AN: Alas, Naruto is still not for sale, so I cannot buy it... Once more, I bestow nargles upon my faithful reviewers! tosses generous amounts of nargles to reviewers If you didn't get it before, yes, Sasuke is dead. He is splattered all over the stadium. I got a surprising number of reviews wondering if he was still alive. Trust me, no one survives that. Anyway, this is the final chapter of Possession. I hope you guys have liked the story. Enjoy this chapter!
-demonicnargles
"Speech"
thought / talking in mind
"Demon speech"
Demon thought / talking in mind
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Naruto/Kyuubi ran after Inoishi. There is no way we can let him get away. He knows! Somehow, he knows!
Then drop the stupid weights!
They quickly dropped their weights as they ran, but before they could take advantage of their new speed, a pair of ninja appeared in front of him, faces hidden under wide-brimmed hats, and bodies hidden by long, black cloaks with designs of red clouds painted on. Naruto/Kyuubi stopped dead in their tracks. Even at several feet away, they could feel the power that these men possessed.
The shorter man looked up, his red eyes seeming to glow from underneath the hat. "Naruto-kun, come with us."
"Get out of my way. I need to stop that man."
Naruto/Kyuubi tried to move around them, but the taller man stepped in front of him, looking up to reveal his blue face with gill-markings on the cheeks. "There is no longer any need to hide your true identity. Our organization wishes you to come with us for that very reason."
The blonde boy snarled. "You want us for our power? Do you think we are stupid? You don't want our help. Ninja of your caliber could only be seeking to gain power, not to gain people. You don't need help."
The red-eyed man smirked. "Then I guess there is no reason to prolong this conversation. Kisame, if you would, please."
"Of course, Itachi. Should I remove one or both of his legs?"
Seeing that the time of hiding was over, Kyuubi released a bit of demonic chakra, causing his eyes to turn blood-red, and his pupils to lengthen into slits. His whisker markings lengthened and thickened, and his canine teeth grew slightly longer. An orange aura surrounded him. "You won't be removing anything! Die, mortal!"
Naruto/Kyuubi leaped at Kisame with a blinding speed, aiming to rake his claws across the man's face. Kisame dodged, and swatted Naruto away with a large, long object that was covered in bandages.
Naruto/Kyuubi flipped and landed on his feet, then released even more chakra, forming the armor of demonic chakra. Kyuubi focused more chakra into healing Naruto's body, which had begun to bleed slightly from the amount of chaotic chakra flowing through it.
The blonde leaped into the air. Kisame prepared for the boy to land, drawing his weapon back for another swing, but suddenly a large hand of fiery chakra reached down and grabbed him. Kisame grunted in pain as he burned in the heat of demonic chakra, before twisting free of the hand's grasp.
"That's enough. Come with us," Kisame commanded, then unwrapped his weapon, revealing a long, jagged sword, which immediately began sucking in Kyuubi's chakra.
Naruto/Kyuubi released even more chakra, trying to counteract the sword's power. The sword appeared to be a black hole, sucking in a vast amount of destructive chakra. Winds whipped around Kisame from the large amount of chakra moving through the air.
The blue man waited patiently. Eventually, the boy would realize the futility of trying to use that chakra with an uncovered Samehada nearby.
Naruto/Kyuubi pumped more and more chakra out, snickering when he saw the sword begin to glow orange. Kisame stared at the boy, unaware of his sword's change.
In a few seconds, the sword began to shine with an orange light. Kisame looked down at the sword, wondering what it could possibly be doing. Then Samehada exploded into shrapnel, shards of it flying in all directions, flames of demonic chakra released into the air. Kisame, now a pincushion for what was once his sword, gestured for Itachi to capture the boy.
Naruto/Kyuubi, now freed from the power of Samehada, were engulfed in a massive storm of demonic chakra due to the amount of it they had been using to counter the sword. They formed a giant, clawed hand out of the chakra, and pulled it back to strike.
Itachi flickered and appeared behind them, moving at a speed that would put Rock Lee to shame. The demon duo, failing to see the red-eyed ninja, attacked the injured Kisame instead. Kisame, who had assumed that the boy would be busy with Itachi, never saw it coming.
The hand enveloped the shark-man in a crushing grip, channeling an enormous amount of chakra. Kisame writhed and struggled in vain, his blood beginning to boil in his veins.
Itachi, deciding that he should probably save his partner, threw a kunai at the back of Naruto/Kyuubi's head.
It was deflected by the demonic chakra.
Frowning, Itachi instead blew a large fireball at the boy.
