The Hive: A Beginning to The Colony

There will be swearing, nudity, violence, and there may be slightly disturbing parts.

Disclaimer: I do not own either Naruto or Aliens/AvP.

Chapter 3: The Growth of the Queen Part 1

Last Time

Naruto yelped in slight pain as a clawed paw clipped him in the face before he was able to completely get out of the way. The old wolf that he was aiming at had a slight limp be he was still quite vicious, the other wolves often dashed in to give him a bite or two here and there. The blonde winced as he once again launched himself into a tree after pushing off to hard.

His body was littered with scratches and bite marks and he was beginning to get frustrated with his any failed attempts at killing the old mutt. He had noticed the two wolves that stood at the top of the rocks not entering the actual battle, and knew that the one that he fought was not an alpha. With hope renewed the young ninja-in-training attacked the quickly tiring wolf.

It was with another scratch to the face that Naruto was able to deliver the killing blow. Without looking back at the rest of the pack he swooped down and claimed his prize. He moved as fast as he could go without running into trees, the sound of angry growls and paws beating against the forest floor all the motivation he needed to keep going. He took a longer more twisting route back to the Queen, desperate to lose his pursuers before he lead them to his daughter.

It was dark by the time Naruto was able to drag the wolf back to his daughter. He found her curled in the same spot as he left her, nearly invisible in the night.

"Here you go, it was kind of hard to catch." He grinned warily as he sat down in front of the serpentine black shape.

He flinched back as the creature tore into the wolf with a hissing purr.

Now

The blaring of an alarm jolted a young blonde out of his slumber, a tanned hand reached from under the mound of covers and quickly pushing the button that cut off the horrible screeching. Naruto heaved himself out of his warm bed to stumble his way through the mess that was his bedroom and made his way towards his bathroom.

'That was the weirdest dream ever.' He thought groggily as he relieved himself, completely ignoring the little niggling emotion at the back of his mind.

"You really think that you can come up with something that creative? Don't make me laugh!"Kyuubi snorted, successfully cutting through the blondes thoughts.

"It was all real?" The boy exclaimed, pausing momentarily in turning on the shower. "Then where is the Queen?" He asked as he slipped under the unsurprisingly cold spray of water.

"You snuck her into the village last night after she ate, I'm pretty sure I saw her crawl under your bed to sleep."Kyuubi brought up the memory of the night before, and the blonde was able to relax knowing where the young Xenomorph is.

The repetitive motions of washing himself lured him into a calm that allowed him to slip into his mindscape.

Cerulean eyes almost immediately caught the minute differences to his surroundings; the lights that once flickered, even after the Kyuubi saved his life, shown steadily. The walls were no longer the filthy brown riddled with cracks, now they were a clean smooth grey. And though it was still really damp the water was no longer as dirty as it was before.

'I wonder what caused these changes.' Naruto thought as he stepped into the chamber that held the Kyuubi's cage. 'What the hell?' The blonde's eyes were automatically drawn to where another wall should have been, instead the room broke off into a deep shifting abyss.

"There has been a change to your mental state, there will be some differences in the way you think, the way your brain process things and your natural instincts in other words." Kyuubi said stepping into the light, "To answer your first question, as for your second one… that is your mental link to your daughter. As it is right now it will be hard to distingue which emotions or thoughts are actually your own without concentration. I am also unsure on how we would go about closing it down without causing any type of damage, the best we could do at this moment is to start your training and hope that it helps."The fox trailed off as they both looked into the swirling mass of darkness.

Naruto groaned at that, now that he wasn't groggy, he could clearly feel confusion, curiosity and hunger that did not belong to him. It rolled out of the void and entwined with his emotions so thoroughly that if Kyuubi hadn't mentioned it or he wasn't paying attention he would mistake them for his own. "When will my training start and what will be first on the agenda to for me to learn?" The blonde asked as he dried off with an old ratty looking towel, wrapping it around his slim waist he left the bathroom to get dressed.

"We will start your chakra control exercises after you get out of the academy. I also want you to start to get used to your body. The sooner we can get those two things out of the way, the sooner we can start on the more fun stuff." Kyuubi huffed out from his cage. "Also I want you to document everything; from your thoughts and emotions, the Queen's behavior, to what you did that day. It's a lot easier to analyze data if it is right in front of your face, also we are going to be doing a lot of tests from now on to try and find your limits and abilities."

Naruto was momentarily distracted from finding one of his cleaner jumpsuits, by the distinct sound of something slithering across wooden floors. Looking up from his search he was met with the sight of the Queen sitting coiled on his bed peering out of the window. Hunger once again rippled through his being to gnaw angrily at his stomach, 'I should be able to catch a prey easily, we're surrounded by them after all.' He thought absentmindedly as he pulled on his clothes and made his way towards the door.

"I don't think that's such a good idea, Kit!" Kyuubi's exclaim blew away the fog that had clouded Naruto and he realized what he was just thinking.

