A/N Hello, I hope you are liking the story so far and I'm updating this chapter with this author's note because some people have been questioning my sanity since what is in this chapter is seriously disturbing so I'm going to delete the messed-up scene that's coming since I've realized how disturbing it is and I hope that this will put people at ease now so let's get started.
After I had entered the storage room, I found a bunch of medkits that still looked in good condition and used one to disinfect and bandage my cuts while also finding clean towels in a sealed box, then I left the storage room to see the dog staring at the dead body before I kneeled down next to him.
"Come on, boy, you don't need to see that since it's pretty gnarly," I said as I put the towel on his back and gently started drying him as the dog looked at me.
"You know, this reminds me of the time I got soaked once when I was, I don't know, seven. I was playing with Chris and Jeremy in the snow and we were tossing snowballs at each other, then Chris had the bright idea to ambush me and dumped a pile of snow onto my head.
I was soaked and miserable when I came home and dad proceeded to laugh his ass off before getting a towel and drying me off...God, I was so fucking pissed when he laughed and couldn't stop grumbling the whole time he was drying me off," I said with a smile of nostalgia once I was done drying off the dog, then my smile went away when I recalled my father's dead body and tears welled up until I pulled the dog into a hug and broke out sobbing at the realization that my father was dead and I was all alone in the Arctic with no one knowing what had happened to me.
"I want to go home," I whimpered shakingly as I held the dog and listened to his heartbeat while letting out my trauma and grief.
Once I was done with my emotional breakdown, I let the dog go and sniffled while the animal was just sitting there watching me patiently and I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous I was being.
"Look at me, I'm fucking crying and talking to a damn dog of all things...I suppose I just want someone to listen to me, even if they aren't human," I muttered as I stood up and brushed off any dust that was on me before looking at the dog.
"Come on, boy, let's go to the comms room 'cause I don't want to spend the entire night sleeping near a dead body," I admitted as I headed to the exit and whistled for the dog to follow me.
The dog followed me as I left the medical bay and we moved through the freezing storm until we headed inside the comms room and I rubbed my hands to warm myself up, then I shot a tired grin at the dog while he was just staring at me and my stomach let out a loud growl as I blushed in embarrassment.
"Damn, I didn't even realize I was that hungry...with everything that I've been through, I must've been starving myself to oblivion," I said sheepishly as I took off my backpack and opened it to grab an MRE and ingredients to make hot chocolate as I took off my parka and gloves.
I got the small electric stove set up and turned it on, then I focused on boiling the water before adding the ingredients and stirring it into hot chocolate until I turned off the stove and opened the MRE packet as I poured in the correct amount of water and waited for it to heat up as I looked at the dog.
"You know, I have an uncle that served in Iraq and he once told me that MREs taste like shit, but beggars can't be choosers right now so I just have to suck it up and eat it since I don't have a lot of options right now," I told the dog, only he still stared at me and it was starting to creep me out a little.
"Um, okay..." I trailed off and shook it off since I didn't need some stray dog's staring freaking me out.
After a few minutes, the MRE was done and I started eating my small dinner and drinking the hot chocolate before I looked at the dog out of the corner of my eye and took out a packet of beef jerky as I put down my cup of hot chocolate, then I opened the packet and took out a few strips before holding out my hand.
"Here, I know this isn't good for you because of the salt and other spices, but I don't have anything else," I offered and the dog slowly padded over before gently taking the beef jerky out of my hand and chewed on it while I petted him.
"You're the most tamed stray dog I have ever met in my life...too bad I can't take you home and keep you because my mother would throw a fit," I joked and chuckled as I imagined how my mother would've reacted since she wasn't exactly fond of dogs.
Thinking about my mother made me feel depressed and I hoped that I would get to the research facility before I died from exposure out here but I needed to stay calm since panicking would make things even worse, not to mention that I had a new friend now so things won't be so bad since having this dog around to talk to will help me cope with my situation. Once I was done with my dinner, I packed up everything and headed to the light switch.
"Well, sleeping on the floor is not going to be pleasant, but at least it's better than nothing," I muttered as I went to turn out the light and everything became pitch black as I took out a lantern and turned it on to give me some light that won't waste the facility's power.
