I think the hybrid form made a good impression on all of you readers. I have my reasons for the transformation, you'll see why eventually. Well, enough talk, let's get on with the story.

I've also noticed That I haven't used Inner Sakura. I can't let this story go on without Inner Sakura, she's what I like about Sakura, Inner Sakura is what makes me laugh.

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Naruto charged at Jugo, full speed and pure rage. The others could only look in utter shock at what Naruto had become. They watched as Jugo attacked Naruto, but the hybrid fox's speed and agility kept him safe from harm. As Jugo made a swing with his axe arm, Naruto jumped back, using his tails to spring him back on his feet. Naruto then jumped forward and slashed at Jugo, but his axe protected him from the claws.

"Kakashi-sensei, what happened to Naruto?" Sakura asked.

"It's the Kyuubi." Kakashi answered, still shocked by the appearance.

"Kyuubi's controled him again?" Sakura asked in fear.

"No..."

"Then what is it?" Kiba asked, "Did Naruto control him?"

"No." Kakashi said again, "He's embraced him. They've become one."

Naruto jumped back from another one of Jugo's attacks. He then ran at Jugo once more, but this time, he made a quick cut around and jumped on Jugo's back, locking his arms and legs around him.

"Get the hell off of me!" Jugo yelled as he tried to hit Naruto with his arm. Naruto remained locked in place, trying to subdue the beast.

Naruto then jumped over Jugo, managing to lock his legs around his waist. The two were now face to face with Naruto having a higher level in height. He then brought his tails and merged them into two. He used the tails to wrap around jugo's arms and lock them in place. Naruto then proceeded to punch Jugo's face repeatedly, putting every bit of his nergy into each hit. He then roared loudly, which increased the amount of visible chakra around him. As the chakra expanded, Jugo's body began to steam and sizzle. The chakra began to burn Jugo's skin. Naruto then roared loudly as he threw his head forward and slammed his forehead right at Jugo's. The two fell to the ground in a large thud, that formed a large dustcloud around them. When it settled, Naruto stood on top of Jugo, victorious. The others saw that Jugo had changed to a more human form.

"A transformation?" Kakashi asked himself, "In that case." He reached into his pouch and pulled out several tags. He threw them all at Jugo, sticking onto his skin. "That should keep him from changing again.

Naruto looked at his teammates, growling deeply. The others looked in fear, Naruto looked like he wanted to kill. He slowly approuched them.

"Keep a safe distance from him." Kakashi said, "Who knows what he'll do."

They all stepped back, except for Sakura. She was still hurt from her attack from Jugo, leaving her on the ground with her back to a tree. The beast that was once Naruto slowly approuched her, towering over her and casting a large shadow. Sakura could see that there was practically no emotions in his eyes besides anger. She closed her eyes tightly, waiting for what was to happen to her next. What she didn't expect was something small and wet to hit her face. In confusion, she opened her eyes and looked up. What she now saw were tears coming out of Naruto's eyes. His form was still the merging of himself and Kyuubi, but he was now sad.

"Please don't be scared." He spoke. He wiped the tears off his eyes.

"Naruto?" Sakura looked closely at the face. "Are you really there?" She saw the humanoid fox slowly reached out his left hand, that there was some humanity in the beast. Sakura slowly reached out to touch the hand. The chakra around Naruto moved as if Sakura's hand had a repelling force. The chakra around Naruto's hand began to be forced back. When Sakura's hand touched his, all the chakra began to shrink down. The orange skin reverted back to being Naruto's original skin tone. His eyes changed back to being the bright blue colour and his fox features disappeared, leaving him with just his whiskers. When she saw that Naruto's humanity was still inside and he was now human again, she got up and hugged him tightly. "Thank god, you're alive."

Naruto hugged her back, "It feels great to be alive."

Sakura then did something unexpected; she threw a punch at Naruto, sending him to the ground and forming a crater.

"What the hell was that?!" Naruto yelled.

"That was for scaring me to death!" Sakura yelled back, "You have any idea how scared I was?! I thought I would die!" Next time you scare me like that, I'll rip you apart! Shannaro!

"Oi..." Kakashi groaned, "She obviously forgot that Naruto just died moments ago."

They all suddenly heard Jugo groan, they turned their attention to him. When Jugo looked up and saw that he was with strangers, he paniced.

"Stay away!" Jugo screamed in fear, "Stay away from me!"

"Calm down, we're not going to hurt you." Sakura said calmly.

