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Hello peoples this if the first of many chapters in this story of mine. I have been trying to get it ready for awhile now but because of school work and other stuff couldn't. I now I have a who has been waiting for me forever to put this story up so this chapter is for you
To become a Fox: Part one
The sun was going down as Naruto walked through Konohagkure. He had just gone through hell again after returning from the another mission without Sasuke which didn't help his image in the village. As he walked down the street the villagers glared at him some threw thing others just stood there and yelled "Demon why don't you leave and never come back!"as he reached the center of town only a few blocks from his house he was alerted to the sound of people... lots of people, and to make it worse they were armed. "Just great the last thing I need is an angry mob." Naruto thought as turned to face the mob. And there they were, about sixty of the villagers and a few ninja here and there.
He stared at them for about five seconds before he turned his back to the crowd and started to walk away. This prompted the crowd to start to rush towards him but they stopped when he turned around. His eyes were red and slitted was there was visible red aura surrounding him and his shadow it wasn't human... as they looked at it on the ground it's form twisted and the shadow grew until it resembled the Kuuybi, it tails swishing in every direction. The voice that came from him was hardly human as he uttered "Leave... NOW!"
To say that the people in the mob ran away would be redundant, it was more like track runners on steroids. When they were out of sight Naruto slowly began to change back into his normal form, his shadow receded as the Nine-tailed fox chakra faded from his being. He hadn't expected a mob but then again he hadn't expected Sakura to almost try and kill him either. The first week he's back from training and Sasuke with Orochimaru had been spotted in the Wave Country. He was sent out with a team of ANBU plus Jiraiya to retrieve sasuke and take down orchimaru.
The mission turned out as a complete slaughter of the team. When they found the supposed area they were ambushed by a small battalion of sound ninja. The battle raged for hours and just when it seemed they would win who should show up but Orchimaru and Sasuke. They teamed up on Jiraiya attacking the toad-senin relentlessly while Naruto and the ANBU battle the sound ninja. In the chaos of the battle Jiraiya was beginning to weaken from the combined attacks from the Uchiha with the Snake senin and although most of the sound ninja had been dispatched the ANBU were beginning to fall one by one to there power. The battle looked one sided as they defended themselves against Orchimaru, Sasuke and the large group of sound ninja for over an hour but in the end it looked like they would lose. Until...
Naruto flinched at the memory, closing his eyes he envisioned himself in his four-tailed state. It happened right as Jiraiya seemed beat, the chakra in the area flared as the Kuuybi made it's presence known through Naruto but this time it was different...almost as if naruto had partial control of himself as he fought both Orochimaru and Sasuke. Eventually the battle began to toll his opponents and it seemed like he would walk away alive... that was before he was struck with the combined force of orchimaru's Kusinagi and Sasuke's new technique the Chidori blade, straight in the back.
But just when it seemed like all was lost the was eruption of red and blue chakra from his body the force if it blowing away all in the area. The blast took out any sound ninja left and blew any others away knocking out jirya in the process and the last remaining anbu. After that all he remembered blacking out. Yet somehow he had been able to carry Jiraiya and the ANBU who's name was Ryoma all the way to the village gate even with a gaping hole in his upper back. The only good thing to come out of it was that when he woke up in the hospital three days later he found that Jiraiya and Ryoma were in good health.
Later that day he was visit by Ryoma's family who gave him there thanks and left him with dinner. That was the only good thing that had happen he thought. Those memory brought him back to today. Today was not a good day. It started earlier when Sakura had learned of the mission's failure and had confronted him about it... He shook his head not wanting to think about anything anymore.
Tired dejected and now very very angry he made his way to the small apartment he called home. Walking up to his bed he fell into it not really caring to remove his clothes. Soon he fell into a deep sleep...
Naruto woke in a hallway the whole hall was red and there seemed to be a fine red mist coming from the ground. He stood up slowly recognizing the hall in which he stood it was the link between him and the Nine tailed fox. Wondering why he was in the confines of his mind he wondered down the hall way until he was in front of the familiar gate ready to begin his usual talk with Kuuybi...only the gate was open.
