Summoning Three Tails

My tenth birthday has come and passed a few days ago. Ten years since I had been reborn. Reincarnated into this world. Ten years since I had my life both restored, and flipped upside down. Ten years since I had changed sides. Ten years since my old cancerous body had failed without. Ten years since I had died in my sleep. Ten years since I've seen a computer. Since I've had seen any modern devices asides from simple radios. No internet, not advanced technologies, no flying machines, and few machines of any kind. Ten years of learning a new body, of learning a new gender, of learning a new life, of learning a new world.

I didn't consider my old seventeen year old mind in this body meant that I was twenty-seven. I knew my own bodies mind and emotions kept my mental growth from exploding. My abilities had grown considerable, both mental and physical. But my body forced my mind to act my age for the most part. I was smart. I knew that.

Not shikamaru smart. But I could work logic puzzles well enough. Fuuinjutsu taught me that. My programming skills in my last life was a great start for sealing. Albeit far more abstract, seals had much in common with what I had learned back then, and yet still far different. But my body was determined to force childlike tendencies onto me, making it harder.

I actually rather enjoyed being able to act as a child. I even enjoyed being a girl, especially since I wasn't sickly anymore. I took it in stride. I was now certain my genetics helped me there. I didn't worry over the past or future overly much. Rather, I worried more about the now. Sure I planned ahead a bit, I made sure I knew where I was going.

I didn't really accumulate much stress. And my aura, what I have come to call all that chakra leaking out of my body, has a little to do with that, or maybe not. I think I'm absorbing my own calming aura as well. It's a little funny, but I'd like to believe that. I had a temper, but I calmed quickly, or at least I didn't hold much of a grudge, if any. And I liked looking pretty.

My last life, I didn't look like much, underweight, thin hair, and weak - being sick for a long time does that though. But here, I can show off my looks, and enjoy them myself. I admit, I enjoy looking at myself in the mirror. Though a bit young right now, I definitely still like pretty girls, though I have been looking at boys a bit too...

My body though has progressed amazingly. I was only ten, yet I was certain I was of jounin levels without my resistance seals. My body, it is very healthy too. It may be thin, a little bit more than I would see on other healthy girls, but it was a pretty thin - obviously for flexibility and ease of motions. My muscles were compact, rather than bulky. I had fat still, but it was in the right places. Even if I am still short for my age, I was perfect, at least in my own opinion. My sleek and lithe form was beautiful, in many ways. I just couldn't help but marvel at my own body sometimes

I had groomed myself for speed, evasion, and accuracy. I had memorized pressure points, and vital spots on the body, wanting to be able to hit them with both my hands, and senbon. I Taught myself to be able to hit those spots in my attacks and counters, and proceeded on to the next form of taijutsu I wanted to perfect. For this, I had extended my sleeves an extra forearm in length. I really wanted to be able to use this new idea for taijutsu.

After that though, I had learned and nearly mastered Kenjutsu. The Uzumaki styles suited me so well, it was astounding. They went for flowing, swirling, and my body just followed. I had my twin tanto's, and I don't think I'll ever change. They seemed to have many seals engraved along their length, and I had only just started to take notice. Seals for absorbing chakra, seals for protecting the blade, and many other things. I don't think even Yuugao expected my learning speed in this. Though to her credit, she didn't have shadow clones to work with, and had mastered her sword in a reasonable amount of time.

Shadow clones. They feel like a cheat code in a game. I still have to work for my skills, but they just extend the possibilities so much. My fuuinjutsu has reached at least level nine on the Uzumaki scale. I was certain of my mastery, though I was still having my a clone read each scroll or book again in order, then dispelling.

I would repeat the process every month, and would come up with more knowledge and ideas. The order in which you learn the knowledge was nice, but they didn't actually tell you that it would be needed to reread each piece after you finish. It was no wonder few people mastered the skills, they never took the time to understand it all from start to finish more than once, or at least thats my newfound belief - I'm sure the Uzumaki clan had their own do that though. And the clan scrolls were amazing.

