I'm back and I got a whole new chapter for yah. Now this one has a semi-slow begining like all my chapters but it picks up getting into some good stuff. I hope this is what you were all waiting for. Thank you to those who reviewed and I hope you enjoy.

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Kyuubi"

(Standard Disclaimer)

Chapter 6: The Shark, the Weasel, and the Fox

For the next few days after learning the secret to his kitsune fire abilities Naruto spent it at the training fields hidden far behind the Inuzuka household practicing and perfecting his own technique to use. He had still kept up with his scroll studies and his evening lessons with Kyuubi but now his mind was more focused on the goal ahead.

When they weren't on missions and had a few hours of free time Kiba and Akamaru accompanied Naruto to the grounds to help him train his abilities. This also allowed them to teach him a few Inuzuka clan techniques since he was living with them. They had to teach in secret but they found that, just like with him and his studies with Kyuubi, Naruto picked up incredibly quickly.

When Kiba and Akamaru had to leave Naruto would continue his training but with no one to spar with he had grown increasingly bored. The logs would just fall apart as if they were made of balsa wood rather then heavy oak. The only other thing he could work on was his speed but with Kyuubi's body that was more then easy.

On the fifth day of his self induced training Naruto took some time off to rest. He lazily walked along the training fields of Konoha knowing that going anywhere near the village was an untimely death waiting to happen. Little did he know what he was doing just now might warrant him the exact same fate.

Naruto yawned and looked for a place to rest and that's when he suddenly noticed it. He smiled with a little nostalgia to himself as he wandered into the training fields of his old team, team 7. He sighed as he looked at the three poles, long ago replaced but the spots in which they stood held more significance then anything before.

This was where they had passed the bells test, this was where they had first become a team. This is where they met before missions while waiting hours on end for that lazy pervert to show up. This is where he ran to just before the chunnin exams. This was where she found him and gave him the little confidence she had so he could continue on.

He smiled to himself and sighed in a fox way as he walked to the poles, running his paw over one of them in remembrance. "N-Naruto-kun?" Came a shy and stuttering voice from behind him that he could tell in an instant that it was the girl that he had just been thinking about. He turned his fox head to see the pale eyed girl looking at him then to the training poles.

Naruto scooted a few inches over and patted the ground next to him with one of his tails as an invitation for Hinata to sit which she obviously accepted. She walked over and quietly sat next to him as he looked up to her with a questioning gaze.

She caught his gaze and began quietly, "I-I was just," she took a side glance and Naruto who was in rapt attention to her which caused her to blush but she gulped down her nervousness and continued with, "t-the clan has b-been upset w-with me ever s-since I l-lost to my s-sister. S-sometimes I c-can't handle t-their stares s-so I come h-here to t-think."

Naruto saw the deep look of sadness in her pale eyes and did what came to his instinct, he wrapped his tails around her in a comforting embrace. Hinata's eyes immediately switched from sadness to pure shock, so much so that she nearly fainted but held her head together slowly getting used to Naruto's warm tails wrapped around her.

She could smell his scent perforating from the furry appendages, it smelled like the deep forest with a hint of ramen. She sighed with a serene look on her face and began to pet Naruto's tails absentmindedly, sending the fox boy deeper into the state of comfort that he had entered the moment he surrounded Hinata with his tails.

Naruto with his enhanced nose could pick up Hinata's scent easily and to him it smelt wonderful. It was a light scent of lilacs with a small hint of something he couldn't quite place but none the less it led him into an incredibly relaxed state.

"Aw how sweet, fox demon and his girl sharing a moment. So sorry to break it up but the fox is coming with us," came a gruff voice that broke both Naruto and Hinata from their dazes. They reluctantly broke apart and stood up in a flash facing the last two people Naruto wanted to see right now.

The two that faced them now were none other then Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame of the Akatsuki. Naruto growled loudly as he locked eyes with infamous sharingan of Itachi but at this moment Itachi found it a waste of his energy to use any jutsu so he motioned for Kisame.

