Binas: So yes, you got a doubled chapter last time. Let's see what I cook up this time. If my imagination is in high gear, you may get another. Only time will tell... Great, I sound like Clockwork... :P

Much of the 'Naruto on Lyoko' stuff in this chapter was from 'Sneaky XANA'. I hope you have read that.

Just to remind you, this takes place in season two, so they don't really know they can venture into the Digital Sea yet.


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Last time...

Naruto examined himself. He was wearing an orange shirt with a picture of a miso-ramen cup on his back and had on Orange slacks. His shoes were red with fox claws on them. He looked at his hands and they had red fox like gloves on them. He looked behind himself and had nine orange tails. He felt the top of his head and found a set of fox ears. His cheeks had actual whiskers.

"WHY THE HECK AM I A NINE TAILED FOX DEMON?!", Naruto asked with a load of exasperation.


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Naruto tapped his foot slightly annoyed and waited for an answer. His blue silted eyes narrowed due to his lack of patience.

"The supercomputer creates your digital incarnation from your subconscious thoughts, so I didn't make it. If I did, I would have a different digital incarnation myself.", Jeremie said.

"Uhhh, can you simplify that? I failed the Ninja Academy three times...", Naruto said in a whack load of confusion.

"He's basically saying you dream of Nine Tailed Foxes.", Odd said.

Naruto panicked a bit but managed to hide most of it for the time being.

"So how am I suppose to fight here? I can't exactly claw XANA to death.", Naruto said.

"I am looking up everything right now.", Jeremie said.

"Try not to take so long Einstein... A group of Megatanks could find him.", Odd joked.

"Found it. Let's see, you can use your tails for defense and close range offence, you have something called the 'Rasengan' for close range fighting, you got something called 'Shadow Clone Jutsu' that can be used for almost anything but has the drawback of taking one life point away per clone, life point regeneration that kicks in when you reach 50 life points, and finally there is something else called 'Nine Tails Chakra' and it seems to only kick in when you got 10 life points.", Jeremie said.

"So how many life points do I have?", Naruto asked.

Jeremie took a look and did a large spit take away from the computer. Everyone heard it.

"What made you spit take this time? A picture of Ulrich kissing Sissi?", Odd asked.

"Shut up, Odd!", Yumi and Ulrich said from inside the tower.

"Naruto has 1000 life points! That's very convenient considering one of his skills actually eats up his life points!", Jeremie said completely baffled.

"Can you give us 1000 life points and life point regeneration? Please! It will make XANA have to try extra hard just to devirtualize us!", Odd begged.

"I am trying to copy right now but something is causing errors.", Jeremie said as error windows kept popping up.

After several attempts an error window popped up but this time it didn't want to close. Jeremie tried closing it but something unexpected happened. The window turned black and dripping noises were heard.

"That's weird.", Jeremie said as the dripping noises grew louder.

Soon a pair of red slit eyes stared back at Jeremie. A crude blood thirsty smile appeared and a scary low growl sounded, making Jeremie scream in fright and dive behind the chair with the headset. He his breathing deepened as he felt panic rush through him.

"Jeremie? What's wrong?", Aelita asked.

"Something scary popped up in the error window while I was trying to copy the information.", Jeremie said shaking.


Ulrich turned around from playing a game when he heard Jeremie scream. He walked over.

"What's the matter?", Ulrich asked.

"Like I said, something very scary. It looked like it came from one of Odd's favorite horror movies that are actually horror movies.", Jeremie said.

"Let me have a look.", Ulrich said and took a look.

The beady red eyes stared at Ulrich and the blood thirst smile grew so big, even the Cheshire Cat would get jealous. Whatever it was growled.

"That is really creepy...", Ulrich said giving an uneasy look to the evil face in the error window, "Can't you close it out?"

"I tried. It won't close. Whatever it is, it really wants to scare us.", Jeremie said.

"Let me shed a bit light on the subject you puny mortals..."

The black area started to lighten up a bit to reveal a giant Nine Tailed fox behind gigantic bars with a piece of paper holding it in place. It looked even scarier than it did when it was in the dark. Both Ulrich and Jeremie screamed as they clung to each other for dear life in pure fright.

"W-wh-what are you?!", Ulrich asked.

"I am surprised you puny mortals have been able to even see me when I am still inside my pathetic excuse jailer. And you thought you could just give my side effects to your friends? I won't allow you to do that."

"C-can y-y-you pl-please answer the question?", Jeremie trembled as he tried getting behind Ulrich several times.

"Only the twerp has guts to talk to me like that. I give you that so I will tell you. I am Kurama, the Nine Tailed Fox Demon."

The error window closed as the fox laughed.


On Sakura, Odd, and Kakashi's end, they saw and heard the exact same thing, since Jeremie had control of the Supercomputer over there. Kakashi narrowed his eyes at the Nine Tails while Odd and Sakura hid behind Kakashi in fear.

