This is a NarutoxIno only story. Nobody will be added to their relationship later. This story starts after Naruto's training with Jiraiya. There will be flashbacks explaining things. Also I do appreciate reviews and questions. This is only my second fanfic so I can still use the help in pointing out mistakes. Also if you have any questions just ask in a review or private message and I will respond in the next chapter. The Nine Tails and other summons and powerful creatures will be in BOLD. Thanks for reading.

Chapter 1:

A tall, whiskered boy of 16 was walking through the forest to Konoha. With his heightened fox sense he could smell the rain of the forest from the previous night. And when the breeze hit just right he could smell the familiar smell of Ichiraku's Ramen. Just from the faint smell the boy's mouth began to water, remembering the wonderful taste of the world's best ramen.

Jiraiya, Naruto's sensei, just watched the boy in amusement. Naruto kept sticking his head up in the air to sniff the rame. Jiraiya couldn't help but compare him to Kakashi's tracking dogs. At the thought of Naruto being one of Kakashi's tracking dogs Jiraiya started laughing uncontrollably. Naruto asked him several times what was so funny but all Jiraiya could muster out was "Dog...face!" while pointing and laughing at Naruto. Naruto wasn't too happy being compared to a dog. Naruto knew how girls looked at him and knew he looked nothing like a dog.

Naruto looked completely different than the day he left. Naruto is now as tall as Jiraiya, six foot four. His shoulders have gotten wider and has developed a nice hard six pack abs. Naruto's face and hair was almost exactly like his father's. Naruto grew his hair out to be a bit longer. He has the shape of his father's face but more of his mother's baby fat face. The whiskers had gotten a bit darker and longer as he grew older.

Naruto stretched his arms high above his head and when he pulled them back down he hit his hand on the handle of his sword. Pulling his sword of his back he started to twirl it for a bit and just mess around. He stared at the long sword remembering the painful day he got it. The day of Team 7's first C rank mission.

*Flashback*

Team 7 was just assigned their first C rank mission. The mission was to escort Tazuna back to his village in the land of waves. They had all met up at the gate and formed a diamond formation around Tazuna heading to the land of waves. The team didn't know however that Tazuna had lied about the mission ranking and how dangerous it actually was.

They had been on their journey for quite awhile and would make it to the land of waves by the next. Naruto heading the front of the diamond formation was very distracted at the moment. Naruto was worried at the moment because for the last few days he has been hearing a voice in his head telling him to do things. Naruto ignored the voice as best as he could but couldn't help but think he was going insane. Naruto completely distracted by the voice, didn't think for a second when he stepped in a puddle, but the voice did. "Hey kit, don't you think its weird that there's a puddle but it didn't rain last night?" Naruto's eyes widened realizing what the voice pointed out. Naruto was mad at himself for missing something so stupid.

Naruto quickly turned around and threw several kunai into the puddle. Tazuna and the rest of Team 7 was surprised by Naruto's sudden action. The kunai slowly sunk down into the puddle as if filled with blood. Everyone stared at it as a body slowly floated up. When the man rose out of the puddle and it disappeared, Kakashi knew that it was a genjutsu. Once the genjutsu disappeared another man popped into existence.

"You killed him! You little bastard." The man screamed at Naruto while holding his dead brother. Kakashi immediately recognized them as the 'Demon Brothers' from his bingo book. The Demon Brother ran at Naruto aiming the gauntlet at him while preparing the chain. Naruto did dodge the gauntlet at all. The brother hit Naruto straight in the face and Naruto poofed away. The man swore and everyone was surprised. Nobody had even seen Naruto make a shadow clone. As the man picked up his chain Naruto shot up out of the ground hitting him in the face. Sakura and Sasuke quickly moved to Tazuna to guard him as Kakashi took out his Sharingan, sensing another enemy.

Naruto ran to the brother as he got up. He swung the chain at Naruto which Naruto jumped over easily. Naruto made twenty shadow clones. Each clone taking kunai in each hand, launched themselves at the brother. He punched one with the gauntlet and threw kunai and another threw but before he could move much more Naruto tackled him to the ground holding a kunai to his throat. Naruto was about to ask him who he worked for as he got a senbon needle to the hand. Naruto pulled his hand away to see a senbon needle piercing all the way through.

