Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Love and Death ❯ Trial - Death ( Chapter 13 )
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By: Bookkbaby84 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.08.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 555 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.08.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 555 | Status: Completed
Sakura couldn't believe her eyes. She had never seen Naruto like this. He was...
Well, he was scaring her. His eyes were as red as blood with slits for pupils, and his previously orange jacket was almost unrecognizable, stained the same red color of his eyes. The stripes on his cheeks were exaggerated and looked infinately more feral. He had actual fangs and claws, not nails, and those claws and fangs were crimson from the blood he had spilled.
"He's still alive. He'll be okay." Naruto was saying. Sakura just nodded. "Take care of him. I'll work on the rest-" Naruto's voice suddenly stopped. A great pain and slowness was spreading throughout his body.
'What the-'
'Damnit.' Kyuubi swore. 'It's already happening.'
'What is?'
'Do you think that demons have unlimited energy? No, we don't. We fight and kill, then when we run out we're immobilized until we gain enough strength. You've used up too much of our chakra, brat!'
''Our' chakra?' Naruto asked incredulously.
'That 'melting' sensation yout told me about is not unlike what happens when a stronger demon merges with a smaller, weaker one. We are about to become one being, and the stronger one gets possession of this body.'
Naruto attempted to process this information, but he couldn't. He and Kyuubi as one being? That was impossible, wasn't it? He didn't listen to the rest of Kyuubi's speech.
A sharp whistle in the air caught his attention. He looked up and just barely dodged a kunai headed for his ribs. He growled as a water jutsu nailed him full-on on his ribs- they had predicted how he would dodge. He hissed as he felt part of his body freeze due to the odd paralysis Kyuubi had told him about.
The enemy took advantage of his momentary lapse and one drove a kunai deep into his stomach. Naruto gasped, the blood spilling from the wound to soak what little orange there was left on his jumpsiut. He felt the kunai twist at the exact moment another rush of pain hit him from the merging. The pain burst white-hot, and Kyuubi burst from the seal, teh seal disintigrating into so much dust. Naruto's consciousness dropped out of supremacy, and as he was so focused on the pain still wracking his body, he didn't notice that it was now Kyuubi that had control, and it wasn't until he blacked out he realized what had happened.
Kyuubi smirked as he felt the limbs of Naruto's body respond to his thoughts- he was in total control now.
"Bastards." Kyuubi said calmly, pulling the kunai out and licking a bit of the blood off of it. "I'll pay you back double for that." He leapt, using the kunai previously stuck in his stomach to behead several people, to cut a few more in half, and he just removed a few limbs on some of them. He was ruthless, running from one group of nins to the next. He was laughing out loud the whole time he did so, laughing hysterically in joy.
Inexplicably, however, he went out of his way to save townspeople, not kill them. He had gotten hit several times as he blocked shots meant for the townspeople, and his limbs were still freezing up slowly. Still, he was ecstatic. He was free to murder as many as he wanted!
He had killed three more Sound nins by the time his right arm was completely useless. A few Sound nins had run when they saw him, and he had seen quite a few escape over the walls. The handful left now would hardly be a match for the Konoha nins if the Konoha nins were prepared and had more chakra, but as it was now all the nins could do was throw kunai that they picked up from the dead, and most nins had stopped fighting, deciding instead to help the wounded.
Kyuubi glanced around. Ten Sound ANBU were still alive, all in a circle with their backs towards the center. A few nins were still fighting them. Kyuubi eagerly jumped in, not feeling the eyes on his back.
A senbon needle hit his back, near his heart. He hissed and fell into the middle of the Sound nins, landing strangely on his leg with a snapping sound. Something was broken.
Instantly, five of the ANBU turned towards him. One blew a breath of fire at him (which he quickly dodged, but as one leg was broken, part of him burned because he couldn't move as quickly as he needed to) while another quickly did teh hand seals for a jutsu Kyuubi did not recognize. As the nin finished, a loud ringing filled Kyuubi's ears, like a very high-frequency whistle. Kyuubi howled as the sound penetrated deep into his mind. He began mindlessly clawing at his ears, trying to make the sound stop. He wasn't even aware that he had fallen to his knees, his broken leg twisting painfully under him. He didn't notice that his right arm wasn't moving. He collapsed, the sound still ringing.
"We finally got the little shit." An ANBU growled. The ANBU stepped forward. "I say we kill him now."
"No. That would be too quick." another said. "Slowly."
Kyuubi felt the ground he was on vibrate slightly. Someone was stepping closer to him, and he lay almost helpless. He growled and struggled to his knees, unable to move much more. His vision was hazy- perhaps a side effect of the sound that was still ringing in his ears, but it was getting softer and softer. It didn't claim all of his attention now.
