AN: Welcome to another chapter of Sentence Served. Naruto learns the truth. What will he think? Also, real training starts in the Mindscape, will Naruto survive the combined teaching of Kyuubi AND his father?
Summary: After an attack from the villagers, seven year old Naruto has been thrown into a coma. Locked into his own mindscape, young Naruto discovers the truths overlooked concerning Kyuubi and his seal. With this new wildcard, Naruto begins to train rigorously to exact revenge on a certain snake.
"BLAH" Kyuubi speaking"BLAH" Arashi speaking
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Last Time"I plan on teaching him everything I know about fighting and the demon world. I have no doubt that other demons will try and 'challenge' him for his position and I don't want him to die."
"I will train him too of course, after all, he is my son."
"Yes, but he doesn't know that yet."
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"Alright…what's this all about?" Naruto was sitting on one of the logs in the camp, Kyuubi and Arashi conversing with each other quietly. They called Naruto here to tell him the truth about everything.
Arashi and Kyuubi sighed and sat down opposite of the fire on another log. Naruto immediately noted the hesitation and raised an eyebrow.
"What is it? Spill…"
"Naruto…what do you know about…me attacking Konoha?" Kyuubi asked hesitantly.
"Well, the story I know is that seven years ago you just showed up and started destroying everything. He," he pointed at Arashi, "supposedly died sealing you into me…but I'm guessing there is more to that now."
"Yes…well, there is more to that story Naruto." Arashi spoke up.
"I, for starters, had no intention of ever going near Konoha." Kyuubi started. "You see, I was looking for something or…someone you could say. My kit."
"Your kit?"
"My son. You see, He had a nasty habit of running off when no one was looking and I was searching for him. As any good parent I was totally freaking out and searching frantically. A man, the Snake Sennin Orochimaru, had done something very foolish. You see, he found my son wandering near the forest outside Konoha and somehow lured him into the village to lure ME."
"Why would he do that?" Naruto cried indignantly.
"Well Naruto, Orochimaru was my rival for the position as Yondaime. He was angry that he didn't get the spot and vowed revenge." Arashi said sadly. "The man is obsessed with power and learning Jutsu."
"Yes, that damn snake kidnapped my kit and I went insane. In my momentary weakness he was somehow able to trap me in a gen-jutsu. I attacked Konoha under false pretenses, thinking they had killed my boy and failed to see the truth till it was too late. I don't even know if my son is alive or not."
"As I sealed him, the gen-jutsu failed and he told me the truth about Orochimaru and why he was attacking. Unfortunately I couldn't do anything about it since I was being sealed too."
"I think I understand, but what I don't get is why you chose ME to be the vessel." Naruto said as he looked at the Yondaime who sighed and lowered his head.
"I'm sorry I burdened you with this Naruto, but I couldn't ask another family to take the burden either. I chose you because you were the only one I could trust to keep the demon fox contained…my own blood…my son."
Naruto looked between the two men. "What are you saying? You're my…" He stood up. "How? Why?"
"I'm sorry Naruto." Arashi whispered, running a hand through his hair. He had sentenced his child a life of misery and loneliness for the past seven years. How could he be forgiven for that? How could ANYONE be forgiven for that?
"Who…who else knew?" Naruto asked staring at the ground, refusing to meet their eyes.
"Sandaime and two others. They were supposed to tell you when you were older…though I can perfectly understand if you hate me."
"I don't hate you." Naruto raised his head and looked at his father. "I'm hurt, yes. But I could never hate you. I'm…proud you chose me to keep Konoha safe."
Unable to hold it in anymore, Naruto launched at Arashi and gave him a crushing hug. They sat there like that for minutes and Kyuubi wandered off to give them space. As soon as they got that out of their system they would get to training. They had no time to spare.
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After speculating for a while, the three had come to the conclusion that every one day on the outside or…real life you could call it, had the equivalent of a week in the mindscape of Naruto's soul…
Four days had passed on the outside, accounting for about four weeks the three spent together, training Naruto in the basics of Tai-jutsu and Nin-jutsu
The first week, or day, was a complete disaster. Naruto had very little knowledge of Chakra and all around fighting. But, with the combined efforts of his father and the slave driving kitsune, he made it past the first hurdle, the principles of chakra use coming easier to the blonde boy now as he spent the four weeks drilling in it.
Arashi and Kyuubi had come to the agreement that Naruto would first learn the basics of the Kazama clan fighting style before going on to Kyuubi's personal fighting style as it focused on the demonic form which Naruto didn't have access to yet.
Every other 'day' they would focus on something different concerning the techniques. Today, Naruto was practicing his chakra control and cursing all the way.
