Zack: Hello and welcome the friggin late update of TADE(Through A Demon's Eyes). I'm really sorry for the late update, I got caught up in some skating sessions and friends but otherwise, I'm really sorry to all my readers who've been patiently waiting for an update. Putting that asides, it's time for the story.
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TEXT STYLE:
Shits like you don't deserve to live – Regular
Memories never fade – Flashback
"…"- Character talking
'..shhh..'-Character thoughts.
'…' – Mental communication.
"…" – Demon talking/ shouting.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

STORY START

Through A Demon's Eyes
Chapter 3
Blackened Petals

Tap…
Tap…
Splash…

A figure sprinted down the hallways of the Konoha hospitals, a tired expression on his face as he clutched the gaping wound on his rib. Several screams and roars echoed behind him as he turned the corner, slipping past the debris that obstructed the pathway. Turning into a narrow hallway, the figure skidded to a halt and slumped against the beams, panting wildly.

Sasuke Uchiha hissed in pain as he clutched the open wound, trying to stop the bleeding.

Several moments passed, the Uchiha keeping a keen ear to any sound from the previous hallway and after several minutes, assumed the threat had passed, for now. Trudging over to the nearby room, Sasuke swung the door wide, eye's wildly gazing around for any medical equipment around the room. Catching sight of some painkillers that lay with assorted pills on the table, Sasuke closed the door behind him, locking it as he made a beeline for the painkillers. Unscrewing the lid, Sasuke flicked the bottle, tossing several pills into his hands before chucking the lot of it into his mouth, swallowing it afterwards. Ignoring the repulsive taste, Sasuke glanced around, searching for the gauze bandages. Ripping open the cabinet doors above the table, Sasuke dug his hand into it, groping around for his target item. Pulling out the gauze bandage, Sasuke hoisted his shirt up before rolling the gauze around his chest, covering the open wound as much as he could.

Sasuke wasn't well versed in any medical techniques or equipment so he had to work off what his instinct always told him to do; sooth whatever hurts.

Taking notice of the bag laying in the corner, Sasuke grabbed it, emptying of whatever it contained, and shoved as many painkillers, chakra pills and gauze bandages into it; he'd need this if he was going to have any chance on travelling through the village to the Emergency Stations.

Zipping up the bag, Sasuke slung it over his shoulders and hastily left the room; there was bound to be more 'infected' stalking the hospital and it won't be long before they found him.

Boom…

An explosion rocked the hospital, shaking Sasuke off his feet as he slumped against the wall for support. Glancing across the hallway, Sasuke saw fire engulfing the left wing, flooding the hallway with smoke. Taking a look behind him, Sasuke cursed as the hallway was blocked with debris. Trudging over to another hallway, Sasuke quickly grew annoyed as the cage door refused to budge.

'Damn Witness Protection Rooms' Sasuke swore before he trudged to his only exit; the left wing of the hospital.

Jogging his way through the smoke, Sasuke travelled across the burning left wing, avoiding the fires and keeping low. Making his across the several fire engulfed hallways, Sasuke stopped as he spotted a large hole in the wall, roughly broken down, several claw marks on its edges. Cautious, Sasuke crept forward and peeked into the hole and froze, eye's locked on the chakra-coated figure tore flesh away from the eviscerated corpse. More corpses surrounded the figure, all shredded or eviscerated like the last. Weapons lay scattered around the room, coated in blood as the figure finished devouring her meal and reached for the nearest corpse.

The figure had long, spiky, dark maroon hair that stretched all the way to her lower back. Two long bangs nestled on the side of the figure's face, framing the bloodstained pale skin that clearly showed the dull, onyx veins that coated her skin. Her red clothes were tattered, shredded at certain points, and were heavily coated with dirt, grime and dry blood, blackening the bright red color into charcoal.

Sasuke edged his face closer, trying to glimpse the face of this chakra-coated cannibal, unaware of the glass shards that were dangerously close to his feet.

Clink…

The female whipped around, hair flying behind her as her manic eyes glanced around before locking themselves onto Sasuke. Time slowed for the Uchiha for within that split second, he recognized the face. Despite the long fangs, the ruby slitted eyes, the iconic whisker marks of his best friend, he fucking knew who this person was.

