A/N: Greetings again, Naruto archive. It's Valior, and I'm bringing another fanfic to the table. No More Pain, which was supposed to be my next project, unfortunately had to be cancelled since my computer was stolen after I wrote several chapters, and I had lost my original file along with my inspiration. In place, I offer you For the Fire Will Birth the Shadow, a story that picks up where the previous one, The Red Clouds of Love, left off. In this universe, I've eliminated Tobi from the canon and made the original Akatsuki the villains, so I apologize to any fans of his, however it's my belief that the series fell off the rails after Akatsuki became a sideline, and now I'll see what I can do with them as the main antagonists again.

Also, to all those who are interested, I've posted a new story in the Star Wars archive called Beyond the Limits of Darkness and Light. If you enjoy the series, I advise you to check it out. Read on, and I hope you all enjoy.

Warning: This story (particularly this chapter) contains intense sex scenes. If you're easily offended, I'd advise you to prepare yourself or simply eyeball where the scene stops, as I won't put in barriers to stop the story. If not, carry on.

Chapter One
In Inceptum Finis Est

It was happening again, wasn't it? He had seen it before; the handle that couldn't be turned, the lock that couldn't be picked, the hinges that couldn't be broken on the door that couldn't be opened. Almost every night now, he saw it. It plagued him, haunted him with its presence. What did it want from him, and why him? He had a feeling those two questions had the same answer.

He pushed the door with both hands, to no avail. He wasn't even sure why he tried to budge the colossal thing; it hadn't moved since the night he'd first seen it. It had never, ever given even but an inch to his efforts. He felt like a kid again; trying to lift a table or a heavy stone outside at recess, but not even feeling it move in the slightest. With a grunt, he gave up, slamming his open palm on the door with frustration.

And then, things changed. The symbols, the five symbols that circled the lock in the center of the door, lit up. Five kanji were within; the five elements. Fire. Wind. Lightning. Earth. Water. The five chakra natures, and the five great Shinobi nations they were named after. They glowed like spheres of power, and then from each one, a coloured line emerged, heading towards the center. And as one, they all converged on the central aperture and slipped inside.

A crack. A creak. A click. The lock slowly turned, and opened.

But the door didn't move. The lock did. The entire mechanism that encompassed the kanji and the keyhole proper turned, and kept turning. Soon, turning became spinning. The lock whirled and the colours blended into a wheel of multicoloured light, until a hiss emerged, and suddenly, the spinning halted. No slowing down, it just stopped. The lock leaned forward, slowly, and then fell forward, leaving an open circle in the door, large enough to climb through.

He stood there, in shock. This had never happened before; he had pounded and kicked the door with no success, but never had it shown any semblance of opening. But there was only one way to find out what had happened. Slowly, very slowly, he walked forward and looked through the hole.

Darkness was all he could see. Impenetrable, solid darkness that nothing shone through. A raven could fly across his field of vision and it would be impossible to detect within the shroud of blackness. He was confused; why had the door opened if not for someone unlocking it? He hadn't done anything that he hadn't-

*SCREEEEEENNNN*

The sound split his ears and he cried out in anguish. The volume of it was terrible, like a raptor bird had just let out a scream right next to his ear, but it kept on ringing longer than it should; a nigh-unbearable screech of pain ringing through his skull. But slowly, it lessened, enough for him to look through the porthole again.

In front of him, sitting in the center of the dark around it, was a perfect sphere of crimson, with a single black dot in the center of it. And around it, three tomoe slowly circled, their gaze fixed on him like a hungry beast. And then came the voice, the voice that grabbed him, pulled him in in combination with the cold stare of the eye, and struck fear throughout his entire form…

"I SEE YOU, NARUTO"

A shout erupted from Naruto's throat as his form shot out of bed. His lungs hurt from breathing and gasping as his heartbeat slowly began to calm, and could almost feel his pupils dilate from the horror they'd just seen.

Naruto looked around: it was still nighttime, and he was still in his bed. Still at home in the Leaf. Though it didn't really matter where it was, because the dream kept finding him. Six weeks now, it had gone on. At first, it was just the door, but tonight was the first time he'd seen inside it. What had happened to open the door this time? Was it something that he'd done, or was it something else? Was it-

A stirring by his side made him jump, and his head spun to face it. A soft hand touched his shoulder, and white, pupil-less eyes looked back in his own sea blue ones.

"Naruto, what's wrong?" Hinata asked, her voice laden with concern.

