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"Speaking"

'Thinking'

"Kyuubi speaking"

"Ajax speaking"

"Jutsu"

*Sound*

*Chirp*

Naruto could hear the sound coming from outside his room and saw that the birds were singing a joyful song as they flew away from the window and towards the sky. Naruto often wondered if birds could understand him, but Naruto quickly got rid of the thought as he was left the house with the two scrolls. He put them inside of his jacket.

Naruto walked down the street as he made his way to the forest of death, he ignored the glares that came his way. Naruto was able to reach the forest of death but unfortunately it was blocked by high fences, however it didn't prove to be an obstacle for Naruto as he just jumped over the fences.

Naruto headed to the left of the forest, Naruto ran towards his destination while he made sure to avoid any of the powerful creatures in the forest. Once Naruto spotted a large lake, he stopped as he took out a fishing rod and started fishing. Naruto took off his jacket and shirt as to not get them wet whir he was fishing.

Naruto spent the next couple of hours fishing until he suddenly stopped as he had a pile of fish, he made a few handsigns before he bit his thumb, once there was blood coming from his thumb, he placed it in the ground... nothing happened, then suddenly smoke appeared as Ajax appeared.

"Knock yourself out." said Naruto as he gestured to Ajax, once Ajax spotted the pile of fish, he rush at it and started devouring the fish, Ajax was smiling as if he had found paradise as he was eating the fishes by the dozens.

While Ajax was eating, a little wolf popped out of the wall of long, thin grasses as it approached the pile of fish that Ajax was currently devouring, the little wolf tried to take a fish from the pile of fish but stopped and cried when Ajax agressively roared at the little wolf.

"Ajax!" shouted Naruto as he couldn't believe Ajax would do that to a little wolf like that, Naruto walked up to the little wolf and gave a fish, which it ate vigorously in delight. Naruto looked at Ajax with a disappointed look as he crossed his arms to show his disappointment at Ajax's action.

Ajax looked down a bit, "Sorry about that, it's just that I was overwhelmed by the desire to eat fish and I became a bit greedy that I didn't take lightly to the little wolf trying to steal my meal." stated Ajax before it went by to eating the fishes like he did before.

Naruto listened to Ajax's reason and sighed as he sometimes didn't know whether he was the mature one of the two or if it was Ajax. Naruto saw the little wolf finish its meal in delight as it had a smile on its face. Naruto walked towards the little wolf and picked it up as he petted the little wolf, the wolf howled in great delight when Naruto scratched its ears.

The little wolf enjoyed Naruto's touch as it was howling in pleasure of having its ear scratched, Naruto was laughing at how much the little wolf was enjoying being scratched behind the ear. Everything seemed to be happy and he aura that filled the air seemed light.

Suddenly the aura changed in a much darker one as a pack of white wolves approached Naruto, Naruto could notice that the wolves were were looking at the little wolf that Naruto was holding, Naruto moved backwards from the advancing wolves as he turned to Ajax, who didn't show any signs of wanting to help him.

Naruto had deal with this by himself, he reached into his pocket and took out a few shurikens and threw at the wolves as soon as the wolves rushed towards Naruto and the little wolf, which meant the start of the attack. Once Naruto threw the shurikens, he made a few handsigns and used Kage shuriken no jutsu, which multipled the shurikens by 4.

The shurikens hit some of the wolves, while the others continued their assault against Naruto. Naruto took out a kunai and stabbed a wolf with it, the wolves reacted by biting Naruto's left arm with their fangs, naruto put the little wolf on top of his head before he took out another kunai with his other arm as he used it to stab the wolf that was closest to him.

The wolves let of Naruto's hand, they backed up as they were gathering to start their second attack as they circled Naruto to find his weak spot and attack him there. Naruto looked at all the wolves as he tried to hold his own against them. Naruto dropped the kunai and took out a few more shuriken. He threw them as he used Kage shuriken no jutsu to multiple the shurikens, he rotated his body as to hit all the wolves. Meanwhile the little wolf was holding on tightly to the top of Naruto's head.

The wolves backed up as to avoid the shurikens, Naruto used the time he brought himself to make handsigns as he used his jutsu, "Half-beast transformation." called out Naruto as his nails got sharper and his hair became longer until it covered the back of his neck. His hair became wilder as it lengthen.

Naruto couldn't help the feeling of power and invinciblity that he was feeling but it soon faded as he started to become overwhelmed by the bloodlust, Naruto fell on his knees as he struggled to keep in control of himself. All the while, the wolves saw the chance and charged at Naruto as they all were about to bite into Naruto's flesh.

A single howl was heard, Naruto looked up and saw the little wolf stand its ground against the charging wolves as it tried to stop the from hurting Naruto. Naruto tried to get up and help the little wolf but couldn't as the bloodlust stopped him from moving. Naruto watched the little wolf fight valiantly against the huger, stronger wolves; it was getting beaten by the huge wolves as their fangs and claws pierced the little wolf's skin.

Within a few minutes the little wolf was laying on the ground as it was panting heavily, the Alpha of the pack moved towards the little wolf and prepared to deal finish blow. Naruto at that moment had one thought and that was to save the little wolf, Naruto pushed aside the bloodlust for the moment as he rushed to stop the Alpha.

