Hazard Here with chapter 6 in yo face!

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"speech"

'Thoughts'

"Demon speech"

'Demon thoughts'

Jutsu

Ch 6: Graduation.

-Academy, final testing day-

"Heh, four years. Has it really been four years?" Naruto grabbed the back of his head and leaned back in his seat in the corner of room, he looked around at the class as they were called to the front to take the graduation test. Over the course of the past 4 years he had made fairly decent headway in his studies getting up to what he thought would be mid chunin is skill before a fairly glaring wall halted his progress.

Using Kage Bunshin's had been a godsend for him, being able to learn at an accelerated pace could only ever be a plus, and he had taken it well beyond the extreme to take advantage of his new elemental mastery's, he finished each of his change in chakra natures so he was fairly proficient in his own mind, there were masters out there that could still control elements much greater than himself but he could still give an average shinobi a run for their money. One of the greatest accomplishments that Naruto's clones could claim were his raise in academics, While he wasn't top of the class he was still more knowledgeable about ninja life than pretty much anyone else in his class, and to a certain extent in the entire village, because he hadn't just brushed up on his ninja skills and history, he had expanded his library to include things that would help him later on in life, like fabricating his own weapons and supplies, Dustin had run him ragged teaching his smithing craft to the blond haired child, Naruto shivered at the memory.

-Flashback-

*Ring*

"Naruto, what can I do for you today my boy?" Dustin smiled at the kid, he was 10 now and had sprouted up a little bit since the last time he'd seen him.

"I was wondering sir, if you could teach me blacksmithing." Dustin raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Eh and what would a ninja need to know blacksmithing for?"

Naruto twitched a little, rubbing his arm apprehensively "Well...I kinda need it for that thing we talked about when we first met."

The man's surprise grew, he'd thought the boy would give up on 'that' when it got too difficult, but to still be trying after three years showed dedication and that was one thing Dustin prized above almost anything else.

"Heyo dad!" well almost anything, he prized his daughter more than anything else.

"Hello Tenten." Naruto greeted her, throwing her a little salute.

"Hey Naruto how have you been? It's been what? 2 months since you last came by?"

"I been doing good, and yeah it's been awhile, been too buzy with the academy and training?"

"You too? Man you're lucky. I have to deal with all the stiff shirts in the advanced classes. Theres this dude in my class, his name's Neji Hyuuga. A real hardass, kinda cute I have to admit but he doesn't have anything on you." she let out a little smile at the blonde maverick.

Naruto snorted at that. "You should see the girls of my class, after that little spar between me and Sasuke it's been a civil war between the fanclubs, I'm still shocked I HAVE a fanclub..." Naruto shivered unconsciously, hearing the phantom wails of the couple of girls in his class that fawned over him.

"What was that?" Tenten wondered.

"I felt a disturbance in the force"

"The what?"

"Nothing. Anyway I was trying to get your dad here to teach me a bit about blacksmithing, I just need a bit of training so I can make a few things myself when I need them."

"Pffft, Yo dad" she threw him a thumbs up "Don't worry about the whole, 'Take my secrets to the grave' shtick, teach Naruto here the basics and put him through the gauntlet." She let out a little evil chuckle, Dustin shared it, which made Naruto slightly uncomfortable, standing there with them leering at him.

"This is going to hurt isn't it?" Naruto asked blandly.

"Oh you have no idea." She chuckled.

"..."

-End Flashback-

After the torture that was learning from Dustin was over Naruto could honestly say he was humbled by the blacksmith, sure he wasn't anywhere close to a pro but he could still make many of the things that the village wouldn't give him. Only one real problem kept the boy down, plainly speaking his strength was shit, the wall that kept him tethered to low-mid chunin in skill was his body couldn't handle the forces involved with his rise in skills.

He was taller and stronger from his ordeal with Kyuubi sure, (topping off roughly 4 inches taller than his canon self. Just slightly shorter than Rock Lee) but he still had to build up his skills slowly but surely through constant training. Speaking of ordeals, after he had spilled the beans about his new foxy bits to the class the kids went back and told their parents about the kid with the 'foxy' bits in class, from what he could gather the parents had told them to stay away from the 'demon child' so he doesn't 'hurt you.' Bah, with his natural good natured personality along with his constant joking in class, many of the the kids ignored the warnings, to the parents dismay. Word had also spread around town about his new 'accessories.' but other than a few more glares, maybe a raised hand or two nothing seemed much different. It was either the fear of Kami that Anko put into people or the constant pranks he pulled that kept most of the civilians from taking him seriously. He still preferred to hide the ears and tail though, by either stuffing them away under clothing or hiding under a henge it didn't really matter.

