(A/N) Alright, I'll only do this now, then randomly and sporadically through the rest of the story. Try and remember if you can. "When Naruto isn't in the seal and Kurama is talking" "When Naruto is talking back" With the addition of "When Kyu is talking in the seal." As for Mr. Guest that was nice enough to leave a review, *cackles* oh, he'll be meeting people alright. It's my hope the timeline will be so severely screwed up that no one would be able to recognize it as Naruto except for the fact that I'm using the characters. *cackles*
Naruto tried the cross seal, his fingers responding clumsily. He pushed chakra into it, using what Kurama-sensei had said last night. Four identical clones stared back at him.
"Admittedly, you might have a bit more trouble with hiding the fact that there are four of you running around. Perhaps dispel two or three of them."
"Deespll?" Naruto asked, confused.
"Dispel," Kurama corrected. "And, it means to get rid of. Try giving two of them a nice punch to the head."
"How do you punch?"
"Hit with a closed fist. Just hit the clone."
Naruto shrugged, then hit the clone nearest to him. It exploded into smoke and he blinked as the memories returned to him. "That's weird!"
"Yes, yes it is,"
Naruto hit one of the other clones, and it too burst into smoke. "So, uh, what do I do now?"
"Go do your chores, theoretically, they each have your mind, and should be able to go do chores with you, speeding it up."
Naruto nodded. To his clones, "Let's do the chores!"
They both gave apathetic yay's.
The non-shadow clone Naruto left first, heading off to start cleaning the front, while one of the clones left a few minutes later, headed in the opposite direction to reorganize the library, and the third headed out a few minutes after the second to clean the back half of the orphanage.
All three were done by lunch time, at which point they gathered back in Naruto's room, and Naruto dispelled them. By hitting both on the head with a book the first clone had gotten from the library.
"Can you even read, Kit?"
"Um."
Kurama sighed heavily, the noise echoing through Naruto's head. "I'll teach you tonight."
"Cool!"
"First, I want to try something. Alright, so you have two chakras in you, yours, and mine. You can draw on, and use my chakra. I want you to try making a shadow clone with my chakra. I'll control my own chakra best I can, but who knows what might happen."
"Alright!"
Kurama gently fed a little bit of his chakra to the kid, just enough to make one shadow clone. Unfortunately, a little extra slipped out before he could stop it. Naruto took the chakra, and produced two clones, the first one entirely Kurama's chakra, making it a normal sized fox. The second was Kurama's chakra, plus Naruto's, producing a red head kid with fox ears and a tail. He was wearing a red version of Naruto's outfit, and had red eyes with the pupils slitted like a fox's.
The red headed clone stared at Naruto. "I don't even want to know how you managed this," He said, frowning.
"Wait, Kurama-sensei?"
The red-head tilted his head. "Sort of."
"Not me, but certainly not you, interesting."
"I can hear you, Kurama," the red-head said calmly.
"You need a name," Naruto decided. "How about, um, I dunno any good names."
"Kyu should work for now."
Kyu tilted his head. "That will work."
The Matron walked in, spotted the fox, and started screaming. Kyu looked between her and the fox for a bit, while Naruto just stared at the matron. She had never screamed before. "Get out of my Orphanage, Demon!" She shouted after she had finished screaming. "Get away from the nice boy!"
Kyu looked her in the eyes, and she registered the red eyes. She looked faint. "Never mind, both of you Demons, get out. Don't come back. Take that creature with you," she practically growled at the fox, and it lept up to curl around Naruto's neck like a scarf. It yipped as the Matron left.
Naruto was about to burst into tears. He was four darn it, not at all ready to fend for himself.
"We should collect what things you can carry with you," Kyu informed him, searching around for the backpack Jiji-sama had gotten Naruto yesterday. "Where did you put that backpack? I know you have one."
Naruto shrugged, looking around. "I forgot." He quickly blinked away tears, and helped Kyu search for the backpack.
