Naruto – Created Fox

Chapter 2: Calmed Instincts

-Hokages Office-

The old Sarutobi sighed as he was fighting in the night, against a Kages worst enemy; Paperwork. Oh how we hated the dreaded things, simply reading over papers that were all of similar structure and plainness and signing them, continuously doing so for hours on end; and when you're done there is more of waiting outside the office.

He sighed as he went over a lot of the reports and job requests, many being to simply help an old couple paint a fence, walk the Inuzukas dogs and the ever dreaded "Genins horror"; Catch Tora.

The Hokage was working through the evening and into the night as he went into a trance of simply signing papers and putting them into the "Send out" pile.

As he was signing a report on strange activities near the northern borders of Fire Country, he felt dread come over him as the foul chakra of a creature he had never hoped to feel again, flare to life in a forest inside the walls of Konoha. It was not as strong as it was 8 years ago, but it was still overwhelming.

Hiruzen bolted upright and turned to the panoramic window and looked to where the chakra was flowing, yet saw nothing there, but he heard the peoples fearing cries. A moment later it faded, leaving a confused people to wonder what happened.

'Did it break?' the Monkey summoner thought to himself as he called for ANBU to escort him to the young Jinchuuriki's location.

-The Forest-

When the ANBU and Hokage arrived, they came upon an unexpected scene.

A young blonde with fox ears and nine tails was sitting over a sleeping young girl, the Hyuuga heiress, Hinata Hyuuga. Said girl was snuggling into the tails, one of which she was unconsciously hugging, that the boy provided and had a small blush accompanied by a blissful smile.

The boy was Naruto... or atleast, used to be Naruto. He had the aforementioned fox ears and tails, but his body was no longer as thin as it was before. He now had muscles that could be clearly seen under the open red fur-coat. And his hair was longer, reaching down to his shoulders, making him look a lot like his father, but only Hiruzen drew that conclusion, the only difference being that Naruto had slightly rounder features and his trademark whiskers adorning his now more chiseled cheeks.

All of this served to make him look older and more beastly, compared to his previous self.

'What happened to him?' was the similar thought going through the heads of the 4-man ANBU escort and the elderly Hokage.

The ANBU operatives were wearing individual masks. Neko with her cat mask and flowing purple hair, wearing the standard ANBU outfit, Inu with his dog mask, gravity defying white hair and Regular ANBU uniform, Itachi (A/N, guess who) with his weasel mask, black hair in a pony-tail with an ANBU outfit like the other two and Lastly, Tenzo who was wearing a wolf mask with brown spiky hair. These four were his most trusted operatives, as he knew that they held nothing against the boy, and two of them would even go out of their way at times to prevent people from harming him.

'Minato-Sensei?' thought Inu as he saw the boy, who looked so much like his late sensei, that it was uncanny. The only real difference between the two were the more bestial features, as his hair had lengthened to about the same length and the only thing missing was a Konoha Hitai-ate covering his forehead, do all of this and you'd have a carbon-copy of the fourth Hokage.

The old man signaled his escort to wait, while he walked closer to the Kyuubi's host and saw the calm and peaceful look on his face, which was a highly uncommon sight on the face of the hyper-active child.

As the Hokage walked into the clearing, the Uzumaki stirred before his eyes opened sleepily to reveal a pair of mesmerizingly light-blue eyes with animalistic slits in them.

"Jiji..." said the boy sleepily as he looked at his grandfather figure, and yawned with a low sleep-induced growl.

"Naruto-kun..." the old man said wearily as he thought of these changes and stopped half-way, 'It doesn't seem as if the Kyuubi is in control, but what happened to him?' thought the old Kage as he looked down at his surrogate grandson.

The boy looked down at the young heiress that was lying on his tails and put one of his clawed hands in her hair, running it through her smooth midnight-blue locks. He smiled at her as his hand smoothed her hair soothingly.

"Hinata..." he whispered softly as he removed his hand from hair, "Naruto-kun..." she mumbled in her sleep as she stirred slightly before going back to snuggling his tails, this made the young boy giggle as his tails were quite ticklish, and he found it cute within a more human part of his mind.

Naruto looked back up to the old man in robes that was looking at him with curious eyes, "Naruto-kun? What happened to you?" asked Sarutobi cautiously.

The fox child just tilted his head and looked at the old man with a frown, "...Don't... know," he said hesitantly, and speaking as if the words were foreign to him, tasting them, followed by a low growl as he was thinking.

