Taming Your Demon (Sealing Series Part I)

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Naruto felt Hinata as soon as Obito transported her out of the kamui. He was so relieved, he completely disregarded the fact that Madara just suddenly stumbled out of the coliseum into the dark entranceway without provocation.

Sasuke's Susanoo let go of the arrow, letting it fly into the entrance tunnel after Madara. The rows of seats surrounding the tunnel collapsed in on it, sealing the opening behind Madara.

Not long after, Hinata and Kakashi appeared from the calling seal that Naruto sent for her. As soon as he saw her, Naruto grabbed her into his arms. Excited, he touched the top of her head, and then her face and her neck and her arms to make sure she was real. Hinata smiled, as he looked like a little kid sorting through a bag of recently rediscovered old toys. Finally confirming her presence, Naruto allowed Hinata to relax into him. Her head fell against his chest. Her ear set exactly over his heart. She closed her eyes and listened for the familiar steady rhythm, thu-thump.

Impatient again, Naruto whispered, "I need to kiss you", before lifting her face towards his face, pulling her by the waist tighter to him. His blue eyes sparkled down at her as he leaned forward.

"I know. Me too." Hinata whispered back as their noses pressed together. "I felt... so..."

"Alone." Naruto finished, before kissing her lips. Her lips tasted even better than he remembered.

"I hate to break up this warm reunion. But what was that back there?" Kakashi asked Hinata, moving between the two lovers and the collapsed tunnel behind which Madara stood.

"That was the real Obito." Hinata explained, softly. "Madara stole his body not long after you and Rin thought he was killed years ago. He was there that night. He witnessed Rin's horrible death... it broke him. He was lost until I found him again in the kamui. He was even able to take his body back... though it will only last for so long. Madara will return soon... and I don't think he will be happy."

"That's an understatement." Kakashi looked over his shoulder at Hinata. "That would be the weakness of an unworthy sage taking another living body. The original owner of the body could attempt to take his or her body back at any time. Though Madara is a very powerful shinobi and he must have been using Obito's body for almost two decades... How did Obito manage to wake up?"

He asked this question of himself. He was already shocked to find out that Naruto had managed to not only suppress but fully control the nine tailed beast without the help of the binding seal. And now he was amazed at what Hinata had just managed to pull off. Had her presence in that dimension really served to revive Obito's consciousness?

Then he had another disturbing thought.

"And Masuku is with Madara now too." Kakashi grumbled, looking hesitantly at Naruto. How was he going to react that bit of news? Once Naruto realized she had his mother's face?

Naruto looked back at Kakashi, surprised. "You mean, Hinata's sensei?"

"About that... there is more to the story..." Kakashi started, but he did not get a chance to finish. A large white sword blade blasted through the side of the stadium where Madara disappeared.

Sasuke's Susanoo let another arrow fly, blasting more of the wall into rubble and reburying the sword. It did not stay buried for long, as the enormous sword even dwarfed Sasuke's Susanoo. The being that wielded it, was tearing its way back into the coliseum.

"What the hell is that?!" Naruto yelled. Kurama spoke in his mind. 'That is Madara.'

The two heads of the white Susanoo finally appeared through the rubble with Madara in tow. The mask was completely gone from his face now, but this face was different. Cold and inhuman. Madara had taken the body back. The power that wafted off of the elder Uchiha and his Susanoo felt like ice, freezing the room. It was only matched by the heat that the radiated off of Naruto as he switched to beast mode. Madara roared, "NEITHER OF YOU HAS WON THE GIRL BACK!"