Summary: Humans aren't the only one who can use chakra. Foxes too! Masters of ninjutsu, genjutsu and fuinjutsu, the Kyuubi takes Naruto in! Smart and Strong Naruto changes the world! NarutoxKyuubi and possible harem if people wants too. Tell what you guys think.
Author's Note:Right, this will be an AU based on my other story, NekoNin Foxy! So,uh...read that too? Please? And don't worry for readers of that story, I'll still update that too, but maybe alternatively with this story.
In that story, Naruto summoned cats, but in this, he summoned foxes instead. The story will be different and will not follow the manga path too much.
Read and please review people!
Disclaimer:I don't own any ninjas made by Kishimoto. Nuff said. That and any other materials used such as Bleach and Soul Eater.
PROLOGUE: SAGE REBORN
CHUNIN EXAM MATCH: NARUTO VS NEJI
Hyuuga Neji was the proud and yet not so proud member of the strongest Clan in Konohagakure, the Hyuugas. He's a bit conflicted about his feelings for the clan. Well sure he was strong because of the clan but he was also a slave to it.
Still...no good bad mouthing the clan that could fry his brain on a whim.
"You are fated to fall to me!" Neji claimed proudly to his foe in front of him. His foe was none other than Naruto Uzumaki. He wore (his Part II clothing) with a red cloak that has long sleeves, hoodie and various pockets. The cloak has black flaming design at the bottom.
"Fate...yes, such a strong force," Naruto rubbed his chin, thinking.
Neji smiled. So his foe finally acknowledged the futility of his situation? That he can never win no matter what? "So you admit-"
"Heh, if it weren't for fate, I wouldn't have a goddess after my tail, that's for sure!" Naruto grinned and...drooled a bit. "Heh,"
Neji twitched a bit. This wasn't the kind of 'fate' that he wanted to hear from Naruto. That and it seems Naruto wasn't a bit fazed about his situation. He, Hyuuga Neji is a master practitioner of the patented Hyuuga Clan's martial arts style, the Gentle Fist! The style that none have any defence for and is the strongest style in Konohagakure! Probably in all of the Elemental Nations even!
"Still, as much I believe that Ms. Fate had some control in our lives, I don't believe that everything has been absolutely decided. Sure, some things cannot be changed, and I'm grateful for that," Naruto clasped his hand together and looked at the sky, as if praying.
"But everyone can make changes to their own fate," Naruto turned to look back at Neji.
Neji smirked. "Only weaklings would dream of the impossible!" Neji got into his Gentle Fist stance.
"You should know, impossible is spelled I'm-possible," Naruto grinned. He then started to pat his cloak, as if searching for something. "Can you wait a bit? I'm looking for something..."
Neji's eye twitched again. He heard that Naruto was somewhat...a failure in his class. Just not how badly he was. Getting into a battle without proper preparation? The kid won't last long.
Few blank cards escaped from Naruto's cloak unto the ground. "Oh man! My notes!"
Neji sighed. No use stretching this out any longer. His fate was sealed anyway. Neji then charged forward towards Naruto, which to Neji's surprise avoided. Then Naruto ran the other way, which caused majority of the crowd to laugh.
"Rather than sullying your already bad image by running away like a coward, it's best if you just give up," Neji smirked.
Naruto then stopped and turned to face Neji. "Wow! And they say that you're a genius prodigy. This 'running away' I'm doing is called stra-te-gy," Naruto said the word strategy as if teaching the word to someone who never heard of it before. Neji's eye twitched again.
"I mean it's only natural to distance myself from you, who by the way had almost zero range combat capability," Naruto explained. While this was happening, the blank cards on the floor suddenly moved on their own to various directions. Neji didn't realise about this though as he was busy with Naruto.
"Really? What about this then?" Neji said and threw half a dozen of kunais at Naruto.
When the kunais was near, Naruto spun around quickly and faced Neji again. Strangely, the kunais didn't hit him at all and was nowhere to be seen. It as if the kunais was suddenly gone. Either Naruto managed to catch all of those kunais, which Neji doubted, when he spun or something else.
Neji raised his eyebrow at this. He then activated his Byakugan to see what was happening.
To his surprise, his Byakugan couldn't see the through the cloak!
"What the?" Neji said.
"Told ya you suck at range," Naruto smirked and spun again, this time, Neji's own kunai was flying towards him. Neji saw that the kunai flew out from his cloak and he side stepped.