Naruto stared in horror as he walked up to the gate to examine it. On one side the talisman that said 'seal' was still there but the gate was wide open! Slowly he walked into the large chamber that held the Nine tailed fox but it was nowhere to be seen as he walked through the large room looking from side to side then he felt 'IT'. 'IT' was a hot breath going down his neck that smelled of death and felt of anger, malice and darkness. He turned around to find nothing there. "Where are you-you stupid fox stop playing games with me!" Naruto yelled out of fear.
The air in front of him slowly started to churn as red Chakra began to gather in one spot. The ball of Chakra began to slowly rise into the air forming a fox head, the eyes slowly lowering to naruto as red chakra began to mass at it's base. The body of Kuuybi began to appear out of the chakra it's red fur glowing with it's demonic chakra. "Here I am kit"the Kuuybi said with a strangely evil grin as it watched Naruto cower in fear. Slowly Kuuybi stalked around then disappeared, Naruto looked around frantically searching for the giant fox as he was alerted to a presence behind him. Slowly he turned around a found himself staring at a pair of large...sharp...pointed fangs. He nearly jumped out of his skin as he jumped back from the menacing pair of fangs. There was a deep rumbling form the fox that sounded almost as if...as if it were laughing at him!
Kuuybi reared his head back as it laughed at Naruto. It's laughing died as it brought it's stare back down on him. "So kit do you know why I summoned you here?" he asked his demonic smirk never leaving his face. Naruto still recovering from the shock of a near heart attack shock his head no slowly. "There is a very trying time ahead for you...and me."adding the last part as if to emphasize his dislike of the situation. "Kit do you know what happens when you mix hot water and warm water?" Naruto was wondering what in the world that had too do with being what was going on but thought it best to answer seeing as there was a giant demon fox in front of him. "Huh?.. you get warm water but what does that have to do with anything!" Naruto yelled to the giant demon fox in front of him.
"I'll get to that in due time, but first there are some things you need to know the first of which being the story of your heritage and how I came to be inside you. About fourteen years ago I attacked this village for certain reasons and I was stopped by the strongest ninja in here at the time, he was the Yondmine . "Yeah so everybody knows that!" Naruto interrupted the fox.
"DO NOT INTERRUPT KIT!" yelled Kuuybi making Naruto cower in fear. "Now as I was saying your father was a very powerful ninja". He paused so he could let Naruto absorb all the information. "My...my...my father?" Yes kit, your father. When I attacked the village it was not of my own choice. I was summoned here and placed under a binding justu that didn't quite work and I lost control of myself... in my rage and flattened everything until I came to your village. I began attacking it killing many humans revaluing in the destruction I caused and at the pitiful ninja who tried to stop me with there weak attacks.
There was a loud stomp as I turned around to find myself staring at a giant toad with a human on top of it's head. The human began making hand signs, hand signs that I didn't recognize were a powerful sealing jutsu... the rest is history."said the fox as if it was nothing important. Naruto sat on the ground confused. "But why, why did he seal you in me why?" "Ah I was hoping you would ask that, you see you father needed a new born life to seal me to seeing how as you were the only one born that day he had no choice for if he had tried to
seal me in any other person the seal would have not lasted more than a day or two at most and that would have not done any good at all". Said the fox as he paced about in circles around Naruto
"The seal that he used cost him his life and left you with some special traits as you are about to learn. After the shock of realizing I had been sealed into a child I became even more angry but that anger died after the first few months. Your father was the only being I have ever deemed worthy of my respect. So as a sort of...an honoring to him I will make sure you learn how to use and control your new abilities. That brings me to the point of my earlier question the mixing of water. Said Kuuybi as he watched Naruto give a look as if asking what does that have to do with anything.
