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Chapter 4

That night

Naruto sighed he was kinda sad that he had to leave the Minata's house cause it felt all cheerful and stuff unlike konoha which felt like a cold pit in hell as far as he was concerned. He made it back to his cave back tracking several times laying false trails as he went. He sat near the back at the enttrance to the underground hot spring after lighting several lanterns he had stolen during his stay in the orphanage. He smiled as he dropped his henge and then undressed, he took off his shirt revealing a golden toned upper body with a seal around his bellybutton for a split second, next he took off his hoes then his shorts. His skin was tan all over no sun had done but born that way.

He sunk into the water letting his body float his hair flaring out around him giving him the looke of a siren of the sea from old sailor stories after a few seconds he dived under water and swam to the nearbye out cropping of soap wort that he had found previously. He ground two stems up with an oiled rock in a natural basin near the plants. He used his tail to help him scrub his back the washed himself all over.

Kyuubi in his jail was back in hanyou form he was trying not to pant as he saw naruto undress and wash himself, He got it under control except for a little drool at the side of his mouth. His pink tounge flicked out and wet his lips as he supressed his sexual need for his too young jailer. He silently counted to 200 then reminded himself that all he had to do was wait a few more years until naruto was able to free him and was at least sixteen before he pounced. He gulped and fought his arousal at the images racing through his foxy mind the fact that naruto was naked wasn't helping, he was a percert not a pediophile unlike some people ( in a lab orochimaru sneezed).

"Naruto...Naruto wake up kit."Naruto's eyes snapped open and he found himself in front of the cage that held kyuubi. He looked upon him and saw a gleam in the fox's eyes that he had not seen before. "Hai kyuubi-sama what is it that you need." He saw kyuubi shudder as he spoke the last words and tilted his head to the side making his hair fall over him like a curtain of sunlight at sunset. Kyuubi resisted the urge to grab and kiss his container. "Kit i would like you to give me controll of your body for awhile."

Naruto nodded the opened kyuubi's cage and walked in. As he entered the cage it changed from a barren cave to a palace room filled with books from floor to ceiling on every wall going on for what seemed frorever as well as pillows every where when he looked down he wasn't surprised to see he was wearing harem pants in a dark blue color with a see through vest to match, a light blue shawl like cape of a cerulean color it blacked the lower half of his face and if the hood was raised all you would see was his eyes, and three pieces of jewlry two golden arm bands one with a dragon the other a fox and a blue diamond in the shape of a egg with a small pearl for a tear drop it hung from a thin golden chain on his head giving the illusion that it was held by nothing. He looked around the room until he came to a pile of pillows with kyuubi laying on them in slightly relaxed way.

He walked up to kyuubi and knelt down next to him his blue pants touching kyuubi's red ones. "Alright kyuubi-sama i'll wait here." Kyuubi got up from the pillow and smiled at naruto. "Alright while i'm gone you can start reading the books near here for jutsu and try them out but please don't destroy my room." Naruto nodded and got up as well but grabbed a book off the shelf that said basic wind techniques. He sat back down as kyuubi left through the open cage door.

Kyuubi opened his eyes and looked around to make sure they were still alone. He looked down at his reflection and smiled naruto looked back at him except he had pure red hair and tails as well as golden orbes instead of blue. He quickly bit his thumb and drew seals on naruto's arms,legs and torso. He applied a small amount of chakra to them before walking out of the hot spring. He dried off and then wrapped the towel arround his waist without looking down thinking although he wasn't a pediophile it's still better without such temptation. He walked back up the tunnel to the main cavern that naruto had found. He preformed a few seals and a couch with pillows appeared as well as a bed covered in midnight blue silk with pillows, a desk, another jutsu produced a door into a caver much like this one in the rice country so that naruto could train there in secret, and last a pile of blank scolls that he had taken from his chamber in naruto's mind.

He walked over to the shopping bags from Cosone's and pulled out a pair of black shorts and a red top with sleves to keep out the cold. He opened the door to the cavern and smiled his fangs glittering in the light from the cracks above his head he quickly used a kanton jutsu to heat the walls and floor so that it all smoothed out so there were no jutting rocks to impale naruto on. He added a couple of target dummies and training gear before going back thriugh the door. He nodded to himself and then sat on the bed laying back then faded back to the cage in naruto's mind.

