Naruto the Fox Sannin
Chapter 12
Haijime- Ookami vs. Kitsune
Previously on Naruto the Fox Sannin
"Don't hold back just because I'm a girl" the wolf hanyou said.
"I don't plan to" the kitsune hanyou replied. The two hanyous and their demonic canine partners stared at each other. Then a strong gust of wind blew and the battle began.
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The two foxes charged their wolf adversaries. The four clashed in a flurry of claws, fur and teeth. Naruto and Shizuka then jumped away from Dokuro and Akai. Naruto and Shizuka slashed with their claws along with Dokuro and Akai. Yelps of pain were heard and the canine opponents separated. Akai and Dokuro had a small gash on their sides, blood oozing out, but blood also stained their claws as Naruto and Shizuka had scratches on their front thighs and the side of their faces.
"Nice shot gaki" Dokuro said her wolf like grin shown.
"Same to you" the blonde fox said. Naruto then turned to Shizuka who looked back at her master. The two nodded and then charged the two wolves. Dokuro and Akai smirked as the two foxes charged in recklessly. Naruto and Shizuka then jumped and flipped in the air. The two foxes then coated their tails with chakra. Dokuro and Akai jumped out of the way as the Iron Fox Tail technique was avoided creating a crater in the ground. Dokuro then ran forward and then slashed at Naruto with her claws. Naruto ducked and tried to bite the wolf hanyou, but said wolf hanyou jumped back and then spun and her tail slammed into Naruto's face, sending the blonde hanyou back. Dokuro then ran forward, teeth bared as she tried to bite Naruto's nose, but the blonde kitsune hanyou quickly rolled out of way and then bit Dokuro's back leg, earning a yelp of pain from Dokuro. Naruto then sunk his teeth further into the wolf hanyou's flesh, but was knocked off as Akai has slammed his tail into Shizuka who crashed into Naruto sending the two foxes away from them.
"These two are obviously skilled" Akai said, blood dripping from his sides and face. Dokuro panted.
"Yeah, Naruto is skilled with his beast form techniques, well play time is over time to show them what we can really do" Dokuro said, her biochromatic eyes looking at her wolf partners amethyst ones. Akai nodded and the two charged. Naruto and Shizuka got up and shook the dust off of them. Shizuka winced as her leg had a long slash on it, and a multitude of scratches covered her blood stained fur. Naruto had a large bruise on his face and scratches over his partly orange coloured fur due to the red blood mixing with his blonde fur.
"Shizuka, we might have to start taking this more seriously" Naruto said.
"Hai, Naruto, we give it everything we have" the female six tailed fox replied. The foxes ears then twitched and they jumped apart as the two wolves smashed down where they previously stood. Naruto and Shizuka then rejoined and Naruto changed back into his hanyou form. The smoke created from the impact of the two wolves cleared and Dokuro stood in her hanyou form, she was leaning more to one side as Naruto's bite to her leg did its job and Akai was glaring at the two kitsune.
The two teams stared at each other and then the four canines rushed towards each other. Naruto and Dokuro went off to one side as Akai and Shizuka went off to the other. Dokuro smiled as her leg became fully healed due to her enhanced healing from being a hanyou. Dokuro then shot a punch at Naruto's face. Naruto ducked under it and then a kick attempted to make its way towards Dokuro's side, but the wolf hanyou quickly dodged and grabbed the young Namikaze's leg and swung him into the ground. Naruto gritted his teeth in pain and then the Kumo nuke-nin slammed her fist into Naruto's stomach making him lose all the air that was in his lungs. Naruto was then grabbed by his neck and drop kicked a good few feet away. Naruto rolled on the ground in pain and then came to a stop, blood seeping from his mouth. Naruto then became still and then looked up at his wolf hanyou opponent with blue slitted eyes. The determination and need to win evident in those sapphire orbs, Naruto stood and then with a roar he leapt forward with surprising speed.
Akai and Shizuka then rushed each other. Shizuka jumped and spun and slammed an iron hard fox tail at the wolf's face, but the large wolf ducked and rolled, appearing behind his kitsune opponent and then kicked with his back legs. He hit Shizuka behind the knee making her fall due to the change in her balance. Akai then jumped and intended to slam his entire body weight down on Shizuka, but Shizuka turned, anger shown in her green slitted eyes. Akai was caught completely off guard as Shizuka released a stream of blue flame from her mouth. The fox fire hit the wolf in his stomach burning him. Shizuka then rushed forward and then slammed her shoulder into Akai's side. Shizuka then bent low and spun, tripping Akai with her tails and then she surrounded all of her six tails with fox fire and intended to slam them down onto the downed wolf, but Akai knew he had to reveal his secret weapon. Shizuka was about to launch her tails down upon Akai, but then she felt a strong gust of wind, but then a large shockwave of lightning came at her. Shizuka then positioned her tails and swung them at the lightning bolt creating an explosion, dust kicked up as Shizuka flew backwards from the blast. She skidded along the ground; she was covered with slight burns and was panting hard.
"Kuso, what just happened, was that lightning?" she asked herself. The smoke cleared and then Shizuka's ears perked up when she saw Akai step out of the smoke. Her eyes widened at what she saw. Akai was surrounded by a pack of wolves, around fifteen of them, all made from blue lightning.
