AN: Yes, I am mean. I don't own Naruto. Hope you enjoyed the niceness up till now, you won't be getting much more until a lot later. Sorry. This chapter is mainly where the M rating comes in, so read at your own risk.

NEW AN: Ok, so something was wrong with the file I imported and I didn't realize it. THE BEGINING OF THIS CHAPTER HAS been fixed!

Chapter 6: The Trouble with Good Things…

Naruto was running. Running from the memories of his fight. The power, the explosion… the spread of the damage… the… No... I didn't do it... it wasn't them... it... couldn't have been... NO... JUST RUN!

Naruto had cleared the large rocks, now half destroyed by his attack and as running in the last direction he had seen his wife and friends go. Naruto was afraid, truly, for the first time since becoming the Kyuubi. He was running so fast the burned remains of trees just became a black blur on either side of the now partially destroyed path. It was only a mile away from where he had unleashed the attack when he saw exactly what he had feared. Exactly what he had never wanted to see. Exactly what could drive him to the brink of insanity. In front of him were the remains of four bodies. Blackened skeletons, no flesh or blood, no muscle or skin, just black bones. Naruto looked at them for minutes, staring blankly at what he had to assume were his friends... his wife... his life.

Why was Naruto running? He couldn't think of anything, his mind was numb. He sprinted with all speed in his possession. The faster he ran the less time he had to think. Constantly dodging trees and branches, now out of the range of his attack, made it impossible for him to have time to think. Tears unconsciously streamed from his face as he ran miles in mere seconds. Hinata… BAM! Naruto ran straight through a tree. Hinata fighting Neji… BAM! Hinata smiling… BAM! Hinata blushing after a kiss… BAM! Hinata in a wedding dress… BAM! Hinata's blackened corpse… Naruto smashed through one more tree before jumping into the tree tops. Then he saw it. A town. The village of Sound. Naruto hadn't bothered to reapply his genjutsu, and now he was crouched on the top of a tree viewing his original destination. He dropped to the ground and weakly leaned against a tree.

I killed them. I killed her. I… I don't have reason to live… she is gone and I did it… damn it… DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT! Hinata… I couldn't even protect you from myself. Some "proud failure" I am… Naruto was weeping now, clinging to the tree as if it were Hinata. The last time he had cried like this was when he had learned about the demon fox. He slid to the ground, unconsciously swinging one tail and destroying three trees in the process. He pulled a kunai from his belt, posing over his heart. Why do I live? What is there left for me? Nothing left in this world with her gone. Suddenly Naruto plunged the kunai into his shoulder, not his heart. I could kill them. I could finish the mission, just make it more… personal. Yes… I… I will kill them. That's what I can do. I can kill those responsible… for attacking me and causing me to kill her… I swear… I swear to KILL THEM ALL! Naruto's eyes slowly went from blue to red. They don't deserve to live, these inhabitants of Sound. They have harbored Akatsuki and Orochimaru. Tonight, they will all die. I only hope that they have loved ones outside of the village that will know my pain. Naruto stood up, tears still pouring from his now red eyes, eyes that had not been on his face since the Kyuubi's death. His tails twitched in anticipation of blood to be spilled. The tips, always silver up until now, had become the color of blood. His claws no long looked like long nails but instruments of death, each as capable as a katana or kunai. The chakra around his body, once called infinite, began to swirl around him, blood red not blue. No, there would be no survivors now. No quarter. Naruto was gone in a flash.

