WARNING! This chapter and the next few chapters, (probably), get real bloody and have gore. I feel I need to warn you because up until this point there has been like no gore and now all of a sudden things are getting real. You've been warned!

"Kyuubi Speech"

"Midnight Speech"

"Everyone else's speech"

Chapter 15
On with the story

To both Naruto and Hinata's surprise they ended up staying quite a while at the festival. They played games, bought souvenirs, mostly with Hinata's allowance. They watched at least one play, a musical, and even rewatched the parade since it went on multiple times through the day. Outside of spending time with his mother, Naruto had more fun than he'd ever had in his life.

The entire time Hinata maintained a deeply satisfied smile, watching Naruto run from event to event like a kid in a candy store. He was so happy, seeing him like that melted Hinata's heart. Her adoration for Naruto only grew stronger with every passing minute.

Hinata watched as Naruto ran around in large circles, a kite shaped like a dog from the Inuzuka clan trailing behind him high up in the air. He had the biggest grin on his face, running around Hinata joyfully. Hinata's eyes were fixated, mesmerized. If this wasn't love she didn't know what love was.

After a few more minutes Naruto slowed down, making his way over to Hinata and pulling down the kite. He stopped in front of her, eyes staring intensely into hers. Hinata stayed silent, barely able to maintain eye contact. Naruto leaned forward to plant a brief smooch against her nose.

"I know it's getting a bit late but I was thinking of going to one more event if you don't mind." Naruto said while glancing up at the sky. The sun was just going down but still visible on the horizon. The night sky at this point was filled with fireworks that illuminated the slowly darkening streets. There was a large fireworks show that many were already attending. Hinata let out a tiny giggle while nodding her head.

"You don't have to ask my permission Naru-kun. We can stay as long as you like." Hinata said while taking a step forward and grasping his hand, entwining their fingers. Naruto squeezed her hands affectionately before turning around and heading towards the fireworks. It was quite a bit away so they had some walking to do. Not that either minded, they'd both been walking all day.

They walked alone for quite some time, enjoying the privacy since most people were already at the firework event. Naruto still had the kite flying behind him, it was windy enough to float without having to run. As the two rounded a corner they spotted a large group of people who were also headed towards the fireworks. Naruto sped up to catch up to the group, finding success blending into the crowd. With the mask, his kimono, and his feminine figure Naruto was sure he hadn't been recognized. Honestly he hadn't even thought about it for hours now.

As they continued on the path a huge series of fireworks exploded in the sky about a mile away. Hinata and Naruto both marveled at it, their eyes sparkling.

"Isn't it beautiful Naru-kun?" Hinata asked in amazement. This was always her favorite part of the festival. Naruto had to agree. He'd never seen the fireworks so close. Her words drew Naruto's attention, causing him to tear his eyes away from the fire works and cast his gaze upon Hinata's awestruck face.

"Thank you for this Hinata-chan." He whispered tenderly. Hinata looks away from the fireworks because Naruto's voice was too quite, the effeminte tween speaking more to himself than towards her directly. As he stared at her face in admiration an alarmed voice suddenly interrupted Naruto's thoughts.

"Naruto, I don't like this." Midnight spoke into Naruto's mind with a concerned voice. Hearing Midnight's voice honestly surprised Naruto. She hadn't spoke for quite some time, just watching the two on their date. As always she maintained her fox form, acting as Naruto's scarf. Naruto frowned slightly in confusion.

"What do you mea…" Naruto began to question before his instincts began to kick in. Naruto and Hinata were in a middle of a rather large crowd but as Naruto subtly glanced around he noticed that none of the people around him were looking up at the fireworks.

No, they were all looking straight ahead. Naruto narrowed his gaze upon one particular face. The face of a woman. Unlike all the faces he'd paid attention to all day her expression wasn't one of joy and exhilaration, but of a restrained malice. That was all Naruto needed to see in order to understand exactly what was going on. Despite this realization Naruto stayed calm, putting on a bright smile and turning his attention back to Hinata.

"Hinata-chan, I don't want to miss seeing any of the fireworks up close. Let's hurry!" Naruto said while squeezing her hand. Hinata, being none the wiser was eager to comply.

"Ok Naru…" Hinata began to say before being suddenly silenced by a hand being cupped over her mouth.

Hinata was then suddenly pulled off of her feet dragged away by a large man wrapping his arms around her belly and lifting her into the air. Both Naruto and Hinata's eyes widened in shock. As their fingers slipped away from one another they both reached out desperately towards the other. The next moments seemed to play out in slow motion within Naruto's mind. Before Naruto could properly respond his attention was drawn to the side by an anger filled voice.

"HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR FACE HERE DEMON!?" The voice screamed, the owner being a woman bringing a kitchen knife down in a stabbing motion towards Naruto's head.