So many different uses. I was glad I had near photographic memory. Or was it eidetic memory? Selective eidetic memory? I could clearly remember everything I wanted to, and those I didn't would blur slowly, though never truly forgotten. It truly helped, though rereading them physically helped just as much, more understanding each time - after all, remembering and understanding are not the same.

Then there was chakra manipulation. I could easily call upon a rasengan in each hand almost instantly. I had figured out how to throw the things too - had one too many blow up a clone trying that at the start too - and was moving on to adding elemental natures into it. That was on a level of its' own. I could always use a clone to help me form it, but doing it without help would be for the best is what I decided. Though the manipulations themselves turned out quite easy.

I shouldn't say that, the wind was easiest, and only took a week to get down to a decent point. The water and earth manipulations weren't too much harder, a couple weeks each. Then there was fire and lightning - each taking over two months alone with almost all my clones working on them. In about half a year, I had decently control of each element. I was still working on them too - one can never have too much control.

I had actually noticed my ability to manipulate wind around myself a bit after I had gained sufficient control over my primary affinity, and instantly decided control over the elements would be worth it if I could figure out how to use techniques without hand-seals. It would be worth the attempt, and more control never hurt. So I had immediately tried carving into things with wind nature chakra. It took all this time, but I had actually managed to control it well enough to carve my name into rocks - and proceeded to do so on several of the trees in the training field.

It was also an amazing chakra control exercise for my vast reserves, something that was always expanding to my despair - though more chakra is always nice, it meant constant chakra control exercises, daily, or I would end up with issues performing certain jutsu. And I still hadn't been able to replicate Mokuton, but my thoughts were it being a control problem, and I didn't have amazing control over those two elements.

At least not yet. Something nice that came out of all the control training was my ability to use the Uzumaki Sealing Method to place seals through my feet, without the aid of the obvious hand-seals the method required at first. Thank god for chakra memory - I like not having to use hand-seals, and I was quick enough to pick up the chakra flow required - it only took a few times maximum for some reason. I could even use my violet chakra cloak to reach out and place a seal on something nearby.

That was only my training though. I had spread out many clones in the forms of insects and animals. All to explore the surrounding area of the village. It was nice to be able to form a near infinite amount of clones, even with the slight headaches my new body has to heal sometimes. The chakra required to transform into bugs, small animals, or weapons, was incredible though. It was more than practically any chuunin could handle. It was no wonder that people didn't use it for spying. I understand why now it was only naruto that tried this.

Thankfully my natural ability to maintain the forms helped. Turns out my clones did release chakra like I did, just in a much more minute amount that didn't affect the surroundings visibly. And it allows them to automatically maintain a henge. Of course those scouting the surroundings were just in my natural fox shape or birds - teaching myself to fly was such a task, especially as an insect. So many clones popped flying into leaves. And getting eaten...

I had actually found the Uzumaki shrine, something I wasn't even looking for. I knew I could release my father with that, but I wasn't sure if I should. Nor could I use Edo-Tensei to summon him - that was a thought - and I didn't want to give Orochi-teme an extra summon. I had sent some clones to clean it and fix it up. I had even found where the monks of the Fire Temple were located. I didn't want to come into contact with them though. Luckily my twin-tailed fox form wasn't of enough interest to anyone around konoha, at least nin-wise, to have anyone try chasing, attacking, or capturing them. A few local civilians had tried to attack the my clone foxes though, not that they could even get close enough to hardly see one. I guess their hatred for foxes runs deep.

I had decided I wanted to try something interesting recently though. Something I wasn't sure about. I had no idea how it would turn out after all. I would most likely end up in a place far away from here. At least I would have Hiraishin seals I could use to return if need be.

So, standing in the middle of my personal training field, on our day off from school, I went through the hand-seals - Boar - Dog - Bird - Monkey - Ram - slapped my hand down, and vanished in front of my clones in a loud 'poof' of smoke.

I had reappeared in the sky above an open field, surrounded by trees for miles, and what looked like a few mountains in the distance. But the thing was I appeared high above the ground - 'I knew it...' I fell for a few seconds, and using chakra to enhance my limbs strength, landed on all fours on top of a grassy hill.