"Uzumaki Shizuka, meet the pack" Akai swished his three tails, now having blue streaks across them in the shape of lightning bolts, obviously the leader of lightning brethren said and then with a growl he launched himself forward.
Naruto ran forward with unrivaled speed, catching the twenty eight year old ex-Kumo kunoichi off guard as he nailed her with a punch to the gut. Naruto then spun and kicked Dokuro in the face sending her spinning back, she skidded as she stopped her movement, but Naruto shunshined behind her and the back of his face slammed into her neck, paralyzing her, the blonde then spun and tripped Dokuro making her fall, but while in mid-fall, Naruto quickly appeared in front of Dokuro and the heel of his sandal slammed into her stomach. Naruto then appeared to her left and spun punching her in the face and then appeared behind and kicked her ass, literally sending Dokuro forward. Naruto then stalked over to the fallen wolf hanyou. Dokuro was in trouble, she struggled to get up and with all her will power, she got over the extreme pain from the Uzuken combo and then stared at Naruto with half lidded eyes.
"I…will…kill you…Uzumaki Naruto" Dokuro growled. Naruto just stared at her and then began to run towards her. Dokuro thinking that he was going to kill her quickly charged up her chakra.
"I didn't want to resort to this, demo I guess I'll have to use it" Dokuro said. Then she put her hands into the handsign for dog and yelled, her chakra surrounding her. Naruto stared at the chakra cloud, but then his eyes widened when the chakra changed from the regular blue to a mixture of gold and green. Dokuro's eyes glowed and then she roared. There was a large cloud of smoke that was kicked up and when it cleared, Naruto couldn't believe his eyes. Dokuro smirked as she stood atop a large golden green wolf, but it wasn't that the wolf was seemingly powerful or that it was at least 15 feet tall, well it was partially that, but what caused most of his surprise was that the wolf was made entirely of chakra.
"W-W-What the hell is that thing?" Naruto exclaimed. Dokuro then pointed at Naruto and the wolf was off like a bullet. Naruto used every ounce of speed and reflexive skill he had to avoid being hit, he then got a chance and threw a few kunai at the wolf. The chakra wolf howled and then created a sound wave which had the kunai clattering on the ground at its paws, but then the exploding notes attached to the kunai went off. Naruto hoped that would have done something, but it proved futile as the wolf was unharmed.
"Nice try, demo you're going to have to do better than that" Dokuro said with a toothy grin. Naruto then threw a hail of shuriken and kunai at Dokuro's wolf, but the wolf dodged and then it fired off chakra like a laser beam. The beam kicked up dirt and Naruto barely avoided it. Naruto then rushed the wolf and made his favourite handsign.
"Kagebunshin no Jutsu" he yelled and then 30 clones poofed into existence. The clones then all charged up rasengans in their hands and then jumped into the air. Dokuro then made handsigns.
"Doton: Doryuheki no Jutsu" she yelled and the earth wall rose up, but the rasengan barrage made quick work of the earth wall and continued forward. Dokuro then made more handsigns and the wolf opened its mouth.
Fuuton: Kamikaze no Jutsu/ Wind Style: Holy wind Jutsu" she yelled then a large gust of wind blew, then for a millisecond you could see it form the shape of an eagle. Then the wolf huffed as Dokuro made more handsigns.
"Katon: Goukakyu no Jutsu" she yelled and then a large fireball exhaled from her mouth. The wind made the fire stronger as it burned away all the clones. Dokuro looked around and then saw Naruto off to the side. Naruto rushed forward, his hands in preparation for kagebunshin.
The wolf then howled again before rushing at Naruto, it moved too fast for Naruto, but the blonde managed to dodge. Naruto jumped and did a soaring kick to the wolf's head, but the wolf simply stepped back and when Naruto landed on the ground the wolf bit down on Naruto. Naruto screamed in pain, Dokuro laughed.
"And that's the end of the legendary Hiraishin" she said and then wolf grabbed Naruto's head and twisted it forcefully and a snapping sound was heard as the Namikaze heir's neck snapped.
"NARUTO!" Sora cried as she saw the man she loved just die right before her eyes. Kushina just looked down with sadness, tears dripping from her green eyes as she had just lost the only family she had left. Then everyone was in shock as they heard an explosion rock the ground, the Naruto in the ground suddenly exploded. A large column of dust and dirt appeared, then in the air a blonde boy came down and stabbed a kunai in Dokuro's arm. Dokuro screamed in pain as another kunai was wedged in her other arm. Naruto jumped away and grinned.
"You can't kill me that easily, not until I win that bet with Obaa-chan and become Hokage" Naruto said. Tsunade stared at the blonde before her with wide eyes, Tsunade then smiled.
'This boy will become a legend one day' she thought. Naruto then jumped and in a yellow flash he disappeared and appeared in front of Dokuro and punched her in the face knocking her off her chakra wolf. Dokuro then growled and ordered the wolf to attack. Naruto smirked before he threw a tri-pronged kunai at the wolf stabbing it in the eye. The wolf howled in pain and then Naruto appeared in front of the wolf in a flash of yellow, a rasengan in hand. Naruto roared and then slammed the orb of wind and chakra into the wolf's face.
"RASENGAN!" he yelled and the wolf was shredded to wisps of chakra as the rasengan demolished Dokuro's strongest technique. Dokuro then stared at Naruto.