"Neat trick, but-"
"Thank you!" Naruto bowed. Neji's eye twitched again. Seriously, his eyes never twitched this much before. He decided to end this now before his eye twitching could permanently damage his precious eyes.
Neji readied his stance but Naruto raised a hand to stop him. Neji paused for a moment before Naruto used the same hand to make a handseal and point down to his feet. Neji looked down and was surprised to see a seal.
The seal was formed in the shape of an arrow, pointing backwards. He didn't realise the seal was there before! In fact, he didn't see Naruto do anything to place it...
Neji then realised at the center of the seal, was the previously blank card that Naruto dropped carelessly just now. The seal branched out from the card to the earth around it, creating a door mat sized arrow seal.
"I give you...the Propulsion Seal," Naruto said and Neji felt a force pushed him backwards. The force was enough to sweep him off his feet and send him flying backwards at high speeds that Neji couldn't think of anything to stop it. Neji thought for sure that he was going to hit the stadium wall until the same force pushed him sideways.
The crowd then realised that Naruto didn't just put one Propulsion Seal, but a lot of them around the stadium floor. Neji then was being flung around between the seals like a pinball.
Naruto then pulled out two cards and placed the both of them on each sole of his shoe. "Physics 101, Neji. Speed kills!" Naruto then placed his left foot forward and did the same handseal that he did to Neji before. The same arrow shaped seal formed beneath his left foot and Naruto was flung forwards. While in mid-air, Naruto then used his right foot to kick the incoming Neji straight in the gut.
Naruto could see Neji's expression as the kick knock out the wind from him. Neji was then send crashing towards the wall which caused a small cloud of dust to appear.
"Proctor, he's out," Naruto said while brushing his leg. The whole crowd was silent at this unexpected one-sided match.
The proctor didn't know whether to take Naruto's words or not when a voice was heard from the dust cloud.
"I'm not out yet!" Neji appeared from the smoke, panting and a trail of blood were evident on his left cheek.
"Yes you are," Naruto said with a tone that was completely different from before. Naruto flashed his handseal again towards Neji.
A seal branched out from where Naruto kick Neji before and Neji realised that Naruto had managed to stick his seal on to him during the kick! The seal then spread out to all over his body.
"Movement Seal," Naruto said and Neji suddenly found himself kneeling with his hands on the floor. "You should stay down. The kick I gave you caused internal bleeding to your stomach organs," Naruto then made a gesture with the same hand and Neji found himself lying on the ground, facing the sky.
Neji couldn't believe it! He lost, badly. Not only he didn't even manage to land a hit on him, Naruto took him down in less than five minutes! It was supposed to be the other way around! What the hell happened?
Neji then found himself staring into the sun...wait no, at Naruto's hair. "So, what was it about my fate again?" Naruto said while squatting down and propped his head on a hand and smirked.
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SIX YEARS BEFORE
Naruto had enough!
Enough of the discrimination, the cold treatments, the name callings and the beatings!
After six years of living with harsh treatments, he had already developed a near immunity to it. People called him names? Like he cares! People discriminated him? He didn't care!
However, there's one thing that he just couldn't accept.
The people never give him a chance to be a better person. To improve himself so that people wouldn't call him loser, dead last or idiot. To improve himself so that people would respect him! That the people of his 'home' would sabotage him!
If he tried to learn something, they would give him the wrong education. No wonder he couldn't perform even the basic things that normal kids at the Academy could! No wonder he's a loser!
This particular treatment had almost caused him to fail protecting someone that is dear to him.
But no more. If his own kind won't accept him and teach him, then it's time to find others that would.
After a bit of searching for jutsus that he could learn himself, he later found out about the Summoning Technique. And after an extensive research, he found out some delicious titbits.
It turns out that Humans aren't the only ones who are able to perform chakra manipulation and thus ninjutsus. Other species like the Toads could.
And so, he hoped that he could summon one or at least get summoned to the Toads native place to learn from them.
Or maybe some other species.
But there's a lot of problem.
First, the summoned doesn't necessarily follow your order. It would be bad if he summoned creatures that wouldn't take it to a kid summoning them.
Second, the amount of chakra you put equals to the rank of summons. So put little chakra and you would get the greens.
Third, to accurately summon the species you wanted, you need their respective contract scrolls. And those scrolls wasn't just laid around or put in archive at the library. The scrolls are item that are passed on from the person who started the contract to others. And summoning contract scrolls are rare.