As for his class mates, for four years he had been keeping tabs on them, creating a mental dossier on their personalities and abilities just in case he was ever paired with any of them. Naruto turned his gaze to the Duck headed wonder in the corner of the room and just stared. He couldn't describe the feeling of putting the arrogant Uchiha in his place when he stuck his head out during their spars. Overall, Sasuke was a nice guy when you got to know him, broody? Yes. Self Centered? Yes, but a decent guy none the less. He did carry a bit too much emotional baggage with him, a fact that Naruto would eventually break the boy of if it was the last thing he'd do, after all, he really was one of Naruto's first true friends so if he could help the Uchiha get over his pissy attitude he'd count that as a positive point in his book.

following the rows of the room had his eyes land on Sakura. The girl was good, a bit annoying in her fangirlish attitude, not to mention violent...but a clever mind and greater control of chakra you will not find in any of the other students, except for maybe Naruto himself...

The girl next to her, Ino...like Sakura except less book smart and more seductive, I swear she acted like a slut half the time in class but damn it it if wasn't effective...

Continuing on, Kiba, another good guy, loyal to a fault, decent friend, kind of annoying after he got his dog... some of the others in class think his dick is going to his head when he starts yapping off about starting his own 'pack.' Hell Naruto could start his own 'pack' whenever the hell he wanted, with his mastery over his ice bloodline, the main elements, the foxy bits, and any other hidden bloodlines he may still hold. He could have his own damn harem if he just asked the council to supply him with the women, though that thought made the boys stomach turn. Turning himself into breeding stock was not the most pleasant idea he'd had that day...

Above and to the right were Shikamaru and Choji, the brains and the muscle. They were awesome people to hang with and it only helped him along when he realized that old Shika was a freaking GENIUS, the fact the guy had an IQ over 200 was just scary, but you couldn't find a better challenge at Shogi or Go in the village, he still hadn't beaten him once...in four years.

Near the back of the class on his row was Shino who...was just Shino, the guy gave him the creeps, but he was a smart person to hold a conversation with when he did open his mouth for more than a few casual words.

Cerulean eyes fell on the one thing in the room that Naruto couldn't come to terms with...Hinata.

The girl was a mystery to him. She followed him at a distance everywhere, it wasn't like he really minded her watching him from afar, she never did look at him with animosity or hate, just a quiet acceptance and reverence. He had come to appreciate the quiet girls gaze as it was a strangely relaxing feeling knowing someone was watching you with a positive attitude. The big problem however was getting the girl to talk to him, in four years she hadn't said more than maybe a couple dozen words to him and any time he tried to talk to her she had just blushed a very dark shade of red and passed out, again something he'd have to figure out and tackle at a later date.

Right now was game time, the end of the school year, the make it or break it of the academy. Iruka was handing out several written tests to the class 'Boooooring' the blonde mentally droned, he had no problem doing the written work, he just had too much pent up energy at the moment. He was a man of ACTION damn it.

After the written test was the practicals, basically a grade on standard academy taijutsu and using ninja tools, He was decent at the academy style but he preferred a variant that tossed in Anko's style. His hit rate for kunai and shuriken was 8 out of 10, not bad but not good either. After that was the final part of the test, the basic three, Bunshin, Kawarimi, and Henge. To Naruto, this part was the most important, he hadn't really mastered any of the basic three regardless of the fact that they were the foundation of all the ninja techniques beyond, He knew Kage bunshin so the clone part of the test was in the bag, his transformation wasn't that bad, in fact with his Sexy Jutsu he was actually damn good at it, his replacement was decent, nothing to write home about but still a passing grade.