Looking around, my slitted eyes couldn't find anything but small hills, or trees. Though I could smell some animals nearby, a distinctly familiar scent, I couldn't place it. Somewhere behind me, I heard a few small pats on the grass, so there had to be someone nearby. Though, what I had expected to be small, was anything but. I had to look up. 'That hadn't been there a moment ago...'

Peering up, and up, my eyes followed a tower of black, a reflective sheen. I followed it to a face, a majestic face, though animalistic in features, definitely pride and bearing visible on its' visage. Black snout closing in on me, and sniffing. 'My scent?' On its head, two pointed ears, tipped in white. I couldn't see past its' face but to view its body, yet I knew what it was. 'A fox..? Makes sense I guess hehe.' I just smiled into a giggle. Apparently the night fox liked me, as the edges of its mouth tipped upwards. Something I had no idea about - a fox could smile.

"Hello little one, how did you get here?" I looked up at his shrinking face. He had pulled away from me to sit on his haunches. His coat was magnificent, and his scent surrounding me. Behind him, I could see five, no six white-tipped tails weaving around.

My stunned silence moved on for a few moments longer. Shaking it off, "I-I reversed summoned myself?" I couldn't help but be nervous. This creature, fox, he - for his voice was obviously male - was the largest being I had seen. I doubt he was as big as Kurama, but he was at least the size of Gamabunta.

"I see..." His eyes narrowed at me. Scrutinizing my appearance. I knew that wherever I ended up, they would smell foxes on me, and would know I was what I am. But here, it was absolutely the best decision I could have made - to come without any hidden features. As a fox myself, it would have been... an issue. Of that I had no doubt.

"You smell familiar." I knew it. I knew they would smell Kurama. And his suspicious eyes held me there. I knew he wanted an answer. "Kurama..." Or he already knew. "You smell similar to Kurama. Why is that."

I couldn't help but stutter it out, "I accidentally a-absorbed his Y-Yang half. A s-seal, something wrong with it. Caused me to meld with his e-essence. I am practically his d-daugher." I didn't quite view myself as such, but I couldn't really deny it. And it was a title that would smooth relations. I hope...

He was just silent for a while. And it kept me fidgeting in front of him. Whatever he decided would happen from here on, probably depended on his word. After what seemed an hour, he spoke up again. "You wish to be our summoner then?" A nod confirmed his thoughts. "Understood Hime-Sama." I blinked, and blushed furiously at that.

"H-Hime?" Did he really just call me that?!

"You are the child of the greatest of our kind. A being of chakra more than flesh. Our immortal king if you will. And if my suspicions are correct, you have similar substance as him. An immortal child made from his very being. Though it seems as if you haven't completely grown into your power yet." He narrowed his eyes at me for the next part, "As his child, you are our princess."

I was frozen. Breathless. This life. This body. My very being. I was a princess. Reborn as a female infant. Given one of the greatest burdens that can be carried, becoming an object of hatred for what I carried. Becoming the child of what I carried. Turned from a common human in my last life, into a princess in this life. I just sat there stunned.

He had given me a bit of time to come to terms with this. He could tell it had affected me. Once he was satisfied I could listen again he proceeded on, "My name is Asastuyu. What is yours Hime-Sama?"

"Uzumaki Naruna" was my simply dumb reply.

"Shiro! Bring the summons scroll!"

A few minutes later, I had finally come back to myself when a four-tailed black-tipped beautiful white fox, the size of a horse, come prancing into the clearing and stopped next to me. It shrugged a scroll from its' back, letting the paper unroll to reveal empty nameplaces. Not a single name. "Here tou-san!" came the feminine reply.

"Now Naru-hime, please sign your name in blood. Then leave a handprint of the hand you plan to summon with."

I followed his instruction. Using my right hand, biting my fingers with a canine every time I needed more blood - I kept healing it up.

When I finished up, signing "Uzumaki Naruna," I felt a slight connection. Something strange was happening. It wasn't painful, nor was did it seem harmful. Then I felt it, one of my tails split, with a sudden increase in power, similar to when I received my second tail overnight. This time, I felt the sensation of the split. And I knew how to control it. There was more to the splitting than I thought, and I knew what.

