Disclaimer: I don't really own Naruto...actually Naruto pwns everyone...
A wave of messy blonde hair entered Ayame's vision, as Naruto jumped up onto one of the Ichiraku-Ramen stand's stools.
"Guess what Ayame nii-chan?" The ecstatic blonde yelled.
"Woah Naruto!" Ayame stumbled back due to the boy's sudden shout. "Calm down and then tell me."
The young shinobi settled down onto his chair, and began to explain what spectacular event had happened to him.
"I actually passed Kakashi-sensei's exam!" He once again yelled, unable to control his excitement. Naruto, of course, had been waiting for this event, because it signified being one step closer to Hokage. "People will finally acknowledge me!" He bounced up and down on his stool childishly. Ayame could only smile.
"Well then Naruto!" Ayame said,"I guess you can have this one on the house!"
"Wow, really?" Naruto couldn't believe his luck today. However, he was oblivious to how his luck would drastically change soon.
"Sure!" Ayame was beaming. Naruto had a way of brightening everyone's day. The eager yet hypnotizing blue eyes of his were bouncing around, waiting for food. Not long after, the blonde haired knuckle-head had licked clean an astonishing 8 bowls of ramen.
"Mmm…" Naruto licked his lips, and jumped up. "Well, see ya! Oh, and say hi to the old man for me!" With that, the blonde bounced away, leaving a chuckling Ayame.
Naruto jogged home with a huge grin plastered onto his face. Konoha's jinchuriki noticed that it was getting dark, and picked up the pace. Nearby, a crouching figure lay their eyes upon Naruto. Hidden by the shadows, it leapt forward, trying to keep up with the shinobi. The only part of the figure that was distinguishable were it's eyes. The orbs were a metallic gold, and one look at them made you feel like they could empale you with one glance. The pupil was a different story however. It was a mirror basically. if you looked into the pupil's, you see yourself, but if you look deep enough, you can see you true self. And believe it or not, no one would want to see their true self.
"Hey kit-" The deep growl of the 9 tailed demon fox entered Naruto's mind.
"AHH!" Naruto jumped up, and started spinning around, searching for where the menacing voice had come from. The Kyuubi sighed mentally. He had explained to the kid how he was stuck in the brat's body, prior to the Gennin exam's, but it seems that Naruto had forgotten.
"Listen up brat, It's me the Kyuubi, and I can feel someone's chakra over the-" The magnificent fox's speech had come to an abrupt end, as the figure lurking in the shadow's eventually caught on to what was happening. The creature shot out of it's hiding place, revealing it's true form.
The beast looked mostly normal, if you consider absolutely terrifying from head to toe normal. It was at lest 6 2", with a massive build capable of pummeling a kage. It's head resembled a wolf, and it had black, shaggy fur, except for the red spiral the adorned it's back and chest. It also had red furry legs. In fact, if you wanted to call this massive creature a werewolf, you could. On top of all of this, the stalker had long canine teeth, and 5-inch long claws that looked well worn out. Naruto could have taken account of all these characteristics, but he was of course confused regarding the whole scenario. Therefore, Naruto had no room to react when the beast lunged at him, and bit down on his shoulder.
"ARGH!" Naruto toppled down to the ground, as the creature empaled it's teeth into his shoulder ravenously. "HELP!" Naruto called out, only to receive no response. The last thing our unfortunate ninja heard before becoming a victim to unconsciousness, was Kyuubi's panicking voice.
"Hey! hang in there brat! I won't let my container die!" Kyuubi of course wanted to still be known as the greatest feared demon, therefore he couldn't allow his prison to look weak. The nine tails began pouring his chakra into the boy's dying body, and started to heal him. All of a sudden, Kyuubi caught a glimpse of a figure moving around in his cage. "What the-" The most-feared demon of Konoha found the creature that had just attacked Naruto, inside his cage.
The wolf beast raised his head,"Nice to meet you too." He said in a deep, low and somewhat raspy voice. His golden eyes glistened in the cold, dense cage. Kyuubi glared down at him.
