The sun shines as a young Naruto wakes up and is bouncing with excitement. First he woke up was Raui who was now up to his shoulder in fox form. The pair had slept in the same room on a massive pile of furs like always, for the last few weeks since they have been in the Land of Lightning. The group was there for work but were finished with that.

"Raui wake up." he yelled, shaking him.

"Hey Naruto." Raui yawned before stretching out.

Ever since Naruto was brought back, Raui had been right by his side. The pair were inseparable doing everything together. Today however was a special day Naruto turned five which meant their first trip to a village. Near had ever so much as seen one but today that changed.

"So who's first?" Raui asked.

"The usual you get Aka-nii I get Tokai-nii. Then we both go for Hariki-nii." he explained.

With a nod that the duo split off, Naruto went right for the tanuki's room where he was snoring in his animal form. With a giggled Naruto jumped on his belly.

"Time to wake!"

"Five more minutes." Tokai moaned before the lightning crackled.

"You little shit!"

"Ahh...fine I'm up let's go." he sighed picking Naruto and placing him on his back and exiting his room where Aka looking freshly electrocuted was chasing Raui.

"I see we're all lively as usual, but let's eat breakfast then head out." Hariki said from the kitchen Aka dropped Raui having caught him by his scruff.

"Slow down! You two don't even know where it is." Aka yelled, once everyone had finished eating they started on their way to the road from the woods.

"Oh come now let them have their fun after all it is Naruto's birthday and their first trip into a village." Tokai said popping in to his human form.

"I'm going to eat all the ramen!" The Naruto declared Raui agreeing with him.

"Heck yeah we are! It is the ramen festival after all the best cooks from all over are going to be there." Tokai smiled as trio drool at the thought.

"That means there are going to be a lot of people there. So what are the rules?" Hariki asked them.

"Don't talk to strangers."

"Stay in sight."

"Don't let Tokai use us to flirt with women!" the last one they said together.

"Yeah!"

"Look me in the eyes and tell it's not true." Aka said side eyeing Tokai who sweat drop rubbing the back of his head.

"Good job boys lets get going." Hariki said before he popped in to his human form and rubbed Naruto's head to change his hair color just to be safe. It only lasted for a few hours.

The risk wasn't too high as they were in the Land of Lightning but better safe the sorry. Hariki and Tokai human forms had their tails and ears hidden with clothing. Aka just having one form simply wrapped his waist and wore a pair of sunglasses for his eyes. This was the normal for them whenever they went to villages. Raui on the other hand was still in his fox form as he doesn't have a human one yet.

"If anyone trys anything I'll bite them." Raui said showing his baby teeth making them all laugh.

Once the five got there somehow the youngest of the were more excited than before at all they stalls, prizes, and people buzzing about this was going to be a fun day.

In another part of the festival Anbu from the Root division of the hidden leaf were gathering information. Supposedly there were sightings of the Kyuubi over the last few weeks in the area. Heading up this team was Kakashi Hatake and Itachi Uchiha and another member currently their mission was fact finding the third had no clue about the mission. Ever since the nine tails escaped after its attack the root had been looking for it with little luck. This appeared to be yet another dead end.

"If it was here now be a prime time to attack." Itachi said as he looked over the crowd after the lost of the fox the third had put more on his clan as a sign of good faith. Most of the Uchiha were happy many feared they might be blamed for the nine tails.

"True." Kakashi said he still had regret from that night being unable to save his teacher and his family. When he spotted a familiar spiky hairstyle but it was the wrong color moving through the crowd toward Ichiraku Ramen stall.

"You see it too?" He asked once he spotted the multi tailed fox that was with the child. Itachi nodded before he activated his Sharingan.

"That can't be..ack!" Itachi yelled suddenly his vision was filled with fire as the heat built up in his eyes.

"What the hell?" Kakashi said before looking for their attacker.

In the crowd was a silver haired man wearing a straw hat had his eyes trained on them smiled. Kakashi takes Itachi and flashes away this just got more complicated.

In the stall Naruto called for Hariki.

"Coming, now what are we having?" He said as he went inside. He felt the ninjas present once he hide with a genjutsu but sent out a warning once he felt sharingan on them.

"Best ramen the Land of Fire has to offer!"

"I can't wait!" Naruto said happily bouncing in his seat.

"Eat up to two cause you're going to need it." Aka said as they waited.

"Why?" He asked Raui confused.

"Because we're going to start teaching you combat we can't always be there to protect you." Hariki said what just happened was proof that it was time.

"I'm gonna get strong like you guys?" Raui whispered so that only they could hear.

"I bet you'll be even stronger, but only if you work for it." Tokai said the kids' eyes sparkled at the prospect.

The rest of the day went by peacefully but in another end of the village the leaf ninja were regrouping after Itachi recovered he was able to tell what he'd seen.

"That's not possible." Kakashi said, shocked.

"But it is all those people with that fox have tailed beast chakra." he said his vision cleared and the pain was gone after that man let them go. None of these people were jinchuriki so how was this possible?

"I had heard rumors about a group, they call themselves the Kemono clan. Their bounty hunters supposedly take on high class missing nin that even their countries were reluctant to go after. But to be powerful enough to pull off a genjutsu that can affect you. Tenzo will be here soon but this just became an S-rank."

It was nighttime as they carried Naruto and Raui back from the festival having worn themselves out.

"There were leaf ninja here. I took care of them for the time being but we'll have to move far so the Land of Water will be our best bet." Hariki said, holding Naruto and Raui.

"Uhhh I hate that place but it's our best bet lots of places to hide and easy to blend in." Aka sighed.

"It will be fine but don't forget we have a job in the sand village." Tokai said with them all in agreement they went back to pack and get ready.

While they spoke they failed to notice the grimace Naruto's face took in his sleep.

"Hello?" Naruto said as he looked around he was in some dark place it was really scary.

"Hariki-nii, Aka-nii, Tokai-nii anybody!" he yelled as he started to run only to crash into Raui.

"Naruto where are we? I don't like this place, it's scary." the small white fox said.

"Oh but you just got here." a voice said menacingly.

The boy turned around and saw a giant orange fox towering over them menacingly.