Sorry for making you guys wait so much...but this is the new chapter...have fun with it. Also, the biggest thanks goes to Daelyn Paolini who is no longer just a BEAT but a partner in this...haha...

A crack tore through the dry ground. Suddenly, an entire area of earth was covered in a spider web of openings around the Jinchuriki dressed in a blood red coating of chakra. An enraged roar escaped from his jagged mouth, shattering the night and casting the already disturbing scene as a maniacal and vicious sight. Dozens of flocks of birds flung themselves from trees to flee the horrific episode beneath them. Murder and hatred and an all-consuming desire to fill the world with iniquities radiated from the blood-chilling scene in the forest clearing.

A fist drenched in red, boiling chakra stretched itself toward the Akatsuki assailant, who was inert as he had ever been. He slowly lifted up both hands from underneath the flaring ends of the Akatsuki robe as the Jinchuriki tore the clearing, gaining more and more speed, losing more and more distance between himself and his target. From the Akatsuki agent's hands, a massive blue shield of chakra formed in front of him. The rippling red fist crashed into the impregnable dome of chakra, sending a crushing shockwave through the forest for miles, throwing dead trees into riverbeds and bending live ones over until they nearly touched the ground behind them.

Naruto let out a fearsome roar as he appeared behind the man with his elongated red fist, tearing through the blue chakra with preternatural force, and then throwing an easy shot with his free hand toward the man. In superb evasion, the Akatsuki agent dissipated into a mist of chakra that divided itself into three forms and receded into the ground through the maze of cracks. Before the rage-possessed Naruto could react, three rods erupted from the ground around him, forming the shape of a triangle.

"LIGHTNING RELEASE: THUNDER BINDING!"

Instantly, a terrible amount of electricity crackled around the individual rods, but quickly connected itself into the thin layer of an electric prison, entrapping Naruto inside. The Akatsuki agent appeared from below and looked contentedly at the trapped Jinchuriki with a broad grin on his face. At last he had a gift for his master. The Kyubi would serve as a fine catalyst to further the growing plot. No one had ever been able to break out of his electric prison and no one would…

"AAAGHHHRRRRR!" A monstrous roar issued from Naruto, causing the rods to shatter and sending a second colossal rush of air radiating from the clearing.

Before the Akatsuki man could react, Naruto appeared with lightning speed before the man, his eyes wild with bloodlust and his mouth a sick and twisted smile. In a swift second, the Jinchuriki rocked him with a punch that sent him crashing through the trees. Surviving it had been lucky since his full defense was not entirely activated. He had not been pushed this far in a long time. His eyes widened in shock as he watched tree after tree tossed out of the way, giving a path for the advancing Jinchuriki.

"You're not stronger," the man whispered, anger tinting his cheeks red, "you can't defeat me," he continued, watching as the rage-possessed Jinchuriki charged at him. "I AM STRONGER," he ended in a shout full of wrath nearly matching that of the Bijuu residing in Naruto.

The Akatsuki released a huge blast of glowing blue chakra from his body. The chakra was bent to the fair-haired man's will and gathered around him like armor, preventing any outside contact with his body. This was a perfect chakra defense which could never run out or be defeated. With renewed energy, he charged at the crazed Jinchuriki. A rippling wave of purple chakra threw itself across the clearing as the two clashed and entered a heated battle. Red chakra was slung this way and blue chakra there; the purple combination of the two cast the clearing in a chilling light.

Kakashi could not slow his quick breathing. The field around his team looked like it had been ripped out of a devilish nightmare. He looked to the haggard tent and gazed at the lifeless body of their charge…a failed mission. He directed his eyes to the trio of obviously shaken shinobi. He took a deep breath, keeping his outward appearance calm as he looked in the direction of the beaming lights and hair-raising roars. He couldn't slow his panicking heart as much as he tried, but he still had to act nonetheless. Begrudgingly, he began to shut out his team's desperate pleas for direction and tried to comprehend the summary of what had taken place within the last half hour.