I laid down and used my parka as a blanket while resting my head on my backpack, seeing the dog following suit under the lantern's glow as he kept staring at me. I didn't know why, but something about that dog made me uneasy, almost like he was studying me like a specimen in a science experiment and it was starting to unsettle me since I don't know why he mostly stayed still like a statue. I knew that malamutes were quiet and friendly dogs, but this one was raising red flags in my mind and some part of me was screaming to get far away from him before something bad happened.
'Shit, that medical report about the supposed shapeshifting alien lifeform is making me paranoid,' I thought as I tried to get comfortable and decided to take out my knife so that it would put me at ease.
I adjusted to get more comfortable and then I heard the dog starting to growl, causing me to roll around to see what's bothering him and what happened next would stay in my nightmares for the rest of my life.
I heard a sudden cracking noise as the dog quivered and what made my brain shut down and struggle to reboot was the sight of his head splitting open and blood splattered on the ground, then the dog stood up on his hind paws as he, no, it let out a roar as nightmarish protrusions burst out of the dog's pelt like a bomb of mutated growth with many tendrils flailing around as the monster shuddered with a deep rumbling coming from its chest.
Sounds of bones snapping and flesh peeling filled the room as it glistened with exposed biomaterial, the sound of its body popping as it extended and grew taller before towering over me with its forelegs lengthening and scythe-like claws pushing through the paws as it swiped at the air. The horrific monster was teaming with swirling, ever-changing, ever-living growth that seemed to generate out of nowhere as the monster's hind-legs split in half and made four spindly thin ones like a crab.
Finally, just when I thought this thing was done revealing its unholy existence, its chest started bulging and opened up with sharp teeth on both ends with its intestines also flailing around like tentacles and to my horror, the sheath bulged before its male cock grew out of the sheath and what appeared to be spikes formed on the member as the four parts of the head each grew more sharp teeth and its long tongue licked at the air while the monster let out an unholy wail that echoed the room.
I heard another sound and it took me a second to realize that it was me shrieking in pure uncontrollable terror at the terrifying monstrosity that stood before me, then I quickly stood up with my bag in my hands as I instinctively threw it at the thing, sending it stumbling back with a squeal as I quickly put on my parka and bolted out of the comms room. The storm kept raging on around me but I didn't care since I was running on fight or flight instinct and I most definitely wasn't fighting that thing with a tiny knife since it would be a suicidal move.
I heard the door crash to the ground and the sound of it scrabbling after me caused even more terror and panic to rise as I weaved and jumped around the debris to slow it down, then I rushed to the medical bay and slammed the door behind me before I hurried into the storage room and shut the door before locking it. Once I had backed away from the door, I headed around a bunch of boxes and saw a crate that was open before I hopped in it and closed the lid carefully so I wouldn't make too much noise.
I let out quiet terrified sobs as I covered my mouth and took out my phone before finding the camera app and turned it on, then I activated the recorder and held the phone up to my face while the screen showed my eyes wild with fear and tears running down my cheeks as I prepared to give my last words.
"If you're finding this, it means I didn't make it so please listen to me...my name is Seth Mercer and I'm currently in an abandoned research facility that's in the middle of Antarctica but that's not important, what's important is that everything I'm about to say is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me God.
There's something out there that's so horrible, so fucked up, and so terrible that it makes your darkest nightmares look like teddy bears in comparison. What's out there is some kind of creature, something that's lethal and it's coming after me to do God knows what to me.
I found old medical reports on paper and a computer that say the previous occupants were dealing with a shapeshifting extraterrestrial lifeform that can assimilate and take your form down to the cellular matter, copying memories, personality, and mannerisms so perfectly that no one can tell the difference...talk about a terrifying thought to say the least.
I didn't believe it at first and thought that they went crazy from cabin fever, but I just encountered one that was in the shape of a dog and it's trying to either kill me or assimilate me and both of those options scare the shit out of me since I don't know which is worse-" I said to the camera until I heard the door crash to the ground and growling rang out, causing me to struggle not to scream as I let out a quiet whimper.