All in all he had this in the bag and thanks to a small incident involving a certain white haired chunin he didn't have to worry about anyone screwing with his test score. Yeah, good old Mizuki-teme had fucked up before the graduation test ever started. He'd noticed Mizuki acting a bit on edge and staring at a few of the failing students with really bad grades, you know, the disposable kind. Well acting shifty in a village of ninja may be par for the course but doing that while teaching a class of students that have a majority of the clan heirs in said class and you have a very big problem, one word to Sarutobi and a squad of Anbu were tailing Mizuki's ass. The bastard was caught red handed when he was pulling a kid aside to have him steal the Forbidden scroll of sealing, after that, they threw his ass to Ibiki and found out he had been sabotaging the entire class in one way or another for years, a serious crime in its own right but there were several 'other' dark and dirty secrets that all but damned Mizuki to a life in prison.

"Uzumaki, Naruto get down here" Iruka's voice cut into his musing. "Come on Naruto, it's your turn, or do you want me to fail you?"

"Alright, alright. Geez you'd think you'd think the Kyubi rose from the grave or something..." Naruto stole a small glance at Iruka's pale white face and snickered quietly, Kami he loved doing that. Iruka was a nice guy if a bit gullible. "Ok what's my score of awesome on a scale of one to ten?" teeth glimmered as his grin took up his whole face

"Ha ha very funny." Iruka deadpanned "And if you must know, three." Oh he bust a gut when Naruto's grin turned into a deep frown, he had definitely gotten under the blondes skin with that one.

"You're gonna pay for that one Iruka-sensei, ok clone, replacement and transformation, right?" A nod of conformation. "Ok lets do this!" In a one handed handseal he summoned 5 Kage Bunshins, in a puff of smoke two of them were transformed into Iruka and Mizuki, the other two transformed into large Katana's, the two human clones grabbed the katana clones and rushed each other, in a flurry of stabs and slashes the two dueled. A thrust by clone Iruka was diverted to the side and a follow up by Clone Mizuki who cut down the length of the scarred chunin's blade, it would have taken Clone Iruka's head off had he not brought the guard of his blade up and raised the attack harmlessly overhead, to keep from getting slashed on the downward cut Clone Mizuki crouched down and took one hand off of his blade and with a yell he lanced his fist out and landed a blow into clone Iruka's sternum when he raised his blade to strike clone Mizuki, causing him to dispel. Or so he thought as a sword ripped through clone Mizuki's shoulder, dispelling him to reveal that clone Iruka had replaced itself with the fifth Naruto who had crept up behind clone Mizuki to blindsided him. Another cloud of smoke signaled the clones dispelling, leaving an astonished class and Iruka to stare at the blonde maverick, who just so happened to be fiddling with his ninja-to. "So do I pass?" he grinned mischievously.

Iruka could only nod dumbly at him, the whole duel between his clone self and the Mizuki clone took only a couple of seconds but the sword play was impressive, hell he couldn't move as fast as those clones had, he threw a glance at Naruto for a second "Those were shadow clones weren't they?"

"Yep, gotta love em, one of the most useful Jutsu ever" his grin hadn't left his face.

"Well, it's not the academy Bunshin, but it is an advanced bunshin and it is acceptable in this case, congratulations Naruto, you pass" he flashed him a warm smile, 'Naruto's come a long way, heh, only a few years ago I saw him as nothing more than the fox in human skin, but just look at him, no demon could ever be this goofy, I just hope he can handle the world outside the village the way he handles himself here...Oh who am I kidding, he doesn't need to prepare for the world, the world needs to prepare for him!' his thoughts were filled with praise for the boy in front of him. It was truely inspiring to see how much he had grown both physically and mentally these last four years.

He tossed Naruto his Hitai-ate who immediately tied it around his head as he took his seat at the back of the class. "Alright Class, that's it for today's test, those of you who passed come back tomorrow to meet your new sensei and find out your team placements, for those of you who failed there is always next year so keep practicing, dismissed." He turned and walked out of the classroom.

-The next Day-

Anko stood in front of her mirror, trying on several new dresses she had bought over the weekend, she wanted to take Naruto out after he graduated and passed the real genin test. After all she had spent five years with the boy and their relationship hadn't really gone anywhere, sure there was the occasional kiss and they did pretty much everything with each other, bathing, eating, even shopping. Hell they could be called a married couple in everything but having sex, which Naruto made clear the year before when she had innitiated a bit of a dirty bubble bath, that they would wait till he was a bit older to do that sort of thing.

