Another warning, because that just seems to be my thing lately. This is the first chapter, and probably only chapter for quite a while, that I've pretty much been warning you all about. I know a lot of people skip the author notes and end up missing important information, thus leading to reviews and pm's telling me how they're done with the story etc. I warn you all about what's to be expected as it comes up, so I can't be blamed. THIS CHAPTER IS REALLY FUCKED UP!
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Edit 4-26-2017: So I had most of this chapter typed as I said before, but a lot of life circumstances came up. Being an adult with a full time job and a personal part time job doesn't allow for much time to write as I would like. So I can't promise that I'll update any faster than what I've already shown. Sorry loves.
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Full Tilt
Little Monsters Arc
Chapter 3: The Kids of Tomorrow Don't Need Today
She was fairly certain she knew the reception she would receive when she arrived home. Though the others were still debating whether to draw out their play time, she knew she would be getting most of hers out of the way that night. It wasn't that she couldn't control her emotions either, though part of her figured she couldn't. In this case, she didn't really want to.
Hinata smiled darkly as she approached the main manor of the Hyuga compound. The guards had already alerted her that her father wanted to see her immediately in his study. A bout of giddiness made her stomach flutter. She always looked forward to the encounter with her father. Letting him think he had all the power before stripping it away, piece by piece. She even loved it when they would almost make up and she would snatch his happiness away. Making him suffer brought her the most pleasure out of any of her kills within the village. There was no one, sans Danzo, that she hated more than her father.
She wouldn't lie. There were the very rare and occasional times in which she didn't hate him. The timelines where he had always been the father that she wanted and treated both her sister and herself with the utmost love and respect. Part of her couldn't help but love the man because of it. However, what kept her hating the man was because it wasn't the original. Unlike the other two, she remembered her original timeline. It was only because she hadn't been in the loops as long as the two, and her memory was a bit better than theirs as well.
Her father had always been neglectful. No, he wasn't as bad as this one or most of the others that she ran into. But she had been removed from her timeline before they could ever make up. Plus, for almost a millennium afterward, every rendition of her father had been either as bad or worse. It was only after she had already gone insane and had an insurmountable hate for the man did she finally experience a loving version of him.
She was so put off by the man that she treated him like absolute shit. Eventually she drove the man to commit suicide by detailing the versions of himself in other timelines. When he died, she finally felt remorse for the man.
Deep remorse. To the point where she was unable to kill the Hiashi in the next timeline, though he was a prick just as usual. She reevaluated everything she had thought she knew of the man. The nice version she had run into was from a timeline in which the trio had said they would protect. Hinata had gotten to know the man yet had done nothing to reciprocate his feelings. She regretted it. Finally, after so long, she had received the love of a father that she had only ever dreamed of and she spat upon it.
The next time she ran into a nice version of her father, she played the part of the loving daughter.
It was wonderful.
Yet, as she stated before, the centuries of hate couldn't be erased by one lifetime of happiness. Especially when the next few hundred years were of progressively worse people with the name Hiashi Hyuga.
The situation reflected the girls broken sanity. She had a love hate relationship with her father in almost every sense of the word. When he was a kind and loving father, she would usually act the part. But before she knew she and her lovers would die, she would kill the man in what she deemed a loving way.
She paused when a small pain struck her heart.
Regret always decided to stop her fun whenever she least expected it. She hated it. A part of her wanted to relinquish all emotions she had, so she could simply enjoy the things she did. But there was always a small part of her keeping her from going over the edge. The Hyuga heiress knew it was the only thing keeping her with Naruto and Ino too. Both of them had told her on many occasions that the strong emotions she had towards her family were beyond insane. They understood where she was coming form though, yet they wanted her to make peace with her emotions as well.
That regret she felt was a step towards what they wanted, but a step away from what she did.
"Oh well..." She sighed as she began to approach her fathers study. Even if she did end up making peace with her emotions, it didn't mean she wouldn't enjoy what she was going to do to her family. No matter what, she would always enjoy it.
Hiashi Hyuga was not one to show his emotions. He was as stoic as ever, many associating his demeanor as annoyance or anger. They would be wrong. Hiashi prided himself on how calm and collected he generally was. The few times he had lost his temper people had lost their lives, including his ex-wife. From then on, it was easy to keep those around him in fear even when he himself didn't need to do a thing.
But apparently his daughter had been forgetting herself.
Not only did she not return home directly after school, as she was instructed to do, but he was also alerted that the girl had gone to the Kyubi brats home.
At face value, many would believe the patriarch was upset because the girl had taken a known risk by meeting with the child. Others would suspect that he was unhappy with the Hyuga heiress disobeying him when he explicitly told her not to associate with the Uzumaki child. Hiashi himself knew that the only reason the situation irked him is because associating with the village pariah would make the Hyuga look bad.
Simple vanity.
Though they were partially right. The girl had the gall to disobey an order he had given. He supposed he had become too lax with her. He hadn't struck the girl in almost a week. Too bad that would be changing fairly soon.
The creaking of the door sliding open to his study made him open his eyes. Strange. He hadn't sensed her coming.
His gaze kept on her as she silently slid the door shut and glided with a ghostly grace to sit upon the pillow before him. She didn't make eye contact, like usual.
"Look at me, child." His tone remained calm, his face stoic. He wasn't too upset honestly. This situation was nothing a little discipline wouldn't fix. Though he was just a tiny bit curious as to what the girl was doing at the demon's den.
Hinata looked up into her fathers eyes with just as much a stoic gaze as him. He was taken aback. Her gaze was almost sinister.
"...I heard you decided to go off on your own after your class ended today." He started, only being a bit unnerved by his daughters glare.
"Yes. I enjoyed a leisure stroll with my two lovers, Naruto and Ino. Afterward we returned to his apartment, stripped naked, and got intimate."
Years of hiding his emotions had not prepared him for that. Hiashi's jaw dropped for a moment before his brain processed what exactly had been said. His anger did show on his face, though he wouldn't care. "Not only do you have the gall to disobey me, but you mock me and talk back to me all at the same time? You must not value your pathetic life any longer."
