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Deep within a dark, sewer like room, a set of slitted red eyes gleamed with satisfaction as the bars holding the owner at bay were finally shattered by the beasts immense power. It had taken almost a week of effort after it had noticed a new seal form, its purpose could've been to reinforce the one already in place and weaken its host, however the reality was far different.
The newly placed seal had not reinforced the seal like it should've, the application had been sloppy at best and had instead sealed part of the seal that held it at bay, giving the beast the chance it needed. Now the seal had been shattered and it could escape any time it wished, however that wouldn't do, it knew its host having witnessed its life during its imprisonment. Despite everything the child had refused to go back on his word, he never tried to hide his emotions or take his anger out on anything that couldn't defend itself unless it had been the one to incite that anger. To make things even better for the child, he possessed a rivalry with the remaining member of that cursed clan. On the surface the boy thought of his rival as his friend, however deep within, the truth was clear, he resented the boy, his envy towards the person had grown over time and was only just starting to diminish courtesy of his sensei and his sentence 'those that break the rules are trash, those that abandon their friends are worse than trash'.
The beast knew, the man may have lived by that motto, however it was old enough to 'see underneath the underneath' as the man had called it, he didn't consider its host a friend. The boy had taken that sentence to heart and instead of taking it for its literal meaning had taken it in the spirit of 'don't abandon your comrades'. It was yet another quality that it found endearing, The child was anything but smart, he possessed so many flaws that many people couldn't see past them, however it wasn't most people, it could see the child's good points and knew that he was the one it wanted.
The only problem it had now was the small point that the boy would die if it removed itself from his body, the shock would be too great for a human to handle, however there was a very simple solution to that minor setback and it would've done it to him sooner or later, so with a small burst of Youki, it proceed to make its move.
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Uzumaki Naruto wasn't what many people would call normal. He had an unhealthy obsession with orange, he was officially a ninja but he preferred to jump into a fray headfirst without a plan, he did nothing to hide his emotions and possessed little in the way of common sense that would make it easy for an enemy to trick him into revealing sensitive information, he possessed an incredibly one sided crush on a pink haired girl that tended to insult him and even hit him if he did something normal people would consider particularly stupid.
That's not to say that she didn't like him, there were several times when she would agree with him though she refused to admit it, there were times when the boy actually looked cool instead of like an idiot and she would admit that despite his flaws he was a good intentioned person and had the potential to become a great man, she just didn't want to be with him in any form of romantic relationship.
Physically he wasn't unattractive, though his regular clothing made it difficult to see this, he had spiky blond hair, a lean frame, whisker like birthmarks that adorned his face and sapphire blue eyes that possessed a radiance that not many people saw, mainly because he spent nearly all his time with them squinted.
In their home he was generally looked down upon by the populace, exactly why wasn't something the younger generations were privy to, though their opinions on the child would probably have been different if they did know.
At the moment he was just waking up, memories from the previous week came flooding back to him, he had been entered into the Chūnin exams, if he passed he would be given a promotion to the rank of Chūnin, the most diverse rank in the elemental nations. The strength of a Chūnin varied widely, they could be as weak as genin or nearly as strong as a Jōnin, that was the main problem with having only three normal ranks, beginner, elite and everything in between.
He had managed to pass the first part of the exam due to some miracle, namely his own stubbornness and refusal to give up. It was during the second part of the exam that everything went wrong.
The very first thing that had happened was that he had been incapacitated when he had been relieving his bladder, in the end his teammates had forced the enemy to retreat before releasing him. Less than ten minutes later and he had been thrown through the air by a ridiculously strong breeze before being eaten alive by a giant snake.
Fortunately he had managed to escape with a bit of maths (namely he multiplied himself till his volume exceeded the snakes capacity to contain) before he had managed to reunite with his teammates. He had been so angry when he discovered that his rival was just going to give up their scroll to this creepy Kusa Konoichi. It had taken him awhile to realise why the other boy had tried to do so, the Kusa nin was far beyond their capabilities, able to summon monstrous snakes like it was child's play. In the end he had lost consciousness when the stranger had slammed her fingers into his stomach while muttering something about the Kyūbi.
