Summary: When Naruto took the Forbidden Scroll, there was one other thing in the scroll. Having eaten the Fruit of the Devil, Naruto has lost his ability to swim, in exchange for an incredible gift. Watch as Naruto journeys with his new gift, he will take the Shinobi world by storm.
AN: Some people will recognize this as my Porcupine Kitsune fic, and the reason that is is here is because I got tired of seeing it sitting on my profile for around a year and a half. Thus I am moving it to the collection of fics that may or may not be updated.
"So Jiraiya how was your trip to the other side of the world?" Sarutobi, the Sandiame Hokage, asked his perverted student.
"Quite interesting sensei. It turns out that there are special fruits there that grant the ones who eat them special powers. They are called the Devil's Fruit and come in three categories: Paramecia, which alter your body structure to allow you to do amazing things like separate your body like a nin-puppet or have your body turn to rubber; Zoan-class, which this one is," Jiraiya pulled out a strange fruit that looked like a pineapple with a red body with purple swirls, "allows one three forms, normal, full animal, and a hybrid of the two; Logia-class, attune your body to a specific element, fire, lightning, heck, I've even heard of a smoke one. The only drawback I have been able to find is the loss of the ability to float or swim. I have no idea how water walking would work for one who ate one of these fruits."
"Fascinating, what do you intend to do with that one and what animal form does it have?"
"I don't plan on eating it. I came here to see if you had any ideas for it and I have no idea."
"I'll place it in the Scroll of Seals; it won't do any harm there."
(4 years later)
Naruto had just failed the genin exam for the third time when Mizuki gave him an alternate way of graduating. All he had to do was take this one scroll from the Hokage's tower and learn a jutsu from it. He was currently in a clearing and opened the scroll to the first seal which had the kanji for blood so he bit his thumb and spread the blood on it.
POOF!
"A fruit? What good will this do? Oh well, I didn't get dinner so this will have to do," Naruto said while taking a large bite out of the fruit.
"First jutsu, Kage Bunshin? WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE STUFF I SUCK AT? WHY DO YOU HATE ME KAMI?!"
Meanwhile, from the Hokage's crystal ball, he saw Naruto eat the Devil's Fruit and grew even more worried.
'At least now we'll know what kind of fruit it is,' the Hokage thought, trying to find a bright side.
(1 hour later)
Naruto panted with a smile. He finally mastered that jutsu!
"Game's over Naruto," Iruka's voice said from in front of him.
Naruto looked up and gave his patented grin.
"Aw man, I only had time to learn one jutsu; anyway, if I show you a jutsu from this scroll, you'll let me pass. That's the way it works right, anyone who learns a jutsu from this scroll graduates," Naruto said excitedly.
"Who told you that?" Iruka asked really confused.
"Mizuki-sensei told me!"
At that moment several kunai and shuriken flew towards Iruka, who shoved Naruto out of the way.
"I see you found him Iruka," Mizuki said from a tree branch with two large shuriken on his back.
"Naruto, give me the scroll," Mizuki continued.
"Naruto, don't give it to him! Mizuki used you to get the scroll," Iruka shouted.
"Naruto, let me let you in on a secret, one that you were never to be told. On the day the Kyuubi was defeated, a law was made. A law that stated," Mizuki started.
"NO MIZUKI, IT'S FORBIDDEN!" Iruka shouted.
"That no one was to mention that YOU are the Kyuubi! The Yondiame sealed the Kyuubi in you, making YOU the demon that attacked our village."
Naruto's eyes widened and he took off.
Iruka and Mizuki sped off after Naruto, and after a little bit, Iruka caught up to Naruto and said, "Naruto, hand me the scroll, Mizuki was just trying to trick you. We have to keep the scroll away from him!"
Iruka was surprised when Naruto leapt and head-butted him in the stomach, forcing both to land hard on the ground.
"How…how did you know…?" Iruka said before there was a poof of smoke and Iruka was revealed to be Mizuki, "that I wasn't Iruka?"
Naruto smirked before there was another poof of smoke, revealing him to be the real Iruka.
"Because I am Iruka," the scarred Chuunin responded.
"Why do you protect that demon? After all he's the one who killed your parents, you should hate the Kyuubi."
