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Of Monsters and Men-Chapter 1

The fight had been going on for a while now.

The landscape had taken a severe beating and her chakra reserves had taken more than just a critical hit. She was bleeding profusely and her body began to feel as if it was being weighed down heavily. She moved sluggishly as if she had subjected herself intointo wearing Gai sensei's ultimate training weights.

She felt exhausted.

She also felt solace in the fact that she was not the only one struggling.

She was exhausted...but she knew, he was too.

She just needed to outlast him.

That she could do.

She was a powerhouse and so was the monster within her.

She was not going down before him. Believe it.

Uzumaki Naruto was facing off Uchiha Sasuke at the Valley of the End.

This was more than just a battle of wills. Only the stronger of the two would conquer and/or survive.

Sasuke was in his accursed form, using the disgusting powers that was forced upon him by the slimy creep, Orochimaru.

Naruto felt an odd mixture of emotions.

Disgust. Pity. Desperation. Sadness. Hopelessness.

Feelings she had not allowed to feel for years, threatening to swallow her whole.

"Why are you doing this? " Naruto's brain had failed to compcomprehend Sasuke's twisted reason for deflection. "You need to come back to Konoha! With me! It's where you belong! "

Her voice was a bit shaky, cracking beneath the weight of her feelings. There was just too much pain. Too much confusion. And just too much pain.

The Kyūbi's power flowing through her was clearly affecting her, after all she had been relying on the fox's power for quite sometime now. Never before had she used so much of its power before. She could feel the dark energy swirling malt through her, pushing up a rage buried so deep within, she wasn't sure if it was hers at all.

Ever so often it escaped her in the firms of grunts, sharks and gnashing teeth.

Usually she would have fought it, but now... she was desperate, allowing it to take over. She'd fi anything and everything in get power to bring the Uchiha back home.

His eyes were blazing red from his activated sharingan. He stared her down, looking at her as if she was lower than the dirt beneath her own feet.

Cringing, she watched as the makings from his cursed seal slither its way all over his body. Naruto prayed that he would exhaust himself soon, get body could only handle so much and no more.

With a scoff, Sasuke finally answered her question, with a question.

"Why do you think I would need to explain myself to you, dobe."

Naruto did her best to reign in the animalistic sound that erupted from get cheesy at his insult.

"You owe it to me!"

He blinked slowly, as if just comprehending that it was his teammate that stood before him and not merely a cockroach.

"It's your fault, you are a poison. " He started.

Naruto's brows crinkled in confusion.

"Are you fucking insane? How is it my fault? And what the heel does that have to do with anything? "

"It has everything to do with this! " Sasuke bellowed back. "You are a ducking poison! Your eyes. Your smile. Your laugh. this is all your fault! "

Naruto was taken aback by his revelation.

How dare he blame this on her ?! It wasn't her fault. It was the snake's fault. It was he that was poisoning Sasuke's mind.

His eyes hardened, his gaze focusing on her.

"Your smiles are like stabs to my chest, Naruto. Everything about you is venomous. Your cheery attitude, and those blue eyes of yours! "

Naruto gaped at him, sputtering incoherently!

"You're not making sense! "

His eyes narrowed.

"I know what I have to do. The only bond I can ever have, is the one of hated between my brother and myself, it's the only way to avenge my parents and my entire clan. But you, " he hissed, "You wormed your way into my life. And somehow. ...you've weakened my resolve. You started to make me think, that the only bond I needed was the one we shared. That our bond would make me stronger. ...but that was a lie. You were purposely leading me astray from my plans! From my path!"

"Hatred doesn't make you stronger, " she snapped back.

He ignored her.

"I need to kill my brother, and you can't stop me. I must sever our bond. It's the only way." He stood straighter. "I kill you and become stronger. You are my weakness and with you out of the picture, I can easily accomplish my original goal. "

"Your only weakness is your anger and hatred, Sasuke. Pull yourself together. You can't leave. You don't have to! If you want I'll stay away from you when you come back. ...I'll, I'll switch teams and everything," she pleaded angrily, grinding her teeth, trying to deal with the pre shiny ruling through her body.

Her vision blurred for a quick moment and she blinked back tears.

With every passing second, Naruto could feel the situation slipping out of her hands.

"What do I have to do to help you?"

The young boy sneered.

"That's fairly simple. Drop dead. "

That stung .

"How could you want to kill me? You've said it yourself, I...I'm your friend."

His eyes hardened as he spat, "You and your foolish friendship is not the bond I need. There is nothing for you to fight for. "

"Yes there is! I'm fighting for you to come home. To bring you back." Her vision blurred again. "Please don't do this. Please d-don't leave me behind."

She didn't care anymore. She allowed herself to cry.

"Disgusting, "he hissed out, strong back, "Look at yourself. You sound like that weakling Sakura. Pathetic."

Naruto's face gushed with embarrassment.

His words burning.

Sasuke had been the only one to ever acknowledge her.

Without him around, she would be lonely. If he left. ...she'd be alone again. There would be no one to distract her from the animosity of the villagers.

His silent but brooding presence over the years had been her comfort whenever the hollow pain in her chest tried to suffocate her.

