AN: hmmmm... how should I say this: I´m sorry!! Im really sorry! I know it took me forever, but as I said in my profile I intend to finish this story.

It is really amazing how reviews give me strenght to write... hehe... I wasn´t in the mood to write for a while until I got the last 3 reviews.

Again I apologize for the odd gramar you might find, as I said that´s because my first language isn´t english. I just hope that you guys understand what Im trying to say anyway.

So! Finally here it is! Chapter VI! Hope you enjoy it and review!!

As Naruto went deeper into the city he began to recognize the feeling at last.

-"Oi Fox!! I can feel it! In this place! There´s something different, it´s still faint, but I can feel it flowing freely in me.

-"Does this mean…?"

-"Yes Kit, in this place you can use your chakra without your seals"

-"What does this mean Fox? Why am i ab…"

-"It´s not time to celebrate yet!""You said it yourself, the feeling is weakened. That means that you won´t be able to extract your chakra the way you used to".

-"But?" Said Naruto expecting that the Fox had something between his paws.

-"We need to get to the core first, the feeling should get stronger there"

-"Wait! Wait! Arent we in the core yet?"

-"Yes, but just the location, the core itself is in the mountain"

-"And how the hell do i enter the mountain?" Asked Naruto a little annoyed.

-"Are you a shinobi or not? Observe your surroundings you damn kid!"

-"Che! Since when did you become my sensei?" thought Naruto to himself."Even if you´re right…damn i hate it whe he´s right." As soon as he finished the thought he began to observe.

Currently Naruto was hidden close to a wall of one of the houses near the center of the city. Just like the new Iwa the old Iwa´s houses were made of rock and there wasnt many colors in those houses. The color of the house depended basically of the color of the rock. So some browns, oranges and grey were all there was. Of course there was all kind of buildings, not just houses, but the material didnt change. It was amazing how the people from Iwa were able to build those kind of structures without them collapsing from their own weight. Looking ahead Naruto could see the deepest zone of the city where the mountain stood tall above everything else. From the east, right side from Naruto´s perspective, a high waterfall decorated the mountain giving birth to a river that crossed the city to dissapear under the mountain in the west end of the place.

Until now nothing of what Naruto had observed was of real utility to reach the core that Kyubii mentioned. That was until his eyes set in the feet of the mountain. There was something there in the wall.

-"what´s that?" He asked himself.

-"There s a way to find out, you know?" Said the Fox sarcastically.

-"Thanks! Mr obvious". Said Naruto before he headed to the mountain.

Meanwhile in Konoha

Sakura´s group was still working on the trap.

Sakura and Hinata were currently digging. Hinata stopped for a moment to get rid of the sweat on her forehead.

-"Th-The work is going as planed... I think this will work"

Sakura didnt respond.

-"Sakura-san?"

-"eh? Ah! Sorry Hinata what were you saying?" Said Sakura after getting out of her trance.

-"Nevermind that""What´s wrong?" Asked Hinata concerned.

-"Nothing real..."

-"Sakura-san we are together in this if there is something you must tell us." Said Hinata in a serious tone.

-"I still can´t get used to the serious Hinata" Tought Sakura before responding.

-"Well, im not sure, that´s the reason why i haven´t mentioned it to you... but, i think it´s weird"

-"What is?"

-"Even though we are in the middle of Konoha, we havent seen any villagers in a while"

-"Well, Moegi keeps luring them away from us"

-"Thats true, but there should be some close to us anyway. There´s too many villagers and Moegi can´t lure them all"

-"Maybe she is luring them all" Said Hinata.

-"That would be bad too, she could be overwhelmed in any moment"

-"OK you have succeded in getting me worried now" said Hinata.

-"Im sorry... I just..."

-"Don´t worry about it, but we better go to check on her"

-"yeah"

With that said both grabbed their weapons and went to look for Moegi.

In Iwagakure´s old location

It was in a split second, It could feel its life leaving its body. A cold feeling ran through its back at the same time that a hot one ran through its chest, abdomen and legs until it reached the ground. The blood didnt stop, it tried to stop the flow putting its hands on its neck, but it was futile. It couldn´t move, it could´t scream, It could only watch as its life left its body through the wound on its throat.

Naruto watched as the humanoid demon fell to the ground until stopped moving. The whole thing didnt take more than 3 seconds. Naruto swung his wakizashi to get rid of the blood and put it back to its sheat. He quickly continued his way.

