Chapter 9

"Naruto! You over grown kid, I swear if I see you anytime soon you are going to pay dearly you… you… you little bastard!" screamed Ryayoshi as he bust through the door with a fist shaking in the air looking for the blond that he knew did this.

There he stood with different colored markings on his face, Ryayoshi knew that Naruto only reserved this type of prank for the faces of the Hokage's in his village because the kid told him about it before. A resounding crack was heard followed by a howl of pain when Ryayoshi stood up straight too fast, holding his back he swore that he was going to get vengeance on the damnable kid if it was the last thing he did. Walking back into the house he didn't notice the thin wire that he tripped until it was too late, there was a puff of smoke in front of him revealing the blonds shadow clone which was doing hand signs. Before he knew it this gunk sprayed out of shadow clone Naruto's mouth and landing on him covering him from head to toe. Ryayoshi took his hand and whiped it off is face in time for him to see the clone Naruto bending over and spanking his butt than poofing off out of sight.

"That's it! It is so on you little brat!" Ryayoshi yelled as he went into his bathroom to clean up not realizing that his bathing supplies where not what they seem.

Laughing loudly Naruto could hear the old loon scream and holler from where he and Auki was, he waited patently as the prolonged quiet was broke again by the old mans yells and squawks signifying that his other prank from the bathroom was indeed triggered. Auki hid her smirk behind a hand while she too listened to her old sensei threaten the young blond that was with her, she felt sorry for Naruto because the old mans pranks were worse than his would ever be.

Auki cleared her throat. "Ok Naruto that's enough we must begin your training."

Quieting automatically Naruto sat there with his full attention to his sister now his sensei, he wondered what he was too learn today yet he hoped that it wasn't anything that he's been doing during that journey here.

"Yes Auki-Sensei! What is it that I will be learning today?" he asked in a calm serious tone.

Sitting back on the tree behind her, Auki wondered if this is was a mistake to teach him at the moment. Maybe she should teach him something that he was ready for but she knew if this wasn't to be taught now it will never be taught to him. Sighing she looked at her now pupil hoping that she can do right and be what her adoptive father wanted her to be.

Inhaling deeply she began. "Today Naruto I will be teaching you how to separate the elements within you for you to learn how to use them. It is going to be a little difficult to do but it needs to be done."

"What? How can you separate elements within one self?" asked Naruto trying to speak sagely too. It did what it meant to.

Auki chuckled at how he spoke though she knew he did it to make her smile, she loved him like any family member should but she loved him more than anything because he was her only family and she would be damned that anyone would hurt him. If they did than not even God could help them when she brought her wrath down upon them.

"Well…" she started wondering how this could be explained. "everyone is made up of all the elements Naruto its just that everyone is more sensitive to there own element that chose them and fit their personality. Like for example your main element, if you didn't have the Kyuubi, is Wind. Wind is carefree and wild, but can be very destructive and dangerous if given the chance. Your personality is carefree and wild but you can be destructive and dangerous when you're angry am I right?"

Thinking about it Naruto nodded in agreement. "Yes I suppose so."

"Hn." she grunted. 'Low self-esteem, not good. Must fix that immediately,' she thought. "Ok in this Naruto you must be confident but not too much though. I know that you have a strong will and that you have a dream to be Hokage but you must have confidence in yourself and your abilities."

"Yes Auki-Sensei. I understand, it's just that…" Naruto trailed while he thought about his childhood.

"I know Naruto, I know. But you must realize that you had others that stood beside you even when you thought that no one was on your side. But now look at you, you have a lot of friends that care for you. Hell look at Neji Hyuuga, if it wasn't for you he would have grew up even more bitter and Hinata's father would have never realize anything," said Auki softly.

"H-how did you know about that?" the blond asked in shock.

Auki wondered if it was the right time to tell him, shaking her head. 'No not yet, he would hate me,' she thought. "Don't worry about it Naruto, besides we should be training not discussing the past. Now are you ready?"

