Flashback
Wow people actually liked the last chapter? Thanks, I got the motivation to throw this small chapter together today. Although this fan fiction might just turn out poor in the end. Eh, it's just practice fan fiction so I wouldn't set high expectations on it anyway.
Disclaimer: I once said I owned Naruto, but then Masashi Kishimoto hired Johnnie Cochran who used the Chewbacca Defense and sued my ass. So I don't own Naruto.
Sorry for mixing the names of English and Japan names of jutsus (in future chapters). I don't know how to translate the english words I'm using into how they should be in the jutsu's names, so I just mixed them.
It was a little more then 1-and-a half years ago. Naruto was sixteen, he just turned sixteen a few days ago. He was on a B-ranked mission to deliver an important package to Suna. He didn't like "playing the Courier-nin" as he described it, but he didn't have a choice. As he was jumping through the trees towards Suna he noticed something odd. It was a few feet ahead of him in his path. It had a black cloak of some kind. "An ANBU member? Wait that has red-". Naruto's eyes widened and he stopped on a branch, a few feet in front of him was Itachi Uchiha.
Considering he just saw the man who had tried to kill him (or capture, he wasn't quite sure) a week ago who was now less then a mile away from Konoha and infront of him, he wasn't exactly quick in reacting. Itachi wasn't waiting for Naruto to respond. He seized the opportunity attacked quickly, but different then he did last time. A week ago when he tried to use a fire ninjutsu to knock Naruto out he ended up getting hit by the Rasengan and nearly knocked out himself. Not exactly a strategy he wanted to repeat. Instead he immediately used his most powerful ability, The Mangekyo Sharingan. He activated Tsukuyomi and made eye contact with Naruto.
Naruto observed his surrondings. He saw a red sky and moon with black clouds moving at a fast pace. He looked down around him. His skin was white. Not just a pale skin color but actually white. He looked at the ground, he saw that all the matter was black, like pools of ink. He looked in front of him and saw Itachi. He too, had skin color that was completely white. Itachi took out a long sharp sword that seemed to come out of nowhere. He disappeared, and in an instant he reappeared in front of Nauto stabbing Naruto. Naruto tried to react, but couldn't. Some unbreakable force was holding him still so he stood there, absorbing the sword's painful stabs.
And during the entire time there, he didn't cry. He didn't scream or yell, nor did he show signs of pain. His wounds would heal but the pain would stay and exponentially grow with each stab. But he didn't give in to the pain. He wasn't going to let Itachi see his pain. He wasn't going to let him have the pleasure of seeing himself suffer. Perhaps he should have, because what Itachi did afterwards was far worse to Naruto then any physical pain.
Itachi knew that he would be weak after the 72 mental hours were up and Naruto wouldn't faint from the pain. He increased his stabs, still nothing. He increased the pain, still nothing. Again and again, he couldn't get to Naruto. But then he recalled something, Naruto had a weakness towards helping his friends. He remembered seeing one, she seemed to have a significant impact on Naruto. Itachi was running out of options so he switched his torture strategy.
Naruto stood in place frozen by shock. Lying in front of him was an illusion of a deceased Sakura. He had reached the overload point in fear. In some point of someone's fear levels there is a point where they shut down. They do not scream for mercy, nor do they pray for a way to get rid of the source. They simply stop. They eventually snap out of it after much time of staying still from the shock, and when they do they will revert to the screaming and other methods. But until then Naruto simply stayed in the fear overload point, staring at the dead fake Sakura.
Itachi read Naruto's expression correctly. Thinking he no longer needed to use up chakra holding the genjutsu he dispelled Tsukuyomi. Naruto and Itachi's minds returned to the real world. Itachi took a step forward towards Naruto whose head was staring at the ground and looked like he was about to faint.
In Naruto's mind, Naruto lay unconscious from the mental torture. The Kyubi watched Naruto, noticing that his body was becoming tense from heavy emotions. The mental "jail bars" that were created from the Fourth's seal and kept the Kyubi contained were weakening. They started out by getting small cracks, the cracks deepened and spread and eventually the cracks spread like a pandemic, covering the bars.
Without warning, Naruto's head looked back up at Itachi. His eyes were red and the pupils had turned into fox like slits. Red chakra was escaping Naruto's body. Naruto's fear had been converted into anger. The anger fueled the demonic chakra's ability to escape. However, this was different then the previous times Naruto gave into the Kyuubi's chakra. The chakra amount was giant compared to all of his previous times combined. His whisker-like marks on his face expanded like always and the usual symptoms, but there was something else. His skin was breaking apart. On Naruto's left hand his skin was breaking apart in pieces that took the shape of tiny bits of jagged glass. The bits of skin broke apart from Naruto's body, floated above his height and then dissolved into the air. What was left behind on where the skin was a layer of the red chakra, consuming Naruto's skin. The chakra spread like fire, consuming Naruto's left hand, then arm, and then the rest of his body.
Suddenly Itachi, who was watching the scene in awe, was hit hard by a whip-like strand of the red chakra. He fell to the ground and fainted, but Naruto continued to release his red chakra. The chakra he was emitting started to fuse. It ascended to a giant ball of red chakra, hovering the ground behind Naruto. And then after around a minute of releasing the red chakra, the process stopped. Naruto collapsed and his skin healed using what red chakra he had left. Meanwhile, the massive red ball of the evil chakra behind him dissipated, and in its place the Kyuubi stood.
Sorry for cliffhanger, I threw this one together quickly. Also, I'd appreciate constructive criticism.