"Oh God, it's here...mom, if you're watching this, I'm sorry that I'm not coming home and dad...dad's dead but he died when our plane went down. If you see me approaching the front door, do not open it and do not listen to anything I say since that monster must've already assimilated me and is using my form as a meat puppet...I love you-" I whispered and the lid suddenly opened, causing me to quickly look up while my camera was recording the monster horrifying appearance.
"Oh fuck!" I screamed before the monster grabbed me and I was lifted out of the crate before being tossed into a wall with incredible strength, my body flying fast until I crashed against the wall and bounced off it before hitting the ground hard.
I coughed and gagged harshly while it felt like a couple more ribs were broken, and I weakly tried to crawl away but the monster seemed to understand my intention and stringy flesh flooded out of its back before coating the room and the doorway to prevent my escape as it lumbered closer to me and forced me down with its clawed hand. I struggled to break free while seeing the monster leaning forward and looking at every inch of me like it was studying me for the best course of action, then it grabbed my parka, sweater, and shirt before ripping them off as I saw the blackened pits of where its eyes used to be.
Having no other option and desperation setting in, I took out my knife and stabbed the creature in its arm, causing it to roar as I kept trying to break free and the thing grabbed the handle of the knife before ripping it out and tossing it with a snarl as streaks of blood flew out and hit the ground nearby. Knowing that I only just pissed it off, I closed my eyes and prepared for a gruesome death but nothing happened and I opened my eyes to see the thing staring down at me.
I saw the thing's male member start twitching as it shuddered in what appeared to be a vile pleasure, then it eyed my ass and pure horror set in when I realized what it was planning. The monster held me down with one hand and it used its claws on its other hand to rip off my pants and underwear as I screamed and begged for anyone to save me, knowing that this thing was going to rape me while I was being assimilated and that was quite possibly one of the worst things this monster could do to me when it descended on me.
The creature finished assimilating the young human and his memories flooded its mind as it was nothing more than a pile of flesh, then the flesh rippled and started taking shape as it rose up with the floor becoming covered in blood while a humanoid body was formed like clay as an amalgamation of a malamute and a human centaur with fur coloration of a malamute, many canine legs and a long lower body like a centipede, a humanoid torso, and two heads as it completed its transformation and was stroking its canine/human hybrid cock until it let out an unearthly nightmarish howl as it reached its peak and cummed all over the floor while it body morphed and altered into different horrifying shapes due to a lack of control from pure pleasure.
After the creature managed to regain itself, its body snapped and crunched as its form became more human until it had replicated the human Seth Mercer while more blood pooled all over the floor. The nude human imitation opened its eyes and looked at its blood-covered hands while clenching them a few times, feeling good to be in another form again after being asleep for many years and getting relief by doing that human ritual called sex was also beneficial as well.
The creature took a deep breath and saw that the clothes on the ground were completely ruined by blood and semen while also being torn from its claws, causing it to frown since it was a slight problem and it had to admit that it was too eager when it went to assimilate the human so it needed to find some clothes that were still wearable, but not before cleaning itself up first since it couldn't approach that research facility looking like it committed a massacre.
The Thing headed to some of the boxes and checked inside them to find cleaning supplies, then it proceeded to clean itself with bleach and a towel until it left the medical bay and arrived at the comms room before heading to the backpack and opening it to find a fresh pair of winter clothes. The thing got dressed and put on the backpack, then it left the main building and stopped at the sign before looking back with a cold expression.
Even though the human it assimilated was nothing more than a meat bag like the others, it had to commend him for putting up a fight even though he knew that there was no hope of stopping it without using one of those irritating flamethrowers to burn every part of it until there was nothing left. As the creature started its journey to the research facility, it noticed something glowing out of the corner of its eye and turned its head to see a slit of blue light hovering in the middle of the snowy wasteland that was just off the main road.
The creature tilted its head with a puzzled expression as it went to investigate since that light was nothing it had ever seen before throughout its ancient lifespan, and it had discovered so much in the universe. The creature examined the light at a safe distance just in case and didn't know how to respond to such a phenomenon, then the light grew bigger unexpectedly and turned into a blue swirly vortex that started to suck the creature in.
