Chapter 2. The tomato and the gardner.

The academy was boring just like real school bit it was mandatory. The only aspect I enjoyed was socialising with a few other students. I became friends with Mikoto chan, Shikaku, Hiashi, and his twin brother Hizashi. Fugaku was still a stuck up prick but for some reason he trys to start fights with me all of the time.

My relations with Mikoto is a lot better than the others, apparently she warmed up to me when I made my declarations during my introduction. Now her and I are good friends and are often training together or chatting at lunch. Apparently some fellow classmates decided that we were a bit too close so they called us out in class.

"Hey Minato are you and Mikoto a couple?" Another boy pitched in.

"Yeah you totally look like one to me."

The class kept discussing it with eachother trying to top the previous persons comment. I looked to the side to see Mikoto a little flusturred but at the same time a little annoyed at the rumors. So I did what any man should do, I stood up and grabbed the classes attention.

"Even though I find Mikoto to be a beautifull girl I do not hold those kind of feelings for her. Were like what 5 years old, right now I just want to be friends i'll think about love when i'm older, so I would appreciate if you would just stop your little drama show now." The kids quited down while some boys looked relieved at knowing that we weren't an item. When I sat back down Mikoto thanked me and I told her no problem.

'Seriously we're children, Love shouldn't even be a topic until we're older.'

Another 2 months passed and the academy life stayed the same. My training at home is a different story alltogother though. Through training my bloodline has finally broken into the 30% region, and a new part of my bloodline has been awakened.

Sealed Realm. (Allows host to seal any being inside of them without harming them. The enviroment inside of the seal can be turned into anything you desire.)

What does this mean for me? Well nothing at all. I have no use for it now so I'm basically ignoring it, the real suprose to the bonus is that it might mean that there are other secrets my bloodline is hiding from me. I've also become a lot stronger thanks to the gravity seals but i'm still nowhere near the muscle impurity stage so I have to keep training.

I spent the night meditating like always but for some reason I had the urge to open my black book. So I trusted my insticts and grabbed the book, it lit up and started to gravitate somewhere. I followed the book to a single floor board and found that it could be moved. Inside of the new hole in my floor layed two masks, one that looked like the grim reaoer and another that looked like a dragon. The book absorbed the dragon mask while I picked up the reaper mask. If I remembered correctly this mask could be used to summon the grim reaper without him stealing your soul.

I pocketed the mask in a sealing scroll I had and put the floorboard back into place. 'Man I wonder why japanese people love hiding all of their things everywhere.' You might think my thinking is racist against japanese people, but it's all based off of my friend Souma and the crap that I keep finding here so give me a break please.

The next day at the academy we were introduce to a new transfer student named Kushina Uzumaki.

She had bright red hair that resembled the color of a rose and she had nice dark blue eyes which complimented her hair.

"My name is Uzumaki Kushina and i'm going to be Hokage you know!"

Everyone in the class started laughing at her except Mikoto and I. She got pissed at their laughter and I guess she was embarresed. It took awhile for the sensei to quite down the class before he started up our lessons. The day continued boringly as always and I was about to leave after class but I stopped myself after seeing a few kids starting to bulky Kushina.

"Hey hey your hair looks like a tomatoe."

"Yeah tomatoes are gross I hate them."

"Your hair is so gross Tomatoe!"

She started to ball her fists and said.

"I also hate tomatoes you know."

They started to pull on her hair and that's when she went berserk and started to attack them. She tackled the one boy onto the ground and started to punch him. She stopped a bit after getting up and looking at me, while she was on the verge to cry she glared at me a snarled. "what?" angrily at me.

I just looked back at her eyes and opened my mouth. "My name is Namikaze Minato I also want to become hokage. Tomatoes are actually pretty good if you eat them right and I think your red hair is actually really beautifull like a rose."

She had a suprised look on her face before she shook her head and looked back at me cautiously.

"You're a liar tomatoes are gross and my hair is ugly, you wouldn't understand how I feel at all!" I didn't get the chance to reply as she ran out of the classroom crying. That pissed me off so I rushed home that night and harvested my tomatoes from my garden.