That didn't stop Anko from teasing and corrupting the boy as much as she could, much to his everpresent annoyance, but she didn't care, he was fun to be around with and thats all that really mattered to her, hell even the threat the council threw at them every year or so about multiple wives or having children didn't phase her, in fact they had a conversation just a few months ago that if he ever found someone else to share with that she would support him in his choice, it's not like she minded really... more fun for her in her mind. She flashed a feral grin. A little known secret to only a select few women that had known her before her marriage was that Anko was bisexual, and she had no problem with a Ménage à trois, in fact on several occasions she even promoted it. If Naruto ever did find another wife to marry... The feral grin never left her face as pervy thoughts floated through the snake mistress' mind while she tried on another dress, this one more mesh then fabric...

-ooo-

"UGGHHH, SO BOOORED!" Our blonde haired hero moaned in anguish, it had been an hour and a half since the last of the teams had left, he looked at the only other two people in the room...his 'teammates' the ever broody Sasuke and his pink haired Chia pet Sakura. He had tried to start up a conversation with them but Sasuke had blew him off because he was in one of his 'moods' honestly you'd think he was on the rag... 'Ugh, note to self, tell the Narrator to shut the fuck up about FemSasuke' ... fourth wall breaking aside, he really was bored out of his gourd, looking around one more time he finally sighed and stood up.

The Uchiha noticed the movement out of the corner of his eye "Yo, Dobe, what are you doing?"

"I'm bored" he remarked dryly, as he started doing one handed pushups "If we're going to be sitting here for hours on end we might as well do something productive while we wait."

He raised an eyebrow, "And what exactly ARE you doing?"

"What's it look like Teme? I'm training, I'd rather my muscles not atrophy while we wait." finishing a set on one side he switched to the other "If you want I can show you a few tricks to getting a good workout, what do you say?"

Sasuke looked around for a moment before sighing, he'd never admit it but Naruto was right, it WAS boring as HELL in this place. "Alright" he stood up and walked over to Naruto "What kind of training is this?"

Naruto sat up for a moment, and looked around, he noticed a small stack of flash cards under Iruka's desk, "Alright here's what you do, he grabbed a couple slips and handed one to Sasuke, "First off, I'll explain the chakra part of this exercise, simply, use your chakra to stick that piece of paper to your forehead like this" he reached up and placed the paper on his brow and like a piece of tape it stuck "Once you get this part, start doing physical exercises, I find that pushups and sit ups get the best results out of this. Not only are you working your chakra reserves with the paper but when you're concentrating on keeping the paper on and doing the exercises it'll increase your control as well, not to mention you're still getting a workout, a workout thats that much harder since you are using chakra while you're exercising."

Sasuke looked at the paper in his hand for a moment, shrugged and stuck it to his head, it didn't stick as well as he had wanted it too but it stayed, he sat down and started doing crunches, sweat beading his brow.

Sakura was watching her crush work out with a blush on her face, he was just so sexy.

Naruto rolled his eyes, he knew EXACTLY what she was day dreaming about and it sickened him to no end, sure Sakura was hot but Anko had beaten an ever present fear of fangirls into him, to him fangirls were scum, lower than dirt, and to hell if he was going to have one on his team if he had anything to say about it "Sakura!" he yelled, snapping her out of her Sasuke induced trance "You going to join us?"

"Why should I?" she bit back"

"Well for one thing, you're weak "He deadpanned dryly.

"Naruto you jerk! I am not weak!"

"Yeah you are and quit lying to yourself about it, out of the entire class you have the worst physical ability, Ino has better taijutsu skills than you, hell SHIKAMARU has better taijutsu than you and he's one of the laziest people I know"

Sakura shook in anger, tears welling in her eyes, she was about to run from the room when Naruto stopped her.

"BUT, that's why I'm trying to help you Sakura" he tossed her one of the slips, "Just doing this exercise over a period of a month almost doubled my chakra control and it increased my strength by a fifth, multi-tasking is an essential in battle and being able to concentrate on your physical attacks while you're unconsciously controlling your chakra is beyond helpful, that's why I turn my entire day into one big exercise, even when I'm relaxing I'm still doing something to better myself, after we get done today with our sensei you should look into it too. Using weights, going the long way to your destination, sticking leaves or other light stuff to your body with chakra throughout the day, stuff like this is great training for a good ninja."

