lostmoonchild: Thanks for the review! Okay, so next week will be the last chapter then I'll actually have to get my butt moving with the next story's details. So far I think all it's gonna be known as is "Unknown Bonds" but I haven't decided yet when it's going to be posted. So anyway, here's this week's chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto so don't sue.
Chapter Fifty Six
It was blinding, this white hot pain. He almost couldn't breathe, couldn't think through its haze. This wasn't safe. This place, wherever it was he was now, was not the place he had been before.
This place was hell. Breathing hurt almost as much as thinking and to feel his heart beating within his chest was nothing short of torture. It felt as if someone were skinning him alive and pouring salt onto the bleeding and skinned wounds.
Distantly he could hear Naruto's own screams and twisted around in a desperate attempt to find the blonde. He couldn't allow himself to be torn from Naruto. The blonde may have had at ten minutes tops of surviving his extraction but the blonde would ultimately die. He couldn't allow that. The kit, their precious kit, had no living relatives and would be sent away to Suna. Akina wasn't legally married yet to the blonde and wouldn't be able to be the child's caregiver.
With a cry that reminding him of a wounded kit, Kyuubi felt another flash of white-hot pain shooting through his body
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Gods let her die!
Hisoka's eyes rolled to the back of her head as she arched her back, screams leaving her lips as she felt the burning chakra raging throughout her body. "Something's happening!" She distantly heard somebody shout.
"Get a medic!"
"He's taking Kyuubi!" Hisoka screeched, the blood vessels in the whites of her eyes popping. "He's killing Daddy!"
Her body seemed to move on its own as she fought to get out of the hideout, to get to Kyuubi and her father. Without thinking, she willed one of her chakra creatures to form and climbed on as it fled from the hideout. She didn't know if her plan would work but she was going to make things right even if it meant giving up her own life.
After all, she was kunoichi in training for Fire Country's Konoha.
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"Lady Hokage! Something's happened!"
Tsunade turned and saw the ANBU member standing with stress and anxiety radiating. "What happened?" Tsunade demanded.
"Uchiha Madara got his hands on Naruto. We've been making attempts to get to them and stop the extraction but all attempts are proving useless. The Kyuubi appears to be fighting the extraction and trying to stay within Naruto but we don't know how much longer it can hold on."
Tsunade cursed as she looked out the window, seeing the light in the distance. How in the hell did that happen? "Also, we've received reports that Uzumaki Hisoka has realized what is happening. She was screaming and had just escaped after causing very minor injuries to the shinobi stationed within the Monument."
Damn it! "Where is she now?" Tsunade demanded.
"On her way to the site."
Without saying a word, the woman fled the office determined to stop the child from getting involved with anything dangerous.
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"Hisoka Uzumaki!"
Hisoka froze as she heard Tsunade shout at her, her heart skipping a beat as the furious Hokage stormed towards her. "Get your little ass back to where it belongs right this instant!" Tsunade shouted at her.
"I need to help Daddy! The man's killing him!" Hisoka screamed.
"Are you disobeying me?"
Fear pounded through the child, experience telling her that the twitching of Tsunade's brow was never a good sign. "I can help!"
"Go before I kick your little ass back there myself!"
As Hokage, Tsuande knew she shouldn't have been threatening a child but she was keeping in mind that Hisoka would without a doubt act exactly like her father and grandparents. "I can't." Hisoka told her.
"And why not?"
A cry left the girl's lips as she gripped her abdomen tightly, her pain-filled eyes wide and panicked. Tsunade stepped back as the dark gray tendrils of chakra left the child, wrapping around her as if they were tails. "I made Juu-san's chakra." Hisoka sobbed as it began growing in size. "Juu-san isn't here to supply the chakra naturally so it needs me to keep making it. Gomen. Gomen."
Tsunade adopted a defensive stance as a glaring red eye formed while the chakra formed a misshapen creature. "Hisoka!" Tsunade shouted as the child and creature took off towards the bright light. "Hisoka!"
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He felt so weak it was almost unbearable.
Naruto fought against the exhaustion that claimed his body as he watched the newly extracted Kyuubi attempt to escape from Madara. He didn't understand why he was still alive but recalled that his mother had survived for a few minutes after Kyuubi had been stolen from her. How long would he have before he died? Would he have enough time to say goodbye to the people he loved?
The blonde gritted his teeth as he slowly forced his dying body from the ground. "Madara, you bastard!" Naruto shouted.
Immediately Kyuubi whipped around and bared its teeth at the blonde, telling all those that were watching that the demon was now under Madara's control. Swearing loudly as the group of shinobi retreated, they all knew that a plan would need to be devised if they expected to survive this night.
"Naruto!"
Sasuke turned his head and watched as Akina came running to them, grunting when she shoved him out of her way. "Hey. I got one beautiful girl now." Naruto said with a grin.
"Naruto, what's wrong?"
A furious roar told everybody everything they needed to know before another roar reached their ears. "Not another one!" Shikamaru groaned in frustration. "Fuck!"
Did he have enough chakra to form a shadow clone? Could he do anything to defend his village even as he was dying? "Don't even think about it. We're gonna make it okay, Naruto. You're not going to die." Akina's eyes glistened with unshed tears.
Naruto forced a smile. "I haven't made Hokage yet." Naruto chuckled. "I haven't even seen my girl graduate. I'm not ready to die."
It wouldn't matter if he was ready or not. Naruto was going to die in a few short minutes and he knew it. He just wasn't ready to say the words out loud in fear of making them real. "Kyuubi!" A voice screamed.
Naruto's eyes widened as a large demonic creature came barreling past them, its lips parted in a dangerous grin. It cut the large fox demon off, both creatures growling at each other. "I'm not gonna let you kill them!" Hisoka screamed. "You're mine, Kyuu-chan!"
