"Hmm, this kid has an extraordinary amount of Chakra," came the voice of the tall, eagle-eyed man.
"Let's kill 'em." The large man piped up.
"I couldn't agree more," the leader took out a kunai and charged Naruto, the result, was Naruto punching him in the gut, flip kicking him in the face, and then punching him straight in his exposed adam's apple. The man sputtered blood from his mouth and instantly fell to his knees.
"I'LL DESTROY YOU!" Naruto's angered voice rang through the forest with god-like volume; the other two backed up a step and started coming up with ways to defeat the demon child, or to escape him.
"Shadow clone jutsu!" Came the eagle eyed man's voice, immediately he had 4 clones, for a total of 6 enemies, and one now unconscious leader.
"Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto countered the 6 enemies' numbers, with 100 clones, leaving the two (and the clones) in awe. But not for long, as the clones recklessly and instantly started tearing the men apart, with their claws digging deep into their skin, and their punches breaking their bones and cutting their tendons.
POOF! The clones all disappeared at Naruto's request, to see that the two that were left, were not dead, but wishing for death, to which, Naruto delivered to them, with a quick and single skull-crushing blow for each of them.
"Arrg!" Came the leader's voice as he crawled away, in terrible agony, Naruto stared at the broken man, who stopped immediately and rolled on his back to avoid the pain in his stomach.
"Huh?" Came Hinata's voice, she regained consciousness slightly, only to realize that she still had a kunai in her chest, but despite her greatest effort, could not move to grasp the wounded (but not bleeding) area.
"You...killed her." Hinata heard from an angered Naruto she looked up slightly, to see the most horrible thing she had ever seen, Naruto was no longer the boy she had loved, he was a MONSTER. She watched in horror as that demon went over to the leader, picked him up, and ended his suffering with a swift crack of the neck, to which the leader fell limp from his red hands.
"Nar...uto?" Hinata asked terrified, her voice was so soft, that she herself couldn't hear it.
"Hinata!" Naruto, who was turning back into a human, was now holding Hinata again in his arms; he had heard her voice and was surprised to learn she was alive.
"Naru...to," Hinata coughed, talking was still a big task when your lung is punctured. "It wasn't a...dream...you're really...a demon."
"NO! The Nine-Tailed Fox is inside me, but I'm not a demon!" Naruto pleaded with the limp body in his arms.
"You killed those men." Hinata said, still coughing and gasping for air.
"...Don't talk, we need to get you to Tsunade." Naruto assured her after he contemplated that maybe he WAS a monster, if he had killed the men off an assumption, maybe the demon was taking over him.
"What happened?" Ino asked as she woke up, apparently, the men had put them in a Genjutsu to pillage them, but got more than they bargained for. "HINATA!" She gasped.
"Just worry about Shikamaru and Chouji, I'll get her to the Hospital." Naruto told Ino, he then rushed off, still carrying Hinata in his arms.
"She'll be fine, but good thing you got her here when you did, air was leaking out of the lung at a slow rate." Tsunade assured Naruto, after 18 hours of only running, he got to the hospital. He was relived that she would be all right. But he wasn't only worried about her.
"Um...Tsunade?" Naruto said concerned.
"Yes?" She replied
"I killed three rogue ninja when I thought they killed her."
"KILLED? That's not like you!"
"I think the Nine-Tailed Fox can take over my body when I get too angry, it used to be I just borrowed his power, but now I think he controls my actions."
"Hmm...It's possible that the angrier you are, the less control you have over the seal." Tsunade was concerned, she was going to send Kakashi to assassinate those ninja, but if NARUTO did it, that meant he must have been seriously pissed off.
"Ok, that's good." Naruto said looking down, Hinata's demon comment had left a hole in his heart, even though he had been hearing it all his life. It just seemed weird to hear it from such a loving person like Hinata. "By the way, she said something about love before she passed out, you have any idea what she said?" Naruto tried to sound a little more cheery.
'Is this kid retarded?' Tsunade asked herself, "Nope, not a clue, go ask her when she wakes up." Naruto shrugged and walked off to get some lunch for himself, and then get some stuff for Hinata.
When Naruto got back, he had a bowl of ramen, with plastic wrap over it, a fruit basket, and a plate of fish and rice balls. Hinata's operation was a success, and she was lying in her bed, she hadn't woken up since he picked her up and carried her to the Hospital though, which worried Naruto deeply.
"Oh well, Itadakimasu." He said as he placed the plate and the fruit basket next to her bed and started eating his ramen in a chair next to her.
"Hmm, that smells good." Hinata mumbled as she opened her eyes slightly, Naruto stood up in excitement, slurping down the entire bowl of ramen in record time.
"Hinata, you're ok!" Naruto yelled.
"Did you run the whole way here?" Hinata asked.
"18 hours straight." Naruto bragged as he mused at the idea of running a marathon.
"Thank you," Hinata forgot the terrifying sight she saw a few hours ago, and just pointed to the plate of fish and asked if it was for her. Naruto nodded and she started to eat.
"It's good!" Hinata said, Naruto blushed as he said that he made it for her (with some help from an owner of a sushi place at the end of town).
"Um...you said something about love before you passed out the first time, what did you mean?" Naruto had a slight suspicion that she loved him, but he thought it was better not to assume.
"Uh...urm...nothing! It was nothing really!" Hinata gulped as she turned beat red. Naruto forgot the whole thing and sat down.
"I'm sorry you had to see me do that." Naruto apologized to Hinata, Hinata then remembered the whole thing and immediately flinched, almost sending her rice balls flying.
"It's ok, you were just angry right? I mean, I must have been dreaming when I thought you were a demon." Hinata thought that the red glow on him HAD to be real, but if her state, she could have been delusional.
"Well, uh, you weren't dreaming." When Naruto said this, Hinata's plate crashed to the floor, her last rice ball with it. "Sorry, but I really have the Nine-Tailed Fox inside me."
'That demon is...NARUTO?' Hinata thought back to the horror stories she had heard about the Nine-Tailed Fox, Hinata then scooted back in her pillow, to try to make her self more comfortable, considering that she couldn't run away from this surprise.
"I'll leave, I'm sorry." Naruto said as he picked up the shattered plate and the rice ball and threw them in the trash, followed by the plastic bowl he had eaten his ramen in.
"Wait...Naruto..." Hinata said, but no voice came out, she was completely in shock at the realization that she had been in love with a demon all this time. Everyone had shunned Naruto because he was a demon, not because he pulled pranks and was weird sometimes.
"Naruto? You ok?" Sakura's voice came from the side as she looked at Naruto, sobbing on the bench outside of Hinata's room.
"Hey, no, Hinata actually saw something I wish she hadn't" Sakura thought of a million and one things that would merit a punch in the face, but she didn't think any of them were right, because Naruto was crying his eyes out.
"What?" Sakura asked, Naruto looked up at her sadly, and put his head down again.
"I killed a bunch of rogue ninja, and she found out I have the Nine-Tailed Fox inside of me." Sakura was shocked, she hadn't known that Naruto had a demon inside of him, but it would explain his seemingly never-ending supply of Chakra and stamina.
"Wow, uh, well..." Sakura then apologized for prying and ran off to attend to some patients. 'Holy crap, that was a little shocking.' She thought.
"I better head home." Naruto said as he walked out of the Hospital, his tears were still visible to everyone who looked at him, but he continually wiped them away to hide his sadness.