Hinata tilted her head to the side, her stoic look fading and showing a cute confused stare. "But I only spoke the truth father. Or did you also want me to tell you that we killed the Hokage as well? How about that I've already slaughtered all of the Hyuga elders before coming here and I currently have Hanabi-chan tied up and unconscious outside this room?"
Hiashi was smart enough to know immediately that the girl before him was insane. Beyond the idiotic things coming out of her mouth, she was talking back to him in a way no one had ever dared before. She would die that day. "You belligerent little-"
As Hiashi stood, so did Hinata. She stepped back as he reached for her, yet her curious gaze never left her face. "Father, I'm only speaking truths. What has you so upset?" She moved to the door as she spoke. "See, Hanabi-chan is right here."
When the door slid open, Hiashi's heart, as small as it was, skipped a beat. Sure enough, his second born daughter lay in front of the door, naked and gagged. She was hog tied with her wrist and ankles tethered together behind her back.
All control be damned. Hiashi was at a complete lost, his mind racing and failing to place logic with what he was seeing before him. All of her words suddenly began to echo in his brain. Slaughtered the Hyuga elders…killed the Hokage. Normally there was no way he would believe all of that, but for the moment, he didn't know what to believe.
"Hinata...what is the meaning of this! Release your sister immediately!" Hiashi's tone was less threatening than he liked. His confusion played out in his voice and the glint in Hinata's eyes as her curious gaze changed to one of glee let him know she was aware of his building fear. He could only watch as the girl swiftly picked up her younger sister and darted away down the hall.
"Come and make me father!" Her voice echoed throughout the hall, her following giggles sending a sharp chill down Hiashi's spine.
He was only a second behind her, yet when he entered the hall, his daughters were nowhere to be seen. He instinctively activated his byakugan only to shriek and cover his eyes as everything around him seemed to be a blinding light.
"What the hell was that?" He groaned out. Seals that seemed specific for hindering the byakugan was all he could think of. But how would Hinata have gotten her hands on them as well as lacing the entire Hyuga compound in them.
The Hyuga head stumbled down the hall, an open garden to his right and the moon finally sitting far above head. He slowed to a step and looked out over the garden. The compound was eerily quiet. No one was around, in which he would usually see someone patrolling as well as an older person or two strolling. For a brief moment, he debated activating his byakugan again. However, he decided against it and instead rushed down the hall towards Hinata and Hanabi's room.
Before he could make it too far, Hinata's giggles stopped him at a T-crossing hall. All he could see was pitch blackness, but her giggles didn't fade. The hall was where the Council Chamber was, where the Hyuga held their meetings.
"Father, Hanabi's starting to wake up. You should hurry if you want to see her."
Hiashi cursed his daughter and the daunting darkness. He ran headlong down the hall, doing his best to ignore how Hinata's endless giggles made the skin crawl on his back. The further down the hall he got, the darker it became. Most of this part of the compound was lit by candles and had no windows. On top of the darkness, a potent stench began to fill the air. Hiashi knew the smell to be blood.
After what seemed to be an eternity, Hiashi saw a flickering light at the end of the hall. It was the room to the Council Chamber and it looked as if a candle had just been lit.
A chilling cold blew through the hall, seeming to emanate from the darkness. The giggles had subsided and now Hiashi was left alone with a daunting silence. All rational thoughts were banished from his mind. There was an overwhelming sense of dread in him. The rage he felt earlier had pretty much vanished. A part of him was honestly worried for his youngest daughter, perhaps a primal feeling of paternity. If he didn't focus on saving his daughter, he'd give in to the unadulterated fear that gripped his heart. A soul shattering scream put him back in motion.
He burst through the door...
She groaned as she began to stir. A sharp pain wracked her entire body and she shivered as a cold air hit her. Her head hurt something fierce and her ears seemed muffled. The blurs around her and the weight in her skull confused her. She felt as if she were upside down…
As things began to come into focus, she found that she was. She felt ropes tied to her ankles, suspending her in the air. Her arms were tied tightly behind her back. The slow creak of the rope as it swung lightly began to clear her hearing.
She was staring at a blank wall, but the ceremonial cushion that was a bit in front of her let her know she was in the Council Chamber. Another pain shot through her as the memories of what happened came back.
The 8 year old was in her room after finishing her training and dinner. Her father had pushed her harder after news that her sister was out gallivanting, she thinks that's the words the elders used, with the one they called the 'Demon Brat'.
Her sister always pissed her off. She acted so meek when Hanabi knew she had strength. She had seen her sister training on her own and she wasn't weak. But whenever she was around the elders or their father she would become a sniveling little prude.
A sharp stench drug her from her thoughts. Her head cleared completely, for only a moment, as the next sight brought her mind to a stand still. As her body swung, she was slowly turning. Now having a view of the rest of the room, she was privy to a sight only fit for the most depraved horror movies.
There was blood literally everywhere. Everything had been removed from the room save the teapot that set within an indentation in the ground. Blood dripped from the handle of the bubbling kettle. Spread around it, as if they were awaiting the tea to finish, were the torsos of all five council elders. They were held steady by multiple protrusions of wood; the candle sticks that had once lined the walls.
The sight and stench alone forced her dinner out of her throat, covering her face and going in her nose. She gagged and coughed, a combination of the overwhelming smell and being partially unable to breathe. Trying to swallow the filth in her throat was even more difficult, especially with her breathing becoming erratic.
"Father, Hanabi's starting to wake up. You should hurry if you want to see her."
She tried to look for her sister after hearing her voice. The rest of the memories caught up with her.
(-)
"Helloooo Hanabi-chan!" Hinata's cheerful voice called out as the door to their room slid open.
The younger Hyuga princess rolled her eyes as she brushed her hair by their shared vanity. "What are you-"
Her words froze in her throat when she turned around. Her sister stood with her back to the door wearing a snow white kimono. At least, it would have been snow white if it wasn't stained red. Numerous blotches of the color covered the silky material. The same stains were on Hinata's chin and cheeks.
"Ne...nee-chan?" Hanabi's immediate thought surprised even her. For a moment she thought the blood belonged to her sister. She was surprised that the thought scared her. However, the beaming smile on Hinata's face told her she was perfectly fine. Physically at least.
"Hai, imouto?" Hinata chirped with her same mirth, giggling a bit.
