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A/N: He is a little something that has been floating around in my head for a while, I'm not sure if I will turn this into a series or not, still have 2 on going series that I want to complete. If anything updates for this story will take me a while. I guess it just depends on the reviews.
I live for positive reviews but I also do not mind constructive criticism. I know I'm not a professional writer so I just get by.
Enough ramble, ON WITH THE STORY!
Setting: Episode 77, Naruto begins his battle with Shukaku after Gaara forces himself to sleep.
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Transformation Jutsu: ……NANI?
Gamabuta jumped out of the way as the air blast Shukaku shot at him, demolished part of the forest that surrounded them. Naruto clung tightly to the Boss Toad's head as he continued to avoid the air blasts shot at him by the one-tailed demon. Seeing an opening Gamabuta shot a stream of oil toward Shukaku while Naruto threw an exploding note, causing the oil to turn into a stream of fire. Shukaku opened his mouth, shooting a ball of compressed air into the jet of flame. The resulting combination of air and fire set off a massive explosion between the two creatures.
Naruto growled at the failed attack, "We have to be careful not to hit Sasuke and Sakura with one of those. Hey Boss we need to wake that bastard Gaara up. Can you get close enough for me to attack?"
Gamabuta grunted as he avoided another air blast, "I'll try gaki. Hold on tight."
Gamabuta rushed in, ducking under an air blast attack before grabbing onto Shukaku. The large raccoon demon back-handed that toad summon off him. Gamabuta did a quick back-flip, landing on his feet not far from where Sasuke watched from the branches of a tree.
"Whoa! Boss be careful Sakura and Sasuke are back there."
"I know that gaki. We need to try something else, I can not get a good grip on Shukaku long enough to hold him. We need to transform into something with teeth and claws. I'll supply the chakra while you do the hand seals. Got it!?"
"Sure Boss." Gamabuta took off circling the sand demon as Naruto went through the hand seals needed for the Transformation Jutsu. Finishing with the Ram seal Naruto began to concentrate his thoughts on something with claws and teeth, mentally repeating the phrase 'claws and teeth' several times in his head.
Inside Naruto's mind, behind a large cage with a strip of paper that read 'Seal' a demonic being laughed wickedly, white teeth and crimson eyes glowed within the darkness. Red chakra engulfed Naruto's body at the same time Gamabuta sent a massive amount of chakra to the boy, in order to complete the transformation.
A massive white cloud covered the area as the smell of spent chakra overpowered all other smells. Shukaku stared at the cloud, anticipating whatever came out of it, while Sasuke looked on in awe at the shear size of it while wondering where Naruto got enough chakra to create something that large.
A huge white paw burst from the cloud of smoke, quickly followed by a yellow muzzle, then yellow body of a giant fox. As the smoke cleared into the wind, nine distinctive yellow tails with white tips thrashed out behind the large fox.
The massive fox lunged toward Shukaku, latching its teeth into the sand raccoon's neck and its front paws onto each of his shoulders. Shukaku roared in pain as he tried to get out of the foxes hold. One of the large tails behind the fox shot forward, whipping Gaara with enough force to disconnect him from Shukaku's forehead. Shukaku let off an angry wail of defeat before reverting back to sand and crashing to the ground along with Gaara.
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The yellow fox looked around him, when he saw an unconscious Gaara laying on the ground it let out a loud, yet happy "YAHOO". The fox started to talk happily while turning around in circles, obviously trying to find whoever it was trying to talk to.
"We did it Gamabuta! We popped that pimple on Shukaku's head and defeated him! Eh…Gamabuta…..Boss….where did you go?"
Naruto looked down at his paws thinking he was still in the Transformation Jutsu with Gamabuta; he focused his chakra before shouting "Release!" Nothing happened, Naruto started to get worried he tried it again with the same results. Naruto tried to form hand signs for the Release Jutsu but found that he couldn't with his paws as he fell over while trying to do it.
He then heard a familiar roaring laugh come from within his head. Putting two and two together he screamed inward, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME YOU BASTARD FOX I LOOK LIKE YOU!" More roaring laughter greeted him.
"I think you look quite stunning if I do say so myself."
Naruto started to get very irritated. "THAT'S NOT THE POINT! CHANGE ME BACK NOW!"
After removing his paws from his ears, the demon within Naruto known as Kyuubi decided to enlighten him a little more on his condition.
"Even if I wanted to change you back, I can't." Kyuubi was rewarded with a screeching "NANI!" After cringing from the outburst, he decided to continue but not before yelling at Naruto.