Clapping filled the air around them, the three genin turned to the sound to see a silver haired masked man standing in the doorway "Heh, I was gonna say my first impressions of you three was 'I hate you' but it seems I have someone fairly competent on my squad, spiky over there has it right, that's a great exercise. You got 30 minutes, after you're finished training meet me on the roof." he then disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

"Well that was interesting" Naruto sweatdropped.

-30 minutes later-

"Naruto...that sucked..." the only girl there bitched "My muscles are already sore"

"That's because you were using chakra at the same time as you exercised, thus you couldn't use chakra to do most of the work your muscles should be doing, so all that effort was placed on your muscles alone, which in turn increases the effects of the work out." Naruto pointed out as they reached the roof

"It still sucked..." she huffed, Naruto just palmed his face in irritation.

"Yo!" the Silver haired Jonin hailed them from the edge of the roof "Alright, now that you're all up here, I think it's time we introduced ourselves, give your likes/dislikess, dreams for the future and some hobbies, here I'll start. My Name is Kakashi Hatake, I have many likes and dislikes, I don't know you well enough to tell you my dreams for the future and I have hobbies." he nodded to them.

"Well that was informative" Naruto remarked dryly.

"Yeah all we got was his name" Sakura agreed.

Kakashi looked bored "Doesn't matter, you first" he pointed to Naruto.

"Well, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I Like training, ramen and proving myself, my dream..." Naruto's face darkened a second "Actually no, not a dream, my goal is to restore the Uzumaki clan and become a better Hokage than any thats come before me so that the people of this village can look up to me as a true shinobi."

Kakashi stared at him a moment 'Well isn't that interesting...' he nodded "Hobbies?"

"Um, well besides pranks and practical jokes...?" Kakashi sweatdropped

"Yeah I saw your handiwork the other day, painting the Hokage monument in broad daylight and nobody noticed you till you were done, how exactly did you pull that off?"

Naruto laughed "Sorry sensei, a good magician never reveals his secrets"

Kakashi eye smiled at him "Oho Mr Magic, and how many ANBU chased you around town after that little stunt?"

"Heh, 2 teams of ANBU, 11 Chunin and 4 Jonin" he had his hands behind his head with a shit eating grin on his face, Sakura and Sasuke just stared blankly at him.

"What the hell Dobe?" Sasuke said, dumbfounded.

Naruto looked at him "Hm, you say something?" the three Genin turned after hearing a crash to see Kakashi face first on the floor.

'Am I already rubbing off on them?' Kakashi wondered, face still firmly planted on the ground. After removing said face from said floor, he pointed at Sakura. "Ok bubblegum, you're next"

Sakura glared at him "Sakura Haruno, My dreams are..."She glanced quickly at Sasuke, "My hobbies are..." again at Sasuke "I like Sasuke and I HATE Naruto!"

Naruto sighed, out of all the kids in the academy he was stuck with broody and the beast.

'Well isn't she shallow?' Kakashi thought blandly "Ok duck head, you're next."

"Hah! I knew other people thought that about your hair." guess who said that.

Sakura glared at Naruto and Sasuke scowled "Sasuke Uchiha, I hate alot of things and I like few, I don't see why we are talking about dreams since Naruto has it right for once. I don't have a dream, I have a 'goal.' My goal is to restore my clan and its honor, and to KILL a certain someone." An eriee silence filled the air as Naruto and Sakura inched back a few hairs from the Ki Sasuke was giving off.

"Dare I ask about your hobbies?" Kakashi wondered dryly, ignoring the Ki.

"Training, brooding and knitting."

Kakashi choked. "What was that last one?" he asked quickly.

"Knitting" Sasuke replied with a straight face. Kakashi suppressed the need to giggle like a schoolgirl, if Sasuke's parents knew his hobby they'd be rolling over in their graves, just thinking of Fugaku catching his son knitting made him choke and his mother Mikoto would have made him her little princess like she did Itachi... After a few seconds of inner conflict on whether or not to fall over in fits of giggles or just to point and laugh, he thankfully did neither and opted to file it away under 'blackmail' for later use

"OK now that we understand each other, I want you to meet me at training ground 3 tomorrow at 7am for survival exercises, oh and don't eat anything, or else you're gonna throw up." he chuckled a little before he shunshin'd away.

