When a Maelstrom goes West

Hey guys. Welcome to the second installation of 'When a Maelstrom goes West'. I've been working hard so the update doesn't take any longer than it should so here is the chapter for you. Hope you enjoy it!

-Red

I don't own Naruto

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

'Attacks'

"Demon/Summon Talking"

*Actions or Sounds*

Naruto stirred from his position on the grass underneath a bush. Opening his ocean blue eyes he stared straight up at the sky and the suspiciously high sun in the sky.

"Kurama…" He muttered narrowing his eyes.

He heard a yawn in the back of his mind before a voice replied to him. "What's up kit?" Said fox replied.

"What time is it?" His voice having an edge to it.

"About mid-day…" he answered in a carefree tone.

"WHAT!" Naruto yelled shooting up from his position apparently forgetting than he was under a bush which was now evident from the amount of twigs and leaves now stuck in his mouth. Spitting out the debris, "Why didn't you wake me at dawn!" He shouted accusingly.

"Because your exhausted Naruto." Kurama tried to reason. "With the amount of Leaf nins, missing nins, AND bandits that have been trying to kill you the past week it has only been down to luck that your still alive. You needed your rest." He finished

Naruto sighed and calmed down sum-what. It was true after all. Konoha had been throwing the world at him as he ran. The odd chunin team would show up declaring that they would clear the world of his 'taint' for the good the council. Thankfully mass shadow clones are rather confusing. Missing nins and bandits were also a problem, apparently they had been paid to kill him with a rather large amount of money…pricks. The bandits were no problem even with his lack of training. The missing nin however were dealt the same way the chunins were. The Shadow clone jutsu was rather quickly becoming his favourite…

Sadly though he didn't always come out unscathed, he was now covered in a myriad of cuts and bruises that were slowly healing courtesy of the demon fox, though apparently a few would scar over according to him. He didn't care. Looked more 'badass' in his opinion.

"Where are we now?" Naruto asked while packing away his impromptu campsite.

"At the edge of Bird country, in a day or two you should reach the first Western province." Kurama answered

"Province?" Naruto asked, slightly confused

"Yes that's what I said. Once upon a time, when I was still a little fox, not any less powerful mind you, the west was a great empire. However the lords who lived in these lands were greedy people, and when the Emperor of the west fell ill and later died leaving no heirs, the lords of the west couldn't decided who the land would go to and a large war erupted in the west splitting it apart. Although it has died down in this era the warlords of the west are still greedy and battle each other constantly and the civilians there pay for it going through monthly pillaging, famine and neglect because the owners of their villages and towns are more focused in getting more land and money than to worry about the people who are apparently 'under' them. Thus the west is a very unpleasant place to be right now." Kurama explained.

Naruto had started walking by the time the Kyuubi was finished. "So why are we going there you stupid fox?" Naruto asked rather annoyed

"Because I believe that you will be able you will be able to stop this."

"…What" Naruto actually stopped walking.

Kyuubi sighed. "I have seen your resolve to help people Naruto. This is evident with how you acted in Wave, and your promise to the pink haired howler monkey to rescue that Uchiha bastard. So I think you will be able to achieve what no other will." Kyuubi said.

"What's that?" Naruto asked, walking again.

"Reform the western Empire…"

(One day later)

It was another day for the banished Konoha ninja as he neared the furthest Bird country border. He had encountered a few of their ninja patrols who questioned him though let him continue when he explained he was just passing through.

He was sitting down for some lunch that he caught in the form of a poor rabbit that was in the wrong place at the wrong time, when something caught his eye, a small glint in the tree. He was confused as to what it was before his instincts, born from the abuse the villagers gave him, screamed at him to dive out of the way. And so he did, just in time for a Kunai to merely scratch his side which Kurama immediately began healing.

"WHO ARE YOU?! SHOW YOURSELF!" Naruto shouted. And they did, in the form of 2 Konoha Jonin. Naruto sighed. "Let me guess, you're under council orders to come a kill the demon?" Naruto said sarcastically.

