Tree trunks reach in an attempt for their green leaves and branches to touch the blue sky dotted with fluffy clouds. Lush grass keeps to the ground allowing deer to feed upon it. Laying on the ground next to a gray boulder is a boy of no more than seventeen. His clothing is spotted with brown-ish red spots and is slightly torn at seemingly random spots looking as though he had a bad time with a paper shredder, though no wounds seem present. On a good day his clothes would consist of an orange and black jumpsuit, ninja sandals, a small pouch to carry weapons and a head band bearing the symbol of his village, Konohagakure no sato, the village hidden in the leaves. Sun-kissed hair adorns his head. Three whisker like scars run along each of his cheeks and if his eyes had been open one could drown in the vast blue ocean that his eyes were and be intrigued by the slit pupils of a cat. The most prominent feature, however, is the long almost rabbit like fox ears, and his long nine fox rains all dipped in a crimson red.

The boy lies unaware of his surroundings in a seemingly endless black. Then suddenly he is pulled from it with a groan. His oceanic eyes open and quickly close due to the overwhelming brightness of the sun. After giving it a couple of moments his eyes adjust to the sudden change in brightness and open once more revealing his slit blue eyes.

"Where am I? What happened?" He questions to no one in particular. As expected silence surrounds him and he sits up with a hand now delicately resting on the back of his head, scratching it gently in a nervous gesture he picked up along the way.

Suddenly the memories of an event that had transpired hot him and his eyes widen in realization.

FLASH BACK!~~

Glowing red and blue pipes line the slate stone walls of an area akin to that of a sewer. However if one would look up they would not be able to see the ceiling only an endless black, void of anything. Separating two sides of the sewer lies iron bars that would seem to be held shut by a piece of paper with a swirl in the center with intricate symbols surrounding it.

On one side, the barely standing blonde, on the other a beast many fear. A giant fox with rabbit-like ears, and nine flowing tails. The demon is covered in almost red, red-orange fun. Slitted red eyes that used to be filled with anger and malice, now filled with worry for his jailor. The Kyuubi no Kitsune, the nine tailed fox demon that lies within one Naruto Uzumaki.

Yes, the beast that is told to of slaughtered thousands and crush mountains with a simple flick of one of its many tails, lays in worry over its once jailor, now like a son.

"Kit...", it calls, deep voice booming out in the sewer.

"Kurama..." The teen rasps out in pain.

A hole in his chest sits where a sword had stabbed him in the middle of his fight against Sasuke Uchiha. The fight had been long and tiring. The two were more or less every matched against one another. The Uchiha not listening at all to the blondes pleading to come home to Konoha. The Uchiha and the Uzumaki ultimately ended up fighting to the death, both landing fatal wounds on the other, albeit Naruto aimed a bit too high with his rasengan. This led to the Uchiha's head and neck becoming unrecognizable and blood to spurt out uncontroably. However the raven had charged up his chidori and charged at Naruto, and hit the blonde in the chest puncturing one of said blonde's lungs.

The fox rises to his paws and looks down at Naruto. "Kit I refuse to let you die. I will also send you to the past so you can fix everyone's broken lives. So you can be happy. I'm breaking the seal once and for all" the fox reveals to the young blonde.

"Huh? The past?" Was Naruto's eloquent response, as he lets what the fox said sink in. Panic sets into the blue orbs as he finds a claw tearing at the seal. "No, wait there has to be some other way! Kurama! If you do this then... Then!-" the blonde yells but is cut off by the iron cage slamming open, and potent red chakra immediately rushes out seizing the blonde.

"I know. Goodbye, I love you my adorable kit." Was the last thing the blonde heard as unimaginable pain fills his body, sending his nerves haywire with the burning sensation. Soon everything turns red and the black.

END FLASHBACK

A swirl of emotions hits the sitting blonde. The closest thing he had ever had to a father was gone. The fox breaking the seal and fusing with him had led to the death of his best friend and father figure. Sure Iruka-sensei was great to him, however he to had once glared a thine with hateful eyes. Kurama was the only one that never looked at him once like that and had made sure that Naruto would try and get vegetables and fruits and the like. He also fussed over Naruto when he would get hurt when he was smaller, and would comfort him after a beating from the once cruel villagers. But no that was all gone. No longer would any of that happen. He would never see that fox's stupid smirk or hear his voice dripping in sarcasm.

Tears swell up in blue eyes only to be wiped away just as quickly as they came. "I won't let your sacrifice go to waist buddy!" Now set with a determined look on his face Naruto stands.

He realizes he feels rather off balance and when he stands and turns around to be met with his nine flowing tails. "Huh? I have tails now..." Confusion and fills his facial features soon replaced with curiosity as he reaches out to touch one of his many new tails. Realizing that they must be real considering that he could feel his warm hand run across the fur and touch the skin underneath he screams, "What the fuck! I have fucking tails!" He curious hands reach up and he feels his two long new long fox ears. "And ears! What the hell Kurama! This was not mentioned..." He grumbles out pulling slightly on his golden locks.

"Ok... I need to calm down... What would Kurama say in this situation?"

Suddenly an image of his large monstrous fox appears in his head smirking. The fox booms out in a mocking tone, "Haha! Now you will fully appreciate the taste of rabbits and how fragile your world is! Haha!"

"Ok... Maybe not the best idea... How about I just go find a river or something and get adjusted with... this. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." So the blonde begins his trek to find a river of some sort to take in his new appearance fully.

Time skip of a couple of hour

"Ok so I'm even more lost and now it looks like it will rain. Great, just great." The blonde fox grumbles a little aggravated by his inability to find a river or something besides more forest.