Jiriya was surprised to find the entrance to their hold now covered by rock. It had been four hours sense they had heard anything from outside. The huge boulder above their head had cooled so it was safe to touch. Jiriya had decided that he would go up ahead and make sure that there wasn't anymore blazing attacks flying around. He used a simple earth jutsu and the rock turned to mud, clearing the way to the surface. When he came out, he wasn't surprised at the surrounding area. No, to say Jiriya was surprised would not be telling the entire truth. Jiriya was frozen in a state of complete and total panic. What has he done? Jiriya hopped to the top of the rocks, realizing now that the rock blocking his path had just hours before been molten, and viewed the complete devastation of the miles around. There wasn't even a tree within a mile of what could only be called the ground zero of Naruto's attack. There was a definite center where Naruto had been fighting the two swordsmen. It was evident in the way the ash had settled like ripples around this point. It was evident in the many meters deep crater of what Jiriya assumed used to be ground, but was now probably gas from the heat. What Jiriya saw made his stomach turn over. There was nothing. Nothing as far as the eye could see. No Naruto, no enemy, no organic material not completely burned to a cinder. Jiriya didn't know what to think. Is Naruto even alive? I doubt we could find any trace of his body if he isn't. I don't see how even absorbing the Kyuubi's chakra could protect someone from this. Jiriya knew that the worst case scenario was probably true in this case. He summoned a toad, which, as fate would have it, was Gamakichi.

"I need you to take a message to the Hokage."

"Great! Have you seen Naruto around lately? He hasn't summoned me to play in a while."

"… No, he hasn't. And I don't think he will again. Tell the Hokage that Naruto is MIA and presumed dead."

"WHAT? You can't be serious, master Jiriya. Naruto can't die."

"LOOK AROUND YOU, GOD DAMN IT! NARUTO WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS!"

"I still don't believe it. But I will deliver the message. Naruto can't die."

"How do you know?"

"He hasn't yet, has he?"

The little frog disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving Jiriya alone in the barren wasteland. Or, at least that was what he would have wanted… Jiriya turned around to make sure the others didn't see this and stayed in the dugout, only to find them all staring at him. Hinata was looking at him in horror with her hand over her heart. Oh shit! She heard me!

"Listen, Hinata…" He didn't even need to go any farther, as Hinata collapsed into Shizune's arms unconscious.

"Jiriya… is what you said true?" Sakura looked like she was about to follow Hinata in fainting. Jiriya nodded. Sakura collapsed to her knees.

"No… that's not true…" Sakura was about to begin crying when they all felt something that could only be described as pure anger incarnate. A killing intent large enough to wake Hinata passed over them, but they all realized that it wasn't directed at them. It didn't even seem to be close.

"What the hell was that?" Jiriya felt a chakra signature unlike any he had ever felt before. It had to be a hundred miles away, but it was strong enough to effect them.

"It… it was Naruto!" Hinata jumped up and shrugged off Shizune's help. "No one's that strong except Naruto!"

"But… if that was Naruto… it seemed almost insane with anger…"

"Maybe he thinks we died?" Shizune was hesitant to offer that explanation. Hinata began to pour chakra into her legs.

"Then we need to find him and prove we live!" Hinata was off, faster then any of them had ever seen her run. Jiriya sighed.

"Follow her, we have no hope of finishing the mission without her and Naruto." They were off again.

Naruto was finished. The town was finished. There as nothing left inside of it but death. Naruto was covered from head to toe in the blood of the citizens and shinobi of sound. Naruto's canines had extended even longer, giving him a purely demonic appearance. The only thing that marked him as human was the tears that still flowed unchecked down his now blood covered face. The kunai was still imbedded in his shoulder. Naruto, despite losing himself to the battle, had managed to uncover some information. Before Kabuto, the new leader of sound, died, he had told Naruto which way Kisame always came from and that he had been here recently. It was time to hunt.
Tsunade sat at her desk, staring in the direction she had seen the explosion in. Many people in the village had come to demand to know what was going on, especially after a killing intent had come over the city, many recognizing it to be similar to the Kyuubi's 19 odd years ago. No one knew. Not even her. Suddenly, a little frog appeared on her desk in a puff of smoke. "Yo! Old Lady! I am supposed to bring you a message from Jiriya." Tsunade's eye twitched, but she refrained from sending the summon to meet his maker.

"What?"

"He told me to tell you that Naruto has gone missing in action, and should be presumed to be dead. But I don't really think that that is the case."

