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This chapter meant a lot to me, I think I made him realistically powerful and skilled...

Three Months Later

"Gale palm!" Shin thrust his hand out, sending a powerful blast that smashed into Sora's leg as the boy lept out, forcing his friend into a roll. As the boy popped up, Shin socked him in the chest hard enough to knock the wind from his chest and sent him rocketing back.

"Damn, Shin." Sora coughed out, holding his chest. "You are so strong... but it's my turn." Sora vanished, Shin threw up his arm, barely blocking Shin's kick that sent him skidding back a meter. "Beast Tearing Palm!" Sora swiped his hand, creating a blade of that Shin had to flip away from, the attack creating powerful crevices in the earth, something made worse when his friend repeated the move a dozen more times, forcing Shin to all but dance out of the way.

"Damn it, stop that jutsu, I can't block it, Sora."

"That's the point, Shin!"

Growling, Shin jumped over the next blade of air and kicked out at his friend, knocking Sora back before slamming a fist into Sora's face that sent into the wall of the arena. Rushing, He grabbed and pinned his friend face first against the wall.

The clapping stopped Sora's struggling. " That is Three-three, with Shin being the victor this time... I cannot believe that in a mere month you've improved so much, Shin. You were definitely a Shinobi before you came to us." Shin laughed, pulling Sora from the wall and hugging his friend before pulling him away to Chiriku, who had been clapping. "Let me check your face out, Sora, he hit you pretty hard."

Sora pouted as he was examined. "That hurt, Shin, you maybe still be scrawny but you hit like an angry rhino."

Shin chuckled. "I try...now, don't move, I only just learned this." Raising his hands, Shin's hands started to glow a soft green. Placing his hand on his friend's face he eased Sora's bruises and the bloody lip he had given him. It wasn't easy doing this jutsu, he was one of only four Ninja Monks to have learned it. Unlike Naruto, whose chakra control was poor, Shin had incredible control thanks to Sora and Chiriku's forced education. It was needed since, now that he had recovered a lot of weight and power, he had more chakra than anyone in the entire temple, having twice as much chakra as even Sora, whose reserves dwarfed even Chiriku's vast reserves.

Shin had learned a lot in the last three months, enough to where he was not one of the best fighters they had in the temple, just as good as Sora was! His taijutsu had blossomed until he was almost as good as Sora, with his defensive abilities being Sora's equal. He had mastered the first two steps of Wind Manipulation, learned the Gale palm and how to channel wind chakra into his weapons,.. which he had started to use a monk staff as his chosen weapon, and he was doing fairly well with that able to channel chakra into it for strength and to create gusts of wind.

Then there was sealing which he really enjoyed, having learned three barrier seals, corpse storing, binding seals to restrict movements, and how to make explosive tags. He also learned basic unsealing as well, nothing major but it was really fun. Thanks to his chakra control exercises, he could increase his speed and strength far more than ever before, not like Tsunade could but it was still impressive especially as he was physically the strongest person in the temple.

With his increased chakra levels, which were still no longer at his old level, he could create a very small rasengan.. but unlike Naruto, he could do it single handed and with ease. He guessed it was his vastly increased chakra control. Of his old powers, he could also now the replacement, which he really focused in since he remembered Kakashi kicking Naruto's butt with it. He also managed to do more then just the sexy jutsu, doing the regular transformation with perfect detail. The shadow clones were still beyond him.

The best thing was healing though, it was here he excelled above all things. He had mastered most chakra control exercises, learned all sorts of things on anatomy, botany and so on which led him to learn the mystic palm jutsu, in which he excelled. He chose that power since he no longer healed like he used to and he remembered what Kabuto and Tsunade could do, which he as Shin envied. He knew it saved his life, not just when Kabuto nearly killed him but when Sasuke nearly killed him. He could not and would not refute it's power and usefulness...

Shin could not believe how much he mastered in just three months. Who would know what he mastered in six months, a year, a decade! Naruto would never have gotten this far, partially as he never had a good teacher or people that cared about his growth...but also because Naruto wanted power immediately, he was never one to really work for it. He wanted fancy jutsu, he wouldn't study or learn the foundations. He wanted instant results and that just didn't work when you wanted to gain true strength, as Shin had learned.

"You've gotten good at that, just imagine a month, ago and you were frying fish with that jutsu!"

"Don't be an ass." They all laughed and relished in the simplicity of it all... too bad it was never to last. "One last spar? Then we can call it a day. Break the record?"

Sora nodded. "I'll kick your ass!"

They both hurried to the arena and readied themselves,... only for everything to go terribly wrong. It stared out fine, Sora moved, his arm low and ready to deliver a powerful strike, only for a massive chakra to explode from his body, red and potent it filled the world alongside Sora's scream. Chiriku and Shin both blasted back, knocked away by the power of it all.

