Furious Fox Ch: 10

Hinata could only stare at Naruto in shock. How could it be that this was the same man as moments before? It didn’t make sense to her, it just seemed like he was another person. His eyes almost seemed to be glowing red, his face curled into an animalistic expression. It all seemed like he had lost all of his humanity in that battle. She knew that Naruto had said something about this once, but what was it? What had he said to her when he would go into battle? It was on the tip of her tongue.

“Just what the hell happened to him?! It’s like he turned into some kind of monster!”

“I’m worried about what will happen during training. What if I’m close to getting killed? I black out and when that happens, I… I turn into a monster.”

Hinata’s eyes widened, was this what Naruto had meant? Was this what he turned into when he lost consciousness when in a fight? This couldn’t be the same man yet, the look in his eyes… they weren’t human. She knew that she had to do something but what? It just didn’t seem normal for this to even happen unless he has some kind of split personality disorder or, maybe it was something else.

A growl was heard through the arena, causing Hinata to stare in shock and a small hint of fear. Though it wasn’t fear of Naruto, more like it was fear for him. This was something that he hated, he hated it when he turned into this. There had to be something that she could do to stop this. There just had to be something, something that could be done but she wasn’t sure what it was.

“Everyone stay back!” shouted Jiraiya as he looked ready to fight. Hinata just stared, there was no way that Naruto could last in a fight with Jiraiya, could he?

Jiraiya rushed forward and went to punch Naruto in the head, hoping to knock him out. Though it seemed that while Naruto was like this, he was more skillful. As soon as Jiraiya had thrown his fist, Naruto had managed to catch it, causing the young blonde now turned crimson haired man to smirk. Jiraiya just stared with wide eyes for a moment as he said “How did you…?” Though before he could say more, Naruto wrapped his other hand around the older man’s elbow and threw him into the ground.

The older man screamed out from the pain, it seemed that Naruto wasn’t holding back. “He’s using his full strength! He’s lost control of his chakra!” shouted Lee. Was that the case? Was it his chakra controlling him? It had to be, this darkness that seemed to swarm around Naruto like a thick blanket, was it really chakra or something more?

“Hold on Jiraiya!” shouted Kakashi, only for the older man to shake his head. “What are you trying to prove?!” shouted the thunder master.

“I won’t let you or the others get hurt.” Groaned out Jiraiya before he pushed himself to stand up, sending a kick to Naruto’s stomach. The young man back flipped into the air, landing on his hands and feet, in a way he almost looked like an animal the way he stood like that. His growl was deadly before he rushed forward, running on all fours as he did so. “He really is an animal!” shouted Jiraiya as he rushed as well.

“Stop it Master Jiraiya!” shouted Hinata.

“This has to be done Hinata before he ends up killing us all!” shouted Jiraiya.

Hinata didn’t know what she could do, was it that she could just stand there while this fight went on? What would happen to Naruto though? Would he get out of this alive or would he be beaten to death? She had no idea what would happen but the master wouldn’t allow them to fight at all. Naruto swiped at Jiraiya, it made Hinata think of the demons in her books when they would fight someone that would dare to threaten them. Why would Naruto fight like that though? There had to be a reason for it though, she just couldn’t really be sure as to what the reason could be…

’Maybe this other persona, believes to be a demon…’ thought Hinata with a frown on her face.

Growling, Naruto swung his body around as he kicked the older master at the side of his head. The older man fell over, rolling on the ground before he landed on his back. Groaning, the older man looked up only to yelp and roll out of the way, only for everyone to scream in shock. For the force of Naruto’s punch had left a hole in the ground to the point that his arm from his hand up a little past his elbow was in the ground.

Hinata covered her mouth in shock, he had that much power? How was it that he could contain that much power and hadn’t gone crazy before? It was something that she never knew would have been possible for someone to possess this kind of strength without going crazy. Not to mention, without any kind of proper training. It had taken The Five, many years to get to the strength that she had now. It just didn’t make any sense, nothing was connecting to her.

“What the hell are you?!” shouted Jiraiya.

Naruto tilted his head at Jiraiya, his glowing eyes not showing anything other than pure hate and anger. The blue haired woman just couldn’t believe that someone like him could hold so much hate in his body. The more the two men fought, the more it seemed that Naruto grew even angrier. More powerful really, and it just got worse the more those two fought. Tightly shutting her eyes, the young woman tried to think of something, anything that she could do to help him. But what could she do in the first place?! What?! What can she do to help Naruto in his time of need?!

As Kakashi watched the fight, he couldn’t help but remember the lines from the prophecy that Grandmaster Hiruzen had mentioned. Damn it, where was the old man anyway?! Shaking his head, the words playing back into his mind as he couldn’t help but think, that this had something to do with the prophecy.

