Someone actually PMed me about finishing this chapter, I find that nice. Anyway, this is the second chapter of True Wind, hope you enjoy it.

"Talk"

"Demon/summons"

Attacks

Chapter Two: The Unfathomable Breeze

Naruto slowly awoke to the blinding white of the hospital room. He reluctantly sat up from his bed and noticed that the old man wasn't there anymore. He looked around the room, still in his clothes from yesterday but for some reason are now clean, right when a nurse came in with a glare.

"Well, you should be good now. There isn't anything else wrong with you, at least to Hokage-sama, so you can go now." The nurse spat. Naruto didn't react as he was already used to this, so he quickly got off the bed and ran out. He left the hospital in a quick pace and ran in the alleyways to avoid the citizens glare. Naruto guess the reason why is sort of understandable now. Having the demon who killed the neighbors or relatives, stuck in your gut, would put your panties in a twist.

Naruto quickly arrived to his apartment when Kyuubi finally spoke out again. "Took you long enough to reach here. I didn't want to speak on the way since you would freak out when I did." He grumbled in his head. He was right about the freak out part, since Naruto jumped quite a few feet in the air when he suddenly spoke. Naruto quickly gathered himself before speaking to Kyuubi.

"Can you explain more about this...shard thingy?" Naruto asked as he inspected his arm again. Kyuubi grunted in exasperation and displeasure as his tails swished behind him in a lazy manner. "Hmmm..." Kyuubi said to himself in thought. "Shards are...part of the elements." Kyuubi began, noticing Naruto paying the utmost attention. "Inside each shard, each for the five elements, have those elements compressed inside of them. There isn't much to say about these things, only that special shards called Spirit Shards have powers to change the tide of battle." Kyuubi said with his eyes closed, almost looking asleep. "Bring one out and throw to the wall behind you. Summon the shards through your tattoos, put your hand above one of the two bottom shards on your arm" Kyuubi said suddenly, surprising Naruto. Naruto put a hand into the middle shard and was shocked to see a red ball quickly go up to his hand.

He turned around on his heel and was rather surprised to see a small target, red lines and everything. He looked back at kyuubi and scowled at the amused expression his sleeping face seemed to gain. He turned back to the target and aimed his small red marble, or shard, at the target before throwing with not too good aim.

Turns out, good aim isn't really necessary as the flames that popped out of the orb exploded around the target, destroying it and evaporating the water around it. Naruto had a looked of pure shock and amazement as kyuubi's deep chuckle echoed throughout the cave. Naruto than got curious and grabbed another shard from his arm and threw it at the wall. He watched closely as the marble seemed to crack before the small explosion happened again.

"I guess the elements are compressed in it..." Naruto said to himself. Kyuubi watched as this grew on, not thinking the child would be so...inquisitive. Kyuubi cleared his throat to gain the attention of the brat.

"Shards aren't just the five elements, which I can't give by the way since I only have control of fire, there is also shards called spirit shards." Kyuubi said as Naruto looked at his arm in wonder. "These spirit shards are warriors that are akin to summons and the like. They can range from a Jellyfish-mermaid to a toad." Kyuubi chuckled, memories of a strong woman with the shards tattoos on her chest. "In rare moments, there are special spirits whom you have to go through trials to use, or they just choose you on a whim or trait." Kyuubi supplied. "Now, imagine pulling something bigger than your normal shard to get your spirit, only powerful shard casters are able to have and use a spirit. Intuition tells me that you might have one, despite being a weak child." Kyuubi said, turning mean again at the end for no peculiar reason other than to see the child gain a scowl.

Naruto put his hand and forced the feeling of something else coming out of his arm. A few minutes later, frustration entered his head before jumping in surprise as a brown orb slowly float out of his arm with an intricate design of what looked like wings, breezes, and eyes. He was about to grab it before a sudden force pulled him back to the outside world.

