EIYUU NO DEMONSBANE

CHAPTER 1: A HERO'S AFTERMATH

NOTE: The next twisted story from my warped imagination... sorry I just HAD to get the first chapter out and i'm not going to prioritize this over my other ones yet, thats for when I finish my fic The Blood Angel

Title meaning; Hero of the DemonsBane

There was a young man in a village that had been completely destroyed. He had nothing, nothing to protect, nowhere to go. Everything was buried under debris.

The Young man had noticed a girl that had been buried alive. He moved the debris, without regard for himself, without complaining of his skinned fingers and torn nails. But after sving the child, he realized that the mother was buried alive also.

The young man moved the debris again without regard for himself. Despite his torn nails, he grabbed a fork and dug at the ground.

With each person saved another in need appeared. The young man continued to move the debris, again and again, without regard for himself.

Covered in dust, dirt and blood, he forced himself to go on.

The young man had nothing... there was no reason for him to go that far, but he could hear it, the groaning coming from under the debris. lost children seeking their parents. the sound simply would not leave his ears

People saw the figure, unselfishly pushing himself... as a hero. When people try to pull themselves from darkness and despair they become Heroes.

They can fight with a broken weapon or a bent fork in their hands...

This is only an allegory, an unreliable fairy tale, yet right now stands the young man, having lost everything he cared for, torn by his inability to protect them. Yet he continues to fight, yes... a hero stands here.

Even a twisted curse may become a sword to sever darkness... DemonsBane...

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The dark clouds in the sky churned and twirled, as thunder cracked and lightning ripped through the sky

Rain began to fall on three travelers, one older then the other two shorter travelers, all wearing black rain cloaks

"AAahhh great... it's raining" one of the shorter travelers said, his voice filled with irritation

"Calm down Konohamaru" the shorter member next to him said, she was a girl

"Hey Naruto when are we gonna get there?" Konohamaru asked the elder fgure

"We'll be at the town in a few minutes, just be patient" a much older Naruto said calmly "we can see the lights in the distance"

"Sooo... Hanabi you wanna go grab something to eat with me when we get there?" Konohamaru asked the girl to his right

"If you're paying" she chuckled

"Well the guy is supposed to pay" Konohamaru blushed scratching the back of his head

"you mean I'll end up paying" Naruto innterupted

"what do you mean?" he asked

"Konohamaru, you don't have a penny to your name, so you'd just ask me for the money... right?" Naruto asked

Konohamaru's face sank "I hate it when your right about these kind of things"

Hanabi began to giggle "So sensei any new things your gonna teach us soon?" she asked

"Maybe... maybe not" Naruto chuckled

"Whats that supposed to mean?" Hanabi pouted

"Don't worry... I have something in mind...you got to remember I'm not officially your sensei" Naruto said "you guy's just kind of started calling me that and picking up from my corrections on your skills"

"Isn't that a sensei's job though?" Konohamaru asked

"Yeah... and besides... you're the only one we have left" Hanabi said

Naruto kind of nodded "true"

Soon they were passing into the small town

"So do we grab some food first?" Konohamaru asked

"Yeah... I think I see a ramen shop" Hanabi said

Naruto's head whipped from side to side "where!?" he exclaimed

"In front of us to the right at the end of the street" she said

Naruto slapped his hands together rubbing them as he icked his lips "I haven't had ramen in a month" he said before dashing at the shop

"Sensei!" Hanabi said "Wait for us!" she yelled as they both chased after

Naruto sat down at the shop and planted ryo on the counter "Give me two if your biggest bowls of miso pork flavor" he said

"Coming right up" the cook said taking the money as Hanabi and Konhamaru ran up and sat down on the stools

"Don't run off without us" Hanabi said

"Sorry" Naruto said, putting more money on the counter "get them what ever they ask" Naruto said

The cook turned to them "what can I get you two?" he asked as they took off their hoods

"I'll have a medium miso pork" Konohamaru said

"I'll have a medium shrimp flaor pease and thank you" Hanabi said

"coming up" the cook said going back to cooking the ramen

After the cook made their orders in lightning speed, to their joy, they ate their bowls gone

"Now we need to find an inn or something to stay in" Konohamaru said

"Yeah... I don't want to sleep in the rain" Hanabi said

"Don't worry" Naruto said. He turned to the cook "you know a place like that we could stay for the night?" he asked

"Yeah, just down around the corner and down the next sstreet there's a hotel you can stay at... it's pretty cheap" the cook instructed

"thanks" They all said getting up and walking out of the shop

They walked around the corner and Naruto saw an alcohol store to the left "hold on" Naruto said walking in side the store...

