"Naruto? Is that really you?" Sakura asked, rubbing her eyes to make sure she wasn't hallucinating from her restless night's sleep.
The early morning sun cast dark shadows across his face, half his malicious grin revealed by the rays of light. His bright, sky-blue eyes shined with a sadistic mirth, watching Sakura's uncomfortable shifting under his gaze. Sakura noticed his hair had grown long, but he had chosen to keep it short on the back and sides, his long hair dropped from the top of his head, adding short, blond curtains, partially covering his eyes. The headband that held back his long, strands of jagged, golden locks, had the signature mark of the Akatsuki. The leaf symbol in the middle of it, had been sliced through with a kunai, scarring the headband forever, signalling his separation from the Hidden Leaf Village.
"Hey there Sakura!" he stood up, showing the kunoichi how he had grown even taller, his shoulders grown broader and more masculine. Sakura couldn't help but feel her cheeks grow redder, hearing his smoother, deeper voice, like honey to her ears.
She looked further down, noticing the pattern she had been chasing, the distinct red cloud surrounded by white lining design of the Akatsuki cloak Naruto wore. The long, billowing sleeves covered most of his muscular arms, only revealing his hands. One of those hands, was wrapped in medical bandages, all the way around his palm, and they ended halfway up each finger, the ends of them the only areas of skin on his right hand that were visible to Sakura.
Even from her short distance and in the minimal light of the tangerine sunrise, the medical ninja could see the scars on his fingertips which ran deeper towards the centre of his hand and, she assumed, further up his arm. Sakura's lips started to curl upwards into a smile, Naruto never really changed. He still works way too hard, pushing his body past its limits she thought. Sakura quickly put on a mask of seriousness upon realising her situation.
"Naruto! Come back to Hidden Leaf Village!" She pleaded "Come back with us… with me, Naruto!"
With her eyes blurred from the small pools of tears that started to well up, she thought she saw Naruto's face change. His mischievous grin seemingly turned into a vicious snarl, more rabid than Kiba's. The half of his face that was still shrouded in the shadows seemed to contort, scrunching up making his nose start to look a little bit like a snout. His right eye turned a violent shade of crimson and when he opened his mouth, a bone chilling noise came out.
"Shut up!" A voice that wasn't Naruto's growled "I have half a mind to kill you right now you annoying bitch!".
Sakura stumbled backwards at the demonic voice, almost losing her footing.
"W-What is that?" Sakura tried to scramble away from the monster speaking from Naruto's body.
"You're lucky this boy would prefer you stay alive" the dark voice continued "otherwise I'd kill you on the spot, pathetic girl!"
As Sakura stood there twitching in fear, her knees almost about to give out.
"Now now…Kurama, calm down" Naruto's voice returned along with his signature grin as he stepped out of the shadows of the forest canopy and into the morning sun. Sakura's old comrade radiated a fearsome presence, the type of feeling that terrified enemies but gave the sensation of territorial protection to those he cared about.
Naruto stepped towards the kunoichi and watched as with each step she kept on shifting backwards on the soil, until she felt the bottom of her neck feel the bark of the trunk behind her. She braced herself, scrunching her eyes shut and turning her head away, preparing for an attack. She waited for a few seconds, and opened her eyes, realising Naruto had simply offered his bandaged hand to help her up.
Taking it cautiously, Sakura felt her entire body pulled upwards with what seemed like minimal effort from Naruto, she could tell how strong he had gotten through the tightness of his grip. When she got to her feet, she put too much of her weight on her back foot which rested on a damp leaf. Sakura slipped. She prepared to fell the back of head bash against the tree bark but instead she felt a strong arm wrap around her waist and another shoot past her head to prop them up against the trunk.
Now Sakura found herself hugged tightly to Naruto's broad chest. She took a deep breath to steady herself, taking in his musky, manly scent, she shuddered, feeling her thighs moisten a little. Her emerald eyes were met with sapphires. Under his cocky gleam, Sakura's eyes shifted downwards, towards his juicy, full lips that made her wish they were pressed against hers.
Sakura shook her head roughly, trying to get rid of these traitorous desires but her lips wouldn't listen to her as they pursed and moved closer and closer to his. They were millimetres apart when Naruto popped a smug smirk and leaned back, away from Sakura as he focused on the hostile presence headed towards him.