The first six years of her life was filed with solitude and despair. There was only so much a six year old could take. She had been close to her breaking point , the dark voices within her clawing to the surface. It had terrified her.

They still do. ...

But that was a time brute she had met Sasuke. She refuse to go willingly back to those empty days. She would fight for him. He had to come back, with her or the voices would come back. ...

She just needed to explain herself slowly, more clearly for him to understand.

"I'll be alone, if you leave. ..I don't want to be alone again. Please. "

"Alone? I've been alone as well dobe."

"Lies! I've always been there! "

"You no longer matter. "

"I've always mattered, to you at least! If not as a friend, then as a rival! You don't show it openly, but you do! Small gestures go a long way, " she laughed bitterly. "You have no damn clue, how much they meant to me! And here you are! Intent on killing me! So I don't know anymore. Did you ever mean what you said, the way you acted when no one was around? "

She gave him a moment to deny what she said. He did not.

Her heart skipped a beat. His sharingan was deactivated. She watched as he took a hesitant step towards her and her heart leapt for joy!

He understood! He was coming home! To her!

She raised her hands to him, arms outstretched. Her eyes playing. ...welcoming.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed, focusing on her face, searching.

"You're doing it again," he snarled.

Naruto sucked in air quickly, her stomach clenching as he pulled back from her. She dropped her arms.

"I'm not doing anything -"

"Liar," he bellowed, activating his sharingan anew with his anger, "these feelings, you create within me have no use! " He hit his chest with an open palm, as if trying to dislodge something deep within. "They make me forget. they made me think I need you. "

He shook his head.

"I will not give you the chance to influence me again! I don't know how you do it, but I will allow you to replace my hatred. "

His face was contorted in a rage as he drew on the power of the cursed seal. Naruto watched in horror as his skin grew grey and hand like wings storied from beneath his shoulder blades, ripping his shirt. His hair grew, taking on a bluish hue, his features darkened by the black swirling marks.

He looked terrifying.

Naruto's eyes widened as she felt the immeasurable amount by which his chakra was just rampaging around her. It seemed to thickened the air and threatened to suffocate her beneath its weight.

And even though she hated to do it, there was only one thing she could do in order to keep up with the onslaught of power. She had to draw from the monster inside her. His intent was to kill her and she had no choice. She couldn't even hesitate and for once neither did the creature within her. It fed her all the chakra her coils could handlehandle. The Uchiha's thirst for blood was not good for either of them.

He always did hate that clan.

Immediately she felt overwhelmed by the anger, the power and the evil intent of the Fox.

'KILL! KILL, KILL, KILL! KILL OR BE KILLED!'

Naruto stumbled for a moment, locking her knees with her will so that she won't fall, so that she didn't loose control.

No, that wasn't going to happen, she was going to beat him within an inch if his life, then drag him home so that Tsunade could help him! She did not thirst for his death.

'FOOLISH HUMAN,' The Fox bellowed in her mind.

She winced and growled, cupping her temples.

"Shut up!" she roared. "Do you ever shut the fuck up?! Be gone!!"

She banished the creature further into her mindscape.

it was Sasuke's turn to gape at Naruto, startled for a moment at her outburst.

Who was she talking to?

He took in the change in her appearance; the whisker marks on her cheeks darkened and widened, her already sharp canines grew longer and sharper. Her nails lengthening into claws.

What shocked him the most was the chnage in her eyes. Blue bled to purple, then to a deep red, her pupils becoming slitted.

She looked dangerous.

She looked wild.

She watched as Sasuke drew on his chakra. Blue lightening forming in his hands, creating the sounds of a thousands of birds- Chidori.

Naruto did the same- forming a come, which helped her form the blue spiraling sphere- Rasengan.

She allowed the clone to dispel.

Naruto focused on Sasuke.

Her slitted eyes were hard now.

The time for talking was over. She failed to convince him with words, so she was going to have to beat some sense into him.

Sasuke charged and jumped, and she followed. Their attacks clashed.

And all Naruto remembered was the building energies and then...nothing

O.M.A.M

She did not know how long it took for her to regain consciousness, But the heavy rain woke her.

Immediately she gasped.

Breathing was unnaturally hard for her to do. It was hard for her to even gasp for the much needed oxygen.

She gasped hungrily, choking on the blood that filled her mouth.

Coughs shook her body and she was soon racked with an unimaginable amount of pain. the kind of pain she had never felt before. She shakily reached a hand to her chest, attempting to grasp at the fabric, but grabbed nothing.

There was a hole in her chest.

A Hole.

Sasuke's chidori had pierced her thorax, just nearly missing her heart.

'He really tried to kill me, ' she thought.

The pain in her chest became too much to bear and she cried out in anguish. Deep inside something shattered and the realization of Sasuke's betrayal finally hit home. It reached her mind.

"Naruto!" a voice cried out to her as she faded off into the darkness.

'He tried to kill us.'

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'I've never needed you like I do right now.' -Noah Cryus

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Disclaimer 2.0 : Of Monsters and Men was inspired by the story He had no idea. This is my way of honoring the memory of that story that was never finished as well as twisting it a bit to fit my liking and corrupted mind. You guys can go ahead and read it if you like. But as I have stated before I have only staked claims on half the story.