CHAPTER 005: Meeting Kurama

After getting Harry settled into a temporary room for the night that was cleaned by the house elves quickly and efficiently, it wasn't soon after that Naruto made her way to the basement of the three story mansion as Kurama instructed her to do with the ingredients needed in hand for splitting Kurama's soul from Naruto's. Following quietly behind her was the female house elf she had just purchased seeing how Kurama's previous house elves all must of passed away after he freed them and went back to the dimension he came from. This house elf was middle aged, her coal black hair was pulled up into a tight bun, and surprisingly nice looking face for her age with a button noise, small squinting black eyes, Naruto couldn't help but think with a little cleaning and some new clothes she'd be a looker in the house elf world but was chastised by Kurama who said that house elves enjoyed being subservient and it was actually an insult to give them things and giving clothes to them would free them and unless they are horribly abused they don't want that, Naruto didn't know how to feel about that but decided to stay quiet. Also apparently the house elf has quite a bit of knowledge in potions, so as such she was picked to help out with making the potion. The older male house elf was asked to clean the house of all the dust that acuminated over the years, and familiarize himself with the house also. The short walk to the basement was temporarily halted when they both came up to an iron door with closing mechanics you only see in sci-fi movies on it. Lifting an eyebrow at the intricate design she bit her thumb for the second time today, and swiped it across the top mechanism that had the kanji for blood scratched roughly in it. It only took seconds for the blood to soak in and the mechanics start to move, making dust from years of not being used fly into the air, causing the older looking house elf let out a big sneeze. Once the door had been opened, lights flickered on showing an old brick room with several tables that had test tubes, caldrons and unknown objects littering them. In the middle of the room very large room was a transmutation circle, with dried old blood still staining the floor in the middle of it. Deciding not to ask about the blood stains, Naruto went to a book shelf hidden in a corner of the room, skimmed the spines of the books with her eyes quickly before grabbing a certain dusty red leather book and handing it along with all the ingredients to the house elf who was looking around the dark and creepy room with a slight tremor of fear going through her body.

"You have nothing to fear, unlike when we first met I'm actually nice, just had to trick the corrupt shop keeper." Naruto pointed out, making the house elf look up her, slight disbelief in her eyes. "You can believe it or not, up to you. Now would you please make the potion, I would do it but I have no knowledge on how to make it."

The house elf nodded, and went over to the cauldron, gave a snap of her boney malnourished pale fingers and the cauldron was completely clean than started on the potion while Naruto went around the room looking at all the equipment and books, she didn't have much interest, but it killed time while she was waiting for the house elf to finish with the potion. The potion actually only took a hour to make so during that time Naruto took it as an opportunity to mess with her new ability, she had Kurama released the control he had on the shape shifting, and Naruto found it a little amusing when the house elves eyes almost popped out of her head when she saw Naruto shape shift right in front of her, but quickly went back to work so not to ruin the potion. The hour of practicing didn't accomplish much except for a really red face and a headache from Kurama's laughing on Naruto's part, so the only thing accomplished during the hour was the potion. The house elf scuttled over to Naruto, and with a head down handed it to her, shaking her head in disappointment at the house elves actions, she gingerly took the bottle before kneeling down to the house elves level, smiled at her and thanked her for making the potion. The house elf was very stunned but quickly recovered, gave a small smile and left in a snap of her fingers to go help the house elf clean the house. Naruto sighed, moved to the middle of the of the transmutation circle, put the vial to her lips as she counted down from three, as she hit zero she downed the nasty looking green goop in one gulp, but it wasn't even a moment later when her eyes went blank and she collapsed like a rag doll onto the ground. The potion had thrown her conscious into the depths of her mind where Kurama was sitting Indian style behind the giant bars, eyes closed his hand in an unknown hand sign. She sat up in the ankle high sewer mind water before getting up to the barred gates and pulled off the seal, the gates flung open to reveal Kurama, analyzing his facial features as he continued with his chant, her thoughts going back to her home that she was forced to abandon, but she wasn't able to mule over that thought because not a moment later extreme pain racketed through her body. It felt like she was getting stabbed with hundreds of chidori's all at once all over her body. On the outside of her mind her body was seizing, shaking and twitching, eyes rolled in the back of her head, her back also started arching painfully, making popping sounds as the seizures continued, while on the inside she had to grind her teeth, holding the screams of pain in the back of her throat. Her pain continued for several hours, and around the end of the second hour, Naruto had gone into a pain induced coma, but by the end of the fourth hour Kurama and her soul were finally split apart, and by the sixth hour, Kurama's body finally came out of the seal in her abdomen, so now he was laying naked right next to her, twitching and unconscious.

