SORRY SORRY! I meant to get this up last Friday but I was out of state at the moment and I was constantly on the road so I couldnt get a proper internet signal to be able to post this =[ And this also took me a little bit more time to revise and edit it. I had more votes for keeping Kyuubi OUT of Narutos mind so here it is. A little ironic, I had to henge Kyuubi into an actual human for the time being to properlly train Naruto...the thought I had was you would see a huge fox, sitting down, holding a stick and pointing at a diagram, saying something ith Naruto as an one-man audience...yeah a little weird doncha think? AND dont worry, I kept to the main plot, just added lots a cool details and added better wording...no I just literally re-wrote the entire chapter but I kept to the main plot...the next chapter is huge so farr, after Im done revising it will have over 6,000 words and 7 pages...right now its 5 pages n 4, 144 exact
OK! CHAPTER 5 IS HUR! READ ON AND STOPP LOOKING AT THE AUTHORS COMMENTS!
(((((Chapter 5)))))
Kyuubi and Naruto wandered through the thick undergrowth filled forests of the Konohagakure forest as Kyuubi wondered on what was their next move going to be.
'We can't go back to the Yondaime manor, there is ANBU everywhere.' Kyuubi pondered. 'We also can't be seen by any villagers that are still mad at my kit for housing me…' Kyuubi growled with frustration and stopped by a tree that was scarred with the signs of an old battle
Unsurprisingly, Kyuubi was more worried about the small child that was riding on his back, even though the constant fact that if any nin returning from a mission found him roaming the forest and was outside of Naruto's body, he, Kyuubi of the 9-tails, strongest of all demons, would die with a second thought…or even a first thought for some cases. With a quiet growl, he resorted to the only solution he could think of…they had to disappear from the face of the Earth without any traces of them left behind.
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The Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, known by most as 'Minato-sama' or 'Yondaime' by his son and his friends sighed as he looked over his paperwork; most of the paperwork being an illusion, taught to him by the Sandaime himself. Being Hokage may seem like a glorious and illustrious thing to be – why wouldn't it? To be revered across the shinobi nations as the strongest Kage of them all and have the love and respect of your village, what's wrong with that?
It was days like today that made him question himself as he wondered if everything he did was worth it. His job was to be the shield of Konoha, protecting its inhabitants so they could live happily and peacefully and he failed miserably, no, 'miserable' didn't even come close to how bad he screwed up in regards to a certain blonde haired blue eyes Jinchuuriki.
After discovering that Naruto hadn't come home from his Genin Exams and receiving information that the blonde was nowhere to be found, Minato had entered extreme depression. You take away a man's son, you've truly given him nothing left to lose. Many people had honestly spent hours looking for the lovable Jinchuuriki.
Hyuuga Hinata cried, clutching her father's leg and even the usual cold and stoic Hyuuga Hiashi had let a few tears loose, Inuzuka Kiba cried, being hugged by Hana and Tsume, Haruno Sakura felt sympathy and sadness for all of those years at how she treated him like trash, and even Uchiha Sasuke had his miserable moods every now and then. Ayame clutched onto her father's, Teuchi's, shirt and cried helplessly at the fact that they would never see the vibrant blonde again, Kakashi spent many hours in bars, trying to drown his feelings with numerous cups of sake, and Iruka walked off into Konoha forest, gone for days, weeks, and sometimes even months, grieving for the Jinchuuriki as if he really was his younger brother.
Despite the fact that many people were sad and depressed, many people had celebrated, and were oblivious to the fact that Naruto may have survived and might be plotting for the destruction of Konoha. They only loved the fact that the threat of the Kyuubi was gone, forever…or so they thought. They thought that Naruto and the Kyuubi were dead but they never thought that the duo had survived, and never would have dreamed that they were found by two members of the Akatsuki; the only two members that didn't support the idea of world domination and the capturing of all of the Bijuus.