It was two simple problems. First off, the Akatsuki agent had somehow managed to steal information from their charge, and the information may prove deadly to Konoha. Secondly, Naruto, a criminal who had made his way into the Bingo Book for killing the previous Hokage (Kakashi didn't want to believe this, but evidence pointed that it was the truth: the motive was simply that Naruto wanted to become Hokage), Tsunade, was within their grasp. And to make matters worse, he was losing himself to his rage and the Kyubi's will.

The copy ninja shoved his hand into his pocket and brought out a piece of paper he had kept for a long time. It was something that he had hoped would help him during the times Naruto was part of Konoha. It was a paper with the suppression seal on it. He shoved it back into his pocket and tore a piece of his clothing and wrapped it around the wound. He had to act now.

"You three stay here," he said, and started to run in the direction the destruction had gone, but Sakura grabbed his elbow. He looked back questioningly.

"Let me at least stop the pain," she said quietly. Kakashi nodded in assent, wanting to get to Naruto as soon as possible.

He couldn't help but sigh as cool waves of relief washed into his abdomen as chakra, and began to relieve the pain. But Sakura, as much of a mother hen as she was, did as much as she possibly could in those few moments Kakashi had granted her. She focused a great deal of her chakra into four places: relieving his pain, stopping the bleeding, repairing the small damage done to his lower intestine, and closing the wound left by the kunai. In less than a minute, she was lucky to cut the pain in half, completely stop the bleeding and heal his lower intestine for the most part, but the wound was left a blazing red gash when Kakashi pushed her hand away and sped through the forest to catch up with Naruto and the dangerous, unknown Akatsuki agent.

Hinata stood slowly from the ground, visibly shaking. Cold beads of sweat glistened as they slid down her face. Her heart was beating wildly in her chest as her mind flew back to the moment when Naruto had changed into that chaos monger of a person. She shut her eyes tightly and tried to dispel the thoughts, but they came back, refusing to leave. She could remember the amount of murderous intent that spread to everyone, and the way every trace of life around him seemed to wilt and wish for death.

So was that what Naruto really was? No. No, she couldn't believe that once the thoughts of the prank-pulling Naruto from the Ninja Academy arose in her mind. This evil thing Kakashi was so dead set on meeting was the Kyubi within him controlling his mind and body. That was what the villagers truly feared. Not Naruto himself, or even what Naruto was capable of. But what was in Naruto. She jumped as another huge roar reached their camp. She closed her eyes and offered a silent prayer for his safety.

"Hinata?"

She snapped her eyes open and looked over at Sakura.

"We have to help Kakashi-sensei. I don't know if he can handle the situation on his own, what with two criminals like that." The way Sakura spoke in such a collective manner about 'two criminals' being 'like that' made Hinata feel a painful pang in her chest, but she remained silent and nodded.

Shikamaru wordlessly examined the situation. They were moving into a heated battle between two strong people against their captain's orders. One person was an Akatsuki while the other was a Jinchuriki and S-rank criminal no less. How troublesome. He stood up straight.

"Let's go then," he said grimly.

The three young shinobi dashed in the direction Kakashi had taken.

Naruto was now almost totally oblivious to his surroundings except for the man he was fighting. He shouted, letting his rage form into visible chakra which shot straight at the enemy, but the man just stood there in its path and let the red chakra hug his body, yet it never touched him or injured him. Fueled by more anger, Naruto flew toward the man with a fist billowing with the promise of forging a crater bigger than any mountain known. He met the huge chakra shield, which exploded on contact and sent the Jinchuriki crashing to the ground.

Propelled by rage, Naruto just as easily lifted himself from the ground as he was thrown. He charged at the Akatsuki agent, now attempting to pull together his chakra shield from the bits and pieces Naruto shattered it into. Naruto was able to slip his hand in down to his wrist before the man completed reconstructing the shield. He slung his arm into the air above them, tearing a hole in the chakra, which seemed to scream out in pain. He grabbed the edge of the hole with his other hand and ripped the force field in half, sending more haunting screeches into the crisp night air.