She hesitated. "Are...are you okay? That's...not your blood...is it?"
Hinata looked down at herself, her hands coming from behind her back. Hanabi's eyes dilated. Hinata's hands were dyed red.
Her older sister looked herself over, spinning around while looking at her behind. "Hmm...no, I don't believe any of this blood is mine!" She called happily.
Hanabi stood and activated her byakugan. "Ah!" She cried out as everything around her appeared to be a blinding light. She rubbed her eyes frantically until she felt hands wrap around her. She knew this feeling to be her sisters hug. She hadn't been hugged by her elder sister in over 2 years, yet the feeling brought back a warmth she didn't know she was missing.
"Onee...chan?"
"Don't worry Hanabi." Hinata whispered. Hanabi slowly gazed up into her sisters smiling face. Her throat felt tight. Hinata's shining eyes didn't share the warmth of her touch or smile. "This nightmare won't last long."
Her world went black moments later.
(-)
The sight of her sister was practically the same as earlier, except she seemed to have cleaned up. She didn't know how she had gotten the white kimono clean so fast, though that was the least of her worries. The truth of what was happening sunk into Hanabi's mind. Her eyes didn't dare move from her sister. She feared what other horrors could be in the room.
Part of her figured the scariest part was her so called weak sister being the one to do this. Funny how her softer emotions finally decided to rear their heads at a time like this. Of course she was crying for her loving sister to come back. More so than she was crying for her own life even. Finally finding her voice through all the pain, Hanabi let out a mournful wail.
At the same time, Hiashi burst through the door.
The putrid stench of death made him stagger in dizziness for a moment. He took in the sight in seconds, his dread forcing its way up his throat and onto the floor. His youngest daughter was alive, hung upside down. The elders weren't so lucky. He couldn't gaze at their limbless torsos, yet looking around the room yielded even more morbid results.
The elders weren't just dismembered. Their heads were stacked in a small pyramid. Their eyes were sitting in a bowl next to it. Their tongues were nailed to the wall above their heads, blood smearing it with a message. 'Speak No Evil. See No Evil.'
Their limbs were scattered about the room seemingly haphazardly. But looking closer, Hiashi saw their fingers and toes were also removed and set up in ways that seemed to hold the limbs on pedestals. They were funeral pyres made of limbs.
"Welcome to the funeral of the Hyuga clan, father!" Hinata stood next to Hanabi, holding her in place so she would not spin or swing any longer. The youngest Hyuga could only sob and cough. "You're just in time to help me purge the elders of their sins! A baptism in fire will suffice, right?"
"What...what have you done?" Hiashi tried to shout out, but his energy was spent. The emotions running through him drained him. "Hinata...what have you done?"
Hinata's smile froze on her face. "Father...now that everyone is dead...you don't have to worry about me telling them what you did! They'll never know that you're the one that killed mother!"
Hanabi coughed in shock and confusion. Hinata looked down at her sister to see her eyes darting to and from. Her mind must have been racing. She had latched on to another thought to take herself from the reality of what was happening. Sad that it had to be something else bad.
"Oh, sorry, Hanabi-chan! Father didn't tell you! He was so upset at mother for giving birth to girls twice in a row that he strangled her to death, right in front of both of us! You were only a few days old at the time." The deranged girl pulled a handkerchief from her sleeve and began to wipe Hanabi's face clean.
Hiashi didn't know how to respond. His daughter was completely insane. More insane than she could ever call him. "What I did was wrong...but you're a monster!"
Hinata seemed to ignore him and continued to wipe her sister down, regardless of her cries.
"I'm a monster? All I've done is payback people who've treated me like shit so far. You can say I'm a monster for the way I handled them, but in some people's eyes, my actions are just." Hinata tossed the cloth away and put her hands into the sleeves of her kimono. She faced her father with the same stoic look he usually held for her. "Yet you purposely killed your own wife. In front of her four year old and newborn daughters. You held your hands to her throat as she kicked and begged. You kept eye contact with her as her life faded. Then without remorse, you turned to me and threatened the same to me. I wonder if you're any less of a monster than I am?"
Hiashi found a shred of courage as Hinata spoke. He jumped up, forsaking his byakugan but thinking he was strong enough to end this farce without it. He thrust his palm forward towards Hinata, only to feel a searing pain in his palm. He yelped and yanked his hand back, feeling the warm blood dripping before seeing it. A pair of jade chopsticks pierced through his palms. He made to pull them out but small seals shined on them, sending a searing pain through his entire arm just from touching them. He dropped to his knees. The man had never felt a pain nearly as bad as this. All he could do was groan in agony, his hope beginning to shatter.
This girl was not Hinata.
"Look father. Beneath all the fear, Hanabi's eyes are showing absolute hatred! But is it for me or you?" Hinata held Hanabi's head steady. Tears still poured down her face into her hanging hairline. Yet her eyes were set into glares towards Hiashi.
The man pushed past the pain to look into his daughters eyes. 'This is your fault...' He could feel her thoughts.
"I'll kill you, you little bitch." The Hyuga head growled out but a sharp pain shot through his arm again, searing his mind with more pain than before.
The smile finally faded from Hinata's face. A cold glare bore into Hiashi, chilling him to his core. The look on his daughters face finally showed the genuine emotions she had been hiding. Absolute hatred was all he could see within her gaze. Loathing to a degree he had only ever felt for the Uchiha.
"You will not kill me. Your life was forfeit the moment I was born into this world. Tonight will be the end of the corrupted Hyuga bloodline." Hinata took slow steps as she circled her father. She spoke down on him, acting as an angel of death which for all intent and purpose, she was.
Again Hiashi drew from his draining well of strength and lashed out at Hinata again. Just as before, chopsticks found their way into his palms and sent more jolts of pain through his arms. Now the pain met in his chest, preventing him from breathing properly. His breaths became labored as the pain refused to subside. He fell to his side, no longer able to remain on his knees. Tears streamed down his face as it felt as if electricity was being pumped through his veins and into a well of fire in his chest. The pain was breaking his mind.
"Nee-chan..." Hanabi whimpered out, tears coming back full force. "Please...please stop this...I'm sorry! Please!"
Hinata's visage softened as she turned to face her younger sister. "Hanabi, don't beg. Father doesn't deserve your kindness."