He walked into the door to find naruto surrounded by about fifty different books and he could tell that he hed read them all. He sighed as he remembered that in naruto's mind time ran differently, he was glad that naruto had stuck to the lower shelves so as not to find anything he didn't want him to see yet. He walked to naruto who had his nose buried in a book, kyuubi looked at the title and smiled it said" Cooking from scratch, the beginners guide."

Kyuubi chuckled causing naruto to look up from his book almost though he was almost done. "Is everything okay kyuubi-sama ,did you have fun?" Kyuubi just shook his head and sat beside naruto grabbing naruto's book before he could start reading again."Okay heres the deal kit i've placed gravity seals on you so that you won't need any weights unless you want them then we'll see." He held up his hand as naruto started to ask about them " Second kit we are begining training tonight so lets head to the arena in the north corridor. "

Naruto nodded and followed as kyuubi led him into the north wing of the palace.They passed rooms filled with art from apintings to sculptures eveb half finshed and blank rooms. They finally got to the arena it looked like a cross between a boxing ring and a roman collusium. He followed kyuubi into the middle were several targets were set up.

Kyuubi turned to naruto and handed him kunai and shuriken. He pointed at targets and said "For now i want you to parctice until you can hit the targets in the pressure points with one hundred percent acuracy every time."

When naruto nodded his assent he turned and jumped into the stands to read a book out of his library. Naruto practiced in his mind for a week non stop as his body slept the night away. He continued until he could hit every pressure point no matter how small. He fell down exhausted and kyuubi finally came down from the stands.

He stood in front of the dummy smiled and then said "It's time for you to wake up and look around your new room as well as thats all the training for now."

Naruto smiled then asked "hey kyuubi-sama what time is it in the real world?" Kyuubi tilted his head to the side as if listening to something then said "It's around ten am why?"

Naruto looked sheepish then said simply" Cause i wanna talk to kenshin and the others and pluse shintaro san said he'd start training me too." Naruto looked up at kyuubi with sparkling blue eyes

"Fine kit but don't forget to buy some kunai, shuriken and senbon, ya know skinny kneedles that hunter nin use sigh just ask shintaro kay"

"Hai kyuubi-sama see you later" Naruto woke up on a bed with silk sheets his body well rested. He walked out of his cave and into the forest after brushing his teeth and fixing his henge to look like his human form he hadn't learned how to recall his demon features yet. He smiled " And so the day begins"

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Later that day

As Naruto walked into the forest he felt the air shift. He smelled the scent of others from his old village konoha-gakura. He ran into the forest as they drew nearer he knew they were hunting him. He twisted to the left back tracking until he got to the clearing about a half mile away from the place he had made his home it connected to his cave through a tunnel. He quickly sat down in the river with a loud voice he yelled "dangit stop swimming away from me."

The ninja sent by the hokage watched as Naruto chased after a fish. The ninja who wore a weasl mask stepped away from the group of three others. The ninja dropped down to the ground taking off his mask to reveal a young 11 year old boy with his black hair tied at the nape of his neck, his skin a creamy marble color with onyx eyes. He stuck a pocky stick into his mouth, his companions still hiding were still unsure where he got those damn pocky from all the time.

Itachi walked over to the river bank nearest naruto and called out " Hey ya need some help Naruto?"

Naruto spun his eyes wide htinking that the ninjas wouldn't talk to him. He looked at the one who had approached and called out his name. The ninja seemed to be a few years older than him maybe 11 or twelve. He stepped closer a wary look on his wet face as he got closer. He walked out of the river his sparse clothes ragged and drenched clinging to his young body.

Two of the others dropped out of the tree falling in a pool of blood from looking. The other was clinging to a branch laughing his ass off at the other two. Naruto looked scared as he heard them fall and the other laughing uncontrollably. Itachi sighed as he looked over at his comrads shaking his head at the antics of the older people. He walked over to the two on the ground one with the mask of a fish and the other of a snake. He poked them in the ribs with his foot and looked to the last member who wore the mask of a dog.

He watched from the side of his eyes as naruto approached them on small feet. He looked up then said "Inu-san can you come down and help me with the others."

Naruto watched as the one in the dog mask jumped down and set the ninja in the snake mask while the one who looked like a child pushed the one in a fish mask up near a tree. He stepped up to the one who had called him "Who are you, are you going to hurt me?" Nartuo made sure that his fear showed on his face while saying this.

