A/N: I'm assuming that in the last chapter Naruto is around ten years old. Oh, and there might one major time jump later, or a few smaller ones, depends on my mood. And I may digress a bit off the plot, don't worry about it; I'll come back to it eventually.
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The bell rang…
For most kids, the end bell of the first day after summer break would be a time of relief and delight, as their parents came to pick them up form school. Uzumaki Naruto, however, was not 'most kids'. People hated him. Students hated him. Even his past three teachers hated him. This year, however, was different. This year, he had Iruka-sensei. Iruka-sensei was a kind person to him, he had actually taught him instead of ignoring him, or worse, throwing him out of the classroom like previous teachers did, and he didn't always leave through the door.
Now though, now, Naruto was learning, or trying to learn, bushins and kamiwari no jutsus, he was getting better at throwing his kunai and shruiken, he was learning how to be a shinobi! Such was Naruto's happy thoughts that he didn't notice the half-drunken crowd coming towards him.
For Naruto, it was a painful surprise as he was hoisted up by his shirt and thrown into the nearest alleyway. Crying as he hit the ground, Naruto turned around and saw the angry mob. It was always like this, people got drunk, they would see him, and they would beat him. It wasn't fair, you didn't see other kids get attacked like him, and he didn't even know why they were angry with him.
It was always worth a shot though, "Why are you doing this to me?"
"Because you're a demon!"
Figures, the usual answer, and the answer to almost every question he asked them. Knowing what was going to happen, and to weak to stop it, Naruto prepared himself for pain and curled into a fetal position. Then the pain came…
Those who lived next to the alley poked their heads out to complain about all the noise, once they saw that it was the demon getting his due, most nodded in a satisfied way, and drew their heads back in, some called out comments and advice on where or how to hit him, others just cut out the middle man and joining the mob. When they were done, they picked him up, waltzed right out of Konoha's walls, the gate guards mostly just looked the other way when they saw an unconscious Naruto, and pitched him into the forest.
Naruto landed with a loud crash as he landed in a small clearing. Most of the animals nearby ran away, some of the more adventurous started to examine him; some would have eaten him if it weren't for his protective red aura. One animal in particular felt himself drawn towards it…
When Naruto woke up, he was sitting against a tree. He felt better, there wasn't as much pain, and his wounds felt cool and comfortable. Looking at them, he saw herbs and medicinal plants on his wounds, some tied with fibers to keep them against his skin. Looking up, he saw that the clearing was full of foxes, all staring at him. That got him up faster than anything else, but corner against a tree, breathing hard, and having multiple wounds meant he wasn't going to be going anytime soon, so he stared back at the mob of foxes, trying to discern an answer for his fate. When they saw he was staring back, they all lowered their heads in what was unmistakably a bow.
"Huh? Owww" Naruto pressed his hand against his side, where it started to bleed again. Sitting down, he felt a furry head press against his hand, looking up, some of the foxes had left, and carried back leaves or herbs, most of which Naruto didn't recognize. The fox at his side was pulling the fiber rope off and gently lifting the huge leaf off his side, exposing a very bloody wound. Kindly, almost motherly, she chewed some of the new herbs up then spat it on his wound to make a paste that she spread around with her paws before covering it again with a fresh leaf and retying the fibers.
Throughout the entire operation, Naruto had been looking at the motherly fox with wondrous eyes and thinking in the back of his head, How is this happening? He certainty didn't expect an answer of, What; you think foxes, master tricksters and pranksters, don't know how to tie a simple knot?
Looking around frantically he yelled, "Who said that?"
I did
"Where are you?"
Sounding amused, Inside of you kit, where else would I be?
Quieting down a bit, "What the hell do you mean in me, and who the hell are you?"
Still sounding amused, First off, the Yondaime, for which I am forever grateful, sealed me in you, and second, I'm the Kyubbi.
Hearing this, Naruto exploded, "WHAT THE HELL! THE KYUBBI WAS KILLED BEFORE I WAS BORN!"
Actually, the Kyubbi was mistakenly thought to be killed on the exact day you were born, and I wasn't killed, I was sealed into a newborn babe, you.
"Why would the Yondaime do that? I remember that the Kyubbi tried to destroy Konoha," starting to cry as he realized something, "So that's why I was called a demon, but why me? Did the Yondaime hate me or something?"
In about as soothing a tone as a demon could, the Kyubbi answered, No, the Yondaime loved you, loved you and your mother, hell, he should have anyway, he was your father! And he sealed me into you because I was under the control of a jutsu; I was actually the Yondaime's best friend, well, best non-human friend. He didn't want to destroy me, so I was left to live, inside the body of his child.
"Well," Naruto challenged the Kyubbi, "How do I know you're not lying? You could just be trying to trick me into letting you out."
