True Path of a Jinchuuriki Ch 4: Betrayal (Revised)
(Italics: Thoughts/Flashbacks/Dream sequence.Bold: Title and Kyubi's / Demon's / Inner Characters's Speech. Underline: Time Skips)
Naruto was walking through his inner world but something was different, the dark sewer he entered the first time he met the Kyubi was replaced by a temple with all the walls made of white marble. He was walking forward and to his left was the cage that contained the Kyubi but his intuition told him to walk forward instead. As he ventured further into the depths of his consciousness he ended up in a dimly lit circular room with many cages lined up along the walls with words placed over each cage, with further inspection he reads that labels were placed over each cage imprisoning the fragments of his ego.
For example: Darkness Naruto: The sadistic part of him that finds enjoyment in the suffering in others and has access to the lost chakra element of darkness. Tactical Naruto: The cold, calculation part of him who's strength lies in power, precision and trickery. Kyubi Naruto: The part of him that depends entirely on the chakra-like demon energy of the demonic being inhabiting his body. And lastly Light Naruto: The part of him that never gives up hope and fights until the bitter end, has access to the lost chakra element of light which has powerful offensive, defensive, and medicinal purposes.
As Naruto took a look around he walked up to the cage with the word "Darkness" placed over the top of the seal and looked inside. Shocked at what he saw: There were smaller forms of the Fourth Hokage's Seals placed over each one of the cages but this one in particular had a crack in it allowing it's chakra to leak out. Darkness Naruto realizing he was being watched turned around and met gazes with Naruto, his eyes widened in shock. "You! What do you want?!" Darkness Naruto said.
Naruto eyed his "Ego Clone" in disgust. "Why did you take over my body during the mission!?" Naruto yelled. Darkness Naruto laughed at Naruto. "Why!? I'll tell you why! Your mind was too weak to use your Bloodline... So let's just say I gave you a little push." He replied darkly.
Naruto was impacted by his clone's words. "You mean I belong to a clan and have a bloodline ability like Sasuke's Sharingan?" Naruto asked out of curiosity.
His clone eyes him with equal curiosity as he nodded in response. "If you mean the Uchiha then yes your bloodline Ability is in fact more powerful than the Uchiha's and the Hyuuga's abilities put together, no wonder you have no knowledge of it... Your clan was the most feared, although regrettably you are the only one of your clan left, but you are not alone we are all part of you, come back when you are ready to receive our gift, but before that you must remove our seals one at a time, remember this: The next time you border death another one of us will intervene, good luck." Darkness Naruto explained.
Naruto made a weak smile, Naruto knew his entire left he was the last of whatever Ninja family he belonged to, there were no Ninja in the history of Konoha that even resembled him let alone shared the same last name. As his thoughts faded away so did the dream and the next thing he knew a bright white light had filled his vision.
Naruto's eyes snapped open and he found himself surrounded by dense wood. Where am I? Naruto thought to himself as he slowly sat up from the sleeping bag beneath him, and then suddenly as he had woken up it all came rushing back to him, he found himself sitting next to a fire with Taro who was cooking breakfast. A smile broke on his face.
"Hey glad to see you're doing alright." Taro said to him. Suddenly a look of seriousness covered his facial expression. "Forget about me! How's Hinata doing!?" Naruto asked. Taro looked at him in surprise. "You mean the girl?" He asked. "She's still sleeping in the tent, you can check up on her but try not to wake her." Taro said with a smile on his face.
Naruto smiled and nodded as he silently made his way over to the tent, but before he slipped inside Taro walked over and handed him a bowl filled with soup, offering him breakfast. Naruto gazed toward him, a smile on his face as he thanked him and quickly drained the bowls contents.
Afterwards he slipped inside as he stood at the side of Hinata's sleeping bag. Hinata snuggled against her pillow as she struggled to find comfort. Naruto smiled and stroked her hair gently.
Wow Hinata sure got pretty while I was away... I wonder if she'd ever go for a guy like me?
His thoughts were interrupted however as a light shade of pink covered her cheeks and a light smile appeared on her face as she talked in her sleep.
"Mmm my Naruto-kun..."
Naruto's face shifted to a light shade of crimson.
What the hell is that girl thinking about?!
He thought to himself silently. Hinata's eyes suddenly shot open as her gaze drifted upward toward Naruto slowly. He smiled uncomfortably, his gaze drifting from her to empty space. "Nice dream?" He asked. Hinata blushed and nodded gently as she struggled to sit up.
Halfway into the action a sharp pain suddenly shot through her entire body, causing her body to shift suddenly and uncontrollably as she collapsed backwards against the temporary bed beneath her. Naruto rushed to her side and shot her a look of concern, his hand resting on hers. "Hinata take it easy, you have a deep puncture wound in your chest going all the way through to your back, you're lucky to be alive, it was a miracle that bounty hunter missed your vital points." Naruto said happily.
Hinata merely blushed and nodded to confirm she understood.
Naruto-kun is actually concerned for me... She thought to herself quietly.
She was snapped from her thoughts however as the form of Taro appeared behind Naruto, but something about him seemed different but she couldn't figure out what it was, within a fraction of a second, a concentration of chakra within her eye canal, and a few swift hand signs she whispered to herself. "Byakugan."
