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Life As A Fox
Chapter 14: Sasuke's Past Love

Notes: “Talking”
‘Thoughts’
[‘Demon Thoughts’]
[Demon/Summon Speech]
JUTSU (description)

There he stood,in the very middle of the Uchiha Conpound. It had been years since the last time he was in the place that was once his home. The very place that had once brought him so much happiness in his life now nothing but a bunch of deserted buildings. As he looked around at the compound, he smiled at the fond memories he had of his family. His aunt and uncle outside of their home of their home waving at him to have a nice day, his younger cousins runing aroud playing ninja with fake shuriken, and his mother; her smile, her caring heart; these were the very things that brought him happiness. All of his good memories of his time with his family. These were the things that brought a smile to his face; but then, there was the memory of the massacre.

He began to tense up as the memories of the dead bodies of his family layed on the ground. The terrible feeling in his heart he felt when he first saw them, it began to bring tears to his eyes. Then there was his worst memory, his older brother standing over the dead bodies of his parents.

It brought tears to his eyses, the day his entire family was slaughtered. He could never forget as his brother looked at him with no regret in eyes after what he did. Tears began to flow freely from his eyes as the memories of that night replayed in his head.

His onlookers couldn't believe their eyes; Sakura and Lee was speechless over what they saw, Sasuke Ushiha, the man that was the most revenge hungry shinoi in Konoha was crying; Sakuya on the other hand reached p to her father's hand to hold it.

Sakuya: "Daddy, are you okay?" she was very worried on what had caused her father to start crying. She remembered the last last he cried. It had been the day that her mother was killed by the 'Snake Man-Lady's Boyfriend'. That was the day that everything had changed.

- - -Flashback (a few months ago)- - -

It started off as a quiet peaceful day in the cabin they were staing in, Sakuya was just getting up out of her parents bed. She had another nightmare the night before, so her mother had brought her into their bed, to calm dowm, in between herself and her father. She saw that her dad was already gone and that her mom was just beginning to wake up.

Sakuya: "Mo-mo-morning mommy." she greeted her mother as she tried to supress a yawn. She felt her mom hug her as she finished her yawn.

Mother: "Good morning Sakuya-chan, so how did you sleep last night?"

Sakuya: "I didn't have anymore nightmares!" she responed with a smile on her face. Her mother smiled back as she got out of bed and tied back her long red hair, but was having a tough time. Sakuya saw and went to help her mother.

Mother: "Thanks Sakuya-chan," she said as she looked at what was left of her left arm. All that was left was the the top half of her upper arm. It was a chilling reminder on just what she had lost on her last mission. When she had gone to retrieve Sasuke.

Her thoughts were broken as someone entered the room. He was wearing the a black long sleeve shirt, matching pants and had a sword strapped to to his lower back, handle pointing towards the right. His eyes showed that he was someone that had pure determination and was unwilling to allow anyone to get in his way.

Sasuke: "Tayuya-chan, we should start moving."

Tayuya: "Is it the hunters again?" The three of them had been on the run ever since someone had killed Orochimaru. Everyone in Sound knew that Sasuke was the only one that was capable of killing their Kage, due to his hunger for power. But Sasuke and Tayuya both knew that it was someone else that had killed the man(or fanny bandit, take your pick).

Sasuke: "I'm not sure, but I'm sensing 'his' chakra coming in our direction. And it seems that he's no alone."

The three of them immediately started packing their things and were about when the side of the cabin was blown completely open. Sasuke immediately covered Sakuya and Tayuya had taken cover under the table, both of them had either a kunai or their sword drawn.

???: "Kukuku, so this is where the two of you've been hiding." The voice came from outside of the cabin.

Sasuke made his way out first and showed no emotion as his sharingan had activated, which scared Sakuya. She had never seen this side of her father before, but she was calmed down when her mother put her hand on her shoulder. As she loked up she saw that there were stange markings appearing all over her body.

