A/N: 50 Chapters! A milestone! In regards to the last chapter: I give a tip of a hat to a few reviewers who caught on to my (not-so) subtle tells that I don't like Hiruzen. In my opinion, he could have prevented pretty much the entire Naruto plot from being as bad as it was. But it's just my opinion, and others might have a different one. Still, enjoy the chapter!


Naruto stared up at the large beast in front of him. The beast was laughing maniacally as it stomped on trees, slowly making its way to the Village. He didn't know what to do. How did he beat this one? This was a freaking tailed beast! He was twelve!

"NARUTO! DO SOMETHING!" Sasuke shouted, from where he was trying to free Sakura from the sand. He was exhausted himself from using too many Chidori, and unable to fight Gaara any longer.

"BUT SASUKE! LOOK AT IT!" Naruto screeched, pointing at Shukaku. "I CAN'T FIGHT THAT!"

"JUST DO IT! We'll..." Sasuke trailed off, trying to think of something to motivate the blond. "WE'LL GO TO ICHIRAKU'S AFTER THIS!" Naruto's eyes lit up and a grin spread across his cheeks. He hadn't had Ichiraku's in forever! Well, he did have some right before his fight, so it had only been a few hours at the most, but still! He was starving. His stomach growled loudly.

"ALRIGHT!" He threw a fist into the air with a cheer, and made a seal. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Four clones popped into existence beside him. Naruto grinned wider at the sight of himself, and pointed up at the beast again. "Okay you four distract it! I'll... uh... summon the Toad Boss?" He trailed off into a question, and got a few nods in return. "Yeah! I'll summon the boss! Now go!" Each Naruto jumped in different directions, four towards the tailed beast, and one away from it.

"HEY BIG, FAT, AND UGLY!" One of the clone Naruto's shouted. The other three joined in on the taunting, wagging fingers at the tailed beast and calling it as if it were a dog. The original Naruto faked wiping a tear in pride. He started making the hand seals to the summoning jutsu, and felt deep inside himself. 'HEY FOX! Lend me some chakra!' He screamed into his mind, and, as he completed the last seal, a flood of the fox's demonic chakra rushed into the jutsu.

"SUMMONING JUTSU!" Naruto bit his palm and slammed his hand down to the ground. Gamabunta, the Toad Boss, appeared underneath him in a large plume of smoke. "Alright Boss Toad! We gotta take out that thing!" Naruto pointed, once again, at the tailed beast that was attempting to his his clones.

"BRAT!" Gamabunta called, staring at the beast. "You called me here to fight a Tailed Beast! What kind of-"

"LOOK BOSS TOAD! Just help me please! I need to do this for my teammates!"

"Alright, alright!" Gamabunta relented, readying his blade. "We need to wake its host up. Do you know an animal with teeth and claws? We're going for a transformation!" Gamabunta didn't even wait for Naruto to respond before leaping towards Shukaku, his toad-hands forming the seal for the transformation jutsu. Naruto yelled and held onto the Toad Boss, but couldn't think of an animal. "Any animal will do if it has claws!"

"Claws?" Naruto thought deeply, but only one thing came to mind. "ALRIGHT! LET'S DO THIS!" Naruto gathered his chakra and sent it into Gamabunta. "TRANSFORM!"

"TRANSFORM!" Gamabunta called as well, and the toad disappeared in smoke. The smoke stayed still for a moment, before a long red-orange arm extended out, followed by a lithe body. A roar erupted from the transformed toad boss. Nine distinct tails whipped around behind the toad.

Naruto had transformed him into the Kyuubi.


A/N: A bit fast paced, I know, but I'm getting bored of the Chunin Exam Arc. Seriously, it should have ended about ten-fifteen chapters ago. But it didn't. Welp, next chapter is the end of the Gaara VS Naruto fight, and the end of the Chunin Exam arc!