Ok readers just to let you know this chapter is mostly a flashback that explains the events that caused Naruto to be this way

And also I will be switching between calling the nine tails "Kyuubi" and "Kurama". This is intentional as it is somewhat of a hint on the change of a perspective since the ninja don't know Kurama's name, if you want me to stick to just one please let me know

"Normal speech"

'Normal thoughts'

"Demon/Summon speech"

'Demon/Summon thoughts'

flashback/memory

~locations and transitions~

Disclaimer I don't own Naruto

Chapter 4: Sealed secret

"So let me see if I have everything in order…." Hiruzen said as he recounted what he had just heard from the Yamanaka Clan head "You found Naruto deep within his subconscious hiding in fear but not sure of what was going on around him, which is why he didn't recognize us in this…..new form." he said pointing at the fox sleeping on the desk "and you were able to bring him out of this as well as see what happened to him" he finished looking at Inoichi

"Yes Hokage-Sama, it was shocking to find out what the boy had gone through"

Hiruzen nodded his head as he thought about what he was told "and you said that you saw the Kyuubi still sealed and weakened?"

"Yes sir" Inoichi had told the Hokage that the Kyuubi was still sealed behind the bars with the seal tag still in place and that the reason for the change was a shortened altered version of the truth: being that the fox force healed Naruto to save its own life because if Naruto dies the Kyuubi would die as well, even if it would take some years before it would reform in the world and this was an "interesting side effect" as the demon proclaimed. But the truth was more complicated than that

~Flashback - memory transfer~

"Kur...ama….tou….cha…."

"NAARRRUUUTTTOOOO!"

Kurama kept ramming the bars trying everything in his power to save his kit.

As the mind began to crumble and fall apart, with chunks of the ceiling falling to the ground and huge cracks showing up on the walls, he was becoming desperate and even begging for some sort of miracle. But it was the fading of both the walls and ceiling turning into nothing but a black abyss that finally made him stop in despair "...no…" he softly said as he leaned his head against the cage "all my power and I can't even save him…" so lost in his thoughts he didn't notice a figure appear in the center of the crumbling room holding the still form of Naruto

"...Kyuubi…"

Hearing this Kurama lifted his head from the cage doors and saw someone he never thought he would see again "Minato!?" he screamed in anger but stopped. Looking at the still form of Naruto in the Yondaime's arms, he took a deep breath before he asked in a subdued tone "can you save him?"

Minato surprised by the tone the Kyuubi was giving looked down at his son, and with a few tears rolling down his face he begrudgingly answered "...I can't".

This was something that Kurama didn't want to hear "WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'YOU CAN'T'?! THIS IS YOUR SON AND YOU CAN'T EVEN USE ANY KIND OF JUTSU TO SAve….him….." Kurama's ranting slowly died when a thought came to mind. It was a risky move since he wasn't sure about what would happen but if there was a chance it would work, he would take it. "Can you release me from this cage?" he asked quickly because for his idea to work, he needed to do it fast.

Minato looked up at the fox with a critical eye "Why would you ask me to release you when you know I don't trust you? For all I know, you would just finish what you started before and destroy Konoha."

Kurama slammed his fist against the bars as his panic and anger drove him to continue "FOOL I WANT TO SAVE MY KIT FROM DEATH AND I CAN'T DO IT WITH ALL MY POWER STILL HELD BACK BY THIS SEAL!"

Minato looked at the Kyuubi with a calculating gaze, it was just so unexpected and what happened next just made him even more confused, the Kyuubi bowed before him and begged

"please. I'm begging you to let me save my kit. If you don't hurry we could lose him forever and he doesn't deserve to die like this." the mindscape was already half gone and the remaining ceiling was already dropping concrete pieces around them. Kurama, still in the position, was hoping that Minato would do it. And to his shock, he heard a rip of paper and metallic clanks right afterward. Lifting his head he saw that Naruto was placed on the floor in the center of the room and Minato opening the gates

"try anything funny and I will immediately seal you in again, I may be just a Chakra construct but I still have the power to reseal you!" Minato said in all seriousness.

Kurama, ignoring the threat quickly opened the gates, moved to Naruto, wrapped him in his tails, and pushed all of his Chakra into the boy.

~Real world, on the floor of Naruto's apartment~

Naruto's body still lay there with no light in his eyes, no movement of breath it just lay there...lifeless. However, the seal that was on his stomach began to glow and increase in size. The kunai that was still in the boy's stomach, acted as a sort of block for the chakra, keeping it all from leaking out much which kept it from being sensed from any sensor in the village. The seal continued to increase in size until it covered the whole body in a glowing light.

Kurama kept pushing his chakra into the boy and was able to stop the deterioration of the mind but it wasn't enough to bring him back "damn it! it's not working!" he kept trying to bring his kit back but knew that his lack of success was from only being half of himself. "If I had even a sliver of my Yin chakra, I would be able to save him!" Kurama said thinking of how Minato split him in two and sealed the Yin half into himself before he sealed him(Yang Kurama) into Naruto. As he thought of his Yin side, he felt a trickle of it really close to him. Looking around, his eyes landed on the Minato Chakra construct, who decide to stand aside and watch as he tried to save the boy. Looking down to think for a second, Kurama thought of a possible solution before looking at Minato "Minato, I need your help in saving him."

