What Makes a Monster and What makes a Man?
Written by Silent Soul Ken SSK
Assisted by Baron Von Nobody
Rating M for Mature: Blood, Gore, Violence, Sexual Activity, and Language
Summary: It had been a day like any other day, until the giant meteors hit. All those in the blast radius find themselves still alive, having awoken in a new place, but things are not what they seem…
Chapter 2
Control
Hinata groaned lightly as she pushed herself up. She stared at the ground, her body awake but her mind still sluggish with sleep. It was then a cold breeze blew through, and she was fully aware- wrapping her arms around her body, shivering-that her clothes were gone, she didn't know where but she was naked. She was confused, 'How am I alive?' She wondered as she reached for her neck, the phantom sensation of something squeezing it still strong in her. 'What happened to Sakura? Did she… lose her nerve and leave?' She didn't know, nor could she. It just meant that she could probably come back and finish what she started. So staying in the cave was a bad idea. She would have to go the forest and hide out there. However the other problem was clothing… it was then she remembered that the school was there. 'Maybe if I go back I can find some of my gym clothes. I can use those for now… but I can't stay here, it just means death for me.' It was a grim thought but it was the truth. She stood and it was then she realized she felt no hunger pain in all this time.
She wondered why, the slight horror that she had eaten something alive creeping into her. 'Don't think about it just keep going worry about this another time the key is to stay alive.' Emboldened by that she began to run toward the woods. Above the entrance of the cave a figure watched her go, white eyes watching silently. Then without warning or prompting the figure moved, jumping down and moving to follow her.
-Naruto-
He stood at the entrance to a forest, he had walked a good two miles and he wasn't winded but he was getting hungry. 'I guess the monster part of me is why I still have energy?' He had walked through the plains that were below the mountain. He remembered seeing a building that looked suspiciously like his school building from his view above and he decided to head there first to see if there were any survivors that hadn't transformed yet, and second to find some stuff to survive. He didn't know how to access his new power but he would do his best to figure it out. Till then he had some stuff in his locker that should help with fighting in the meantime. Apart from that he could use some of the stuff inside to make camp and hunt. For once in his life he was grateful for his godparents forcing him to join the boy-scouts when he was younger.
He inhaled deeply and walked in. He pushed in through the bushes and he thought on his transformation. The one thing he remembered was extreme rage - and sadness - filling him then his mind blacked out. He didn't remember, not even a little bit, of what happened after that. He held up a hand looking at it. The skin was unmarred but it shuddered somewhat as if it could remember what he couldn't. 'What did I-' He could sense it, something… or someone was watching him.
A instinctual warning pinged in his head and obeyed, jumping to the side just avoiding something as it flew past him and slammed into a tree destroying its trunk and causing it to fall. Naruto rolled and got to his feet quickly, hands clenched, 'Probably people in their monster forms, which means I gotta transform! But… I don't know how!' He heard bushes shuffling and he stiffened, getting into a stance, one fist held up with his other held near his knee, palm open. The bushes rustled more and then suddenly two figures appeared, one a young woman with long black hair and wearing ragged clothes, the other a man with bandages wrapped around his face with a large amount of gray hair trailing behind the tattered remains of a biker uniform clinging to him. Naruto lowered his guard and ran up to them, "Whoa, you two ok?" He asked, they panted, heads lowered. 'I should get them out of here.' He thought and he stood up looking around. "Careful there's a monster around here so we need to be careful." He said.
It was then that the girl raised her head, "heh, heh… easy prey…" she said.
The blood froze in Naruto and he turned only to get knocked off his feet by a powerful... something and he was thrown tumbling into a tree, his back hitting it hard. He bounced off it, blood flying out of his surprised mouth as his body crashed face first to the ground. Naruto grunted as he heard footsteps and then a deep voice spoke, "Good work Zaku, that should've killed him." The blonde gritted his teeth in anger.
He kept still however, his anger boiling, 'Great we got lunatics… tch! Dammit! That seriously hurt a lot… fuck!' His hand clenched into a fist as a familiar sensation filled him. 'I don't want to kill them… but… graghhhhh!' His conscious mind began to fade as the laughing trio stopped as their 'preys' body began to bulge and then transform.
The long haired girl turned to look at a large lizard-like creature with large fleshy protrusions and along it's back were spikes with holes at the tips and the tail had a bony attachment at the end with a hollow tip. "Zaku! Finish him off now!" She shouted in panic.
The lizard gave a smirk, "With pleasure!" He growled and a slight hissing sound filled the air, if one looked they could see air being sucked in the spikes and the tail. The lizard's body began to swell and bulge and the protrusions shuddered as he aimed at the now fully transformed monster and then they opened and fired a blast of highly pressurized air. It hit the monster and a slight explosion occurred as the air began a small storm of powerful wind gusts that slashed the ground and tree. The three backed away and when the storm stopped a small cloud of dust was in the air. Then it parted to reveal the striped, empty ground.
The girl looked at the lizard, "Way to go you maniac, yet another target you utterly obliterated!" She snapped.
But the bandaged man was silent, "He's still alive…" He said as he slowly began to transform. His body swelled and from his back large quills began to emerge in large thick rows each as thick as an arm, his hands transformed, his index and middle finger fusing as did his pinkie and ring finger while his thumb swelled into large claws. The top of his head also grew a small row of the spikes while his face remained virtually the same. Anybody who looked at this creature would've been reminded of a monster from a kid's game. "Kin if you want to stay alive transform now, he's stronger than we thought." Said the transformed man.