Naruto's eyes refocused and was surprised to see the hokage slowly shaking him awake. He looked at him in shock before looking at his surrounding again. He was in his bed, the sun was shining through his window onto his bed. The hokage looked worried for a few seconds, beads of sweat littered his face before realization hit his face. How long had he been inside his mind? And how did he look like when he was completely focused into his head? He quickly made a story.

"Oh! Hokage-Oji! I had this weird dream about a sea of ramen! And, And..." Naruto continued to babble about his dream. He wasn't telling a lie, he did have a dream before about a ramen sea. The hokage's worried face grew back to normal have realizes that Naruto just had a 'Naruto' dream.

"Well, i'm glad your fine Naruto. You had me worried there. In any case...you do know that you are almost late for the academy?" The hokage said in amusement. Naruto stared for a few minutes before an explosion burst through his apartment.

"WHAT?!"

Naruto ran down the streets of the village, intending to go straight to the academy in his green shorts, white shirt(with long sleeves to his his tattoos), and sandals. He ignored the chuckling of kyuubi and the back of his head, also ignoring how he could talk to him in his head, and turned a corner. This was his second year at the academy, and it was only the beginning! And he was almost late!

The Ninja Academy sat there across the street in all its glory. An overly large street was in between him and the building, which almost stopped him from even going to the Academy. Naruto used all of his bravery before running quickly toward the academy. Almost immediately, he was the subject of glares from people across in the street and buildings set near the academy. He didn't let this destroy his spirit and just ran quicker to the building.

Said building, or buildings, was the academy. Most people found the academy just by looking for the tree with a swing-set, or the giant kanji of fire in the front. Naruto ran quickly inside the building and toward his classroom. He slammed open the sliding door, to the shock of his favorite teacher iruka, and was going to say his normal apology for being late...only to realize that he isn't even late! He stared wide-eyed at the clock, telling him he was a few minutes earlier than being late, and quickly sat in his chair at the back.

Iruka Umino was a simple man with a ponytail, dark eyes and a scar that runs across the bridge of his nose He wore a standard chunin outfit with his sleeves rolled up. He gave Naruto a surprised look before settling with an exasperated sigh.

Naruto sat next shino, a boy from the Aburame clan. The two weren't friends, per se, but they had a strange respect for each other. One now knew why he was feared, the other was trained to utilize the thing other fear of his clan.

Shino wore a tench coat with a hood over his head. His sunglasses covered his eyes while his button shirt covered the bottom half of his face. He wore baggy pants with sandals. On Naruto's right were three people, the other dead-lasts.

The closest was Kiba Inuzuka, a kindred spirit to Naruto with spiky brown hair, and his dog akamaru. He wore a simple beige long-sleeved shirt with grey shorts and blue sandals. And on Kiba's right was Shikamaru Nara, a lazy boy with a spiky pineapple shaped ponytail who is easily irritated with tasks that are always set in front of him. Naruto knew he was a really smart person...but he was a lazyass with nothing else to do than sleep. He wore a blue shirt with a circle design with grey shorts and sandals.

On the end of the row was a shy child eating chips. Chōji Akimichi was a large child with spiky auburn hair, but was amazingly loyal, sweet, and quite nice. Naruto got along with him quite easily, but Naruto thinks he could get along with anyone if they gave him the chance. Chōji had pink swirls on his cheeks, as the tradition of having a design on his cheeks for the Akimichi way. He had a shirt with a line down the middle, with white on right and a dark green on left. White shorts were on his legs with blue sandals.

All three greeted Naruto with a wave, since for some reason people disliked people who associated with Naruto. Their parents were wary of Naruto, but never said to stay away. No one said anything since they were all part of a major clan. They all sat down as iruka began with his lesson.

At the end of the day, the parents of the children come to pick them up from school. This was a regularly happy occasion for people, since they were going home, but for Naruto...it was just another sad reminder. The absence of his parents bore hard on his mind as he watched the children talk excitedly with their parents about their day as ninja students. He ignored the harsh glares and meaner whispers on his swing.

"Why would they let something like that attend school?" One asked.

"I agree, the demon shouldn't learn how to fight at all!" Another exclaimed, until being reprimanded by another.

