Make Feel ALIVE

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Chapter 2: The New Naruto

Naruto opened the door to his apartment to see that everything the was the same as he left it. The T.V was still on and as far as he could tell Yamato was still asleep. "I should shower and go to sleep." Naruto thought as he walked into his room. Finding a pair of black pajamas, Naruto walked into his bathroom to clean himself up.

A few minutes later the young blond walked out of the bathroom with all traces of the massacre he participated in gone. With a heavy yawn Naruto collapsed onto his bed and closed his eyes. Only to find himself staring at the cage that held the Kyuubi. Naruto then glanced around the room and realized it was filthy. "Why does my mind look like a sewer?"

Kyuubi's blood red eyes appeared behind the door at the door and chuckled. "If you have a problem with it, change it boy. This is your mind and being some place beside a sewer would be nice." Kyuubi replied in a bored tone.

Naruto nodded before focusing on changing the environment of his mind. Moments later the sewer was transformed into a forest. "A forest how creative." Kyuubi mumbled with a sigh. Naruto glared but said nothing.

"O.K enough of the idle chat. I brought you here for a reason. You need to learn how to control my chakra and be able to defend yourself without it." Kyuubi said turning to Naruto. "You will by no means become dependent on me. Just the thought disgust me."

"Why?" Naruto asked a bit stunned at Kyuubi's statement.

"Boy, you would be little more the a leech. I will make it so you can kill any fool under you own power. Then with my power you will be just short of a god." Kyuubi replied.

"But how will you teach me? Your an animal and I'm a person." Naruto stated. The Kyuubi's form was engulfed in red chakra. Moments later the chakra faded and standing in the place was a muscular man who was almost twice as tall as Naruto. The man had short red hair that was finely kept. The man wore a red cloak and flowing behind him were nine red fox tails. "When we reach that portion of you training this is how I will train you." An explosion of the red chakra later Kyuubi had returned to his enormous fox form. "Now you first learn how to draw upon my chakra in an instant and form weapons from it. You need not worry about using it as defense i will always handle that." Kyuubi said.

"How do I draw out you chakra?" Naruto asked. The Kyuubi paused and pondered how to phrase it so the young child will understand. Finally satisfied with an answer Kyuubi replied, "Simply envision the seal on you and then draw out the chakra. As you progress you will be able it draw it out on a whim." Naruto nodded and for the rest of the night Naruto worked on drawing out Kyuubi's chakra then increasing the speed he could do it.

Yamato woke with a jolt. Being part of Anbu had increased his senses quite a bit and the moment he slipped into conciseness he knew the coppery scent in the air could be only one thing, blood. Rushing out of his room he Yamato sprinted to where the smell was thickest. His fear increased tenfold when the smell led to Naruto's room and the door was shut. Yamato slammed the door open to find Naruto sleeping peacefully on his bed. With a sigh of relief Yamato walked out the room not caring where the smell had come from.

Had the former Anbu took a closer look at Naruto he would have noticed that the every so often the distinct whisker marks on his cheeks darken before returning to normal.

Naruto woke up almost an hour later. He walked in the living room and saw Yamato sitting at the table and drinking a cup of coffee. Yamato glanced up before pointing to the counter behind him where a plate of food was at, still steaming showing it was hot. Naruto grabbed the plate and placed it on the table. The boy then walked over to a cabinet and pulled out a pair of chopsticks.

Yamato watched as Naruto ate his food. It wasn't hard to realize something was off. First was the way he ate, usually Naruto consumed his food in breaths but now he was eating his food at a normal speed. Second the way was acting. Yamato loved the boy like he was his real brother but Naruto's hyperactive attitude sometimes even pushed Yamato to the limit. Right now the boy hadn't spoken one word at all and hadn't even twitched in any indication of his bubbly personality. Finally his face was the real warning bell. Naruto always had a smile on his whether be the fake one he put on for the villagers on the true smiles he had whenever He and Yamato did something like going to Ichiraku's Ramen stand or when Yamato got him a gift of some kind. Naruto face now resembled that of one of Danzou's ROOT Anbu. The lack of emotion almost gave Yamato the chills. deciding now was not not the time to probe for answer Yamato decided to make small talk. "So Naruto what do you want to do today?" Yamato asked.

