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And then she was gone.

Naruto cursed, "Shit."

And he was gone too leaving behind Kakashi whom honestly didn't know what to make of the situation his former student found himself in.

As the Blood Falls

She moved faster than Naruto because she was smaller. It didn't matter how much chakra that Naruto put into his feet she would only increase hers as well and still be ahead of him. Kagome's fingers twitched with the needs to fight and kill and eliminate while Danzou's voice replayed over and over in her head. She wasn't allowed to feel pain. Pain has to be turned into bloodlust. It was the only way to stay alive – the only way to keep moving. As a kunoichi if she gave into the pain then that was it – she would be clouded by it and she would die.

This wasn't a physical pain though and she didn't know how to deal with it.

She wasn't being attacked.

No one was trying to kill her.

Yet still she felt like she was dying.

So she ran until Naruto was a far off memory and the rain clung to her and caressed her and overtook her with its chill. Cerulean hues wild Kagome didn't stop moving. Like an animal trapped in a cage too small, she ran. She needed blood. She needed to see it. She needed to feel it. She needed to smell it in the air. Lips pursed Kagome stopped in the middle of an empty street and breathed in. The lust was overtaking her and filling her.

It was a feeling she was familiar with and this feeling she could handle. Her eyes fluttered close and she allowed her senses to reach around her – feeling, wanting, tasting – the energy in the air, searching for something living. Her answer came to her through her blood induced haze as a small ball rolled into her leg. The Uchiha opened her eyes and they were no longer blue but rather a demonic crimson with three tomoe around the pupil. She looked down at the ball and up at the small feet that entered her line of sight.

The child could have been no older than five and there were several others not far off playing in the rain, their jacket's slick with mud. The little girl gave her a gapped tooth grin and in a voice that was saccharine sweet and grated on her already frayed nerves, she spoke, "Do you want to play with us?"

Reflexively she gripped a kunai in her hand and held it loosely at her side as she looked at the small child, Danzou's voice echoing and whispering and telling her to do what she wanted to be done. Kagome was gone – far too gone for reason and far too gone for help. She was beyond everything and all and she desperately wanted to kill this child more than anything in the world. So she bent down to eye level with the little girl and with a smile that was more cruel then kind Kagome nodded her head and stated simply, "Sure."

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Naruto was growing more and more worried as time ticked by and he continued to run in the direction Kagome had taken off into. His stomach was twisting in knots and he was beginning to have a sense foreboding overtake him. He licked his lips as rain continued to pelt him and he moved with a speed that was almost uncommon to shinobi. Kagome had looked absolutely murderous when she disappeared and it unsettled something inside him. His lips pursed Naruto looked in every direction – fearing that the Uchiha would do something that she just wasn't supposed to do. Breathing heavy Naruto stopped and took several deep breaths.

He honestly didn't think she would hurt anyone in Konoha, after all this was her home as much as it was his but she had looked so frightening for one so young and seemingly so innocent. Looking around he shook his head and was about to leap onto another building when the screams filled the air. He stopped what he was doing immediately, heart dropping in his chest as he turned toward them. They were high pitched squeals indicating young children and then abruptly as they began they stopped and Naruto moved toward them.

Please, please, please don't have done something stupid, he silently prayed thinking of Kagome. The sight he came upon would haunt his subconscious forever. Kagome stood in the middle of the playground, kunai in hand, and splattered with blood. Her gaze was turned upward, her hair falling into her eyes and flying behind her like an ebony curtain. At her feet huddled a frightened child also covered in blood, clinging to Kagome's leg. There was a visible tremble in the kunoichi's body as her eyes opened revealing a familiar crimson to his gaze. Other children huddled behind Kagome and a few feet away lay a dog, bloody, and dead.

Kagome ran a hand through her hair as she took a deep breath and gently nudged the child away from her, her hand brushing through the little girl's wet bangs, and gazing into her horrified eyes, "You're okay." Kagome murmured, "Go back with other children and go home. You shouldn't play in the rain." The little girl nodded and ran off to the other children and soon they scattered in pairs and trios, running in different directions.