When he had woken up he was surrounded by his old school mates as well as a team that had graduated the academy a year earlier, the good point was that they seemed to be on his side at that point so they had been able to leave without any serious injuries.
Once they had passed the second test it was revealed that the third part would be a public tournament and that they would have to have preliminaries to cut back on the number of participants since too many had passed the second test. He had won his prelim of course, he couldn't let someone like Kiba beat him if he was going to be Hokage.
What scared him however was what he had seen during the prelims, there were two people that possessed strength far beyond what he had ever expected to meet in the exam. Hyūga Neji, a boy that had tried to kill his own cousin because of some petty political differences within their clan and Sabaku no Gaara, a boy from Sunagakure who had shown to have a nearly impenetrable defence of sand that defended him against attacks even if he was unaware of them. Combined with his brutality and he had permanently crippled his opponent, if it hadn't been for his opponents sensei interfering there was no doubt in Naruto's mind that the boy would've killed his opponent.
Letting out a tired sigh he decided that he would have to try and forget about that sort of stuff for now, his stomach was tingling and he was pretty sure that meant he was feeling nervous. Clearing his mind he couldn't help but wonder why the tingling wasn't going away, so opening his tired eyes he looked down, seeing something he was certain wasn't supposed to be there… a hand.
Blinking several times he tried to ensure that the hand wasn't just a figment of his imagination as it slowly ran its fingers across his stomach in time with the tingling feeling he was having. Once he had processed that it wasn't just him hallucinating he moved his eyes along the slender arm, freezing at the voluptuous curves that revealed themselves in all their glory before he moved to look at the face.
Almost immediately his mind had what many would refer to as a breakdown as he processed the slitted ruby eyes, the silky red hair that stretched far enough to cover her derriere from his view and most importantly, the tall triangular ears that protruded from the top of her head. Looking further down he noticed that carrying on from her hair were a series of furry appendages coloured red with white tips… counting the number of these appendages, his mind once again went into meltdown, there were nine.
"Good morning Naruto-kun, did you sleep well?" the woman asked with a serene smile, causing him to finally jump back to reality.
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The village of Konohagakure was filled with countless individuals each going about their own business when they all jumped simultaneously as a scream rocked the village.
Once the scream had died down they all immediately went back to their everyday work, the recognised that sort of scream, it was the sort that people made when they woke up after a night of drinking with something they didn't expect.
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Naruto knew that there were times when a person should be upset. This was not one of those times. This was one of those times when the best course of action was to panic and enter a hysterical state of fear that would allow him to ignore his inevitably painful demise and leave existence without noticing the burning that would obviously occur.
Time passed in his state of gibbering fear and his mind soon began to grow bored of its new state when it was apparent that nothing was happening. Once his mind had finally decided to settle down he looked up, seeing the nine tailed woman simply lying with her stomach to his bed with an incredibly bored expression as her eyes focused on him.
"Are you finished panicking yet?" she asked him, her voice possessing an ethereal quality that made it resound in his mind as he began to wonder if it was worth giving the woman a once over just so he could die happy in the knowledge that he had managed to get a good eyeful of the picture of perfection before him.
"Will you kill me if I say yes?" he responded in a daze as his eyes began to trace the curves that formed her body, a noticeable blush making itself present on his cheeks as he began to feel blood flow lower than normal at the sight before him.
"No," the woman said calmly before she started to lift herself up off the mattress, giving the blond a good look at her chest in the process. Immediately the boy jerked his head to the side, hoping the foxgirl in front of him wouldn't kill him for catching an eyeful of her naked form, "is there a problem Naruto-kun?"
"I… I'm sorry," he said quickly causing the redhead to tilt her head to the side, her ears lowering themselves while her eyes narrowed with no negative emotions playing in them, all in all her expression gave the impression of childish confusion.
"What for?" she asked him, causing him to curse himself at his stupidity, he would already be dead if she had noticed him catching glimpses of her but right now he had no option but to admit what he had seen.