Kurama was the one who found it, as it still had the shop's scent on it. He didn't know the shop, but it was the only thing in the apartment with any strong scent other then the Hokage's, and Naruto's. It was a black backpack, clearly a shinobi designed one, with lots of pockets and such. It had orange stripes, and already had a couple paint streaks.
"Don't worry, Kit," the smaller fox told Naruto. His voice was a bit squeakier than the normal sized Kurama, so it was at least a bit amusing. "We'll figure something out."
"After all, you have Kurama and me. Kurama may not be able to assume human form, but I share his knowledge," Kyu told Naruto.
"We should see the Hokage. I can't believe I'm actually saying it, but we need to go see him. All three of us," Kurama said, seizing a pair of pants in his teeth and dragging them over. "That's the last of it, come on kit."
Naruto nodded, shouldering the pack, then looking around the room once more. He wouldn't be coming back here. Ever.
Kyu took ahold of Naruto's shoulder with one hand, and picked up the tiny Kurama with the other, tucking him under his arm. Kyu steered Naruto out of the orphanage, a couple of people giving the three odd looks.
Mini Kurama eventually managed to get a perch on the practically comatose Naruto's head, sitting there and glaring with red slitted eyes at those who glared at Naruto. They, of course, freaked out, despite the fact that mini Kurama only had one tail, due to having much less chakra then the actual fox, which was sitting in Naruto's seal.
Naruto 'woke up' halfway to Hokage tower, and Kurama and Kyu decided they could dispel themselves now, as there really weren't many civilians around.
"What am I supposed to tell Hokage-jiji?" Naruto asked, beginning to have an internal freak out.
"That the orphanage threw you out."
"But, but, what if he hurts them?"
"From what I could see, they bullied you, and honestly, I'm pretty sure that I'm the only reason you're still alive. You're barely keeping from starving to death."
Naruto fell silent at that, but the two could tell his thoughts were swirling. He barely spoke as he walked into Hokage tower, and up to the Hokage's office.
"Naruto, what brings you in here?" The Hokage asked, looking slightly worriedly at the backpack.
"Why didn't you tell me about Mr. Kurama?" Naruto asked, eyes brimming with tears.
"Mr. Kurama?" The Hokage asked, surprised.
"The giant orange bunny rabbit," Naruto explained.
"Naruto, kit, I'm a fox, not a bunny rabbit."
"Oh, sorry Kurama-sensei. He says he's a fox, not a bunny rabbit," Naruto informed the Hokage, oblivious to his shocked and horrified face.
Kurama and Kyu's giggles echoed in his head, making him curious. It would have to wait though.
"Oh, that's the Kyuubi, Naruto. He killed your parents," the Hokage said gently.
Naruto blinked. "Kurama-sensei? Is he right?"
"Unfortunately, Kit. I was being controlled and forced to go on a rampage. Your mother died because I had been forcefully extracted from her by an evil guy, and your father died sealing me into you."
"But what can control you?" Naruto asked, oblivious to the fact he'd just spoken out loud on accident. "You're so big and smart and powerful!"
"A rouge Uchiha. Not all Uchiha are bad, just the evil ones. Which, luckily, as far as I know, has only been two. The one that controlled me, and Madara Uchiha, who also controlled me."
"Who's Madara Uchiha. And what's an Uchiha?" Naruto asked.
"Your mother's friend Mikoto was an Uchiha. They are a big family in Konoha."
Naruto nodded. He understood now. "Are Uchiha nice? Would they be my friend like how Mikoto-san was my mom's friend?"
Hiruzen nearly had an aneurysm at that one, how did the kid know of his parents?
"Maybe, they can be a bit stuck up though. But if you do find a nice one, they'll be your friend for life. For the most part."
"Okay! I'll find a nice Uchiha to be my friend!" Naruto announced, standing on his chair triumphantly.
"Naruto," The Hokage said calmly. "The Kyuubi is evil, he's just trying to corrupt you and escape."
Naruto, of course, asked Kurama first. "If I escaped, it would kill you. I would much rather be caged in here, then lose the first person to know my name."