Hello everyone! This is NiteOwl18 here, coming at you with chapter seventh of The Fox. Before I tell you all what happen at the previous chapter, I got some great news for you Naruto fans! I will be making new more additional chapters for this story. My midterms are all done and I barely got any homework. Hooray for me! I have just recently started chapter eight yesterday and I'm not almost done with it, but, in time, I will. Now in the previously chapter, you all saw Naruto running away from his recent attempted murder to one of his tormentors, Hibachi. The blonde then discover of the powers he had now possesses and started to realize of what his life will become. Now his answer will be fulfilled cause an unlikely character will be helping the hero of his new powers. A lot of you knows who it is as it says on the name of the new chapter. Please welcome chapter seven of The Fox. Enjoy.


Chapter 7: Kurama.

Three days had gone by of his recent suspension. Naruto had spent almost his entire week of doing nothing but reading comic books, playing video games in X-Box online and look over his mother's case file. He still made his contact with his friends; however, he hasn't gotten any word from Hinata. He sent her a message a couple of times, but she hasn't reply back. This send the poor blonde to react of what could she been thinking about him ever since his attempted murder on Hibachi. He had spent the entire day from yesterday in his room, alone and laying on his bed. Jiraiya had come to his room often and try to console the blonde with his words, but the teen didn't want to hear it. He remain in his room throughout breakfast, lunch and dinner. The blonde had kept chatting on Skype with his friends when he came across a message board from one of Sasuke's fan girls, and the girl that he had piss off, Yuki, of a betting list that involves Naruto himself to see that if he goes to jail or not. Not only that, he had gotten some angry messages from them to see that if he's dead in accordance with his resent attempted murder or committed suicide. This almost send him to another uncontrollable rage and wanted to kill them all.

He had woke up the next morning, sitting at his table and writing something on a piece of paper. The letter contain words of apology by the blonde to one of his tormentors, Hibachi, for attempted murder. He had just learn from Shizune that Hibachi has gotten out from the hospital and reminded him about the apology letter he had to write. From his trip to the police station three days ago, Sasuke's older brother and Sergeant of the Uchiha police force, Itachi, had made a deal with his father, the chief, that Hibachi's parents might not recommend of sending Naruto to prison if he writes a letter of apology to their son. As much as he hates that bastard, the blonde agree to write the letter, even as it means swallowing his pride. He have woken up in the morning and write the letter for about fifteen minutes. Every word of how he was sorry to that guy made him throw up a bit.

Putting down the pencil, he sighed loudly "Finally." Naruto grab the paper and held it onto his cerulean blue eyes. He read it a couple of times to see if there was any error.

"Ugh." Naruto muttered to himself in disgust. He gets up from his chair, grabbing the paper in his hand and slip it inside his orange backpack. He then look himself in the mirror to see his new bulky appearances. His muscles are hugging too tight for his normal clothes. Closing the door behind him, he descended down the stairs after seeing that Jiraiya have left for work moments after waking up. Outside of his godfather's house, Naruto began walking to the sidewalk to Hibachi house.


The blonde's eyes widen in shock of seeing Hibachi's house being a five-story building. He always thought that he live in an apartment, a one story house, or in his case, a trailer. He never would have think that he lives in a house like this, and he seen Hinata's house before, which beats him since it was a mansion. Hibachi's parents must be loathed.

"Oh, boy." Naruto said with worry in his tone. He walk to the entrance of the five-story house until he faces at the large double white door. He extend his hand onto the doornail, ringing it. The blonde waited as he put both of his hand in his pockets.

The door open up, revealing two people and their sixteen year old son. Both of the parents are in their mid-forties; the father's appearances is like Hibachi and his eyes are the same stone colored eyes. The only difference is that his hair short black. The mother has the same hair as her son, but her eyes are jaded. By the look of their parents, they weren't too happy to see him. Naruto shifted to their son, which made him take aback. Hibachi has a neck brace, a black eye, a large bandage around his head and a bandage across his nose.