"Why do I have to do this?" He grumbled. His father had said that he had to sit on the water, using only chakra to support himself, for four freaking hours.
"Because I said so, now stop complaining or I'll make you do push ups while your at it." Arashi said as he trained with a Kage Bunshin of himself. Apparently, sitting in darkness for seven years rusted his skills and that was something he didn't like…at all.
Naruto blew a raspberry and continued to grumble. He absolutely hated practicing chakra control even though he excelled at it because of his freakish stamina. It wasn't the working or training part of it, it was the sitting still that drove him insane.
"When will I be able to learn stuff like Jutsu and our clan's fighting style?"
"After you have good control over your chakra. I've already taught you the first few positions, but you need excellent chakra control to pull off the more advanced moves." Arashi dodged another blow from his 'sparring partner' as he spoke. "We'll be teaching you the basics learned in the academy first like Henge and the simple Bunshin soon."
"Whatever," Naruto muttered. He leaned back and spread out on the water allowing the chakra to support him. This was one of his favorite positions, laying on the water. He looked to the shore were Kyuubi was snoozing in a smaller version of his demon form. "Lucky bastard." He muttered.
(As we enter a time break I would like to explain that as much as we feel for our poor Naruto this routine of practicing chakra control and learning the basics of the Kazama Tai-Jutsu style continued for a total of three more weeks before he actually learned anything dealing with jutsu. A total of seven days Naruto has been 'unconscious' and seven weeks he has been training with his father in chakra control his level is about the equivalent of a low to mid Chuunin.)
"Yosh!" Naruto cried. "I finally did it!" After 'weeks' of insane training, Naruto finally performed the first kata of the Kazama style, without screwing up and at a reasonably fast pace on top of the water's surface. He turned to where his dad was, beaming with triumph. "I did it otou-san! Not your insane speed, but fast though!"
"Very good Naruto. Now do it again and perfect it." Arashi called from his position in a nearby tree.
As requested, Naruto threw himself into his routine, trying to get it faster and faster, punching and kicking the air with as much precision as possible.
"How's he doing?" Kyuubi trotted up to the tree, still in his demon form though the size of a large dog instead of a mountain.
"He's coming along quite rapidly. It took me nearly a month to learn that kata for the first time."
"I've been watching the mirror lately and he's showing signs of waking up. Probably about another day or two at the most on the outside."
"Tou-san! What's happening?" Naruto cried. He had stopped on the water and was staring at his hands which were slowly dissolving into nothingness.
"It seems my calculations were wrong. He's waking up now." Kyuubi muttered to himself as Arashi ran to his panicking son.
"Don't worry Naruto, You're just waking up." He grasped the trembling boy by the shoulders, "Calm down. We'll be here in your mind. We aren't going anywhere. Just don't tell anyone about us understand?"
Naruto nodded numbly as his shoulders began to fade as well. Arashi gave him one last hug and in a flash of light Naruto disappeared into the world of the living.
AN:
(For those who don't understand about Kyuubi's predicament, His son (you'll find out his name later) had gotten lost in the real world. Orochimaru, the snake we all love to hate, lured Kyuubi's kit into a trap and basically used him as bait to thoroughly piss the demon lord off and it worked. Kyuubi wasn't thinking straight and allowed himself to be caught in an illusion, seeing Konoha shinobi kill his boy. He goes insane and attacks Konoha. Arashi manages to seal him and as they are 'dying' he asks Kyuubi why he attacked. Kyuubi answers and Arashi realizes they had both been set up by Orochimaru. Unable to do anything they are sealed away into Naruto with the truth. Kyuubi doesn't know if his son is alive or not.) If there are any questions simply review and I would gladly reply with an answer to the best of my ability.
Preview of next chapter:
'Arg. Time for SCHOOL.' Naruto thought with a shudder as he looked at the sky to judge the time, a trick he learned from his 'Uncle Kyuubi'. 'I HATE school.'
Although Naruto loved to learn, he just didn't find anything that the academy taught to be interesting. Nara Shikamaru, one of his very few friends, shared his opinion.
He spotted the lazy boy as he entered the classroom and took his customary seat next to him in the back row as usual, his other friend Chouji next to Shikamaru.
"What's going on?"
"Something stupid I assure you." Shikamaru yawned, "School is so troublesome."
"I second that statement," Naruto muttered as he prepared himself for another useless day of nothing but memorizing sayings and dates of unimportant events.
As Naruto dozed off another day of school, anxiously waiting for the end to come so he could return to training and stuff. His father tried and failed to keep him into the lesson.