Naruto walked up to his door and jammed the key into the lock and walked inside, he tossed his newly ripped cloak onto the table in the kitchen and kicked his sandals off by the door.
"Damn, she is one crazy woman" He looked down at the cuts in his shirt and sighed and pulled it over his head and tossed it on the couch. "I'm glad I took more than just one set of new clothes from that store"
He slipped out of his pants and collapsed onto his bed in his boxers and passed out.
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Naruto arrived at the training ground early again the next morning, and Anko was once again already there waiting for him.
"Sleep well?" She asked as he walked up.
Naruto smirked "Thanks to you, yeah, I did"
Anko grinned "Good, I hope you're well rested, because today we're gonna see just how much chakra you've got in that little body of yours"
Naruto raised an eyebrow in question "How do we do that?"
Anko grinned "Well, you know how you locked away your chakra to conceal it?"
Naruto nodded. "Well, now you're going to expel it all, force it out of your body through your tenketsu, just don't expel every drop, if you do...well you'll die"
Naruto's eyes widened slightly "So, I just push the chakra out then?"
Anko nodded and took a step back "Alright then, here I go I guess"
Naruto closed his eyes and focused on his chakra once again, but this time he focused on shoving it out of his body, he forced the chakra as hard as he could out of all of his tenketsu. He opened his eyes once he had it under control and looked about, and was shocked to find that he was glowing blue, he was expelling so much chakra, so quickly, that he was actually glowing.
Anko watched on, this boy was just one surprise after another. She'd never seen chakra that was visible before except for Kakashi's Chidori technique.
Naruto continued to glow a bright blue for over five minutes, further amazing Anko, she herself could only maintain a chakra purge for about forty-five seconds before she would be on empty.
Naruto stopped purging chakra at five minutes and thirty four seconds, and promptly passed out.
Anko chuckled and scooped up his unconscious body and headed for his apartment "Well he sure has a ton of chakra, guess he deserves the rest of the day off"
Anko had just placed Naruto on his bed and was about to turn for his door when she saw what looked like a wisp of black chakra come off of him "What the hell was that?" she asked herself. "Better stick around for a while, never know what the Kyuubi could do to a case of chakra exhaustion"
She sat down on his couch and waited.
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Naruto opened his eyes and looked about "What the hell, where am I" it was pitch black and he was sitting in ankle deep water.
Naruto looked around, the place was in shambles, it had to be decades old, pieces were missing off the walls, and they were covered in cracks and splits, there was three things that were in pristine condition, a set of pipes running along the ceiling. There was three pipes, one was blue, but it was so faint that it looked empty, the second was a pipe filled with something of pure black essence. Finally, there was a third pipe, filled with a red substance, the black essence from the second pipe was leaching into the red pipe, and it was turning the red essence black.
Naruto decided nothing better could be done, so he followed the pipes out of the room and down a very long corridor.
He continued to follow the pipes until he heard an extraordinarily deep growl, followed by the sounds of a struggle. He quickened his pace and sprinted towards the sounds of the fighting.
The hallway he was running down suddenly opened up into a humongous room, it had to be over six hundred feet wide, and he couldn't even see the ceiling. What caught his attention though, were the massive bars on one side of the room, or more precisely, what was beyond the cage.
On the opposite side of the cage was a gigantic fox, that had to be over one hundred and fifty feet tall, and over three hundred feet long, not to mention the nine tails, each over eighty feet long.
It was weird though, the fox was fighting something, Naruto walked in the room right as a gigantic wave of darkness clashed with the fox, and sent it reeling backwards. The wave of darkness crashed into the giant fox again, and the fox let out a deafening roar that sent Naruto to his knees.
Naruto watched on in amazement as the two giant forces continued to clash, and eventually the giant wave overwhelmed the fox and it was coated in darkness, a moment later the giant wave receded into the darkness of the cage and the fox was left lying on the cage of the floor.
Minutes passed, and eventually the fox opened it's eyes, but they weren't the burning crimson that they were just minutes earlier, they were a completely blank gray, they still had slit pupils, but they were left gray and lifeless.
It's eyes snapped around in the darkness before locking onto Naruto and the giant fox growled "How I wish I could kill you, you irritating whelp"
Naruto's eyes widened slightly at the foxes ability to speak, something he wasn't expecting. "What the hell is going on here? Where the hell am I? And what the hell just happened here!?" He yelled.
The fox growled again "We're in your mind fool. All I know is that your father was part of some clan or something, this darkness that runs through your veins is most assuredly not human"
Naruto's eyes widened "You mean there's more than just you inside me!? Just what the hell does this stuff do?"