It was that morning when Kurama was the first to wake up, he sat up with a pain filled groan holding his head with a clawed hand while the other held up his body from the floor. Shaking his head to force away the double vision he was dealing with right now, he glanced over to his knocked out ex-jailor who had lost the ability to still look like she had previously dead so was now basically half naked spread eagle on the floor, long red and blond hair like a halo around her head. Kurama stared for a moment with a blank stare before jumping up in excitement with a whoop of joy, but the rush of blood to his head caused him to fall right back to the floor in a heap, but the shit-eating grin was still there. Waiting about ten minutes he got up again but this time took it slowly, feeling no rush of blood, he stretched making bones pop as he did so, before making his way over to a closet door. Pulling it open, there was a few dust covered pieces of clothes, snapping his fingers they dust just disappeared as if it was never there in the first place. Taking out the clothes in a sluggish manner he slipped on the black tight leather pants with the sleeveless leather shirt with buckles across the chest and a big heavy duty trench coat. Taking some time to pose in front of a full body mirror, enjoying his vanity for a few more minutes, he decided it be best to move his container off the cold floor and into one of his many rooms, but having a second thought he decided to put her in the master bedroom where he used to sleep. The room un-surprisingly was sparkling clean when they entered the room, with the giant king sized bed with blood red covers with a picture of a golden fox with nine tails on the top in the middle of the floor just waiting to be slept in. A slim blood red tail slid from Kurama's tail bone just above his pants, it went towards the bed and in one fluid motion pulled the comforter down as he put her in gently before covering her and heading out of the room.

It had been Ten a.m. when Naruto was finally able to wake up with a migraine throbbing in her brain and no recollection of how she got placed in a giant bed, holding her face in her hands she tried to remember what she did to end feeling this shitty. It took her a second but she finally remembered the fact that Kurama was supposed to no longer be a prisoner inside her body. Jumping up to fast in excitement she forgot the fact that she was still in the bed so when she jumped up the covers decided to come with catching her by the foot and causing her to face plant into the ground.

"owww…" she groaned rubbing her sore nose, but stopped when she heard a familiar mocking chuckle in a corner of the maroon room. Turning to the source of the sound she found the red headed trickster looking at her with amusement while Naruto's jaw dropped in disbelief. "It actually worked!?"

The look of amusement quickly turned to a look of annoyance, "of course it worked!"

Naruto Snickered as Kurama with a snarky snarl left the room, Naruto was quick to follow so not to get lost in the giant mansion. "Soooo, when does training start?" she asked nonchalantly next to the red head.

Kurama didn't even miss a step as he answered her question, "As soon as the other brat is up." But on as an afterthought he could only think, 'Such a training junkie….'

Nodding Naruto looked around the giant hall filled with doors for a second before zoning on one door in particular in the hallway. Naruto instantly recognized the area and the door with a whoop she rushed past Kurama to go wake up Harry in his room that was just down the hall. Without a moment's thought of knocking she swung open the door of the room she dumped him in last night she had to laugh at her luck when a naked Harry stood in the middle of the room, a towel in hand that barely covered anything. To startled by the invasion of privacy and the fact that a unknown redhead/blond with exotic eyes and barely a shirt was the one to do it, he stood there frozen as Naruto gave his naked phasic a quick skim over, saying a quick "When you're done there, come to the kitchen." Before slamming the door as she left in a rushed after Kurama who was still steadily walking down the hall to get some breakfast because her stomach felt like it was eating itself.

Harry stood there in stunned silence for about a minute before saying, "What the fuck just happened?" a crimson blush staining his cheeks from both extreme embarrassment and annoyance. Harry was quick to finish drying off and getting some clothes on when he headed down stairs towards the kitchen, knowing where it was from Amaya showing him last night before he went off to bed.

Once in the kitchen, he froze in stunned silence when seeing a very tall handsome red head in all leather sitting at the table with a fancy teacup held delicately between fingers and reading the daily British newspaper, while Naruto sat in the next seat right of him, she had still not realized that she no longer looked like the Naruto, Harry knew. Naruto was scarfing down her breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes with syrup like she hasn't eaten in a week. Harry had just sat down on the other side of the red head when not a moment later a plate of pancakes appeared before him. Throughout his meal he kept sending glances between the redhead and Naruto, except whenever he looked at Naruto he would like up with the color of a cherry. Finally his curiosity got the better and he gave a cough before leaning over the table to Naruto and asked suspiciously, "Who are both of you?" Kurama looked up with a raised eyebrow, while Naruto looked confused until she brought a lock of hair to her face and let out a very un-lady like word, as she was about to answer but Kurama butted in by sending out a small amount of killer intent towards Harry enough to scare a civilian such as him.

"Why Harry I'm offended, I plan the big getaway and training and you've already forgotten all about me?" Kurama purred leaning over with a predatory gleam in his eyes.

Feeling the familiar constriction of pain in his chest that was fear, he leaned away from the red head, his eyes wide with fright, he pointed at the red head with a shaky finger, as he attempted to talk nothing came out, but he let out a silent scream as nine long blood red tails sprung out from behind the man menacing as the man face twisted into a demented grin, "Yes I'm Kurama, you ready to be my bitch for the next few years?"

Unfortunately Kurama didn't get his answer because Harry's eye had rolled in the back of his head and he had fainted from the killer intent, falling off his chair and on the hard wooden floor with a painful sound of bone smashing wood. Kurama sweat dropped while Naruto stared at the spot where Harry used to be, "You just had to scare the shit out of him didn't you? If he's dead you're the one who's going to have to clean up the mess." She stated blandly as she went back to her meal, leaving it to the crimson haired fox in human shape to fix what he had just done.

The fox looked down to the knocked out wizard with a aspirated sigh. "Well shit….."