Naruto No Kitsune

Chapter 8 - Forget Little One

Chapter 8 – Forget Little One

 

Flash back

“Tsunade-Baa-chan…” Naruto moaned as she set him on the hospital bed. His body hung limp with his tail slipping off the mattress.  Tsunade thought that perhaps he’d awaken.  She realized she was wrong, seeing his eyes were still half closed and misty.

“Shuuu, just relax kid.”

“I… I can’t fight it anymore… we’re the same… they’re both me.”

She couldn’t understand what he was saying, but it didn’t take any deep thought to guess what he meant.  Naruto was starting to accept the fox mind as his own.  Tsunade didn’t know what to do.

“No, Naruto just hang on-“

“It hurts…”

Touching his face she cringed, he was burning up.  She could sense the turmoil of conflicting chakra inside of him.  Finely what little aware of his surrounding was lost, and he slipped back into unconsciousness.

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Naruto stepped into the street waving back at Itiraku-ji-san.  The old man had treated him to a free extra bowl of ramen-he was so happy!  He’d told Naruto he was to thin and need to put meat on his bones.   

From that day on there was no doubt that the ramen stand would be Naruto’s favorite place.  His happiness didn’t last long though; there were still the villagers he had to deal with.

Every day it was the same, those hateful eyes staring at him.  The little blond boy cringed back from people as he moved through the crowd.  Why didn’t anyone like him?  Was he really that bad…?

When he was at his apartment he was greeted with the site of angry red scrawls across his door.  He couldn’t read them but he knew it was from one of the ones that glared at him.  Bowing his head he shuffled into his room shutting the door behind him.  Inside he forced a mental grin-he couldn’t let this bring him down!  He was going to be a strong ninja one day and then the villagers would look up to him!

 

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The blond kitsune child cringed in his sleep as another painful wave hit him.   Little did he know that Kyuubi was using all his power to keep the remnants of the jutsu off his kit, but it was no use.  Along with that Naruto’s rejection of his help was putting a strain on the boy’s body.  Kyuubi had no choice now as his kit slipped into a deeper mix of cruel memories and nightmares.

It would be painful for his kit, but he would need to make the final changes soon…

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Naruto was digging in the sandbox on the playground his face coved in dirt.  He was grinning as he pulled out a worm.   “Look what I found guys!” he shouted to the few that had stopped to play with him.  The girls ‘ewwed’ while the boys tried to snatch it from him.

“Cool-“

“What have I told you about going near that boy!” a mother gripped her sons wrist yanking him to his feet.  Suddenly other adults appeared doing the same with their own children.

“Stay away from my child demon!”

“Why don’t you just disappear or die.”