Disclaimer:

I do NOT own any of the characters written here. They are own by their respective owners. Nuff' said.

Warning: This is rated M for a reason (blood, gore, extreme violence, language, and possible adult themes/lemons, etc.) Some of the characters will be a little OC.

Remember to send me your ideas for different symbiotes, thier hosts, and the different forms of Venom. Thanks to Bloxham and anime-death-angel for thier ideas.

Now on with the eight

The Black Leaves

Chapter 8

Hinata gave a quiet yawn as the rays of the morning sun slowly woke her from the realm of dreams. The girl looked at the small clock that she kept on the nightstand beside her bed. 'I've got a few hours before Naruto-kun wakes up and class starts. I guess I'll go take a nice bath and read my new "book."' She thought to herself with an unusual and sleepy giggle. She slowly rose from her bed and sleeply dragged her feet to her private bathroom and slowly stripped of her night clothes as she made her way. On the way she noticed the date on the calender, 'Oh my, it's Naruto-kun's birthday. I'll have to make him my special ramen for him later.'

Hinata entered her bathroom and quickly cleaned herself using the shower and filled her bathtub with warm water. After she verified that the water temperature was to her liking, the Hyuuga heiress then reached underneath her bathroom sink and pulled out a rather large and bulky magazine that she had bought a few months ago, tittled, The Shy Girl's Guide To Gaining Your Idiot Love Interest's Attention. So far it has been helpful to her. Like, for example, one of the magazine's tips said, Almost any male thinks that the shy, stuttering, and blushing personality is cute, but it can also give the wrong impression. Learn when to act shy and when to act sexy.

Hinata grabbed her magazine and got into the bathtub. She quickly got as relaxed as she could before opening her magazine and turned to the tips section of the bulky magazine. She quickly scanned over the million or so different tips as she soaked in the warm tub water. She continued to skim through the thick magazine until she reached a set of tips that caught her interest. So, she started to read and enjoy her pleasant morning.

At Naruto's apartment...

Naruto tossed and turned violently in his sleep as thousands of different images flashed inside of his mind. Each image had countless amounts of blood, gore, and death. Men, women, and children were seen dead or dying in the most horride of ways. He was soaked in sweat as, finally, he awoke with a start and shoot straight up in his bed. For a second he just sat their, trying to chatch his breath. He lowered his head and held it in his hands and lightly shook it. 'That was way too real!' He thought while he wiped the sweat of his brow.

He tried to rid his mind of the scary dream, yet failed. One of the less gruesome scenes flashed before his eyes.

A mother was carrying her seven year old daughter and was running down a long, dark hallway. The mother had tears running down her face and was trying to whisper soothing words to her frightened child. The child was staring at the dark hallway behind her mother and was crying softly as a loud, metallic scrap was heard, followed by a loud thump, which was followed by another loud thump then the loud metallic scrape from before sounded again.

Suddenly, a small spec of light appeared at the end of the hallway. The woman had a look of relief on her face as she pushed herself onward, towards the light, the scrapping and thumping continued behind her. She was nearly there when a large, great knife came out of the darkness and impaled both of the females through the mother's back and the child's stomach.

Both were motionless for a few moments until the giant blade was slowly pulled out of the female corpses and the very end of the blade fell to the ground with a heavy thunk. The great knife was slowly dragged back into the darkness and the image faded away.

The blond chakra-less kid got out of bed and began his morning routine when he saw the date on his little calender next to his bedroom door. His face broke into a giant grin as he saw that today was his birthday. That meant that he was going the chance to eat some of Hinata's Special-Ultimate-Super-Awesome-Mega-Ramen. Naruto couldn't wait to meet up with the blue haired girl and so sped up his normal morning routine.

Naruto left his home earlier than normal and was walking in a random direction, 'Hinata-chan might still be asleep.' He thought to himself. He strolled down the street and began to head to his special morning training. Ever since Naruto's chakra suddenly disappeared, Iruka was kind enough to ask his old friend, Might Gai, for some help. Knowing that Guy and his young student, Rock Lee, had to deal with a similar problem, it just seemed obvious to the academy teacher that the green monster would make a good instructer to the blond host.