'I'll show you little girl, No one can hate this dish, you'll like it and you will apologize to the tomatoe gods.' I finished making my tomatoe dish and stored it inside of my fridge before going to my bathroom and changimg a few things. The rest of the night I went into a training trance anticapating the look on Kushina's face when I suprise her.

The next day at the academy I walked into class late, and when the teacher saw me he dropped his piece of chalk on the ground. "Minato what did you do!!" I turned to look at the sensei. "Backing up a personal opionen." I turned around and walked over to the wide eyed Kushina who was gawking at my new look.

"Hello Kushina I brought you the meal I promised yesterday." I whipped out a sealing scroll and out came a hot and ready pizza. "I don't care about that, Why did you dye your hair red now it's as ugly as mine you know!" Kushina yelled at me.

I tilted my head at her and sighed. "Wow thanks for the confidence booster there. I thought I looked pretty good with red hair but your right it's not as pretty as yours but it's fine. Now quickly eat this before it gets cold." Her mind stopped for a good moment before she picked up a slice and put it in her mouth while she was in a dazed state. That didn't last long though as her little eyes started to twinkle as she got up and screamed. " Oh Kami this is so good you know! What is this?"

I smiled at her comment as I crossed my arms and looked at her proudly.

"It's called pizza and the sauce that you're tasting is made out of tomatoes so who's the liar now." She blushed at that comment while I just laughed and returned to my seat and waited for class to continue.

After that Kushina seemed to start liking her hair and pizza, and soon became friends with both Mikoto and me. Mikoto and Kushina became best friends and she made a habbit of involving us with her many pranks. It was nice playing with the tomboy Kushina, but it honestly scares me when she gets angry. Remember i'm a vetran who has fought in wars and here I am literally trembling under a little girls fury.

a few months passed and my hair grew out to the point where the blonde hair was the same length it was before I dyed it, so I got a hair cut making my a full blonde again. Kushina was sad stating that she wouldn't be able to see my hair on fire anymore. She seemed a bit upset lately for another reason but she woudn't tell me I only found out later because I was called to meet Uzumaki Mito.

"Umm hello nice to meet you my name is Namikaze Minato it's a pleasure."

The old woman standing in front of me smiled a little. "I know who you are Minato kun little Kushina has told me all about you and something called pizza."

I gave her a akward smile before I pulled out a personal sealing scroll and poofed out a slice of pizza. "Ooh this is pretty good!" She complemented the dish before giving me a look. "I didn't know you had an interest in sealing?"

I smiled at her. "Yeah it's a hobby because I find it fun, for some reason i'm good at it so I practice it often." She smiled at me patting my head. "Well that's good to hear Kushina is actualky training Fuinjutsu as well maybe you can learn a thing or two from eachother."

I nodded at her proposal.

"Anyways Minato I have a few things to discuss about Kushina with you, and knowing that your friends with her and young Sarutobi claims that I can trust you I will divulge a S rank secret with you."

I listened to her talk about the nine tails and how they were planning to seal it inside of Kushina and how she was scared.

"So I want you to comfort and protect Kushina is that alright with you?"

I grit my teeth and dug my fingernails into my hands. I knew this was going to happen but seeing a character vs seeing a close friend go through so much pain are two different things.

"No it's not." I said that with anger in my voice and Mito looked down depressed after hearing my answer.

"Very well I gue.." I cut her off. "It's not fair to put her through that much pain, and what's with this kyuubi enslavement buisness does that mean that you are locking up someone against their will for simply exsisting?" Mito looked suprise at my statement before giving me a sad smile. "Unfortunately it has to be done, the kyuubi is a being filled with hate and only a Uzumaki has enough power to hold it inside of them."

"Bullshit! Anger is bred it doesn't just exsist and from what i've read the kyuubi has been used as a weapon countless times before and is now locked up, how isn't he supposed to be angry? Now your locking him up again into Kushina, how is a nice girl like her supposed to handle that amount of hate?"