Fourth, even without the scroll, he could just perform the Summoning Technique and he would be SUMMONED instead to the species' home. The type of species depends on the user's natural affinity and there's a chance that he could get transported to the land of snakes that are more than happy to devour him or to where the animals doesn't know how to use Justus.
Still, Naruto wasn't about to give up! This is his last option now, its do or die!
"Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" and with that Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke.
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Naruto felt a weird sensation when he initiated the Summoning Technique. It felt like he was falling yet he isn't. And then halfway he felt like he was flying.
After the sensation stopped, the same smoke that consumed him still remains. After waving his arms around to get rid of it, he could finally see...
A human sized fox with black fur staring back at him, seven tails swishing around.
"Err...hello?" Naruto said.
"You just sat on my dinner kit," the black fox said. Naruto instantly got up and saw...nothing.
The fox then laughed. "Bwahaha! Got you!"
Had it been a normal person, they would have been angry. But alas, Naruto himself was a prankster. This was just a friendly prank from a prankster to another. "Nice, you got me!"
"Sure I did. Anyway, what are you doing here? It's rare to see someone being reversed summoned here," the fox said.
"Well...my name is Naruto Uzumaki and I-"Naruto was about to tell the fox why he was here when he was interrupted.
"Uzumaki?" the fox was wide eyed at knowing this. "Tell no more! Follow me!" The fox turned around and walked away, leaving Naruto no choice but to follow him.
Naruto was confused. Apparently his relative must have a connection here and he wasn't sure whether to be glad or not. For all he knew, that relative of his might have been a fox hunter.
He hoped not.
Still, Naruto took the chance to look around him. He was in some kind of a small village in a forest. Nowhere near the size of Konoha though, but saying Konoha a village is...wrong. Konoha was more likely a town or a small city.
Still, the building was nice. It's as if the building was grown from trees itself. There was no electrical lighting but lanterns were used instead, giving the whole place a natural look.
It was a new experience for Naruto. Normally buildings and forest don't go well together but this whole place, it's as if nature had grown it!
The residents itself were much more interesting. They were all foxes, yet it seems that they have two forms. One is the normal fox form and the other was the...werefox? Because in the fox form, they walked on fours while in werefox, they walked like a human. They also has human hands in this form. They didn't wear anything though.
Naruto realised that the foxes have various colours and tails and they were looking at him with curiosity.
A short walk later, they stopped in front of a large building that was part of an equally large tree. It was more like a noble's mansion. A small brown fox with two tails was sitting like a human at the front porch, swinging its legs while whistling. Judging from its voice, it was a she.
"Aya, go get the Mistress," Aya the brown fox looked up to them especially Naruto and tilted her head.
"Who is this Kuro?" Aya said.
Ah, so that's the name of the black fox in front of Naruto.
"Naruto Uzumaki, now go get the mistress!" Kuro ordered and Aya complied, quickly darting into the mansion.
A moment later the most beautiful fox appeared in front of Naruto. The fox had red fur and nine long bushy tails. The fox must be a she if it's the mistress that Kuro mentioned.
The fox's eyes briefly went wide at seeing Naruto, as if seeing something surprising. The fox then sat down, fox style in front of Naruto with Aya came a little while later.
"And I never thought I see another Uzumaki after all this time," the fox said.
Naruto fidgeted for a moment. Apparently the fox in front of him is the Kyuubi, and if common sense served him right, the more tails that a fox have, the more powerful it is. And so far, the red fox is the only Kyuubi Naruto saw.
And by what Kuro addressed the fox, no doubt the Kyuubi is the leader of this fox village.
"That's right! I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" Naruto said with a somewhat confident voice.
"Akane Getsuga" Akane the red Kyuubi bowed in front of him. "Welcome to the Getsuga Fox Clan, little Uzumaki,"
'Akane...the name fit her,' Naruto thought. "So uh...you're not going to eat me?" Naruto asked nervously.
Hearing his question, Kuro, Akane and Aya all laughed. "Why do you think we would do that?"
"Well, apparently you people...uh...foxes know of my clan, and from my experience with how people treat me, wasn't too good," Naruto answered while looking away.
The foxes eyed Naruto with sad eyes. From how he said it, Naruto had led a bad life so far and people had been treating him badly.