Sakura Haruno.

Stepping out of his cover and taking several steps within, Sasuke took a worried glance at her.

"Sakura, what…happened to you…?" Sasuke asked, ignoring the maniacal grin that spread on her lips and the predatory look in her eyes.

"Several things Suke-Chan; First there was power, the sheer temptation of knowing you were above and invincible than anyone feels fucking magnificent, Instinct followed next, making me taste the sweet juice of blood and the sensational taste of flesh. Realization came last, making me believe that humans are weak, vulnerable. Their ninja's are poor attempt at grasping the true strength of Gods! Why be human when you can be so much more? So I figured, since I was the only one equipped to do this, do humanity a favor and give them what REAL power is like and leave the sickening, cowardly forms of humans behind us, letting us reach a new stage of humanity!" Sakura spoke, her voice deep and guttural, slightly terrifying Sasuke.

"This is genocide Sakura, this is wrong!"

"I feel bad for you Sasuke, I really do. It must cause such a headache to try and process this as a pitiful human. Let me cleanse you of this disability"

Sasuke's instinct flared; forcing him to duck to avoid the wild leap that Sakura took. With Sakura landing behind him, Sasuke quickly grabbed the kunai off the bloodied floor and twisted, slamming the kunai into Sakura, intent on ending her reign. Sakura caught the attack, clutching Sasuke's wrist to halt the incoming kunai. Letting the kunai slip from his grasp, Sakura could only watch as Sasuke caught kunai with his free hand and, with no hesitation, impaled it straight into her torso. A second past before Sakura reacted; her free hand reached up and grasped it before she started to pull it out. Seeing her action, Sasuke pumped chakra into his hand and almost instantly, a ball of electricity formed in his hand. Sakura ripped the kunai off her body and with all her force, slammed the kunai into Sasuke's stomach, catching the Uchiha off guard. Pain rocking his core, Sasuke plunged the Chidori straight into her chest. Sakura roared in pain as Sasuke kicked her away, making her stumble backwards. The demonic pinkette clutched her wound, a growl emanating from her throat.

"You should have accepted my offer Sasuke…"

Ripping the kunai off his stomach, Sasuke hurled the weapon straight at Sakura's head, intent on finishing her off. Much to his surprise, his wild ex-teammate caught it with her free left hand before she glanced up, a furious expression on her face.

"…Coz' you're out of your league"

The fire around her suddenly swirled, gathering onto her palm, carrying the debris and the corpses before it all turned into ashes as the ball of fire stabilized. Within a split second, the maroon haired demon hurled it at Sasuke who reacted too slowly, catching the ball straight to the chest. Upon contact, the ball exploded, propelling him out of the window as several shards formed out of the ashes, slicing his flesh and impaling his arms, burning his skin on its touch as he flew through the smoke covered air, crash landing a few moments later on the blood covered streets of Konoha.

Sch…
Shink…
Thunk…

Naruto, Amaru, Tayuya and Uragiri fought their way across the alleyway, Naruto taking point as he mercilessly sliced his enemies with his newly used talons (much to Tayuya's enjoyment as she was the one to encourage him to put it to use in the first place) as Tayuya stabbed with him, using one hand to cling on to him and the other to deliver a chakra coated blade to the enemies body when she got the chance. Amaru trailed close behind the two, trying to block out the screams of the Infected and the sound of violence around her. Uragiri was behind them all, firing lightning bolts relentlessly at his enemies, his insane cackle of laughter echoing off the walls.

They'd been travelling across the Western side, destination being the South Side, trying to be delicate as possible to avoid any combat but upon realizing the streets were blocked with collapsed buildings, forcing them to take another route; the alleyways.

Being that the Uzumaki had memorized the alleyways since he was young, he directed the group to several small alleyways, squeezing through as they made it to one alleyway to another. Amaru had been the first to question him about this knowledge, wondering how he could have memorized the alleyways. Tayuya was about readily reply with 'he has to fucking know, he's a damn ninja' but was beaten to the punch by said ninja who gave a short statement. He had said that he'd been frequently using alleyways to get around ever since he was young. Amaru gave him a quick nod, accepting his statement but Tayuya, being the most observant out of the two, could see him withholding the truth, she made a note to question him about that in another time. Currently, Naruto had them go through a particularly narrow alleyway as the surrounding enemies converged on their location.