"You're right, I do hate the Kyuubi. But Naruto is different. He's not the demon, he's the container. He is like a glass and the Kyuubi is the water. He's Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage."
"Fine, I'll just kill you now," Mizuki said pulling one of the shuriken off his back and throwing it at Iruka.
There was an orange blur as Naruto threw the shuriken away with a glare.
Naruto then made a cross-shaped seal and said, "Kage Bunshin."
There were then thousands of Narutos around the forest, surrounding Mizuki.
"You can call me a demon, you can spit on me, you can look down at me, I'll just laugh that off. But no matter what the reason, NO ONE MESSES WITH THOSE PERCIOUS TO ME! (1)" Naruto shouted, all clones joining in on the last part as they charged the terrified Chuunin.
Five minutes and one near death Chuunin/former Academy teacher later, Naruto grinned while rubbing the back of his head.
"I guess I overdid it huh Iruka-sensei," Naruto said with a chuckle.
"Naruto, close your eyes," Iruka said with a smile.
About one minute later Iruka had Naruto open his eyes to reveal Naruto's goggles in his hand and his forehead missing his forehead protector.
"Congratulations on graduating Naruto," Iruka said with a smile.
Naruto just hugged Iruka with all of his strength.
The next day, Naruto headed into the Hokage's office like the old man had requested after he returned the scroll.
"So what's up old man?" Naruto asked.
"Naruto, do you remember the fruit you ate from the scroll?" the Hokage asked. He would have to tell Naruto sooner or later.
"The red one with purple swirls?"
"Yes, it was from the other side of the world. On that side there are special fruits called Devil Fruits. Eating even one bite from one will grant the one who ate it incredible power, but the will never be able to swim again. From what I've heard, most people who eat them are sailors of some kind, putting themselves in almost constant danger. There are three varieties: Logia, Zoan, and Paramecia.
"Logia involve specific elements. Fire, smoke, and ice are a few examples.
"Zoan allows one to turn into an animal as well as a hybrid of human and that animal.
"Paramecia alter one's body in some way. An example is one's body being made of rubber."
"So, the fruit I ate was one of those fruits, which variety?"
"Yes, you will be able to transform into a hybrid form and a full-on animal form."
"Alright, I'd like to talk more, but I've got to go to class old man."
The Hokage shook his head as Naruto left, via the window. Life was never dull with Naruto around.
"Eh, Naruto. This room is for graduates only," Shikamaru said upon seeing the blonde in the graduation room.
"Take a look at this lazy boy," Naruto said, pointing to the hai-atai on his upper arm.
"Troublesome."
Five minutes later, Iruka showed up and said, "Congratulations on graduating. You will be divided into teams of three depending upon your grades in the class.
"Team one is…Team Seven is Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura. Team Eight is Inzuka Kiba, Hyuuga Hinata, and Aburame Shino. Team nine…Team ten is Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, and Akimichi Choji. You will meet your Jounin senseis after lunch."
Half an hour after lunch ended, the door to the room opened and a woman with red eyes said, "Team eight follow me."
'Damn, I was hoping she would be our sensei, she's hot,' Naruto thought before dozing off.
Three hours later, Sakura woke Naruto up by bonking him on the head. Naruto quickly looked up and saw with relief that Sakura's hand was still fine. Apparently, his body didn't do anything while in human form.
"My first impression of you guys is…you're a bunch of idiots," a voice from the entrance to the room said.
Naruto glanced at the door to see a man with his forehead protector covering his right eye, a mask covering the lower portion of his face, and silvery-hair that spiked towards the right.
"Meet me on the roof," the man said.
Five minutes later, the new team of genins were on the roof of the Academy in front of their jounin instructor.
"Well, let's give out introduction. Pinky, you first," their new sensei said in his lazy voice.
"Could you go first sensei? So we can see how it's done?" Sakura asked.
"Oh…me? Well, my name is Hatake Kakashi. I'm the kind of guy that doesn't like telling people my likes or dislikes. Dreams for the future…Well I have lots of hobbies."
'All we learned was his name,' the three genin thought.
"Blondie you first."