The girl, Kin, nodded and her body changed; thin strings of chitin armor forming on her body along with a close set of fuzzy hair similar to a moth's, her limbs also acquiring this fuzz, and above her behind an insect abdomen formed. Her eyes began to swell, the pupil and sclera splitting till they became a pair of compound eyes. From her back large insect wings appeared similar to that of a dragonfly's. She looked around, "So if he's not dead then where is he Dosu?" She turned to the clawed monster.
Dosu didn't respond however as he felt the quills on his back start to shudder. He then spoke quietly, "He's pacing around us. He's not in control yet." He deduced.
Dosu was mostly right, but he was partially wrong, Naruto was partially conscious, not enough to be in control but enough to see, though it was blurry, what was going on… somewhat. He could feel his new body move, feel the powerful muscles, the sharp jaws, and the razor claws that his body possessed as it paced around the 3 monsters. He could even feel the intent of his body, it was going to catch them off guard then it would eat them. But he had no control though so he tried to enforce his will onto it. If anything it was like an observer looking through a foggy screen.
Dosu snarled, "As always Zaku your impulsiveness has put us at a disadvantage, if we had his scent we could prepare for an attack but now we can't. It seems as a beast he has a clear understanding of how to fight. He's making sure he's downwind so we don't get a scent." He growled.
Zaku turned his reptilian head to Dosu, "Oh shut the fuck up, all we need is for him to come into range and I'll hit him full power!" He snapped.
Kin chuckled, "You already used a full power blast, you're down and out for a while." She said.
The reptile turned his head to her, "Get real you dumb bitch I can blow you to smithereens, he won't be any different. And for your information that only was a ¾ blast not a-" but Dosu's claws came up to his neck.
The dark eyes were narrowed in disgust, "Shut. Up. The more you talk the bigger his advantage becomes and the smaller ours alert!" He growled. They were silent after that, Dosu joined the silence and lowered his claws. He suddenly slapped them against each other, a hollow ringing sounding and the large quills on his back shuddered. Dosu spoke again, this time quietly, "He's behind us… be ready." He cautioned.
Naruto's body pounced, aiming for Kin only for her to leap up, her wings fluttering and propelling her into the air. Dosu rolled to his side and slashed, catching a leg and slicing it, though not too deeply. Zaku jumped to the side, and a slight hissing sound emanating from his body. Dosu got to his feet, his quills shuddering as he looked at the monster man. He could see the three tails waving about and the powerful muscles of his humanoid body. The beast thrust a hand at the ground and spun so he was facing the three, it growled and it's fox tails stopped waving and stood straight. 'This guy is powerful…' Were what his instincts were telling him. "We have to kill him before he learns how to control himself." Dosu said aloud. The other two looked at him, "If we don't he'll be an enemy too strong for us to deal with." They looked at each other then at the fox like beast.
Inside his body he heard the words, muffled, disjointed, 'Kill him… control himself… too strong…' and yet he felt otherwise, but the words raised a fire inside of him, 'Control! I have to… Control!' and he began to try and impose his will on his body but it refused. It snarled and then lunged forward with blinding speed, at the spiney beast slashing with a left and throwing a quick right. Dosu blocked the slashed and ducked the punch. He stabbed a claw into the ground and kicked off the ground spinning, and his quills split slightly and smaller needles shot out at Naruto. His tails raised up in front of him and with rapid motions they knocked the needles into the ground and trees.
Kin was mildly impressed, "This guy… he's not even in control and yet he's this strong. Dosu's right we gotta kill this guy now! Zaku hurry up!" She shouted turning her bug eyes to him... not that you could tell.
The reptile snarled at her, "Just a bit longer! You do something!" He snapped, the hissing sound intensifying and his chest inflating slowly. Kin turned back to the fight and she opened her mouth and a white ball shot out just as the fox beast charged, hitting it square in the face. The ball exploded slightly and covered it's eyes in a sticky fluid. It stumbled and crashed into the ground, reaching up to remove the gunk from it's eyes but found itself unable to do so. Dosu leaped upward, avoiding the body dive and then, turning,he spun like a drill coming down. But the beast rolled to the side and Dosu wound up drilling down into the ground, disappearing underneath, but the fox just stood up and turned to Kin, it's deadly gaze and intent, focused on her.
Kin grimaced 'Looks like it's not enough to blind him!' She realized, before she spat another string ball, but was surprised when a tail came up and blocked the ball. It stuck to the tail, but it was far better there than stuck to the fox creature's face.
It didn't stay there long though, as she heard a roar and a loud ripping and suddenly she saw her web ball thrown to the ground with some fur stuck to it. It snarled and a took a step forward only to falter as the ground began to shake. 'Dosu's earth shudder attack!' She realized. Despite how they looked Dosu's claws were partially hollow and could, when slapped together, emit a ringing noise as shown before. Using his ears he could then tell where a target was. His spines were actually several quills that could stick together or separate. If he wanted he could launch them as the large spines or as smaller quills. If they were as large spines he could cause them to reverberate and create deafening ringing sounds, and if used underground he could create miniature quakes. This was what he was doing now, which meant that now would be a perfect time to use her wings.
Kin herself also had more than just her string, her wings could vibrate at high frequency and send a wave of high decibel sound waves at a target damaging their body with the powerful waves and could scramble the messages sent to the brain. She began to vibrate her wings. There wasn't much save her usual buzzing but then a slight high pitched whine began to sound. She directed the sound at Naruto and a visible wave came down on him. The effect was instant, his ears folding back against his head to block out the sound but failing, his sense of hearing too heightened by his body's powerful senses.
