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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto I once considered claiming ownership in my dreams, but I was sued for it. I do not know how Masashi Kishimoto did it, but he filed a lawsuit against me for dreaming it. As a result, I must write these rather boring disclaimers.

Wow people even liked the rushed chapter. This chapter was also made in one day (I'm writing this on June 16, 2007), but I like to make a short chapter made in a day instead of making one over a long period of time. In case someone does care about this story, I haven't been updating due to The Exams+laziness. Also, in order to avoid using the English names of Jutsu, I am using Japanese (although my translations from English to Japanese may not accurate) for any added words. In case of adding a Japanese word(s) to Jutsu that wasn't already in Naruto I'll add a translation next to it.

Thoughts

Inner self

Jutsu

The Kyuubi had many things running through its feral yet intelligent mind. One of them was revenge. That thought grew, staying in his mind and consumed the others. It soon was the only thought. Kyuubi looked down, after shifting its vision through the different areas around him he spotted his former vessel. Naruto was lying unconscious on the ground, slightly damaged because he fell from the branch he was standing on. Kyuubi thought he had completed his first goal, to kill his former host. The Kyuubi jumped above the two shinobi and started running towards Konoha, which was his second goal.

Naruto was starting to awaken. His eyes opened rather fast for someone who just lost what they had depended on for a majority of their stamina. He quickly got up with one quick push. "What just happened?" asked Naruto, in a clueless voice. Of course the only thing there close to someone who could answer was a fainted Itachi, who Naruto seemed to be ignoring.

Naruto felt different. It was a feeling similar someone gets after they remove a heavy weight from their back after walking around with it for a long time. To describe it in Naruto's words, he felt "As light as a feather. Hell, actually I feel lighter then a feather". Naruto jumped up to the highest branch on the tree he fell off of with little effort and observed his surrondings. There was a heavy amount of damage to the trees near him, like the aftermath of a powerful storm. And then it hit him. His memory recovered in a fraction of a second. To Naruto, it was like a brick suddenly being thrown at his head. It all came flashing back, the illusion, the anger and the fainting all came back in one swift memory bank. He felt his face, his cheeks were smooth with no evidence of the whisker-like marks that felt like thin lines of hair on the skin. He panicked when he came to the correct conclusion that the seal restraining the Kyuubi had broken and the demon fox was going to attack Konoha.

Naruto did not inspect his thoughts, he shouted the words "Hiraishin no Jutsu!" and the Flying Thunder God Technique took over. He just learned the Yellow Flash's signature jutsu around a month ago. He didn't have the experience to travel like The Fourth did with this ability yet, but he was familiar enough with it to know he could cut off a day of traveling back from Suna if he left a Hiraishin Seal behind.

Naruto was standing on the wall where he left the seal. It was the wall that helped fortify Konoha's defenses against outsiders. Behind him was Konoha, oblivious to the approaching danger.

Or at least that was until a series of shouts broke the normal routine. Naruto could hear screams from the villagers and the shouting commands of an ANBU commander ordering the guards to protect the village. Naruto knew why these actions were taking place. He ran towards the edge of the wall and saw it. The Kyuubi was approaching the city at a fast rate. He would be there in a few more seconds.

Something in Naruto snapped. Using his new physical abilities he jumped towards The Demon Fox and concentrated all his chakra into his right hand.

"But Yamato, why do I need know how to add other elements into Futon?" asked Naruto, his clothes still in poor condition from his fight with Sasuke. He was fifteen and was sitting across from the fire on a wooden chair facing Yamato. The camp fire in front of the small log cabin Yamato made illuminated the night that fell upon the setting. "Well you don't have to, but it would complete it." said Yamato. Naruto then quickly responded "But I already have my own elemental chakra concentrated in it. Can't I just learn some other technique?". Yamato sighed "You're not thinking, remember how powerful the Rasengan was when you combined it with wind and created the Futon Rasengan? Well when you did add the wind element its power grew exponentially.". Naruto was unable to understand Yamato's words and said "What? Get to the point.". Yamato held back his irritation and said "Well if that single element addition made the Rasengan more then one hundred times stronger then what it was before, then there is a massive base and the exponent of the Rasengan's equation is increased several times with each new element. Understand?".