Tayuya: "Stay inside the cabin. We'll make sure they don't hurt you, okay?" she had a smile on her face that calmed Sakuya down instantly as she nodded in response. She began to make her way outside with her kunai at the ready.

Kabuto: "So I guess you three are doing well, eh, Sasuke."

Sasuke: "What do you want? As far as I know, I cut all my ties with the Sound."

Kabuto: "I believe that you already know what we're here for." He took a glance towards the cabin from where Sakuya was peeking out of. "I want your darling daughter. She will make and excellent new body for Orochmaru-sama once his soul has fully recovered...and after some training."

Tayuya: "Over my dead body!" she took her place in between him and Sakuya. "Even if I only have my one arm, there's no way that I'm letting you lay a finger on her!"

Kabuto: "Kukuku, did you forget, Tayuya, that as long as you have that curse mark that Orochimaru-sama placed on you, I could use a bit of his power from his flesh that I absorbed to contol you, " he made a handsign and tried to control her, but it had no effect, "WHAT?! Why isn't it working?!"

Sasuke: *smirk* "Did you really think we would leave the village without making sure you couldn't use that trick on us."

SasuTayu: "KAI!!!" both of them were instantly covered in smoke. As the smoke cleared they were wearing different clothing. Both of them were wearing matching black cloaks, the only difference was the numbers they bore on their back and left side of their chest; Sasuke had a crimson number nine, while Tayuya wore a violet number seven.

All of the sound-nins were confused at why the had changed their clothing, but Kabuto was wide-eyed.

Kabuto: "Those cloaks, does that mean that..."

Sasuke: "Oh," he was glad to see the surprised look on her face, "I'm geussing that you've seen these cloaks before, Kabuto."

Tayuya: "So that mean that you know what Organizaion we belong to."

Kabuto: *smirk* "Yeah, 'The Guardian Beasts'."

???: "So I guess Lady Chihiro was right in sending me to come get you." Everyone turned to see the newcomer. He was wearing a pure white cloak with a depiction of raging red flames on the bottom. It was topped off by as pure white mask that was covering his nose and mouth; and the man was wearing a straw hat that had nine red jewels hanging of the rim surrounding his head. "I was just by luck that I was on a mission nearby."

Sasuke: "Fox-sama, it's good to finally meet you." He had heard from Lady Chihiro on what the man that he would be folowing wore but had yet to see his face.

Fox: "Likewise," he turned to see Tayuya and Sakuya, "I see that your family is safe and sound," he turned towards the sound-nin, "Oh, I didn't know you were going to throw a party," there was sarcasm in his voice, "and I didn't bring anything for the party. Darn."

To say that Kabuto was getting mad was and understatement...he was fumming. He knew that the 'Gaurdian Beasts' were powerful, but know one made him look like a fool. He turned to look at his men.

Kabuto: "All of you are to take him OUT!" he turned towards Sasuke and his family, "I'll deal with the rest of the garbage." *evil smirk* he felt his blood began to boil.

Fox: "I'll take care of the weaklings, you and Tayuya take care of the butt-pirate." he reached into his cloaks nd pulled out two swords that bore red handles with matching guards.

Tayuya: "Understood." She put away her kunai and brought out a flute.

Kabuto: "And just how are you going to play your flute with only one arm?" his voice was full of nohing but sarcasm, as though pointing out the obvious.

Tayuya: "That's what you think." as soon as she said this, she immediately went into her second level curse form. All of the sound-nin and Sakuya went wide-eyed as her left arm literally started to regrow itself. "Thanks to Lady Chihiro when I go level two, my arm temporarilly regrows. The only downside is that my arm dissapears when I deactivate it." *smirk* She brought her flute to her lips and began playing as Sauke charged at Kabuto.

- -(with Fox)- -

Fox was already of fighting the Sound-nin that had charged at him. Cutting each one down as the attempted to strike him down. Many of them were even struck down as they were prepairing jutsus. It was as though he could predict their movements before the could launch their attack. When one of them was finally ableto strike Fox, he simply ducked as his hat was cut in half.

