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"Speech"

'Thought'

"Kyuubi"

(Standard Disclaimer)

Chapter 43: Rage

It was cold and getting colder, the rain was slowly turning to sleet and all he could do was sit there...sit there and cry...and it all started a little over a month ago.

"And the winner by a long shot is Uzumaki Naruto!" called Inuzuka Kiba as he held Naruto's hand up high. Naruto laughed and belched as he slammed his Sake cup on the table effectively smashing it to bits. "Sorry Sasuke but I've only seen Gamabunta drink Naruto under the table...well Gamabunta and that girl," Kiba said with a laugh as he helped the COMPLETELY smashed Sasuke up from the ground.

"Da-hic-amn it Naruto!" Sasuke called with a drunken grin. Shino shook his head as he ordered one more shot for him while the guy with the golden eyes who sat next to him also called for another. Naruto laughed, his body barely showing the effects of the alcohol in his system. "Hey Zaiaku, why didn't you bring Itami today? She could actually get me drunk!" Naruto laughed while Zaiaku shook his head.

"I didn't want this place to run out of whatever Sake they have," Zaiaku said with a smirk as his and Shino's drinks were poured. Naruto shrugged and grinned, "how about you? Let's see what tolerance you have under that collar." Zaiaku smirked and took his drink, sitting across the small table from Naruto he said, "if you live with Itami you have to take up drinking."

Naruto laughed and said, "how long has she been living with you?" Zaiaku thought for a second then said, "a little after the Chuunin exams she had a huge falling out with her parents and moved in. Something about beating up her father and making her mom...eh nothing for you to know." Naruto laughed and called to the ninja clad fully in black, "Kankuro! Why isn't your brother here?"

Kankuro turned and called back, "he said it would ruin Suna's image if the most prestigious of the Kazekage's was caught in a Konoha bar!" Naruto laughed and said, "and you're here why?" Kankuro glared and said, "pick up some Konoha chicks." Zaiaku grinned and said, "you're not going to get a girl wearing more make up then they are even if they are drunk."

Naruto, Kiba, and Sasuke laughed up a riot while Shino resolved to keeping his laughter to a quiet chuckle. Kankuro glared while Zaiaku smirked at him, "you, me, outside now!" Zaiaku rose an eyebrow and stood up from the table, putting his hand on the edge of the table to steady himself. Kankuro lead the way as Zaiaku walked outside with the rest of the group following...minus Shino of course.

Kankuro exited the bar and stood outside waiting for Zaiaku who showed up with his hands in his pockets and a grin on his face. Naruto, Kiba, and an inebriated Sasuke soon followed and stood outside the bar watching at the two stared each other down. "Get to fighting!" Naruto called a small drunken grin gracing his face.

Kankuro pulled a scroll from his pocket and in an instant he had produced the puppet Karasu. Zaiaku simply shrugged as his coins flew from his person and got ready to attack. "Ready?" Kankuro asked as Karasu released the blades in its arms. Zaiaku smirked and said, "ready as ever Kabuki." Kankuro glared and sent Karasu forward with his puppet strings. Zaiaku's coins moved like the wind and readied to knock Karasu to pieces...

BAM!

In seconds all of Zaiaku's coins lay on the ground and Karasu fell harmlessly to the ground. "OW! What the hell was that for Temari!" Kankuro asked his furious sister who stood behind him with her fan ready to deal him another blow to the head. "Gaara's been asking where you were all night!" Temari yelled which made Kankuro reply quietly, "damn it, where's that deer guy. He'll get you off my case and on his."

CRACK!

Kankuro was smashed beneath Temari's giant fan making for a very interesting scene...but not as funny as the other scene.

Lying face first in the ground about two inches deep was Zaiaku with a VERY pissed off Itami standing behind him. "You went drinking and didn't tell me! You're going to pay when we get home," Itami grumbled as she easily picked up the coin laden ninja and began walking back down the street.

"Oh Naruto, your fiance's been asking where you are. Sakura's wondering the same thing about Sasuke," Itami said with a brief look over her shoulder before she walked off into the night. "Oh crap..." Naruto said as he vanished in a golden blur. "Damn it!" Sasuke yelled as he faded in a black blur. Kiba stood there with a blank look for a few moments...then burst out into a wide grin. "No girlfriend, no fiancé, no wife, plenty of one night stands, I'm in heaven!" Kiba exclaimed as he disappeared back into the bar. If Akamaru had been with him...gods help us all.

Naruto arrived in the small home he shared with Hinata, it wasn't anything special but it was much better then the apartment of his childhood. When the Sound attacked the clan homes the Hyuga mansion was completely obliterated. While Hiashi found refuge for the clan in another home some ways away Hinata had decided to live with Naruto.

