Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Finding True Love, No, True Loves ❯ Nakama x Attack x Truth ( Chapter 8 )

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Recap: After an unfortunate visit from the S-class Nuke-nin, Naruto was growing weaker by the second, to add to that, Kyuubi is finally out of his cage and instead of getting his revenge on the village, he decided to…

 

“Kyuubi's thoughts/words”

Thoughts

 

Finding True Love, No, True Loves

Chapter 7: Nakama x Attack x Truth

 

“Naruto, your friends are here to see you.”

The soft calling of Tsunade was warm and caring, but Naruto refused to stir. He was fully awake and curling under the white sheet, but the thought of his friends questioning the reason of his staying at the hospital was nerve wrecking.

 

Tsunade open the curtain only to find the blonde bundle curl up in a ball hiding under the heavily bleach intoxicated cover. With a soft sigh, barely audible to the rest of the visitors, Tsunade reached the bed to where Naruto's head was located.

 

“You cannot runaway from them forever. I know this is hard for you, but they are your precious people, they care for you as you care for them. Please Naruto. Stop running.” Tsunade's soft pleas were whispered to Naruto's ear, “Plus Sasuke and his banshee are not here.”

 

Little rustlings stir the cover of Naruto's bed. “How can I run when I am still chain to this bed?” A faint smile appears on Naruto's face as he continues, “I will be okay, Tsunade-oba-chan. Let them in.”

 

Small smirk appeared on the face of the voluptuous woman as she turns toward the visitors.

Unknown to both of them, a male figure with red eyes had landed softly and silently on a branch outside of the window while concealing his chakra to non-existence. However, the raven was still hiding from Naruto since the window curtain covered the view.

 

Tsunade opened the curtain all the way and left the room to the Chunins and Jounins, no, long time friends. However, she stayed close to the door to listen in on Naruto's progress. After a few second of silence, sounds of socializing started to leak out from the room and the Hokage left the hall with smile on her face.

 

 

“Hey! Naruto! Nice to see the `number one ninja' in chained to bed!” Kiba laughed.

“Oh, shut it, dog breath.” Naruto tried to fight back, but his words held little strength to further fight in words.

 

“What? I resent that!” Kiba whined deciding not to push since Naruto was clearly weak.

“Man, you guys are just too troublesome” concluded Shikamaru.

 

“Naruto, are you feeling better? Hokage-sama would not reveal anything about your reason for being here.” The ever stuttering girl, Hinata, had grown out of the shyness and spoke like a true Shinobi.

 

“Huh? Oh that? Nah, it's alright now.” Came Naruto as he processes the fact that none of his friends know of his condition. Great, now I have to make up something and lie to them. It's not like I already has enough secrets of my own. Oy, I cannot think straight; did Oba-chan put enough pain-killers? My whole body hurt like hell! `Kyuubi. Yo, Kyuubi!' Damn it, the fox is asleep, no help there…

 

Shino, the one who stood furthest away from the bed had come closer and surprise everyone, “Naruto? Is there something wrong with you? My bugs inform me that this is not a result from another mob attack from the villagers. There is a change in your chakra.”

 

“My chakra?” questioned Naruto as he remembered how his friends learned of his past.

 

 

~Flashback~

It was hard to hide his secret from his friends when the clear unjust treatment in the hospital he was receiving was getting on his nerves.

Naruto had told the rest of his friends about Kyuubi when they all visited him in the hospital after Sasuke were back. They didn't turn their head back on him like he expected, but shower him with protective care like true friends. They were able to understand the actions of the villagers, but they were unable to accept it.

Naruto was having a hard time understanding their care and constant visit for him.

 

Finally, it was Hinata who explained to him, “We, as the children, are unable to choose our parents, whether they be kind, strict, or abusive. We are not able to pick our own teacher, sometimes, even our own future. However, we can pick our friends and how we act toward them. Why should we hate you for something you have no choice or say in it? You are not the Kyuubi, you are Naruto. You are the one who save the rest of the villagers from the destruction of Kyuubi. You are our hero, but the villagers have held hate over blind eyes. I chose to be here, Naruto. I am not forced here. Please, understand this.”