"Please don't go near me." Jugo begged with mercy, "I don't want to hurt anyone." He backed away to a tree and curled up into a ball, "Please, just leave me alone."

"What's up with him?" Kiba asked, "He's not acting like the psycho he was before."

"Sounds like a duel personality to me." Kakashi said. They had just listened to Jugo's story of his problem and what he's been through. "Perhaps the Hokage can help you."

"No...no one can help me." Jugo said, "Orochimaru was a Sannin just like her, even he couldn't do anything to save me."

"He never tried to save you." Naruto said, "Orochimaru is all about experiments and testing on humans."

"Tsunade-sama can help. She's a great medic-nin, one of the greatest ever." Sakura said, "If there's anyone in the world that can cure you of your problem, it'll be her."

Jugo thought about it to himself. What else did he have to lose? Sasuke had abandoned him, the one person left who could control his outbursts. If what they say about Tsunad was right, then he may have some hope for a better life. "Ok, I'll go." He then looked at some of the tags that were put on him, "But please keep these on me. I don't know when I'll begin to hurt someone."

"If that's what you want, then we won't argue." Kakashi said. He looked up to the sky and saw the sun beginning to hide in the trees, "It's getting late, let's find a place to rest for the night."

Naruto stood alone in the empty streets of Konoha. He remembered this situation from before, he could never stop it, only watch as it unfolded. Standing in front of him, his friends stood in fear. He watched as some backed away while the others slowly approuched him.

"You guys can't stay here." Naruto said, in worry, "Get out."

"Not without you." Kakashi said.

"Let us help you." Hinata said to him.

It then happened. Just like before, he felt the burning pain inside of him as he slowly took form of the monstrous Kyuubi. But this wasn't going to end the same. Kyuubi was dead, with that knowledge, this event could no longer happen.

"Naruto!"

Naruto/Kyuubi looked behind and saw a large wall of shadow come closer to them. Though it was just a moving shadow, there was a feeling of death coming from it. Naruto/Kyuubi faced the darkness with a growl. He then roared loudly, unleashing a bright orange wave that forced the shadow back. Naruto now stood in his hybrid form, standing before the cowering shadow.

Naruto woke up from his dream. He wasn't sweating like before, maybe a little from the heat coming out of the campfire.

That's it. Naruto thought to himself. That's what my dreams meant. I became the Kyuubi, but I'm in control of it now. The dreams felt like it told his future. They always showed him changing into Kyuubi and causing chaos, but now he realized that it was meant to show him the future of when he and Kyuubi united into one whole entity.

"Morning Naruto."

Naruto looked behind him to see Kakashi arriving with some fish. Sakura, Kiba, and Akamaru arrived with some berries. Jugo sat alone by a tree.

"Morning?" Naruto asked, "But it's still dark, and the fire's still bright."

"Kiba relit the fire for breakfast." Kakashi said, shaking the fish to show what breakfast was going to be today. "And its dark because he happen to have an eclipse right now." He pointed to the sky, proving himself. The sun was covered by the moon and only a small bit of light filled the sky, making it seem like night.

"Then why am I still so tired?" Naruto asked with a yawn.

Sakura then threw water at Naruto from a bucket not too far from the fire.

"What the hell?!" Naruto yelled, wiping the water from his face.

"You still tired?" Sakura asked.

"Not anymore?" Naruto muttered in disappointment.

"Good, then let's get ready for breakfast." Sakura smiled, "The sooner we eat, the sooner we can get to Konoha."

Tsunade was busy skimming through all the paperwork on her desk. She had much work to do with them, assigning teams for missions, making teams, it just kept piling on top of her.

"Tsunade-sama." Yamato entered her office, "Kakashi-senpai has returned."

"Very good." Tsunade said. I'll deal with these later. She finished up with the papers in front of her and saved the rest for another time.

"And they seem to have someone else with them." Yamato said, "It looks like they have a prisoner."

"Prisoner?" Tsunade asked, "Let's go and see."

"Sasuke, please calm down." Karin waved her hands in front of her face as she tried to calm down an angered Sasuke.

"I made it clear before that i needed all of you." Sasuke said, "I can't lose anybody. But look at this now! We lost Jugo!"

"You know, you're taking this a little too hard." Suigetsu grinned, "We don't need Jugo, we're powerful enough without him."

Sasuke pulled out his sword and swiped at Suigetsu. Suigetsu's body quickly splashed when the blade came in contact with his body. The water tn reformed, givingSuigetsu back his head as if nothing had happened. "I assumed that you knew that you can't kill me that way."

"You now that I have a way to kill you." Sasuke said, "I know what your greatest fear is."