It was deflected by the demonic chakra.
Itachi caused a wave of water to crash toward the boy.
The water turned to steam as it approached Naruto/Kyuubi, who was therefore never even touched by the wave.
Itachi sent a clone to attack the boy.
It poofed out of existence upon coming closer than ten feet from the boy, because of the raging inferno of demonic chakra.
Naruto/Kyuubi dropped Kisame's charred body to the ground, and turned to face Itachi. The blonde looked into Itachi's eyes. Itachi looked right back, and decided that it was time to end the fight.
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Suddenly, Naruto was strapped to a large, wooden cross, on a dirt plain, underneath a red sky. Itachi stood in front of him, holding a short katana.
The nuke-nin smirked slightly. Overconfident jinkuurichi were so predictable, and although he had never used the Tsukyome (sp?) on one before, it would make this much easier, since he was going to have to carry Kisame for a while. But just before Itachi began his customary speech, he sensed a presence behind him. He looked back, and saw a very large, very annoyed Kyuubi no kitsune.
Itachi frowned. Perhaps this was why the leader had suggested that Itachi refrain from using this ability on demon hosts. Itachi jumped out of the way as a large paw smashed the ground where he had just been, barely missing Naruto.
Itachi sighed. Although he was certainly not the Yondaime's equal, this was his genjutsu, and he created the rules for this world. And now the rules stated that Kyuubi would be covered in chains that were immune to demonic chakra, and prevented the one they held from using that chakra.
Suddenly, Kyuubi was covered in chains. Kyuubi snarled, and snapped the chains with a harsh jerk.
Itachi modified his decision. Kyuubi would be covered in unbreakable chains that were immune to demonic chakra and prevented the one they held from using that chakra.
Kyuubi was covered in chains again. The demon growled, and thrashed about, shaking the genjutsu world with his struggles. Itachi smirked. Now, as for the boy-
Kyuubi snapped the chains with a loud crack. Itachi stared wide-eyed at the demon, who was now engulfed in flames of demonic chakra.
Itachi jumped backwards, barely avoiding the giant paw that crushed the ground into dust. Itachi began jogging backwards, his mind racing to think of a way to defeat the nine-tailed fox.
Suddenly, Itachi felt uncharacteristically clumsy when he tripped over something, falling onto his back. He quickly got up and continued jogging backward at an increased rate. Jogging at his own speed, of course, which was fast enough to stay away from the angry demon that was chasing him. As he ran, he looked back to see what marred the usually smooth surface of his genjutsu world.
Itachi saw Kyuubi race past a young girl, dressed in purple, with long blonde hair. The girl, Ino, began to get up, startled by the sudden disturbance.
Itachi raised an eyebrow as he ran. How many entities did Naruto have in his mind?
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Ino slowly got to her feet, not recognizing her surroundings. This isn't Naruto's mind, is it? It looks too different. Ino looked to the one side, where she heard a lot of noise. There, she saw the large demon fox, running free, after a small man.
Ino ran in the other direction, away from the fox. Soon, the fox was out fo sight, and she slowed to a jog, unsure of where she was going, but with the vague feeling that she needed to keep moving.
In a short time, she saw Naruto, chained to a wooden cross. She slowed down and approached him. "Naruto?"
The boy looked up. "Ino? How did you get here?"
"I don't know. I just woke up here. How did we get here? And where is here?"
"Um... I don't know how we got here. That guy just looked at us, and then we were here, and I was tied up. And... I don't know where here is. Hey, if it's not too much trouble, could you let me down from here."
Ino glared at him. "You get me stuck in your mind with a giant demon, forever cut off from the world, then somehow teleport me to some weird place with a red sky, and you have the nerve to ask for my help?!"
"Um... Yes."
Ino snorted. It seemed that Naruto still retained some measure of his sense of humor from long ago. Ino undid the chains, allowing Naruto to drop to the ground.
"Thanks, Ino."
"Don't thank me. Get us out of here!"
Naruto looked around. "Well, I would guess that to do that, we would need some help from the guy who got us here. Or maybe this is some trick, like a genjutsu, and killing him would dispel it. Or maybe it will wear off after a while. But at any rate, Kyuubi as chasing that guy, so- Wait. Here they come again."
Far off, towards the horizon, they saw the large silhouette of the Kyuubi, hardly visible against the red sky, running towards them. As it got closer, they saw the small man at its feet, his cloak appearing slightly singed in places. Kyuubi shot another jet of demon fire at the small nuke-nin, who easily dodged it as he ran.
