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Chapter 4: Truth and Love

Naruto's apartment

It was the night right after the genin exams and Naruto was about to go to bed. He thought about everything that had changed for him today, he was now a genin of Konoha, a protector of the Will of Fire and an adult in the eyes of the rest of the world.

This last revelation made him wonder how tonight's conversation would go with Natsuki. Thinking about the vixen made him smile, not the fake smile he usually displayed to everyone in Konoha, no this was a true smile of happiness.

The two shared a very friendly relationship, Natsuki was the only one who knew the real Naruto and since the night of the accident they shared a telepathic link that allowed them to communicate with each other through Naruto's mind.

Naruto always shared everything he had with Natsuki, well almost everything, there was this one thing that he had hidden from her, a thing that he wanted to reveal to her when he felt the time was right.

Tonight would be the time for him to tell her how he truly feels about her, tonight Naruto will confess his love to the woman who stole his heart from the moment he understood what love is.

The thought that she could reject him terrified the young blond but Natsuki always taught him to face his problems head on and to never let fear stop him from moving on with his hardships.

With those thoughts in mind he decided to call it a night and join Natsuki in his mindscape for what would be the most important conversation they had had together in all his life. He slowly closed his eyes and relaxed his mind letting sleep take over him.

Mindscape

Naruto drifted into his mindscape and made his way to Natsuki's location. The mindscape had changed drastically since the first time he was there. Now instead of the chaotic desolated sewers he stood in a beautiful clearing with an average sized house in the center.

He made his way inside the house to find Natsuki asleep in the couch of the living room. She wore an additional necklace that she didn't have during their first encounter, it was a beautiful silver necklace with a red ruby stone in the center, on the stone could be read the kanji for "Seal" engraved in gold characters in it.

He took a few steps forward to join her and began to slowing caress her hair. His action slowly woke her up with a smile on her face.

"Na-chan, wake up." he said slowly as he continued to run his hand through her hair.

"Naru-kun you're here, so how does it feel to take the first step towards your dream?" she asked as she open her eyes.

"Feels great Na-chan, today when I left the academy building I felt like I could take on the world, that nothing was impossible for me" he answered with lots of determination in his voice.

"I'm so proud of you, I'm sure that one day you will be the light of Konoha, everyone will see you for the great and kind soul you are as I do." She said to him.

"It's all thanks to you Na-chan, I don't know where I would be today without you with me, most likely I would still be wandering the streets aimlessly or worse ..." He said with emotion.

"I came to tell you something tonight, please let me finish before you reply, it is very important to me." He pleaded and she gave him a nod to continue.

"I don't know where to start, so I'll just say it from my heart. Na-chan I love you, I've been in love with you for a long time now and I just wanted for you to know. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen and I feel safe to talk about anything with you without fear. I know that I'm far from the best you could have as a boyfriend but I promise you to always be there for you and protect you with all my might until the end of time." he said to her looking straight into her eyes.

"I want you to know that I will find a way to get you out of the seal, that I promise you. Even if you don't like me back I will honor this oath I make to you." He finished and then looked to the ground nervously.

"If only you knew ..." she thought with tears in her eyes. "Before I give you my answer I want you to listen to me as I listened to you and do not interrupt me until I am done okay?" she asked him to which he also gave her a nod of acceptance.

"As you know I told you I was sealed in you the day of your birth by the Yondaime after I lost control of myself and attacked Konoha due to one man we will talk about later."

"What you don't know is what or more importantly where I was before all this happened. Before your birth I was sealed inside you mother my second Jinchuriki." She said as Naruto's eyes widen at the revelation but he remained silent as he promised.

"Your mother's name was Uzumaki Kushina and she was chosen to be my Jinchuriki after the last one because of her Uzumaki bloodline that made her the perfect host for me."

"Female Uzumaki Jinchuriki possess a bloodline that allow them to have control over the bijuu but we'll talk about that later."

"Unfortunately female Jinchuriki also have a weakness, childbirth. When comes the day they give birth to a child, the seal holding back the bijuu will weaken severely."

"The day you were born, the seal on Kushina failed and I was forced out of her body by a man with very high powers."

"I didn't even have the time to realize I was outside again after so long that he used a jutsu on me to cloud my mind with his hypnotic suggestion."

"The next thing I remember is waking up sealed inside you. So there you have it, I am the reason you are all alone in this world, feared and hated by all." She finished her tale with tears freely flowing out of her red eyes as she waited for his reaction.

After a long time lost in his thought Naruto looked back into Natsuki's eyes "This is not what I asked you, I still want to know how you feel about me." he said.

"Of course I love you too, you are a kind and gentle soul. Any female would be crazy not to accept your feelings, you are everything I could hope for in a mate. I was just so afraid you would hate me for my past that I couldn't bring myself to tell you about your mother until today but your confession left me with no other choice." She answered truthfully.

"Then it doesn't change my feelings for you Na-chan. While I'm not entirely happy that you didn't tell me about my mom until today, I understand where you're coming from as I felt the same thinking about what I'd do if you didn't like me back."

"Furthermore, as you already told me the first time we met, It was not in your intention to attack Konoha that night, you were forced to do it and we WILL talk about that mysterious man later" he said with conviction in his voice to reassure her.

