Kenta: Schools off! Summer's On! ...But now I have a job...oh well, i'm sure I can compromise.

Before anyone says, "You missed when they got the bridge! You missed this! You missed that!" I know, I'm skipping for a reason. Not everyone wants to read the exact same thing that THEY did when they played the game. Naruto's a little different, so I'm jumping around on purpose. Also, since I can't get songs to play over the computer, (That would be really cool though) and Naruto goes to those Statue things where he will meet the Yondaime, I've decided on another way for him to reach recognition.

Also, the new modifications that they've put up on here are kinda annoying to get used to...so we'll see how this goes.

Now let's get going!

Naruto flopped on the road up to Goron Mountain.

'How long does this path go? I'm exhausted!' Naruto moaned in his head.

"Oi! Come on! We're almost there!" Midna said kicking the fox in the sides lightly.

'That's what you said LAST time...' Naruto groaned. His ears suddenly perked however as a low whistling sound hit them. Looking around, Naruto tried to find out where it was coming from. He started trotting further up the mountain when Midna suddenly said,

"So, I'll take it you hear it too?"

Naruto nodded his head. He found a small statue up ahead with a strange edge to it. It had a mystically nastalgic feeling to it though...as if he had seen it somewhere before. It felt like voices were calling out to him, saying things he couldn't understand. (It's Kakashi's Memorial Stone)

"I feel...many presences here. But...why only here?" Naruto suddenly started swaying, his mind getting dizzy. "Hey! Get a grip!" Naruto slumped over, Midna rolling off of him.

Naruto woke up lightly. He was in a vaguely familiar place, birds all around him. Off to the side he could hear running water and...giggling?

"Where am I?" He slowly sat up only to hear,

"Hm? So you're finally awake huh?" Naruto turned to see a white-haired old man put away a telescope.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"Me? I'm glad you asked! I am the most Holy hermit from Mount Myoboku! Jiriaya the Toad Sage!" Naruto stared at the old man in a strange stance before he heard the sound of giggling girls.

"MY FOOT! YOU WERE JUST PEEPING AT GIRLS WEREN'T YOU, YOU OLD PERV! YOU PERVY SAGE!" Naruto yelled. Suddenly, Jiriaya smiled and Naruto felt something running down his face. He touched a hand to his face only for his hand to get wet. "Wh-what? Why, am I..." Naruto suddenly felt his mind slip again, images flashing before him. He and the white-haired pervert sitting under a waterfall, trying to maintain focus; he and the pervy sage working on a new Rasengan; he and Jiriaya in a clothing store, Naruto getting a new orange and black jumpsuit; an image of Jiriaya being stabbed by Pain,

"Ero-sennin..." Naruto mumbled, looking up at Jiriaya, tears flowing down his face.

"Good to see you again Naruto." Jiriaya smiled as Naruto tackled his mentor.

"How?" Naruto asked as he slowly pulled away from Jiriaya. "I...I don't even know you, yet...these images," Naruto sniffled as he rubbed his eyes.

"They are your memories."

"My...memories?" Naruto asked confusedly.

"Yes. Every time you find a stone, you will begin to remember who you are. Who you TRULY are. You are-"

"NARUTO!" Midna screamed in the foxes ear, making it jump twenty feet in the air and land on a ledge overhead.

"M-m-m-m-midna? Wh-where..." Naruto looked around, panicked, yet not as panicked as Midna as she stared at the talking fox. "What?" The blue fox asked.

"What is up with you? First you can't talk, then you talk again, then you lose your voice AGAIN! MAKE UP YOUR MIND!" Midna fumed.

"What?" Naruto finally realized he was talking. "Ah! I can talk agaiooooh..." His voice died out again, leaving Naruto yipping once more. When he realized he couldn't talk again, the blue fox's ears went down before he slowly jumped back down to Midna.

"So, lost your voice again?" Midna said quietly. Naruto merely trotted along up the mountain, his head hung as low as his ears.

'What is going on with me?' Naruto thought sadly in his mind. The answer didn't come to him.

Reaching the summit, Naruto found a volcano. His ears perked up, Midna getting a small smirk at the excited look of the fox. Suddenly his ears shot back down as the volcano started shooting rocks all over the area. Gorons, in their bright glowing green outlines, ducked for cover as Naruto could only dodge the falling, flaming rocks.

"Get under some cover!" Midna yelled. Naruto bolted for a sheltering overhang of the mountain, near it's base. However, just as he was getting close, pillers suddenly slammed down in front of him before more came down, creating a cage for the fox. "No!" Midna panicked.