"GAKI, If you want me to tell you what I did, I warn you not to speak again until I'm finished or I will keep my mouth shut and you can just figure it out yourself." After getting what the equivalent to a mental nod Kyuubi continued. "When I saw that, that summon was going to give you some of its chakra for a transformation I decided to take advantage of it and make myself a little more comfortable in this cramped cage, so I just added some of my own chakra to his and modified your Transformation Jutsu a little. To tell you the truth I'm kind of surprised about the outcome myself, but no matter I think it's an improvement."
Naruto now stuck in the form of a nine-tailed demon fox was shaking furiously and growling uncontrollably. Sasuke who had moved closer after securing the unconscious Sakura was paralyzed with fear at the sight of the massive creature that was basically oozing killing-intent.
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Turning his mind inward, Naruto stepped into his mindscape, prepared to lay down some serious hurt on his tenant. What he was greeted with was not the mindscape of dank sewers he was use to, instead a massive forest sprung up in front of him. The trees were so large that he had to walk around them to see behind them. He also noticed he was not longer in his human form, but his new fox form. Seeing this he started fuming again before calling out angrily to his resident. Said resident walked out from behind one of the large trees, with a sheepish grin on his face. The red fox was slightly larger then Naruto was in his new form.
"IMPROVEMENT, you think this is an IMPROVEMENT! I am as big as the freaking Hokage monument how am I even suppose to fit inside the village let alone my apartment! Not to mention the villagers will try to kill me more then ever, now that I look just like a GOD DAMN DEMON FOX!"
Kyuubi could only take so much trash talk from his jailor, with his calm broken; he rushed the smaller yellow fox, binning him to the ground before snarling in his face.
"Listen you stupid brat, you should be grateful for what I did for you! You are now insanely stronger then that pathetic human form of yours. If you would have stayed in that form my chakra would have killed you before you were twenty-five and I would have gone down with you. I am not ready to die with someone as weak as you so I saw a chance and I took it like a true demon would! For your information you are not stuck being as big as you are, you can change you size simply by thinking about it. You are going to be in that form for a long time so you better get use to it……little brother."
Kyuubi's voice was practically dripping with venom ask he spoke into Naruto's furry ear. His words were all to the point and left no room for argument. Kyuubi said the last sentence in an extremely dark tone, leaving no doubt in Naruto's mind that they were now one in the same, both demons.
After pounding his words into Naruto he backed off the smaller fox allowing him to stand up, which Naruto did with a distinctive glare pointed at Kyuubi. Naruto was not happy with the way Kyuubi had manipulated his body to fit his needs but he also knew that he could do nothing about it. Naruto sub-consciously vowed to get his vengeance for what was done to him, but in the mean time he was going to use both Kyuubi and his new form to his advantage.
"If I can not change back to a human then I demand you teach me how to use this body. You say I'm weak, so make me stronger, make me stronger then you ever were."
Another massive grin appeared on Kyuubi's face at Naruto's dark words. He was glad to see that defiance and desire for strength.
"I will train you in the way of the Kitsune Clan, but you have to do something for me in return for my help. That is the first rule of the Kitsune Clan; never give something without receiving something in exchange."
Kyuubi's mischievous grin unnerved Naruto. He tried to think through all the wicked things that the demon could possible want, but stopped when they proved to numerous to count. Steeling his resolve he decided to see what Kyuubi had in mind.
"I want to know what you want before I agree to ANYTHING. You got that!"
Kyuubi snickered at Naruto's antics before replying to him. "I think you will whole-heartedly agree to this proposition. You see, a year before I came to Konoha, there was this man who wanted to know how our ability to control fire worked. So he summoned three young kits from our clan, and then used them in grotesque experiments. All three died at his hands. The second rule of the Kitsune Clan is an eye for an eye. I was sent out to bring retribution on this mortal, but was unfortunately stopped by your Fourth Hokage. I want you to finish the job little brother."
Naruto's blue eyes met Kyuubi's red ones as he asked his question. "Who do you want me to kill?"
Kyuubi started to laugh evilly. He knew what Naruto's answer to his proposition would be already and he loved that his revenge would be carried out.
"Orochimaru"
The name seemed to echo throughout Naruto's head as it was spoken. That snake bastard that bit Sasuke and turned him into a tattooed freak. Naruto did not need much time to think about it. When he finally gave Kyuubi his answer it was in a very feral voice.
"I'll do it; I will kill Orochimaru for you. So you better keep your word and train me."
