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Chapter Nine: I'm Back?
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"Alright..." Kakashi said with a very mellow voice as here whipped out a bottle of ink.

"Kakashi-sensei, what's that?" Sakura questioned.

"I'm surprised that you don't know Sakura." This made her blush as Kakashi continued, "That's no surprise. This is called com-ink. It's a special kind of ink, when you weep blood on it everyone else that has it on will be alerted that you need them, just like calling a person, hence, the name 'com-ink'. So if anyone runs into Naruto don't try to take him on by yourself, confirm everyone and wait for back up."

"Yes sir." Everyone said together as they await him to give out the ink.

"Alright, now everyone split up and remember what I said." Kakashi ordered, before they all disappeared.

Naruto

Naruto was still in the alley with a pounding headache, "Ow...! My head… hey where am I and what was I doing?" Naruto had forgotten all about last night, his changing and wanting to run away.

"What am I doing in this alley?" Naruto began walking towards the road looking like nothing ever happened, "I feel alright, except for this freaking headache." Naruto thought as he walked through the rather small crowd of people.

He took a stop at the ramen shop for breakfast and now was on his way home, "Hmm... that was some good ramen!" Naruto was walking slowly, until he was about to cut through an alley way, for a shortcut and began running but he ran straight into Hinata, "Ow... Oww…, sorry about that. It was my fault." Naruto said, with his eyes closed as he rubbed his forehead.

"No, no it was my fault. I'm sorry." Hinata whispered as she did the same thing.

Naruto got up and was offered her help up, "Need a hand?"

"Thank you Na..." she suddenly stopped dead when she realized that she was talking to Naruto. She looked up and was greeted with his big smile and then she sprang up and hugged him, "Naruto-kun...!"

Naruto was a little shocked at this but still hugged her back, until she fall unconscious right in his arms and now he was now holding her up.

Naruto's House

Hinata was lying on Naruto's bed, sleeping and Naruto was sitting in the kitchen drinking a cup of milk. Hinata woke up and saw that she was lying down in someone's bed, "Where am I?" She looked around until she saw something familiar, Naruto's orange jacket," Isn't that Naruto-kun's jacket? Who's that?" She looked at the door when she heard a continuous sound.

The opened and in came Naruto wearing his orange pants and his black shirt. He came in with a cup of milk, "Hey Hinata-chan..."

Hinata blushed and the asked, "Naruto-kun, is this your house?" Naruto nodded and Hinata hugged her knees and looked depressed.

"Hinata-chan..., relax I didn't do anything to you."

"I know you didn't..." Hinata was a little tense when she started talking but calmed down, "... I'm afraid that the other you did."

"The other me...? No…, I remember being conscious all the time, I carried you here."

"Are you sure?" Naruto nodded a yes, "Okay, I believe you Naruto-kun."

"Do you want some milk?" Hinata gladly accepted. Naruto then asked, "So Hinata-chan, why were you in such a rush?"

"I was looking for you; we were all looking for you."

"We...?"

"Yeah... Kakashi-sensei, Neji, Kiba, Akamaru, Tenten, Ino and Sakura."

"Why were you guys looking for me?"

"Don't you remember?"

"Remember what?"

Hinata went on to explain how he turned into a demon, and beat up everyone. Naruto didn't know what to say as he stared at the ground, "Are you sure it was me?" Hinata nodded.

Then he sat up and took the empty cup from Hinata and went to put it in the kitchen. While he was gone Hinata pulled the sleeve of he jacket up and bit her thumb. She was about to whip it along her arm but hesitated, "Hinata, are you really going to just turn in Naruto-kun like that? I... I don't know. Well you better decide what you're going to do now." After that thought, she whipped her thumb along the ink, which was designed as the leaf village symbol. Then she pulled her sleeve down.

Kiba and Akamaru

"What... Hinata-chan found him, this is bad." Kiba said, before Akamaru jumped on his head and he hurried to where the mental message was taking him, "Naruto..., if you hurt Hinata-chan, I'll... I'll..." He didn't finish.

'Arp...,' was all that came from Akamaru.

Naruto's House

"Hey… Hinata-chan... Why do you look so tense?"

Hinata twitched a little and tried to stall for time, "Umm... it's nothing."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah…"

"Okay" Naruto then walked over to a chair that was close to the bed. Hinata got even more nervous when she saw how close Naruto sat. Then she asked him a question, "N... Naruto-kun..., do... do you still... need me?"

Naruto's eyes widened when he heard this and suddenly his head began to really hurt, "Hold on a second Hinata-chan." Naruto said before he got up and went to the bathroom. He came out about a minute later and sat back down, "Okay Hinata-chan, now what did you ask me?"

"If you still..., needed me?"

Naruto's head began to hurt again but this time, it was so bad that Naruto held his head with his hands and fell to his knees, "Na... Naruto-kun..., what's wrong?"