I willed my tails to encircle me, and found all three tails in my lap. My furry, warm tails. I actually enjoyed their feeling. They made me feel warm inside, as well as outside when I curled up, encircled by them. I let a small smile touch my face at the sight. And if the loud chuckling above me was any indication, he seemed to enjoy my reaction as well.

"It seems connecting with the rest of your race has brought out a tail. A joyous occasion. Our first summoner, a fox herself, and she gains her third tail." He knew I was a fox? Not just a look-alike? Guess there isn't any reason to hide this either.

I changed form, showing my sleek form, a large wolf sized three-tailed fox. An amused sight befell me. Both Asastuyu and Shiro had their mouths agape. And here I had thought at least the boss here would have figured it out, since he called me a fox. 'Guess he met it in the metaphorical sense, hehe.' I was definitely laughing on the inside, but I just gave an innocent expression, walked over to him, and rubbed myself against a paw.

He broke out of it at my touch, but didn't push me away. Rather, I think he liked me more now. "Whenever you need any of us, feel free to summon. There will be no limitations on you Hime-chan." chan?! Oh well... apparently I'm still royalty to them. They were treating me with respect I had never felt before, and with kindness I hadn't had from strangers in a long time.

I laid down on his paw, just enjoying this feeling of being around others who don't force me away from them for now. From the corner of my eye, I spotted several foxes approaching. All with varied coats and tail numbers. A seven tailed fox, little bigger than me, pure white, approached. Snowflake white-slitted eyes looking intently at me.

"Hello child. I am Yuki. Elder, and strongest of us. If you have any questions, you may ask them of me." I just gave a nod. I did have one major question, and it was kind of important. It was an important one too.

"Would I be able to get sage training here? I can already sense the natural energy around me, but I don't know how to avoid the repercussions by myself."

Yuki blinked a few times at this. I could feel her doing something in my senses, but couldn't tell what. Understanding coming into her eyes. "Child, from what I understand of your physical being, you are made of chakra. Just like your father, kurama. As a being of chakra, no matter how much natural energy you gather, there will be no repercussions. The only issue would be having it seep back outside your body if you pull too much in. It seems you are already exuding an aura, the plant-life around us has taken to your presence. It would be similar to this, and may already be a part of it. Whatever your chakra is unable to handle is expunged from your being. It is as such with every Bijuu."

I couldn't believe it. This was just impossible. Yet I could understand the reasoning. I don't have a complete physical body anymore. It turns physical, blood and flesh, yet it's still chakra. Confusing, but without a physical hold the energies wouldn't have anything to turn into stone. And from her words, I am probably already absorbing it naturally, even if I don't know it.

I turned back into my human body, clothes reshaping at my will, from the anklets I had them reform - the main reason I loved these clothes, I could compress them at will - as my normal outfit. This particular part though, was a combination of fuuinjutsu I had pieced together along with my natural talent with the plants. The compression algorithm was probably the most difficult part, since it had to correlate to splitting the pieces as well.

I sat down in the lotus position, keeping perfectly still. Meditation was something that one of my clones was always working on. I hadn't actually needed to, but I wasn't to be able to get into my mindscape - apparently it took on the form of a forest after the merger of chakras, what I have started calling my rebirth in this life - I had already reincarnated after all. I needed to absorb a massive amount of chakra if I wanted to overload my body. I needed to figure out the effects of this. So I slowly built it up in my body, not too fast that I would have a problem if the theory was wrong - it was still a massive amount and impressive speed though, I could absorb so much so fast.

I had reached a pinnacle, and was told, I couldn't absorb any more. I could only mix so much of it into my system. Any extra I tried to pull in pushed some out as well. It was an odd feeling, the collision of natural energies wasn't actually violent in this case, rather they swirled around each other was one entered and inner energy left. I had two violet lines form on my forehead, running from my inner eyebrows to my hairline directly above the outer sides of my eyebrows - the markings of a fox sage.

I was giddy. Overly excited as I opened my eyes. I had no repercussions in drawing the energy in! I knew I had a chakra body. I just didn't know it was have so many benefits! This was beyond real. Maybe that's another reason why the bijuu were so powerful. The benefits allotted to them were monstrous. I couldn't help but laugh at this, this power. Even more power over nature.