The Thing quickly reacted by trying to flee from the vortex but the suction was too powerful and the creature grew its claws out to stab into the ground while it held on for dear life, then its form snapped and changed again as its muscles grew larger and it formed into its dog form while tearing through the winter clothes and blood sprayed everywhere from the rapid transformation.
The creature felt irritation rise since the vortex was becoming a problem and that's when the ground it was holding onto broke and it flew into the vortex while the scraps of clothing and the backpack just landed onto the ground with no sign of what happened to its owner except for a pool of blood that was becoming frozen quickly and anyone that decided to pass the area would assume that whoever owned the bag was killed by wild animals.
The creature was tumbling through the vortex while it was flailing around instinctively, having no idea what its destination would be but it would survive and assimilate any lifeform if it found itself on a planet teeming with life. At the same time, a blue beam of light struck the creature and its interest peaked since it didn't know what was happening but it felt something in its mind starting to stir and as it grew stronger and became more familiar, it understood that it was sensing the human it assimilated but that was illogical since any lifeform it assimilates is gone forever.
Then, the human's conscious started fighting to take control and the creature fought back mentally to eliminate this pest but somehow, the human was winning and it realized that the vortex was erasing its consciousness from itself completely.
At that moment, the creature felt something it had never felt before...complete and uncontrollable fear of dying for good and its self-preservation kicked in as it struggled to survive against the vortex but as its consciousness was being erased and a new one was taking its place, the creature knew that its time was finally up and it felt true emotion for the first time that wasn't replicated before its consciousness was completely erased and the human took control again just as he arrived at the end of the vortex and fell into a village that was being attacked by something massive and under someone's mind control.
I felt like shit as I was regaining my consciousness, opening my eyes to see that I was in an alley of some kind but the sounds of screaming, massive explosions, and deafening roars caught my attention as I was completely stunned as to why I have my humanity again. I shook it off and went to stand up, only I fell and the canine yelp startled me as I looked at myself and my breath hitched when I saw the fur of a malamute and the rest of my body was completely canine.
I tried to say something but a low deep bark escaped my new muzzle and I knew that I wasn't human anymore as I easily stood up on my paws, surprised that I'm not falling over or wobbling because of my new form and I concluded that I still had that thing's instincts on easily knowing how to use a new form.
I saw flashes in my mind of being adopted by a human and raised in a large compound with Americans and Norwegians until they stopped at being horrifically killed by a monster and I knew I was seeing memories of the dog before it was assimilated by the Thing. I had no time to ponder why I had regained myself since it sounded like a warzone out in the streets, so I carefully padded to the exit and peered out before I saw something that made me tense up.
People were running for their lives while screaming in terror, but what caught my attention was the massive skyscraper-sized nine-tailed fox creature destroying the large town I was in with swipes of its claws and swings of its tails as people wearing odd clothing were shooting fire, water, earth, and other elements from their mouths while also throwing weapons that looked like something out of a ninja film.
'Goddammit, can't I catch a fucking break?! Are those people shooting the elements out of their mouths?!' I thought incredulously as I cursed my shitty luck and growled in frustration while I just about had enough of this.
The fox, that was the size of the Empire State Building, opened its mouth and roared just before an enormous gust with the force of a hurricane came out and destroyed buildings while sending people flying. I yelped in alarm as I scrambled back into the alley to prevent myself from getting blown away.
'Shit, that thing's going to destroy the entire town at this rate, but what the fuck can I do?! I'm just a kid from Miami who's trapped in a dog's body!' I thought as I thought hard on what to do and something, I don't know what, clicked in my mind and I was nearly overwhelmed by the massive amounts of knowledge hitting me at once before I suddenly knew how to change my shape and assimilate any organic lifeform.
I didn't know how that happened and I didn't care, I needed to help these people as much as I can so I took off into the street and towards the people throwing kunai and other throwing weapons until I stopped next to them and looked up at the monster warily to try and figure out how to stop something that huge. I gauged the size of the monster and wondered what the fuck I was doing since that thing could kill me by easily stepping on me, just as a few men and women spotted me.