This presence seemed to double, however the second didn't match the first, it didn't even match the presence of any shinobi. It continued getting closer, making its way towards the two shinobi, then Kiba burst into the clearing, struggling for breath.
He only held his breath long enough to survey the current situation, locking his glare on Naruto having Sakura up against the tree at his mercy.
His primal instincts took over as he lunged towards Naruto, swiping at him as Naruto backed away from his attacker. He landed a few metres away, almost at the same point he had stopped to confront Sakura earlier.
"Hey Kiba! How ya been?" he asked with a smile on his face.
"Fuck you Naruto! What have you done with Hinata?" Kiba snarled back "If you touched one hair on her head, I swear I'll rip you to pieces!"
The bushes shook, the leaves rippled as a large, hulking creature burst out, bounding towards Kiba. It took up a position in front of him, protecting its owner and Sakura, growling towards the primal threat facing it.
Above him, Naruto saw the silhouette of Sai coming closer and closer from the sky after he'd jumped from his Super Beast Scroll drawn bird.
The two shinobi and ninja hound began to enclose around Naruto in a semi-circle, hesitantly stepping to position which might offer them an advantage. That would be the case if they were fighting a normal opponent, however they were unfortunate enough to be up against the most powerful shinobi of all time.
The Nine-Tailed Beasts' jinchuriki stared his old comrades down, watching every muscle on their body, searching for any tells for their next move.
Sakura watched the terrifying dance happening before her, two wolves against a fox, an artist against a demon. She looked on helplessly as Naruto took a deep breath, focusing his attention on Kiba, ready to pounce.
"Naruto!" she begged "Please wait! Don't hurt them!"
Naruto's attention turned towards her and with his concentration on the kunoichi, the Inuzuka clan's best ninja hound user lunged towards the rogue ninja. His strike was stopped however, by a girl wearing a long, dark cloak that matched Naruto's.
Kiba let out a gasp in shock when his almond eyes were mirrored by the clear, pearlescent byakugan of his former teammate. It had been so long since he had seen them, but now those infamous kekkai genkai of the Hyuga clan, were trained on him, the veins on around her brows and cheeks almost bursting out her flawless skin. Kiba noticed that she had let her hair grown out longer, almost down to her hips, but it looked as if she had been styling it in a side ponytail, resting over her left shoulder. Under her collar, Kiba saw her headband hanging around her neck, resting just above her heavenly breasts. He couldn't help but drool a little as he spied the top of the deep chasm between the globes of flesh that he had watched grow nonstop over the years.
His audible gulp is what redirected his thoughts back to her headband, which now was marked by a kunai. Through the Leaf symbol, representing her turning away from the Hidden Leaf Village, her becoming a rogue shinobi, an enemy of the Leaf. Kiba was struggling to believe that she could do such a thing, he felt himself starting to perspire as a bead of sweat rolled down his temple and streaked down his cheek. His breathing began to become heavy and deep, his head, on the other hand, getting lighter.
Confused as to what was going on, he tried his best, in his debilitating condition, to focus on the steel vice of Hinata's grip, clamped around his outstretched wrist. He couldn't see anything strange in particular, but what he felt was a thousand times worse as he sensed her overloading the chakra points in his arm and absorbing the chakra herself. With her draining his chakra, Kiba broke her grip as fast as he could before struggling to back away and create space between himself and the kunoichi, who had stepped in front of Naruto to guard her love. Akamaru bounded over to Kiba to help prop him up with his back.
"Hi-Hinata! W-wha-What are you doing here?" He asked surprised.
"Kiba! How dare you!" She responded with a menacing tone of voice, a voice that used to speak to him softly in a caring manner. Kiba felt a piercing sensation through his heart with every word she uttered, threatening to shatter it into dust, to crush it heartlessly as if he meant nothing to her.
In response to her painful words, Kiba scowled back with passion.
"Hinata come back to the Hidden Leaf Village with us! With me! Your punishment probably won't be as severe as Naruto's or Sasuke's since you're the heiress to the Hyuga" he tried to reason with his former comrade and the girl he'd grown with these past five or six years.
"And why would I ever do that Kiba?" she asked coldly "Why would I abandon the man I love for you or for anyone?"
His scowl deepened.