His answer came in the form 'Suiton: Gunshot' from the left most jonin. Jumping out of the way of the water bullet he was instantly set upon by the other ninja. Quickly taking out a kunai he blocked a swipe but he regretted doing so when his arm instantly buckled from the superior strength of the jonin and was rewarded with quite a large gash down his chest. Biting his lip to stop his cry of pain he leapt back from the exchange and tried to stop the blood. Which was weird…Kurama usually stopped the blood almost immediately after the wound was made. 'Kurama, what's happening?"

"No idea kit, some sort of chemical is slowing the healing of your wounds, while I can bypass it somewhat it has significantly reduced my ability to heal your injuries until I can purge it from your body." The fox explained.

'Well shit'

"Yup."

It didn't take long for the Konoha nins to take advantage of his weakness and they pounced on him. Naruto tried jumping out of the way but their speed was also clearly above his own. Evident of the now leg planted in his stomach which launched him into a tree.

Quickly getting up he drew his tanto and parried a volley of shuriken heading in his direction and ducked a kunai thrust. He jabbed his tanto upwards towards the enemy jonin hoping to kill him or injure him at least, but it was swiftly blocked with another kunai. He jumped backwards away from another 'Suiton: Gunshot' and crossed his arms as a fist impacted them causing him to crash to the ground. Seconds later the other ninja landed on him with his knee in his chest pinning him down.

Looking to his left he saw his tanto lying in the grass and tried reaching for it but his efforts were for naught when the jonin pinning him stabbed his arm to the ground with the kunai still in his grip. Naruto bit back another yelp of pain instead glared heatedly at the jonin as he poised to kill him.

'KURAMA CHAKRA WOULD BE USEFUL' Naruto yelled as he managed to parry the strike so it only buried itself into his left shoulder.

"If I do that you might bleed out because I'll be giving you a full tail" He replied

'IF I DON'T GET CHAKRA I WON'T HAVE THE CHANCE TO BLEED OUT!'

"Fine, Fine. Your funeral." Kyuubi muttered

'IT WILL BE!' He shouted as the red malicious chakra encased his body, he hissed in pain as it burned his body, but took advantage of the now stunned jonin above him by shoving him off and stabbing in the chest with the kunai from his shoulder.

With one jonin down Naruto chose this time to escape now that he had the extra power from the bijuu cloak, just as a handful of shuriken and kunai landed where he had once been standing.

Naruto stopped and lent on nearby tree as he caught is breath. He had been running for hours now, the bijuu cloak had worn off a while ago and he was running on his own steam trying to carry on but he was at his end here.

'How we doing there fox?' Naruto asked, breathing heard. His vision was swimming and black spots dotted the edge of his eye sight.

"My honest opinion." Kurama asked, slightly solemn.

'As opposed to what exactly?' He said sarcastically.

"Fair enough…not particularly well. I've almost purged the poison from your body, but it's had repercussions, for example you lost A LOT of blood, which I'm sure you're feeling now. The chemical that was in your body might have had a lasting effect by limiting how much chakra I can use to heal you so you can't heal cuts in a matter of minutes anymore, it would be closer to an hour before it seals and its more likely to leave a scar now but I know how you feel about those. So if you don't find someone to heal your injuries you might be in trouble. I'm doing the best I can in here but I need help."

'What's this? The great Kyuubi-sama asking for help?" He couldn't help but comment on.

"If you want to live then yes." Kyuubi replied

'That's reassuring." Naruto said before pushing himself of the tree. 'Right let's keep moving.'

He had only taken a couple of steps before he finally collapsed. "Well shit…" He muttered as his eyes fluttered closed. The shouting from the back of his mind was growing quieter and quieter as he let his consciousness fade.