"What the fuck is that dog doing here without an Inuzuka?! Someone get it out of here before it gets killed!" one man shouted in disbelief and a woman with feral traits and red war paint in the shape of fangs approached me before kneeling down and patting her knee.
"Come on, boy, come with me so that I can get you to safety until I find your partner," the woman said as a german shepherd ran up to her.
"Kimi, we're starting to get overwhelmed so we need to come up with a strategy before we get slaughtered!" the dog alerted and I decided not to question it since I have seen enough fucked up shit to last me a lifetime.
"Understood, now gather the other Inuzuka members and tell them to remain on stand by for Lord Third's orders!" the woman ordered and the dog nodded before he noticed me.
"You, come with me and stay close!" the dog instructed over the sounds of explosions and roaring, but I froze up and hesitated since this was my first time in combat and it was nothing like in the movies and video games.
"Well?! Get your damn tail in gear unless you want to stay here and get killed!" the dog urged and that prompted me to snap out of it before I nodded and felt completely nervous.
The dog took off and I followed him but I looked back and saw that the fox had laid its red eyes on me before it snarled and swung a giant tail at me, then the dog saw it and his eyes widened in alarm before jumping up onto a rooftop and I gaped up at him from seeing the impossible leap.
"Kid, get the fuck out of there!" the dog shouted and I quickly went down a different direction before the tail could crush me.
My adrenaline was keeping me going as I found myself in another part of town and panted at the stress of my current situation, shooting a glare at the monster fox while something in me just snapped.
'Alright, enough is fucking enough! I lost my father in a plane crash, I was raped and assimilated by an unholy creature that defied the laws of nature, and now a giant fox is trying to kill me?! I've had it with this bullshit and now I'm going to take it out on that thing!' I thought in rage and fury as I growled and decided to kill that thing myself, if only to make me feel better after all the traumatic shit I've been through.
Suddenly, I felt very good to the point of pleasure as my eyes glazed over and my canine body cracked with the sound of cicadas ringing out while my back bulged, then bone and flesh burst out of my back as they formed into demonic-looking wings and I stood up on my hind paws while my torso extended and I grew taller as my hind paws elongated and thinned into talons with my forearms becoming humanoid along with claws growing long and sharp like scythes. My head split open and more teeth grew in while my chest burst open with sharp teeth on both edges and tentacles flailing around, just as I let out an eerie wailing howl that didn't sound like anything from this world while blood splattered onto the ground.
(A/N Picture the howl as the sound the kennel dog-thing makes in the 1982 movie when the researchers encounter it for the first time)
Even without my eyes, I can still see in a sense by using some kind of sensory organ that detects body temperature which told me how the original creature was able to find me but I couldn't study this discovery since I had a giant fox to kill and quite possibly assimilate so I took off into the night sky with my powerful wings and flew at the fox at the speed of a jet while it was charging up some kind of purple energy ball and fired it at a mountain that had four stone faces on it.
Japanese kanji appeared in front of the mountain and the giant ball collided into it after vaporizing an unknown amount of buildings and people, then the ball sank into the writing until it disappeared and a massive explosion happened a few miles away in a few seconds. I didn't pay any thought to it as I got closer to the fox and heard people clamoring in horror, causing me to look and see many of the men and women with ninja weapons pointing up at me in shock and fear while a middle-aged man with a bo staff was staring at me in disbelief.
I didn't blame them for being horrified since I was probably quite the sight to them, but I ignored them and focused on the fox as it paused for several seconds and proceeded to continue its rampage until I slashed at its side and it roared from the pain of getting its flesh sliced up by me.
The fox turned its attention to me and its eyes widened in what appeared to shock at the sight of me, just as people wearing animal masks jumped up and threw kunai decorated with paper tags at us and I shrieked in pain when one of them exploded on contact while also being sent back from the force of the explosion as the fox roared and slapped the men and women away. I kept my distance from the other explosions and something extended from a nearby building before it hit the fox in the stomach and pushed it out of the village.
