Kyuubi bared her teeth at him, "Do not give me any lip you damn brat! You are so lucky that I'm inside of you right now! Without me you would be dead!"
However Naruto had no intention of letting this woman walk all over him, "Without you I might not even be in this situation now would I?"
Naruto once again found himself pressed to wall as Kyuubi glared at him, "Shut up! I'll admit that maybe some of this was my fault! Maybe had I found some way to counter that man's…" she stopped herself before moving onto a different venue, "Had I not been forced to attack Konoha none of this would have happened. But it did happen, and it's not as if I wanted to attack your pathetic excuse for a village, or be sealed inside of you! But I did attack Konoha, and I am sealed inside of you!"
Her glared intensified as she saw Naruto looking at her with an uninterested look, "The past does not change the fact that your damn recklessness nearly got us killed! And if you do not stop this foolish act I am going to make you regret it!"
"You can't threaten me Kyuubi," Naruto stated, "we both know that your power here is not what it would be outside thanks to the seals…don't try and…ack!"
He was cut off as Kyuubi used her impressive strength to slam him into the wall, causing the entire room to shake. Now that her youki had managed to fully restore itself Kyuubi let it loose and Naruto paled, realizing that her power was now far beyond what he had felt before. The amount of power she was releasing was enough that Naruto did not even think of how he might be able to contain it.
"You ungrateful little monkey!" Kyuubi roared as she reared a back a fist covered in red youki.
Naruto closed his eyes as he waited for the strike to hit him, had he not been frightened out of his wits he might have realized that she could not do much to him for fear of killing herself. However right now none of that was on his mind as he waited for Kyuubi's fist to pulverize him…
Thus, when several minutes had passed and his head was not a bloody smear on the wall, he became curious and opened his eyes. The half demon blinked in surprise a few times as he saw Kyuubi's fist still reared back, her other hand still around his throat. However his greatest surprise was when his eyes landed on Kyuubi's face. Tears of frustration were trailing out of them, falling down her cheeks and she seemed to be having some kind of great internal struggle with herself.
After several more minutes she dropped Naruto, letting him fall on his ass. Looking up the blond saw Kyuubi take several steps back before she too sank to the ground and her body began to shake uncontrollably.
After several seconds Naruto began to tentatively move towards the redhead, wondering what was going on with her. As he closed the distance he was surprised to see teardrops falling onto the floor, and heard the small chocked sobs that were coming from the woman.
"Kyuubi?" he asked, only to gape when Kyuubi looked up and he saw her eyes, now getting slightly puffy. They were not the same eyes he had usually seen on the vindictive and arrogant woman, eyes that spoke of great arrogance and had a teasing, sadistic and vicious quality all mixed up in one. No these eyes were confused, depressed and made her look incredibly vulnerable.
He opened his mouth to speak but Kyuubi beat him to it, "Why can't I hate you?"
"…What?" asked Naruto in confusion.
"I should hate you. Everything you stand for is my anti-thesis; that damned selflessness of yours. You're the person I was sealed into and that damned kindness of yours almost got me killed," Kyuubi looked at him and her face was twisted in a look of anger, sadness and frustration. "I should hate you for being me container, for being who you are."
The red headed woman bit back a chocked sob as she closed her eyes and look back down at the ground, "So why? Why can't I hate you? Why do I feel this way! What is it about you that makes me feel this way!"
Naruto listened to the woman in growing confusion. He did not understand what she was talking about, her words were jumbled and it seemed obvious to Naruto that she did not even know what she was feeling. But there were two things he got from her.
The first was that she did not hate him; he was both surprised and not so surprised. True they had not started on the best of terms, but during the one month period before the Chunin Exams they had gotten along decently, well enough that Naruto was no longer bothered by her teasing and snide remarks; and had even began to tease back with the fledgling flirting skills he possessed, something he would never do if he had hated her. However even with all of that, Kyuubi had been fairly adamant in letting him know he was beneath her.
The second thing was that she had some kind of feelings for him. What those feelings were Naruto could not say, he would readily admit that he did not know much about women in general and Kyuubi was by far the most confusing woman he had ever met. Not only that but it was also blatantly obvious that Kyuubi herself did not know what she was feeling, though he could understand that.
Kyuubi had always been selfish, she may not be evil in the sense that others had often thought of her as, but she had always been selfish. She used others to achieve her goals; that being to live a life of luxury befitting what she thought was her status, essentially how she thought Kami should be treated were he/she on earth. She never cared about others, she never liked others and the closest thing she had ever come to being nice was when she was ordering people around like slaves, at least if her words about her life before being sealed were to be believed.
He continued to look at the vixen who by now had wrapped her arms around herself in an effort to control her shaking. Crawling over to her he gently placed his arms around her form, ignoring how she stiffened in his grip.
"Wh-what are you doing!" the shock in her voice was so profound that Naruto would have laughed were the situation not so damn confusing. Truth be told, he was not even sure what he was doing.
"I'm hugging you, what does it look like?" he brought Kyuubi closer to him and placed her head under his chin, "Don't bother asking me why cuz I don't know…and don't bother telling me not to, because I'm not going to listen. Just shut up and accept it."
He waited for several long moments to see what Kyuubi would do, expecting either some kind of attack or at the very least some verbal comment about him being beneath her. It was something of a relief when she did none of those, instead he felt a pair of arms wrapping around him.
"Don't think that just because I'm letting you get this close means anything," Kyuubi sniffed as she relaxed into the blond. "And don't tell anyone about this or I will cause you untold amounts of suffering."
Naruto chuckled a bit, "Who would I tell? I can just imagine that going over well with the people of Konoha. Oh yeah Kyuubi, well she's really one big softy. You'd be surprised how sensitive she is, no really she actually the nicest, fluffiest person you would ever meet."
Kyuubi snorted as she tried to find a comfortable position and ended up sitting in the blonde's lap, her head resting on his shoulders. She took a small moment to analyze the novel experience. She would freely admit that she had never been in this position before, the few humans who had tried to touch her usually ended up losing a limb and most were to enthralled to do anything more than drool. However it wasn't a terrible experience, Naruto was a hanyou and therefore a cut above any human. Plus he was radiating this incredible warmth that was actually beckoning to Kyuubi; it gave her an odd comfort that she had never experienced. A part of her wondered if she could find some way to retain this feeling.
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