As his hat fell everyone now saw that he had wild blond hair that had streaks of red. But what caught everyone off gaurd was the fact that he was wearing a blindfold, completely covering his eyes. None of the sound-nin continued attacking as they that they were being beaten by someone who couldn't even see them. Instead they were prepairing for one last group attack.

Fox: "Tch, tch, that won't work against me," he was shaking his head as eceryone saw blue orbs beginning to glow from under his blindfold, "if you want to fight using big guns, then I guess that I shouldn't hold back so much." He reached up and romoved his blindfold showing slitted deep blue eyes sorrounded by red instead of white. "KITSUGAN!!"

- -(with SasuTayu)- -

Both of them were in the middle of fighting Kabuto; Tayuya had summoned her demons so she could keep her distance, while Sasuke was fighting side-by-side with the demons. Their fighting was stopped only momentarily by Fox's activation of his blood line.

Kabuto: 'I gotta finish this quickly,' "SUMMONING JUTSU: THREE HEADED SNAKE!" smoke appeared under him as three snake heads shot out at Sasuke. Seeing the attack coming, he managed to do a quick substitution with a log.

Tayuya: "You take care of four-eyes, I'll take care of the snake!" She immediately sent her demons after the snake as Sasuke charged at Kabuto yet again. The demons were on the snake instantly, each one taking on one of its heads.

The fight was lasting longer than he thought, he never expected that he would have to deal wih so much garbage. The fight was beginning to takes it toll on both Kabuto and Sasuke. Matching sword with kunai. They were weren't giving one anoher a single chance to go for a fatal blow. Sasuke suddenly swung his sword down vertically, but kabuto saw it coming and counter. This left Sasuke wide open for an attack.

With kunai in hand he thrust forward.

- -(with Tayuya)- -

Tayuya had just finished off the snake and saw the attack that was about to hit Sasuke. She ran forward, knowing that her summons were nowhere near fast enough to reach him.

- -(with Sasuke)- -

Sasuke: 'I guess this is it,' he closed his eyes expecting to feel searing pain hit him in his chest. But instead he felt blood splash on his face. He opened his eyes and saw Tayuya standing in front of him with a kunai coming out her back. She then grabbed onto Kabuto's arm to keep him from moving and turned her head to look at Sasuke. She as coughing up blood as her curse form started to recede.

Tayuya: "Hurry up...*cough*...and kill him...*cough*...make sure he...*cough*...never comes after our daughter...*cough*... ever again!" Hearing her, Sasuke immediately charged around her and in one swift movement, Kabuto's head fell right off his shoulders. Sasuke quickly pulled out Kabuto's arm and held on to his love in his arms.

- - -(End flashback)(A.N. i really dont want to say how that ended)- - -

Sasuke was suddenly brought out of his thoughts when he felt a tugging at his cloak. He looked down and saw Sakuya on the verge of tears from how worried she was after her father wouldn't react.

Sakuya: "Daddy *sob* are you okay?" *sob*

Sasuke: "Yea," he kneeled down and held her in his arms, "your daddy's okay." he held her close as silent tears fell down from his eyes. 'I'm just sad that you won't ever be able to meet the rest of our family.'

- -(at Naruto's and Hinata's Apartment)- -

When Naruto and Hinata finally returned to their apartment, they dropped their bags and stood in shock at the scene before them; it seemed as though a tornado had blown straight through the place. There was food scattered throughout the place, the couches were torn apart, the window was broken, the t.v. was smashed, and there was foul language spray painted throughout the wall. The worst part though, was Kitsune hanging off his tail from the cailing fan and was covered in his own blood.

NaruHina: "KITSUNE!!" the two of them quicky rushed over and cut him down. And saw that he was still alive but barely breathing.

Hinata: "Naruto! Get me the bandages quickly!"