Seeing the fox growling in rage and charging up another purple ball, I flew over and started slashing it while my tentacles pierced its flesh before something large dropped down onto the fox and took me down with it.
"Hold the Ninetails just a little longer!" a male voice shouted from above and I could see that the large thing was a massive toad with a scar across one eye and a sword.
"I'm trying my damndest but this fucking bastard is making things difficult!" the toad grunted while the fox was struggling to break free.
I suddenly felt a jarring sensation of moving rapidly before I found myself crashing to the ground in a field somewhere and I carefully stood up before looking up at the fox, who was eyeing me with a calculating expression like it didn't know what to make of me.
"What...are you?" the fox muttered in a male guttural voice as it studied me.
'That's a good question...I don't even know who I am anymore or if I'm still me and not the imitation,' I thought just as glowing chains burst out of the ground and restrained the fox, causing it to thrash around and snarl while I turned around to see a man with blond spiky hair and a woman with long red hair staring at me with fear in their eyes while keeping an infant close protectively, also seeing what appeared to be an altar with a small bed.
Knowing that my current form was too horrifying for them, my body made cracking and snapping sounds as my chest closed, my talons formed back into paws, claws shortened, fore-arms reverted into completely canine with a loud deep snap, then my head closed back together as my eyes reformed and my size shrunk until I was back in my dog form while blood and pus pooled all over the ground beneath me.
I could see the man covering his mouth and retching while the woman wasn't looking any better and turning her head away out of sheer disgust from the horrifying sight, then I decided to try and speak to them as my vocal cords altered themselves to more human ones.
"You're not in any danger because I won't hurt you two or the baby," I reassured as I stepped away from the pool of blood and lowered my head while keeping my distance to show them I wasn't a threat.
"What...What in Kami's name are you?" the man gasped as he held up a strange-looking kunai with a shaky hand and I chuckled bitterly.
"Honestly, I'm not even sure anymore," I admitted darkly with a grim smile that showed my lack of hope for a normal life.
"Minato, what should we do? I don't have enough chakra to restrain both the fox and that creature at the same time," the woman informed Minato, who looked pensive as he appeared to be thinking on what to do with me.
"I-I don't know, Kushina...that thing is unlike anything I have ever seen before," Minato said nervously and I cleared my throat to get their attention.
"I have a name, and it's Seth so please don't call me a thing because it makes me feel like I'm less than a person and my self-esteem is low enough already," I suggested and the two adults grimaced as I noticed that Kushina didn't look so good as the baby was put onto the bed and Minato looked regretful for some reason I couldn't understand.
At that moment, Kushina started coughing harshly just before the chains restraining the fox loosened and the giant humanoid animal took the chance to raise a pawed hand and attempted to kill the baby as my eyes widened in horror.
"Look out!" I alerted as I started rushing to the altar so that I could save the baby, only to witness Minato and Kushina throw themselves into the way before they were impaled by the claw.
"Damn you, Fourth Hokage!" the fox roared in outrage as Minato and Kushina coughed up blood and were wheezing from the physical trauma.
"Oh my God..." I trailed off in horror while Minato looked at me with a wince as he made odd hand signs and before my eyes, a transparent humanoid creature with horns appeared.
"Your name is Seth?" Minato asked and I nodded, which looks strange for a dog but I wasn't any ordinary dog.
"Yeah, what is it?" I inquired.
"We don't know what you are but you haven't attacked us and tried to save our son...so we'll give you the benefit of the doubt and we don't have any choice. Pretty soon, our son Naruto is going to live a horrible life and he needs someone to be there for him since we're not going to make it.
Please, promise us to look after our son and try to give him a good life so that at least he'll have someone that'll love him," Minato begged and my eyes welled up since I understood he wouldn't just do this unless he knew that he and Kushina were going to die and leave their son an orphan.
"I'll look after him as if he was one of my own, I swear," I vowed while I looked at the baby with a solemn expression and the two adults smiled gratefully.
"Thank you," Kushina told me and proceeded to say her goodbyes just as the creature with horns took out the knife from between its teeth and reached for the fox, sinking its hand into the vulpine's body and pulling out a blue aura.