Hanabi looked at their father. His mouth was open in a silent scream as the pain was enough to stop his breaths in his chest. He was shaking, his arms and hands stiff. His gaze was on his daughters still but Hanabi didn't know how much he was actually seeing.
"Please...onee-chan, don't hurt me...I'm sorry..." She could only apologize. She didn't know what else to say. This was a nightmare beyond words. A nightmare she knew she would not be waking up from. The meek sister she looked down upon was the first to be slain by this young woman that now tortured them. She wanted her back. She wanted the timid and kind person her sister bared for the world. But she had no right to beg for her back, when she herself had helped kill her.
"Hanabi...I'm not angry with you. Father turned you into a little monster. But he didn't see the monster I was becoming because of it. So I have you to thank for this. The Hyuga in this world are just a taint. A clan built upon lies and blood. It's only fitting that it ends in blood as well. You're innocent, Hanabi. A victim of circumstance. With your blood, we can cleanse the tainted history that this filth has led us down."
Hinata knew her words sounded insane. For a fact they were. She sounded like some religious nut about to commit a sacrifice. In hindsight, maybe she was. Her words weren't exactly false either. That worlds Hyuga clan was worse than the Uchiha. Hanabi and Hinata would only become puppets or end up dead. She rationalized she was doing the world a big favor by wiping them out honestly.
The other part of her was just enjoying their fear.
"Unfortunately it's time to end this farce."
Hinata moved back to Hiashi and drug him by his legs. She pulled him directly under his hanging daughter. Hanabi's tears returned full force as she realized her sister would not spare her. She continued to cry out, calling for her sister, and knowing she was no longer there. Her huffs and hiccups didn't give way for coherent words any longer.
"H-Hinata..." Hiashi groaned out, his face contorted into a painful grimace, but now able to speak. "Please...don't...please..."
That was music to her ears.
The nagging feeling of regret as Hanabi cried out for her was making her heart hurt a bit. But hearing Hiashi begin to beg...that's what she had been waiting for. She was surprised it took so long though. Hanabi usually was more defiant, threatening her and such before finally realizing her short life was going to be cut even shorter. This time though she had immediately started calling out for her sister. Hinata wasn't used to that. The regret she hated so much ate at her stomach, tying it in a knot, but she would not stop. She never did and she was sure she would be able to push herself to continue.
Besides, it was still pretty fun.
"Nee-chan..." Hanabi's cries made her frown.
"Goodnight, imouto." Hinata called. In the next instant a flash from Hinata's hands was seen. For a moment nothing seemed to happen. Then Hanabi coughed up blood. Soon enough a line spread across her throat, from one side to the other. Hinata wiped the blood dripping kunai clean on the sleeves of her kimono. Hanabi gagged and sputtered as blood began to run down her chin and over her face. The blood pooled fast, falling down onto the face and chest of Hiashi.
The Hyuga patriarch could only let out strangled cries himself as the pain from his arms and chest persisted, and the sight of his youngest daughter being slaughtered like an animal completely broke him. His tears, for the first time in his life, were not for himself. He let out a painful howl as Hanabi's sputters slowed and her eyes faded. Her body stopped moving, save for the light swinging of her corpse as it hung from the ceiling.
Hinata looked upon her father, having reached the pinnacle of her elation from the situation. Hanabi's suffering brought a sense of annoyance to her. She wanted to to hate her sister. Her happiness was warring with the fact that she knew what she was doing wasn't fully justified. Killing her father she could justify. What she did to her sister and most of the other clan members, not so much.
She wasn't supposed to be justifying it either. They did these things for fun. These warring emotions made her want to either punch something or just sleep it away. With a sigh, her elation began to fade. It was all downhill from there anyway.
Her fathers cries had faded as well. She looked down to see him passed out with his eyes open. She had broken him completely. It was fine. There was only one more thing left do. With expert precision, she began to remove his eyes. Once they were out, she sealed them within a small scroll. She didn't want him to have a quick death, but at this point, she was bored with the whole thing.
The Hyuga heiress moved his catatonic form into a sitting position. She took the chopsticks from his hands, making him jolt as the pain stopped suddenly. His broken mind registered his eyeless state and he let out another howl. It was silenced as Hinata drove the chopsticks into the base of the mans skull. The pain would travel through his whole body, inducing paralysis, just before causing his heart to give out from the shock of such intense pain. She watched, as he fell over, his chest no longer moving.
With a mournful gaze towards her sisters body, she steeled her nerves again. She needed to purge the rest of the clan. With them, there would be no regret.
Kana Yamanaka walked through the village shopping district with an air of worry. She had recently heard through the grapevine that her daughter was suddenly associating with the demon boy.
The woman's grief with the child stemmed from two different sources. One, the Yamanaka of course had suffered a few, though pretty minor, loses at the claws of the Kyubi. Kana was lucky that no one in her immediate family had been killed, but the collective feelings of the village motivated her to hate the child.
Though her husband was indifferent to the child, borderline empathetic actually, she had never felt anything more than loathing for the boy. There was a small moment in time where she questioned herself, her husband being very persuasive on getting her to see the boy for something other than a demon. However, Mrs. Yamanaka was also a very vain woman as well.
It was easy to reinforce her belief of the child for one reason.
He was a social pariah.
That was the second reason. Even if Kana had decided that Naruto wasn't a demon, him being a general outcast and misfit made her hate him. Irrationally, it was easier to say it was because he was a demon instead of admitting she hated a child simply because he didn't fit in and everyone else hated him.
Against her husbands wishes, she had instilled some of that hatred in Ino. At least, she thought she did.
One thing Kana had always known about her daughter was that she was a good actor and very proficient with hiding her real emotions. She knew Ino had been hurt by the broken friendship with Sakura. Her confidence had taken a hit but Ino went on as if nothing was wrong with her. She sought solace in Shikamaru and Chouji more so than she did in running after the young Uchiha.
Kana wanted what was best for her daughter so she encouraged her to continue to pursue Sasuke, disregarding what she knew of her feelings for her lost friend. The older Yamanaka woman had instilled an unhealthy sense of vanity in her daughter. She wanted her to draw confidence from her looks and social standing, as Kana herself had done in her younger years. She believed it was what gave Ino her confidence in the first place and knew if she focused on her looks instead of Sakura, she could get that confidence back.
