A/N: Wha- I have a fanfic account? No, of course not... Just kidding. Sorry for the late update, my inner self went out of commission for awhile and she's just starting up again... I blame my cat!

Special thanks to all reviewers and readers who have waited so patiently~!

Reading Legend

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"talking"

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Blackened Chains

Chapter 4: Massacre a Cure

Would you laugh at their pain because they are different from you? Would you tear through their bodies like the monster you are? Of course not, because thats what they, mirrors of yourselves.


Blood coated the field like fresh paint. The sicking smell lingering in the once clean air. Corpses, bodies, lifeless objects laid scattered around the ground. Some where even suspended in trees. It was like a vision straight from hell. A vision of nothing but murder and bloodshed.

A blond teen stood in the middle of the mass, black chains floating around him. His eye's were akin to a monsters. The white of his eye was a deep red, almost crimson as it surrounded the pupil. The iris seemed not to exist, the pupil expanding to take in more light than needed.

The boy seemed to walk almost blissfully around, admiring it's handiwork. Hearing a gasp of pain he turned towards the ground where a still breathing creature lay.

"P-please spare me!" It begged. Naruto smirked, locking eyes with the imbecilic. The man sucked in his breath. For it was like looking at death itself, his mind swallowed up in those horrid eyes.

"Why should we~" His voice was haunting, a deep note of amusement in it. He pressed down harder on the arm that had forced the earlier gasp escape. "We are simply doing what you do~" Naruto leaned forward, raising one clawed hand, it's skin black as if rotting.

"Please have mercy!" The man cried, tears streaming down his face. The famed fox grin spread across Naruto's face, his canines flashing out at the man. His eyes flashed darkly.

"Why, I don't even know what your mercy is!" And rearing back his hand, he aimed it for the chest, where the heart was beating a mile a second.

"HALT!" The clearing echoed with the command, everything falling into it's deathly silence once more. Naruto turned towards the voice, ignoring the sigh of relief the man emitted. His face twisted into one of displeasure as he gazed at the feeble human that had screamed the word.

"You will not harm him!" Naruto snorted, placing a now bare foot onto the mans chest, pushing down. Audible snapping was heard and the man cried out in pain. "We told you to halt!" The teen smirked.

"So~" He purred out, adding more pressure. "Who says we must listen?"

"We do!" Naruto could see them clearly now. A group of twelve monks. The teen snorted again. They were nothing but pathetic mortals, what could they hopeto accomplish? "Please let the man live and come with us." Naruto purred again.

"Please? By adding that word I can tell that you have no authority over me." With that said he lifted his foot,

"Wait! Don't do that!" And smashed it down on the ribs of the man. A sickening crunch resonated through the clearing and several monks paled as Naruto lifted up his foot for all to see. It was covered in thick blood, small pieces of bone caught between the holes. The man himself had a huge, oval shape in his chest. What was probably the worst though, was the now labored breathing of the dying man. Naruto grinned down at the man as he placed his foot back to the ground.

"Told you I don't have mercy." Loud footsteps sounded as the teen watched the group of monks surround him lazily. Forming a perfect circle, the monks began to chant, Naruto laughing like a maniac.

"Keep steady men! We must subdue him!" Naruto laughed louder as he twirled around on spot, wiping his bloodied claws at them, drenching them in the sinned blood. "Steady!" The leader shouted again as one of the monks appeared ready to run like hell.

"Master Keri!" One of them shouted, tightening his hands to keep his power flowing. "He's much stronger than the others.!" Naruto smirked at them, enjoyment dancing in his large pupils. "Isn't he supposed to be new born." The Keri man grunted in agreement as he too pushed more power in, the black chains slowly sliding within the flesh.

"Oh~ I know what you guys are!" The blond proclaimed as he left his arms be constricted to his side. "You're the weird ones who claim to 'help' us." He laughed harshly. "What a joke!" The monks could feel their energy drain rapidly, very little effects showing. "Perhaps I should play with you~!" His chains clattered against each other in excitement, ringing ghastly over them. "It would be so much more fun than his pathetic chanting you keep doing!"

"Focus men, do not let his words sway you."

"Why, what ever made you think that there was anything to sway?" He asked darkly, his eyes glittering like dying embers. "You HAVE no focus! You WILL fail! Can't you SEE that!" He shouted, expressing specific words.

"Don't listen to him! He's just trying to delude us."

"Delude? Delude?!" A cruel laugh emitted from his soft lips. "It is yourselves that you delude. Do you really thinkthat I'll submit so easily!" Naruto shouted as he focused on pushing the now suffocating aura of the monks back. "I will not let you catch me!"

A monk cried out as he felt his energy begin to be torn to bits, like a piece of raw meat. The others began to panic, either loosing control or falling to the same fate.

"That bastard MUST have been lying! This is way to strong for a newborn!"

"Yusumi would never lie about something like this!" Keri shouted towards the disbelieving member. Suddenly, the monstrous power that emitted from Naruto all but vanished, the chains hanging limp.

"Yusumi? You guys know Yusumi?!" He cried out, his eyes locking onto that of Keri's. The monk looked confused at the question.

"Why do you wish to know?" Naruto emitted a hiss.

"Answer my question if you do not want to die here, mortal." He all but spat. The monk looked weary at the child, but as he gazed he noticed something. The chains were slowly going back inside, the red fading back to white and the blue iris re-showing. Rushing forward, the monk caught the now unconscious teen.

