"Okay, what do I do first?"

"You have a large amount of chakra, but no where near enough control to use the technique I want to teach you, so you'll start there." Kyuubi sighed quietly. "Normally you would be taught to walk up walls and such first. But due to the amount of water on the floor, it would be incredibly difficult for you to do so, so instead you will learn to walk on water first, then wall climbing should be rather easy, but switching from one to the other will be harder."

"How do I do it?"

"You push chakra out of your feet until you on top of the water, then move around, constantly putting out chakra, but you have to adjust the output for added weight and depth of the water. I won't add any weight yet, but once you get it down I will so you can get use to adjusting the output before you start wall climbing. I want for you to be able to do both skills without really having to think about it. You'll have to learn as fast as possible though, the one that attacked you might still be out there, but they seemed surprised when you technique dropped."

"So you think they may have attacked because of who I looked like, not who I am. If that's true, chances are they'll take me to the hospital or Ojii-san. Then again if this was an act of personal revenge, they wouldn't or they'd have to explain why they attacked and more than likely be imprisoned, if not executed."

"Exactly, we have no way of knowing that they won't just leave you where you are, but I'm already working on closing the wound so you won't die of blood loss. Now you should get to work." Naruto nodded and started channeling chakra into of his feet. The result was astounding, instead of pushing him to the top of the water, the water was pushed outwards from his feet in a three-foot circle. He shook his head and stopped the flow of chakra, causing the water to rush to fill the space. "I guess I should have elaborated more, you have to push it out of the bottom of you feet. Oh and for some reason, the floor of the room is built like a shallow bowl, so the middle is deeper than the outsides."

"Alright, thanks." There was a faint glow of blue beneath the water and slowly Naruto begin to rise out of the water. Once he got on top of the water, he was doing fine until he tried to take a step, which caused him to shift his concentration and fall back in. Neither said a word till he was able to walk easily, then it was to see if he could keep his concentration while doing something that kept his mind busy. "Hey Kyuubi, what's your real name?"

"What makes you think Kyuubi isn't my real name?"

"It's just that it seems strange. I'm mean sure you have nine tails, but the book in Ojii-san office said the demons had to gain their tails, and had names for all of the other Bijuu except you. Like the Ichibi's is Shukaku and the Hachibi's is Yamata no Orochi."

"No human should know so much about demons, let alone their names." She paused a moment. "Except maybe Shukaku. That insane tanuki probably shouted it out every time he went on a killing spree. Demons do not give out their names lightly, not even to other demons, most only give it to someone they have the utmost respect for, which is why no one knows mine. For a single human to know the names of even two of the Bijuu is an honor, but to know eight of the nine should be all but impossible, unless they learned them through others."

"Has anyone ever come close to earning yours?"

"Through I hate to say it, if both your Yondaime and I had come out of that battle, I would have considered telling him. He was willing to endure eternal torment to save his people, but after seeing how they've treated you, I can't imagine a reason as to why."

"Will you tell me?"

He heard her chuckle. "Maybe someday, for now Kyuubi will be fine."

"Alright. So, this technique you're going to teach me, how am I supposed to use it if I can't use hand signs?"

"This technique is nothing like those you're use to. Think of it as a simpler version of the one you were using before, but harder to detect and lift. It will still dissipate if you fall unconscious, but unlike the one you already know, you don't need hand seals because you're not just a coating yourself in chakra, instead it's like taking a blanket of chakra and throwing it over yourself. It also takes conscious thought to keep it up, just like water walking, instead of it staying up till the chakra used is gone or you drop it. But just like water walking, you can make it so you do it without really thinking."

"What about my left arm, what will fill the space and give it the right shape?"

"That's the reason why it requires conscious thought and your need for better chakra control to use it. You have to keep a constant image of what the cover looks like in your mind. The arm will also be hollow and through the use of your chakra, you'll be able to move it, but that's it, it would otherwise be like your Bunshin technique."

Flashback End:

Naruto noticed when he mentioned Kyuubi's question about him and the Yondaime being related, that the Sandaime's hand fidgeted, but didn't say anything and just continued. "It took five days to get water walking down, another three for wall climbing. Four more to get the technique down, and I spent another four trying to relearn the Bunshin, Henge, and Kawarimi, it turned out that only six minutes passed."