He became faintly aware of rustling around him and he felt some pressure on his forehead be taken off before being replaced a lot colder pressure. He felt his finger twitch on his left hand and pain shot up his arm like wild fire. He held back a wince so he didn't alert whoever was tending to him that his was awake not knowing if they were friend or foe yet.

Cautiously opening one of his eyes when he heard the rustling stop he spotted a girl with their back turned to him. Looking around the room, he noticed it was very basic with wooden walls, a bed, and table near the door with all his ninja equipment and clothes on it, this was the table the girl appeared to be working on. Next to his bed was a smaller table with a lamp on it as there were no windows in the room he was in. On this table was a small bowl with red water in it. A pair of scissors sat in the bowl covered in the red liquid which he guessed was his own blood. Next to the bowl were many towels and pieces of cloth, some blotched in red, others not and a small real of thread sat beside them.

Looking down he saw his naked chest and arms covered in a few bandages over his wounds while others apparently hadn't been addressed yet. Turning slightly he saw the girl still had her back to him and looked like she was crushing something. As silently as he could he lent over, and grabbed the scissors from the bowl, this time wincing as his wounds stretched, and hid it under the blanket he was covered with and closed his eye again pretending to still be asleep.

He waited a few moments before he the rustling again and soon felt something press against the large gash across his chest.

Quick as his injuries allowed he was up and pinning the girl to the bed he on with the scissors held at her neck, and he gazed into fearful viridian green eyes.

"Who are you? Where am I?" Naruto asked pressing his weapon in further to get his point across.

"I-i-in the west, I fou-und you p-passed out in the forest bleeding-g, and I decided to help." The girl replied stuttering. "M-my na-me is Injigo Saku and-d I'm 14. I live with my g-grandparents because my p-parents died when I was young. I have AB type blo-" Naruto put a hand up to stop her.

"Why did you help me?" Naruto said continuing his interrogation

"M-my m-m-mother before she died said to a-always he-elp those in need. I s-aw you on the ground-d and remembered w-what my m-mother said." The newly identified Injigo explained. "S-so I made a sled-dge out of sticks and leaves and dragged to back to my h-house where I began to heal you."

Naruto narrowed his eyes and looked into her still scared gaze, although it looked as though it had dimmed a bit. "She's telling the truth kit." Kurama interrupted

'How do you know?'

"I have the ability to sense negative emotions, and currently there are none directed at you."

Naruto took Kyuubi's views into consideration and lifted the scissors of Injigo's throat and fell back against the head of the bed after she scrambled up and away from him.

Naruto panted as the adrenaline from the moment wore off and moving in his injured state came back to bit him in the ass. He hissed in pain and screwed his eyes shut to try and bloke out the pain erupting from the top half of his body.

He sat there for a little while concentrating on trying to dim the pain when he something gooey being put on his large wound on his chest opening his eyes slightly he saw the girl putting a green paste on his gash. He lifted himself slightly trying to signal to her to back off, but she only glared at him and said, "If you want your injuries to stop hurting keep still and let me work." She said sternly.

Naruto still on guard narrowed his eyes slightly but did as she asked. Eventually the wound was dressed and bandaged and they were now sitting in the room with an awkward tension in the air.

He took this time to observe the girl sitting in front of him. She had a soft round face, with a button nose, viridian eyes, and a small dainty mouth. He hair was a deep shade of indigo that trailed down to the middle of her back. Her shapely form was perfectly emphasised by her narrow hips and her growing bust, a well formed rear. From her sitting position Naruto could make out that she was taller than him, Naruto was a bit miffed at being reminded that he was a 'short stack'.

"Naruto." He said eventually.

"What?" Injigo replied

"My name." Naruto answered. "Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki." He said looking at less hostile. "And er…sorry about earlier…my ninja training, rather dictated that I act quickly. Sorry if I scared you."