Ino squeaked and hid behind Naruto. Even she could feel the power that this man wielded
Naruto stepped forward and made 50 shadow clones. Ino watched as the man looked at the clones, then looked back at the fox that was chasing him. The man made a seal, and the world became dark.
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Ino found herself back in Naruto's mind, on the floor where she had been before. She saw Naruto on the chair, sitting lopsidedly as he shared it with a portion of the orange mist.
It looks like I'm back in Naruto's mind. Strangely, this was a comforting thought after seeing the strange land that she had just left. Ino saw Naruto's face clench in concentration, even in his mind. What was going on out there?
Ino heard a quiet cracking sound, and looked behind her. A small crack appeared on the stone wall behind her. She listened silently, and heard several more cracking sounds, coming from all over Naruto's mind. Ino frowned. What's going on? Why are the walls breaking?
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Naruto/Kyuubi lunged at Itachi, not really surprised when the quick man evaded his grasp. They spun around to keep Itachi in view, and flung out a hand of chakra to grab him. They needed to finish this fight quickly, since they could already feel their body deteriorating from the amount of demonic chakra flowing through it.
Itachi dodged the hand, then kept moving as the hand followed him down the streets of Konoha. Itachi finally turned around made a quick seal. He appeared to flicker, but then formed several more seals and blew black flames at the giant hand, now stretched over 50 feet from Naruto.
The flames had no effect on the hand, which quickly closed over the black and red cloak. A sudden explosion blew the hand into nothingness, and the real Itachi leapt to attack the blonde boy from behind, holding a poisoned kunai.
Naruto/Kyuubi frowned when their hand was dispelled by the explosion. What was that? Where did he go?
Behind us!
Itachi was upon them too quickly for them to react. He raised the kunai high, and plunged it into Naruto's back, the poison quickly subduing the demon host, allowing Itachi an easy victory.
At least, that was Itachi's plan.
Itachi stabbed the kunai toward Naruto's back, only to have it repelled by the armor of chakra. Itachi grimaced as his hand was scorched by the Kyuubi's poisonous chakra. As he felt the poison enter his veins, he realized that Kisame was most likely already dead.
Itachi frowned. This was supposed to be an easy catch, a quick genin-napping. Itachi leaped back to avoid a large blast of chakra that sprang from the boy's back. This genin is very skilled with his demonic chakra. I wonder if he has used it often, or if he being controlled by the demon.
Suddenly, Itachi saw the boy form a seal. A hundred shadow clones appeared, each made of the demon's burning chakra. Several clones jumped at Itachi, while the rest moved to surround him.
Itachi blew black flames at the clones, only to find that this was being blocked by a slight armor that covered each of the clones. One clone vanished as the flames pierced his armor, but the rest lashed out at Itachi as they came within range, using demonic claws to slash, or vicious fangs to try and bite.
Itachi blocked a slash with his arm, preventing it from reaching his neck. The claws dug into his arm, severing arteries, and poisoning his blood with even more demon chakra. Itachi whirled and blocked and stabbed, but every clone that he dispatched was replaced by two from the sidelines.
Suddenly, Itachi saw the clones around him freeze for a mere moment, and he quickly stabbed each of them with a kunai, instantly dispelling them. Itachi turned to face where he had last seen the original demon boy.
Itachi's eyes grew wide as he saw a giant sphere of demonic energy sizzling through the air, straight at him. There was no chance of evading the mountain-sized fireball, which tore and incinerated the ground underneath it, as well as any houses, shops, or other material things that it encountered as it flew toward the nuke-nin.
Itachi deactivated his Sharingan, looking at the world with his true vision one last time, before the crackling ball of destruction overtook him, instantly annihilating any trace of his existence.
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The large group of sound-nin cheered when it saw the Konoha ninjas facing it suddenly panic and flee. There was nothing more terrifying than the elite ninjas of the Sound. Obviously, those stupid leaf-nins-
Several sound-nins turned around as they heard a crackling sound from behind them. They had just enough time to gape in horror, before they were engulfed in the massive inferno of Kyuubi's chakra.
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Inside the Sound Four's barrier, Sarutobi struggled to pull out Orochimaru's soul, trying to stay alive long enough to see the snake-nin's demise.
Orochimaru pulled back with all his might. He was not going to let this old man win. This was supposed to be easy, but the geezer just had to prevent the summoning of the Fourth, didn't he?
Suddenly, Orochimaru noticed a sudden lack of effort from the Third Hokage. "What's the matter, old man? Getting tired?"