The young one shook his head placing another poky into his mouth then turned so naruto could see his face as emotionless as it was. "No naruto we were just sent to check on you so that no one could do anything to you out of the village at the hokage's order so the council could not send others after you,...oh and by the way my names Itachi Uchiha okay."

Naruto could hear everything that was just said by itachi but he took a second to talk to kyuubi"Kyuubi-sama what should i do they say they won't hurt me should i trust them?" "Yeah kit you can trust the one called itachi he smells like the one who saved you from the mob they all do so yeah its okay to get close to them." "okay kyuubi-sama but should i keep the appearence of an idiot or show them the real me"" Hmm good idea kit you can work on your mask that you'll use now so as to have it perfected before you return to that Village... Now you better tune back in or they might wonder at whats wrong with you.""Kay kyuubi sama but i think i'll only tone down the idiot mask around people i can trust on at least two differnt levels like these three."

Itachi watched as naruto shook himself as if coming out of a dream. He approached naruto sidling closer and closer till they stood inches apart then he took out a small scroll with a special seal. Naruto looked at him suriously he had never seen a scroll that had a seal like the one itachi had. He watched closely as itachi cut himself on a kunai then spread the blood across the seal a puff of smoke burst from the scroll along with three duffel bags. Each bag was a different color one green, one gold, and one blue they all looked heavy.

Itachi set each bag on the ground and started to open each one naruto looked over his shoulder curious to see the inside. The gold bag held about five smaller bags each filled with either gold coins or paper yen it was a fortune and even naruto who had not seen more than 120 yen knew this. Behind them the others were waking up with a little help from the dog ANBU. When they were all awake they came over to watch as well.

Itachi ignored them and opened the green bag it contained three large scrolls filled with camping gear a mission sleeping bag that was specialy designed to keep the heat in while regulating the cold so as not to burn the occupant as well as being water proof resistant to fire and light weight so easy to carry and roll, a tent to keep the elements out, a pillow made of the same material as the sleeping bag, a set of cooking utensils and acessories such as a pot, pan, skillet a leather water skin specialy designed for desert travel with a seal giving it the ability to contain ten gallons of water at any time when filled, and last but not least a small booklet on the academy he was going to attend when he turned ten thanks to the hokage.

The last bag contained scrolls filled with food some with special seals for cold and others more normal in that the just kept the food dry and all animals out as well as a letter from the hokage.

Naruto smiled at the old mans thoughtfullness then turned to the still kneeling itachi and hugged him. The others jaws hit the ground behind their masks at seeing itachi hugged by anyone because everyone knew that uchiha's were unfeeling and as cold as ice except when pissed off then they were deadly. Itachi took a second to adjust to his and naruto's weight then he hugged naruto back a small smile playing across his face. he turned his head as he heard three consecutive thumps both he and naruto looked at where the others were and saw that they had all fainted. Itachi laughed to himself at the fact that they fainted because he smiled while naruto was just confuse at what had just happened he turned away from them and asked itachi " Why did they faint?"

Itachi took a second to try hold it in then burst out laughing which would have put his teammates in the hospital from shock if they heard him. Naruto didn't understand why he was laughig but he snuggled up to the older boy with a smile and waited for them to wake up.

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Sometime later

Naruto was dry now and the others had woken up. Itachi did a small katon jutsu to start a fire and then place the fish that he and naruto had caught while the others were asleep. He sat back and watched nartuo jump around trying to keep up with his partner in the snake mask she was fast and slippery like her codename. She seemed to be in one place then when naruto got close she would slip away as if never there. It was quite funny to see the cute little scowl on naruto's face as he tried to catch her. He turned away to look at the others they were setting up naruto's tent so that he could play for a while before they left.

Naruto ran around a tree reaching for the snake ladies arm but it was gone just as his fingers touched her arm. He growled in frustration before putting on a little more spead whenhe saw her about to go around a tree. He tackled her and sent them sprawling into the campsite where the others waited. They tumbled until they came to a stop with him on top laughing and her beneathe him while she was cursing her absentmindedness and wondering about if she was getting rusty at 18.

