The lost soul..

Naruto openly stared at the sight, it had to be a trick, some kind of illusion or ninjutsu or something. There was no possible way that he could be seeing this! He moved to stand but a pulsing pain from the seal on his stomach stopped him.

He felt a rush and when he opened his eyes again he found himself standing infront of the Kitsune's cage, a sight that he hadn't seen in many years.

But the sight that greeted him was even more surprising than the view on the outside world.

The doors to the seal were open, albeit slightly but still open none the less. Within the cage Naruto could see a massive pool or lake of red chakra as it glowed fiercely. But he couldn't see the fox…

"Looking for something?"

Naruto turned and took a step back in true, genuine fear as a red fox the size of a very large horse grinned at him before it lunged forward and bit his shoulder.

Naruto closed his eyes, waiting for the pain, but when none came he opened his eyes revealing that the fox was actually clamping down on his shoulder, but not injuring him. The fox chuckled at his expression of wariness before it pulled back and began circling him. "Don't worry fool boy, I cannot harm you…for now at least."

"How are you out of your prison?" Naruto asked the Kitsune, his hand resting on the sword at his side.

The kyuubi smirked, its pearl white fangs glinting evilly. "That would be your doing fool boy…well, you and that girl."

Naruto glared at him. "What have you done?' He snarled as his eyes flashed red.

The legendary demon smirked, "I have decided to take my leave of this dull, boring place and go into my second prison."

"Second prison?' Naruto repeated angrily.

The fox sneered at him, placing his face right infront of the blond. "You did not seriously believe that one lonesome child barely out of his mothers womb could hold my full power back did you? Don't flatter yourself boy! That Yondaime of yours could never hope to design a seal strong enough to have a child survive receiving my near limitless chakra."

"He split your power in two." Naruto said quickly deducing what the Kitsune was getting at.

The foxes smile was almost prideful yet somehow hateful all the same. "That he did, my consciousness, and five tails of my power into you, and four tails into her."

Naruto was quiet for a long moment before he snarled and grabbed the Kitsune by the front of his throat, Kyuubi growled, at this point he couldn't harm his vessel, but the blond could apparently harm him.

The legendary beast could practically feel Naruto's smirk as he spoke in a smug tone. "It matters not you cursed creature. From what I can tell, this part of you is just your consiousness, and that." He said jerking his head to the pool of red chakra still within the cage. "Is still your five tails of power trapped in the seal. I still have all your strength, so go to her. Go to the foolish girl. I'll be glad to rid the world of both of you."

At this the Kyuubi smirked and chuckled the dark foreboding sound still as chilling as ever. "Ahhh, but here lies the Yondaime's one true folly." He paused as he laughed again. "He designed both seals with the intent that nothing would ever change. But one thing will change now, the location of my conscious mind."

Naruto's narrowed eyes could tell he was not going to enjoy this.

"The Yondaime designed your seal with my self preservation instincts in mind. He knew that I would not want to die, and so knew, that I would always do my best to control the damage my chakra did to your body, in order to preserve my own life. However, now that I will no longer be here, your body will experience the full damage the use of my chakra will undoubtedly provide you with."

Naruto narrowed his eyes and then tore out the Kitsune's throat, only to have him burst into red mist and reform a few feet away. "Ohh but Naruto there is so much more to this." It chuckled. "The girls seal is designed differently, she pulls out less chakra than what you would normally do, but the damage is automatically filtered by her seal, but now, with my entering her seal, I can refine the chakra even further, making it do even less damage than what it used to do to you. She will have my power while you…you will experience more pain than what you could ever imagine calling just one tail."

Naruto glowered at the Kitsune, his form shaking in rage as he glared with all the hate he could muster. Kyuubi smirked. "Then, when I use her to kill you, the chakra in this seal will automatically seek me out, entering her, and thus killing her, releasing me from her seal, since it was never meant to bind my spirit. While you're seal is. Therefore this seal...not hers would take me to the afterlife with you. "

"Why did you not o this sooner? You could have easily escaped the seal any time, if this was always the situation."