"No! What are you-"

The man was cut off by a fierce blow to his face. He summersaulted through the air and snapped a tree in half with his body. With a victorious roar, the Bijuu possessed Naruto crouched to the ground and threw his head into the air. He shook himself free of the frustration of defeat and lopped across the space between them. With heavy breathing and an uncomfortable new sensation of fear, the Akatsuki waved his hand in the air, leaving a small and thin, but thick trail of chakra behind to protect himself from the swift roundhouse kick Naruto tossed his way.

The purple-haired man flung himself into a nearby tree, pulling the chakra like a flowing creek through the air back into his body. He gritted his teeth and swore in his mind. This Jinchuriki was proving to be a headache he didn't want to deal with. Looking beyond the seething red mass beneath him, he caught a glimpse of purple chakra slithering on the ground at the edge of the clearing. He glanced back down at Naruto, who thrashed in circles, trying to find his opponent. With disdain, he realized a moment too late that the man had taken off through the trees for the clearing.

He skidded to a halt beside the mutated chakra. At first, he didn't understand what was happening at his feet. The chakra writhed and twisted, seeming to vibrate on occasion as if it were screaming in pain. Shocks of red and blue flashed, but then a deep violet overtook the cloud of chakra, and the Akatsuki man knew what had happened. The Bijuu's chakra had infected his own. He now had the ability to control a volatile source of power. With a twisted smirk, he swiveled around and twisted his hand through the air, twirling the purple chakra and bending it to his will.

"Let's see-" he breathed as he took a step forward- "how you deal-" Naruto roared and shook his head, charging across the clearing toward the slowly advancing enemy- "with this!"

A sadistic smirk graced his features as he slung his arm in an arc from his waist to his ear, throwing the hybrid chakra in the form of hundreds of needles at Naruto. Several pierced the young man's arms and legs, one even finding itself completely embedded in his hand, as he jumped into the air. Naruto shook his arms and legs, casting the chakra from his body, and set himself down on all fours, glaring with a horrifying hatred at the Akatsuki.

"Not so happy now, are you…"

He held out his arms perpendicular to his body and reached to the sky, then delicately brought his hands down to his feet. He repeated this motion, as if he were commanding the waves of the ocean, enlarging the purple chakra that had gathered again at his feet. He created a monstrous wave of energy, then swirled it in a dancing circle as he swung his arms around his head.

At the sight of this, Naruto began to run at him again, attempting to dash his way through the chakra. The Akatsuki agent was proud to say it was not that easy to overcome his new ability. He brought the wave around Naruto and encased him in it. Naruto was standing, looking around in anger and panic. He didn't understand what was happening until it was too late.

The Akatsuki clothed Naruto with his chakra as he had for himself earlier. However, his intentions were not the same. Quickly, he clapped his hands together and forced the purple chakra into Naruto's body. He pumped the hybrid energy through the jinchuriki's veins, contorting his chakra flow into a sick whirlpool. Naruto's body was his, but this was as far as the Akatsuki would go. He wouldn't kill the boy. Not yet. Not until he had sucked his body dry of his fantastic chakra. Naruto screamed at the torment he was in, and begged for it to stop, but found he couldn't speak.

Struck dumb, the Akatsuki agent felt something tap several spots on his arm in rapid succession. He bellowed a horrified roar as his arm fell limp to his side and the purple chakra in Naruto's body all but fell out at once. He whirled around and jumped several dozen feet away before he was further attacked. A navy-headed girl glared at him and held her palms out facing him. Her eyes were the palest lilac, and surrounded by bulging veins.

"Byakugan," she whispered with contempt.

Hinata screamed and charged at him, pulling her right hand back. She thrust it forward to strike his other arm (it was easy enough to deduce without his arms he would be forced to retaliate for his fighting style), but the man kicked her arm away, snapping her elbow in the process. She cried out and held her arm to her chest, but refused to give up so easily. This man had tortured Naruto. He had…had forced his chakra into him. How was that even possible? She had seen it with her own eyes and found it hard to believe.

