She sat there with the same animalistic features as before. The marks on her face much more noticeable, her eyes a red feral look, her hair had taken on a blood red tone and her nails and teeth had sharpen and grown.
She was sitting crossed leg at the edge of her bed with her finger wrapping one of the two chakra bubbled tails around it.
"So this is what it's like to breath. Eww this place smells like rubber and medicine." She touches her long red hair and then the skin on her legs. She poked each toe counting them to ten.
"I like this body, Hina is going to have to share more often." At the mention of his comrade Itachi spoke up.
"Where is she, what have you done with her?" he was ready for anything and starting to pace himself slowly toward the foxy deity.
"Oh she's fine just sleeping. Really, really worn out." She got down from the bed and stumbled to the floor.
"Dam it. Walking with two legs is hard. What the fuck, are just going to stare at me or help me up. You humans have no respect for anybody. I told you who I am and you still have not even said a mere hi or introduced you selves. If you thing I'm going to attack I'm not. I can barley work this fucking body as you can see." She grabbed on to the railing on the side of the bed and hoisted herself up.
"What's going on in here…" Naruto had walked in when he felt the chakra change, but when he stepped in the doorway his mind was sent to his mindscape.
"What the hell is going on here you giant fur ball? What was wrong with Hina?" Naruto was glaring at the red mass of fur in front of him.
"She has grown very well. Kitsu is the offspring you placed into your child. It would seem since they share the same chakra system since birth she is able to take over when yours is under extreme stress or when the seal is weaken. She seems too nice to be my seed though." The fox sneering out that last part with a slight chuckle.
Naruto snapped back into the real world to see Kitsu trying to figure out how to work the legs under her.
"Kitsu is it? Why did you attack the first time you escaped?" Naruto ask softly.
"Hello father didn't notice you coming in. That first attack was all the rage being let out of the body that I was holding in. You could say it's hereditary. Now that it's gone I can function right. Well no I can't fucking function right because I'm use to having four legs not two." She gave up and fell to the floor with a plop.
To everyone's surprise Kenta walked up and stuck his hand out for her.
"What the hell do you want me to do with that?" she sniffed his hand and looked at him with a confused face.
"Oh hello Shukaku, I thought you might have still been trapped in some tea kettle somewhere. I didn't know they locked you in a human again. My father told me about you." He grabbed her and pushed her on the hospital bed.
"When will my Hina awake?" he looked at her sternly holding her down by her shoulders.
She was upset to see how everyone around obviously didn't want her presence there. The tall boy with the black hair and bandage eyes was on his toes ready to pounce. The shorter one with the red hair looked as if he was going to shake her to death and the one who knew the ancient fox sealing was only a hand sign away from sealing her up. Her father was the only one that looked on her with sympathy or maybe it was just pity.
"Look dammit, I know my reputation as a demon is not a good one but we are not all out for vengeance and world domination. The only thing I know about this world is what Hina tells me and the emotions she feels.
The crowd around her was still on their toes. She was trying her best to what Hina told her was called…polite.
"Fine I know where I'm not wanted! I'm not the one who wanted to come out! And just so you know the longer she is in the seal with pure chakra surrounding her, the faster she heals, but if you want me to leave I can just go back and you guys can try to heal her yourselves. She knows I exist. "
She folded her arms and stared at them with her piercing red eyes.
"I'm sorry that these stupid boys are acting like this Kitsu, they just don't understand your importance like I do. If it weren't for you Hina would have never survived and she would have never grace these boys with her presence. "
Naruto knew just how to talk to her. She had that high and mighty attitude of her father and was easily seduced by flattery.
"Instead of trying to attack Kitsu maybe you two should take the time to learn more about her. Maybe I should make it a mission so you can be more motivated about it, and Kenta you are more than welcome to stay. I on the other had would just like to check your seal Kitsu if you don't mind so I can go back to work."
Kenta moved out of the way and Naruto walking closer to the red haired girl. All of a sudden Naruto's chakra flared when he touched Kitsu and she was out cold.
"What's going on?" Naruto said aloud as he looked at his hands and Kitsu's lifeless body.
He picked up her shirt to see the seal on her stomach, if was a different form from what he had placed on Hina's stomach at birth. Then it started to change again to its original five pronged spiral.
"Oh I understand, I can't touch her in this form. As a form of defense the seal shifts, if I come in contact with Kitsu she reverts back to Hina."
As he said that the hot red hair turned back to its dark midnight color and the chakra that bubbled around her body had disappeared.
Hina was back but still unconscious.