'This isn't the same Naruto it seems... but why did he take to the Hyuuga girl this quickly?' Hiruzen thought to himself, 'It could be her Chakra signature; hers is a lot different from most.'

The old Hokage walked forward and stopped about a meter away from the boy who just looked at the man with apprehension, not a hundred percent sure whether to trust him, or run away, his muscles tensing slightly.

Hiruzen slowly sat down, so as to not alarm the boy. They simply sat there looking at each other, wondering what the other was thinking. At least that is what Sarutobi thought Naruto was doing, but you could never be sure with him, he was always an enigma.

After a minute of just looking at each other Naruto looked down at the girl that was snuggling into his tails and carefully moved one of his tails in under her arm and let the fur brush against the ticklish area there, making the Hyuuga twitch a little and disrupting her sleep as she slowly woke up.

Hinata was half-awake when her mind registered the softness under her and she instinctively snuggled into it some more, not wanting to wake up. But the itching wouldn't stop, so she reluctantly let consciousness come back. She opened her eyes and looked at what she was holding onto.

It was a tail; an orange fox tail with a yellow tip; said tail belonging to a Naruto Uzumaki.

Promptly her face went completely red and she sat up quickly and looked around to see her crush and the Hokage himself looking at her.

'What is he doing here,' she thought in confusion, and then she looked at Naruto to see him genuinely smiling at her, something that brought a smile to her face as well.

"Good evening Hinata-san," the Hokage said with a grandfatherly smile and kind voice, while still keeping it formal enough while speaking to a clan heiress.

"S-same to y-you Ho-Hokage-sama," she replied kindly and forced her previous blush down, "Is there a problem?" she asked as she saw the worried look in his old eyes.

"I suppose there is," he said with a slight frown as he looked at the smiling blonde, "Naruto-kun here seems to have undergone some unprecedented changes, and we came to check if was ok." He continued as he looked between the two children, "But it seems our worries were unneeded, I see he has someone to take care of him," he finished with a slight smile while looking at Hinata.

Hinata brightened considerably at the implications of the Kages words, while Naruto seemed to understand what his surrogate-grandfather was saying to some degree and smiled brightly, then threw himself to embrace the old man in a hug, which he accepted with a light-hearted chuckle.

At the edge of the clearing the ANBU were smiling under their masks... except the ever emotionless Itachi, although he was having a hard time staying that way as his mind was going 'Kawaii' at the sight of the young boy's antics.

Naruto let go of the Hokage and sat himself down again, moving subtly closer to his well of calm than he was before, while wearing one of his infamous foxy grins, while letting five of his tails surround Hinata to keep her warm. Hinata looked at him while smiling, 'I'm glad I snuck away from Ko now,' she thought to herself, remembering sneaking away from the "Kyuubi Day" festival, which she saw no point in at all, to go star-gazing in the forest, 'it's going to be great being close to Naruto-kun,' She finished that thought with a small blush.

Hiruzen stood up and gestured for the ANBU to come forward, which they did as ordered, but walking instead of running as they normally would, as they didn't know how the new Naruto would react to quick movements.

The nine-tailed kit looked at the masked people coming forward at a walk. His eyes narrowed at the masks, but didn't make a move except for the slight tensing of his shoulders.

The old Kage saw this and motioned to the escort to remove their masks by moving a hand over his face in a sideward motion. They did as requested and revealed Inu to be Kakashi Hatake, Neko as Yugao Uzuki, Itachi as Itachi Uchiha and Tenzo as... well, Tenzo (A/N, If anyone else has his real name, then please tell me... and before anyone says Yamato; that was his name for his mission while interacting with the rest of team Kakashi).

Naruto relaxed somewhat after seeing that they bore no ill-will towards him or Hinata, but he was still ready to fight or flight if it came to it.

The Hokage turned to the young heiress and smiled lightly at seeing her small blush and shy smile, knowing she had a crush on the young blonde.

"I will have to talk to your father to get everything in order. So, Inu!" he called to the silver-haired ANBU senior who stood at attention, "Could you be so kind as to escort these two back to the Hyuuga compound with Itachi, while Neko and Tenzo come with me to speak to Hyuuga Hiashi." He more ordered than asked with a stern commanding voice, showing why he was nicknamed "The Professor" and "God of Shinobi."