Naruto climbed off her still laughing then turned as he heard a rustle coming from the east of their position. He discretly sniffed the air making it look like he was yawning. He caught the scent of rowan and wolf fur, he smiled to himself as he ran in that direction making it seem as if he was running from the snake lady. When he got close enough to see him he yelled out "Oy Kenshin are you coming to play."

The figure crouched cursed as the deer he was hunting bounded away when naruto shouted. He turned angry gold eyes fixed on naruto but quickly changed to wary as he saw the strange woman( she smelled female) wearing a snake mask chasing him. He relaxed slightly as naruto came up to him he quickly gave naruto a once over to see if he was hurt or scared. He smiled at naruto pushing his gray hair out of his face.

He heard the rise in the woman's pulse and knew what it meant pluse he could smell her arousal. He knew he was hot with shoulder lenght gray hair gold eyes and a face that some would say looked like a statue of one of the western gods apollo if he remembered correctly. His chisled chin masculine, lips a slight shade of red and body scultpted from hour of exercise and missions in animal form. He smiled at naruto ignoring the woman for now as he looked at the fox demon he met yesterday.

His hair was mussed a bit as if he was sleeping when something awoke him but other than that he looked fine if a little exhausted but he could put it down as play wrestling as he had the scent of the woman all over him and naruto was to young for anything that would be more fun.

He walked over to naruto abd hugged the kit one armed as he kept one eye on the woman. He got a whiff of one more scent coming off naruto. He looked closer at the blonde fox kit to see if he had made the wrong choice not to be wary just because the innocent kit wasn't.

Naruto smiled as kenshin hugged him. He still wasn't used to being touched by anyone but kyuubi-sama but it felt good. He laughed as kyuubi reminded him not to break charachter. "Hey Kenshin-san wanna come see where i live now." His smile was so false and shiny he thought he was going to be sick.

Neither of the two seemed to notice that naruto's smile had change from sincere and gulable to sweet and false. He was sad that those he knew and liked couldn't tell the difference. They walked into camp to find Itachi and the other two ANBU playing poker. It was funny because even though the two masked ANBU were older and had their faces covered Itachi was still winning, he had a pile of money in front of him while the others had two bills a piece.

Naruto could feel Kenshin visably tense at the sight of the other three awaiting them. Naruto decided it was time to up the idiotic act. He ran over to the masked man nearest him, the fish mask wearing ANBU and jumped onto him while activating so trap wires he had set up before leaving while playing with the snake lady. He crossed his ankle behind the man's back as they tipped over the man caught his balance and grabbed the back of naruto's head to keep him from falling.

His swift movement caught all the older people off gaurd even though all were trained ninja. Both he and kyuubi were laughing in his head at their slowness and reactions. The two closest to naruto and the man tried to catch them nocking into each other and Kenshin an the snake lady were running forward and tripped over each other. Naruto put on the most innocent smile that he could make and turned to look at the other four while still clinging to the fish man.

He tilted his head to the side so that it gave him an angelic look even with the golden spikes and glint of mischeif in his eyes. He made a mou of his lips and asked " what happened?"

He looked as itachi and his teammate untangled themselves from the wire that had helped them collide when they tried yto grab naruto and the fish man. He laughed silently with Kyuubi as he watched itachi's face go red from the positon he was in and he could smell the blood rushing onto the face of the other male.Itachi was between the other's legs and had his hamds pinned above his head even though itachi was the smaller of the two it was no surprise to see he came out on top.

Naruto turned his head as he heard a yelp of pain coming from the direction he left Kenshin and the snake lady. He startled as the fish man laughed a deep sound next to his sensitive ears at the top of his head. He jumped out of his arms and looked at what the man was laughing at. He saw kenshin impaled with a kunai in his leg , his other hand was on the snake ladies right breast, and her pulling out another kunai.

He ran over to them and disinigrated the hair wires and helped Kenshin to the side so the snake lady could move her mask fell off. Her face was angular and pretty you could tell she would be a real beauty later in life. Her face was surrounded by long purple hair tied at the top of her head. She wore a scowl on her face brown eyes narrowed in anger. She pushed away from them and picked up her mask brushing the dirt off herself.

Naruto started to laugh and soon was rolling on the floor in laughter. All the "adults" looked at him. Itachi pulled a part of the wire that had caused the accidents and held it to the light showing it to the others.Kenshin growled as he pulled the kunai out of his leg preforming a small medical jutsu to stop the bleeding and start the healing process. He took one look at the wire in itachi's hand and grabbed naruto off the floor by his collar.