'This gaki, this kitsune managed to beat my strongest technique in two moves' she thought. Dokuro then chuckled and then she looked up as a flash of gold appeared in front of her and the blonde Kyuubi jinchuriki was towering above her downed form. Naruto then drew a kunai and held in his hands. He then aimed the pointed blade of the kunai down, positioned towards Dokuro's head. Dokuro smiled, going down in the field of battle was always how she wanted to end it, she then closed her eyes and awaited the short pain as Naruto brought down the kunai.
Shizuka dodged one wolf and then another. Shizuka was getting very tired as she attempted to dodge all of the lightning made wolves. Shizuka then jumped high and aimed a stream of foxfire at a group of the wolves. Three of them got hit, burning them away into nothing, but the others dodged and when Shizuka landed, Akai appeared in front of her eyes and before she could react, he large wolf struck her in the jaw with his back feet sending her airborne. A wolf of lightning appeared next to her and slammed its tail into her side electrocuting her entire body. Shizuka howled in pain as a wolf appeared beneath her and then head butted her upwards. Shizuka seemed to float in the air as the pack continued their endless onslaught, a wolf then scratched her on the face, then another kicked her in the knee, another flipped and slammed its tail down on her stomach. Then Akai and the pack appeared above Shizuka's floating form before they all plummeted towards her. Shizuka was too weak from the electrocution as it paralyzed her body. She gazed up and the pack, Akai was then surrounded by the lightning wolves, he focused every single ounce of his power into the attck he was about to do, he didn't even take notice when two tails sprouted from his three, making his power stronger. Akai didn't know how he got this feeling of power of just now, but he liked it, the now five tailed wolf began to howl and the lightning then became the form of a giant wolf head, glowing yellow eyes met her emerald green ones. Shizuka glared, she couldn't die here, she had come too far to die now, her life flashed before her eyes, her meeting with Naruto, their battles, the fun times she had with Kioshi and Kushina in her free time. Shizuka couldn't go down, not like this, not before she achieved her dream, her promise to Kyuubi-sama. Shizuka then channeled all of her energy into one final attack. The wolf head was nearly upon her and Shizuka then surrounded herself with chakra and foxfire, she didn't even take notice when a seventh tail sprouted out of her others. New found power flooded Shizuka and then foxfire was no longer sapphire blue, but glowing white. Shizuka was then surrounded by the white fire.
"I will not LOSE!" she screamed and then the fire took the form of the head of her master, teacher and leader, the Kyuubi no Kitsune. The Kyuubi's head then howled, streams of white fire stretched out behind it and then it's glowing red eyes glared at the lightning wolf's yellow ones before it rocketed towards the wolf of lightning a large stream of fire streatching out behind it. The two canines then yelled out the names of their final attacks.
"RAITON: HOERU NO ARASHI/LIGHTNING STYLE: HOWLING STORM!" Akai yelled.
"KATON: KAMIHI NO YOUKAI/ FIRE STYLE: HOLY FIRE OF THE DEMON!" Shizuka yelled. The two attacks then met, fire and lightning clashed, each one in hopes of dominating the other, but in a few seconds a large explosion echoed throughout the battlefield and lightning bolts struck the ground and white embers flew down, burning the grass like miniature meteors. A large mushroom cloud appeared kicking up dust, dirt and other kinds of debris. The smoke then died down and the two canines stood facing each other. Shizuka and Akai were panting; they were using every ounce of will power they had left to stand. Their legs were wobbling as they tried to remain upright, but their will power crumbled and they both fell to the scorched and destroyed crater they had created.
Naruto halted his kunai when he saw the large mushroom cloud. Naruto and Dokuro's eyes widened.
"Shizuka" he whispered.
"Akai" Dokuro whispered with fear in her eyes. Dokuro struggled to stand up to go and see if her one and only friend and partner was alive. Naruto then threw a kunai towards the mushroom cloud and in a yellow flash appeared there in an instant. Naruto grabbed the kunai when he arrived and nearly fell in the large crater made by the two demonic canine enemies had made. Naruto whistled.
"Sugoi" he said and then carefully skated down the slope of the crater and then reached the crater's centre. He looked around until he spotted black fur a few feet in front of him.
"SHIZUKA!" he cried. Naruto then ran towards the downed fox and placed his fingers by her neck. Naruto sighed in relief when he felt a pulse, she was just unconscious. Naruto then picked up his partner and then turned to leave when out of the corner of his eye he spotted a tuft of brown and white fur. Naruto then looked at Akai, the wolf was breathing hard, Naruto looked at his enemy, but he wasn't heartless so he walked towards the five tailed wolf. Naruto's eyes widened when he saw this, and chuckled. Naruto then rested Shizuka on the ground, but then his eyes bugged out even further, he noticed seven black, white tipped tails, but Shizuka was only around his upper thigh in height, why is she so high leveled in the tail number. Naruto shook his head and made a kagebunshin to take Akai, he would talk with Kyuubi later about the matter that is Shizuka's tail number. Naruto and his clone then picked up the two unconscious canines and they both threw a Hiraishin kunai into the air.
'Go with the flow' Naruto though as he and his clone disappeared in a yellow flash. Naruto and his clone appeared in the air and then landed gently and silently on the ground. Naruto grinned, those stealth lessons with Kyuubi were really paying off. Naruto then became serious and walked towards Tsunade and the others. Naruto and his clone rested Shizuka and Akai at Tsunade's feet. Naruto looked at the Slug Sannin and stared into her eyes.