"I, I saw your boobs," he admitted hoping that he would at least get a painless death. After several minutes of feeling nothing, he opened his eyes just a fraction, revealing the woman sitting on his bed, her beautiful form positioned almost perfectly for him to see all but what lay between her legs… however it was the look on her face that surprised him, the look of complete confusion, unfortunately for him all it did was make even more blood pump to his groin.
The kitsune wasn't blind and could easily see the bulge in the boys pants, indicating he liked what he was seeing, however it would appear that he hadn't been capable of figuring out the most important part of this encounter.
"I think you have misunderstood the current circumstances Naruto-kun," the ruby eyed vixen stated calmly before motioning for the boy to move closer, which he did without question, even if he was going to be turned into a smear he would at least get a closer look of the beauty before him.
What happened next shocked him more than anything else that had ever occurred before, the Kyūbi grabbed him with speed that he couldn't keep up with before throwing him onto the bed and planting its lips against his. His mind went blank, unable to respond as he felt a fleshy appendage trying to squeeze past his lips.
Eventually his mind managed to overcome its previously set rules and managed to register the current situation as a case of 'being kissed by a beautiful woman who just so happens to be the Kyūbi'. Of course he didn't know what to do in such a situation and eventually the woman's tongue succeeded in pushing past his lips and making itself at home in his mouth. In the end the boy couldn't help but give in to the massaging appendage in his mouth and proceeded to return the favour.
Kyūbi couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction upon feeling the boy beginning to move his tongue, pushing past her own and moving towards her mouth before it began a battle of dominance against her. It was a foreign situation to her, she knew that this was the boys first 'real' kiss, she didn't count the accident that had occurred between him and the Uchiha a kiss because neither intended on it and it would never have happened if the boy that was behind the blond hadn't turned around and knocked him forwards.
What she didn't know however was if he was capable of figuring out that this was also her first kiss, their tongues were proving to be equally matched, showing that neither possessed much in the way of experience. She wasn't ashamed that she was over a five hundred years old and had never kissed anyone before, no demon would have been. Unlike humans, demons were particularly fussy when choosing a mate, often taking millennia to find the one they would finally have children with.
Finally separating from the boy she had chosen to be her mate, she let out a soft smile before leaning close to his ear and whispering a single sentence that made his eyes widen to the size of saucers, "you are the only one allowed to see me like this."
Almost immediately his blush grew to whole new levels as he finally processed the situation, the Kyūbi wasn't going to kill him, it wasn't going to torture him for imprisoning it for thirteen years and if what he thought was right then it was giving him unique rights that no one else was allowed. However he needed to make sure he wasn't just rushing to the wrong conclusions before accepting it.
"Do you mean I'm the only one allowed to see you in your human form?" the nervousness in his voice was noticeable to anyone, let alone a five hundred year old vixen.
"No, other humans are allowed to see me in my human form… you're the only one allowed to see me in this state of dress," the red eyed woman told him calmly as she began to trace circles on his chest.
"Uh… you do realise you're naked… right?" the blue eyed boy asked hoping he wasn't going to be killed for letting her know she was completely lacking in the clothing department.
"Yes, and as I said, you are the only one allowed to see me like this, you are my mate after all," the response caused his mind to blank out. The Kyūbi had just called him its mate… when the hell had that happened?
"W-wait! What do you mean I'm your mate?!" he asked, all traces of fear gone now his mind was focused on the vixens statement.
"You have all the qualities that a good mate needs, you have good genes, you are loyal, you," she started to list off before being interrupted by the boy.
"No, I mean when did I agree to being your mate?!" she wasn't sure what was going through his head right now, he was probably very confused about the current situation but then again who wouldn't be.
"It was either that or you would die and I don't want to see you die Naruto-kun," the ruby eyed woman told him with a hint of sadness in her voice, causing him to wonder exactly what was going on with the bijū right now.
"Wha? Why? What do you mean I would die?!" he finally managed to ask the redhead who let out a small sigh before looking him in the eyes and explaining exactly what had happened.
