Naruto: Fourth Hokage

Naruto also started talking a little more with Hinata much to the shy Hyuuga's heiress's surprise. He found being around her a bit more relaxing and calm. Naruto saw how Hinata blushed and stuttered often and was clueless as to why. Like in Sasuke case though, Naruto felt he could also relate to Hinata in that she also didn't like how people considered her or anyone else of any worth just because of whom she was related to or what bloodline limit she who born with.

(Two Days Later)

Late that evening, Naruto was training by himself in a training field outside the village. It was one of the training grounds Jiraiya would regularly take him to teach him there. Occasionally Naruto would train by himself till it was late, and sometimes return home only to be scolded by Tsunade for coming home pass curfew. He'd usually mumble something along the lines about how does it make since for a shinobi to be given a nighttime curfew if they're expected to handle serious missions during late hours. In any case, Naruto was working out some steam after being told off by Iruka for falling asleep in class again.

"Iruka-baka," Naruto snorted still feeling irritated, "As if I'm the only one who falls asleep his class. There's that other kid…what's his name…Shikamaru, who constantly gets bored in class and falls asleep as well. And yet I get yelled whenever I fall asleep!"

Of course, there were other factors that frustrated Naruto. The fact that his right arm would start hurting a lot out of nowhere whether he was sleeping or awake, which has been the case for several months with no satisfying answers to fix the problem added to it. Alongside the fact that on several occasions during the passing months he'd have realistic nightmares of Kyuubi. These factors were also among the reasons for his pranks and intense solo training; it was to distract him from his problems and frustration, and relieve him of his stress, even if only temporarily.

After another tens minutes, Naruto called it a night and decided to head back home. On his way, though his right arm started hurting again, this a whole lot more than usual. The pain was excruciating as he cried out loudly from the pain with tears falling from his eyes. It was as though his arm was on fire, literally. He pulled his fingerless gloves off and that was when a burst of chakra came from his arm, from the elbow down to his fingers. The thing about it was that the chakra wasn't blue; it was red! Adding to the pain was the fact that Naruto felt burning sensations on his masked cheeks as if someone slashed both sides of his face with a 3-clawed gauntlet that was on fire. He pulled his mask down in hopes that the cool breeze would help to calm the pain a little, but it was to no success as three jagged designed whisker marks appeared on both sides of his face.

Naruto screamed louder as the power of the red chakra intensified to higher levels till his arms grew heavier and heavier before a quarter-sized circular tear appeared on his palm with some blood now pouring out from it. Unable to hold up his unnaturally loaded arm, Naruto's bleeding hand slammed down to the ground, causing the red chakra to flow into and through the ground away from him into the opening in front of him. Moments later, a glowing seal of some sort appeared on the ground and a mighty burst of white smoke appeared from where that seal was, covering the scene in front of Naruto, giving off a killer intent filled with unparallel bloodlust.

When the smoke cleared, Naruto's eyes widened in shear fright and terror at what he was beholding before him. It was the very same nine-tailed monster he's been seeing repeatedly in his nightmares.

You're…Kyuu…Kyuubi…," Naruto barely voiced. Indeed, it was the fearsome Kyuubi No Yoko, wagging all nine of his large tails in all their glory. The massive beast, seeing Naruto, leaned in closer to him until they were face to face. Detecting a scent similar to that of Yondaime Hokage radiating off Naruto, the great fox narrowed his red eyes venomously as he looked upon the frightened child whose right was still flared with red chakra. With his deep and inhuman voice, Kyuubi said, "I want to devour you kid…"

(Back At Konoha)

Everyone in the village felt that mighty killer intent, one they haven't felt since the death of Yondaime Hokage. The younger generation, this consisting of Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino, the Hyuuga children and all the others were frightened by the unparallel monstrous bloodlust but didn't know what was powerful enough to generate such a dreaded feeling. All of the dogs at the Inuzuka clan were cowering in fear while the bugs were Aburame clan were in a dreaded frenzy.

(Elsewhere)

Tsunade and Shizune felt that killer intent and they ran outside their house to see where it was coming from. It was no surprise that everyone fearfully stopped whatever it was they were doing upon feeling that killer intent. After sensing where the intense bloodlust was coming from, a look of terror and fear for the worst filled Tsunade's face when a realization struck her.

"NARUTO!," Tsunade screamed as she ran as fast as she could towards where Naruto was. Shizune followed closed by as a number of Jounins and all of the ANBU, and Sandaime himself ran as fast as they could to the direction Naruto and Kyuubi were.

(Ten Minutes Later)

Tsunade, Sandaime, Shizune, Kakashi and all the other Jounins and ANBU were making their way to the scene, with the killer intent becoming stronger and fiercer the closer they got. When they almost arrived on the scene, they suddenly saw a burst of unearthly white smoke bathe the entire area, followed by a very thunderous beastly roar. After several minutes of chaos everything was now serene and calm, and the monstrous killer intent was gone, as if nothing had happened at all.

"Is it over," a confused Shizune asked. Not bothering saying anything, Tsunade hurried to the location only find her son Naruto laying motionlessly facedown on his the ground unconscious, almost as if he was dead.

"NARUTO!," Tsunade screamed again as she and the others ran to Naruto. Reaching him first, Tsunade knelt and pulled Naruto to her. Upon seeing his arm, she noticed that his right arm suffered from severe abnormal charka burns. What she also noticed what an unfamiliar seal that was on his right palm, which was glowing and weakly flashing in a bluish glow. The seal looked like a circle that had within it something resembling a circulatory blood system with a symbol of similar to the spiral in the center of the seal. Around the outside portion of the seal were nine star spirals. It glowed momentarily before both it and the seal vanished into his palm and completely out of sight.

Turning her attention away from that for now, she looked down at his face and saw that some blood was coming out of his month, along with jagged designed-looking facial whiskers, which vanished off his face as though they were never there. She froze at the sight of his blood coming from his mouth, recalling what happened to Kawaki and Dan.

Shizune, recalling Tsunade's hemophobia, went over to aid Tsunade and her kid 'brother.' In spite of her fear of blood though, Tsunade snapped out of her trance and tried desperately to heal him enough to stimulate a pulse, not wanting to lose another precious person in her life again. It would devastate her to no end should she lose Naruto, Sandaime and Shizune thought.

"Don't you dare die on me Naruto!," cried Tsunade as some tears fell from her eyes and down her face, "You hear me Naruto?! Don't you dare die on me! I already lost one too many important people in my life and I'm not about to lose you!"

Sandaime and the others watched as Tsunade did what she could to heal and help her son. After a few moments, a pulse was detected. Though it was weak but it was enough to make it clear that Naruto was still alive. They wasted no time in bringing Naruto back to the hospital for further medical treatment. If anything, everyone wondered if it was Kyuubi that caused all this and if so, why did it take off before they arrived on the scene and left Naruto alive. Things just weren't making any sense.

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