Ok so here we go. Took long enough I know, but as a general excuse, Ive been swamped.. so yeah. Been reading back on the story and cringing with how far Ive come in grammer and vocabulary, so I hope to get it over with and post the rest of this as fast as possible. But we'll see...

King Kyuubi

Chapter 7


By Mirazhe1

Naruto let out a long drawn out sigh as he eased himself to the ground painfully. Hinata looked on cautiously. After a short while, Naruto had been strong enough to take them both to a large out crop high above the rest of the island. The sun was slowly setting over the just visible ocean, reflecting an array of colours about the world. Neither said anything as the fox began licking his wounds tiredly, urging them to stop bleeding.

"N-Naruto-kun?" An ear flicked in her direction as Naruto continued tending to his wounds. "Are you ok, N-Naruto-kun?" He seemed to start, quickly shifting so his wounds wouldn't be visible.

"Of- Of coarse! No baka tanuki can hurt me!!" Hinata looked at him hard as he winced, his wounds reopening with the sudden shift. Though the Hyuuga had to admit he was healing at an amazing rate, the sheer size of the wounds was something to be reckoned with. Naruto let out a small, nervous laugh. Hinata sighed and walked forward, sitting between his forepaws, looking tiny against his huge mass.

Naruto quickly sobered, shifting uncomfortably. This.. Human, would so willingly stay with him, stay at his side. It honored him.. Yet appalled him in the same moment. Would this fragile little thing... Human... Befriend a horrible demon such as him? It was well known to him that he could easily crush her at the merest whim... NOT THAT I WOULD! Naruto quickly thought. But yet, he new this human, Hinata-chan, knew this too. Yet she stayed with him. It was... Touching, a rather foreign feeling to the fox.

Naruto sighed a quiet, "Thank you, Hinata-chan..." It didn't go uncaught by Hinata's ears as she looked up, startled. Nevertheless, she provided a small smile, huge by her standards. The numerous fox-like skeletons laying not far away had not gone unnoticed to her. Either Naruto was utterly alone on this island, or he was utterly horrible and killed all of his comrades. She seriously doubted it was the latter; despite being a demon, Naruto was just too... Nice, she guessed, to do that. It was inspiring that even if he was alone, he strove on, pushed forward and survived. The odds were against him and obviously other demons didn't want him alive (if Gaara was any example), and yet he pushed on against the tide for success, life and acknowledgement. It was inspiring to the little Hinata, who so dearly wished to be successful, be it as a ninja or an actress. She gazed out to the sunset once more.

"It is very b-beautiful, isn't it Naruto-k-kun," she said quietly. Naruto blinked down at her, long red face no longer looking evil to her at all. He gave a smile, and rose to all fours and roared powerfully over the island.

"MY NAME'S NARUTO NO KYUUBI, REMEMBER IT DEMON BASTARDS!! NO PATHETIC LITTLE DEMON CAN EVER BEAT THIS KYUUBI!!" He paused, as if thinking of what to say yet not really sure how to finish. Finally, he bellowed a well thought out, "BELIEVE IT!!" Hinata giggled, hand covering her mouth as Naruto flopped down to the ground sloppily once again.

"That's mean, Naruto-kun," She managed to giggle out. Naruto merely smiled and flicked a single tail.

The who-knows-how-long siege was drawing to a close. Shino had been holding off the insects for who knows how long (hours? days? weeks?!), but the bug nin was slowly growing tired. The remainder of the group had a new respect for Shino, that he would so diligently protect them.

But time was taking it's tole, and Shino, tired and hungry, was loosing his determined force to keep the bugs at bay. And his exhaustion was becoming apparent, even on one as expressionless as him. The bugs were slowly advancing, bit by bit and the group was beginning to prepare themselves.

Finally, the valiant bug nin collapsed, exhausted and the insect's rushed forward. With a roar, Kiba rushed forward with a mighty "Gatsuuga!" The insects were quickly decimated in the attack, yet sheer numbers quickly overwhelmed him as his attack drew to a close.

Sasuke diligently stood over the recovering Shino, firing off Katon jutsu one after another. Lee, determined to protect his precious people, just like he was taught by Gai, rushed about with his supreme speed, stabing insects with a gooey kunai mercilessly. He quickly peeled, stabbed, and ripped off the insects clinging to Kiba, much to the writer's thanks. However, the shinobi were quickly packed back together in a circle once again as even larger insects advanced.