The question only made Naruto start screaming, then bits of his memory came back; how he fully changed and even beat up his friends; he also got back one he wished he never had. When then pain stopped, Naruto's face became sad and he looked up at Hinata, "Hinata-chan..., I... I'm really sorry. I know why you were twitching and seemed so scared; I'm really sorry."

Hinata still looked scared, and Naruto looked up to see this so he backed up to the door holding the knob, "I can understand if you want to leave."

Tears then ran down Hinata's eyes "Naruto-kun, why would you do something like that?"

Naruto's eyes became wide and then his stared at the ground with them half closed, "Hinata-chan, I didn't want to but I couldn't control myself, it was like I was just trapped in my own body and couldn't do anything but I was able to see. I tried my hardest to stop myself but I don't know if I was able to." Naruto clenched his hand tight and closed his eyes, "Hinata-chan, I don't know if my apology attains for what I did but still, I'm so sorry."

Hinata got out of the bed and walked over to him; she stood about two feet in front of him. She took his clenched fist into her two hands. She held their hands to her chest, "Naruto-kun...," she paused to look up into his blue eyes, "you don't have to apologize."

"But I..." He was cut off when Hinata used one of her hands to put her index finger on his lips.

"Naruto-kun you didn't do anything."

"Really...?" Naruto asked with his eyes enlarged.

Hinata nodded and got a little closer to him, "Naruto-kun..., you protected me... while you were trapped in your own body." Then Naruto closed the small gap and wrapped his other hand around her waist and he hugged her, both their eyes were closed and suddenly Naruto brought his head back to see her face, "Naruto-kun, I've never kissed anyone before."

Naruto was shocked as to how the comment came out of now where, "I've never kissed anyone before either Hinata-chan."

"What about that time in the academy, when you kissed Sasuke?"

"Ahh... Hinata-chan you're killing the mood." Naruto said as he looked in the other direction. She giggled a little and then apologized, "What I meant was that I've never kissed any one seriously." Naruto corrected himself.

Then they stared into each other's eyes, recreating the mood. Naruto and Hinata closed their eyes and their faces got closer; their lips then meet in a gentle, soft way and the pressure increased when they pushed a little harder. With that, Hinata had her first kiss and Naruto had his first serious kiss, and it was a passionate one to.

Suddenly Sakura, Tenten Kiba and Akamaru blasted through the window. When Naruto broke the kiss; he looked up to see Sakura punch him in the check which sent him into the wall. Kiba and Akamaru were standing on the bed, until they used their 'Gatsuuga' which sent Naruto flying towards the window. When he flew over Tenten; she kicked him straight into the roof; when he fell, she used a spin kick and sent him flying out the window.

Kakashi only watched as they took Naruto out, because he was the only one, who realized that Hinata was letting Naruto kiss her. He leapt down to where Naruto fell, "Hey Naruto, are you okay?" Kakashi asked as he tapped Naruto on the check.

"Hinata are you okay?" Sakura asked as she shook the shocked Hinata by her shoulders.

"Wha... what... huh...? Why did you guys do that?" Hinata asked with a soft voice.

"Because he was trying to rape you... again, but this time he got further!" Kiba yelled, "I can't believe that she likes him!" He shouted in his head.

"How did it look to you?" Hinata questioned softly still staring out the window, where her love and now first kiss flew through.

"Well it looked like he was using one hand to hold your hands; the other to hold you from backing away and he was kissing you against your will." Tenten explained.

Then Kakashi jumped in through the window holding Naruto "Well, it doesn't seem like he's died but he is unconscious."

When everyone left Naruto's house they meet up with, the late, Neji and Ino, "Where were you two?" Tenten asked in a very awkward way. (A/N Neji and Ino weren't doing anything, seriously.)

"We went too far and were too late apparently." Neji said.

"Yeah, so what happened here?" Ino asked.

"Well Naruto tried to rape Hinata..." Tenten said.

"Again..?" Ino said.

"A..gain." Kiba said stalling on the 'a'.

"What...? Hinata-sama, are you okay? Did he hurt you or... worse?" Neji asked. Hinata nodded a no, "Good... when he gets up, he's going to regret ever being born."

"Wow! What a persistent pervert." Ino added.

"Stop it!" Hinata didn't shout this time but was still quite loud, "Naruto-kun isn't a pervert!"

Everyone, even Akamaru, was shocked to hear her outburst, "Then why was he kissing you like that?" Kiba asked.

"He was... kissing me and... and I was kissing him." Her voice slowly descended as she said that sentence. This made everyone's eyes pop out of their sockets, "You... and Naruto...?" Ino stuttered.

"But he still tried to rape you the last time... right?" Kiba shouted.

"Yes... that's true but he wasn't himself; he... he was trapped in his own body." Hinata said with her voice back to normal.