Just as he was about to make a turn around a street; Naruto was nearly trampled by three frantic looking men ontop of speeding horses. Naruto was about to shout at the men for being asses when he suddenly stopped all non-vital movement. Nothing moved, not even the smallest twitch of a muscle could be seen.

Slowly, very slowly, Naruto's eyes got wider and his nose started to twitch. His head slowly turned in the direction that an unknown, wonderfully intoxicating, scent was emitting from. In an instant, Naruto was already six blocks away from where had been standing. It had only taken him a third of a second to move. The scent was driving him crazy, he had absolutely no self control or any intention of gaining any. He had completely forgotten about the men on horses, where he lived, he even forgot about his few precious people. He forgot about the Hokage, Iruka, Guy, Sakura, Lee, He even forgot about Hinata.

He dashed all across the village, his nose followed the increasingly stronger scent. He legs moved at a blinding pace as he got closer and closer to the scent. After an hour or so of running, he finally arrived at training ground six and was forced into a long skid as he tried to stop before slamming into the biggest wooden crate he had ever seen. When he finally came to a halt before the crate, Naruto starred at the sheer size of the thing. The crate had to be as big as the apartment building he lived in, or so he thought. The size of the box wasn't what caught allof his attention, just most of it. The rest of Naruto's adolescent mind was set on the large words written in capital letters and sprayed onto the crate with black paint. The letters read, HAPPY BIRTHDAY UZUMAKI NARUTO. FROM EMPRESS, REVENGE, PAYBACK, AND THE WHOLE OF THE SYMBIOTE HORDE.

Naruto completely disregarding the weird message and turned his focus back onto the intoxicating smell that was coming from the crate. Without any hesitation, Naruto grabbed one of the sides of the crate and began to try and pull it open by force. Unfortunately for our blond friend the planks of wood would not budge and relinquish whatever was inside. He continued to pull and tug on the wood until he started to get angry, then he decided to punch the massive crate. To his surprise, one whole side of the crate simply fell away to revial a heavenly sight.

Inside, and spilling out, of the crate was a mountain of nothing but pure chocolate. Naruto's knees weakened at the scene as he was hit with the blast of the intoxicating scent. For some unknown reason Naruto could not think of anything else except for the gift before him, not even Kami's gift to man, ramen, compared to the site in front of his young eyes. And so, he dropped to his knees and cried. Naruto cried at the beautiful scene of the mountain of chocolate.

After a second or two of the water works, Naruto jumped to his feet and dove head first into the giant pile of sweet sugar. He shoved handful after handful into his mouth; not even bothering to chew, Naruto simply swallowing the chunks whole. The taste was beyond anything Naruto had ever tasted; not even the rarest, most delicious ramen ever could compare to the sheer pleasure the chocolate had on his taste buds. In a surprisingly short amount of time, the great mountain turned into a hill, then into a pile and finally was completely gone; disappeared inside the young boy's gut.

After Naruto had eaten the giant pile of sweets, he leaned back against one of the crate's walls and let out a satisfied belch. Naruto sat there for a few moments and allowed his meal to digest before looking up at the sky and the sun's current position. His eyes widened as he realized what time it was. "Damn it," He cursed, "I'm gonna' be late for class!" And with that, the hyper host shot off in the dirrection of the academy.

Thanks to the extreme training that Guy had put Naruto through, he was able to make it to the academy and into Iruka's classroom before the bell rang. He quickly got into his seat, next to Hinata, and plopped down into the chair, panting heavily from the run. Seeing that her not so secret crush was late, which in itself was unusual, but that he was also hot, sweaty, and looking just too sexy for her to tear her eyes away.

Iruka entered his classroom and began the class by explaining some random stuff about chakra that Naruto payed absolutely no attention to. All Naruto heard was, "Blah, blah, chakra. Blah, blah, important. Blah, blah, NARUTO PAY ATTENTION!" And not much more. So Naruto followed the Nara way and quickly fell asleep with his head on his desk.

Naruto's Mindscape...