Being a demon, a child trained as a shinobi, a killer in the making like all his other peers Naruto was already completely prepared to defend himself when he turned to see that knife coming down upon him. His body was already prepared to deflect any attack which came his way, but this all changed when seeing the woman's angry face, the position she was in, that knife, everything...it was just like his nightmare.

Naruto froze completely, his body not responding. He couldn't move an inch. All he felt was fear, helplessness. Despite the monstrous power he wielded, his brain could do nothing but revert back to the helpless little boy that he was before his mother adopted him. The same one crawling around through alleyways trying to avoid the hateful intent of his fellow villagers. Naruto raised his delicate hands up in front of his face, but not to defend himself properly, but to cower.

That knife struck clean, lodging deep within Naruto's collarbone. Naruto cried out in pain, his tiny, vulnerable, high pitched voice filling the area.

Still being dragged away Hinata looked on in absolute horror as a mob of villagers collapsed in on Naruto. Within seconds the boy was being stabbed, punched and impaled with various weapons, punches, kicks, there was even a kunai among the bunch. It all happened so fast that Hinata could barely even comprehend what was going on. It took the sound of Naruto's pain-filled, high pitched shriek for Hinata to snap out of her stupor.

The girl's body practically moved on it's own. With a quick twist of her body Hinata rammed a powerful elbow into the man that was still carrying her away, causing him to spit up blood and hunch over in pain and surpise. She then twirled around, using his leg to push off of, the tween jumping away and landing a bone crushing kick across his jaw. The man went flying backwards, landing face first on the pavement completely unconscious. Hinata then turned around and prepared to sprint towards her love.

"Naruto!" She called out desperately as her feet hit the ground. Though as soon as they did two figures appeared at her side at speeds that shouldn't have been possible for a normal villager.

"Calm down girl, let the adults handle this." One of them said while reaching for Hinata. Hinata hesitated, allowing one of them to grab her arm. They were shinobi. Leaf village shinobi. They weren't wearing their headbands but she can tell by the way they moved. The girl was conflicted as they prepared to pull her away. Was she going to attack leaf village shinobi? That would be a serious crime.

"AH!" Streamed that familiar voice again causing Hinata's Byakugan to flare. She could see that Naruto was cowering on the ground, curled into a ball, covered in blood. She could see his tears.

"Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven!" Hinata shouted as an aura of chakra seeped from her body. At the same time the girl spun quickly on her heels, instantly creating a huge spinning aura of chakra which sent the two shinobi crashing through the walls of a nearby building with shocked expressions on their faces.

At the same time Naruto remained hunched over on the ground, his arms wrapped around his own torso as a constant barrage of sharp objects and vicious assaults came his way. Naruto stared forward in shock, his vision red from the blood covering his body. His tiny form was covered in gashes and newly formed scars. The boy's skin was purple in multiple places from broken bones as the crowd crushed his frame with their feet, bricks, large rocks, anything they could find.

Every few seconds he'd let out a pathetic shriek from the pain. These responses were involuntary, but worse than the pain, the fear, the isolution, the darkness and hate spewed towards him was his internal turmoil. The agony of realizing that despite all his power he was still at their mercy. Why wouldn't they stop?

He had to stop this, he had to get up, he had to run, to protect himself, to do SOMETHING. Anything. Why couldn't he move? Why was he so useless? He had to stop this...because if he didn't...If he didn't...someone else would. Despite all he was going through Naruto was worried about something else, someone else. Someone who wasn't so helpless, someone he didn't want to have to come to his aid. Someone he didn't want to have to feel his pain, to endure what he shamefully endured.

"No, don't. Please. Don't...Please….please…" Naruto whispered over and over again, but he wasn't directing those pleading words towards the crowd. They could barely hear him. No...they weren't the ones he was truly concerned about.

Hinata was quickly making her way through the crowd, trying to cause as little damage as possible. There were so many people that it was taking her much longer than she wanted. She'd taken out a dozen villagers within just a few seconds, chopping them in the neck, kicking them to the side, delivering palm strikes to their back. All non-lethal blows despite how easy it would be to kill them if she went all out.

"Stop, please stop!" Hinata cried out with tears streaming down her face. She was so far away from him, he needed her. Why would they do this? What was going on!?

"STOP!" Hinata cried out one last time as loud as she could. As she shouted that desperate word it seemed the world headed it. Her eyes were closed as she cried out but when she opened them she could see that everyone around her had stopped what they were doing. They were all staring straight ahead. Upon closer inspection Hinata could see fear on their faces. Turning her eyes towards Naruto it became very obvious why.

Naruto was glowing a deep, dark red as demonic chakra poured from his body. The villagers surrounding his laying body were slowly backing away, each one maintained a look of terror. The chakra thrashed violently around Naruto, causing the ground to tremble. Though the chakra wasn't coming from Naruto specifically. No. It was coming from his scarf.