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen, and team eight's sensei. I dislike the three minutes it takes to cook ramen," Naruto started.
'Does his mind run on ramen?' Kakashi thought.
"My dreams for the future are to become Hokage and master the power in me! Hobbies…pranks I guess," Naruto finished.
"Broody," Kakashi said while pointing a finger towards Sasuke.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I have few likes and several dislikes. My hobby is training, and my…ambition is to kill a certain man," Sasuke said calmly.
'Figures,' Kakashi thought.
'Sasuke-kun's so cool!' Inner Sakura shouted.
'I hope he doesn't mean me,' were Naruto's thoughts.
"Last, Pinky," Kakashi declared while pointing the same finger at Sakura.
"My name is Haruno Sakura. I like… (Insert blush and glance at Sasuke) My hobby is… (Insert deeper blush and another glance at Sasuke) My dream is… (Insert an even deeper blush, yet another glance at Sasuke, and a loud squeal this time) I dislike Ino-pig!"
'Great, a fan girl,' all males present thought.
"Well, you're all unique. Meet me at training field eight tomorrow at seven. And don't eat breakfast, you'll just throw up," Kakashi said before disappearing.
"Hey Old Man!" Naruto shouted as he walked into the Hokage's office.
"Yes Naruto?" the Sandiame Hokage asked. Naruto was always welcome in any form due to the break from paperwork he gave him.
"I need to figure out how to use the power from the fruit I ate last night! Any ideas?"
"Perhaps you could concentrate on a hybrid form? Or an animal form. Try animal first, we have no idea how large your hybrid form is."
Naruto shut his eyes and concentrated. His body felt really weird for a second before he opened his eyes to see everything was a lot larger than before. Naruto ran to the window to see a rat-like face staring back at him.
"I'm a RAT?!" Naruto shouted before covering his mouth up. Animals couldn't talk!
"It seems that your animal form is that of a porcupine. Not the largest of creatures but very good with defense. Change back to your human form and we will go to a training ground," the Sandiame said with a smile. Naruto's animal form was rather ironic; Naruto himself was an offensive person, while his animal form was a defensive. If his hybrid form was what he expected, then it would be able to use both offense and defense.
At the Hokage's private training ground, he said to Naruto, "Alright Naruto, try transforming into your hybrid form."
Naruto concentrated, and felt weird again before opening his eyes to see everything was smaller, and the Old Man had a sudden growth loss!
"Why'd you get shorter all of a sudden Old Man?" Naruto asked.
"I didn't get shorter Naruto, you grew taller. Take a look in the stream," the Hokage said.
Naruto walked over to the nearby stream and looked in. He was humongous! His back looked like a pincushion, he had a tail that also looked like a pincushion, and his face looked like a larger version of a porcupine! His body structure had more in common with a thug's than a shinobi, with a massive upper body with tree-trunk legs and a disproportioned waist.
Naruto looked at the quills on the back of his arm and concentrated on making them longer. To his glee, they did. He then aimed his arm at a tree and scrunched his face up and let out a big grin when the quills fired from his arm and turned the tree into sawdust.
"I'm glad to see that you are adapting well to your new bodies Naruto. Change back to your human form and I'll teach you some chakra control techniques to make your current jutsus easier to use," the Hokage said as Naruto instantly changed back to his human form.
"First is something that I believe may correct your current problem with water. It is called water walking. You need to send chakra out of your feet and into the water to make the water strong enough to support your weight. I chose this training area because the only water sources nearby is shallow enough that you won't be able to drown here if you don't immediately get it," the Sandiame continued.
He then demonstrated how to do it as Naruto looked closely. He then gathered chakra at the bottom of his feet and cautiously placed it on the top of the water. Once his foot started to sink, he pulled his foot up and added more chakra to the bottom of his foot and repeated the process.
Sarutobi was surprised, he expected Naruto to just pump chakra to the bottom of his feet and run onto the water. Apparently he took the fact that he could no longer swim very seriously. By the end of an hour, Naruto was walking around on the water, but he couldn't run on the water and it required his full concentration. After another hour, he was able to do the exercise without any concentration.
