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"Speaking"

'Thinking'

"Kyuubi"

"Mysterious voice speaking"

"jutsu"

*sound*


Naruto wake up, he got up and put on some shoes before he left his house with a toast in his mouth as he was running through the streets, he kept running as he was finishing his toast, he looked at his watch and saw that he was going to be late, on his way he had gotten a glares from few people as there wasn't as that much people, though Naruto just ignored them as he continued to head towards his destination.

Naruto ran towards an old, abandoned steps that seemed to be ruined and ran up the series of stairs carefully as he made his way to the top without stepping on any cracks on the way, he got to the top and saw that the top was empty, and that there was only him, the collapsed ruins of a temple in front of him and a lot of trees.

Since it was apparent to Naruto that his parents weren't gonna teach him, he decided it was best to train himself if head any chance of becoming Hokage and surpassing Mito. When a mob of civilians and genins were chasing Naruto with torches, he found the ruins of the temple and eventually he made it his training place as no-one seemed to go there or follow him there, not even the ninjas.

Naruto walked towards the ruins of the temple, he went inside the ruins and brought out some dummies that was similar to the training dummies that academy students, genins and some chunins would use to practice their taijutsu, shurikenjutsu and bujijutsu. He then planted the dummies on the ground as he took out some shurikens, he threw the shurikens at the dummy over and over as he tried to get the shurikens to hit the target exactly where he wanted.

Naruto threw the shurikens at the dummies before retrieving the shurikens and proceeding to throw the shurikens again at the dummies as he kept doing it over and over, the more he did it the more easier it become over time as he was able to get the shurikens to hit the targets exactly as he wanted.

Once Naruto was pleased with his shurikenjutsu, he decided to improve his taijutsu, Naruto grabbed hold of one of the dummies and brought it away from the other dummies, once Naruto had the dummy in a place that he liked, he proceeded to punch the dummy with speed and power.

Naruto sent a punch at the dummy, then he got to the left of the dummy and threw a mean right hook at the dummy, making sure to hit the dummy with full power, which caused the dummy to shake violently, then it stopped shaking as it stood still.

Naruto quickly rotated his body and hit the dummy with a kick to the face of the dummy as he moved back, before he sent a roundhouse kick at the dummy, Naruto continued to practice his taijutsu against the dummy as he kept punching and kicking the dummy.

Naruto continued his relentless attack against the dummy as he kept practicing his taijutsu, Naruto kept hitting the dummy over and over again until he used up all of his strength and passed out.


Naruto woke up and found himself in what seemed to be a sewer, he got up from the ground and walked along the pipes, he walked to the source of the pipe and saw a huge gate in front of him, he walked towards the gate as he tried to touch it but before he knew it he moved back as he narrowly avoided what looked like a giant claw that was coming out of the gaps in the gate.

"So close, a little closer and I would've finally been free." spoke a deep, dark voice that seemed to come from the other side of the gate, Naruto tried to see what it was that spoke but he couldn't see as it was too dark there.

It took a while before Naruto's mind even processed what happened, "W-who's there?" asked out Naruto as he tried figure out what it that said that.

"Who do you think?" spoke the voice as it asked a rhetorical question, before Naruto could say anything the other side of the gate got a little lighter but light enough for Naruto to see what it was that lied beyond the gate.

Naruto froze in fear before he spoke, "T-the K-K-Kyuubi, but I thought the yondaime Hokage killed you." stated Naruto as he tried his best to run away but his body didn't respond as it just froze there sucking up all the information, Naruto couldn't believe that the kyuubi was right in front of him, the same kyuubi that nearly destroyed Konoha 8 years ago, the same kyuubi that was said to create Tsunamis and destroy mountains with a swing of it's tail.

Naruto just stood there as he slowly processed everything, "You're supposed to be dead, there's no way you could be the same kyuubi that nearly destroyed Konoha eight years ago." stated Naruto as he was trying to deny the fact that the kyuubi was alive and right in front of him.

"You shouldn't believe everything you hear." said the kyuubi as he had a dark and scary smirk on his face to scare Naruto, and it worked as Naruto as fell back on his butt and tried to crawl away from the kyuubi as much as possible.

Naruto was very scared, so he did the only thing that made sense, he brought his legs to his chest as he wrapped his arms around them, he slowly cried as he was genuinely afraid that the kyuubi was going to kill him and that he was going to die wherever he was without ever getting to achieve his dream as the Kyuubi released his killer intents that was so thick that it was suffocating Naruto.

"Hey there. It's alright, don't be afraid. I won't hurt you." said a different dark voice that was as deep as the kyuubi's except that it had a softer tone and that it spoke with a gentler voice than the kyuubi.