"The seal that your father used not only sealed me to you it sealed our souls together. Think of your self as residual light and me as residual darkness if you mix the two together you get neutrality. The foxed watched naruto as he look up at him with a lost look. "Huh?" "You are a dense kit aren't you."said the fox. "To be blunt your soul is cold water mine is hot water when you mix the two together you get..." he paused waiting for Naruto to fill in the blank. "Umm warm water but still what does that have to do with anything?" "This is going to take a while" said kuuybi to himself with a sigh, this kit was going to be the source of many headaches in the future he just knew it.
"The seal that bond us together is now bonding our souls together so in effect I am now a part of you just as you are a part of me in other words you are turning into a nine tailed fox. Naruto froze as the words from kuuybi hit him like a hammer. "I'm turning into a fox? He asked as he stared up at the grinning demon fox before him. "In a way yes, you see because ours souls have fused you have gained some abilities as I said earlier. From now on you will have two forms in which you can appear, your human form and your fox form. In addition to this your senses will sharpen and your chakra limits will increase greatly, you will still be able to use my chakra whenever you please though. He said with a bit of disdain. Then there is the mind link meaning that you will be able to communicate with me whenever you please and vice versa.
Naruto took note as the fox explained the things that would be happening soon. "Soon with the next half moon you will change into your fox form for the first time , but be warned you will not have control over it at first so just ride it out. You will notice your senses sharpen and your chakra will slowly start to build up over the next three day by then it will be the half moon and you shall transform for the first time. When you transform you won't be as big as I am but you will be bigger than any normal fox. The fox let out a stifled laugh as a thought ran through his head.
"Hmm it would seem that I have in fact become part of your bloodline trait Kit. All the abilities that you now posses will also become your offsprings's as well but we talk more on that later now it is time for you to sleep Kit" he said lower himself till he was laying at Naruto's side. Naruto soon fell asleep against the giant foxes side as one of the many tail slowly came up to cover him like a blanket. Kuuybi looked down at the sleeping boy wondering why he had just did that in his mind he thought. "For a human this kit is strong but then again he not really all that human anymore is he heh heh heh" he laid his head down and fell into sleep.
It was a strange scene, a boy lay sleeping against a giant nine tailed fox
one of it tails covering him like a blanket while the fox lay sleep.
The morning rays of the sun passed through Naruto's window as he lay still sleeping on his bed. Deep inside his mind his 'guest' had already awaken some time ago. "Wake up kit you have much to do today" he yelled at his would be container from within the confines of his mind. Slowly Naruto rose out of bed feeling as if the world had crashed down on him. He then began to recall last night wondering if it was all a dream "it was no dream kit" came the voice of kuuybi
in his head causing him to jump out of the bed and land fac first on the floor. 'This is going to be a long day' thought kuuybi as he shook his head inside his would be container. After picking himself up off the floor Naruto began his daily morning routine, brush teeth, get dressed, eat ramen, suffer abuse from town's people, train, eat more ramen, go home try to sleep.
It was about then that he realized that the fox had just talked to him not more than a minute ago and suddenly as if it were a flash back the events of last night played through his head. Then for the first time in history Naruto Uzimaki heir to the Yondmine container of the Kuuybi and future nine tailed fox fainted and fell to the ground with a very audible thump.
Outside the hidden village of Konhana a group of sound ninja were planning there attack. They had received orders from Orochimaru himself before they had left the sound village. "So our orders are to capture the heir to the Hyuuga clan, the Copy ninja with the sharingan in his right eye and possibly if we can the Nine-tailed fox. We will move in two day after we are sure our presence has not been detected."the one that was obviously the leader said as he his dark frame seemed to float over to the area where the rest of the sound ninja were gathered. "We will first attack the copy ninja. After he is disabled we will move to the Hyuuga compound and make our assault only then if we have a chance will we go after the Nine tailed fox, but remember that he will most likely be protected by the ANBU black Ops and it will be no easy task to subdue him".
Unknown to the sound ninja to shapes were watching them from a tree about 50 feet away. "Think we should go ahead and take them out?" said on figure. "Nah, we'll use this as a test for them to see how good they are"said the other. With that they disappeared without so much as a flicker. "Soon Naruto soon we shall see if you are worthy of the name Uzumaki".