Inside his body Naruto could feel the ground shake, his body staggering as the ground shook, ears ringing from the shrill sound. He heard the voice shouting, "Take this you bastard!" and for a split second he had control he looked up, raising his body from the ground. Then he was slammed hard in the chest by a powerful force that ate through his skin like piranha in a feeding frenzy. He flew into a tree where his back cracked ominously and his arms snapped back. Dust and leaves flew up around him, covering him in a cloud of dust while the tree behind him was shredded somewhat by the attack.
Kin hovered overhead, smirking in triumph, "We got the fucker!" she said proudly.
Zaku, who was wheezing slightly, glared up at her, his body shrinking as he did, "'We?' you did jack shit I'm the one that iced the fucker not you!" and with that the two began to quarrel.
Dosu ignored this and advanced on the body, he felt uneasy for some reason and he had to make sure that the new monster was actually dead. He approached, waving the dust aside. In that instant a warning flashed in his mind to jump back. But he was already a second too slow as 5 claws slashed through the air and he screamed as he fell back, his arm bleeding from the stump that had been viciously torn open. The two turned to see the beast standing, it's chest red with blood but the skin already healing, steam rising from the wound.
"ARGH!" Dosu shouted as he fell back, his body reverting back to his human form from the sheer shock of the attack.
His comrades turned, Zaku gaping while Kin was charging toward the raging Naruto. "How the hell did he survive!? Nothing survives that attack! Well fuck this I'm out!" He wheezed and he began to limp away. Kin stopped and began to vibrate her wings when the clawed hand shot up to her throat and squeezed down the claws sinking into her neck. She gasped and began to choke and gag.
She turned to Dosu to cry out for help but just saw a bloody trail leading away from the scene. Tears began to stream out of her bug like eyes, as she felt a clawed hand grip her arm tightly. She wanted to say something but the hand on her throat prevented her from speaking, the low growl made her look at the face of her captor. The face was set in a snarl and the wound on his chest was healed but there was a sizable scar shaped uncannily like an X. It lowered her face till it was inches from it's own. She stared into those wild eyes and she lost all will to fight. Her body going limp in surrender… she couldn't do anything… except die. She knew that on a conscious and instinctual level.
She then felt hot breathing at her pussy and she flushed in surprise She turned to see that the blonde monster's head was inches from her slit, it's tongue slid out and licked. She stiffened and felt tears burning in her eyes as a new fear came over her. 'Seriously…? I'm about to be raped? Death… Death would be much better than this… help…' She looked and could see it standing slightly, a phallus emerging from his crotch. It was quite large, easily a foot, possibly larger, but the sheer girth was far more frightening. She couldn't look at it, she turned away and tried to move but the tails tightened painfully. 'Help me.' She felt the clawed hands wrapping around her waist.
She felt the cock pushing at her entrance, she couldn't take it anymore, and out of her mouth she gasped, "Help me." She felt the grip on her suddenly loosen.
Naruto heard the words enter his mind and it froze his bestial side, it was enough for his human form to control his body. He grabbed control and pulled his hands away from her, his tails unfurling as well. He stepped back but already the beast within was trying to take control.
Kin didn't hesitate, she opened her wings and vibrated them as rapidly as she could, the sonic waves bombarded Naruto. He staggered back, and using that she took to the air, moving as fast as she could away from him. The beast fell back clutching it's head as the ear splitting sound faded into darkness. It stood up and opened it's eyes. When it saw Kin was gone it rumbled then roared and began to attack anything and everything in sight. Using it's considerable muscle power to bash trees, crush rocks, and gouge the ground. Eventually however it ran out of energy both from over exertion and from it's battle.
It fell, gasping, it's body shrinking back down, reverting back to Naruto's human form. He laid on the ground his body sweaty, his hands twitching, his legs sore, and his chest hurting. He eventually got to his feet and looked at his chest. There was a large X shaped scar there, "Seems like that new body can't heal everything then…" He mused with a wince, "I'll remember that in future." He looked down again and saw his pants had barely remained, the zipper was gone and as a result his dick was hanging out. He rubbed his head, embarrassed, "Damn this is embarrassing. I need new clothes." He said sadly, then he remembered. "I saw the school from up there… I think I did, if it's here I should have some of my spare gym clothes in there." With that in mind he redoubled his pace for his school.
-Several Hours later-
Naruto looked at the sky as he pushed past some foliage, the sky was starting to darken, and he needed to get his clothes to find someplace to sleep, now that he thought about it. He turned his gaze forward and saw the school, causing his pace to quick as he walked toward it. The first thing he was was a gaping hole in the side.
He wandered towards it and saw it lead into the lunchroom. He expected to see bodies everywhere but there wasn't anyone there… no food either, but the discarded remains of lunch boxes and trays were scattered all over the the place. He looked around but found nothing, so he walked over to where the lunch lady normally was. When he got there he could see the stains of dried blood in various places.
He wanted to rule out the possibility there would be no food but he wasn't sure if that would be true or not. However if something happened like there was a beast-human inside how would he defend himself? "I can't transform… I… I don't know how to control myself. I…" He paused, he couldn't say the words. But he had to, "I don't want to be responsible for killing someone that doesn't deserve to be killed." he said.
