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"You know the drill."
"Yea, I think I die every time I say it though."
"Stop complaining. It's better than being sued."
"I do not own Naruto in any way. Take that legal teams!"
'Thoughts'
"Speaking"
'Demonic thoughts'
"Demonic Speaking"
Morning friends, you will find that on weekends I update much faster and more frequently then normal weekdays. That would be because I have naught else to do but write during my free time! This story is going to be spending many chapters in the past before we get into the present, so you might as well just pretend the story started from the flashback in the first place. As usual I hope you enjoy this stuff because I certainly enjoy writing it!
Chapter 4: Saying goodbye, training begins.
Naruto concentrated on trying to break the water balloon in front of him. He scowled in frustration as he succeeded in doing nothing more than spinning the water causing the sides to bulge, stopping when he realized he was doing something wrong. He looked up to see Youko entering a clothes shop looking back and yelling, "Naruto-kun whatever are you doing? You can work on that another time, get over here and help me pick you out some new clothes."
Flashback :
"Never heard of it," Naruto said even more piqued. "It is an A-rank technique created by none other than your father, in which you create a cyclone of chakra in your hand." She held up her right hand and red demonic chakra began to swirl around it, creating what appeared to be a red typhoon that spun rapidly, and faded away after a few seconds. "There are three steps to learning this. Two of them I will have you do while in Konoha." A poof later she was holding a water balloon. "I can create objects out of my chakra, just ask me whenever you need another. This first step is simple, rotate the chakra in your hand to make the balloon pop. Watch closely." She held up the hand with the water balloon in it, and Naruto watched intently. It began to spin rapidly in multiple directions until it popped violently, sending out wisps of chakra in every direction. "Now you try it, and don't be surprised when you are unable to do it kit. It took your father three years to invent the technique."
Present :
He closed his eyes, remembering clearly her example, and then it hit him like a ton of bricks what he was doing wrong. He needed to spin the chakra in multiple directions. Seeing the smirk on Naruto's face, she watched intently as the water balloon began to expand in multiple directions before popping in his hand. She smiled, thinking, 'he got that a lot faster than I thought he would. He might even be able to learn this in a week at that pace. No matter, the other steps are even harder.' "Stop grinning like an idiot and get over here already, congratulation on clearing step one so soon though." Naruto walked over to Youko and followed her inside one of the many shinobi clothing shops lining the streets of Konoha. The owner of the store was about to protest the 'demon' coming into his store but Youko LOOKED at him and shut the man up before he could even speak. They looked around for a bit until they found the section with winter gear. Something interesting then caught Naruto's eye.
What he saw was a black long sleeved shirt with a red fox symbol attached to the front and back. Youko noticed this and snickered to herself that he had a thing with foxes, even though he should hate them. Naruto picked out black pants as well that had the same symbol on it. He was about to try them on in the changing rooms when his forehead protector slipped off, revealing that the cloth had wore away until finally giving out. Naruto then realized that it must have gotten worn out during his missions. He picked it up and found a black replacement cloth that matched perfectly with his new clothes. Before going into the changing rooms, he picked out a tan cloak that looked huge on him, but Youko insisted that he gets it otherwise he would freeze to death. He quickly changed into his new set of clothes and even decided to try on his cloak and walked out.
To say he looked better would be an understatement, he changed from looking like a colorblind idiot in appearance to serious ninja just by changing his clothes alone. The black on his forehead protector brought out his eyes more and almost made them look like they were glowing. She thought he looked nice with his new clothes, but she would never admit it. All she said was, "at least its not an ornage jumpsuit anymore." Naruto did a hmph sound and walked to the register to pay for the new clothing. As he was about to he saw a rack full of anbu maks. He quickly found one that resembled a fox and added it to the pile of things he had. He looked at the man in charge of the register and sighed in relief when he didn't make him pay double for being a 'demon spawn.' He quickly fetched out his wallet and payed up the price and a little extra saying, "for not calling me demon brat and refusing to let me buy these." The person just smiled and nodded as he didn't think it was right for the kid to be treated so harshly. 'Maybe peoples' opinions are changing on me. Ever since I started doing D-rank missions it has seemed like it at least.'