~End of flashback~

 

 

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow on Shino's statement while the rest of the group stared at Shino as if he had grown a second head. In fact, if it wasn't Naruto's loud burst of laughter, most of them would continue with eye-popping process.

“Man, that must have been the most you speak in this year, Shino!” said Naruto as he stopped laughing, “Nah, its fine, there is no need to worry. Let's just say the old Fox was doing something in me and it backfired.”

“Kyuubi? What did it do to your chakra? Do you want me to use Byakugan?” asked Neji eager to help, freakishly unusual from his normal self.

“Huh?” Startled Naruto, “No, I am fine now. I just need some sleep and ramen and I will be good as new tomorrow.”

“Yosh! The ray of youth burns bright in this one” shouted the green moving tree with bushy eyebrow, Rock Lee.

Ino punched Rock Lee's head straight from the top and pat lightly on Naruto's head. “No ramen for you, it is unhealthy!”

“What! But, but I want it, I need it! Please? Just three bowls of it” whined Naruto while using his infamous puppy eyes to lure in the pray.

 

“No, Naruto, Ino is right. Ramen is bad for you. In fact, I think it is because of ramen that you are here right now.” TenTen replied while averting her sight from Naruto's puppy eyes and cute pouting lips; she was not immune to it.

“What!” Naruto screamed, “How can ramen be bad!”

“Think about it, all you eat is ramen. You eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You also eat it as a snack. How can it be healthy for you?” After a pause and a big breath, she continues, “Therefore, I hereby ban you from eating anymore of that junk food.” TenTen stated it with a firm face that holds no room for bargaining.

 

“No!!!! It's the end of the world! Chouji! Help me!” Scream Naruto.

“Well, I will have to agree with TenTen and Ino on this.” Chouji replied with a flat face.

Naruto nearly knock his head against the wall. “Chouji! Not you too! Ramen is a sacred food it is the ultimate nutrition from where I get my energy!”

“Actually, from what I was able to gather, even my chips have more nutrition then ramen.” A surprise comeback and the whole room were silent.

“Well, that concludes it! While you get healthy in the hospital, we will help you quit your ramen addiction!” Ino said almost too happily.

Naruto just sign and smiles weakly as he watches the girls form into a circle to plan on getting rid of ramen from his life.

Naruto is actually not a ramen addict; he just acts it so the villagers would accept him as nothing more than loud mouth idiot who eats nothing but ramen. He never guessed that his friends had fall for that tactic as well.

 

Naruto was grateful that Tsunade-obi Chan told nothing of his state to his friends. All they know was that he was in sugary for a long time. Since Naruto was trained mostly by Kyuubi, a fox, he had no problem filling in the gaps with nonsense. Basically, his friends were clueless to what happened to Naruto by the end of the day.

He was trained by a fox after all.

 

When the sun sets, the room became eerie quiet. Naruto sit in the same position as Neji and Chouji help getting him in. The only sound in the room is from the window; the gust of wind with rustling leaves and curtains that you can only hear in autumn.

The blonde shinobi was meditating.

 

He was feeling irritated for some reason as well as anxiety. He knew he was being watched, but there were many possibilities of who was watching him. The battle of patience continued silently as Naruto became more alert of the other held offensive chakra.

 

Kyuubi had gone to sleep in order to regain his strength from saving Naruto from the miscarriage perk up its ears and growled, “Uchiha.” Kyuubi roared, “It is the younger one.”

The shadow from outside the window jolted.

Naruto snapped his head toward the door as a gray blur shot toward his way.

A sharp kunai was already in Naruto's hand ready to defend and kill if necessary. Thanks to his daily trainings, the kunai was already in front of his chest before the assailant even entered the room.

