Chapter 9: Battle of the Demons

"Damn it!" shouted the Kyuubi in Naruto's mind, "How am I supposed to fight her trapped in here?"

'Well I don't know,' said Naruto to Kyuubi. 'Maybe if I had some control over my body I could do something!'

"You wanted the power wretch."

'I only wanted enough to heal my wounds, damn fox!'

"Do you know how severe your wounds were?"

'Please! With the amount of chakra you gave me I could've regenerated half my body!!'

"Shut up and defend me! She's coming!"

"She?" said Naruto aloud unaware that he had regained control of his body. He turned his head just in time to see a mass of whites lines cascade down upon him.

Each line that touched him left cuts in his flesh that smoked and burned painfully. Naruto screamed as hundreds of lines cut through him like hundreds of burning knives.

"Gah!" screamed the Kyuubi. "Damn you boy this hurts me too. Run!" chakra started to pour out of the fox's body. Naruto was confused, through all the pain he was experiencing he wondered. Physical pain never hurt the fox before. What was different this time.

But before he could think more on this a deep gash in his arm forced him to jump out of the tornado of lines. 'What is going on here! If I'm going to fight I think I deserve to know what I'm fighting.'

"Fair enough. The thing that you're fighting is a spirit named Chici. She is a spirit who is deeply attracted by power. A long time ago that spirit came to me and loved me for my strength, but I am a demon and emotions like love are worthless to me. So I took away her spiritual form and her connection to the Earth as punishment for trying to woe a demon. Now she can only live inside someone else and she might be a little mad at me."

'Well I don't blame her, and if she didn't have to go through me I'd totally let her have you! But I still don't see how she got inside Sakura.'

"Well, coincidently she came to me while I was at the Leaf Village, so I assume she just got into the closest newborn she could. You see its easier for a spirit or anything for that matter to enter a host when that host is: 1. The same gender, and 2. At a very young age. Like when I was forced to enter you."

'Well I'm glad that you didn't have any trouble entering my body,' thought Naruto sarcastically, 'But now that history's over how do I stop her?'

"Simple put her in a new host using my chakra."

'What! I can't do that! Isn't there another way?'

"Well, I could lead her back to the spiritual world, but that would take a very large amount of chakra."

'Why is it that every time you help me it involves your chakra. That stuff is so vile I think I might throw up if it touches me again.'

"It can't be worse than being stuck inside someone like yo- Look out!"

Naruto jerked awake from his conversation with the fox. Chici was coming at him with everything she had. She had taken the form of Sakura again, rising 20 feet in the air. She swung her huge fist, which Naruto nimbly dodged.

"I swear, if you die on me boy—"

"You'll what? If I go down you're coming with me."

"For now."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Naruto suddenly became afraid If the fox had figured out a way to get out, the whole village was doomed.

"She's coming again!"

Another giant fist landed right where Naruto had stood only moments before. He couldn't do this forever, even with the fox's chakra.

"If you're going to send her back to the spirit world then hurry up and do it!"

Naruto thought about this. The idea of the fox's chakra even touching him sounded horrible. If only there was some way to stop the demon from controlling Sakura. Then Naruto had an idea.

Naruto dodged Chici's giant fist again, and ran toward her.

"Fool! You cannot kill me!" shouted Chici in what sounded like, amusement.

"She's right! You aren't a match for her, and even if you were, killing her would kill your girlfriend too. Release my chakra! It's the only way!"

Naruto didn't hear a word either of them said, his concentration was on one person and one person only…the real Sakura.

When Naruto thought back all those years ago, to when he fought Gaara, he remembered Shukakuu. In order to put him back into Gaara he had to wake Gaara up by hitting him. That was now his goal, his only thought in the world. He had to wake up Sakura.

Chici melted into white lines again, razor sharp, deadly.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Four other Naruto's appeared and, simultaneously, they jumped in five different directions, forcing the white lines to scatter everywhere. Some bumped into others causing little jams in the air, and causing Naruto's chances to soar.

"Your plan won't work, you can't beat a demon!"

Kyuubi's and Chici's voices sounded as one, but Naruto refused to listen. He didn't have to beat Chici. He only had to make sure she lost.

Each Naruto ducked, dove, and dodged past the white lines, however, even with the depleted number of the lines, two Narutos disappeared in a puff of smoke within seconds. Naruto could see Sakura now, protected by a mass of white, but that only gave him hope. For now that he could see that Chici cared about what happened to Sakura, it helped him to believe his plan would work.

Another clone disappeared, but Naruto was so close to his goal. A white line slid past him, only narrowly missing his neck. He wasn't done yet.

The fox was now cursing wildly at him, putting together sentences that didn't even make sense. But Naruto didn't care, he was deaf to any insult the fox made, and he couldn't even comprehend Chici if he tried. Nothing matter expect to wake Sakura.

His final clone disappeared when it tried to get through the mass of white to Sakura. Naruto saw this happen and quickly realized a flaw in his plan. It was impossible to even get close to Sakura!

"Use my chakra! Now while you still can," shouted the fox.

Naruto didn't see any other way he could do it. Maybe if he were smarted or if he had more chakra left he could pull it off, but, expect for the fox, nothing seemed to come to him. Naruto decided that he would have to use the fox's chakra, but he wouldn't use much of it, only enough to blast through to Sakura.

Naruto summoned the reserves of chakra the demon had given him, and released it in a blast from his mouth.

A hole appeared in the sea of white and hit Sakura straight on in the chest.