Okay, I first wanna say I love all of you for the beautiful reviews.

Second, I'm sure glad I'm not dead yet, that's why I'm updating and it's not going up for adoption.

Third, sorry I haven't updated. It's just that I've been playing Resident Evil 5, No More Heroes 2, Infamous, and Guitar Hero 5 for a while now, and I like it.

Plus I've been reading other people's stories, which I must say I think I'm becoming a pervert considering what I'm reading. Oh well! ^_^

Now on with the show, and I don't own anything except for my profile and this computer (Well, my parents own this computer, but I can use it whenever I want!).

"I come from a place where they hate all bloodlines, Naruto-kun. I am now the only one with the hyoton bloodline. My mother was one of the very few that survived the bloodline cleansing in my old village. My parents were happy for a long time, and I came along soon after and enjoyed the same happiness with them for a while longer. But then I did something I still regret today. I didn't know it was a bad thing, but I made an orb of water float in my hand using my bloodline abilities.

"My mother scolded me and told me to never do it again, and to never tell anyone. But my father was there, and witnessed my manipulation of the water. The next day, he and a large group of villagers came to our house and tied us up. They killed my mother right in front of me, and I was next, but I used my bloodline to save myself. I-I... killed them. All of them. Ever since then, I never wanted to kill again.

"And just when I thought I had no purpose, no reason to be alive, I met Zabuza-sama. He wanted me to be his weapon for when he was ready for his revenge. And ever since then, I had a purpose. The purpose to serve him."

As she told her story, Naruto was cradling Akyo's still form in his arms. She had changed into her human form, which half-surprised Haku. However, she barely had any youki or shadows to help her make clothes, so all she had was a large black cloth wrapped around her small figure. She was breathing heavily, but whether she would live or not was hard to tell. Naruto didn't dare touch the senbon needle sticking out from her heart, in fear that he might accidentally kill her. He just stared at the ground in front of him, looking like he was the one who just died.

Suddenly, his head jerked up and turned to the left where the fight between Zabuza and Kakashi was being held. Haku turned as well and they heard the chirping of many birds. Both of their eyes widened. Naruto's because he recognized the sound immediately, and Haku's because she felt a great surge of chakra being condensed.

Before Naruto could even say, "Shit!", Haku entered one of the mirrors and murmured, "Sorry Naruto-kun, but I must save my only family." When she was gone, that's when Nrcursed. "Fuck!" He gently placed Akyo on the ground and disappeared in a flash of red light, intending on saving Haku.

This was it...

Zabuza was nowbeing pinned down by Kakashi's nin-dogs and his zanbato was on the ground a few feet from him. Kakashi's Raikiri was slowly charging, more and more chakra being pushed into his palm. "This is my only original jutsu, the Raikiri. Good-bye, Momochi Zabuza. it was an honor knowing you."

The one-eyed jonin rushes towards the swordsman, his goal being Zabuza's heart, then an ice mirror appears in front of Zabuza and Haku appears, ready to take the hit for her mentor.

Next thing anyone knows, Naruto appears out of nowhere in a flash of red before taking the hit full on. Blood spreads across the jonin's face and arm as his jutsu goes right through his student's left lung. Naruto screamed out in pain once, but it didn't last long as he clenched his mouth shut and growled in pain. Zabuza was looking at Naruto like he was the strangest thing in the whole world. So that's why Haku had been acting strange most of the morning.

'She must've met him in the woods. I guess he can be trusted, and I wont have to kill him for saving the closest thing I have to a daughter.' he thought to himself. Guess the blond one was living. Unfortunately, that's when they heard the voice of someone everyone in the bridge wanted to strangle.

"Pathetic, Zabuza. Defeated by a single jonin and a group of kids!" was the crap that came out of Gato's mouth.

Said midget was at the end of the bridge, where Naruto had left Akyo's slowly dieing form. Next to her, Gato had his cane about an inch from her face. He looked down at the petite girl and grinned, something that angered Naruto greatly.

"Too bad this girl is dieing, would've liked to have her as a whore of mine." mumbled the midget. As he said that, Naruto's features returned to being that of an enraged animal. "Oh well, I might find a good one for me in the village." Naruto's hands clenched and unclenched, as his lips became darker and he grinned almost evilly. "Kill them all!" shouted Gato to the men.

He would've added, "But keep the women for entertainment!", except that someone answered to his order. And the voice was enough to make almost a third of the thugs crap themselves. And it didn't help that it came from ourf lovable blond hero.