"Trapped...? By what…?" Kiba questioned in a cocky but shocked manner.

"By the fox demon sealed in him." Kakashi informed him, "So did Naruto tell you that Hinata?"

Hinata nodded and everyone looked at the ground, saying sorry with their body language, "Okay enough feeling sorry, let's get him to the Hokage's office before he wakes up.

Hokage's Office

Naruto woke up very dizzy and confused as to where he was. He looked at the roof of the room and then out one of the windows, to see the Hokage statures. Then he realized where he was and tried to get up out of the seat he was in, but he couldn't move, "Hey, what's this?" He looked down to see that he was tied to the chair, even his feet were tied.

Naruto sighed and then look straight ahead of him to see Tsunade staring at him, "Ah... baa-chan Tsunade, why am I tied up?"

'...,' she didn't answer him.

Naruto began to flail his head left to right screaming the question over and over again, "Why am I tied up!"

"Naruto calm down!" Naruto calmed and turned his head to see, Kakashi with a serious face.

Naruto turned his head to the other side to see Hinata, Tenten, Sakura, Kiba and Akamaru, "Hey..., what are you guys doing here? What's going on? Why is everyone so serious?" But nobody supplied him with an answer.

"Naruto…!" Tsunade was really tense.

Naruto opened his eyes and faced her, "What is it?"

"Naruto, do you know what you've been doing for the last couple of days?"

Naruto got sad and stared at the ground. Hinata was practically heartbroken to see Naruto this sad.

"So Naruto..., what been going on?" Tsunade was trying to gather more information about Naruto's condition.

'...,' Naruto remained silent.

"Naruto...! Answer me!" Tsunade was now shouting.

"I..., I... don't know." Naruto was whispering now.

"Naruto..., yes you do! Tell me what you know!" She was still shouting.

"It's like I'm just trapped in my own body."

"Trapped huh..." her voice was calm, "please explain."

"It starts out with me feeling like I'm being dragged away. Then all that I can do is watch while something takes control of my body and does bad things. It's all the Kyuubi's fault that I'm doing these things."

"What do you mean?"

"He said that me wanting to protect what I love, may cause him his life, so he said that he was going to take them away. That's why...," then Naruto remembered that he was trying to run away from the village to save their lives, "Let me out go! I have to leave the village!" Naruto was now trying to break the ropes.

"Naruto, you have to let us help you."

"You can't help me. Kyuubi might make that thing take over at any time!"

"You have to let us help!" Tsunade began shouting again, trying to get Naruto's full attention.

Naruto began screaming because his head was hurting. Then the ropes began to pop apart, "Kakashi, stop him!" Kakashi then hit Naruto on the back of the neck and knocked him out, this broke Hinata's heart even more, while everyone looked on in sadness.

Naruto was unconscious for a few seconds but then his blue chakra began leaking out of his body, "Shizune, go get it." Then the attendant left the room to get what she was sent for.

Naruto's chakra continued to leak out, until it became a mix with red and black, "Hurry up Shizune." Tsunade was nervous but didn't show it. Naruto's chakra became red and black and everyone stared in awe. Shizune then came back into the room with a small box, which she handed to Tsunade. She opened the box to reveal a seal, with strange writing on it.

Naruto raised his head to show his demon eyes and sharp fangs. Naruto slowly began to break the ropes as Tsunade began praying upon the seal. When Naruto broke all of the rope he stood up and paused. The pause gave Tsunade enough time to finish praying on the seal and then she threw it at Naruto. Tenten, Kakashi, Hinata, Sakura, Kiba and Akamaru jumped back when the seal stuck to Naruto's chest.

Naruto looked down at the seal and was about to take it off, but before he knew it; he was being shocked by it. The pain brought him to his knees and then he was laying on his stomach as the blue lightening shocked him; he then fell unconscious again but the good side to it is that he turned back to normal.

"Okay..., take him to holding." Then Kakashi took Naruto away, "The rest of you are dismissed." Then the genins left the room.

"Well that was definitely interesting." Kiba said as they walked through Konoha.

"Yeah…, very interesting." Ino commented.

"Yup… How do you feel about that Hinata?" Sakura asked.

'...,' Hinata was in her own world staring at the ground, barely keeping up with the group.

"Hinata...?" Sakura asked a little louder.

"... I... don't kno... know." Hinata answered as she stopped walking.

Everyone else stopped and turned around to face her, "Hinata-chan, are you okay?"

Hinata nodded a no as she turned around and began to walk home, "What's up with her?" Ino asked.

"I know what's happening. It's like how you and I felt when Sasuke left the village. Remember Ino?" Ino nodded at Hinata, "She must feel the same way or at least similar to it." Sakura said as they continued their walk, except Kiba and Akamaru, who began to follow Hinata.

When he caught up with her, he asked if she wanted him to walk her home, but she declined, "Are you sure, Hinata-chan?"