"Aaahhh crap" Konohamaru said

"I know" Hanabi said

Naruto walked back out of the shop holding a bottle of sake, which he oepens and and chugged a couple of times "aahhh"

"Sensei.. .you really shouldn't do that" Hanabi said

"Hey there's nothing wrong with a drink every now and then... I haven't had any in a few months" Naruto said

"that's not it... when you're drunk... doesn't it increase the chances of him coming out?" Hanabi asked

"true... I'll keep it under control" Naruto said looking at his right arm before pulling the cloak up, revealing he had bandages wrappead around his arm from his wrist to his shoulder, he pulled the cloak sleep back down and covered the bandages "well let's find that hotel" he said taking another small swig of sake

Down the road a little, as Naruto walked ahead of Konohamaru and Hanabi, it was as if they were trying to stay back from him a little. As they walked past an alleyway, arms reached out of it and grabbed Hanabi, covering her mouth and pulling her in as she let out a muffled scream

Konohamaru and Naruto whipped around and saw her legs vanish in the alley way

"Hanabi-chan!" konohamaru yelled running into the alleyway Naruto right behind him

They saw a man holding Hanabi and running down the alley with her "Let me go!" she yelled before wiggling her arm free and she slammed a palm into his shoulder, knocking him off balance and sending a jolt of pain through his body, so he stumbled to the ground and dropped her

Hanabi got up and kicked the guy in the side "Fucking pervert!" she yelled

"hheeeyaaaa" konohamaru yelled as the man got on all fours, just to land on his back, smashing him to the ground "Take that, jackass" Konohamaru said

"G-g-guy's... a little help!" the man yelled, and four more guys ran around the corner into the alley way right where the guy was on the ground, they pulled out long knives and ran at Konohamaru and Hanabi

Feet from them, Naruto appeared in front of them between the men and his 'students'

Next thhing to happen was a huge blast of wind sending the men out of the alleyway and into a building wall

Naruto walked out of the alley and up to the men "You wanna leave yet?" he asked

"you... punk" one of the men said struggling to his feet, along with the others

one of them ran at Naruto with his knife but Naruto side stepped him and kneed him in the gut before elbowing him in the face knocking him unconscious, as a trail of blood flew through the air from his broken nose

Naruto took a swig of his sake before the other guy's ran at him

He dropped down and sweep kicked all of their leg's sending them to the ground, front flipping and landing with his legs on two of them and then he kicked the third in the gut sending him to the side unconscious

The man Konohamaru was standing on pushed himself up suddenly, and send konohamaru face first into the brick wall, knocking him for a loop

"Konohamaru!" Hanabi said, just before the man grabbed her and used her as a shield, putting a blade to her throat, drawing tiny trickles of blood, facing Naruto

"Make one wrong move and I'll paint the alley with her blood" the man said "Get off my boy's" the man instructed and Naruto slowly stepped off their backs

Konohamaru in his daze tried getting up and braced himself on the wall, he looked back down the alleyway, in the direction they came from, and saw a person in the shadow's silently walking up behind them

Konohmaaru shook his head and looked at the blurry figure "I can't be" he said to himself, rubbing his eyes as the figure walked past him. His jaw dropped

"Now put the bottle down" the man instructed

Naruto placed the bottle calmly on the ground, just as one of the guy's he jumped on got, up readying his knife

"Now Toku, kill hi-" the man was cut off when a loud thud was heard, and blood trickled from his lips. He dropped his knife from Hanabi's throat and dropped down to the ground