Kisame looked down at Itachi who muttered only one thing, "he's all yours..." At this Kisame grinned with demonic intent and drew his blade, Samehada, into the fray. "Hear that kid, it's you against me," Kisame paused as he took a few practice swings with his blade, "try to make this interesting ok?"

Hinata was in shock at what was happening, here were two S-ranked criminals after her Naruto. She couldn't let this drop, no way in hell, no matter how shy she was there is a point where she'll get defensive. However before she could leap into action with her Byakugan and Juken style Naruto's tail encircled her waist and gently pushed her away, silently telling her to run.

She looked down at Naruto who made a simple head gesture to leave then sprung into battle, leaving her torn between running and staying to help.

Kisame laughed and said, "ah this is going to be fun after all. A golden fuzz ball protecting what's his. Kinda brings a tear to your eye, NOT!" Kisame launched at Naruto his sword raised for a powerful strike. Hinata's eyes widened in fear while her cheeks burned with a blush from what Kisame had said.

Kisame brought his blade down on where Naruto should have been only to see the ground beneath his blade but no bloody fox. "Eh? Where is that demon," Kisame wondered out loud as he pulled his sword from the ground causing the bandages that were attached to the blade to rip revealing the 'blade' in all its gory glory.

Hinata gasped as Kisame's sword was ripped from it's bandages and it showed its true nature but that was nothing compared to what was darting from the forest to Kisame's back.

Kisame smirked and raised his sword to block the claw attack Naruto attempted from his back. "Nice try fox but I'm stronger," Kisame said as he held his sword against Naruto's claws. Naruto growled angrily and with a powerful blast Kisame's sword was thrown far away, the remaining bandages on it ablaze with dark red flames. Kisame backed up a few paces in surprise allowing Naruto to find an opening.

He darted faster then the wind and shoulder tackled Kisame in the stomach, letting off another blast of his fox flames at just the right moment to send Kisame skidding backwards along the ground, most of his Akatsuki cloak burned to a crisp.

Kisame stumbled back a bit then turned to the side narrowly avoiding another tackle explosion by Naruto. Kisame grabbed the scruff of Naruto's neck midair and spun him quickly, sending him flying across the ground. Naruto skidded to a stop them turned to face the shark man with killing intent in his fox like cerulean eyes.

Kisame held still for a few moments, the shadows of the day casting their darkness over his face. He raised his head to reveal a sick smile on his shark like face and a murderous glint in his eyes. He let loose a haunting laugh and screamed to the heavens, "Finally! A challenge!"

He grabbed the remaining pieces of his cloak and threw his arms out from his sides revealing the sleeveless flak armor he wore under his cloak. With a sick laugh he clasped his hands together in preparation.

Kisame began a series of quick hand seals and finished as he plunged his hand into the ground with the cry of, "SUITON: KYUUSUI!" Suddenly the earth began to tremble and Kisame removed his hand from the hole he had created only to reveal a gushing geyser of clear water. In no time the geyser had filled the training field in a deep level of water causing all who were in the area to channel chakra into their feet to stay afloat.

'Crap this isn't good,' Naruto thought as he channeled chakra into his paws. "Yah think kid! This body is fire based so in other words...WATER EQUALS BAD!" Kyuubi screamed in Naruto's mind completely missing the hand seals Kisame had created. "SUITON: SUIRYUDAN NO JUTSU!" Kisame called as a massive dragon made of water rose from his summoned water supply.

Naruto's eyes burst open and he began taking defensive measures to avoid the massive dragon now chasing him. Kisame smirked and made a new set of hand seals screaming out, "SUITON: SUKIODAN NO JUTSU!" This only increased the problems for Naruto as while he was running from the massive dragon of water, powerful blasts of water began to cut him off.