Sarutobi smiled sadly. "It was nice to see you again, Orochimaru, although I wish it were under different circumstances."
Orochimaru raised an eyebrow. Was the old man getting so senile as to be distracted from the fight so easily? Orochimaru felt his soul slowly returning to his body.
The Sandaime spoke again. "The barrier that your servants have created works by reflecting any physical material, and is enhanced by its ability to set that material on fire. That keeps almost all attacks from penetrating its walls. You were lucky that no one figured out that fire would pass right through it. But now it is my turn to be lucky. I had already planned to die today, but now I can be certain that you will follow me to the afterlife. Once your body is destroyed, you and I have an appointment with Shinigami."
Orochimaru frowned. "What do you have up your sleeve, old-"
Orochimaru looked back when he heard a loud sizzling sound. His eyes widened in sudden realization of his death, just before he was utterly destroyed by the titanic sphere of evil chakra that passed through the barrier like it was not even there. The Sound Four perished with him, as well as most of those who had been watching the battle.
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Ino was getting worried. It was weird enough when the orange mist that must have been the demon's chakra had suddenly flown out of the cage and filled almost all of Naruto's mind. But now the stonework of Naruto's mind was falling apart. Bits of rock fell from the ceiling constantly, and cracks spread rapidly across every stone on the walls, ceiling, and floor. What is going on?
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Naruto/Kyuubi panted for breath. That had taken a lot of chakra, and Naruto's body was not used to channeling anywhere near that much. They could both feel the demonic chakra tearing their body apart, and knew that they needed to stop soon, but then Inoishi had returned with a small army of leaf-ninjas, ready to stop the 'reincarnation of Kyuubi.'
Naruto/Kyuubi flung another small fireball at a group of leaf-nin, scattering them. Kunai fell on him like water in a rainstorm, bouncing harmlessly off the armor of chakra. Although using enough chakra to make the armor caused harm to their body, it prevented anything else from harming it, as far as they could tell. But by now, even the deterioration from the armor was wearing them down, and soon they would reach the point of no return, the point at which they must either drop the armor and cease using demonic chakra, or die.
Naruto/Kyuubi could not afford to drop their armor in this hailstorm of kunai, and even if they could, the sheer number of enemies would still compel them to keep it up. Blood poured from long gashes that the chakra tore in their skin, and every breath brought with it another spattering of blood.
The demon duo raged, flinging fireballs in every direction, but there were too many to aim at, and very few leaf-nin were even threatened by the attack.
Naruto/Kyuubi could feel their limit approaching, and the number of leaf-nin grew as others finished fights elsewhere in the village.
Kit, we need to get out of here. There is no way we are going to defeat so many and live.
But once we stop using your chakra, these injuries will prevent us from running fast enough to get away from all of these ninja.
Then... shall we take as many as we can with us to Shinigami?
Indeed.
Then, kit, I can handle that. It will be easier if I do this alone, since this will involve almost entirely my chakra. Why don't you go tell that woman what is going to happen.
All right.
Naruto relinquished command of his body, one last time, disappearing into his mind.
Kyuubi faced the crowd of ninjas, and realized that he would die today. But then, so would almost all of these ninja who stood against him. For some reason, Kyuubi found that the idea of death was not repulsive to him. In fact, Kyuubi was almost looking forward to a time when he would not have to worry about so many things, when he could just relax into the nothingness of death. But first...
Kyuubi unleashed the full extent of his chakra, breaking any barriers that the body might have to this amount of chakra passing through it. Kyuubi would have about ten seconds to wreak his vengeance, and he intended to use every last moment of it.
A giant, nine-tailed fox appeared one final time in Konoha, towering above the tallest buildings.
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Naruto stepped down from the chair. Looking around, he saw Ino, who was watching the interior of his mind collapse. Naruto walked over to her.
"Ino."
The girl whirled around at the sound of her name. "Naruto! What is going on? Why is your mind falling apart?"
Suddenly they heard a loud sound, similar to a strong wind. Naruto mind begin to fall apart even more rapidly. Huge chunks of stone fell from the ceiling, and tumbled down from the walls. Chakra flowed like water from Kyuubi's cage, all going to the chair as it was used by Kyuubi in his final moments.
"I'm sorry for everything that happened to you, Ino. My mind is... dying. I am dying. Using Kyuubi's chakra hurts my body, and we cannot stop using it because of all the enemies out there. So Kyuubi is going to use as much chakra as he can, and try and take as many of them down with us as possible. I don't know what will happen to you when I die. I am almost certain that Kyuubi will follow me to Shinigami, but I have no idea what will happen to you."
