Jinchūriki Nine

By stupidhalfmortalauthor

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto at all. It's as simple as that.

Summary

Uzumaki Naruto, Jinchūriki of the Kyuubi no Yoko, was always alone. Always being beaten up for something he contained, something he had no control over. He though he was the only one until one fateful night, he meets the Kyuubi and discovers he's not the only one with a monster inside, or rather yet, a bijuu. What will happen when he decides to contact all the other jinchūriki?


Prologue

Yells of, 'Kill the Demon' flooded the streets of Konoha as civilians, a few Chūnin and Jōnin chased a young blonde with three whisker marks on each cheeks.

He continued to run until he finally reached a dead end, "No! Please! Don't hurt me! I haven't done anything! Please!" Naruto whimpered as they closed in on him with an evil glint in their eyes, "We'll end you demon, the one who took our precious Yondaime's life."

Naruto lay there in silence, wondering why, why did he deserve this, what did I do wrong, his blood pooling around him. The world around him had gone silent, and the pain increased as they continued to beat him.

'Someone, help me.' He yelled in his head, hoping that someone, anyone would save him, just take him away from here and stop the pain, "Please, save me." He whimpered before the world turned dark and he was glad for that.


Drip

Drip

Drip

Naruto opened his eyes and saw what looked like a sewer, was he dead? Or was he thrown here and left for dead?

"Hello? Is anyone there?" Naruto called out, hoping for someone, "Hello?" Naruto continued to walk forward until he ended up in front of large bars, with the kanji for seal on it, it was dark and had a menacing aura.

"So, my jailor finally decides to visit me." A dark rumbling voice said, then emerged, showing a nine tailed fox Naruto stumbled back as he quivered in fear. What was the Kyuubi doing here? Why was he here? Then Kyuubi extended his paw forward in hopes of trying to reach the young blonde, Kyuubi growled.

"I want to devour you but that stupid seal stops me from getting to you."

"K-Kyuubi?" Naruto stuttered, "I thought the Yondaime killed you! How are you here?!" Naruto yelled, frightened and petrified

"Ha! As if a mortal could kill me. Don't worry kid, I can't even get close to hurting you. So, why are you here? To ask me for power?" Kyuubi scoffed.

Naruto blinked, "No, I actually don't know why I'm here so I'm going to ask you for your name. What's your name?"

The Kyuubi sat there, stunned, no one had ever asked for his name before. No one had the decency too, "Why do you ask that?"

Naruto hesitated slightly but then strongly and bravely said, "So we can be friends." There was no hesitance in his voice and he truly did want to befriend the nine tailed fox. Naruto had gathered that it was the fox's chakra always healing him from all the wounds and the fox had technically saved his life more times than he could count.

'Friends? This boy actually wants to befriend a tailed beast?' Kyuubi thought before he burst out laughing. And his tails banged against the bars causing a commotion and making the small boy panic. Once his laughter softened, he looked at the boy with a serious look on his face, 'He's serious?'

"You're serious? You want to befriend the cause of everyone hating you, the reason why you're always being glared at, thrown out, beaten up and almost killed?" Kyuubi asked and Naruto slowly but surely nodded.

"Kid, I'm a being of pure hatred, let's see and try if you could manage to befriend me." The Kyuubi scoffed.

"Well, I'll never know 'till I try! I promise to you that we'll be friends, I never go back on my word. That's my nindo!" Naruto exclaimed, utterly sure of himself, he would do it, he would befriend the tailed beast.

'What a strange human. Strange but interesting.' Kyuubi thought, "You've captured my interest. Alright I'll give you my name Uzumaki Naruto. My name's Kurama."

"Kurama, ka? That's a nice name, oi! Kurama, does that mean we're friends?" The blonde boy asked brightly.

"No," Kurama glared at the young boy and lay his head between his paws,

The blonde smiled, "Neh, Kurama. Stop being mean, we'll be friends in no time. You're stuck with me! And I'm going to annoy you till we're friends!" The boy exclaimed as he faded away from the sewer.

'Kami, help me… but then again, maybe he's the one Rikodou-jiji was talking about...'