"You mean that explosion…"

"I don't know, I didn't see it. I did see the miles and miles of nothing but scorched earth. But Naruto can survive anything."

Tsunade sat back in her chair, still looking in the direction of the explosion. No, Naruto isn't dead. No one is capable of producing that much chakra or killing intent. It made Orochimaru look like a kind grandpa. But why is he o angry? Tsunade had many ideas on why he would put off that much chakra.

Jiriya suddenly pieced it all together when he saw the coincidence. Four dead bodies lay in the road, burned beyond description. If Naruto had seen this he probably would assume the worst. After all, this is about where we would have been if I hadn't stopped to hide. Damn. It all makes sense. Hinata crouched next to the dead bodies. She hadn't been the same Hinata sense she had woken up. She wasn't smiling, she wasn't blushing, she wouldn't even speak. All Hinata did was run, run after Naruto.

"Now we know why Naruto left. And that killing intent…"

"Let's go." Hinata was off again. Her companions followed, though they knew she was under stress.

"Hinata, don't worry. We will find him."

"Yeah, if he could survive that explosion then he can survive anything…"

Hinata's mind was anything except a mirror of her outer self. Her face was completely emotionless while her insides were churning in agony. Naruto… please wait! It was all Hinata could do to not break into tears on the spot, but she knew that would slow her down. She had only one goal now. To catch up to Naruto, to ease the pain she had felt in his presence before.

"Sir, the Kyuubi container is attempting to reach the base!"

"…what?"

"We just received a report that the vessel just destroyed Sound!"

"…who reported this…"

"Sir, Kisame reported it, but we lost contact with him immediately afterwards."

"…recall all members…"

"Sir?"

"… I want every member here for when he comes… we must be ready to perform the ceremony."

"Yes sir!"

Naruto dropped the now dead body of Kisame and crushed his sword in his other hand. He had a scent, and it wasn't Kisame's. This smell reeked of death and evil, and Naruto knew instinctivly that is was of their leader. He knew where to go now. Funny, how elite ninja didn't guard their scent. They never thought someone would come after them. Well, that's their mistake. Naruto was off again, this time slower. On the trail left by Kisame, he needed to slow to a human pace to make sure that he wouldn't lose it. With his enhanced senses, it was simple to follow his trail. It must be close. His claws dug into the earth as he followed the trail, not knowing that his own path was being followed.
"What… happened… here?" Sakura could barely speak as she looked over the remains of Sound. Jiriya was speechless, as was Shizune. Hinata had removed her impassive face, it was replaced by horror. In front of them lay the burned out husks of buildings, most smashed to the ground. The village was a graveyard uncovered. Countless dead littered the streets. The foursome walked through the streets that had been drenched with blood. A dismembered body here, an armless corpse there. A body looked like it had been turned inside out. Sakura vomited more then once, even being an expert med-ninja had not prepared her for this. Hinata would have, but it appeared as if only her legs were working, not her mind. The most gruesome part was the mountain of heads in the middle of the town. It looked like not one of the residents had kept there head on their neck, based upon the small mountain before them. No women, no children, no citizen or shinobi had been spared. Each head bore a look of terror in their unseeing eyes. Jiriya frowned at the slaughter, he couldn't form words to explain what this was. Naruto must really have gone insane… the Naruto I knew would have never slaughtered these people like this… something must have snapped. Hinata had not removed a look of sheer terror from her face since entering the village. When she saw the lifeless and headless body of a child, no older then three, lying carelessly in the gutter and covered in the blood of a thousand people she finally broke down. She knelt next to the body of the child with tears streaming down her face as she wept.

"He could have been ours…" were the only words her friends deciphered from her mumbling beneath her tears. Sakura managed to carry her out of the city in the direction Naruto had gone. It was easy to find, with all of the trees he destroyed. Shizune almost threw up at the sight of the only body to still have a head attached to it. Kabuto, the de facto leader of Sound, looked like he had had his skeleton removed as he was alive and then had it used to pin his corpse to a wall. She soon left to leave the city, followed by a still silent Jiriya.

"Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld!" Jiriya gave the village of Sound a semi-proper burial, sinking the buildings, corpses, and blood to hell. When he was done, the only thing that would have given away the fact that a city had once stood was the vast open area. Jiriya stood up to his full height and faced away from his companions.

"I… don't think that we will find Naruto is his right mind, if we find him at all. That is something that he would never had done… ever. He doesn't kill for fun or thrill…"

"He is killing from revenge."

"Right, Shizune. And I fear what he will do if he comes back to his right mind and finds that his revenge was… not needed." Hinata was slumped on the ground, barely managing to stay up straight leaning on Sakura's leg. Her tears had not stopped and her hands were still covered in the blood of the child…

One Week Earlier

"Naruto, why is it then whenever I get to be alone with you, I just end up loving your tails more?"

"Huh?"

"Nothing…" Hinata Hyuga leaned against her betrothed as they lay under a tree in the solitude of the forest. She leaned her head against his shoulder as his tails wrapped her in their warmth.

"Mmmm…"

"Hinata, why do you love me so much?"

"Your tails…" Hinata giggled with her eyes closed. "Of course it could be that you are one of the nicest, bravest, handsomest, strongest, inspiring ninja alive. But I am putting my money on "furry"…"

"I love you too." Hinata blushed. She loved it when she heard that. It was like her dream come true, over and over again. "Hinata… when we get married, are you going to still be a ninja?"

"Hmm?"

"I mean, as Hokage I won't exactly be short on money… I was just wondering if… if you wanted…"

"Naruto, I would love to start a family."

"Really?"

"Yes, as soon as we get married we can begin work on the Uzimaku Clan. If there was anything I ever wanted in life, it was the chance to be a mother…"

"Well, there are plenty of other guys who would have been happy to aid you in that goal."

"Naruto, you didn't let me finish. I always wanted to be the mother of your children."

"I know what you meant." Naruto gently tickled her with one of his tails. "I was just kidding with you."

"Hmph, well maybe you could be less serious next time you're "just kidding"!"

"Hinata… you're cute when you're mad."

"I am not mad." Hinata snuggled closer to him and into his soft, furry tails. "I just wanted to make sure you understood just who is on top in this relationship."

"You can be on top of me any day, Hinata."

"Oh, you! I would leave you for that comment if your tails weren't so soft and fuzzy…"

"Huh?"

"Just Kidding..."

"He could have been ours… Naruto… don't leave me now…"

"Hinata, are… are you going to be ok?" Sakura looked down at her friend. She shouldn't have had to do this. Married only a day before, she should be on a honeymoon, not on a chase to find her possibly mentally deranged husband who thinks she is dead. Hinata managed to pull herself up off of the ground with help from Sakura.

"We need to find him, or else more people will be hurt. I know that if Naruto died, I would probably do the same that he is doing…" Hinata looked up with new courage. "But we aren't dead and this doesn't have to end like this! Let's go before we lose him!" Hinata was off again, seemingly with renewed strength from the small rest. Her friends were right on her heels.

They soon came across the body of another Akatsuki, except this one was the real deal. The all recognized Kisame from either personal experience or the recent bingo book. What was left of him was enough to find out who he was. The large, snapped, sword covered in black scales was also a key clue. If it hadn't have been for the fact that his head had been completely burned so it was merely a skull, so they could see the sharp teeth, it would have been harder. They saw the path of destruction that led through the forest from their place on a hill overlooking the entire valley that Sound had once existed in. It was no longer travelling in a straight line. It had turned. Naruto was headed toward Konoha.

AN: Hmm… WHAT WILL HAPPEN? Please… review. I like it when I see people reviewing, it makes it seem like people are reading. This story has quite a few chapters left. I would say at least 5 more, longish ones. So please, review. It makes writing the next chapter so much more… fulfilling. Thanks for reading up till now, I will keep the updates coming.