"And like that he leaves us with nothing to go on, GREATEST SENSEI EVAR!" Naruto palmed his face with a tick mark showing prominently. "Whatever. Alright ignore the last thing he said and eat tonight and in the morning, Ok?"

The other two looked at him like he was stupid or something.

"But sensei just told us not to eat, why would we break the rules like that?" Sakura rubbed her legs together nervously.

"Two things. One, tomorrow is most likely NOT going to be a survival exercise, it's probably gonna be a test on teamwork, hell why would they go through all the trouble of sticking us on teams and preaching about teamwork all throughout the academy if it wasn't about teamwork?" The looks on their faces told him they hadn't thought of that "Two, since he directly told us not to eat anything while taking into account that he's probably going to be pitting us against each other tomorrow its safe to say that he's going to try and turn our tempers on each other to test our teamwork and resolve, after all, starving and desperate ninja a good team do not make. So eat something, it doesn't have to be much, just enough so we don't kill each other tomorrow out of hunger and stress."

They both nod, if anything they could just blame Naruto if things went south, so with that and a few goodbye's team 7 headed home for the night.

-ooo-

'Ugh today sucked' Naruto groaned mentally 'I wonder what Kakashi will have us do tomorrow. If I know Sasuke and Sakura they probably wont eat anything, so just in case bring an apple for both of them or something. Sigh, so much to do tomorrow, might as well get some sleep while I can' As Naruto nodded off he felt a slight tug on his conscious 'Sigh, this better be good Kyuubi' He opened his eyes and he was again in that familiar sewer, seriously he needed to clean this place out. He turned to stare at the beast behind the cage waiting for it t speak.

kyuubi looked down at him with a small grin on it's face. "Hello monkey, I see you graduated today from that pathetic excuse you call an academy."

"Yeah yeah yuck it up furball, I'm on my way to becoming Hokage and ain't nothing gonna stop me now. So what did you need me for?"

"*Sigh*, Honestly? It's kind of lonely in here, it's been more than a year since you've even come in here, there's nothing to do except sleep and torment you, and seeing as you don't torment easily It's gotten rather boring in here..."

"Well sorry if my head doesn't match to standards, suck it up, you're a man, take the pain like the rest of us." Naruto was about to make another smart comment when a large amount of killing intent flooded the room, he snapped his head towards Kyuubi and stared into it's eyes, there was a mixture of anger and ...hurt in them, what the fuck?

Kyuubi grit it's teeth in anger glaring holes into Naruto "That's just it you stupid MONKEY, I am not a male!"

"Wait...WHAT!" The blondes eyes flew wide in shock. "You're a GIRL?"

The fox facepalmed...somehow... and spoke evenly "Yes I am a female, A GIRL. How do you not notice these things?"

He looked a bit sheepish "Well I just assumed, with such a deep voice and all..."

A tick mark formed on her head. "I'm 100 times your size mortal, my vocal cords are much larger than yours. If I was your size or you mine we'd sound the same as the other."

Naruto looked thoughtful for a moment before a look of disgust crossed his face. "But that means...Ugh gross..."

"W-what?" The vixen tilted her head curiously.

"I was going to say it must suck having your junk soaked in this sewer all day long, but now that I know you're a girl that must suck even more" he scrunched his nose in disgust.

"Now you know why I don't like you that much, your mind is filthy, figuratively speaking..."

"Well what do you want me to do? It's not like I can remove all this water, and I sure as hell ain't removing that seal."

"Well you could...what?" The fox looked around its cage...it's significantly drier cage "How...?" She wondered in astonishment. "What did you do?"

Naruto turned back to the entrance of the room, noting the receding water "Huh...I guess I just thought of it drying out and it must have done it."

"You fool, a mindscape doesn't work like that , I told you as much the first time we met, a mindscape is a representation of ones own current mental state along with past experiences, If you're sad, it rains. Happy, its sunny. Depressed, its foggy or dank like this sewer." the fox gestured with one of her clawed hands "This is direct control over ones mindscape, only people who are true masters of the mind like those Yamanaka monkey's can do something like this, "

Naruto tilted his head curiously "So you're saying that I can directly change anything I want in my mind?"

