Bakaisha: Hi, everybody sorry for the delay. I was knocked out with flu and didn't have the energy to sit up and type. I would like to thank all my readers and my reviewers for their reviews, encouragement and advice. I am thinking about leaving the trunk and venturing in the world, real time in next chapter or the one after that. I am getting claustrophobic and itching to come out of the trunk ;-). So please review and give your opinion regarding some time skip or shall I continue with the same pace.

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"Hi" means talking

'Hi' means thinking

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{Hi} means phoenix speech

Chapter 8

World Narutoverse

Location A trunk in the potter hideout under fidelius at Takenoko village

Time Year two inside the trunk, outside two days.

Naruto was nervous as hell since morning. Reason, he will begin his Animagus training today. It has been quite a few weeks of extensive meditation exercise after which his Nisan has felt that Naruto was ready to take the necessary steps of becoming an Animagus.

Fukuro nee chan has spent the whole day yesterday drawing complex runic circles on the ritual chamber's floor that were beyond Naruto's comprehension. Ryuu Ni san explained that the runic circles will help Naruto achieve the Animagus form which he has without any compromise.

"Compromise, what compromise?" Enquired a curious Naruto.

"Usually the methods used for determination of Animagus form use a potion induced trance like state where one faces their Animagus form. What people don't realize that the potion actually forces one's mind in the strongest possibility of Animagus form that the mind can perceive. This actually though beneficial in quickly determination of the Animagus form also limits the person." Explained Ryuu Ni san.

"How it can limit if it is helpful?"

"Well, the potion actually forces one's mind to perceive only the strongest possibility not all the possibility. So if you have the possibility of having more than one form if you are not perceptive enough you may miss your other forms. That's why there have been no records of any multi Animagus before."

"What do you mean before?"

Ryuu ni san smirked at Naruto and asked him to follow into the training ground.

Once within the training ground, Ryuu Ni san stepped away from Naruto and said "well you are going to see my Animagus form which I achieved shortly after defeat of Voldemort".

Suddenly Ryuu Ni san started to glow and soon there was a magnificent black bird which resembled Fawkes the phoenix, Naruto had the opportunity to meet before. The black bird was wreathed in shadows and it looked at Naruto with its green eyes and trilled. The song filled naruto's heart with happiness and love as well as a sense of caution.

Soon the bird started to change shape and Ryuu Ni san appeared.

"This is my Shadow Phoenix form. In this form along with the usual powers of phoenix you have learned, I also can travel by shadows and this form has also helped in my elemental powers." Ryuu Ni san explained.

"Cool! Will I have similar cool form" Naruto was jumping with joy and expectations.

"Now Naruto back away a little further, you are in for a treat." Ryuu Ni san told Naruto with a twinkle in the eye that made Naruto queasy in the stomach. He remembered when ever Ryuu Ni san had that infernal twinkle; things don't bode well for others.

Naruto backed away with trepidation.

Ryuu Ni san soon was enveloped in a similar glow, however it started to get larger and larger. Naruto backed away further and in the process tripped over his feet.

When he looked up, Naruto's jaw dropped down to the ground literally in shock. In front of him towering over the field stood a massive beast of at least as high as the Hokage tower. Naruto immediate recognised the beast as a Dragon. The dragon was a massive beast towering over fifty feet, black and dark red scales shining with a golden glow, the huge jaw open with two front sharp teeth almost larger than Naruto himself. Suddenly the dragon opened its jaw wider and let out a deafening roar along with a massive burst of flame. Naruto could literally feel the heat even from such a distance. Then it unfurled its massive wing and took to the sky. Even remembering Fukuro nee Chan's lesson about the almost limitless expansion charm of the room, Naruto feared that the dragon might break the sky, umm the ceiling.

Eventually after a few breathless moment of acrobatic flying the dragon suddenly dived towards Naruto and landed on its massive paws sending shock waves along the ground. The dragon soon started shrinking and Ryuu Ni san stood in its place laughing at the gob smacked face of Naruto.

"This is my other form, the Japanese Bronze dragon; it measures between fifty and sixty feet. Its scales are usually of a metallic hue, copper, silver, or gold in colour. In addition of being endowed with the offensive weapons it has impressive defensive abilities, including a very high resistance to magical effects, an ability to camouflage itself so well as to render itself invisible like a Disillusion Charm, and ability to teleport itself from place to place similar to an Apparition Spell. It's extremely intellect and magical resistance also provide it with very strong mental defences against telepathic or other types of mind attacks. It can attack with its front two claws and the sharp spike on its tail can inflict much damage. It can and will bite, and the two large fangs can inject a potent poison that will cause the victim to sleep for anywhere from few hours to days, depending upon the size of the victim. In addition, it can breathe a stinging cloud of gas that is not fatal, but will cause those within the cloud to fall asleep."

Naruto could just nod at the explanation of Ryuu Ni san's second Animagus form.

"Now let's go Fukuro will have finished the runic circles by now".

Inside the Ritual chamber

"Now Naruto you will lie down on this circle and meditate as we practiced, once we have powered up the runes you will find your form or if you are lucky enough forms. Then I will give you the potion and it will help you transform into your form." Fukuro nee chan explained to an obviously excited Naruto.

"Naruto mind it, the flaring up of the runes may cause a little headache when you try to reach your form."

Naruto nodded and sat down in the marked area and slowly focused inwards as he had practiced before. The runes were powered up by Ryuu and Fukuro as they waited for Naruto to wake up from the meditative trance.

Ryuu and Fukuro waited for almost two hours as Naruto went into the trance, just when Fukuro was contemplating if anything had gone wrong, Naruto began to stir and groan.