Hiashi was obviously upset but trusted his daughter and Naruto enough to not do anything stupid in the middle of a war...at least that was what he said. Truth was the farthest they had gotten was some...ok many heavy make out sessions, no sex until marriage was the agreement. Naruto was eager, thank you Kitsune hormones, but held himself in relative calm until that day.

That wasn't to say Hinata wasn't also anxious. Seeing her fair share of a near naked (and once full naked thanks to an un-resistible Byakugan opportunity) Naruto had given her plenty of un-Hinata like thoughts. She held herself like Naruto but both found it was getting just a little bit harder.

Naruto walked in the door with a grin and called, "honey I'm home!" Naruto took a deep whiff of the air. Hinata was cooking again! "I'm in the kitchen Naruto-kun!" Hinata called while Naruto took off his jacket and hung it on a hook near the door. No sense in making this home a mess like he had been in every home his whole life.

Naruto walked into the kitchen and promptly blushed, oh man it was getting harder. Standing over the stove was Hinata wearing an apron, one of Naruto's sleeveless shirts, and a pair of her shorts. Now for him this was a rarity, even living with her she kept herself in modesty on how much he saw of her. To be walking around in a sleeveless shirt and shorts...it blew his mind along with a few other things.

Hinata turned and looked at Naruto with those pale violet eyes of hers and noticing his staring she blushed. Wearing this wasn't an accident, she felt daring today and making Naruto more anxious for their wedding night stroked a bit of her bad side. After all doesn't everyone have that little devil on their shoulder some time? Hinata smiled softly and said, "Naruto-kun, Kyuubi-sensei has been calling for you for an hour since I got home. He must have not gone to sleep for days."

Naruto gulped and turned his focus away from Hinata and nodded, "alright Hinata-chan, I'll go check up on that right now!" Hinata laughed softly to herself as Naruto took off in a golden blur.

Some time ago Naruto had placed a scroll in his realm that when activated would cause another scroll on the outside to glow, sort of like a way to call from inside the realm to outside and vice versa. The only thing wrong with it was that calling from the inside out would result in a LONG wait time for the person inside.

Naruto had also given Kyuubi a body within his realm, a TRUE body, but they found out that Kyuubi's body could not exit the realm so he sat alone in the realm, meditating and working on techniques to make them more effective. Naruto hadn't visited him in, what would be on the outside, five days and he was worried for his student so he called.

Naruto opened a small gateway and in a flash he was at his masters lodgings, a relatively large dojo in the more inland portions of his realm. Naruto approached the dojo and called out, "Kyuubi-sensei! Did you call for me?" Naruto heard shuffling around inside the realm an in a matter of minutes a scruffy looking Kyuubi-sensei exited the large estate.

The years within the realm had treated Kyuubi as any accelerated time would. Since the body Naruto had given him was immortal he didn't change that much but he always thought he was getting shorter. Naruto now stood as tall as his Sensei which was a good 6'4 in height and without his fox features Naruto reminded him of the human that bound him in the Kit. Kyuubi often wondered when that happened but shrugged it off, the Kit had to look his 'age' in the real world so he would stay in the realm until he aged enough to look it. "Hm? Oh Kit! You look...is that another tail?" he asked suddenly deathly serious.

Naruto blinked then held out his eight tails, "oh yeah, got it a few days ago! Sorry but I've been talking to old friends, you know right?" Kyuubi sighed and said, "Kit when you get a new tail you come directly to me. Then you can get as strong as possible as quickly as possible." Naruto hung his head and said, "sorry sensei I just was meeting friends I haven't seen in a long time."

Kyuubi sighed and grinned as he shook his head. "It's alright Kit but...this tail is something very dangerous." Naruto looked up at his teacher with aconfusion unbecoming of his lookswhichcaused Kyuubi tojust smirk mysteriously and walk out of his dojo saying, "follow me Kit."

Naruto followed his teacher in a brisk run as they traveled to lands Naruto hadn't even explored yet, and this was his realm! Kyuubi led Naruto through various twists and turns, his body following the mental map he had formed a few years ago realm time.

Naruto followed Kyuubi for about an hour until he suddenly stopped and held out his arm to stop the swiftly moving Naruto coming behind him. Naruto stopped just before his sensei's arm and looked past Kyuubi seeing something amazing. They were standing on the very edge of Naruto's realm and from that point on there was just stars...millions and millions of stars.

Naruto shook out of his awe and looked at Kyuubi who smirked as he looked into the stars. "Kit do you know where the eighth scroll is?" Kyuubi asked as he looked to Naruto with his blood red eyes. Naruto said, "why would I know?" Kyuubi shook his head and said, "I'll get right to the point, I have the eighth scroll."