Naruto shrugged before he replied, "Going to get some new clothes would be useful." Yamato couldn't hold back the shiver caused from Naruto cold emotion voice. "Jeez right now he could give the Hyuuga a run for their money." We can do that. Is there any thing specific you want?" Yamato asked.

"Anything red will do fine. Also durable." Naruto replied.

"Alright let's go." Yamato said.

Naruto and Yamato walked in silence to the market district of Konoha. When they arrived Yamato headed to the nearest clothing shop but Naruto pointed to a Shinobi gear shop. "Why there your career as a ninja won't be starting for a few year when you reach the academy."

Naruto shrugged, "might as well get ready now." Yamato nodded at the response before the two walked in. Yamato then turned to Naruto and said, "Get a few of whatever you buy I'm going to check out some stuff out." Naruto nodded before walking over to the clothing section. The first thing to catch Naruto's eye were some black cargo pants that had red pockets. Naruto smirked as he noticed the red was the exact shade of the blood from last night. Naruto picked up seven pairs so he would have one for each day of the week. Naruto then continued his shopping until he came across a sleeveless hoodie. It was black with the lower half blood red and blood red stripes going down the side that turned black when they met the red half. The hood itself was just a simple jet black. When Naruto opened it up he saw the jacket had multiple pockets on the inside meant to hold concealed weapons. Naruto tried the jacket on and walked over to a mirror Naruto looked at his appearance and nodded. Then a idea popped into the boy's head. Naruto put on his hood till his entire face was covered in shadow. Naruto then drew out some Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto smirked at his appearance in the mirror. In the shadow under his hood the only things visible were two slitted blood red eyes.

"Now that is cool." Naruto mumbled to himself. Satisfied with the jacket Naruto went and picked up six more. Naruto then picked up and twelve black form fitting t-shirts. Naruto then walked over to Yamato with the big pile of clothes in his arms. "It seems you got everything you need I'll go take these up front to pay for them while you go look around for anything more." Yamato replied before he pulled out a credit card and smirked. "Thank you hokage-sama." Naruto handed Yamato All the clothes before walking over to the weapons section.

"I really don't need a weapon Kyuubi's chakra can form into any weapon I want." Naruto thought.

"Thinking like that will only make you weak boy. It would be best to get a weapon so you have a back up in case my chakra is not available to you or just so you have something to be your signature on the battle field." Kyuubi voice retorted in Naruto's head.

"Alright." Naruto thought with that the young boy looked around for a weapon that he liked. "Katana nope to generic. Spear nope not really something that would intimidate enemies. Bow and arrows, hmm maybe. Now what do we have here." Naruto then picked up a pair of jet black trench knives. Sliding his fingers into place Naruto smirked. "Now these feel right."

"Channel my chakra into them." Kyuubi said. Naruto nodded before doing as the Kyuubi told. For a moment nothing happened then the trench started to glow red before each blade grew an extension of red chakra around two feet long. Naruto then let the chakra drop. Naruto then decided to do the same with his own chakra and for a long time nothing happened. Naruto sighed and assumed his chakra had no effect on the blades but when Naruto moved his arm a slice appeared in on the shelf all the weapons were on.

"So you have wind for your affinity interesting." Naruto turned around to see Yamato standing there holding two bags with his clothes and a large box in his other hand. "It appears you would like those blades too." Naruto gave a nod and Yamato chuckled. "You seem to be wanting to start your ninja career early. I can understand I got out of the academy early. I guess that my little brother is growing up. Here let me go pay for your trench blades so we can go." Naruto nodded and handed Yamato the blades.