It took a while but Naruto slowly looked up, when he looked up he saw that he was in a forest and that in front of him was what he had seen in books, a griffin; it had the head which was similar to that of an eagle and had a pair of long majestic wings on it back which was similar to that of a Eagle as well, but however the rest of its body was that of a lion and it had a long tail that had armour around it. Naruto stared at the creature with awe and disbelief. The creature could only be descripted as majestic.

Naruto swiped the tears in his eyes as he looked up at the majestic creature that until now he had only ever seen in book, "A-are you real?" asked Naruto as he looked with awe at the griffin that was standing before him.

"I am indeed real." said the griffin without even opening its mouth at all, which surprised Naruto as he didn't understand how the griffin was able to speak without using it's mouth.

"How are you talking to me without opening? And where am I?" asked Naruto as he looked around for anything he could recognise, or anything that gave him a hint where he was.

"I'm talking with my mind, and to answer your second qeustion, we're in your mindscape." answered the griffin as it moved close to Naruto and lowered his back to Naruto height.

"Wait who are you? And why are Kyuubi and you inside my mindscape?" asked Naruto as he was trying hard to explain what was going, so he did the only thing anyone in his place would do, he looked for an explanation.

"Youngling, I'm you or at least of you. I was given power and form by the wish you made when you were in that temple 2 years ago." stated the griffin as he gestured Naruto to get on his back, the griffin pointed to his back with his head.

Naruto climbed on top of the griffin, "Please, you can call me Naruto." said Naruto as he introduced himself properly to the griffin.

"You can call me Ajax." the griffin introduced himself as Ajax to Naruto, "Hold on tight." stated Ajax as he started to fly up.

"Okay." Naruto held on to Ajax with a firm grip and was going to ask Ajax why he had to hold on tight, but before he had the chance do that, Ajax flew across the sky above the forest at almost the speed of sound.

Naruto looked down at the scenery, and thought to himself what a beautiful view, Naruto enjoyed the wind gently breezing through his face and past his bod, Naruto enjoyed the ride on Ajax as he was able feel the excitement of soaring through the air, it almost felt like he was flying but he knew that Ajax was the one flying.

After soaring through the air, Ajax decided to land as he was tired of flapping his wings, he landed near the ruins of a temple that looked exactly like the one Naruto would always go to train.

Ajax landed near the temple and had Naruto get off of him, "What do I do now?" asked Naruto as he looked at Ajax for the answers.

"You can train here for about 5 hours." said Ajax as he answered Naruto's question, to which Ajax explained why as he said that he was in a mindscape within a mindscape so that the perception of time would move much slower than in there as he stated that an hour in there is like a nanosecond in the real world.

Naruto asked what Ajax meant by a mindscape within a mindscape and Ajax explained by saying that the mindscape with the kyuubi was the first mindscape and that this mindscape is the second mindscape.

"So wait, if I train for hours here, it would only be nanoseconds in the real world?" asked Naruto, to which Ajax replied by saying that physically training was useless as this was all happening in the mind, but he did say that Naruto could train his ninjutsus and Genjutsu.

Naruto told Ajax that he didn't know any jutsus, so Ajax decided to teach Naruto a jutsu, "Now copy my handsigns." ordered Ajax as he made handsigns in order, Bird - Dragon - Tiger.

Naruto copied the handsigns, once Naruto completed the handsigns, his body moved on its as he bit his finger until a bit of blood come out, then he slammed the hand with blood coming out down on the ground, a summoning circle appeared on the ground and suddenly Naruto saw that he was top of Ajax.

"A summoning jutsu." said Naruto as his eyes widen in surprise before he jumped up in the air in joy at the fact that he had a summoning, now he was one step closer to surpassing Mito and then one day he could become the Hokage.

"You can summon me at any time but make sure when you do summon me it's important, until then keep me and your summoning jutsu as a secret, and don't tell anyone, understood?" asked Ajax as he eyed Naruto see what he would say, he saw Naruto nod his head in agreement and smiled, maybe in a couple of years time he could teach Naruto that jutsu.

"Naruto what do you plan on being when you grow up." asked Ajax as he was curious as to what Naruto's reply would be.

As soon as Ajax said that, Naruto started thinking as he too wondered what he wanted to and It was then that Naruto realised something. His dream was to become the greatest Hokage ever, and also the king of all beasts, "I'm going to be the greatest Hokage ever, and also the king of all beasts just like you Ajax." stated Naruto as he was radiating with determination.