The moment the little girl disappeared Kagome collapsed on her knees and Naruto stood immobile as the Uchiha crawled and laughter bubbled from her throat. Rain washed away the blood on her flesh but it remained splattered on her clothing. Kagome continued to crawl to the body of the dog as the sit throat continued to bleed and she stopped beside it. Her laughter did not subside and his horror turned to disgust as she buried her fingers into the slit made by her kunai. More blood spilled and her laughter echoed around her.

The laughter broke off into sobs as she began to stab the kunai into the dead animal over and over again. There was a madness in her crimson eyes that shook Naruto to the core and not in a bad way because at the core of Naruto lay a dormant kitsune with his own brand of madness and maybe – just maybe… that shook Naruto more.

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Naruto walked into his apartment, Kagome held bridal style in his arms. She was quiet as a mouse and did not stir despite the fact her cerulean hues were open and wide and staring at nothing. He almost tripped over the bags in his doorway and silently thanked Kakashi for bringing Kagome's clothing that he had left behind in his fit of worry. The moment he walked into the apartment he shuddered as cold air enveloped him and his rain soaked body. Naruto sat her on the kitchen table and Kagome allowed a half smile onto her lips as she fell back onto the table top. She lay there for a moment and covered her eyes with her hands as her shoulders shook and trembled and began to giggle.

The kyuubi vessel leaned against the counter top and watched her with a dry mouth wondering why she laughed so hollowly. His answer came to him when the laughter stopped and she spoke in a voice that was partially amused and partially euphoric, "And you want to help me… you poor boy. You have no idea what kind shit you're up against." She removed her hands from her eyes and tilted her head to the side as she pushed herself into a seated position.

Naruto cleared his throat and shook his head, wet, blond locks falling into his eyes over his hitai-ate, "I don't – you're right Kagome. I honestly have no fucking clue what I'm up against here. I'm out of my depth but dammit I'm going to try!" he growled angrily. "I can't do this though if you're against my helping you! If you don't want help then I'll send you back to Tsunade and let them impregnate you! I'll let them kill you." He spoke, voice cracking under the force of his anger and sadness. When he spoke next his voice was oddly subdued, "I need your help to make you better."

Kagome watched Naruto with a detached acceptance, reading the lie in the way he set his shoulders easily. He would force his help on her regardless. He wouldn't back down. Not Naruto. He failed an Uchiha once before – he wouldn't fail her; pride and honor would not allow it. After watching his chest move up and down with his harsh breathing Kagome finally spoke, "I almost killed those children. I like children – and I almost killed them." There was blankness in her cerulean hues that had Naruto almost flinch. "I went with that child with every intention of killing her because the need for blood rose swifter than I had anticipated. Hearing that… Iatchi was dead made me feel pain…" she touched her heart, a look of confusion lacing her features. "…and I do not understand it – this pain. I know that when pain is evoked then I need to turn the pain into bloodlust to remove my enemies, but there were no enemies. There was no one around to kill. Had that stray mad-stricken dog not come across us at that moment – my kunai would have been buried in that little girls throat when you appeared."

Naruto looked up at her and frowned, "You need to control these impulses, Kagome."

The Uchiha met his eyes and returned his look, "I can't get better, Naruto. You can't fix me."

Rubbing the back of his neck Naruto informed her softly, "I can try."

Speaking just as soft Kagome pushed herself off of the table top and pressed her body against his, whispering in his ear, "And if you fail, Naruto? What then?"

The kistune vessel looked down at her and in that moment a feral animal rose in the place of the humanity that lingered in his eyes, "I will fight for you."

She lay her hands on his clothing soaked chest and inquired, "Against?"

"Everyone."

And Kagome heard the conviction in his words and she believed him.

He would fight for her because she was Sasuke's sister – because she was a monster and monsters?

Well – monsters flocked together like two birds of the same feather.

Kagome swallowed thickly and for once in her blood soaked, pain filled life felt something… odd.

She looked up the blond and narrowed her eyes at him in confusion, "I'll make you a deal. I do not want you dying because of a lost cause. I want you dying because I killed you. I will go along with this experiment of yours – I will help you to help me. If you fail though, Naruto – if you fail to bring me from the edge then I want to be the one to take your life. You die by my hands and my hands only."

Naruto, seeing that this was his chance, nodded as the animal disappeared back into its cage and a smile bloomed onto his features as he quickly agreed, "Deal."