He was eyeing Sarutobi discreetly, but averted his attention when Iruka spoke. "So when did you… I'm not sure if learn is the right word to use, but when did you learn to make a new arm with chakra?"

"When I was working on the Bunshin, I figured that since it was only an illusion anyway, I'd try to form it with a left arm. Anyway, as I was trying to make an outline of my body with chakra, I noticed the chakra was stopping at the shoulder, so I pushed harder and once it finally did form the arm, it was visible, but still transparent. When Kyuubi saw it, she told me of the advantages it could have as a control exercise and that if I used enough chakra it could potentially be a functional replacement. At first I just stuck to the illusion to get around, and experimented with the arm when I was here, until I could keep it and the illusion stable. I found out the enhanced power by accident, I had completely forgotten that it was chakra, so I when hit one of the training posts, the wood shattered. It caused quite a ruckus too, so I took off as fast as I could before anyone showed up."

Iruka smiled slightly before looking at the clock. "Sorry Naruto, but I'm afraid I have to get going, I still have tomorrow's lesson to plan. I'll see you in class." In a puff of smoke, the chair he had been occupying was vacant.

Sarutobi stood up with a smile. "I appreciate you telling us Naruto, and thank you for the tea, but I'm afraid I have to be getting back as well. My paperwork has probably tripled by now, I swear, it reproduces faster than rabbits."

He started for the door, but was frozen in his tracks by a single sentence. "She was right, wasn't she?" The Sandaime turned back to see that the illusion was back up and that Naruto was staring down at his cup. "He was an orphan with no siblings, so that would make him my father wouldn't it Ojii-san?"

"Naruto I…"

"Ojii-san, I can understand not telling the populace, if word reached his enemies, they would try to kill me, or kidnap me if they knew about Kyuubi. Hell I can understand not telling me because of how I acted, but you could have at least told me about my mother. Unless..." Naruto looked towards the Hokage, but his hat hid his eyes from view, and Naruto went back to staring at his now empty cup. "She abandoned me."

"That's what we are forced to assume. No one saw anyone enter or leave her hospital room except you and Minato, but Kushina and your older sister were there when he came to get you and gone when it was over. Before you ask, I never learned your sister's name, I only met her the once and at the time I was trying to talk Minato out of doing the sealing. All I really recall is that she had red hair just your mother, and that she was almost two when you were born. I can't be sure, but I believe that I have it written down somewhere in my office, and if I can't find it, I'm sure my old student Jiraiya will know it, Minato always said he was the closest thing to a father he ever had."

"If you can find it, that's fine, but if not it's okay, chances are she doesn't even know I exist, and if she does, I doubt she'll want to meet me. In any case, I think I've found a way to mold chakra properly, but I need to do a bit more studying before I try, and if it's possible, would you be willing to help me?"

"I'll be happy to help as long as you tell me what it is you're doing when it comes time to." Naruto gave a nod and received a smile before the Sandaime disappeared with a puff of smoke.

After he left, Naruto went into the bathroom to take a shower, and as he passed the mirror, he had to take a double take, he found that he was taller than the illusion he used lead people to believe. 'If you took it off for more than a few minutes at a time, you might have realized it sooner kit. So you still plan to go through with it?'

'Once I can get the mixture right, yes. It may be the only way I'll be able to properly mold chakra again.' He started to undress, but stopped when his shirt was at his neck. 'Kyuubi, I'm cutting the link for a while.'

He heard a light chuckling within his mind. 'It's not like I haven't seen it all before Kit.'

'I don't care, it's just too weird, even for us.' He severed the mental link before continuing towards his shower.

--

He walked out of the bathroom in a pair of boxers, towel draped over his shoulders, and his genjutsu still down. 'I may not drop the illusion, but that doesn't mean I have to keep up the act.'

'It's about damn time you stopped acting the part of an idiot Kit. Why you ever started is beyond me.'

'Think about it, if they knew how strong I was back then, what do you think they would have done?'