He looked around and found a metal pole that had been broken off, it looked slightly melted too. 'Probably because of the meteor crash.' He guessed. He grabbed it and pulled it up, freeing it from the rubble it was planted into. It had some weight meaning he could at the least knock someone, or something more like, out. He went behind the counter and to the door leading into the kitchen. He paused taking a deep breath and then pushed it open slowly, and then rushed in rod held up. He paused then looked around, there didn't seem to be anything inside, but he did see alot of food packs, most of which had been torn open. He walked in slowly making sure to look around closely to see anything anywhere. But he saw no one else, he went to the freezer and saw there were claw marks and even a few dents but no openings. He went to the handle and saw it had been utterly demolished. He opened it, and saw boxes everywhere… but the thing that made him freeze was seeing the bloody stains and the curled frozen remains of a lizard-like creature. It's hands was grabbing a piece of meat that was also frozen and half eaten.
He didn't even bother with trying to find any other food he was too disgusted by what he saw. He walked out, heading for the door to the cafeteria. He pushed it open and paused he looked back to the freezer door, saw the frozen corpse then closed the door and walked away, heading for the gym. He walked down the hall and as he did he could see blood splattered everywhere, broken lockers and mangled remains of chairs and desks and even some doors burst open and lodged in walls. It looked like a warzone. He saw the door to the locker rooms and he went toward it and was instantly hit with the smell of rotting flesh. He looked and could see a corpse of a beast however he paled when he saw that it wasn't just dead it was missing large parts of it's flesh. He looked away heading for his locker, he sighed to find it was still intact along with several others. He opened his and grabbed his clothes. He slipped on his pants… but found his shirt was absent however his spare open chest jacket was there and he pulled that on. He adjusted cursing his removal of the buttons so it remained open at all times. He checked again and saw an old water bottle. He grabbed it and shook it, the sloshing of some liquid met his ear. He unscrewed the cap and sniffed, and was met with a foul smell. He tossed the bottle aside, and looked again.
There was one last item… well several last items but they were all the same, long white bands. He paused then grabbed it and tied it around his head. The cords of the band falling down to the middle of his back where an emblem shaped like a red spiral was. Naruto closed the locker, only to hear his stomach rumble. He groaned then he went out and decided to go through the rooms and lockers to find anything to eat. He went out the hall and up the stairs, when he reached it he could see the blood was everywhere including some corpses, some having been eaten out while others lay rotting inside of the walls. He could feel his stomach churn in disgust but he had to admit it was setting in quite nicely what kind of world this was. "Dog eat dog… literally." he said but that didn't make him feel any better about it. He felt like he wanted to throw up however he stomached it all for now. "Gotta be strong… if not physically then at least… in my head." But even as he turned into a room he saw more bodies of beasts some eaten other's beaten so badly parts of their bodies were missing. He turned away and into another classroom. The same scene appeared, he felt his breath become hoarse, his stomach churned. He walked out and ran down the hall glancing into each room all of them repeating the same bloody scenes over and over again. He stopped running panting now. Cold sweat ran down his body chilling him. He looked at a room the door was closed… he recognized the number 218… it was his homeroom. As he stood there he thought of his teacher, Iruka. 'Did… Did Iruka-sensei die too?' he wondered. He hoped he hadn't, Iruka was the only teacher he liked and the only one he respected especially.
He stared at the door his heart thudding so loudly it reverberated in his ears. He stood up and looked at the window which was red with blood blocking off the view inside. He raised a trembling hand to the door handle. He grabbed it and pulled it to the side. He stared at his classroom, desks were everywhere and the chairs were either stabbed into transformed students or utterly gone. His gaze fell on one thing and he couldn't hold it in anymore. He turned away, hand on mouth, bile spilling out from his hand, he staggered forward and began to retch. Behind him was the remains of a girl, half-transformed, her body mauled and her entrails dragged across the ground like meaty spaghetti.
The sheer brutal imagery, her expression of sheer terror, sadness, shock, and betrayal… it was too much a shock for his system. 'We wake up to a world where nature has taken over… not just in the land but inside of us as well! We kill each other. EAT each other. Like a bunch of fucking animals... ' he heaved again and staggered to a wall. He dry heaved a few times, then he panted, "Is that what we are now? Animals? Just a bunch of… ravenous, wild animals?" He gasped. 'Not wild… at first yes but it can be controlled.' a voice said. "I can't control myself!" he responded.
But before the voice could reply there was a creaking. Naruto froze and he turned, a door was open and standing behind was something. It was big, but a weak gasping sniffling was coming out of it. Then the words came, "You're going to kill me aren't you?" Said the weak voice quivering voice. The thing came out, it was very big, looking like some kind of bull it was on all fours but it's front legs had hands. One horn was broken and he could see horrible scab wounds that had flies buzzing around them, Naruto noticed to his disgust some of the fly's heads were distinctly human in shape. "I… I'm not going to die! I… I'm not going to be eaten like they were." Naruto opened his mouth to speak but saw the eyes were wild and unfocused, this person was too far gone.
They wanted to live, and to live they would kill anyone that they met and believed would kill them. Naruto stepped back, as the beast got to it's hind legs and scuffed them. "I won't die! I'm not gonna die!" And it charged at him. Naruto jumped to the side and it plowed straight through the wall and door, utterly smashing it to bits.
Naruto stared wide eyed, 'shit he's got the force of an APC at full speed!' he stared at the ruined wall.
Then the beast came out, tears streaming out of it's eyes, "it hurts!" it whined, "It hurts! You made it hurt!" it said it's eyes staring at him. Naruto turned and ran the beast already charging after him. He ran as fast as he could and jumped the stairs he grunted as pain shot into his leg from the landing but he turned and jumped down the next set. The beast slammed into the wall as it tried to turn and it cried out in pain but it never stopped pursuing him.