Ajax was taken back by Naruto's reply as he had figured that Naruto would've chosen to become the Hokage but he didn't believe that Naruto would want to be the king of all beasts.

"Why do you want to be like me? Why not something else?"

"Because you did more for me than anyone in the world, you're a very king and caring people so I want to be like you."

Ajax's jaw were touching the floor, he pulled up his jaw almost instantly as he turned and looked at Naruto to see that he near the trees at the side as he continued to practice his summoning jutsu as he kept doing it over and over to try and do the handsigns within a few seconds.

Naruto spent the next 5 hours forming the handsigns for the summoning jutsu, Ajax was shocked and surprised because in just 5 hours Naruto was not only able to make the handsigns for the summoning jutsu within a second, but also figure out a way to shorten the amout of handsigns required, after Naruto had figured out how to cut the handsigns by 2/3 and was also able to perform the handsign with only one hand.

Ajax looked at Naruto with wide eyes that were full of amazement at what Naruto had done, it was after what he saw Naruto do that he realised two things about the kid that was he knew without a shadow of a doubt was true, that Naruto would be a legend in the shinobi world and that Naruto may not be a prodigy but he had the determination and the will to surpass any prodigy no matter what.

Naruto decided to leave his mindscape as he closed his eyes and focused on being in the real world, he owned his eyes to see that he was in the same place he had passed out in the real world.

Naruto got up and decided to train and improve his taijutsu as he practiced with the dummy.


Naruto had finished his training and decided to go home, he walked home and when he got to his home, he opened the door to see that the place was empty like usual, he rounded his eyes in sarcasm as he wasn't surprised ito return to an empty home, his 'family' was always busy training Mito and smothering her with love, in fact it wouldn't surprise Naruto if his parents were doing that right now.

'Naruto listen, I want you to go to your parent's study.' said Ajax as he communicated mentally with Naruto.

"Ajax, is that you?" asked Naruto as he look around for Ajax when he heard Ajax's voice.

'Yeah, but don't talk out loud, just think of what you want to say, after all I'm in your mind.' said Ajax.

'Ajax could you repeat what you said the first time?' thought Naruto since he didn't listen to Ajax as he was too busy trying to find out where Ajax's voice was coming from.

'Naruto I want you to go to your parent's study and take two scrolls from their study.' thought Ajax as he commanded Naruto to do what he said.

Naruto didn't say anything as he made his way to his parent's study, he opened the door and got in the study gently as he tried not to make a noise, he walked up to a bookshelf and took out two scrolls, before he exited the study and closed the door as silently as when he opened the door.

Once Naruto had done that, he went inside his bedroom and locked the door, "Ajax why did you want me to get you these two scrolls?" Naruto asked as he wondered what Ajax wanted with the two scrolls.

Ajax replied by telling Naruto that the scrolls were for him so that he could train and expand the number of jutsus in his arsenal just in case for when he didn't have enough chakra and strength to use the summoning jutsu, Naruto 'oh'ed in understanding about why Ajax wanted Naruto to take two scrolls from his parent's study.

Though Naruto asked why just two scroll and not more, to which Ajax replied by saying that Minato and Kushina would notice or get suspicious if Naruto took too many scrolls at once and it would be better to take only one or two scrolls at a time to make sure that Minato and Kushina wouldn't notice with the amount of scrolls they have. Naruto nodded his head in agreement as he could he could see the reason why he would take only two scrolls at a time.

Naruto looked up at the clock to see that the time was 7pm, he had nothing to do, so he decided to take a nap, only after hiding the scrolls under his bed though he wasn't worried about his parents entering his room and looking around since his parents barely noticed him as they would always focus their attention on Mito.

Naruto closed his eyes as he fell asleep.


*Beep*

*Beep*

*BEEP*

Not been able to take anymore of the annoying sound from the clock, Naruto got up and turned the alarm off as he got up his bed and looked at the clock; it was 6:30 pm right now.

*Yawn* the sound came from Naruto's mouth as Naruto's brain was slowly rebooting itself. Naruto headed to the toilet and brushed his teeth, he then washed his face and walked down to the kitchen as he decided to make himself something to eat.

Once Naruto had finished the breakfast he made for himself, he headed back up to his bedroom and took the two scrolls from yesterday night, and put them into the pocket on his jacket, before he headed for his usually training place.

When Naruto got to his training place, he took out the scrolls and chose one of the two scrolls , he read through the scroll and decided to learn the jutsu as he thought it was a useful: Naruto took out a kunai and threw it at a tree, before the kunai could hit the tree Naruto made multiple handsigns and called out "Kunai kage bunshin no jutsu." the kunai split into 5 but just when the kunai was about to hit, two of the kunais poofed and turned into smoke.

