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I've decided work bites and I don't like it.


For a moment Naruto couldn't think. Time seamed to slow down as he fell over the cliff. He could feel his heart starting to beat faster and the rush of adrenaline pumping through his veins.

'Damn it! I have to act fast!' He noticed a jagged rock protruding from the cliff wall was approaching fast. 'Here's my chance!' He quickly focused chakra to his hands and feet and at the rock. Unfortunately, the rock was wet and slippery from the nearby waterfall and Naruto was falling too fast. He was only able to get his hands on it for a fraction of a second before his momentum tore him off.

'Shit, shit, shit!' Naruto rapidly searched his brain for a way to save himself. 'Nothing. There's nothing I can do.' His eyes went wide with the realization.

'I can't believe it...' He watched as the darkness came closer and closer.

'...I'm going to die.' His heart beat faster and faster in his chest. Naruto squeezed his eyes shut and prepared for death.

Suddenly everything stopped. There was no more wind whipping his clothes about his body or howling in his ears. Instead he heard the slow dripping of water. Naruto opened his eyes and looked around. He was standing in ankle deep water in what seemed to be a poorly lit cement labyrinth. The water seemed to have come from the maze of pipes that lined the ceiling.

A deep rumble echoed from behind Naruto. He turned towards the noise and slowly began walking in the direction the sound seemed to come from. As he walked he felt a power weighing him down. 'This feeling... It's that chakra...'

Eventually he came to a large room. His eyes grew wide as they found what lay inside. Two large red eyes glared down at him and huge gigantic razor sharp teeth seemed to grin evilly. The only thing separating Naruto from the beast was a great iron gate that was held shut by a small, worn paper seal.

'What is that thing? It's huge!' Naruto thought in fear and amazement.

The beast spoke. "Hey kid, come closer."

Naruto began to slowly walk towards the cage only to jump back as the demon's claws swiped at him from between the bars. It growled in frustration. "I want to devour you, but this cage won't let me! Detestable seal!"

Naruto stared up at the demon in shock for a moment and then at the seal on the cage. Realization finally hit. "You're... the Kyuubi!" Naruto's voice shook a little from fear. 'I see... the red chakra is his!'

The fox's widened a bit before it spoke again. "For you to approach me... Why did you come here?"

Naruto was caught off guard for a second before determination filled his eyes. He set his shoulders and took a step towards the cage. He knew what he had to do.

"Hey fox! Since you're staying in my body, give me your chakra as rent!" Naruto demanded.

The demon chuckled evilly and said, "After all, if you die I die, right? You have guts, demanding this of me." Red chakra poured out from under the gate and wrapped itself around Naruto. "Very well, as a reward for coming all the way here I'll give it to you!" Naruto felt the chakra adding itself to his own, filling his core past it's limit. 'This is the feeling!' He quickly tried to memorize what it felt like to draw on the fox's power.

His eyes snapped open and suddenly he was falling again. It seemed that little to no time had passed while he was in the labyrinth. He quickly started doing hand seals. Once he finished he threw his hand down below him and focused all his chakra through it.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!"

The chakra shot out below him and created a gigantic cloud of smoke. Out of the smoke shot four giant limbs that smashed into the walls of the ravine, stopping Naruto's summon in it decent. The smoke cleared and Naruto had just enough time to see the giant summon before landing hard on it's head.

"Where am I?" The summon's deep voice rumbled.

Naruto carefully climbed to his feet and looked down at himself. "I - I'm alive!" He wooped happily before glancing around. "Awesome, this thing's huge!" He saw the four giant limbs keeping him and his summon from falling. 'This is a toad right?' He started walking down the back of the toad before gravity started helping him along.

"Whoa whoa whoa!" He started flailing his arms to regain his balance as he sped down the toad's back. About halfway down he was able to regain control and stop himself. Breathing a sigh of relief he glanced down at the bottom of the toad's back and saw something that made a grin spread across his face."No tail! Haha! It's not a little tadpole or one of those round halfway toads that still has a tail. No this is the real thing!"

While Naruto was celebrating his success, Jiraiya was watching from atop the cliff. 'Looks like he was able to draw out the fox's power. Still he's hardly a master at it. He took way too much. To think, of all the toads to summon, he summoned that one.'

The toad suddenly lurched send Naruto rolling back towards the summons head. "Hey brat!" The toad shouted as Naruto rolled to a stop on the summon's face. "Do you know whose head you're making a ruckus on? This is the head of Gamabunta, the Chief Toad's head! Now quiet down!" The last part he yelled sending Naruto flying from the wind that his yelled produced. Luckily the ninja was able to grab onto the giant's pipe before he fell to his death.

"What the heck is with this guys? He's cool and all but..." He couldn't continue as Gamabunta started to talk again.

"Give me a break! I finally get to breath the air of the free world again only to be interrupted by an annoying brat! Hey, Jiraiya! Where are you!? What the heck do you think you're doing!?"

Jiraiya backed up a bit from the edge of the cliff. "Oh man... this doesn't look good." He muttered to himself. "Even I can't handle Gamabunta."

"Jiraiya! Hurry up and show yourself idiot!" The Boss Toad yelled.

"Damn, it would be real troublesome if that Gama found me out. I'd better get out of here." The old hermit spoke to himself as he began walking away from the cliff.

"Hey brat!" Gamabunta turned his attention back to Naruto, who was still hanging onto his pipe.

"Y-yes?" Naruto stuttered.

