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Chapter 11

Five days later

"Missions are coming in a lot more frequent now so we'll be able to hire on a few more teachers for the academy sometime next month. We'll also be able to go ahead with the urban development project before summer, other then that I don't think there's much that needs to be brought up."

Jiraiya nodded then cocked his head to one side. "How is Naruto doing?"

"He's getting better, I think. His body temperature is fairly close to normal and his colouring has improved, but he still has an on and off fever so the doctors have to keep him on his medication." Tsunade said disdainfully, again and again she had visited Naruto since he had been hospitalised and stayed for hours on some occasions and often told Jiraiya how much she hated seeing the blond teen in such a state.

"What about the Kyuubi?"

Tsunade scowled at him then sighed. "It's a pain in the ass, but I suppose I should have expected that. He's helping Naruto at least so I suppose I should be grateful."

The white haired nin smirked slightly. "He's a demon, you can't really expect any less. What about the ladies?"

"His women? They're doing well, living in Konoha seems to suit them so far and despite their ordeal they're all in good health."

"Hn."

Tsunade turned to stare out the window at the dark sky and watched as lighting light up the village for a short moment before sending in back into the dark and gloomy state it had obtained since Naruto had first went missing. "How are the Uchiha boys?"

"They're not really talking to each other much but they're not trying to kill each other either, Itachi just seems content to sit and wait." Jiraiya said off-handily. "I'm a little concerned about the younger one, Sasuke, he seemed very impatient when I saw him the other day."

"Oh?"

"It's probably nothing, my guess is that he's waiting for Naruto to get well again."

A sudden cold chill washed over him, sending a shiver down his spine and filling him with a sudden anxiety he couldn't put into words. A second one racked his frame sending Kyuubi into a fit of shivering. His eyes jerked open and he sat up and peered around the room, seeing nothing but the usual nurse and Anbu guards his eyes came to a stop on Naruto.

The blonds eyes were open and instead of their deep azure colour they were ice blue, his skin was paler than it had been the last few days, almost the same shade it had been when he had first been hospitalised and his lips were faintly tinted blue.

The ice blue eyes shifted from where they rested on the ceiling to land on Kyuubi's face then held his blood red eyes.

The shivering he felt intensified and he could feel the temperature around him dropping dramatically to the point where he could see his breath as he exhaled. He heard shuffling behind him and knew the Anbu were starting to realise that something was amiss.

One pale hand rose from it's place beneath the blankets and lightly caressed Kyuubi's cheek. With a startled his he jumped back, launching himself off the bed to land on the floor and raised a hand to his cheek. It was numb and small pieces of ice were sticking to it.

Growling he roughly rubbed he ice from his cheek even as his body heat returned the feeling to his cheek and began to melt the ice. "Go fetch your Hokage."

The Anbu behind him hesitated before one of them quickly made a seal and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto tilted his head to one side then looked down at himself. After a few gentle touches he pushed the rest of the blankets away from him with one foot and slowly slid out of the narrow bed. Tilting his head to the other side he looked down at himself again then tapped at the wooden floor experimentally then began to move one foot in front of the other and slowly started to move around the room.

"Strange."

Kyuubi cocked his head to one side much like Naruto had seconds before as the blond spoke. Instead of his normal voice, it sounded like there were three or four Naruto's talking with only half a second between each of them and there was also a distinctive feminine quality to his voice.

"So this is what it means to walk."

"Who are you?" Kyuubi asked slowly, a frown making it's way across his face.

Naruto looked up and over towards him and smiled. "I have no name, do you have one?"

"They call me Kyuubi." He answered then took a step back as the blond started to take a step towards him. "You're a creature of ice, aren't you?"

"And you are fire, I apologise if I did you any harm."

The Anbu left behind him shuffled from foot to foot as they tried to decide the best course of action while obviously ensnared by the almost hypnotic melody that was Naruto's voice. Without warning there were several small explosions of smoke that quickly cleared to reveal Tsunade, Jiraiya and the Anbu that had left moments before to retrieve them.

"Naruto?" Tsunade asked tensely, quickly taking in the physical differences that the blond was now sporting.

"Wrong." Kyuubi muttered before taking a few more steps back to put Tsunade and Jiraiya between himself and the angel voiced blond.

"You speak of my master." He said quietly.

Jiraiya frowned. "You're master? You're the demon Naruto summoned on accident aren't you?"

The creature wearing Naruto's body blinked. "No, he did not summon me. He created me."

The hell! Now he's creating demons! What the hell's going on!…kinda feel sorry for Kyuubi now, there's someone in the world that's a direct opposite of him and if they stay in contact too long….they have lots of steamy sex…bows head in shame the entire thing. Anyway, please review and let me know what you thought and what you predict will happen, I always find that interesting for some reason.