Injigo's eyes lit up at the mention he was a ninja. "You're a ninja!" She exclaimed and when she received a confused nod promptly warped into his face with a 1000 watt smile akin to his own. "Really!? We don't have many ninja here in the west because the scrolls to learn chakra are highly valued and kept secret or they're mercenaries from the east and I've never heard of them teach anyone before, let alone tell them about chakra." She practically shouted.

"No ninjas huh? What kind of soldiers are over here then?" Naruto asked curious,

"It's mainly untrained militia which earns a lot of unfortunate deaths because the lords don't train them. But there are some old samurai that are still loyal to their lords. Like my own grandfather." Injigo explained

"Huh."

As the tension eased they got to talk to each other, and while not quite friends yet they had defiantly repaired what had occurred earlier.

It was a sleeping Naruto that Injigo left as they both turn in for the night.

Naruto awoke to the sound of rustling once again. Groggily opening his eyes he noticed he was face to face with an elderly woman, maybe around the age of 70 but he couldn't be sure. She was standing hunched over him inspecting his bandages; Injigo was standing slightly behind her. He groaned slightly when she touched a particularly sensitive area on his chest.

"Oh you're awake?" She asked

"Apparently…" Naruto replied looking at the woman.

"You're healing surprisingly quickly, when Injigo said how close to dying you were I am surprised that you should be up and walking within a few days." The elderly woman stated

"That's good; I got things that I need to do." Naruto said stretching a little, though winced when he did so.

"I'm sure you do." The woman replied, "But you must still rest, so sleep some more, I will wake you around noon so you can eat."

"Thank you." Naruto said before settling down to sleep once again.

This routine continued for a about a week before Naruto was deemed well enough to move around and by that time he was practically bouncing around with pent up energy.

Almost sensing his excitement the old woman, whose name he later learned was Yuga, entered the room. "Alright, alright calm down Naruto. I can feel the vibrations in the other room." Yuga said as she chuckled.

Said boy smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, I'm not one to stay still for long."

"It's quite alright dear, here let me check your wounds, you should be able to get up and leave today." She explained, moving over to the boy virtually vibrating in his bed.

"Good, I can finally get out of this damn room and train!" Naruto all but shouted. He was quite sick of the room at this point, almost as much as the hospital back in Konoha.

"Yes, yes Naruto. We know, you haven't stopped complaining for the last couple of days."

Naruto calmed down a bit and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, heh heh." He laughed awkwardly, scratching the back of his head.

It was only a few minutes later that Naruto took his first steps out of his impromptu hospital room, this time taking a look around the house he had been taken to. At first glance it appeared to be in a small one with the room he was currently in, with only a small kitchen area in a corner and a table with 4 chairs. Shelves were dotted around holding various objects, but other than that only a few windows and doors were present. Like his room the place was made up of mainly wood, and he guessed that 2 doors present, led to other room which were most likely also wood.

Sitting at the table eating was Injigo, who gave a polite little wave to Naruto before going back to her meal. Feeling his stomach rumble, he took a seat opposite he and sat down. "I don't suppose you've got anymore food to eat?" He asked, smiling slightly.

"Of course." Injigo said while standing up to get some for Naruto.

An hour later Naruto stepped out of the house, in a burnt orange button up shirt and a pair of black shorts and blue sandals. Under his arm he carried the scrolls he acquired from his parents and Kurama.

He looked around the area he was in and found that the house he had lived in for a week for sitting in a clearing in a forest. The trees were about the same size as the ones back in Fire country but their bark was a weird black. He wondered by the cottage, now behind him, was of normal colour.

Naruto let his eyes wander around and spotted a larger tree among others, which stood out and walked over to it. Looking back he noticed he was a fair distance away from the building so he set his stuff and placed his hands on his hips. "What should I start with?" He pondered

"Do the contract first." Kurama instructed

"Why?" He asked

"Because of you running you haven't been able to summon the boss yet he is most likely getting impatient." The fox explained

"Ok, how much chakra should I use?" Naruto asked as he concentrated

"Hm…use just a little more than you would for Gamabunta."

