Blood Bond
Chapter 3
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Naruto woke up totally stiffened and sore everywhere. 'What the hell?' Naruto wondered. 'Somehow, I got myself next to a green sofa. A GREEN sofa! Who in the world would want a green SOFA?'
Well, that's when his mind caught up again. 'Well, at least I'm not erm... 'extra crispy' I think they call it...'
A year worth of stealth practicing did wonders to your vocabulary, especially if you start with shadowing drunken villagers that just came out of a bar-brawl. Guessing the meaning of the words isn't very hard when you look at the reactions of the receiving party...
"Ah, I see you're awake. Quite an eventful night, wouldn't you agree?"
Naruto whipped towards the voice, only to see Sandaime Hokage standing in the doorway. "Yeah, I'm sore all over... Oh yeah, Kyuubi said I'd have to find you if I woke up... I guess I don't have to anymore." With those words, Naruto flopped down unceremoniously and started snoring again, since this time, his body caught up with the young boy.
The Hokage chuckled. 'Number 1 in surprising people... You'll take that name from HIM... Heh, I've never been surprised more than 2 times a day, and you managed 3 times in the past 12 hours already. I guess it'll be very noisy pretty soon...' Sandaime placed Naruto back on the sofa and covered him in blankets again.
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Naruto regained his senses in front of the now familiar gates. "Wha..? I'm back here?" Naruto asked confused. "Yes, you reacted quite too forcefully for your body to handle, so you keeled over again." Kyuubi responded. "You'll wake again eventually. Now, I want you to listen to what I have to say. No interruptions, got it?" Kyuubi continued sternly. Naruto wasn't very happy. "But-" "No. Just listen, I'll explain a few things right now, you ask any questions later." Kyuubi interrupted.
"I have 'adapted' certain body parts: your bones are strengthened beyond human capabilities -short of a Bloodline Limit- and your muscles are modified to be able to move those bones accordingly. Your contact with me seemed to have a peculiar side-effect: you have a Bloodline Limit in your eyes, though I'm not sure what it can do, but that doesn't matter. I've hyper-developed your eyes, so you would have access to your eye Limit on an early age. It won't work yet, since most eye Limits need precise chakra control.
It seems you have inherited a special perk from your family, since you have an innate ability of very precise chakra control. This is probably the only reason you're able to mold my chakra in the future, since demon chakra and human chakra aren't very similar.
So, we're going to be very busy with chakra control exercises the coming years. YES YEARS!" Kyuubi yelled at the groan of Naruto. Anything that has 'busy' and 'years' in one sentence is bound to be bad. "Further, you'll be learning everything you can in the field of medical knowledge." As Kyuubi said this, she became very sad, Naruto noticed. 'Maybe something happened... Perhaps I'll hear about that someday.' Naruto thought. "This will help in the future when your teammates need medical help. And of course, since you need to build your body, your taijutsu exercises will be gruesome." This was met with another groan from Naruto and a sadistic smile from Kyuubi.
"So, to get this working, you should ask the old man for a place to stay, a place to train and access to any and all medical information in the village. Now, any questions?" Kyuubi asked. Naruto was processing all the things said and didn't really have any questions in mind at the moment, since everything was logical enough. "No, not really right now." Naruto replied while shaking his head. "Good, then you go to sleep... Now." With that, Naruto was booted from the gates into his dreamless slumber.
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Naruto woke up early in the morning of the next day by rolling off the sofa. The thud and groan alerted the Hokage of the awakening of the child. "So, finally up again, Naruto?" the Hokage said with a smile.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm awake again. The fox said to let you know of some things you need to arrange for me: I need a place to live, a training area and access to any and all medical knowledge in Konoha. She said I needed the knowledge for later or something. Oh! You know, she also said I have an eye Bloodline Limit! I can't wait until I can use it! I bet it beats the Sharingan hands down!" Naruto said with a far-away glassy look in his eyes.
The Hokage sweat-dropped. 'Naruto... You don't use your hands, but your eyes...' he thought. "Ahem. Anyways. Why should I arrange these things for you and how do I know Kyuubi won't destroy the village, as she has proven she can -at least partially- take over your body?"