"Be quiet! You know we can't talk about that!" The man said. They glared once more at Naruto before grabbing their children and leaving. Ever so slowly, the crowd died down until Naruto was alone by the tree, slowly swinging himself. He reluctantly got off the swing and ignored the grumbles of kyuubi saying "Stupid humans and their fears." Naruto never noticed a man with silver hair and a red trench coat, yellow eyes, with a wrapped up arm.

"So he's the one..." The man said wistfully before turning away and heading in another direction, walking away slowly.

Naruto walked through the alleys of konoha, hoping to avoid confrontation with the other villagers. Kyuubi called it cowardly, he called it smart. Even if Naruto was a ninja-in-training, if there was someone big enough who didn't like him, they could probably kill him.

He crept close to the wall, all too close to the bar that was built near his home. He held his breath as he quickly ran behind multiple people to get through. He was unlucky, for once.

"Hey, the demon is here!" A man slurred, obviously being drunk and angry which isn't the best combination. He ran faster, ignoring the shouts of anger and surprise as he passed by. He yelped as he saw a kunai stuck itself near a wall by his head. He looked back and wasn't really surprised to find multiple shinobi filtered in the crowd.

"RUN!" Kyuubi's voice blocked out all other thoughts than that. He ran in-between buildings, hoping his small legs wouldn't give out beneath him. The sound of stamping feet behind him echoed through the night as he ran, but not fast enough. He looked up to see a couple of kunai glinting and dodged them all, but not without a few scratches. Naruto turned toward a right, which was a dead end. He looked back and saw a mob forming together and slowly entering the alley. He put his back against the wall and stared at the villagers.

The reason was understandable at the very least. He had something inside of him that killed family and friends, and probably killed his own parents. But he wasn't able to see why they grew so angry! He was the cage, not the beast! Why couldn't they see that!

"It seems our last attempt failed..." A raspy voice said as a shinobi went to the front of the mob. A kunai was in his right hand in a tight grip and was glaring darkly at Naruto. The mob all seemed to grin evilly at the ideas of what they were going to do with Naruto, who was shivering in fear. He couldn't attack back either, no one would believe that the calm and harmless civilians would attack the demon. The man ran forward with his kunai and plunged down, stabbing Naruto in the leg. He cried out in pain as the blood gushed from his wound. The man rose his hand up again right before Kyuubi's voice filtered through his panic-filled mind.

"YOUR SPIRIT NARUTO! USE IT NOW!" He yelled. The demon knew the boy was going to die if he didn't choose to do something tonight. Reluctantly, Naruto pulled up his sleeve, revealing his tattoos. The mob gasped in disgust before growing even angrier.

"The demon is revealing his true self! ATTACK!" A woman shrieked, her voice hurting Naruto's ears. He put his hand above his larger tattoo and focused on the feeling of something coming out. Time seemed to slow as the familiar orb of brown with an intricate design of what looked like wings, breezes, and eyes reached his hand and was thrown into the air, the mob striking Naruto. The world went grey as two circles span around a orb as a green naked male appeared. His feet and hands were a shade of yellow with small wings on his calves, thighs, shoulders, and hands. Two small yellow wings were on either side of his head as his silver hair flowed to his thighs. Strangely, the mans eyes were closed as he pulled his "gaze" over the mob.

The mob gaped openly at the man before yelling out in surprise. The man raised his hand as a large white feather appeared in a flash. An echoing sound of women singing resounded in everyone's ears as the man raised his feather-like sword and swung down. A large gust blew the mob away from Naruto, who was losing consciousness quickly. The thing looked down to Naruto after he swung another gust upon his offenders. Naruto would remember in the morn the parting words he heard in his mind the next time he woke.

"Good luck, child of the wind." A deep male voice resonated in his head as the kyuubi gasped and darkness filtered into his vision.

This chapter just did not want to be written down, jezus. So yeah, hope ya'll like it, it has the cameo of Amil Gaoul in it! The man, I bet the lot of you can guess who exactly, is important!

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