For the last two years Mito has been having the same nightmare of a young boy with demonic red eyes and fire all around him, for two years the nightmare had painted the child as some monster but tonight it's different.
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Mito saw the same flames as always, the same red eyed child, the same terrifying lighting but this time there were two bodies in front of the child and he was crying. The young red head tried to move forward but then the boy looks up and his eyes change to sea green. "Help me."
She reached out to him but his eyes changed back to the red from before. "Begone! He's mine!"
An invisible force knocked her out of the dream and she woke up in her bed in a cold sweat. "What the hell was that? Why do I keep dreaming about that boy?"
That's when Kurama speaks up. "That would be a Kage stuck in his own mindscape kit."
The twelve year old girl jumped a little. "Wait what? A village leader? But he's the same age as me. And if that's his mindscape he's got to be insane."
The nine tails sighed. "No not kage as in a village leader but Kage as in an endangered clan that was cursed many years ago by the kings and queens of hell with a bloodline that could take control of them at the slightest show of weakness. That boy is under the control of wrath, king of the rage demons and the red bastard is showing him his worst memory."
Mito raised an eyebrow. "How do you know so much about this?"
The powerful female bijuu seemed to deflate a bit. "Because I was wraths second in command and heiress to his throne at one point but I discovered what he and his siblings did to that clan and left, gave different clans their abilities so that they could help fight off the demons and with the help of my own siblings and the human clans we were able to beat back the sins and their henchmen where the sage of six paths and his brother sealed away the army. Within a couple years some of the humans became paranoid that the sins would be able to return through the Kage clans cursed bloodline and started killing them off which started a war between this one clan and the entire shinobi world that ended with the Kage's being scattered and hunted down."
The young red head stood up. "Enough, I don't need to hear anything else about the past just if you can show me where this boy is."
The fox raised an eyebrow from within the seal. "Even if I could tell you such a thing what would you do? Would you go find the kid and kill him? I mean he could be a living gateway to hell and him living could spell the death of humanity."
She got a determined glint in her eyes. "No I won't kill him but do everything I can to help him, if I left someone to suffer what kind of future hokage would I be?"
As Mito started gathering equipment for her travels Kurama spoke to herself. "Hagoromo my old friend, your reincarnation has already turned out to be just like you, so noble, so willing to give her all to protect others and yet she doesn't have the power you wielded to backup such noble ideals. If you can hear me now please help me guide her down the path she needs to take to fulfill her dreams."
With Mito as she grabbed a storage scroll off of a shelf in the clan armory she heard a cough behind her. Turning around she sees her mother behind her. "Going somewhere Mito?"
Taking a deep breath the twelve year old built up the courage she needed to talk to her mother she spoke. "Those dreams I've been having for so long are actually visions Inside of the boys mindscape, he's in trouble and I can't just sit back while he suffers."
Kushina smiled. "I know, I've known this whole time but couldn't do anything about it but I just got your father to agree to make this an official 'training trip' between me and you. We'll leave immediately and while we're moving you'll talk with Kurama about how best to help the boy."
Right then Kurama speaks through Mito. "He's on the border of the land of fire and the land of wind. He's stuck in wrath form which is the one that blasted Mito here out of the boys mindscape, the bastard is showing him his memory of how his parents died to keep him there."
Kushina nodded as she gathered her sword and an assortment of different weapons. "How long until we're too late?"
The fox shrugged Mito's shoulders. "Two weeks, three at most, you can easily make it in a week, two if you carry Mito the entire time. By the time you get there Wrath will have been able to summon two or three of his elite soldiers to his side then he'll try and break the seals holding his siblings and his real body in hell."
Kushina nodded and strapped her sword to her back. "Alright then, you'll need to give Mito your power for a bit so she can keep up seeing as we can't waist even a second."
The fox did just that and gave control back to Mito who's features had changed slightly due to the Bijuu chakra coursing through her at the moment, her hair that she had in a high ponytail was flowing like a lazy tail, her pupils were slited like a cats, and her fingernails had sharpened into claws.
Looking her daughter over Kushina nodded. "Good, your mental training has kept the chakra from affecting you too much and you're still in control. While we travel I want you to learn as much as you can from Kurama about the weaknesses of the rage demons and how to use her power correctly, I don't want you to hold back against these things."