Shink…
Thunk…
Clack…

Clawing his across the stacking amount of the Infected, Naruto's mind had been on a constant pace of creativity, wondering on how to master and employ this new (what he assumed as) ocular abilities. Seemingly, it had allowed him to control and manipulate chakra, specifically demonic chakra to the point he could make it turn on its user. It surprised him, learning he could turn someone into pool of blood with his eyes.

"Shithead"

Breaking away from his thoughts, Naruto swiveled his head to look at Tayuya.

"What is it?"

"Isn't that your fuck buddy over there?"

Naruto's face scrunched up in confusion before he followed Tayuya's eyes, seeing a bloodstained boy lying on the middle of the street, slowly being surrounded by the Infected. Eye's squinting; Naruto could barely glimpse the raven hair that lay messily across the pavement as one of the Infected went to impale him with the twisted piece of metal that once was a street post.

"SASUKE!"

Said ninja's eyes snapped open as the Infected sliced. Instinct flaring, Sasuke rolled left, minimizing the damage of the attack, receiving only a shallow slice on his ribs.

"Sasuke, heads up!" Naruto shouted as he flung several kunais to the air above him.

Ignoring the pain of his wounds, Sasuke jumped up, catching one of the kunais before chucking them down at the Infected. Throwing the whole lot of kunais, Sasuke grabbed the remaining two as he landed, rolling over several victims of his early attack before he relentlessly sliced down the surrounding enemies. Cutting them down one by one, Sasuke failed to notice the Infected behind him.

Thunk…

Sasuke roared, feeling the excruciating pain of the kunai that impaled itself on his ribs. Succumbing to the disorienting pain, Sasuke fell to his knees, breathing ragged as he glimpsed Naruto, behind the horde of Infected, clawing his way through, trying to valiantly reach him.

"Shithead, you aren't going to reach him in time, even if you go berserk" Tayuya spoke.

Knowing that what Tayuya said was true, Naruto backed up before pumping his demonic chakra to his eyes and hand.

'I hope to God this fuckin works'

Naruto's chucked his chakra to the floor, manipulating it's movements with his eyes as it slithered and coated the flooring of the mob of Infected. Manipulating the Infected's chakra coat, Naruto established a link with his chakra and the Infected's chakra. Focusing, the red streaked blonde grabbed hold of his chakra, grasping it tightly and pulled.

The effect was astounding.

Naruto's chakra became a vacuum, pulling everything that it was connected to; the Infected's chakra coat. One by one, the Infected dropped to their knees, devoid of any trace of chakra, all of it being vacuumed to Naruto's system. After a while, Naruto finished absorbing all of the chakra and the Infected stood back up, cleared of any traces of chakra and demonic traits.

"What the hell did you just do?" Uragiri shouted as he cautiously approached the red-streaked blonde.

"I sucked away any traces of demonic chakra from them and from the looks of things, I got my desired effect" Naruto spoke, pointing a talon at the Infected.

Void of any demonic chakra, the Infected had reverted back to normal; becoming normal once more. The mob of civilians helped each other up as Sasuke limped over to Naruto.

"Thanks"

"No problem and here, you're gonna need this" Naruto spoke, handing him a stack of kunai and bandages.

Sasuke gave nod of acknowledgement as he stashed away the kunai into his pack and started to mend his wounds.

"I fucking knew it!"

Naruto's eyes flicked over to the crowd, catching sight of an old adult, pointing an accusing finger at him.

"The demon finally showed its true colors!"

"Kill it!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU LOW LIFE DIPSHITS!" Tayuya roared, silencing the crowd as she adjusted her grip on Naruto, she didn't want to slip.

"This shithead just rescued you from being flesh eating sons of bitches and this is how you treat him?!" Tayuya continued, pointing her index finger at Naruto's face.

"She's right you know" Sasuke spoke, stretching his arms as he stepped forward, positioning himself next to Naruto.

"Guys, stop it. Now's not the time" Naruto said, silencing everyone.