They continued outside with Naruto now holding multiple plastic bags full of his spare clothes. "So, how are we going to deal with these on our journey?" Naruto asked, slightly lifting up a bag. "Interesting question, we can do one of two things. Either carry them," Naruto face-vaulted. "Or we can seal them into a scroll." Naruto got back up and looked on, interested. A poof later a medium sized scroll appeared out of nowhere. She spread the scroll out a bit and told Naruto, "I don't expect you to know how to create a seal for everyday items yet, but I would at least like you to watch." Naruto nodded, and nealt down as she did and placed the scroll on the ground. She bit her finger, and began to write in knaji on the scroll. It didn't make much sense but he got that it was a one point seal, as his that contained the Kyuubi was a ten point seal. She took all the plastic bags from Naruto and wrote a single knaji on it. He assumed it was a marker for what was about to be sealed. She then performed a few handseals and slamed her first into the center of the scroll, causing all the items to disappear from existance and a new mark made on the center of the scroll.
"I can sense you got a few things from it, like the how many points there were in the seal, and that you had to 'mark' the objects you were going to seal. That will be good enough, considering sealing is something few know how to do and is a rare ability even among jounin. An exception would be a student one age group above you named Tenten, that you already know seals her weapons into scrolls. She is very brilliant in sealing techniques and uses it well to her advantage in combat. Also helps not having to carry around all of those extra weapons." She said this while producing a bit of rope that she used to tie up the scroll and handed it to Naruto. "Whenever you need to put something in or get something out of the scroll, just do the following hand seals : bird, sheep, monkey." Naruto nodded, and put the scroll in a pouch he hadn't known existed in his cloak.
Suddenly Naruto found himself suprised to be handed another ball, but this time it was a plastic ball filled with air. "This is the second step in your rasengan training, your goal is the same as the first, to pop the ball. The only difference is that its one hundred times harder to pop than before." Naruto nodded, getting that this step probably emphasized on power. He tried to cause the baloon to explode but all it did was create slight vibrations in it. He stopped, 'damn, this is a lot harder than the first step.' Naruto then detected something, it was a invisble thread of cummunication he had forgot existed. "Oh no," he thought out loud, "Kakashi and my clone are on there way back to Konoha." Youko got a serious face and nodded, and then just before they were about to leave, a familiar voice came from behind them. "Naruto! What are you doing here? I thought you were on a mission." Iruka-sensei, he had to shut him up before he alerted the entire village that he was here.
"Iruka-sensei! Lower your voice, I'm supposed to not be here. Come, lets go to Ichkiraku's, I can explain everything to you there but you must promise to not tell anybody." Iruka nodded, slightly worried why his old student would be under cover. He noticed the girl standing next to Naruto as if she knows him personaly. "This is Youko, she is.." Naruto faltered for a moment and gave Youko a questioning look, before she nodded. "She is my special friend," Naruto said with seriousness. Iruka knew that in public when talking about Kyuubi they referred to it as his 'friend.' He decided he would have to get answers at the ramen shop. They walked silently to the blonde's favorite place to get food where Naruto instantly brightened and said loudly, "Old man! Your best customer is back!" Iruka sighed, Naruto would be Naruto. They took seats and watched in amazement, even for Youko, as Naruto ate 22 bowls of ramen. At the last bowl, he leaned back and sighed with satisfaction. "How does he do it?" both Iruka and Youko said at the same time.
Getting a serious look on his face, Naruto began, "you are probably wondering what is going on, and you are the only person besides the Hokage that is going to know about this, and he already knows and has accepted what we are going to do." Iruka looked on in interest, wanting for him to get to the point. "Iruka, this is the Kyuubi, we were all wrong about her." Iruka's eyes widened and glared at her, showing hate as he let a low growl out for the parents he lost when he was only a child. "Iruka don't look at her like that, it wasn't her fault that she attacked." "What?" Iruka said, suddenly in shock. "There is a good explanation to this, and I'm going to tell you everything I know about it."
An hour later (Didn't feel like writing another explanation again.)
