I do not own Naruto.

I do not own Diablo.

Warning this chapter contains torture and character death.

Technique translations are at the bottom of the page.

Two figures, one with Sharingan eyes and one that is more serpentine than human, can be seen kneeling before the bone throne in their base. Shadows obscure most of the room but the throne and whoever may be in it lie in a particularly dense patch of darkness.

A toneless voice issues from the hidden throne, "You had the kyuubi's vessel located yet instead of going to get him yourselves you sent two puppets that had already been defeated by him once. Tell me why I should continue to support you and I might let one of you leave here alive."

The snake-like one manages to make sounds approaching the sound of a human voice to respond. "It was important to find out whether his defeat of the Akatsuki was due to an accident, skill, or help. Based on his defeat of those two it is likely he used the power of the kyuubi to assist him in destroying Akatsuki. This effects how we will fight him when we confront him greatly."

"When will you capture him?"

"Well that is where a new problem shows up."

"What kind of a problem."

"We lost track of him. We can no longer even tell if he is dead or alive using our specialized jutsu. It is as if he is no longer in this world, yet still living."

"Very well it seems he is beyond your reach for now. Go back to your games of revenge, immortality, and world domination."

As the serpent-like figure gapes at the throne the other bows to the throne before dragging it out of the chamber.

"The fox must have taken him to hell to train as a demon now that he has his mark. This will either make things very easy or very hard. Hopefully those fools I had take over are capable of finding the vessel and bringing it to me before it can become a threat."

"So our little fox awakens at last."

Shaking his head Naruto tries to reply before realizing he is still in fox form. Shifting into human form Naruto questions the heavily bandaged figure before him. "Who are you, and how did you get me away from the three who ruled that castle?"

"I am Shosui as for how I got you away I didn't. I am one of said rulers so unless I threw you out the window or something I am unable to get you away from us."

"But didn't you guys decide to kill me?"

"Oh you heard our little conversation did you? No matter we changed our minds soon after that. Of course that is mainly because the kyuubi made its presence known. After that we decided to train you and then set you loose on those three weakling brothers that have been trying to take over hell. They've managed to take over the bijuu's lands simply because no one was around to defend against their claim to them. As for the other lesser territories they gained they took those by bluffing them under their control. After all if they took over the bijuu's lands they must be powerful right? Of course once the bijuu returned we figured we would get to watch them beat the hell out of the three, but it seems that between their extended imprisonment, infighting, and lack of support the bijuu were unable to reclaim their lands. This has just made things worse around here in our opinion since now the idiot trio has victories against the bijuu to back up their threats and bluffs."

"So who are these three?"

"Oh right you've been in the human world with the kyuubi. Well the three are brothers I think their names are Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal. I'm not sure however. Until they got the guts to move in here they were out past the human torture areas playing prison guard. Out there the most action a demon gets is some battles against armor that has been enchanted and given sentience by some idiot human mages and few eons ago. Now the damn things think they are angels and that their little corner of hell is actually a fortress made by heaven to hold off the demons of hell from conquering the human world and then heaven itself. The things are mere annoyances but they've been down here so long that the ambient energy of hell has made their enchaments permanent thus making them damn near invincible. Thus proving the angel theory in their opinion. Of course some joker going and given them all wings awhile back hasn't helped any."

"So basically the bijuu were overthrown by some uppity border guards that usual only see any action by fighting off near-indestructible suits of armor."

"Yeah that sounds about right."

Naruto immediately started laughing so hard he was unable to stand for a good twenty minutes. Once he regained control of himself he proceeded to question Shosui further. "Why haven't you guys gone and killed them if they are so weak?"

"Oh we tried, but they apparently have someone helping them since before we could finish them off they got a massive burst of power that they used to overwhelm us and force a retreat. Since then they have tried attacking us repeatedly, but we beat them back every time. The power surge only happens when the are badly wounded and their life is in danger. From our investigations into this problem we discovered that the power surged is actually them drawing on a system similar to humanity's eight celestial gates, but with the additional twist of a large amount of power being supplied by no less than three other sources. Two of the sources are the same for all three with one unique one each. One source is a demon with power equal to one of the greater bijuu. Another is drawn from the human souls trapped in the punishment areas, and the last is stolen from the human world's ambient energy."