"Heal them please, Tsunade-sama" Naruto said. Tsunade, was not one who wanted to be ordered around, but she knew the risks when it came to the injured.
"Shizune get to work!" Tsunade ordered.
"Hai, Tsunade-sama" Shizuka replied and then green chakra surrounded the two healers' hands as they began to heal Akai and Shizuka. Naruto then went off to where Dokuro was, disappearing in a yellow flash. Jiraya and Kushina chuckled.
"Just like his father" Jiraya said, and turned to Kushina, "you must be proud" he added. Kushina smiled and nodded.
"My little Naruto-kun's growing up" she said and wiped the tears that threatened to fall from her face, "always wanting to help people, even the enemy when they're unable to fight"
Naruto was in front of Dokuro, her paralyzed form on the ground. Naruto walked towards her and then removed the kunai from her arms. Dokuro looked in surprise as Naruto wrapped her wounded arms and helped her to her feet.
"W-W-Why a-a-re, you helping me?" she asked, in a tired voice. Naruto looked straight ahead walking at a slow pace so as not to strain the young wolf hanyou's body.
"You're from Kumogakure no Sato, right?" he asked. Dokuro sighed.
"Hai" she replied.
"You must have lived a tough life, I can see it in your eyes, the pain, the rejection, the want to be recognized by those around you and acknowledged for something you hold or just because your different" Naruto said. Dokuro looked at the blonde kitsune hanyou with surprise etched all over her face.
"You have lived a life like mine?" she asked. Naruto looked down with sad eyes.
"Hai, you see, I was always looked down upon by my village's people because of something I had no control of. Thirteen years ago, my village was attacked by the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the most powerful of the bijuu" Naruto started. Dokuro stared in surprise at that, "the village was quickly being destroyed, but then the Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato, the greatest Hokage to ever live sacrificed himself to seal the fox into the body of a young baby boy, that boy being me, I wanted to know why the Yondaime chose me to be the jinchuriki out of every single person in the village, turns out…" Naruto paused, "I am the Yondaime's son" Naruto said. "The beatings, the insults, the glares, I endured them all, there were times when I wanted to just kill everybody in that damn village of Konohagakure" Naruto said. Dokuro looked on, waiting for Naruto to continue.
"Demo, why didn't you leave your village like I did, if you lived such a hard life?" the black haired wolf hanyou asked. Naruto looked at her and showed his infamous foxy grin that threatened to split his face.
"Because, I found people who cared for me, people who like me for who I am, I gained friends and finally met the last piece of family left in my life, after thirteen years of abuse, but I never ran because I never give up, I don't go back on my word, that is my nindo, and I will achieve my dream of becoming Hokage or being known throughout the world as the Fox Sannin" Naruto said, the determination visible in his tone. Dokuro was in shock at Naruto's story.
"And you could find people who care about you too" Naruto said. Dokuro looked up with shock on her face.
"Nani, what are you trying to say?" she asked.
"Come back with us to Konoha" he said. Dokuro's shock never left her face as she heard Naruto's proposal, she looked down with thought, before she finally looked up with a wolfish grin.
"To Konoha" she stated. Naruto showed his infamous foxy grin.
"To Konoha" the blonde jinchuriki replied. The two hanyous then reached in front of Tsunade who had now just finished healing Akai and Shizuka. Tsunade looked up and spied Naruto and Dokuro.
"Well, I won the bet, Obaa-chan, now you're coming back to the village with us and I get that shiny piece of rock around your neck" Naruto said. Tsunade's vein bulged, she breathed heavily as she attempted to ignore the Obaa-chan comment.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that gaki, now all right I'll go back to the village with you and here" she said and then reached behind her neck undoing the link that held her necklace to her neck before putting it around Naruto's. Tsunade then kissed Naruto's forehead.
"Become a great Hokage and keep good care of that necklace it's the only reminder of my grandfather" Tsunade said with a smile. Naruto returned the smile.
"Hai" he said and then he gestured to Dokuro, "she's coming to Konoha with us, so…Hokage-sama, will she be a kunoichi of Konoha?" he asked. Tsunade laughed at the respect Naruto was showing her.
"To think a hard headed Uzumaki like you, shows respect, I like you gaki" Tsunade said and then ruffled Naruto's hair. Naruto smiled and shrugged, then the Tsunade proceeded to heal a now unconscious Dokuro.
"Glad to see you haven't lost that healing touch of yours Obaa-chan" Kushina said.
"Kushina just shut up will you" Tsunade said. Kushina huffed.
"Fine, be that way…" Kushina gave an evil grin "Obaa-chan" Tsunade then snapped.
"That's it you're dead, at least the gaki has respect for me" the large breasted Godaime said and then chased after her student. Kushina laughed as the Slug Sannin chased her.
'Just like old times' the red head thought, before she was spear tackled to the ground by her former sensei. Two days later the group then decided to leave back to Konoha, but before they left, Shizune thought that Tsunade and her should get a pet, Tsunade then saw a little piglet that was too cute to leave alone so she picked it and Tonton joined the trip. The group continued walking along the road and before you knew it, nightfall had arrived. The people then made camp and sat on log chairs that Sora had made from the chopped down trees she happened to find. While they were eating, they began to talk.
"So how long before we reach the village?" Dokuro asked, as she petted Akai's fur. The young wolf was getting acquainted with his new friends, Kioshi and Tonton.