-"Man! I have been running for a while now, but i still dont get there and there´s demons everywhere"

-"Arg!! Stop complaining already! You... Weakling! Are you a shinobi or what!?"

-"Wha... sh... shut up!"

-"What were you expecting? A welcome party?"

-"Of course not!"

-"Well you got one anyway"

-"Eh? What do you m...?

GRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr

Naruto raised his head to see that on the roof of one of the houses one short humanoid demon stood between two tall ones. They were letting out Threatening growls as they watched their prey. That bloodshot eyes were entirely on Naruto. The tall demons were leaning forward while letting their arms hang in front of them. They were about to attack.

-"Just great!" Was all Naruto could think before they threw themselves at him.

But instead of retreating he moved forward with great speed.

-"I have to kill them before they call for help"

He grabbed his wakizashi as he jumped forward.

Three clawed attacks met him, they were almost simultaneous. He ducked the horizontal slash from the tall demon from the left, but he met the vertical slash from the one of the right. Using his inhuman reflexes he avoided a deep wound, but his armor was torn and he got a superficial wound that splashed some of his blood on the face of the demon.

-"Arg!" Its all that he let out in an attemp of not attracting more demons.

But the attack was not over, the short demon had thrown a deep thrust at the same time the other demons attacked. In his current position Naruto couldnt fully evade this attack that was aimed to his head, however he managed to lean his head to the left. The claw grazed his mask destroying part of it.

Small fragments flew in all directions like in slow motion.

Now the mask was missing a piece that covered the right eye so you could see the blue behind it.

It was with a price, but Naruto had succefully made it into the enemy´s defense so he shifted to attack. He unleashed a huge slash to the short demon whose arm was still stretched. A deep wound from the demons left shoulder to its right hip splashed blood everywhere. As the demon fell Naruto unleashed his sword again with a vertical swing to the right. This time he cut the arm of the tall demon that was trying to attack him again, the demon was about to scream...

-"Oh no you wont!"

He quickly turned cutting the demon´s head right at the eyes height. All the skull´s vault and the brain were lost. The first demon hadn´t reached the ground when the second started to fall too.

Naruto put his sword in its sheat and blocked the incoming attack from behind.

-"Uh!?""Something´s weird, I expected a claw not a kick"He thought.

He turned around.

-"OK, thats new. What the hell? The demon´s running away?"

-"Sorry, but i can´t let you"

He jumped on its back and pierced its neck from behind. All move and sound were stopped.

Slowly Naruto stood up doing the traditional "getting rid of the blood" swing and then he put the wakizashi on its sheat again.

He looked at his own handy work. There was blood everywhere. It was like the house and ground were painted. It looked like the fight lasted forever, but in fact it lasted just a couple seconds and this was the result.

-"What this? Butcher mode? Haha... I like your style kid it reminds me of the old me"

-"Shut it! Dont compare me with you" "You murderer"

-"Hhaha... yeah yeah... you looked like a real angel just now"

-"Whatever, I got bigger problems right now. It appears that the security is getting tighter."

-"Which means that you ´re closer"

-"I suppose you re right" Damn!"

-"I must hide better this time, I can´t keep this risky fights all the way until i get there""Hmmm... soon I´ll need new clothes too" He said looking at his torn clothes and armor.

With this said he concealed his presence the best he could and continued his way.

Again from the shadows 2 figures watched silently until Naruto was far enough and then...

-"Holy c...!! Did you see that Masanori-san!! It was awesome! The way he just threw himself and fought those things until they were nothing but lumps of meat and only in a couple of sec...

Quickly a hand covered his mouth.

-"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Silence you idiot! You want those things to find us or worse, you want him to find us!" Said Masanori in a hushed voice as he released the excited Jiro´s mouth

-"Im sorry"

-"And I already told you to stop admiring the enemy!"

-"Haha... right" said Jiro looking embarrased.

When Naruto was far enough they continued their pursuit.

In Konoha

Jumping from roof to roof Sakura and Hinata continued the search for Moegi.

-"Nothing... nothing... nothing!"" We ve been running for 5 minutes and there isnt a sign of Moegi, the villagers or the monsters". Said Sakura with a hint of desperation in her voice.

-"This silence is far from normal" Said a calmer Hinata.

-"Should we split Sakura-san?"

-"Too risky, we already lost sight of Moegi if we get lost or wounded we would be completely alone"

-"Where are you Moegi?

... Please be safe"

Iwagakure´s old location

Finally after what looked like hours Naruto arrived to the other end of the village. In front of him the mountain stood tall.