"Yeah right, I'm not scared of anything Sasuke."

Sasuke quickly sheathed his sword and formed some hand seals in timed order; Rat, Tiger, Dog, Ox, Rabbit, Tiger. "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" Sasuke spewed out small pellets of fire at Suigetsu. Suigetsu quickly fell to the ground and covered his head, trembling. "You see what I mean?" Sasuke stood over Suigetsu's body, "You fear fire, you fear the fact that heat can kill you just as easily as the sun can evaporate water."

Hinata stood at the gates, patiently waiting for Naruto. Even though he had been gone for a few days, it felt like a lifetime. As she looked on, she noticed figures in the horizon. They slowly came closer towards the village gates. Hinata smiled brightly when she recognized the figures. When they finally made it to the gates, Hinata nearly cried when she saw Naruto. The blindfold was finally removed, now he had his eyes back.

"Hi Hinata." Naruto smiled.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata ran to him and threw her arms around him.

Naruto only got a brief glimpse of Hinata, before she threw herself at him. It's been so long since he last saw the colour of Hinata's hair. When the two parted, Naruto smiled when he was finally able to see Hinata in true colours. He gently stroked her hair in his hands. "I missed the colour of your hair."

"And who is this?" Tsunade looked at Jugo, who was bound and covered with several sealing tags.

"This is Jugo." Kakashi said, "He was with Sasuke, before they left him."

"Sasuke?" Tsunade saw this as an oppurtunity. Maybe Jugo can lead them to Sasuke. "Take him to a cell."

"Please make it a cell with heavy security." Jugo begged, "And supression tags everywhere."

Tsunade looked at Jugo with a questioning look on her face. Kakashi was able to provide her with an answer, but it'll have to wait for when he needed to file his mission report, "Just do as he says Hokage-sama."

"Fine." Tsunade replied, "Get some supression tags set up for cell." She turned to leave, but was stopped.

"Baa-chan, wait."

Tsunade twitched when she heard her nickname once more. Someday, she was going to kill that brat if he ever made her nickname public like this in the future. "What is it brat?"

"Can I talk to you about what happened, alone?" Naruto asked, "I think you should hear this."

"Alright." Tsunade could see the concern in his eyes. She then turned to Kakashi, "I'll speak with you afterwards."

"Hai." Kakashi bowed.

"I'll see you afterwards, Hinata." Naruto smiled.

"Ok, I'll wait for you at your apartment." Hinata said.

"What is it you wanted to talk to me about?" Tsunade asked.

Tsunade and Naruto were alone in her office. Tsunade sat at her desk while Naruto stood across from her.

"It's about Jugo and Sasuke." Naruto said, "I never told anyone about this. But when I fought Sasuke, at the Valley of the Ends, he went through a change."

"What kind of change?"

"He became a monster. His skin changed to a dark colour, his hair grew, and he grew wings from behind." Naruto said. He remembered every little detail of Sasuke's Cursed Seal form. Even though its been over six years, he couldn't keep the image out of his mind, that image reminded him of his failure. "When I fought Jugo, he went through a change just like Sasuke's."

"What are you trying to tell me?"

"Cure Jugo. Find out what causes the change." Naruto pleaded, "When I bring Sasuke back, I want that cure to be ready for him."

"Wait..." Tsunade suddenly had a flash in her mind, "Did you say his name was Jugo?"

"Yeah."

Tsunade quickly rushed to her bookcase and looked for a specific book. She then pulled out one that was fairly thick, and large in surface area. She opened the book and flipped through some pages. She then stopped on a page. "Jugo, I should have known."

"What is it?" Naruto asked.

"During the time Jiraiya went looking for Orochimaru, he kept track of his findings in this book." Tsunade said, gently waving the book in her hand, "Whenever found something new on him, he came here and filled in some pages with his new findings." She showed Naruto the page she stopped at, "Jugo is one of Orochimaru's biggest experiments. Jugo has special enzymes in his blood that allow him to gain incredible power as well as change into a monster. Orochimaru was able to extract it and give it to other test subjects in the form of a seal. He had a name for it, i think it was called..." She flipped through the pages to find the name.

"The Cursed Seals."

"Exactly." Tsunade said, "And if you said that Sasuke beat you when you went through a Kyuubi transformation, Jugo must have been harder for you."

"He was." Naruto said, "I had to change into it to beat him."

"You did what?" Tsunade asked, shocked, "You went through the transformation again?"

"I had no choice." Naruto said, "He was going to kill Sakura if I didn't."