She had made it clear to Ino too, that the people she kept company with would effect her social standing, and therefor, her confidence. So it was obvious she would tell her daughter to stay as far as possible away from Naruto. If she couldn't, then she was to treat the boy with as much disdain as possible to show others that she in no way associated with him. For the few years they spent in the academy, Ino had been and done everything Kana wanted.
So it surprised her to no end that several people claimed that her daughter, along with the Hyuga heiress, was seen walking through town acting as if they were the best of friends with the demon boy. Even more so when they said they went to the demons house. Many claimed that they were in no rush to confront the child, especially since the Hokage had shown up at his apartment not too much later.
There were no clues before hand that would have alerted her to her daughters interest in the boy. Perhaps she were simply lulling the boy into a false sense of security before hurting him?
She wouldn't allow that. Beyond it being a bit cruel, even for the village pariah, Ino was taking an unnecessary risk by associating with him more than she needed too. But what did the Hyuga child have to do with anything?
Kana was so lost in her thoughts that she hadn't realized the sun had already gone down and she was nowhere near her home.
Or the shopping district.
Where was she?
In all her 27 years of life, she hadn't remembered being in this part of the village. She stood on a road that seemed only big enough to fit at most three people shoulder to shoulder. It seemed to be a residential back alley type road that curved downwards. How had she ended up there?
What was worse was that there seemed to be no one else around. It was eerily quiet. Too quiet even for a ninja village.
She turned around to head back the way she thought she had come from. Briskly moving upwards in what seemed a spiral, her skin began to crawl. The only sound other than her footsteps echoing around her was the building wind. She wanted to be out of that part of town as quick as possible.
The spiral road seemed to go on far longer than it should. On the verge of believing something was wrong, Mrs. Yamanaka let out a sigh of relief upon finally exiting onto a slightly bigger road. Before she could realize that there was still no one else on the road, something caught her eye. The building across from her...it was the demons apartment building.
Had she subconsciously been making her way there to confront Ino? No wonder she didn't recognize that part of town, she would never set foot in such a dingy place. With a sneer, she prepared to turn and head home, only to see a flash of familiar platinum blonde hair in the window of the demons apartment. Her eyes widened. "Ino is still there?"
Her motherly instincts overrode everything she thought about avoiding the apartment. She dropped the bags she carried and dashed to the building. She burst through the door, not caring if she broke it or not. The scene before her made her heart skip a beat.
For a moment, she couldn't process what she was seeing.
"Hey mama!" Ino called happily as she straddled the waist of the demon boy.
With a kunai in her hand.
Covered in blood…
"I-Ino! What have you done?" Mrs. Yamanaka dropped to her knees. Her daughter sat atop Naruto's shirtless form. The boy was blindfolded with his hands tied to one end of the couch and his legs tied to the other. He was not breathing. Obvious from the amount of blood that covered his neck and chest.
"I'm almost done mama! Give me a sec!" Ino continued to stab into the already deceased boys chest, the wet sounds of his flesh being torn into making Kana's eyes widen. She turned away and threw up what little food she had eaten that day.
"Ino...Ino stop!" She called out as she began trying to recompose herself. Tears were already swelling in her eyes and her mind was racing about what could have happened.
Ino cocked her head to the side and looked at her mother. "Why do you look so sad mama? I killed the demon like everyone kept saying! You always said you hated him, so now he's gone! Aren't you proud of me?"
Ino stood from the boy and bounded over to her mother with a skip and beaming happiness. Her eyes shined, looking for approval from her mother. Kana flinched when her daughter got close.
"Mama?"
"Ino...what you've done...this is murder!" Kana steeled herself. "I never told you to do this!"
"But...but you said to hate him...and everyone else hates him too! They all said we'd be better off if he was dead! You said so too!"
Kana's stomach fell at Ino's words. The scared look in her daughters eyes as she seemed to realize what she had done pushed Kana's own fear away.
"But...but Naruto...you all said..." Ino began to cry as she dropped her kunai. Her eyes widened as she slowly turned to look at the boy. Kana didn't let her and instead pulled her into her own chest.
"Don't look Ino!" She began to rub her daughters back as she cried into her chest. "It's okay...everything is going to be okay. It's not your fault, sweetie. I'm so sorry..."
As she comforted her daughter, her mind was racing. She couldn't believe what Ino had done. Even worse she knew it was mostly her fault. The older Yamanaka had always wondered whose hatred would go far enough to actually end the boy.
She herself never truly wanted Naruto dead. She didn't even wish great harm on him. However, she thought it was inevitable with the way the village treated him and she didn't think too much on it. For a fact, she was sure no one would truly go that far. But seeing the image of her daughter stabbing him repeatedly with confused glee. Then the broken form of herself now…
She was to blame.
This should not have gone this far. Vanity be damned. She had turned her daughter into a murderer by following the crowd and worrying about her social standing. This was the price to pay for tainting her daughters mind with hatred.
'No...I need to protect Ino. Regret can come later.' The woman thought, doing her best to hold back her own tears. For once, the tears were actually for Naruto. The boy didn't deserve to die, especially in such a cruel way. But Ino was her first priority. 'I need to cover this up...to get rid of the body...'
"Mama..." Ino whimpered in her grip. Kana leaned back and looked in her daughters eyes.
"What is it baby?"
Ino didn't respond. She looked into her mothers eyes before fainting in her grip. Kana cradled her daughter with worry. 'Is she...going into shock? No, not now sweetie, please!'
Kana shook the body of her daughter a bit, calling her name. She began to set Ino's body down, still thinking of how to deal with getting rid of Naruto's body. However, once she had lay Ino down, she noticed her own hands.
They were stained with blood.
"What...what is this?" She cried and stood swiftly. The older Yamanaka looked down to her daughters body to see a puddle of blood pooling around her. "Ino!" She cried out and turned her body over to see if she had been injured somehow.
There were no marks on her. The woman was confused for a moment until she turned Ino back over and fell back in surprise. Instead of Ino, Naruto was laying in the pool of blood now.