The aura appeared to be looking at me as it was in a vulpine shape, then it suddenly flew to me and entered my body before I gasped and groaned at how intense and heavy it was to have so much power enter me while my body bubbled and rippled from the heat that spread through me just as I glanced at Minato, and understood that he gave me that power for some reason I didn't know why.
"Why? Why did you do that?" I groaned and Minato looked at me.
"Because...Because something in me somehow can tell that you're trustworthy and you'll need the Ninetails' power for what's to come in the future. Listen to me, Seth, a man wearing an orange spiral mask was responsible for all of this and he told me that he planned to rule over this world, but I figured out that he is someone who's supposed to be long dead by the name of Madara Uchiha.
He'll be after our son...I don't know when, but he'll be after Naruto for the Ninetails' power so please keep him safe for us while we're gone," Minato explained and coughed harshly just before he made a few more hand signs and a human-sized toad appeared in a puff of smoke.
I just watched the exchange between the toad and Minato as I struggled to come to terms that I had a huge responsibility placed on my shoulders, just as I heard someone mumbling nearby and looked to see it was the middle-aged man with the staff standing a short distance away while two other men were right next to him.
After a couple of minutes, Minato and Kushina finished saying goodbye to Naruto and Minato made a single hand sign before the fox was sucked into Naruto while roaring and everything went silent after that as Minato and Kushina fell to the ground and I headed over to Naruto before curling up against him while he was letting out loud cries.
'I swear to God that this poor child has someone to take care of him,' I thought solemnly just as the man with the staff and his men quickly approached.
"Oh Kami..." the man trailed off in horror as one of the two men with him saw me and started walking over.
"Come on, boy, let me see that child," the man said gently as he reached out, then I let out a low growl as he got too close and tried to bite him but he jerked his hand back and stepped away.
"Lord Third, I can't take the boy because of the dog," the man informed the older one, who walked over and kneeled down near me as I started growling again.
"It's okay, boy, I'm not going to hurt him," the man reassured but I stared at him warily with my fur bristling, unable to trust him or the other two after everything I've experienced and I wasn't sure I trusted myself anymore.
Suddenly, we heard weak gasping and saw Kushina barely wheezing before the middle-aged man and the other two quickly rushed over to check on her.
"Kushina, can you hear me?!" the man spoke frantically and Kushina weakly looked at him.
"Hiruzen, is that you?" Kushina gasped and coughed weakly.
"I'm here, just stay with me so that we can get you to the hospital!" Hiruzen assured but Kushina shook her head weakly.
"It's too late for that...I only have seconds so I just wanted you to do me and my husband a favor," Kushina wheezed.
"Anything," Hiruzen whimpered while his eyes welled up and tears started running down his cheeks.
"Please keep our son's status as a Jinchuriki a secret...you know the kind of life a Jinchuriki will experience so please make sure that no one finds out about Naruto's status and that dog that's with him, he's special and made a promise to look after our son for us so give him anything he requests...can you do that for us?" Kushina asked while her weak breathing started to fade.
"I will..." Hiruzen trailed off quietly as I could see him struggling to keep his composure.
Kushina smiled and before I knew it, her breathing stopped and I lowered my canine head out of respect for their sacrifice and hard choice to make their son a vessel for a monster.
'I'm never going to be the same again, not after everything I've been through,' I thought as Naruto started being fussy and I nuzzled his head to calm him down as I wondered what was next in this new life I had been thrown into.
A/N Sorry for keeping you all in suspense but chapter two is finished and as I said before in the last chapter, the concept of Naruto being adopted by the main character is going to be in this story so that means that Minato and Kushina unfortunately died but their last request this time is to keep Naruto's status a secret so that's one of the major changes in the story, only a certain Warhawk will find out and you know what will happen next.
Anyway, I had deleted the rape scene since it was too disturbing but it just emphasizes how horrifying the alien shapeshifter is and I believe it could've done something that heinous if it wanted to, which shows that it doesn't have any morals or care how its victim suffers while it assimilates its target.
So, let me know what you think and stay tuned.