-"The village is big and with demons patrolling everywhere I can´t around as fast as i would like"

-"But you´re here anyway so stop complaining"

-"Shut it" said Naruto anoyed with the fact that all his comments where criticized.

Naruto realized as he got closer that this place was far from a simple mountain slope. The rock buildings were amazing, but the sight in front of him was complete different. In the place where should be just a thick wall of rock a japanese castle stood. The castle was sculpted in the wall, only a third of the building was outside the rock wall, the rest was inside the mountain. The mountain was huge so in comparison the castle didn´t look that impressive, but when compared with any other building the castle was a great masterpiece many times bigger than any other.

-"This is really impressive, if i wasn´t running for my life i would stay to admire this a little longer"

-"If you weren´t running for your life you wouldn´t be here"

-"I wasn´t talking to you!"

-"Im the only one here"

-"No, actually you aren´t" He said looking trhough the right corner of his eye.

-"You ´re still being followed?"

-"Yeah, i guess the time to deal with them will come soon"

-"The castle will be a good place for that, you need to go in there anyway"

-"I thought the same, better get going then"

Naruto went in using the principal entrance, looking carefully it could be seen that this entrance was basically a hole in the wall, it had 3 meters tall, but was beautifully sculped which give it an air of royalty. Once inside Naruto could see something that probably was a simple cavern long ago, now this was something like an imperial hall, all the walls were polished, there wasn´t even one rough wall. Six stone pillars stood in two columns of three, they were as smooth as the walls. The pillars were placed one after another in the direction where the imperial seat stood. On the walls and pillars different types of cloths were placed, probably as decoration, but the time hadn´t been as benign with the cloths as with the walls. Most were torn and discolored. Despite of one might think this place had a good source of light and once inside most of the hall could be seen. From the hall Naruto could see doors in almost all directions like a clock.

-"Now what? There´s too many doors. Which way F...? His question was interrupted by the sound of steps.

He quickly hid behind a pillar while observing the situation.

There stood a figure that he had seen too many times the last days for his own likings.

-"Demons are patrolling this place too"

-"Just ignore it and go"

-"Which way?"

-"Just go forward, i sense that the place we are looking for is beyond the imperial seat."

-"Probably a hidden passage, i dont see any doors there"

He moved swiftly while avoiding detection, he inspected the wall behind the seat and the seat. His hands found something under the seat. He pressed gently and a "click" could be heard. Behind him the wall showed a dark passage and stairs leading down. There was little light but passage received enough light from the hall so Naruto could at least see the where he was going. As he kept going down the light from above began to decrease, but to his surprise as he kept walking a different type of light illuminated his way. A dim blue light that came from below.

At last the stairs ended and Naruto found himself in front of a corridor and one to each side of him. The place was bethed by the dim blue light. In different places of the wall there were Big crystals pointed up, they looked like they growing in groups. Apparently the crystals reflected the little light that got there. This was the way this place got illuminated.

-"This place just keeps surprising me... shut it Fox! Not a word" He said anticipating the comment of his demonic partner.

-"..."

Choosing the middle corridor he walked all the way until the end. He ignored all the other rooms that where conected to the corridor. AS he went deeper into the mountain he could feel the flow of chakra increasing inside of him. Finally the corridor ended. A thick wooden door separated Naruto of his destination.

He slowly pushed the door, behind it he found a room as big as the main hall. The room had the form of an almost perfect circle. The light source was no different than the previous rooms, multiple crystal adorned the walls, but the most impressive sight were the 7 statues in the shape of people. They all looked like some dignified warriors.

Naruto slid his mask to the top of his head and looked at the figures.

-"I´m guessing those are heroes or maybe Kages from the past"

-"Maybe, but that´s not important"

-"Yeah, but still it make curious... What was the purpouse of this room? Beside the statues there´s nothing else. It´s just a big circular room"

-"You humans are all the same, this kind of rooms are always used to some kind of ceremony. Birth, death, reaching adulthood, achieving some kind of status... in the end it really doesn´t matter... specially in the current times"

-"What´s important right now is if you feel this or not"

Naruto looked at the palm of his own hand, he made a fist and then relaxed his hand a few times and then he closed his eyes. He concentrated on the flow of his chakra.

-"Just feel it... don´t summon any chakra"

-"I know" He answered with closed eyes.

-"This is as far as we can go Kit, this is the place where i get the feeling the stronger. Now tell me what do you feel?"

Naruto opened his eyes-"If I were to put it in percentages I can use 50% of my chakra in this place using my seals."