"Where's Jiraiya?" The summon asked as he dropped Naruto onto his face.

"Wha- Ero-sennin? He's up at the top of the cliff." Naruto responded. "Um... What business do you have with him?"

"That's just what I'm gonna ask the pervert! What was he thinking summoning me to a place like this?" Gamabunta said angrily looking around.

"W-wait!" Naruto stopped the toad.

"Hmm? What is it?" Gamabunta looked back at Naruto.

"I'm the one who summoned you, Chief." Naruto said sheepishly. "You see, I fell off the cliff and thought maybe you could come to my aid... Please!" He straightened up and saluted the Boss Toad.

"Hmm?" Gamabunta raised an eyebrow as he looked at the small ninja on his face. "Bwahahaha! You didn't think I'd actually believe that did you? There's no way a kid like you could summon a guy like me!"

"Huh? It's true! I really did summon you!" Naruto yelled at the Boss Toad. The summon only started laughing again causing Naruto to grow angry.

"You frog jerk!" He yelled causing Gamabunta to stop laughing. "You've been condescending towards me and saying whatever you want since you came here. I'm the one who summoned you, I'm your master!"

"Huh!? A kid like you calling yourself my master! I could kill you for that!" Gamabunta shouted before whipping out his giant tongue and plucking Naruto from his face and throwing him onto his back. He then tensed up and shot himself up and out of the ravine, Naruto screaming the entire way. His jump sent him up several hundred feet before finally crashing back down to the ground, sending a shockwave throughout the surrounding area.

Once on the ground, Naruto fell off Gamabunta onto the ground in front of the toad. He quickly got up and looked up summon. "Awesome..."

Gamabunta chuckled before bringing his head down close to Naruto and saying, "I hate to be the one to tell you this but even if I did believe you summoned me, there's no way I would admit that you were when you fall off my back so easily!" He turned from Naruto and began walking away. "Now then, it's been a long time since I've been to this world and since Jiraiya doesn't have any business with me I think I'll kick back for a while."

"Hey! Wait!" Naruto yelled.

"Why don't you go home and sleep or something? 'Cause it looks like you're not even worth having as a henchman." Gamabunta said as he continued walking.

Naruto growled and dashed after the toad, running up his back and jumping over his head onto his face.

"What do you think you're doing brat?" Gamabunta shouted at the blond.

"If not falling off is what it takes to be your master then I'm staying on you back for the entire day no matter what!" Naruto said determinedly. "After that you'll have to recognize me as your master!"

"You little brat! Don't get carried away thinking I'll go easy on you!" Gamabunta shouted angrily before whipping his head around trying to get the blond off. Naruto quickly tried to send chakra to his hands and feet to stick to the toad. Unfortunately, when he used the foxes chakra to summon Gamabunta it seemed to take all of his own with it.

"Damn it! I don't have enough chakra!" Naruto yelled before grabbing onto Gamabunta's kimono and holding on for dear life.

Hours later, Gamabunta was diving in and out of a lake still trying to make Naruto let go.

'Just a little longer' Naruto thought to himself trying to bloke out the pain of his bruised and beaten body. "Just a little longer and the sun will set! Then I'll be master!" He shouted to Gamabunta.

Gamabunta jumped out of the lake and shouted. "What's that to me? You came up with this whole thing unilaterally. I didn't agree to anything!"

Naruto didn't seem to care what the toad said. "I'm not falling off, no matter what!"

Gamabunta stopped jumping for a minute. 'I could just ignore what a brat like him says... but taking a lick irritates me. I'm going to bring this to an end right now.'

"Hey brat, what's your name?" Gamabunta asked.

"Naruto!" The blond yelled. "Naruto Uzumaki!"

"Well Naruto," Gamabunta tensed up. "Don't blame me if you die!"

With that he jumped high into the air causing Naruto to slam down onto his back. When he finally came down he landed at the base of a waterfall. The force of the landing caused Naruto's grip to slip and he tumbled over the great summon's head. Naruto's eyes went wide before he quickly brought his hands together and shouted out the name of favorite jutsu.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Immediately eight clones popped up atop Gamabunta's head and forming a human chain grabbed Naruto out of the air. After being pulled back atop the the giant toad Naruto started doing a little jig.

"Haha! How did you like that Gamabunta!? I'm still on top of your head! I win! Haha!" He probably would have gone on bragging if he didn't lose consciousness at that moment and fallen backwards off the summon's head.

Gamabunta's tongue shot out and caught the blond before he fell to his death. 'Too bad for you... You almost made it.'

Unknown to him, Jiraiya was watching from atop the waterfall. 'To think Naruto lasted so long against someone as tough as Gamabunta...' He thought before looking at the giant scroll he was carrying.

Gamabunta had just placed Naruto atop his head when the toad's summoning contract scroll came out of nowhere and landed open in front of him. He looked down to see Naruto's name along with his five fingerprints.

'That meddling Jiraiya. I knew all along that this guy summoned me all on his own. He's the first person since the Forth the climb atop my head.' Gamabunta thought to himself. 'As to be expected, he must be totally drained. I don't mind dispensing some of my power to him but taking him to the hospital would be best.'

A few minutes later a crash was heard outside the Konoha Hospital. A few of it's employees came running to see what caused the noise only to find a large cloud of dust. When the dust cleared they saw Naruto laying on the ground next to a giant toad track.


This chapter was pretty much entirely from canon. I'll have more on "The Book" next chapter.