"What's wrong with you Hinata!" he barked "Are you really gonna sacrifice everything in your life for him!" he jabbed a thumb towards Naruto.
"Yes, Kiba I will!" she proudly exlclaimed "Because that's what love is!"
"Hinata" he spoke her name frowning, confused and worried "What has he done to you?
"Ooh! I've done lots of things to her!" Naruto laughed cruelly. He stepped forwards and wrapped his arm over Hinata's right shoulder, grabbing a handful of Hinata's clothed bosom. He used his other hand to grasp her chin and turn her head towards his. "Thanks Hinata, I love you too" he grinned at her devilishly, licking his lips before he claimed hers for his own.
Their passionate kiss soon became sloppy once Naruto pried open her lips with the tip of his tongue before he pressed his advances and soon he had wrapped his tongue around hers, he felt the mixture of their spit dribbling from where they had connected and become one. All this time, Naruto was shamelessly groping her bust, feeling her erect nipples desperately trying to break free from her mesh shirt and from the bra she wore underneath.
As they kept going in full view of their former comrades, Naruto opened one eye to take in their reactions, Sai's being curious but pretty uninteresting to Naruto, Sakura's legs were starting to quiver and she tried to conceal the action of her slowly moving her hands down her sides of her hips, trying ever so hard to stop herself from going for her panties under her dress, and what lay beneath them. The best reaction, Naruto thought, however was Kiba's as he had been watching intently.
His eyes were focused on Hinata, watching all her excited reactions to her being pleasured by a small bit of Naruto's foreplay skills. Kiba soon realised that there was a strange scent coming from Hinata. He used his sharp nose to try to determine what this faint smell was. His eyes widened at the sad truth that it was Naruto's musk that covered Hinata, it was dominating her old smell, burying his old perception of his old teammate.
His eyes shifted from side to side nervously as he watched the giant mounds of soft, angelic flesh in Naruto's hands, bounce up and down with a spring in their movement that he knew only the perkiest pairs of boobs could have.
When their make-out session finally ended, Naruto withdrew his tongue his tongue from Hinata's mouth, the pair of them slightly out of breath, gasping for air. He turned towards Kiba's face, which was starting to resemble a tomato as he failed to disguise, unlike Sakura, all the blood that rushed into his cheeks.
Naruto watched as Kiba squirmed under his gaze, still playing with Hinata's delightful body, letting him watch as he grasped her chin again and pressed his thumb to her lips to which she started sucking on it.
"Aww look at the sad, little puppy!" Naruto teased in cruel tone, mocking Kiba's expression of disbelief and envy.
"Come on Kiba! Don't tell me you're jealous!" he laughed at the ninja hound user.
"I-I-I'm uh" he stuttered; his tongue tied at the display.
"You-You what? You thought that you could make Hinata feel this pleasure? Don't tell me you actually thought that you had a chance with her Kiba!" Naruto's cruel laughing continued.
Naruto watched as Kiba's face became a confused mixture of anger, frustration and jealousy.
"Haha Kiba are you serious? You should know this, but girls want the strongest man, the top dog, the alpha! Not some scaredy cat like you!" he watched the realisation sink in on Kiba's face, his eyes becoming glossy with the tears that threatened to escape.
"I mean look at the difference between us Kiba! I heard that in the Fourth Great Ninja War you were able to make one shadow clone, only a single one. But when you compare that to me its meaningless, pathetic even since I can make over one thousand shadow clones!" he gloated with his smug smirk growing on his face.
"To put it bluntly Kiba" he carried on his sadistic tone, watching him suffer with every syllable "You never had a chance with Hinata here!" He emphasised his words by squeezing her bosom in his rough grip, making her moan out, enthralled by pleasure.
Sakura watched this scene, seeing Hinata moan and quiver under Naruto's touch. She could feel Naruto's superior presence, dominating, conquering the situation around him. Sakura squirmed, mirroring Hinata's expressions of excitement, her thighs mashing together in a futile attempt to stave off her lust at seeing Naruto's display of territorialism.
Almost out of nowhere a piercing voice called out from somewhere behind Sakura, a familiar, judgemental tone.
"What do you think you're doing? You loser!" Cloaked figure stepped forward as Sakura turned her head in disbelief to see Sasuke Uchiha and his cold, apathetic demeanour.
