The Sandaime Hokage was looking through his crystal ball, looking at the unconscious Naruto, and he was not happy. Not happy at all.
Without even looking, he was speaking to the only ANBU in the room. "Find Naruto, and bring him to the hospital, then take a small team of ANBU and find the civilians who did this and make sure they get punished. Tell them 'The Sandaime Hokage will not be as lenient next time.' I'm trusting you with this, Kakashi."
"Of course, Lord Third. It will be done." Kakashi replied, as he disappeared in a swirl of leafs.
"Naruto….I'm so sorry. This village...they should be treating you as a hero, not as a demon..I'm truly sorry." The Sandaime Hokage spoke to himself. 'I definitely will not tolerate any more. I have grown too soft. I am sorry, Minato, Kushina...' he thought, with new found determination he had long since forgotten he had. The Third Hokage now stood with confidence that he will now be the grandfather-figure he should have been to Naruto, instead of bowing to the council.
"Ky-Kyuubi…? Wh-Why are you here? Where are we? What's going on?"
"Easy kit, take it slow. I am here because I am part of you." Said the Kyuubi.
"What do you mean you're a part of me?"
"I mean I'm a part of you. I'm sure you were taught about what happened twelve years ago, with myself and the Yondaime Hokage."
"The Fourth Hokage? Yeah, it was said that right before he died, he sacrificed himself to kill you." Said Naruto, slightly confused, but terrified of the frighteningly powerful being in front of him .
The Kyuubi noticed Naruto's hesitance, but chose not to dwell on it, because it happens to everyone, and he had more pressing matters to deal with. "You're half right, kit. The Yondaime Hokage did sacrifice himself, but he didn't kill me. You can't kill a being made entirely of chakra. And he knew that. So the Fourth did the only thing he could do. He sealed myself in the only child born on that day. That boy is you, kit." The Kyuubi spoke this with admiration and sympathy towards the boy, but he still held that hard edge on his voice.
The giant fox waited on Naruto, and at that realization, Naruto went wide eyed. He didn't know what to think. "Why? Why….Why the hell did he seal you into me?!" the boy screamed. "Didn't he know that the village would have shunned me? I was hated by the entire village! I raised myself! I have no family, no friends!" and at this point, the young blond started crying, but trying to stay strong. "I…..I don't have any family..no friends…" Naruto was now sobbing, finally having an outlet for all his sadness and rage, and finally knowing exactly why he was hated. "They….they beat me so much…"
"Easy kit, I know it hurts. To be hated by humanity, just because what you are, or what you have inside you. But let me tell you this; you do have family, and I know for a fact that you have an admirer."
"Wh-Who?..." asked Naruto.
"Well, the Sandaime Hokage seems to care about you deeply, considering he sent out an ANBU to bring you to the hospital. And as for your secret admirer, well, I won't spoil the fun." Kyuubi said with an amused smirk, that could very well be misinterpreted as a devious almost trickster smile.
"The old man sent someone to take me to the hospital?" Naruto asked, completely oblivious to the scheme the fox had in store for Naruto when it came to his 'admirer'.
"That's right kit. You're in the hospital now, and with a certain guest that seems very concerned about you."
"Who?" asked the blond boy, extremely curious as to who would visit him in the hospital. Besides the Hokage, no one has ever visited him in the hospital. That he knew of at least.
"Not gonna say, kit. I'll leave that to you to figure out in the future. In the meantime, just know that when you wake up, we'll start our training. But as a parting gift, I'll teach you the Shadow Clone Jutsu."
"You'll teach me a jutsu?! Really, Kyuubi?" Naruto asked, giving the nine tailed kitsune a slight chuckle. Naruto that that THE Kyuubi teaching him anything was weird, but he couldn't deny he was grateful.
"Yes, kit. But really, what I mean by teach is I'll give you the knowledge I have about this jutsu, and you'll be able to use the jutsu without any practice. But I'll only do this once. I want you to wake up fast enough to become a genin. Then when you're on a team, when your not training with your team, you'll either train here, in your mindscape, or follow my training regime I will give you outside, in the real world."
"Awesome, dattebayo!" Naruto explained, with his signature foxy grin.
"Thank you, Kyuubi. This is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me." Naruto said sincerely. He still didn't know why the Kyuubi was being so nice.
"Don't mention it, kit." the Kyuubi said 'Considering all your problems are my fault anyway. And it's the least i can do for you, and your parents.' "Oh, and it's Kurama."
"Huh?" asked the confused Naruto.
"My name. It's Kurama."
"Oh, well, thank you, Kurama." Naruto beamed up at the fox, happy and content.
"Good luck Naruto. And I hope you don't mind my other present to you. Oh, and don't freak out and don't make any sudden moves." Said Kurama, as Naruto was now leaving the mindscape. 'I'm surprised the boy can still be so gleeful, even after learning it was because of me…' The Kyuubi thought, sadly.
Naruto was now incredibly confused. He was waking up in a hospital bed, but he couldn't lift his left arm. He was still adjusting to the light, or in this case, lack of, as he saw it was still night time, and he turned to look at what was weighing down his left arm. What he saw shocked him. It was, "...blue hair?" mumbled Naruto. 'That's weird, the only person I know who has deep blue hair is…' "mmm…." Came the sudden noise from the dark blue haired form. Suddenly, Naruto froze, realizing who it was. 'Hinata? But, why would she be here?' And as soon as he thought that, he remembered something from his past.
'Hey, cut it out!'
'Look at the shrimp.'
'Who are you?'
'I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and I'm the future Hokage!'
….