"Uh, Hibachi's parents?" Naruto started with a stutter. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I got to school with your son, dattebayo."

"Oh, you're that blonde kid who put my son is the hospital." The father said in a gruff voice, crossing his arms and scanning the blonde. "I don't know what a punk like you goes around and start killing people in your age, even though he say that you're a weakling."

Pushing his glasses back, Naruto unzipped his backpack and took out the paper, holding it in front their eyes. "I got my letter of apology to your son."

The father snatch it out of his hand and held it onto his stone colored eyes, reading it before scoffing. "Is this a joke?"

"What?"

"You think you're gonna walk to my house and handed me this piece of crap, saying how sorry you are for almost killing our son?" Finished the man, shaking the paper, slightly scaring the blonde.

I just….thought that you would-" Naruto stuttered.

"That I what?" The bully's father interrupted. "That you could hand over a wimpy confession and expect us to not put your ass in jail?"

Naruto couldn't say more words of Hibachi's father; he would have thought he just accepted the letter and drop the charges against him.

"I don't why someone like you could harm our child." The mother said in a spat, glaring at the Uzumaki blonde, unaware that his anger is growing inside of him.

"You can take this confession and shove it in your ass." The father added as he hold up the paper in his hand after folding it. Then tear it a couple of time before throwing it in the air, letting it fall to the ground, in front of the blonde's widen eyes. Pointing his finger at him, the father's glare never go away. "Be lucky that we're dropping the charges against you, but if you so much as lay a hand on our son, you'll be spending the rest of your life in prison."

Naruto clenched his fist and try holding in his temper, not wanting to punch him in the face. With that being said, the father then lay out a huge spit on the paper, and getting some on the blonde's shoes. He and his entire family walk back the house with Hibachi lay out an 'Eat on it' grin toward him before the door closed.

"Unbelievable!" Naruto cruises underneath his mouth, punching the air in frustration and leaving the house in anger.


A can was kicked by the blonde's leg as he walk to the sidewalk. Naruto had stumble upon it after leaving Hibachi's house. He kick it with increased force, so did his temper. His mind flashes back of how his tormentor's parents have spoken so harshly toward him. The way they spoke and the way they glare.

Just like everyone at school. Naruto thought in frustration, kicking the can more and more. They're all the same. They're all the same! Finally, with one great swift, the can was send to the skies and landed onto the back of a garbage whistled in surprise, unaware that a couple of bystanders have witnesses it. Jaws dropping and eyes widen. It took him a couple of seconds before realizing that he had made a scene and flee.

Running to an alley, he look up to see a ladder that is ten feet above him to a small railing that has five stairs. Curiosity have affected the young blonde. With one jump, he grab hold on the first step of the old metal ladder. His hand extend to the next step and continue on, pushing his whole body up. On the railing, he races up to the five stairs until he was on the roof.

Naruto can feel the wind blowing to him, making his golden hair slightly moving. He look at his left to see the next building. Taking a deep breath, he started running to the next building and landed safely on the ground. He was shock and surprise that he didn't stop. He jump from buildings to buildings for a couple of minutes, making him laugh with glee. At the seventh building, he was picking up his speed from each jump he had made. At a speed of forty miles per hour, his foot step on the edge of the rooftop right before he releases that the next building is ten feet from the other.

"Shit!" Naruto cursed as he see his whole body being impact on the wall-


-And, with a quick orange flash, landed on the grass, making all the pigeons fly away. He lay up, rubbing the back of his head before seeing that he was now at Konoha Park.

Adjusting his glasses, he said to himself in surprise "Whoa."

Luckily, everyone at the park had managed to saw the birds flying away, and not seeing the blonde teen that was magically teleported right in the middle of the park.

As Naruto is trying to figure out of how the hell did he got in the park, a voice came to his senses.

"It's about time you got here...Naruto."