"Get out of here!" The destroyer of Konoha bellowed. It simply glared back, and then broke out in a huge grin.
"I don't believe that you can get me out of here Kyuubi-san."
"Kyuubi…-san?"
"Yes. Now if you would allow me to explain my actions…" Kyuubi lowered his killer intent and listened cautiously. "I have come from the demon world, seeking you, Kyuubi-san. I have learnt that you are sealed in an incapable human. And now I have come to aid you."
"Erhm… what?" the great tailed beast was becoming impatient. "Just tell me why you're in the brat's seal!"
"Yessir. I have come in here, to make your container stronger. I can contribute to his physical attributes, and maybe even make him stronger." The mysterious demon grinned, "it comes with a major setback though…"
"And that is?" Kyuubi snapped fiercely. He was actually grateful to his fellow demon, but then again, he thought, 'I am the great Kyuubi after all, so there was no way I can look soft.'
"You'll see soon enough Kyuubi-san." With that, the unknown beast faded into the shadows. Kyuubi smirked. He could get along with this guy. Naruto's first mission was tomorrow. Hopefully the red-eyed demon could have a word with him before it starts.
Naruto awoke the next morning finding himself in a bed. He put a trembling hand onto his numb shoulder. The blonde quickly regretted it, and winced in pain. Somehow, he managed to sit up. Taking in his surroundings, Naruto found that he was in a hospital. Or more specifically, the Konoha hospital.
"Hey, kit, can you hear me brat?" Kyuubi had been impatiently waiting for the poor boy to wake up.
"Wha?" Naruto answered groggily," Kyuubi?"
"Yeah." The nine-tailed demon summed up the situation to Naruto, and throughout their conversation, Naruto's eyes kept getting wider and wider.
Naruto glanced over and saw his hintae-ate.(Is this right?) His eyes then doubled size at the sight of it. "I HAVE TO GO FOR THE TEAM MEETING!" The frantic gennin leapt up, and dashed to the closet across the room. Ripping it open, he found his orange jumpsuit in it. Struggling to shove it on, the young boy stuffed a kunai into his pocket and grabbed his leaf village headband. Dashing out of the room, he once again heard Kyuubi growl;
"You have to get a new outfit kit." he sighed, "My container looks like a hippie…" he muttered to himself.
"Agreed." A familiar voice said. Kyuubi turned around to where the source of the sound came from. "It's me, Kyuubi-san." The tailed-fox's slitted eyes lay upon the wolf that attacked Naruto.
"Hmph." the demon fox sighed when he found that Naruto had arrived at the bridge.
"NARUTO!" Sakura glared at the unsuspecting boy."YOU'RE LATER THAN KAKASHI-SENSEI!"
"Okay, geez, back off will ya? You don't have to go all spazmastic on me. Actually, why don't you go and sit in a corner fan-girl." Naruto was wearing a blank face, until his eyes flashed a familiar gold color… He then growled rather uncharacteristically, and almost made everyone piss in their pants. The pink haired kunochi blinked twice before recovering from shock. However this shock didn't last long until Sakura threw a tantrum about how only Sasuke-kun and Kakashi-sensei were aloud to show up late. The blonde heard none of this however, due to the growl and change of vision. Sasuke had noticed this too, and his Uchiha mind was put to work. 'Why is the dobe acting like that?' He decided to leave for later to ponder.
"Okay, guys, our mission today is to save the cat named Tora(a/n: Is this the name?)!" Kakashi gave his famous eye-smile. Everyone sweat-dropped. The copy-cat ninja knew that something was up with Naruto, but he quickly dismissed it as puberty.
"Woohoo!" Naruto jumped up, pumping his fist in the air. "let's go!" He took off in the direction of the cat and snapped his head behind him. "Come on Sasu-gay! You can't beat me!" The young Uchiha prodigy suddenly sped up and matched Naruto's speed.
"Watch your mouth dobe." He growled.
1 HOUR LATER
Naruto dragged his sore butt over to the ramen stand. As soon as he sat down, Teuchi started to whip up some miso ramen.
"Hey Naruto!" The shop owner of the infamous ramen stand yelled. He frowned when he recognized that the young shinobi was depressed.