"Oh hey there Sasuke!" Naruto turned and waved his rival to come join them.
The rogue shinobi looked over his left shoulder, eyeing over the fidgeting kunoichi next to him, seeing her start to twirl her short, cherry pink bangs in between her fingers. Sasuke gave her a once over and saw that she was probably twirling her hair to keep her hands distracted and as far away as possible from her aroused warmth. He could see the shame almost scream out the medical shinobi, as felt tears of humiliation start to well up in her emerald eyes at seeing Sasuke look down on her weak attempts to stifle her pleasure.
"We really should get going Naruto!" he turned back to his comrades "Remember that we have a certain goal that we have to achieve" he warned him, glaring towards the easily distracted shinobi.
Regaining some of her composure, Sakura took in Sasuke's new appearance, she noticed his hair had gotten even longer than the last time she had seen him. It had gotten so long that she realised that he had started to put the back up into a messy bun. The ends of his curtains were pushed back, tucked behind his ears, revealing his sharp, crisp jawline. Around his head, Sakura saw he had tied his old Hidden Leaf headband, the same mark running through the symbol, the same one that ran across both the metal plates of both Naruto and Hinata's shinobi headbands. Seeing them, Sakura remembered the day they had received them, the day they had become genin.
Even then, Sakura felt this way about Sasuke, little did she truly understand all the pain he felt every day, the same pain that Naruto felt, a pain Sakura could never really know but she was sure it had to be close to the pain of seeing the two boys she loved, stood there wearing Akatsuki cloaks and scarred headbands, signifying the distance between themselves and the kunoichi.
"You're not going anywhere Sasuke, Naruto, Hinata since you three are criminals, rogue shinobi" Sai interrupted their conversation. "The three of you have all been added to the bingo book, each of you ranked as S-class rogue ninja targeted for elimination" his words hung heavy in the air amongst the Hidden Leaf Shinobi.
"Okay, whatever" Sasuke shrugged as he turned his attention back towards Naruto, about to motion to his two Akatsuki comrades to leave.
His blatant disregard for the weight of the situation that they had gotten themselves in was really starting to piss off Sakura. She lunged toward Sasuke, swinging with her right hook, only for her fist to crack the bark of the tree behind Sasuke as he leaned forward calmly, letting her hit the tree on the other side of him.
All fell silent, as they listened to the tree creaking, the bark screaming as its own weight was forced on itself by Sakura's mighty strength, toppling the tree. The ground shook with a loud thump, and once everyone regained their balance using their chakra control, the fighting ensued.
Kiba was the first to act, charging towards Naruto on all fours with Akamaru trailing behind him ready to pounce at any opportunity that he could to deal damage. However, Hinata was ready to fend them off, which she did, successfully protecting Naruto and facing Kiba and Akamaru head on with her Gentle Fist style stance.
Naruto rushed off to close down Sai, in order to prevent him from using his Super Beast Scroll to its fullest extent, which if given the chance could give the rogue shinobi problems as it was a troublesome jutsu in the hands of Sai's ability and talent for art. With Naruto getting closer and closer, Sai used all his taijutsu skills to try and create an opening for him to create a reasonable amount of distance between him and Naruto in order to gain a solid opening for his more powerful drawings, if only he had someway to slow down his enemy even more, then he would have been able to use his Crouch Tiger Hidden Bullet sealing jutsu.
Naruto was aware of this however but what he was not expecting, was the power of Sai's jutsu. Each drawing felt stronger than the last, he activated his sage mode chakra and what he felt was incredible. With every chakra infused ink creature that attacked him, Naruto could sense all the emotion that Sai was putting into his creations, all the agony and despair he felt at being powerless to save his friend from his cursed fate of joining the Akatsuki with Sasuke and Hinata.
Sasuke was breezing past his fight against Sakura, simply dodging each and every one of her powerful strikes, not even drawing his sword. He used his Sharingan's most basic ability to simply read all her taijutsu and pre-emptively manoeuvre himself out of the impact radius, jumping out of all the craters she'd created.
Staring down her old teammate, Hinata stayed on the defensive, using her Gentle Fist to parry Kiba's All Fours taijutsu, every time his strikes met her guard, he came away with a noticeable numbness in his arm. She heard Akamaru whimper when she connected with a chakra point in his side, as he fell a few feet away from her.