"Well, at this rate around two more days and we'll arrive back in Konoha" Jiraya replied.
"I still can't believe Sarutobi-sensei picked me to be Hokage, why me?" she asked her former white haired teammate.
"Probably because you're probably the best one out of the two of us" Jiraya replied, "I mean I have too much going on with my life, as an author and besides I have a spy network to manage" Jiraya replied, "also probably because it's in your blood to be a Hokage" the Gama Sannin added. Tsunade sighed before looking up at the starlit sky, the blackness of the sky really brought out the brightness of the stars as Tsunade pointed out the constellations to herself in her mind. Naruto was sitting down staring at the fire, before his eyes shifted to his now seven tailed fox. Naruto had later taken note of Shizuka's growth in height, being around a little above his waist, her body mass increased too, she looked to be around Kuromaru, Inuzuka Tsume's husky dog, size Naruto then sighed and then got up.
"Something wrong Naruto-kun?" Sora asked her hanyou boyfriend. Naruto swished his tail and then nodded.
"Yeah, I just have something on my mind, I'm going to meditate" Naruto said and then sat against the trunk of a nearby tree and then focused and in the darkness of his closed eyes there was a flash of white light and Naruto appeared in his mindscape also known as his bijuu's den.
"Oi, Kyuubi, I need to talk to you" Naruto yelled. Naruto then turned when he heard the padding of paws. The great Kyuubi no Kitsune walked towards his jinchuriki and sat down, his blood red eye staring into Naruto's blue one.
You called kit, Kyuubi said.
"Yeah, what's going on with Shizuka, I mean before she was just a little fox kit, but now she's a seven tailed one with the ability to use some of your techniques" Naruto said. Kyuubi sighed.
Kit, remember in the Forest of Death, how that when you fought those Oto nin that you called upon my chakra?
"Yeah, why?" Naruto asked, "What does that have to do with Shizuka becoming a demonic kitsune?"
Well kit, I had nothing to do with it, Shizuka was a demon kitsune from the start, the great Kyuubi replied. Naruto was in shock all that time, even when she was a kit, she was a demon.
"I see, but how is her tail numbers increasing so quickly, I mean in a matter days she grew from two to four and in a month four to six and now she grew a seventh" Naruto said.
Kit, when we were in the Forest of death, my chakra was used by you to defeat those Oto nins that went to kill the Uchiha, demo Shizuka happened to be near you and my chakra was absorbed into her body changing her into a two tails and in the fight against the Inuzuka, Shizuka's tails changed to four because well there was probably extra youkai in her system and depending on the amount of youkai you have the number of tails increases. Kyuubi explained.
"So that time, when I went beserk at the chunin exams and went into what Jiraya told me was a 'four tailed state' the chakra radiation changed her into a six tails?" Naruto asked. Kyuubi nodded. "But…what about now, how did she grow a seventh?" Naruto asked.
Naruto, animal based demons, have different rates at which they grow a certain number of tails, see Akai, was only a three tailed wolf, yet he managed to hold his own against Shizuka who was at six. Wolves are based on strength and are therefore very powerful even at birth. We kitsune are of a all rounded species, so our power is equalized is almst every aspect, speed and stealth is where most of our power goes into. Now you see kitsunes grow tails when their power is increased, so during that battle with Akai, Shizuka gained a power boost, but she's a different one.
"How is she different?" Naruto asked. Kyuubi held out a hand like paw and a ball of blue fire appeared.
You and Shizuka are powerful kitsunes in your own right, I am the most powerful demon out there, yet for centuries I have attempted to create a more powerful version to the kitsunehai. Kyuubi said.
"So you're saying that there's a more powerful attack that these blue flames, but the only flame hotter than blue is…" Naruto was interrupted when Kyuubi spoke.
White fire, this is why Shizuka is different from others, she has the ability to wield the power of white fire, fire that can be on par with the black flames of Amaterasu. Kyuubi said.
"Amaterasu?" Naruto questioned.
Amaterasu is a technique used by the Uchiha clan when they receive the Mangekyo Sharingan, a higher level of the fully mature Sharingan. This dojutsu, has three abilities that I know of, in the left eye, is the most powerful genjutsu, Tsukoyomi, which traps the victim in a genjutsu that lasts a second, but seems to last for three days. In the right eye is Amaterasu, a powerful fire that is said to be from the fires of hell. These flames are as black as a raven and can burn through anything and remain burning even in rain and atop water. Kyuubi explained.
"Sugoi, demo what's the third eye technique of the Mangekyo?" Naruto asked. Kyuubi shrugged.
I don't know, but I heard it was said to be very powerful Kyuubi said. The den was then quiet for a while.
"So why is Shizuka growing at a rapid rate, surely you find it abnormal for even one of your kin to grow at a rate this rapidly" Naruto said.
True, Shizuka's growth is unnaturally fast, demo while she was still a six tails, while I was teaching her the English language I asked her to promise me something. Kyuubi said. Naruto stared wanting to know what the promise was.
She is to be my heir to the kitsune throne, she will be the new Kyuubi no Kitsune when I die.
"YOU DID WHAT!" Naruto yelled. "Kyuubi, she's too young to take on that big of a responsibility, besides I thought you demons were all like immortal living for over tens of thousands of generations" Naruto said. Kyuubi chuckled.