Horror and fear settled in his stomach like a jagged rock, 'Kyuubi what just happened?' He looked warily at the Queen who was still peering out of the window.

"I believe she controlled your thoughts so that you would do her bidding. We have to hurry and find a way to block that, I do not want a mindless puppet for a container!" The fox snorted out in irritation.

Naruto turned towards his kitchen put some water on the stove to boil, "I can't go hunting for you yet or I'll be even later for school, but I can make you some cup ramen to tide you over until we get out." He warily addressed the young Xenomorph.

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The academy student ran down the street with his customary stupid happy-go-lucky grin plastered on his face. He faithfully drowned out the scornful whispers with thoughts of ramen and pranks, replacing the hate filled glares with the looks of adoration that will be on the faces of every villager once he became Hokage. It all made sense now, why everyone disliked him it was because the Kyuubi was sealed within him. All he had to do was show everyone how awesome he was and that he was not the demon fox and they will all begin to love him.

So even when the rocks started to sail through the air, and the thirst for his blood increased his smile never wavered, though no one could blame him for the small seed of odium that was planted deep in the recesses of his heart.

A/N I usually don't do these in the middle of the story but doesn't this just seem like the perfect spot to end… If this chapter wasn't so late I probably would have ended it there so consider the rest of the chapter a Bonus!xD

With a sigh of relief Naruto finally made it to the academy, slowing down slightly once he reached the hallways Naruto made his way to his classroom.

"So do you have an empty notebook that you could use?" Kyuubi finally broke the silence that had descended upon them.

'Yeah, jiji-sama gave me some in hopes that I would get better grades in the academy if I took notes.' The blonde answered back. 'Why?'

"Because I want you to begin to write down how you came upon the Queen's egg, what happened after the egg hatched, and everything that happened yesterday and this morning. I'll of course help you fill in some of the blanks." Kyuubi said just as the whiskered boy silently slid the door open.

"Uzumaki, can you explain to me why is it that you feel that you can come in whenever you please and disrupt my class?" An old stern hate-filled voice slashed at his ears as soon as he walked into the room.

Cerulean eyes took in the smug and/or disgusted looks on everyone's faces as they looked around the class. "Sorry Ma'am, my alarm clock didn't go off and I woke up late." He felt a sheepish grin twist his lips and caused his eyes to slit, as his hand came up and rubbed his neck in a familiar gesture.

"Excuses, hurry up and take your seat so that I may continue my lesson!" She said turning or face away from the young blonde and lifting her nose in the air. "You may not want to learn but that does not mean the rest of my students share your views." She said in a haughty tone.

Naruto felt that smile fall off of his face as soon as he took his seat, all the way in the back of the class completely alone, and pulled out the notebook that he mentioned to the Kyuubi. He took a moment to organize his thoughts before he began to write.

Entry One

It had been a hard day at the academy, sensei had given us another pop quiz and it was once again on something we weren't taught. I seriously think that Hokage-jiji should just fire her already… or I did until I learnt why she treated me that way and now looking back on all of those test and pop quizzes that I failed, someone more than likely tampered with them. Anyways I'm off track, I had decided that I wanted to take a walk through the Forest of Death as usual. It's a shame when you feel safer in a place called the forest of death than in your own home but hey… It's like I always say, there is no real hatred in nature, just the primal instinct of survival of the fittest. Anyways I had asked the Hokage the previous night about the identity of my parents but he just blew me off, so preoccupied with those thoughts I failed to see the slightly covered hole in the ground. What I found at the end of that slanted tunnel was a cavern that was connected to a catacomb of caves. I spent at least twelve hours traveling through them and I still wasn't able to see them all. It was as I was looking through my last cave for the day that I found it… It was a giant slimy mossy green egg resting at the back of the huge musty cavern that was riddled with stalagmites and stalactites. It made me curious so I walked up to it and poked it, of course it was just as slimy as it looked if not more so… It felt disgusting…

Naruto to care to explain in painstaking details about his encounter with the Queen's egg, his almost death, which he learned actually lasted for four days, and finally about the Queen, hunting for her and the happenings of that morning. By the time he was finished with all of that not only were a few pages filled but the academy had finally let out.

'Aw, Kyuubi why didn't you tell me that I was missing lunch?' The blonde whined to the fox.

"You seemed busy, so I decided not to bother you." Kyuubi said with a grin.

The academy student quickly made his way back to his apartment, grin firmly in place and ignoring the people around him. He was finally going to do some training with the Kyuubi and that would be completely awesome. Finally arriving Naruto scooped up the Queen, to excited to feel wary of her, and placed her in his backpack before he snuck out into the forest.