” But, his heart is at risk of turning to darkness
As it continues to live in fear and hate, it will eventually become heartless.”

No, this couldn’t be the start of him turning evil. There was just no way that he would be able to do it, there had to be a way to stop it. What was the other line? He knew that there was a line in the prophecy that would help prevent Naruto from turning to darkness. That would be a great thing to deal with when he saw his friends again. That he had failed to keep his promise and now this had to happen.

” If it does not feel any love or compassion then it will surely meet its fate, hopefully one will hear the
monster’s plight.”

That was it! He knew that Naruto had been spending time with Hinata a lot lately, the young man had felt a connection to Hinata, and they have a bond that may be strong enough for Naruto to be saved from himself. Turning to Hinata, he saw that she was in deed, concerned for the blonde man. Yet, he knew that he would have to be careful, he couldn’t give out too much detail since he knew that no one was to know of the prophecy, at least not yet. It was still too soon for Naruto to fully know about that task that was at hand.

Making his way to Hinata, he whispered “You can save him Hinata. He is reacting to the hate and anger that is coming from Jiraiya.” He had a feeling that was the case, after all, he had heard all the stories about Naruto in the village. Just like how he had attacked that Roka boy when they were kids, just because of the hate from that boy it had caused Naruto to lose control and attack when he believed to be in danger.

Hinata looked up at Kakashi for a moment, wondering if his words were true. Turning back to Naruto, she saw the rage in his eyes, his jaws clenched as if seemed like he was trying to resist something. Or, maybe he was trying to fight back this odd transformation. She couldn’t really be sure as to what it is that was causing this, but she knew that there had to be a way to stop this.

Naruto stood over Jiraiya, his hand poised to strike a deadly blow to the older man. Hinata knew that she had to act quickly before it was too late. Rushing forward, Hinata could have heard everyone else shouting at her to come back. To stop before she got herself killed. She didn’t want to listen to them, she knew that Naruto wouldn’t hurt her, she just knew that he wouldn’t. After all, if he’s only reacting to hate and anger, then she wouldn’t have anything to worry about. At least, in theory she shouldn’t have anything to worry about right now.

Jumping in the air, Hinata kicked Naruto in the head, just so he would get away from Jiraiya. “Hinata?!” shouted her master before they both watched Naruto skid away from the sheer force of her attack. Standing in front of Jiraiya to shield him from the angered man, Hinata didn’t show any anger, hate, or fear. She just smiled up at him, not allowing her heart to show the emotions that she should be feeling because Naruto seemed to be able to sense them.

Naruto just let out a monstrous growl as he took a step forward, looking ready to attack once again. Hinata though just smiled all the more at him, holding out her arms as she hoped that this allowed Naruto to know that she was no threat to him.

Smiling gently, she whispered “Naruto, it’s okay. I won’t hurt you, I don’t want to hurt you. No one will hurt you anymore.” She tried to sound soothing, hoping that would be enough to get him to relax enough to return to normal. Naruto just tilted his head, backing up a bit as he seemed nervous about Hinata. The young woman walked forward as she slowly lowered her hands thinking that maybe he felt threatened by her. “There is no reason to fight anymore Naruto. I won’t hurt you, I just want you to wake up. Please, can you do that for me?”

Naruto whined softly, backing up until he felt his back hitting the wall. It seemed that he had nowhere to go, and for that Hinata was thankful. He shouldn’t have any reason to want to escape her, or is it, that because he didn’t sense hate, he didn’t want to hurt her? Did he only attack those, who felt hate and anger in their heart towards him? That would be something to think about, something to puzzle about.

Smiling softly, warmly even, the young woman knelt in front of Naruto as she slowly reached out to him. The young woman wasn’t really sure what she was to expect from Naruto while he was in this form of his. The only thing that she knew, was that she wanted to be able to break him out of this trance of his. It just seemed as if he wanted to break free, yet at the same time his body was not able to do so. Suddenly, Naruto snapped and growled, causing Hinata to look up and saw Jiraiya there.

“Master, move away! Naruto is reacting to your anger. You have to move away, I got this!” Hinata said with a glare of her pale lavender eyes. The young woman waited, and waited as she waited for her master to move away from the two of them. Jiraiya sighed softly before he backed away, well more like dragged away by Kakashi. Hinata turned back to Naruto, seeing that he was agitated once more. “Relax Naruto, you’re safe…”

Naruto just stared at her, his eyes looked like they were trying to focus on him. Hinata wondered if he was even aware that she was here, that it was her. The young man just tilted his head to the side, blinking his eyes innocently at her as if he was trying to remember who she was, what she was to him. There was something, she knew that there was something there for him to remember. Naruto sniffed at her hand for a moment before he closed his eyes, as if he was in deep thought.