"Time for the next exercise Naruto, this one is simpler and requires less chakra than water walking. It is called tree walking and can be used to walk on any surface. Observe," Sarutobi said while walking over to a tree and continued to walk up it. Naruto's eyes widened as he stared at the man he considered a grandfather.
Naruto then got a determined gleam in his eyes as he walked over to a tree and cautiously placed a foot on the tree before gathering chakra and putting pressure on his foot until it stuck. He then gathered the same amount of chakra on his other foot and placed it on the tree and slowly walked up the tree. After one hour this time, Naruto had mastered the exercise and was looking expectantly at Sarutobi. Then Naruto's stomach decided to let its emptiness known.
"Training's over for today Naruto, and one other thing, Kakashi is always late so don't bother not eating breakfast. Also try eating in your animal form until you're full and see if it passes onto your human form," the Hokage said with a smile on his lips.
"But what do porcupines eat?" Naruto asked.
"They eat mostly bark and branches from trees. Now before you say anything, try it first in your animal form."
Naruto frowned before changing back to animal form and hurrying over to a tree and quickly climbed up it before taking a small branch and taking a tentative bite. Naruto chewed for a little bit before his eyes widened and he dug into the branch with the same gusto that he had for ramen.
Five minutes and twenty branchless trees later Naruto was in his human form patting his stomach.
"Boy, who would have thought that wood would have tasted so good?" Naruto asked.
"Perhaps you should stick to ramen when in the village," the Hokage suggested with a massive sweatdrop. If Naruto did this for every meal then Konoha would become the Village Hidden by the Dead Tree-Trunks.
"That's a great idea Old Man!"
The next morning, Naruto changed into his porcupine form to eat a quick breakfast (and a free one, honestly, how does he afford all of the ramen that he eats?) before using speed that no porcupine has, burrowed to the training ground that he was supposed to meet Kakashi at.
When he dug out of the ground, Naruto looked around and saw both of his teammates and no one else. He porcupine waddled over next to Sakura and plopped himself down.
"Why is there a large rat here?" Sakura asked Sasuke.
Naruto got a tick in his eye at being called a rat. He was a porcupine for Pete's sake! A rat didn't have quills on his back and tail for the love of Kami!
"It's not a rat Sakura, it's a porcupine," Sasuke said before returning to his brooding.
Naruto started burrowing again and when he was out of sight, resurfaced and changed back to his human form. He then hurried over to his teammates and waited the rest of the two hours for Kakashi.
"Yo!" Kakashi said once he appeared.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura shouted while Sasuke glared.
Kakashi then explained the test, they had to get a bell from him by noon or they would be tied to a post while he ate lunch in front of them. If they failed to get a bell then they would be sent back to the Academy.
"BEGIN!" Kakashi said while Sasuke and Sakura leapt to the foliage to hide, while Naruto stood there while spinning a kunai on his finger.
"I'm a genin. There is no way I'd be able to hide from you if you wanted to find me. Besides, I have a few new moves that I need to test out," Naruto said while throwing the kunai at Kakashi and charging.
Kakashi easily caught the kunai and pulled out his favorite orange book at the same time. Disrespecting Naruto, of course, enraged him. Naruto then formed a cross shaped seal and shouted, "Taiju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Naruto was about to attack when one of his clones got a look at Kakashi's book and disappeared into a poof of smoke when its mind couldn't handle the graphic nature of the book.
The information was sent back to Naruto who forced away a blush and shouted, "Great! Now I've got three senseis who are perverts! Well, since you're a pervert, take this! Henge!"
"A simple henge won't…wo…rk," Kakashi said while trailing off when the smoke cleared. An army of female, naked, busty, blondes then tackled him screaming things like, "Kakashi-sama!" or, "Kakashi-kun, take me!"
Poor Kakashi's mind couldn't handle it. He was sent flying backwards with blood gushing through his mask. The man slammed into a tree head first while all of the blondes disappeared while leaving a smirking Naruto that was male and fully clothed. Naruto started walking over to the passed out pervert for a bell only for his two teammates take both before he could get one.
"Hey! I was the one who took Ero-sensei out!" Naruto shouted.
"Which allowed us to the bells without any trouble. Besides how can you be proud of a technique like that?" Sakura asked while spitting out that like a curse.