"You're going to need a large clearing that's far from here and has a lot of tall trees." The Kitsune instructed as they got passed the gate. "When we find one I want you to start by running five laps around the perimeter, I want you to be able to do those five laps in no less than ten minutes. We have to work on controlling your body so you are going to have to concentrate on slowing down. Then we are going to do a couple of chakra control exercises once your blood is pumping. Running, jumping, throwing and chakra control is all we are going to be working on until you are adjusted to your body. Then we will probably work on a Taijutsu style or focus more on testing your abilities. Though you will still have to work on chakra control, you'll need even better control than a medic-nin has in order to do any demonic jutsu. So now that we have are basic agenda down, I think this clearing will do." With that said the Kyuubi began to doze off as Naruto placed the Queen in the middle of the clearing under a weeping willow and started his laps.

(I'm an Evil Page Break MUHAHAHAHAHA!D)

Entry Four

Today Kyuubi had me launching logs today, and like I have been doing for the past several days, I had to control my body's natural output. For example the today I unconsciously threw the log to hard and it flew way passed my target. I keep forgetting that I'm a lot stronger than I was before and keep using more force than I actually need it's going to take a long time before I'm used to that fact. As for the chakra control, I have only made it halfway up the tree before I either slid down or get launched off of it. I have been spending all of my extra money on buying more notebooks instead of on ramen and other foods, I have been hunting for myself and the Queen to eat. Kyuubi even taught me how to cook the food I caught, in both the wild and at home, he also taught me how to forage for eatable plants and he taught me how to grow and care for my own. But of course I mentioned this already, what I haven't mentioned however is that I finally finished writing down all of the information that the Queen gave me about her kind. It took up about four notebooks and a couple of scrolls, but finally I'm done with that. Also that new teacher that I mentioned back in entry two is way better than that old hag ever was. Iruka-sensei started out with having the same hatred in his eyes as everyone else but with each question I answer correctly or each prank I pull on the villagers his eyes become a little warmer towards me. On that note I have to say that Hokage-jiji-sama is acting really weird lately, what with asking all of these strange questions all of a sudden… I think his age is finally getting to him… We can't have a senile Hokage oh man this is bad, Konoha would get destroyed in two minutes flat if that ever happened! On another note the more training I do the less the Queen is able to control my mind, this makes me happy and less wary of her. We also confirmed that even if I am not paying attention in class she picks up the information that my senses bring in and stores it in her brain so that I could view it whenever I want. That is so awesome! Now I don't have to pay attention in class and I could still get the answers correct! Well I'm going to bed now, I have a lot to do tomorrow…

Entry Six

Maybe the Hokage was right to worry, my mentality has change from the lost of my obsession with ramen to my reactions to the villagers. It's becoming harder for me to keep up my happy smile, more often than not I feel it falling off of my face… and it feel great like relaxing in a hot spring after a long tedious day of work… I like it! That's not all that has changed either, my mindscape has completely altered. It started out with little changes like the walls and water becoming cleaner, simple stuff like that. But now even the Kyuubi's seal has altered, it turned into an amazing collar that keeps him in check instead. The walls are now a glossy black and almost blends in perfectly with the void that is the Queen's mind, Kyuubi says that's from the Queen's influence. There were random grey and a lighter shade of black trees in groves all over the place, from the fox's influence. It's kind of startling to physically see the changes to my mental state… anyways I have finally made it to the top of the tree! Kyuubi says that we will start on a different one tomorrow. I still haven't fully adjusted to my body yet but Kyuubi says that we can start on a Taijutsu style for me, he said that we will still be doing the laps and stuff for warm ups but I won't have to do as many… which is good because we were reaching thirty laps and/or tosses in two hours, I had to make all of those laps in exactly that amount of time down to the last second or Kyuubi would make me do double the amount and time before I went home with the Queen. Oh the furball also said that we will be working on how to properly use my senses, he says that he fears pushing that off any longer in case I do something to permanently damage one of them. He says that they are delicate, my sense of smell has a little more endurance then the others… whatever the future seems to be really busy for me, so I'm going to bed.

Entry Seven

Something is wrong with the Queen! I had been reviewing some of the things that I documented from their history and found that she is growing way to slow. She should have been an adult by the end of the first day at the very latest… I was panicking naturally so the Kyuubi forced me to right down my feelings in this stupid journal, what the hell am I some teenage girl with a dairy! He said that he had a theory, the Xenomorphs take certain genetic traits from their host DNA it's how they adapt in different environments. He says that she is building a chakra core, those are hard to build therefore she is taking longer to mature… Oh Kami-sama… The Queen. Is Stuck. In. A. Cocoon! Some black resin like substance and spit burst out of her mouth just now and completely engulfed her. What. the Hell. Should I Do!

TBC

A/N I am soooo sorry about the lateness of this chapter. To be honest I kind of got side tracked with my new Supernatural/ Harry Potter Crossover obsession. And since I wasn't really interested in Naruto at the moment it created a writer's bloke of sorts, which made it hard for me to write this chapter... I don't like how it turned out, but I won't be rewriting it until I'm back on schedule. I hope you like it a little better than I do, please R&R!xD

P.S It also took me a while because I moved this story to my deviantArt account and you have to manually put in the formatting for that site!:/ My account is cakeoverloard . deviantart just in case they delete it over here.