Naruto spun around to see more of the Twilight creatures he had fought when he had gotten the bridge piece to get to Kakariko village. Growling, Naruto charged at them all, his nine tails swinging wildly. Naruto wrapped three of the four Twilight creatures with three tails each, leaving only one left. Naruto's eyes glowed orange, before they turned blood red. Midna pulled an arm over her eyes as a gust of wind picked up. Lowering her eyes, Midna noted she was now MUCH higher up than she was a moment ago, and looking down she noted that her legs no longer went around the fox's back, as her legs were in front of her. Naruto had red fur and was now THREE times his size, and the 'cage walls' were bending because of it! The house-sized fox could now hold each of the three Twilight creatures with just one tail! Naruto lifted back his now giant paw and slammed it down on the cowarding Twilight creature.

Lifting his paw back up, the giant, red furred fox left a completely flattened Twilight creature in a small crater the shape of his paw. With a twitch of his tails, the remaining Twilight creatures exploded into bits of twilight. The twilight bits flew up into the air and created another portal that Naruto would be able to travel to later. Midna looked down at the red, nine-tailed fox that stood underneath her. It had soft fur, and above her, where the flying rock chunks should have been hitting the giant fox, a barrier of some sort was blasting all of the chunks away.

"Naruto?" Midna suddenly spoke, only for a gust of wind to pick up, making her shield her eyes once more. When she opened her eyes again, she was once again on the back of the small, blue, nine-tailed fox that she had come to know as Naruto. The fox was panting heavily, but he soon regained his breath. Naruto looked up to see the barrier he had vaguely remembered to put up was breaking down. He slowly trotted over to the overhang he had originally started towards. Turning back around, Naruto saw the giant crater his paw left.

'Guess I can still leave imprints on the land...great, how am I going to cover that up?' Naruto wondered.

A loud rumbling suddenly shook the entire mountain, causing Naruto to tumble around a bit as he was still exhausted from his transformation. A giant explosion made Naruto fly back, making him slam into the wall. When Naruto looked up, a giant chunk of volcanic rock lodged itself into the ground. When Naruto looked at it, he realized something.

'That just covered up my imprint! Sweet!' Naruto grinned happily.

"So you only kinda remember how you did that?" Midna asked as Naruto began trecking back down the mountain, the last of the tears in the vessel of light.

Naruto nodded. 'I still don't quite understand how I transformed into that giant fox, but I DO know that it made me extremely tired...I don't even remember how I did it. Maybe I'll be able to use it again someday.' Naruto mused as he got back to the village.

With the vessel of Light full of tears, light began returning to the province of Eldin and Kakariko village.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes, clenching his human fist and tapping his boots on the ground. Naruto gave a sigh of relief, feeling the cool wind blowing his hair. It felt good to be human again.

"Aww, I was just starting to have fun. That giant fox was pretty cool, oh well." She suddenly flew up to Naruto, poking him on the nose. "Don't forget that fused shadow!" She said before disappearing into the water.

As soon as Midna disappeared, the Orb of Light rose out of the water, making Naruto raise a hand to slightly shield them from the light. A moment later, a creature rose out of the water as well, taking on the appearance of a mix between an eagle and an owl.

"My name is Eldin. I thank you for returning Light to this land." Eldin then looked up towards Death Mountain, where Naruto had trasnformed into the giant fox. "Oh hero, chosen by the gods, the Dark Power you seek lies in the Sacred Grounds of the Proud mountain dwellers, the Gorons. But beware, those grounds have been draped in shadow." Naruto nodded in understanding. "You must go and cleanse those grounds."

With that, Eldin covered itself in it's giant wings. In what could only be described as a fireworks show at close range, Eldin faded away. Naruto grinned as he turned towards Death Mountain once more, this time as a human. Exiting the springs, Naruto heard a door open up. Turning, Naruto saw Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon and Inari all running out, screaming his name.

"Naruto!"

"Naruto, you did it!"

"It's you Naruto!"

The children all tackled Naruto, grinning and giggling like they used to.

"Hey! That hurts! You're on my arm!" Naruto grinned as the children hung onto him like a lifeline. And, as a matter of fact, he was. The chieftan merely stood off to the side, smiling.

"He truly is a special man." He said to not only himself, but to his own child.

Kenta: Shorter chapter, but even still. Goron Arc next! Hope you enjoyed the Kyuubi scene, but even still, Naruto hasn't completely regained all of his previous powers.

Also, I admit that when I wrote the Naruto and Jiriaya moment, I kinda shed a few tears. I always feel teary-eyed whenever I type the words 'tears flowing down his face' or something close to it, so of course I was getting a little watery-eyed. Maybe I should get a vessel of light for me? Hahaha!

Kenta Raikiri