Chapter 2 Part 1- Panic

The scene Kakashi and Yugao walked upon as the sun rose was horrifying. Six bodies sat stacked in a pile, their arms ripped off, legs shredded, and their faces bloated as if they sat in water the whole night. There was no blood anywhere, not even on the bodies. Kakashi shot a look to Yugao, before indicating towards the bodies. With a nod, Yugao stepped towards the bodies and began to examine them, noting that two of them were chunin, while the rest were civilians. A sudden clatter in the other room caused the two to stiffen, before pulling out kunai. Inching towards the room, Kakashi signaled to Yugao and pointed to the side of the door. With a nod, the two posted themselves beside the door. Placing his hand on the door, the silver haired nin let out a small burst of chakra, unlocking the door. With a quick nod to his partner Kakashi forced open the door and rushed in, only to be forced to the side by Yugao as a claw made of water shot towards the.

Yugao let out a grunt as she was pinned to the wall, by the claw. Looking around she spotted a blonde mat of hair lying on the bed, soft snores indicating that the person was sleep.

"Sempai try waking Naruto-chan." Yugao grunted out, as Kakashi stood.

Walking over to the blond, Kakashi lightly shook the boy from his sleep…

Naruto was running. His mother was just in front of him, but no matter how much he ran, he couldn't catch her. He knew this was a dream, but he desperate wanted to catch her, if only so that he could hold her one last time. As he was running, he felt a dark presence reaching for him. Looking back his saw a pair of dark yellow eyes glaring at him from the darkness as clawed hands reached out to grab him. The hand caught his shoulder and shook him, as the other had turned into a kunai and slowly began to press into his chest.

"Noooooooooooooo…"

"ooooooooo…!" Kakashi jumped back as Naruto shot up screaming.

A shrill scream from behind, caused him to turn away from the blonde, only to see Yugao, one arm floating in the water claw, the other being cut slowly. Turning to Naruto, Kakashi noted that the boy had a faraway look in his eyes and his fists were clenched tightly.

"Naruto, wake up!" Kakashi barked, as he attempted to get Yugao free, only for the water to spike where he touched and attempt to skewer him.

The sudden yell startled Naruto from his sleep, causing his unconscious control to relax and making the water fall to the floor in a puddle. Kakashi shot a brief look at Naruto before grabbing Yugao and shunshining away. Naruto saw the look and the bloody arm on the floor and panicked.

'I-I'm a-a-a monster… What they said is true.' Realization hit Naruto, especially as thoughts of his rage filled murder spree of the night before returned to him.

Between adrenaline, exhaustion, Kyuubi's chakra and the emotional maelstrom he was going through it didn't fully hit him that he slaughtered over twenty civilians.

"Erp!" Naruto placed his hands over his mouth and ran out the door towards the bathroom. It was the that Naruto noticed that Lady Luck seemed to have taken a vacation in his life, as he tripped over something and landed on a pile of trash the villagers probably put in his apartment. The smell was so horrid that Naruto couldn't hold it anymore and released the thick liquid that had built up in his throat. Wiping his mouth on the back of his hand, Naruto looked up. As he looked at the trash, it looked back… no that wasn't right, since when does trash have eyes. It came to him like a fist in his gut, the dead eyes that looked at him wasn't trash, none of it was. It was all dead bodies, well parts anyway. Crawling back from the dead bodies, Naruto bumped into something. Turning, he saw a head looking at him, a look of horror on its face, it's red eyes dull and lifeless.

"no…" The blonde whispered as he crawled another direction.

Suddenly the mouth opened. "Told you. Once a monster always a monster."

Naruto let out a scared cry. "No, you're not real… you can't be." He placed his hands over his ears and shut his eyes tightly. After a few minutes he reopened the and sighed as the mouth was closed once more.

That's when he heard it. As if carried on the wind itself it began to call out in a hoarse whisper. "Monster… Monster… Monster…Monster… Monster… Monster… MONSTER!"

It got louder with each call until suddenly it was yelling at him from every direction. The walls themselves turning into soulless faces that began screeching the words at him. Not knowing what to do the five year old showed how old he truly was and ran into his mother's bedroom and launched himself on her bed. With a little hick, he curled into a ball and cried even as the voices continued to torment him.

'Mommy… mommy please. Make it stop…'

Deep within the blonde's mind the demonic entity grinned fiercely at the new development. With the boy's mind unstable, it could break free, quite easily if the boy's cries for help were anything to go on.

Reaching a claw out of the cage it pulsed it's chakra summoning the boy into his mindscape.

"Help you say…" Kyuubi called to the bundle of adolescent flesh. "What would you give to be free of this nightmare… to have your precious mother back?"

Naruto's head shot up so fast the fox was give slight whiplash. "What?" Came the whispered question, his voice so low the fox almost missed it.

"I said I can end this nightmare for you… I can give you back you mother." The fox let his words sink in for a moment before he pitched his hook. "All you have to do is release me!"

Rationality was dead to the boy as the thought of being with his mother filled his mind. Standing the blonde walked closer to the cage, where the Kyuubi let out it's malevolent chakra and began lifting the blonde to the seal.

"Now just pull it off and you can have her back." 'Yes as soon as it's gone you'll be dead right alongside her, and I shall be free once more.' The Kyuubi cackled on the inside as Naruto grabbed the seal and slowly pulled.

A hand reached out and grabbed his arm stopping him.