The fox narrowed it's eyes at him "How should I know? All I know is that it's completely drained me of my chakra, and has stripped my effect on it. My only guess could be that it's given you control of my chakra, you insolent human"
Naruto's eyes widened once again "You mean I have control over your chakra, all that power!?"
The fox growled "As much as I hate to admit it, yes, this...power in you, has eaten my strength and given it to you. Your only hope is to find out more information about your family, find out everything about your father, and his godforsaken heritage"
Naruto nodded hesitantly "Uhh, okay...how do I get back to the real world?"
The fox grinned and slowly stood to it's paws "Come closer, I'll send you back"
Naruto shrugged and walked up to the bars of the cage. Before he even saw the giant fox move it rammed it's paw between the bars and bisected Naruto with it's claws, and Naruto faded from existence.
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Naruto groaned and opened his eyes once again, being bisected was definitely not a good feeling.
He looked around and was quite surprised to find himself in his bed, but was even more surprised to find Anko sitting on his couch "Umm, what are we doing in my house?" he asked.
Anko smirked "Well, when you passed out after burning all your chakra, I brought you here, then some black stuff that looked kind of like chakra came off of you, so I stayed around to watch after you, in case the fox tried anything"
Naruto's eyes widened slightly "Well, thanks. I'm still not entirely sure what happened, but the Kyuubi spoke to me, it said that something in me overwhelmed him and literally ate all of it's chakra and gave it to me, said it has to do with my father"
Anko cringed 'His father? Does he know who that is?' "So what, you control the Kyuubi's power now?"
Naruto shook his head "No, I think it's my power now"
Anko grinned wickedly "Really now?I guess you'll just have to give me a demonstration"
Naruto paled "I don't even know how to use it, plus not here, I don't know what this power can do"
Anko's grin only widened "I know just the place we can go where no one will interrupt, or care if things get crazy, we can go there"
Naruto sighed "Could this wait till tomorrow? I have like no chakra, and I'm tired"
Anko pouted "Fine, tomorrow, ground thirty-six seven I'll see you then"
Naruto paled "Seven? Why can't we just meet at eight?"
Anko grinned once again "Because, I wanna see just what this power of yours is, and what you're capable of when using it"
Naruto groaned "Fine, I'll see you there, now please let me sleep Anko"
Anko nodded and turned for the door "See you there, my little fox" She quickly grabbed the doorknob and left his apartment, leaving him in silence.
Naruto laid back down on his bed and sighed "Why the hell does she keep calling me a fox?" He shrugged to himself and nodded off into sleep once more.
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The next morning came and Naruto woke earlier than normal and got dressed into a fresh set of his clothes, he quickly scarfed down some food and hopped out his window and headed for training ground thirty-six.
He arrived with ten minutes to spare, and yet again Anko was already there waiting for him "Do you even sleep? You're always here before me, and I'm always early"
Anko grinned devilishly "Guess I'm just excited to see what my pupil is capable of, so lets get going. Follow me, I'll show you where we'll be training from now on" Naruto shrugged and followed after her when she took off.
After running for about four minutes Anko stopped at a large fence, it had to be over twenty feet tall, and had signs attached all over it, clearly stating 'Danger! Forest of Death!'.
Anko turned around and grinned at Naruto "Welcome to training ground number forty-four. Better known as the Forest of Death, we'll be training in here from now on"
Naruto raised an eyebrow "Okay, just to clarify things, this is the Forest of Death, any particular reason for that?"
Anko's eyes glinted in the morning sun with something not quite sane, "It's called that because the danger that resides here in, animals much larger than you are, centipedes over ten feet long, and other cuddly fluffies"
Naruto's eyes widened "Alright, so why exactly are we going in there to train then?"
Anko's grin widened "Ok come on, don't tell me you're afraid of a couple little animals. They're nothing for someone of your skill, plus no one ever comes in here but me, no one will ever interfere with us, or see you using your power. Not to mention, once you're around the animals for a while, they'll understand you're not something to be trifled with. Now follow me, we're gonna be heading into the denser section"
She turned back around towards the fence and glanced one more time back at Naruto before smirking and jumping up to the top of the fence and over into the forest, Naruto quickly followed her.
As they jumped through the dense forest Naruto looked on, amazed, at the size of these trees, some were well over seventy feet thick and hundreds of feet tall. They ran through the forest for about five minutes before Anko finally stopped in a clearing about eighty feet in diameter. She quickly turned to Naruto and smiled "Alright, let that power of yours out and show me what you're capable of"
Naruto furrowed his brow in concentration "Give me a minute, I don't exactly know how this all works"
Anko shrugged and took a few steps back and leaned against a tree trunk, leaving Naruto to his thing.