Mito nodded and followed her mother out of the room and as they moved to the western gate she and Kurama went down a list of all she had learned so far. "You're chunin level with shurikenjutsu, your mother's taijutsu, and genjutsu, you mastered the incomplete rasengan, and you have nearly perfect chakra control, over the course of the trip to this boys location I'll teach you the basics of fire elemental chakra manipulation then I'll teach you a few of my own techniques."
Mito nodded to herself as she began tree hopping with her mother at jounin level speeds. "Alright then, what kind of weaknesses do these rage demons have?"
Kurama thought about it. "Well the regular rage demons have no self control so they are mindless beasts full of rage that get stronger the longer they fight or if they are around people whos biggest sin is wrath like say if a mortals only goal in life is vengeance they feed off of that and get stronger. In the demon army they are the brutes that are sent in first to tear through enemy lines and get rid of as many enemies as possible before they are taken down. These creatures have strength to match three veteran jounin easily plus they have a natural alignment with the element of fire and can manipulate it as easily as humans breathe. There rage is like a double edged sword to them, while it gives them more power it also makes them short sighted and has them make suicidal decisions in battle and their skin isn't durable at all and is just as soft as a human's but with the healing factor all demons have your only chance is to hit something vital."
This got the girls attention. "You said normal rage demons but what about the elites?"
The fox hmm'd "Well the only real difference is that they have an amazing control over themselves to the point that someone would be hard pressed to make them lose themselves to the rage within so they'll be more collected throughout the fight instead of just trying to maim you which will make it harder to get to any vital points in the body."
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For the next week Kurama trained Mito while she was awake and asleep to prepare her for a fight and come to find out as Kurama's jinchuuriki she had a resistance to fire and with her training that resistance increased to a 50% resistance. What she learned was the fox's taijutsu style and how to call out the fox fire which is a pure white flame that was hotter than the flames of Amaterasu which by the way she'd given said ability to the Uchiha to fight off the demons but they decided it was better used on other humans after the demons were sealed away.
Now they stood outside of a field that had signs of very powerful fire jutsu being used. "Be careful, wrath fire was used here two years ago, the corruption will still be here so stay on guard."
Mito repeated the message to her mother and they moved around the burnt area carefully. Kurama gave the young Uzumaki her senses for a moment and she could see, hear, and smell the boys chakra signature. Following the signature she was brought to a cave. Standing just outside of it she saw a pair of glowing red eyes from within. "Kurama my daughter, I see you have finally learned that humans are our playthings and possessed one. I am so proud."
Kurama spoke through Mito. "No father I didn't possess this child, she's my partner, my jinchuuriki."
Wrath growled. "Of course she is, you and your siblings have always been too weak to actually possess humans, to soft hearted just like your mother. Leave my sight before I kill you."
That's when Mito takes over again. "I've come here to free the boy, I know you aren't fully in control yet and have been keeping him in a memory loop so he couldn't fight back. Your still sealed away in hell and you're only able to use about 2% of your power to hold him captive so I'll make a deal with you."
This intrigued wrath. "Go on, what kind of deal can you make with me?"
Steeling her nerves Mito continued. "You're Wrath, father of the tailed beasts, ruler of the rage demons, and one of the seven royal demons so the only deal I can make with you is this… if I can take on his rage and withstand it you release him and never attempt to control him again but if I cannot then… then you can take me as well."
The demon king laughed a cold cruel laugh that sent shivers down both Mito and Kushina's backs. "Deal."
With that one word being uttered Mito was filled with all of Naruto's rage at once. Everything she looked at was tinted in red and all she could think about was tearing the flesh off of anything and everything that stood in her way.
Kushina watched as the rage was transferred into her baby girl and how it affected Kurama's chakra making things so much worse on her daughter. "Mito? Can you hear me?"
The younger redheads head snapped in her direction and she saw the red slitted eyes, razor sharp canines, and how her hair flowed like the nine swishing tails of the fox. "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAA-AAAAAAAAAR!"XXXAN: hello and welcome to the second chapter of the cursed seven. What's happening? Did Mito just lose her own deal? Did she lose herself to the rage even with her mental training? Is all lost before it could really begin? Find out next time on dragon Ball… wait, wrong universe.Anyway please review and let me know what you think and as always MCL homies.