"No, we won't harm you," Akane said and looked at her again. Akane smiled and Naruto's worries disappeared a bit. "In fact, your clan and ours were allies before,"
"You said before, what happened?" Naruto asked. He never knew much about his heritage. Mainly because no one was willing to tell him much apart from 'they're dead and gone, no thanks to you,'
And he never met any other people bearing the same name.
"Your clan, the Uzumaki, was a great clan and was from Uzushiogakure. They were good people with powerful abilities. But of course, like most clans, people grew jealous and afraid of them and managed to wipe them out," Akane answered.
"Oh..." Naruto said. "Well, at least they're not evil. For a moment I thought they hunted foxes or something,"
The foxes laughed again. "No they did not! In fact, we were their summons!" Kuro said.
"Oh? Is that why I got summoned here?" Naruto asked.
"It is. And I must say, it must be Fate that brought you here, little Uzumaki," Akane said.
Naruto was happy. From the way things are going, it seemed like his life is going to take a turn for the better. The foxes aren't so bad either. They seemed to be a nice companion to have around, unlike what people at Konoha would say. In fact, after the Kyuubi attack, Konoha hated foxes to the extreme. Foxes could no longer be made a pet for superstitious reasons and the ANBU's also stopped using fox masks too.
"So...what is my clan's special ability? Do they have kick-ass skill like the Uchiha? Or maybe like the Hyuugas?" Naruto said excitedly at the thought of having some kind of superpower like the rest of the clans.
Having clans is a big deal in Konoha. If you have one, it's like being in a support group or a big family. But having clans with special ability is even more of a big deal, especially if the ability is powerful. That much makes you an elite at Konoha. Look at the Hyuugas and Uchihas! People respected them, something that they didn't do to Naruto, especially to the Uzumaki.
And as far as Naruto knew, he didn't have anything special about him that might be related to his clan. Well, he did have abnormal stamina and weird whisker marks but that was all because of the stupid demon inside of him.
Wait, the demon inside of him is Kyuubi and a fox. So he might want to tread carefully about that subject. Especially when he was here because of the demon in the first place.
"Well, they have incredible longevity and stamina-" Akane said.
"Wha? I thought that was because of the stupid demon fox inside of me!" Naruto said and immediately cupped his mouth after realising what he had said.
Naruto thought that the foxes would be mad after hearing his insult on one of their kind, but to his surprise, they only smiled.
"Well yes, it's true that having a Beast inside of you can give such benefits, but most people don't have a Beast sealed inside of them to have that benefit you know," Akane replied.
"In your case, it's like having two of the same ability. Though the Uzumaki's ability still can't match the demon fox's healing powers," Kuro added.
"Wait, you guys aren't mad about...the demon fox thingy? And how do you guys know I'm a Host?" Naruto said, unsure of what to make of the situation.
"Whisker marks and pretty much gave it away and we could smell the demon inside of you. And yes we're definitely mad about the stupid demon fox, but not at you. You're not him after all," Akane said. "Thanks to him, fox's image is viewed badly around the world. And to think that he isn't even a real fox to begin with,"
Naruto was glad that there's still people that saw him as a human. But then there's a strange subject about the demon. "Eh? He's not?" Naruto asked. How come the demon fox isn't a fox? He looked like a fox, that's for sure.
"That's because he is a being of pure chakra modelled after the Kyuubi," Kuro explained.
"Oh..."
"An imitation really. But thanks to him, people feared foxes now and was unwilling to summon us. Only the Uzumaki knew the truth and gave us the proper respect. But it was also ironic that so far only the Uzumaki's had been the Host for the demon fox," Kuro continued.
"But of course, with them gone, it's been a while since anybody summon us anymore. You're the first in ages to come here," Akane said next.
"Wow, this is...BIG. The demon fox isn't actually a fox? Well, that's something you don't learn every day. So you can't really flatten mountains? Create tsunamis with a swipe of one of your tail?" Naruto asked.
The foxes laughed again. "No, we can't. Sad to say and admit, the impostor fox is much more powerful than a true Kyuubi. But that is because of his vast chakra source. Had I have access to infinite chakra, then yes, I could do the same," Akane explained. "I could only do a small scale of what you said just now,"
Naruto oh-ed again. "I have you know that we foxes aren't purely destructive or evil...well we do pull pranks sometimes but that's in our nature! And our pranks wasn't so bad," Akane continued.