"Still so very astute." The Kyuubi smirked. "That blasted Sandaime hid her well, so well that not even I could sense her, but when you attacked those Hyuuga you two crossed paths, her close proximity to both you and my chakra, awoke the chakra I had within her, she has been a beacon ever since, I just needed to wait for her rage to get the better of her."

Now then my boy." He gave a mock bow as his form began to fade. "I take my leave of you." He said chuckling at his enraged eyes.

Naruto immediately found himself in the outside world and snarled his eyes practically glowing crimson before he attempted to suppress the foxes chakra only for the burning pain around his seal to intensify nearly ten times over, he realized that the blasted fox did indeed make it easier to control. He grit his teeth and tried as hard as he could to suppress the chakra, barely managing to drop it from two tails to a single tail's worth. He groaned but ignored the pain as best he could, he only had one tail worth of the foxes chakra but felt as if he was getting three tails worth of pain.

He snarled and rolled back his sleeve and saw to his great…displeasure, to put it mildly, that damage was being done faster than what it could be healed. He hissed when his metal gauntlets and facemask began to burn, he removed them quickly, letting them drop with a hiss to the grassy floor where they continued to let out smoke.

He clutched his head in pain, the chakra fought ravenously against the seal. It held strong but the pain was almost unbearable. It felt as if his entire body had been dipped in molten steel. He tried to suppress the chakra again but it fought back with a viciousness he had rarely encountered before with anyone or anything he had faced.

Tsunade landed, and looked to her blond companion in silent shock before she forced herself to snap out of it, she could ask questions later.

She turned back to her opponent, who was now getting to his feet. She rushed him, never once hesitating in her stride.

Naruto turned at the sound of her footsteps, he ignored the intense pain of the Kyuubi's chakra and got to his feet. He blocked her attacks as best he could but the pain was impossible to ignore even for him. Tsunade's assault was relentless but he managed to hold his ground if just barely. Finally he found an opening in her assault and unsheathed his last remaining sword and slashed the woman across the stomach, it began to heal but just then the purple seals that covered her faded and receded back into the diamond on her forehead.

She faltered for a moment and Naruto took the opportunity and formed another Rasengan in his hand, but, with Kyuubi's chakra interfering he couldn't fully complete the last stage and instead slammed an imperfect Rasengan into her stomach. Tsunade skidded back several yards before coming to a stop, numerous lacerations covered her arms, legs, upper torso, all giving a spiral like design around one gaping hole in her stomach. She fell to her knees and coughed up blood. She gritted her teeth and focused her healing chakra.

Naruto moved to attack but suddenly his chakra flared up, the Kyuubi's chakra had sensed the blood and was now fighting against the seal. It spiked to the point where it would have been the equivalent to three tails once more, the haze of red chakra around him was now a massive fog like cloud. A vicious blood curdling roar of pain escaped his throat as he fell to his knees in agony. He looked to his uncovered hand and saw the skin practically falling away, revealing muscle and tissue beneath. The chakra was going to kill him before Tsunade could.

He tried to stand but only succeeded in getting to one knee. Blood seeped from his mouth, eyes and ears, dripping to the floor. He snarled through his teeth and stood as he glared at Tsunade. The woman panted as her healing was finally done and looked into his blood red eyes.

Even now, blood covered and consumed in red chakra as he was she could see the message in his gaze clearly.

'I will not fail! You will not stop me!'

Akina growled as she saw Naruto exchange blows with Tsunade. She rushed forward intent on attacking him as well when a fist hit her right across the jaw knocking her down to the floor, she rolled once and got back to her feet. She snarled at the now one eyed man as he took his stance holding his one good arm infront of him. "Your opponent is me." He spoke with a cold hard gaze.

She snarled before she rushed him, her clawed hands slashing with animalistic fervor. Her attacks were wild and crazed, her speed had nearly quadrupled from what it was and the wild nature of her attacks was making it increasingly difficult to block or dodge.

Finally she over extended herself and the Kiri nin grabbed her wrist before he heaved her over his shoulder and slammed her into the ground, he didn't release his grip and began spinning round and round until he finally released her, tossing her into a tree.