Kyuubi nodded his head in an approving manner at Naruto's reply.
"Good, I will train you as promised, but not now. You caused a lot of racket in that battle with Shukaku so you need to return to the real world and hide your size. It would be advisable to not stay on your own. Stay with the one with the snake's mark, he will help you find that scaly bastard."
Naruto nodded, before drifting back to the real world. When he arrived back to the scene of his previous battle he found himself towering over a trembling Sasuke, Gaara, Temari, Kankuro and an unconscious Sakura. Sighing to himself, Naruto thought about his body becoming 4 feet tall. With a tingling sensation all over his body, he began to feel himself shrink. When he opened his eyes he was standing in the middle of everyone. Everyone but Gaara jumped back 3 steps when he spoke in his normal voice.
"Gaara, you and your siblings need to leave now before any Konoha shinobi show up and decide to kill you. Sasuke we need to talk as soon as this is over but right now, I need you to trust that I am the Naruto that you have always known."
Gaara took a shaky step forward before falling to one knee. He placed a hand out in front of him to catch himself before looking up at Naruto's new body. "I see now that you are a demon as I am. That strength you have makes so much sense now."
Naruto shook his head at Gaara before replying to him. "You're wrong, I do not get my strength from this bastard within me, I get it from them." Naruto pointed his nose toward a stunned Sasuke and still unconscious Sakura. Gaara just nodded his head before standing and shakily walked to his siblings, who caught him before he collapsed again.
"I hope we meet again Naruto," Gaara said over his shoulder before disappearing into the trees with the other sand siblings.
Naruto turned to Sasuke and slowly approached him, when he was right in front of the raven-haired boy he sat down making contact with Sasuke's obsidian eyes with his own deep blue. Sasuke's mouth slowly started to form words as his shock started to wear off.
"N…Naruto what happened to you? How did you summon that giant toad and why the hell do you look like a chibi version of Kyuubi?
Naruto broke Sasuke's line of questions before he could ask another.
"Sasuke, hey hold up on the question teme. I can only answer so many at once. First off I need to tell you that twelve years ago the Fourth-Hokage did not kill the Kyuubi, instead he sealed it inside a child, that child was me. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?"
Sasuke's head was moving in a yes and no manner at the same time. Finally getting control of his head he said the first thing that was on his mind.
"So you have always been the Kyuubi living among us?"
Naruto shook his head; he knew he should have expected that with his current condition.
"No, Sasuke I am not the Kyuubi, even if I may resemble him at the moment. Listen, that bastard fox took advantage of Gamabuta-sama's chakra and used it to transform me into this. He told me that he did it to keep his chakra from killing me before I turned twenty-five. Now, I do not know how much I can trust him at the moment but I need you to trust me. There is still an attack going on in Konoha, I can hear the noise from here. Until we have saved our friends and village from destruction just trust and help me so needless lives do not need to be lost. Can you do that?"
Sasuke thought over Naruto's words for a minute before nodding his head. He could wait to get some answers and when the time came would he ever get those answers.
"Good, now grab Sakura and get on my back, I can run faster with both of you on me then you carrying just her. We will drop her off with the first team we come across then head in to help with the battle."
As Sasuke went to get Sakura, Naruto grew another foot so he could carry both people comfortably. Sasuke hung Sakura on Naruto's back like a sack of potatoes before crawling up and sitting himself onto his best friend in the fashion one would use to ride a horse. Gathering Sakura in his arms so she would not fall off, Sasuke nodded to Naruto, confirming he was ready. With that Naruto bounded off toward the village at break neck speed.
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Naruto spotted a team of Chunin that had just finished off a small squad of sound ninja. Changing course Naruto ran up and stopped right in front of the group. The Chunin all prepared for another attack when a large yellow fox the size of a horse came at them from the woods. They all gasped in surprise as they identified the two riders of the fox as the last Uchiha and his pink haired teammate. The leader of the team of Chunin approached first calling out to Sasuke.
"Sasuke-sama, why are you out here weren't you suppose to be at the stadium?"
Sasuke cut the Chunin off before he could say another word. "Me and my team were sent to take out Gaara, we have succeeded, but Sakura here is injured, please take her to the hospital as soon as possible. There is no time to explain anything else."
Wordlessly he handed Sakura down into the Chunin's arms before leaning forward and whispering "lets go" to Naruto. Naruto jumped over the group of Chunin and headed into the city where a large three-headed snake was causing considerable damage.