'Left you the hell alone.'

'They would have tried harder. The stronger I am, the bigger the threat they see me as. The only reason I'm going to show them now is because it would take a jonin or higher ninja to get the drop on me. Why would you think they'd leave me alone?'

'If they truly believed that you are me, then why would they attack you and give you even more reason to want to destroy them? Even if they thought you were merely biding your time, they would be kissing ass to try to change your mind and they would know that, if you were me, they couldn't kill you if they wanted to.'

'People are ignorant. They'll feel better as long as someone is punished.' He threw the towel into a basket by the door and flopped on to his bed. He placed his arm behind his head and closed his eyes. Once again he found himself within the confines of his mind. Over the years things had changed, instead of the sewer it had been, it was now woodlands, the walls of the tunnels were formed from tree trunks. He walked slowly through the tunnel, stopping at the second turn off. On the ground in front of the door laid several of the seal tags, but there were still five still on the door. He placed his left hand on one of the remaining tags and the kanji's glow started to brighten, but then disappeared. At the same time, his hand disappeared as well and the tag fell to the ground to join the others. "Only a few more, and then I'll find out what's behind this door."

He continued his trek down the tunnel and stood before Kyuubi's cage, waiting for her to appear. "Are you sure you should open that door Kit? If you are right about it being a repressed memory, than there's probably a good reason for it being so. It could be why you don't remember most of the beatings you've had, or what happened the night I was sealed, the possibilities are endless, and a large few involve your mother."

"I can't run from my past, and I'm not naïve enough to try. It could show my mother or Ojii-san trying to strangle me as a baby, or my father trying to stab me with a kunai before he died. Like you said, it could be anything, but I won't know till I open it. Whatever is in there, I'm going to have to face sooner or later, the first seal fell off on its own remember."

"I remember, I just want to make sure you're ready for the possible mental and emotional damage whatever you see in there could inflict."

"You have nothing to worry about Kyuubi. I'll face whatever's in there, and I'll go on like I always have."

'That's what I'm afraid of. He's spent years behind his mask, unwilling, or maybe even unable to show his true emotions, if things continue the way the have, they'll be gone. I have a feeling whatever is behind that door will decide the direction his life will take.'

"Have you been able to determine the equivalent of my chakra to your yokai?"

"I believe so. For the amount you'll need, I'd said roughly your whole arm of chakra to your whole hand coated in yokai."

"It's a lot more potent than I thought."

"You will not be trying tonight. You've already used two arm's worth of chakra, another and it will leave you almost completely drained. Even with me helping to restore the chakra, you'd be out for at least a day, and by then it would be worthless."

"Alright, I'll check the amount tomorrow after class and if any adjustments need to be made, I'd say we'll have the correct balance by the end of the week."

Naruto heard some snickering within the darkness of the cage. "Provided you don't over do it like you usually do. I want you to relax tonight, that means no training understand?"

Naruto rolled his eyes. "Yes Kaa-san." After he said it, neither noticed the other stiffen for a moment before Naruto faded from his mindscape. As soon as he opened his eyes, he sat up and cut off the mental link to Kyuubi. 'Why did I say that? Sure I was being sarcastic, but what if she takes it as an insult and decides to ignore me like everyone else does.' He looked down sadly. 'It's not like she'd ever think of me like that anyway. I mean I'm human, why would she care about me like that.'

Inside her cell, Kyuubi was having similar thoughts. 'I know he didn't mean what he said, but I kind of wish he had. He's the closest thing I've ever had to a kit of my own. But he'd never see me like that, and even if he did, he'd probably be too afraid that I'd get upset if he told me. Would he even want a mother since his abandoned him?'

--

Next Morning:

After doing his morning routine of going to the bathroom, eating, taking a shower, brushing his teeth, and forming his chakra arm and genjutsu adjusted to his new found height, Naruto went to his closest and stuck said arm towards it. The image of the closet shimmered and then, as though formed by heat, it fazed away. Where there was once a mass of orange coats and a plain three-drawer dresser, there was now a three-drawer dresser with a spiral like the one on the back of his orange coat etched in the middle of the middle drawer. On top of the dresser were a kunai and a shuriken pouch, four rolls of white wraps, and a black cotton-wove sleeve with three straps of brown leather sown on, the longest started near the bottom of the top opening and circled to the other side of the opening at the same spot. The other two started near the top of the same opening and connected to the bottom strap at an angle.