"True, there's still thousands of those Infected crawling all over the place. We need to get moving" Uragiri commented.

As if on cue, several Infected landed nearby, all blood stained and hungry for flesh. More of them arrived, landing on the rooftops and streets, slowly surrounding the group of survivors.

"We won't be able to fight that much off without losing these folks" Sasuke muttered to Naruto who nodded.

"Get them to the sewers, I'll draw them off" Naruto spoke as he gently handed Sasuke Tayuya who frowned all of a sudden.

Sasuke noticed the frown but ignored it, instead he pried open the manhole nearby, following through with Naruto's plan. This action triggered the attack of the Infected, coming down on the panicking civilians as they hastily crawled down onto the manhole. Naruto started retaliating; throwing kunai and tearing them down with his claws. Uragiri, out of charge for his lightning attacks, saw the charging Infected and made a grab for a nearby person, this one being Amaru, and pushed her in front of him, hoping to avoid the blow. Amaru froze up as the Infected's talons went to impale her but in the last second, struck down by a furious Naruto.

"You fucking coward" Naruto growled, glaring at Uragiri who quickly slipped his way to the manhole.

"I call it surviving" Uragiri responded before he vanished completely, shutting off the manhole behind him.

Standing up, Naruto molded the chakra into his hands, spinning horizontally as he let it gather, slowly increasing in size. Letting the charka mold itself, Naruto threw it and was amazed by the results. The swirling chakra quickly erupted into a tornado, pulling in the charging Infected.

Quickly grabbing hold of the frightened Amaru, Naruto scooped her up on his arms, carrying her bridal style, as he ran for it; leaping away as the remaining Infected followed them.

"Amaru, are you alright?" Naruto asked, shaking her gently.

Amaru glanced behind them before locking eyes with Naruto, confusion written on her eyes.

"What happened to the rest of the Infected?" the redhead asked, causing a smirk to grow on Naruto's lips.

"I took them out for a spin" Naruto replied, giving Amaru a smirk as her face scrunched up in confusion.

The two vanished into the alleyways, Infected following suit as a maroon haired girl stood on the rooftop, observing the whole event.

"Interesting, never thought Ruto-Kun could actually be so powerful. I guess it's time I take a visit to Ruto-Kun, that human girl was getting a bit clingy too" The maroon haired girl leapt, trailing after Naruto.

Clunk…

Sasuke Uchiha roughly shoved Uragiri against the wall of the sewers, catching the attention of their fellow survivors.

"What the fuck was that about?" Sasuke growled, his face dropping into a scowl.

"It's called surviving, something that blonde fuck doesn't know" Uragiri responded, his arms crackling with electricity as he clutched Sasuke's arm and pushed him back.

"What about the damn girl you fucktard?" Tayuya shouted from behind Sasuke, slightly deafening him from the loud roar of her voice.

"She's a whore, what about her?"

"WHAT THE FUCK YOU CUNT?!"

Sasuke shushed her before turning to Uragiri, Sharingan active as he lifted his free hand, Sasuke pointed his index finger at Uragiri.

"Now's not the time and place for this, I'm intent on getting these people to safety and I'm not gonna let this get in the way"

"So lead the way your fucking highness"

Sasuke gave him a death glare before directing the survivors down the sewage pipes, grimacing as he led the way, making a mental note to tell Naruto later, provided that Naruto survives this.

Leaping through the blinding smoke, Naruto fell straight into a gaping hole of a rooftop, landing on its broken floors as he quickly slumped against the wall, minimizing his chakra to its lowest to hide its signature.

From what he can gather so far, his chakra and the Infected's chakra are the same (he can blame Kyuubi all that he wants later) and from the early display of chakra shape-shifting, he can only assume that his chakra can resonate, allowing the Infected to easily detect him. Theoretically, hiding should be pointless but Naruto, having been unable to outrun a whole pack of Infected on his tail, could only hope that this worked.

Putting a hand over Amaru's mouth, Naruto embraced her tightly as the one of the Infected crept over to the hole, gazing blankly around the inside. Amaru stiffened in his arms as the Infected dropped in, giving a curious stare at their location. As the Infected crept closer, an intrigued expression branded on his face, Naruto silently slipped his free hand to his kunai pouch, immediately grasping the kunai that he'd grown to trust.