Before Naruto stood a woman in a hunter's mask. On the mask was a red swirl that went across the mouth and nose and then a red line which went across the left cheek. She grabbed the man and shunshined away. Naruto got up and grinned walking over to Kakashi.

"What are you so happy about? The enemy got away." The silver haired jounin asked. Naruto looked up at him and laughed a bit. "Before they shunshined away I strapped a paper bomb on him." Naruto told him proudly. Kakashi looked at him in shock not believing it but then off in the distance heard an explosion.

*One Day Later*

They had gotten Tazuna home safely to his daughter and grandson. Naruto wasn't too happy. He thought that Tazuna's grandson, Inari, was a whiny brat. Inari told them how they were going to all die. That they were worthless like all the rest. Naruto got very angry at the and had gone off on the kid. Naruto decided it would be best to talk a walk through the forest.

Naruto decided that he may as well get in some training being as Kakashi teaches him nothing. Naruto had looked at a few scrolls before he left and found out he needed to master his chakra control to walk on trees and water. Naruto spent hours trying to walk up the tree but all he succeeded in doing was bruising his butt. "You're going about this all wrong kit." 'There's that damn voice again!' he thought to himself. Thinking that talking to it couldn't do any harm replied. "What do you mean I'm doing it wrong" The voice in his head just chuckled at him. "Finally going to talk back eh? Well, I know you can use shadow clones. Using the shadow clones to train would be an ingenious idea for you." Naruto was really confused now. "What do you mean use the clones for training." he asked the voice in his head. "If you make multiple shadow clones and they train, you get more training done. Lets say you get about 200 hours of training in a week. Add 1 clone in doing the same, after you collect all of its knowledge and experience you doubled your training time. Its all multiplication." The voice explained slowly. "So I just cheat my way through training?" Naruto asked unsure if it was okay. "Naruto, you will never rise to the top and become Hokage if you don't take advantage of the things you are given." Naruto nodded understanding and created 200 shadow clones.

"Okay you 100 go and start the water training. You 100 over there go and start the tree training." When Naruto finished he heard 200 highly energetic "You got it boss!" as they ran off to their areas. "Thank you voice. Whoever you are." The voice laughed lightly at that. "You still don't know who I am yet? Well if you ever want to meet me just meditate and imagine your mind." Naruto tried asking the voice more questions of what it meant and who it was but got nothing. Naruto decided to do as the voice said and meditate to go deep into his mind.

*Inside Naruto's Mind*

Naruto was laying on the ground in an inch of water. He opened his eyes and saw a dungeon. Taking a deep breath in he quickly plugged his nose. 'Why does it smell worse that Akamaru after a bath!' he thought to himself. He got up and turned around to see giant golden gates with a seal over it. Naruto couldn't begin to imagine why his mind looked like this as he walked up to the gate.

Naruto reached out and touched the bar to quickly jump back in surprise as two giant red eyes peered out at him. "I see you have finally come to greet me kit." The eyes moved closer to the bars and Naruto saw the giant fox. He couldn't believe it. He now knew the reason why the villagers hate him. The Nine Tails Fox was sealed inside of him. Now he knew why he was called a monster. Because he was one. He was jailer to the most powerful tailed beast of them all. The one that had destroyed his village and killed a lot of people.

"YOU! You're the reason why everybody hates me! You're the reason why I'm a monster!" Naruto screamed at the fox. The fox turned to Naruto and felt the boys pain. He was connected to the boy. He felt what he felt and it changed him for better or worse. "Listen kit. I know the pain you have been through. I have seen it all through you. I have always been there for you, while the village tries to kill you. I heal your wounds, give you comfort, give you strength. All they do is try and kill you and break you down, and you call me the monster? They are the monsters!" As the fox screamed at him Naruto couldn't help but flinch. "They hated me because of you! If you weren't in me I wouldn't be hated!" Naruto screamed back. The fox just shook his head knowing that he would have to tell Naruto the real story eventually.

"No Naruto, I was forced to attack your village. A man named Madara Uchiha had gotten control over me and made me do it. Then the 4th Hokage sealed me inside of you." Naruto took all this in. His body was numb now. He knew why everyone hated him. He knew it was his hero that sealed the fox in him. And he knew Madara Uchiha was to blame for his lifetime full of pain. "Listen kit, I'm going to train you. When the day comes we will get our revenge against Madara Uchiha. And on that day he will know that nobody can try and control Kurama Nine Tailed Fox!"Kurama's voice boomed loudly inside of Naruto while he ranted.