"In essence, yes. This may be another bloodline of some sort that you absorbed that day, or maybe it mutated from something you absorbed, whatever it is, it's interesting to say the least. You got rid of the water here and that's a welcome change for me at the very least, maybe now my fir might finally dry out..."

Naruto stared at Kyubi for a moment, looking around the dank musty room in thought, 'This place is a disgrace.' he noted dryly, he looked back at kyubi, who seemed to be enjoying the drier cage immensely. 'And she's loving just having a dry place to sleep. Kami, now I feel like such a bastard for keeping her in this damn place...Wait! That's it!' He cupped his hands and yelled up at the vixen "Oi, Kyuubi-chan"

The fox growled in anger at being addressed as such "What mortal?"

"You don't like this sewer do you?"

She glared at him dryly "I'd think that would be obvious, who in their right mind would enjoy living in a place like this?"

Naruto sweatdropped "Point taken. Well then, let's see how this works." Naruto scrunched his eyes in concentration, focusing on something, slowly the walls of the room seemed to expand and disappear, leaving a bright white light in its place, trees shot up from the floor their leaves sprouting from nothing. The sound of songbirds filled the air along with the sounds of wind blowing through a forest. After the transformation was complete, Naruto opened his eyes to look at his work. It was the forests outside Konoha, he had even recreated the city in the distance. He turned to the fox who was sitting outside of the cage for once, however, there was a tattoo on its chest in the kanji for 'seal' "So how's this? That better for your fir?"

The fox's jaw dropped to the floor "H-how? How in the hell did you create something this detailed so quickly?"

"Heh, this is the part of the forest I see every time I sit on the Hokage monument, I just imagined the trees and kinda put the village in the distance, so...What do you think?"

Fir bristled in the breeze as Kyuubi stretched out her limbs "What are your views on interspecies relationships?"

"Huh...Why do you...?"

Kyubi's face stretched into a playful grin as a giant puff of smoke filled the area.

"Ooof" the blonde gasped as the air got knocked out of him. He landed on his back in a heap with something heavy on his chest, as his head stopped spinning from smacking the ground he happened to glance at the heavy thing in question only to freeze as he noticed that same playful smirk above him...only smaller and more human...and hotter...wait...what?

"That's why" sharpened canines flashed in the sunlight as Kyuubi let out an ear to ear grin, she had transformed herself into a human, or rough equivalent to it, the foxy attributes that she shared with Naruto were a dead give away that she was a little more foxy that what her beauty suggested. Her face shined in the morning light, her seductive eyes framing her face as it trailed down a rather cute nose to full luscious lips.

She wore a full length burnt orange kimono with spiral designs, The Kimono itself was opened in the front to reveal a rather large chest on which the same tattoo for 'seal' stood out on her snow white skin. Her eyes were red and slitted like normal and her hair was a dull rusty orange as well as her tails, all nine of them which splayed out behind her in a fan shape, each flicking independently.

"You have no idea how long I've wanted out of that fucking cage. 12 years. 12 fucking years sitting in that sewer of a mindscape looking at nothing but dark, pipe covered wall's. Thank you kit, I know we may have started off on the wrong foot but doing this has seriously raised you a few notches in my book, I just might not kill your loved ones now." she smiled again, despite the fact that she had just threatened to kill his loved ones...at least indirectly...

Naruto sweatdropped "Yeah...ok" he looked up at Kyuubi who was still straddling his chest. "Well, this is awkward..."

Kyuubi blinked a couple times before she fell over laughing "Pfft hahahaha, kit, you are so innocent its not even funny" She tossed him a sexy smirk and ground herself on his chest a bit for effect. "Don't you like this form?"

"A little too much actually, could you get off me, you're kind of crushing me." he gasped a few times to get his point across.

"Booo, you're no fun" She pouted playfully before that smirk took its place back on her face "But you are interesting, you actually care about my well being, you're the first person to do that for me, most are either too scared of me or are using their powers and just lording over me. You're the first to actually treat me like an equal."

Naruto blinked once "What? have you never had a friend before?"