"When she wakes up I want and explanation on what exactly is Kitsu's roll and more about this pure chakra she was talking about. Have Hina tell you then give me a report asap. Also for your sake you better hope she is up in time for her uncle Neji's graduates banquet in two nights. She would be devastated if she missed it. I'll be in my office if you guys need me."
Naruto left out of the room and didn't even head back to hokage mansion. He needed to meditate and speak to his host about the problem that has arisen.
As he sat on his father's head and entered into his mindscape…
"All right you dam fox, I want answers now!"
Back At Konoha Medical Center:
Hina was still asleep; Kenta sat at the edge of her bed staring at her motionless body. 'She knew who I was already. Hina will know the truth once she wakes up. How will she feel about me knowing I am the same as her? She knows how it feels though, to have something you never wanted in you for your village sake.'
The nurse had just walked out of the door after re-bandaging Itachi's eyes and Twigs hands.
"So you're one too?" Itachi said looking toward where Kenta sat.
"So what if I am, you would just be added to a list of people that despises me if you don't like it. That would mean you despised Hina also."
He glared at the boy hoping he would feel if though his bandaged eyes.
"I didn't even say I despised you, stop putting words in my mouth, and I would never hate Hina, she is one of my most precious people and…and…" his voice trailed off. He couldn't admit it, not yet.
"She should have stayed in Suna with me and my family, but you convinced her to come home. She would have been happy in Suna with me. No harm like this would have ever come to her. You're obviously not capable of handling her. I should ask her again when she wakes up if she would like to stay in Suna for awhile." Kenta was referring to the offer he made to Hina two years ago when she was 11.
She was on a visit to Suna with her mother. Gaara was her godfather; he had offered Hina to stay with them a few years to get away from the villagers trying to hurt her every day. She had almost accepted the proposal with her parents' permission but Itachi had ran away from Konoha to meet her in Suna and on his knees begged her to stay in Konoha, vowing that he would protect her from everything that my come their way.
"Look, I know I failed at protecting her but she is our teammate, we are responsible and we will take care of her and become chunnin together, right Twig?"
"That's right and I really don't like how you show up here thinking you have the authority like she belongs to you. She is her own person." Twig was shifting around in his hospital bed feeling the urge to pounce on Kenta.
"I'm going to take my leave Itachi but be forewarned. You are my rival when it comes to her even though you are too afraid to admit it. The only reason I'm the superior one in our little battle is because I can admit it." Kenta got up and squeezed Hina's hand before walking out the door.
"What the hell was that last statement for Itachi?" Twig asked not understanding what Kenta meant.
"Don't worry about it he's just being moody like always. He doesn't know whether to be happy or sad."
The door opened to the room to reveal Hiro, Hina's older brother.
He nodded his head in each boy's direction to acknowledge them and walked over to Hina. He rubbed her head twice and pecked her on the forehead.
Nema followed in seconds after Hiro.
"Hey Itachi, hey Twig. Hiro and I wanted to come and check on you guys. He was really worried about Hina. I hope your all feeling better for the banquet, I would hate to have you guys missed it right Twig?" She cast her pupuiless eyes in twigs direction eagerly waiting on an answer.
"If Hina feels better we will be there promise." He said giving her a reassuring smile.
Nema couldn't help but giggle, only Hina knew about her little crush on her playful teammate. She had promised to keep it a secret for Nema's sake. She was worried her father wouldn't accept him.
"Ok ok everyone visiting hours are over let these three get some rest alright?" Sakura had just walked in and was kicking everyone out. Hiro rubbed his sisters' head one more time as Nema grabbed hold of her hand. They both let go and waved goodbye at the rest of the injured in the room.
Sakura walked over to each one of her patience and did some minor testing. Looking over vitals and checking I.V bags. She made sure the bandages on her son's eyes weren't bloody or the ones on Twigs hands.
"Ok your all are looking good. Ill ignore the confrontation from earlier if you all promise to sleep well tonight alright?" They nodded at the woman and she walked out of the door.
Midnight was closing in when he awoke. He was still upset with the words Kenta throw at him earlier. He rose from his bed and walked over to Hina's trying not to fall in the process. He found her small hand and held it so gently in his own giant one hoping it would not break from his touch. Her pulse on her wrist was steady, she was still asleep.
'I don't know how to admit it to you princess. When it comes to this I don't have the guts to say it to your face. Everything else I do with ease but to admit this to you for some reason is the hardest thing ever. We are young, and we have a huge future ahead of us. What if I don't belong there? Maybe there will be a better choice than me. Maybe I should give up and maybe Kenta is the better choice for you princess.' All of these thoughts roamed his young brain. He held her hand to his lips and landed a soft almost unnoticeable peck on her knuckles.
He found his way back to his bed but sleep didn't come on fast enough.