Adjusting to new times
Altered course
Thoughts
Demon/Inner Self
"Speech"
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or get any profit from writing this story. I do this for my own purpose of having fun.
Authors' notes: um yeah… sorry for taking so like unlike what I said lol so this is going to be a chapter about Naruto finally meets his friends again. BUT more importantly id really like input on like advice for what you guys want this story to go "this is going to be where the story comes into play lol
Naruto stood in the newly built – yet now ruined – hospital room hunched over in pain. Twisting and contorting to the in human pain all he could do was scream.
Cause hey, you try going through it and see if you could live. All his muscles were twitching growing, tearing, healing for what felt like an eternity in a seemingly endless cycle. His bones were going through the same thing braking healing, growing. Nothing was spared. His hands were going through there own change, a change into something less then human. A paw.
A/n: (think beasts hands from beauty and the beasts but no hair)
His gums were bleeding from his teeth and gums transformation –not that it could be seen with all the blood being vomited from his lungs and stomach. His ears - now on the top of his head were bleeding along with his, nose, and eyes there newly powered senses overloading. And the whole time there was a constant explosion of pain in his tails as nerves were slowly and painfully made and extended. And oddly the same thing was going on in his head (A/n: pay attention to that)
But even then, it didn't mater. Physical pain was something Naruto had been used to his entire life- from the villagers constant beatings to enemy shinobi, he was used to that. Emotional pain also, nothing new - being hated by everyone you ever knew for no reason until the age of twelve builds up a type of defense like his once proud goofy mask.
The problem that did mater was the future something Naruto had never planed attention to save a battle, or being Hokage. The whole time the pain was nothing but a fly buzzing in his ear as he thought what would happen to his dreams and plans.
He could only think of random broken thoughts
I'm… I'm a demon.
How am I supposed to be Hokage the one to protect the village when I'm not even a human?
What am I going to be like with this new mind?
What is going to happen with my friends?
What family am I going to have?
WHAT ANYTHING AM I GOING TO HAVE!
He let out a roar unlike his usual voice sounding uncannily of the demon he held blowing out the walls and roofs of his room, drenching the village in a wave of demonic chakra.
The Godamine had long ago leg of Naruto fearing for her life. Being crushed clawed and burnt to death from chakra wasn't something she was willing to do for no reason. So she watched in horror and waited, waited for it to end.
"Naruto! Oh please Kami don't die" she screamed over the torrent of sound until she heard a loud "thump"
She walked over immediately trying to turn the blonde kid over who was now easily 4 inches taller and naked (A/n: his power burnt it off but his tails are keeping his back completely covered). Trying to roll him over she reeled back in pain at the touch.
His chakra is so powerful I can even touch him! Did you have to take so much Naruto? Damn it!
In a quick burst of adrenaline she flipped over the still twitching boy to see his face. And before she could gasp she was holding her hands under her arm pits trying to suppress the pain. But getting back so see his face she got the gasp she missed the first time around.
What happened did he age or something? He looks like he does in his 20's… scratch the teeth and whiskers… he'd look like…
Now doing a test on his body she could see what was wrong with his muscles and that he would in-fact make it through the transformation – although painfully to say the least.
Well he is going to be complaining when he wakes up…
Then she watched with a sad face as she saw his bird seal glow on his fore head.
It had been a half an hour and the Hokage had yet to leave
The demon boys' muscles were still pulsing from the chakra, thankfully at much slower speed though. He was placed on a slab of metal in his new hospital room – sheets would burn at his touch. Still wearing no clothes his body had gone under an extreme transformation, his arm was longer, and out of proportion of his body with stringier muscles reminding those who would see of a wolf or animal of some sort.
Tsunade's clothes were covered in her own blood from when moving the young teenager and was currently lying asleep in a chair waiting from him to awake - against her subordinates' advice.
And all was quiet till an almost inaudible groan escaped the blonde Gennin
"uuuuuuuggggggggh"
Getting up in a panic she ran to the bed "Naruto? Are you up"
Opening his eyes he looked at her with his bright blue eyes giving her an obvious yes
"Oh god I was so worried what happened? How do you feel? Do you need anything?"
He gave a strained smile and shook his head to form a yes raising his hand he waved her to come closer.
Moving closer she got next to his mouth to listen to his strained whisper. "Ramen please"
She jumped back obviously not expecting the voice, Naruto just gave a surprised face and then looked down a little depressed. But rebounding quickly he gave a small grin and mouthed "sorry". So running down the hall for some food she came back as fast as she can. (She was under a lot of stress you can understand).
Coming back she found out from Naruto most of his muscles were to cramped to move from the excessive growth she was forced to give his muscles a massage. "A thing that would be considered a torture technique with her strength."
Leaning up he scratched the back of his head and gave another smile. "Ha thanks Tsu-"pausing and closing his eyes "thanks Tsunade baba" …this is going to be hard
"So Naruto do you know what happened to you?
"Yeah… it's a long story…" while reaching out his paw for the food
Naruto was thankful for the rain.