Naruto, not everyone can escape death. Why do you think there's a Shinigami for? Kyuubi said.
"Demo…" Naruto was interrupted.
Naruto, Shizuka has sworn to be my new successor you can't undo it, she will be the new Kyuubi no Kitsune, I have lived for over 100000 years Naruto, not even a bijuu is immortal. Shizuka took the oath and swore with blood and fire! Kyuubi yelled, fire surrounded his paws uncontrollably. Kyuubi then calmed down when he saw Naruto's face, sadness all over it.
Gomen nasai Naruto, but she will have to leave you eventually and go to the fox realm and take my place, once she reaches her eight tail I will have to take over your body and teach her the political ways of the kitsune, our way of life and Naruto you may be strong willed, but if you try and stop me I will have to so this with force if I have to. Kyuubi said in a gentle tone. Naruto sighed.
"I understand Kyuubi-sensei, demo when Shizuka becomes the new Kyuubi could she visit?" Naruto asked. Kyuubi nodded and grinned.
How do you think I got here in the first place, we demon kitsunes, in fact all demons, have the ability to travel between realms.
"Arigato Kyuubi" Naruto said and then he imagined a large rabbit for Kyuubi to catch and kill. "Have fun" Naruto said and Kyuubi took off after the giant rabbit.
"That is just so sad, to see the most powerful demon lord in the world, chasing a rabbit" Naruto chuckled and then left in a flash of light.
Outside Naruto's mindscape.
Naruto noticed everyone was asleep when he opened his eyes and then he saw Kioshi, who had grown during the one day trip being around the size of a adolescent wyvern, which is big and…Shizuka. His two nin-ken were snuggled up against wither side of his body and Naruto sighed as he felt the fire that held in their stomachs. Naruto scratched behind Shizuka's ears and petted Kioshi's steel hard scales. Naruto sighed again before going off to sleep.
The Next Day
Naruto woke up with a yawn to find everyone already up and the camp packed up.
"Konichiwa minna" Naruto said as he stretched out his tight muscles, earning some cracks from his back and neck and shoulder joints.
"Oi, welcome back sleepy head" Jiraya said as he finished eating breakfast.
"Hurry up, we have around a two day trek back to Konoha let's go, you can eat breakfast along the way" Kushina said and gave Naruto his breakfast of a few onigiri with soy sauce. Naruto ate while they walked, passing through various towns because they needed supplies and because Tsunade wanted to gamble…again.
"Ok Tsunade-sama, time to go" Shizune said. Tsunade gripped the slot machine with her super strength.
"No Shizune I was about to win the jackpot..yes, a 7…yes another 7….nooooo, I lost" Tsunade said when she failed to get the jackpot. She then kicked the machine to a bunch of gears and walked out. When Tsunade exited she found Naruto with a large grin in his face, Sora latched onto his arm and in Naruto's hand was a very fat frog wallet.
"Gaki, how'd you get so much money?" Tsunade asked.
"I gambled and won, I never knew I was so good at it" Naruto said.
"Yeah, Naru-kun is the best gambler ever" Sora said. Tsunade thought to herself, the blonde gaki could help pay off her debts in a matter of weeks, days even. They continued to pass through towns, Naruto gambled along the way as they used some of it to get suppies while Tsunade managed to bribe Naruto into giving her the gambling money to pay of her debts and by the time the day was done, Tsunade had paid off at least seven eights of her payments.
"How'd you manage to bribe him?" Kushina asked, wondered how Tsunade got her son to give her his fortunes. Tsunade grinned and said one word.
"Ramen" she said. Kushina sighed, the Uzumaki weakness, ramen, delectable soup with succulent noodle with whatever topping you wanted. (A/N: I feel hungry now anybody want to send me some ramen)
"Curse you Kami, for that stupid weakness" Kushina said. Then what seemed like only a few hours, was actually a day as the group finally reached Konoha and Tsunade's debts paid off thanks to Naruto.
"I love you gaki" Tsunade said putting the blonde in a bone crushing hug.
*Gasp* "Oba-c-chan….choking….not *gasp* b-b-b-breathing" Naruto managed to say as the super strong bust lady let him go. The group then entered the village gates; people stopped their daily routines when they saw the new Godaime step through the gates.
"Hey guys look, Tsunade-sama's back" some random villager yelled. The crowd immediately began to cheer, Tsunade waved and then the group headed towards the Hokage tower, however one man made the mistake of wanting to see if Tsunade's breasts were real and when he touched said super sized bust he was met with a super powerful punch to the face sending him soaring into the air before landing on the ground in a crater.
"I'm okay" he said and then fell down again.
The group of Kushina, Jiraya, Naruto, Sora, Dokuro, Akai, Shizuka, Kioshi, Tsunade, Shizune and Tonton walked to the Hokage's office. They entered without knocking to find Sarutobi grumbling to himself as he was doing some paperwork.
"Stupid paperwork, I wish I could just finish you quicker, but nooo you want be endless, I swear as long as I breathe and will find a way to stop you" Sarutobi yelled to the ceiling. Tsunade cleared her throat catching Sarutobi's attention. Hiruzen looked at his former student and grinned sheepishly.
"Did you hear that?" he asked. The group nodded, wide grins across their faces as they attempted not to laugh. "Hehe, whoops, umm you guys wouldn't happen to know how to get rid of paperwork would you?" he asked.