"Master?"

"Calm down. The boy used to much of his power earlier." He gazed sadly at the field. "And though it is a horrid fate to anyone, we should be thankful, otherwise we would have been the one loosing our lives." And with a quick prayer to the deceased, the monks quickly took off towards the temple that contained Yusumi.


Sakura placed her hand over her mouth as he felt the bile threatening to escape. She had never seen such a massacre in her life, even the attack on Konoha by Orochimaru seemed kind compared to this.

"Pakun, can you find Naruto's scent?" Kakashi asked as he and Yamato searched the corpses.

"I'm afraid the bloods to strong to smell anything."

"Alright, thank you." The ninja dog nodded as he disappeared into a puff of smoke.

"Kakashi-Sensei?" Sakura asked, her hand still over her mouth. He shook his head.

"We will have to search the field for any traces of him." Sakura seemed horrified.

"B-but Kakashi-Sensei! Theres bodies everywhere!" Kakashi did a curt nod.

"All the more reason to search. Listen Sakura, we have to find Naruto. What if he's injured?" The girl nodded slowly, face slightly green as the smell once again assaulted her nostrils.

"Kakashi-san!" Yamato called out, waving from where he stood near the center of the field. Sai was looking everywhere but the floor. The two rushed over.

"What is is Yamato?" The anbu member gazed down at the body that the two of them had found. Kakashi followed his eyes and, even with all his experience, almost heaved.

A man laid dead with a large wound in his chest. Bones and organs were in disarray and the lungs where crushed, forcing blood into the throat. His eyes were literally bulging out of their sockets and blood dribbled down his mouth that was opened in a silent scream. Kakashi couldn't even bring himself to attempt to close his eyes with a sign of respect, to disgusted by the site.

"What monster could have done this?" He asked out loud. Yamato nodded.

"I belief that whatever did this also caused what we're standing in the middle of.

"Was it the Kyuubi?" Yamato shook his head. "Than what?"

"That's what worries me Kakashi-san. There's no evidence left. All Sai and I can conclude is that this creature had sharp claws for almost all of the dead have been slashed. Other's, closer to the center, have burned marks around their throats. Those... are more disturbing...

And indeed they were. The skin was shriveled up, the organs breaking through a spots and the visible bone a pale blue.

"It's like the life was sucked out of them..." The one-eyed ninja commented. Yamato nodded.

"We actually belief it was something like that." Sakura who had been quite the whole time decided to speak up,

"Then, what about Naruto?"


When Naruto came too, he was in a small room in a warm futon. A wet rag was on his forehead and the only light in the room emitted from a small lamp light. His body was stiff and several bandages were wrapped around wounds that, though there was nothing there, there was a great amount of numbing pain.

"Ah, you're awake." The teen turned his head slowly, wincing slightly in pain. The man from his dream was there, sitting patiently with his kimono pooling out around him.

"Yusumi?" The man nodded, beckoning with his covered arms towards himself.

"Come here..."The voice in his mind was sweet and trusting, and Naruto soon found himself dragging his poor body over to the man. Once within reaching distance, Yusumi pulled Naruto forward, placing the pained boy in his lap, his legs crossed.

Naruto rested his head on the strong chest, not caring about weakness. His entire body seemed to be able to relax and the pain seemed to disappear. Yusumi was stroking his hair lovingly.

"Are you alright?" He asked aloud. Naruto nodded, sleep pegging at him. Yusumi wrapped his arms around the boy in a protective hug. "I'm glad to hear that." His voice was smooth and deep, filled with a calming aura. Naruto snuggled closer, clenching a small bit of the fabric that laid across Yusumi's chest. Said man laughed lightly bringing his knees up and laying down on Naruto's futon, the boy laying on top of him.

Placing him down softly to the side, Yusumi smiled lovingly as the body curled up against him once more as he drifted off to sleep. A sudden knock at the door reminded Yusumi of the current predicament.

"Come in." He said coldly, all previous emotion gone from his voice.

"Well, Yusumi, what do you think?" The man didn't bother turning to face him, preferring to gaze at the childish face beside him.

"He is much stronger than expected. However he seems peaceful."

"Peaceful? Peaceful?!" Keri shouted earning nothing but a glare from Yusumi as he gripped Naruto's hand.

"Be silent Keri." The monk averted his eyes, not meeting the man's glare. "You should know better than this."

"That childslaughtered hundreds!" He hissed out, careful of his volume. Yusumi tightened his grip.

"Your point?"

"You call him peaceful and yet he was able to kill all those people?! You did not see what I saw Yusumi! You did not see him toy with life like he knows not of-"

"Mercy?" Keri stood baffled as Yusumi finished his sentence. "Of course he doesn't. There is no such thing as mercy to us." Keri glared down at him but Yusumi simply ignored him. He wasn't important. Only this child was important at this moment. "Now leave, I don not wish to speak with a sympathetic man." He heard a snort as the door slid close. Heaving a sigh, he rolled so that he was holding himself above the sleeping boy.

"Tell me, what's so special about you?" He asked the boy, though the question was more directed at himself. "Why have you bonded with that monster so well?" Laying back down on his side, Yusumi pulled the boy close to him like a child would a stuff animal. "How is it, that you are able to quite my own?"


All right, one thing to say; YUSUMI IS NOT GAY! He's just over-brotherly to Naruto because they both posses the black chains...

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