The afternoon after the first exam found Naruto splayed on the grass in the meadow of his personal training area, seemingly asleep. In the depths of his mind, Naruto was having a discussion with Kyuubi, complaining about taijutsu practice. "Awww, c'mon Kyuubi! Teach me a cool jutsu! You said you owed me!"

"For the tenth time today, once you defeat your own blood clone! I will teach you nothing until you can defeat one measly blood clone."

"How can I do that if it can take so much more damage than me! We both fight the same but the damage I do to it doesn't seem to affect it nearly as much as it did to me!"

"I know that! But you should at least be able to defeat it using shadow clones!"

At this point, Naruto stared at Kyuubi with his mouth open. "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME I COULD USE JUTSUS!"

"You didn't ask, brat." Replied Kyuubi.

Letting out a few choice curse words, Naruto continued to mumble as be reawakened in the real world. Going through the seals as his wristbands slit his wrist, he yelled out, "Ketsueki Bunshin no Jutsu!" The blood formed into a clone as it always did. Once this was done, they nodded at each other and the fight began.

The blood clone created a staff, Naruto's favourite weapon, and got into stance. The real Naruto went into a set of seals and spoke, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" As 20 Narutos were summoned, the real Naruto formed a staff and mirrored the blood clone's stance.

As the two forces dashed at each other, the blood clone fended off the shadow clones of Naruto, only to be swatted by the staff of the real Naruto. As this went on, the shadow clones were dispatched within the first 10 minutes, but left the blood clone with a lot of damage. Suddenly, Naruto had a flash of brilliance. He leapt away from the clone and swung the stick as if to hit him. Knowing that the attack would obviously miss, the blood clone took the chance to try and use the Ketsueki Ijutsu: Iyasu. Unfortunately, the staff extended and hit the clone across the head, disrupting the seal sequence.

The real Naruto, seeing his attempt succeed, began to experiment with other weapons. He swung his staff and extended to reach his clone. As his bloody counterpart blocked at the midsection of the original's staff with his own, Naruto willed the staff to become a scythe as he pulled back. Immediately, the scythe blade burst out of the tip of the staff. The clone separated from his arms by the new attack. Incapable of independent thought, the clone could only defend and heal as Naruto tried various transformations of his blood weaponry. After going through everything from a katana to extending claws and mixtures of half weapons, the blood clone could take no more. It collapsed into a puddle of blood and vaporized.

'Excellent Naruto! You have come up with the same fighting form as my predecessor without my help! I, however, was never able to use that ability to the fullest, but I believe that you would be able to. Now, I believe you've earned your new jutsu. However, I think that will have to wait.'

At this moment, the Sandaime chose to stop concealing his presence, surprising Naruto. He walked into the meadow clapping. "Very good Naruto! Is that what you've been doing after your meetings with Team 7?"

"Ho-Hokage-ojisan! Wh-what are you doing here!" stuttered Naruto. As an after thought, he added, "And how did you know about my training sessions?"

"Kakashi told me that you've been acting strangely lately. So, what was that you were doing before? I've never seen any jutsu like it!"

Immediately, Naruto yelled at Kyuubi in his head, 'What do I do! What do I do! What do I do!'

'There is nothing we can do to cover it up. Don't worry about it. The Sandaime Hokage is reasonable. I believe he is worthy of knowing the truth.'

"Err… Hokage-sama, if I tell you, do you promise to keep it a secret?"

'Hokage-sama? What happened to Hokage-ojisan?' thought Sandaime. "Of course Naruto-kun."

At this point, Naruto told everything that had happened since the battle of the bridge. The hokage was speechless by the end of it, especially the part about Kyuubi having been given a body to roam the forest with. 'Is the Kyuubi speaking the truth? Hmmm…his story about Orochimaru most definitely has a ring of truth to it…'

"Alright Naruto-kun. I believe you. I want to speak with the Youkai in your stomach. Can you summon up that blood clone of yours?"

Although he was slightly worried, Naruto obliged. When the blood clone stood before him once again, he gave it over to Kyuubi. The blood clone promptly morphed into a chibified nine tailed fox. "Good day, Hokage-sama." Said Kyuubi.

"Good day Kyuubi-san. It's a pleasure to meet a true Youkai."

"Don't try to flatter me, Hokage-sama. You are obviously skeptical of my story. It is written all over your face. What is it that you called me out for?"

