Tsunade slowly came to. As her vision returned she saw naruto and kin looking at her. "Dad, she's awake." kin said looking away before leaving Tsunade's line of sight taking her brother figure with her. Within seconds kitsune was beside her with a drink that she assumed was for the killer headache she was having. "What happened?" she asked "You got your clock cleaned by my foster daughter." kitsune said with a hint of humor in his voice. "That wasn't a regular rasengan she used was it kitsune?" tsunade asked standing up shakily. "Actually it was. And I have absolutely no idea how she was able to not only make a shadow clone, but a rasengan so silently." kitsune said. "perhaps it has something to do with her once being an oto-nin." Jiraiya said as he and kitsune supported tsunade while walking to a nearby hotel that Jiraiya had booked in before heading to the bar.

"That was so cool kin." naruto said excitedly to his nee-chan as they walked to the hotel. "What was cool?" kin asked confused. "forming a shadow clone silently as well as forming a rasengan." kin smirked. "you forgot that I was once a sound nin. I can deaden the sound of some jutsu." naruto gained a sheepish look. "Right sorry."

it was at this point kitsune sensed multiple chakra signatures headed their way. He began to slowly draw a few of his hirashin kunai and a regular kunai. Jiraiya and tsunade noticed his posture and movement. They looked each other and nodded getting into defensive positions. Surprisingly kin did the same putting her left arm in front of him and gesturing him to be quiet.

Multiple sound ninja dropped all around them, one naruto recognized. "Kabuto, why are you with them?" kin responded for the snake's right hand man. "He's a spy naruto. Can't you tell." naruto noticed the sound emblem on kabuto's hia-ate. "I trusted you!" he said pointing at the silver haired ninja. Kabuto smirked while pushing up his glasses. "true, but I only did it to get close to you. To know your strengths and weaknesses." kitsune narrowed his eyes. "How's your boss kabuto?" said man ground his teeth. "thanks to you Lord orochimaru is in critical condition." tsunade raised an eyebrow. "What happened?" she whispered to Jiraiya. "Kitsune nailed orochimaru with an inferno rasengan. From what witnesses say orochimaru fled missing his entire left arm and half of his face was burnt." tsunade was shocked. Just how powerful had kitsune become since she last saw him

Kitsune raised a regular kunai to the point his arm covered his mouth. "Shall we begin?" he said in a tone naruto had never heard before. Jiraiya and tsunade stiffened. This wasn't the fun loving kitsune they knew. This kitsune was a warrior in his own right and they knew better than to make kitsune bring this personality of his out.

The battle ensued sound ninja fell while tsunade and Kabuto went at it until blood splattered onto her. Just before Kabuto could kill her naruto blocked the kunai with his bare hand. "Don't be such a coward baa-chan. Its just blood. It can't hurt you." naruto said looking at her in the corner of her eye like kitsune would. "So this is how it'll be naruto." the spy said. "you'd die at such a young age." naruto smirked as kitsune killed the last sound ninja that accompanied Kabuto.

(naruto theme plays)

"are you kidding me?" naruto said as a shadow clone appeared. Everyone turned to the scene. The shadow clone began to form what appeared to be a rasengan. "No way." Jiraiya said as he, kitsune, and kin watched on in astonishment. "Until I become hokage.." naruto said thrusting his free hand forward. "i won't die. RASENGAN!" the resulting backlash sent Kabuto flying through multiple trees as naruto collapsed.

(theme ends)

"NARUTO!" kin yelled rushing to his side as tsunade recovered from her shock no longer afraid of blood. "Will you come back to konoha willingly now tsunade?" kitsune asked. "Yes. And I will protect the leaf as the godaime (fifth) hokage."

later at an undisclosed location near the konoha gates

"Dad why are we out here? Shouldn't we be with the others?" kin asked. "Yes, but I want to see your affinity or affinities" kitsune said. "What's an affinity?" she asked. "an affinity determines what kind of elemental jutsu you can use." Jiraiya said joining the two in the field before holding out some pieces of paper. "here." kin took a piece of paper looking curiously at it. "its called chakra paper. It helps determine what elemental affinity you have." kitsune said. "how do I know what affinity I have?" she asked. "if it crumples, you have lightning. If it splits, you have wind. If it gets soaked, you have water. If it disintegrates, you have earth. Finally if it burns. you have fire.

Nodding kin closed her eyes and channeled her chakra. After 30 seconds she opened her eyes to see that the paper had split. "Wind, I can use wind based jutsu." kitsune smiled sadly. Sure he was happy that kin could use wind jutsu, but he had hoped she had an affinity for fire as well. It was at this point kin noticed something on one of the halves. "um dad, ero-sannin, one of the halves is turning gray." she said. This peaked the sannin and kitsune's interest. "You don't think she has an affinity for fire as well do you." Jiraiya asked. I bet and hope she does." Jiraiya handed kin another piece of chakra paper. "We know you have wind chakra, but you may have fire chakra as well. Focus more on the second affinity rather than your wind one." he said. Kin nodded and repeated the process. "Well I'll be." kin heard Jiraiya say.

Opening her eyes, kin was shocked to see the paper burning. "well now I guess I can teach you my original jutsu." kitsune said. Kin's smile grew tenfold. "Really?!" she asked. Kitsune who nodded. "It's an elemental variant of a rasengan." kin's eyes widened as he formed a rasengan before flames began to wrap around and fuse with it. "it's called the inferno rasengan." Jiraiya said forming some seals on bandages. "Jiraiya's here to help supervise the training." kitsune said dispersing the inferno rasengan. "hold out your arm kin." kin did as she was told before Jiraiya began to wrap her arms with the bandages. She looked at her father with a questioning glance. "its to keep you from burning your arm off because this jutsu is very dangerous to both the enemy and the user." kin was nervous at that comment, but she wanted to learn the jutsu. Ready kin?" she smirked and pounded a fist into the palm of her hand which reminded kitsune of naruto when he was anxious to learn a new jutsu. "Hai, tou-san." she said

Present Day

Natani and clay were laughing their asses off. "That Kabuto truly underestimated naruto didn't he?" clay said after getting himself calmed down. "By the sound of it, he did." natani said "Kin must have been extremely enthusiastic to learn one of your jutsus uncle." the three turned to see an anthro lioness sitting down in a chair. "You'd be right Gina, but learning the inferno rasengan was easier said than done."

A/N: there we go. Another chapter in the bag. Next 2 chapters will have kin learning kitsune's most powerful jutsu; the inferno rasengan. After those two chapters act 2 will end and act 3 will begin (the entire/part of the sasuke retrieval) that said peace.