"How am I supposed to kill them without activating that power boost?"

"Just use the kyuubi's mark. However we are going to train you at the kyuubi's request. Plus they might be resistant to the mark so having the skill and power to kill them will be useful too, and we want to fight you sometime as well."

"So what sort of training is this going to be?"

"The fun kind of course!"

Seeing the bloodthirsty gleam in Shosui's eyes Naruto suddenly remembered that their idea of fun was watching or participating in a fight to the death.

Tsunade stands amidst piles of corpses outside the Hokage tower. A wounded ANBU appears beside her before speaking and distracting her from her perusal of the corpses all bearing either Iwa, Mizu, Konoha, or Suna hitai-ite. "Tsunade-sama the remaining Iwa forces are retreating finally."

"It's about time the majority of Mizu's shinobi retreated two days ago. Any idea why they finally decided to retreat?"

"They retreated shortly after reaching the Hyuuga district."

"So the Hyuuga clan fought them off?"

"Unfortunately that does not appear to be the case Hokage-sama. When the medic-nins went in to look for wounded they found only two Hyuuga, and a lot of Konoha-nin dead from jyuuken strikes."

"Are you telling me that the Iwa shinobi cleared a path through the village to the Hyuuga district, met up with them and then the Hyuuga clan defected and fought out of the village as allies of the Iwa forces?"

"Yes I am Hokage-sama."

"Who were the two Hyuuga let behind, and what is their condition?"

"We identified them as Hyuuga Neji and Hyuuga Hinata. Hyuuga Neji was found dead from a combination of severe brain damage consistent with that inflicted by the caged bird seal and multiple jyuuken strikes to the chest and head. It is believed he tried to fight off the other Hyuuga and defend Hinata while resisting the caged bird seal. Hyuuga Hinata was however worse off. Her remains showed signs of having been tortured for months, her eyes had been removed, all the bones in her arms and legs broken until they were less than splinters, most of her musculature was removed, her chakra coils were destroyed from what is believed to be repeated high power juuken strikes, and it was discovered her cause of death was due to an extremely powerful jyuuken strike to her forehead which scrambled her brain and sent fragments of her skull throughout the room she had been kept in."

"Find out why the Hyuuga had been torturing Hinata for so long, how nobody noticed, and why they took her eyes. Then have both Hyuuga Hinata and Hyuuga Neji listed on the memorial stone along with all our other dead from today. Also have someone sent to Suna with their surviving shinobi to offer our thanks for their assistance. Finally have someone find Shizune and have her report to the hospital, I'm going to need her help there soon."

As the ANBU ran off to carry out her orders Tsunade made her way to the hospital, not looking at the corpses along the way for fear of seeing the face of someone she had grown to care for since Naruto dragged her back to this village.

'Servant the year you gave me to solve this mess is almost up. Challenge them to a three-on-one match and I will dictate our course based on how you do.'

'It's about time I got to fight them seriously.' Marching into the viewing chamber that his hosts spent their time in watching conflicts throughout hell, and even occasionally in the human world Naruto called out his challenge. Unfortunately his hosts had come to a similar conclusion as the fox did and before he could complete a word Naruto was sent flying through the castle walls to the outside. Quickly deciding that he would need all the power he could in this fight Naruto shifted into his fox form and before he could hit the ground he made a platform of ice suspended in the air with his power over wind. Pushing off the platform and letting in return to water molecules in the air he tried to strike out at a large menacing frog demon he had learned was named Gamanise. Before the surprise attack could land however Naruto was sent to the ground by Shosui. As he fell Naruto gathered energy in his tail. Once he hit the ground he stood up and jumped clear of the two attacking him while forming the energy into a ball at the tip of his tail and watching out for his third host. Seeing a figure appear at the hole in the castle wall Naruto swallowed his energy ball before sending it at the hole. The resulting blast took out most of the remaining wall and his two opponents gaped in shock.

From behind Naruto however his third host spoke, "My, my Naruto you tricky little kitsune when did you learned that old trick of kyuubi's?"

"Before I even came here."

"Really that is interesting, what other tricks have you been hiding from us I wonder?"