"Ok." Naruto mumbled as he went through a set of hand seals. 'Summoning Jutsu' He exclaimed

An outburst of smoke signified the summoning's success. Naruto stumbled back slightly, both at the sudden depletion of chakra, and the shock of the size of the cloud of smoke that appeared. It was easily a third of the size bigger than Bunta.

A low, deep growl resonated from the epicentre of the smoke; it practically screamed power and respect. A large gust of wind started up suddenly, and blew away the remainder of the smoke.

The first thing Naruto noticed was that the creature was truly a behemoth in size, easily comparable to the size of a bijuu, but it was also majestic; yet it held a lithe form as it stretched its body, the dragon's wing span was most likely the length of the Hokage monument. Its tail unfurled from around its body it was covered in end to end in small barbs, the tip of the tail ending in the shape of a morning star about the size of his torso. Naruto quickly concluded he didn't want to meet with that. Travelling up, Naruto finally looked at the colour of the dragon, whose scales were a rich jade, the only place this differed was its chest where the scales were a shining silver. All across its body, scars were present, showing that it was still a battle hardened summon. Great jade legs, flexed with muscles as they stood, like pillars they supported the body of which they were part of. Its claws were the size of his body and looked VERY sharp. In the end his eyes drifted up to the beast's head, only to freeze when his eyes locked with vibrant amethyst coloured eyes, molten gold slits were present in the irises splitting them. The dragon has a narrow snout with the teeth pocking out from the sides of its gums. It's head was covered in barbs much like its tail, with the exception of 2 larger horns which were flecked in black, crowning his head.

"Ah, you must be the new summoner. I am surprised you called me on your first try. But we have more important matters to attend to. For example…" The dragon spoke in a deep, daunting voice that held all the magnificence that its figure deserved; before it took a threatening step forward, shoving his snout into the boy's chest, making him fall onto his behind. "How did you sign this contract!" He roared losing all the magnificence that he once held, changing in an instance to a fiery demon capable of levelling cites without so much as a second thought.

Naruto shook with fear but soon swallowed it and stood up directly in front of the lizard's mouth and locked eyes with it once more; daring it to eat him. "Your dear friend Kyuubi gave it to me to sign." Naruto explained

"Oh, he did, did he?" The dragon spoke, stretching back up. "I'm curious though, why would he let weak little morsel like you sign the most powerful of the contracts?" He asked raising an eyebrow…or whatever a dragon has as an eyebrow anyway.

Naruto spluttered at the jab to both his strength and his height, and he could have sworn he heard laughing at the back of his mind. "WEAK!?" He yelled, "YOU COME BACK DOWN HERE YOU LOUSY EXCUSE OF A SALAMANDER SO I CAN BEAT YOU BACK INTO THE AGE OF THE RIKUDOU SENNIN!" He challenged shaking his fist up at the dragon, completely forgetting the fact that he was the same size as the fuzz ball stuck in his gut.

Said being was now staring at Naruto with shock evident in its eyes before it burst out in rambunctious laughter. Its deep bellowing voice shook the ground it stood on. "I must say I didn't expect that response in the least boy. You might just prove to be entertaining. Very well boy I accept you as my clan's summoner." He announced smirking at the gaping face on Naruto.

"W-w-what…?" Was all he managed

"You heard me boy, do not test my patience!" The dragon growled, narrowing his eyes

Naruto immediately tried to placate the dragon, "Sorry I was just shocked, don't I have to pass some test or something?" He asked nervously

"Normally yes, however when you locked eyes with me I looked into your past and judged your soul on its worthiness, and in all the millennia I have lived I have never seen a soul as pure as yours, despite the hard ship you have faced. It was there that I decided you would be a honourable summoner." He explained a bit more calmly.

"O-oh, well thanks I guess." Naruto said shyly, scratching the back of his head again.