"I'm sorry Minato this is the only way we can't change this decision." I was angry but I remembered something abiut my bloodline so I forced myself to calm down. "Fine but were doing this my way get the hokage to come here with Kushina." She looked at me strangly before she looked over to the closet door. I followed her eyes only to see a weeping Kushina, she ran up to me and started crying in my arms.

After half an hour Sarutobi showed up inside of the room looking at me with a confuaed look. "What do you want ti do Minato?" I looked at him holding Kushina in my arms. "Do you know the reaper death seal and the eight trigrams seal?"

Sarutobi gasped at me "No the reaper death seal will" I got impatient. "Yes or no?!" Sarutobi paused and straightened his face. "Yes." I nodded and pulled out a storage seal pulling out the reaper mask from it and handing it to Sarutobi. "This mask is a heirloom it will allow the user to use the reaper once without it taking your soul. I need you to perfrorm the seal on the kyuubi and seperate it's yin and yang versions of it and seal them seperately in both myself and Kushina using the eight trigrams seal."

Sarutobi's eyes went wide and he started shouting at me. "Minati we can't uf we do you'll die your not an Uzumaki!" I looked back at Sarutobi amd calmly replied to him. "Uzumaki ir not i'm doing this, and just so you know i'm more worried about Kushina and Mito san." It turned my head to Kushina. "Are you prepared to accept this kind of responsibility Kushina?" She looked up at me and wiped away her snot and tears. "sniff yeah i'm ready you know. I'm just going to miss Mito."

Mito smiled a bit and grabbed both if us and embraced us in the form of a hug.

"It's okay Kushina, Minato i'm old now i've lived long enough i'm ready to take a rest and go see my husband." Kushina started to wimper again and I just stayed in the old womans arms. 'I know the feeling, death will eventually come she looks like she has accepted it and is now ready.'

After things calmed down the ritual started as Sarutobi perfirmed the seals and marked both Kushina and me with the eight trigrams seal. It was succesfull and soon after Mito passed away. The next few days after that were a blur between Mito's funeral to having discussions with the council about the two jinjuriki for the kyuubi.

Obviousley the council feared us and hated the fact that I was involved. Soon the meeting turned into a heated debate about security matters and in the end they decided that Kushina and a Anbu would move into my house. Kushina was happy that we would be living together which I was curious about so I asked her.

"Hey why are you so excited about moving in with me?" She blushed a bit before getting worked up. "Wh-what i'm not happy I just can't wait to eat all of your food." She stomped off ahead of me as I sighed to myself. 'I seriously don't get japanese people.' Later that night after dinner I recieved a message from the hokage informing me that tomorrow the Anbu member would be moving in with along with their child as a heads up.

'Seriously what is wrong with these people? You might as well install a playground out back while your at it.'

I went to my room and sat down on my bed sitting in the lotus position I went into my mindscape. Infront of me there was a cage inside of a sewer and what greeted me was the kyuubi.

"Oh if it isn't the brat who chose to split me into two what do you want?"

I could feel his bloodlust but I didn't shudder at it as I have felt worse.

"Nothing much I just wanted to chat and tell you about my plans involving you."

He started to laugh before he swatted the cage. "I don't want to chat to a brat like you, i'd rather boil you into a soup and use your leftover skin as a salad!"

"You have weird taste who would even want to eat something like that? I mean sure I get you want to kill and torture me but come on why would you want to eat something that is obviously gross?"

The kyuibi got pissed and started bashing his tails into the cage.

"Shut up Kit!"

I laughed a little. "Whatever, anyways my name is Namikaze Minato what is yours?"

The kyuubi looked at me strangely.

"I don't care who you are and why don't you use kyuubi?" "No way i'm calling you that. I adress others by using their names so what is yours?" The kyuubi got pissed again.

"Not telling you!" I sighed and looked at him.

"Fine fine whatever i'll call you

Pervy Foxy and adress you as such when others ask me about you."

"You wouldn't!" He said getting up with a bit of worry on his face.

