Author's Note

So! I'm doing a bit of a thing so that I don't have to keep bringing up how I'm not sure how people are enjoying the story. On my page, you can find a poll with four choices that will help me see the general opinion of you, the readers. The four choices I put up are more smut and less plot, a bit more smut and less plot, to just continue as I am, and the last one is just to express annoyance on not having enough smut.

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Warning! This story will contain language, sexual situations, and possibly fetishes that some people may feel uncomfortable with. If you are easily offended or disturbed, don't complain, you've been warned.

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Chapter 55: What Makes A Demon?

"Onii-sama, it's time to get up~!" A sickly sweet voice sang, Yoichi coming to his senses after being engulfed in that miasma. Opening his eyes to see a familiar room, it didn't take more than a moment to realize he was once again in his mindscape. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Lily rocking back and forth on her heels, watching him as he slowly sat up from laying down on the replica bed.

He felt incredibly weak. Whether this was his real body somehow pulled into his own mind or just a representation of him, everything still seemed so real. He quickly went over his options of what to do, remembering how his previous encounter with her ended. He had believed he imagined it all, but right now the answer was a paradox of being both true and false.

"Why did you bring me back here?" He asked, glaring at the innocent looking child, knowing full well it was simply a disguise.

"Lily didn't bring you back. If Lily could do that, she would have brought you back when you left last time!" She said, a bright, carefree smile on her face.

"Then why am I here?" He asked, making her giggle in return.

"Lily could tell you, but you have to guess right first!" She said, angering Yoichi who just wanted to get out of here.

"I don't have time for your games, demon! Answer me!" He shouted at her. That seemed to do the trick as the fake warmness and happiness she was showing melted away and stopped rocking on her feet. She gave him a dully, expressionless look, her mouth in a slight frown.

"You are a fool to be making such demands." Her voice changed as well, becoming a combination of Lily's voice and what he could recall as Lilith's voice. Despite the shift in her attitude, Yoichi didn't seem to care at all.

"I'm not afraid of you, you can't harm me. You can't do anything but try to torment me. Just let me leave, I don't want anything to do with you, my grandfather, or whatever you're planning to do to bring back Sakata." He told her, finding the strength to stand up and stare her down. She didn't even flinch.

"If that is what you desire, then so be it. However…" Of course there had to be a catch. With a motion of her arm, she gestured to the other side of the room. Looking over, Yoichi saw the red-haired woman from before, except there was a great noticeable difference.

While last time she seemed to be several years older than him, she seemed to have regressed to be about his own age. Her body was in an even worse shape, looking as if she was on the brink of death from how pale her skin was. She didn't say a word, staring distantly in their general direction, not moving. Despite not knowing her, he knew she didn't deserve this kind of treatment, moving over beside her to examine her.

"There has been much work done with her. After the failed attempt at retrieving her from you, there is little choice in what to do. Her time is running out. Should you leave, she will die." Yoichi tried to get the girl's attention, but she didn't respond. Not even blinking. The only thing that told him she was still alive was her pulse.

"What have you done to her? How could you have done this? You shouldn't have any power here!" He exclaimed as he looked back to her.

"You prove once again you are a fool by assuming this to be my prison. I am limited only in that I cannot leave or affect your body directly. I choose to stay to feed off the emotions around you. Even now, I can freely communicate with my siblings on our plan that the rest of your family obediently follows. You underestimate your heritage, as everything was planned out centuries ago. Even your birth as your mother made your father believe in her, solely to birth a child that is half man, half demon." Yoichi felt a wave of dread wash over him. His mother, who had still yet to meet… was she the enemy as well?

"That… that doesn't answer my question! What does she have to do with any of this? She's innocent!" While he had several questions, he felt as if he had to focus on the most pressing matter first.

"You say that not knowing who she really is. You see, this is what you know as the Kyubi. She was formerly only part of the original, but with the disappearance of her other half, she has become the true Kyubi." Yoichi looked back down at the girl before back to the demon, one hand balling into a fist.

"Impossible. I would have become a jinchuriki if she was. Besides, my power may be negated, but I can still use enough chakra to tell she's human. I would be able to tell if she wasn't, I've dealt with something like that before." The demon tilted her head.