Naruto walked up to the fox. "Are you serious about training me?" Naruto asked still unbelieving. "Kit, as long as you're serious about the training, so am I." Kurama responded. Naruto thought for a moment weighing whatever risk he could think of. "Okay when do we start?" He asked with a big smile across his face. "Well first kit, you have to trust me. Walk forward to the cage so I can change your seal. While I cannot remove which would release me, I can change it so that we can blend which will make us both very powerful." Naruto slowly walked closer and lifted up his shirt. The fox stuck a claw forward onto Naruto's seal. He moved his chakra into the seal and it lit up red with the chakra. The outer barriers changed and the seal loosened. Naruto then felt an insane amount of pain and passed out.

*Little While Later*

Naruto woke up in a completely white room. He turned his head and saw Kurama staring down at him. "Glad to see your awake kit." Naruto held his head for a moment getting rid of the headache. "Why do you call me kit?" Naruto wondered out loud. Kurama laughed a bit and responded. "I'm a fox. We have kits, not kids. So because of your age I just call you kit." Naruto nodded not really minding the nickname.

"Now as for your training. Because we merged, we are now one. That means you can now use all of my power. But I won't let you got into the full form until you have proven yourself." Naruto nodded to all of this and looked around the room some more. "You will notice I have given you fox powers. I have enhanced your speed, spell, hearing, and eyesight. And I have one final gift for you." Kurama told him slowly knowing the boy would flip out at the word present. "WHAT! You got me a present?! What is it? What is it!" Naruto asked rather loudly. Kurama sighed and threw up a scroll in front of Naruto. "What the hell is that? A furball?" Naruto asked thinking it was the crappiest present ever. "No you idiot. Guess I forgot to give you your gift of intelligence. I will give you that when you wake up. This though, it a summon contract. This contract is to summon foxes." Kurama wasn't too happy at the moment with Naruto but knew he should have remembered to add in the intelligence boost. Naruto unrolled the summon contract and signed it. "I learned at the academy about them and how to sign them." He told the fox while sucking in his thumb where he had bit it for blood. The fox just nodded approvingly as the scroll disappeared. "Now try out the summon. Don't worry if its small. Your brand new at this." Naruto nodded and performed the hand seals that he had seen in the summon scroll. When Naruto finished a giant fox appeared. It was pretty close to Kurama's size. "Wow, I'm surprised kit. It seems that without that seal messing with your chakra, you have great control over it." The summoned fox bowed to Kurama. "Hello father." The overgrown fox said. "Hello Kitsune, haven't seen you in a while. This is Naruto. The first summoner of our kind. You and the rest of the family will follow his every command as if I am giving it." Kurama demanded. "Of course father." Kitsune turned towards Naruto. "Hello master summoner. If you ever need me or any of the family just summon us." With that Kitsune poofed into smoke heading home.

"Kit, whenever you summon one, just imagine the size you want and you will get one about that size. I suggest using the regular sized foxes from messages, being as they are easier to hide." Naruto nodded to this waiting for Kurama to continue. "Now, I want you to spend two hours here training with me everyday. Two hours here in your mind is slowed down to two days in the real world. Now leave and go collect the knowledge from the clones, they should be done now." Naruto nodded and left his mind.

*Out Of Naruto's Mind*

Naruto awoke to seeing the sun slowly rise over the mountains. Naruto released all the shadow clones. Slowly processing the memories Naruto realised he could do it. He quickly ran over to a tree and ran all the way up and stopped at the top for a moment enjoying the view. He then leaped off and ran to the river. He ran around in circles happy that he had mastered both in one night.

It then hit him how tired he was. He walked back to the cabin and opened the door. Kakashi was standing at the counter drinking coffee and looked over to Naruto. Something seemed different about him that he couldn't quite place his finger on it. "Where were you all night Naruto?" Kakashi asked hoping the boy hadn't caused trouble. Naruto looked at him and smiled. "I was out training in the forest." Kakashi was impressed that he stayed out all night training. "Well did you learn anything?" Kakashi was doubting it the moment the words left his lips being as he has only be really teaching Sasuke.