Naruto looked down inside himself once again, and recalling the site from inside his mind looked for the three chakras in him, he found his own -blue- chakra easy enough, then found a tiny amount of red chakra, which was constantly being reduced. Finally, he found the elusive third chakra, he found it surprising how hard it was to find, because the amount that he felt once he found it was amazing, but it had almost no signature, he couldn't sense it at all.
He copied what he would normally do to channel his chakra and latched onto the black chakra mentally and drew it out from his center and pulled it to every inch of his being, he was astounded by the sudden explosion of power and strength he felt when the chakra began to flow throughout him. He heard Anko gasp and opened his eyes to see what happened.
He looked around, but couldn't see what caused her to gasp, that is until he looked down at himself, his entire being was encased in the black chakra, which in itself seemed to devour all light, the chakra seemed to have formed a body around him, which reacted perfectly to his own movements.
His fingers had turned into six inch long talons of darkness, which flexed when he moved his fingers. His arms were longer and thicker, his feet elongated greatly and his toes turned into three inch long talons themselves, his legs had also changed, to be more suited for walking on four limbs. His back arched out more and his entire torso seemed to have lengthened and bacame more animalistic and his chest was more pronounced. His neck was much thicker and his head was something akin to a wolf's, but his ears were long, almost a foot long, and pointy. Finally, his eyes, were pure white and lifeless. Then the only thing not black about him, was a mouth full of razor sharp teeth, ready to ripe flesh to pieces, lastly, was the single black tail, waving lazily about behind him, about three feet in length. (Think Werewolf, more or less)
In total, he stood about eight and a half feet tall, while hunched, and looked like some demon sent straight from hell.
He looked at Anko and was surprised to find her looking actually fearful for the first time he'd ever seen. He reached out with an enormous taloned hand and spoke in a chillingly deep voice "Anko, it's still me, Naruto"
The fear in her eyes suddenly flashed away and she shook her head before realization dawned on her "Yoruyajuu(Night Beast)" she breathlessly spoke
Naruto cocked his large head to the side "Yoruyajuu?" He repeated.
Anko sighed "The Yoruyajuu is a mythical beast that was said to have ancient ties to the human world, it was said to be connected to an ancient clan thousands of years ago, but I've never read what clan it was supposed to be. I've seen paintings of what they're supposed to look like, and well...you look almost exactly like one"
Naruto shrugged his massive shoulders and dropped down onto all fours on the ground, shaking the ground slightly "So, I'm a beast of mythical stories, Now what do we do?"
Anko grinned "Well, we're gonna see what you're capable of, of course. You seem to almost absorb light, so you have the ability to be about as stealthy as possible, we just have to train you to be silent and swift when you're so huge and heavy. For now, lets see how strong you are-" She looked around the clearing and found a tree that was about ten feet thick "- Hit that tree as hard as you can" She said, while pointing to the tree.
Naruto walked over to the huge tree and placed one giant hand on the bark, before standing up on his legs and rearing back and slamming his open paw into the tree -and nothing- nothing happened for a second, then a gigantic CRACK! Resounded through the clearing and the spot where he punched exploded into splinters and the tree slowly crashed into the other trees of the forest.
Anko 's jaw dropped at the display of strength, she was expecting him to fail, she just wanted to see what he would do to the tree. "Well, you're definitely strong...Next lets see what kind of abuse you can take. Don't try to dodge or stop this Kunai" She flicked a Kunai out of the sleeve of her trench coat and grasped it firmly, before flinging it at Naruto's chest with great force.
Naruto expected there to be at least some pain, but all he felt was the impact of the weight of the Kunai, no pain at all. A second later the Kunai was absorbed into the black body of Naruto and he could sense it's presence and location, he focused on it and tried to move it, and was surprised when he felt it moving about inside of his body. His focused on it and forced it to move down his arm and had it come back out in his hand, which he held out to Anko, who looked on, slack jawed once again. "So, you're incredibly strong and apparently quite resistant to damage...hmm"
Anko nodded to herself after thinking for a moment "Well, it seems that this power of yours is going to be quite helpful for you, from here on out I'm going to teach you to fight in this form, how to be stealthy like this, and how to kill like this."
Naruto's gray eyes widened slightly "Wait, what about when I'm not in this form? I can't just walk around in everyday life like this, you still need to train me to fight regularly"
Anko grinned "We'll adapt this fighting style to regular use too, it will be much easier to create and use one fighting style, rather than two different ones. We'll make you some custom pieces of gear so that the moves will be viable as a human"
Naruto shrugged his huge shoulders "Okay, let's just get training, I have a feeling that this will be fun"