The blonde take one good hearing of the voice, knowing that it's a male voice. The source of the voice was coming right in front of his face, the same red-orange fox with red eyes and rabbit-like ears. His tails, however, have reduced from nine to one large tail.

Naruto look around to the witnesses to see if they were watching it, only to find they were minding their own business. Despite being scare of the fox, he whispered while pointing at him "You're that fox I have meet back at the park four days ago!"

The fox lay out a small chuckle, shocking the blonde "I see that you still have a brain, and before you say anything, we should go somewhere more private." He walk to the teen and force his head onto his hand, making his and Naruto's eyes both glow golden before disappearing in an orange flash.


Both the fox and teen were in a different area of the park, somewhere that didn't have any witnesses. Naruto look around in confusion the place to see there was no one there.

"Wha-?" Naruto stuttered before looking at the fox while his eyes return to its cerulean blue color. "How did-? Did you do that?!" The teen have take one look of the fox's golden eyes before it resume to his normal eye color.

"Now we can speak, Naruto." The red-orange fox spoken as he sit down on the grass. The blonde crouches down to his level.

"So how do you know my name? Who are you? Where's your other eight tails?" Naruto asked several of his questions.

"You have a lot of questions do ya, kit?" The fox remarked with a small yip. "Can't say I blame you though, you are your father's kid."

Naruto's mind relapse of the fox's word 'father.' "Wait, my father?"

"You're Minato's kid, ain't ya?" The fox look at the blonde more closer, tilting his head. "Did I gave my powers to the wrong blonde?" He started sniffing with his black nose to the rest of the teen's body. Catching Naruto's sense, he lay out a couple of more affirmative yips. "Nope, you're him."

"Uh…" Naruto rubbed his head in confusion over the fox's constant sniffing at him. "Not to be rude or anything, but how do you know my father, dattebayo?"

"And I see that you have inherited Kushina's verbal tic." The fox chuckled more, shocking the blonde. "Minato wasn't kidding after all."

"I don't know who you are or how do you know my parents, but if this is some kind of a joke-" Naruto annoyingly said, but he was interrupted by a large growl by the fox.

"YOU FOOL!" The creature screamed, making the blonde to fall down on his ass. "HOW DARE YOU ASSUME THIS IS A JOKE?! I HAVE GIVEN YOU MY POWER AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAID ME?!" Naruto frozen up by the outburst made by the fox. Its eyes were looking at him very menacingly and revealing his sharp teeths. Seeing the fear into the blonde's cerulean eyes, the fox shake his head and lay out more chuckling, only this one is sheepish. "Sorry about that, kit. I was releasing a lot of anger by the time I got out of that derange laboratory. Looks like I still got some left."

"Laboratory?" Naruto got out from his scare state. "You mean Roots Labs?"

"Yes, that lab." The fox then loss his grin.

"You say that you knew both of my mom and dad, but you were in Roots Labs. So how is it that you knew them?"

"Before you say anymore question, I shall tell you my name first. My name is Kurama."

Naruto repeated the creature's name "Kurama."

"First you ask me of how I know your father." The fox known as Kurama begin, resulting the blonde to nod in agreement. "I knew him because I used to work with him."

"You used to work with my dad?" Naruto said in shocked.

Kurama nodded, continuing "Yes. Your father have founded me as a small kit in Uzushio, where I help him perform experiments in his work. Even though he consider me as a lab animal, he still treat me with respect and tells me of his family life. Everything was fine until some men in white coats took me away to that lab right here. You know where's your birth home?"

Naruto narrowed his eyes in sadness of the mention of his former place. The fox look at his expression as he tilted his head in confusion. "Kit?"

"Uzushio is destroyed, Kurama." Naruto finally answered, shocking the creature.

"What?" Kurama look at the teen more to see if he was lying. Starting into his eyes for a few seconds, the fox lower his head down in the same expression that Naruto have made. "You ain't lying." He then pick up something that made him faces the blonde again. "What?! Minato's in prison for the murder of Kushina?!"