Naruto continued to sit with a dumbfounded face showing his clueless thoughts. "What the hell does that mean?" asked Naruto. Yamato looked at Naruto and said "If I recall correctly, the Konoha Ninja Academy teaches basic algebra for jutsu equations to students. Did you listen?". Naruto's head dropped staring towards the ground and he let his face turn red. He then replied "Kind of..." in an embarrassed tone. Yamato sighed, trying to not let his irritation corrupt his calm ANBU face. He correctly interrupted Naruto's "kind of" as a "no". He pondered why someone whose combat skills far surpassed his own could use such little logic. "Put the fire out" commanded Yamato. Naruto got up and thrust his arm towards the fire while pointing holding out his hand. He yelled the words "Hirate Hitofuki! (Palm Gust)". A moderate gust of wind shot out from his palm tackled the fire, quickly dissipating it. Naruto stood still, knowing that Yamato was trying to demonstrate something. "Now start a new one" commanded Yamato. Naruto obeyed and said "Hando Hisaki! (Hand Flame)". A ball of fire erupted from Naruto's hand and hit the firewood igniting the camp fire once more.

Naruto picked up on the demonstration and noticed that the fire was stronger and brighter then before. He looked at the fire and said "Oh I get it, using one elemental jutsu after another gives the successor more power.". Yamato gave a slight nod, Naruto continued to stare at the fire and continued saying "But on a damage scale, this doesn't seem like a lot even after a giant succession. So there's some greater scheme behind this, right?". Yamato gave a smile and a greater nod. "Yes, if you can fuse the elements, making them one unified element, then they turn out much more powerful" answered Yamato. Naruto thought about Yamato's words and said "But if it's that powerful, then why doesn't everyone use it? There has to be some kind of drawback.". Yamato's expression went blank again and said "Yes, there have only been a few people able to use it. It requires great concentration and chakra control.". Most people who had a chakra control like Naruto's would have mentally groaned. Chakra control, it was something that he disliked about the shinobi arts. The Kyuubi's chakra had greatly lowered his control over the shinobi energy. Naruto's enthusiasm quickly took over, not wanting to fall victim to the disease of self-doubt. Naruto went into his usual, gleeful mood said "I'll master it just like I did with my other jutsu" with his usual grin.

"Careful Naruto, if you mess up, it could easily mean your life." said Yamato in a serious tone. Naruto's expression became more serious, but still held confidence "I'll find a way, I always do." said the blond haired shinobi. Yamato's serious tone stayed and said "Naruto, you aren't immortal. You may have avoided death more times then I can count, but if you use this jutsu before it is prepared, then you will die. And nobody else could help you, not myself, not Sakura, not the Fifth or anyone other then yourself.". Naruto's head dropped down again and stared at the ground, his mind rushed with Yamato's words. After a short moment of silence Yamato told Naruto to come inside and Naruto would spend several hours a day training trying to learn the jutsu, but the efforts never seemed to help. At least not until the Kyuubi was freed.

"Irounaku Rasengan! (Complete Rasengan)" yelled Naruto as he approached the Kyuubi in mid-air. A hurricane wind erupted from his hand and a yellow Rasengan appeared in his grasp. Naruto felt a great rumble from the energy and his right arm came under immense pain. He fell towards the Kyuubi and hit it on the top of its head with the yellow ball of energy.
Naruto's eyelids opened. He was lying down in a bed. He moved up to a sitting position shocked remembering his most recent memory. He observed his surrondings in front of him, there were grey walls and his blanket was white. He was in a hospital room. Before he could get up he heard a familiar voice.

"There was a great amount of damage done to the torso." said the voice. Naruto turned his head to the left and saw Sakura standing with her head hidden behind a clipboard reading medical reports. Sakura continued "The right arm was completely shattered, and lets not even talk about the hand. I had to operate on you for hours, baka." in a voice that attempted to sound casual, but was weighed down by a more worried voice. Naruto seemed to not notice, he was too preoccupied with the rush of thoughts in his mind.

