A/N: OFG REVIEWS! Even if it's a lot of voting, there are still actual reviews in there/... Yay! You all kick ass and take names. Hmm, I believe someone asked how the people were so blind as to miss the fight, well they didn't. Call it a side effect of Raxxieal that he exerts a mild genjutsu that if you aren't thinking of him, you tend to forget, and even then memories would be foggy. That and he got speared through the gut and tossed like a paper doll then seemingly disappeared (went into his human form) people probably just assumed he was dead or something...

Seriously, 19 reviews (quite a good amount of which are actually more then a sentence which ROCKS) 13 favs and 25 alerts. For one chapter! I'm floored, I never get that... You people seriously kick ass. Anyways, onto the story.

Chapter 2

-4 years later-

In the damp dark sewers of a certain young blond, a being of great power awoke, with a yawn. If one had wandered through the mindscape of the young Naruto Uzumaki they would find a huge cage with intricate seals carved into the bars. What they would have found in it was a massive passed 8 winged white bird, instead of the assumed Kyuubi. But after 4 years of letting itself heal the wounds inflicted upon its chakra by Kyuubi, Raxxieal had finally regained enough energy to awake. The relatively ancient being fluttered its silver eyes open taking it's surroundings in. 'What the fuck... A sewer? Why in the name of... What kind of four year old's mind is a goddamn sewer?!?' It should be noted the bird is not one to take waking up well, being quite irritable about the whole matter in fact. Waking up in a sewer did not help any either. He shifted to a more manageable human form and proceeded to shift the mindscape of his cage, making it into a piece of his own. He had a small bit of control outside the cage in the boy's mind, but reviewing memories was the extent he could do without permission form his 'host.' Content with doing that for the moment, he channelled the memories into a projector and flopped onto a newly made couch to watch the show.

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It had started as an average day for Naruto Uzumaki, wake up dodge the orphanage caretakers that oh-so-graciously woke him up in the mornings, with such unique and inventive ways to. Ways that could get you executed in some communities. But alas Konoha is blind when it comes to the young jinchuuriki. But in continuance with the morning schedule, the blond managed to steal some food from the kitchen, the only way he would get fresh food from this place, before ducking out and heading off to track down the Old Man. Of course Naruto forgot one thing, but he is four so he should be given a break, and that is to never go out on his birthday.

So here Naruto was 2 hours later running from a mob of drunks, a few cuts and bruises littering his young form. He managed to duck into a small alleyway, he sighed in relief as most of the mob ran by him. He didn't see the drunk chunnin with a drawn kunai behind him though.

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Raxxieal freaked out, he'd been awake not 12 hours and his container was already dieing. "AAAAAAHHHHH WHAT DO I DO?" He paused and looked at some new 'options' that had appeared. "Hmmm, ah! Insert chakra here to heal life threatening injuries... Simple enough. Hey what's this, DNA manipulation control? Oh, I'm so playing with that." The demon smirked and set into his new task with vigour.

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Naruto woke with a gasp in the hospital several hours later, the Sandaime Hokage standing over him. "Old man... What happened?"

The aged leader looked away, "You were attacked. It's a miracle you're still alive." Actually it was due to the efforts and subsequent genetic manipulation of a slightly cranky and therefore imbalanced demon, but I digress.

Tears streamed down the young blonds face. "W-why? Why do they treat me like this?"

Sarutobi glanced away for the briefest of moments. "I'm not sure Naruto." Naruto swore he heard someone yell liar at that but he ignored it.

"A-all right... I'm gonna try to sleep some more." Naruto said shakily.

The Sandaime nodded and stood up, "I'll be back tomorrow then." With that he silently left the room leaving the young boy to drift back into sleep.

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Naruto's eyes snapped open. He glanced around taking in his surroundings. He was quite certain his hospital room had not been moved into a sewer.

"Kid! Hey kid, over here." A loud voice called out in the endless corridors. Naruto followed it arriving in front of a large cage. The sight of the creature inside made his eyes widen. Raxxieal had returned to his avian form, the silver hawk like bird stood before him 8 wings stretched out.