Iruka sighed, he was going to need some sake tonight for sure. He looked over at Naruto and then to Youko, who sat there with a sad smile, before saying, "its the truth, I wouldn't lie to my own container." Iruka closed his eyes gripping his forehead as a headache came on. "If what you said was true, then it isn't your fault that you attacked and my anger should be directed at Orochirmaru, and not you. I am sorry for growling at you earlier. Naruto, you seem to be able to take care of yourself, I trust you won't get hurt on this training mission. Just take care and don't get yourself killed, okay?" Naruto smiled and nodded. "I'll be leaving tommorow morning at nine, so as to not cause suspicion. That is when most people leave for traveling, and I won't be wearing my headband so they think I am just a traveler heading north." Iruka nodded, it made sense to do something like that. He wondered just how strong Naruto had become since graduating. "Take care Naruto, I guess I'll be seeing you when you come back in... four years." "Yea, cya Iruka-sensei! Make sure you treat my clone to ramen for me, otherwise he is going to hate his life for the next few years." With that Naruto poofed out of existence after paying for his meal followed by Youko disappearing in a cloud of red smoke.
"Well, tonight went far better than I thought," Naruto said to himself as he felt Kyuubi going back inside her cage for some rest and Naruto hopped across some roofs. 'Indeed it did kit, and now I get to call you by your pet name again. And you can't do anything about it!' Naruto sighed, sometimes wondering how a demon of such power could be so immature. 'Immature? For that I am going to make you feel pain tommorow as our training will officialy begin.' If thoughts could portray a sadistic smile, the Kyuubi was the closest person to achieve it, and Naruto didn't like it one bit. He shuddered, and prayed to kami that he would survive the brutal training that was innevitably about to begin. He arrived back at his appartment to unceremoniously plop down on his bed, slowly dozing off to sleep. Little did either him or Kyuubi know a certain purple haired Hyuuga had her Byakugen active and spied on Naruto the whole day. She told herself firmly that she was going to confront Naruto tommorow in the morning before he left.
AN: Things are getting interesting eh?
Naruto woke up in the ever familiar confines of his mind. He thought to himself, 'Kami, why can't I just get a good nights sleep for once?' "Don't complain kit, this is the only way for you to get anywhere near jounin level by the time you get back." Naruto still wished he had an off-day once in a while. He groaned and got up, wondering exactly where Kyuubi was. He didn't even give it a second thought slipping through the cage that was the seal that the fourth had put onto him. Suddenly Naruto got the feeling that something he wasn't going to like was about to happen. His gut instinct was always right, and kami knows how much he hated that fact. Kyuubi appeared out of nowhere and using a vice grip slammed Naruto into a wall. 'So damn scary,' was all Naruto thought as her inhuman strength held him tight against the wall. "I could so easily kill you kit, for doing something as reckless as entering my cage without a second thought." Naruto knew something was wrong, especialy since he had trusted Kyuubi to not kill him.
Kyuubi smirked as Naruto struggled to get free in a futile atempt. He let him down after a minute of pondering the blonde's fate and sighed, wondering just how much training he needed. What she didn't expect was the earplugs she wished she had as Naruto started to rant. "What the hell was that for!? Are you bipolar or something!? That hurt like hell! She said in no mood to argue, "it was a test to see how good your reaction time is. If I was a enemy ninja bent on taking your life I would have without any trouble. This is going to be your first lesson kit, one that I oh so much intend to drill into that thick skull of yours." By the end, she was grinning sadisticly and the tone of voice made Naruto gulp at to what she was going to do with him. "You can't die in your own mind, so I get the pleasure of torturing commen sense into you." Naruto did not like the sound of that, he mentaly noted to himself to stay far from Kyuubi when she got a sadistic smile. Oh how he wish he could right now.
Out of nowhere, Kyuubi launched one of her nine tails at Naruto. It extended far past its expected reach and he barely dodged to the side of it as it crashed into the wall behind him. He looked back and saw the point was razor sharp edge now. "Lesson one, never do anything without using your head." The wall itself had taken no real damage. Naruto looked back at Kyuubi to which she smirked and launched another tail at him while pointing the first tail at him again. Naruto barely had time to dodge as the first tail narowly missed his head trapping him between a tail, wall and the second incoming tail. Naruto closed his eyes for a brief second, imagining chakra being collected on the bottom of his feet much like during the tree climbing exercise. He opened his eyes again and shot up incredibly fast past the second tail before it could hit. Kyuubi responded by bringing a third tail out and aimed it for Naruto's head, who to the suprise of Kyuubi did a backflip in mid-air to dodge.