"Do you remember that snake summoner back during the second exam?" she asked him, earning a nod of confirmation from the boy that was currently lying under her, "that person placed another seal on top of the one that was keeping me at bay, that is what knocked you out," she explained, causing the boy to understand where it was going, "this seal was placed on sloppily, instead of reinforcing the seal that was already holding me at bay it seal a portion of the seal that held me."
"Because of this the seal was weakened enough for me to start damaging it and yesterday I finally managed to shatter it," she explained to him, earning a pair of wide eyes in response, "I could've easily escaped as soon as the seal was broken but if I did it would've killed you," the shock that was present on his face didn't increase, probably because it was already at its limit, "I like you too much to just let you die like that, so I chose to claim you as my mate and wait until the transfiguration was complete before leaving your body."
"Wait, transfiguration?" was all Naruto could say to the woman's explanation, he had never heard of such a word before and was beginning to think it could potentially be bad for him.
"The process that made you a Hanyou," she said with a smile while all the colour drained from the boys face, "so from now on we'll live together for the rest of our lives," she told him before snuggling her face into his chest.
"Oh shit," was all he could mutter under his breath.
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Jiraiya couldn't help but feel annoyed, just yesterday the blond brat had practically begged him for training and now he wasn't even going to be on time for their scheduled training session for the day, he may not have been one for punctuality under casual circumstances but even he knew to be on time for a meeting you schedule, he had a good mind to go to the boys apartment and teach him a lesson he'd never forget.
Then again, why shouldn't he?
And with that thought he used the standard Konoha shunshin to leave the area and make his way towards the boys home.
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"Come on Naruto-kun, you'll be late," Kyūbi stated with a small smile as she tried to hold back her laughter directed towards her mate… he looked so adorable with his new 'assets'.
"I'm not going out like this!" he shouted as he grabbed the tail and one of the fox ears that had grown overnight. Like the woman the fur on his new appendages matched that of his hair, sporting a golden sheen while the tip of the tail was black and made a stark contrast to the golden blond that covered the rest of the appendage.
"Is there a problem with your new nature?" she asked him with a clueless expression that made the blonds heart beat faster as he wondered how a beast that rampaged in his home thirteen years ago could look so sweet and innocent while also standing completely naked in front of him.
"Is there a problem? Of course there's a problem! If anyone sees me like this I'll be murdered!" the young boy told her nearing hysterics.
"I really don't understand humans," she admitted with a pout, causing the boy to suddenly snap out of his panic at the random statement.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Naruto asked earning a sigh of defeat from the woman as she flopped back to the bed her eyes showing a hint of sadness.
"The people of this village treated you like a monster because you were the prison for me, they hate me because I attacked Konoha a while ago and killed a few dozen ninja… but they practically worship the Hokages, all of whom have slaughtered countless more people than I have, they forgive their enemies in war through the use of peace treaties even though these enemies slaughtered hundreds if not thousands of shinobi… but the chances are that they won't forgive me simply because I'm not human," the ruby eyed vixen stated, causing the boy to look at her with a hint of pity, what she was saying was true… but then again, why did she attack in the first place?
"Kyūbi," he started only to get cut off by the fox.
"Kouka."
Naruto couldn't stop himself from blinking several times, was he right in thinking that that was the fox demons name?
"Is that your name?" he asked earning a soft smile and a small nod from the kitsune as she lay on the bed, giving the boy full view of her well proportioned physique, something he was beginning to get used to seeing now, though his pants still showed that he was excited by the sight he was allowed to see, "that's a pretty name."
"I know, its one thing I'm thankful to my parents for," she admitted, making the blond splutter at the girls statement, "is something wrong Naruto-kun?"
`N-not at all, I just sorta… well I didn't really… well, you know… uh…" the uneasiness in the boys speech was clear, the fact that he couldn't even start forming a coherent sentence just proved how vulnerable he was to the art that was language.
"You weren't expecting me to have parents were you?" she finished for him, earning a dejected nod from the boy, "that's alright, I sometimes forget I have them as well, it has been so long since I last spoke with them."