 

Sasuke had his short, white sharp nails curing along the defensive kunai as his skin take on a pale gray tone.

“Tsk, tsk, Naruto, is this how you act when your friends visit?” the infamous smirk appeared on the ill gray surface of Sasuke's face, right under the black cross-like symbol across his nose and under his eyes.

 

“You are not my friend, Uchiha Sasuke; you are nothing more then a gonna-be ex-teammate of mine.” Naruto glared as he held onto his conscious of trying his best not to puke from such a disgusting creature in front of him.

 

In Naruto's view, even Kyuubi in his demon form was way better, if not majestic, compared to the sight before him. It was actually a disgrace in Naruto's opinion to compare the Bijuu to the vermin before his eyes.

 

Kyuubi was demonic yes, but he held the essence of pride which fabricates the magnificence being that he was in his graceful way. He was an untamed beast roaring rampantly and yet ever so elegantly, bowing down to no one. His fur was hardly tamed, but stormy and wild, yet ever so soft and silk-like to the touch.

 

Sasuke? Well, he is a grotesque creature who throws away his pride and future for a low life creature whom was once a Sannin, now, a snake.

Snake always lies and trick, unlike a fox, it was rotten to the core, like an over-ripe apple with the promise of luscious sweet, but the reality of stale, sour acidic aftertaste.

Yet, this bastard before him was willing to become a slave and a pawn for that lowly vile creature.

He, Sasuke, turned his back on his friends, his country, his pride, and his words, and by Kami, his honor by selling his body for his so called `revenge'. He is unworthy of the forehead protector on his head. Damn the council for giving it to him, that thing is a disgrace to me since I wear it and to my friends, not to mention it represents Oba-Chan.

 

“Hh,” came the usual snort, “I am hurt. So tell me, what did I miss in the last couple hours?” speaking with a playful tone, Sasuke lift his left hand and gloss over Naruto's silky smooth cheek with his cold and rough, uneven-toned fingers.

“From what I can tell, Uchiha,” Naruto spat, “You are not my superior and I have no need to report to you.” Defiance, it was clearly shown in Naruto's Azure blue eyes as well as unhidden disgust.

“No Dobe, you belong to me!” Three black tomoe spins wildly inside Sasuke's eyes as he spoke out of clench teeth, “You will know your place!”

 

Fingers that were feeling Naruto's cheek slid down quickly and ripped open the robin egg blue hospital gown violently.

While still in surprise of the sudden attack, Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hands, twisting it to knock the sharp kunai off to the corner, unreachable to Naruto. He then grabbed both Naruto's wrists firmly by his right hand as he touch Naruto's lean muscle chest with his left hand.

“Hm, I rather like your position, Na-ru-to-chan!” with joy mixed in twisted sickness, Sasuke commented in a sing-song like tone.

 

Cold air woke the blonde hair Shinobi from his daze as he suddenly saw the darkness that engulfs him on the night of full moon, Itachi.

It was the same. Sasuke's hands gloat over Naruto's chest just like Itachi. The cold touches that cannot belong to a human being brought Naruto the ill need to vomit. The eyes, the red eyes, though not as deep and red as the long, raven haired one with the depth of knowledge aged with time, it was similar, holding infinite sin of lust.

The memory brought back fear and Naruto opened his mouth to scream.

 

It was blocked instantly. Lock on tight by Sasuke's open hand, but not for long. Naruto used the only weapon he had available, his canine teeth, though they were not near as sharp as his real ones, it was enough. He bites down hard on Sasuke's palm.

While the gray haired one's grips loosen due to pain, Naruto quickly reach over the left side of the bed and grabbed the only weapon that he had stored in between the mattresses, Yondaime's Kunai.

 

Heh, surprisingly, this weapon which was once his idol's is now his only chance left to defending himself. Guess irony really bites especially since the owner of this weapon was the one who force him to the hell he was to endure, his father.