- -(Later)- -

Hinata was sitting to a small basket that held a sleeping Kitsune. He was covered in badages; his forelegs were broken in two places, his rear left leg was broken, he had a couple of broken ribs, a cracked muzzle, and had stab wounds throughout his body. Both teens were having an extremely hard time not going out on a rampage and just punishing the ones reponsible for his injuries. It also wasn't helping that their inner demons were already on a rampage in their cages. It was even harder to keep in control when they found a note addressed to the so called 'Fox Brat' to get out of the village.

Kyuubi: [KIT! I WANT YOU TO KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!]

Shichubi: [THEY WILL PAY FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO MY KIT!]

Naruto: "How is he?" he was was walking over to Hinata with some tea for her. He had to do something to calm himself down, and it just his luck that not all of the cups had been broken by the villagers that were still blind.

Hinata: "He's going to be okay, but it'd be better if he stayed in bad for at least two weeks," she was happy that Naruto had convinced her to take lessons from Tsunade, before he left for his training. "Whoever did this to him didn't expect him to survive from all the injuries they gave him. *sob*" her tears had begun to run freely.

As though by instinct, Naruto pulled her into a hug. She buried her head into his shoulder and began to cry with no end in sight. They stayed there, both of them just giving each other whatever comfort they could give each other. Next thing that either of them knew, they were pulled into their mindscape.

- -(mindscape)- -

Both teens were confused as to why they were still together within their minds. They looked around and could see where each of their minds differed; Naruto's side looked as though they were inside a sewer with a huge gate in the center that had a piece of paper with they kanji for 'seal' holding in Kyuubi, in the center it literally faded towards Hinata's mind which was a wide open field of flowers a cage in the center with the same seal the restrained Shichubi. Both demons stepped into the light and noticed the confusion of their containers.

Kyuubi: [Kit, I think it about time that I told you something.]

- -Preview- -

Chp 15: The New Lords

Naruto: "They'll never overlook him, so why should I stay?"

Description
Life As A Fox
Chapter 14: Sasuke's Past Love

Notes: “Talking”
‘Thoughts’
[‘Demon Thoughts’]
[Demon/Summon Speech]
JUTSU (description)

There he stood,in the very middle of the Uchiha Conpound. It had been years since the last time he was in the place that was once his home. The very place that had once brought him so much happiness in his life now nothing but a bunch of deserted buildings. As he looked around at the compound, he smiled at the fond memories he had of his family. His aunt and uncle outside of their home of their home waving at him to have a nice day, his younger cousins runing aroud playing ninja with fake shuriken, and his mother; her smile, her caring heart; these were the very things that brought him happiness. All of his good memories of his time with his family. These were the things that brought a smile to his face; but then, there was the memory of the massacre.

He began to tense up as the memories of the dead bodies of his family layed on the ground. The terrible feeling in his heart he felt when he first saw them, it began to bring tears to his eyes. Then there was his worst memory, his older brother standing over the dead bodies of his parents.

It brought tears to his eyses, the day his entire family was slaughtered. He could never forget as his brother looked at him with no regret in eyes after what he did. Tears began to flow freely from his eyes as the memories of that night replayed in his head.

His onlookers couldn't believe their eyes; Sakura and Lee was speechless over what they saw, Sasuke Ushiha, the man that was the most revenge hungry shinoi in Konoha was crying; Sakuya on the other hand reached p to her father's hand to hold it.

Sakuya: "Daddy, are you okay?" she was very worried on what had caused her father to start crying. She remembered the last last he cried. It had been the day that her mother was killed by the 'Snake Man-Lady's Boyfriend'. That was the day that everything had changed.

- - -Flashback (a few months ago)- - -

It started off as a quiet peaceful day in the cabin they were staing in, Sakuya was just getting up out of her parents bed. She had another nightmare the night before, so her mother had brought her into their bed, to calm dowm, in between herself and her father. She saw that her dad was already gone and that her mom was just beginning to wake up.