"Yes Auki-Sensei!" Naruto piped as he stored the information for later. He will get his answers sooner or later, he will get them no matter what!

Nodding Auki stood up. "Ok first of all Naruto you have to learn to look at you whole being as a Byakugan user would, you need to see where your chakra is and how it flows. You need to learn how to feel all the elements within it and within your soul. If you need help then the only one who can explain it to you is the Kyuubi himself."

Nodding Naruto closed his eyes, he wanted to see if he can do it without the foxes help. He could feel his own element very well but the other four were harder than he thought it would be. He concentrated harder dissecting his being to see where the elements took part in his being, that was until he ended up in the sewer where the nine-tailed fox demon was residing.

Groaning in defeat Naruto cursed. "Damn it."

/Hello kit. I see that this isn't where or what you meant to do. Tell me what is it that you are trying to do?/ the fox demon said as he lifted his huge head to eye the teen before him through the cage he was trapped in.

"Look I don't need your help, I'm trying to do this on my own," Naruto growled in ire more at himself than at the demon before him.

The Kyuubi chuckled in humor at the teen. /Look kit it isn't the end of the world to as for help when it is needed. The first thing you have to realize is that asking for help isn't a weakness but a strength. When you ask for help it is showing courage that you can be a man and own up to the fact that you can't do everything alone and that you're immortal./

Sitting down on a rock that appeared out of nowhere when he looked around to have a seat because he didn't want to sit in water that was deep enough to be ankle deep. He thought on what his roommate had said. "Really? But Sasuke…"

/Kit you're smart enough to not lower yourself to that morons level. But you have to realize that when he left he too was seeking help to become stronger regardless how that idiot may have phrased it./

Naruto furrowed his brows in thought, he knew that the Kyuubi spoke true and that made him realize that the Kyuubi called his best friend a moron. He jumped up with an angry look. "Hey! Sasuke isn't a moron!"

The ground shook from the Kyuubi's deep chuckle. /Alas I would beg the differ young one because he is going about finding what he wants and needs the wrong way. The only way to obtain what you wont isn't my going to the one that destroyed your world but to the one that will teach him the true way of the ninja. What that snake knows is nothing but pain and destruction./

Blinking in surprise Naruto wondered how in the hell the fox knew the true way of the ninja. "What the hell?"

/Kit I know a lot of things because I have been around for a long time… so tell me are you willing to learn what I have to teach you?/ the Kyuubi said.

Thinking the blond headed ninja looked at the huge fox demon with a critical eye, he wondered if he should trust this demon but than again trust is the first step to a lot of things in life. But he didn't want to make the wrong choice, what happens if he put his trust in this demon and it destroys him or tricks him to become free again? Shaking his head he studied the Kyuubi before him.

"How do I know that I can trust you? I mean yeah I believe you about being controlled before but what about now? You could try something like escape and take revenge," Naruto said calmly to the caged Fox Demon.

/Kit, trust is the first thing you will learn. I cant really answer those questions, the only way you will know is to follow your instincts and let me prove to you that I can be trusted./ Kyuubi said while he lowered his head down to rest between his large paws.

Sitting there upon the rock he wondered if it was a good idea or not but than again he wasn't trying to get out. Maybe he should do as the over-grown fox suggested and listen to his instincts. Quietly Naruto calmed himself and thought about trusting the Kyuubi and his answer was immediate, the feeling of calmness and acceptance flooded him. He knew that he could trust this demon, besides Auki said that this fox could help him and the old crack pot loon seemed to know him somehow. Nodding his head Naruto came to a decision.

"Fine. I'm willing to trust you, but one false move and I will have no problem taking you down!" he exclaimed.

Nodding the Kyuubi sighed. /Good kit. But there will be things you need to know before you can proceed, the history of the tailed beasts and how we came to be. And the secret that not even you know that comes with you being my container./

Scratching his head nervously. "Uh… Kyuubi?"

Eyeing his now student warily the tailed-demon lifted his brow. /What is it kit?/

Laughing nervously Naruto closed his eyes still scratching the back of his head. "There isn't going to be a test on this history lesson will there."