'Hey, wait, hold on! This time I'll do a super duper jutsu and…'
'Ah, a-are you ok?'
'Yeah, it's nothin', I'm used to it.'
'Why did I remember that?' Naruto thought, as he gazed upon the sleeping Hinata. Naruto thought she looked so innocent and peaceful, completely oblivious that she has suffered a handful of sorrow from her clan, of course, still not as much as Naruto. Though, the boy could relate, if he ever paid enough attention to Hinata.
'Hmm...the kit is picking it up fast. He is remembering things from his past.' Thought the Kyuubi, seeing and feeling Naruto's thoughts.
"I guess I'll just go back to sleep then..I still feel too sore." Naruto said to himself, before he went back to sleep.
In the morning, the Sandaime Hokage was greeted with a whole lot of paperwork, and a majority of it was asking for Naruto to be killed while he is still in a coma like state. It was no secret that around ninety percent of Konoha despised him, and it was also no surprised that most of the council didn't like Naruto either. At least some of the ninja council liked Naruto, or at least tolerated him. Hiashi Hyuga was still so hard to read, though the Hokage thought the Hyuga head didn't like the boy either.
"Damn those ignorant villagers. Placing all their hate and fear on one boy, only because they can." the Hokage said. 'Even if I am Hokage, there is only so much I can do, and making the masses think anything else about Naruto is not one of them.'
The Hokage then made multiple shadow clones to help him with the excessive amounts of paperwork that always seemed to be endlessly multiplying, and with that, the Sandaime Hokage started his day.
Naruto woke up a little before the morning sun shone through the blinds of his hospital room, but with Hinata still sleeping on his left arm, he decided it would be best for her to wake up on her own. Naruto didn't know why, but he felt himself being more considerate of others and how to act, but he couldn't for the life of him no why. Maybe that encounter with the Kyuubi changed his way of acting slightly?
"Mmmm…" Came a noise from his left.
Hinata was usually an early riser, but she was unusually comfortable and relaxed right now, she didn't want to wake up.
"Oh, good morning Hinata!" Naruto said, raising his right hand as a greeting. In that instant, Hinata was stunned, then she turned a very, very bright pink.
"N-Naruto-kun! I-It's not what you think! I'm sorry, I-I'll be going now." And with that, Hinata rose up out of her chair, now completely awake.
'Hmm? What was that about? Did I say something wrong?' thought Naruto.
'Nevermind. He's still just as idiotic. And even more so when dealing with situations like this.' Kurama mentally sighed, seeing his jinchuriki's obliviousness. 'Still, this should be good entertainment to watch.' Kurama thought, getting ready for what was to come.
As Hinata rose out of her chair, she got a glimpse of Naruto's slightly longer blond hair and froze in place. Naruto then noticed Hinata's puzzled look.
"What's wrong, Hinata?" Naruto asked, fearing he said something wrong.
"N-Naruto-kun?"
"Yeah? What is it?
"Y-Your hair...you...you have..ears?"
Naruto sweatdropped. "Well yeah I have ears, I'm a person."
Hinata just blinked, still looking agape at Naruto's hair. Then Naruto started to worry.
"J-Just..umm...f-feel your hair…" Hinata just barely said, as she was still so shocked.
Naruto did just that, feeling his hair, then he felt something that shouldn't be there. And touching whatever it is he touched just made him uncomfortable. "Give me that mirror!" Naruto yelled at Hinata, and she quickly gave Naruto the small hand held mirror that was resting on the counter in the room. Naruto looked at the mirror both shocked and terrified at what he saw. Atop his head, he saw two, blond fox like ears. And that was when he lost it.
"What the HELL?!" screamed Naruto, making all of the hospital aware.
Unknowingly though, he had moved his new ears a little, and as he did that, Hinata thought only one thing. 'So cute…' And then Hinata proceeded to faint.
The ANBU guarding the more restricted areas of the hospital and other hospital staff heard the scream and came rushing to the room Naruto was occupying, and what they saw horrified them. Before them, they saw Naruto awake, with blond fox like ears with a reddish tinge on the tip of the ears, sitting in the hospital bed, with an unconscious Hinata lying on the floor.
To say that the ANBU were ready to attack Naruto was an understatement. The ANBU were ready to KILL Naruto, seeing as to how he had seemingly 'killed' the heiress to the Hyuga.
As the ANBU came rushing towards Naruto, a big puff of smoke appeared in between Naruto and the ANBU, and out stepped the Hokage. Sarutobi had seen everything that happened, as he was watching through his crystal ball.
With the Hokage now in the room, staring at the ANBU, he opened his mouth and only said one word.
"Leave."
And that had the ANBU quickly kneel down and say in unison "Hai!", and they left in a puff of smoke, having never seen the Third Hokage with that look since the Kyuubi attacked.
Sarutobi then turned to Naruto, who was still sitting up on the bed, but the poor boy looking terrified, seemingly afraid of what his grandfather-figure would think of Naruto now, with his new 'features'.
"Hello, Naruto." The Third said, smiling.
AN/ And with that, Chapter 2 is out. I know it took longer than it should have, and I truly am sorry. Like I said before, I know where I want this story to go, but starting everything and getting everything up and running is a little time consuming. And seeing as how this is my first story, it is kinda hard to set everything in motion as I never had any practice with writing like this. Even so, I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. Remember to review, you don't have to like or favorite the story, but a review is always helpful, and may very well help me update faster.
And if you don't like Naruto turning into a half-fox, tough, because I like it and I plan on it being important later on.
Anyways, Thank You for reading, and I hope you enjoyed. See you next chapter.