-"HAHAHahahahahaha... perfect!! It seems that i´ll keep living for a while!"

-"What the hell are you talking Fox!? That is only in this place and it´s not enough to save anyone, besides if I use chakra the demons will find me"

-"Kit, in this place the burden of the seals is greatly lessened and you´re able to use more of your skills, but That´s only the half of the benefits of this place"

-"What do you mean?"

-"Just sit down and listen"

Konoha

A figure stood alone in one of the roofs of Konoha. Panting heavily, sweating profusely, all strenght leaving the body. If a phrase could describe the current state of the figure that would be complete exhaustion.

-"How did I end up like this?" Were Moegi´s thoughts as she tried keep standing. For that simple act she needed the help of her spear that was currently being used as a staff.

Her legs started to fail her, her body got closer to the ground, but then all the noise returned...

-"ARRRgg!! That damn noise again!! Leave me alone!"

The sounds of many steps slowly getting louder, those continous grunts one after the other and then the sound of many bodys awkwardly colliding with the wood of the buildings.

She summoned some of the little strenght she had left and returned to the standing position, she had to leave this roof quickly before the house where she was standing got completely surrounded. She ran to jump to the next building; as soon as she jumped many hands raised under her, she was grabbed with great strenght, as exhausted as she was she couldn´t fight back. She could see herself being dragged down by the crowd of villagers, unable to move, unable to scream, unable to fight dying all alone in that horrible way and then becoming one of them.

Suddenly she felt her legs hit the ground, she was safe. She must have lost conciousness for a second,. She looked behind, the villagers did raise their hands, but she was not grabbed. That was a dream or maybe a vision of her own downfall. It didn´t matter, right now she was alive, but she was not completely safe. The building where she was quickly being surrounded as well. She had to stand again, move again, she had to survive no matter what.

Once again the question appeared in her mind-"How did I end up like this? I didn´t even realize, one minute I was attracting a group of them while avoiding meeting the bull like creature, the next I´m fighting and running of this huge crowd of villagers."

-"I musn´t get distracted! I need to survive!"

She stood again and tried to look for a place where the villagers couldn´t get. Most building were torn after the first attack and weren´t able to resist against the combined weight of the villagers, many of the building Moegi had used to escape had collapsed due to the villagers, the one she just left was no different.

Meanwhile in another part of Konoha

-"It´s been almost half an hour, and we haven´t seen anything beside the bull creature"

-"Sakura-san! Look!" Said Hinata while pointing the sight of interest.

In one end of the village an enormous crowd of villagers was slowly moving in the opposite direction of their current position.

-"Oh my G...! Moegi!"

-"Let´s go Hinata, we must get to the front of that crowd fast if we want to find Moegi"

-"Yes"

With Moegi

She finally reached a roof that looked safe, the house was in decent conditions and there was a wall that separated it from the villagers.

Moegi´s legs had finally failed her. She was sitting on the roof trying to regain her breath. Behind her the wall was keeping the villagers at bay. In front of her a wide deserted street with torn houses at both sides.

Suddenly something catched her attention. On the far end of the street she saw some movement. Something or someone was getting close to her. Her face finally showed some relief when she noticed that Sakura and Hinata had came looking for her.

She raised one hand and called for them-"Sempaaaai! Over here!"

Both figures stopped and looked in her direction.

-"Sakura-san look! There she is!" Said Hinata excited and happy that they found their comrade alive.

-"Thank goodness" said Sakura relieved.

They continued running...

Crack!

-"What was that?" Said Moegi while turning to look behind her.

The villagers were getting more violent and the wall was slowly breaking. Panicking Moegi tried to stand, but her body failed her again.

Crack! The wall would not withstand much more.

She fell from the roof in the direction of the street, she tried to stand, but only managed to get to sitting position while her back was in the direction of the house. She was panting heavily again, but She needed to stand up fast, she needed to get close to Sakura and Hinata.

Suddenly a loud sound filled the air, Sakura´s eyes widened with the sight. The house was collapsing and at least five pair of hands came trhough the front wall of the house. Unable to move Moegi wasn´t able to escape or even react, she didn´t even managed to put a surprised face before the first bite reached her shoulder. Shortly after followed her arms, hips and legs. She screamed in pain with every attack. The house collapsed completely behind her and her attackers.

-"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sakura screamed in panic. They sped up to the max of their capacity to reach her side, even though they already knew that she couldnt be saved.