Rallying with his closest comrade, Kiba crouched down ready to pounce. "Fang over fang!" he shouted as he and Akamaru charged at Hinata, rotating in mid-air as they aimed to maim her. In response to this, Hinata twisted her body in a circular motion, spinning on an axis, and pulsing chakra out of every point in her body, creating a rotating globe of pure chakra with her at the centre. The power of the chakra's current was enough to repel Kiba and Akamaru's combination attack, deflecting their tunnelling trajectory drastically.
When she slowed down her rotation and came to a stop on one foot, she turned to her old friend and the good boy who was always excited to see her.
"Kiba is this what you really want?" she asked him "to eliminate the three of us"
His face widened in surprise.
"Of course, that's not what I want Hinata! How could you even ask me that?" he shouted "You, Naruto and Sasuke have abandoned the Hidden Leaf Village and now threaten to destroy our world! So no matter what it takes, I will stop you! Even if that means I have to kill you!"
Kiba was shocked when he saw a weird gleam in Hinata's eyes and he instantly knew that it couldn't be anything good.
"That's exactly the sort of resolve this world needs!" she excitedly explained "If only everyone else had the same resolve you have, the one you share with Naruto"
"But unfortunately" her tone became serious "they don't, so I'm going to help Naruto to create a world where everyone is strong!" she declared "Help us Kiba! Join us in creating a stronger, better world! You can be the hero who saved this world!" she pleaded to her old comrade.
Hearing those words, Kiba thoughts ran wild. 'Could I really be a hero?' he thought. Losing himself in all the different possibilities of what would happen if he joined Hinata and became apart of the Akatsuki, he resorted to his baser instincts, trying to hide from all his doubts and desires. He gave in to the more animalistic tendencies of the Inuzuka clan, lashing out at Hinata.
His first few combinations of attacks were little more than wild swings, but she could feel that something was wrong with him. Using her Byakugan to analyse his chakra, she noticed that his chakra network was receiving chakra, drawing it in from everywhere around him. His features had started to change as well, his ears began to twitch, and his nose had become slightly longer and wetter, threatening to transform into a snout.
Something was definitely strange, as Kiba's attacks felt even more powerful than before, Hinata tried to use her more powerful jutsu to stop her old teammate and to find an opening to create some distance between them, but it was already too late.
Naruto sensed the weird chakra coming from Kiba in sage mode and turned towards the source of this weird feeling, only to see a claw, made entirely out of pure chakra, rake across Hinata's chest, spilling blood.
He felt all the blood in his body boil, pounding in his ears as he saw Hinata drop to the ground, blood quickly soaking her clothes along with the soil in a dirty puddle. Kiba stood above her, his face signalling he'd regained his self-control, he looked horrified as he gazed upon the wound he had inflicted. He looked back and forth between the claw marked gashes in Hinata's chest and the blood splattered fingers on his right hand. He stumbled backwards, frightened at what he'd done.
From his position he saw Naruto rush towards them, ignoring his opponent Sai as his toad-like eyes centred on the injured Hinata, which quickly shifted to the shinobi who'd hurt her with a death stare.
Seeing Naruto charge towards Kiba and Hinata on the ground bleeding profusely, Sasuke used his Rinnegan's ability and teleported, switching positions with Sai, who was about to unleash his Super Beast scroll at Naruto's back as he ran away from him, which forced Sakura to stop her swing just before her fist connected with Sai's pale face.
Now closer to Naruto, Sasuke rushed after him and as he stood over Kiba, ready to kill, Naruto felt a firm grip on his shoulder.
"Naruto" Sasuke spoke in a tone matching his grip on his comrade. "She doesn't need vengeance yet! Right now, Hinata needs help!" he nodded towards the girl laying still on the ground, her bloody chest rising and falling slowly.
His wrath now replaced with worry, Naruto shrugged off Sasuke's grip and crouched over Hinata, examining the wound. Her cloak and the mesh shirt underneath it were torn to shreds, but her soft, smooth skin underneath was what really took the most damage from Kiba's attack; the cuts were fairly deep and leaking blood, the edges of each looked as though they were corroding. Using his sage mode, he detected high amounts of nature energy emanating from the wound, Hinata's blood started to bubble up as it left the safety of her veins and reacted to the strange chakra from Kiba's strike.