"How little you understand… My siblings and I are true demons. We are not limited by your restraints of reality. With the power we've all gained of the past several centuries, we have become gods compared to you humans. Our powers can defy all you know about the world. We learned of the Kyubi's fate fifteen years ago and waited for our time to seize her. Your father's last role in our plan was to be a distraction as we released the Fourth Hokage from the Shikigami's grasp to unseal her from him and take her back for her power. However, despite my sibling's efforts, as long as her other half existed, there was little they could do." Yoichi thought over those words before realizing hit him.

"Wait, that day with Naruto when Naruko appeared in his place…" The demon nodded.

"You unintentionally helped our plan. You allowed me to loosen its seal enough for my siblings to locate and get rid of that half. However, we also gained the attention of the spirit of Hagoromo, the one you know as the Sage of Six Paths. That boy along with the other you called Sasuke were his descendants. Should they grow older, they might have been able to stop us. In order to prevent that, my siblings used their power to replace them with a female version of themselves, all so that you may take them as your slaves to use that power to help our cause." Yoichi felt another wave of dread wash over him. That truly was all his fault.

"What… what else?" Whether he was asking what else was his fault or what else she would tell him, he couldn't say at that point.

"With the removal of the Kyubi's other half, my siblings were finally able to subdue the beast, becoming constricted into a human form and stripped of its memories, allowing it to be used as the vessel for my siblings and I to use in our father's revival. We only had to keep her hidden until she was needed, which would have been another problem if you hadn't stumbled upon that pond and fell in. The seal to store that power was the perfect chance to seal her within you. Because of how she has been forced into this form, she could not make you a jinchuriki, as she has been reduced to a human with immense power… and now no purpose." Yoichi shot to his feet.

"You just said she was to be used as a vessel, and now she has no purpose? All of that trouble you've gone through is just a waste now after using me and who knows how many others!" He shouted, the demon once again not flinching.

"Because of the failed retrieval, we had planned on launching a larger assault to obtain her, but were told of another being of immense power that would not only help Sakata return, but would make him a god as well. That brings me to tell you the purpose of our meeting. While we need you as part of the plan, you seem set on not helping us. Despite that, she may not be needed, but she doesn't need to die. If you wish to save her, you may take her from here." With that, she calmly walks to the room's door, opening it to leave, only to find herself pinned against a wall, half a foot above the ground, by a hand around her neck belonging to a furious Yoichi.

"How… how dare you… Who do you think you are!? To use her intending to have her as a sacrifice, yet suddenly willing to let her go now that she's not needed!? Is that how you treat everyone else!? I'm guessing so, since it seems my mother never even loved my father to use him for some fucking plan!" Despite how she had been previously carrying herself, Yoichi realized that she was genuinely struggling against him, her hands grabbing at his arm to pry him off to breath, yet failing. The most shocking part was when he looked into her eyes, and saw pure terror in her. Like she was afraid he was going to kill her.

This completely caught Yoichi off guard to the point where he had to take a few steps back, dropping her to the floor, where she fell to her knees, coughing.

"I… I don't understand. Why? Why are you afraid? Is this some sort of trick?" His surprise was met with anger that she was trying to manipulate him, but that seemed to fade as she got up, rubbing her neck as she looked at him. Suddenly, he didn't see demon disguised as a girl. She was simply a girl who had felt like she had almost died.

She wouldn't respond, simply standing there a few moments before hurrying out the door which slammed shut behind her. Yoichi tried to go after her, but the doorknob wouldn't budge, as if it was a prop attached to it. Banging one fist on the door in frustration, he took a moment to think things over before remembering the Kyubi's condition. Moving back to her side, slid her hands underneath her to pick her up, ignoring the fact she was naked.

"Don't worry, everything is going to be fine." He said before noticing the room around them was dissolving into darkness. "I think." He murmured, pulling her close and closing his eyes as they were engulfed in darkness.

"Yoichi!" He heard a few moments later, looking up to see the girls looking at him, as well as several others including Jiraiya, Tsunade, and the First and Second Hokages.

"What happened?"

"Are you okay?"

"Who's the girl?"