The attack had just started a few seconds ago, but Moegi´s screams had already died down. Just a couple of seconds later Sakura and Hinata got close to where she was. It was very brief, but as they were getting close Sakura´s eyes met Moegi´s. Her eyes dripping blood and tears showed the determination to not become one of them.

Sakura remembered then...

FLASHBACK

-"Sempai?"

-"Yeah?"

-"I really hate all that is happening... but"

-"Yea, me too... eh? But?" said Sakura surprised

-"But im really grateful that we re all together"

-"Im grateful for that too"

-"Hinata sempai"

-"I know we should be positive about living, but being unrealistic is a bad thing too"

-"What are you saying Moegi?"

-"There´s a high risk of us dying here"

-"Moegi what are you say...'"

-"Im not saying we will die for sure, but there´s one thing that I wouldn´t tolerate even more than death"

-"And that is?"

-"Becoming like one of the villagers"

-"What are you trying to say?"

-"I don´t want to become a beast that kills humans aimlessly, that eats dead meat and that is cursed to wander moved only by hunger"

-"I think that i understand what you re trying to say"

-"Please sempai! Please! If I ever fall prey to them you must kill me without hesitation and if I become one of them you must stop my cursed existence."

Sakura walked to her and hugged her.-"I really hope that day never comes, but if it does I will free you Moegi"

-"You can count on us Moegi and we´ll be counting on you too" Said Hinata.

-"Thank you sempais"

FLASHBACK END

She strenthened her resolve and lifted her metal bar high above her head. The villagers were too busy with Moegi to even realize Sakura and Hinata´s presence.

Sakura swung the metal bar with great force to hit Moegi´s head, while thebar got close to its target Her eyes full of tears met Moegi´s face again a faint smile adorned her face.

-"Good bye Moegi... I´m so sorry I couldn´t protect you"

-"Thank you sempai and please survive for me as well"

At last Moegi´s suffering was ended in a way that she wouldnt become one of the villagers.

Hinata put her hands on her own mouth as she cryed with great pain in her heart.

Sakura fell to her knees desperation, sadness, regret all mixed made this situation almost unbereable.

-"How many more must die, when will this stop!?"

She raised her head only to notice that the villagers hadn´t stopped for even a second their attack on Moegi´s body. A new feeling was added to the mix: Anger, like she never had felt before.

She stood up and grabbed her metal bar firmly.

-"Stop! Stop! Stop it damn it!"

She unleashed fearsome attacks to the villagers, three were cut in half by the waist with the first attack. She got the five villagers away from Moegi and then attacked them without mercy. Their hands exploded, their legs teared apart, their jaws went flying and finally their skulls were crushed. Her screams of rage with every attack could be heard from the distance. Some of her attack made the ground tremble, but she was not satisfied, she kept attacking the remaining of the villagers.

Hinata could not bear to see anymore. She ran and grabbed Sakura from behind.

-"Sakura-san! Sakura-san! Please stop!"

At first Sakura struggled against Hinata´s grip, but she slowly realized what Hinata was trying to do.

She finally calmed down.

-"Hinata, thank you for stopping me"

-"It´s okay Sakura-san, I understand how you feel, but we have attracted too many attention, soon more villagers and even the bull creature might be coming"

-"I dont understand... where did they come from... the house suddenly collapsed and they appeared, but no more villagers came"

-"look Sakura-san, the wall was broken so they passed through there, but then the house collapsed and blocked the way again"

-"You´re so strong Hinata. How can you be so calm" Said Sakura with a sad voice.

-"I...I´m... sob... I´m trying to stay calm Sakura-san, because w...e need to survive not only for us... now... for her too"

-"You´re right"

-"What do... we do with her?"

-"If we take her or bury her they would probably find her and finish what they started. I think we better cremate her."

That´s what they did. They said their farewells to their friend and wished that her next life was a good one and then sent her body back to the earth.

Then they returned to the tower, they weren´t in consition to stay outside or defend themselves against any attacks. In the tower they silently remebered and mourned for Moegi.

Iwagakure´s old location

-"What!? Are you serious Fox!?"

-"Of course, this little seal is tricky, but it holds the key to the survival of your race. With what you have discovered here I´ve confirmed my suspicions"

END OF CHAPTER VI

(A/N) There you have it. Tragedy and maybe hope for the future.

-What is this new seal?

-What will happen to the girls?

Please review!! And tell me if you cried or if my tragedy sucked big time (as long as you dont use any insults is ok) *remember this is my first fic ever, so I need to know in case I ever write another. Thx.

Constructive criticism is welcome.