"What? What just happened?" asked Naruto as he had no idea why 2 of 5 kunais just poofed instead of hitting the same tree.

"It's your first time using that jutsu, the jutsu also requires more concentration and chakra control to use that jutsu." explained Ajax as he knew what happened since he had sharply observed Naruto and the jutsu he was using as well as the amount of chakra it took from him.

"So if I keep using this jutsu, it'll get easier to use it. Is that what you're telling me?" asked Naruto as he was trying to figure out what was the most efficient way to improve on the jutsu and how to get the most experience the fastest way possible.

"No I'm saying that the amount of chakra that you put into this jutsu will increase the amount of kunais produced, your chakra will probably determine how long the kunais will last." explained Ajax as he told Naruto about the information that he got from sharply observing the jutsu.

"Okay, let's see if what you said was true." said Naruto as he used the jutsu again but this time he made sure to use twice the amount of chakra he used before, he threw the kunai at the tree and watched as the kunai duplicated into ten kunais as they hit two trees instead of one but 4 of the kunais poofed before they could even touch the trees.

"It seems you're right and from the looks of it, I think 4/10 kunais will poof out of existence before they hit their target." stated Naruto before he repeated the process again and as he thought; only 4/10 kunais poofed out of existence before they could hit their target.

"Naruto, I want you to read the other scroll and try to learn the jutsu in that scroll." ordered Ajax, which Naruto did as he had no reason not to get another jutsu in his arsenal.

Naruto read through the scroll and was a bit disappointed as he hoping for a powerful jutsu but instead the scroll was the instructions for Shuriken kage bunshin no jutsu. However Ajax made Naruto learn the jutsu despite the fact that Naruto was reluctant to learn that Jutsu.

Naruto mumbled something about 'Ajax being a pain in the a**' before he turned to the tree and threw a shuriken at the trees as he used the Shuriken kage bunshin no jutsu to duplicate the shuriken into twenty shurikens, however only 4 of the shuriken actually hit the trees before proofing out of existence.

Naruto exploded as he was enraged by the fact that 16 of his shuriken poofed out of existence before they hit the targets, he kicked a boulder but instead of the boulder cracking, Naruto's foot was hurting and Naruto grabbed his foot as he tried to make the pain go away.

"Naruto calm down and try to think about what happened." ordered Ajax with a tone that made Naruto stop acting like an idiot.

Naruto thought about what happened and his eyes widened as he realised that he used the same amount of chakra for the shuriken kage bunshin no jutsu as he used for the kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu, but the amount of clones produced was different as there was twice the amount of shuriken as there was kunais.

'But the amount of kunais that actually hit the target was twice as much as the amount of shuriken, that must mean that the chakra control required for the shuriken Kage bunshin no jutsu was double what it was for the kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu, while for the amount of chakra required is the opposite of the chakra control required for both jutsu." thought Naruto as he had thought of the difference between the two jutsus despite them been similar.

"Yes that's the difference between the two jutsus Naruto, but the do you know the reason why the chakra and the chakra control for both jutsus are different?" asked Ajax as he was interested in seeing whether or not Naruto could tell the explanation as to why the chakra and the chakra control for the jutsus are different.

Naruto thought about the two jutsus and tried to think about why the chakra and the chakra control was different for the two jutsus. But Naruto shook his head as he didn't know why the two jutsus were different.

"I want you to hold up a kunai in one hand and a shuriken in another hand."

Naruto held up a kunai and a shuriken on the other hand, Naruto could feel the difference as the Kunai felt heavier... Wait maybe that was the reason why the chakra and chakra control requirement for the two jutsus were different.

"I see you are close to the figuring it out, the kunai is heavier and denser so it requires more chakra while the shuriken has a more complicated shape so it requires more chakra control."

"Ohhhh, so the more heavier and denser the shape is, the more chakra it will require and the more complicated the shape is, the more chakra control it requires." said Naruto as he understand why the chakra and the chakra control for the two jutsus were different.

Naruto and Ajax decided it was best to focus on the kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu, Naruto used the jutsu as much as he could. When Naruto was low on chakra, he would rest for a while before he got back to using the jutsu over and over again, Naruto spent the whole day training with his kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu.

Naruto left his training place and went back to his bedroom, before going to sleep in his bed as he was exhausted from using the Kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu all day long. Today was a long day, first he learns that the Kyuubi is alive and sealed inside of him and next, he meets a creature that was thought to be a myth. Overall today was draining physically but more emotionally as he found out why a lot of people looked at him with glares.


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