Groggily, Naruto woke up and put his hand to his head. "Owe," he mumbled and looked around with a shocked look on his face.

"When you said there may be a little headache, you weren't kidding, were you Ryuu Ni san? Because I feel that I have been run over by an angry mob."Naruto asked a little crossly at his Ni san. The only response was a little sniggering from him.

"How did it go?" Fukuro nee chan asked with concern in her voice that never failed to warm up Naruto's mood.

"Well, I felt like I was split in two," said Naruto. "I kept feeling torn between two images. Sometimes I was a canine a fox perhaps. Sometimes I was a big, ferocious creature with wings and claws. I thought I was losing my mind."

"The potion will allow you to transform later on without needing the runic power up, you will be able to do it simply by thinking about it. Sometimes the initial change can be painful, but you must focus on the thought that you felt when. Continue with the transformation no matter what happens, or it will get a lot worse. Any questions you need to ask Naruto? OK, this is your last chance to change your mind. Alright, then let's start. Bottoms up!"

Naruto quickly gulped down the potion thinking yet again about the one common thing about the potions their horrendous taste.
At first, he didn't feel anything. He then blacked out, but could tell he was on his feet. All of a sudden, he felt himself being pulled two different ways. He had already figured that he had multiple forms, but was more curious as to what his forms would be.

After his curiosity came out, he was thrust forward. He felt himself fall to the ground. When he opened his eyes, he noticed the new sharpness of his vision and the scents around him. He stood up, and noticed he was quite short. After realizing his sudden altitude, he started to get dizzy. He shook his head, and noticed his new, orange hair brighter than his suit flow all around him. Harry decided to look at himself. His body had golden orange fur that seemed to glow when the light hit it right. The tip of his tail also consisted of the same orange hair. Wait! What's that he has two tails? He noticed how fluffy it really was. Harry also felt the strong sense of bravery, but even a stronger sense of curiosity? Yes, he noticed now how bad he wanted to go examine the things around him.

Just when he was getting ready to move, he again felt it. Naruto felt an extremely strong sense of bravery, stronger than his first form. He also felt an urge to protect everyone he knew and didn't know. He also wanted to go out in the wide sky, and fight the injustice of the world. He slowly grew in size until he assumed the form of a large bird with a wing span of about fifteen feet long. His feathers seemed to shimmer with a bright silver hue, with electricity crackling around. The bird walked awkwardly on its two legs for a moment and flapped its wide wings around a few times before it learned to balance itself properly. Coiling its legs, it sprang into the air and began beating its wings, only to crash back to the floor in a heap. The sudden pain associated with the crash made Naruto revert back to his human self and wake up.

"Ouch!" He sat up rubbing his shoulders and found Ryuu Ni san and Fukuro nee chan smiling widely at him.

"Tell me, tell me! What I am?" Naruto started jumping around in his excitement.

"Well as expected one of your form is of a fox, a two tailed Kitsune to be precise, though I think the number of tails will increase as your control over Kurama's power improve. Your next form is a surprising one, if I am correct it's a magical supposedly extinct bird of prey, the Thunderbird". Stated a grinning Ryuu Ni san.

"You are correct Ryuu, it is a Thunderbird. They are supposedly extinct since the times of Merlin. They are said to be extremely ferocious hunter with almost no fear and very protective of their family. They are extremely fast flyer with a power of instantaneous transportation. They are supposed to have excellent control over a lot of elemental powers as wind, water and electricity and ultimately as a combination over weather as storms. In fact their name came from their power to cause freakish storms in their anger. They were in old times thought as harbinger of war". Fukuro nee chan added as usual from her eidetic memory.

"Cool! I have an awesome form. I will become Hokage in no time". Naruto started jumping in his usual exuberance.

"Now now, Naruto you have a lot of work to do before you master those forms. But the good thing is that you will have a lot of benefit to gain from your animagi forms. Usually a lot of the abilities of the Animagus are transferred to the person. So this might help you in achieving your elemental training a lot easier". Fukuro cautioned Naruto before he was lost in his day dreaming.

The next few weeks passed away quickly for Naruto as he struggled to keep up with his studies. His magical subjects of Transfiguration, Charms, Defence, Runes, Potions, Arithmancy were progressing nicely. His prankster side screamed in delight at the thought of all the pranks he could pull with help of the new knowledge. He had also progressed nicely in his study of shinobi related studies as weapons throwing, chakra control exercise, Fuinjutsu, Kenjutsu. He had recently started performing Taijutsu katas after his Fukuro nee chan has deemed his physical development adequate to handle the strain of rigorous training after his prolonged state of malnourishment. His Ninjutsu studies were rather going slow as due to his huge chakra reserve his Ni san has focussed more on control of the huge reserve rather than teach him fancy jutsus. He has learned the academy three basic jutsus along with Kagebunshin though he was forbidden to use it without supervision. But Naruto was not worried, His Ni san has promised to teach him an awesome jutsu if he can raise his chakra control to adequate level. He will need to spar on water for two hour with his Ni san. He can already last about an hour.

He was particularly proud of his Animagus training and Metamorphagus training. He can now successfully change his hair colour, eye colour, facial features. But he has yet to alter his size, any change tried were transient and caused severe problem in his balance.

Soon it was time for his third year inside the trunk. Naruto has come to enjoy his stay with the one thing he craved most, his family. He still thanked his lucky stars for the day when his family came to rescue him. His time with his family has alleviated his insecurity and loneliness of his earlier days. He no longer needed to wear the mask of a foolish prankster to gather attention. His wounds were healing and after a long time Naruto was truly happy.

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