"Whoa." Was all the boy could say. The demon cocked its head to the side, the bird equivalent of an amused smirk. Naruto shook off the awe and looked the creature in the eyes. "Where am I and who are you?"

"We're in your mind. Well.... Ok you're in your mind and I am kinda, but there's a bit of my mind in this cage. Mostly so I don't have to sleep in a god forsaken sewer." He paused and looked down at the kid who had his neck tilted so far back it looked like he was gonna fall over. The great demon sighed and shifted in a flash of light into his human form, cowboy hat and all. "As for who I am. My name is Raxxieal. I am the sole survivor of the Storm triplets and inheritor of my brothers, the Phoenix and FrostGale. The true Storm King, the Thunderbird." He bowed slightly and tipped his hat.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, an odd expression for a four year old. "That was kinda long."

The demon smirked, "Yeah, but the higher order beings are all angsty about traditions and long winded titles are one of the highest of demon traditions. You can call me Rax. Anyways... That's who I am."

Naruto took in this information and frowned slightly. "Are you why people hurt me?"

'Perceptive for a brat. But then kids are always more perceptive then people give them credit for.' "Yes and no. I have been reviewing your memories and yeah it seems they hate you because you carry a demon. But they think I'm the Kyuubi, and that you are his vessel."

Naruto paused, "Why would they think I held the Kyuubi? Didn't the fourth kill it?"

Rax laughed at that, hard. "HA. Kill Kyuubi indeed. No Kyuubi was supposed to have been sealed into you by your late father." Naruto widened his eyes at that last comment, but the demon cut him off before he could interrupt. "Yes, yes, your father was the fourth. Of that I have little to no doubt. At any rate it was a stupid plan on his part. Kyuubi is far too powerful to be sealed like that. What your idiot dad did was summon the Shinigami to split the Fox bastard's soul from his body and seal it into you. The death god got about 3 tails of power, and yes, I think tails and wings are stupid ways of measuring power, before Kyuubi forcefully broke free and escaped. Not that anyone knows that... The world believes you contain him. Anyways, where was I... Right, yeah you were dieing because without Kyuubi's mind to maintain his power, it would turn you into a small explosive." Naruto cringed at that. "Anyways, I had shown up a while back and helped hold off Kyuubi, and in doing so got skewered by one of the pricks tails. So I was dieing, you were dieing, your dad was going all emo as his soul was being forcibly ripped from his body... So I struck a deal, I would be sealed in you instead and Shinigami would hold onto my body for me. I help you out by giving you a couple wings of my power and help regulate the demonic energy until you can. Oh and train you up to kill Kyuubi when he reforms his body. We kill him, I get my body back all healed up, you get your dad back and eventually turn into a demon. Everybody wins."

Naruto blinked, then blinked again. "Wait hold up. Kill Kyuubi? Become a demon?"

"And here I thought it would be your dad coming back from the dead that would grab your attention... Anyways yeah, Shini was kinda pissed that Fox got away, but he's far too lazy to go kill him himself. And well Kyuubi will be coming for you to forcibly rip his power from your soul anyways... We get to kill him. Well, mostly you but I'll help in anyway I can." He paused and sat down on a chair. "About the becoming a demon thing... Don't worry about it. That won't happen till you die of natural or unnatural cause."

"...After I die?"

"Yeah it's how these things work... Mostly anyways. Up until you die you'll be human, but with all the demonic energies in you, if you merge them with your own, when you die your soul will absorb them and you'll become a demon. Something like that I think, I dunno it was explained to me before by Kami but I wasn't paying attention. I think you can bring a mate with you too... But you and I don't need to have that talk for a few years yet."

Naruto shrugged it off and thought things over for a while. A gleam came to his cerulean eyes, "So lemme get this straight, your gonna train me to be super powerful... And I'll still be human and get to become Hokage?" Rax nodded. "SWEET. When do we start?"