She then nodded a yes, "I'll be fine Kiba-kun." She insists with a fake smile on, "Besides, I just want to be alone for now."

"Okay." They then parted.

Hinata's Room

"Naruto-kun...," Hinata thought as she leaned against her door in her rather dark room, because the lights were off and the curtains were closed, "Naruto-kun..., I miss you already. I hated having to watch that happen to you." She then ran over the images of Naruto being knocked out by Kakashi and being shock until he fainted by the seal, "Naruto-kun... you were my first and only love... You were my first kiss." She then place her fingers on her lips as she had thoughts of how is happened and how it felt. "Naruto-kun..., I..., I... love you."

Hinata slowly walked over to her bed as tears began to run down her face.

Holding Cell

"Ow...! Where am I now?" Naruto said as he sat up, this time only tied by his arms, "Now I remember. I was tied up to a chair, in baa-chan's office and... That's right I began changing." Naruto thought with a long face, "But where the hell am I now?" Naruto said as he struggled to get free but didn't have any luck. "What now?"

"Naruto...!" Tsunade shouted from the other side of the bars.

Naruto didn't answer but he did look up, "What triggers it?"

"Triggers what?"

"That transformation, into a demon?"

"I don't know..., the Kyuubi triggers it."

"That can't be or he would have already made you change..., don't you think?"

"That's true, but I still don't know what makes me change."

"Do you know what makes you fight back?"

'...,' Naruto stared at the ground thinking hard.

"Well...?"

"There is when I'm with someone."

"Anyone..?"

"Someone specific, not just anyone."

"Who...?"

"Well..., there is that time when I changed and the demon was about to take advantage of Hinata-chan."

"Really...? What happened exactly?"

"Well..., I was only able to see what was happening for the beginning and then when he was about do something I was able to take a little control of my body; then he asked her something that gave me a lot of control."

"What was it?"

"It was, if she loved me."

Tsunade began to think about that, "Naruto, you stay here and I'll be back." Then she left Naruto in the dark room.

"Well..., thanks for asking if I wanted a snack or something!" Naruto shouted as he slinked over to the bars.

Kakashi

Kakashi was sitting close to the gates of Konoha as though he was waiting for someone, "When is she coming?" Kakashi thought as he stared at the gates. Then a figure was walking towards the gates on the dirt path; as the figure came closer, Kakashi was able to make out what the person looked like. It was a female with long black hair; she had great features and the right curves in the right places.

When she came closer Kakashi was now able to tell what she was wearing, which was a short sleeve red shirt, that exposed her stomach; she wore a short, red skirt; she also wore loss bandages around her waist like a belt, on her feet were the standard sandals and her forehead protector was around her neck, much like how Hinata wore hers.

Kakashi ran to the front of the gates waiting for the person. Kakashi was wearing the same black pants, and black shirt but he didn't have the jacket on and the sandals. When the figure came through the gate, she walked straight up to Kakashi, "Wow!" Kakashi said with the back bent.

When Kurenai got up to him, she stood still with a pose that Kakashi never saw her strike. She stood with her legs straight; when you got up to her waist it went to the left little; her right hand was on her hip and the other dangling; the rest of her body went off to the right, "Kakashi-kun, stop drooling."

Kakashi came to his senses and stood up straight, though it wasn't seen he was embarrassed, "Umm... can I walk you home?" Kakashi asked almost intimidated by her new attire.

"No..." Kurenai said with a proud voice.

"W..., Why…?"

"Because, you didn't answer my questioned." Kurenai said with a sad voice, "But tell you what, I'll let you walk me home, if you answer my questions. Deal…?"

Kakashi looked at her for a second and then his face showed a happy expression, "Deal..."

Kurenai got excited and did a little jump, before latching onto his arm, "Okay..., now answer the question I asked you before."

"Okay... okay." They walked to Kurenai's house and Kakashi explained everything to her.

Kurenai's House

Kurenai and Kakashi were standing in front of her door, finishing up their conversation and the sun was almost behind the mountains.

"So..., that's why you read those books, Kakashi-kun?"

"Yup..."

"Kakashi-kun, here's another question for you."

"What is it?"

"Why don't you just go out and get a real girlfriend? You know, have your own love life instead of reading those books."

"Well..., I guess I don't want to waste my time until I find someone that I can really connect to and tell my secrets and have her do the same."

"Kakashi-kun, do you feel like you can connect to me?"

Kakashi turned his head to her, "Ye... yeah, I feel like I can really connect when I'm with you. I can just tell you anything."

"Kakashi-kun..." Kurenai stared into his one eye and they got closer and began to hug.

Holding Room

Naruto was sitting in a corner of the cage, away from the bars staring at the ground with his legs crossed, "I wonder what's going to happen the next time I change? Am I going to hurt someone or worse?"

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