"Not much just these ones." Changing into human form Naruto molded the youki at his disposal using handsigns as if it were chakra. First he used Kage Bunshin no Jutsu to create almost fifty clones. Then using a modification of Henge no Jutsu similar to his Oiroke no Jutsu he had them change into about a dozen of everyone present. Finally he preformed the Kirigakure no Jutsu to further confuse his enemies.

"Ninja tricks? Interesting, but they won't help you against us."

"Naruto responded by having the clones that still looked like him attack the three and split them up then had the other clones disperse throughout the fog. He had the disguised clones either detonate themselves or attack whenever they spotted one of his enemies. Fortunately over the years he had gotten good enough that clones could tell who was a clone and who wasn't. He had a few clones of everybody stay out of the fight however.

Getting fed up with the little game of tag that he was forced into with the clones Gamanise called up his powers of fire to form a fireball in each of his hands. Giving out a roar that was distinctly un-frog-like he slammed the fireballs together causing them to explode outwards in a wave of fire the burned away the fog and the clones, but left all the demons present only slightly scorched. "Ha! What now ninja boy?"

"What now? Well since this is a fight to the death that is an easy one. Fuuton : Rasenshuriken!" Forming a massive swirling storm of youki in both hands he raised it above his head where winds sprung up and seemed to swirl around it dragging some of the energy out of it into a vaguely shuriken like shape. Whereas when he was human he would now charge his foes almost blindly hoping to hit with his new demonic power over wind he could throw the attack like a real shuriken and using youki filled winds guide it to its target while maintaining its form with the youki fueling the winds. Which is precisely what he did.

Not knowing what this orb would do if it hit them the three demon lords jumped away from it just before it impacted the ground near them. They couldn't get completely away from it before its fury was unleashed however. Shosui was the closest to it when it released the thousands of wind blades it had contained, and he lost an arm to them. Gamanise was farther out and only lost a couple toes. Their leader was the farthest out and only lost some of his hair from the attack. Shosui decided to step out of the fight since he would no longer be able to keep up with their level having one arm. Gamanise merely concentrated some of his power in the wounded foot and his toes rapidly grew back. The leader seemed most effected however, and she glared at Naruto with a shocking amount of fury for someone with injuries that couldn't even be considered minor.

'You're doomed kit. She is almost obsessive when it comes to her hair. The bandaged one probably ducked out of the fight just so he wouldn't get between her attacks and you. The frog is probably only still here to watch her rip you apart. Effectively it is now a one-on-one fight, but you're actually more likely to be killed now than before.'

'You're so encouraging Kyuubi. I can almost hear the sorrow you feel at my predicament through the joy you feel at it.'

'Look at the bright side. I wouldn't be this happy if I actually thought you might die, only if you were going to suffer immense pain.'

'I really hate you.' Blocking out the near hysterical laughter now filling his head Naruto turned his attention back to the pissed off demon women before him. Realizing his best chance to not die was likely running very fast and not trying to fight her off he went into kitsune form and used all his power and wind control to go as fast as he could away from her. He had only run a little ways before he ran into what felt like a mountain. Getting back up a looking at what he hit he realized it was a mountain. What was more surprising was the fact that it was surrounding him in every direction except the one that led back to his host. 'Kyuubi she wouldn't happen to have control of earth would she?'

'Yeah she has earth for a primary elemental affinity with fire secondary. The real bad news for you is they can be combined into metal, and she is very good at shaping custom weapons to fit circumstances and then using them in very effective ways.'

Naruto decided that if nothing else could knock himself out before she got to him so he put all but the minimum amount of energy he needed to live into his tail and formed it into a ball at the tip as he watched her come into view and walk towards him. Bringing the energy to his mouth and eating it he prepared to fire this massive blast at her. As she approached him metal rose out of the ground around her and gathered by her hand into some sort of weapon. Backing against the mountain behind him Naruto used it to brace himself for the explosion this would cause before he unleashed it at the demon approaching him. She didn't even blink as it came at her and merely kept walking towards Naruto as the metal resolved itself into a very cruel looking knife. When the energy hit her it exploded with such force that the mountains she had raised were reduced to rubble and scattered farther than any eye could see. As she continued to approach through the blasted landscape Naruto had made her appearance seemed completely unchanged except for the fact that her skin was silvery instead of its usual red. Before she could get close enough to strike out at him Naruto realized that he wasn't as tried as he had expected to be. Feeling out his energy reserves he discovered that the fox had completely filled his reserves with its own power. Deciding he would go out fighting if nothing else he gathered Kyuubi's energy into a vaguely cone-like shape around his own kitsune body with the tip of the cone pointing at his foe. As soon as the energy took shape he leapt at her claws extended with speed beyond anything he had managed up to that point. She disdainfully stabbed the knife into his shoulders as he hit her. When the mass of energy he had surrounded himself with hit and shattered her armor however she showed a bit of shock on her face. When the Kyuubi empowered claws on his working foreleg cut her across the shoulder deep enough to reveal bone however she looked at his finally exhausted form lying on the ground behind her with a small amount of respect.