During my fits of giggles, I had started noticing the plant-life around me. Even more so than before, they looked more vibrant than before. Growing at a less sedate pace than when I was normally around plants. Easily outpacing their growth before I had absorb a little bit of the natural energy around me.

"It seems you are a perfect sage, and without the need for training." The elders reply slowed my giggles to a stop. I gave her a thankful smile and a nod of confirmation.

"Thank you Elder. I have little knowledge of what my body is truly capable of after my rebirth. I haven't had anyone with understanding of a Bijuu body around me to help."

"Hime-chan, I may know a bit about it, and I will tell you what I know, but please don't expect much. Kurama has never taken much interest in our clan. I myself am over seven centuries old, and have only had the experience of talking with him a mere handful of times. He, as a bijuu, doesn't truly consider us of the same species. He was born of similar genetic design, yet is chakra, while we are flesh and blood. We still consider him our king, and will do what he asks in respect for his age, knowledge, and power, if he ever were to. As will we with you."

I nodded to her, yet my thoughts were going haywire. 'Over 700 years. Seven-hundred. Seven tails...' I looked back up to Asastuyu, 'Six. 600...' I looked around me, there were over a dozen foxes of various ages, based on their tails. Over half looked single-tailed. I could only guess they grew their second tail around two-hundred if Yuki's age and tail count are any indication.

"Tails. Your age is reflected by your tails?" I couldn't help but utter out.

Yuki gave a fox-like laugh. Something was funny to her, and I couldn't help but pout.

"No, dear child. Power is, though. None of us are as strong as a Bijuu, but power is still reflected in our tails. Just like you. I would say that your power, even when you had a single tail, was more than what I have. We are strong, and can get stronger, but we are still flesh and blood. Your strength is the exception to our kind."

I couldn't help but blush and fold my ears slightly at my mistake. The logic is slightly off, but maybe it was put that way for my benefit? "I understand. Thank you for explaining Elder Yuki." I looked up at the sun, I had already been here hours. "I think I better go home. I may worry my caretakers if I disappear for too long. They are probably already getting fidgety. I had told him what I was going to do, so hopefully he hasn't gone insane with worry yet."

Indeed, I had told Kakashi what I was going to do, and while worry was obvious, he couldn't really stop me, so he just nodded.

With that, I let myself be unsummoned. I somehow unconsciously knew how. Today was definitely an odd experience. I reappeared in the middle of the clearing I had left. No falling from the sky this time! I could already feel Kakashi's obvious emotional relief in the treeline. Now I wanted to try something else though.

I had felt my tails split. Something I didn't get to feel the first time. And it gave me the idea. If they split, maybe they can merge. It wasn't that I disliked having twin-tails. But maintaining them all the time was a hassle. And they tended to push my skirt up the more tails I had - the blush on my face at that thought almost rivaled my hair color. I didn't want to be flashing boys, not when I intimately knew what they thought about.

So, following my instincts, I tried to merge my tails. Not really a transformation, more similar to a reformation. Something similar to my change from human to fox. 'Human? Hanyou? Demon? I know I'm no longer human. I definitely have a demon form. But my natural form is more a Hanyou. Yet it feels natural to turn into my demon form. So what am I?'

My tails, all three shifted together, reversing the process of splitting I had felt earlier. Though not quite in the same way it was before. This felt more like melding them together rather than completely becoming one. But I had done it! I had only a single tail again!

I tried shifting to my fox form after checking my tail over making sure it was the same as a normal tail. To my utter astonishment I kept the single tail, but more than that, I was the same size as when I originally had a single tail. A small, palm-sized fox.

I yipped a laugh at that. Then I focused on splitting my tail in two. I grew to a small dog. I actually changed sizes based on how many tails I let out!

I let my original tail shift into two again. Given three tails, I shifted in size once more, similar to a large wolf. 'I could get used to this. Though I have to wonder if Kurama had this ability...' I shifted back to normal and merged my tails back to a single furry appendage. I was truly happy with myself that day. There was so much about myself I had learned. And so much I could still find out.

I went to sleep with a smile on my face, knowledge of the day running through my thoughts.