Chapter 3: The Demon Within

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For Clarification, as of right now Naruto skills are mid to High Jounin level.

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Three years later

Simulating a battle experience, Naruto had his twenty shadow clones attack him head on with whatever techniques they seemed fit.

Naruto started and 5 clones charged at him from all directions. 'Kurama lend me your power,' Naruto exclaimed.

'As you wish kit.' Orange and yellow chakra encased his body, revealing strange black markings across his body and 6 yin shaped characters wrapped around his neck.

His abilities in Fuinjutsu had allowed him to loosen the seal placed on him, therefore calling more power to him to need than ever before.

Flashback:

A year in a half before

Naruto was fading off to sleep, deprived of chakra. His chakra exhaustion had caused him to collapse now face down breathing heavily and with a sharp pain in his chest. He faded off to a deep sleep knowing well he wouldn't wake up for a while due to his current position.

His eyes shuttering now as water had encased the front side of his body. He pushed himself up onto one knee, 'Where am I,' he confusingly looked at his surroundings. A darkened system of tunnels like a sewer system was all around him. Singular grey lights blinking randomly leading in a straight line down a narrow hallway.

He no longer felt extremely tired, he wasn't a hundred percent but his body was able to move freely without it buckling beneath his weight. A dark presence grasped his shirt and dragged him slowly.

A sinister growl, followed by a small account of laughter enthralled around the corner from where he stood. Naruto's legs begin to walk towards it although his mind wanted to turn around and escape for a non existing exit.

Hesitantly, he turned the corner to appear before a massive prison cell. Again he felt the presence now more ominous than ever beginning to approach him with more strength, he took another step towards the 70 foot bars.

"..."

"Hello boy, this is the first time you have visited me...come closer." Two red beating eyes, full of bloodlust waiting in anticipation of the blonde haired child in front of him.

Naruto approached the cell...claws appeared and lunged at him in front of the entrance of the cage.

Jumping back Naruto shook in terror, only soon to realize the voice of the beast before him.

"I know that voice...who are you...why did you bring me here?" Naruto stood proud underneath his shaking legs that nearly gave out under the pressure of this entity's presence.

"Foolish boy...as I perceived from watching you all these years."

"Watching me?" Naruto took a step back, horrified.

"Ah yes...that is to be expected...everyone in your life lied to you about who you truly are. No wonder you continue oblivious. I am the Kyuubi, I was sealed inside you at birth, result of the Fourth Hokage's forced hand."

Naruto recollected the memories of being called 'demon' all of the times he was avoided, and scrutinized for a reason he did not know. All this time, he was never told about the demon inside of him. That monstrosity and animistic anger he felt in sudden times of rage, it was the demon inside him all along.

"...," His was left speechless gathering his thoughts.

"I've seen what has happened to you all these years. You are probably thinking about the times you could feel me, a presence that wasn't your own. But...this is only one amongst many things that has been kept from you all of your life boy. Release me and I shall grant all of the questions you seek...even the identities of your parents." The Fox sneered and looked at the boy's eyes widen.

"...I...I cannot do that Kyuubi, I may have been easily influenced in the past but, I know a fruitful lie when I see one." Naruto glared with contempt towards the prison.

"As to be expected...you have become smarter ever sense that Uchiha brat relinquished you from that belligerent Third Hokage's seal. I will tell you what you want to know only out of spite for the treatment I have witnessed over the thirteen years I have spent inside you."

Naruto nodded, "My mother and father you said...you knew them...tell me about them I need to know."

"It's a shame a boy of your prowess was treated with utmost disrespect considering who you are in relative terms. A woman named Kushina Uzumaki, my former imprisoner, I was not fond of her but she was indeed a powerful shinobi. A raging anger and quick temperament that is. Although you have nearly no resemblance to her, that temper of yours is definitely hers. And your father..., a powerful shinobi beyond his years, a true hero and an unfortunate enemy of mine in my final hours as such as his. The resemblance of him in you is uncanny. Naruto Uzumaki...your father was Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage."

Naruto gasped and fell backwards, "No you're lying that is not possible, Jiji would have told me...no it can't be true."

"Whether you choose to believe these words or not is on you. I will tell you how it came to be about. The story of the birth of Naruto Uzumaki..." A claw was raised to his forehead and the fox's memories flooded in.

Kyuubi told the story in great detail of the night he came about, the same night his parents were murdered. Although controlled by Madara Uchiha, he did not prevent himself from a bloodlust rage. He couldn't prevent himself from killing Naruto's parents. The fox showed him all of their final words to them before they passed. Naruto couldn't believe what he heard, he didn't know what to think. Tears ran down his face. His shoulders shuddered in tune with his heavy sobs. This was all so much in little time.