His love lay beside him, as naked as he, with her alabaster skin covered by the white sheets and both touched by the moonlight that entered through the window. Naruto simply looked at Hinata; her beauty was truly awe-inspiring, and even as he admired her, a weak smile slowly returned to his face and his heart slowed.

"I'm… I'm alright now, Hinata" he lied quietly, taking the hand on his shoulder and clutching it.

She gave him a look of sadness. "If you can't be honest with me, Naruto, then who else?"

Naruto's eyes turned downward; she knew him far too well. "It was the door again"

Hinata's arms encircled him. "We talked about this. It's nothing to be worried about; just a bad patch right now, so-"

"No, Hinata" he said, urgency present in his tone. "It's different this time. The door opened. I saw the Sharingan inside and… a voice."

She was alert immediately. "The Sharingan… could Sasuke…"

Naruto shook his head, staring at his lap. "I don't know. Maybe. Who else could there be?" Hinata slid her arms around his bare chest, pressing her warm body against his back.

"You don't have to think about this right now, Naruto… just come back to sleep and we can talk in the morning" she spoke smoothly, and her presence and touch calmed him. Naruto closed his eyes as he lay back on the pillow, Hinata's lavender hair spilling over his chest and tickling him.

He stroked her arm slowly as he felt her form move up his own and felt her lips press against his cheek. She kept up the action, letting Naruto turn his head and meet her kisses with his own. The two lay there in his bed, no words between them, just an uninterrupted love under laying their action.

Naruto took the initiative; his brain was still active from the dream and he couldn't feel sleep grasp him. He needed her; from comfort to body, he needed Hinata now. A slight loosening of her muscles as his arm touched her tailbone told him all he needed to know, and Naruto turned himself to face the woman he loved, the two of them still locked together in a kiss.

Naruto's other hand touched her cheek and his lips turned to her chin, while Hinata tried to get Naruto's mouth back before she let out a long sigh. Naruto's fingers traced up her inner lips and Hinata felt a shock run up her spine, letting Naruto latch onto her neck with his mouth, kissing and biting and nibbling the soft skin there. Hinata kept moving; she had to keep this feeling and it would die away if she didn't keep herself warm. She squirmed as much as she could without getting away, and Naruto's fingers and lips kept pushing her further; making her hotter.

Naruto's hand clasped Hinata's hot slit, his thumb on her clit as one finger dipped into the butter smooth folds, and she let out a loud, sudden moan of pleasure that died back into her slowly higher-pitch sighs. One thing he'd noticed; no matter when he wanted her, no matter what the situation was (at least so far), Hinata was as ready for it as he was. She wanted him as much as he wanted her. And he absolutely adored the sounds she made when he played with her; it was like someone had found the chords to his eardrums whenever she moaned and sighed and purred.

"Oh gods…" Hinata spoke first with a broken, shaky tone; Naruto always made sure she spoke first. He moved his mouth up right by her ear and let her hear him breath as he pushed a second finger into her pussy. Hinata shook and then reached out, digging her fingers into his back as her breathing got heavy.

"Yes, oh fuck yes!" she pushed her hips into Naruto's hand, allowing him to slide behind her so that now, Hinata felt his body pressing against her back as they spooned. She felt his length pushing between her legs while Naruto's hands made her lose her grip on up and down, and of course she heard his breathing in her ear, until he began to speak.

"Does Hina like that?" he asked. His voice always dropped several octaves whenever they played like this, and whenever Hinata submitted herself to him. It made her so hot that her knees would shake. "My Hina likes it when I play with her, mmm?"

Naruto speaking was punctuated when his free, right hand slid from underneath her to grab her right nipple and pinched it. Hard. Hinata writhed as the world sparked and gleamed.

"OH!" her own hands covered Naruto's own and pushed his further into her body. "Gods yes… Naruto…harder, please!" she was getting louder now, but her tone was no more stable. Naruto kissed and licked the side of her neck again.

"Yes Hina… come on, come on" he grunted into her ear, curling his left fingers up and pushing her g-spot.

Hinata squeezed her legs together and made a sound in between a whimper and a laugh; the sensations doubled. Her hands latched onto him, clutching him tighter and her exotic, white eyes stared aimlessly.

Naruto growled and felt his eyes flash: it was happening again. He felt his body grow hotter, and Naruto's tongue touched his teeth to see that his canines had sharpened. And when he spoke, Hinata heard it too. The change in tone, the injection of hunger into his voice. He was no longer a partner, but a predator. And he had exactly what he wanted.

"Squirm for me Hinata… scream for me while you cum..."

"Ahhh!" she squealed again, pushing into him.

"Louder." he growled, clenching her pussy harder.

"Please! I want you Naruto! I want..." she trailed off.