The Chunin leader brought his attention from the pink hair girl in his arms when one of his team-mates spoke up, a slight shake in his voice. "Renji-san did you notice the fox, the Uchiha was riding had nine tails?" Renji and the rest of his team stared off in the direction the yellow fox and lone Uchiha disappeared off to.
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Sasuke had little time to ponder the irony of riding his best friend into battle as they reached the top of the wall that surrounded Konoha and saw a massive three-headed snake wreaking havoc on the village. A path of under destruction was left in its wake. Explosions could be seen going off all around the snake's heads, but doing little more then agitate it more then it already was.
Naruto spoke quickly to Sasuke as they neared the battle, by jumping from roof to roof. "When we get closer you jump off and help the others with the enemy shinobi, I will take care of that snake."
"Alright but I want answers when this is over."
Sasuke did a back-flip off Naruto's back as they passed a group of leaf ninjas fighting a group of sand ninjas, releasing a fire-style jutsu into the sand-nin as he landed. Naruto ran up to the three-headed snake, jumping over a group of leaf-nin that was in front of it trying to slow its advance into the city. The leaf-nin stared in awe as the 5 ft tall golden fox jump over their heads with ease.
When Naruto was directly below the snakes towering center head, he imagined himself the same size he was while fighting Shukaku. Yellow flame engulfed Naruto's entire body as he jumped from 5 ft tall to over 50 ft tall. When the leaf and sand ninja saw a giant nine-tailed fox appear on the battle-field, most either froze through fear or fled the area. Sasuke used this to his advantage as he threw 5 kunai with deadly precision, taking out the 5 sand-nin that he and his group were fighting.
Wasting no time Naruto clamped his teeth into the neck of the center head while each one of his front paws dug their massive claws into the necks of the other two heads. Planting his hind paws firmly against the ground Naruto started to push with all his strength, making the snake's heads to fall back and pin the majority of its body under them. Shaking his head savagely, Naruto ripped the throat out of the center head before moving on to the other two.
Naruto had successfully incapacitated two of the three heads before the snake managed to flip itself over, throwing Naruto behind it. Springing to his feet Naruto began to deflect the thrashing tail of the giant reptile with his own furry tails. Ducking under a venomous strike to the face, Naruto dug his claws into the third and final neck before lunging in and clamping his jaws around it. Using his claws, he cut the snake's neck to ribbons, as blood gushed from the wounds; Naruto used his jaws and claws to separate the snakes head from its body. The giant reptile's body went extremely tense before falling limp never to move again, throwing the dismembered head behind him, Naruto turned to the assembled ninja. His voice was dangerous and feral when he spoke to all those who could hear.
"Unless any of you bastards who are attacking this village want to be next, I suggest you leave NOW!"
Needing no other coercion, both Sand and Sound ninja made a hasty retreat from the battle, leaving a few smoldering buildings and the dead reptile. One particularly brave sound-nin threw an explosive tag at Naruto as he jumped past him to get out of the village with his comrades. Naruto merely twitched as it exploded on his back. Turning around faster then most could follow; Naruto snatched the Sound-nin out of the air (If you have watched a dog catch a fly you know what I mean). There was a short scream then silence, this caused all remaining retreating ninja to run faster then they had ever run in their lives.
Moments later Naruto was gagging with a look of pure disgust on his face, he even tried to spit the foul taste out, but with little luck. Taking two large leaps to his left, he managed to dunk his head into the stream that ran through town. Naruto sucked in a large quantity of water before coming up for air.
"Oh god that was the worst thing I have ever tasted in my entire life, I swear I would prefer that damn snake blood over another sound-nin. Do those bastards even bath? I think I'm going to be sick."
This earned a roaring laugh from within his head as well as from some of the ninja that were close enough to hear him. Naruto sat down and tried to wipe the taste off his tongue with his paw. His antics seemed to break the tense atmosphere that hung over the village after the fight. Most ninja were still wary of him however, because of his resemblance to the nine-tailed demon Kyuubi, while others seemed fairly relaxed and enjoyed the antics of the creature that just single-handedly ended the invasion on Konoha.
Sasuke approached Naruto laughing his head off after he had seen what he had done to the sound-nin that attacked him. Between pouts of laughter the usually stoic Uchiha spoke up to the massive golden fox.
"If you hated the taste so much dope, then why did you eat it. You…you might want to be careful in the future I hear sound-nins are all cholesterol, wouldn't be good if you got fat. Hahahaha"
Naruto was not about to be on the butt end of anyone's joke. He bent his head down so his jaw was resting on the ground in front of the raven-haired kid. Suddenly Naruto snorted, the amount of air that came out of his nose was enough to send Sasuke stumbling backwards, before falling into the stream. Sasuke emerged from the stream to the roaring laughter of both giant fox as well as from the ever growing crowd of ninja that began to gather around Naruto.