Naruto landed again and he felt his ankle suddenly spark with pain, he grunted but ignored it and kept running though hobbling slightly. He was sure he hadn't twisted his ankle but the pain spoke otherwise. He heard the snorting and chanced a look back. The beast was scuffing the ground again and then it bellowed with an animal cry and charged. "FUCK!" He shouted and hobbled to the cafeteria and rolling down behind the door. The beast flew through the door and but dug it's hooves in skidding to a stop. Naruto rolled getting behind the serving counter as the bull beast turned. Not seeing the blonde it began to walk around, as it did it spoke.
"You have no idea what happened here…" it's voice cracking and weak but audible. "We woke up thought we were fine, till the first person transformed… I had to watch as the students began to butcher each other, some just killing other's eating. Friends, family's, respect that didn't mean anything anymore!" It grabbed a table and threw it where it slammed against the wall. "The first to go where of course those that wanted 'peace' and 'cooperation' but that's stupid here! You either are strong or your dead! Peace love that doesn't mean anything anymore!" It kicked another table which flew out the huge opening. "Even the factuly attacked, and I had to survive by hiding and fighting back when I was found… it still hurts…" it rubbed the wounds on it's body. "It hurts… having to kill my friends…" it sniffed, and when it did it paused and sniffed some more.
The blonde delinquent pulled his head out from behind the serving counter and saw it had turned in his direction. "Shit!" he muttered and staggered away just in time as the bull charged again and it slammed into the wall it's head cracking loudly and it reared back howling it's other horn stuck in the wall. Blood spurting out of the horn and head. Naruto was now leaning against the other side of the serving counter panting just underneath the shade as the ground shook.
It stood clutching the wounds that had just formed. It began to wail loudly the cries ear splitting and deafening, "Mommy it hurts!" Naruto stiffened his back against the wall.
He gritted his teeth and grabbed the headband on his head, 'Pain's a natural thing you… you're a snot nosed kid who was on his mom's boob too long.' Naruto rested as it bawled and wailed.
"Mommy it hurts…! Help me! Help!" Naruto stiffened at that.
The blonde's teeth loosened, 'Yeah he's in pain… he's suffering… the only way to stop the pain… is to kill him painlessly.' he got to his feet, he cracked his knuckles as he stared at the wailing beast he looked around then stopped, 'I can't do it like this… if I try it's not gonna be painless and I'll probably die doing it too. I need… I need the beast inside of me! The strength it possesses.' he looked at it's hand, 'I can't bring it out on command yet… but I have to!' he looked at the beast, 'There's only one way for now.' and he approached the howling beast. "Hey stupid!" he shouted waving his hand in the air, the beast stopped howling and turned to him. "You want some of this then come and get it!" he shouted pounding on his chest. The beast growled then it turned to him fully.
"You made it hurt… Now I'll kill you and it'll stop hurting!" it snarled and then it ran to him. Naruto knew getting hit with the charge would kill him what he needed to get hit by was with a fist. That was the only way to survive. So when the bull came close he dived to the side. It skidded to a halt and then spun around and it's fist slammed into his ribs. He felt them crack before the momentum sent him flying into the wall where he felt his back snap and his body sink in slightly before he bounced off and painfully into the floor. He coughed blood flying out of his lips in copious amounts. His body though was already starting to change muscles bulging and the bones resnapping the healing factor already kicking in. But the ground shook and he rolled onto his back, looking up to see the beast standing over him.
He gritted his teeth, 'This is gonna hurt.' and the first fist slammed into his stomach. Then the next followed by the next till a barrage of fists began to pounding into him dust and smoke coming from the floor and his body began to steam. The fists kept coming till a hand reached up grabbing one then the other. Large thickly furred hands that became enveloped in fur. Growling the red fox like beast stood it's tails waving behind it. It pushed the bull back, and growled. The bull beast stepped back afraid. Inside Naruto's mind he was in a battle that took seconds to process far faster than the real world could comprehend. His will had grown strong enough to meet the beast head on and he was using all his fighting knowledge he had acquired over the years to beat it down into submission.
He kept it on the ropes, beating it with all he had forcing his spirit over it hitting the ears, nose, and other vital spots till it whimpered and rolled over to it's belly in submission. Now he had control and he had admit the feeling of his new body was quite different. He felt like he was inside of some suit, it was strange he clenched his hand into a fist and felt his body respond. He turned his gaze to the bull which was snorting and had it's own hands clenched into fists. His mind listed the various way's to kill him quickly and painlessly and all of them pointed to one method breaking his neck.
He tightened his body but it felt strange, he could feel power welling up inside of him. A lot of power, the strength was quite intoxicating but he focused, turning his gaze forward. The bull scuffed the ground, "I'm not going to die." it muttered, "I'm not going to die." Naruto's eyes furrowed at that then the two sprung. Naruto's body slammed into the bull's muscular one and his body pushed it down. His arms wrapped around it's neck and clamped down then he pulled it's body up jerking it, then he twisted and the loud snap was heard. He pressed down with his arms even more preventing air from coming in or out of it's mouth. When he felt the body stop struggling he released it. It fell with an enormous 'thud' to the ground.
Naruto sighed, and he sat down his body already reverting back to normal. When he finished he could feel his jeans were torn but still hung around his waist and the arms of his vest were gone but the rest of it remained. He found to his surprise as well that his headband was still there. "Looks like this is my look." he said. He sighed then he looked at the dead body. There was a rather sad expressions on it, he looked away back before the meteor's he had boasted that he could kill without feeling anything. Now he knew that was a lie. It had been very painful killing this guy, especially since he didn't truly deserve it. He looked up to see the sky was dark. He looked at the body then he got up and went to the nurse's office.