"Well I mastered water and tree walking." Naruto replied with the grin still on his face. "You did what? In one night?" Kakashi asked thinking Naruto was lying. "Yeah I mastered it. After I get some sleep I'll show you later." After that Naruto went up to bed leaving Kakashi wondering if Naruto really could have done anything on his own.

*Few Hours Later... And About 25 Pancakes*

Naruto was finally ready to go after eating his breakfast and getting some sleep. Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi didn't believe Naruto about the training result. Naruto ignored Sakura as he walked up to a tree. She had been saying that he must be lying because not even Sasuke could tree climb yet and Sasuke is so much better than him. Sasuke just huffed at her not paying any real attention.

Naruto turned to the tree channeling his chakra and ran all the way up. He leaped down and landed gracefully and all three of them stared in shock. "And now for the water." Naruto ran over to the water not even pausing and kept going. They saw him run right across the water as if he never left dry land. All of their mouths were hanging wide open. Naruto ignored their shock trying not to let it bother him they they didn't believe in him.

"Well since Naruto has already mastered what I was going to teach you guys today. Naruto you will provide cover for Tazuna and help him finish the bridge." Kakashi told them while still shocked at Naruto. Naruto nodded and ran off to the cabin while Kakashi started their training.

Naruto got to Tazuna and went to the bridge. "So how many people do you need to get this done by noon?" Naruto asked. Tazuna stared at him curiously and thought for a moment. "Well to make it in working condition, I guess about 200 strong men. Why?" Naruto just smiled at this and summoned 219 shadow clones. "Okay guys settle down!" Naruto yelled at all the clones. Tazuna was surprised the boy could do such a thing. "Now I want 200 of you to help Tazuna, follow his every command. I want 19 of you to help me guard and patrol the bridge. Now get to it!" He got the same energetic "You got it boss!" from the clones as Tazuna started assigning jobs.

*A Few Hours Later - Around Noon*

Tazuna had just finished and Naruto dispelled all the clones gaining the strength and experience they had all earned. Naruto was excited that they had finally finished the bridge and could go home. "So you were actually able to finish the bridge. Too bad that I'm going to blow it up and kill you." Naruto turned around to see a man who is wrapped in a lot of bandages holding a sword. And the behind him was the kill the Naruto had fought the day before. Naruto quickly made a shadow clone to go get Kakashi and move Tazuna out of the way. "You're not touching him til you get through me." Naruto snarled at the man. "Haha, you must not know who I am. Let me enlighten you. I am Zabuza Momochi of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist." Zabuza said while laughing.

"I don't care who you are, I'm gonna kick your ass." Zabuza couldn't believe he hadn't paralyzed the boy with fear of knowing who he was. Zabuza just shrugged it off. "Oh well, this will make it more fun." The rest of Team 7 arrived shortly. Naruto was just thankful that cocky bad guys like to give long winded monologues before attacking. Zabuza ran towards Naruto and all of Team 7 prepared themselves for the attack.

*Skip the combat being as you know who wins*

"N-Naruto... come here boy." A dying Zabuza called out to him. Naruto knelt next to him to hear his final words. "I-I saw that... evil chakra you used... unt-until you get full control over it don't use it alot. Take my sword, it will serve you well. And then you won't need that demon." Naruto thanked Zabuza claiming the sword and with his final breath Zabuza passed along to Naruto his last bit of advice. "Remember kid, keep your loved ones close to you. Without someone to fight for, you have no true strength." And with that he as gone. Naruto stood up rested the blade on his shoulder. He made several shadow clones and gave Zabuza and Haku proper burial before heading back home.

*End Of Flashback*

Naruto could see the gates of Konoha. He mounted the sword to his back again and continued his trek to the gates. He was excited to be back home. To be with his loved ones again so he could show them that he is truly strong, because he needs them. Just like Zabuza said 'Without someone to fight for, you have no true strength.' Naruto picked up his speed. He couldn't wait to see how much everyone has changed over the years.

End of Chapter 1

So what did you guys think? Next chapter Ino will be introduced. Naruto has become extremely strong. He can control the Nine Tails completely and has already mastered his sage training. While yes he is very strong I am not turning on god cheats for him. He will still get his ass handed to him occasionally.