He felt the vibrations stop. He couldn't see where they were.
'Shimatta.' he thought. He glanced around, when suddenly something hard hit his back- right on top of the senbon needle. Kyuubi gasped, and pain wracked his body again as more of it was claimed by the strange paralysis that always took over his body after overextending himself.
Kyuubi writhed in pain as someone stomped on his back. It came again, and then again. Kyuubi didn't know that he was now the only person against ten ANBU- one had been taken out of the battle about the same time his attacker hurt him. The majority of nins had just realized that he was the one using Naruto's body, and they didn't want to get caught in between him and his opponents. The townspeople were running, and a few nins were as well.
"Kyuubi is such a weakling. Is this what all the Leafs were afrid of? A weakling like this?" a Sound ANBU asked quietly. He kicked Kyuubi's ribs, cracking a few. Kyuubi howled again.
"How the beaten dog howls..." the ANBU said again. Kyuubi glared death at the man stomping on him.
"Pathetic." The man spat on him, then kicked him so hard Kyuubi flew into the nearest wall, then landed on something soft.
Kyuubi opened his eyes- he hadn't even realized he had closed them, he realized worriedly- to see what he had landed on. What he saw stopped him cold.
The dark-haired boy his host was so enamored with- Uchiha Sasuke- was lying beneath him. The boy was breathing still, but his face was whiter than chalk and it was clear that he was just seconds away from dying.
Surprisingly, the boy opened his eyes.
"Naruto?" he asked, his brain obviously shutting down already.
"...Yes." Kyuubi said. An odd part of him wanted to comfort Sasuke in his final moments. He attributed that to Naruto, as it was only the brat who was drawn to Sasuke. Of course it was. Kyuubi couldn't be drawn to some human boy.
"Baka... why do I keep..." Sasuke suddenly coughed, and Kyuubi realized that he was still sitting on the dying boy. He got up, ignoring the ANBU that were drawing closer, taking their time.
"..Why do I keep... leaping in to protect...?" Sasuke coughed up more blood. "Do you..."
"I know." Kyuubi said, even though he did not. His words seemed to ease Sasuke's discomfort.
"Good... baka, never... nearly get yoruself... kil-" Sasuke was cut off as another round of coughs racked his body. On the last cough, his body stilled and his eyes went dull.
Sasuke was dead.
Well, he was scaring her. His eyes were as red as blood with slits for pupils, and his previously orange jacket was almost unrecognizable, stained the same red color of his eyes. The stripes on his cheeks were exaggerated and looked infinately more feral. He had actual fangs and claws, not nails, and those claws and fangs were crimson from the blood he had spilled.
"He's still alive. He'll be okay." Naruto was saying. Sakura just nodded. "Take care of him. I'll work on the rest-" Naruto's voice suddenly stopped. A great pain and slowness was spreading throughout his body.
'What the-'
'Damnit.' Kyuubi swore. 'It's already happening.'
'What is?'
'Do you think that demons have unlimited energy? No, we don't. We fight and kill, then when we run out we're immobilized until we gain enough strength. You've used up too much of our chakra, brat!'
''Our' chakra?' Naruto asked incredulously.
'That 'melting' sensation yout told me about is not unlike what happens when a stronger demon merges with a smaller, weaker one. We are about to become one being, and the stronger one gets possession of this body.'
Naruto attempted to process this information, but he couldn't. He and Kyuubi as one being? That was impossible, wasn't it? He didn't listen to the rest of Kyuubi's speech.
A sharp whistle in the air caught his attention. He looked up and just barely dodged a kunai headed for his ribs. He growled as a water jutsu nailed him full-on on his ribs- they had predicted how he would dodge. He hissed as he felt part of his body freeze due to the odd paralysis Kyuubi had told him about.
The enemy took advantage of his momentary lapse and one drove a kunai deep into his stomach. Naruto gasped, the blood spilling from the wound to soak what little orange there was left on his jumpsiut. He felt the kunai twist at the exact moment another rush of pain hit him from the merging. The pain burst white-hot, and Kyuubi burst from the seal, teh seal disintigrating into so much dust. Naruto's consciousness dropped out of supremacy, and as he was so focused on the pain still wracking his body, he didn't notice that it was now Kyuubi that had control, and it wasn't until he blacked out he realized what had happened.
Kyuubi smirked as he felt the limbs of Naruto's body respond to his thoughts- he was in total control now.