"Normally your right but I don't know your real name so this is my only alternative."

"No please don't my street credit will go down among the other tailed beast if you did that!" "okay so whats your name then?"he gritted his teeth.

"Damn you brat! It's Kurama alright."I smiled. "Kurama that's a nice name it fits you well." Kurama nodded his head in approval. "Damn straight it does brat!" "Anyways What I wanted to tell you Kurama is that this will be the last time you'll ever be sealed inside if someone."

He gave me a suprised look.

"What are you saying Kit are you planning to kill yourself to get rid of me?" "What noo!" I shook my head quickly. "Nothing like that what i'm saying is that once i'm an old man i'll release you and place a different seal on you that will prevent you from being sealed again."

"There's a seal like that! And why!?"

" Nah there isn't but i'll make one, and i'm doing it because you obviously are a person too it's not fair to lock you up because you exsist. "

"Well that's a pleasent thought but what's stopping me from destroying your village after you let me go? Also won't you village disagree with your attempts, accept it your goal is impossible."

I stopped smiling and stared down Kurama. "I don't care i'll change their minds and yours Kurama. If then hate you feel is so great i'll take it all from you."

Kurama smiled at me. "Fine kit if you want to have a taste if my hate you can have all of it." Kurama sent all of his hate into my person and the intense bloodlust and anger started to swell up around me. I just calmly watched it and gave a sad smile as I recognized the feelings he was feeling. The hate for your tormenter the helplessness and anger from being captured and the hope for revenge. I stood there soaking in his emotions as I heard him laughing.

"Haha to much for you brat, guess you overestimated yourself huh!"He continued laughing until a small noise interupted him midway through.

"I've felt these before and it hurts alot but blood will do nothing to make it hurt any less." I started to walk towards Kurama and into his cage. "Your anger is justified, you hate how they see you as nothing but a monster summing your entire life up as one." Kurama roared at me and sent a punch at me. "Shut up brat and die!" I dodged to the right and started running up bis arm until I was infront of his eye.

"I don't give a damn what others think, I'll judge you myself so if you want to be recognized as something else other than a monster than shut up and do something about it!"

He stared back at me in shock and had a look if denial in his eyes.

"So from this day on you are no longer the Nine tails demon fox but Kurama the baddass Alpha, friend of Namikaze Minato future hokage!"

I grabbed the seal on my belly and undid the cage, and using my bloodline ability I changed the surrondings from a crappy sewer into a huge lush forest where the trees appeared to be taller than skyscrapers.

Kurama started to cry a bit which was out of character but he quickly recovered.

"Fine I guess i'll leave it to you then."He fled into the forest and I smiled retreating back to the real world.

Welcome back host congradulations on befriending the yang Kyuubi.

Host will be rewarded in one of 3 ways.

1. Unlock fire element

2. Boost to physical energy

3. ??? Summoning scroll.

'Well option 2 is out because I can earn it so it's between 1 and 3. Screw it 3 is good enough.'

"Option 3 please."

Host has chosen option 3.Generating random summoning scroll.

Host has been granted the Fox scroll.

Keep up the good work.

Next thing I knew a giant summoning scroll popped out onto my lap.

"Woah kit where did that scroll come from!!??" "Oh hey Kurama i'm not sure exactly, random stuff like this just end up showing up here and there in this house."

"Seriously that's strange. Well why dont you open it up and see what it is?"

I nodded my head and undid the scroll opening it wide so I could read it.

'Fox summoning scroll: Contracters have to be tricky and smart to be approved by our kind, if you aren't we'll hunt you down.'

"Well that sounds like something Kurama would say so it's probably legit."

"Haha what the hell Kit, you just had to pull this summoning scroll out, it's perfect for you." 'Wow didn't expect him to be happy about this.' "You seem pleased?"

"Yeah an old kitsune there helped raise me, and I haven't seen her in decades so of course i'm happy, quick sighn it lets go!!"