They all did as instructed, as the Hokage and his now 2-man escort took off to the Hyuuga compound to see the clan head with a shunshin, kicking up leaves in the process. This made Naruto sneeze and fall over as the leaves got in his nose. He now lay sprawled on his back with his tails lying under him in disorder.

Hinata giggled at his position as he got up again and huffed at being laughed, even if he loved the sound of it. Naruto shifted himself forward, to try and stand straight up like the ANBU were, but his balance was offset by his new mind and fell forward to his hands, so he was in a crouching position with one hand on the ground infront of him and the other hanging loosely on his knee.

Meanwhile, Hinata had gotten up on her feet as the two ANBU came to them and stood by their sides, ready to escort them.

"Well, shall we get moving Hyuuga-san?" the white haired Shinobi asked politely, and she nodded in response as they started to walk towards the Hyuuga compound.

-Hyuuga Compound – With the Hokage-

Hiruzen walked up to the compound gates and greeted the guards, and asked to see Hiashi Hyuuga. One of the guards called inside to a servant, telling them that the Hokage was here to see the clan head.

A few minutes later he and his escort were lead inside by a Hyuuga branch member, a system that he disliked and wished he could lecture this clan on, as did most of the other clans, but the elders of the clan were set in their ways and, ironically, were blinded to the suffering that this system caused. Yet there was nothing he could do, for the Hokage had no power over clan affairs.

As they were lead inside and brought to a room, they were told to wait while the Hyuuga went to inform the clan head of their status.

Seconds later, the door slid open to reveal a pale eyed man with dark brown hair and a hard look on his face, it was Hiashi Hyuuga, head of the second largest clan in Konoha, only just overcome by the Uchihas because of their more free way of life and the fact that they have been around longer.

"Good evening, Hokage-sama," he said with a bow while still keeping the hard-stoic appearance up.

"Good evening it is, Hiashi-kun," the Hokage said light-heartedly, trying to ease the tension for what he was going to have to tell him, "I see all is well?" he asked off-handedly.

"Yes, except for the fact that my daughter is missing and everyone felt that burst of malevolent chakra before, those of the older generation are panicking, while the younger are scared out of their wits at the moment." He said with a sight at the end as he rubbed the bridge of his nose, "Even worse is that it inexplicably disappeared. Everyone is in confusion."

The Hokage smiled slightly, "I am actually here to talk with you on both the matter of your daughter and that burst of chakra earlier," he said as he motioned to Tenzo for a privacy seal to be put into place, which was done swiftly as is expected of ANBU operatives, double layered a moment later by Neko, both wearing their masks again after they shunshined away earlier.

Hiashi narrowed his eyes at his superior, "What is it you wish to discuss Hokage-sama?" he asked cautiously.

Hiruzen took on a more serious demeanor a moment later as he studied Hiashi, "What I'm about to tell you is a SS-ranked recret, only known to five people in this world, including myself, the other being Jiraya of the Sannin, Copy-cat Kakashi Hatake, Itachi Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha. Thus you are sworn to secrecy and can tell no one, under threat of certain death," He said as he folded his hands in front of his face and leaned forward. The three other occupants felt the importance of his words and nodded with their faces set in grave masks, not that you could see this from behind the masks of the ANBU.

The Hokage sighed, "This concerns the parents of the Jinchuuriki," he said before pausing to look at his listeners, who now looked highly interested, "They were quite outstanding people, and I think you can see the resemblance in the hair and eyes," he said with a chuckle at seeing Hiashi's eyes widening in realization.

"Wai- you... what!?" the usually controlled Hyuuga clan head was saying, his mind on the verge of a breakdown.

"Yes, Hiashi-kun, that is exactly what I mean... come now, the thought must have crossed your mind a few times?" The Kage asked amusedly while Hiashi was trying to gather himself.

"Y-yes, of course it has!" he practically shouted, "But..." he trailed off as he looked at the amused Hokage, "Who was his mother then?" Hiashi asked nervously, not sure if he wanted to know.

The Hokage smirked behind his hands, "The Red Death," and a moment later... Hiashi was laying on the ground, lost to the world, while the two ANBU operatives joined him moments later in blissful unconsciousness.

Hiruzen chuckled to himself. He got just the reaction that he wanted.

In the meanwhile he just sat there for ten minutes straight, during which he had gotten out his trusty pipe, which he had filled with oh so sweet tobacco, which he proceeded to light with a minor Katon jutsu, after which he puffed for a few minutes until Hiashi rejoined him in the land of the living.