Groaning the Kyuubi placed him paws over his head and sighed. 'Why me?' he thought.

Orochimaru looked at his pupil with hungry eyes, he couldn't wait until he would be able to take control of the Uchiha's body and make it his. Than he would be the strongest ninja out there!

"Good Sasuke, good. Now let us call it a night and get some much needed rest. We cant have you exhausting yourself now can we?" the snake Sannin said in his annoying tone he uses all the time.

Sasuke snorted with indifference as he relaxed, turning on his heel he left the snake where he stood without a word. Sasuke wondered if Orochimaru was actually dumb enough to think that he would be able to steal his body away from him, smirking he walked into his room quietly and settled onto his bed. He wondered what Naruto was doing at this moment.

'Most likely looking for me,' he thought with wonder. 'How can he still consider me as a friend when I did so much bad things to him?'

Turning over he watched the clouds pass by and the moon rise wondering if Naruto was watching it as well. 'You Naruto are the only one I consider as a brother. Speaking of brothers that bastard Itachi is still out there!'

Hearing his door open he pretended to be asleep, he knew who it was because this has happened every night since he came here. Orochimaru usually came in and stare at him as he slept even though the snake didn't realize that he was awake, the asshole gave him the creeps whenever he did this and wonder if what Naruto dubbed him as is actually true. Mentally snorting again he actually for once agreed with his blond headed friend.

'The pervert snake freak,' he thought sourly as he felt the Sannin leave his sleeping chambers.

Auki watched her brother carefully as his chakra switched between his and that of the fox demons, she smirked and wondered if the demon was going to help the knucklehead with his training. If he did she'd find it quite amusing that the blond had to start calling him Kyuubi-Sensei, he's not going to too happy with that. She looked at the darkening sky with furrowed eyebrows and wondered what the damned fox was doing with Naruto, than again she knew when he was done her little pupil will tell her. Settling herself comfortably on the ground for a long wait she decided to think upon the recollections she kept in the back of her mind know now would be a good time to sort out everything. She frowned.

'Itachi Uchiha…' she thought silently.

/Now that I have your full attention kit I believe I will start my story./ the Kyuubi stated as he got comfortable. He saw the blond sit there waiting for him to start quietly, taking a calming breath the fox started his history lesson. /It started before your Village was ever thought of when there was a sage that had been fighting a ten-tailed demon, the sage realized that the demon could never be destroyed so he sealed the beast inside of himself becoming the first container in history…/

'You can't destroy me human!' growled a guttural voice of the demon with ten tails.

The sage looked upon the beast with narrowed eyes, he knew that what the beast said was true. He knew that if he didn't do anything the beast would wrack chaos upon the world as he knew it so making up his mind he straightened facing his enemy.

'It is true that you can not be destroyed but that doesn't mean that you can not be contained!' the sage said with acid.

The ten-tailed beast narrowed his eyes wondering what the human male was thinking as he watched him do hand signs with speed he never knew he the human had. Than he heard the male shout thrusting his hands towards him, the beast could feel a pull that was extremely strong. Fighting it the beast growled and snarled viciously, the sage added more chakra into the jutsu which made it stronger. The beast looked into the sages eyes and say determination in them, the grey eyes that had black pupils and rings around it with what looked like small black tear drops three on each ring. The sages look frightened him as he could do nothing when he finally entered what looked like a cage with a seal on it to keep him contained. The sage dropped his arms to where they hung limply at his side, he looked up at the blackened sky with a ragged breath and wondered if this is truly what he should have done. Shaking his head he knew that he did what needed to be done.

'Damn that nearly took all my Chakra… at least the world is safe for now,' he said in a whisper.