Naruto was going about his training off in the forest, after he had gotten over the initial shock of things with some help from Kuuybi he had started his morning routine and he was now hammering away at invisible opponents. "Okay now lets try this again" he said summoning up his chakra to his right hand. Slowly the chakra began whirling until it began to condense into a ball. He then began to focus his on the whirling chakra in his left hand willing it to become a sphere like the one in his right hand. After about five minutes with no success he gave up and dropped his left, the chakra dispersing as he did so. Looking back at the Rasegan in his right hand he concentrated on the large boulder that stood in front of him. 'Now in vison a strong opponent' he thought as he stared at the swirling ball of chakra in his hand. He looked back to the rock an in an instant he saw his opponent materialize where the rock was...it was Sasuke. He
ran at the imaginary image of his once friend and aimed the Rasegan straight at it's chest but at the last second he diverted his attack. The rasegan struck the ground and exploded with the force of a bomb.
He looked up at the rock after crawling out of the crater that his attack had made. In his mind's eye he could see what would have actually happened had the battle been real, he saw himself and Sasuke rushing at each other and just as he diverted his attack he would have bee struck through the chest with Chidori. He looked back at the crater and then the rock. It had been a long day for him today. He had skipped most of his daily routine and had come straight out to the forest surrounding the village to train. It was about midway when he began walking away thinking about something when he noticed he wasn't in the forest any more instead he stood in front of the large open gate in his head.
"HAHAHA! Still can't do it I see". Laughed the Demon as it's red eyes and huge demonic grin appeared just beyond the open doors of the gate. Naruto for the second time in that week nearly jumped out of his skin from the shock of seeing the gates open and from the shock of being within killing distance of Kuuybi. Seeing this the giant demon fox again let out another strangely scary laugh. Naruto who was now recovered from his near heart attack looked at the grinning demon and started shouting.
"You stupid fox! You scared the hell out of me, and what's with bringing me down here when I was in the middle of thinking about something!" "So I see you still can't bring your self to kill the Uchiha boy."said the fox as he stared at Naruto. Naruto put his head down at that admission. It was true he couldn't bring himself to kill Sasuke even though the feeling wasn't mutual. "You won't be able to kill now, you should wait for your powers to manifest."
Naruto just grumbled in response. In truth he was still thinking about what the fox had said to him earlier about not being able to kill Sasuke. No matter how hard he tried he just couldn't bring himself to kill one who he consider a friend...no more than that a brother. Even if the feeling wasn't mutual. The fox looked up for a moment as if it were looking out of a window. It held back a laugh as it saw an opportune moment to mess with his host. He grinned manically. "Tell me kit what were you thinking about hat was so important.? It wouldn't have happened to be that Hyuuga girl would it? Asked the fox whose grin seemed to have grown about twice it's size.
"What Hyuuga girl?" said Naruto. "The one that is about to tap you on your shoulder right now I think her name is... Hinata?" Said the fox with a twisted grin. "What!" Naruto found himself in the forest once again sitting against a tree as he felt a slight tapping on his shoulder. 'I am going to kill you ' he thought at the fox who if could be seen at the time was rolling around in laughter.
"N-Naruto-kun? Hinata asked as she tap his shoulder again. "Oh hi Hinata he said as he got up.
"Sorry I was kinda sleep I guess he said with his famous smile. Hinata blushed as he looked at her moving her head down to avoid eye contact. Naruto looked down at her hand and noticed that she was carrying a basket, it was then that his stomach reminded his that he hadn't ate that morning with a loud growl. Naruto blushed as he held his stomach and slid down against the tree's trunk. Hinata who was a bit surprised to say the least at the source of the nose gently held
out her hand with the basket and asked timidly "N-naruto-kun W-would you-u like to share m-my lunch with m-me? "That would be awesome Hinata" he said as he stood up with a very large smile on his face.
Hinata could only blush as he moved over to make room against the tree trunk. She had to fight to stay unconscious as the blood rushed to her head. Hinata opened her basket and took out some sandwiches she handed one for Naruto and she kept one for herself. Naruto wasted no time as he took a bite out of the sandwich and froze.