"I'm sorry Kyuubi-san. You are right. I don't fully believe you, but I'm willing to except your story for now. I wanted to know the name of the woman who my wayward pupil murdered."

At this, Naruto's eyes widened in shock. 'That bastard Orochimaru is the Sandaime's pupil?'

"The woman's name is Kuchiki Haruka. If there is nothing else, I would like to continue the training of my heir."

"Thank you Kyuubi-san. Haruka-chan's murder remained unsolved for over 12 years. I needed to know the truth. I will take up no more of your time. Goodbye Kyuubi-san, Naruto-kun. Keep up the hard work." With that, the Hokage walked off. Kyuubi turned around to face Naruto and said, "The fact that Orochimaru is Sandaime's former pupil is not important or relevant. That he's an evil that the world would do better without is the important thing. Now, since you've defeated your clone, I guess I have to make good on my promise and teach you a new technique."

"Yay! New technique!" exclaimed Naruto, all previous matters forgotten. "This isn't a blood jutsu. It is a summoning jutsu. As I have told you before, I was the first Hokage's father's fox summon. Just so happens I was the boss summon. Since I have not died, I still am the boss of the foxes. I will now give you the fox contract."

This said, Kyuubi opened his mouth and coughed up a small scroll. As Naruto opened it, he saw only 2 other names on it. "Eh? There's only two names."

"That's because my former master was the second one to gain this contract and no one else ever got it after I became the Youkai of the blood. Now, sign it in blood."

Naruto complied and right after he was done, the fox rolled it up and swallowed it again. "The seals are Sheep, Dog, Boar, Monkey, Bird and Hare. Just do the seals and place the hand you signed the contract with on the ground and it will summon a fox. Try it now"

Naruto did the seals and slammed the ground. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Unfortunately, the summon that came out was a small kit. As cute and fluffy as it was, it would be no use in battle unless it was a sparring match with Sakura. "Naruto… THAT'S PATHETIC! Gather as much chakra as you can and control it better or a lot of it will just dissipate instead of calling forth a strong summon. You may go now Hana."

The chibi fox yipped and poofed away. Naruto grumbled and gathered as much chakra as he has and summoned again. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Poof! This time, he was greeted with a fox slightly larger than a normal fox and sporting two tails. "Who are you?" asked the fox. "No one has been able to summon us since Kyuubi-sama took the position of Youkai of the Blood."

As it turned to see his surroundings, he saw Kyuubi. "Ky-kyuubi-sama! What are you doing here?"

"Not bad this time Naruto. I had not expected you to be able to summon a fox capable of combat without my chakra. However, in a real situation, I would have given you chakra to summon with. As for you Suyo, I want you to tell all of the others that I have let this young man sign our contract. If he ever summons you, you will do as he says. Got it?"

"Yes sir! I'll go right now!" Said Suyo. With that, he poofed away. Naruto was exhausted, so he just sat there and fell asleep. Kyuubi turned and walked off in to the forest, his tails melding together as he went.


Jutsu:

Ketsueki Bunshin no Jutsu Blood Replication Skill

Original jutsu for the chosen of the blood. It can make up to 3 clones max. Each clone takes a minimum of a quarter of Naruto's blood. They can all do only blood jutsus, no normal ones. Then can morph into any shape. Its healing capabilities surpass even Naruto's real body. It's really weak against chakra attacks and takes five times the chakra to maintain one as it does to maintain a Kage Bunshin.

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu Shadow Replication Skill

Recreates the user as many times as he wants, provided he uses the needed amount of chakra. The chakra in the body is divided equally so it is a very tiring skill but it is good enough to fool advanced eyes like the Byakugan. These clones can use the chakra in them to use jutsus (I think they should be able to so I will make them so)

Ketsueki ijutsu: iyasu Blood Healing Arts: Heal

Original jutsu created for the chosen of the blood. All that is necessary is to cover the wound in Naruto's blood and the blood will mend the wounds as long as it isn't too serious. It can be used on the user or some one else. If it is used on Naruto, it can be powerful enough to reattach a limb! On anyone else though, it will only stop the wound from getting worse. It can heal burns and other physical wounds.

Kuchiyose no Jutsu Summoning Skill

Summons whatever you have a contract with. Size, power and ability of the summon depends on the chakra used.