The sadistic grin on the demons face did not bode well for our young hero. "We start when I finish tweaking your DNA. Nothing major. Strengthening your body to handle demonic chakra, enhancing your elemental affinities somewhat and accelerating your aging physically and mentally. The faster you get past the annoying awkward years the better. Not to mention it's stupid to send 12 year old kids out as ninjas."

Naruto blinked, he didn't follow most of that but then he's four. He did pick up the gist of it though. "Rapid aging... cool! Can you give me... What are they called, Bloodline Limits to?" Glee filled his eyes.

"Yeah I can." Naruto grinned, "But I won't. You'll be plenty strong enough as is. And bloodline people tend to turn out imbalanced, and become obsessed with inbreeding."

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Both the entire Hyuuga and Uchicha family members sneezed simultaneously. Itachi sneezed extra hard.

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"Besides I already have a bloodline I made out in the world... But you don't need to know that yet. Oh, one last thing... We'll be leaving your village as soon as possible to train. I don't think they'd be happy with you throwing around demonic chakra. And it'll be easier to cover your rapid aging. Feel free to tell your Hokage everything I've said... And that we leave at dusk tomorrow. Just ask when we gotta be back for you to be a ninja."

Naruto nodded in understanding and slowly drifted back into sleep. Fading from the dank sewers of his mind. Rax took notice how they seemed just a little bit brighter then before.

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The next morning found Naruto relaying the nights events to a slightly wide eyed Hokage. It most certainly was not how he expected to start the morning. Naruto was rather shocked that when his tale was done the man believed him. In Sarutobi's mind the story explained a lot of things. Most notably that feather tattoo under Naruto's right eye, as all demons tended to leave some sort of mark from their presence. Not to mention the bed of feathers he'd originally found the boy in four years ago.

He looked at the child with a grandfatherly smile on his face. "All right... You have my blessing to leave. I want you back in 8 years though, and letters every month so I know you're all right."

Naruto grinned and nodded happily, he was a little sad, but this was a chance you just couldn't turn away from.

"I would be happier if some one went with you..." The elderly leader said, a forlorn look in his eyes.

Naruto shrugged, "Rax says I'll be fine. He knows a few places we can train in peace until I get strong enough to head out."

An hour later Naruto was dismissed from the hospital and recovered what few possessions were worth anything from the orphanage. It started to rain that afternoon, and quickly picked up into a wild storm. Set with a few extra provisions the Hokage had given him, Naruto slipped out into the wild weather, feeling oddly at ease with it. Hiruzen watched through his crystal ball at the small blond figure who slipped past the gate into the thick forests surrounding Konoha. He dearly hoped he would see the child again. '8 years Naruto... What will you be like when you come back?' His thoughts rang silently into the wind and rain outside of his windows, a storm the likes of which Konoha wouldn't see for another 8 years...

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A/N: Bah, there's chapter 2 for ya all. Still short I know... and a little chatty on Rax's part but meh. I was like, this close to sending Anko with them for more of a big sister thing, but decided against it. For Naruto to develop like I plan on it'll be solo-ish. Timeskip next chapter to his return. The 8 years and his activities in them will be mentioned and referenced throughout the story though, well, until their events stop being applicable. ANYWHO:

The Vote currently stands at:

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Hana: 3

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Harem: 1

Now, there is a tiny chance I would do a harem. Not that I have anything against them as I am a red blooded straight male But I want to write a good story, and writing a good harem fic is damn hard. And if it IS a harem it'd be 3 girls, but it's a next to zero chance. I am leaning towards NaruTsume cause well, older women rock and she and tsunami are like.. the least common parings outside of a harem. (another reason I'm avoiding one of those.) Though really, all my fav pairings are fairly uncommon ( Kure, Tayuya, Temari, Tenten, Yugito and Ino are tied for second. Anko being first.) I like Naruto with almost any other girl... save Hinata. Sure, it's cute and all and some really well done Hinata fics are out there... But it feels so... cheap. Like it's easy to make it a NaruHina... And who wants easy writing? Besides, her personality irritates me. (Though those fics where she's an excessively creepy stalker amuse me to n end)... Bah enough abut my rants on that... Seeya all next chapter.