"I do" Naruto said. Sarutobi looked at the blonde Namikaze like he were Kami.
"Naruto tell me, I'll do anything just tell me how to get rid of this demon" Sarutobi said getting down on his knees gripping Naruto's new fox themed jacket.
"No need, Jiji, I'll tell you if you let Dokuro and Akai here be instated as Konoha shinobi" Naruto said gesturing to the new recruits. Sarutobi got up and took a puff of his pipe.
"Dokuro and Akai?" he asked. The young woman and wolf stepped forward.
"Do you have a reason for being here, wanting to be Konoha ninja?" he asked.
"Hai Hokage-sama, we are yours to command and we are here to well start over" the wolf hanyou said.
"Well since I can see you're a wolf hanyou, I could put you in the tracking squad, where do your strengths lie?" the shriveled Sandaime asked.
"Well, Akai and I are more of a powerhouse team, we use our team attacks to take down our opponents, but we are both very good probably around jonin level when on our own" Dokuro said. Sarutobi Hiruzen took another puff of his pipe. The Hokage then went to his drawer and took out a Konoha hitai-ate with a blue cloth and one with black. He threw then to the two wolves and they caught them.
"Welcome to Konoha" he said. The two whooped for joy before dancing around the room. "You will be in the tracking team, registered as a jonin, from the next day" Sarutobi said with a serious face.
"Hai Hokage-sama" the two replied. Sarutobi chuckled.
"Oh I'm not Hokage anymore, she is" he said pointing at Tsunade. Tsunade smirked and then took a seat in the Hokage's chair.
"Well, Hokage-sama, what do you think?" Sarutobi said jokingly. Tsunade snorted in laughter.
"Well, I saw the fight between her and Naruto and apparently, she is good, very good, the rank you gave her would suit her and Akai just fine, you two are free to go" Tsunade said.
"You two will receive your pay for this A-ranked mission after Tsunade's coronation" Sarutobi said to Sora and Naruto. The two blondes grinned.
"Jiji, will you be revealing my heritage any time soon?" Naruto asked.
"When the time is right Naruto, when the time is right" he replied with a puff of his pipe.
"Arigato Jiji/Hokage-sama" they replied and then walked out, Kioshi and Shizuka trailing behind.
Later that day
A large crowd was gathered outside the Hokage tower, all of them were murmuring as to why they were all gathered here.
"The entire village was called together so it must be important" one woman said. The crowd got quiet as Sarutobi walked to the balcony.
"Citizens of Konohagakure no Sato, I thank you for making the time to come and appear at this meeting, now you see, due to my inability to protect the village for I am an old man" Sarutobi said, earning a few chuckles here and there, "I have decided to step down as Sandaime Hokage" he said. The crowd was in shock and began to wonder who will be the new Hokage then. Sarutobi then released a piercing gaze at them silencing the entire crowd.
"Don't fret, due to the efforts of three of our finest shinobi, Remei Sora, Uzumaki Kushina and Uzumaki Naruto, they have brought back your new hokage, Senju Tsunade" he said. The crowd clapped and whooped when Tsunade stepped forward.
"Well I guess I'm Hokage now, you know I always depised the people who were Hokage because I used to think that it was just a job where you just end up throwing your life away for nothing, but because one person I have seen the light and I now recognize this title as Hokage is a way to help those young ones to help strive to be the best, and act as a way to help protect the village. I promise I won't let you down" Tsunade said, the crowd roared with cheers and claps. Naruto, Shizuka and Kioshi were sitting in a high tree observing the scene. Naruto clapped a few times before stopping.
"Well Shizuka, Kioshi, what should we do now?" he asked.
"We train of course" Shizuka said.
"Yeah, I want fight with you as duo next time though Naruto" Kioshi said. Naruto looked at his now waist high pets. Kioshi's scales were now a ruby red and still hard enough to deflect a kunai. His fire attacks were very powerful now and he could nearly perform the meteor strike attack. His fire tornado defense was nearly perfect, but it tended to stop after a half a minute. His glowing red eyes were a deeper red and his teeth and claws could now slice straight through the bark of an oak tree, which is extremely thick, his fire was now a blue colour and can make it go up to 5800 degrees Celsius, making his fire a blue colour now.
Shizuka, now seven tails was training in the use of her white fire, and making up new techniques with Naruto and Kioshi and Kyuubi takes over to teach her different demonic fire attacks, that were very destructive and some defensive.
A few weeks later after Tsunade had become Hokage
Naruto and Sora were walking hand in hand down the road to the Hokage monument. The people waved to Naruto as he passed by.
"Hey Naruto, how's it going?" a villager asked.
"It's good" Naruto said with a grin and walked past. Then as Naruto was walking a girl around his and Sora's age ran up to him with an envelope in her hand.
"Hi, my friend thinks you're cute and wants to give you this" the girl said as shepointed to her friend who was right by the fruit stand with a smirk on her face. Naruto opened the envelope inside was a folded up piece of paper. Naruto unfolded it and read it.
"Hey Naruto-kun, I admire your skills and think you're cute. Thanks for saving Hokage-sama during the war and I was wondering if you would like to go out sometime" Naruto read. Then he looked inside the envelope to put the note back and then he spied another piece of paper. He took it out and it turned out to be a photo. Naruto pulled it out and then his eyes bugged out of his head and blood trickled from his nose. Sora looked at Naruto and then took the picture. She gasped, the girl was stark naked in the picture.
