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Chap. 2

"Why's everyone in this village so ugly?" Naruto complained out loud, drawing the attention of everyone around him. Most of them gave him pissed off looks, since he dissed them, while others seemed to agree whole heartedly.

"C'mon, look at all these women! They're boobs are pretty big, and some really nices asses…" Naruto had forgotten the pervert was walking next to him. After four years of dealing with the ass, he got used to ignoring him without meaning to. Naruto, now at the ripe age of ten, was starting to notice people's bodies and whether or not they were attractive. So far, not impressed. Kurama's comments weren't helping, however. Every person they passed, he would shout out 'fucking small dick!', 'where's the muscle? Shrimp!', 'oi, boobs, get out of the fucking way! I got hotties to look for!' and other things, most of them far more insulting. So far, only one person had been deemed good enough to be complemented by the giant fox, and it was someone from a different nation.

Naruto continued walking down the street as Jiraiya was beaten to death by the kunoichi who heard his comment, and happened recognized him as the one spying on their bath so many times. It had become a normal occurrence, since Naruto had gained a habit of pushing the pervert through the walls when Jiraiya was peaking. Women thanked him within the safety of their minds, though none of them were willing to talk to the demon child, especially not to thank him in public.

"Hey, kit, you better hurry. That damn bell is gonna ring soon." Naruto had been going to the Ninja Academy recently - mainly to avoid the pervert following him - and was partially interested in what was being taught. It wasn't enough of an interest for him to actually pay attention to most everything happening in the classroom. Most of it was just watching his classmates and teacher, observing their energies and actions. Kurama told him that reading people was key for multiple things in life, especially Kurama's favorite thing, which was something he had never told Naruto, not even on his tenth birthday.

Kurama always said he was still too young whenever he asked, but Naruto did have an clue for what it was. Had for a while, ever since Kurama kept whispering the good points of people's bodies.

It's always interesting to see the difference between how people act in different areas of life. When at school, kids would tend to act less mature than when they were with their parents, and even less mature when they were just with their friends, no classmates watching their actions. In addition, it seemed to be the kids from Ninja families that enjoyed goofing off more than those of civilian ones. It truly was interesting, for both Naruto and Kurama.

But Naruto still didn't get along with most of his classmates. There would be the few times when he and three other boys, always the same ones, would get in trouble and escape the classroom together, but that was the extent of it. They weren't friends, but they didn't hate each other, either. Which was always good.

Naruto make it into class before the bell for the first time in a long while, which was fairly impressive to everyone in his class; not that they payed to much attention to his success. A couple people said 'Hi' to him on his way to the back of the classroom, opposite corner of the second unsocial character of their class, Aburame Shino.

The two don't have a friendly relationship as much as a mutual understanding - don't bother me, I don't bother you. So far, everything had seemed to work out, and Shino never seemed to get curious about what Naruto did in his freetime.

They probably could have become friends if Kurama didn't complain about bugs every time Naruto got close.

Class started up, and Naruto retreated into his mind. Kurama said he would teach the kid etiquette, so Naruto was curious what his dad could possibly know about such a fancy way of acting. As far as he'd seen, the fox was just a giant lazy ass furball who never wanted to play with his adorable little kit.

"Kitsune magick? What's that?" When Naruto entered his mindscape, that was the first thing his dad said, no introduction to what he was talking about, and definitely no hello.

"It's what you're going to be learning next. It's what allows me to appear smaller than I truly am. Since all living beings are, in essence, large balls of chakra shaped into specific forms, kitsune magick is the way fox learned how to control their energy. Not all of them were able to, just like how you have the civilian and the ninja, with how many civilians aren't able to control even the smallest amount, even with training.

"Kitsunes found how to take energy from any part of their body before expelling it into the outside world. Most humans are only able to draw from small portions of their energy that takes residence inside of their stomach. When you learn how to use kitsune magick, you will most likely grow an extra appendage. This is where you will draw energy from, or you will affect your physical body. I truly do hope you never have to go through the pain of taking parts of your main body that's held together by solidified chakra, since it's far more painful than taking from your extra limbs."

Kurama waited for everything to sink in. With Naruto learning how to control his chakra ninja-way, he was old enough to control it kitsune-way as well.

"Jinchuriki tend to have more chakra than most people would, or they die. This is why there's certain bloodlines that will contain the beast, just like your mother's side. People with stronger bodies tend to have more chakra than most, and that's how they're chosen. Unlike you, the majority of jinchuriki are created when they're at least seven years of age, which gives their body time to strengthen itself before being tested. If they aren't tested, the jinchuuriki go insane, or their body will rip itself apart because of the amount of force placed inside of it."

"So what's this got to do with kitsune magick?" Kurama seemed to ignore Naruto question, not yet ready to move to anything more advanced for his young mind.

"You have more chakra than most ninja in your center, and have even more access because you body has been strengthened with that of an over-powered kitsune. However, you do need to limit your kitsune magick part to only using your extra appendages. Taking the wrong part of your main body may cause long-term damage."

"Can you just tell me why I need to learn kitsune magick? I already have more than a normal ninja, so what's the point?" Naruto's head was ready to explode from all of the access information, and he still didn't know why his dad was saying all of this. This lesson was turning from boring to annoying.