Two ninja, both wearing trench coats stepped from the crowd and stood before Naruto. One was a female in a brown trench and the other was a man in a black trench with a nasty scar on the side of his face. Naruto recognized them as the first two proctors of the Chunin exams, Hibaki and Anko. Anko was the first one to speak up and her tone was surprisingly polite, most likely because she did not want to end up like the unfortunate sound-nin by saying anything that might piss him off.
"Kitsune-sama we thank you for you help in the battle, but would you be kind enough to tell us your name and reason for being here?"
Naruto snickered to himself when he realized that only Sasuke knew what happened to him. Deciding to just wing it, Naruto answered the snake-Jonin.
"Sure thing Anko-chan, I am here to train so that I can kill someone who has become enemy number one with the village. You all might know him as Orochimaru, the snake-sannin bastard." At hearing this Anko and several others gasped before Naruto continued. "You all have my word that I will not harm a soul in this village unless I am attacked first, I will also protect it like I did today as long as I can stay here. As for my name, most of you know me as the number one hyperactive ninja Naruto Uzumaki!"
This made everyone but Sasuke who was still glaring daggers at Naruto through wet bangs gasp loudly. Almost everyone knew that Naruto was the container for the nine-tailed demon fox Kyuubi and the fact that he now looked like a nine-tailed demon fox did not sit well with a lot of people. Hibaki was the first to regain from his initial shock and spoke up first.
"Naruto, what happened to you? Has 'it' broken loose and taken control of your body?"
Naruto had expected this to happen and had what he hoped was a passable explanation.
"No Hibaki-san, Kyuubi has not taken control of my body, although he is mostly responsible for my current look. I assure you that I am in full control of my body, his reasons behind what he did are still not completely clear to me. Kyuubi did say that if I remained in my human form that his chakra would have killed my within another thirteen years and him in the process. He also mentioned that I am kind of stuck like this."
There were still murmurs from the collective ninja; some were not completely convinced while others seemed to believe what Naruto said, by his actions during the invasion. Hana Inuzuka stepped up and addressed everyone present, surprising a lot of the ninja and even Naruto.
"You have seen what he has done for the village. How many of you could have taken down that snake before it caused more damage to the village. He also was able to run off all of the attacking ninja. Many of your lives may have been saved today by his actions alone. If his words are not enough to sway your mind then let his actions do it. I for one am grateful for Naruto-sama's help."
Sasuke stepped up and voiced his piece as well.
"I even witnessed him defeat the one-tailed Shukaku of the desert in protection of his friends and this village. He has my respect as well."
Anko was finally able to rejoin the conversation and ask a question that had been bothering her for a while now. "Naruto, how do you expect to stay in the village when you're as tall as the Hokage monument?"
There were many voiced agreements with Anko's question. Naruto just grinned broadly, before imaging himself 4 feet tall again. The tingling sensation returned and Naruto shrunk down to his desired height, earning him many surprised gasps. Anko blinked several times at the now much smaller golden fox in front of her before Hana seemed to be instantly attached to the fox in a fierce hug.
"KAWII! It is so cute. Oh I could just take you home right now!"
"GAH, Hana-chan you're strangling me, someone please get this crazy chick off me!"
After several minutes of struggling Hibaki and Anko were able to pry Hana off Naruto, who was gasping for breath. Dusting herself off, Anko addressed Naruto in a more business like manner.
"A…hem, well I guess that's not a problem anymore, but we are still going to have to clear this with the Hokage and the council before anything permanent can be decided. You have my support in this matter Naruto-kun, I am also very glad you helped us today."
There was a chorus of people who also voiced their support for Naruto, while others remained silent and a few even walked away. Anko and Hibaki both motioned Naruto to follow them to the Hokage-tower as a large group closed in around him, each willing to vouch for his actions this day. Unknown to them the Third-Hokage perished in the fight with the very person Naruto was supposed to kill.
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A/n: Seems like I can not let this story end here. There will be more chapters coming out but it is unknown how often I will get it updated. You can bet that all future chapters will be as long or longer then this one. The only way this story could be bumped up on my priority list is if my mailbox becomes flooded with reviews, so if you love and just can not get enough of it then make sure to place your review. Be sure to check out my other stories.