I smiled a bit before shouting "Alright!" I bit my finger and pressed blood on every other one putting it on the scroll then sighning my name before closing the scroll and storing it away.

"Reverse summoning jutsu!" And poof I was out of my house and now somewhere that looked like a forest. All around me were foxes, foxes and more foxes all ranging in different colors and sizes. They were suprised to see me suddenley appear out of no where.

"Hey a human how did it get here?"

"I don't know but should we eat him he looks tasty." Another fox chipped in.

"Hell yeah I haven't eaten anything today so I am starving."

I watched as the foxes chatted to eachother about how they were planning to cook me and what the best method would be to get the most taste out of me.

"Hry Kurama sorry about earlier turns out maybe I would taste good to your species." "Haha that's right Kit so make sure you don't piss me off or I really will eat you." "Noted" I just watched a bit more before getting bored. "So where is this mother of yours again?" "She should be at her house just go down the street and turn left there will be a house that looks like a fox head that's where we'll find her."

So I followed Kurama's direction while the other foxes chased me.

"Quick stop him he's headed to gran grans house." "No one disturbs gran gran!" "Kill the human!"

I couldn't help myself as I started to laugh. "Dude they called your mom gran gran, grandma would have been fine but gran gran hahahaha!" I could feel Kurama get angruer. "Shut up Kit these brats just haven't been taught 'THAT' yet." I shivered a bit feeling the raw terror Kurama felt over what ever he was remembering.

I ran inside of the fox house and closed the door. 'Hey what do I call her by the way?' 'Just adress her as neesan, trust me i'm saving your skin.' 'Alright.'

"Exscuse me is anyone home!?" Suddenley a black haired beauty appeared infront of me. She had large breasts and large fox ears on top of her head. She had 6 long black tails on her back and she was wearing a kimino.

"Ooh what do we have here a human? Dies that mean you sighned the scroll I thought that thing was destroyed oh well, do why are you here child?"

"Hello neesan my name is Namikaze Minato and I did sighn the contract. Kurama and I just stopped by to say hi for now so here we are." Her eyes lit up "Did you say Kurama is here with you!" She was a little to close to my face so I took a step back. "Yeah i'm one of his Jinjuriki's, we're friends and i'm working on a seal for him so that after I die and he is free he won't be captured again." She squeeled as she caught me in a hug and startrd to shake me around. "Oh isn't that just adorable of you!!" She continued to dote on us for a good hour before she settled down.

I started to make small talk with the kitsune so I could get along betrer with her. "So what do foxes around here normally do for fun?" "Oh you know we like to pull pranks on eachother the bigger it is the better!"

'Holy shit Kurama she has that same look fhat Kushina gets when she's planning something bad!' 'Yeah Kit a little advice don't let those two ever meet, i'm sure you can allready tell that only suffering awaits you if they do.' I was snapoed back to reality when I heard Kitsune neesans next question.

"So who has the other half of Kurama in them?" 'Shit!' "Oh it's a girl named Uzumaki Kushina, she's a nice person but the other Kurama isn't friends with her yet so I doubt you'll meet her anytime soon." She sighed a bit "Is that so? that's too bad I bet she would love a few of my pranks." Sweat started to drip down the back of my neck. "I-is that so why would that be?" She smiled "Because the Uzumaki's always love a good prank!"

After that she made me promise to introduce them once Yin Kurama becomes friends with Kushina before I left. Once I got home I put my face on my pillow and cried myself to sleep.

"Goodluck Kit your going to need it."

The next morning I woke up to my alarm seal and started to get ready for the day. I quicky took a shower and put some white shorts on when I heard someone knock at the door. So I grabbed my blue tank top and threw it on before answering the door. "Hello you must be the Anbu who is incharge of us thanks for... coming."

Standing infront of me stood a Female Anbu woman wearing the eagle mask and standing next to her was Mikoto Uchiha.

"Mikoto not to be rude but why are you here?" She looked at me giving me the coldest look i've ever seen out of her.

"To live with you and Kushina ofcourse."

[And that it hope you liked it.Thanks for reading.]