The man smirked at her, knowing she would be too easy to defeat in comparison to the Jinchuriki.

"What do you want with Naruto?" She called out, panting as she tried to hold back the pain that crawled up her arm, causing every bone to ache and scream from the agony. "What did you do to him?" The man smirked at her and cocked his head, not intimidated in the least.

"You aren't worth my time." He turned to leap away from the clearing in retreat, but Hinata grabbed his lame arm to hold him back. If anything, she should have grabbed his other arm.

He whipped around and kicked Hinata in the shin, causing her to drop to her knees. He took the hand she had grabbed him with in his own and focused on her index finger with frightening intensity. He quickly pressed it against the back of her hand, causing her to cut the air open with her scream. She struggled to stand up, but the man kicked her as hard as he could in the gut, and she slumped against her arm, panting and terrified and consumed with pain.

"He…is collateral. Much enjoyed collateral. You…" He plucked her middle finger from her hand and smashed it back against the back of her hand, issuing another scream from Hinata. She sobbed and bit her arm, berating herself for her tearful weakness. "…Are an annoyance." He grabbed the knuckle at the base of her thumb between two of his fingers and smashed the bone into tiny pieces, emphasizing his point.

Hinata through her head back and sobbed loudly into the clear night sky. Tears streaked down her face, staining her flushed cheeks. She tried to pull her hand away, but he grabbed her wrist and crushed it in his grasp. She was sobbing uncontrollably, begging for mercy, and fell onto her back when he let her hand go. He glared down at her, infuriated by her weakness and lack of ability to fight well. He was disgusted with her.

Behind this horrifying scene, Naruto fell down on his knees. He felt pain spreading deep into his body, thrashing about inside of him as if it had a mind of its own. He could hear the Kyubi whispering into his ears.

"Hinata! Damn it, I told her to wait up!" Shikamaru landed beside Hinata and assessed her condition. Kakashi landed next to him, glaring at the sensation of the Akatsuki agent's chakra in the far distance.

"Let's do it," he growled.

While the two men chased after the purple-haired man through the trees, Sakura tended to Hinata. One of her ribs had been shattered, and a piece of bone punctured her lung, flooding the organ with blood. She worked as quickly as possible to pull the bone shards out without doing any more damage, remove the blood so she could breathe properly, while simultaneously keeping more blood from pooling in. She sealed the wound, and decided Hinata's condition was no longer critical, so she moved to Naruto, who was slumped on all fours on the ground.

"Naruto…?"

Find him...kill him. But the boy couldn't. The man had escaped and he couldn't find him. Naruto shut his eyes and gasped as he felt his body losing to the Kyubi's chakra. His will was fading into that of the dominating Kyubi.

Let me teach them what pain is, the Bijuu urged inside Naruto's head.

He rose to his feet, and an ear splitting scream tore at the star filled sky. He felt the pain of his body fade away as a warm glow overtook his vision. He felt himself fading...fading...fading into the peaceful darkness the Kyubi delivered.

"Suppress."

Naruto's eyes snapped open as he felt something slap onto this forehead. He saw Kakashi standing before him, his palm on his head. Naruto groaned in pain as the chakra began receding into his body. The Kyubi's voice quieted, and soon faded back into its place behind the seal. Not being able to stand, the boy fell from sheer exhaustion and drifted into unconsciousness. Voices bubbled up from the crevice of his reality, dizzying him further…

"…got away…"

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"Damn. What…"

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"…-tta' go… hurry…"

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"Hinata…hosp..."

Two Days Later

Drip…drip…drip…

Naruto groaned from the obnoxious noise.

Drip…drip…drip…

He groaned again and opened his eyes, slowly letting them adjust to the darkness he was in. He rose into a sitting position from the cold wet floor he was lying on.

Drip…drip…drip…

He took careful steps until he managed to get to a door. He reached out for it and...bars. The door was made of bars. Slowly, his eyes finally adjusted to the dim lighting and he realized where he was.

A Konoha prison cell.

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