A week later and still there had been no reaction from Naruto. Sasuke had finally woken up and was allowed to leave the hospital two days ago. He had to have supervision and the Hokage had entrusted Sakura do that job. He mostly stayed at the Uchiha compound or walked around with Sakura in the park. The adults that had talked to Kyubi were on edge today. It was exactly one week since the boy had been brought to Konoha so they knew that if the merge were to finish it would definitely be today.

" Well we'll see you later cry-baby." Temari said to Shikamaru who had escorted them to the entrance gates.

" Yeah right, I hope I don't see you for a long time." Shikamaru replied and smiled

" Whatever we know you have a thing for my…" Kankurou started but was stopped by Gaara's hand over his mouth

" IF you value you life you will not continue that sentence." Gaara stated, " I still feel like something is wrong and we should not leave quite yet."

" Come on bro we need to get back to Suna. For all we know they already have a new Kazekage and believe your dead." Kankurou said

" If they have done that the ones responsible will not like to meet my new friend." Gaara said smirking

" Why do I have the feeling I don't want to know the answer to this? Ok, I know I'm going to regret this. Who is your new friend?" Kankurou asked

" Shukaku." Gaara said

" WHAT?" the three gather around him shouted

" I thought Akatsuki took him from you?" Shikamaru asked

" They took the monk, who tried to use his powers for evil. Not the Shukaku, he's actually nice. He reminds me of Naruto. Well we came to an understanding. He'd let me sleep if I let him out every once and a while during fight or spars, so I agreed." Gaara said

" So if anyone in Suna goes against you you'll use Shukaku?" Shikamaru questioned

" No, if anyone pisses me off I'll use him." Gaara answered

" Comforting thought for the day. Ok, I'll see you guys later." Shikamaru said and started to walk off.

It was at this time that Gaara felt a strong spike in a familiar chakra. He turned around and looked towards the hospital.

" Gaara what's wrong?" Temari who had stopped walking questioned him

" We are staying until I say otherwise. Something's going on and I'm troubled by it. Suna can wait a couple more days." Gaara replied and headed off towards the hospital.

Temari and Kankurou just shrugged and headed back towards their hotel. Temari was also able to catch Shikamaru and tell him her brother had changed his mind.

In the hospital Naruto had just woken up with the need for a major amount of ramen. When he noticed no one was in the room he started to head for the door. Of course he didn't get too far when he collapsed by his bed in excruciating pain and then passed out. During that time a red glow could be seen were Naruto had collapsed after ten minutes the glow diminished and everything in the room went dead quiet. Iruka, who had gone to get some lunch for him and Naruto, just in case he had woken up, had finally retuned and saw Naruto wasn't in the bed started to panic.

" Naruto?" Iruka questioned waiting for an answer

What he heard was a low moan coming from the other side of the bed. As he rounded the corner he couldn't believe what he saw. What Iruka saw was a golden nine-tailed fox, but no Naruto. The fox hearing someone near him looked up and saw Iruka.

" Iruka-sensei?" It questioned

" Naruto?" Iruka said surprised, but also confused

" What's wrong Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked seeing that the person he considered a father was now crying

" Oh Naruto. He didn't think it would happen, but it did." Iruka responded and picked Naruto off the floor and put him on the bed

" He who?" Naruto asked and then noticed something swish out of the corner of his eye.

Naruto was still somewhat groggy and looked around and saw the nine tails and golden fur. This woke him up. Looking at the rest of him he noticed he was now a nine-tailed fox. This caused Naruto to panic.

" Iruka-sensei what's going on?" Naruto asked, but no reply came

While Naruto had been looking himself over his former sensei had left the room to go get Tsunade.

" He left me! HE LEFT ME! He's afraid of me now. Now I really am the Kyubi what am I going to do?" Naruto asked himself

He was so upset he had buried himself under the covers of his bed and started doing something he hadn't done since he was little, cry.

" I don't know what to do. Now everyone is really going to hate me for what I am." He said crying

It was then he heard a number of loud footsteps coming down the hall.

" Here they come. They're going to come in here and chase me out of the hospital and the village. For something that wasn't even my fault." Naruto said

The door opened an all the adults came into the room. Once Iruka had entered the Hokage's office and said it had happened everyone moved quickly. I wasn't until they got to the hospital that Iruka was finally able to tell them what had happened.

" Close the door." Tsunade told Shizune, " Where is he Iruka?"

" I don't know I put him on the bed and then left after that." Iruka explained

" You left without telling him anything. He's probably scared to death by now." Tsunade said

" I'm sorry, but I didn't know what to do. He's my little brother too you know." Iruka answered

It was at that time they all heard sobbing coming from underneath the sheets. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief that Naruto had not left and was still in the room. Tsunade walked up to the bed and pulled off the covers that had been Naruto's hiding spot. What they saw was a nine-tailed golden fox with it's paws over it face crying. The sight caused all the adults to feel pity for the boy.