Shin flipped back to his feet, recognizing it's power. "That's Kyuubi's power, how... that used to be in me... " He whispered and short towards his friend, his first and only friend, whose arm burst from it's bandages into a horribly mutated shape. Sora's body danced with red charka, thick and potent, and shaped like a fox. Shin grabbed his arm and immediately the chakra burned his flesh but he did not mind it. He ignored the screaming of the Monks rushing into the arena, their hatefilled eyes meant nothing, only Sora mattered.

Pulling Sora into a warm hug, he felt the chakra searing his flesh... and then it stopped and Sora's body felt cold, his own body feeling warmer and warmer. "Sora... just breathe with me..." He said, calm and soft, right in Sora's ear.

He heard a growl, then a whimper... and finally a soft sigh. " Thank you... Shin... " and slowly Sora fell into Shin's chest, his body as cold as ice and Shin knew why. He had read about Jinchuuriki, they were in the books among the Monk's libraries. They spoke of how they could not survive losing their Bjuu and somehow he had pulled out, siphoned the power of Kyuubi from Sora, a power he could still feel in his body.

He had killed his first friend.

"No... no... no!" Shin screamed, and he started pumping his hands against Sora's chest, the boy's body not responding. It was only here that Shin realized that he was covered in Kyuubi's chakra. " NO, I won't lose you, you're my only friend, my first real friend... please, Sora... don't go!" he screamed, sobbing harshly as his friend struggled to live...

After a few minutes, Chiriku's familiar hand landed on his shoulder, making Shin cry out. "He's gone... I am so sorry, Shin... but he's gone." Broken and lost, he threw himself into Chiriku's chest. The world spun around him and Kyuubi's chakra faded away entirely... his body still felt warm though, more at ease... brighter. Chiriku pulled him away, away from the idiots staring at him, away from the hatefilled eyes, away from Sora's body. " When... how... I was the vessel for Kyuubi, how does he, did he have this power?" Shin asked when they arrived in the medical bay.

Chiriku frowned. "You... how? How did you have it?"

"My name, before, was Naruto Uzumaki. I was born with the Kyuubi sealed into me by the Fourth Hokage. I was hated by the Leaf my entire life, neglected and mistreated by nearly everyone. Forced to live on my own at four... I had no friends, no love, no light..." He felt Kyuubi's power burning in his body, but not staying, it was evaporating from him, leaking out into the air, into nothingness... he knew, whatever it was, it held no mind unlike Kyuubi and would not be able to sustain itself without a seal to hold it fast. "Someone had to have sealed it within Sora, without a seal it would have merely faded away, like it is doing now in my body..." he pulled up his shirt and realized he no longer had what he now knew was the Eight Trigrams seal on his belly. "I am no longer a Jinchuuriki..."

Chiriku sighed. " I am sorry, my child... that tale, it hurts me to know another suffered as Sora had. I suspect it is why you bonded so much?" Shin nodded. "He will never be forgotten..."

"I can't stay here... not with them, those that hated Sora so much."

"I thought you might say that... how do you feel about a pilgrimage? To the other temples, to learn from them all, to use your healing powers to serve the world as the Sage of Six Paths was said to have done when he created out order?"

Shin smiled, a tear falling. "Sora wanted to go on a pilgrimage... can... can we cremate him? Can I carry his remains to the other temples, to help him travel?"

"I can arrange that."

"And can you never reveal my old name? I am Shin, I am no longer Naruto... not now, not anymore."

Chiriku looked at him for a long time. "I do not think you are just Naruto... You would have far greater chakra if you did. No, I think you are a clone, a literal clone created in some way by Orochimaru... I would, if I were you, go and check out where we found you. Go to Rice country for your first part of the pilgrimage... see what you can find. I am sure you can defend yourself, you are a powerful Chunin level Ninja."

"I need one more thing..."

"What is that?"

"A mask, to hide my face. Even with my longer hair, my whisker marks will give me away as being Naruto at one point, I am aiming for being free of my past self..."

"That can be done, my son... I will miss you, dearly. Do not forget to write."

"Never... and thank you, Chiriku, I will never forget your kindness."

"Nor I your dedication... oh and one last thing, in a year, once your sealing is strong enough, if you are truly an Uzumaki... go to the Land of Eddies, to your anscestoral home. You might find things that can aid you in protecting yourself, in reclaiming a new identity."

"Should I still go by Uzumaki?'

"Why not?"

"Shin Uzumaki... I like it... Believe it! "

Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.

This a lot of fun to write. Do you like his powers, his skills, his personality... I think he is awesome and I am basing him at least slightly on Sora, Asuma and Kazuma Sora's dad...

Love, your Ninja Overlord,

Mika.