"S-so, can you tell me why you attacked Konoha thirteen years ago?" the blond asked the vulpine with a hint of uncertainty in his voice, he didn't know what sort of reaction he'd get for asking about that event but he had to try at least.
"A contract," it was something that caused the boy to freeze, did he just hear her right? She had attacked the village because of a contract? If so what was the deal with this contract and was it going to be a risk now?
"What was this contract?" he asked her hoping she would at least tell him about whatever this contract involved and if she would have to attack the village again because of it.
"Something I made back when that cursed clan still had its honour and didn't use me like a pet that would heel on command," she said with venom in her voice, making the blond wonder what she was talking about.
"What clan are you talking about Kouka-chan?" he asked, not even realising the suffix he gave the vixen, though she did and it earned a warm smile from the girl before it was erased by the name of the clan that had ruined her life over the past one hundred years.
"The Uchiha clan," she stated with venom clear in her tone, easily noticing the shock that appeared on her mates face as he immediately recognised the name.
"Hold on, are you telling me that the Uchiha clan was behind your attack?" the surprise in his voice was obvious as the woman proceeded to sit up on the bed and turn her head to look out of the window.
"I don't know if the entire clan was behind it or if it was just a single person but they possessed a sharingan and knew how to activate the contract so I couldn't disobey them," she informed him with a hint of depression seeping into her voice as she remembered a time when the Uchiha were relatively noble but their hate just kept building and building until it couldn't build anymore.
"Well at least there are only two left now," the boy said with a hint of relief in his voice, happy that he wouldn't have to worry about her attacking the village again anytime soon.
"Actually there are at least three," she corrected him, making his eyes widen slightly at what she was telling him, from what he knew only Sasuke and his brother were left alive in that clan, so who was this third person? "outside of your 'friend' and his brother, there is also the person that made me attack the village, he wasn't a Konoha nin so he wasn't a target during the massacre."
Immediately the relief turned to fear, if this guy was still around then what was stopping him from coming back to finish the job now that Kouka was free?
"Still, the contract was sealed by your father during that attack, it is pretty much the only thing I'm grateful to him for… outside of bringing you into this world of course," the vixen told him with a smile before noticing the blank look on his face, "did I say something wrong?"
"Y-you know who my father is?" it was quiet but despite the volume the longing was clear to all that could hear him.
"Of course, my last host was your mother, so I knew the man like your mother did," she could see the sheer desperation in the boy's eyes as he heard her claim and she knew she had to tell him if she ever wanted him to return her feelings for him, "they were both powerful ninja, your father in particular, their names were Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato."
Once again Naruto's eyes widened in shock upon hearing the names of the people that conceived him, he had never heard of Uzumaki Kushina, however he knew the name Namikaze Minato like the back of his hand… the man was his idol after all.
"Y-you mean I'm the son of the Yondaime?" he asked the vixen earning a small nod from the woman as his eyes began to water, it was one piece of information he cherished and the demon that had just decided to make him her mate out of nowhere was the one to tell him. It made everything even harder for him to accept now that he knew more about what had happened that night, his parents had died because of an Uchiha and despite everything they had been told in the academy it seemed like the Kyūbi was a victim that night as well.
"Kouka-chan, what did you think of my parents?" he didn't know why he asked her but he just couldn't help but ask, if she knew them then it was possible he could learn more about them than they taught at the academy.
"Your father was a smart man, he was able to figure out a portion of the time/space continuum and make a jutsu revolving around it. As a person he wasn't perfect, you've inherited a few of his flaws, such as his stubbornness, if it wasn't for that he'd still be alive," she told the child, shocking him once again.
"Wait, what do you mean he'd still be alive?" Naruto couldn't help but ask the vixen, earning a small sigh from her.
"Your mother managed to survive my extraction but she was still dying, she tried to convince your father to let her reseal me in herself but he wouldn't have it, he decided to seal half of my chakra in himself before sealing the rest in you with a small portion of his own and your mothers," she explained to him, earning a look of confusion from the boy.