That small amount of respect didn't however prevent her from twisting the knife embedded into his shouldered a little before pulling it out and letting it break down into what it once was. Or from dragging him back to the castle by his tail. It was however likely responsible for her knocking Gamanise unconscious when he asked when they were going to kill Naruto.

Naruto left the castle in human form as soon as he woke up. Even though his shoulder wouldn't fully heal for a couple more days he couldn't afford to waste time recovering if he was to complete the kyuubi's task before he left for the human world once more. He found little of interest as he made his way toward where he had been told the three brothers ruled from. It was unsurprisingly the kyuubi old hellhole. At least that is what Naruto thought it was. Kyuubi just referred to it as the only territory with a population of one. It seems he didn't get along well with anyone. Marching across the ruined land that once may have been a forest of some kind Naruto pushed on towards the only marginally livable place in this corner of hell. Upon his entrance Naruto was treated to the funniest sight he had ever seen. A trio of demons that he assumed where the brothers stood in the center of the kyuubi's den arguing over would should sit on the massive throne that kyuubi must've have used for when he wanted to be particularly intimidating to visitors before killing them.

"I should be one the throne I'm the oldest!"

"I should be on the throne since I'm the strongest!"

"I should be on the throne since I am the only one with a brain."

"Take that back!"

"No."

"Take it back Mephisto or I shall let our little brother make you take it back."

"Fine then make me!"

"My pleasure! Now die Mephisto!"

Deciding to intervene before he injured himself laughing Naruto said, "None of you are going to sit on the throne. After all you're are all going to die right now. Suffer the Kyuubi's wrath usurpers." Raising the hand with Kyuubi's mark upon it into the air Naruto tried to activate it to no avail. "Well that didn't work like I was hoping. Guess I get to do this the fun way." 'Why didn't your mark work fox!'

"Looks like he's one of the bijuu's servants the mark says it is one from Kyuubi this time. He might be a decent challenge then."

'You consciously held back some of your energy from the mark, now that it is under your control you have to feed all of your energy into it yourself. Of course if you do that you'll shift into kitsune form and you don't have my mark in that form so it is essentially useless to you now except as a sign of authority amongst those who respect me.'

'You couldn't have mentioned that earlier?! It was kind of important!'

"Hey fox servant, are you listening to us?"

"No. Should I be?" 'We are going to have a talk about what kind of things you should really tell me ahead of time after I kill these guys.'

"Diablo kill this pathetic creature for us would you."

"Sure I'm always up for ripping someone apart."

Seeing the lightening crackling across Diablo's skin Naruto decided to make sure not to touch him. Watching flames begin to flicker in the Diablo's palms as lightening built up on his hands Naruto began preparing a defense for Diablo's attack. When he released a stream of fire from both hands that had electricity mixed in with the flames Naruto decided the defense he had prepared might not be enough so in addition to creating a wall of ice out of water from an underground spring he called up his elemental powers to the surface causing a mini tornado filled with shards of ice to form around him as a layer of ice began to cover his body everywhere except on his face and joints. The heat of the flames melted his ice wall before the attack even hit it, but they were caught up in the tornado surrounding him. The lightening however hit him and was amplified by the same ice armor that protected him from the intense heat of the fire swirling around him. Naruto adjusted conditions in the den so that when he released the tornado the flames caught in it would spread throughout the area outward from him. As the electricity stopped running across his own body he withdrew his elemental abilities into himself thus releasing his ice armor and tornado barrier. Diablo was unaffected as his own flames washed over him, Mephisto was only slightly effected since while he too had fire affinity he was weaker than Diablo, Baal however was badly burned by the flames since his affinities were earth and lightening.