"With pleasure!" were the two words that came out of Naruto's mouth, before some red lines appeared around him, floating and swaying from side to side. He stepped on one side of Zabuza's zanbato, making it spin and fly up to his hand, and held it like it was lighter than a feather. In a blur he appeared in front of a bandit, who tried to stab but sliced nothing but air as Naruto once again disappeared in a red flash, the red lines trailing behind him like streamers.

Over and over again, he would appear in front or beside a bandit, sometimes even appearing in mid-air or out of the bridge, then disappear and go further until he finally reached a quivering Gato. Some of the bandits noticed that the large blade in Naruto's hands was bloody with fresh blood, and were momentarily confused. That is, until a dozen or so of the hundred bandits suddenly came apart and fell to the floor.

Naruto walked slowly to the shit-less businessman, who was backing away farther and farther. "Heh, probably should've let Tazuna finish the bridge." Naruto growled out when there was nowhere else for the midget to go.

"P-please! Let me live, and I'll give you anything you want. Land, money, women... anything you ever desired will be yours!" the small mouse tried desperately to stay alive.

"I don't want any of the things you give me. All I want... is for you to die!" Naruto said, before decapitating the midget in a single swipe of the large zanbato. Now done, he walked through the large number of thugs as if they were no threat. Had anyone paid attention, they would have noticed that every shadow in the bridge was almost reaching out to grab Naruto.

He slowly walked to Akyo's body, the large blade being dragged behind him and making very scary grinding noises against the bridge. He slumped next to the heavily breathing girl, her eyes half opened. "I-I'm sorry, Naruto-sama. I... I failed you." she whispered softly.

Naruto shook his head and said, "No. You didn't. You took care of me most of the time, so you'll never fail me. Please Akyo, stay with me. Don't leave me!" he whispered back, a single tear escaping his shadow-covered eyes. Akyo smiled at him and closed her eyes, already resigning to her fate. Naruto didn't even notice when he suddenly appeared in his mindscape, with Kyuubi's arms around both of them.

Around him, the forest representing his mind seemed to be dying somewhat. The leaves were now crumbling and were falling, all except a giant tree about as big as the Hokage monument. It had red glowing leaves, and on the side, carved on to the wood, was the kanji for 'seal'.

"Naruto-kun... I think I have a way of saving her, but I'm not sure what will happen to you." Kyuubi whispered into the blond's ear. The trees around him suddenly stopped wilting, but stayed half-dead.

"How?" he asked, not looking up. In his arms, Akyo's body was slowly vanishing. Her left leg was gone, and her right one was becoming transperent.

"Well, maybe if I pushed some chakra through you and into her body, it'll save her. However, you're going to need to bite onto her neck for me to do this. Not only that, but since this is going to be happening through you, I'm not sure if it'll do anything bad. There's a possibility that-"

"Just do it." Naruto said, already making his mind up. "... please."

Kyuubi nodded and said, "O-okay. Here goes nothing." She placed her hands on Naruto's back while said blond leaned in and bit into Akyo's smooth flesh.

In the real world, Naruto's body also bit into Akyo, and all the thugs were confused before someone shouted, "Let's get him while he's still down!" Some of them moved, probably to finish Naruto off, but were stopped when an arrow that came from the sky suddenly appeared in front of them. On the side of the bridge, closest to the Konoha-nin and the two nuke-nin, was the entire village, all armed with shovels, pickaxes, and a bunch of other things.

Now scared since there were very few of them, the thugs decided to make a run for it and left, making the villagers cheer. However, the cheers soon turned to gasps of worry when they saw the red and grey chakra swirling around Naruto. It was soon becoming more plentiful, and it semed to go in and out of Naruto's body, then some of it going into... well, something black that he was bitting into.

The shape in his arms kept changing, sometimes a fox, or something between a fox and a girl. Suddenly, Naruto began to glow red around him, but his chest seemed to become very dark. Like a darkness was trying to come out of his chest.

Finally, the light died out and showed Naruto holding a black fox that was almost as long as he was tall, and had four tails attached to its lower region. Naruto's appearance changed slightly.

His hair had black highlights. He seemed to become a bit taller, about two or three inches. His nails seemed a bit pointy, not as much as an Inuzuka's claws but still rather sharp. Those were the only differences noticible at the moment.

