Prologue: Monster

Flames…burning…screams…

The Kyuubi looked about, grinning maliciously at the devastation it had wrought. It lunged forth, snapping up another shinobi in its jaws and messily devouring him, to the horror of his comrades. It roared, jubilantly declaring its presence to the world. As it did so, it swept its nine massive tails about itself, devastating the surrounding buildings. It thrashed about, a wild bloodlust overtaking its regular fury.

It suddenly felt a small pain in its right front leg. Growling, it swung its head about and looked downward, noticing, to its surprise, a young, pink-haired kunoichi slashing away with a kunai in hand. The monster snorted. Did this insect truly think it could harm him? Him, the Kyuubi, the biju whose path of destruction dated back further than anyone cared to remember? It was ridiculous. Sneering, the Kyuubi prepared to lunge forth, only to feel another, slightly larger pain on its back.

Swiveling its head about, the creature managed to catch a glimpse of another young ninja, this one a wild looking boy. He savagely dug into the monster's back with unusually sharp nails. The Kyuubi thrashed about, trying to get the bothersome human off its back. This continued for a while before the creature realized something: he was feeling these blows. They pained him. Why…?

He didn't have much more time to contemplate this, as he suddenly found his movement restricted. Straining his eyes, he managed to make a black haired young ninja in the distance, its shadow stretching across the ground and reaching the Kyuubi. Smirking, he raised his arm and plunged it into his chest. To its horror, the fox mimicked the movement. Then, with a sickening squelching sound, it was forced to pull its own heart out. As he stared, dumbfounded, at the organ, faces appeared on the heart's surface. They were making a single noise, which the fox eventually made to be a single word:

Monster…

Monster…

Monster…

Suddenly, the world was engulfed in a blinding flash of light…

And that's the end of the prologue. Please, read and review!