Naruto felt like he have grown a second head. How is the world did the fox knew of what happen to his parents? Kurama have reacted of the destruction of his home place, but if the blonde would have told him this was the truth, the fox would have denied it. "How do you know-"

He was cut off when Kurama put his head against the blonde's hand, turning both of their eyes to golden before vanishing in an orange flash.


Both of them were in the blonde's room. Naruto sat down on his bed by the time they first got here. Looking at Kurama, he resume of finishing his sentence, but the fox have beat him to it. "You are wondering how I been able to know. This is one of your abilities to be mentally link to my and your mind."

Naruto was dumbfounded. You read my thoughts?

Yes, kit. I have explain to you. Kurama lay out three yips in reply.

It didn't take the blonde to realize that both of them spoke without moving their mouths, and instead uses their mind. He chuckle to himself in his mind. This is freaky.

Believe it, kit. Now where the hell are we?

You put your own head into my hand and both of our eyes turn golden. You should know, dattebayo. This is my room.

Kurama scan the whole area with his red eyes as he walked. His nose have pick up a sense over at his computer desk, and to the first drawer. He lifted up his paw and started scratching it. "I sense something here, kit."

Naruto got up from his bed and walk to his desk, opening the drawer and taking out his mother's case file in front of the fox's eyes. Kurama sniff on the file and taken aback in a shock. "Is…" He slowly said. "Is this…"

"This is my mother's case file." Naruto nodded, laying the file down in front of the creature's eyes. He open it to see what the file contains before laying all the papers separately.

Kurama look all the papers with one look. The sight of it was making him scare. His teeth snarl in aggressive and his tail was acting out of control. Naruto can see the red-orange fur sticking out as the anger was slowly taking him over. His cerulean eyes pick up to see his tail shockingly being split into two tail.

"Kurama!" Naruto cried to the angry animal. "Kurama, your tail!"

The fox hear the blonde's crying out and realizes of what he was doing. Shaking his head, his fur stop sticking out and his two tails merge into back to his one large tail. "I'm...I'm sorry." Kurama said in regret. Crouching down to his level, Naruto put his hand on top of the fox's head and rub it, making him purred. The blonde lay out a small chuckle. However, Naruto's cerulean eyes turn to an even darker blue, so did the fox as well. Suddenly, the memories of Kushina's death have flashes into both of their minds. The blonde quickly let go of rubbing the animal's head.

"Did…" Naruto spoke slowly in shock. "Did we just…?"

"Yes." The fox yip in affirmative. The memories of her death was now in his mind. He felt scare of seeing her screams, not to mention of her killer. "Who killed her?"

"That's what I have been trying to figure out." Naruto softly said, not trying to bring up the memory for both of them. Turning to the animal, he brought up the part about Kurama reading his mind. "How did you…?"

"It's part of our powers, kit." Kurama begin explaining. "I have given you my powers and now we are mentally link to each other, in other words, I can read your mind."

"What about-?"

"The other abilities? Yes. Since I was given the full powers by your father, and when I bite you, I transfer my powers to you."

"Wow." Naruto said with surprise. "So why me?"

"Since your father told me about your family life, and how I was kidnapped by those scientists down at Roots Labs, I escape from that damn place to find you." Kurama growled.

"You escape from Roots Labs?" The blonde said. "How?"

"I manage to caught a sense of you the moment you were in the building. I figure that it was Minato, finding me or if they're holding him hostage in gaining information. While the scientists were doing inventory and checking on the other animals, I got out as soon as they let my cage open. I manage to outrun security until I was out."

"Couldn't you just teleported out of here, dattebayo?" Naruto asked in confusion.

Kurama added "You don't know what's going on Roots Labs, kit. I hide my powers from them of not getting a single information about me or how they work."

"I'm surprise that you manage to keep it hidden all these years from them."