"Boss?!" the man behind Naruto said in shock and confusion, just before Naruto elbowed him in the face grabbed his head and flipped him over his shoulders slamming his back first on the ground

Naruto looked up in confusion at the shadow behind Hanabi

Hanabi slowly turned around and looked up, seeing the persons face... her eye's widened and her jaw went agape "You're... alive... you're really alive?" she asked before fainting right then and there

Naruto walked up and the shadows of the alleyway couldn't hind the figure's face anymore, in the alleyway, not five feet from Naruto stood a person that he thought had died years ago

"Hinata!" Naruto exclaimed

"Naruto?! Is that you?!" she asked before a blush crossed her face, thankfully the darkness hid it, she then looked down at the girl on the ground and puled her hood off "Hanabi!?" she said "you're alive!"

"Hinata.. how did you survive?" Naruto asked

"we'll talk about it when we get these two somewhere they can sleep" Hinata said

konohamaru got up and waked aroiund Hinata getting on his knee's next to Hanabi "is she okay?" he asked

"yeah... she just fainted after seeing her sister" Naruto said

"good" Konohamaru sighed with relief

--

Soon they had gotten the unconscious Hanabi to the hotel, and laid her into one of the beds

Naruto walked up behind Hinata and put his hand on her shoulder "Can we talk?" he asked

"Yeah... of course... there's a story to tell" Hinata nodded getting up, they walked to the door and Naruto turned to konohamaru "you watch Hanabi, lover boy" he said

Konohamaru blushed furiously "I'm not in love with her" he scoffed

Hinata giggled and Naruto just chuckled shaking his head as they walked out

they head down stairs to the bar, and sat down at the counter

"So... Hinata how did you survive, not only the attack on Konoha, but the infection too?" Naruto asked

"Well I was never exposed to the decease that became an epidemic, it wasn't transmitted through the air, but by contact, and by the time more then half the villages population was infected, Akatsuki decided it was time to attack Konoha" hinata said with a depressed tone, looking down "I encountered a memeber of Akatsuki and lost horribly to him, but I didn't die and got away"

"Which one did you encounter?" Naruto asked as he signaled the bar tender for two cups of sake

"The one with the mask" Hinata said "I don't know why but he creeps me out"

"Tobi... I don't think we ever killed him" Naruto said

"How many members are left of Akatsuki?" Hinata asked

"Well me and Sakura finished of Zetsu, during the attack on the village... but it was because of him that Sakura got infected!" Naruto said slamming his fist on the counter

"you break it, you buy it buddy" the bartender said handing him the sake cups and a bottle

"sorry" Naruto said pouring a cup for each of them then drinking his down quickly before pouring another one

"What did he do?" Hinata asked

"He used a plant to knock her into a quarantined and sealed building... the people-no demons in there got to her" Naruto's eye's Narrowed with hatred and tears fell down his cheeks "I tried to help her but he used his plants to bind me... I eventually blacked out and woke up standing above his dead battered and bloodied corpse"

"I'm sorry" Hinata said looking down "I wanted to know how YOU of all people survived Naruto-kun... you're infected... aren't you?" she asked solemnly

Naruto winced and put his left hand over his right arm where the bandages were under his cloak's sleeve "Yeah... I have the curse... it was me who brought it to konoha... it was me that Akatsuki attacked the village for. It was ALL MY FAULT!" Naruto said tears pouring down his cheeks as he dug his nails into the counter

Hinata reached her hand out to touch him but stopped "Naruto-kun... it's not your fault" she said

"Tsunade's theory is that The Nine tailed foxes chakra is suppressing the DemonsBane, keeping it from taking me over as fast as it did the others" Naruto said

"DemonsBane... a demonic curse" Hinata said

"it's a curse, but it works out like an infection, it spreads through the body and from the point of entry changing the very DNA in a person's body, attacking the blood cells altering them into a demons... the symptoms include a second personality taking over from time to time increasing in appearances as the DemonsBane progresses. Next is increased chakra, stamina, heightened senses. the next is the external appearance of the DemonsBane and all it's black gooey goodness, around the wound or point of entry, with openings to chakra pathways in side your body, those are the Banes. a person can have from one to three was the most recorded before the village was destroyed" Naruto explained "But in the finally stage's of transformation I've seen them with up to five banes indicating they have massive power"