"I see now...I am not angry with you though. Although you are a 'beast' you are the first person in my life who has ever been honest and upfront with me. I hate to say it but...we are some much more alike then you know."

This caught the Kyuubi off guard, "Is that so? Enlighten me?"

"The way we are ostracized, the way my parents looked at you with such hateful eyes, the way Madara deceived and controlled you. Everything that encompasses what you've shown me...we are the same in how we are treated and misunderstood. You are a living being just like anyone else, yet you have been hunted and imprisoned for many life times. Freedom, something you have forgotten the taste of, because of this accursed shinobi world."

"Your mind is clear. Hatred and Rage is all I've ever known. My freedom is something I've yearned for, for many years. You are unlike any human I have ever met, someone I knew once upon a time would have liked you...Naruto Uzumaki your power is mine, as well as mine is yours. I shall grant you my power, until that seal is gone I cannot give you more then this." The beast retreating his claw behind the cage now.

"Wait what are you giving me Kyuubi, don't you have a name?" Naruto didn't even think to ask his name although it had granted him what he yearned for all these years.

"You don't cease to surprise me boy. The first to ask for my name since I was created," He paused stunned at this boy's resemblance in character to old man six paths, "My name is Kurama." His claw returned from the cage with a ball of orange and yellow chakra. "Although this chakra I am giving to you to is powerful, it will outweigh your power of light, a darkness develop. A resulting effect will change who you are as a person forever. Remember your purpose, young one. A great change awaits you." The chakra collides with Naruto, a bright flashing light blinding him.

The blinding light now leaving his eyes placed him back where he was before he entered his mindscape. An orange and yellow cloak encased his entire body and his chakra coils flooded with a sudden burst of unrelenting power. 'This is the power of the nine tails, I can feel it coursing through my entire body, it's...it's intoxicating.' A sinister sneer gathered on his face.

Flashback End

Naruto's cloak subsided as he had now defeated all the clones around him...a scratch was not even on his body.

'Your abilities continue to improve kit.' said Kurama proudly

'Thanks to you Kurama, your power never ceases to empower me.'

He walked over to his Makeshift kunai with three prongs, the same his father had used. The Flying Raijin now becomes second nature within his abilities to circumnavigate a field of battle at godly speed.

Over the years of spending by himself in a small shack outside of Fire Country in the abandoned forests of the Land of Frost. Naruto had become incredibly powerful. Although not having a teacher, Naruto learned everything he could from the scrolls he had brought from the Leaf Village all that time ago. Kurama was a massive driving force in his short time of major development.

He lived off the forest and everything it could provide him. His sensory abilities and survival techniques grew exponentially over the years from constant training and physical strain. His savage diet made him extremely muscular and his short stature now standing at 5'11 at 15 years of age. This was also a result of him combining himself with more and more of Kurama's chakra over the years.

Kurama and Naruto were a natural driving force that could not be tamed.

His level of knowledge and skill was beyond his years at this point. Having no affiliation to anyone but himself resulted in his upbringing of power he wouldn't have imagined before. His speed, strength, intelligence, and emotionless personality exceeded his years. His skills were Jounin at best but his potential was far from being reached. He still had time to develop his skills even further but more pressing matters needed attention.

Flashback:

Couple months prior to present. Naruto had heard about the Exams and knew that it didn't really interest him. But, in the back of his mind, he enjoyed the thought of obliterating the Leaf in front of people that used to abuse him. His skills would far outweigh the lackluster scum of the Leaf.

'Kurama, how about we go pay the Leaf Village a visit for the exams.' Naruto asked internally

'Nice as it sounds, you have to be associated with a village kit.' Kurama explained

'Really, I thought they were for individual talent? What shall I do?'

'Three man squads are a rule although individual showcase is an aspect of the test later on.'

'Well we are near the Hidden Cloud Village,' Naruto thought, 'Couldn't I just join up in the academy or something?'

Kurama sighed, 'I suppose, but this does not mean for you to affiliate yourself with the Cloud Village. They are merely tools for your true goal. Our true goal will not be trifled with'

Naruto nodded his head and left the stand. He would have to return to his home and gather his things before he could make his way to the Cloud Village. He excitement and bloodlust now affiliated with Kurama's anticipation for their plan to take effect. Slight alterations to their plan was not nearly a setback. One thing still stood.

The Leaf Village would be left in ruins at his hand.

Flashback End