The Pale eyed man just stared at the Hokage for a full minute before doing anything.

"so it's true?" he asked, "Minato... and Kushina?" the Hyuuga questioned looking at the Hokage who just nodded while keeping the pipe steady in his mouth, "I swear, if they were to come back to life they would slaughter the whole village for what it's done..." he trailed off sadly as he rubbed a hand over his eyes and sighing.

"That they would," Hiruzen said sadly, "but moving on. It would seem that the Seal on Naruto has weakened or... changed, I cannot tell how, but the seal is not as it used to be before. The Kyuubi is not on the loose, but it has seemingly fused its own power with Naruto's own chakra, changing him... he is no longer like a human, he seems to act on instinct more than anything else." He said as he got a glin in his eye when he looked to the Hyuuga, "And that is where your daughter comes in," he said with a small smirk.

"What do you mean Hokage-sama?" said Hyuuga asked with a furrowed brow.

"What I mean is that Naruto seems to have formed some sort of connection with young Hinata," The Kage said while contemplating something, "possibly because she was one of the few people that didn't shun him in his former life..." he trailed off as he seemed to be considering something, "Or it could be her Chakra signature, seeing as she got more of her mother than you, no offence, Hiashi-san," he said while throwing the clan head an apologetic look who just nodded while taking all of this in.

"This is disconcerting," The Hyuuga said thoughtfully, "I don't know if the elders would agree to taking him in, if that is what you are thinking I should do?" Hiruzen nodded in agreement.

"It would be the best for both of the children; Naruto, because he needs a home, seeing as he probably won't restrain himself from attacking the villagers if he feels their ill-intent," he said as he looked up to Hiashi's contemplative features, "and Hinata because it would help break her out of her shell to have someone like him around all the time, and the fact that she has formed a small crush on the boy when they went to school together." The Kage said as he looked at the now dumb-founded clan head.

"Wait... w-what?" the confused Hyuuga said as he tried to remain the picture of calm, "Since when?" he asked.

"Oh? I thought you would have known of it?" the Hokage deadpanned, "seems the Byakugan is not as all-seeing as they say," Hiruzen joked then sighed, "But I guess this happens when a child starts to get ignored," the Hokage said as realization struck the clan head.

'Damn it! How could I have been such a fool!?' Hiashi mentally berated himself as he bowed his head in shame, 'how could I have done this Hana-chan?' he thought to himself as a tear escaped his eye, it had only been a year and a half since the death of his wife, but after her death he had become cold to his eldest daughter, and focused more on her younger sister, already starting to train her, even though she was only two years old.

Hiashi raised his head, eyes still looking down, looking guilty, "What would you ask me to do, Hokage-sama?" he asked.

Hiruzen seemed thoughtful for a moment. "I ask only that you allow the boy to stay here with Hinata, and keep the elders in line, I wouldn't wish for anyone to threaten her or him under these circumstances..." the Hokage said with a hard look, sending out a minute amount of killing intent to show that he was serious, "Because if the boy is ruled by instinct as much as I think he is... then I fear for anyone who even dares to harm her," he said with a shudder, letting his KI go, the ANBU operatives waking up at that moment, grumbling to themselves.

Hiashi bowed down, "Yes, Hokage-sama." He replied promptly.

"Good," Hiruzen said good-heartedly, "But I do suggest we start moving, your daughter and new charge are bound to arrive within a few minutes," the Kage said in a serious tone as he stood up and Hiashi followed this action moments later.

"Yes, that would be wise," was the Hyuuga's short response.

Authors Note: Hello! This is my second chapter of Naruto - Created Fox! and thank you for reading this little story!

I'm gonna say this now 'Hana-chan' is the name of Hinata and Hanabi's mother that I will use for this story, so it is not that important... and Tenzo... well... does he even have a real name outside of just Tenzo? if he does, please, do tell me, it would be appreciated.

But... is everyone happy with how I'm writing this? it's not the best ever, I know, so if you want, you can tell me how you would have done it.

and when it comes to how Naruto will be in this story... let's just say he is going to be protective of his new-found friend, and I will try to make their interactions as cute as possible when the situation calls for fluffiness... so if you dislike fluffiness... BEGONE SATAN!

so, Read, Review, Enjoy, Dislike, whatever you like, now see you, Goodnight! (Rhymes! Haha!)