Minato looking at the Kyuubi questionably he was about to ask but was answered before he could

"I believe you have a bit of my other chakra half, not a lot, but enough to save Naruto. My guess is that when you sealed my Yin half in yourself and then made the eight trigram seal, a bit of it was mixed into the chakra construct since it was made from the real yondaime's chakra. What I need you to do is place your hand where Naruto is and I can divert it into the boy."

Unsure Minato asked, "what will this do to him?".

Kyuubi quickly answered, "with it, I can bring him back. without it, I can only stall his soul from leaving."

Agreeing to it since it will save his son, Minato quickly moved to the spot where Naruto was and placed his hand on the tail that completely covered the boy.

Kurama started to move the Yin Chakra into the boy and prayed to his father that it would work.

~Real world~

Naruto's body began to glow brighter until it was encased in a ball of light that went unnoticed by anyone, with the festival fireworks going off outside as the rain had stopped not long ago

~Naruto's mindscape~

Kurama was losing a lot of power in saving Naruto but he didn't care. He didn't care his tails were disappearing one by one, he didn't care that he was losing muscle mass and size, but what he did care about was that the process was working. He could feel his kit starting to return and light was coming back into the mindscape. He finally reached his limit but it was done. He removed his remaining tail and was shocked to see that instead of a human body, there lay the body of a small fox kit.

~Real world~

The orb of light died down with the kunai flopping to the side with signs of turning to dust from the concentrated demon chakra going to it. There lay an unconscious fox kit peacefully unaware of the world around it

~Naruto's mindscape~

Minato was stunned silent for a moment "What happened to him?!" he yelled glaring at the Kyuubi

"It must have been a side effect of so much demonic chakra used to revive him using both the Yin and the Yang chakra when they are separate instead of together. The blasted kunai was somehow keeping my demonic chakra from leaving his body much. Too much of it not really speeding through his body and it converted into this to compensate."

"So what will happen to him now?" Minato said looking at the fox kit

"I don't know. From what I can sense, he has become a bijuu jinchuuriki, his body has become about 70% Bijuu and the last 30% is organic, which means he is a being made mostly of chakra, so as he gets older he will be gaining tails since at the moment he only has two"

Minato crouched down to the kit "so….he has the same amount of power as if he accessed two tails of your power?"

Shaking his head Kurama clarified "no. the amount of tails does not always signify a demon's power. Sometimes it is a sign of its age. This is all speculation since there have only ever been us nine and this has never happened before."

Minato got up from his crouch and looked at the fox "so what happens now?"

"I will be sealing away his memories for a bit to remove the negative effects they will have on him and as for you…." he said pointing at Minato "I shall reseal you into the seal so you may talk to him at a later date."

Looking a little sheepish and rubbing the back of his head Minato asked: "will he be able to speak to Kushina-chan as well…?"

Looking down on him Kurama couldn't help but ask with some strain in his voice "you sealed a construct of her in here as well?" with Minato's nod Kurama sighed "that will be up to you when you and the kit meet but now that he is safe I believe it's time to end this whole thing." and with that Minato nodded his head before he slowly vanished back into the seal. Tired and out of power Kurama laid down in front of the kit and couldn't help but smile at the little thing.

~Real world Naruto's apartment~

The little fox kit began to wake up. Opening its eyes to reveal slitted azure blue eyes. Stretching its front legs and yawning cutely, much like a cat, he shook his head and looked around not knowing where it was.

Looking around it began to find a way outside and began to scratch at the door hoping to open it but to no avail. Giving up it looked around again and noticed a door leading to another room and went inside finding some furniture and bed, it looked around and finally noticed its two tails swishing gently behind it. Crouching a bit it jumped at them but missed as they turned with its body, it tried again and again for several more times until it grabbed one and started to wrestle with it and did so for a while

Flashback end

~Hokage office~

Inoichi was pulled from the memory when Hiruzen asked if he remembered the people that attacked Naruto "yes sir, I remember the faces of the man and genin that caused this." he said with venom in his voice when he spoke about these individuals. It bugged him even more since the look on the older genins' faces were close to malicious against the boy

"Good, you will be leading an Anbu team to collect the Chunin to receive punishment for his actions. The genin shall be removed from our forces and banned from ever being shinobi of this village. The parents shall be brought in and questioned about the behavior of their children and if it is found that they encouraged this, they shall be punished by Ibiki for a month. I would have them executed but since they have children that shall now remain as civilians, they shall remain alive. I will also be having my personal Anbu investigate the council since it could only be one of them that had the chance to create that mission document that Inu received with the Hokage seal on it. This action is treason against the village and will not be tolerated!" Hiruzen said with a stern look and well-concealed fury.

Hearing this Inoichi gave his request "Hokage-Sama, with your permission, when we retrieve the Chunin, I would like to have a few minutes alone with him if you don't mind, sir!"

Quirking a brow Hiruzen asked "Oh? and why is that?"