Sakuya: "Mo-mo-morning mommy." she greeted her mother as she tried to supress a yawn. She felt her mom hug her as she finished her yawn.

Mother: "Good morning Sakuya-chan, so how did you sleep last night?"

Sakuya: "I didn't have anymore nightmares!" she responed with a smile on her face. Her mother smiled back as she got out of bed and tied back her long red hair, but was having a tough time. Sakuya saw and went to help her mother.

Mother: "Thanks Sakuya-chan," she said as she looked at what was left of her left arm. All that was left was the the top half of her upper arm. It was a chilling reminder on just what she had lost on her last mission. When she had gone to retrieve Sasuke.

Her thoughts were broken as someone entered the room. He was wearing the a black long sleeve shirt, matching pants and had a sword strapped to to his lower back, handle pointing towards the right. His eyes showed that he was someone that had pure determination and was unwilling to allow anyone to get in his way.

Sasuke: "Tayuya-chan, we should start moving."

Tayuya: "Is it the hunters again?" The three of them had been on the run ever since someone had killed Orochimaru. Everyone in Sound knew that Sasuke was the only one that was capable of killing their Kage, due to his hunger for power. But Sasuke and Tayuya both knew that it was someone else that had killed the man(or fanny bandit, take your pick).

Sasuke: "I'm not sure, but I'm sensing 'his' chakra coming in our direction. And it seems that he's no alone."

The three of them immediately started packing their things and were about when the side of the cabin was blown completely open. Sasuke immediately covered Sakuya and Tayuya had taken cover under the table, both of them had either a kunai or their sword drawn.

???: "Kukuku, so this is where the two of you've been hiding." The voice came from outside of the cabin.

Sasuke made his way out first and showed no emotion as his sharingan had activated, which scared Sakuya. She had never seen this side of her father before, but she was calmed down when her mother put her hand on her shoulder. As she loked up she saw that there were stange markings appearing all over her body.

Tayuya: "Stay inside the cabin. We'll make sure they don't hurt you, okay?" she had a smile on her face that calmed Sakuya down instantly as she nodded in response. She began to make her way outside with her kunai at the ready.

Kabuto: "So I guess you three are doing well, eh, Sasuke."

Sasuke: "What do you want? As far as I know, I cut all my ties with the Sound."

Kabuto: "I believe that you already know what we're here for." He took a glance towards the cabin from where Sakuya was peeking out of. "I want your darling daughter. She will make and excellent new body for Orochmaru-sama once his soul has fully recovered...and after some training."

Tayuya: "Over my dead body!" she took her place in between him and Sakuya. "Even if I only have my one arm, there's no way that I'm letting you lay a finger on her!"

Kabuto: "Kukuku, did you forget, Tayuya, that as long as you have that curse mark that Orochimaru-sama placed on you, I could use a bit of his power from his flesh that I absorbed to contol you, " he made a handsign and tried to control her, but it had no effect, "WHAT?! Why isn't it working?!"

Sasuke: *smirk* "Did you really think we would leave the village without making sure you couldn't use that trick on us."

SasuTayu: "KAI!!!" both of them were instantly covered in smoke. As the smoke cleared they were wearing different clothing. Both of them were wearing matching black cloaks, the only difference was the numbers they bore on their back and left side of their chest; Sasuke had a crimson number nine, while Tayuya wore a violet number seven.

All of the sound-nins were confused at why the had changed their clothing, but Kabuto was wide-eyed.

Kabuto: "Those cloaks, does that mean that..."

Sasuke: "Oh," he was glad to see the surprised look on her face, "I'm geussing that you've seen these cloaks before, Kabuto."

Tayuya: "So that mean that you know what Organizaion we belong to."

Kabuto: *smirk* "Yeah, 'The Guardian Beasts'."

