Case 0 : The demon fox

The Grim Reapers-
Case 0 : The demon fox
Part: 1/3
Title: Itachi, Sasuke, Naruto, Kyubi
Subtitle: The two of them are having a hell lot of fun...
Author: Dacara
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: None (now)
Rating: T
Genre: Supernatural, Comedy
Warning: AU, Cursing, Blood, Insanity, Itachi (because he so does need his own warning!)
Additional notes: This is the last chapter! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Meaning that I DO NOT OWN Naruto (the series). After all if I was the owner of Naruto I would be a) Japanese b) filthy rich c) way too lazy to write fanfiction, and most importantly: d) Naruto itself would be so yaoi that you won't need fanfiction anymore... so are you happy that I'm not its owner?
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Beta: Ruraine Light
Naruto had been running like a madman for a while now. When he got bored of just running down the corridor he jumped onto the walls and tried to run on them for as long as possible. After some time he realized that if he bounced from one side of the corridor to the other, like he had accidentally done earlier, he would not have to touch the floor at all. Even later on he found out that those claws he now had (Naruto didn't even know when he’d gotten them) weren't just for show. He could cling onto the stones with them and climb walls effortlessly. The fact that he could cut practically everything with them was also a plus.
The boy knew that the light was getting brighter as he moved down the path. Also he saw, while bouncing off of the walls, that the corridor space between them was getting bigger. He jumped onto the floor and ran at top speed.
After a while the corridor ended suddenly. It opened into a huge cave-like room, with a ceiling so high it disappeared into the darkness. On the opposite site there were bars. Big wooden bars with a small piece of paper in the very middle of it all. There were few signs on it but Naruto wasn't able to tell what they meant. To him they looked like some strange doodles.
The blond had some problems with stopping and even when he clawed at the floor, leaving long nail marks, he still skidded further on. Finally, he managed to stop right before the bars. The boy had some problems with standing straight after all that time on all four, but when he eventually did, he had to drop to his knees once again and jump swiftly backwards to avoid razor-sharp claws that abruptly moved from within the darkness behind the bars.
When The Demon realized He had missed, He said (but it was more akin to a growl):
"NOW BRAT, COME HERE, SO I CAN EAT YOU."
*.*
"What the hell do you mean, 'the boy will die?!'"
To say that Jiraya was pissed off would be the understatement of the century. There were only two people in the whole universe who could be more terrifying than him when mad: one was his wife, the other one, a brown-haired teacher.... Well, in short, to say that hell had been unleashed would be damned near close to the truth.
The white haired man was seething, and that was never quite a good thing. The fact that he was currently holding Itachi by the collar of his shirt, about half a meter above the wooden floor was also saying something.
And it was nothing good.
Both Uchiha were, to say the least, a bit surprised. Taking Jiraya for a normal elderly, if not a little perverted (Jiraya: not a little, not a little!!!), guy, proved to be rather inaccurate...
Or maybe, totally wrong.
"Now, now... and 'what' are you?" Itachi asked, curious; seemingly unfazed by his awkward position. His face expression didn't flicker in change when Jiraya hurled him across the hall. Unworried, Sasuke helpfully moved aside, dodging his aniki. Reacting quickly, Itachi extended a hand just before impact to push himself away from the wall, on which he had been supposed to slam against with his full weight, and landed easily on the floor.
Sasuke opened his mouth to comment on the whole scene, seeing that older Uchiha was busy nonchalantly brushing off invisible dust from his shirt, but this action was cut off when all of sudden a loud crash came from upstairs. Jiraya paled terribly and whispered:
"Tsunade..."
He jumped for the stairs. Running after the white-haired man, the Uchiha went down the corridor and stopped short of the second door on the left, expecting... well, anything but the scene that now greeted them.
*.*
"What do you mean, 'Eat you'?" Naruto asked. He was sitting a safe distance from the bars and the fox behind them.
He could see the demon clearly now. When the surprise attack didn't do the trick the Beast had showed itself. It was huge: a monstrous body with paws able to destroy houses, jaws that could cut him in half, and nine seemingly separate and individual tails trashing wildly behind it.