Inoichi standing up straight responded, "His actions against a child have brought great discomfort to me and I would like to be the one to deal some punishment to the man."

Hiruzen, looking at the Yamanaka, couldn't help but think there was more to this but he agreed all the same. Inoichi will have his time with the man. If only he knew that the man's punishment will be done a little more thoroughly. Trying to think about what to do with the fox kit he decided that the fewer people know about this the better, so turning to Inu he began to prepare "Inu I would like you to place Naruto-Kun here under a sleeping genjutsu as I make some preparations."

Inu nodded his head and walked to the sleeping fox and shook him awake.

Slowly opening his eyes Naruto groggily got up on all fours and stretched by lifting his butt and tails in the air while pushing his front paws in front of him (like a cat). Finishing his stretch he sat on his haunches and with his eyes still closed wiped his face with his right paw. He finally got some of the sleep out of his eyes and looked up at Inu as the ninja moved his Anbu mask and headband a bit and revealed an eye with a scar going vertically over it and the Iris of the eye being blood red with 3 Tomoes in a triangle formation

"Sleep!"

Naruto was extremely uncomfortable when he saw the eye but he couldn't think about it as a second later his eyes grew very heavy and fell on his side asleep once more.

Putting both his headband and Anbu mask back on, Inu turned to the Hokage "He will remain asleep until I release him from the genjutsu but if I may ask, what do you plan on doing sir?"

Getting up from his seat, Hiruzen picked up the, once again, sleeping fox and turned Inu "it is something that I feel must be done." he turned to Inoichi before continuing "When you retrieve your query you are to take him to the Anbu headquarters prison cells. Once that is done Inu, you are to go to this address." he said as he gave Inu a slip of paper "you and Inoichi will receive instructions when you arrive."

Inoichi paused for a moment and asked "Sir why will you not give the instructions now?"

With a stern look, he answered "This situation has brought some things to light and I want to play this really close to the chest. I'm not willing to gamble on this so much so this must be done quickly and quietly." Everyone, in understanding, nodded their heads and thought about the whole situation "What are you waiting for?! You have your missions! Now get to it!" Hiruzen all but yelled at the ninja in his office. With that, they all went to complete their missions and Hiruzen left with Naruto in a Shunshin.

~with the search team~

Inoichi followed the tracker of the Anbu team as they made their way towards their target. Inoichi wanted to personally retrieve this man as it was sickening that someone in their forces could be so cruel to an innocent. It didn't take long until they arrived at the entrance of a bar and a celebration could be heard from the outside.

"Yeeeah! With its death the village will be at peace once again, I bet the Hokage will beg me to be his personal Anbu guard!" said their target as he and a group of five, who are presumed to be his friends, made a toast

"Man, they might just make YOU the Hokage after you finished what the Yondaime set up for us!"

"Hell yeah and when I do become the Hokage I will promote all of you guys to jonin, we will be living the good life after this, boys!". Several of the other patrons were watching the celebration with smiles on their faces hearing that the demon was gone, some saying they will buy the man a drink.

Hearing enough of this Inoichi gave his orders "I want four of you to stay here in case some of them try to escape the remaining five will arrest the celebrating party and one of you will join me in apprehending our target" getting nods he walked in, heading straight for the man. Once in front of the group he made himself know "I am sorry to tell you this but your celebration has come to an end" Inoichi said in a professional manner.

Everyone in the bar stopped what they were doing and looked to Inoichi. The Chunin asked "What do you mean? We should be celebrating for weeks after I killed that demon brat! Am I right boys?!"

Everyone in the bar shouted out "YEAH!" while raising their mugs

Temper rising but holding on to his composure he continued "You are under arrest sir for misconduct to a superior officer, assault on a child, manipulation of genin for your own goals, breaking and entering and attempted murder on a citizen of the Leaf! In fact, You and everyone else celebrating are under arrest as well for breaking the Sandaime's Law!"

Hearing this they all got up from their chairs screaming "WHAT THE FUCK?! YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?!"

In the blink of an eye, everyone apart from the main target were tied up in wire coming from the team of Anbu.

Everyone tried to get out of the wires but soon stopped when the Anbu began to pull out their blades.

Angry at the turn of events the Chunin turned to Inoichi and threw a right haymaker. Unfortunately for him, it was caught by Inoichi and with minimal strength, Inoichi threw the man over his shoulder and slammed him onto the ground. "let me add assault on a Jonin officer and one of the heads of the 'Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force'!" With one final punch to the face, the Chunin was knocked out and pulled onto his shoulders. Turning to the Anbu "take them away, I will handle this one" and with that, they all left leaving everyone else in the restaurant stunned about what just happened

End of chapter

Next chapter Punishment will be given and Hiruzen will finish his preparations

Hope you look forward to it

Till next time

update 11/12/19: edits and reformated structure. later chapters will be updated asap

8/8/20: rewritten bits of this chapter to fit with the changes done in chapter 1. Final rewrite should be chapter 5 but that should be minor changes in very little bits of dialogue. If you are willing let me know if there are any other changes that need to be done for this arc

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