"That hussy, I'll show her a piece of my mind" Sora said and stomped over to the girl. Fire surrounded her fists as she stomped over, screams were heard and then a large amount of POWS, SMACKS, SMASHES and SLAMS were heard before they finally died down. A few seonds later, Sora walked back with a confident smirk on her face.
"Sora-chan, what did you do to the girl?" he asked.
"Oh nothing, just gave her a piece of my mind" she replied and the two continued to the Hokage monument. The two were sitting atop Naruto's father's head. Naruto chuckled to himself.
'A son always goes to his father for help' he thought and then stroked Sora's long blonde hair as she laid her ahead against the hanyou's shoulder. Then the moment was ruined when a young woman with black and biochromatic eyes, one green the other gold and next to her a wolf wearing a hitai-ate like a dog collar with purple eyes landed in front of them.
"Dokuro, Akai, what's up?" he asked.
"Nothing at all Naruto, demo Tsunade-sama asked to see you" she said. Naruto and Sora stood up and dusted themselves off.
"Well Ikuzo" he said and then he and Dokuro and Akai shunshined away. Sora gritted her teeth and then jumped off to the direction of the Hokage building.
"I really need Naruto-kun to teach me that shunshin no jutsu" she said and then sped off.
Hokage Tower
Naruto and Dokuro appeared in Tsunade's office and then sat down to wait for Sora, a few minutes passed and then the blonde fire user entered.
"Dear Kami-sama, *pant* Naruto-kun, you could have shunshined me with you" she complained. Naruto got up and chuckled nervously.
"Gomen nasai Sora-chan, I forgot you don't know shunshin" he said and then walked over to Sora. Tsunade then looked at the two chunin and cleared her throat. The two immediately stood at attention.
"Ok are you two ready for this?" she asked.
"Hai" they replied.
"Okay, I have a mission for you two, you are going to the Takigakure with Jiraya in order to help act as protectors for our ambassador and aid in the peace treaty between the Taki and Konoha" Tsunade ordered.
"Tsunade-sama, why is it called Takigakure?" Sora asked.
"Well, Sora, this village is actually hidden in a waterfall, hence its name, now get going you have to get there by nightfall tonight" she ordered, "you will meet Jiraya at the main gate in one hour"
Naruto then grabbed Sora and the two disappeared in a swirl of fire. Tsunade sighed, but then realized something.
"Naruto never told ME how to get rid of paperwork, NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!" she screamed loudly causing the birds in the forest of death to fly away.
One hour later
Sora and Naruto met Jiraya who was standing next to a young woman in her fifties and wearing robes of the daimyo of fire, at the North Gate. Sora was wearing a green short pants for girls, a dark blue t-shirt over a vest with the image of the fire god in white and wore sandals with a slight high heel and had her trusty weapons pouch on her right thigh and two short swords on her in sheaths one black, the other white and in the sword in the black sheath had a golden hilt, the one in the white sheath had a silver hilt. Naruto wore a long pair of black pants, a dark red t-shirt over a vest with the kanji for Uzumaki on the front and fox on the back both in black and on his right thigh he wore a weapons pouch and Shizuka and Kioshi were by his side ready for battle, both wearing Konoha hitai-ate's on a black cloth around their necks tightly, but loose enough to be able to breath and take off easily.
"Ohayo, Jiraya-sama" Sora greeted with a bow, Jiraya waved hello.
"Ohayo, Ero Sennin" Naruto greeted. Jiraya ignored Naruto's comment and began to explain the situation.
"Ok guys, this woman here is the daimyo of fire and also our ambassador, we are to escort her about five miles from the entrance of Takigakure, luckily I know the way since I've been there a few times, now the hidden waterfall is about a 19 hour walk without trouble, but since we might encounter trouble it would probably take at least a day or two to reach there, so we'll me making shifts during the night to protect the daimyo every 3 hours, got it" Jiraya explained. The group nodded.
"Alright, second, when we arrive at least 5 miles from the village's entrance an escort will arrive to take us to the entrance, they are very trustworthy so no need to worry about trying to get assassinated, there we will enter the village and talk about the peace treaty and then once the treaty has been signed we will leave and head back to Konoha" Jiraya said, "and finally, Naruto I need to talk to you in private for this one" he said. Jiraya then draped his arm around the blonde Namikaze's shoulder and walked off a few feet, so that he was out of earshot of both Shizuka and Kioshi.
"Now then Naruto, the leader of Takigakure is a friend of mine and he has told me they have a jinchuriki there, so I just want you to try and socialize with the person, they probably need someone to talk to since you know how all jinchurikis are treated" Jiraya said.
Naruto nodded, "Hai, I understand, demo which bijuu is it?" he asked.
"The Nanabi no Kabutomushi/Seven tailed Horned Beetle" he replied.
"Okay, I'll try" Naruto said and then the two returned to the group.
"Ok we're off" Jiraya said and the group exited the village to Takigakure.
(A/N: Well that's chapter twelve hope you like d it, please review and I hope you continue to read my stories. Next time on Naruto the Fox Sannin, Naruto and the others run into trouble and will eventually reach the village of Takigakure. Will Naruto and the others be able to protect the ambassador? Who is the jinchuriki of the Nanabi? Find out next time on chapter 13: Escort to the Waterfall)