After he told Tsunade about his predicament she gave him new clothes and excused herself while giving a warning to not leave the room.
Naruto doesn't listen to well.
Depressed after not being able to hold chopsticks with his new hands he left to go stew in his thoughts.
The rain on his clothes –which hid his tails and ears – kept his orange and black kimono from burning and briskly kept him on the alert. It also allowed for him to get a better feeling for his new senses. The sound of the rain and tears, the taste of clean water in the salty air, and the smell of the mud and blood surrounded him. Too amazed by the pure strength of the feeling he didn't exactly pay attention to what he was sensing. But that didn't keep the memories of his rampage at bay as they flew back to the forefront of his mind.
Oh I see so I didn't destroy everything of mine now did I? Still have my apartment god forbid anything happened to that pieces of artwork. Oh the Inuzuka's doesn't seem I left many of them alive. It's a bit weird seeing the Jounin's look so serious with me… Kakashi's sharingan is going to give me nightmares that's for sure. Yamato must have some serious chakra depletion. But I didn't even see a single head branch member of the Hyuga's… bastards, at least Neji was a man about it. Well made that huge trench gashing halfway though the city what other buildings did I destroy.
Shutting his eyes tight he thought back to one of his favorite places in the city
"ICHIRUKA'S IS OK!"
Leaving on that note he ran as fast as he could to his #1 addiction
"Hey old m-… hey gramps I would like three of everything please!"
With stars in his eyes "Really?! I didn't know anyone else ate like that ha-ha coming right up stranger"
"Nani?"
Not realizing the real question he answered the best he could "Oh um… the Kyubi he used to eat here before he showed his true colors and had an appetite to match yours."
Noticing the shocked look in the "strangers" eyes he tried to mend the situation.
"OH but um don't worry the demon is in custody right now we wont have problems with him any-… sir what's wrong?"
Naruto was now gripping the table with as much restraint as he could muster cracking the bar
"Hey hey hey buddy don't get so upset it can't hurt us now" with a smile on
"…if…if you knew the person was a demon… why did you befriend him"
"I thought he was good at the time… how did you know I was nice to him and you got a cold or something?"
"And if you were his friend then… then how could your opinion change so much?"
"I didn't think he was a demon at the time but now I know better now after seeing what he did to my daughter"
Naruto could only sit in a state of shock as a good friend trashed his existence to that of a mere animal.
"Well any ways here is your first bowl…"
Looking at the bowl he couldn't eat. "Cancel the other orders please…"
"But you haven't even tried it yet you don't know if you're going to be hungry afterwards"
"I already lost my appetite with your story" throwing money on the table he walked away gloomily
"Stranger if your troubled I can help you out I do all I can for my customers!"
Pulling off his hood in anger Naruto looked back at the man "I don't want help from trash but I will say sorry to your daughter Ayame"
Turning away at the frightened stare he stormed off to his next painful memory
At The memorial stone
There stood Kakashi looking at his friends names once more thinking of the past. He was part of the committee to create the new memorial stones and decided with a unanimous vote that very morning for an exact replica. Anything more or less would disgrace there shinobi names. Thinking peacefully to himself the scarecrow waited for nothing.
"Hello kaka-sensei"
"Afternoon Naruto"
"Glad to see you didn't turn on me like the other trash"
"Don't be angry they are just scared they will get over it"
"It's still hard… seeing Sakura's terrified face was painful, and it was even worst after seeing old man Ichiraku turn me away"
"I wouldn't expect it to be easy but people will understand"
"Like who! The first time I saw Kaa-chan she was prepared to kill me just after I woke up!"
Feeling Naruto's control weaken he continued on as if it didn't happen "Kaa-chan?"
"… Didn't mean to say it out loud…"
"I'm sure shed prefer it to grandma"
"Yea…"
"Besides you still have me" giving a wink
A bit creped out by the wink Naruto couldn't help but grow excited at the comment "you mean… y-you trust me?"
"As soon as I knew it wasn't the Kyubi in control of your body – before you passed out – I trusted you" he pulled up his head band and held out his right hand showing them both bandaged.
"I… I did that…?"
"Yes and no" Naruto raised an eye in interest "my hands right now are completely numb… all the sense of feel is gone after putting forth to much chakra into my raikiri. And the eye is from when that attack failed which ultimately shortening or possibly ending the Kyubis rampage in the long run."
"My rampage" holding his head low
"NO! Not yours the demons" "BUT I AM A DEMON!"
"...In definition... in deffenition you are but don't think of it that way because your soul is what changes that"
"But the Kyubi said"
"The Kyubi doesn't tell you what to do! And I won't have you believing anything it says. Your soul is what gave you a chakra capacity more then double mine, probably triple after that training, and now who knows but that's not what maters… you may not be human any more but you do have your humanity. And as long as you have that I don't consider a single life wasted in that fight. Shinobi are often used to protect the Hokage."
Naruto froze where he sat not able to create a single rational thought he couldn't do anything.