"So you finally woke up." said another familiar voice. He turned 180 degrees and saw Jiraiya standing in front of him. "Ero-sennin!" yelled Naruto, who was about to ask the Sannin more questions then he could handle.

"What happened to the Kyuubi?! Where am I?! Is the town safe?!" asked Naruto in a worried, loud volume and quickly asked each question before any thought could be given into them. The Sannin interrupted the barrage of questions "Naruto, everything is fine. You're in a Konoha hospital room and you've been out for around six hours." stated Jiraiya. The sannin moved to the left a couple steps to reveal a window. Everything at Konoha seemed fine, normal business and daily routines seemed to be going on as usual. Jiraiya decided to ask a question of his own "Naruto, do you remember what happened before you passed out?".

Naruto looked at the bed he was in. "Well, it all started in a forest..."

When Naruto was finished telling his vocal memoir of what happened he ended it with a simple "And that's it". He left out some of the details, like what he actually saw in Itachi's genjutsu because his mind was still blurry in those areas. The perverted sannin sat down in a chair next to Naruto's bed. He sighed, pointed outside towards the defense wall outside and said "Naruto, you used your jutsu around that area, correct?". Naruto looked at the spot through the window and said "yes". Jiraiya lowered his arm and said "In that area, there was a powerful tornado, except it also had fire covering it and there were lightning strikes coming down from the clouds around it. Which is odd, because it was a cloudless day until you used that jutsu that caused it". Naruto closely observed the spot where he used the jutsu, the forest near it had been leveled to soil, the large fraction of the wall that was near the incident was half destroyed and what was left appeared to be hardly standing from the jutsu's demolishing effects.

"Wait..." said Naruto, who looked at the Sannin again. "Are you saying that my jutsu killed the Kyuubi and did all this?". Jiraya nodded, but Naruto didn't seem to believe him. "But that's impossible!" yelled Naruto. He reopened his barrage of questions again. "I've never been able to get any closer to completing the rasengan when I tried to combine everything. And isn't the Kyuubi immortal? And I felt stronger then I did when the Kyuubi was inside me, how does that make any sen-". "Naruto!" said the sannin in a deep voice which silenced the blond haired shinobi. "You trust me, don't you?". "Yes..." answered Naruto, "but I'm losing faith fast" he continued. The perverted sannin smiled and said "Don't". "One day Naruto, you'll find out the answers. But until then, saving Konoha is enough for one day.". Naurto's mind interrupted the words, but the last part caught Naruto by surprise. Perhaps he would of realized this if he went outside to see the Konoha citizens, who had saw the spectacle and held higher respect for the boy and guilt for their past actions against him. The news that the former demon fox container had broken the seal and killed the Kyuubi spread like wild fire throughout Konoha. It felt the minds of the adults, pushing the respect and guilt through their mind. It tapped the minds of the academy students, who now admired the blonde haired shinobi and looked up to him as a role model. Consequentially, the number of tricks and "pranksters" from academy students had risen alarmingly.

After a short pause of silence, the new town hero and the perverted sannin got up and left the room when Jiraya suggested they go eat dinner. Naruto said goodbye to Sakura, who still stood hiding her face with the clipboard. While walking down one of the hospital hallways Naruto decided to ask the sannin about this. "Ero-sennin, why was Sakura-chan acting so odd?". Jiraiya remembered the kunoichi mood when she was saw Naruto injured from his own jutsu. He decided not to worry his apprentice and replied "Oh she's just tired from the powerful medical jutsu she had to use on you.". Naruto nodded and continued to walk next to the sannin towards the hospital cafe.

Meanwhile, after Naruto and the sannin left the room, Sakura lowered the clipboard hiding her face, revealing a face stained from tears.

End Flashback

Well that flashback took up a couple chapters. I'm probably going to make the chapters a decent size after this. About 4k words+ like other fan fictions (I'm not sure where everyone gets the time to write a 6k words+ chapter. Eh, maybe it's just the fact I'm real lazy). Anyway, read and review. I'd appreciate constructive criticism, because this is just a practice fan fiction after all.

Oh, and if anyone had trouble with that last part, it infers that Sakura was hiding her face because she didn't want to worry Naruto of the fact that she was crying earlier.