'SHIT!' Naruto thought as he dodged the blasts and the dragon with great effort and difficulty. Itachi noted Naruto's speed and concluded, the water blasts and dragon weren't going to be able to catch Naruto so he devised a plan nothing short of a cliche evil genius.

"Kisame," Itachi said with an evil glint in his eyes. "What is it Itachi I'm busy!" Kisame said keeping track of Naruto and timing his water blasts appropriately. "Water prison," Itachi said as he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kisame grinned forming the necessary hand seals and gathering the water.

Hinata hid behind the training logs the best she could so it was possible for her to see the fight and hide at the same time. In a flash her ninja reflexes kicked in and she went for a Juken back handed tenketsu shot. However her hand was caught by the wrist mid air with a mocking scoff. "To think you're the heiress of the great Hyuga clan," said a mocking voice as she turned her head to face Itachis blood red gaze.
"Kisame!" shouted a voice as through the air a small body was thrown into the battle zone. Kisame grinned his shark like grin and raised his water prison to accept the hostage. The girl flowed into the water prison easily then the prison closed up, leaving the girl a captive of Kisame's powers.

"Hey fox!" shouted Kisame with a mocking laugh, "look what I caught on the fly!" Kisame held up his water prison. Captured inside was Hinata, holding her breath to keep from drowning.

Naruto looked at Kisame then back to avoiding the water blasts, but he did a double take which threw off his agility allowing for several powerful water blasts and the water dragon to hit him head on sending him flying into the woods.

"Heh, kid loses his head over one girl...I'm going to enjoy this," Kisame said with a smirk as one of his water clones took over holding the girl in the prison allowing him to retrieve Samehada.

Naruto lay on the tree branch, his body battered with some bones under the skin fractured. He was also soaked to the bone but all this didn't matter in the least. The only thing he thought about at this moment was pure and simple, unimaginable revenge against the offender Kisame.

Naruto rose from his spot on the tree limb with difficulty and turned to face the approaching shark man and his clone with Hinata in a prison. 'HE WILL DIE!' thought Naruto as his chakra began to spike and his brain went on pure instinct, mending his bones and injuries as if nothing had happened. Then his mind began molding raw chakra into something spectacular.

"Come out, come out, where ever you are," Kisame called with a gravelly laugh. "R...ight...He...re..." came a distorted and animalistic growl from the forest. Kisame turned around just in time to block a burning whirlwind of claws and fangs with Samehada. The whirlwind deflected to the side and slowed to a stop revealing Naruto, his fur a blazing gold and waving behind him three tails of solid fur and one of red chakra.

"Oh no you don't!" Kisame called as he ran at Naruto with insane speed, swiping with Samehada. Naruto simply stood there and took the hit, only to blow up in a puff of smoke. "Kage Bunshin!" Kisame cried as he turned in surprise to one incredibly large and viciously spinning tornado that was heading right for his chest.

He rose Samehada to block the offensive strike and succeeded seconds before the whirlwind struck him dead in his chest. Kisame smirked as he watched the whirlwind's chakra begin to be drained by Samehada but something was amiss. As Kisame held the whirlwind at bay he felt as if Samehada was still being repeatedly attacked. 'What the hell is going on? If the kid keeps attacking, his chakra will be gone in seconds,' Kisame thought as he held Samehada with an iron grip.

The answer to his question came when on his 'safe' side of Samehada appeared the spinning head of Naruto and in his mouth he held a burning blood red and incredibly powerful Rasengan. Kisame's eyes shot open in horror as the world seemed to slow down. Samehada splintered like a piece of wood and its shark skin and teeth pieces scattered leaving Kisame with no defense against the burning Rasengan and drilling kitsune.

Naruto slammed the Rasengan into Kisame's chest and with the added spin from his gatsuga he quickly burned a path through Kisame's armor, skin, lungs, heart, and out his spinal cord on the other side. As Naruto burst from Kisame's back his fur was ablaze with fire and trailing behind his body were four burning tails.

End Chapter

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