" Naruto." Tsunade said comfortingly

" Go away." Naruto replied trying to swat her away with one of his paws

" Now you know I can't do that. I need to talk to you." She answered comfortingly

" Just go away. I know you all are afraid of me. Iruka-sensei practically ran out of here. I know I'm a monster. Just let me rest for a bit more and I'll leave the village and go far away from here." He said

" Now what make you think Iruka-sensei is scared of you? If he were he wouldn't be in here right now and if you leave I'm going with you the only reason I'm Hokage of this village is because of you." She told the boy

Naruto had now calmed down and removed his paws from his face and looked at her.

" Ah now there you go. And those pretty blue-eyes of your haven't changed a bit." She said, " You ok now?"

Naruto nodded his head

" Good." She said

" Itai! Geeze Obaa-chan what did you do that for?" Naruto asked running his paw on he head

" For making me worry. I thought you had run away when we didn't see you in the room." Tsunade explained

" It'll probably be better if I did." Naruto said

" Why do you say that Naruto?" Kakashi asked

" Look at me! I really can't go prancing outside anytime soon. I'll be dead when the first ninja sees me." Naruto said

" Either that or give everyone a heart-attack." Jiraiya said jokingly

Tsunade didn't find it funny and sent Jiraiya through the wall. Unfortunately for him the wall went strait outside and Naruto's room was on the top floor. After the crash and Kakashi looking out the window to see of Jiraiya survived the fall they heard a knock on Naruto's hospital room door.

" Sorry, but Naruto's sleeping right now." Shizune told the person

" Then let me talk to Kyubi." The voice said

Everyone was surprised at the answer. Iruka went and looked out the door and saw Gaara.

"Kazekage-sama." Iruka said surprised

" Let me in." Gaara said

" I'm sorry but…" Iruka was interrupted

" Let him in Iruka-sensei." Naruto told him

" But Naruto..." Iruka asked

" He already knows." Naruto responded

Gaara walked in and saw Naruto sitting in his be in the nine-tailed form.

" Hi, Gaara." Naruto said and raised a paw for greeting

" Figured Shukaku told me huh?" Gaara asked him

" Figured that would be the only reason you asked for Kyubi." Naruto said now ignoring everyone else in the room.

" Yes, well I guess you're not as dumb as you act most of the time." Gaara replied

" Hey, now that was a low blow and you know it." Naruto said upset Gaara just smirked

Kakashi decided to remind them of everyone else in the room, by coughing.

" Oh sorry." Naruto said

" Right Gaara you can stay, but I need to talk to Naruto now. So please don't interrupt." Tsunade said

" As you wish." Gaara replied

" Naruto I need to tell you what happened and why you look like Kyubi. I'm sure he told you about the Kyubi no Gappei after battle with Orochimaru." Tsunade started, Naruto just nodded.

" Good then I'll make this short. You are now the Nine-tailed Demon Lord and have all of Kyubi's powers. Before you ask I don't know why you look like a nine-tailed fox. Kyubi said it shouldn't have happened because your body couldn't handle it. But of course this proves him wrong." Tsunade explained pointing at Naruto

" Well duh." Naruto responded

" Anyways right now I don't know how to change you back, so you're going to have to stay at my house until I can figure a way to reverse this. Once we get you back to normal I'm going to take you to your dad's compound and you can choose weather or not you want to stay there. Got it?" Tsunade finished forgetting all about the Kyubi Bunshin left in Naruto's mindscape, Naruto nodded again

"Ok, Iruka I want you and the Kazekage to take Naruto to my house. I'm going to have a major headache in a few hours. I want you to watch him until I get home. No visitor unless it's Gaara's siblings or one of us in this room. Got it?" Tsunade told the two

They nodded and Iruka was going to pick Naruto up to transport him to the house, but Naruto got up and jumped onto the floor. It was then that they noticed how big Naruto was in his Kyubi form. He was the size of a large wolf. Gaara decided it would be better if he transported them using his sand and the three were gone.

" Alright, the rest of you meet me in my office in five minutes." Tsunade said, " Kakashi go get the sukebe and tell him if he's not in my office in five minutes he won't have to worry about writing anymore Icha Icha's because he won't be a man anymore."

Kakashi gulped nodded and went downstairs to tell the Frog-sennin the Hokage's message.

" Right I want each of you to go and get people I tell you to get. I'm going to have an emergency meeting with all top people in Konoha. Kakashi I want you to go and tell the Anbu, Shizune go find Ibiki and the other interrogators, Iruka go get all the heads of the family's and Jiraiya go get the elders make sure you have Omura and Koharu. If the other won't come it's fine. Tell them I'm having an emergency meeting and everyone is to be here in one hour. Dismissed." With that the four disappeared from Tsunade's sight, " Now to figure out how to tell them what happened."