"Hey old man…" Naruto groaned. "do you have some ramen? I need some…badly." Teuchi snickered at the boy's words.
"Sure thing Naruto!" He grinned. "On the house!" With those words the gennin froze. He remembered what happened last time that he got free ramen…
"Uhhh," Naruto faked a smile. "No thanks old man! hehe…" declining free ramen was torture for him, but last night's 'incident' was worse. Naruto jumped up, and ran off towards the hokage statues. 'I need to talk to the furball' were the words that rung through the blonde shinobi's mind. A couple minutes later, Naruto was crouching on top of the 4th hokage's head.
'Hey, ya oversized fox, you there?' Inside Naruto's mind, a pair of red eyes snapped open. Suddenly, the young shinobi was pulled into his own mind as his body went stiff. Inside looked like a sewer, dark, musty, and cold. Naruto treaded through the murky water until he found himself in a wide room. sitting directly in front of him, was the Kyuubi, behind huge bars.
"What do you want brat?" Naruto was terrified. He had known the demon fox was inside him, but naturally, had not seen it before. The blonde found himself twiddling his fingers at the sight of this being. "ARGH! you wasting my time!" Kyuubi bellowed. Naruto suddenly snapped his head up, and remembered why he was here. He however was stopped in mid sentence, as the mysterious wolf demon appeared on the side of Kyuubi's cage.
"AHHH!" Naruto franticly jumped away, but ended up tripping himself and falling into the murky water. The beast's golden eyes penetrated into Naruto, and in it's mirror-pupil's the blonde could see his own shivering reflection." K-kyuubi! Why is t-that thing i-in h-here?" he stammered.
"Calm down kit," Kyuubi sighed. 'Sissy…' he thought to himself. "he's here to help." Glancing towards the other demon in his cage, Kyuubi groaned. 'My life is so complicated…' The fox lay down on his belly, and rested his gigantic head on his huge paws.
"What?" Naruto yelled sarcastically, "He'll help me die that is!"
"At this point I wouldn't mind that…" Kyuubi muttered, closing his eyes. The wolf demon beside him chuckled.
"Me neither Kyuubi-san." The wolf grinned.
"W-what's your n-name?" Naruto asked shakily. Kyuubi raised an eyebrow. He didn't even know the demon's name.
"Oh! hehe, sorry Kyuubi-san," The beast grinned sheepishly,"My name is Itami Gokai, Kage no Akuma.(a/n: Demon of shadows)"
"Hmph." Kyuubi kept wearing his usually stoic face. "Now brat, what did you want?" But inside the fox's mind, he started running through the name. Who was this guy? Kage no Akuma?
"Okay furball, what is that guy doing here?" Naruto demanded, pointing an accusing finger at Gokai. "And something happened earlier too…" he trailed off with the last sentance.
"Well, Gokai-san, care to explain?" Kyuubi figured that he'd just give the demon wolf all the work.
Gokai took a deep breath, "Well, what happened was I bit into your shoulder and was regenerated here. I've come, of course, for Kyuubi-san. I have to make you stronger. Sometimes, when you need it, or when I'm feeling bored, I'll pour some of my chakra into you. No average human can contain three different chakra's, so nowyour physical being is beginning to alter." He gave a canine grin. Naruto just stood there, taking in his words. "Oh, and you'll be emotional, short-tempered, and not to mention you'll want to have occasional urges to kill..." Naruto's face went slack. "Much like a hormonal girl…" he concluded.
"Well, if that's all, go away." Kyuubi mumbled, and then let his heavy eye lids drop.
"Oh, one more thing Naruto-kun-" The demon wolf said, "Everyday at about this time, meet me in here again." With that, Naruto felt the world spin, and eventually closed his eyes. When he reopened them, the knuckle-head ninja was back ontop of the 4th's head.
"Time to get new clothes." He said to himself. Of course normal Naruto would never give up his blinding jumpsuit, but when your under a certain 'demon wolf's' influence, you do strange things. Leaping off the statue, the gennin made his way towards the clothing shop.