"What's happening? Th-this must be a trick!" She fumbled to get her hands in the correct seal before shouting 'kai'. Just as she thought, the world around her wavered as the genjutsu faded away. She appeared sitting in front of Naruto's apartment. She stood and shook her head to clear her mind of the images she had just seen. "It had to have been that damn demon brat!"
The woman had half the mind to barge in again but was afraid of falling for another genjutsu. She decided the best course of action was to alert the Hokage of what had just happened.
"It's not over yet."
She turned on her heel at the voice of her daughter. Ino stood in Naruto's doorway, covered in blood just as she had been in the genjutsu. "You thought it was fake?" Ino asked as she stood aside and showed the corpse of Naruto still tied to the couch.
"Ino…?" Kana's heart skipped a beat again and she paled. Once again she attempted to dispel the genjutsu. Unfortunately this time nothing happened. Her heart sank further and she paled. "Ino...this is real?"
"As real as I want it to be." Ino called before disappearing into thin air.
The floor beneath Kana suddenly opened up and she felt herself falling into a pitch black abyss. Her scream was swallowed along with her body.
After a few seconds of falling she would hit the ground hard, a jolt of pain racking her body and taking the air from her lungs. She was in so much pain that she couldn't move for several moments. When the feeling subsided enough for her to try and stand, she was surprised to see that she was somewhere familiar.
She was in front of the academy building. There were several people out and about and it seemed as if the children were just getting out of class.
"Ino? Why are you doing this?" Kana cried out, knowing that this had to be another genjutsu. But she couldn't dispel it. Perhaps Ino had learned a new mind technique of their clan. But why would she be showing her own mother something so cruel?
"Shut up Naruto-baka!" Ino's voice came from behind Kana. She turned around only to be pushed to the ground. She looked up into the face of her daughter...only she was 2 years younger. A 9 year old Ino stood with her short blond locks framing her face and a purple clip in her hair. She stood smugly over Kana, confusing the woman.
Her confusion turned into realization as she saw her own visage 2 years younger standing off to the side, watching the scene with pride. Confirming her growing fear, she looked at her own body to find that she was indeed made to look like a 9 year old Naruto.
"My mommy was right! You're nothing but a demon! Don't you know the difference between a weed and a flower dummy?" Ino threw yellow dandelions down at Kana/Naruto's face.
Kana, unfortunately, remembered that day too. Naruto had given Ino some dandelions, thinking they were flowers. Ino at the time was going through troubles with Sakura and the kind gesture from the boy had made her blush, much to Kana's annoyance. When Ino came to show Kana what Naruto had done, Kana ignored the smile on the girls face and sneered.
"Ino, those aren't flowers! They are just weeds! The little demon is calling you a pest by giving you those! Do not let him insult you!"
Ino had taken her mothers words to heart and had shoved the boy down before yelling at him.
Being in his position Kana could even feel the emotions flowing through Naruto. She thought it would have been anger on top of sadness but no. It was an all consuming grief. The boy was heartbroken. It seemed as if he had truly wanted to be friends with Ino and the sight of her not immediately pushing him away had given him a sliver of happiness. Not even moments later had it been stripped away and the pain that stabbed at her heart was unbearable.
Looking around, she could see all the other parents and students looking at her the same way. They all loathed her. They were glaring at her, snickering at her, taunting her. She was just trash who didn't deserve happiness and she didn't know why…
"I'm sorry..." Naruto's voice escaped her mouth. "I'm sorry Ino-chan..."
"Don't call me that baka!" Ino kicked him the gut for good measure before running back to her mother.
The world faded to black.
"Ino..." Her own voice that time.
The image of her daughter appeared again, arms folded and neutral gaze upon her face. "Yes mother?"
She needed to get her bearings together again. The pain she felt from whatever had just happened to her ate at her mind. The anguish of being alone and hated for reasons she didn't understand...they were so much greater than anything she had felt before. "Ino...please stop...I get it...I'm so sorry! I won't make you treat him badly anymore!"
Kana meant it too. That one moment she was forced to experience had put into perspective what exactly Naruto had been dealing with. Whatever little part of her thought he truly was the demon was quelled immediately. The pain he felt was something a demon could not. The feeling of being socially ostracized was most certainly clear to her as well. She didn't wish that on the boy, not one bit anymore. She knew he must have been hurting but never to that degree.
"Really? Only after a few minutes in one of his memories?" Ino placed a hand on her hip and walked towards her mother, her eyes narrowed. "Are your convictions so shallow...so fickle, that that's all it took to make you see how wrong you were?"
"Yes! Yes Ino, I was wrong! Please…please, no more!"
Ino's brow twitched and slammed her foot into her mothers face. She stood over her and pressed her foot to her chest.
"You're absolutely pathetic in this timeline..." Ino placed pressure on the woman's chest. She gasped out, not knowing how her daughter had so much strength in her small body. "I expected you to defend your stance on him...to make this more fun for me."
"Wh-what...are you saying?" Kana wheezed out.
Ino removed her foot and turned away. "I had a whole night of fun planned for you...but you're so weak minded that you've already broken..." Ino's fist were clenched. "That won't do. That won't do. It won't do. It won't do. It won't do. It won't do..."
Ino shook her head back and forth as she spoke. Kana knew then and there what was wrong. Her daughter was absolutely insane.
"No, no, no, no!" Ino faced her mother again with a sadistic smile, her eyes wide and seeming to glow in the blackness around them. "You're supposed to make me hate you even more for hating Naruto!"
"I don't hate him! I don't hate you either Ino! Please calm down and we can go see him!" Kana pleaded, moving to her knees. She needed to talk Ino down. Then she could take her to Inoichi and make her forget all of this.
Ino threw her head back and screamed. Then she leaned forward, her hair covering her eyes from view. She was silent for several seconds. Kana held her breath, afraid of what would happen next.
"Mama..." Ino whispered.
"Y-yes, baby?"
"...You're boring." Ino's voice was blank.
She vanished again and Kana felt herself falling into the blackness.
She awoke with a start, her breathing ragged and her body drenched in sweat. She held a hand to her chest and winced as the light of the morning sun momentarily blinded her.
'A nightmare? It was all a nightmare?' She wondered with more hope than she realized. For a few moments she could only try to get her breathing in order. Her skin was cold and clammy, her body felt weak. She was shaking slightly and her mind was a bit numb.
