Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

AN: (hides behind Gaara from angry reviewers) Don't kill me! I just can't write when I have other stories I want to write! It's another Naruhina!

Gaara: …. (thinking "wtf?")

Jinchuriki – the host of a tailed beast (such as Gaara is this to Shukaku, the demon raccoon inside of him)

(R&R! Don't worry, the smut will come…)

This is Post-Shippuden

Chapter 1

A yell echoed throughout the leaf village as a tall, blonde teenage ninja woke from his slumber. The cause of his distress was the fact that his… oh… shall we say… 'Special abilities' were activating without being called upon. The boy was known as Uzumaki Naruto, the Jinchuriki of Kyuubi; the Demon Fox. And Kyuubi was what happened to be activating, that is, his effects were. As in, Naruto's fingernails grew and strengthened to be claw-like, his hair went crazy, his teeth grew to fangs, his whisker-ish markings thickened, and his eyes became red, his pupils turned to cat-like slits. His senses became acute and his abilities heightened, the strong feel of the power surging through him.

"What-the-hell-is-going-on??" is what Naruto had yelled, as the urge to get down on all fours screamed at him.

"Granny Tsunade might know!" he said and he tugged on some pants and leapt out the window, running on all fours across the roof-tops to the Hokage's mansion, soaring through an open window and sliding on the floor, all the graceful movements ruined by crashing into the wall. His resemblance to a tripped four-legged animal was so real that you could have mistaken him for one with all the papers flying around.

"Granny Tsunade!" Naruto called out as he got up.

"I'm right here, Naruto, what is it?"

"I don't know! I just woke and looked like… this!" he said, gesturing toward himself.

"Geez, Naruto, you really are dense! You had your growth spurt when you were out with Jiraiya for two and a half years!"

"No, Shizune, look closely at him."

Shizune did so and noticed Naruto's Kyuubi-ish traits.

"You didn't summon up Kyuubi's power?"

Naruto shook his head.

"I'll have to give you an examination to find out."

Naruto nodded and they headed for the medical room, getting strange stared toward Naruto along the way.

- (' . ') -

"Well, you heart rate is normal, your breathing's fine, you don't have any particularly harmful physical changes… once we get back your blood test we'll know for sure, but besides that you're fine."

Naruto looked at her like she had sprouted Kyuubi ears herself. "I look fine to you?! I have claws for Pete's sake!"

"Tsunade-sama, come quickly!" a medic nin called out from the test room. When they got there he was at a computer, typing furiously. "It's amazing! His DNA is totally infused with The Kyuubi's!"

Tsunade looked at the screen.

"Well that would explain a lot. Basically, Naruto, you get Kyuubi's abilities" she said, turned back to Naruto, who was silent in shock, a look of horror on his face. "What?"

"Am I going to turn into some kind of werewolf?"

Tsunade looked back at the screen. "There's a one in a million chance. You'll be fine." She looked back at him again. "Try making connection with Kyuubi."

Naruto closed his eyes and a red chakra took hold of him, forming nine long, whipping tails and a large chakra shield about him. His fangs slid out from beneath his top lip and his ears became pointed, the chakra forming long fox ears from his own. Naruto opened his eyes slowly, a look of rage taking over his visage as his tails slung about in fury and a low growl emanated from his throat as he barred his fangs. The chakra blurred his vision and clouded his mind, a howl ringing inside of it.

"Buhi!" Tonton cried out as she began to squirm in Shizune's arms in an attempt to free herself, causing Naruto to growl in annoyance and shift into a position as if to attack what annoyed him.

"Naruto, get a hold of yourself! You'll never be able to be Hokage if you act like this!"

Naruto's shoulders hunched and his face formed a silent scream as he struggled to gain control. The chakra died down and Naruto returned to his still-a-little-Kyuubi-ish state, panting loudly and leaning his hands on his bent knees for support.

"You'll have to learn to control your Chakra or not use it al all."

Naruto nodded and Tsunade gestured for him to sit down. She walled over to a window, facing the village below.

"I would like to have you under the supervision of an experienced Jonin at all times, is that clear?"

Naruto looked up. "But that only happened when I tried to connect with Kyuubi! Please, I'll learn to control –"

"That's enough, Naruto! I'm thinking about the village here! What if that happened again in the middle of it?"

Shizune went up to Tsunade.

"Tsunade-sama! I understand your concern, but Naruto already as to walk around looking like that." Shizune gestured toward the depressed ninja. "Don't humiliate him by having a babysitter follow him around!"

They turned back a little ways to look at him. He was studying the floor, looking close to tears; his hands hanging limply between his legs as he slumped his shoulders and leaned his elbows on his thighs, a sad air about him.

"Have faith in him."

Tsunade sighed. "Alright." she turned fully. "Naruto."

He looked up.

"You may go about on your own. Just… be careful."

Naruto smiled widely and nodded. "Thank you, Granny Tsunade, I will!" And he leapt out the window to enter the village.

"Good luck, Naruto."