Naruto slowly waded through the waist deep water that flooded his mind. This was not the fiirst time Naruto had entered his scattered brain. Being a ninja required that one must have total control over both body and mind; thus every ninja-to-be must enter thier own minds and understand and interpret their own thoughts and emotions.

Naruto had no clue as to what his thoughts and emotions ment and just fooled around. Today, though, he decided to explore a bit into the dark depths of his mind.

As he trugged onward, Naruto noticed wierd black veins covering the walls of the sewer as he progressed deeper into the darkness.

Naruto continued onward until he appeared in front of a massive gate that was completely covered in the strange black veins; except for a small slip of paper with the kanji for seal written on it. He stared up at the structure with wide eyes. From how much he could see, Naruto had to guess that the gate had to be bigger than the Hokage mountain.

If the child had been paying attention he would of noticed the black beast that was standing just a few feet away from him. If he had been paying any attention at all he would have seen the monster's mouth turn into a sinister grin. If he had been paying even the smallest amount of attention, Naruto would have noticed the glob of black goo flying directly for his blond head.

The black goo splattered into Naruto's surprised face. Before he could even begin to struggle, a rush of information flooded his mind.

Naruto suddenly snapped awake, and with perfect timing. Iruka had just finished the lesson and was allowing all of his students to go home early, after lunch of course, because of the festival tonight that was meant to celebrate the defeat of the Kyuubi-no-yoko.

Naruto gave out a loud yawn and turned to Hinata, who was already reaching into her bag for something. The rest of the class was filing out of the room at a steady pass, leaving the one eleven year old girl and the now twelve year old boy alone in the classroom.

Naruto didn't have to wait long to find out what Hinata was reaching for.

Hinata pulled from her pack a giant bento box that was wrapped in a white cloth.

Naruto took the lunch box with wide eyes and a drooling mouth. It was the biggest lunch box Hinata had ever given him. Today was turning out to be a great day. First Naruto had that giant crate-full of chocolate and now he was going to have the best ramen ever. Though, he wasn't going to tell the folks at Ichiraku that of course.

"Thanks, Hinata-chan," Naruto said, grabbing the giant box. He took the extra chopsticks that Hinata had packed along with her own lunch box and began to eat. After his first bite, Naruto stopped eating.

Hinata saw her crush halt his meal before even digging in. "Is s-something wrong with the ramen, N-Naruto-kun?" She asked, worried that her special ramen was not as good as she had hoped it was last year.

Naruto was quick to wave his hands in front of him in a 'no, no, not at all' manner. "No, of course not Hinata-chan. Your ramen is as perfect as ever it's just..."

Hinata leaned in closer to the boy; her full attention was focused every single tiwitch of his body and the very sound of his voice; searching for some hint of lying. "I-it's just?" Hinata said to make him continue.

The look the girl was giving Naruto caused him to stop and think for a moment. A rare moment indeed. Naruto looked at the desprit gaze given to him and gave a silent sigh. 'There is absolutely no way that I can tell Hinata that we already ate too much.' He thought to himself, not noticing how he had started addressing himself differently.

Naruto smiled at his friend and spoke. "It's just, I can't believe we'll have to wait a whole year to have this wonderful ramen again." He ended with a smile.

Hinata turned red at the praise to her cooking and gazed downward. "W-well if you would l-like, I c-could make it whenever you would w-want."

"No, no." He was quick to say. Unfortunately this also had the duel effect of causing a cloud of despair to form over the young Hyuuga's head. Fortunately, Naruto was quick to end her sadness. "If I could have it whenever we wanted, then your ramen wouldn't be special anymore. I can wait another year for your awesome ramen." This time he ended with the biggest smile his face could muster.

Hinata lifted her head and gave Naruto a soft and gently smile. The two then ate in peace in the silent academy classroom.

After their respective meals were finished and the boxes were put back into Hinata's pack, the two eventually went their separate ways.

Hinata went home to masturbate, thinking about Naruto...Um...She went home to finger herself while thinking about her blond crush...Um...Okay...That's not it...Hyuuga Hinata went home so that she could get ready to go to the festival with her father, sister, and stepmother. That works.