Amaru couldn't speak, couldn't breath as the Infected steadily made its closer, eyes seemingly locked on hers with a predatory look glowing within its crimson red eyes. A shiver travelled down her spine and since Naruto's grip was loose, she had accidently nudged him straight into a nearby cabinet.

Crash…

Before she could react, the Infected has striked; propelling itself towards her, talons stretched out, ready to impale her straight into the wall. All of sudden, she found herself pushed away, throwing her into the flooring as Naruto pulled out his kunai, reacting a split second late as the Infected's talons pierced his collarbone.

Biting back a roar, Naruto growled as he immediately slammed the kunai straight through the Infected's ribs, relishing on the deathly look that the Infected gave him as he dragged it down to his hip. Blood, Organs and bones tore out the gaping hole on the Infected's wound as it wobbled; dying from the vicious wound the red-streaked blonde had delivered. Toppling to the side, its talons slipping out of the puncture holes it produced on Naruto's chest, the Infected collapsed over its spilled anatomy, dead as the chakra that once surrounded it left its corpse, crawling over to the Uzumaki who quickly absorbed it, storing the chakra away for later usage.

Naruto had vehemently refused to kill in his entire ninja career, despite its few problems it had caused, he'd do anything he could to take down an enemy, reserving killing as a last resort. He had never really gotten used to watching death doing its work but, but he had found it enticing, enjoyable even. That really disturbed him; had he really enjoyed slaughtering that possess civilian in such a vicious manner? Killing had always been so distant to him, almost unreachable, unattainable but now, killing was as easy as breathing and frankly, as disturbing as it is, was almost as pleasurable as ramen which was practically heaven.

Something was definitely wrong with him.

But now's not the time for this, not when Amaru is nearly breaking down.

Hearing the roars above, Naruto quickly sidestepped the body and picked Amaru, making a break for it as he sprinted away from the scene, from the dead body, from the disturbing moment but try as he might, he couldn't escape the dark thoughts that started to linger around his mind.

"Go the fuck back"

"You know I can't"

Two voices echoed softly in the sewers of Konoha as Sasuke Uchiha carried Tayuya, trailing after the survivors so desperate to escape this nightmare, this hell. While the group was out of ear-shot, Tayuya had argued for him to turn back, to find Naruto, after a harrowing twenty minutes or so. Luckily for them, Uragiri had been by the front, intent of getting out of alive, completely out of earshot from their argument.

"Why the fuck can't you?" She hassled once more, her voice ringing deeply in his ears.

"These survivors need to escape this; they aren't as mentally strong or physically fit as ninjas. If we go back, they'll get slaughtered" Sasuke replied, turning the corner and heading up the stairs.

"Just fucking ditch them then, if they aren't gonna be any use, leave him be"

"Gee, and Naruto thought I had a personality problem"

"You're an arrogant cunt who can't get the stick out of their ass. As for me, I'm just ahead of the curve"

"Whatever"

Sasuke pushed open the door and was relieved as other ninjas appeared, guiding the group into a narrow funnel straight to a underground bunker. As Sasuke made his way down, many ninja's praised him for rescuing many civilians and after their long praise, Tayuya had to beat into their heads it wasn't the goddamn Uchiha who had saved these people, referring straight the Uzumaki they had left behind. The ninja's refused to believe it until Sasuke backed the statement, following it with a demeaning 'he-saved-my-life' statement. Some of the ninja's had their thoughts and left them be.

As they glanced around the room, Sasuke couldn't help but notice the overwhelming joy and pain as families were reunited and shattered. Everyone within his group had escaped the nightmare.

Well, except two.

Sasuke's thoughts drifted over to Naruto's and the redhead girl(he still found It unbelievable that two redheads were around in Konoha at the same time, considering that it was an extremely rare hair color found around the Wind Country), wondering how the hell were they gonna escape nightmare.

Tap…
Tap…
Splash…

Deep within the recess of Naruto's body, Kyuubi knelt down, exhausted and bitter as the golden chains restrained her, chaining her limbs as she collapsed to her knees, her blood colored hair draping over her face as she gritted, her canines grinding against each other.