After many hours of pondering in his study and had concluded that he was absolutely positive that Naruto was still alive, most of the shinobi on the council like the Hyuuga, Nara, Yamanaka, Akamichi, Aburame and Inuzuka were never 'Naruto haters' as he had dubbed those that called for the child's death, however, now that he has apparently been trained as a shinobi, they all, save him, agreed that he would be a threat to Konoha due to any anger – as rational as it may be – he would hold towards Konoha. At the time, Minato had no choice but to allow them to do what they liked and when they had gotten word of him being able to use the 'Kage Bunshin' technique, a technique native to Konoha only as one of their Kinjutsu, they deemed that enough of a reason to deem him an 'S' class criminal – because he obviously stole it from either one of their shinobi or from a scroll owned by Konoha. tried to warn them that making him such a high ranked criminal would only drag attention to the boy but they wouldn't listen – they would discover at a later date how much danger they put their own village in by committing such an act.
Over the next 6 years and constantly staying on the move, not staying in one place for more than a month, Naruto was 13 years old and had learned many jutsus that most villages had banned for their villagers sake. For all of the training, Kyuubi used a Henge to transform himself into a 25-year-old Shinobi who was an exact copy of Minato except for the blue eyes, blonde hair, and outfit. His eyes was the same, bright red with a black slit for a pupil, dark orange hair, defined and vibrant jet black whisker marks on his cheeks like Naruto, and he now donned the regular ANBU outfit, without the mask, and a black and slightly orange-tinted cloak, with a dark orange on the inside, that had numerous small seals painted on the inside of his cloak to keep his massive demonic presence somewhat concealed. Nonetheless, the human Kyuubi looked like the small blondes real father, more than Minato Namikaze himself.
Naruto's first week of training had been difficult to say the least, but he never complained once – Kyuubi wouldn't appreciate that. He had told Naruto from the beginning that it would be difficult and he would want to hear no complains, and Naruto had been the one who requested it in the first place, who was he to complain?
Kyuubi had told him from the beginning that he was training Naruto to be almost as strong as him, for the Shinobi world would once again figure out that the Kyuubi and the Kyuubi container would still be alive and the mysterious organization Akatsuki would come after him sooner or later.
Kyuubi had disappeared on the first night before Naruto went to bed only to be back by morning with the supplies he would need to begin his training. He was to at first increase his speed, stamina, chakra reserves and most importantly chakra control.
The control aspect was most important because Kyuubi told him that due to the seal placed on Naruto's stomach, it is constantly converting his chakra into Naruto's own, giving him abnormally large reserves for someone his age, and if large reserves weren't hard enough to control, the type of chakra that is being flooded into his system is causing an imbalance.
Chakra was split up into two components, physical and spiritual. Seeing as Kyuubi's spirit was still sealed inside Naruto's body, there was a massive spiritual chakra and it only adds to his spiritual chakra reserves, leaving less of the physical component, thus causing an imbalance and thus making his control horrible when he tried to exercise his control by focusing it to his feet and trying to stick to a tree.
To remedy this, Kyuubi had told him that he would have to fix the balance, but it would take hard work, when he completed the incredibly hard task of fixing the balance though he would be all the stronger for it. Apparently, there were only two ways to do this in Kyuubi's opinion, one was to seal off his chakra for good, so that the physical component of his chakra could catch up, or the more viable option, to train hard physically by doing physical exercises not involving chakra to increase their supplies quicker than the spiritual component of his chakra was increasing. This would require him to do intensive physical workouts until the balance was there, which he could then combine the two components in his training and increase them evenly. The end result would be Naruto having massive reserves and perfect control of them, a deadly combination of any powerful shinobi and something Kyuubi told Naruto he would need if he wanted to learn what he had to teach him.
To begin his training, Kyuubi had given him a workout regimen that was designed to increase his physical stamina which involved lots of running, minor physical exercises and swimming for several hours each day.
Being that he needed speed too, Kyuubi-sensei told him that he could not pack on too much muscle else he becomes bulky and slow instead of strong, fast and agile. To remedy this, Kyuubi had him only do exercises that increased his stamina as once he attained good enough control, he could use his chakra to augment his speed and strength.
It had taken him a full week to get used to the harsh training exercises which usually consisted of laps around a specific circuit near the cave, sit ups, pushups, crunches, squats and all other forms of physical exercise before he went on to shuriken and kunai throwing followed by learning things that Kyuubi deemed beneficial to all shinobi like mathematics, strategy, history, economics and meditation. The latter more so he could focus and relax more often to keep his emotions bottled up when around his enemy, 'show your enemy the slightest weakness and they will exploit if they are good shinobi' he had told Naruto on many occasions, to drill it into his head.