"Riggght," Kuro said while looking away. "Obviously your standard of 'bad' is vastly different from a human's standard,"
Akane smirked at this. "Obviously. But no one was hurt...much from our pranks and no lives is lost. That I can assure you,"
"No worries! I play pranks too!" Naruto grinned at them and the foxes smiled back. "But is that all of my clan's ability? Just long life? That can't be the reason why they got...eliminated, right?"
Akane smiled. 'Smart boy,'
"That and they are also fuinjutsu masters. Well, we have a hand in that as they mostly learned from us, but yeah," Akane replied.
"Fuinjutsu, as if sealing techniques? What's so dangerous about them?" Naruto asked. Seals wasn't an alien concept to the world. Its use was widespread...kinda. Naruto didn't see much of it aside from Exploding Tags.
"Tell me Naruto, what is the strongest factor in Nature? The factor that caused the extinction of countless weak species and changed the shape of the world?" Akane asked.
"Eh?" Naruto scratched his head. "The strongest factor...strength?"
"If it is true, then why is Humans the dominating species in the world right now? Why not the giant toads? Or the giant snakes?" Akane asked again.
"I..you're right. Strength isn't it, so what is it?" Naruto asked.
"Change and the ability to adapt to those changes is the strongest factor," Akane answered. "In fact, Nature is about change. Those who adapt to the changes are the true champions. That is what sets Human apart from the rest. Others usually adapt to Nature, but to Humans, Nature has to adapt to them. Just like how we adapt a little to your way of living," Akane motioned to their surrounding and Naruto understood.
That's why the foxes have some human like qualities to them.
Naruto oh-ed again. "That's what makes you so successful. However, from the way things are going, Nature would be destroyed because of you,"
Naruto's face looked grim at this. "Still, back to our topic. Of all the arts, fuinjutsu is the most adaptable and versatile. Ninjutsus are mostly offensive and saw no use outside of combat. Taijutsu is affected by your physical health and no matter how hard you train, one day you will reach a limit. Genjutsu is hard to pull off and can be countered," Akane said.
"Fuinjutsu have infinite uses as long as you know how to do it. Most of the seal used now days are nowhere near the quality of what was produced by the Uzumakis back then. Their seals and ours are much more efficient and powerful. We can seal almost everything and a single fuinjutsu master is able to change the outcome of a battle easily," Kuro explained next. "Like what the Fourth Hokage did in the Third Ninja World War.
Naruto oh-ed again and this time, he was beaming. "You mean the Hiraishin? It uses seals? Awesome!" He never thought much about seals before this as it was incredibly complicated which involves lots of words and calculations. Something a six year old isn't interested to do much. But now, Naruto was determined to learn it than anything else!
"So, little Uzumaki, what will you do now? Obviously you had a purpose in coming here, even by accident," Akane asked the boy.
Naruto fidgeted around a bit. The foxes were kind to them and he didn't want to burden them. But where else can he go? There's no chance that other places would be kind to him as here. "Can I stay and learn from you guys? My place...kind suck,"
The foxes smiled at him. "Of course, kit! You're an Uzumaki! It would shame your clan's name if you didn't know a thing about fuinjutsu!" Kuro said.
Naruto beamed at this. The foxes are going to teach him? Finally! A place that accepted him! But still, kinda stung that it took a different species to do so.
"Awesome! I promise, after I'm stronger, I'm gonna rebuild the Uzumaki clan and our hometown back!" Naruto pumped his fist into the air with his oath.
"Oh? So you want to be the Uzukage then?" Akane said with a smile.
Naruto realised what she meant and nodded furiously. Before this he had a dream of becoming the kage of his hometown, the Hokage. But after this, screw his dreams of being the Hokage! Konoha doesn't give a shit about him anyway so why should he? Better to be the leader of a place that he really belongs to.
"Uzukage, here I come! Although that name kinda suck..." Naruto said. The foxes laughed again and Akane ordered Aya to guide Naruto around the village. Soon Naruto and Aya were gone, leaving Kuro and Akane.
"So...this is the ninth time he reincarnated," Kuro said. "And previously he was the Host of Four Tailed Beast,"
"Yes. Quite strange isn't it? Every time he reincarnates, he will be a Host of one of the Tailed Beast," Akane said.
"It seems both of you really are fated to be together. Every time, you always found each other. I admire your devotion to him and your strength. If it was me and my mate was to be reincarnated every few decades while I wait for her...I don't think I could do it like you do," Kuro said and Akane smiled at him.