???: "So I guess Lady Chihiro was right in sending me to come get you." Everyone turned to see the newcomer. He was wearing a pure white cloak with a depiction of raging red flames on the bottom. It was topped off by as pure white mask that was covering his nose and mouth; and the man was wearing a straw hat that had nine red jewels hanging of the rim surrounding his head. "I was just by luck that I was on a mission nearby."

Sasuke: "Fox-sama, it's good to finally meet you." He had heard from Lady Chihiro on what the man that he would be folowing wore but had yet to see his face.

Fox: "Likewise," he turned to see Tayuya and Sakuya, "I see that your family is safe and sound," he turned towards the sound-nin, "Oh, I didn't know you were going to throw a party," there was sarcasm in his voice, "and I didn't bring anything for the party. Darn."

To say that Kabuto was getting mad was and understatement...he was fumming. He knew that the 'Gaurdian Beasts' were powerful, but know one made him look like a fool. He turned to look at his men.

Kabuto: "All of you are to take him OUT!" he turned towards Sasuke and his family, "I'll deal with the rest of the garbage." *evil smirk* he felt his blood began to boil.

Fox: "I'll take care of the weaklings, you and Tayuya take care of the butt-pirate." he reached into his cloaks nd pulled out two swords that bore red handles with matching guards.

Tayuya: "Understood." She put away her kunai and brought out a flute.

Kabuto: "And just how are you going to play your flute with only one arm?" his voice was full of nohing but sarcasm, as though pointing out the obvious.

Tayuya: "That's what you think." as soon as she said this, she immediately went into her second level curse form. All of the sound-nin and Sakuya went wide-eyed as her left arm literally started to regrow itself. "Thanks to Lady Chihiro when I go level two, my arm temporarilly regrows. The only downside is that my arm dissapears when I deactivate it." *smirk* She brought her flute to her lips and began playing as Sauke charged at Kabuto.

- -(with Fox)- -

Fox was already of fighting the Sound-nin that had charged at him. Cutting each one down as the attempted to strike him down. Many of them were even struck down as they were prepairing jutsus. It was as though he could predict their movements before the could launch their attack. When one of them was finally ableto strike Fox, he simply ducked as his hat was cut in half.

As his hat fell everyone now saw that he had wild blond hair that had streaks of red. But what caught everyone off gaurd was the fact that he was wearing a blindfold, completely covering his eyes. None of the sound-nin continued attacking as they that they were being beaten by someone who couldn't even see them. Instead they were prepairing for one last group attack.

Fox: "Tch, tch, that won't work against me," he was shaking his head as eceryone saw blue orbs beginning to glow from under his blindfold, "if you want to fight using big guns, then I guess that I shouldn't hold back so much." He reached up and romoved his blindfold showing slitted deep blue eyes sorrounded by red instead of white. "KITSUGAN!!"

- -(with SasuTayu)- -

Both of them were in the middle of fighting Kabuto; Tayuya had summoned her demons so she could keep her distance, while Sasuke was fighting side-by-side with the demons. Their fighting was stopped only momentarily by Fox's activation of his blood line.

Kabuto: 'I gotta finish this quickly,' "SUMMONING JUTSU: THREE HEADED SNAKE!" smoke appeared under him as three snake heads shot out at Sasuke. Seeing the attack coming, he managed to do a quick substitution with a log.

Tayuya: "You take care of four-eyes, I'll take care of the snake!" She immediately sent her demons after the snake as Sasuke charged at Kabuto yet again. The demons were on the snake instantly, each one taking on one of its heads.

The fight was lasting longer than he thought, he never expected that he would have to deal wih so much garbage. The fight was beginning to takes it toll on both Kabuto and Sasuke. Matching sword with kunai. They were weren't giving one anoher a single chance to go for a fatal blow. Sasuke suddenly swung his sword down vertically, but kabuto saw it coming and counter. This left Sasuke wide open for an attack.

With kunai in hand he thrust forward.

- -(with Tayuya)- -

Tayuya had just finished off the snake and saw the attack that was about to hit Sasuke. She ran forward, knowing that her summons were nowhere near fast enough to reach him.