There was no time to stay in the memories. Holding the Fourth Hokage's special Kunai in both hands, Naruto turned his body up, back against the messy bed and slashes Sasuke's face with the Kunai.

 

The whole process took less than three seconds and as soon as the traitor was holding the cheek with huge gash, cutesy of Naruto sharpening his weapon on weekly basis, in pain. Naruto sprung up from the bed and land in the corner of the room, close to the door.

 

A devilish smirk appeared on the blonde beauty as his Genjutsu dropped.

Naruto was still low on chakra due to his impalement, so in order to defend himself, Naruto used the chakra that was set in place to conceal his true appearance into his weapons.

 

The Genjutsu he had set on himself was almost perfect in every sense, but it holds a major set back. It has to be break in life-threatening battles.

 

Created after the merge, Naruto found it hard to conceal his true self, his hanyo self, with normal genjutsu. They took up a lot of chakra and breaks easily. With the help and inspiration of the Fox, Naruto created a whole new jutsu which he named Kitsune no Jutsu. (I am lazy, sue me, it is very early in the morning) The jutsu basically morphs the body into desire appearance and shape like an actual spiritual Kitsune, giving it a truly nature look that cannot be detected even with the eyes of the Byakugan. Naruto's whole body was toned down into a normal human so as to not raise any suspicions.

 

Now, with the Genjutsu dropped around most of his body, which excludes Naruto's head and his rear; his ears and tails. For Naruto didn't want anyone in the village, friends and enemy alike, finding out about his current status.

 

Twisting on the Kunai by the ring at his right hand, and the body of the Kunai at his left, close to his heart, the blonde Chunin began to swing the Kunai at his right hand using his index finger.

 

Gathering the amount of chakra which normally sedates his genjutsu into the Kunai, Naruto threw the weapon toward the vile creature with lightening speed. The Kunai stabbed deep onto Sasuke's hand, breaking the bones on impact. As soon as the Kunai stopped penetrating into Sasuke's body, it disappeared, leaving the gap open for the blood to flow out. The Kunai reappear in Naruto's hand and dash toward Sasuke again and again, repeatedly toward different limb each time.

 

When the gray creature that was once the prodigy of the leaf village stopped moving, a hand shot out of nowhere and held firmly over Naruto's shoulder.

Sparing a glance at the hand, Naruto noticed the hand was delicate; it had smooth pearl-glow as skin and a glossy peach topaz for short sharp claws. The hand was overall, beautiful.

 

Turning around slowly, Naruto look up and found himself surrounded in warm light. He felt like a child again, lost in the forest upon autumn. With no one around to call him names, no one to throw rocks at him, no one but the woodland creatures whom he can understand without any difficulty. Powered by the Kyuubi No Kitsune, he was respected and loved by the dwellers of the forest. Beasts and monsters they were called and himself demon, the child he was never felt more at home than in the care and protection he was given by the creature forsaken and hunted by the human and under the old Acer palmatum (Japanese Maple) that lure him to sleep in the warmth of the Sun.

 

The light blinks into darkness and reappears as the color of earth when Naruto realized that they were the eyes of the ones who held his shoulder. Looking down, the blonde haired Chunin saw a sharp, well-structured nose and thin, pluck lips that look ever so inviting.

“He can no longer move,” a voice commented.

Naruto was still dazed; unable to understand the statement.

“Are you hurt?” the question, asked so softly and full of worry and concern, had brought Naruto's wondering mind back to reality.

 

“Kyuubi,” whether it was a question or a statement, Naruto was didn't voice it. Instead, Naruto slant onto Kyuubi's chest as if he had lost all of his strength and will.

There was no rejection from, Kyuubi. He hugged the Shinobi as if Naruto was a child, coming to cry in the arms of his parents. However, Naruto did not cry, he simply closes his eyes and let his mind drift into the unconscious. The darkness came swift.