Another angry growl left Kyuubi's lips as his fur bristled at the sight of the child. "Do you really think that he cares?" Madara questioned calmly as he looked at the child. "Tell me, how did you get the Juubi without the Kyuubi?"
"This is nothing. Juu-san is nothing compared to what's really waiting to be awakened." Hisoka kept her eyes focused on the Uchiha as the demonic creature stalked around him and Kyuubi. "Of course I can't wake it up on my own. It needs a certain… ability."
"Such as?"
"The Sharingan. I have everything set up over there."
Shikamaru stared at the child, seeing the small twitch near her right eye. He had often seen it when they played Shogi and she was trying to lure him into a trap. Just what in the hell was she planning? "Why tell me?" Madara questioned carefully.
Don't say it. Don't say it.
"Because-"
Do not say it.
"You are nothing-"
Dear gods she was going to actually say it.
"But a spineless-"
Lady Hokage, we have a problem.
"Stupid-"
Konoha, prepare for turbulence.
"Freak."
Madara's killing intent shot up as Kyuubi suddenly attacked the child, everyone's breath catching when the child's creature suddenly vanished without a trace and she started to fall only to get caught by Shichibi. A growl left Kyuubi's lips as he suddenly turned to the group only to find them getting whisked away by Gobi and Rokubi. "Nice to see you again, Tenchi and Rinku!" Naruto shouted wearily.
Sasuke shakily stood up as he quickly formed the proper hand signs before inhaling deeply and firing off several fireballs. Kyuubi dodged them, his teeth bared as his red eyes flashed with fury. "They're gaining on us!" Sakura shouted.
She jumped off of the demon's back and struck the ground as hard as she could before jumping back onto the demon's back. "This way!" A teenage girl with sandy blonde hair shouted.
"Mizuko!" Naruto said cheerfully. "You've gotten prettier. Nibi agrees with you apparently."
"Shut up, you half dead excuse of a man!" Mizuko snapped at him. "When this is over, you'd damn well better thank every one of the gods that made your daughter lucky enough to get her mother's brains!"
Shikamaru stared at the woman, noting with a shudder how cold she was. "Not to be a bitch but can we talk about this after we're not being chased by a mind-controlled demon with a sociopath on his head?" Akina shouted.
"Uchiha! You'd better have a fucking good pain tolerance cause you're going to be bleeding in about five minutes!"
Sasuke's eyes narrowed hatefully at the teenager before they were suddenly sent flying. A single glance told them that they had arrived in some kind of clearing and that Hisoka was sitting on the ground with a young man rubbing her back in a soothing manner. "Zuku! What's going on?" Naruto shouted as he stumbled over to his daughter with some help from Sakura and Sai.
"Creating Juubi's chakra from nine separate chakras is proving to be a little more dangerous than Hisoka-hime thought. She's getting sick." Zuku responded, his dark eyes holding concern. "Uzumaki-sama, you need to sit over there. Please, there's no time to waste."
Naruto touched his daughter's forehead and yelped when he felt the burning flesh against his hand. "Let the grownups handle this." Naruto told his daughter.
"No, Daddy. You need to sit there cause when Kyuu-chan and the Uchiha bastard get here, Kyuu-chan's gonna go back to you and the Uchiha-teme's gonna blow up."
He had no idea what in the hell she meant but as he found himself being pulled to the assigned spot, he realized that he was about to be sitting in a sealing circle. "Seriously?" Naruto shouted.
"Yes! Don't worry, you should only be dead for a minute!" Mizuko said cheerfully. "At least theoretically."
"What?" Naruto's voice went high at the sudden information. "This has never been tested?"
"Does it really look like we had fucking time or resources? In case you've forgotten, human experimentation is not only immoral it's illegal!"
Sasuke suddenly yelped when a young man stabbed his hand and forced the blood into the carved grooves on the ground. "Don't worry, Sa-chan, if you stay out then you won't blow up too." Hisoka said cheerfully. "Nii-san, can you upset Kyuu-chan for me?"
Ichiru grinned before replying, "Happily."
Shifting over to Ichibi's form, the young man took off and within moments they could all hear the furious growls and sound of several trees being destroyed. "Well, you bunch of lame wad losers," said Kirimaru with a small frown as he felt Yonbi's chakra moving throughout his body, "it's been a real misfortune meeting the lot of you."
"All good things come to those whom are wise enough to send out good into the universe." Aito, Sanbi's Jinchuuriki, said patiently. "Sadly it would seem that you have not grasped the concept that Karma is indeed a force to be feared."
"Are you calling me stupid, you Zen freak?"
"Naturally."
Ichiru laughed as he suddenly came scrambling back to the clearing and quickly directed everyone where to go. "It's party time!" Ichiru laughed. "Let's dance!"
If all the Bijuu had chosen people that were insane to watch over them, then Shikamaru was more than convinced that the world as they knew, for lack of better terms, was royally fucked. There was just no way in hell the world was going to survive if every person entrusted with a Bijuu was insane.
Kyuubi came barreling out of the trees with Madara still on his head and as soon as they stepped into the grooved area, there was a loud explosion followed by the sounds of Naruto's screams and the angry roars of the Bijuu which was quickly followed by the sound of Uchiha Madara's final screams before nothing but silence held the area.
lostmoonchild: Yes, people are insane but sanity is so hard to come by. Anyway, I'd better finish getting ready for work since I successfully scared the living hell out of myself last night playing "Amnesia: Dark Descent" and its custom stories. I don't get scared easily but this game terrifies me so after twenty minutes I'm literally going "I don't wanna play anymore." or "I don't wanna go in there." Okay, so read and review! I should have more information on "Unknown Bonds" by next week to share with everybody.