This was a deal he did not plan on loosing – so much more than his life was at stake.

Kagome's and her future were too.

Before failure meant Kagome would be impregnated and killed – and he just couldn't allow that; he would have fought tooth and nail for that.

Now failure meant Kagome would kill him and she would still be impregnated and killed but he would be dead and unable to help her.

Failure was not an option.

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Naruto watched as Kagome came out of the shower covered in a small pair of shorts and a large shirt while she toweled her hair dry. She was calmer then he had ever seen her before and the trembling threat of madness had faded from her eyes. She walked forward and took a seat on the bed beside him. He sat legs crossed with his back being pressed against the headboard. Kagome mirrored his position and tossed the towel to the floor as she waited beside him.

Naruto cleared his throat and began to speak, "So – my apartment is your apartment. Do you understand that? It's small but it's yours and if you want we can use the rest of the money to buy you some things you like."

Kagome glanced at him through the corner of her eyes as she inquired, "Things?"

"You know – girl stuff." Naruto grumbled and Kagome shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know. What stuff qualifies as 'girl stuff'?"

Naruto sighed and ran his hands through hair quickly in frustration, "I don't know! I'm a guy!" Kagome gave him a look that clearly stated, 'and you expect me to know why?'. Sighing he grumbled, "We'll go shopping again tomorrow." Grabbing his notes from the library he looked at Kagome and stated, "It's important that we establish this as 'home' to you."

Kagome frowned and spoke slowly as though unsure of the words she was about to say, "Home is… foreign to me."

Naruto nodded and looked away, "I've lived alone my whole life so I guess we can understand the word 'home' together." The Uchiha nodded her head and bid Naruto to continue. He scratched a whiskered cheek as he looked back down at his papers. "You also need to realize that no matter what I'll be by you every step of the way but we have to have rules. You have to try and help me. You need to curb your negative impulses."

She looked at him with a frown and leaned forward, "Impulses are just that – impulses. A moment of split decision and quick action. Controlling them won't be easy."

"We'll find a way. You're thirteen – you shouldn't be having sex, trying to kill people at random, trying to inflict pain at random, etc. Those things cannot continue. It's sick and twisted." He grumbled to her and Kagome arched a brow at him curiously before a smile bloomed onto her features. She crawled toward him and Naruto stopped flipping through pages of notes. Sky blue orbs narrowed and Naruto's cheeks bloomed with a crimson blush, "No."

Kagome could only watch in slow burning sadistic pleasure as the male shifted uncomfortable and she settled herself closer beside him, her small hands caressing well corded arms, "Do we really have to get rid of the attempts at seducing you?" she pouted almost petulantly. She nipped at the underside of his jaw and Naruto carefully pushed her away.

"Yes, Kagome! It's important! You can't keep leaping at me! Or anyon else!" he growled. Kagome licked her lips and gave him a look that clearly stated that it was one thing that wasn't going to change. "Anyway – I'm going to introduce you to some team mates tomorrow and you're going to apologize to Sakura."

Cerulean hues narrowed while she scowled, "To the pink haired female?"

"Yes. You have no manners!"

Kagome's scowl deepened, "You don't have any either!"

Naruto huffed and looked away, "But I don't have a problem!"

"You have kyuubi inside you – you have a problem."

"Rude brat."

"Prickly bastard."

Naruto almost smiled because when she pouted and brooded the way she did, she looked almost exactly like Sasuke and there was no doubt Naruto missed his rival turned friend turned traitor.

"Come on, Kagome." Kagome turned to Naruto as he hopped off the bed and offered his hand to her. She took it tentatively and he pulled from the bed.

She gave him a displeased glance, "What are we doing?"

Naruto pointed to the bags by the door and grinned looking very much like the kitsune that inhabited his body, "Establishing normalcy in your life." Kagome tilted her head to the side blinked large cerulean hues at the male in front of her. Naruto watched the action and tentatively lifted his hand to pat the top of her head. She allowed the action and Naruto's own blue hues softened. "We can do this, Kagome and once you're better we'll bring Sasuke's ass back together."

Kagome merely allowed the male to believe what he wanted, neither agreeing or disagreeing even though she honestly didn't give a shit either way.