Naruto decided to head straight home right after parting from Hinata so that he could avoid the mobs of people that screamed for his blood. It happened every year on his birthday. The close minded bastards of the village would band together and attempt to end Naruto's young life. And every year, those that were meant to 'protect' the boy decide to leave the crowds of angry villagers to their own bloody devices.

While he was on his way to his run-down apartment; Naruto was not looking where he was going and accidently bumbed into someone. The resulting impact caused Naruto to fall down onto his rear end.

"I'm sorry." Naruto was quick to apologize. When he looked up to the person he bumbed into all the blood drained from his face.

Naruto had just ran into the royal purple, robed women, Empress. She and her two followers, both wearing their respective robs, had been out strolling around and enjoying the hustle and bustle of the village life in Konoha. Secretly they were also trying to find a way to introduce themselves to the host of Venom. This turn of events could work in their favor.

Naruto also noticed a weird, little creature hovering around the silver robed figure.

The creature was about the size of Naruto's head and was about the same shape as a human brain. Most of the creature was composed of a translucent, green tinted membrane. Inside the membrane was a cluster of three red orbs. From the three orbs was several red veins that attached themselves to the inside of the membrane. Underneath the membrane was a patch of red flesh that had two pairs of fang-like claws. The front-most pair was smaller than the center-most pair. Every now and then the little creature would let out a small little, high pitched 'scree' sound.

Naruto quickly stumbled onto his knees and bowed down as far as he could. "We are very sorry! I was not look where we were going, please forgive my actions!" He begged. You see, over the past few years, Hinata, Iruka, Ayame, and even the old man had been teaching Naruto the basics in manners. One of the many things that Iruka drilled into his skull was, that if you ever do something accidently to an important individual. Grovel and beg for forgiveness and pray that you didn't piss of the person enough to want them to grab your balls and yank them like their trying to start a boat motor.

"Thats alright, dear." Empress spoke. "Please, stand."

Naruto quickly got to his feet and stood at attention. The three women pretended to eye him like an item on a store shelf. And one of them gave Empress a slight nod.

"You wouldn't happen to be the mischievous prankster of Konoha, Naruto, would you?" Empress giggled lightly at the end.

"Y-yes, ma'am." said with a growing amount of worry. If she told anybodythat Naruto had bumbed into her, his young life would be over. The villagers would have a field day with that.

"Well," The silver robed individual started. "We have been wandering around your little village for a while now and heard of this great festival that was going to start tonight."

She stopped and allowed Empress to finish. "And we feel that we are in desperate need of a guide around the crowded streets during the festival. So we thought 'Why not the biggest prankster of Konohagakure? He should know the layout of the area.'"

Naruto just stood there and blinked with a dumb founded look on his face. His eyes grew a little as a thought went through his head. 'If I'm at the festival with these important ladies, then we'll be safe from those crazy idiots.'

Naruto gave a long, respectful bow and couldn't help the small smirk that appeared.

"We would be honored to be your escort during Konohagakure's festival celebrating the defeat of the Kyuubi-no-kitsune."

Because he was bowed down, and because the robes didn't allow anybody to see the body or faces of the individuals, Naruto missed the pleased grins on all three of the symbiotes faces.

Okay...That was fun. Now then I think I'm gonna give Venom about twelve different forms. I still need a lot of ideas for the different forms. Also don't forget to send me your symbiote ideas.

For Baby -the metroid's name- I'm thinking of two different paths that could happen.

The first would be the natural life cycle...Starting from metroid...and ending at queen metroid.

Or...the prime life cycle...Staring from metroid, then fission metroid, then phazon metroid, then hopping metroid, then hunter metroid, then metroid hatcher, then metroid prime, and finally metroid prime core.

I MIGHT set up a poll for this...decide which one you wish to see in your review. And speaking of reviews, YOUR MASTER DEMANDS MORE! And not of that 'good work' or 'this sucks' shit either. I want At least two full sentences in each review. MASTER TYRANT DEMANDS IT SO YOU ALL MUST OBEY! DO IT!

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