Do You Fear The Darkness by Burning Blood

Chapter 2: Stay Out of the Dark

Naruto sat on top of the fourths head pondering what happened back there at the training ground. 'Why did I save her she is not of my pack hell she's practically an enemy…so why did I save her when it cost me so much.' Naruto looked out over the village as it got bathed in the glow of the setting sun and thought. 'It was worth it.'

The next day we find our young hero sitting in the shade of a large oak watching the sun pass overhead in the clear blue sky as he waited for his so called team. Hearing a slight humming sound Naruto looked up to acknowledge Shino's presence and then continued his sky watching. After about five minutes of them both sitting in silence Shino asked.

"Why do you hide Kemuri?" Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at that.

"Why do you?" Was the only reply Shino got and then they both fell into silence again. After about ten more minutes of waiting both Shino and Naruto looked up to see the entire Inuzuka trio with their partners walking into the training grounds. Tsume and Hana stopped on one side of the training ground opposite of Naruto and stared watching what he would do. Naruto sat there watching as his 'Sensei's' gave him scrupulous looks.

"If you're both done I believe we have a test to take." Naruto said with a snort. Tsume glared hard at the boy and growled. Naruto gave off a slight chuckle at her growl only to stop as he felt a presence start to approach him. Looking around for it Naruto stopped at the sight of one of Hana's familiars slowly walking towards him. Hana stared in amazement as Gedokuyaku walked away from her and towards Naruto. Gedokuyaku stopped halfway to Naruto at the sound of a guttural voice.

"I'd suggest you not walk any closer Inuzuka vermin lest you loose your throat." Gedokuyaku took a step back at those words and started looking for the voice. Everyone in the clearing got into a defensive position and Tsume yelled.

"Who are you?" The voice gave out a low threatening growl.

"You are not in any position to be making demands Inuzuka now step away from master and you may be able to walk out of this forest alive." Tsume was about to respond to the voice when she heard a light wispy voice chuckle.

"Alright you've had your fun now stop scaring my 'team' Enmaku." Everyone watched, as a red blur seemed to appear in the middle of the clearing showing what most would assume to be a fox. However this fox was different the fox stood about the size of a small horse, his fur was a blood red except for his underbelly and front right paw which were a stark white, where his tail should have been made out of cartilage and fur this ones seemed to just be made of tangible smoke, the most striking thing about this fox however were the two cerulean blue eyes that were glaring daggers at everyone in the clearing and looks of confusion at Naruto.

"But Sir these are Inuzuka scum why are you allowing them near you?" Enmaku asked curiously. Naruto chuckled at the young fox before him and said.

"Because if we were to behave like you are now we wouldn't be much better than they are so calm down they won't hurt us especially with Jiji watching us." His words seemed to calm Enmaku down, but infuriate three members of his team.

"How dare you act as if you're better than us you worthless sack of fox shit I should tear out that other eye of yours for saying that." Tsume yelled with fury showing in her golden eyes. Shino watched as some of the light left Naruto's eyes and filed that away for later. Naruto stared into the rage filled eyes of the Inuzuka patriarch and said.

"I see." With that he stood up turned his back towards his 'team and started walking towards the woods. Naruto was about to break into the tree line when what stopped him appeared to be a solid wall of red fur. Cocking his head to the side to meet the cerulean eyes of his friend.