Wood roaches, spiders, fleas, all huge, the size of horses at least.

And then, oh and then, with a fiery crack, and squeal of burning insects, they rushed away. The group looked up, were fireballs, kunai, and explosive notes were raining down to see Captain Kakashi's crew efficiently obliterating the insects even as they crawled out of the walls. Neji directed them, his Byakugan active and pointing out were the bugs would emerge next, while Kakashi himself ran along the wall with chakra, his infamous chidori singing as it sliced through even the largest of insects.

"Climb up," Neji called down to the small band at the bottom of the cavern. A rope quickly tumbled down for Lee to climb up and to tie the exhausted Shino to. Kiba and Sasuke, however, had already made it up the other side of the ravine. Kakashi, on the other side now that his work was done, looked on.

"Kiba-kun," He called across. "It's no use, shes most likely dead." Kiba ignored him and ran on, leaving Sasuke behind at the edge of the ravine. The Uchiha paused an looked over his shoulder to Kakashi.

"She's not dead," Sasuke called back, once he was sure Kiba was out of ear shot. "Hinata's the most powerful Hyuuga I've ever met." Neji seemed to fume at this. "Not only that... When Kiba brings her back... That demon'll be hot on his heels. It could lead to another Kyuubi incident." All that were present flinched. They were well aware of what happened hundreds of years ago when the first Kyuubi reared it's ugly head. "You have a boat full of chloroform and chakra absorbent with you.. Along with a few sealing techniques and Shino's bugs..." He left his sentence drift off expectantly.

"You want to capture the Kyuubi," Kakashi laughed yet his single eye remained expressionless. "The same type of demon that killed our Yondaime... I don't think so, Sasuke-kun."

"Think, Kakashi... If we don't capture it, then it will follow us to Konoha... and you know what the first Kyuubi did when it got there..." With that said, Sasuke turned and dashed off into the forest after Kiba.

Naruto yawned widely as the sun finally dipped all the way over the horizon. He glanced down at the limp Hinata as she slept between his forepaws, half heartedly snapping at a huge bat as it flittered by. Her slow, even breathing entranced him as soft blue eyes looked down at her. He shifted carefully, as not to wake her, until he was curled protectively round the little Hyuuga, at least one of his tails draped over her like a blanket.

The shinobi were coming, he could sense it. One... no, Two of them, approaching fast. He quickly formed a Kage bunshin that stood off a ways at ready. With a few primal growls and yips at it, it was off to divert the shinobi's trail. Yet, Naruto kept it under specific orders not to harm them. His little Hinata cared for the shinobi as well, he knew that now were he hadn't understood that she could have more than one precious person (namely himself) before. He didn't want to make his little Hinata sad, of coarse, so his bunshin would merely divert them away.

Though, it wasn't his fault if they just so happened to get eaten by some creature in the process...

Naruto yawned once again, a long fang poking out of his menacing mouth cutely. Groaning like only a canine could, his head drooped and he fell into a light slumber...

Kiba crept through the dank cave quietly, keeping low to the ground as he spotted Naruto not far off. When both he and Sasuke came to the trail diverging into two, they suspected a decoy and on Sasuke's suggestion, Kiba took the older path, no doubt the original, while Sasuke led off the decoy. Little did Kiba know, Sasuke quickly circled back and headed back toward the devilish city and Kakashi's awaiting crew.

Kiba ducked as a giant bat took a half hearted lunge at his head, and effectively came face to face with a still decaying fox skull. Skin hung off the half decayed muscles grotesquely.

Well, is that peachy.. He couldn't help but think.

The ninja advanced again and to his joy, spotted little Hinata peacefully sleeping within the coils of Naruto's many tails. He moved around the monsterous fox with the finesse of a shinobi and carefully made his way to Hinata. She was comfortably curled on the ground, using Naruto's large side as a pillow as it slowly and evenly rose and fell in his sleep. Curled about her so his huge head lay next to her sleeping form with tails draped across like blankets slept Naruto, looking all to peaceful for a huge demon as he snored lightly.

Kiba advance slowly, uttering the softest "Hinata" he could muster. Naruto's ear twitched in his sleep, yet the deep even breathing of slumber continued. Kiba watched as Hinata's pail eyes slowly opened and she froze, not moving an inch. Eyes wide, she looked on in disbelief, then confusion. K-Kiba?! She blinked once for good measure.