'Goddamn it Kushina'

The past several hours had become somewhat of an annoyance to her; after Kushina's chakra quickly restrained her, severing control over her own chakra she left behind, she had been quickly locked back up and could only watch as her container fought his way through the nightmare (with his new body) that the banshee had started.

Truth to be told, Kyuubi's chakra was wild, animalistic, running on demonic instinct which it had picked up from its host, Kyuubi. After she had left behind during her imprisonment, the massive amount of chakra she had left behind quickly routed to the nearest host, Naruto who, having a massive influx of demonic chakra flood his system, had to 'break' his body and mold it to be able to adapt and sustain the usage of her chakra within his system, the same had occurred to the pinkette but the charka had radically rewired her thinking. It had caused major changed within his body that it would be irreversible. The first changes were the bones growth and structure, it had the base structure of a human but since the body had to contain a massive amount of demonic chakra, it had shifted and eventually became a hybrid of animal and man; molding his bones to be strong but flexible. The new bone structure had allowed him to easily switch between two legged stances to four legged stance, this bone structure could allow him to easily out-maneuver the Inuzuka's four legged combat, provided he trained. Since his bone structure had adapted to a hybrid of animal and human, his nails sharpen to hawk-like talons and his canines had grown to fangs, both razor sharp and extremely durable due to the altered chemistry of his bone structure, having been altered and reinforced by her chakra.

Accompanying this change, the chakra had severely changed his muscle structure, refreshing and amplifying it to the point it was nearly double of what it once was. At her guess, he could have easily matched Tsunade's non-chakra punch if he applied a small amount of chakra to his punches. Due to the altered state of his bones, the muscle structure had to be compacted to a slimmer form but this would do little to affect his strength.

The next change had caused a slight worry within Kyuubi; the chakra coils. While Naruto's ran on human chakra, her chakra had moved it, eradicating any traces of his chakra and molding his chakra center(the part which enabled to reproduce chakra) to only manufacture her chakra. This is where it becomes completely sketchy for Kyuubi; since the chakra center had been rewired, her chakra had altered itself for it to be compatible with his chakra center, making and creating a completely new, unique and different version of her chakra for the Uzumaki to have at his disposal. Her chakra was pure raw power so it slightly worried Kyuubi that her power could have been altered and improved to empower her container. This could only lead to several severe dangers down the road that could seriously affect her, Naruto and other countless variables. The main part that had her worried was the slight rewiring her chakra had done to his mind; it had developed his brain which had easily allowed him to obtain fast reflexes, heightened senses and the worst, Demon Eyes.

The Demon Eyes had been her ability, an ability that she had since the Ten-Tailed incident centuries ago. The Demon Eyes is an ocular power that enables its user full control over chakra, no matter what size or shape. It 'evolves', allowing the user to be able to control and shape the chakra to bigger and badder things such as tornado. It has three stages, each stage changing his eyes' appearance. The first time the user activates the Demon Eyes, it had placed the user in stage three due to the first influx of chakra it required but after the first twelve hours, it reverts back to stage one after the chakra influx slowed to adapt the user's system. Currently, her container would only have half of that before it reverted back to stage one.

Oh boy, he'd better make the most of it before it vanishes, otherwise he'd be stuck trying to shape the chakra to a tiny fucking drop the size of a tear which would be incredibly bad since he was still in hostile territory.

A growl rising from her throat, Kyuubi struggled against her restraints once more as she considered the possibility of her container dying.

'You better not fucking die, not when you're a fucking hybrid you piece of shit!'

Zack: Well that concludes that concludes the long awaited update for TADE(Through A Demon's Eyes). Hope you like, since it took me quite a few drafts to get it right. Anyway, the next update might be a few days late(considering that this is extremely late .) with second term of school rolling back in but it shouldn't really hinder me(then again I had two week holiday and I still failed to update in time .), I'll keep writing when I have the chance chances are, updates are gonna fairly be late since the Pre-Finals exams are gonna come up at the end of term.

Anyway, if you have any questions, you can PM or comment it and I will respond the answer on the next update or, if you want, on PM.

That asides, please leave a review, all comments and criticism are welcome.

Cheers,
-Zack.