Slowly, the fox in his arms woke up, her eyes fluttering open and her head lifting up slightly. 'Funny. I think I'm in limbo, 'cuz there's alot of mist. I don't think I'm in heaven... and I'm pretty sure I'de be suffering greately if it were hell...'were the first things crossing the new Akyo's mind. She then realized something was holding her and looked to her left to find... 'Naruto-sama!'

She noticed that Naruto looked a bit different, but knew it was still Naruto. However, there was something about him that seemed he still seemed human, he seemed to have something around him. It was hard to see, and wouldn't be able to be seen by human eyes, but Akyo's demon eyes saw it just barely. Around him was the outline of a black fox.

Carefully, she managed to get Naruto on her back. She looked over at the Uchiha's unconscious form a few feet away, then walked over to him and spit on his face for good measure, before trotting over to a bunch of awestruck, confused, and scared humans. She looked at Kakashi with a look that said, 'I'll-explain-everything-later' before heading for Tazuna's house with a passed-out Naruto on his back, and an equally passed out prick being dragged by the leg via fox tail.

(In The Forest)

Funny thing was happening in the woods near Tazuna's house.

All around, black and white chains were sprouting from thin air, and in the center of them was a chained up Shishi as he looked confused at his little sister, who seemed a bit older somehow. It was hard to explain, but he could feel that she was alot stronger now.

After making sure Naruto was safely resting in his futon, the shadow vixen had a bit of revenge on the emo bastard for using her in the Substitution when still in the house.

(Flashback)

Akyo gently placed Naruto in his futon, making sure to not disturb him, and kissed him lightly on the cheek while whispering, "Thank you." into his ear. She walked out of the room, making sure to step on the body she 'accidentally' left outside the door. Sasuke still hadn't woken up, which was a good thing.

Akyo dragged the emo into another room, completely bare of all furniture, before closing the door behind her. She then threw the boy into the center of the room with a loud 'Thud' and reached into her shadow, concentrating in forming something in her hand. Pretty soon she's holding a black mallet, almost four feet in length.

She made sure that the mallet was similar to wood, so she wouldn't kill the Uchiha. She had a feeling he would be suffering alot after this mission.

Raising the mallet with an evil smirk, she swung it down over and over again, hitting Sasuke where the sun never shines a dozen or so times. Had anyone been in the house, they would've heard the sounds of a mallet hitting some kid repeatedly.

(End Flashback)

Shishi gave a confused look at what his sister was saying. Naruto... protecting the Uchiha? He was gonna kick Naruto in the shins the next time he saw him again.

Then came the part where Sasuke used Substitution to replace himself with Akyo. The result was to be expected...

Naruto woke up to a killer headache, wondering where the hell he was. Last thing he remembered was biting into Akyo's neck before blacking out from all the pain.

Suddenly realizing Akyo wasn't around, he began to panic until a soothing voice said, 'Don't worry Naruto-kun, she's just fine. The marking was successful and you are now her mate.'

That was something the blond wasn't expecting. "Kyu-chan? How is it that I can now hear you?" he asked Kyuubi out-loud. they weren't ever able to do that in the past, and were still working on it.

'Well, the marking process somehow slightly weakened the seal, letting me make a mental link between the seal here and your thoughts. Now it's not necessary for you to come and talk to me in your mindscape. One more thing, you should talk in your thoughts instead of out-loud. Don't want people thinking you're crazy, right?' Kyu-chan explained.

'Wait... So you're telling me I no longer have to go inside my head to talk to you? Man! I loved visiting you!' Naruto whined in his head, wanting to always talk to her. This coment made Kyu-chan blush, as she didn't know Naruto loved seeing her so much.

'Maybe he and I could... No. Why would he want to be with me? I'm the reason he's hated so much.' she thought saddly.

'Um, one more thing Kyu-chan. You said "marking". By that you mean what?'

'Uh... I'm not sure how you will take this, but in demon terms... Well, you and Akyo are... um... married.'

Naruto's jaw hit the floor. He was married? To Akyo?

Before either of them could say anything else, they heard what sounded like an enraged beast roaring loudly. Naruto quickly got all his things before dashing out of the door and down the stairs. At the entrance of the house he found what was left of his team, the Momochi family plus Tazuna's family looking in the direction of the forest, which is where they heard the roar.

He said a hasty, "Gotta go, bye!" and ran into the woods.

'Any idea what that was?' he asked Kyu-chan as they got closer to the sounds of the roar and the clanging of... chains?

'It kinda sounded like Shishi. I bet Akyo told him what happened at the bridge.'

Again, sorry if it's short, but I don't have as much free time as I use to.

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