"Haven't you heard? Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. But heaven has no paradise like a woman's love," Akane said.
"Ah, of course. That must be why he keeps running away from heaven to meet you. Because you weren't in it?" Kuro smirked.
"Cheesy, but true," Akane smirked too.
"Right, right. I'll better go check up on him," Kuro said and left, leaving Akane to her thoughts.
Akane sighed and laid down and closed her eyes, remembering back on the day her fate was intertwined with a certain person.
FLASHBACK
Random Forest Ages Ago
A one-tailed red fox was struggling to get free from the bear trap that got its left front leg. However, the harder she struggled, the more painful it becomes. But she saw no other way to break free...except to bite her own leg off.
Suddenly, something very fast crashed into a tree in front of her. When the cloud of smoke disappeared, the 'something' turned out to be a human...whose head got stuck in a tree trunk. The man then with a final pull broke free of the trunk with such force that the tree felled.
"WOOOOOOO" the man jumped around. "That was awesome! I just used that weird energy thingy on my legs and jumped and the next thing I know, I got catapulted high into the air!"
"And then, I was scared that my head would split open like a watermelon when I crash land, so I coated my head in that weird energy and BAM! I'M ALIVE!" the man hopped around and hugged a tree.
The fox was scared shitless. And why wouldn't she? She never saw a human doing superhuman feat like that before. Humans were already frigging scary with their traps as it is. So the fox kept quiet, hoping and praying to the spirits that the human would bounce away in his excited state. She also cursed her fate for being a single-tailed. If she had more tails, she wouldn't be like this. The fact that she could understand human speech was evident of her magical powers. But alas, her powers was still weak until she grew more tails.
The man then released his hug from the poor tree when he realised that a piece of the tree bark got stuck to his hands.
"Wha? I just used that energy thingy just now and the bark stuck to it? Hmm..." the man mused and then, the man gave an expression as if a light bulb was turned on in his head.
"Let's see..." The man then slowly raised his left leg and put it on the tree, after a second, he put his other leg and...walked up the tree! "WOOOOOO" the man pumped his fists into the air. "MAGIC DO-IT-ALL ENERGY! OW YEAH!"
The man wanted to jump in triumph, as he always did when he discovered something, like this. But then he wasn't really grounded. So he jumped and gravity took hold of him again and he fell to the ground.
"Ofpf!"
Then to the fox's horror, the man's face was facing her. The man's feature was weird as he had blue eyes with ripples...something that was never seen in a human before. He also had a spiky yellow hair. They both stared into each other's eyes and Akane stiffened.
The man then got up and approached her, for which Akane growled and spiked her fur to warn him. The man wasn't scared, why would he? After all he just felled a tree using his head.
"Aren't you the most beautiful thing ever?" the man said. "No worries! The great me is here to rescue you!" The man then reached for the trap. Akane didn't know any better and bit his left arm until she tasted blood. The man didn't even flinch. "HEYA!" with a single scream, the man pried the trap so hard until the trap's jaw was disconnected from each other.
Again, poor Akane was surprised by this sudden display of strength. She wanted to run away as fast as she could but her badly wounded leg won't let her. The man then grabbed her and Akane instinctively trashed around. But trying to break free from someone who split a bear trap into two was fruitless. "Now, now, now my vixen, I'm not gonna hurt you,"
The man then hugged her tightly so she didn't have any space to struggle. Akane, having no other options, calmed herself and relaxed. The man then brought her to his face. "Now Akane-chan, let's get you patched up, shall we?" the man said and head towards the river.
It turns out that it wasn't the man who had set the trap. In fact, judging from his scent, the man was from very very far away. Akane with her wounds bandaged, was now in his lap. The man was petting her and Akane liked it. For a man that could rip apart metal trap, he was surprisingly gentle.
"Akane-chan!" The man then brought the fox to his face leve again. "My name is Naruto! I was named like that because I have ripples in my eyes! That and they said I couldn't stay still," the man said, but Akane didn't do anything and just stared into that weird but yet comforting rippled blue eyes.
Ever since then, Akane and Naruto were inseparable. Well, at first Akane didn't have much choice as she was manhandled by him to go everywhere. His reason was because the fox hadn't recovered and needed the best care! Akane then was put into his kimono so that he could use his hands. It...was comfortable, being close to the man's chest.
Even after she has recovered and the man released her, Akane chose to follow him on.