"WHAT PART OF THE SENTENCE DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND, BRAT?" The demon drawled, his voice dripping with sarcasm. He would never admit it, but after eons of being sealed within a stupid statue, it was somewhat enjoyable to be talking with another intelligent being, even if it was only a human kid.
"You can't eat me!" The blond boy argued while playing tic tac toe with his claws on the floor. He didn't quite know what happened, where he was or what that fox, so similar in looks to his plushie, was… but he did know that he didn't want to be eaten.
That would hurt.
"AND WHY IS THAT?" Kyuubi asked, sneering as only demon foxes can. The brat was funny.
Naruto pouted and was about to answer when a splitting pain shot behind his eyes. He screamed and covered them with his palms in a vain attempt to relieve the pain. Unfortunately, if that was even possible, the agony he could feel trashing in his head increased steadily in intensity. He fell to his knees, still screaming at the top of his lungs.
*~*
Kyuubi watched him with interest.
"WHAT’S HAPPENING, GAKI?" the Demon asked calmly; but on the inside he was secretly a bit worried- something was happening to his host’s body and he couldn't afford to lose it. He had waited too long before finally finding a human with stamina on a necessary level to survive the unsealing, to now lose this one because of some shit that that stupid demon was doing with the boy’s body.
As a matter of fact, Kyuubi was surprised that such a young human could contain that high amount of power; every cell within the child’s body was practically humming with energy.
*~*
The pain stopped just as suddenly as it had started. After remaining motionless for a while, as if afraid that the agony would return, Naruto stood tremulously up. His hands fell limp at his sides, palms covered in the same blood that dripped from his eyes like some kind of morbid tears. He blinked once; twice.
The blond couldn't quite put his finger on it, but something had changed with his eyesight again. It was even better than before, that much was obvious; but there was something else... as if his perception of color had changed a little. The most intense colors were black and white, others in different shades of Grey. The edges of the bars and other objects were sharper and had a strange shine to them... (What was that word... he knew it before, his parent used it while talking about pictures... mono… ‘monochromic’! Yes, monochromic.)
It was a strange feeling to see the world in monochromic color...
*~*
What Naruto couldn't figure out, Kyuubi realized from the moment he saw the boy's eyes.
He knew. And he didn't like it at all.
It seemed that the brat was more than what met the eye. He was dangerous, even to The Demon. He seemed too strong to have been with The Fox for so long; his power was supposed to be drained even by the mere presence of Kyuubi. That's why it hadn’t mattered if he was eaten by the demon or simply sat outside the bars, because then he would be drained gradually, up until he ceased to exist.
But he was way too strong...
Suddenly The Fox sensed that it was missing something very important, something crucial. But he wasn't feeling too well now... couldn't concentrate, felt rather weak...
A troubling thought then occurred to the Demon, and if possible, he paled. Kyuubi quickly checked his energy level and what he felt made him freeze. Over half of his power was already gone and the rest was being drained far too quickly for him to do anything about it. It had to have started slowly, absorbing only small amounts of the Fox’s power, making the draining untraceable, before slowly speeding up, until now- when he found out. All he could do at this stage was slow the process down a little.
'NOW, BRAT, COME HERE SO I CAN EAT YOU,' Kyuubi, the nine tailed fox, the strongest of demons, thought ironically, remembering his own words, as he watched the blond boy with the crimson demon eyes before him. The boy who was unintentionally draining him from his power- the boy who was eating him alive.
*.*
"Now, ain't that interesting..." Itachi said as he watched the blond haired woman who was holding down, what seemed to be a young boy. Well... at the very least a body run by a stupid demon, but still.
The boy was trashing wildly on the floor in intense pain, but his body seemed unaffected- there were no wounds or even cuts on his skin.
"It seems that we missed some fun." Sasuke drawled as he eyed the room. By the look of it the demon hadn’t admitted defeat until the very end. Almost all the furniture in the bedroom was broken or smashed to pieces, curtains were cut to ribbons, and the wooden floor had claws marks all over its surface.
The younger Uchiha ignored the glare Jiraya shot him for his comment.
He took a few steps forward and stopped directly in front of the woman and her captive. The teen knelt and harshly grabbed the boy's chin, tilting it upwards so he could see his eyes. And what he saw wasn't really what he had expected to see.