With nothing else holding them back anymore they slowly made their way to each other and shared their first kiss ever. The kiss was everything Naruto imagined it would be, tender at first as their lips made contact, then full of passion as she parted her lips for their tongues to collide. Naruto didn't know how long they stayed like this but he couldn't care less, nothing else in the world mattered at this moment as he wished it would forever go on.

When they finally parted, bright blue oceanic eyes stared into deep volcanic red eyes, "Natsuki Kyuubi no Yoko, this is the greatest feeling ever, I love you more than anything in this corrupted world".

"Naruto Uzumaki, I love you too with all my heart." She replied before she noticed he was starting to fade away.

"Looks like it's already the morning outside." said Naruto sadly as he felt himself being pulled out of his mindscape.

"I'll see you soon Naru-kun, don't be late for your team placement today." She said as he finally left his mindscape.

Back in Naruto's room

Naruto woke up with the biggest smile ever on his face. He never felt so alive even when he was learning incredible wind jutsu during his training years. He did his morning ritual and prepared his ninja equipment for the day. Once done he left via Shunshin after locking the door.

Konoha's Academy

Naruto made his way to his usual desk and waited patiently for Iruka and Mizuki to arrive when he suddenly remembered about the silver haired chunin instructor.

"Mizuki! I totally forgot about that bastard! I should have gone to the old man yesterday!" tough the blond before he saw the door to the classroom open and Iruka enter with lots of bandages on his face.

"Iruka-sensei what happened to your face and where's Mizuki?" he refused to call someone "sensei" if they didn't deserved it.

Iruka took a thinking pose to decide what he could tell his students before speaking "I'm sorry to say this to you all who knew Mizuki, but yesterday he was found red-handed trying to steal the forbidden scroll of Konoha's Kinjutsu by a patrol. I was the one who located him the first before he could leave Konoha's walls and I stopped him, that's why I got these injuries but the scroll is safe and Mizuki has been taken into custody." replied the instructor before he added.

"Lets make this my final lesson to all of you, in a shinobi's life today's ally could very well be tomorrow's opponent and vice and versa." He said with seriousness in his voice.

"Well lets get this done now, shall we ?" Continued Iruka.

"Now the team placement will be the following:"

"Team one: ..." Naruto dozed off until he started to hear names of those he considered having a chance to make it past genin.

"Team seven: Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke and Aburame Shino. Your jonin sensei will be Hatake Kakashi." announced Iruka as Naruto knew what was coming as he block his ear ways and could still hear, mind you in an audible volume, Sakura shouting to the heavens about Love winning or something like that.

Shino was as expressive as ever and Sasuke kept on glaring at him for some reason "Must still be mad at me about the fight of yesterday and not being the rookie of the year" thought Naruto.

"Thank god we're not with him, It would have been the recipe for a disaster." Said Natsuki as she made her presence known.

"Y-You're awake Na-chan !" said Naruto still blushing at yesterday's events.

"Love you too, Naru-kun !" said the vixen in a playful manner knowing how to push the right buttons to embarrass her host.

"Team eight: Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuga Hinata and Uzumaki Naruto, you jonin sensei will be Yuhi Kurenai." Said Iruka pulling Naruto out of his musing.

"So Kiba was the dead-last of this year. " Thought Naruto. "Well at least he's not a complete retard as the Uchiha and Hinata seems capable enough if she just gained some more confidence"

"Kurenai is the genjutsu mistress of Konoha, surely I will be able to test my resistance to genjutsu with her as a teacher that's great what do you think Na-chan?"

"Yes that's great, I feel that we can expect her to treat you fairly from what the report we read about her said about her professionalism and her caring attitude." Replied Natsuki.

"Team nine is still active from last year." Continued Iruka.

"Team ten: Akimichi Choji, Nara Shikamaru and Yamanaka Ino, your jonin sensei is Sarutobi Asuma." Said Iruka as he finished his announce.

"So they decided to reform the legendary Ino-Shika-Cho team with their children without even considering their current relationship with each other, that's pretty stupid. Well Shikamaru and Chouji will do fine together but I don't see Ino fitting in that team any time soon." Thought Naruto analyzing team ten's potential.

"That's all, stay here until your sensei comes to get you and good luck for your future career, I am proud to have been your sensei." Said Iruka as he left the classroom.

Naruto felt a little sad that he would see Iruka a lot less from now on since he had been the only fair teacher to him during his academy days. His mind refocused as the first jonin made their entry inside the classroom.

A beautiful woman in her twenties made her way inside with the Hokage's son Sarutobi Asuma as Naruto recognized the man for having seen him numerous time with the old man as he visited him in the past.

"I am Yuhi Kurenai, jonin sensei for team eight. Please follow me to training ground number eight." She said as she started to leave the room.

Naruto looked at Kiba and Hinata shrugging his shoulders before he decided to follow his new teacher for what would be a new chapter of his life.

A/N: No action this time, lots of fluffiness. I felt it was important to begin to stir their relation in the right direction. Now I'm not saying they will have sex with each other right of the bat and I don't even have the confidence to right a lemon for now. Plus Naruto still got the physical body of a twelve year old teenager. I guess it will happen when it will happen.

For you action fans don't worry next chapter will be the genin's real admission test then we'll get into the missions and you will see more of Naruto's true strength as the Kaze No Kami.

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