First off kit, this seal the Yondaime put on you is unbreakable, it is designed to let a body house two souls without destroying the body by forcing the souls to mix. In other words, your soul and mine are now pretty much one and the same, so when you die, I will be carried off to the next world with you, so I believe I have a pretty good reason in wanting to have you live as long as you can. On the plus side however, as you are the original owner and thus, controller of this body, you get to use, not only your chakra, but mine as well, and let me tell you a secret, my demonic chakra is way more potent than your human chakra, which means that where you might need, say, a hand full of your chakra, you only need a about a finger full of mine.
"What the hell does that mean?"
Sounding exasperated, It means that if our chakra capacity are the same-which they aren't-and we both do the same jutsu over and over again until we run out of chakra, I can do the jutsu three times as many times as you can. More on that later, I think you should let my people leave, extended bowing is not good for a fox's head you know.
"How do I do that?"
Just tell the queen here that they can leave; she's the one that patched you up.
"Er, excuse me, um, madam fox?" The Queen of Foxes look up at him, "Um, You can go now, I'll be fine. Thank you for your attention." She bowed one more time, then turned towards her subjects, yelped a few times, and then bounded off into the forest with the rest of them.
Trying to get up, Naruto found that the wounds on his legs, which had started to heal, started to bleed again from the last time he got up. "Owww…"
Here's a gift from me to you, you'll be ok now kit…
With those words, Naruto found that his wounds hurt even less now, then they stopped hurting at all, peeling off his make-shift bandages, Naruto stared, his skin was unbroken, like he had never been hurt at all, not even a scar to show where there had been and injury. He had always healed rather fast compared to other kids, but he had always thought that that was a result of having all those rocks thrown at him in the past. Now, an open wound that was bleeding to the point that he fainted from blood loss was closed in a matter of seconds. Getting up and walking back to Konoha's gates, he started to smile, and then grin, the prospect of having a demon inside of you was starting to look better and better.
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"What do you mean, you won't let me in?"
"Exactly that demon brat," answered a gate guard nastily, "you can go anywhere you like, just not back to Konoha."
"What! But I need to get home," when pleading didn't work, Naruto switched to whining, "I'm hungry, I'm tired, it's dark, and I want to go home and sleep."
"SHUT UP!" The gate guard had had about enough of this Kyubbi brat Damn Kyubbi, why didn't you get eaten like a good little demon, eh? Huh, even the animals are afraid of that one, hate to be the one to let a demon back inside of Konoha for another massacre, even if it is just a twelve year old kid. Backhanding him, the guard knocked him down a few feet. Walking over, he pulled out a kunai and said, "Well, if the animals of the forest won't eat you alive, you demon, how…about…dead."
At those last three words, the guard turned Naruto over, with every intention of slitting the boy's throat, until he saw the eyes. Those eyes were those of a demon, red, with slits instead of pupils. Dropping the kunai from shock, the demon's hand snaked out and grabbed it before it hit the ground, then released a large amount of killing intent. At that, the guard gave a cry of terror, and tried to scramble away before getting frozen from sheer terror.
"Demon am I? Maybe you should see just how demonic I can be!" With those words, Naruto/Kyubbi released a controlled burst of demonic chakra, engulfing the poor guard but keeping it shielded from Konoha and any annoying shinobis that might investigate. Creating a small dome shield of demonic chakra, Naruto/Kyubbi looked at the unfortunate guard inside with him, gave a very sinister grin, and said, "Well now, this is an interesting predicament, you, and me, both in a sound-proofed barrier, where no one can hear your screams for help."
Hey, don't hurt him. Yelled Naruto's consciousness from deep within his mind.
Don't worry, I won't touch neither hide nor hair of him, just scare him a little.
Forcing the guard to look at him, Naruto/Kyubbi forced him into a terrifying genjutsu, and the guard started a soundless scream in terror, his eyes rolled up into his head, he turned pale as a ghost, then he fell down and curled up into a fetal position and started to mumble gibberish. Withdrawing his chakra Naruto/Kyubbi started to walk farther down the wall, while the other guard, now free from the killing intent, rushed to his friend's side.
Yelling after the boy demon, he said, "Hey, you demon! What did you do to him?"
Turning around, the other guard froze slightly as he looked into Naruto/Kyubbi's eyes as he radiated a slight killing intent, "Don't worry, he'll be fine in a few days, he just needs to recover a bit from the genjutsu I put on him, though he might be frightened of small noises for a few months." Pasting Naruto's traditional fox grin with an additional demonic twist to it, Naruto/Kyubbi turned back and walked farther, always next to the wall, until he turned a corner and was out of sight of the frozen guard.
Relaxing again after the kid turned the corner, the guard picked up his radio and spoke into it, " I have a guard down with me at the North gate, requesting Medic-nins."
"crackle Request received, two medic-nins coming your way."
The medic-nins came several minutes later, as they turned him over, they saw his face and blanched. The guard's face was pale as a ghost, and his eyes unnaturally looked like those of a Hyuuga's, to top it off, his lips were mumbling incoherently, and he refused to lie down, always curled up into a fetal position. One of them breathed, "Kami-sama, who or what under the stars did this to him?"
Smiling grimly, the guard answered, "The Kyubbi brat."