Naruto blinked slowly, he found himself in a dark room. Vines had wrapped around him keeping him in place so he wouldn’t be able to escape the fate of his ‘other self’ so to speak. The young man never knew why this kept happening, why though? Why was this happening to him? The only thing he remembered, was that he was in a fight with Jiraiya, after he felt the brick wall hit him and he fell to the ground. After that point, the young man had heard a voice going on in the back of his head.

The voice, kept telling him to kill them all.

Shuddering at the thought, the young man had tried to think on what he could do. He had never felt like this before. His mind and body felt so weak, he just wanted to fall asleep forever. Wanted to sleep and never wake up ever again just to escape all the emotional and physical pain that had wracked at his body for who knows how long. He felt like his body would explode from the pain that was causing all of this.

He closed his eyes for a moment, feeling like he could just finally rest. Maybe he was never meant to be a hero, all he was meant was to hurt and harm the people who came into his life. The young fox demon almost smiled at the thought of his final rest.

Until a growl came to him.

Eyes fluttering open, the young man looked up and saw his monstrous self-appear before him. His eyes glowing a deep crimson as the hate and anger was flowing not just through him but around him in a thick blanket. “What, do you want?” Whispered Naruto, finding it hard for himself to speak. His other-self just stared at him, as if he expected Naruto to know what was happening.

“M…” His other-self started to say, though he never expected him to even be able to talk in the first place. After all, this part of him only wanted to kill just in order to stay alive. “Mate… near.” Mate? Who? What? What the hell was he talking about? How could he even have a mate when he had no one to love him for who he was in the first place? “Mate, full of kindness. Love… compassion.” What?

“What do you want me to do about it? I’m a little tied up.” Naruto mumbled weakly. He didn’t think his monster-self would even care about anything. The part of him, born out of his own fear and hate of the people that wanted to hurt him for now reason. All just because he was a demon. It was something that, in a way he had always known about. It seemed that when he did lose himself, he would come to this place, regaining the memories of the experiences until he woke back up. When he would return to the real world, he would have no memory, and this time would be no different from the others.

His other-self just looked up before turning around to stare behind him. There was a bright light, it was much brighter than when his father would snap him out of it. It was brighter, softer emotions came from it. He had no idea who it was, but if this other him was here, then it had to mean something. He had no idea, but he felt like it had to mean something, whatever that was anyway.

“Naruto, please come back.” Said a woman’s voice, a voice that he knew. Eyes widening, he looked over at his other-self and saw him nod. Red hair bobbing from his movement as he pointed to the source of the light. Was that he meant? That ‘mate’ was Hinata? But, she wasn’t his mate, she was a human. Humans are meant to be with other humans, and he had to be with other demons. Even if he had no idea how that was to happen in the first place.

“What do you mean by Hinata is our mate? If, that is what you mean.” Naruto whispered softly, not bothering to look up.

“Mate… kind, caring. Risk safety to save us. She nice, must be chosen. Smell nice too.” Well, his other-self did make some sense. Hinata did risk her life if his other-self was already here with him. Hinata was nice, she also smells nice as well. It was soothing and caring. A scent that he felt like he could get lost in forever and ever. Though he couldn’t really be sure of it, at least not at this point. “I do care about her a great deal, but we would only put her in danger.”

“No hurt. Want mate, never hurt mate.”

“Shut up! You are nothing but a monster, you hurt people, and dad has claw marks on his back from when you dug your claws into his skin before we reverted back! You don’t give a shit about anyone!” shouted Naruto before lowering his head, he knew that this was all his fault. If he hadn’t created this other part of him just to protect himself, none of this would be happening. But sadly, it was and he knew that he had to do something to get past this, yet was there even a chance of that happening anymore? He had no idea anymore.

“Mate waits.” Whispered his other-self before Naruto felt the vines withering and disappearing. His demon self walked towards Naruto and grabbed his hand. “Go to mate.” He seemed so… docile now. It was weird, but before Naruto could even ask anything else, his demonic part of him pushed him towards the light that was created by Hinata, the vines wrapping themselves around that other part of him until he was in danger once again. This was weird…

Hinata heard a groan coming from Naruto, he opened his eyes for a brief moment, eyes that she adored as they were their bright ocean blue once more. Naruto came back to her! Smiling, she whispered “Thank goodness.” Naruto blinked slowly at her for a moment before he fell forward into her arms. His body was worn out from the fight, and his other darker-half using a lot of power. Power that he had not fully learned to use yet.

Turning to the four shocked masters, Hinata called out “We have to get him to his room. He needs rest.” The others nodded, before rushing to the sleeping blonde, the red had already started to bleed out, leaving only his ponytail crimson as always. Yet, what confused her was how was it that he had seemed almost like a demon? She would have to ask him some questions later, for now she would let him rest.