'Oh God...' She whimpered and shed a few tears.
It was all too real for her. All she could do was hug herself as she remembered the sadistic visage of her daughter and the deceased form of the village pariah. She wanted to find and hug them both immediately. She wanted to apologize to them, especially Naruto. But a small part of her felt the same as before.
'Maybe I should...just forget about it...' The Yamanaka matriarch took several more minutes before exiting her bed.
After going about her morning routine, taking extra long in the shower to clear her mind, she made her way to the Flower Shop floor. To her delight, Ino was at the counter looking just as bored as she expected.
"Good morning my little angel!" Mrs. Yamanaka greeted, only to receive no response. The woman cocked an eyebrow. "Young lady, I'm speaking to you."
Before she could move to touch her daughter, the front door opened.
"Hey daddy!" Ino called happily and moved around the counter to hug her father. The man caught her and hugged her back with a chuckle.
"Wow, you're up early. What's the occasion?" Inoichi asked with mirth.
"You were gone so I had to look after the shop. No one else would've, or did you forget that we have a business to run?" Ino scolded her father. The man chuckled sheepishly.
Kana growled a bit before stomping over to the two. "Excuse me, but what do you two think you're doing?" Kana reached a hand towards them...and felt nothing. Her hand passed right through them. She looked at her hand and then at the two before her. "What the hell?" She tried again just to get the same result.
"Anyway, now that you're here, daddy, I'm going to head over to Naruto's! We've got a date in a bit!"
"This early?" Inoichi asked.
"Yeah! We're gonna help out Iruka-sensei with the incoming academy students first and then spend the day together."
"Ah. Well, have fun then sweety!"
"You have fun on your date too daddy!" Ino called and dashed out the door. Inoichi blushed, not having realized his daughter knew about his own escapades.
He shivered. "How does she do that? Maybe she is the gossip queen of Konoha..." He mumbled before walking right through his wife and setting up to take over for Ino.
"Darling! Inoichi-koi!" Kana pleaded with her husband. The tears from earlier returned as she realized that her nightmare wasn't over. Unfortunately, she realized, none of it was a nightmare.
She moved to the door and on instinct walked right through it. The bustling crowds of Konoha's early morning moved about as if nothing was wrong.
"I need to find Ino so she can stop this madness!"
Knowing where the girl was headed, Kana made a beeline for Naruto's apartment. Every single person she passed that ignored her, intentionally or not, brought more dread to her stomach. She pushed the thought away in hopes of simply getting past it all.
She walked right through Naruto's door and paused at the sight before her once again. Ino stood before her, looking right in her eyes. The annoyed look on her face sent a chill down Kana's back. Not wanting to be caught off guard again, Kana spoke first.
"Ino, end this nonsense immediately! This isn't funny in the slightest! I understand what you want! I won't treat Naruto unjustly anymore! If you want to see him, so be it! He can come over whenever you want, I promise!" She went from stern to pleading. The elder Yamanaka could not keep it together. Her mind was shattering from what seemed to be never ending karma.
Ino didn't say a word thought Kana knew she had heard her. Ino's gaze slowly went from annoyed to anger. "Naruto-kun, let's go. I'm bored now."
From thin air, Naruto appeared next to Ino. The power Kana felt from the boy almost floored her. He grabbed her daughter by the waist before shrugging at Kana. "Sucks to be you." Were his simple words before he disappeared with Ino in tow.
"You brat! Where are you taking my daughter!? Ino, come back!" The woman screeched for a few minutes before she realized they were gone, and probably for good.
Stepping back out into the streets of Konoha, dread fell upon her once again. "Someone..." She whispered only for no one to pause. "Anyone..." She whispered louder. "Answer me..."
She tried to grab someone but they simply phased through her. She dropped to her knees as she realized even though she was surrounded by people…
She was alone.
Ostracized not from the village as a pariah. She was being forced to exist without existing to anyone else.
"Ino please…" She whimpered. "Please don't leave me alone…I'm sorry. Please, come back..." She hugged herself and cried. "Please...help me..."
But no one came.
And they would never hear. Not the next day.
Or the next day.
Or the next week.
Or the next month.
Or the next year.
Or the next decade.
10 years of being alone. Of seeing her daughter with the village pariah. Of seeing her husband with several other women. Of seeing her friends being happy. Of seeing her own grave being left to fade into the nothingness of everyone's memories.
Naruto and Ino stood over Kana's unconscious form in Ino's room. Ino looked down at her mother with a look of pure rage.
"She wasn't supposed to change so fast. She made this boring." Ino growled and kicked the woman's prone form. Naruto patted her shoulder, only receiving a glare in return.
"This isn't the first time this has happened Ino-chan. Besides, it's been 10 seconds, meaning you left her in Absolute Hell for 10 years already. Don't you think she deserves a little sympathy for actually feeling regret?" Absolute Hell being Ino's own unbreakable genjutsu, putting even the Moon's Eye Sharingan to shame since she had complete control of hers.
Ino wanted to punch Naruto in the face. Of course she knew her mother deserved a little sympathy. That's why this wasn't as fun. Why couldn't she have just been a devote Naruto hater like in other timelines. Even if she had seemed wishy washy with feeling empathy for Naruto, she truly didn't want things to go TOO far with the boy.
"Whatever. Let's just take her to daddy's room. I can't wait to be done with this stupid timeline." Ino huffed.
Naruto smirked. "So what should I tell the boss?"
Ino knew it was a clone. "Nothing. He can just relax and enjoy the fireworks." She said as they moved her mother into bed with her sleeping father. "You want to watch?" She asked.
The clone nodded. Ino smirked a bit. With a flash of her eyes, the genjutsu ended. Her mother shot up in bed. She made to look around but her eyes landed on the sleeping form of her husband before anything else. With a growing wail that almost seemed inhuman, the woman moved to straddle her husband and put her hands to his throat.
"Cheater! CHEATER CHEATER CHEATER CHEATER CHEATER!" She screamed with a sadistic glint in her eyes. Inoichi was startled awake and his hands instinctively found their way to his throat. Another flash of Ino's eyes and the man's strength vacated his body. He was left helpless and confused as the love of his life strangled him with sinister glee. "I'M ALIVE!" She cried out. "I EXIST! I'M HERE! I'M NOT ALONE! CAN YOU HEAR ME INOICHI-KOI? CAN YOU FEEL ME?"
