Chapter 3 – Demon
Naruto's honed senses kicked in. He relaxed when he noticed where the alert came from. Naruto looked down at his feet unamused.
There was a small dog biting into his leg.
"Down Akamura, you don't want to catch his stupidity do you?" Kiba picked up Akamura as he and his team appeared. Asuma, son of Hiruzen-sensei, walked towards Kakashi. Hinata and Shino were not far from Asuma.
"Too late Kiba, he's already got to be your pet, so he's already stupid," Naruto returned as he yawned. Kiba like the other fresh genin were just small fry under his radar. They couldn't offer him a thrill even if they wanted to.
"Up yours baka," Kiba cursed, "you're so weak, it would take Akamura ten seconds to take you down."
Naruto narrowed his eyes at Kiba. While the dog boy may be an utter beginner, no way was Naruto going to take that from Kiba, "wanna bet?"
"Heh, you really want to get hurt baka?" Kiba asked as he stood right in Naruto's face, "I'll beat you into the ground so hard that you'll have to look down in shame as I tell everyone what a weakling you are."
"Hey now, what's going on?" Asuma came and asked worriedly, "you guys aren't having a fight are you?"
"No Asuma-sensei, Kiba just agreed to spar with me so we can test out our skills and learn from each other as fellow leaf nin," Naruto answered. All eyes were on him. They never expected Naruto to answer in such a calm way after they noticed how Kiba and he were arguing.
"That's fine," Kakashi added quickly before stepping in between Kiba and Naruto.
In the next five minutes Kakashi explained the rules. No killing blows or attacks that could end one's shinobi career. They were to fight in the same clearing where team 7 had its genin test. Team 7 and 9 save for Kiba and Naruto stood at the sidelines watching as the two faced each other.
"I'll try not to humiliate you too much in front of your team," Kiba said, obviously trying to taunt Naruto.
"Hey Kiba," Naruto whispered so only they could hear.
"What?" Kiba answered.
"After this, don't hate me," Naruto grit his teeth and snarled at the freshly minted genin who answered with a look of confusion
"Begin!" Kakashi said loud enough for everyone to hear.
Kiba immediately ran towards Naruto. When he neared him he rocked his fist back and smashed it with full motion into Naruto's jaw. Naruto in response jolted his head backwards. Kiba delivered more and more punches resulting in Naruto's head and body being stumbled back and forth. After a while of attacking Kiba's mouth opened in shock.
"Shouldn't we stop the fight sensei?" Sakura asked strangely worried about her blond teammate. Naruto before was a loud idiot, but today the blond showed to be sophisticated. Not only that, but Sakura also found a little bit of respect for him when he explained their plan to succeed in the instructor exam to Kakashi-sensei. She would never admit that though.
"I think he can take care of himself," Kakashi said with a cheerful voice.
"He's amazing," Asuma said stunned.
"But he's hurting Naruto and Naruto doesn't seem to be able to do anything back Asuma-sensei!" Sakura added worriedly.
"He's not talking about the dog boy," Sasuke said as he narrowed his eyes at the scene before them.
Hinata knew what Sasuke was talking about. And Shino was clever enough to have noticed it too by now.
"Stand still!" Kiba said frustrated. He couldn't believe that the dead last of the academy could weave and dodge like he did now.
To the untrained eye it may seem that Naruto was taking full swung blows, but in reality he was skilfully moving in the same trajectory as the attacks and so never took one hit. Kiba punched and Naruto leaned his head back enough so the attack wouldn't land. It continued so for minutes. "Impossible," Kiba muttered, "stand still!"
"Where would the fun in that be Kiba-chan?" Naruto asked innocently as he weaved back effortlessly. The reason that Kiba was only punching and not using any other attacks was because Naruto was guiding him, and adding fuel to the genin hailing from the Inuzuka clan. Kiba had a temper that would kill him in the battlefield if he didn't change his ways. Well, one less incompetent shinobi, Naruto thought indifferent. Naruto calculated that Kiba would run out of steam soon.
And just as Naruto predicted, Kiba's punches packed less power and slowed down tremendously from before. "My turn," Naruto with a bored gaze.
The blond contracted his biceps and made a fist. Naruto growled after remembering what Kiba had said.
I'll beat you into the ground so hard that you'll have to look down in shame as I tell everyone what a weakling you are.
No way he was going to hold back. Genin or not, Kiba was going down. Naruto cackled as a tingly feeling went down his limbs and spine.
Kiba breathed in haste frequency as he noticed that Naruto was making a punch ready to strike him, "too obvious blondy, like I'd let something like that hit me, especially coming from the dead last!" Kiba barked in laughter. Akamura gave a whelp as he could smell the bloodlust coming from Naruto.
Before Kiba could laugh more he stopped and widened his eyes. So did the spectators watching the fight.
In the blink of an eye Naruto disappeared from view and appeared right next to Kiba.
"Don't think I'll let you off easy because you're a weakling," Naruto said loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Kakashi!" Asuma shouted with widened eyes.
"Yeah I know," Kakashi said.
Naruto had gone too far, and he knew it, but the words that Kiba said were unforgiveable. In his own anger he had unconsciously powered his fist with telekinetic energy that was so strong that it tore through the air. This went not unnoticed to the two seasoned jonin. Their eyes saw the air current changing when Naruto's punch was on its trajectory to Kiba's temple.
"Take a load of this baka," Naruto said. Naruto suddenly could feel two people appearing right behind him, but it was already too late he thought with a smirk.
Kiba widened his eyes before closing them as he knew he was going to take a big punch.
"Enough!" Asuma shouted as he and Kakashi restrained Naruto's fist from ever reaching Kiba.
Naruto widened his eyes as he released the telekinetic energy from his fist. He only now realized what would have happened if the two jonin hadn't stopped him. "Shit, I almost killed him," Naruto thought bewildered. That wasn't like him at all. "What's going on?" He suddenly felt much calmer.
Kakashi called the winner of the fight while holding up his new student's arm. When Naruto looked around, he noticed several strongly contrasting looks. Sasuke had his eyes narrowed. Sakura had her eyes widened. Hinata had her hands in front of her mouth and Shino looked somewhat surprised behind his glasses. They all shared the look of shock of anything.
{Demon}
Later that day
Naruto was in his apartment next to the Hokage's building. Years before he had lived in another district of Konoha, but since he became the personal student of Hiruzen, he was granted living quarters near his sensei. It was also ideal for his bodyguard duties.
Naruto's home existed out of a single floor with five rooms. One room with shower and a washing machine, one where he slept, a living room, a study room and a room where he performed his sealing jutsu. Usually the blond could be found in his study or sealing room. Today was not such day however.
The blond was in his living room where a large table stood. This is where he and Hiruzen would often speak about important and trivial things. Now the blond sat alone. The time was when normal people would have dinner. Naruto however had no hunger. No lamps were lit in the living room. He sat alone with his bangs hiding his eyes and the shadows that the moon cast inside hovering over his body.
It was a hard pill to swallow for Naruto when he was first told of his burden. Today was one of the few days that he had fear for the demon inside of him.
"Kyuubi, is this your doing?" Naruto asked softly. No answer came, but Naruto knew that the nine tailed fox of destruction and chaos was behind his previous outburst, even though they had never spoken. Why else would he want to have killed Kiba? It was not like him to want hurt upon fellow leaf nin.
I'll beat you into the ground so hard that you'll have to look down in shame as I tell everyone what a weakling you are.
That night Naruto couldn't sleep because he was afraid that the Kyuubi would finally take over.