"I thought Nine Tails was destroyed 12 years ago by the Fourth Hokage!", Sakura shouted in fear.

"What's Nine Tails?", Odd asked, shaking a bit in fear.

"The Nine Tails is a giant Nine Tailed Demon Fox. I shouldn't really be telling you guys the story but I have no choice now since Sakura pointed it out.", Kakashi said.

"So you are saying that the story we were all told was a phony?", Sakura asked.

"It was to protect a certain someone and insure that the younger generation will know nothing of what really happened.", Kakashi said.

"Protect who exactly? That Kurama guy had mentioned a jailer. Maybe that's who is being protected.", Odd said.

Kakashi gave the 'I don't know what your talking about' look.

"Kakashi-Sensei, you obviously know something and you are not telling us!", Sakura shouted.

"Who do you think? Use your heads.", Kakashi said.

'Nine Tails only popped up after Jeremie tried adding some of the extras, like life point regeneration, Naruto had to the others and prevented it from being done.', Sakura thought and started putting the puzzle together while Odd made a bigger mess of the puzzle.

After a few more minutes of thinking a light bulb lit up over Sakura.

'So that means Nine Tails is Naruto's prisoner! Why wouldn't anyone want us to know? Wait those looks, the attack... Now I see why! It was to prevent the hatred that he always gets!', Sakura thought, finally finishing the puzzle.

Sakura shared what she thought of and Kakashi nodded.

"That's exactly it.", was Kakashi's only reply.

Odd's face was filled with confusion.

'Why would someone do that to a kid?! I know wouldn't like any of it at all. Whatever Nine Tails did, it is worse that XANA's best A Game.', Odd thought.

Kakashi told them the real story, which relieved Odd of some confusion. He even shared it with the others and made them keep it a secret at all costs due to those who would kidnap Naruto just to get their hands on the power he had.

"Definitely worse than XANA. No wonder why he sent the Scyphozoa after Naruto. XANA wanted to get his hands on Nine Tails.", Odd said.

"And it could also kill Naruto if XANA were to remove Nine Tails.", Kakashi said.

"So he's stuck with that scary fox for life?", Odd asked.

Kakashi could only nod.

"I feel really bad for him.", Odd said actually showing genuine sympathy for once without saying something offensive.


In the tower...

Yumi and Aelita listened in and were shocked. What cruel things went on in the Ninja World hit them hard making them feel sad.


Outside the tower...

Naruto ran off and found a sea. He had no idea about it and without thinking, jumped into it to escape the fear of being hated all over again.

"GUYS! NARUTO THREW HIMSELF INTO THE DIGITAL SEA!", Jeremie shouted.

"Oh no!", Yumi shouted and ran out of the tower, She quickly used her Telekinesis to lift Naruto away from the Digital Sea in the nick of time.

Naruto was shocked when he realized he was being lifted back up and kicked around.

"Let me go!", Naruto shouted.

Yumi placed Naruto on the ground.

"What did ya do that for?!", Naruto asked.

"Do you really want to be deleted forever?", Yumi asked.

"Huh?", Naruto asked.

"Whatever goes into the Digital Sea ceases to exist and doesn't get devirtualized! You basically die. No returning to Earth. I once fell into the Digital Sea but was saved by Jeremie's one shot test program for Aelita's materialization.", Yumi said.

Those words struck Naruto hard. If falling in meant death, that meant he could not live up to his promise of bringing Sasuke back and becoming Hokage.

"You mean I actually die?!", Naruto asked.

"Yes except there's no corpse to bury because your physical body is also deleted.", Yumi said.

"Thank you cause I was really planning to swim away.", Naruto said.

"Your welcome.", Yumi said.

"So none of you guys hate me?", Naruto asked.

"No way! We all still care about you!", Sakura said.

"We can't hate someone who is keeping something worse than XANA at bay with his own life!", Jeremie said.

"Hey we only hate Sissi and XANA around here.", Ulrich said, "And don't get any ideas about Yumi! She's mine!"

Ulrich covered his mouth and blushed.

'Did I just really say that?!', Ulrich panicked in his head.

Yumi blushed.

"Exactly what Ulrich said. And I return the feeling Ulrich.", Yumi said.

"YES!", Ulrich cheered.

"But don't get any ideas Ulrich.", Yumi teased.

"Oh... Getting carried away.", Ulrich said.

"I agree with almost anything the love bird say.", Odd sang.

"SHUT UP ODD!", Yumi and Ulrich repeated.

"I also agree with Jeremie. The program is not the same thing as the operating system that holds it.", Aelita said.

"I knew for 12 years, and you don't see me giving you heck. In fact I tried to adopt you several times but I kept getting denied.", Kakashi said.

Naruto cried virtual tears of joy. He saw what real friends were. Those who stand by you no matter what.

"You guys are the best friends I could ever have!", Naruto shouted.