Above the dresser hung a rack of shuriken, another for kunai, and, from a metal bar hanger connected to the wall, a dark gray armored vest like those worn by the Anbu. Beside the dresser was a manikin torso mounted on a pole base, on which rested a black leather sleeveless trench coat with three single scroll pouches on the left breast, six buttons, and a three-piece shoulder armor on the left shoulder. (I'm not sure how to describe it, but it's the shoulder armor Sephiroth has, but only on one shoulder.) 'So you meant the whole act, not just the stupid part. I don't think you've even been tempted to wear that since you bought it.'

'I'm just hoping it fits, who knows how much I've grown in eights months.'

'Did you place the seal on everything like I told you?'

Naruto let out an exasperated sigh. 'Yes.'

'Then you have nothing to worry about. That seal will adapt the article of clothing to your body. All you do is put a little chakra into the seal and it will do the rest.'

'How do you know everything you've shown me?'

'Kit please, I've been around for hundreds of thousands years, what did you think I did with my time?'

'You mean besides being a walking natural disaster?' He heard her chuckle slightly and smiled. 'I figured you just slept a lot.'

Kyuubi snorted. 'Only you would consider sleeping a reasonable way to pass a large quantity of time, though I do admit to sleeping a century away here and there. Now you had better get ready or you'll be late for class.' He sent a pulse of chakra into his closet, activating all of the seals and then went into the middle drawer. He pulled out a fishnet T-shirt, and a pair of dark blue pants that he wrapped from the middle of his shin to his ankle and attached his shuriken and kunai pouches. He then slipped his real arm into the detached sleeve, the straps going over and under his shoulder and across his chest. Over this went the Anbu armor and then finally the coat with the bottom four buttons holding it closed.

He walked away from the closet while reapplying the genjutsu and he patted the three scroll pockets. 'Four extra kunai pouches, same for shuriken, a hundred-sixty feet of ninja wire, a hundred yards of rope, a tent, three more scrolls with enough food to feed a family for a month, and a fourth scroll for cooking equipment. Sealing scrolls kick ass!' Seeing as it was nearly seven, Naruto left his apartment and started for the academy via the rooftops. When he arrived, there was only one other student, but Naruto didn't pay him any mind as the other person wouldn't him.

Before Naruto walked in to the classroom he used his genjutsu to hide his whisker marks, Iruka looked up from his desk and his face paled. "Yon… Yondaime-sama?"

A fox like grin spread across his face as the whisker mark slowly came into view. "You can see why she asked if I was related to him."

Iruka put his right hand to his chest as he tried to catch his breath. "Naruto are you trying to give me a heart attack?" Naruto didn't say anything, he just stood there with a smile as he saw Iruka give him a once over. "Dear Kami it's a miracle, you're not wearing orange! And look you even got taller!" Iruka had been hoping to get a rise out of the blonde, but was surprised when the smile stayed in place.

"Yeah, I decided it was time to stop acting the part of the idiot, and turns out that because of my technique, I had grown without noticing it. Everything you see is what I look like, minus the scars and arm."

Iruka smiled. "I have to say, your clothing looks a lot like a Special Jonin I know."

"Hmm, short purple hair tied in a ponytail similar to yours', tan trench coat, fishnet shirt, brownish-orange skirt, and scares the hell out of almost everyone she meets?"

"Yeah, that her, you know her?"

"Nope, but I've seen her around town before. Had dinner with her once at this Dango place, but she didn't know it was me"

Iruka couldn't help but laugh. "Oh how cute little Naruto first date, and he had a thing for older woman. All joking aside, how did you manage for her not to know it was you?"

An evil smile appeared on his face, one Iruka knew all to well. "The same way you didn't know I was sitting next to you on your first date with Ayame-nee-chan."

Iruka's tan face paled again, but made the blush stand out of his features. "You didn't tell Teuchi did you?"