Her eyes shifted to an intense, pale texture with veins connecting her Kekei Genkai with the rest of the chakra reserves within her body.
Her vision intensified, and as if guided by a sixth sense her vision naturally and precisely scanned Taro's body, finding traces of a strange, non-elemental chakra as it gathered into a single, concentrated point on his palm. Hinata immediately dispelled her technique.
"Watch out!" She called out to Naruto desperately.
Naruto's neck twisted around, his gaze shifting just in time to see the sinister expression on Taro's face as a narrow, pale-blue blade of concentrated, solidified chakra pierced his through his back and protruded his chest, Naruto's heart beat quickened, his vision beginning to blur from the blood-loss as he gazed downward at the blade protruding from his chest.
A twisted expression of sadistic pleasure filled Taro's facial expression as he retracted the blade, causing Naruto to collapse on the ground, coughed up lot of blood.
"Bastard..." He muttered to himself.
Taro merely began to laugh darkly.
"Fool there was no mission from the very start! I just needed to get you far away enough from the village so nobody would come to your aid, you see there's a large bounty on your head placed by an important Client, an organization called Akatsuki. I don't know what they want with you but then again I don't care, the only thing I do know is that they want you alive...
So you see if you die, I don't get paid, and I'm sure you can see how that can be a bit of an inconvenience for a guy like me, so I guess I'll just have to kick you around until you can't move a single muscle! How does that sound!?" Taro explained, his eyes snapping open with a look of sadistic pleasure written across his facial expression.
With those words Taro kicked Naruto's form hard in the side of his ribs, sending him crashing through the tent, the entire thing flying into the air exposing Taro and Hinata to the air around them. Hinata watched in a state of shock, angry at herself for not being able to do anything and over conscious of the frail state her body was in.
As Naruto crashed into a fresh crater in the ground his grin suddenly vanished as his facial expression shifted to an emotionless gaze, a blank expression on his face as he stared ahead into space. Right before he lost consciousness he heard a familiar voice spoke in the back of his mind.
"Well, well it looks like it's my turn at last..."
As Naruto slowly rose to his feet a hint of blood-red chakra coated his body, his wounds vanishing instantaneously as his eyes shifted to the same texture as the demonic chakra radiating from his body. As the bounty hunter took a step backward his eyes widened out of surprise.
"What the hell are you!?" Taro asked out of fear.
Naruto's lips twisted into a dark, sinister grin as he extended both his palms, blades of chakra forming around and extending from his fingertips.
"Don't confuse me with the brat I'm on a whole other level, even though this body does not belong to me I am imprisoned in it and will not tolerate any more of you! Prepare yourself mortal... For the fight of your life!" He replied in a twisted, demonic tone.
As he said those words his eyes shot wide open and Naruto roared at the top of his lungs like a wild animal. An explosive amount of crimson, demonic chakra leaking out the seal on his stomach and cloaking his body like an aura.
As Taro's fear heightened his instincts told him he was in danger and he needed to escape. As he took a step backward a powerful, vortex of swirling, demonic energy surrounded him, preventing his escape. Taro's entire body trembled and he dropped to his knees and begged desperately for his life.
"P-Please spare me! I was only following orders!" He asked desperately. A twisted grin spread across Naruto's facial expression. "And you shall die following orders!" Naruto replied in a twisted tone of sadistic pleasure.
With those words Naruto hovered above the ground, a crimson rasengan in each hand as he slammed the two orbs of energy together, a single large orb of an explosive quantity of energy expanding in his palm. With all of his strength he condensed all the energy into a small, concentrated orb of an explosive amount of unstable chakra and charged forward, Taro unable to move out of fear and the barrier or demonic energy gazed ahead of him in horror as he came to a conclusion: He was about to die.
Hinata had a look of horror written across her facial expression as she witnessed Naruto's demonic transformation, she knew he had a secret but she didn't know what to make of what was happening around her, she felt as if she were trapped in a nightmare, she's a spectator unable to do anything but watch as the boy she loves prepare to take their enemy's life with enjoyment in the thought of killing him.
Naruto charged forward in an accelerated burst of chakra, slamming the palm with the pulsing orb of demonic chakra forward, searing hot flames surrounding the orb, Naruto slamming the orb into Taro's chest, Taro's eyes blanking out from the instant pain as the orb remained in place for a few seconds, glowing brighter and brighter as Naruto launched himself backwards to avoid being caught in the radius of the blast.
"Demon Flame Rasengan!" He roared.
The sheer amount of blood-lust radiating from the attack knocked Hinata unconscious, lying on a bed about fifty feet away, this was not good. Shit, if I let something happen to the girl the brat will never let me hear the end of it! Kyubi Naruto thought to himself. Taro's body incinerated instantly in the core of the explosion as Naruto's form appeared next to Hinata, picked her up and swiftly vanished just in time as he narrowly avoided being caught in the blast.
A/N: Yeah sorry I didn't update earlier it just didn't come to me as quickly as the beginning of the story, hopefully all the stuff that hurt my head to write, all the descriptive shit gets people's attention because I worked hard on this chapter damn it. Anyway thanks for reading, please REVIEW if you care!
Peace! - DL5