"Naruto, you should be dead by now." Tsunade said, "I told you that if you went through the transformation agian, your lifespan could cease."

"I know that but..."

"No buts, you're coming with me to the hospital." Tsunade grabbed Naruto's wrist and pulled him out of her office, "I'm going to have to see how much damage Kyuubi did to you."

"But I'm hungry!" Naruto complained.

"You can eat when I'm done with you." Tsunade groaned in irritation. Even after all these years, Naruto still can act like the little baby he was when they first met.

"I don't understand." Tsunade looked at Naruto's test results.

"What?" Naruto asked. He sat on a bed with no shirt as Tsunade came in with the results.

"Your cells, they completely changed." Tsunade said, "You somehow created new cells in yourself."

"Well, I have Kyuubi to thank for that." Naruto answered. The look that Tsunade made, had him knowing that she would have wanted some answer, "It's kinda hard to explain, but long story short, he gave me his lifespan."

"Lifespan?"

"Kyuubi had a large lifespan before he was changed into me." Naruto explained, remembering the exact details of what Kyuubi told him. "When I went through the Kyuubi transformation, my lifespan ended. From there, I fought Kyuubi in my mind. He said he'd make the fight into a game, saying; if he wins, he controls my body and lets me die. If I win, I keep my body and he gives me his remaining lifespan."

"Well, with that known, we'll be expecting you around for alot longer." Tsunade said, smiling in relief. "And you also said you had trouble with your new techniques."

"Yeah, I can't seem to turn invisible anymore. I can't even move things with my chakra." Naruto frowned.

"Maybe you'll have to get used to it now that you have your eyes back." Tsunade said, "You said that you used chakra waves to be able to see when you didn't have your eyes. Maybe that wave was what gave you those techniques."

"But why can't I emit those chakra waves anymore?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know, you're the first person to ever exhibit this kind of talent." Tsunade said.

"And also, how long do I have left to live anyways?" Naruto asked, "How extended is my lifespan?"

"Well, if you were to avoid getting killed, you would die a very old man." Tsunade laughed, "I'm guessing you want to go eat, so get out of here."

"Yes!" Naruto ran out the door. Tsunade looked back on his bed and saw that he left some things behind. Naruto walked back into the room, picking up his shirt and his sandals. "Sorry." He then ran back out.

Jugo sat in a cell with several suppression seals on him. It wasn't too dark, there were many torches to light up the place. A door opened and someone came to his cell, holding a tray with food.

"Naruto?" Jugo recognized the figure.

"I thought you might be hungry." Naruto said. He slid the tray under the bars, which was there to give food to the prisoners. The tray had a large bowl of ramen with a glass cup and a large jug of water. "Its the best ramen in the world, you'll love it."

"Thank you." Jugo crawled to the tray and took the bowl. He ate through it all rather quickly, surprising Naruto. "You're a very kind person, even when I almost killed you and your friends."

"Something about you made me see that you weren't the killer that the others saw." Naruto said, "To me, you seemed like a tormented victim of bad luck." He remembered how Jugo's transformation seemed similar to Sasuke's Cursed Seal transformation, "Tsunade-baa-chan is the best medic-nin ever, she'll help you. She can fix you and you can be normal again. I'm just sorry they had to put you in here."

"It's alright, I understand." Jugo answered. He put the bowl back on the tray and drank the water right from the jug. "Please tell your friends that I'm sorry for hurting them."

"You can tell them yourself." Naruto smiled, "You'll be out of here in no time." His stomach then grumbled, "I think I should get some food myself."

"Good-bye Naruto, and thank you." Jugo said, "I appreciate your kindness."

Naruto simply smiled while he left the cellroom.

Naruto walked into his apartment, being greeted by Hinata.

"Hi, Hinata." Naruto smiled, "Sorry I'm late."

Hinata ran to him and kissed him. "I'm just glad your finally back. It felt like forever."

"It sure did." Naruto said, "I was coming here to see if you wanted to get something to eat with me?"

"If its for ramen, then I would love to." Hinata giggled.

"Then let's go." He grabbed her hand and the two left his apartment. "Maybe afterwards, we can go visit Iruka-sensei."

Well, done with that. This story might take some more time. I'm currently tryin to think of how to end this story. I want it to be perfect and have a reason to lead to the sequel. Kinda like the Lord of the Rings; each book ends with a reason for another book to be made.

Anyways, I'll try to have the next chapter up soon. This story is close to its final chapters. I'll tell you all when we reach the final five chapters.

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