Naruto blinked, "you have it?" Kyuubi nodded and said, "yes they thought I would be the best keeper for it." Naruto rose an eyebrow and said, "why is that?" Kyuubi grinned and closed his eyes, the familiar pull of chakra signaling his controlling of the realm which was not supposed to happen. "They said I was the only one capable of holding onto it's power," Kyuubi said as in front of the two Kitsune formed a large mouth of a cave lit with torches that burned a dark crimson.

Naruto backed up confused but Kyuubi grinned and said, "some part of my world is on the very edges of your realm Kit. In this case I chose to make it the eighth scrolls location." Naruto nodded and followed as Kyuubi walked along the poorly lit halls that looked like they were painted with blood. Along the walls crept small demons, harmless to the great Kitsune but creepy none the less.

After ten minutes of walking they came to an altar, it stood a good ten feet in the air and on it's pinnacle was a scroll so black that it looked as if it stole the light that surrounded it. "Is this the scroll of the Void?" Naruto asked in amazement as he stared at the black scroll. Kyuubi nodded and said, "this holds the darkest of the Kitsune techniques. Everything dark about the Kitsune rolled into one scroll."

Naruto smirked and with one swift movement grabbed the scroll with his tails, "sounds like fun." Kyuubi was amazed at Naruto's swiftness at accepting the dark item. Even he wasn't so eager...then again no Kitsune enjoyed the Void scroll. This wasn't the worst part though...Naruto didn't know the trial for the ninth Kitsune tail of a Golden Guardian.

For the next few weeks Naruto would train, he would get stronger by learning the Void scroll. Naruto found many of the things in the Void scroll dark...sick...depraved but he never stopped learning. He came out of his realm in a few hours time in the real world to find that Hinata had fallen asleep at the kitchen table, waiting for him.

Naruto sighed and went to the table, brushing a few strands of hair from his face he simply admired her beauty as the soft light of the waxing moon made her pale skin glow with an unearthly radiance. He sighed softly and thought for a few moments how he got so lucky, for being such an idiot for his whole life how did he get lucky enough to have her.

Naruto softly picked her up like a groom to his newly wed wife and carried her to her bed, setting her down gently and preparing to go back into the realm. He began his way back but stopped...Kyuubi-sensei could understand. Naruto smiled and crawled into his Hinata-chan's bed, curling up next to her as she did the same in her sleep. He listened to her soft rhythmic breathing and in moments he too was in the land of dreams.

The next morning the first one to awake was Naruto and he was thankful for that. He began to untangle himself but suddenly found out two things, Hinata was a light sleeper and she hated it when he left before she got a chance to enjoy it. Needless to say they spent a good portion of the morning just lying there next to each other, enjoying their warmth and love.

It came to a point that they both had to get out of bed, Hinata had a mission and Naruto was scheduled to meet with Tsunade on a few matters. They both got ready for the day and left at the same time, saying goodbye to each other then taking off to their jobs.

Naruto calmly strutted into Tsunade's 'office' and voiced his familiar greeting, "hey Obaa-chan!" Naruto effortlessly dodged a punch that Tsunade had thrown, this was getting to easy. Tsunade glared and said, "do you have the mission reports like I asked Naruto?" Naruto nodded and handed Tsunade a scroll from his shirt.

"All accounted for in the best detail I could remember," Naruto said as Tsunade took the scroll and read it. Tsunade nodded and said, "so Sasuke was a spy. That is considered treason." Naruto growled to which Tsunade merely smirked, "however that can be forgotten after the Kabuto incident."

Naruto grinned and said, "good you see it my way Obaa-chan." Tsunade glared and said, "before you earn a one way ticket to the next life here's your mission for the day..."

And this cycle continued on for a few weeks, Naruto training in the Void scroll when he had time off then when darkness fell in the real world he would fall asleep in the same bed as his Hinata-chan. Hinata's birthday came and went in a small celebration among the rookie nine and team Gai. Naruto was so excited, the bargain had been reached and he could finally marry Hinata! However he had run into Hiashi who informed him he still lacked one thing.

Naruto said nothing to Hinata but continued on through the days, talking to her about the wedding with fervor. At night before he succumb to his dreams he would stare at her sleeping features and worry, would she want to marry before he could complete that one last thing? Naruto sighed and lay his head on the pillow, forcing the thought from his head then promptly going to sleep.

Naruto entered Tsunade's office like he had any other day but today she had her head down on the table looking like she was asleep.

"Hey Obaa-chan! Wake up!" Naruto yelled only to notice something different. Tsunade's shoulders were shaking and she looked like she was...crying? Naruto blinked then walked up to her desk softly shaking her shoulder asking, "Obaa-chan? Something happen?" As Tsunade spoke her voice sounded broken like shattered glass, "Jiraiya. He got Jiraiya..."