Naruto blinked as the bright light hit him, he sat up and saw the old Hokage beside him, "Jiji!" He exclaimed, "Eto, where am I?" He asked confused.

"Naruto, what do you last remember?" The old Hokage asked.

"Ano..." He trailed off before his mind recalled his talk with Kurama, "Ah! I was in this sewer then this big fox spoke to me! Oh yeah! It was Kyuubi! You know he has a name? He has a really nice name too! And then he laughed and then-"

"Hold on, Naruto. You've spoken to the Kyuubi?" The old hokage asked, stunned.

"Yeah!" The boy exclaimed loudly and smiled.

'So the boy's already met the Kyuubi.' The Hokage thought, "I'm sorry I kept this from you Naruto." He apologized.

"Maa, Jiji. It's okay. Besides, I now have a friend! I think." Naruto grinned, he would definitely do everything he could to befriend the fox. He wouldn't fail no matter what.


2 days since meeting Kurama

"Kurama, Kurama, Kurama. Oi, answer me. I'm over here!" Naruto rambled on but still got no answer and continued to pester the fox.

Over the two days, Naruto's fear of the fox had disappeared.

"Fine, I'm not going anywhere 'till you answer me. Hey! You know Ichiraku's got a new flavor for ramen and it's really good! Yesterday, Jiji treated me to ramen, and I got miso, pork, the new flavor…" Naruto rambled on about the ramen, it seemed to go on for hours.

Kurama growled, "Okay! Okay! I get it! You have an uncanny addiction for ramen and a bottomless pit for a stomach."

This boy was impossible and completely persistent. Didn't seem to ever shut up and always seemed to be happy. He seriously thought no one could be this happy.

"Finally! You answer me!" Naruto exclaimed happily, the fox was answering him finally.

"What do you want?" Kurama sighed exasperatedly, he just wanted to sleep but his seven year old wouldn't let him and continued pestering him. 'Why couldn't I get a nice quiet host that was afraid of me and would leave me alone?' Kurama thought.

"Kurama? Kurama! Oi, stop spacing out! I'm telling you about Sasuke-teme! He's infuriating, thinking he's the greater than all of us, dattebayo!" Naruto continued to ramble about his classmates in the Academy, though they didn't like the boy and always left him alone, Naruto had the knack for observing people around him.

"Then there's this kid named Shino, he's quiet and always has bugs around him, he's cool though, then there's Kiba rambling about how he wants his own ninken because his sister's got three…"

"Kami, kid, you sure talk a lot. Will you shut up and let me sleep if I teach you something?" Kurama said finally getting enough of the boy, seriously, this boy never stopped. Ever.

"You're going to teach me something? What? What is it?! Some really cool flashy technique?" Naruto jumped up and down, he was going to be taught a really cool technique, and with this technique everyone would acknowledge him now!

"I'm going to teach you Kage Bunshin." Kurama said.

"Eh? Kage Bunshin? What does that do?" Naruto asked excitedly, kage bunshin apparently sounded really cool and he couldn't wait to be able to do it.

"It makes solid clones. Kage Bunshin is kinjutsu because it split's your chakra equally amongst each clone and without a bucket load of chakra it would kill you, but since you're a jinchūriki, you do have a bucket load of chakra. Now…" Kurama continued to explain it and once done, Naruto left to go practice the kage bunshin.

'Finally, some quiet. That should give me some time 'till he comes back pestering me again.' Kurama thought and finally closed his eyes for some sleep.

1 hour later

Kurama was once again awakened by the loud happy voice of his blonde jailor, "Kurama! I did it! I can make loads! Like over 500! Isn't that cool?!" Naruto exclaimed and bounced around, frolicking.

'Oh gee, I forgot he's a jinchūriki, of course it wouldn't take long.' Kurama thought, internally face palmed and chanted, 'stupid, stupid, stupid' again and again.

"Damn it, go to sleep!" Kurama growled, "You've been bugging me since you left the academy! Please go to sleep!" Kurama begged and finally Naruto relented.