"Tell me, Hina."

"Please, FUCK me!"

He was ready, and pushed into her with one thrust. Both shuddered at his action, but Hinata pushed back into him on instinct. He started sliding in and out a second later, using the hand he was playing with her pussy with to push her left leg up and let him fuck her deeper. Hinata didn't want to move away from him, and only forced herself to push her body back into his. She wanted to be close to him; feel him fucking her.

Hinata let out a shriek; fortunately not loud enough to be heard. But even if it had, Naruto was beyond caring. His red eyes, now marked with a slit instead of a circle for an iris, were locked onto Hinata's body while his hips nearly moved of their own volition. His pushes turned into thrusts, and Hinata raised her leg on her own.

"Deeper, Naruto!" she cried out, trying to find something to do with her hands, until she settled for grabbing and tugging on her nipples. "Oh gods… fuck me fucking deeper! Harder! I want to feel you!"

Naruto hissed, making Hinata shudder in fear of his power, and propped her leg up again as he slammed his cock into her dripping cunt. Hinata gasped and her eyes went wide before they closed, opened again, and repeated a sequence of hard blinking. It was so, in fact too, good. She wanted to say more; beg him to fuck her like a slut and a whore, his slut and whore, but it all ended when Naruto used his left hand to rub her clit like a madman. There were no more words between them, and none were necessary. Everything blended together between them; every feeling of heat and desire and taboo to form everything that they needed.

Hinata screamed, yanking on her nipples as she felt her pussy clench and squeeze Naruto's cock, milking it for its load, while she felt her body release it all. The world flashed, spun and flipped all at once, and Hinata could only focus on grabbing Naruto's hand that was playing with her clit to not make everything too ecstatic to bear.

Naruto purred in victory as he felt Hinata's orgasm, and sped up his thrusts. He felt her hand grab his, and the two clasped tightly as Naruto shot his load inside her, her walls grabbing his cock pushing him over the edge. He panted and husked into her ear like the animal that was partly controlling his actions, and pushed his cock all the way into her as the last few spurts from his cock shot into his lover's tight pussy.

Hinata felt her loose hair touch her face, and felt its heaviness as it was dripping with sweat. She found it so erotic and smiled as she felt Naruto shift and push her onto her back, so that he looked down at her. Hinata's mouth was ajar while Naruto's eyes lost their crimson tone to become that familiar, sapphire blue again, though the slitted iris remained. She managed a weak giggle; the Fox always wanted more. Come to think of it, all three of them did.

Naruto slowly lowered his hand to cup her pussy again (she shivered at the feeling) and then, with a motion, he scooped up the juice she had squirted on him and brought the hand up to his mouth. Hinata shook at the erotic sight; he licked her juice off his hand and smacked his lips before flashing her a grin. No words, just a grin that reeked of pleasure at the filthy act.

Hinata matched it. She moved her shaking hand down to her slit and dipped two fingers inside, wincing at the feeling and letting out a sharp exhale, and twisted the digits around. A second later, they came out, Naruto's essence covering them, and Hinata slid past her lips, making no small show of the fact that her tongue circled and sucked off her love's cum.

Naruto only exhaled before opening his mouth and pressing it against hers. Hinata grabbed his hair and pushed him into her before their tongues swirled around. Each tasted the other; Hinata's had a slight tang while Naruto's was heavier and muskier, but blended… both felt their spines tingle as they lay there, tasting themselves and the other.

Naruto wondered if they should clean the other up (without cloths or water, of course) but exhaustion was finally settling in, and instead, lay back down on the mattress. Hinata slid over him and felt her head rise and fall with his breathing. Peace.

Naruto stroked her hair. "I love you, Hina"

He felt her sigh as his chest rose. "I love you too, Naruto" her voice faded off, and Naruto closed his eyes. He focused, and soon, the darkness changed.

Naruto's 'eyes' opened. He stood in a room he was all too familiar with; leaking pipes ran along the ceiling and walls, both of which were made of rusted, creaking steel. An odour of stale mist and heat permeated the air, and, of course, water partially flooded the room.

He already knew where to go. Naruto walked down the hallway, entering through the first door on his left to find himself in a huge room, whose only occupant was housed behind a pair of colossal, metal bars that stretched all the way to the top of the room. And upon the lock, there rested a single, paper tag marked with the kanji for 'Seal'.

Huge red eyes, with irises as long as Naruto was tall, opened and stared down at him. An aura of all the negative emotion in the world, from hatred to fear, settled in, and Naruto couldn't stop the shiver that ran up his spine. A maw, filled with razor sharp canines that gleamed white, opened, and a voice rang out.

