Hana's Revolt

Naruto laughed as he watched Hana eat dish after dish after dish inside a restaurant that he had taken her to. "Slow down, I'm paying for all of it. No need for you to explode," he said.

"I just vomited all my previous dinner. I'm pretty damn hungry," she replied. The redhead shook his head as he watched his dog princess eat.

Once she had eaten her fill, Naruto guided her out of the restaurant and into the busy night streets of Konoha. He stared out into the masses. Families and friends, travelers and spends, all of them happened around him. Even just standing in the midst of the village had left him with a sense of nothingness. He felt...nothing for the people of Konoha. He felt nothing for their lives. Save the cruel evils that laid in his mind, he felt nothing, but pure contempt for them all. In the end, no matter how they struggled, he would have his vengeance upon them.

"Tell me, Hana, when you look into these streets, what do you see?" Naruto asked.

Hana looked out into the crowd of people. Her breath became uneasy. Their smiling faces, their happy lives, their blissful ignorance, all bestowed upon them while she suffered. Her, and so many others, tossed away as nothing more than the desire of a failing nation's perseverance. How would they feel if they had to suffer as she had? How would they feel if...they had to live as she had lived?

Naruto could see a crack upon the ground. Clumps of dirt and rock floated in the air before they were crushed under the weight of rising pressure. Once he turned back to Hana, the smile that had been developing on his face slowly died when he saw the tears fall from her eyes. He could see the words even if Hana did not speak them. It...wasn't fair.

Yes, life wasn't fair. Hana did not believe she was owed happiness or the best life could give her, but...was she not owed the right to choose? Was she not owed the right to live by her own terms? Was she not owed the right...to be more than what someone said she was? What made these worthless, spineless, cowardly, insignificant worms' lives better than hers?!

"Are you crying for them, or are you crying for yourself? Why? They wouldn't do the same for you. They didn't do the same for me. Now that I think about it, I'm the one who holds the most dangerous tailed beast in my body. I'm the one with all the power in this village. Why do I need their acceptance? Why do I need their attention? Why do I need their fickle love? Why do I need them...when I'm so much better than them? When you are so much better than them?" He asked.

Hana did not answer him verbally, but her body did for her. Yes, she was better than them. She was stronger, faster, tougher, smarter, and greater than all of them. She...was an alpha female amongst a kingdom of flesh and bones.

The road cracked beneath her feet. "Unfortunately for you, Inuzuka Hana, it doesn't matter what you want. It does not matter what I want. To them, what we want will never be given to us. I was not allowed to choose whether to become the Kyuubi jinchuuriki or not, just as you are not allowed...to choose who has access to your body," the blonde said.

He then took a hold of Hana's hand. Suddenly, a heavy darkness overshadowed her consciousness. Like a deep void, Hana felt like she was floating on air. She looked around for Naruto, but he was not beside her as he was previously. "We. Are. Nothing," Naruto's voice echoed.

After those words were spoken, Hana found herself standing next to the Sandaime Hokage and...Inuzuka Tsume.

"Once she has been sedated from your feast, I will assign operatives to transfer her outside the village. We'll take her to the facility and prepare extensive testing. We're going to have to allow her access to her powers eventually, but it must be under precise, controlled settings. I still shudder when we tell her the truth," Sarutobi said.

"I agree. However, I think it's time we subjected her to...test 85T-D326," Tsume suggested.

Hana could easily see the visible shiver that ran down the Hokage's visage. What test was this?

"Tsume, I do not think there is a need for that. We have already collected enough canine DNA to stimulate a hypothesis that can allow for…,"

"Forgive me, Hokage-sama, but I got your reservations. Kuromaru is my partner, my best friend, and my family. However, at the end of the day, we're still two separate species. That boundary doesn't exist for Hana. She is not fully human, nor is she fully canine either. In order to understand the middle ground, we're going to have to do things we don't like. For Hana...it should just be...and feel...like a bad dream. It only needs to happen once," Tsume said.

Hana's eyes widened. The boundary between...human and...canine. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

Though the test was not spoken of, it was easy for Hana to understand what was being discussed. She could feel the fires of knowledge rushing through her brain. Her...with canines. More tests. More chains. More...restrictions. The canine DNA in her body...called for a mate. They sought to test whether that mate could be human or...otherwise.

Disgust filled Hana's chest and she dropped to the floor and vomited what she had eaten once again. She felt sick. She felt tired. She couldn't breathe. She couldn't think. From rapid breathing, her throat started wheezing.

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