Slowly the scarf began to unravel to reveal a small black furred baby fox. The fox jumped from Naruto's shoulder, but before it hit the ground it transformed into the demonic, humanoid form of Midnight.

Her face was contorted into a hellish snarl, red chakra lashing out around her chaotically. Her hands were hanging at her side, claws bared. Her razor sharp teeth were on full display, pitch black eyes staring daggers into the crowd.

"Please don't…please." Naruto pleaded from his helpless laying position on the ground. With a shaky, bloody hand Naruto reached forward to grab weakly at Midnight's ankle.

"Please…" Naruto whispered one last time before Midnight disappeared from view to everyone's surprise.

"Gah!" Shouted a pain filled voice of a man who stood closest to Naruto. Everyone quickly snapped their heads towards the voice to see that a man was holding his side in agony, his arm gone, only a bloody gash remaining where his right arm was supposed to be. Midnight then appeared in front of him holding his arm in her teeth. She bit down on it until the appendage snapped in two.

The girl then slowly turned her head towards the rest of the crowd and almost instantly the mob erupted in a panic as everyone turned on their heels and attempted to run for their lives, most screaming at the top of their lungs.

Midnight grinned sadistically before a dark blue flame appeared in her palm. She then crashed it against the bloody socket of the man she'd just dismembered, searing his wound shut. He was on the ground wailing as even more pain shot through his body. She didn't intend to kill him. No, that would be too good for him.

After quickly searing that wound shut Midnight disappeared again. Within seconds people began to fall over as limbs were violently torn from their bodies, only for their wounds to be seered shut with blue demonic fire. Midnight ripped arms, legs, fingers, hands from anyone she could find, hunting the crowd down as they disbursed.

Hinata still stood in her original spot, the girl frozen in place as her Byakugan was able to witness every detail of Midnight's cruelty. Dozens of people were sprawn about screaming on the ground in agony. The street was covered in blood. It was a scene straight out of a nightmare.

Naruto was kneeling on the ground now, tears pouring from his eyes as he watched helplessly. How could he stop her? Did he want to stop her? Why was he so useless? He lifted small, dainty hands to cover his ears, shutting his eyes.

Hinata stood a few feet away from Naruto with similar thoughts racing through her mind. Though her thoughts were a lot more chaotic. Confusion and terror coursing through her tweenage form. Even though Naruto was just a few feet away she couldn't reach him, she couldn't comfort him. She could only stand there, trembling. As she stood unmoving the girl was snapped out of a daze by an arm grabbing her around the waist. Her eyes went wide when she found herself being lifted into the air and onto a roof.

"Are you ok?" Spoke a voice from behind an Anbu mask. Hinata stared at the mask dumbfounded, clearly in shock. The masked figure noted her response before picking her up bridal style and jumping further away from the scene. As she was carried away she saw several figures in Shinobi uniforms descending upon Midnight.

Naruto kept his eyes closed tight but opened them when feeling a pressure around his legs and back. He flinched expecting more attacks but pain never came. By this point all the cuts, bruises, gashes on his body had healed by now. Though the boy was covered in blood, his clothing torn to sunders in such a way that his kimono was barely hanging off his shoulders.

Naruto's delicate body was lifted up, causing the boy to open his eyes to see the face of a masked man with a shinobi headband. The headband was pulled down to cover one of the man's eyes. The man jumped into the air just as Midnight came flying through underneath him, the girl digging her claws into the ground to stop her movement. She was sliding backwards as if a force had pushed her back.

The man, now carrying Naruto bridal style, jumped up onto a roof, joining a number of other masked shinobi on the roofs looking down at the scene with their weapons bared.

Midnight was on all fours now, her demonic gaze staring daggers at a man in front of her who was responsible for sending her flying. A man in a green uniform. He had a bowl shaped haircut with thick eyebrows, his eyes narrowed towards Midnight. He walked towards her slowly as Shinobi began to drop down around him, picking up and jumping away with the various dismembered villagers.

"What are you?" The man asked while placing one arm behind his back and placing his free hand in front of him in a chopping position, taking an upright fighting stance.

Midnight responded with a low, feral growl, the girl's fox tails thrashing behind her as she raised her butt high and positioned herself to pounce. Noting this, the man nodded his head, not moving, giving his allies time to retrieve every bloody victim.

"Regardless, your rampage ends here!"

That's the end of this chapter! Please review~

I thought this was as good a spot as any time end it. I've been thinking about this story a lot and I still have a bit of inspiration left. You guys have no idea how many times I've replayed this scene in my head and I've FINALLY gotten to it. FINALLY! The next chapter will come out soon because I really want to see what I decide to write next. I'm almost as excited as you guys! Tell me what you think!