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When night fell Naruto and Kagome returned to the small bed, Kagome facing Naruto's back while he slept. She contemplated killing him again that night if only to prove to the world she couldn't be saved. It was a disorder, yes but not necessarily incurable. It really all depended on her – did she want to be fixed?

Did she want to fall to the standards of society that her brothers had banished from themselves when they became missing-nin? Did she have it in her to care about other people? She remembered the child and the children she had wanted to kill just to stop the pain and feel something else and she closed her eyes. She actually liked children. She thought they held an innocence and purity that she herself had never possessed and she was fiercely protective of the younger ones if only because that she wanted to protect what she could never be and she almost destroyed that light.

She almost tore it apart just see the street run red.

He heart seized within her chest like it had done much earlier and she clutched it with a furious hand, her body lightly convulsing in the bed. She hunched into a little ball while a choked sound left her throat. The movement and sounds quickly woke Naruto who turned to look at her and the horror in her eyes when she murmured, "I-It hurts again."

Naruto's hand over-lapped hers and his voice was soothing rumbled when he spoke, which was odd considering she thought him a loud ass most of the time, "It's called pain, Kagome…"

"I don't like it." She cursed quietly, "Make it stop."

Naruto shook his head, "I don't know what you were thinking about Kagome but you can't make it stop. You have to ride this pain out. Pain is a human emotion meant to be exoerienced despite how much it sucks."

Kagome looked up at him with empty orbs that quickly filled with crimson, "If I make people bleed it stops."

The kyuubi vessel touched her head and soothed back her bangs, "Deal with it, Kagome. Remember impulses. Stop them! What were you thinking about?"

Kagome closed her eyes and growled, "The children. The children I almost killed."

"And the first time?" he demanded. "Why did you freak the first time?"

Kagome blinked quickly, Sharigan swirling to life in her eyes, "Ita-nii. Ita-nii is dead."

Naruto's eyes were hard when queried, "And did you care about the children? Care about your brother? You don't care, remember?"

Kagome shook her head and she whispered, "I don't care!"

"But you feel pain when you think about killing the children? Feel pain when you remember Itachi being dead?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" she growled as she felt that odd moisture in her eyes again.

Naruto leaned over and harshly yet softly snapped, "Then deal with it!"

Kagome fought against his grip on her hands as she attempted to push him, "It hurts!" she screamed as she pushed and scratched at him. Naruto adjusted himself and straddled her waist quickly, holding her arms above her head. "Get off me!"

"Kagome! You said you would help me! You're not helping me!"

Kagome thrashed against him and glared as continued to scream and curse his name until her vision began to tunnel and finally fade.

Turn the pain into blood.

Feel nothing.

You are nothing.

Care for nothing.

Love no one.

You are a soldier.

You eat, breath, live, die a soldier's life.

Turn the pain into blood.

Turn the pain into blood.

Turn the pain into blood.

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Waking up was hell and Naruto felt like his head was splitting open into so many different directions that he was sure he was dying. He groaned loudly as the scent of iron burned his nose. He attempted to open his eyes but his body was not having that as it screamed against the intrusion of light against his eyes. There was an odd taste in his mouth he was curiously warm. Cursing as the shinobi rubbed his eyes and blinked against the light he slowly began to come to and register what exactly was wrong with him.

He felt like he had a crazy night with Jiraiya which just wasn't possible.

The sannin was God knew where.

Aching muscles protested as he pushed himself into a seated position.

After a few moments of struggle Naruto gathered his bearings and opened his eyes completely giving a mental cheer as the dots faded from his vision.

The moment he took in surroundings his stomach protested and he fought the urge to vomit.

He was in his apartment but blood littered the walls, the floor, the bed – everything.

In the middle of the destruction lay Kagome, naked, and looking very much like a contented kitten.

Naruto was equally nude and sitting right beside her.

To his horror blood, dry and flaking, covered his flesh.

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'Gome Yuki:: Dun dun DUN! :3 Oh yeaaah~ so they have a deaaaal. Naruto thought it would be easy. Soooo not easy. I love this story. Not gonna lie. Cruel Kagome rocks my socks. I may bring in Sasuke next time. Maybe. Leave me reviews, yus? Love you guys! I'm kind of curious to see what you guys think happened!