Over the next two years, Kyuubi continued to train Naruto in his chakra control and building his stamina to the point where his control was at a level high enough to begin the next phase of his training. As his reserved naturally grew, he had also began to teach him some Ninjutsu that he had pilfered from various villages that would compliment his abilities, such as the 'Shinshun' technique, various clone techniques, and the basic academy level techniques like the Henge and Kawarimi, which he mastered quickly and efficiently.
Kyuubi had also begun to teach him about poisons and the human anatomy, so he could utilize his knowledge about poisons, and where to strike his opponents to cause the most damage.
The blonde was so naturally talented in the field; he created his own technique, to Kyuubi's shock, that was incredibly ingenious. The technique was called 'Doku Bunshin', which, like the Kage Bunshin that creates a solid clone of the user with the use of the user's chakra, creates a clone of the creator, but unlike others, upon destruction, it lets loose a cloud of poison that will likely be ingested by the attacker. To create it, he had combined the principals of the Kage Bunshin and Bunshin Daibakuha techniques only instead of an explosion when the clone was destroyed; he used chakra to create poison.
"Naruto, stop training and come here, we have much to discuss." spoke Kyuubi to Naruto, who was currently doing his daily exercises. He may have grown fond of the boy, who was a pleasure to teach, but he would not baby the boy or grow soft, it would not help either of them.
"Yes Kyuubi-sensei?" asked Naruto with a calm if not curious look on his face. He had been a bit excitable at the beginning of their training but Kyuubi immediately beat that out of him, it was unbecoming of a shinobi to act like a child of all things.
"You have progressed a lot quicker in your training then I had expected, thus, we will move on to the next phase that I believe you will enjoy as a result." he began, barely any emotion leaking into his voice as always. Seeing Naruto nod, he continued.
"What can you tell me of shinobi techniques?" inquired Kyuubi, allowing Naruto to figure out what they would be training in next by leading the answer to him with a line of questions.
"Well, there are many types of Shinobi techniques which can either use one's physical stamina or chakra to perform, such examples are Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Kinjutsu, Fuuinjutsu and so on. One either learns stances and trains to master Taijutsu and Kinjutsu, but normally, in regards to techniques, one would mold chakra in the way they desire to have the desired effect of the technique they try to use." Naruto answered, as best as he could remember earning a nod from Kyuubi.
"Basing your next answer on your training so far, what do you think I would like you to train in next?" asked Kyuubi, goading him for an answer.
"You have tried hard to make sure that my control is as perfect as possible first and foremost." Naruto answered before pausing "You have also tried to sharpen my mind and increase my intellectual power, so I would guess that you want me to learn Genjutsu?"
With a nod, Kyuubi decided to explain his decision "Genjutsus are extremely complicated Ninjutsu that use that focus on using the chakra in your opponent's nervous system to manipulate their senses to your liking; allowing you to create phantasms that can cause your opponent to hear, see, taste, smell and/or feel whatever you like. It is extremely difficult and deadly, but once mastered, you can defeat your opponents without using as much chakra as a regular Ninjutsu technique would." he explained to the amazed Naruto.
Naruto then had a frown on his face before answering "Couldn't someone who is extremely skilled just disable the Genjutsu and make it useless?" asked Naruto and Kyuubi nodded, conceding the point.
"Indeed, but the main factor there is that will only happen if your opponent is more skilled than you, which we are trying to make sure will not happen; Genjutsu is about subtlety more than power," he began "you can also layer your Genjutsu so that you can make it more difficult for them to break, or detect at all. Even though one can disrupt a Genjutsu by using the release technique or flaring their chakra, they must know they're in a Genjutsu first, or have the sufficient skill to break out of it – do you understand its uses?"
With a grin, Naruto nodded "How will I learn this sensei?" asked Naruto, showing an excitement that
Kyuubi only saw on the boy whenever they would teach him something new. That was why it was so easy to teach the boy, he would soak up everything he would teach him like a sponge, but, he would also enjoy it.
"Teaching Genjutsu isn't like teaching Ninjutsu, I do not show you a technique and you use it, what the Genjutsu masters do is create their own techniques and manipulate the chakra in their opponents so flawlessly, they can literally manipulate their opponents at will. I will allow you to practice this on me for a few hours every day I am here, the other times I am not, you will train mentally so you can have the focus to perform the techniques." he answered, smirking at Naruto's giddy expression. Most kids his age would usually act like this when they got a toy they wanted, or were taken to buy some ice-cream, but Naruto would only act like this when he got to learn something new.