"Now I must return to my realm and inform the dragon council of the proceedings of today. I bid you a good day." He informed as he prepared to depart, and would have done so hadn't a call arose.

"Wait!" Naruto shouted. "I have two requests to ask before you go." He asked, bowing his head slightly as a show of respect.

"Hm…very well, what is it?" The dragon asked getting a little impatient.

"First I was wondering if you had any dragons specialized in information gathering, and if there are could I ask for two?" He question.

"Yes there are particular dragons that excel in the art of espionage; I shall send two after I return. And your second request?"

"What is your name?" Naruto asked, smiling brightly.

The dragon smiled slightly at that. "It is Zen'no, but you may call me Zen-sama." And with that he Zen'no disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Naruto waited a beat for the smoke to clear, before he release a breath he hadn't realized he had been holding.

"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Was shouted from his left, and Naruto quickly looked over. Standing side by side was Yuga was had a shocked looked plastered across her face, and Injigo who had a massive grin across hers with stars in her eyes. Naruto was confused why there were out there in the first place, and then realized that they weren't exactly being very quiet about their meeting.

Naruto just laughed and smiled slightly.

It was late evening now, and Naruto was still outside. Having organised and made a note of all the scrolls he currently he had, he was now leaning up against the tree from earlier looking over the Fuinjutsu book. To some people the book would look like a bunch of complicated jibber jabber. But for Naruto…it just seemed to make sense, the words, descriptions and diagrams just leaped from the book in to his head and stayed there. To him…the book was entrancing.

His attention was soon directed elsewhere when two simultaneous 'pops' sounded from in front of him. He looked up and noticed two small dragons sitting in front of him looking up at him expectantly. They were obsidian black with shimmering scales the still glinted in the darkening light despite their colour. The dragons were about waist height and hat cobalt coloured eyes. Something that Naruto found a little peculiar was that the two dragons wore leather harnesses and steampunk goggles that only seemed to increase the size of their eyes. The harnesses had two large pouches attached to either side; some scrolls and pieces of paper were hanging haphazardly out of it.

"Are you the espionage dragons Zen-sama was sending?" He asked looking at the two curiously, both of whom nodded their heads enthusiastically. "Ok that's good I have two very important missions for you." He explained looking at the dragons. "One you will go to Konohagakure no sato, I want you to spy on the village and their movements but I mainly want you to focus on the group called Konoha 12… or I guess 11 now…anyway want to know how they feel about me. No doubt the council probably told everyone about Kurama because I'm not there anymore." He sighed wistfully.

The first dragon nodded and disappeared in another pop. Naruto turned to the other, "And for you I want to gather information on the West here, anything you can really." The second dragon nodded but instead chose to fly off.

Naruto sat watching as it did you before going back to his book with a small grin present on his face.

One month had passed since Naruto sent the dragons off and he was currently going through the katas of the 'Humming Bird' and he was doing well if he said so himself, he was still a beginner but it was better than he used to be at least. At the moment he had roughly 500 clones doing various jobs around the clearing. 300 where going through the jutsu scrolls learning all that they could before their short life ended. Another 100 were doing various chakra control exercises to try and improve his current abysmal control. The final 100 were split in two, one half were playing shogi trying to increases his prowess in strategy the other were reading books on the history of the west and the geography of it. Despite not liking to read he had to admit, the history was quite interesting.

His attention was pulled away from his katas when two pops signalled the entrance of a summon making him turn his attention towards them.

Seeing the two dragons had returned, Naruto started dismissing the clones in the clearing until there were none left, giving him a slight headache.

Naruto turned and sat down with his back against the tree and watched the two dragons amble over to him. "Alright what have you got for me?" He asked. The dragons sat and rummaged through their pouches and pulled out a stack of papers and a scroll each and placed it in front of him. "Thank you, is that all?" Both dragons nodded, bowed and disappeared in a pop of smoke back to their realm.