"I know." Kurama lay out a small grin before dropping it. "After I escape, I knew that they'll be coming from me. I couldn't let them or the city know of me. Can you imagine the reaction of people's faces when they take one look of me, a fox with nine tails? The media will be on my tail, all nine of them! So I merge all my tails into one tail and went to various places in this city I could find. In trashcans, underneath the kitchens in restaurants, from the alleys, and even at the convenience stores. You would believe how many people I piss off of eating their food." The fox chuckle as he recall eating other people's food. This made Naruto laugh as well. "Not only were those of the only places I could find, but I also hide onto the hot springs in the women's side."

Naruto stop laughing, looking at the animal in surprise that he's a pervert.

"And if you're thinking that I'm some kind of pervert that peaks in the women's dressing room, you're wrong. The women in here all started petting me all over me. It...was...amazing." The fox lay out a similar pervert smile like Jiraiya. "That is, until the manager have caught me and chase me out, interrupting my moment of happiness with those beautiful vixens. I hide onto the park, where you first found me, or I found you to be precise. Whichever comes first. Now that I tell you of how I escape, what do you think of my powers that I have given you?"

Once the fox have told him about it, Naruto lay out a huge sigh before saying "To be honest, it's been nothing but trouble for me."

"What do you mean, kit?" Kurama tilted his head in confusion. The blonde then extended his hand to the top of his head, resulting their eyes turn to dark blue eyes. The fox is now seeing the memories of yesterday events and leading to the part of Naruto almost killing Hibachi before they were gone.

Kurama shakes his head in surprise. "Whoa. I didn't release you would go this far of killing someone with my gift."

Naruto sigh again, but with more sadness and putting both of his head against his head. "I didn't mean of killing him. He just...push me too far and I got out of control."

The fox saw the sadness onto the blond's face, and seeing the tears falling from his eyes as he was taking them off. He walk over to him and uses his long tail to wipe off the tears. The blonde sniffed, letting a small, but sad, smile "Thanks."

"Don't mention it." Kurama yip in response before the new memories were recalling in his own thought. "I guess I should have told you about the side-effects about using my powers, but we'll get to that later. Naruto…" The fox was now turning more serious toward the blonde. "Have you been given a thought of what you want to do with my gift?"

Naruto was taken back by his question and didn't the answer to the fox's question. After being gifted of these extraordinary powers, and has gotten in trouble because of it, he vow that his life will be different for now on and won't be protected by either his friends or his family anymore. But after hearing of what the fox have explain right now, he didn't know what other answer could be other than his life being totally change completely.

"I don't know." Naruto slowly answered. "I want to change my life, but…"

"But you don't know the right answer." Kurama finished his sentence, making the blonde to shake his head negatively.

"Kit, what if I tell you that with my gift, you could not only change your life, but as well as this city?"

"What do you mean?"

"The people from Roots Labs aren't gonna stop until they find me, including their supervisor, Danzo."

Naruto's eyes widen by the name of the man who owns the building, and as well as meeting him for the first time. "Danzo?" He echoed. "What could he be doing to find you, Kurama?"

"Trust me, kit. The man may seem all knowing and powerful to the public's eyes, but I see what he really is. He's a cold harden bastard and a manipulator. He'll sent his own men, maybe an assassin, to hunt and bring me back to that awful place. Now only that, this considers you as well as the people you know."

This caught Naruto's full attention to what Kurama was saying.

"This building knew about your father, and that means they'll be coming after you, your family and friends." Finished the fox.

"Wait, Roots Labs knew my dad?" Asked Naruto.

"And Danzo knew him more as well." The fox added. "From my years of being locked up and being test subject, I overheard some of the men and they're saying of what the old man is planning when he mention you from that day of the field trip. I don't know what it is, but it ain't looking too good, kit."

"What do I do, Kurama?" Naruto said with fear in his voice, now realizing that the men he has knew for only a single day is now looking for him, quite possibly his family and friends.

"You mean what are we gonna do." Kurama corrected, making the blonde to lock eyes with him. "We're gonna fight not only them, but for this city as well."