His acute hearing picks up the very faint sound of feet padding across tree branches, if the slight rustle of branches that comes out faintly with it is anything to go by. "Shit...um..." The blonde curses out thinking about how he should hide. Settling upon turning into a small fox and hiding inside a bush. He smothers his now unrealistically large chakra reserves, sadly not being used to smothering the now ridiculous amount he fails epically. He does not want to get into a fight this soon considering. He can't even get a hold on his ridiculous chakra, how was he supposed to fight probably skilled ninja. He was so screwed.

The almost silent foot steps get louder and louder the closer the team of presumably ninjas get, and all too quickly for the blonde fox does a team of ANBU appear. They wear cheetah, cat, bluejay, and dog. Naruto is now feeling panicked. "Fuck just my luck. Maybe I'll get lucky and they will leave me alone... Then again it would be stupid for any ANBU to leave a massive unknown source of chakra out there, that could or could also not be a threat. More than not a threat." The blonde thinks to himself realizing he is fucked even more than before.

"Come out." The one with a cheetah masks demands, with blond hair spiking out wildly. Naruto doesn't move. Suddenly a three pronged kunai gets thrown nearly hitting the blonde, if it wasn't for quick reflexes. With a yelp the blonde fox tumbles out from the bush. Three of the four ANBU don't make a move for the small fox, the blonde with a cheetah masks moves forward taking caution of the small fox. Naruto quickly dispels his transformation with a sheepish grin standing on two feet once again.

"Uh... I don't suppose you could give me directions out of this forest, would you? Hehe" Naruto then stands up with his senses on overtime. Quickly the blonde jumps up on to a branch, leaving an indentation where he previously stood, and begins running as though the hounds of hell were on his heels.

In a blur of yellow the cheetah ANBU is in front of Naruto's current path. Naruto quickly attempts to change his path but at the speed he was at before he only succeeds in slipping and falling down to the forest floor. He attempts to grab a branch only managing in breaking the thick branch as though it was merely a thin twig.

With all the blonde's non-existent grace, he falls face first into the ground. Again he attempts to quickly get up only for the other masked blonde to attempt to pin him. Naruto easily gets out of the masked blonde's grasp due to his recently gained strength. Naruto then bolts off leaving a trail of broken branches and the like due to his lack of control over his new strength. The four unknown ANBU attempt to give chase. The masked cheetah barks orders to his teammates and soon the fox outruns his pursuers.

Granted due to his lack of current control it should be ridiculously easy to track him, especially if he continues at his current pace in the trees. So the blonde decides to slow down and let out a breath of relief. He hops down to the forest floor and attempts to make a shadow clone, luckily for him the clone shows up with no trouble. "Make a fake trail heading that way and dispel when you know for certain that they will be following you for a while." The original tells his clone, who in turn nods with a quick yes boss.

Naruto then transforms into a fox much similar to before except instead of being all yellow the tips are covered in crimson, and begins his search for anything besides forest once again. Trying his best to smother his large mass of chakra, he eventually stumbles upon a decently sized cave behind waterfall of some sort. Realizing the chances of him getting out of this forest today are slim to none and he decides to take up residence in the decent cave. And soon after his prediction of rain comes true as it pours down, rinsing away any traces of his trail to the cave.

His clone's memories bombard him, telling him that the team of ANBU found the clone with great ease and are now nowhere remotely close to Naruto. Naruto grins to himself at the memory, however it quickly turns to a frown when he sees a kunai pierced his clone dispelling it. With a sigh he sits and turns back to his now normal form.

Naruto decides it would be best if he could see if he could find out any new information on his new powers. So he enters his mindscape.

Naruto's mind

And here we find our young foxy blonde admiring the new setting. No longer is his mind a dreary sewer but a field filled with lush green grass. Trees line the edge of the clearing and a hole sits in the middle of the clearing. The sky is a colorful sunset with cotton candy clouds decorating the sky to show a wonderful unknown pattern. Naruto heads towards mysterious hole in the middle and discovers it to be a sort of den.

Naruto hops down into the hole with no fears and finds a wonderful underground oasis with a plush orange fox lying in the middle of the area. The teen makes his way towards the plush and can not help but compare it to his large fox friend. Tears blur his vision slightly, but pushes the memories out of his mind for the time being.

He picks up the plush and suddenly memories that were not his own fills his head. He blinks as they continue to push into his skull, and suddenly it stops. The plush fox that was in his hands disappeared into nothing. He blinks and attempts to make sense of what those memories were. Within a couple of seconds he realizes that they were Kurama's memories. Although the memories mostly consisted on learning jutsu and control over chakra.

A sad smile comes across Naruto's face. "Hehe even when you are gone you try to look out for me..." The blonde's voice comes out in a sad tone. He then decides to shuffle through the new found memories briefly, unaware of the outside world.

Outside of mindscape

Four familiar ANBU stand outside of Naruto's cave drenched in rain water. They find the blonde spitting away from them sitting in an upright position in the cave. The leader looks to see if there is any sort of traps. After confirming the lack of any, his team file into the cave and block the blonde from escaping this time. The leader makes a hand gesture, gesturing that they all slowly walk towards the unaware blonde.

The team freezes as the blonde moves suddenly with a yawn, and scratches behind his long fox ears. "I think before I do anything I should learn how to pick up a rock without breaking it..." So with that said the blonde stands up and attempts to pick up a stone lying in front of him. As soon as his hands gets close to picking up the stone it shatters into a million pieces. With a whine he tries again, completely oblivious to the four dangerous threats.

The four ANBU are quite shocked to find the blonde is just breaking solid rocks without meaning to. Nevertheless, the make a move and pin the blonde down, who yelps out in surprise, and quickly knock him out. Securing some chakra suppressors in an attempt to keep the blonde from escaping. With a sigh the cheetah captain picks up his new charge. The team of ANBU make their way back to their village, Konoha.