Naruto stepped back in surprise, "you can't be serious." Tsunade pounded her fist on the table and looked up at Naruto, her ageing Genjutsu struggling to stay in place as she yelled, "Orochimaru killed him Naruto! I told that old idiot that he couldn't beat Orochimaru alone but does he listen!"

Naruto froze, the man who had taught him so much and treated him like a son was killed by the snake bastard. Naruto's eyes turned into mere slits of gold and blue and he growled out in a feral voice, "where is he." Tsunade looked up at Naruto and shook her head, "I'm not going to have you killed!"

Naruto growled the whipped his head around to smell the air. Snarling in a voice that rivaled Kyuubi he said, "I'm going to rip him to pieces." With those words Naruto vanished in a golden blur and Tsunade frantically got up from her seat calling for all her available ninja to follow that Kitsune. She wanted him back before he could do anything stupid!

Naruto sped through the remnants of Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves, and his anger was fueled by one thousand fold. The people who lived here in these mere shadows of their homes deserved none of this war, they only wanted peace in their lives. "Kit don't do something stupid!" came a call from Naruto's subconscious. Naruto's head picked up in surprise, 'what the hell are you doing here?'

"I've been coming along for the past few days, don't tell me you haven't noticed," Kyuubi said calmly as Naruto growled. 'This ISN'T the time Kyuubi-sensei!' Naruto thought as he swiftly came to the exit of the village. Kyuubi said nothing more but as Naruto sped through the brush of the Fire country Kyuubi sat and meditated in the world of the seal.

Naruto had made his way to the edges of Sound invaded territory and may the gods help anyone who got in his way. As he forced his way through the army of Orochimaru blood was shed but none of it was his. His claws, his fangs, his tails had all become tools of death and most of his body had been bathed in blood as he neared his destination. His killer intent rolled off him in waves so strong they would have caused a lesser man to commit suicide.

Naruto stood before the Sound settlement, his chest heaving as he took deep breaths. Behind him lay a defeated army, a battle field bathed in blood, and he was the head of it all. "Orochimaru!" snarled Naruto at the Sound encampment. "Get out here so I can kill you!" Naruto howled with such pain and anger in his heart that it made the dead run with fright. He may not be more powerful than the snake but he can sure as hell stand toe to toe with him.

Naruto heard a dark laugh...it surrounded him like a poisonous cloud...but he didn't care. He grinned, his own blood stained fangs glinting crimson in the light of the darkening day. "Come out, come out, where ever you are..." Naruto called darkly, his body radiating a darkening aura. Naruto's ears perked up, he heard the faintest shifting of the grass...

Naruto turned and in a flash he had caught the jaws of a massive snake that had nearly swallowed him whole. "I'm impressed Naruto, truly I am," came a hissing voice from beyond Naruto's line of vision. Naruto grinned darkly and with a wave of his eight tails he had sent a massive burning shock directly into the throat of the gargantuan serpent turning it into a puff of smoke before his eyes.

"You destroyed half of my army in one attack. Who would have known killing that fool would make you into such a worthy challenge," rung a voice from behind him. Naruto growled and the figure behind him just barely missed being trapped in Naruto's deadly golden tails. He heard a short tap of a foot and he turned activating his Sekkagan watching in slowed speed as the figure fell.

Naruto's eyes opponent to the size of dinner plates as his eyes made contact with his opponent. Garbed in a cloak of midnight black and ruby clouds, his black hair spiked backwards across his head, and his eyes gleaming a deep scarlet with three blades on a wheel. Standing across from him with his hands calmly at his sides was Uchiha Itachi...

End Chapter

Wow a cliffy! How unexpected!What is even worse is that I will be so BUSY for the next few weeks I'm not gonna have so much time for a every other day post. Sorry but I'm trying! Q and A!

Q: Itachi? But I thought...

A: Don't say a word about it, do not write this in the reviews about how I already killed him it will all be explained in the future!

Q: Gaining tails to fast?

A: Ok...between chapter 41 and 40 there is a time skip. I think it is in the area of five or so years...eh...sorry about that. I should have mentioned it earlier.

Q: Sasuke and Sakura Q's?

A: Sasuke and Sakura were hunting down Naruto for answers to Sakura's many questions about his being a Kitsune. That is about it...sorry...

Q: When is the final tail?

A: You'll see soon enough!

Q: Time Skips

A: Sorry, I kinda forgot to mark them as stated earlier! I'll fix it in time!

Well that's it, sorry but due to my schedual I have no preview...so much paperwork. Well later and thanks to you all for the reviews that keep me going!