He was immediately bombarded with questions from several people, sighing as he stood up.

"I'm fine. I'll explain things, but first, she needs help." He said, looking down at the girl in his arms who was clinging to him.

"You should get some rest. You've been up all night."

"Why don't you?"

"We're dead." Yoichi sighed, running his hands over his face, the sun's morning light flowing in through the hospital room's windows. Tobirama and Hashirama had decided to watch over him as he sat beside the girl's bedside.

"It's just… none of this makes sense anymore. Why would she be afraid? Why would she do all of that just to let me save her, even after all they've done?" The previous Hokage frowned, not sure how to answer after Yoichi explained everything he was told and what had happened. "Any thoughts? I could use a bit of that Hokage wisdom I've been told about. Why would a demon do something like this?"

"It's true that things are a bit… peculiar, but if we were to assume that this isn't some sort of trick, then the best conclusion that I can come to is… maybe they aren't evil just because they're demons." Tobirama said, his brother nodding in agreement.

"If we were to think of them as humans, then from what we know, all they are trying to accomplish is bring their father back to life, while trying to avoid harming as many innocent lives as possible. They may truly be doing the best they can do to avoid interfering with others." Yoichi thought that over a moment.

"I understand, but in the end, they're still demons. And Sakata was killed for a reason, so he must have been a large enough threat that had to be dealt with." Hashirama smirked and cupped his chin.

"I wonder how true that is… history does tend to favor the victor. If Madara had defeated me instead of the other way around, who would have been considered evil? We were both fighting for our own beliefs, and seems we still are to this day." He ended by letting out a hearty laugh as he looked back on his memories from when he was alive, making his brother sigh. Before Yoichi could think about responding, the girl on the bed stirred, sitting up and groaning as she brought one hand to her head.

"Where… where am I?" She mumbled as if waking up from a long sleep.

"Don't worry, you're safe. You were in a bad condition, just take it easy." He told her, making her slowly turn her head to look at him. However, the reaction he got from her was not one he was expecting.

"'Safe'? 'Take it easy'? Do you not know who I am? I am the all-powerful Kyubi! You should be cowering before me, you puny human!" She exclaimed, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at him. Yoichi couldn't help but blink.

"Okay, one, rude. Two, you're human as well. Thirdly, how do you remember that? I was told you lost your memory." She looked down to look at her body, clad in only a hospital gown, before turning her head and lifting her nose into the air as she huffed.

"Yet another foolish human it seems. How little you know. Where would you even get such information from?" Yoichi was starting to regret staying up all night. He hadn't noticed until now, but she looked completely fine compare to how she had been the previous night.

"A demon disguised as a human girl who called herself Lily told me that her siblings did this to you to use you as a vessel to revive their father. Would that ring any bells?" She glanced briefly at him.

"You are surely mistaken. I was rescued by these 'demons' who asked for my assistance in return for being granted a form that would allow me to roam freely without fear of being sealed or controlled once again. However, that was impossible to do so as I was only the Yin half, but they found a way to accomplish that. My memories were lost in the process of giving me this form, and I was able to regain them thanks to who I believe is the same Lily you must be referring to." Wait, what? Was everything Lily told him a lie then?

"Alright, several more questions. Why were you so hurt? What did you help them with? What do you know about Lily and her siblings? Why would you choose this to be your form?" So many questions he wanted to know, but it seemed things wouldn't be easy as she looked at him directly, quirking an eyebrow.

"You dare demand answers from me, without so much as an offering? And you called me rude. If I were used to this body, you would no longer be in my sight, let alone this building." Yoichi let out a mental groan, sighing out loud.

"Alright, fine. What sort of offering would you want?" He asked, deciding to play along as long as he got his answers.

"I desire to taste the confectionery you humans call 'pudding'. Bring some to me, and I may answer your questions." For a moment, he just stared at her.

"…Pudding. You want pudding." She gave him a single, stern nod, making him sigh once again. "I don't even think anyone sells pudding this early." He muttered.

"Until I get it, I have no reason to answer any more of your questions." With another heavy sigh, he looked behind him at the First and Second Hokages who were obviously amused watching the exchange.