He looked at both sets of reports with a calculating gaze before reaching over and grabbing the stack about the West. Reading through them he gained knowledge about this side of the continent. There was 152 different provinces in the west, each and everyone having a corrupt warlord ruling over it. The province he was currently in was called Aratana hajimari.War plagued the west causing thousands of deaths each year and causing suffering on an unimaginable scale. Yet no one was doing anything about it. That was what got to him. All of this and no one was doing anything to stop it.

Feeling his anger rising he set the reports down on the ground next to him, deciding to go over them in more detail later. Turing he stretched to reach the ones about Konoha but froze before he could grab them. He was afraid. Afraid of what he would read. Reminding himself that these were his friends he hoped that they stuck to his side. Steeling himself he grabbed the notes and began to read…

Half an hour later Naruto slid down the tree landing on his ass, Kyuubi's chakra receding back into him. His eyes remained unfocused as the crunching of tree bark became apparent when a tree behind him collapsed, adding to the now rather large newly formed clearing behind him which had been formed in his rage. He couldn't believe it. He refused to! But he couldn't deny it…the evidence was in front of him.

His so called friends had abandoned him. Turning their back on him when he need them the most. All but Shikamaru and Shino all but hated him. But they kept it hidden for obvious reasons. Even Hinata, with her crush the size of the elemental nations turning against him, having been brain washed by the clan into believing it was his demonic powers that gave her, her crush on him. Yes he knew about her crush. Who didn't? He didn't act on it due to the repercussions it would have on her. He was disgusted with them. But the best part was, Sasuke left again! ANBU were sent after him this time, but none ever returned. Presumed KIA. To him it was hilarious. Banish the only person that brought him back, only for him to leave immediately after. HA!

Naruto let a sigh escape as he reined in his chaotic emotions, hoping to prevent another 'tantrum' as Kurama described it.

"Naruto?" A meek voice sounded from his left, making him turn towards it. Standing just outside the 'danger zone' were a scared Injigo and Yuga were standing looking at him nervously. He let another sigh escape.

"Sorry you had to see that." He apologised.

"You looked angry…what's wrong?" Injigo asked, gaining a little confidence.

Naruto closed his eyes and contemplated telling them. "Kurama?" He asked

"Don't ask me, this is your choice. In my opinion you may as well tell them. It's not like things could get worse right?" He said before falling silent.

Naruto nodded his head agreeing with the fox. So for the next couple of hours Naruto told them everything, from Kyuubi being sealed inside his gut to the banishment no to long ago. By the time he was finished the sun was setting and it was starting to get a little cold outside.

"And now we're here." He finished.

The two were silent for a beat and Naruto cast his gaze down, believing they were starting to hate him. As if reading his thoughts, Injigo stood and walked over to him. Naruto looked up, expecting to be hit, but was unprepared for her crouching down beside him and hugging him. Naruto sat in shock for a moment before wrapping his arms around her hesitantly. Injigo feeling this hugged him tighter.

"You're not a demon Naruto. In the month we have known you, you have done nothing to make us believe as such." She reassured him before breaking of the hug. Both while not realizing it, they missed each other's heat.

Naruto eyes widened and he looked towards Yuga who smiled in response and nodded. Naruto eyes turned down once more, before looking up again, this time with tears in his eyes.

"Thank you." He said, leaning into the embrace of Injigo who had moved to comfort him at the sight of tears. Once they he cleared up he popped a question. "I don't suppose I could stay here longer could I? I got plans to make. Clones to train. Jutsu to learn. You understand right?" He asked smiling

Yuga smiled warmly. "Of course you can stay. We haven't kicked you out yet have we?" She answered. Laugher filled the air and the start of a great legend was firmly in place in the world.

(End)

Welp that took longer than I wanted but unfortuantly exams and revision took up most of my time so sorry about that. TRT will be updated next so keep on the look out for that.

Till next time – Cya!

-Red

Translations

Aratana hajimari – New Beginnings ;)