"I am impressed"

Naruto chuckled. "You know it's me who gets Hinata hot, not you"

It wasn't hard to imagine the Nine-Tails shrugging in his mind. "Perhaps. But I am the one who makes her scream"

Naruto waved off the counter jab, and slid his hands into his pockets. "I confess, youngling: it has been far too long since I enjoyed the pleasured, rather than terrified, screams of your women.".

"Since when have you had sex with many women?" Naruto asked, trying to ignore the rather crude reminiscing of the Nine-Tails. As far as he'd known, the Fox had been imprisoned within a jinchuriki for a great portion of its lifetime.

"There were days when I was free, young one" the Nine-Tails explained. "Before Madara's control over me. I will save my stories for another day, however when I was free, I spent much of my time as one of your kind"

"Why?"

The Fox 'shrugged' again. "There is little sense in moving in my true form. I only draw attention, and even in the infancy of your civilization, there were enough humans, and enough ninja, that walking around in my true form would bring me little benefit"

"How does that relate to you being experienced in sex?" Naruto frowned, not catching the link.

The Nine-Tails grinned a grin that would make children run. "As long as one is human, why not take advantage of the fruits that come with it?".

"Ahhhh! Enough!" He cried out, holding his ears. "The last thing I need to hear about is your sex life".

Again came the chilling laugh. "Amusing, considering I know all about yours".

Naruto made the decision to terminate the the discussion there. "Look, I came here because I needed to ask you about the dream".

The Nine-Tails nodded, it's smile vanishing. "I saw. At this point, there is little doubt that these dreams are mere coincidence. Someone, likely an Uchiha, is trying to tell you something".

"Now the question is what does Sasuke want?" Naruto asked. "Last we'd heard, he killed Orochimaru, but he's disappeared since then".

"I would think that a more pertinent question would be how he is in your dreams, Naruto" the Nine-Tails said, now lying down on its massive front paws. "As far as we know, the young Uchiha has little use of genjutsu available. And there are no ninjutsu that I am aware of that would affect a target's dreams".

"What are you saying?" he asked.

"Several things" The Fox answered; Naruto had never pegged it to be a thinking, critical being, but apparently (as it claimed) "when one is locked away for years, there tends to be a lot of quiet time to think". "First, that your Uchiha comrade is attempting to create a new form of ninjutsu. Unlikely; such a task can only be performed by older, more experienced shinobi. Second, that there already exists a ninjutsu that I am not aware of that already performs this action. Unlikely; I have lived long enough to have seen such a technique if indeed it existed. And third…" The Fox frowned, turning its head slightly.

"The third?" Naruto asked again; he couldn't see any more possibilities.

"The third is…" the Fox paused to contemplate its words. "That your comrade has learned genjutsu, and has somehow placed one upon you without your knowledge".

"But that doesn't make any sense! I haven't seen Sasuke for years, and he didn't know anything about genjutsu before he left the village".

"There are other methods of placing genjutsu on one besides looking into the Sharingan, youngling. In any case, I will need time to think on this" The Nine-Tails purred and turned its head slightly, dismissing the topic. "In the meantime, I would advise you to keep your young lover out of this. The more she knows, the more obstacles we face in solving this.".

Naruto rubbed his eyes in exasperation. "I can't just keep Hinata out of the loop. She's as big of a part of my life as you are now".

A frown ruffled the Nine-Tail's massive brow. "She may be your mate, youngling, but she is not your parent. And you are a shinobi, not a child. Your problems are yours, and ours, to solve, and no-one else's".

Emotions conflicted within Naruto. The Fox was only half-right; he loved Hinata and didn't want to keep her out of this, but it was enough to make him think. He turned to leave. "We'll see. Thanks for your advice".

The Fox nodded once before upturning its head a little. "Oh, and young one. Should you and the girl require any more… amusement, in your intimacy sessions, speak to me when you have time to train".

Naruto turned back slightly, his mouth upturned in a cheeky smile. "It was bad enough when I agreed to let you have a little bit of the action during sex. What makes you think I'll let you get any more of your chakra in?".

"Last I saw, Hinata did not object".

Naruto turned away again, the smile still on his face. "I'll see you again".

The chakra beast lowered its head and closed its eyes as the world deteriorated around them. Everything dissolved into darkness before Naruto opened his eyes again, and found himself staring at his ceiling, Hinata's arm draped over him. Exhaustion settled in soon after, and the moonlight dissipated as clouds covered up the sky.

Naruto could only close his eyes and let the world fade away again.