Child of Kyuubi

Chapter 6

Rage and Despair

"What is with everyone trying to kill my host? Can't they give him a break!" the Kyuubi yelled, reaching up with his arms and pushing Kisame away from him with one harsh shove, sending the blue-skinned man flying across the ramen stand into the opposite wall. The Kyuubi walked away from the wall, looking down and inspecting Naruto's fingernails, now as sharp as a fox's claw. "I mean really, is it just pick-on-Naruto day every single day of the year or does he just have rotten luck? Seriously! Do you know how many times my host has almost died? Seven! And that's just in the last three years! It's ridiculous! When is it enough, when he's dead?" As the Kyuubi spoke his last word, he looked up, glaring at Kisame with such hatred in his eyes that if looks could kill, Kisame would have been six feet under three times over, as if he was brought back to life and killed over and over again by the Mangankyuu Shaaringan.

The Konoha ninja's looked at Naruto in fear. They'd known Naruto was Kyuubi's host, and they'd all seen him channel the red chakkra at one point or another, but they'd never seen the Kyuubi take over completely as he had just done.

"Um, Naruto, are you okay?" Sakura asked, carefully walking towards her blonde-haired friend and teammate.

The blonde boy tilted his head to the side. "I am not Naruto, that's my host. I'm Sera, better known as Kyuubi." He then turned to Itachi and Kisame. "You two get out of here before you regret it." The two missing-nin instantly fled the ramen stand. As soon as they were out of sight, Sera turned back to his host's friends. "Now, please take me to Tsunade, I need to speak with her."

"Um, alright, follow me," Sakura said cautiously, heading towards the center of the village and the Hokage's office.

"What the hell was that?" Kiba asked after Sakura and Sera left Ichiraku's Ramen stand.

Shikamaru shrugged. "The Kyuubi took over," he sighed as he looked around the restaurant for somewhere to sit. Seeing that the tables and chairs were all flipped over and scattered across the floor, he sighed, sitting down on the floor and gazing at the ceiling in boredom.

The other nine Konoha ninjas and three Sand ninjas looked at their genius friend in shock. Shino smiled behind his large sweatshirt, unseen by the rest of the group. "Speaking the obvious much?" he asked quietly.

Shikamaru looked up. "And?"

"And nothing," the bug controller shrugged.

Ino looked over at Tenten. "Ooh, aren't they so cute?" she squealed at her friend. "I never would have thought those two would get together, but they're so adorable!"

"I know!" Tenten replied, holding her hands together in front of her and shaking her upper body back and forth in excitement. Shikamaru ignored the two girls, still gazing at the ceiling, while Shino blushed behind his jacket. Kiba, on the other hand, looked at the two girls as if they were crazy.

"What do you mean, they're cute? Who's 'they?' Does cute mean they're a couple? Who's dating who? I'm so confused! Why do girls never use names when they talk about people?" he ranted half to himself and half to Ino and Tenten.

Neji smirked. "Don't blame the girls for your own inadequacies, if you were paying attention and had any amount of common sense it was easy to figure out what they were talking about."

Kiba growled angrily. "Hey, I don't have any e….e…in….inadi…." the dog lover struggled over Neji's 'hard vocabulary' word, "I'm not stupid!" he finished quickly, trying to save face in front of his fellow ninjas.

"You just proved my point," the branch family member of the Hyuuga clan said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, yeah? What point is that?" Kiba demanded.

Sasuke sighed. "This is such a waste of time," he muttered to himself, turning around and walking towards the ramen shop's exit.

"Hey, where are you going?" Neji demanded.

"To find Naruto."

"Then I'm coming, as well."

The Uchiha boy sighed once more, this time in anger rather than annoyance. "But I don't want you to!" he replied as he continued his way out the door, Neji following behind him.

"Well, I don't care if you want me to or not, Naruto's mine not yours!" Neji replied, that being the last thing of the conversation the rest of the group could hear before the two walked out of hearing range.

"You mean… Neji's fighting Sasuke over Naruto for himself?" Hinata asked slowly. Ino sighed, planting her hands on her hips and looking at the shy girl with raised eyebrows.

"You seriously didn't notice?" she asked in shock. "We were all laughing it before the Akatsuki attacked! What are you, daft? You seriously think Neji would fight Sasuke for you? Neji isn't that kind! TenTen, you know Neji well, being his teammate, would he fight for anyone but himself in this type of situation?" the blonde turned to the older girl for backup.

TenTen snorted in a very un-lady like manner. "Neji, try to get someone else a boyfriend? No way! He's too selfish for that!" Hinata stared at the older girl, stunned for several minutes before racing out of Ichiraku's in tears.

"AH, POOR HINATA-CHAN! HER FLAMES OF YOUTH ARE DYING!" Lee shouted in horror.

Sakura blinked at her boyfriend in surprise. "Lee, didn't you leave to run around the village one thousand times just twenty minutes ago?" she asked in confusion, not able to remember when he'd shown back up in the ramen shop.

"YEP!" Lee responded with a grin, "but I came back when I heard the villagers freaking out about Akatsuki attacking the ramen shop. I HAD TO PROTECT MY DARLING SAKURA-CHAN!" Sakura blushed in embarrassment as the other girl's in the group began laughing. Well, all except for Kiba, who was gazing out the ramen shop, worried about his teammate, who'd clearly left the ramen shop in despair not a minute before.

I'm so sorry it's been so long since I've updated! Life has been really crazy lately with my mom getting sick and then my computer's hard drive crashing, and then the new one crashing not even a week after I got it. My computer's been in the shop more than in my house lately! Thank you for the reviews I got even over a year after my last chapter, they were MUCH appreciated! Hopefully I can update again soon!