But cry.
"(Sniff sniff) g-gomen sensei I really needed to hear that" with naruto's ears now sticking up Kakashi's eye gave a big smile.
"you know there really isn't a problem with crying… for you with a life so pained keeping so much pain from your friends just keeps you from being close and leaves your friends not knowing the real you"
"I'll take that to heart"
"Although Asuma and Iruka died to bring you back I'm sure they had no hard feelings"
"I know" giving a big smile he rubbed his hand over his foster brothers name "I-" shaking his head to get his human voice out he stated "I will make you proud older brother"
"when are you going to see your friends?"
"… no time like the present"
At the Hokage's office
"Knock knock"
"Come in"
"Hello Hokage-sama" all in unison from the small group of friends/
"I suppose you can all guess why your here?"
"Naruto…" came from the chubby Chunnin
"What about him?" an angry reply came from the Inuzuka
Even though it was a rude comment aimed at a close frined not many of the teens got mad, who could? The "Kyubi" had left only him and at "most" 10 of his clans men alive, it was understandable. Tsunade would have none of that though.
"FIRST OFF, that was the Kitsune-teme I want everyone to know that" the blonde women said banging her fist against the desk.
Shino was the next to speak "I may have not of been in the village for the attack but we shouldn't be mad at Naruto, it has been made painfully clear by the Hokage already, that Naruto was only the cage for the Kyubi"
"Naruto-kun was our friend too Shino-kun!"
"Yes Hinata-san I will keep that in mind but still the mater remains…"
"What has happened to Naruto Tsunade-sensei?"
"… He awoke this morning shortly after he created the red light that flashed above the city. And then he gave me a descript tale of what happened"
"Can we see him Tsunade Sama!" a cheerful cry came from the more emotional components of the group!"
"Hai… Naruto kun come in please"
The room grew a surreal quiet waiting for the teen to come in. Steam was coming off the clothes as they were unnoticeably slowly smoldering from his still over bearing chakra. Looking so different they may not of recognized him if Tsunade hadn't clearly stated it as him. He gave a weak smile. "Hi guys… hope you missed me" a lame attempt at a joke.
Too surprised to see him they didn't notice the bad joke.
"Naruto kun what happened to your body" Hinata asked terrified
"Well … people go through changes" popping another sad fox grin in the end
"Some changes are more drastic then others" Tsunade defended the boy as he turned his head down sadly
"… oh Naruto Kun" Sakrua said as she walked closer to hug him not expecting any problems.
"You can't touch me" he said while backing up
Confused and slightly offended she grew worried "you wont let her even near you Naruto? I know she caused you problems the other night but don't be so troublesome"
Moving closer he backed up a bit more afraid "Don't come near me!" frozen in there tracks they felt the sickening red chakra pass through them. Making them stager to there knee's from the pain and shock.
"(Cough) Naruto?" the Sasuke replacement asked
Looking away Naruto felt terrible for hurting his friends and couldn't bring himself to explain
"All of Naruto's life the populace of this village on a majority treated him as an animal. He had no family or true friends until he became a Gennin and even then they treated him badly." Giving an eye to Sakrua "soon after Sasuke left and he lost his first true friend and now two and half years later his demon escaped because of his own strength and was forced to make an immeasurable sacrifice to stop his body.
"What do you mean his own strength" Lee asked worried
"Naruto's seal can only be altered with Naruto's chakra or the 4th's. Knowing that the Kyubi waited for naruto's chakra to be able to fully suppress his chakra to the point where the seal was infused with naruto's chakra and then changed it to allow him out."
"So your strength didn't come from your demon" Neji asked looking at Naruto
"No according to Tsunade my chakra is mostly from my spiritual component rather the then the Kyubi's chakra. If anything it just destroyed my chakra control, not like its anything to compare to now though ha-"
"What do you mean?" Sai asked confused
"It kind of has a mind of its own now."
"What?" Sakura chimed in with anger while standing next to Ino now
"Umm wel-" "what Naruto is trying to say is that his chakra control is so dangerous and unpredictable that he is now forbidden to use jutsu's for the time being, along with the reason he cant hug you"
"What does his chakra have to do with hugging?" Ino now defended her best friends
"It's the physical contact that maters not the hug watch" she walked over and handed Naruto a paper which burned before he could even touch it
Making all there eyes widen "I'm constantly suppressing my chakra but this is the best I can do as of now…"
And finally Kiba spoke up for the first time sense the meeting started "you mentioned you sacrificed something to regain your body… what was it?"
Turning his back and looking out the window he looked over the village he wished to one day guide… "I had to do the step across the line I never though I would or could pass"
"Meaning?" he asked angrily
"I gave up my humanity to the demon…"
"what do you mean by that Naruto?"
Pulling off his hood and fanning his tail he turned around "i… became the demon
All that was heard were a chorus of gasps fists clenching in anger and a loud "Thud!"
A/N: I wanted to add more but I felt this would be the best to stop here lol sorry ill make sure the next is up faster