"You're able to make solid objects with this magick that turn real but can leave with a single thought, no hand signs, since you're only creating the outer layer of an object with your imagination and not the entire inside of it like the idiots do." Kurama had seemed to enjoy calling all shinobi idiots after he and Naruto saw them drinking in a bar, about to be attacked by a kunoichi from some other village. Kurama didn't deam them worthy of being helped, since they were too idiotic, so he and Naruto continued on their way. Both of them disregarded the possibility that the Konoha group could end up killed.

"But where does this etiquette stuff come in?" Naruto was about to lose his short attention span and travel back into the normal world. Causing trouble for the teacher and his classmates was far more fun than listening to an old fox lecture about the greatness of his people.

"Damn child. Can't even listen to the wisdom of such a powerful being?" Kurama scoffed, dead-set on prolonging his explanation until Naruto really was fed up. However, when Naruto's body began to disappear from the area and his conscious shifted to the normal world, Kurama saw how far he had already pushed the boy.

"Fine, fine. There's only two things you absolutely need to know." After a few seconds of waiting, Naruto returned - though he was still partially in the normal world. "You have to hide anything extra that you grow. You're thought to be a normal human, and a tail or claws will be thought as something unusual. The second thing is how you can change your appearance by making your chakra either change shape by separating it from your solid form, which is extremely painful but equally as helpful at the right times, or covering yourself in a veil and changing your features to a minimal amount. While intuitive shinobi and those with powerful senses, the Inuzuka or the Hyuuga, for example, will be able to detect a difference, genjutsu masters or anyone less than that shouldn't be able to tell somethings wrong."

"So what you're trying to say is that I can prank people better." Naruto deadpanned. Kurama's expression drooped, expecting but at the same time disappointed at Naruto's simple mind.

"No, infiltration. Which means you need to work on your acting."

"Inful-what-now? And what do you mean my acting? I'm perfect at acting! I can get the old man to believe anything I say!" Kurama let out another sigh. How should he break it to the boy that Hiruzen didn't believe him one bit, but just thought the boy was extremely adorable? Yeah, that'd be hard.

"You know, it would be pretty good for you to travel outside of this village. Its alright here and all, but other places are amazing. Being a sage, I have a ton of access to places that most ninja can't go!"

"What do you want." Naruto drawled, sick of Jiraiya's boasting. Most of the time, Jiraiya would work to get Naruto psyched about something before dropping a bomb on him. He might talk about how great a bath house is, before finally convincing Naruto that he just had to go there, then forcing Naruto to pay while the perv just did his research and placed the blame for whatever broke on Naruto.

All in all, Naruto had learned not to get excited about whatever the creep said after just a month of spending time with him. He suffered a lot during that month.

"What, you don't want to hear my awesome stories? There's this one time that I met a man named Raza. Great guy, was able to-"

"You see, I really don't care. Plus, I'm still in school and really don't want to be around you for any period of time." Naruto began to walk away, ignoring the man behind him yelling about how Naruto didn't pay any attention in the Academy anyway.

"Kit, look over there. You see that girl?" Kurama said, forcefully directing Naruto's head left.

'Heh, growing an interest in females now? Well, it's a little late for me now.' Naruto laughed in his head, not looking at the girl yet.

"No you idiot. Dick all the way. But I recognize her chakra from somewhere… but it wasn't around this village. Go see who she is." Naruto followed his dad's orders, heading towards the kid. The closer he got, the more off she seemed. There was an unnatural presence she was giving off, one different than the civilians and ninja of the village, although he could have sworn it felt familiar.

"She's a fox. Aaaah, what was her name? I knew her around fifty years ago… wonder what she's doing here. Said she hated humans after some poacher killed one of her kits."

"Hi, I'm Naruto! I feel like I know you from somewhere…" She gave him a lopsided grin.

"Worst pickup line ever." The girl said with a slight accent. "I don't go for little boys." Naruto blushed slightly, inwardly cursing his father for making him do this. The girl's grin widened. "But I know what you mean. Kurama, you're in there, right? Making some kit do your work for you? Always were such a lazy bastard."

"Well, holy shit. Hasn't changed a bit. Naruto, bring her back to our apartment. There's a load of catching up to do here. Plus, she won't leave until she's done bothering me, so let's just get this over with." Naruto nodded and motioned for the fox to follow him, heading home.

"So, you're a jinchuriki, huh? Must be hard dealing with that old bastard. I used to know him. The man didn't know how to act civil. You've turned out pretty good, it would seem."

"Yeah, the old furball can be pretty annoying at times."

"Oh, not scared of the 'old furball'? Impressive. I expected you to be shaking in your boots, with how you follow his orders." Naruto glared, creating bubbling laughter to leave her throat, attracting attention from passersby on the street.

"He's my dad, and he can't really do anything. Why would I be scared?" The fox looked stunned for half a second, most likely stuck on the 'dad' part of Naruto's sentence.

"How'd you manage that, Kurama? You his actual dad or what?" Kurama groaned within Naruto. Just this small conversation was giving him a massive headache. Now he had to explain everything to her before she would finally leave. The last time he had to deal with her was from before even entering Kushina. There was a time when Uzumaki Mito would allow him to take over the body for short amounts of time. During one of those times, the she-fox came around, searching for refuge. That was a horrible week for Kurama, seeing as Mito would place him in charge whenever they were close to the female.

"Hey, look, we're here." Naruto announced, clearly trying to change the conversation to something less annoying to talk about. "Kurama should be fine with taking control for a bit. Right, old man?" Without waiting for an answer, Naruto fell back into unconsciousness and forced Kurama to take over. Kurama, now in control of Naruto's body, groaned again.

Another long week.