Ino gasped. "You're dying?"
Naruto nodded, pulling off his mask. His blonde hair sprang back to its usual spiky form.
"Aren't you even a little bothered by the thought of dying?" Ino asked.
Naruto looked thoughtful. "I have waited for death since my first sensei died. I thought I had died then, but as it turned out, I just ended up here somehow. I found out about Kyuubi, and we worked together after that. But really, there isn't anything here for me. If I can't defend myself against other ninja, then I may as well die, and be at peace at last..."
Ino frowned. "Naruto, I was just getting used to living here in your head, and now you're telling me that you're going to die, in the same voice that someone would talk about the weather?! What do you expect me to do?!"
"I... don't know, but I thought that you deserved to know what was going on. I will be gone very soon, and so it is only polite to say goodbye, don't you think?" Naruto gave a half-hearted smile.
Ino suddenly burst into tears. "I just got to know you, but I don't want you to die, Naruto. Isn't there anything you can do? Can't you run away? Can't you hide?"
Naruto shook his head slowly, his face wearing a troubled expression. "We are too injured to escape without using Kyuubi's chakra, and using it would not get away fast enough to be able to stop using it and survive. That is why Kyuubi is out there fighting."
Ino flung her arms around Naruto's neck, and cried into his shoulder. Naruto, not knowing what else to do or say, put his arms around her, and held her tightly.
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Kyuubi stood tall in Konoha, rearing to his former height. He howled loudly, and released a shockwave of demonic chakra, flattening nearby buildings, and knocking ninja back several blocks. Kyuubi looked down on the town and belched fire on the small, pathetic ninja.
Flaming ninja screamed in pain and agony, writhing on the ground, or stumbling blindly around.
Kyuubi swept one paw along the ground, crushing several ninja into the wall of a house. The demon felt a presence behind him, and turned to see Shukaku, the giant sand badger, running to attack, his lust for blood apparently overpowering his good sense.
Kyuubi growled, and opened his jaws wide, shooting a huge jet of flame at the sand demon. Shukaku began to fall as his legs were turned into glass.
Kyuubi ignored the feeling of impending death, and the knowledge that his body was about to burn out. He concentrated his chakra, and then released his favorite technique, one that he had used long ago, when there was an even larger army of ninja around him.
All of the air within several hundred feet of the demon caught fire. Almost the entire army was caught within the massive inferno. Those inside did not even have the time to scream before being incinerated.
Then all of Konoha heard a sad, despairing howl, and the fire dissipated, revealing a single flaming body hanging in mid-air.
The flaming corpse of Uzamaki Naruto fell to the ground, where it continued to burn to ashes, and was blown away in the wind.
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Inoishi could not believe it. He had actually fought a demon and lived. It had turned out to be fortunate that Inoishi had been caught in mid-air by the demon's first attack. The shockwave had sent him flying away from the creature, and he had landed on a house's roof, crashed through that, and landed on a couch. He had been stunned just long enough that when he had returned to the fighting, he had only enough time to get out to the roof, see final technique, and watch the demon boy flame out of existence.
Then Inoishi remembered. His daughter had been trapped in the demon's mind, so now that the demon was gone, she should have returned to her own body. That was what happened with that particular technique, although few who used the technique knew that, since it was extremely rare to become trapped in someone's mind. Inoishi had only read on one instance of when that had occurred.
Inoishi raced to the hospital.
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Ino felt sore all over. What happened? I was in Naruto's mind, then he sort of faded away, everything caught on fire, and the cage had glowed with a blinding light. Now I feel sore, and heavy. Ino opened her eyes, and looked around herself. She was in a hospital room.
The door burst open, and Inoishi ran into the room. Seeing his daughter awake, he hugged her tightly. "Don't worry Ino. Everything will be alright. The demon is dead. He's gone. He can't hurt you ever again."
Ino began to cry, but not for the reason her father imagined.
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Kyuubi felt a strange, floating sensation as he left the body. For all of his life, he had feared death above all other things, but now that the day had arrived, he felt... at peace. Goodbye, kit.
Kyuubi heard a weak reply. Goodbye... Kyuubi...
Then everything was dark.
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End of story. Yeah, some of that was a little awkward, but trying to make everyone happy when some people want contradicting things is hard. I tried. Maybe some of this chapter was not especially well-written, but it was hard to write, so, yeah... I had planned on it being longer, but when I got to writing it, I suddenly found myself writing these author's notes.