- -(with Sasuke)- -

Sasuke: 'I guess this is it,' he closed his eyes expecting to feel searing pain hit him in his chest. But instead he felt blood splash on his face. He opened his eyes and saw Tayuya standing in front of him with a kunai coming out her back. She then grabbed onto Kabuto's arm to keep him from moving and turned her head to look at Sasuke. She as coughing up blood as her curse form started to recede.

Tayuya: "Hurry up...*cough*...and kill him...*cough*...make sure he...*cough*...never comes after our daughter...*cough*... ever again!" Hearing her, Sasuke immediately charged around her and in one swift movement, Kabuto's head fell right off his shoulders. Sasuke quickly pulled out Kabuto's arm and held on to his love in his arms.

- - -(End flashback)(A.N. i really dont want to say how that ended)- - -

Sasuke was suddenly brought out of his thoughts when he felt a tugging at his cloak. He looked down and saw Sakuya on the verge of tears from how worried she was after her father wouldn't react.

Sakuya: "Daddy *sob* are you okay?" *sob*

Sasuke: "Yea," he kneeled down and held her in his arms, "your daddy's okay." he held her close as silent tears fell down from his eyes. 'I'm just sad that you won't ever be able to meet the rest of our family.'

- -(at Naruto's and Hinata's Apartment)- -

When Naruto and Hinata finally returned to their apartment, they dropped their bags and stood in shock at the scene before them; it seemed as though a tornado had blown straight through the place. There was food scattered throughout the place, the couches were torn apart, the window was broken, the t.v. was smashed, and there was foul language spray painted throughout the wall. The worst part though, was Kitsune hanging off his tail from the cailing fan and was covered in his own blood.

NaruHina: "KITSUNE!!" the two of them quicky rushed over and cut him down. And saw that he was still alive but barely breathing.

Hinata: "Naruto! Get me the bandages quickly!"

- -(Later)- -

Hinata was sitting to a small basket that held a sleeping Kitsune. He was covered in badages; his forelegs were broken in two places, his rear left leg was broken, he had a couple of broken ribs, a cracked muzzle, and had stab wounds throughout his body. Both teens were having an extremely hard time not going out on a rampage and just punishing the ones reponsible for his injuries. It also wasn't helping that their inner demons were already on a rampage in their cages. It was even harder to keep in control when they found a note addressed to the so called 'Fox Brat' to get out of the village.

Kyuubi: [KIT! I WANT YOU TO KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!]

Shichubi: [THEY WILL PAY FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO MY KIT!]

Naruto: "How is he?" he was was walking over to Hinata with some tea for her. He had to do something to calm himself down, and it just his luck that not all of the cups had been broken by the villagers that were still blind.

Hinata: "He's going to be okay, but it'd be better if he stayed in bad for at least two weeks," she was happy that Naruto had convinced her to take lessons from Tsunade, before he left for his training. "Whoever did this to him didn't expect him to survive from all the injuries they gave him. *sob*" her tears had begun to run freely.

As though by instinct, Naruto pulled her into a hug. She buried her head into his shoulder and began to cry with no end in sight. They stayed there, both of them just giving each other whatever comfort they could give each other. Next thing that either of them knew, they were pulled into their mindscape.

- -(mindscape)- -

Both teens were confused as to why they were still together within their minds. They looked around and could see where each of their minds differed; Naruto's side looked as though they were inside a sewer with a huge gate in the center that had a piece of paper with they kanji for 'seal' holding in Kyuubi, in the center it literally faded towards Hinata's mind which was a wide open field of flowers a cage in the center with the same seal the restrained Shichubi. Both demons stepped into the light and noticed the confusion of their containers.

Kyuubi: [Kit, I think it about time that I told you something.]

- -Preview- -

Chp 15: The New Lords

Naruto: "They'll never overlook him, so why should I stay?"