"Maybe a bit of help?" Noticing the other two men, she immediately recognized the First, glaring at him.

"I know you. You freed me from that accursed man's power, only to seal me inside that woman. Hashirama Senju, if I recall. Because of you and that man, I've had to resort to becoming one of you in order to stay free. I should kill you where you stand for what you did to me." Hashirama sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, sorry to say that someone already beat you to that. But if it's any consolidation, I only did what I thought was best for the village." She simply huffed and rolled her eyes.

"Yes, yes, you humans and your excuses." Tobirama had a thought, however.

"Yoichi, do you remember how she was sealed inside you? If she really can't be sealed in this form, then how did they accomplish such a feat?" Yoichi shrugged.

"The sealing process was long and incredibly painful. I was knocked out for most of it and sore for a week afterwards. There was plenty of time for them to seal her inside me, but how they did so is a good question…" He turned to the Kyubi as if expecting her to answer. It ddn't go unnoticed by her, narrowing her eyes at him.

"Pudding." That was all she had to say to get across that she wasn't going to cooperate until she got what she wanted. With a groan, he got up, leaving the dead Hokage to look after her while he went out to search for some.

"Will you answer my questions now?" Yoichi tiredly asked as the Kyubi, who had decided that they were to refer to her as 'Kura' from now on, happily ate a slice of cake. It was now the afternoon, and she continuously asked for more sweets, her hospital bed littered with trash.

"Hm?" she stopped to look at him, completely forgetting the purpose of all of this for a moment. "Ah, right." She said dryly as she remembered, sighing as she put the slice of cake aside. "You've done an adequate job as a servant. Very well, you may ask me whatever you'd like, and I will decide if it is worth answering." Yoichi felt his eye twitch at being called a servant, but he was too tired to argue.

"You said you were given this body in exchange for helping the demons. What can you tell us about this deal?" He asked, at least glad she was willing to talk.

"They simply wanted for me to lend them a miniscule portion of my power. In exchange, they would use it to create a body that would allow me to be free from being controlled and being sealed, as well as keeping my immortality. I could hardly refuse such an offer, even if it meant having the body of a human. It's only temporary though, until my power returns. Then I will be able to be whatever form I wish. Other than being weakened temporarily, since I acquired an actual brain instead of being a mass of sentient chakra, I had to live through my memories to keep them. Admittedly, it was a very… strenuous process. Lily helped me from hurting myself by any means necessary, even when there were a few times I believed she was trying to hurt me." Well, that explained the first time he met her.

"And is there any particular reason why you chose this form specifically?" Kura raised an eyebrow before shrugging.

"It was produced in part from my memories, based off of my previous hosts. I didn't pick it out myself, the 'demons' as you continue to call them did so, telling me that I would be treated like royalty, as I deserve." Seems she didn't really understand that they meant it came from her looks entirely. Yoichi would be lying if he wasn't tempted to feel her skin against his… Shaking his head from those thoughts to focus on the task on hand, he thought back on what she said earlier to see what else needed to be cleared up.

"What do you know about them exactly?" He asked, referring to Sakata's offspring one again, this time without just calling them demons.

"Nothing, other than the fact that they have immense power to defy reality, but at the same time are incredibly limited. In what ways, I wouldn't be able to tell you as I wasn't able to find out. They do carry the same resentment to humans I do, which is part of the reason we agreed to help each other." She seemed to be annoyed Yoichi still had questions, wanting to get back to her cake.

"If you don't like humans, why are you answering me and not killing me?" It was mainly curiosity into why she was acting this way.

"For one, I still need to regain my strength. Secondly, even if you tried to do anything to me, you would fail. You humans are insects compared to myself, so I'm simply humoring you. Finally, I have been told of someone who is only half human and is said to be an expert in pleasing others. I wish to see how true this is, and possible make him my servant to attend to me. Would you have heard of him? He goes by the name Yoichi Sakata." At that, he couldn't help but groan, leaning back in his chair and hang his head over the back.

"Well, you're looking right at him." Hashirama said, pointing to the boy, making Kura blink.

"Oh. So far, I'm not impressed." That's when Yoichi decided to just let his exhaustion take over him, promptly passing out to rest.

Author's Note

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