/The ten-tailed was contained within his own body for several years after that, with access to the ten-tails power he brought as much peace to others as he could during his travels but he knew that the ten-tails power was so great that once his death over took him the ten tail would once again be free./ said the Kyuubi as he watched his listener lean forward but not interrupting him, with this he continued. /The sages wish was for peace to be established throughout the world though he knew that will never happen in his lifetime So using his power he used a Izanagi to divide the ten-tailed beasts power into nine separate parts which became known as the Tailed Beasts. Knowing his end was approaching, the Sage entrusted his strength, dream, and legacy to his two sons. The older son, who inherited the Sage's "eyes" his powerful chakra and spiritual energy, believed that power was the true key to peace. The younger son, who inherited the Sage's "body" his powerful will and physical energy, believed that love was the true key to peace. On his deathbed, the Sage chose his younger son to be his successor. Overcome by bitterness and envy, the older son attacked the younger, beginning a war between them. Their feud would continue on through their descendants: the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan…/

The sage was on his death bed as he looked upon his two sons with love and a smile, he knew who he was going to choose to be his predecessor as he motioned them to come to him.

'I have chosen who will proceed in my stead. My youngest shall be my successor,' the sage said with a ragged breath.

The younger man looked at his father warily but would never back down from this for it was his destiny so therefore he will do what his destiny has chose him to do. 'As you wish father.'

The older brother narrowed his eyes with seething hate as he growled. 'Preposterous! It should have been I that succeeded not you little brother!' the elder brother said in anger before he stormed out of the bedroom.

The sage watched his eldest leave, sighing he looked to his youngest. 'And that is the reason why he wasn't chosen for peace shouldn't be obtained through violence.'

Days later the sage died in his sleep which gave the opportunity for the eldest brother to attack the youngest one starting a war between them that carried throughout their life and carried to their descendants.

/That is how the tailed beasts, the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan was formed. Later on your village was formed by the descendants, the leaders of their clans fought until one won and became the first Hokage in the village hidden in the leaves./ Kyuubi said. He sighed with recollection of everything. /Then your perverted white haired sannin ninja came across a boy one day that was with two others, he thought the sage was reborn again in this boy that obtained the sages true eyes. Which by the way the boy was a descendant from your mothers clan the Uzumaki's who were related to the Senju Clan./ he finished with a sigh.

Naruto looked at the fox demon with surprise. "H-how can that be? Your telling me that I am related to the first Hokage?" the Kyuubi nodded. "Ah shit fire and save a jutsu!"

The Kyuubi chuckled with humor. /Not only that you are also a descendant of the Uchiha's and the Sage. Deluded your blood may be you are still part of the family./

Naruto grasped his head as the information settled in his brain. "Gah! Too much to take in! Wait if I am also related to the Uchiha's then why don't I have the Sharingan?"

/You do kit but you cant use it because your blood is too deluded to do so. What you haven't noticed that you can a jutsu after you seen it once when you are fighting someone or when you are watching? It may take longer then a full blooded Uchiha but you can do it with practice. Because of that part of your family you can learn complicated jutsu's fast that others would take years to learn when you learn them in a simple few hours or depending on what rank it is a few days./ the Kyuubi explained.

Thinking about it Naruto had to agree with the damned demon, but still it's kind of hard to believe all of this. Still thee is one thing that kept bugging him. "Ok if the sage was trying to prevent the world from going into utter chaos then why were you beast free?"

/That kit I'm not able to answer for the others. I was trapped as you now know because I was controlled to attack Konoha. Yet you will have to understand that I was the most peaceful out of all the nine beasts./ the Kyuubi said tiredly.

"I see," was all Naruto said while he absorbed the information he was fed. Pushing it off into the back on his mind to think of until later he looked at the nine-tail fox with a serious expression. "Ok. Now that I know the history would you help me with this elemental separating thing? I have to learn to separate the elements in me so I can use them."

Sighing again the Kyuubi knew this was going to be a long session. /As you wish Kit./

Auki looked at the sky in wonder when she felt Naruto's chakra flux as his emotions changed with the speed as a pregnant woman's would.

"What the hell is going on with you and the demon fox Naruto? Hell what am I to do about the two Uchiha's? well three if you count the one that is supposed to be dead…" she said in a whisper.

The moon moved high into the sky until it was straight above in the sky.