

"NO!"

"Huh!" The fox paused, a short sword was protruding from his ribs. Hinata quickly released her grip on the handle.

"Naruto…" she whimpered.

"Its not Naruto! RUN!" Takara shouted.

"Silence!" the fox thrust his palm forward and the blow forced Takara across the clearing. Skidding to a halt on her back, the sannin wasn't moving.

Hinata backed up a few paces as the Kyuubi turned to face her, he stared at her while he gripped the handle of her short sword.

"Now what would Naruto think? You stabbed him."

"Naruto would rather die than let you hurt us anymore." Hinata shouted back.

"That may be, but I'm not done with this body just yet." with that the fox pulled her sword out with a quick yank, the blade dripped with Naruto's blood. The boy's shirt was ripped and she could see the wound.

"What? Are you hoping I'll bleed out?" the fox chuckled.

"Not likely" He held up his hand that had an evil red glow bubbling around it, he placed this froth against his side for a few moments. After a few seconds he wiped his side and the wound was gone.

"Did it not occur to you that the boys healing abilities come from me?" he said as he passed his hand over the wound on his arm Takara left him with. Hinata gulped, what could she do.

Her eyes flicked to the seal on the ground next to him, where Takara had dropped it. The Kyuubi saw the quick eye movement and turned to pick up the seal, holding it between his thumb and fore finger as if it was something dirty. He charged his chakra once again and the seal burst into flames. He held it in his open palm and watched Hinata through the flames leaping from his hand.

"Now what, little one?" he sneered. "He's screaming right now…" the fox closed his eyes to listen. "Don't touch her, don't hurt her" he chuckled and reopened his eyes again. "Come then, don't let him down. Show him you'll fight for your life!" the fox's hands frothed up again with the strange red chakra. Hinata charged her hands and feet with her own chakra and tried to defend herself.

'He's toying with me! To torture Naruto!' she released after a few minutes of trading blows. Hinata managed to strike him with paralysing palm, the fox staggered back and looked at the scorch mark on Naruto's shirt. He fell to his knees and clutched his stomach.

"Hin…Hinata…" he moaned.

"Naruto!" she jogged over to him, as soon as she got close his hands shot out and grabbed her wrists,

"Fool!" the Kyuubi laughed, "I will not be removed so easily!" he twisted her wrists back almost to the point of breaking and forced her to her knees. He fox laughed at her. Hinata growled and tried to break his grip but it was like iron, instead she tried to absorb some of his energy to try and force it back on him.

"What's this? You want some of my power?" the fox laughed again. "Then here have some!" he forced more chakra into the girl and she felt like fire was running through her veins.it was too much. Her eyes where wide and she threw her head back to scream and was forced to look into the eyes of the demon.

When she next opened her eyes, Hinata was standing in a corridor. The walls were identical to those in the Hyuuga main household except they were faded. She looked around herself, Where was she? In either direction the corridor ran into blackness, which way to go?

Somewhere to her left a noise echoed down the hallway. She decided to see what it was and she started jogging down the hall, she ran down that corridor for what seemed for and age but eventually it started to change, gradually. First the walls, the grey toned walls seemed to flake and peel reliving rough stone walls, the still air gained some humidity.

"What is this place?" she asked herself and looked up at the strange walls as she ran down the hall. Suddenly the floor seemed to fall away, before she overbalanced her foot splashed into shallow water. Looking at her feet she saw the smooth wooden floor ended abruptly and stepped down into murky water. She paused to look around herself, was she in a sewer? The noise from before sounded down the hall again, it was a mix of shouting and rushing wind and water, as quickly as it came it went again. She felt something familiar about the shout. Without thinking twice she ran down the tunnel to find the source of that voice. Unlike the neat hall this area was filled with twists and turns. It was more like a maze but she followed the sounds until they where constant noises in the air around her. Finally she found the source in a large open room, one end was filled with darkness and blocked off with a gate. Behind the gate was a great pair of eyes and a row of razor sharp teeth, they where surrounded in a thick frothy chakra. This was pressed up against the gate and the metal strained against a seal stretched across the gates. In front of the gates, below the eyes was a figure, almost completely engulfed in the red froth.

"Naruto!" the boy was straining to close the gates. Hinata ran forward and planted her hands on the gate as well.

"Hinata!?" Naruto looked surprised to see her.

"I'm here to help you seal him away again!" she called over the loud noise of the fox. The boy didn't argue and renewed his efforts to close the gate, with Hinata's help it was slowly starting to inch its way closed.

"NO!" the fox bellowed from behind the gates. "I will not be shut out! Get out of our minds!"

The fox eked out more chakra through the bars and it fell over Hinata like a thick slime.

"RWWAAHH!" the foxed roared out and the slime surrounding her almost seemed to compress in on her. She tried to stagger back from the gate but she couldn't move, she couldn't breathe.

"Hinata!" Naruto shouted.

"Leave this place!" the fox growled.

Hinata's eyes snapped open, she was on her knees in front of the Kyuubi Naruto again, his mocking face changed to an angry sneer. The burning pain returned. The fox forced more power into Hinata's body, the pain was almost crippling as the demons chakra coursed through her.

"You will watch as she dies!" the fox hissed, speaking to Naruto within him. A large pressure was building up behind Hinata's eyes, it felt like her brain was swelling inside her skull, the pressure built to an unbearable level. With a sensation almost like ripping the pressure was relieved through her eyes, for a moment Hinata's pain was gone, but it redoubled itself in her eyes. They were on fire, she couldn't see anything but red. Hinata could no longer hold back the howl of pain.

Hinata's scream echoed down the halls of Naruto's mind.

"NOOO!" with strength born from anger Naruto renewed his assault on the gates.

"What are you doing?" the fox demanded as he noticed Naruto was managing to close the gates on his own. The fox tried to renew his hold but Naruto was too strong this time and at last the gates closed cutting off the fox's control over his body.

Naruto opened his eyes, he was back in his body, looking around he cursed himself for letting the fox do this. An agonised shout behind him made Naruto turn around. Takara was kneeling on the ground, her face was covered with blood from multiple wounds on her forehead and cheeks, her nose was broken and she was cradling Hinata. The teen had both hands clamped over her eyes, through her fingers leaked blood.

"Hinata!" Naruto started forward.

"STAY AWAY!" Takara barked at him, there was hate in her eyes. Naruto recoiled from the order as if he had been struck.

"But… I …" he looked around again, Jiraiya was pinned to the ground with Takara's sword, blood dripped from his mouth and he was holding his stomach. Several trees where knocked down and the surrounding underground was burned or scorched. His tearful eyes returned to Hinata she was still wailing. Again he tried to move to her as if to somehow ease her suffering.

"I said Get Away!" Takara shouted and drew Hinata's other sword and glaring at him.

"No, this…this…it…" the blond grabbed his hair and tears flowed down his face, with his eyes on Hinata he backed away, then he turned and fled into the night.

End chapter 35

(LMD is covered in bandages sitting in front of her lappy, Skip hovers behind brandishing the tazer)

You will update on time this week!!

Aren't you being a little too mean? (Ammy-chan)

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