*.*
"Ne, mister Fox, are you alright?" Naruto asked the silent demon.
He thought that Kyuubi was strange- first he’d wanted to eat him (...Eeew...), then he was laughing and now he was slumping in the cage and looking ill. Maybe he was sick? Tsunade-baachan would know what to do- she always does- not like Ero-senin, he was just a stupid pervert.
............ Things were boring....
still boring....
Booooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnng........
Boring.
Booooo..
"GAKI..." Finally!
"Yes!" The boy answered ignoring the nickname.
"YOU HAVE TO HELP ME." The demon stood up. His tails still danced behind him but they had already lost most of their liveliness. His eyes were dim and empty. The red light that lit the room was disappearing quickly- the corners of the room were already hidden in the darkness which was creeping steadily towards the cage.
"Help you? What do I have to do?" Naruto jumped around wildly, happy that something was finally happening.
"I'LL TEACH YOU SOMETHING. JUST REPEAT AFTER ME... " came Kyuubi’s voice as he started to teach Naruto the Resealing jutsu.
*.*
"What exactly are you people?"
"...we're cursed."
*.*
"..AnD afteR I do tHat..." Naruto was sitting crossleged just outside the cage. He wasn't afraid anymore- he felt strong, as if he could do anything. And as a matter of fact, after draining so much energy from Kyuubi, he probably could.
"...I'M GOiNG TO bE BEtTER..." The Demon ended boy's sentence. He was too weak to even stand; instead he lay with his head on his front paws.
He was positively surprised at the speed with which Naruto had learned the jutsu. The boy had talent; no one could argue with that one. And he was incredibly lucky, since he didn't have any more time.
"And AfteR yOu fEel beTteR..I caN gO baCK?" The blond asked, while sketching on the stones with his claws.
"Yes, YoU Can." The Fox answered weakly and closed his eyes.
Naruto finished marking the floor and stood up. Now let's see if he got everything right...
*.*
"So, let me get this straight... you're telling us that your grandson is powerful enough to fight off the demon?" Sasuke still had problems with believing that part of the story.
"Oh, for Christ’s sake, how many times do I have to repeat myself?!" Tsunade wasn't a patient woman and this situation proved to be extremely stressful. "He has two curses upon himself! Since his father was a normal human being we thought that the curses had clashed together and disappeared. But it seems that they skipped one generation and mixed together in the next one. And, by the look of it, its power multiplied by a few times," she explained. "And since Kyuubi’s soul has entered Naruto’s body, the Fox also is now under the curse, which is eating up his power...," Itachi continued the explanation; "...and sending it into the host’s soul." Sasuke ended, and after a moment of thinking, he added: "What a mess."
And barely dodged Tsunade’s fist.