When he got there the door was open, there was some blood on the floor but otherwise no bodies, or even really bad smells. He walked in grabbed some chlorine and tossed it down then threw some water and scrubbed it up. WHen he was done he closed the door but opened the window slightly. He then went to the bed laid on it, sighed again then closed his eyes and attempted to fall asleep. After 4 minutes of tossing and turning his exhaustion finally claimed him.
-Naruto's Dream-
Naruto dreamt a strange dream, his body felt heavy… his eyes just as heavy but he felt like he was suspended in some kind of… liquid. He tried to open his eyes but they were too heavy. He heard a voice speak, "...Fallen asleep… it's dreaming…" the voice said, he tried to open his eyes again forcing them to split but he couldn't. "Keep monitoring this one." the voice said, "Report the findings to…." the voice drifted away.
-Konoha highschool-
Naruto sat up abruptly, he looked around but saw no one. He listened but the only thing he heard was his own breathing and the chirping of birds. He looked at the sky and saw daylight shining down. He sighed and rubbed his head then he laid back down wondering what to do. His stomach grumbling reminded him what it wanted. He got off the bed and went to the kitchen to again try to find some kind of food to eat. He went into the freezer and found some frozen hotdogs, he ignored the body, it didn't even so much as register in his field of view. With that done he went to the stove and let the fire to start cooking.
-Hinata-
The heiress of the Hyuuga clan looked at the building the huge hole from where the first meteor had hit, the one that had evaporated her, still there. She looked around and saw no one, and she made a run for the school. She approached the building only to see the remains of a large bull-like beast it's body riddled with scabs and flies buzzing around it. She felt her stomach rumble but she turned away and went to the gym hoping to find some clothes. She came to a hall of destruction, the floor had deep indents that looked like hooves. 'That means the bull was a fresh kill… perhaps yesterday... ' she stopped at that thought, 'Is the killer still here?' she shuddered at that thought. She stopped running and went to the wall moving slowly. She looked around carefully ignoring the wind blowing against her nude body. She looked into a room and looked away clapping a hand to her mouth. She had come across a scene of carnage and it sickened her that such a thing could happen here in the school she had grown up in. Her mind drifted to the boy that had caught her attention, golden haired, eyes of sapphire, and with the courage to fight any battle no matter how hopeless it seemed. Her mind drifted to 2 years ago.
-An alleyway-
Hinata stood her back pressed against a wall as 5 boys leered at her, "So this is the Hyuuga princess kinda slutty body for a princess don't you think?" one asked.
Another chuckled, "Totally look at those tits they're almost as big as her head, you sure she's only 16? That body belongs to a 24 year old." Hinata tried to walk away but one moved in front of where she was going.
He leered at her, "Oh, where you going? What you think we're gonna rape you or something?" he asked, she shuddered and backed away.
One guy laughed, "maybe we should, I think she'd be worth a fuck or two!" he said.
"Don't you guy's have better stuff to do?" a voice said, one of them turned only for a fist to slam into his face the sound of his nose breaking echoed the alley.
Two more turned only for a hand to reach up to their head and smash them together. The last two turned, "Naruto!? You little bastard the fuck you doing here?" They snapped. Naruto stood his hands going into his black trench coat's pocket, chest exposed showing his tank top and the white headband he wore waved in the air.
He turned his gaze to Hinata briefly then back to them, "You planning to rape her? Try that and you'll eat my fists and boot, and don't think I won't tell her family you tried this. I like to see your folks get jobs after that, considering they're already doing pisspoor work to begin with." he said.
The last two guys pulled out switchblades the knives coming out, "Shut the fuck up! You've always been a pain in the ass keep this up and we'll cut that tongue out!" but Naruto glared at them hard, and he seemed to grow larger till his body eclipsed them. Truthfully he stood tall and they shrunk back in fear.
His blue eyes which were either taciturn, happy, or angry was of cold merciless pity. "Try me… you'll be dead and I won't even bat an eye." he held up both hands and got into a stance not unlike a boxer's. They stared at him their hands quivering then they stiffened.
"D-Don't fuck with us!" And they both struck, only for Naruto's body to vanish, they blinked "He vanished!?" they shouted obvious but their surprise couldn't produce any other response.
Naruto's voice came from below, "God you're fucking dumb." He said and he rose up from his crouch and hit the bully hard in the chin the blow was so hard that his teeth cracked then shattered and he fell back broken teeth and blood splattering his face. Naruto turned and threw 3 punches so fast that no one saw them, the nose, the eye, and the cheek the last bully fell his face bleeding. Naruto lowered his hands and turned to Hinata.
She had watched the entire thing stunned, he then held out his hand, "Did they hurt you?" He asked. She blushed and shook her head, he blinked then lowered his hand back into his pocket, "You should get going, it's up to you if you wanna tell your dad about this or not. See ya." and he walked away and didn't look back.
-Present Time-
That had been the first time anybody stood up for her not because of who she was but that she was in danger. She hated to admit it but she admired his uncaring attitude toward her background. He had done what he did because she was in danger. After that she made sure she knew everything he did, she knew every fight he had been since, knew of all the classes he had gone to, and where he hung out when he wasn't in school. 'Geeze I sound like a stalker.' she realized. She then remembered what she was doing and focused on that.