"Diablo stop screwing around and kill him! Mephisto get in there and help our inept little brother!"

"Two on one won't help you it just gives me more targets. Hyouton : Mansatsu Suishou!" Forming some handseals and calling on his powers to a greater level than usually necessary Naruto turned all the water available that was part of his body into a spike of ice about three feet long. When this cloud of spikes formed in the air around Diablo and Mephisto they barely had time to scream before they were skewered. Naruto had formed so many that even after they were dead spikes of ice still were impacting against the ice already stuck in them. Their bodies didn't even fall to the ground they simply fell apart into a pile of ooze once Naruto released the jutsu.

Baal gave out a scream of rage as he received a massive power boost and split himself in two. From each half a full Baal regenerated with both of half the power from the power boost. One created whips of rock that formed out of the ground around Naruto and tried to break his bones and restrain him. The other Baal shot orbs of lightening the Naruto was barely able to dodge until he turned into his kitsune form.

Evading the whips popping out of the ground around him Naruto rushed at the Baal shooting the lightening orbs. As he approached his target he flooded his body with demonic power causing him to glow with a strangely frightening icy-blue light. When he leaped into the air and did a flip before landing the Baals wondered what he had done. When the one he stood before split in half vertically the survivor knew what had happened and quickly reabsorbed the dead one's power to try and protect himself. It was a futile gesture for when Naruto felt his victim's power increase he drew on the kyuubi's demonic energies to boost his own power as well. The only sign Baal had of this was the glow around Naruto growing and shifting from icy-blue to purple and finally to a blazingly blood-red. When the glow grew more solid into the distinct outline of a five tailed kitsune Baal realized he was doomed. Alone none of the brothers could have taken even the sanbi if it was at full strength and before him was the kyuubi and the only reason he still lived was that it had been playing with them. As Naruto stalked towards Baal his vulpine mouth twisted into a bloodthirsty grin and his eyes and fur darkened to blood-red. When he reached the cowering Baal he spoke in a voice which couldn't possibly be issuing from such a small creature, "For your crimes against the bijuu lords in general and the great and mighty Kyuubi-no-Kitsune in particular you will die. First however you will tell me who aided you, and if you tell the truth I might give you a quick, painless death."

"I c-can't tell you that. If I did I would suffer a fate worse then death!"

"Pity, because dying a slow painful death at my hands is the only fate truly worse than death. Now suffer!" With that Kyuubi-Naruto began peeling off Baal's flesh a strip at a time. "You know if you didn't disgust me so much I might be tempted to make you into jerky for my trip back to the human world." Listening to the agonized screams coming from his victim he began removing the now exposed bones. "I wonder if I can sell these to anyone. What was that whimper? You want to keep your bones? Very well I'll just stick them back in you, but since I can't remember where they go I'll just guess." Sticking a few of the removed bones into Baal's stomach Kyuubi-Naruto just grins wider at his victims whimpers. "It has been far too long since I got to have fun like this. It isn't nearly as entertaining to torture a human. They are so frail and die before you can get to the fun stuff. Now what to do next. Oh I know let's see how your organs react to being frozen from the inside out." As he proceeded to do just that using Naruto's abilities Kyuubi-Naruto laughed at the expressions crossing the face of the demon before him. However he got to carried away with freezing organs and froze Baal's heart, finally killing him. "Oh well it was fun while it lasted. Now why was I torturing him again? I don't think it was just for fun. Oh crap I forgot to find I who helped him before I killed him. Damn guess I'll just have to wait until they reveal themselves." As Naruto returned to his usual kitsune appearance the kyuubi's influence on his thoughts faded as well. Becoming ill at the realization of what he had put Baal trough before killing him, Naruto fled the kyuubi's den and rushed off to the gate back to the human world trying to forget his torture he had put another creature through.

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu - Shadow Clone Technique

Henge no Jutsu - Transformation Technique

Oiroke no Jutsu - Sexy Technique

Kirigakure no Jutsu - Hidden Mist Technique

Fuuton : Rasen Shuriken - Wind Element : Spiral Shuriken

Hyouton : Mansatsu Suishou - Ice Element : Death by Ten Thousand Flying Water Needles