Kiba provided a fanged grin, albeit a small one, and motioned her to be quiet and come over. Hinata's head lifted, looking from Kiba to the slumbering Naruto, his deep breaths playing with her short hair. She looked a little torn. Go with Kiba and return to the horrible life back home, or stay with Naruto on this hell hole of an island?

Her answer was made as she outstretched her hand to Kiba. He did the same, but stayed in his spot. Any closer and he would cross in front of the fox's acute nose. He was sure, even in sleep, that wouldn't make a good result.

The distance between their hands closed and soon their fingers were in a loose clasp. Just a little mo-

The soft snoring came to an abrupt stop and Naruto's bright blue eyes snapped open angrily. For a moment, the world failed to move under his cool gaze.

But then it came snapping back with a whirl of motion. Hinata was yanked away in Naruto's tails as he pounced to his feet. Kiba went stumbling back, trying to scoot away as fast as he could. Naruto roared in an furry.

"K-Kiba-kun!! Run!!" She yelled in a uncharacteristically loud voice. Naruto pounded the ground in a rage and Kiba was sure he went at least a little airborne at the impact. Bats squealed and took to the air.

"YOU DARE TAKE HER?!!!" Naruto raged. He pounded the ground once more and the bats swooped in, fluttering about. Naruto stumbled about as the huge blood suckers disoriented him, clasping to his fur with little talons to bite into his flesh. More than once Kiba was force to retreat as he was nearly stepped on as Naruto rose to his hind legs, fending off the bats with tails and front limbs and all. He came crashing back down onto his bat as he became overwhelmed. Ever selfless though, he took a moment, even as the huge bats sucked his blood, to gently put Hinata down before he began thrashing once again.

Hinata immediately stumbled to her feet and spotted Kiba not far away. The only problem: Naruto stumbling about between them. But this did not stop him as Kiba dashed forward between Naruto's flailing limbs and caught Hinata in an embrace as they met.

"Hinata, we gotta go," He said desperately, looking to Naruto as he caught a bat right out of the air in his huge maw. Hinata looked on also, loath to leave Naruto behind. "Come on."

They dashed forward, around the fighting Naruto. Kiba quickly cut some vines loose from the cliff with a kunai and they were soon descending down the huge drop as both were easily too exhausted to safely walk down the incline. Naruto continued battling above, smacking and thrashing at the bats until he finally noticed the retreating shinobi. With a roar, he yanked up on the vine and all their progress downward was for naught as he continued pulling them up.

In desperation, Kiba leapt off the vine, Hinata in tow, and grabbed hold of a giant bat's leg. The thing squealed and quickly flew away, trying to loose it's passengers.

"HINATA!!" Naruto roared desperately and a huge hand of chakra lashed out after them only to miss. He pawed the ground worriedly and bellowed his sorrows.

Not far off, in a devilish city of demon worshipers, Sasuke and Kakashi's crew looked on fearfully as the roars and bellows reverberated off the city walls.

Naruto and Hinata were vacated from their flight quickly enough and plunged downward into a rushing river. They could hear Naruto tailing them not far off through the trees, ever thundering his cries. They found ground quickly and made a mad dash toward the city. Breaking through the trees, hope shone through as they saw the wall...

Only to come to a grinding halt when they noted the bridge to said wall wasn't lowered for them to cross.

"OOOOIII! SASUKE!!" Kiba's voice echoed, lost in the mad roars that were slowly becoming louder.

"They l-left us," Hinata murmured tearily.

On the other side of the wall, Sasuke held them back, an outstretched hand stopping the man supposed to cut the rope that would inevitably lower the bridge.

"Sasuke-kun! Lower it! It's coming!!"

"Wait..." Sakura was in a tizzy fit. They were in trouble and Sasuke was just going to sit their and wait for this demon to come and eat them. "Wait..."

Steeling her resolve, Sakura rushed forward and cut the rope with a kunai. The sudden release of tension caused the rope to thrash out and whip her in the face, leaving a nasty gash across her cheek. Sakura called out in pain and fell to her knees.

Naruto burst through the trees just as the bridge lowered. Hinata and Kiba dashed across and quickly made their way through the small crack in the gate. Naruto leapt over the ravine with a roar and clasped on the wall, pounding on the gate just as Hinata just made it through. They both ran down into the crowd of crew members, finally feeling safe from the terrible rage of Naruto.

