A Double Life
By Divinesent
I Do Not Own Naruto or anything copyrighted I mention
"Talking"
(Thought)
"Demon Talking" (Demon Thinking)---Flashback---
(A/N)
After a quick thanks to ChaosDriver for the story, we may begin….
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Chapter 3: WHAT IN THE HELL?
(So… tired…)(Why am I so tired?)
(That's easily answered Kit… because your body has gone through Hell…)(But that's not the worst of it Kit… open your eyes)
Naruto's eyes slowly opened, the world blurred at first but with a few blinks everything came into focus.
"So you have awaken… brother"
The world seemed to stop for a time until Naruto turned around. There stood Gaara just as he always was, surrounding him was the same cave with the same wood stack. He reached down and pinched the sensitive skin behind his knee, his nails doing more damage than intended. He yelped…
(Oww… so this isn't a dream, but why are we still here and not in the past?)
The blood had little time to leak out of his wound before it closed… just as they always did. His demon chakra healing it, long before he even thought about it.
"Garra, what is going on, why are we not waking in the past?"
"I do not know why… but it seems we're only a few weeks back"
"Why do you say that?"
"… There are still birds around our forest"
Smirking at his brother's realization, Gaara couldn't help but chuckle at his face. Naruto's eyebrows rose, then he listen the surrounding woods… hearing the birds that they had eaten already, chirping unaware of their own previous death. Or soon to be.
"So, that means we're having eggs this morning?"
Garra smirked again… to anyone else it would have been a fearful sight, but to Naruto it was nothing more that a hidden laugh his brother refused to show. Turning to the fire already roaring in the fire pit they had made upon arriving, Naruto could see some of the birds and their eggs already cooking.
"Let me guess, that's dinner?"
Sarcasm… one of the few things that still was lost to Garra, he could tell when someone was using it but the point of it still escaped him.
"No Naruto, its dessert"
"……" "Gaara… your sarcasm is a little dry, you want some water?"
Quickly avoiding Gaara's sand Naruto jumps out into the shining sun. His body ached, and unfortunately it was only his muscles throbbing so his chakra did nothing to stop it. Shining the sun may be, but the group was covered in a light snow, and the wind still nipped at henged skin.
(Damn demonic henge… what I wouldn't give to let it down and have my normal skin back)
" You know Kit, I don't remember you being so tinder-footed." "Going soft on me are you?"
(3…2…1…now…)
(And I don't remember you being such a stuck up bastard all the time, oh wait, yes you were!!)
"Your point?" "You don't have one do you?"
(… Shut-up!)
"Ha, once a brat, always a brat"
Snapping out of his inner fight, Naruto returns to the cave, finding half the food gone and Gaara meditating near the back of he cave. It was at that moment that his stomach decided to let its opinion be known. Laughing nervously at his brother's face Naruto decides now would be a good time to eat. Eating quickly he finishes everything and sets more wood on the fire. Slipping into his meditation pose he slowly sinks into his mind.
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Long gone we're the sewers that use to represent his inner mind's layout. Now it was like a grand castle, fit with everything his still troubled mind needed. Down, on the very last floor of his mind, lay the only hall he dare not walk down. It led to his worst memories and anything else he deemed fit to shove in the only room down there. He shuddered at the eerie darkness that the stairs leading down had. Slowly, never taking his eyes off that staircase, he ascended the ones leading up.
(Curse me and my lack of imagination, I so need to make a pulley system or something, theses stairs are killer)
"Stop complaining Kit and get up here…"
Smirking Naruto listen to the voice, it was clear that it was no longer dark and demonic. After all this was his mind and anyone here was under his rule. Coming to the last steps, he tried to remember how many different floors he put in.
(Why in the Hell did I put Kyuubi on the top floor? I mean come on I should have put her down in the dungeon)
"I herd that Kit"
Opening the door, there stood the once all mighty Nine-Tailed Fox, Kyuubi. Naruto slowly looked her up and down, slapping one hand over his mouth. That didn't solve his problem, starting slowly as a snicker; his laughter soon rang across the room.
Standing five feet away, not two feet talk was a Chibi nine-tailed fox, with a face that showed it was not amused. Naruto rolled on the ground, his sides hurt and he was crying. The angrier Kyuubi got, the harder Naruto laughed.
(Oh…haha…please Kyuubi…HAHAHA…stop your killing me)
"As much as I would like to Kit, this is your mind; I was dressing into my kimono when you did this to me…"
Pounding against the floor was the last straw; Kyuubi pounced taking a good section of Naruto's side into her mouth. Slowly she applied pressure to the skin sinking her teeth in. Naruto jumped off the floor, yelping in surprise, Kyuubi still clinging to his side with her teeth. He stared down at her, and suddenly she was a human woman, dressed in a fiery blue kimono, with long blood red and orange hair. Naruto smirked, she hadn't noticed yet so was still trying to rip his flesh with her human teeth. He tapped her on the head, and she glared up at him.
(I changed you back you can stop biting me now)
The look on her face was priceless. It went from anger, to confusion, to realization, and finally ending on a slight embarrassed blush. Naruto snickered again; he could feel the laughing fit coming back again. Kyuubi smirked.
(Fine brat, this should stop you laughing)
Slowly she started licking the blood from Naruto's side, leaving trails of kisses and lightly sucking on his skin. Naruto let a low moan escape his throat, before blushing madly and jumping away from Kyuubi.
"What's wrong Kit, didn't you like it?"
All the while she crawled towards him on all fours. It only fed the blush on his face. And soon she couldn't hold it any longer. Kyuubi burst out laughing, a tear or two coming to her eye.
(T-that wasn't funny 'Kyu-chan'
Her laughter stopped at Naruto's smirking face, he knew how much his nickname for her, made her angry. And right now he needed to have the upper hand. What happened next shocked him. Instead of her face becoming angry like normal, a small blush formed. Quickly Kyuubi force an angry look.
"I thought I told you not to call me that brat"
(Ya, well maybe I forgot after all, I though I was just a dumb Kit to you)
"Whatever Kit, lets get back to the reason why you are here"
(Yes, back to that, why are we not 'when' we want to be?)
"You ask me like I know the reason. The most I can figure is you did not put enough chakra into the jutsu"
(But I put in my all, how am I supposed to put anymore?)
"Did you truly put in your all? Or did you put in what you think would be the right amount?"
(Uh… he he…. Well we shouldn't really need to use all our chakra, right?)
"Kit, when me and Shukaku said all your chakra, we meant it. Now you must wait till you both are back at your top chakra to try again. Seriously Naruto you need to start listening to me, I've been around for millenniums."
(Did you just call me Naruto?)
"LISTEN BRAT!!! Did you hear a word I just said?"
(Yes I did, it just came as a shock that you call me by my name)
The room around them seemed to dissolve, as did the Kyuubi. Naruto's eyes opened to find Gaara cooking yet again.
"You know Gaara, your going to make some woman very happy, after all this is over"
Gaara scowled at him, Naruto's weird way of complementing his cooking was getting old. He opened his mouth to retort, when suddenly the ground shook violently beneath them. Coming to the front of the cave, and looking off to the west, they could see the smoke raising the nearby village. It hit them now, just how far back they were.
"Come on Gaara, this time we have to save them!"