-Naruto-
Naruto paused as the smell of cooked hotdogs hung in the air. For a brief few seconds his nose smelled something that wasn't hotdog. It was the scent of blood, and death a scent he had become acclimated with in a short time span. But when he stopped to sniff again it was gone. He stood there 'Again my senses are boosted to heights they previously weren't… this was like when I was eating with Haku… can it be that my new body's abilities don't just take place in it's form?' he thought on that, 'no certain senses are boosted the rest are hidden inside the other form. For me it's my sense of smell and taste… but is that all there is to it?' he turned back to the hotdogs and grabbing a bowl he placed them inside, turned off the fire and walked out. He looked at the corpse of the beast, and as he did he sniffed again. The hotdogs scent was strong but he could clearly smell blood and guts. He turned his gaze down to the entrance of the hall and stood there. Grabbing a hotdog he threw it in his mouth ignoring the heat and chomping on it vigorously. He swallowed, 'It's not much but it's better than eating someone…' however he knew that one day he would have to eat another living being… regardless of intentions. He popped in another hotdog and kept eating, he then sat on the counter and continued his meal.
-Hinata-
Hinata walked into the gym locker room, there wasn't any bodies but there was some blood on the walls and some of the lockers were broken, including her own. Her clothes weren't there, and so she began to look around. She blinked a few times she could've sworn she saw a glowing trail before her but she didn't know why she was seeing this. She followed the trail and came across a pair of bloomers… her bloomers. "Weird." She said, and she grabbed them and slid them on to her bare lower half. She looked around but the trail just lead to where her bloomers were. She sighed and went to the other broken lockers hoping to find a shirt, a minute of this searching and eventually she found a shirt. She slid it on and found it was a tight fit due to her generous bosom. In fact the shirt was hiked up a bit due to her bust. She mentally cursed her seemingly endlessly growing breasts.
She turned to leave when she heard the sound of footsteps. She froze then looked around trying to find a weapon. She found the wooden remains of a bat, better than nothing. She grabbed it and ran to the doorway pressing her back against it. She looked down at the ground seeing a shadow pass. She swallowed, and gripped the bat tightly. A pause then the footsteps came again she saw a foot and she swung only for someone to grab the bat and yank it out o her hands. The bat clattered to the ground and she shrunk back in fear, eyes closed, hands up "Don't kill me!" She screeched.
The person reached into a bowl and held up a hotdog, "Oi, oi, oi I don't kill girls… unless they give me a reason to." The voice was immediately familiar the moment it spoke. Hinata opened her eyes and lowered her hands. Standing there was Naruto and he was currently munching on a hotdog.
She stood up, hope filling her entire body, "Y-You're Naruto." she said.
He said nothing, he was quite aware how well known he was, only people outside of the city didn't know him. "Uh-huh and you are?" He asked.
Hinata frowned, "U-Um… a few years back I was in an alley about to be…" She swallowed, sweat formed on her forehead, "R-Raped when you came and saved me." she explained.
Naruto sighed, looked her up and down, noticed the rather sizable bust, and suddenly it came back to him, "You're that Hyuuga girl, Hinata right?" he asked, she nodded, "Wow small new world… well yeah I… was also caught in that meteor shower and woke up here." He said.
Hinata nodded, it was then she noticed his chest, a huge scar shaped like an X was on it nearly went to his shoulders at the top and down to his waist at the bottom. "What in the world happen?" She said, pointing at the scar.
Naruto was silent, then he said, "Monsters… that were once human, so far everyone I met… and me included is suffering some kind of change. We're not fully human anymore there's a monster inside of us all now. This I got because of 3 monsters attacked me, I beat them but not without getting hurt… so this is just a reminder for me to be stronger." he said. Then he heard a rumbling of the stomach and Hinata clutched hers nervously. "Want a hotdog?" He asked and he held one up. She ran to him and snatched then chomped it down within seconds. He blinked surprise.
Hinata blushed, "S-sorry that was rude." She said.
The blonde just shrugged, "I imagine you've been hungry for a while now, I mean the alternative is uh… nothing." he said and he jerked over his shoulder, "there's more hotdogs I can cook up… maybe a hamburger or two." Hinata was salivating so much it was forming a puddle, he chuckled, "I'll take that as a yes." he said and he turned and headed back to the cafeteria, Hinata right behind him.
Naruto continued raiding the freezer grabbing what he could he found plenty of burgers, hot dogs, some frozen veggies, fish, he took extra of those, french fries and tater tots. Naruto cooked everything he could with Hinata cooking what he couldn't. The two ate quite heartily, if they had been conscious of their current consumption they would've realized they roughly 40 pounds worth of meat. Normally not very healthy but their new bodies demanded the sustenance. In fact their bodies burned through the food so quickly they barely put on 5 extra pounds from their consumption.
Now the two stood at the sink washing their hands of the grease from their feasting. Naruto licked his lips unaware of his tongue extending slightly beyond normal human means. He looked at Hinata, 'I wonder if she can transform too…' he tried to remember her, and his mind sifted through various memories till one stood out, her being advanced upon by some punks he knew, she was scared and shrunk under their presence. 'Probably a rabbit or something…' he threw another tatertot in his mouth and chewed it was then he remembered. "Hey where are those two girls that hang out with you?" he asked.
Hinata, who was about to eat another burger froze. "Uh… I… I don't know…" she said after a minute of silence. Naruto didn't say anything, Hinata looked at the hamburger in her hand then brought it to her mouth eating silently, she couldn't tell him that Sakura tried to kill out of a delusion that she would kill the pink haired girl. However after Sakura attacked her she blacked out, but when she woke up Sakura was gone. She didn't know what happened to her former classmate but she honestly didn't care to know either.
Naruto was silent, he knew Sakura and Ino he talked with them every now and then. They were vain, haughty, and attention seeking but they were overall ok people. He kind fancied Sakura but he never really thought of things like girlfriends he was… 'A fight craving idiot with no manners.' he reminded himself. He grabbed the last burger in his bowl and ate it.
