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Kyuubi

Chapter 4 – The Jutsu

"Naruto, pick a scroll so we can leave!" Shun told his impatient son, wanting to get home so he could finish the paper. "We don't have all day. We need to get home so we can practice."

"I know!" responded Naruto, with a hint of impatience in his voice – surprising, considering HE was the reason Shun was impatient. "I just need to pick the right one."

After this little exchange, Naruto wandered to the 'K' section of the vault. Hmmm… Kuchiyose, eh? I'll take this one! "Dad! I found it!" he exclaimed, drawing Shun over and making him look at the scroll. The Kuchiyose? Interesting choice. I know Iruka-san was telling me he had incredible stamina and chakra reserves, but the Kuchiyose requires not only those but immense control. Still…Shun thought these over, and decided he would teach his son how to summon.

"Alright, starting as soon as we get home, we'll get started on the Kuchiyose!" Shun said, earning a "YEAH!" from Naruto, who received another bonk on the head and another "Be quiet" from Shun.

They walked up to the front desk, and told them this was the scroll they'd take. She took it, looked it up, and signed it tout of the vault, and told them to "return it if need be," though Naruto had no intention of returning it until he had completely mastered it, hopefully within time for the Chuunin Exam next year.

The two decided to head home in a slower fashion then running over the rooftops, enjoying the scenery, when they bumped into a rather angry Jiraiya, who was just leaving the Hokage Tower, muttering something about "stupid students" and "senile old man." The Uzumaki's decided to let it be, as neither of them recognized the man because he was walking kind of fast and his large hair had covered about half of his face.

"That was…strange," Naruto decided to voice both of their thoughts.

"Agreed," agreed Shun, deciding they should speed up to avoid further…incidents. About 5 minutes later, they landed in front of their house and walked to the back yard to begin training Naruto in the art of Summoning.

"Now, Naruto, in order to summon, you need a contract, which we will obtain momentarily, but first" he stopped, grabbed the scroll Naruto had been drooling over for the past ten minutes to check if it was current (it was) then popped the seal on it and handed it back, finishing his earlier statement with a "read this."

The scroll was a basic jutsu scroll, telling you the correct seal sequence and showing a diagram of what each seal looked like in the sequence. But what was strange was the scroll mentioning something of a sacrifice?

"Uh, dad? What does it mean by a sacrifice?" Naruto asked, fear in his voice.

Shun laughed when he saw the look on his son's ace. "If you'd read, it mentions you need to sacrifice blood. Something simple like a bite on the thumb or a kunai scratch will do," Shun said, reassuring Naruto that he needn't sacrifice something like a leg each time he wished to summon.

"Ok, have you read the scroll?" Shun asked, and receiving a nod from Naruto, continued. "Ok, now we need to get a contract. You can go with what you're uncle summoned – the mighty battle toads, or you can summon MY animal – the fox," explained Shun, giving Naruto the choice of two creatures. Sure he heard toads were legendary among the contracted animals, he decided to go with the foxes – after all, his nickname was Fox-boy.

"I choose the foxes!" shouted Naruto, earning him a grin from Shun and a "SHUT UP!" from the neighbors.

"Excellent! Now to get the contract!" Shun said as he bit his thumb and his hands blurred through the seals. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

He slammed his palm down, and an intricate pattern of seals expanded out, then shrank back in, and a large cloud of smoke poofed into existence, slowly being replaced by a large blue fox with a scroll on its back.

"Greetings, Uzumaki-sama. Have you summoned me to have another signature added, or merely to enjoy my company?" he asked, with a slight amount of annoyance in his voice.

"I have called you, Hayai, because we have another signature to add. My son," at this point, Naruto stepped forward "Naruto." Shun said this with his own form of annoyance, he still didn't like Hayai, even though he was the carrier fox for the contract. "Naruto, first you need to- Naruto? NARUTO!" Shun was yelling for Naruto, who had disappeared inside, looking for a pen. "What are you doing!"

"Looking for a pen!" he responded, then almost made it back inside when Shun not only made it their, but pick ed up Naruto, carried him back to Hayai, and tossed him on the ground in the time it took Naruto to blink. "Whoa. Did I blink?"

"Yes. Naruto, I forgot to mention, in order to sign a contract, it must be," he grabbed the giant scroll and unrolled it "in blood." He showed Naruto where he signed it, his father, his grandmother and her twin, all the way back to his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, with the forging of the scroll. "Come here."

Naruto did as he was told, and walked over to Shun, who was holding something metal in his hands. He held out his hand, because when he got closer he saw Shun was holding a kunai with a fox engraved on its handle, the traditional kunai to cut the skin of the contract-signer. His hand was cut, and he signed his name onto he next blank space after Shun's name, followed by his handprint.

"Excellent! Now that you've signed, Hayai, you may go now," Shun said, strapping the scroll back onto the large fox, who promptly vanished, glad to be gone of the annoying humans.

"Okay Naruto, now to try summon. You need to get your blood on your hand. The preferred method is biting your thumb, like so." He bit his thumb, letting the blood flow to show Naruto. "Please do the same." So Naruto bit his own thumb.

"Now, mold the right amount of chakra, which may not seem hard, but to summon the animal you want, you need to be able to mold the right amount of chakra. Right now, let's just worry about actually summoning." Naruto began to focus his chakra, and collected it in his hand. "Watch closely now, because I'm going to show you the seals." He quickly performed them.

Ram. Boar. Dog. Horse. Boar. Naruto Performed them as soon as he saw them.

"And strike your hand, facedown on the earth. Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He slammed his fist down, and watched Naruto do the same. Shun had summoned a medium-sized (about 3 feet tall) fox, who when he saw Naruto, understood why he was summoned, and decided to sit there and watch his master's son.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto slammed his own hand down, and after watching the seals do their little dance, he felt excited. I'm summoning! However, that excitement was squashed when he saw WHAT he summoned.

"Yo," was the first thing he heard from the little green fox named Chikai, who was no more than 1 foot tall.

"AGH! WHAT IS THIS! I THOUGHT YOU SAID THE MORE CHAKRA YOU PUT IN, THE BIGGER YOU'D SUMMON!" Naruto had gone off the end when he saw that he had expended all that chakra in a futile attempt to call a large fox.

"Don't feel bad Naruto, I summoned worse on my first try. I summoned someone even smaller than Chikai here. So for the first try, you did great. Wanna try again?" Shun encouraged Naruto, but seeing his son's eyelids drooping, decided to call it a night instead. "Actually, you need to get up early tomorrow anyways. You have a meeting with your team at 9, don't you?"

"Oh, right. Let's go then…" THUD! Naruto had no sooner finished his sentence then he hit the ground. Shun picked up his son, and he dragged him inside, waving off his summon. He placed Naruto in his bed, said good night, and then decided he'd go to bed too. He had to be up early tomorrow too, after all.

A/N: Wow, so much work in doing Jutsus. If anyone knows the right sequences of seals for these things or knows where I can find them, I'd be much obliged if you could tell me.

Also, I broke my thumb today, and they have me in a weird splint, so expect little to know updates for about a week. Sorry.

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