A.N. Thank you so much for the reviews, as for the reason why Naruto's chakra is visible, well, it'll be explained later.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Kishimoto does.
Altered
Naruto was, once again, sitting alone on the playground, ignored by everyone, still doing the exercise Sarutobi had taught him.
And, once again he looked at the odd, softly glowing blue wisps coming from his arm. Naruto was amazed, but confused. Was this chakra? The "thing ninjas use for everything" chakra?
It seemed so…but…why couldn't he touch it? Whenever he tried to, his fingers just passed through it like smoke. How could ninjas breathe fire, make tornados, and all kinds of things with this?
He'd have to ask the old man about it later, for now, he just kept pulling the "water" to his right arm.
Naruto took a week to do it the first time, but now he had the rest the month to go. So, he started trying to do the trick on his other arm. He succeeded after two days, and, lo and behold same thing happened, light blue smoke.
Then, after another few days, he got it to work on his legs… nothing new. Then, on his face, and, again, nothing new.
So… Naruto, only a day before the Hokage's next visit, tried to do it on his whole body.
Naruto was having trouble, pulling chakra from his belly, and dividing it for the whole body, as it turned out, was hard. But still, he persevered, slowly the smoke started coming from each limb, appearing in ghostly, otherworldly, and softly glowing blue.
Naruto then felt something burn in his stomach, like the "water" had now been replaced by scalding steam.
Naruto tried to stop pulling his chakra, but it was in vain, this thing just seemed to be forcing itself through his veins, and it hurt, like if he was burning from the inside out.
The worst came when it reached his head. When it reached the throat, it was like something was choking him, when it reached his mouth, it felt like drinking boiling water, and when it reached his eyes, it was like having acid dumped over them.
The once blue, soft, calmly rising threads were replaced with red, swirling, and goo like waves.
The red chakra seemed to quickly take shape and fade away just as fast, taking the form of faces with sharp teeth, and long tongues going across exposed skin, large, clawed hands, squeezing at places, and, with uncanny strength, breaking bone.
Naruto could vaguely hear screams, both from adults and children, and then, the violent red shroud wrapped around him, thick as stone, yet as fluid as water, and he saw red, before blacking out.
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Naruto woke up abruptly, he was breathing deeply, sweating bullets, and his head seemed like it was going to explode at any minute now.
Observing his surroundings, Naruto found himself in a plain, completely bare white room, in a rough, hard bed.
"Where am I? And what was that? W-was it just a dream?" The child thought to himself.
Before he could dwell on those thoughts, the door opened, revealing the Hokage, along with two animal masked ninja.
"Hello Naruto-kun." The Hokage said, with an imperceptible twang of worry in his voice.
"O-old man! You're here! Where am I? And what happened?" The young boy said, failing to hide his worry and fear.
The Hokage made a long, pained sigh. Nevertheless, he braced himself for what he was about to do.
"Naruto, have you ever heard about the Kyuubi?"
"Y-yeah, it attacked the village five years ago, and was killed by the Fourth, y'know?" Naruto answered, unsure how this was related to what was going on.
"Not quite." Naruto tilted his head in confusion. "The Kyuubi is one of nine demons, known as Tailed Beasts, these creatures are made purely of chakra, and, in turn, cannot be permanently dealt with."
Sarutobi looked to Naruto, to see if he was following what was being said.
"However, they can be sealed."
"Sealed?" Naruto asked in confusion.
"Yes…" Pulling out a scroll from one of his pockets, the Hokage opened it, and showed him an odd writing on it. "…this, is a seal, sealing is one of the less practiced ninja arts, to summarize, it manipulates chakra with written seals instead of handsigns."
Pulling out a kunai, Sarutobi continued. "Imagine this kunai is Kyuubi…" the Hokage channeled chakra into the seal, and, with a poof, the kunai was gone.
"Wait, what? Where did it go?"
Sarutobi guided his chakra to the seal, and with another poof, the kunai was back in his hand. "In the seal."
"That's awesome! But…what does this have to do with me again?"
"Well, since the Tailed Beasts are sentient, you can't seal them in an object, as, eventually, they'll break out, so, they have to be sealed in a person, and these people are called Jinchuuriki."
"Huh-uh." Naruto was listening closely, and was rather slowly connecting the dots.
"Naruto-kun, you are a jinchuuriki."
A.N.: Oh boy, this was a chapter. The red chakra was indeed Kyuubi's, why it came in so suddenly will be explained next time. Also, if you think the description was too violent, that was to set up how Kyuubi chakra works with this "altered" Naruto. As always, please review, and have a nice day.