As she stood he saw her eyes flash and a faint glow came from beneath her clothing around her stomach before she extended her claw and the red chakra claw shot out towards him. He was surprised but managed to swerve out of the way in time to avoid it, only to see the claw sink itself into a tree a few yards behind him. It groaned in protest, he snapped his head back to the girl but turned it back to the tree and felt his remaining eye go wide as the tree was now coming towards him. The claw dragging it back. He practically dropped to the floor, narrowly avoiding it as it passed overhead.

He then rolled to the side just as she slammed the tree down where he was like a giant, bushy club.

Inside of her mind her thoughts were slowly shifting, where before her thoughts were of stopping Naruto or Guan from hurting Shizune and Tsunade, now they merely craved for blood. A sinister voice spoke to her, asking her to give in, to feel the warm blood of her enemies flow through her fingers, and feel it as it ran down her throat.

From his new and hopefully temporary residence the Kyuubi smirked. He couldn't give her any more power with the restrictive seal she held but it was enough for now, soon he would weaken the seal enough so she could use all four of the tails she held in her. Then, he would destroy that blasted boy.

He formed his hand seals as best he could with his injured arm, it hurt terribly and only through the use of chakra did he even manage to move it in time, luckily, his finger muscles worked fine, otherwise he would have been in a lot of trouble.

The green clad man exploded from the ground right infront of her. Her eyes widened for a brief moment before she slashed at him with her free claw. Her claws screeched against his chest armor, the heavy plating managing to deflect the blow if only just.

He moved with impressive speeds and before the girl could do much more than scream he stabbed her four times in her upper torso, with one slash across her hip, where her artery was located and another slash to her left arm, no doubt causing nerve damage.

She growled as she fell to her knee's seething as she gritted her teeth. Her blood flowed freely, pooling at her feet before the injuries healed.

She looked let her eyes travel to the man who now stood above her with a kunai raised ready to kill her. She glared defiantly into his remaining eye.

Before he could bring his blade down on her Shizune ran up behind him and locked her arm with his, stopping him cold. Akina's eyes flashed before she delivered an upwards swing with her claws, which this time did cut through the armor and left three long gashes along his chest, they weren't deep but they did hurt.

He then kicked the blond girl in the chest, using her to push back and land ontop Of Shizune. He rolled back, managing to escape her grip and got to his feet before he kicked her in the ribs, sending her skidding across the ground.

He then raised his forearm above his head blocking Akina's downward strike. He then swerved to the right to avoid her follow up before he elbowed her in the stomach.

She stumbled back and sneered before she rushed him again. Her form little more than a blur of red.

Guan took up his fighting stance again but before the girl reached him a blur of white appeared infront of him and nailed her right in the face, knocking her down next to Shizune.

Guan looked and found that it was the man Naruto had called Jiraiya, one of the Sannin he noted. The silver haired Sannin's movements were jerky and uncalculated, meaning that he was still recovering from whatever Tsunade had done to him.

Jiraiya turned to him. 'You deal with Shizune, I'll stop this one." Guan nodded as he eyed the dark haired woman as she stood.

Tsunade grunted in pain as she was thrown harshly against a tree. She couldn't even move before he was upon her, snarling slashing and kicking. She could barely keep up and every now and then some of his attacks would get through, covering her in numerous slashes.

His attacks, before were powerful and refined, a routine he had done numerous times and it showed. But now, now his attacks were almost desperate, wild and untamed, he truly looked like the demon many thought him to be.

Finally, the woman had enough and elbowed the three behind her, knocking it down, and leapt back. She took to the trees, Naruto close behind her. She then leapt down and with a flying kick, tore down another tree which she quickly grabbed and used it as a bat, sending Naruto flying back, over the tree tops.

The Jinchuriki snarled before he extended his right hand snakes came from the sleeve and grabbed one of the overhead branches. He pulled himself back like a slingshot. His left claw reared.

Tsunade sighed in relief but snapped her head up as she heard the breaking of branches and rustling of leaves, just in time to see Naruto explode from the top of the tree's, a trail of red chakra behind him.

She reared back the tree in her hands and threw it to him like a spear only to have the blond extend the snakes in his wrist to pull himself above the tree's path. He ran along the side of the massive projectile before he lunged at her again.

She rolled to the side to avoid a claw swipe. It left three jagged claw marks on the ground in its wake. She moved to kick him but the blond grabbed her leg, he skidded a few inches in the ground but dug his heels in and took the hit. She gaped at him, she didn't even hear his bones crack as they had done with the few other times he had been forced to block her hits.