"Didn't have to, he already knew. In fact he was the one who asked me to follow the two of you, even gave me money for the meal. I told him I would, but that he didn't have to worry since it was you. Afterwards I told him what happened, and joked about if the two of you got married I might be able to get some free ramen." He saw that Iruka's blush now rivaled Hinata's.

'I seem to remember him also saying he'd prefer you as a son-in-law over any of the males that have tried to court her.'

'Yeah, but he likes Iruka-sensei, when he go to the stand, I'm usually with him, and when I am, Teuchi-ojii-san makes a lot of money, usually Iruka-sensei's.' "Since then, he's hasn't asked me to spy on you guys, I guess he trust you." Naruto looked over at the clock. "The first few students should start coming in soon, better go sit down."

"So how should we explain you're sudden changes to the class, not to mention what they saw yesterday."

"Don't." He looked at Naruto back as the blond walked to the back of the room and sat in the last row, with his chair leaned back against the wall, and closed his eyes. After a few moments, he heard the door open, several chairs being pulled out, and felt the stares, but paid them no mind until he heard the chair beside him moved.

"Good morning Uzumaki-san. I would recommend you not sit like that much longer, I saw Inuzuka-san not far behind me on my way in."

Naruto immediately put all four of the chair's legs on the ground and smiled at the boy next to him in the sunglasses and coat. "Thanks for the heads up Aburame-san, and please, call me Naruto."

"Very well, my name is Shino. Excuse me if I inquire something you do not wish to speak about, but what has caused such dramatic changes to you?"

"It's alright, the truth is that I've had something similar to a henge on for a while, this is the real me more or less, but you would have seen that yesterday, I'd prefer not to talk about that though. Anyway, I got tired of pretending to be someone I'm not so I decided to stop."

"I see, my insects told me they had smelt excess chakra around you, however I could not sense it, are you able to suppress your chakra?"

"I guess, I was told I might be doing it subconsciously since I've never learned how to."

"I only have one more question, why sit here when you could easily sit anywhere else?"

"Aside from the fact that I'd be badger relentlessly, I knew you of all people would appreciate how much work goes into being someone you're not."

Naruto was the only one who saw a grin on Shino. "So you noticed."

"Yes, and though I don't mind that I got in trouble for most of them, did you have to use such a high grade adhesive in the teacher's lounge? It took forever to clean up that mess, not to mention having to get a few genin who were on a D-rank mission unstuck." Shino's grin only widened in response. Naruto had a matching grin as he shook his head and turned towards the front where Iruka stood while the other students whispered.

"Now class, in regards to yesterday's sparring mishap. I don't want any of you hounding Naruto about what you saw, everyone is entitled to secrets, and if I catch any of you doing so, there will be consequences."

A boy with a dog on his head snorted. "Not like we could anyway, the dope didn't even show up. And who's the new guy up by Shino?"

"Are all Inuzuka as inept as you when it comes to recognizing a person scent Kiba? If they are I don't see how they became Konoha's tracking specialists over clans like the Aburame and Hyuga." The voice everyone knew had them looking around for the source, only for their eyes to land on the 'new guy'.

"So you're hiding behind a new disguise dope, trying to make yourself look cool?"

"You're welcome to try to dispel it dog-breath, you all are, you can all try at the same time if you want, it doesn't matter to me."

"Then why are you using it?"

Naruto looked at the speaker, a fangirl from the front row. "Like Iruka-sensei said, we all have our secrets, some just hide them better than most. So dog-breath, what are you waiting for, try and dispel it." Naruto watched as Kiba put his hands into the seal, along with almost everyone in the class, only Sasuke, Hinata, Shino, and Shikamaru didn't, the last because he was sleeping. They all stared intently as they muttered the word 'Kai' and a massive pulse of chakra flowed throughout the room… and Naruto just sat there. Nothing had changed about his appearance in the slightest. "You finished, cause I think Iruka-sensei's getting impatient."

Sure enough Iruka was standing at the front of the room, his head looking about ready to explode. "Thank you Naruto, now if that quite enough let start today's lesson."