" That is the last time I ride by sand. I think it's everywhere. Gaara I don't see how you don't have it all over you." Naruto said knocking sand out of his fox ears

" I do have it all over me. Don't you remember my battle with Rock Lee and my Sand Shield." Gaara answered

" Oh right I forgot." Naruto said

" Well we might as well get comfortable I have a feeling we're going to be here a while." Iruka said

" Why do you say that Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked

" Didn't you hear what the Hokage said? She's going to have a big headache." Iruka told Naruto

" Yeah, so?" Naruto said

" She's probably gathering the major people in Konoha to tell them about you, Kyubi and your current situation." Iruka said

" WHAT! She can't do that. I have a right to keep this to myself." Naruto said upset

" You have the right to not tell anyone that you are now a wolf-sized nine-tailed fox?" Gaara asked

" Ok, Ok I know." Naruto said

" Well while we are waiting how about I fix us up some lunch. Gaara is Ramen ok with you?" Iruka asked

" What's Ramen?" Gaara asked while Iruka was getting the bowls out of the cabinet.

This question caused him to drop the bowls and break them.

" WHAT? You don't know what ramen is?" Naruto questioned his friend. Gaara just shook his head.

" Iruka-sensei get the big bowl for him. We are introducing this poor deprived vessel to Ramen and make sure it's Tanuki style." Naruto said grinning

Gaara was just confused but Shukaku loved the new nine-tailed lord.

Everyone was now gathered in Tsunade's office and she was ready to tell them all that had happened. Though she kept of thinking there was something she had forgotten, but put it in the back of her mind.

" Ok everyone if you could quiet down I'd like to start this meeting and explain what's going on." Tsunade started

At that the occupants of the room started to take a seat on one of the many chairs that were now in the room.

" Right, as everyone probably knows by now Uchiha Sasuke is back in Konoha and is back to normal. I determined with some help that the cursed seal Orochimaru had placed on him was poisoning his chakra and making him insane. While battling him Uzumaki Naruto was able to remove the cursed seal and bring Sasuke back." Tsunade was now interrupted with a murmur of people talking, " In addition after battling Sasuke and rendering him unconscious he battled both Orochimaru and Kabuto and killed them." This caused the group to erupt into a roar

" There is now way that kid could kill both Orochimaru and Kabuto at the same time." One ninja from the interrogation team said

" It is if he got some help from a friend." Tsunade replied and everyone stopped talking, "Yes, Naruto used the Kyubi's powers and was able to defeat them but at a cost."

" Who cares if he's dead good riddance. The demon has been nothing but trouble since the day he attacked." Another interrogator said

Next sight was the man being held by his collar off the ground by Ibiki himself.

" Only a fool wouldn't recognize that the child and the Kyubi are two different creatures. That the boy has fought numerous time for this village and almost died. He is a greater hero than any of us ever hope to be because of having the Kyubi in him." Ibiki told his now former subordinate

" Not any more." Came from Tsunade

" What do you mean Hokage-sama?" Hiashi asked

" While battling with Orochimaru and Kabuto, Naruto and Kyubi performed what they called Kyubi no Gappei. In essence Naruto had now absorbed all of Kyubi's powers. In addition Orochimaru informed Naruto of who his father was." She explained

" Like we care." Came from the man still being held off of the ground

" Oh you should. The only people who have ever know his identity is the elders, Jiraiya and Hokage's. His father is the one that placed the Kyubi in him. The Yondaime himself." Tsunade added

" You lie." The man said

" No she doesn't we were afraid Stone or Orochimaru would find out about the boy and try to kill him for revenge, so we kept his father name and the Kyubi a secret. Even though he found out about the Kyubi he had never known about his father." Elder Koharu explained," The Kyubi is dead then?"

" Yes and No." Tsunade answered, " Kyubi is dead, but Naruto has now been forced to take his place as the new Nine-tailed Demon Lord. If any attack happens to my brother and I find out who was responsible you will not live to see another sunrise. That is all I wish to say. Anbu and Hiashi I need you to stay for a little while longer."

At that everyone cleared out of the Hokage's office except for Kakashi, Shizune, Jiraiya, the Anbu and Hyuuga Hiashi.

" Ok, Anbu I want two of you to stay at my house. Currently Iruka and the Kazekage are there with Naruto. If you see Naruto leave him just follow him. Don't interfere unless he's in danger." Tsunade explained

" How will we know it's him?" the Panda Anbu asked

" You won't be able to miss him believe me." Tsunade replied

With that the Anbu left her presence

" Hiashi I wish to know if you still have the key to the room in Arashi's compound." Tsunade asked, " Yes you wish to let the boy live there now since he knows." Hiashi asked

" Yes" Tsunade said

" Very well I'll have Hinata bring it when she comes for medical-nin training in the morning. I believe she's going to tell him soon her feelings." Hiashi stated

" Are you alright with it?" Tsunade questioned

" He's the son of my best friends. Even I he's merged with the Kyubi his heart will not have change." Hiashi replied and left

Itai – Ouch

Obaa-chan - Grandmother

Sukebe - Pervert