Naruto landed panting from his slight exertion. Kyuubi smirked, "it looks like you have some good reactions kit, but now you must use your head, and not your instincs." Then the three tails retracted back to her and were sent back out. Naruto dodged to the right as a tail headed straight towards him. Another tail then came from his right side forcing him to jump into the air. Kyuubi smiled as he obviously fell for her trick so easily. The third tail came from above and the first came from below. Naruto briefly thought for a moment that he was as good as dead. He closed his eyes, preparing for the inevitable blows he was about to take. They never came as he expected. Naruto opened his eyes again and stared with wonder at what he was seeing.
Everything was traveling in slow-motion. At least, everything except him. He felt normal but noticed there was a strange sensation in his eyes as everything was brighter and more clearer than he had ever thought possible. Naruto used chakra to rebound off of the air and land on the ground quickly. He landed on top of a tail and ran straight up to Kyuubi, who was giving a shocked expression in slowed down time as Naruto ran up to hit her. All of the sudden a fourth tail instantly flew from her back and aimed right for his head, hitting him with no time to react even being able to see quickly. He remembered nothing but darkness encasing him as he hit the ground. He suddenly saw the image of a great white wolf staring at him before consciousness slowly slipped from him and sleep overtook him.
Naruto awoke still in his mind. He groaned at the mild headache he now had after taking a direct blow to the head from one of Kyuubi's tails. "Are you okay, Kit?" Kyuubi asked. "Yea, but I got one hell of a headache now thanks to your tail that is as solid as a rock." Naruto tried to smirk but failed horribly. "Do you have any idea what you did there kit? I mean, you just suddenly became much faster than what I have ever seen from you. You weren't nearly as fast as me, as you could tell. You scared me when I got a good look in your eyes though, so I tried to knock you out with my full speed and strength." Naruto was confused, why would she be scared of him? "Well kit, you see you somehow unlocked a bloodline limit of sorts. It is hard to tell though since I have never seen a bloodline limit such as that before. It seemed temporarily there that you were changed into a completely different person. Kit, your eyes, they were glowing light blue and were slitted."
Naruto gaped slightly at the idea of him having unlocked a bloodline limit, then proceeded to explain things from his end. "Well everything suddenly got razor sharp detail and I have never seen that clearly before. For some reason my sense of hearing, smelling, and touch were greatly enhanced as well, but not as much as my eyes. I became much faster and to me everything seemed to be moving extremely slow until you lashed your fourth tail at me. For some reason I got the picture of a wolf before passing out. I have no idea why though, that is all I remember before blacking out." Kyuubi seemed to think to herself before saying, "I see, so what shall we call this new ability of yours?" Naruto thought about it for a moment, then said to himself without thinking "Ookamigan." Kyuubi raised an eyebrow at this. "I don't know why but it just fits with it. I also saw the image of a wolf before blacking out completely, so it is only fitting that it should be called such."
"Alright, I need to know more about this ability, and a way to activate it. If the other things are tied to the eyes then maybe it will be like most doujutsu and just simply need applying of chakra to the eyes. Try adding a small amount of chakra to your eyes to see if we can get an effect." Naruto nodded, and did so. As he did, everything seemed to gain slightly more definition and the rest of his senses became more clear and sensitive again. He looked up at Kyuubi who was just watching him intently. "You are really something kit, that doujutsu is tied to the rest of those abilities as well it seems. Your eyes glow a light blue to white color while using this as well. I want you to try to keep this new ability active at all times while training unless I say so. We will be taking full advantage of it and may find some other hidden abilities it may carry with it as well." 'Must have to deal with a mix between demonic blood and uchiha blood. This could very well be a brand new bloodline limit he just unlocked here.' Kyuubi paused and then said in a serious voice. "I still haven't forgotten the lesson I was teaching you before. Never think before acting kit, lets get back to it. You better be ready, for I won't be going as easy at the start like I did before with this new trump card of yours." Naruto nodded, and got into a ready stance, eyes now glowing with his new ability.
AN: Quite a revealing chapter into one of his new abilities. I am getting very bored of writing non-action based scenes and promise that some fighting will occur soon. Also, I would like to address how the pairing will work once again due to a certain review. More than likely Naruto will end up with BOTH Kyuubi and Hinata. I hope that answers a few questions. Anyways hope you are enjoying the story so far, and I also promise bigger chapters in the future! Until then.