Juubiko

A/N: Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto.

The story is of mediocre quality. Enjoy anyways.


The mantis stalks the cicada, while the crow follows behind.

[WARNING: gore and mutilation contained]

[MC PoV]

Half a week has passed since I reached the planet where the elemental nations reside. How did I know I'm on the right planet? Well, that gigantic tree half a continent away from my current location is a good hint. It seems I am in the six-path era, thousand years before Naruto is even born. No hidden villages, no ninjutsu, and no icha icha books. Don't judge me! I'm curious about what made pervi-sage's books so popular.

Draining my fifth tree for the day dry of any chakra, I flexed my regrown arms to check on the feeling in them. Having to regrow my limbs is a drag, and even more so when I am low on chakra. Currently I replenished my chakra reserves up to 8 percent full. When I first crash landed here, I was on the edge of going into hibernation. It would have taken me a few decades to regenerate my chakra reserves from doing nothing. At my current pace, the time is reduced to eleven years until I am at my full power. Still a long time, but bijus only grow stronger with age.

I am currently sitting on a tree branch, observing the small settlement in the distant valley with a small lake running through it. It's been two days since I came across this settlement. There are only houses made from stone and dirt, with roofs made of haystacks. The population didn't even reach the third digits. Five fields with varies bounties surrounded the settlement. It wasn't particularly interesting for me. For now, I decided to keep my distance from the humans. No need to get too attached to those that have a lifespan for only a few decades.

In the far distance, I could see a large plateau reaching up higher than the mountain peaks around this region. Despite me figuring out how to tree walk and wall walk in these past few days, climbing up that would exhaust my current reserves when I reached halfway up.

My first task is to refill my chakra reserves to hundred percent and wait for Hagoromo to seal Kaguya into the moon, then learn fuin jutsu.

Just as I decided to go back to my routine of tree draining, I heard the screams of a child coming from the opposite direction from the village. My empathetic part of my mind told me to investigate and find out what happened. Yet my rationale part of my mind told me to ignore the human shenanigans and leave them to their own problems to deal with.

Crushing down my logical part, I sprinted from tree to tree toward the location of where the screams came from.

In these past few days, I had felt my humanity slowly degrading. In one point of time, I considered slaughtering the villagers to speed up my chakra recovery speed. It was only my memories as a human that has stopped this line of thought from becoming a reality. I would have hated myself afterwards. Since then, I started to fear losing my humanity. In other words, my being as the person I once was as a human. I would be no better than the likes of every future antagonist in the series if I cast my humanity aside by preying on the innocents. I would have loathed myself.

Reaching the source of the screams I stood within the foliage. Just 20 meters from my location was a car sized bear feasting on the fresh remains of a man in his 30th. Backed in the corner, were two young girls looking at the half-eaten man in horror and fear on their faces. The man must have been the father of the two girls and died protecting them. The pair of sisters must be paralyzed through seeing their father becoming food for this monster of a bear. And the bear seems to know that the two won't be able to run away. Even if they would have tried, these two girls wouldn't be able to outrun this unit of a beast. All in all, it is hopeless for the two.

Looking at the scene, I was calm. As if observing a mantis eating a cicada with clinical detachment, I was totally undisturbed by the sight. The realization of my mental state sends a chill down to my very core. I felt sick. Not at the sight of a person being eating in front of me, but my view on how my new "self" views human as just another variant of organism.

While I was having an identity crisis, the bear took its time finishing his meal and was ready to move on to his "dessert".

The slightly elder sibling hugged her younger sibling for what seemingly to be the last time, before throwing herself at the beast and protecting her sister. My heart skipped a beat. It was beautiful, the love. Even if her sacrifice would be in vain, she still would do so, just for her loved one sake.

PANG!

[Aya PoV]

I know what I'm doing is foolish, but if I could buy even a bit of time for Aki to escape, then I will do so. Sorry Aki, Nee san is going to go with father …...

I closed my eye awaiting the inevitable.

PANG!

I felt a splash of warm water on my face. I was confused. I opened my eye and what I saw made me more confused than before. "Where did the bear head go?" I asked out to no one in particular. Then the monster that eaten father slumped to the ground motionless. It is dead. Aki was hugging my waist. And I hugged back.

[MC PoV]

Hidden behind the foliage, I observed the pair of siblings sobbing for the lost of their parents and the joy of being alive. The feeling in my heart still remained for the moment. I put one hand over my heart area, trying to hold the slowly fading feeling for a bit longer. I am truly grateful for these siblings, their love for each other showed me that I still had some humanity within me. Perhaps I could stay around the area a little longer. Plus, the bear is an excellent source of Chakra. Just have to wait for the pair to run back to the village.

I felt my eye twitching for the fifth time. Looking at the sight of two girls digging through the carcass of the bear that would have eaten them minutes ago, they seem to be looking for something within its stomach. I find my irritation growing by the minute. 'Hurry up and go home. All that chakra is going to be wasted.' I looked at the chakra that is leaking out of the large hunk of meat.

Then it struck me, when I looked closely at the chakra that is leaking from the dead animal. I recalled that nature chakra existed. The chakra that can only be harnessed by summons and sages in the series. I could try to absorb nature chakra. Since I am a Biju that its purpose is to harvest chakra on a planetary scale. Harnessing nature chakra wouldn't be that difficult from draining the life out of trees. The catch around the idea is fact, if I absorb too much nature chakra, then Gamamaru will notice my existence and I will have Haguromo knocking at my doorstep sooner or later.


AN: finished sooner with this chapter then I planned, thanks to the reviews.

As for those that wonder what Juubiko is wearing. its a spawned mob, molded into the shape of a thick robe for the top and shorts reaching down to her knees. As for foot wear she wore a pair of high boots. All of them are Mobs spawned from MC's body, meaning she is wearing living clothes.