Naruto looked at the Hokage for a split second and said: "Well isn't that obvious? I need to work hard to become the youngest and most powerful Hokage, worthy of following the Yondaime, of course! And she didn't take over my body, she just teleported it or something, I mean, I'm not in my apartment anymore and I'm not burnt 'extra crispy', right?" Naruto said with a foxy grin on his face.
"She also gave me this weird conditions on getting some strength, you know... She wouldn't give me anything if I was going to take revenge on the villagers, and she really wanted me to learn medical stuff... Anyways, I promise I won't let her take over to destroy the village, and I, Uzumaki Naruto, don't go back on my word!" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs.
The Hokage winced at the high pitch and loudness of the little boy. 'Good thing these rooms are soundproof -Hokage privilege- or I would've probably lost my house as well...' he thought. The exclamation did reassure him. 'Demons live by a strict code of honor; their word is everything to them... Though to get them to give you their word takes quite some convincing.'
"Alright, Naruto... Since your presence is pretty much not liked right now, as well as nobody would want to provide you with living quarters, I'll let you stay here. There are certain conditions, however:
-You are to eat at scheduled times with me, so I can see you're at least eating properly
-you will sleep here, not outside
-you will not leave my private training grounds or house without my permission since I don't want to find either you dead in a gutter or any number of villagers you had to strike down in self-defense
-I'll regularly check up on how far you're along, of course, so we can see when you can start your ninja career, in order for you to become Hokage"
Sandaime stated the last with a smile. Naruto couldn't be more giddy! 'Wow! I get to train on a Hokage training field! I get to sleep in a Hokage house! This is so great! Even getting trained by Kyuubi no less! Hokage-dom here I come!' Naruto was bouncing around dreamily until the Hokage spoke up again. "Well it seems you're okay with my conditions. I have to go to work now. I'll see you for dinner tonight, at 19.00, ok?" With that, the Hokage headed for office after pointing the way for the training area.
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'Whoa... The Hokage sure gets a nice training area... This is huge!' Naruto thought after seeing the grounds. "Now I just need to get to Kyuubi... Oh, I know, I'll just go to sleep." With that, Naruto closed his eyes after lying down on the great grass field next to the big lake. Within minutes, Naruto was asleep and in front of the gates.
Naruto walked up the gates and became giddy with the prospect of training. "Well, the first thing you have to do it learn to meditate. This will help you find your chakra core, and probably the small reservoir of my chakra that's accessible for you right now. You'll need chakra in order to be able to control it. Today you'll meditate to find both your core and my reservoir until you can access both with the littlest of concentration and effort. Meditating will also help our ability to communicate, so you don't have to be asleep for you to get here. Now, to meditate, you go sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Then, you start clearing all thoughts out of your mind. Eventually, you'll feel a warmth from somewhere near your stomach. This is your core. When you've found your core, open your eyes. Then repeat the process until you can feel your core without closing your eyes."
With that, Naruto started to try meditation.
Of course, mister 'number 1 in surprising people' wouldn't have his title if he didn't stand out. Well, technically, he doesn't. His mind was such a jumble and scramble of mixed thoughts that the two chakra sources actually combined for a few moments to toss Naruto out of his 'meditation'.
Kyuubi was forcibly tossed towards the back end of the cage as well.
"Ouch… What the hell was that?" Naruto grumbled, being in front of the gate again.
"Well, I believe that was your own chakra and mine combining to shut you up. Apparently, even your chakra can't stand your mind…" –sigh- "Well, it seems we're going to have to start from scratch. But we'll do that after dinner. You're almost late for your appointment with the old man."
"Oh shit! Damn damn damn I'ma be late! Wake Wake WAKE UP!"
Kyuubi was wincing from the yelling and was very surprised when Naruto actually woke up. "…How… Unusual… He actually yelled himself awake…"
Kyuubi massaged her ears for a few moments grumbling about pipsqueak voices and brats.
TBC