He snarled before he twisted her leg harshly, and didn't stop until he heard her scream of anger and pain and the snapping of bones.

Tsunade turned and placed her hands on the ground before spinning around completely and kicked the back of the blonds head, sending him tumbling forward. Naruto snarled as he got to his feet.

The slug sannin had already reset the bone back into place and was applying her healing chakra on it when he rushed her again. Tsunade waited for him to get close and stood she used her broken foot and she kicked him in the throat.

The blond coughed and heaved but Tsunade took this chance to get some distance between the two of them.

He snarled and ran after her, ignoring the pain that shot up his legs from his bones and protesting muscles. His chakra flared up again, nearly making him stumble from his perch, but he caught himself and did his best to ignore the pain.

He caught sight of the slug sannin, her leg had apparently broken again. He lunged at her, intending on killing her once and for all so he could concentrate on suppressing this wild chakra.

But, when he had already closed half the distance between them she turned, the sword he had dropped when his chakra had first flared firmly in her hand. He tried to change his trajectory with his wind chakra but again the Kyuubi's chakra, combined with the pain made it near impossible, and he was only able to change his trajectory so that she would run the blade through his right shoulder instead of his heart.

His claws flashed before she felt a searing pain against her abdomen. Her blood seeped through his clawed fingers and down his right arm, she was amazed that he could still use it with a sword through his shoulder, but she did her best to avert her eyes from the sight. She reared her fist back and brought it down on his head, Naruto used his other arm to block and felt his knee's buckle as her monstrous strength made itself known again.

A scream of pain was heard off to the side lines and the two immediately snapped their heads in the direction in time to see the last of the Kyuubi's chakra dissipate from around Akina as Jiraiya held his hand against her stomach, apparently having used a five point seal.

Tsunade cursed as she saw Shizune was loosing her fight with the injured mist nin badly, one of her arms appeared to be broken and she was favoring her right leg.

She reared her leg back and swung with all her might. Naruto tried to put up a defense but her attack broke through with ease and nailed him right in the jaw, sending him flying back.

"SHIZUNE!" Tsunade called as she ran towards them.

The dark haired medic blew out some more poison gas, making Guan back off to avoid it before she ran, both women heading towards their last comrade.

Jiraiya formed his hand seals to form his swamp of the underworld technique. Tsunade, seeing her ex teammates intentions leaned down and picked up a large stone, not even slowing down in her run before she threw it at him. Jiraiya narrowly avoided the attack, but the two second diversion was enough for Tsunade to dive for the girl, placing a hand on her shoulder as Shizune gripped Tsunade's other hand. Tsunade and Jiraiya's eyes met.

She noticed something.

The pervert was holding the last hand seal.

She met his eyes again for the briefest of instants, a silent thank you on her lips before they vanished in a swirl of leaves.

Jiraiya stared at the spot the three females had vanished for a few seconds before he heard another scream, one of rage and pain. He turned and felt his eyes go wide as he saw Naruto on his knee's clutching the seal as red chakra floated all around him. He couldn't see many injuries but the fact that the boy had screamed at all was cause of worry.

Both he and Guan rushed to the boys side. Jiraiya skidded to a halt next to him. "Naruto what's wrong?"

The blond grabbed him by the throat as his eyes flashed red. He looked to the silver haired man, and snarled through the pain. "The seal…cut off…the…chakra!"

Jiraiya, knowing now was time to question the boy pushed him onto his back, cut open his shirt and formed his hand seals. "Gogyo Fuin!" He yelled slamming his seal over the existing one. Immediately the red chakra receded and Naruto visibly relaxed. His entire body was covered in second and third degree burns.

Guan was the one who spoke up. "That chakra the girl used is similar to yours, what happened?"

Naruto stood ignoring the pain and spoke. "I will explain later but first Jiraiya…I need you to fix my seal. Guan, gather a team, I want those three found. You have two days." He spoke before he straightened and began making his way back to the village. Promising that the next time he met the Slug sannin or the girl that traveled with her he would take great pleasure in removing their heads from their shoulders.