Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Frightening Truth ❯ 3 ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Naruto's head turned slowly. He knew there was someone behind him, he just knew it. Sakura had gone still, her eyes were wide, and she was deathly pale.

Standing directly behind him was that damned woman. Naruto spoke before he could stop himself, his anger clouding his judgment.

"Why cant you just go away? This is your fault you know! Everyone was happy thinking I was just 'dobe'."
The question seemed to make the woman angry, her stance widened fractionally, and her body stiffened.
"Because," she answered in a cold voice, "You don't deserve to be thought of as dead last! You don't deserve these weaklings treating you like some…some…" She gestured wildly, searching for the words. Naruto cut her off before she could find them.

"It's my life!" he shouted, the hackles on his neck rising visibly "I don't know were you got off thinking that you could…." Naruto clenched his hands and took a calming breath, "Who was it that sent you here?"
The woman opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted by Sasuke.
"What's going on here?!"

The woman closed her mouth and crossed her arms. Naruto turned on him, his gaze furious.
"FUCKING MORON!"
That was all the warning his teammate got before Naruto leaped the fire and tried to take of his head with a hand-held kunai. Sasuke ducked in the nick of time and jumped backwards, Naruto on his heels. Sasuke chanced a glance behind him, when he brought his eyes back to Naruto he was startled by what he saw. Naruto's eyes held the killer intent of a true ninja warrior.
Sasuke was so surprised to see that in dobe that he tripped. Breaking his fall with his hands on reflex, he left his chest wide open for attack. Naruto snarled viciously and leaped at him. (I should stop here……but I wont because I've had a good day.)
It took a moment for the fact, that his hands weren't covered in deliciously warm sticky red stuff, to reach his blood-lust clouded mind. He blinked several times before flipping his kunai and swinging his arm out behind him in a wild arch. He heard a muttered curse and cloth ripping before he was dropped roughly on the ground.

Naruto landed in a crouch and glared at Kakashi, who was nursing a gash on his right forearm.
"Why did you stop me!?"
Kakashi's visible eye widened.

"What do you mean? What the hell was going through your thick skull? Sasuke is your teammate! You tried to kill him for Kami's sake!"

Naruto didn't answer him right away. He looked down at the kunai he held in his hand.

'I figured you would have more control than that Kyuubi'
'Don't blame me!'

'Ohhh, I blame you' he responded instantly with a mental nod 'this is entirely your fault! Why did you have to push your fucking instincts on me when you know that I have absolutely no self control? You know the situation, you know what happens if we get kicked out of this stupid village, so for Kami's sake why?'
Naruto felt the kitsune pacing in the back of his head.
'Because he needs to know who is boss! Now that our façade is broken we don't have to act weak or stupid. That means that we don't have to put up with his shit any more. I just thought that he should know how I feel.'

Completely missing the fact the he was doing it out loud, Naruto growled and grabbed the sides of his head.
"AGHH! Baka kitsune! I've already explained why we cant do that! If we kill anyone from that damnable village we'll get kicked out, then we wont be able to get rid of this fucking s…."
Naruto's jaw went slack.
'Did I just say that out loud?'
'yup'

Naruto felt the bottom of his stomach drop into his shoes as everyone stared at him with wide eyes and open mouths.
"Oh shit."

'yup'

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"Oh shit." Naruto repeated himself when he saw the looks of confusion morph into something else. Most were glares and accusing stares, but one turned into a smug, knowing grin that left Naruto wishing he could just cut off the owners head and be done with it.
'Fucking woman.'
'Tell me again why we cant kill her.'
Naruto growled low in his throat.

'I just cant seem to remember………perhaps…'
'perhaps?'

Naruto smirked mentally, while dropping into a fighting stance.
'Perhaps I will use one of the suggestions you made earlier and rip out her organs one by one.'

He felt the fox laugh and press against the edges of the seal, clawing desperately at the charred ofuda (charm or spell in the form of a piece of paper. In Naruto's case it's the little piece of paper stuck to the gates in his mind that says `seal') blocking his passage…but to no avail. It had taken them quite a while but they had discovered a way to burn the seal with their chakra. With their combined efforts and several wasted weekends they had managed to just barely singe the enchanted piece of paper.

To say that Naruto and Kyuubi were not happy that all their chakra put together had barely made a scratch on the ofuda would be like saying Sasuke was mildly irritated about Itachi murdering his clan. A few weeks ago they had discovered that the villagers of Konoha had a distinct tint in their chakra. Kyuubi discovered a way to use the tint to slowly but surely burn away the ofuda holding the proverbial (and literal) doors shut. They weren't to excited about the time it would take for the seal to completely burn, but it was a small price to pay.

Naruto snickered, just thinking about being rid of that seal made him giddy.

'Stop daydreaming will ya! After your little slip up we cant afford to act stupid anymore. I don't think they trust us very much.'

Naruto snorted mentally.

'I don't trust us very much. Besides, you worry too much. I'm always on guard so its not like they can just sneak up behind me …'

Naruto did a quick check around himself with his kitsune-powered senses to make sure that last statement wouldn't come back and bite him in the ass. To say that he was surprised to find Kakashi standing a few feet behind him would be like saying…well, you get the idea.

"What were you talking about back there, Naruto?"

Kakashi watched as Naruto laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head.
"Well…y'see…I…umm…"

Kakashi's visible eye narrowed. He had easily put the pieces together when he heard that one word. Kitsune.

'Has he been in contact with it his whole life?'
Against his will, Kakashi spoke his thoughts aloud.
"Have you been in contact with it your whole life?"

"I don't think its any of your business." Naruto shot back.

"Tell me!'"

"Kiss my ass!"

Sasuke and Sakura watched the byplay from the sidelines, slack jawed and wide-eyed. The woman just stood there smirking.

"Why don't you just tell me?!"

"Because I don't like you, and I don't think you should know." Naruto stated, flicking him off halfway through. Everyone's eyes turned to Naruto if they were elsewhere before.

'H-he doesn't like me?' was the only thing that could manage to go through Kakashi's mind. It repeated over and over, until he was finally forced to speak the words plaguing his brain by an outside force.
"Y-you don't like me Naruto?"
Naruto snorted and rose from his fighting stance, all thoughts of decapitating the woman having left his mind.

"What was your first clue?" Kakashi could practically feel the sarcasm dripping of the words.

Kakashi was about to speak again when Sakura stepped forward.
"What did you mean? What village?"

Her voice was trembling and she had a white-knuckle grip on the front of her shirt over her heart. Naruto answered before he could stop himself , and regretted what he said soon after the words left his mouth.

"Bah. You people are to stupid for your own good. Forget what I said before about team work, I'm not going to get stuck babysitting you again! You are on your own, I hope you die here!"

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Well im down to 3 chapters but they are longer so I think it evens out