"Fine, good night!" Naruto waved and disappeared to give the big lazy fox his sleep.


8 days since first meeting Kurama

"Ha ha! You cannot catch me!" Naruto exclaimed to the Anbu, chasing him, "My prank is genius! Who else could manage to find the Anbu headquarters and plant in paint bombs? Ha! No one!" He yelled happily while fleeing the scene of the crime.

"That was stupid, but hilarious. Did you see that stupid Anbu with a face mask always on? His hair was bright pink!" Kurama laughed as he recalled the furious looking Anbu, but who the hell could take that seriously, Anbu captain, pranked by six year old who wasn't even genin.

"Yo! Focus! Where are the other Anbu?" Naruto asked, of course not wanting to be caught. Currently, there were four squads of anbu trailing him and boy were they pissed. Naruto had decided that night that it would be hilarious to mess with the Anbu. That night, Naruto had replaced some of the Anbu's shampoo with hair dye, he planted some paint bombs in some of their lockers so when they opened it, and it would go off. Scattered some pepper in their air conditioning so that that when they turned it on, the ones in the room would have a sneezing fit, and so much more.

"Psh, I'm not helping you…" Kurama trailed off then relented once he saw Naruto about to open his mouth to annoy him, "Fine, two are about to ambush you." Kurama sighed knowing how the blonde could go on for hours and hours.

With Kurama's sensor abilities and Naruto's stamina, they were impossible to catch.

2 hours later

"Ha! You are defeated and I remain uncaptured!" Naruto exclaimed in ecstasy and putting out a pose. He, a six year old, turning seven in a month, had managed to escape four Anbu squads.

"Hey, I helped loads." Kurama grumbled but was completely ignored by the ecstatic blonde who was now jumping up and down. Then again, it was an accomplishment to be able to get away from four Anbu squads.

Sarutobi Hiruzen watched the young boy laughing at the now worn out Anbu through the crystal ball and smiled at his surrogate grandson.

'You really are something Naruto.'


25 days since meeting Kurama

"Kurama, you sure are mean." Naruto glared as the fox laughed at his failed bunshin, he could sure as hell make an army of Kage Bunshin but when it came to a regular bunshin, he just plain out sucked, "Stop laughing at me you giant fur ball!"

Kurama stopped laughing and glared at the small child, "Brat, I'm the most powerful Bijuu and you're calling me a fur ball?"

"Don't call me brat!" Naruto cried and shook his fist at him.

"Don't call me fur ball then!" Kurama yelled.

"Fur ball!"

"Brat!"

"Fur ball!"

"Brat!"

"Fur ball, fur ball, fur ball, fur ball, fur ball, fur ball, fur ball, fur ball." Naruto said repeatedly and Kurama did the same.

"Brat, brat, brat, brat, brat, brat, brat, brat, brat, brat, brat, brat."

"I just told you not to call me that!" Naruto scowled at his tenant and shook his fist at him.

"I told you not to call me a furball! You started it so why are you getting mad at me?!" Kurama glared at the blonde, "Baka."

"Namakemono! (Lazy ass)"

"Stupid head!"

"Butt licker!"

"Oi! I do not lick my butt!" Kurama growled in anger, he did not lick his butt, he was the most powerful bijuu, he did not 'lick butts'.

"You totally do!" Naruto insisted and continued to bicker with the fox. Despite the continuous name calling, insulting each other, and both not wanting to admit it, they both enjoyed each other's company and had fun in the few hours of constant bickering.

Despite them calling each other names, they felt no hatred towards each other. Naruto smiled in his sleep as he came to truly consider Kurama his friend even though the fox might not have, though the fox might not admit it, he did consider the brat a friend.

They both continued to throw named as each other, until they both grew tired and decided to sleep on it, "We'll just continue this tomorrow." Naruto sighed


Author's Note:

Hello! This is my first fanfic, so please don't get too mad at me on my mistakes and stuff.

So, this is just the prologue. (Duh, I said that at the start) I'll update again soon!

This is just short, hopefully I can write longer chapters soon!
Tell me your thoughts, love it, hate it, should I update?

Okay, Ja!