"You're crazy!" Naruto exclaimed, acting like the fox have grown a second head. "We can't go out there and fight something that Roots Labs is gonna send out or what this city has got to offer. Hell, I can't even last a fight let alone yesterday, dattebayo!"

"Naruto," The fox's serious face have never died throughout this whole conversation. "From what I have saw in your memories, you have spend all the years of being everyone's punching bag and letting the people around to see what a weakling you are. The abuse that you have suffer from those twelve years is no more. Now is the time to prove to them, to your friends and family that you ain't gonna let anyone mess with you again. Are you ready to have your life change like the one you always dream off?"

This made the blonde stop and think about what the fox have said. He was right. Naruto was tired of being the school's punching bag and letting them stepping him around like he's nothing. He have his entire friends to protect him throughout his life, and sometimes his family. He did say that his life was about to change when he first got these abilities. And now seeing that they are dangerous people who works for Root Labs are coming for him and the people he love and admire, he couldn't let this happen. With a sudden new determination, he nodded "Yes."

Kurama lay out a small grin as he lay out his right paw in front of the blond. Naruto responded by grasping the offer paw and shaking it.

"We're partners in crime-fighting, dattebayo!" Declared the blonde with a fox-grin.

"Alright." The fox said, after Naruto let his paw go. "Before we get into that, we need to go over the ground rules when using my powers."

"Ground rules?" Naruto repeated.

"You can't fight crime without me telling you of how to properly use my powers and not lose control. We'll start tomorrow after school start." Kurama hop onto the bed and walk to a closed window. "Speaking of which, what time do you get out, kit?"

"Actually, I can't go back to school in about three days." Naruto answered. "I was suspended as you recall seeing me committing attempted murder."

"Oh." Kurama said. "Well, in that case, we'll start training in the morning."

"I should warn you that I'm a kind of a heavy sleeper, dattebayo."

"That won't be a problem," Kurama turn around, facing the blonde before sitting down on the bed. "Cause I'm staying right here beside you."

"Uh, ya sure?" The blonde rub the back of his head in concern. "I don't know how Jiraiya-Ojisan, Tsunade-baachan or Shizune-neechan is gonna react of seeing a fox in my room, dattebayo. That, and you can talk and there's people out there are coming to get me."

"What, they don't like foxes?" Kurama lay out a few yips.

"I'm not sure, but I know that they're gonna say 'no', plus we have Tonton."

"What the hell is a Tonton?"

"Tonton is Shizune-neechan's pet pig." Naruto answered. "She acts like she my pet as well. Trust me, you'll like her once you get to know her...eventually. I don't know how I'm gonna explain this to my folks, dattebayo."

"So you're saying I can't stay here?"

"No! No! I didn't mean it like that!" Naruto wave both of his hands.

"It's okay, kit. I can take a hint." Kurama lower his head, not wanting to look at the blonde. He then started walking to the closed window. "I'll just find somewhere else. Alone. Not sure how I'm gonna survive living out there...alone. No comfy bed, but a bed made out of trash...alone. No one to provide meals for you. And I'll be talking...all alone."

"Wait!" Naruto cried. "You can stay here!"

"Okay!" Kurama suddenly turn his head around, letting out a fox grin and a yip before getting comfy on the blonde's bed, crouching into a ball. Naruto lay out his mouth hanging open and his eyes widen to the size of a plates upon seeing the sudden changing attitude by the fox.

"I...walk right onto that one, didn't I, dattebayo?"

"Yep." The fox lay out a cute, but a bit teasing, yip in response. Naruto then sweat drop and collapses onto the floor, making Kurama chuckle.


Okay! Kurama is going to help Naruto of how to property uses his powers and become the hero to Konoha after the fox reveal some information to the blonde about Roots Labs and the people they'll be sending after him. Chapter eight is the training between Kurama and Naruto. You won't believe what this fox has in store for the blonde. Stay turn next Friday to see it happens. NiteOwl18 out.