The older Uchiha ignored them as he pondered for a while, before he spoke:
"So, why do you need us?" That made everybody freeze, only Naruto’s body still trashed on the floor, where he was bound by a jutsu.
Itachi looked directly at the older pair. "If he's draining the demons power and when he finishes there will be no Kyuubi left, so what's the problem?"
Tsunade snarled.
"There will be no Kyuubi left?" And what, do you think, will happen with all the power that Naruto's devouring? It will not disappear, I assure you," she said looking at the small restless form on the floor, a sad expression upon her face;" Do you know what power like that could do to him? It could easily destroy not only his body… his soul could join with that of the demon, turning him into a monster..."
Her eyes hardened when they locked with Itachi’s." That is why we need you. We're not powerful enough to remove even the weakened Kyuubi and his power from Naruto. We need you, so our grandchild will remain the child we know, and not some beast. I beg you." And as she said that, she bowed.
At the same time, Naruto finished his resealing jutsu.
They were all too late.
Epilogue
2 weeks later
"Ne, ne, Tsunade-baachan~, do I really have to go with them?" the blond boy wailed as he watched Jiraya carry his suitcases to Itachi’s car.
'YES, YOU DO.' Someone within his head responded.
"Yes, you do." She answered while packing his things to another bag.
'Shut up, I didn't ask you'
"But why?" he pouted jumping onto the bed and trying to take out his stuff from the half-full bag on it, so that he could return it to its rightful place- his wardrobe.
'WATCH OUT.'
"You know well why," she said and smacked him hard onto his head as he was about ask, why he had to be careful.
'Too late, baka Kyu.' he complained.
'TOO SLOW, GAKI' came the reply.
"...are you talking to him now?" Tsunade asked after observing him as he made faces while glaring at the plain white bedroom wall.
'YES'
'She can’t hear you!'
"Yes, he just won’t shut up!" Naruto said and ignored the mental snarl he received from the Fox.
The blond haired woman rolled her eyes, sighed and returned to packing.
"I swear I don't know which one of you is worse," she mumbled under her nose, talking to herself, but the boy still heard her thanks to his superhuman hearing.

"Hey, you're not supposed to say that! He's more childish that I am!"
'HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE'
'You're not human'
'SO WHAT?'
'So that'
'AND WHO’S CHILDISH?'
'...shut up'
'HNN... NICE COMEBACK GAKI'
'Baka kitsune!'
'BAKA KIT'
'I told you to stop calling me that!'
'AND SINCE WHEN DO I TAKE ANY ORDERS FROM YOU?'
"May I interrupt your conversation with yourself Naruto?" Jiraya asked, returned again to collect the last bag. He threw it over his shoulder, and, grabbing his grandson’s shirt with the other hand, proceeded to drag him downstairs. Tsunade watched from a side, shaking her head in disapproval as Naruto did his best to escape.
"I don't want to go!"
'AND WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?'
'I don't know! Just do something now!'
'...'
'...did you just go to sleep?! Kyu, don't leave me, Kyu!!!'
*~*
Itachi and Sasuke stood in front of the older Uchihas’ car and waited patiently as Jiraya dragged the loud blond out.
"Who would have thought it would end like that.." Itachi mused out loud as Naruto clawed disastrously at the frame of the front door and refused to let go.
"Do we really have to take him with us?" Sasuke face scrunched in distaste as he heard the sound of breaking wood, when the house before them lost part of its doors.
" We can't really expect them to take care of the boy when he is not only double-cursed but also has a homicidal demon inside him, now, do we?... Plus this is Kyuubi no Kitsune... he can have some information about what we're looking for."
Older raven opened his car doors as Jiraya came close enough to shove Naruto inside, and quickly closed them afterward, trapping the boy.
Both brothers nodded shortly and moved the front seats after bidding the married couple goodbye and promising that yes, they will come by as often as conditions allowed. After that they drove off, taking Naruto with them.

*~*

'NOW...THIS COULD BE MUCH WORSE'
'How exactly"
'...I DON'T KNOW YET, ASK ME LATER'
'...Baka Kyu..."
'THERE ARE AT LEAST GOOD SIDES OF THIS SITUATION'
'Like what?'
'WE CAN MAKE THEM HATE EVERY SECOND OF THEIR LIVES FROM NOW ON'
'...you're evil'
'EVIL INDEED'
'But this could be fun... yeah, fun'
'AND WHO’S THE EVIL ONE?'
'...we're evenly matched...'
'EVENLY INDEED...'
3/3
END

a/n: Yup, that's all folks! I was thinking about making it a series of ghost supernatural or scary stories but for now on I'll leave it like this. Great thx for all the great reviews, they really make my day, you know. See you soon,
Dacara