Inoichi reached a hand up to touch his wife's cheek, his eyes puffy and face blue from the lack of air. He wiped a tear from her face as his struggles began to slow. Even as his chest stopped moving and his arms fell limp to his sides, Kana stayed atop him, her arms pressed to his throat until blood began to spill from the corner of his mouth.
The woman smiled as she felt Inoichi's body. She touched his face and his chest before leaning down and placing a kiss on his lips. "I'm back sweety!"
Naruto and Ino watched silently as Kana staggered out of bed and moved to her husbands nightstand. She took two of his kunai and swayed unsteadily before heading down the stairs and out the house. Naruto and Ino moved to a window, knowing what was about to happen. Before they even saw it, a scream rang out in the streets.
"I EXIST! I'M HERE! CAN YOU FEEL ME?" Kana's deranged voice rang out as she stabbed a random woman on the street. Those around her looked on in shock and horror before she sprang towards another person and swiftly ended their life.
The people began to scream and disperse. In a matter of seconds, Kana's deranged laughs were all that was heard as three ANBU appeared and pierced the woman through with their swords. The woman didn't stop laughing, even as her blood began to pool at her feet. She looked up, right at Ino and Naruto in the window.
"I'M HERE! CAN YOU SEE ME BABY?" She asked before laughing hysterically for several more moments until her head was removed from her body.
Only a moment later and an explosion occurred at the Hyuga Clans main house…
The explosion had been the signal. From that point forward, Naruto, Ino, and Hinata forewent any forms of acting. The blonde duo appeared in the middle of the road where the ANBU were and slaughtered them with no effort whatsoever.
For the next few hours, the Hidden Leaf Village was subject to an unforgiving Hell at the hands of three academy students. Those who survived and fled the village would forever remember it as the bloodiest day in the worlds history, even more so than the Great Shinobi Wars.
Several days after the trio had destroyed the Leaf Village did some of the other villages receive news of what happened. None believed it. It would be their mistake as the bloody whirlwind that was Naruto, Ino, and Hianta tore threw them, one village at a time.
Once it was well known that the trio were indeed on a war path, several factions finally decided to take action.
Their first encounter was of Jiraiya and Tsunade. They attempted to calm Naruto, assuming he was being controlled by the Kyubi. But once he made it clear that he was in complete control and had no intentions of stopping the destruction of the world, the two were forced to try and kill the boy. The battle was short lived and underwhelming. The trio had no intention of prolonging the current timeline with battles of grandeur. Jiraiya and Tsunade didn't even have time to call each others names before their lives were ended.
Next up, surprisingly, had been Orochimaru. The man claimed to have been interested in the trio, but after seeing their ruthless dispatching of his teammates, had grown upset. He told them regardless of their roads in life, he cherished his teammates and would avenge the.
Instead, he joined them, along with his apprentice Kabuto not even moments later.
The village armies of Kumo and Suna were their next opponents, all falling just as easily as the Sannin. The combined might of the Nibi, Hachibi, and Ichibi were nothing more than minor annoyances, all being wiped out by a single one of the trio; Ino had called dibs, wanting more action due to her mothers failed performance.
The Akatsuki appearing next did not surprise them. With three of the nine bijuu dead, thanks to Ino, their mission was a complete failure. Their ambitions crushed, as far as they knew, they wanted nothing more than to take the trios heads.
Just as expected, it was short lived.
To say the battle had been one sided would have been to say Madara Uchiha would crush Konohamaru Sarutobi. Even still, the battle wasn't even that fair.
By the end of two weeks, Naruto, Ino, and Hinata had effectively made the human race go extinct.
Standing atop the tallest Mountain in the world, far from the bloodshed they had caused, the trio sat back to back in a triangle formation, lamenting the shattered timeline.
"Remember, we made a promise to Jiji that we would live normally in our next life." Nartuo reminded his two lovers. The two in response simply nodded, seeming to rest a bit closer.
They were tired, he knew, as was he. Not physically though. Every time they reached the end of a timeline, they couldn't help but take in their deeds, good or bad. The regret they felt was there, letting them know whatever tiny part of them that was good was still there as well.
"Let mercy come, and wash away, what I've done." Hinata whispered into the air.
Naruto and Ino whispered the same, finding the lyrics comforting. They knew they deserved no mercy. No repenting could change what they had become. They could not let it go. They had already accepted it. But that didn't mean a part of them couldn't long for it.
"Are you guys ready?" Ino asked before turning to sit Indian style facing the two. The two simply moved into position as well.
"Let's enjoy the next life like Jiji wants. Even if it gets boring." Naruto joked, earning solemn chuckles from them.
Hinata shed a tear. "I love you both so much. I can't imagine going through this without you again..."
Ino and Naruto's mirth vanished as pain struck them. They all knew what Hinata felt. Before their grief could grow, Ino formed an odd hand sign. "No sulking. Let's get to our next life so we can have even more fun!"
Naruto and Hinata nodded before forming a triple hand sign with Ino. The trio flashed through several more intricate hand signs, their chakra blaring to life around them in a vicious maelstrom. When they reached the final hand sign, all three called out.
"Erase!"
Their shout was followed by a blinding light that expanded from their conjoined hands, disintegrating their arms and bodies. Even after the trio were gone, the light continued, vaporizing the mountain they were on, wiping out the ground around it, expanding further and further until the entire planet was no more…
Yes, the ending was pretty rushed. After letting this go for several months, I honestly lost interest in this arc. I was in the middle of Ino's scene when I stopped typing too, so it was really hard remembering exactly what I had planned.
Unfortunately, no promises on the next chapter. Suggestions for the arc, or future arcs are still welcome since this will be more fun to do without much planning. If anything, there will probably be a few more chapters of Full Tilt Specials released before the next chapter here.
Anyway, thank you all for your patience and I hoped you enjoyed the somewhat lengthy intro to Full Tilt. If you're willing to stick around for the ride, good luck to you. I still plan on pulling no punches!
See ya around loves!