Hinata looked at him with her head down 'He doesn't like it' she thought sadly as she looked at Naruto who had tear running down his face. "This is the best sand which I've ever eaten! He yelled at the top of his lungs causing hinata to blush and look down while playing with her fingers. "R-really?" she asked daring to bring her eyes upon her secret crush.
"Yeah there great" he said taking another rather large bit of the sandwich. From there on they continued to eat in silence until Naruto brought his head up to look around ,as if he had heard something... "Hinata-chan did you hear something? He asked. Hinata having heard nothing looked around. "I-I didn't hear a-anything N-naruto-kun" she said as she try to make eye contact with him falling miserably. "Oh okay he said as he went back to eating. Unknown to Naruto he had indeed heard something, with his senses beginning to sharpen had he payed more attention he would have heard the sound ninja that was watching them leave.
"So the fox and the Hyuuga seem to be quite close, I must report this to the commander." said the sound ninja as he jumped through the trees. He made his way back to the sound ninja camp which happened to be by the large waterfall where Jiraiya had trained Naruto, cleverly hidden by
a strong genjutsu. Looking around to see if the area was clear he enter the cave behind the waterfall. "Commander I have news that may serve to put us in favor of success..."
Naruto stretched himself out as he leaned against the tree, he would definitely have to ask hinata to share her lunch with him again one day. He sighed as he looked toward the sky and then towards Hinata who was currently napping against the tree, well actually she passed out when Naruto hugged her for sharing her lunch with him. He let his eye wander over her frame. She had grown into quite the lovely young lady, she had grown her hair out and had filled into her figure quite nicely it was a wonder to him why she was still single she had all the right curves in all the right areas.
In the two years that he had trained with Jiriya he had missed her for some reason he didn't quite understand, sure he had missed his other friends but he missed her...differently. She was one of the only people who actually treated him like a real person instead of a demon which most of the village saw him as, he had come too see her as a close friend without even noticing
it.
"So the young kit has started looking at girls eh? My they grow up so fast"came the
snickering voice from his head. "What's that suppose to mean?"Naruto asked angrily to the fox
but missing the underlying insinuation. "Nothing oh nothing, so tell me kit is this your girl friend?." I the fox could be seen he would have surly have had a large grin on his face. "What!? Hinata is not my girlfriend She is just a friend and that's it!" from inside his head came the unmistakable laugh of the fox.
"Do you like her?"asked the fox. "What kind of question is that of course I like her." "She seems quite attached to you kit. She is one who has treated you differently from the other, treasure her as she is a but a moon flower that will soon blossom. One that will not wilt when the harsh daylight of truth beams down. For you are as the light of the moon to her". with that said the fox retreated into Naruto mind leaving Naruto clueless before he could ask any questions.
'If he is anything like his father he'll figure it out in time' thought the Kuuybi as he laid down for a fox-nap. Naruto was indeed confused partly because of the cryptic message Kuuybi had given to him and partly because of the question he had asked earlier. Sure he liked hinata but it wasn't like he was her boyfriend...but he found he didn't find the idea a bad thing. "Damn fox leaving cryptic messages" he said turning his head to her as she slept in peaceful bliss. Little did he know that the seeds of love had been planted within his heart and with some help for a certain nine-tailed farmer they would soon blossom into some thing beautiful.
Unbeknownst he and Hinata both were being watched by the same two figures from before. "So that's the kid huh"said the figure hanging upside down from a tree branch. "Yep that's Arashi's kid alright, looks just like him when he was little"said the one crouching on the branch next to him. "Two days now till he transforms so let lay low and watch". Said the upside down figure. "I agree let let what happens happen"said the other as he turned to face the other. Besides I don't think that we the Arutimetto Batousai(1) need to make our appearance just yet eh brother?"said the figure on the branch. "Agreed."he said as he flipped up onto the branch to stand next to his brother. The Arutimetto Batousai looked out at Naruto. 'Soon Naruto soon'
(1) Arutimetto Batousai Ultimate manslayers
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