Kyuubi nodded and began to train Naruto in earnest now, for the first time going one on one as his previous training didn't require much contact between the two, only books and instructions.
To begin with, Kyuubi showed Naruto one of the low level Genjutsu techniques he knew and used it on him to aid. This would help him in a number of ways because firstly, he could feel how the chakra is being manipulated within himself, he can see it in effect and he can practice to break it. As Kyuubi guessed, Naruto was able to piece together the steps involved in casting a Genjutsu by himself after a week of this and successfully replicated the effect that was cast on himself, which was creating a phantasm for Itachi to see. Once Naruto got the feeling of how to manipulate the chakra to replicate those effects, he had to find a way to practice on someone to further his training. He couldn't use it on Kyuubi because the demon fox was the master of illusions, Kyuubi allowed Naruto to go into nearby villages under a henge and practice his Genjutsu skills on unsuspecting citizens and bandits.
Using this method of practice, Naruto was able to get the hang of using Genjutsu and their usefulness, however, try as he might, he could not do them without the use of hand seals. In an attempt to discover how chakra is molded easier, Sasori told him to first attempt the feat with Ninjutsu by mere repetition, so, taking his advice, Naruto went back to training his Ninjutsu again but would not move on to the next technique until he mastered his current one without the use of hand seals.
A year had passed like this and by his ninth birthday, Naruto was able to perform Henge ((Transform)), Kage Bunshin ((Shadow Clone)), Daibakuha Kage Bunshin ((Exploding Shadow Clone)), Kawarimi ((Replacement)), Shinshun ((Transport)), Rope Untying ((Escape)), and Kiri Bunshin ((Mist Clone)) without the use of hand seals and Mizu Bunshin ((Water Clone)), Tsuchi Bunshin ((Earth Clone)) and a few lower level Genjutsus with just single handed hand seals. No matter how hard he tried though, he could not do any higher level Genjutsu without the use of hand seals, even when using the training method he discovered with Kage Bunshin that allowed him to gain experience much faster by letting his clones participate with training and then assimilating their knowledge when they were finished. Sasori had told him that it would take years of experience until he was at that level, but he never was one to like being told he could not do something.
A year of self study with scrolls and practice on non shinobi was all Naruto got when Kyuubi happened upon him training and interrupted him.
"You may not have mastered Genjutsu in the way that you had hoped, but you have done so to an extent in the given time better than I had thought you would. I set you an unrealistic goal that would give you a determination to better yourself…" began Kyuubi, while looking at Naruto's pleased expression.
"By any means, I'm not telling you to stop using Genjutsu, absolutely not, but I figured that you are ready to inherit all of my senses, including my eyes." Kyuubi continued, smiling at Naruto's confused expression and he decided to explain further.
"Of course you know I am a demon Kitsune, and you know that Kitsunes are the Master of All Illusions, Genjutsu, and what does that mean?" Kyuubi inquired, pausing for Naruto to answer.
"You are Kyuubi No Kitsune and the strongest of all of the demons in the five countries and you're going to provide me your senses. You are the strongest tail and a Kitsune, Master of Illusions, so that means I'm going to have better Genjutsu than anybody and anydemon in this world." Naruto said, thinking aloud in some parts and earning a nod from Kyuubi.
"I'm going to seal off all of your senses except for your sight and I will unlock them when you're ready. In the process of inheriting my senses I will have to knock you out and when you wake up, you will, not might, you will be bombarded by the brightness of everything, and then you probably will have a massive headache from the sounds and smells when the time comes. Nighty night Naruto." Kyuubi said, grinning at the end of his sentence.
"Wait, wha-." Was all Naruto said before Kyuubi slammed a seal on his forehead and the blonde's eyes rolled to the back of his head and he fell to the ground with a soft thump.
Working quickly, Kyuubi painted Kanji seals around the original seals on Naruto's stomach. "Seal!" Kyuubi yelled, slamming his palm onto the seal and flinched at the understatement of the pain that was coming. Kyuubi felt himself fall backwards and pass out from the energy it took to give Naruto the freedom of his senses.
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