The hazel pair of gems with thick glaze of tender love stared at Naruto for minutes before shooting out furious, bight yellow glare at the lump of meat currently occupying Naruto's bed.

 

The blood-haired demon picks up Naruto bridal style in one quick motion. He laid the unconscious blonde on the soft as softly as he could. With a slight tilt of his head he turns toward the large window facing the streets of Konoha and approach it slowly, but steadily.

Flutters of wings were heard as a few black feathers dance outside the large open window.

Kyuubi let out a small low growl and turn back to tend the unconscious sleeping beauty. For the sight before his eyes was truly the work of Kami-sama himself. The golden strained of hair flow over the arm of sofa with the serenity of river in thick forest. The long eyelashes encase the Cerulean blue eyes that put the summer sky to shame. The nose was not too small or too big; it's just the right size. Then the lips, they were not big, but small and puffy, pink and moist, so soft and utterly adorable when he pouts.

 

The room remains silent as night falls and the moon shines clear with navy clouds beside her.

Awoken by the cold breeze of the night, Naruto blinks his eyes before rubbing it open like a child.

Sometime during Naruto's rest, Kyuubi had disposed of the gray prodigy. There were no traces of struggle in the room. The only thing that was out of place was that the patient, Naruto, was not in his bed, but the sofa opposite of it.

 

The nine-tailed demon was sitting beside the blonde shinobi with Naruto's head on his thigh as he strokes the young one's soft, silky hair.

“Naruto,” Kyuubi call out, barely above whisper, grabbing the Chunin's attention, “Are you well?”

There was a pause before the blonde Chunin nodded. The soft petting motion of Naruto's hair continued and Naruto turned his attention toward the night.

“There are many things I need to tell you,” The pair listen to the leaves dancing into the night breeze, “I have lived a long time, Kit. In the thousands of years I have existed, never have I appreciate my surroundings. I earned my title as the Ruler of Makai, King above all demons. Yet, there was always some part of me missing, the feeling of incomplete, and hollow.” Kyuubi stopped for a moment to let the Chunin absorb his feelings.

 

“I knew I needed to find my partner, my companion for all eternity, yet I was never satisfied with the offers before me. Hundreds and thousands of invitations, demons, sprits, and even hanyos were turned down. There were no affection, no love, no respect, and no feelings. Not one could satisfy my needs and wants.”

 

“Uzumaki Naruto, Namikaze Naruto,” Kyuubi stated the names softly, feeling the tang of sweetness as he spoke the name. “They are one and the same. You have come from a great line of power, but none of your skills and power can exist by talent alone. You work hard day and night to earn control over every drop of chakra in your body, meditate your mind when you are not training physically. You have potential and talents, but you have proven yourself beyond the age of that of a child and the patience of what only a saint could have.”

 

“I have no doubt that you are ideal, the limit of humanity. The perfection that human have desired since the dawn of time,”

“….I wish to make a proposal; it would be my honor for you to accept them.” The Lord of Bujin stated with stern voice.

 

The embrace tightens, “Would you be my partner, my companion, and my other half for all eternity? Until our body decays and spirits intertwines into one?”

“I would hold you till the end of time.” The whisper was just breath away.

Naruto turned his head slightly to the hazel eyes.

“I vow upon my name as Kyuubi No Youko, Lord of the land Makai. I promise to be one with you, for all eternity. Will you be mine, Naruto? ”

The piercing steel blue eyes stare penetrate the glossy warm hazel gems. Deep, beneath the warm promise was nothing short of gentle care, and beyond that, the passionate spark of lust. Mere glance of the deep silted eyes brought shiver down Naruto's whole body.

Strangely, they were not product of fear, but of happiness and excitement of suspense.

Slowly, for what felt like forever, Naruto nodded.

 

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*Teaser….

 

“No, impossible, what are you doing here?”

“I have come for you, Koi.”