Naruto: One More Step
Fic response to Naruto CH 438
Title: One More Step
Author: Scrolls
Rating: G
Fandom/Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Don't own, Just like to play with
Notes: This popped into my head after reading the latest chapter of Naruto.
Summary: It was time to finish.
One More Step
“Come on boy, keep walking, your body’s done and dying, might as well finish this.”
And a part of Naruto had to admit that the fox was right, he could feel it, the last cells of his body clinging to life within his own chakra while the ones outside burned away.
The fatalistic part had always known-perhaps not consciously, but known all the same-that this would happen, that one day he would delve into the depths of the fox’s power and not be able to come back.
“Yeah, I guess it is time to finish this.”
Step.
The Seventh tail formed as Yamato arrived, knowing that he was too late to stop what was to come.
Step.
The Eight tail formed and even Pain’s true body was flung back as muscle joined bone and a river of black followed in Naruto’s paw-prints.
Step.
The Ninth, tendons and ligaments, fur and voice. The Kyuubi was reborn. And the Rookie Nine as well as Guy’s students now understood what their elders had faced.
Naruto stopped and looked before him-well, looked was really a misnomer, he couldn’t really see anything, hear anything except the distant echoes of the battle, fell anything but the waves of power. But he could tell, that there was one more step in front of him, one more and it would truly be done with.
Around him he could feel the tattered remains of the seal, both the original and the additional ones placed by Jiraiya and Yamato. And...And something else, something beyond-reaching out he brushed it lightly, tasted it, and then began to smile in such a way that if he were standing amongst his friends they would be running for the hills.
One more step huh, y’know he’d always had this weird feeling things were incomplete.
“Guess its time to close the circle.”
One more step.
Everything stopped, the Kyuubi, frozen in it’s tracks a look of total shock on its face. Even Pain had to give the moment his attention.
“NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!” The Kyuubi’s howl of outrage and fear echoed onto every astral plate and rocked the corporeal one. The the thing about it that made certain ears truly pay attention was that it faded to a pups whine. And in its place, growing slowly but just as strong as the howl, was laughter, joyous, incredulous, insane, victorious laughter.
“Yondy you fraggin’ GENIUS!”
Purpleish-black chakra swirled around the fox, caging, wrapping, compressing him. And then, as the Kyuubi’s last howl faded and the laughter took it’s place the chakra-gave way was the only way to describe it, gave way to nine tails that unfurled sun-gold fur with sky blue eyes and a vulpine expression of pure joy and total mischief.
And hanging from its jaws was a small ball of fire-orange fur.
And now Killer Bee wants a scene, oi vay.
Title: One More Step
Author: Scrolls
Rating: G
Fandom/Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Don't own, Just like to play with
Notes: This popped into my head after reading the latest chapter of Naruto.
Summary: It was time to finish.
One More Step
“Come on boy, keep walking, your body’s done and dying, might as well finish this.”
And a part of Naruto had to admit that the fox was right, he could feel it, the last cells of his body clinging to life within his own chakra while the ones outside burned away.
The fatalistic part had always known-perhaps not consciously, but known all the same-that this would happen, that one day he would delve into the depths of the fox’s power and not be able to come back.
“Yeah, I guess it is time to finish this.”
Step.
The Seventh tail formed as Yamato arrived, knowing that he was too late to stop what was to come.
Step.
The Eight tail formed and even Pain’s true body was flung back as muscle joined bone and a river of black followed in Naruto’s paw-prints.
Step.
The Ninth, tendons and ligaments, fur and voice. The Kyuubi was reborn. And the Rookie Nine as well as Guy’s students now understood what their elders had faced.
Naruto stopped and looked before him-well, looked was really a misnomer, he couldn’t really see anything, hear anything except the distant echoes of the battle, fell anything but the waves of power. But he could tell, that there was one more step in front of him, one more and it would truly be done with.
Around him he could feel the tattered remains of the seal, both the original and the additional ones placed by Jiraiya and Yamato. And...And something else, something beyond-reaching out he brushed it lightly, tasted it, and then began to smile in such a way that if he were standing amongst his friends they would be running for the hills.
One more step huh, y’know he’d always had this weird feeling things were incomplete.
“Guess its time to close the circle.”
One more step.
Everything stopped, the Kyuubi, frozen in it’s tracks a look of total shock on its face. Even Pain had to give the moment his attention.
“NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!” The Kyuubi’s howl of outrage and fear echoed onto every astral plate and rocked the corporeal one. The the thing about it that made certain ears truly pay attention was that it faded to a pups whine. And in its place, growing slowly but just as strong as the howl, was laughter, joyous, incredulous, insane, victorious laughter.
“Yondy you fraggin’ GENIUS!”
Purpleish-black chakra swirled around the fox, caging, wrapping, compressing him. And then, as the Kyuubi’s last howl faded and the laughter took it’s place the chakra-gave way was the only way to describe it, gave way to nine tails that unfurled sun-gold fur with sky blue eyes and a vulpine expression of pure joy and total mischief.
And hanging from its jaws was a small ball of fire-orange fur.
And now Killer Bee wants a scene, oi vay.