"Bastards." Kyuubi said calmly, pulling the kunai out and licking a bit of the blood off of it. "I'll pay you back double for that." He leapt, using the kunai previously stuck in his stomach to behead several people, to cut a few more in half, and he just removed a few limbs on some of them. He was ruthless, running from one group of nins to the next. He was laughing out loud the whole time he did so, laughing hysterically in joy.
Inexplicably, however, he went out of his way to save townspeople, not kill them. He had gotten hit several times as he blocked shots meant for the townspeople, and his limbs were still freezing up slowly. Still, he was ecstatic. He was free to murder as many as he wanted!
He had killed three more Sound nins by the time his right arm was completely useless. A few Sound nins had run when they saw him, and he had seen quite a few escape over the walls. The handful left now would hardly be a match for the Konoha nins if the Konoha nins were prepared and had more chakra, but as it was now all the nins could do was throw kunai that they picked up from the dead, and most nins had stopped fighting, deciding instead to help the wounded.
Kyuubi glanced around. Ten Sound ANBU were still alive, all in a circle with their backs towards the center. A few nins were still fighting them. Kyuubi eagerly jumped in, not feeling the eyes on his back.
A senbon needle hit his back, near his heart. He hissed and fell into the middle of the Sound nins, landing strangely on his leg with a snapping sound. Something was broken.
Instantly, five of the ANBU turned towards him. One blew a breath of fire at him (which he quickly dodged, but as one leg was broken, part of him burned because he couldn't move as quickly as he needed to) while another quickly did teh hand seals for a jutsu Kyuubi did not recognize. As the nin finished, a loud ringing filled Kyuubi's ears, like a very high-frequency whistle. Kyuubi howled as the sound penetrated deep into his mind. He began mindlessly clawing at his ears, trying to make the sound stop. He wasn't even aware that he had fallen to his knees, his broken leg twisting painfully under him. He didn't notice that his right arm wasn't moving. He collapsed, the sound still ringing.
"We finally got the little shit." An ANBU growled. The ANBU stepped forward. "I say we kill him now."
"No. That would be too quick." another said. "Slowly."
Kyuubi felt the ground he was on vibrate slightly. Someone was stepping closer to him, and he lay almost helpless. He growled and struggled to his knees, unable to move much more. His vision was hazy- perhaps a side effect of the sound that was still ringing in his ears, but it was getting softer and softer. It didn't claim all of his attention now.
He felt the vibrations stop. He couldn't see where they were.
'Shimatta.' he thought. He glanced around, when suddenly something hard hit his back- right on top of the senbon needle. Kyuubi gasped, and pain wracked his body again as more of it was claimed by the strange paralysis that always took over his body after overextending himself.
Kyuubi writhed in pain as someone stomped on his back. It came again, and then again. Kyuubi didn't know that he was now the only person against ten ANBU- one had been taken out of the battle about the same time his attacker hurt him. The majority of nins had just realized that he was the one using Naruto's body, and they didn't want to get caught in between him and his opponents. The townspeople were running, and a few nins were as well.
"Kyuubi is such a weakling. Is this what all the Leafs were afrid of? A weakling like this?" a Sound ANBU asked quietly. He kicked Kyuubi's ribs, cracking a few. Kyuubi howled again.
"How the beaten dog howls..." the ANBU said again. Kyuubi glared death at the man stomping on him.
"Pathetic." The man spat on him, then kicked him so hard Kyuubi flew into the nearest wall, then landed on something soft.
Kyuubi opened his eyes- he hadn't even realized he had closed them, he realized worriedly- to see what he had landed on. What he saw stopped him cold.
The dark-haired boy his host was so enamored with- Uchiha Sasuke- was lying beneath him. The boy was breathing still, but his face was whiter than chalk and it was clear that he was just seconds away from dying.
Surprisingly, the boy opened his eyes.
"Naruto?" he asked, his brain obviously shutting down already.
"...Yes." Kyuubi said. An odd part of him wanted to comfort Sasuke in his final moments. He attributed that to Naruto, as it was only the brat who was drawn to Sasuke. Of course it was. Kyuubi couldn't be drawn to some human boy.
"Baka... why do I keep..." Sasuke suddenly coughed, and Kyuubi realized that he was still sitting on the dying boy. He got up, ignoring the ANBU that were drawing closer, taking their time.
"..Why do I keep... leaping in to protect...?" Sasuke coughed up more blood. "Do you..."
"I know." Kyuubi said, even though he did not. His words seemed to ease Sasuke's discomfort.
"Good... baka, never... nearly get yoruself... kil-" Sasuke was cut off as another round of coughs racked his body. On the last cough, his body stilled and his eyes went dull.
Sasuke was dead.