Hinata's world slowed as she walked into the crowd, watching curiously as Sasuke and Kakashi walked past. The Uchiha had a mad glint in his eyes, sending chills down Hinata's spine. She watched as Kakashi pulled a bottle of Chloroform and Chakra absorbent from the box, walking with a purpose. Her eyes drifted across Sakura clutching a nasty gash on her cheek, to Neji with kunai ready, to other crew members with hooks and ropes prepared. They were sneaking up the wall, above and around the gate, waiting.

Finally, Naruto rammed his shoulder against the gate and came barreling through in an uproar. The gate doors flew through the air in a splintered mess, no longer the grand things they once were. The fox demon stood tall and finally spotted Hinata leaning into Kiba worriedly.

"NOW!!" Came Kakashi's call. Hooked ropes flew out and found their sheath in Naruto's fur and skin. More and more flew through the air, pulling him down toward the ground as the owners yanked on the ropes.

"NOO!!"

"YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND??" Came Hinata's and Kiba's stimutanious cries.

Chakra absorbent was splattered onto Naruto from above, the clear liquid damping his red fur. Once lashing red chakra seemed to dissipate even as it was summoned out. He struggled powerfully against the ropes, thrashing madly, even as a huge net weighted down by boulders came down on top of him. Chloroform was tossed to the ground in front of his face by the bottle, yet he continued struggling.

"Get her out of here!" Someone called as Hinata began beating on the crew members, begging them to stop. Kiba dragged her away only to stumble back as a pressure point in his shoulder was hit. Hinata stumbled away herself, glaring at him and attempted to run back to Naruto. Ignoring the pain in his shoulder, Kiba caught her again, more carefully this time, and began dragging her away.

Naruto looked up, painfully exhausted as the absorbents and chloroform took their toll. His head shook desperately, a low snarl turning to deafening roar. He leapt to his feet, sending rope men flying as he thrashed.

"KILL IT!!" Kakashi yelled out as his crew members prepared kunai and shuriken.

"No-" Sasuke began but was cut off by the other shinobi as Naruto broke loose.

"EVERYONE!! RETREAT, RUN!!"

All dashed away, taking to the cave desperately running to the lifeboats. Naruto followed after, too big to fit through most of the cave. He thrashed out at stalagtites and stalagmites, crumbling the thousand year old formations with little a thought. Hinata continued struggling, fighting to get to Naruto even as Kiba traded her off to Neji. The crew members fought to break from the shore, rowing desperately even as they made headway. With a roar, Naruto plunged into the water, scrambling after them. Even then the eight foot deep water was merely up to his stomach.

He smacked down on one of the lifeboats, sending Sasuke flying even as he grabbed a bottle of chloroform. With a roar, he grasped the little boat's side and sent it flying, passengers and all. Still advancing, he ran after the last boat, the one occupied by Hinata with an unfoxish hiss. His entire frame shook in a rage as Naruto inhaled a few lung fulls of air, letting out a menacing snarl that caused many shinobi's pants to become damp with urine.

"No!! Stop it!!" Hinata cried out as Kakashi aimed a harpoon. It fired and embedded itself in Naruto's leg. He cried out, whimpering against his will even as blood began to taint the sea waters. Even then he advanced, albeit slowly, dragging his hindquarters through the water as Kakashi loaded another harpoon an aimed.

"Wait!!" Sasuke called, climbing up a rock with his precious bottle of chloroform. He stood tall, smug, aiming the bottle carefully. Naruto ignored him, grunting as he passed the rock, and with a yell, Sasuke expertly threw the bottle right into the giant fox's face.

Naruto growled, then blinked as the chloroform sizzled. He thrashed his head slowly, exhausted, and attempted to wipe the misty substance away. His world was darkening as he swayed, moaning lethargically. With a thud, he was on his elbows, hardly above the water. Wheezing desperately, Naruto raised an oustretched hand to Hinata at the edge of her boat. Tears were overflowing her pale, now red rimmed, eyes as even then Naruto looked on hopefully.

"Hinata..." He mangaged to wheeze. Hinata sobbed looking away.

She didn't reach for his clawed hand.

His limb lowered tiredly, and Naruto's expression turned to confusion then defeat as he laid his head down on a rock and fell into a deep, yet very uncontent, slumber.

Yup thats it. Prepare for the last too chapters. They're so corny you could make cornbread