"How many Banes do you have?" she asked

"Three... but using the power is the temptation to speed up the process of mutating your body... I only use them if I absolutely need too"

"The temptation to use their new powers was what turned most of them completely demon right?" Hinata asked

"yep..." Naruto said taking some swigs from the sake bottle "couldn't resist using them... thus speeding up the process... I'll admit... it's difficult to resist the temtation" he said "they could harness multiple elements they couldn't before, along with psychokinesis-like fields of energy, and even use the DemonsBane goo to craft weapons"

"it all started when that one bastards who was infected came to the village and mindless attacked people" Naruto growled, before taking another swig and putting it down

"how did you end up with Konohamaru and Hanabi?"

"They were two of the few survivors I pulled out of debris" Naruto said "I found so many people but just after i saved them most of them died from their injuries... I had to watch most of my friends mutate and change into Demons before my eyes... I swear if it's the last thing I do I'll find a cure for this god damn DemonsBane... even if it means sacrificing myself, my sanity and my humanity"

"If that's your goal I'll help you... our firend's are still alive... we just have to cure them... right?" Hinata said

"Yeah... but not even Tsunade could figure it out, she's still working on it... if the village wasn't an abandoned dump of death and plague she could use it's reseach, but she has to work with whats left of suna's research"

"The DemonsBanes has spread to multiple countries and towns, this place seems safe from it" Hinata said

"Yeah... the Rain Country has yet to be hit by the plague" Naruto said, before taking one more swig, and then exhaling and shakign his head "uh oh" he said

"Whats 'uh oh'? I don't like 'uh oh's'..." Hinata said

Naruto shook his head again and rubbed his eye's "not good"

"Naruto-kun?"

Naruto covered his eye's and leaned forward a little in his chair, his right arm started to shake a little

"Naruto-kun??"

Naruto stopped shaking and pulled his hands down from his face he then turned to Hinata

She saw something instantly that wasn't right, his irises turned yellow "N-Naruto...?"

Naruto looked her up and down "Well Heeeellllooo sexy" he said before instantly standing up, pulling her out of her chair, and leaning her back as if he was dancing with her "Where the hell have you been all my life pretty lady?" Naruto asked in a different tone then normal

"N-N-Naruto-k-k-ku-" Hinata fainted in his arms

"aaahhh playing hard to get huh?" Naruto said "I like that"

Konohamaru and Hanabi came down the stairs to the first floor and saw Naruto and Hinata

Naruto turned to them "Hey... it's pecker-heads one and two, hows it going?" he asked

They both sighed "he's back" Hanabi said "and he's hitting on my sister..."

"Hey I'd date your sister" Konohamaru shrugged, he then turned to Hanabi to see fire in her eyes and a devils grin, with a blush "You'd WHAT?!" she yelled

"If I was older is all I'm saying!" Konohamaru backed up into the corner

"that's not the point BAKA!" Hanabi yelled angrily

"Hey take it out side or leave" the bar keep said

"sorry" Hanabi said calming down

"Hey pip-squeeks, help me carry her to a bed or something before I shove my foot up your asses" Naruto said

"Alright" they sighed

--

After carrying Hinata back to their room and putting her in the bed her eyes began to flutter open

"N-Naruto-kun" she said in a daze

"So you ARE alive" Naruto said

"what-what happened to you?" Hinata asked

"Nothing, never felt better" He grinned "So you wanna kick the punks out and have a little fun?" He winked

"What?"

"you know, bump uglies, explicit wrestling, a lovers tumble?" Naruto said

Hinata's eyes went back and she fainted again

"oooo she's shy... I like shy ones"

Hanabi had a scowl on her face "I hate this guy" she grumbled

"I don't know... he can be funny some times" Konohmaru said

"Just shut up, Baka"

TO BE CONTINUED...

Don't think I wont work on this because of what I said in the begining, I will. It's just other stories have priority over this one. hope you enjoyed and will return sometime for more of this fics development, or any one of my others

-Later