"It doesn't look as if normal nature energy was used in his attack" Kurama spoke within Naruto "It seems as if my power will not be able to help her, I'm sorry Naruto"
"But if you aren't able to help her, then that means…"
"We only have one option" Sasuke finished Naruto's thought as the two guys looked up from Hinata and fixed their eyes on the pink haired medical ninja who was charging towards the two of them.
"Sakura!" she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the grim looks on both her old teammates' faces.
"Hinata needs medical ninjutsu!" Naruto continued "Please help her!"
Sakura wasted no time rushing to her old friend's side, examining the wound as fast as she could, seeing the Hyuga's condition worsen.
"She needs to be treated at an appropriate facility urgently, like at a hospital" Sakura explaine with a stern expression "so, we'll take her to the hospital in the Hidden Leaf Village"
"No" Sakura's head dropped at Sasuke's response.
"We're not going back to the Hidden Leaf" Naruto declared with a drastic change in tone, from worried to serious.
"But I can't treat her here!" Sakura argued.
The two rogue shinobi looked at each other as if having a telepathic argument, their brows moving in weird shapes and their body language hostile to each other, until they finally looked to have agreed on something.
"All you need is the equipment and materials to treat her, right?" Sasuke asked the Hidden Leaf Village's best medical ninja. She responded by nodding her head.
"Then…" Naruto looked at her from the other side of Hinata's prone body with a gleam in his eyes "We'll take you to the hideout we've been using, you'll have all you need to help her there!"
"Are you insane? Do you really think we'd let you take Sakura?" Sai interrupted "Why would she ever go with you? You're rogue ninja!"
"Well, the reason she'd come with us is quite simple" Sasuke spoke as he looked down on Sakura with a smug smirk on his face "She'll come with us because I can make her dream a reality!" he announced as Sakura's mind became addled as waves of pleasure washed over her, remembering the dream Sasuke had cursed her with when he used his Tsukuyomi on her two years before.
"Okay, I'll go"
The pain of guilt made her chest tighten, threatening to crush her heart as she got up from her knees. She couldn't even raise her head to look at Sai as she brushed past his shoulder, following the departing Sasuke and Naruto, who was gently carrying Hinata princess style, obediently.
"I'm sorry" She mumbled through tears, knowing that she would never come back from the clutches of her old comrades.
Sai clenched his fist, snapping his brush in two.
"Do you really think I'm just going to let you leave?" His voice shook with rage.
What he was met with however, brought back painful memories of when he was under the command of Danzo. The first time he had received Sasuke's glare was when he thought he had no emotions, yet he still felt fear when he saw it. Now, he felt something much worse than fear when he looked into Sasuke's eyes as they shot daggers at him, what he felt now could only be described as true terror. His knees gave out and he sat there on the floor, trembling.
As the three shinobi carried Hinata away, they were met with one final obstacle, the brave and protective Akamaru who stood in front of them with a fiery determination in his eyes. He stared at Naruto, sensing the demon inside him. What happened next was the infamous ninja hound learning what the Nine-Tailed Fox really looked like. With his powerful nose, ninja hounds can create images of what they smell, accurate even to the last detail. The image that he saw now however, was the most horrifying thing he'd ever see, Kurama making himself look even larger and more monstrous as he roared at Akamaru, who let out a whimper and scampered behind the bloodied Kiba who was sat on the ground behind them, powerless to act.
The four left Sai, Kiba and Akamaru behind, shattered. They rushed off as fast as they could with one of their party injured.
Behind them in the distance they saw the signals from Kiba and Sai go up in the air, way too late. Sakura wondered what the others would think of her betrayal.
A/N – So I hope you've enjoyed this chapter, it's a little longer than most but I hope you found it an interesting read nonetheless. For the next chapter I think I'm going to stick with the mmf so if it goes down well then great! But if it doesn't then I can always rewrite it as a regular mf, also I'm considering writing an ff scene very soon so I hope everyone is ok with that, if not I'd love for you to let me know in the reviews or in my pm inbox. The last thing I want to add here, is that I'm going to update this story at least once a week, and I'll aim for Fridays. If I finish the chapter before then and post it then its all good but deadline for each week is Friday so yeah. Again I really hope you enjoyed this chapter so thank you for checking it out!
Yours truly,
Signing off