Hinata swallowed the last of her meaty meal and slurped down the excess juices, she then licked her lips and went to the sink to wash herself off. When she was finished she saw Naruto chewing on a hotdog. "Um… what are you planning on doing after this?" She asked.
The blonde delinquent swallowed and sighed, "I was thinking of exploring this new world, but I'm too relaxed and full to go out tonight, so I was thinking of spending one last night here." he said.
She looked at him, "You slept here while… something killed that thing outside?" She said.
Naruto was quiet then he looked away, "I guess so," He said, 'It'd be too weird to tell her I killed that guy, she might think I'd try to kill her next and I... ' he looked at her, she was looking down at the ground her hand on her chest, 'I want to make sure no one else dies… on my watch.' he slid off the table and walked up to her and rinsed off his hands in the sink. "Come on we can sleep in the nurse's office till morning ok?" He said, she looked at him then nodded.
The two walked to the nurses office and got on the bed, "Good night." Naruto said and he turned so he was facing away from Hinata.
She nodded, "Good night." and turned away as well. The two were asleep after 10 minutes.
-Later that night-
Hinata sat up, her body moving silently her eyes opened but they were milky and glossed over. She slid out of the bed and as she did her body changed the bones cracked or melted, her skin bubbling as scales began to appear along it, her teeth grew becoming pointed, her face cracking as the new muscles on her cheeks began to form till she had a maw. She slithered out no longer Hinata Hyuuga but a creature of an unquenchable and vicious hunger. She moved to the cafeteria and stopped over the body of the bull beast she sniffed with slitted nostrils and her mouth opened saliva dripping out of her mouth and teeth onto the body. She reached forward with clawed hands they sunk into the flesh and she bore down on the meat chomping, ripping and gulping it down with a manic frenzy. Within 5 minutes she had devoured it all the way down to the bone. She huffed as she stood over the bloody pool then raised her head and sniffed again. She could smell the flesh coming from inside the kitchen and she went inside.
She feasted generously eating every dead body in every room devouring each one till barely a bloody pool remained. As she ate the last body, the remains of the girl with her intestines dragged on the ground, she raised her head the hand of the girl sliding down and she gave a throaty sigh. Sated she turned and went back down slithering down her body leaving a trail of blood that grew smaller and smaller stopping just outside of the nurses office and her body cracked and snapped as it returned to normal. She pushed inside her bottom half naked, her top just barely holding on and she lied down on the bed. Any blood on her gone, but the stench of it filled the room.
The stench being so strong that Naruto bolted up he looked around and saw the door was open. He looked at Hinata who was sleeping peacefully but her bloomers were gone. He looked away red-faced, "That… was…" then he sniffed again and the smell of blood filled his nose. He got up and went outside and saw the blood trail. He was instantly wary, he followed the trail and noticed it dipping into rooms where fresh blood was spilt, he looked in each one and noticed that all the bodies had vanished. "No, not vanished… eaten." he realized.
The delinquent checked every room from the bottom to the top and all of them were gone eaten by some creature. "I guess i can't relax even here of all places." he realized, and he then wondered about the body in the cafeteria. He ran down and saw it was gone as well all that remained was a pool of blood. "Fuck… this thing was voracious… but it didn't get me or her… maybe saving us for later." He went back to the nurses office and sat down in the chair his gaze fixed forward, he would sit there till morning came and when it did he would take her and get out of this place.
-Next Morning-
Hinata felt the sunlight hit her eyes, and moaning she turned and found there was a blanket on her and on it a pair of bloomers. She was confused, "Last night you threw your bloomers somewhere I couldn't find it so I got you a new pair." Naruto's voice came from behind the curtain.
They Hyuuga heir turned bright pink. "T-Thank you I-I'm sorry for that." she said and she got her new bloomers on, luckily her butt wasn't quite as big as her breasts so it fit just snugly. When she was all dressed she opened the curtain. Naruto was sitting on the chair a knee brought up to his chin, glaring at the door his eyes somewhat puffy and bags hung under them. "D-Didn't you sleep?" She asked.
He nodded, "A bit but while we were asleep some monster came in and ate all the bodies around here… I smelled the blood and I've been up making sure we didn't get eaten in our sleep. Now that you're up we can go." he said, "I've already got food packed." He said pointing to 2 large dufflebags, "and some other stuff as well," this time at two smaller bags. "I don't want to leave you by yourself but I can't stay here and wait to be made a meal will you come with me please?" He asked turning to her.
Hinata was silent, 'it's not like I don't understand his reasoning but we shouldn't go out there but…' she looked and then saw the blood that was outside the door. 'Well I should be safe with him… he knows how to fight so… I guess I may as well.' she nodded.
Naruto frowned, he saw the hesitation but he was glad she accepted it meant he had less convincing to do. "Alright let's go." he said he stood then stretched and one could hear the bones popping slightly as he did. He grabbed the Duffel bags and Hinata grabbed the two smaller ones.
She looked at him, "Where are we going?" she asked.
He turned his gaze to the door, "When I got here I climbed that huge mountain you saw, this place is big and I saw the ocean I wanted to try going there to see if I could find any other pieces of land. But it's quite a walk." he said warningly he turned to her.
Hinata gave him, at least she hoped it was, a determined look. "Lead the way." She said he nodded and took their first steps a step to a life of blood, adventure, discovery, and pain a journey that would shape their very beings in this strange new world.
So in this chapter there is a hint to the nature of what's going on, it's a pretty big hint but I'm sure you'll find it, if you do, I beg that you do not say it in the reviews just say "I saw it" if you found it.