"A friend?" she put a finger to her chin in thought. "Can't say that I have, the two containers I had before were complete bitches to me." she pouted again, this time in anger.

Naruto's eyes flew wide "Wait, there's been Kyuubi Jinchuriki before me?" his voice squeaked a little "When? Who?"

"Well obviously 12 years ago since that's when I was released from the last container, and roughly 20 odd years before that for the other container, that container held me for several decades actually before she passed me on to your predecessor."

"You said 'bitches.' So are you saying the two containers before me were female?"

Kyuubi looked lost in thought for a moment, seeming at war with herself on how she should answer his question, after a moment of thought she nodded once "Yes Naruto, my last two containers were female, they were Mito Uzumaki, one of your distant relatives and wife to the First Hokage..."

Naruto on the other hand was wide eyed, he had just discovered the name of one of his relatives, he knew she couldn't be alive if she was the wife of the Shodaime Hokage but still, it was a start. "And the other...?" he asked tentatively

Kyuubi looked into Naruto's eyes, there was a pleading there, a want to know about the others before him, but this... this was going to be difficult to explain. "My last container was your mother kit...Kushina Uzumaki..."

The Kyuubi Jinchuriki stood deathly still as his hair shadowed his eyes, ever so slightly he started to tremble. It wasn't noticeable at first but as it grew you could tell he was crying. He curled up into a little ball at the base of a tree and sobbed, the tears on his cheeks forming twin trails of moisture down his face.

Kyuubi stared at the boy's whimpering form, his sobs echoing loudly around the empty forest. She sighed and gently wrapped her arms around the blonde.

Naruto went rigid when he felt the contact "Wha?" he tried to choke out.

"Just shut up kit" she said softly "I may be a demon but I'm not heartless. Everyone seems to think we Biju are nothing but evil monsters." she gripped him a little tighter. "To be perfectly honest most of us aren't even evil. Sure, we're sadistic and like to fuck with people, our containers even more so...but we're not heartless" she rubbed the boys back soothingly as his tears soaked her kimono. "So why are you crying Kit? I know finding out about your mother this way was a bit unexpected but still..."

"That's...not it..." he cried.

"Then what is it?"

long tears streamed down his cheeks "I'm just...so happy...yet so sad... I can't help it."

She blinked a couple times at that. "What?"

"I'm happy about knowing about my mother but I know she must have suffered as much as I did. And just knowing that dad loved her enough to have me makes me happy as well but I'm also sad that I'll never know more then her name and maybe her face if there are any pictures of them left."

Kyuubi made a soft sound of understanding as she held the boy, rubbing his back gently to calm him down "Kit, your mother wasn't treated the way people treat you, no one really knew she held me inside of her, not to mention I hadn't attacked the village yet so even if they did know, it wasn't as much of a stigma as it is now, hell back then people could have just called it an unstable bloodline and wouldn't have given it another thought."

Naruto smiled bitterly at that "At least she had a better life then I've had so far."

she chuckled "We're both having a hard time of it, I'll try and figure something out on knowing who they were don't worry about that too much."

"Huh? Why would you do that?"

Kyuubi sighed "Because I'm actually sorry about what has happened to you, I never meant to attack your village, after being trapped inside of Mito and your mother for so long I really didn't want to have anything to do with Konoha anymore."

The tears in Naruto's eyes had dried by now as he looked at her confused "So why did you attack then?"

Kyubi's face hardened in anger "It was all because of that man..." She growled, the vibrations in her chest made Naruto shake.

"What man?" he frowned a sinking feeling filled his stomach.

"The man who is directly responsible for my attack on your village, and the deaths of your mother and father" She replied darkly, her voice trailing off as she remembered the day.

Naruto's voice was quiet for a moment before he spoke two simple words.

"Tell me."

-ooo-

A/N WELL NOW, that was a long chapter, I just kept writing and writing, before I knew it, THIS happened. OH well, more enjoyment for you, the readers. Till next time. Peace.

OH almost forgot, don't worry about the whole FemKyuubi thing, she ISN'T gonna be a love interest, she's just doing that to fuck with Naruto's head, also the whole sappy moment with her isn't gonna happen often if ever again, so she'll be back to her sarcastic attitude next chapter, this was just a moment of weakness or whatever you want to call it cuz she's grateful to be out of that cage.