It turns out the man was special among his kind for his unusual abilities. Some hated him for it, calling him abomination, questioning his heritage. Some hailed him as a hero, saviour, or even the next step in human evolution. Religions was destroyed and created because of him.
But of course, Naruto was surprisingly humble and somewhat an enigma to her. This is because he can be goofy, full of energy and bouncing around (much to her chagrin as she was in his kimono), immature and such. But when the time called for it, he can immediately change 180! When suddenly humans with high status such as head priest met him, his demeanour changed to that of someone matured who had experience dealing with powerful people.
The head priest of course didn't come with good intention. Some people believe that Naruto was a demon that needs to be 'exorcised', and the head priest is here for that reason.
But then all doubts was cleared away when Naruto defeated the real demon that plagued the world. The Juubi or the Ten-Tailed Beast. The Beast is the literal meaning of 'Wrath of Nature'. Able to flatten forests and mountains, cause tsunamis and disasters of epic proportions. None stood as its equal, so far.
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Akane was in Naruto's kimono for the entire duration of his fight against the Beast. She was scared as hell as the fight was epic and this moment was probably the scariest moment in her life. But she didn't run away, because she can feel that Naruto was scared too.
However, as strong as Naruto was, he was nowhere near the Juubi's level and thus, unable to permanently end him. So he did the only thing he could; drain the Beast's energy or chakra as Naruto called it and seal it into him. He couldn't let the chakra roam free as it would only create a sentient ethereal Juubi and that could be worse.
"Akane-chan...," they both were on top of the Juubi's head. Having no chakra to fuel it, the Juubi's body was just an empty shell. Naruto was lying facing the sky while Akane was on his chest, in bliss from Naruto's petting.
"Don't you think that the Sun is lonely?" Naruto said and Akane opened her eyes. "I mean...everything was made with pairs. Life, death. Woman, Man. Right, left. Love and hate. So...where do you think is the Sun's pair?"
"It must be lonely to be Sun...so bright and important to the world, and yet, was alone. If it weren't for the Sun, the world will be cold, and dark...like this sky," Naruto put his hands up, as if trying to grab the sky.
Akane didn't understand what Naruto meant at first, but she hated seeing him sad. So her head went into his pouch and pulled out a small white ball and gave it to him. The ball was something that Naruto and Akane used to play together; her toy.
Naruto smiled and scratched her head and watched the ball. Suddenly, something an idea came to him. Naruto grabbed the ball and posed it high in the air, as if like he was putting the ball into the sky. He then grinned.
"Maybe, we could give the Sun his pair?" Naruto got up and said to her. "Maybe I could put a large rock into the sky for the Sun?"
Akane looked at him as if saying 'That's ridiculous,' which was mistake...or not. The thing about Naruto is that saying something is impossible to be done is a challenge for him. His grin was ear-splitting now.
Akane forgot that Naruto suck at following rules. Especially rules of the world.
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Akane was wrong. THIS was the scariest moment in her life! Even the Juubi can't do something like this!
The Juubi's body was floating in the air and was posed in a foetal position. Then, large amount of rock (mountains) and dirt flew towards it and covered the Juubi. The Beast was then completely encased in a sphere of earth but it wasn't enough for Naruto, so he collected more earth from his surrounding until the large island they were now, was reduced to a tiny island enough for a small house. The result was a freakishly huge sphere of earth, so huge that the ocean beneath it was acting weird.
"I NAME YOU THE MOON!" Naruto said and pushed the Moon upwards with his Shinra Tensei.
Sometimes Akane wondered who the real demon is.
Ever since then, the night was never the same again. It wasn't so dark anymore as the Moon reflects the Sun's light. And people no longer doubted Naruto and flocked him by the thousands. Naruto would then be known with many names, The Sage of Six Paths, God of Shinobi or The Saviour of the World.
Many years later, it was time for Naruto to go. The thing is, he shouldn't need to as with the Juubi's chakra, he would live forever. He was essential a god among men! But his humble nature denied that and said that he was still and forever will be human.
With his human nature, there will be times when he would make a mistake that other humans can exploit and might release the Juubi's chakra. The chakra then could be exploited just like what Naruto did. So to prevent that, Naruto separates the chakra into nine pieces and send them to various parts of the world.
The chakra would then be given shape and sentience so that it would resist any attempts to use it and preventing them from forming together. After all, unique identity separates us, right?