"Huh? What was the point of that?" the spiky haired child asked out loud, it didn't make much sense to him that his father would seal a little extra chakra when he had just cut the foxes in half.
"The point was located on a part of the seal that was sealed by the snake summoner, if it hadn't been then your parents chakra would've been released and the small portion of their conscious that was attached to it would've tried to stop me from leaving," she admitted, causing the boy's eyes to widen even more, "if it wasn't for that Kusa nin you would've been able to meet your parents at some point."
"You mean I had the chance to see my parents… and now it's gone forever," the whiskered child said with barely restrained tears, it was the one thing he wanted more than anything else and now he knew that it had been possible but now that chance was no longer available.
"There is the small possibility that the part of the seal where they're spirits reside is still intact, if it is then a seal master should be capable of allowing you to see them but I won't guarantee anything, I am only a beginner with Fūinjutsu so I don't know if that part of the seal is still intact," the redhead told him, earning a look of happiness from the boy as his mind accepted that there may be a way to meet his parents even though they were both dead.
A sudden knocking on his door interrupted the duo from their conversation as the blonds heart started beating harder than it had been that entire day.
"Hey gaki, are you planning on training today or are you just giving up on beating the Hyūga boy?" came a call from the other side of the door, immediately making the boy panic as he began to go through everything he could do to keep his new state a secret while not missing out on his much needed training.
"If you don't want him to see your new features then why not just do the obvious thing and use a henge?" Kouka asked her face taking a bored expression once again as she noticed the dumbfounded expression on her mates face before he put his hands in a seal and his current form was replaced by the appearance he had the previous day, including the hideous orange jumpsuit that he seem too attracted to for his own good.
Just as he was about to leave the bedroom and answer the door, he remembered something important that he would have to do before anything else.
"Kouka-chan, if you're going to be seen by anyone then please hide your ears and tails," it was a simple request which earned yet another bored expression off the fox girl before she gave him a defeated nod, she may not have liked hiding her 'features' but she knew the boy didn't want any trouble to happen, which would essentially be guaranteed if she left with her tails hanging out, "thank you."
Before anything else could happen the boy had left the room and proceeded to open the door, revealing a rather irate old man with long white hair, a horned hitae-ate with the kanji for oil (油)decorating it while a pair of red lines ran down from his eyes to his jaw. He was dressed in a red sleeveless coat over a short green Kimono and green pants, while a pair of geta were worn on his feet.
"Sorry, Ero-sennin, I just had a busy morning," the now henged child told the man with a hint of desperation making the older man look in the room.
"Really, and what was so important that you would be late for training you practically begged for?" the old man asked, only for his eyes to jerk to the bedroom door as it slowly opened before a beautiful redhead with soft green eyes, dressed only in the boys duvet.
"I hope you have a good day Naruto-kun, we'll start where we left off when you get back okay?" the woman said with a soft smile, making the young Hanyou blush profusely while the white haired man suddenly changed his expression from that of an annoyed teacher to that of a lecherous old man.
"Okay, I accept your reason for being late, would you rather finish off here first?" Jiraiya asked the boy with his lecherous grin never leaving his face.
"I need to train to beat Neji, I can speak with Kouka-chan later," the boy said realising that the man had obviously gotten the wrong impression, then again he had gotten the impression that that was the vixen's plan in the first place.
"Are you sure?" the pervert asked once more earning a glare off the redhead, the power sent behind it told the man that getting beaten by the woman would hurt… a lot.
"If you keep staring at me you'll find your eyes and balls will do a little relocating," the red headed beauty threatened him earning a nervous gulp off the man before he grabbed Naruto's arm and proceeded to leave, closing the door to a call of 'see ya later Kouka-chan' courtesy of Naruto.
With the older ninja no longer in sight, she looked out of the window to see if there was any risk of being seen by ninja running around. Deciding that it would make more sense to simply close the blinds she locked the front door before discarding the duvet and releasing the henge that hid her ears, tails and eyes, her next point of call to be to see what her mate had in the way of food before having her first taste of food in over a hundred years.