Naruto's eyes narrowed. Inside of him he felt his hybrid form itching to rip the girl apart; he forcefully pushed it away.
"Why don't we do another exercise, one where you have to keep the bell away from me?" Naruto asked with gritted teeth.
"Don't bother Naruto. There's no way you could even touch Sasuke-kun," Sakura said while looking at Sasuke and with hearts in her eyes. At least until she saw Naruto's fist collide with Sasuke's face.
Naruto then glared at Sakura and said, "What was that about me not being able to even touch the spoiled Uchiha brat?"
Sasuke sat up and wiped the blood from his mouth and glared at Naruto before flashing though hand seals and inhaling.
Naruto noticed Sasuke inhale and breath out a massive fireball at him, with Sakura right in the way! Naruto shifted to his hybrid form and picked up Sakura while leaping into the trees.
Naruto dropped Sakura onto the ground from a safe distance before shifting to full animal and burrowing back to Sasuke. Once he was in the same clearing as Sasuke, he surfaced and walked over to Sasuke's leg. Naruto was about to swing his tail at the Uchiha's leg when he noticed that he was crouching and got an even better idea.
Kakashi was awoken from his fantastic dream by a girly scream of pain and the sight of the last of the Uchiha flying through the air while clutching his rear end. He glanced back to where the Uchiha would have originated from to see a porcupine that seemed to be grinning evilly while rubbing his front paws together.
He checked his belt to notice that both bells were gone and noticed that the porcupine was as well. Naruto glanced over at where Kakashi had landed to see that the pervert was awake when the bell went off.
Sakura walked out of the bushes as Sasuke also walked back while pulling porcupine quills out of his pants.
"Who got the bells?" Kakashi asked which resulted in Sasuke and Sakura holding theirs up and Naruto glaring at both of them.
"I knocked you out then both of these two took the bells," Naruto said while restraining his anger.
"Congratulations, you all pass."
"HUH?"
"While none of you realized it, the point of the test was teamwork. Naruto subdued me while the other two managed to get the bells. The point of the test wasn't to obtain a bell but to work together. Team Seven starts missions tomorrow."
Naruto headed out to a different training ground to test out his alternate forms more. He found that he didn't really prefer one form over another. Sure in his hybrid form he was physically more powerful, but he couldn't use jutsus in that form. In his animal form he could burrow and climb, but it wasn't really suited towards combat. His regular form was the one he was most used to and the only one he could use jutsus in.
Deciding that he would use his hybrid form, it was the one he had the least practice in; Naruto shifted and started testing this body's limits. He could jump at least ten times his height (which was pretty dang high considering he was eight feet tall at the least), lift things he couldn't even imagine before, heck he even shattered a boulder with one punch after pulling it up from the ground. He also discovered that he could ball up and use his quills like a buzz saw. He decided to call that move Ira Bazu Nokogiri Renda, the Spine Buzz Saw Barrage.
Unknown to him, he was being watched. By a girl that goes by the name of Hyuuga Hinata. She was amazed at the power that Naruto showed. How could someone turn into some weird hybrid of an animal and human? Perhaps it was a technique he developed? She activated her Byakugan and gasped. His body now had a completely different chakra circulatory system. The normal human's chakra system evenly spread chakra throughout the body. This chakra system was ten times thicker and seemed to be more concentrated around the back and areas where there were quills.
Unfortunately for her, Naruto had better hearing than a human in this form. His head whipped around to where she was hiding and said, "Come on out, I know you're there."
Hinata shyly walked out of the bushes after deactivating her Byakugan. Naruto's eyes widened as he changed back into his human form. Hinata was the one spying on him? That was odd.
"Why are you spying on me Hinata?" Naruto asked coolly while pulling one of the longer quills out of the ground next to him.
"S-s-sorry N-Naruto-k-kun, I-I," Hinata started before Naruto interrupted.
"Stop stuttering and speak clearly. Hinata, I know that you have a crush on me. But I'm sorry to say that I don't feel the same about you. The most I will probably feel is as a brother."
"I-I-I," Hinata started before running off.
Naruto just sighed before heading home.
1: a modification of Shanks' speech in the first capter of the One Piece manga.