Having no more of the Juubi's chakra signals the Rikudo Sennin's descend from the throne of godhood and Death could once more, claim him.
But Naruto was ready, as he had led a wonderful life. He changed the world! And although he couldn't bring true peace and his teachings will be perverted, at least he gave the world a choice. What they do with the choice is up to them. He also left his legacy for the world; his sons.
No doubt they would both bring great changes to the world, be it for the better or for the worst.
"Akane-chan..." Naruto said softly, no doubt he was tired and his end nearing. Akane, as usual, was lying on top of his chest. "It was weird...weird that I have this feeling for you,"
Akane raised her head to look at him in the eyes. "After all I've been through, you're always with me. When people scorned me because of who I am, you never left me,"
His eyes looked sad. "And when people ran in fear of facing the Juubi, you're the one by my side. And honestly, if you didn't, I would've run too, "Naruto then chuckled a bit and Akane licked his face.
"In my mind at that time wasn't my friends, or my wife...but you. I thought that if I ran, you would be hurt, and I don't want that," Akane was shocked. She, a fox was in his mind and heart all this time? She thought that it would be that Uchiha woman.
"Live well Akane-chan. Maybe, after you've grown your tails, I could meet you again? Heh, wouldn't that be something...to defy Death" Naruto chuckled softly and scratched her ear one more time.
"Good bye, my Moon..." Naruto smiled and his eyes closed. Akane whimpered and cried on his chest. She finally understood what Naruto had meant with the Sun being lonely.
Naruto was like the Sun itself; full of brightness and his light was needed for the world to live. But, just as the Sun was too bright up close, so was he.
Naruto was too different from the rest of humanity that nobody truly understood him. The ones that approached him either hate him for his powers or tried to use him. The ones that genuinely approached him for companionship could not truly share his burden.
The fight with the Juubi is a fine example. They did not felt his fear of facing the Juubi. They did not and could not stand by him to face the Juubi.
They did not share his conflict of spreading his wisdom about the chakra, knowing that it will be perverted.
They did not have the fate of the world on their shoulders.
They could only sympathise and not empathise with him because they are not his equal. One could only empathise if one is equal with each other.
Naruto, despite all he'd been through, couldn't really relate to humans. After all, they did view him as a god. And a god isn't a man's equal or inferior.
And it was ironic that Naruto found true companionship with someone of different species.
"I'll be waiting, my Sun," Akane said for the first time.
FLASHBACK END
Author's Note Again: Naruto as the Sage? What plot twist (yeah right)! And I also used my Kyuubi OC from my other short story, Red String of Fate. Just to be clear, Akane in this story isn't the Kyuubi sealed inside Naruto. In fact, there will be other Kyuubi's around the world.
A little info about the foxes. Short word, they are the opposite of the NekoNins.
In NekoNin, the cats are centered in one place, Nekogakure. In this the foxes don't have a village but more to small clans. That means there will be a lot of scattered clans and not the usual unified village.
Also, the NekoNins are focused more to taijutsu, ninjutsu and nintaijutsu, in essential, they are the warriors. The foxes focused on genjutsu, fuinjutsu and have superior ninjutsu, in summary, they are the mages. The preferred to avoid direct confrontation if they can.
Naruto was summoned to the Getsuga Clan, which any Bleach readers would recognize what it is. Wow, I used Bleach material again. Anyway, for those of you who didn't read Bleach, Getsuga translates to Moon Fang, which I thought fit with Akane's back story just now. And since the Inuzuka uses fang stuff quite a lot and foxes are related to dogs, I figured, hey, why not?
Anyway, read and please review people!
Jutsus used:
Sealing Technique: Propulsion Seal – Inspired by Medusa the witch's Vector Plate from the Soul Eater series. The Vector Plate is shaped into a black arrow and will propel anything that step on it or above it (meaning airborne unit will also be affected) towards the direction the arrow is facing.
The downside of this seal is that the amount of speed it can impart on a target is affected by its weight. So the heavier a target is, the slower they will be propelled.
Sealing Technique: Movement Seal – This seal enables movement on animate objects so long that the seal is intact. Different that Puppet Mastery from Suna in that it doesn't require chakra strings to be used, just normal seal usage. However, unlike chakra strings which is invisible to most people, and thus great for fooling the enemy and espionage purposes. The Movement Seal however is visible when used as evident by the seal markings all over the body of the target.