"What is the meaning of this brat." His voice had gone growling deep.

Naruto put on his best fake innocent face perfect for his mask and gave kenshin the cute google eyes that are the best defense of little animals on humans and human types.His blue eyes grw huge and sparkles appeared in them to give them a shiny shiny look as well as the twinkle of the sun on his hair. He pulled his legs in to make him seem helpless against the big bad wolf. His lower lip began to quiver as if he were going to cry.

Kenshin felt the full force of naruto's cuteness and dropped him as his nose began to bleed the others who were behind kenshin and got some of the effect were in a smilar condition. The purple haired woman ran and grabbed naruto hugging him and screaming "KAWAII"

Naruto cringed and could feel kyuubi laughing in his mind at naruto's discomfort. It was a sight to see for itachi and the others from konoha as the watched Anko ine of the most vicious people turn into a fan girl squeeling over the poor kid.

Kenshin wasn't even thinking of helping the brat as it was his fault that he got stabbed by the crazy bitch. He felt the call of his mother summoning him. He turned to naruto and yelled " yo i gotta go naruto i've been summoned i'll see ya later at the house moms cooking this time." He raised a hand in wave and vanished in a puff of grey smoke

Naruto smiled and looked at the rest of his visitors waiting to see what they would do. The woman walked forward and naruto backed up a little. She smiled a flash of teeth in the lightly tanned face " Hey naruto since you've already seen my face the names Mitarashi Anko the sexy snake mistress of konoha."

A snicker was herd from her male companions and she silenced it with a glare at the dog man. By the way we were just sent to give you your stuff and see if you were happy out here and as it is we'll see you sometime kay shrimp." She rubbed his head where a tick mark popped into exsistance.

He growled at her and moved away from her hand "The names Naruto Uzumaki got it old lady?" He snarled looking her straight in the eyes.

A smack could be herd miles away as she wacked naruto in the back of the head sending him sprawling. Now Anko liked to talk shit but no noe and i mean no one called her "old lady" and got off scott free not even cute blondes. Itachi and the others winced, the dog masked man took his off revealing a white face with light brown eyes surrounded by smiling lines.

He came and helped naruto up " Sorry bout that kid she has a temper specially when ya call her the "O" word." Naruto rolled his blue eyes to look up at the man's face he wasn't a classic handsome more of a boy next door type with his unusual brown eyes, orange hair ,and white face with freckles dancing across the bridge of his broked nose. Naruto smirked " What you mean OLD lady?" he pitched his voice so anko heard him but couldn't do anything more than give him the finger.

The man shook his head at their antics" My names keiji nice to meet ya at last kid" He leaned down and whispered" I would watch it last guy who said that ended up in the hospital for 5 months from injuries and poison."

Naruto nodded making a mental note not to mess with her too much. He watched as the last ANBU atepped forward removing his mask. He had a collar around the lower half of his face and before naruto could see the rest he switched the mask for shades that hid his eyes. His face a pale white his shades black enhancing the color.

"Hello Uzumaki-san my name is Shinichi Aburame it is nice to meet you." He bowed slightly in defernce to naruto.

Naruto bowed and said with a huge grin on his face "Its nice to see you faces i was begining to think those masks were glued on or sumthin."

Itachi sighed and called out in his robotic like voice with just a hint of impatience "We have to get back before noon so naruto we'll see you when you come back to the village in about 4 years but we'll come back to see you every now and then when we're near the area."

With that they shushined away, naruto sighed and let the henge drop to reveal his true form. He spoke inwardly to kyuubi " so should we start trainning in how to make me look like before without using chakra or henge?" Kyuubi nodded and naruto got to work trainning.

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Okay sorry for not stating it clearly but naruto is five almost six in a few months. I'm making naruto a gemini with the birthday june 13 cause i like it like that (smack)

Naruto: tell them the truth

Serius: (rubbing head) alright dammit i'll tell the truth just don't hit me again

Naruto: (smiling foxy smile) fine but you better tell the truth else i'll have kyuubi and the others help in your punishment

Serius:(cringe) sigh okay heres the truth i don't know Naruto's birthday okay, happy

Naruto: Yup now folks look forward to another chapter next time.