Life as A Fox

Chapter 77

NSW-The Forsaken Author of the Lost Story (see my bio for explanation)

Also I have a new story out called 'A Forgiven Father' It is something I have written on the side for a while, and it's chock full of OC's but..you might enjoy it, it's kind of hard to explain...so just check it on your spare time.

The two lines of creatures collided with a crash. They were destined to fight each other, one of them was created specifically to fight the other. So the fighting was violent and gripping. Blood curdling screams came out from all who did not protect themselves from the others. Naruto slayed three of them in quick succession. These creatures were huge and magnifying.

Naruto grunted as one over took him. Naruto shuddered their blood tasted strange on his tongue, unnatural and gross. He tried to spit it out, but the taste yet lingered. He shook himself and attacked ignoring the taste he dug his fangs deep into the flesh and fur of the one on top of him. Dragging it into the earth and tearing into it, making sure that it was dead.

When the creature stilled he turned and helped a fellow elk demon who was being swamped by three of them, the elk was going strong but was being wore down by the weight. Naruto helped relieve it. He dragged the one nearest to the elks neck off and quickly got its jugular between his fangs. He bit with a satisfying crunch.

He turned to barf, more Lumenion blood, bitter and thick had made its way down his throat making his very insides coil at its presence. He shook himself what the hell was going on? He noticed that he was not the only one being affected by the blood. All the other demons who fought with fangs were wither retching or salivating and spitting up the strange blood.

Naruto shook himself, luckily the horned and hoofed demons stood in and fought with extra vigor as their fanged friends gathered themselves. But horns and hooves did little against the exotic beautiful blades the enemy ninja had. With a strangled cry Naruto watched as an elk reared up, his death cry screaming into the heavens as his skin slowly changed, transforming grotesquely into blackened dying flesh.

Naruto cursed he gathered himself and ran, forming a chakra shield he stopped another demon from the same fate. He killed the ninja who had almost stabbed a young lionness. She thanked him and rose up and attacked three Lumenion taking them on like it was nothing. "Claws not fangs when against them" he warned her.

She did not need the warning, she knew. All of them had learned already that the Lumenions' blood was a poison that sickened and weakened them. The enemy nin had weapons that harmed them even worse. Although he did note that being nicked by the blades did not kill you, nor effect the skin to turn black. But use of chakra in that limb was severely limited.

Naruto growled. He glanced up overhead as all the flying creatures joined in battle. The air units at the moment had a noticeable victory over the flying lumenion. Their agileness and numbers overtook them and seized the day for them. Naruto and his team re-grouped, they lost only two of their numbers. Naruto was saddened for them and for Fenrir, who had soul bonds with his pack-mates.

Naruto gave him strength and moved out. They gave support and helped any they could. Moving down the line that held and pushed back against the invading foe. Naruto looked over into enemy lines, here and there many a powerful ninja was broken up in their own private battles. Permitting none to enter or intervene. He saw Neji, his heart sighed in relief he was sweaty and dirty, his clothes ripped, but he was alive and well holding off five enemies.

Naruto turned back and saved another young lion from the accursed weapons. They were special and easily identifiable, longer and thinner then Kuani, they looked like a short blade or longer dagger. They gleamed in the light. Naruto and all other demons soon knew to hold this weapon with regard and trepidation.

They waged war for hours, one army would gave away ground, the other would advance, back and forth they went, each one exhausting and using every one they could. But in the close end, Konoha had more numbers and more reserve troops. So quietly as the sun was beginning to set. There was a call from the enemy nin, a retreat.

Konoha let them, they had no energy to give chase. Each side was run ragged and tired. Konoha even permitted them to collect their dead. A massive group of servants, marked and dressed in white did so, they carried no weapons. Side by side they waded through the muck and grime of battlefield and found those of their army that had perished they did this next to konoha nin and helpers who also were weaponless.

Naruto helped all who were injured back to safety. He turned his head and looked over the battlefield, the last dying rays of the sun lingered and held light enough to see. Bodies littered the earth everywhere, he could not discern accurately, but all-in-all about 200 hundred had perished the first day, casualties taken on both sides.

He glanced to the forest, to the hills and trees that made up his homeland, he closed his eyes taking in the breeze, he even after everything he had smelled today, all the blood and smoke that lingered in the air, everything that there was, he still smelled the entrancing scents of the forest. He sighed and sent a prayer up, hoping all souls lost, even the wretched souls of the Lumenion were guided safely to some place of peace, no one on this planet deserved an afterlife with no peace.

Naruto turned away from the bloodshed, he had enough of it. He turned away from the noise of mothers wailing over lost son's and daughters, of men groaning and crying in pain. Demons screeching and roaring in agony of losing mates, children, family, all felt a loss today, none very close to Naruto, demons he had met in passing, demons he just met, he lamented none the less for them though, but he continued on.

Those who had been in battle staggered like zombies, lost in their thoughts and memories, unsure of what to do, or what to think or say. Fighting in a one on one battle was easy to handle, but war...the constant fighting of one person and the next, chopping down all you saw in your way like blades of grass...that was not fighting, not even battle, it felt more like slaughter, it made a person question their sanity and if they were in the right, if they were worthy of love and forgiveness after what they did.

Naruto rested, the wounds he did not feel on battle stinging and raging as a few human medics came round to the demons. Naruto cursed Gomeg and his half of the army should be here by now! He groaned as they stitched a cut up. He heard a familiar whimper, he turned to see Yume. She came up to him, she need not say anything, she could tell how he felt, she could tell how much he needed her to be near at the moment.

She curled up beside him, her warmth and presence gliding over him, making him feel safe. Bursts of memories would hit him, things he had done, and saw. He viewed many a things for the first time. On the field a person would see things, but it would not process in their mind until after the rush, after the danger was gone, the time when the battle hurt the most was always after, after when all realized what they had done,saw, and when all finally felt the wounds they had received.

Naruto remembered, he remembered horns impaling humans, running all the way through them, then they were, thrown tossed aside. They hit the earth in bloody mutilated sacs. He remembered seeing a pack of coyotes over taking another human, biting and ripping the flesh off, while the man screamed in agony, he was still alive.

Horrible things flashed before his eyes, gripping him and dragging him down into cold murky depths. But Yume saved him, she pulled him up from that dark place, her eyes, held no judgement, her voice whispered into his ears words of praises and love. He collapsed into her, all his strength gone, he could only rest against her and take what strength and courage that lay inside her.

He shivered against her as he fell into a fitful sleep, weeping,sobbing, crying, mourning, ululating whatever other word one could think of expressing his emotion. All these he did until his body shut-down from exhaustion But the thing that scared Naruto the most, the thing that woke him with a start in the middle of the night was this...that this was only the first day.

I am sorry if I was not descriptive enough in the battle scenes I will do more P.O.V later on.

NSW