Naruto stopped the Alpha as he grabbed the alpha and threw it away, on the other side of the area as the alpha crashed into a tree. After some moment the alpha got back up and was preparing to attack Naruto and the little wolf but was stopped by the vicious roar that sent the alpha and his pack running with their tails tugged between their legs.

As soon as the wolves were gone, Naruto fell back. His nails returned back to normal and his hair receded back to the way it used to be as the Half-beast transformation was no longer in effect.

Naruto turned his head to see Ajax approaching him, that was all Naruto was able to see as the rest became a blur. Naruto started to lose conscious as he had left the world of reality and entered the world of dreams.

Naruto slowly started to gain consciousness as he opened his eyes to look at blurs, after a few minutes the blurs became refined and Naruto was able to see where he was. He got up slowly ignoring the ache on his body and left arm as he looked for Ajax and the little wolf.

The little wolf was still where it was, Naruto got and walked towards the wolf, Naruto tumbled as his legs were still asleep. Naruto started to fall on his back, he stopped mid-fall and looked back to see Ajax was keeping him from falling on his back.

Naruto walked up to the little wolf with Ajax helping him, Naruto got close to the little wolf and sat nearby its side. "Ajax, can you heal him?" asked Naruto, he turned to Ajax for help.

"Yes but..."

"I don't want hear it, I just want you to heal him, he was too young and too innocent to die. Please just save them." begged Naruto while hugging Ajax's leg as he was crying and snorting everywhere.

"Okay! As long you'll stop crying and snorting everywhere, jeez what do you think my fur is for. Kids are such crybabies these days. They only be friends with a creature for minutes and when the creature is injured, they act like they know the creature all their life." muttered Ajax before he moved closer to the little wolf and placed his paw on top of the little wolf's body.

Once Ajax put his paw on the little wolf, his paws was covered in green colour chakra-like aura as it entered the little wolf's body, the wounds slowly healed until there wasn't even a mark or sign of any injuries. Once the wolf was healed, it got up on its four feet and howled in happiness as it wasn't in pain and it was fully healed.

Once the little wolf got up on all fours, it was running cycles in excitement and joy. the little wolf saw Naruto and charged at Naruto as it jumped on Naruto and started licking his face. Naruto was laughing as the little wolf continued to lick him, Naruto kept laughing and smiling as the little wolf gave Naruto more licks that tickled him.

Naruto asked Ajax what time it was and Ajax responded by saying it 3. Naruto figured he still had some time to train, today and tomorrow before he had to go to school. Naruto had heal him before he focused on doing chakra control exercises over and over until it was time for him to leave.

Naruto spent the rest of his time doing chakra control exercises while the little wolf watched him in fascination and Ajax just observed him to see how he was improving and if he made a mistake, in order to correct it.

Eventually it was 5pm and Naruto decided to walk home, he walked home as he entered his room, when he got to his bedroom, he locked the door and took out the two scrolls from his jacket. Naruto put them back in hs closet, in the hole under the box of old toys. Naruto had planned on learning the jutsus in the two scrolls but things didn't go as he planned with everything that happened.

Naruto thought about learning the jutsus tomorrow, but he changed the topic of his thoughts as he was wondering if he was going to focus mostly on his chakra control or mastering his jutsus. Naruto decided to make up his decision tomorrow as he was a bit exhausted from the event that took place.

Naruto dived into his bed as he let himself be snuggled by the covers on his bed and let himself fall into asleep. Naruto couldn't help but fall asleep as he was engulfed by the warmth of his bed.

*Yawn*

Naruto opened his mouth as a yawn left his mouth, he got out of his bed as he stretched his arms and legs. Naruto turned to look at the alarm clock on top of the drawers besides his bed. It was 7:30am. Naruto yawned as he put on his jacket and entered his closet, he took the two scrolls out from the hole hidden under the box of old toys.

Naruto put the scrolls in jacket as he left the closet, he was walking out of the door when he heard a little yawn coming from his bed. He turned around and went over to his bed as he pulled down the blankets to see the little wolf from yesterday sleeping peacefully. The little wolf felt the cold air and opened its eyes to see that Naruto was awake and walked towards him before giving a little howl.

"Did you follow me here yesterday?" asked Naruto, to which the wolf nodded, Naruto figured the little wolf must have been cold, so it decided to get in his blankets.

"Would you like to come with me to the forest of death?" asked Naruto, the little wolf nodded, so Naruto headed out of Minato and Kushina's home and into the forest of death, all the while keeping himself invisible to the eyes of the people that he saw on his way to the forest of death.

Naruto got to the same place, he came to yesterday. Naruto did the summoning jutsu as he bit his thumb until there was blood and slammed it down on the ground, suddenly Ajax appeared. The little wolf followed Naruto to the place, when it saw Ajax appeared all sudden, it jumped back in surprise.

"Ajax, why didn't you help me yesterday with the wolves?" asked Naruto as anger was present in his tone and face. Ajax turned to face Naruto with a serious face.

"Listen Naruto, I can help you with so much but experience is not one of them, you need to improve yourself - not just physically but mentally as well, you want to become someone powerful then you need experience, the feeling of not knowing whether or not you're going to live or die. That's why I let you fight the wolves by yourself, to give you experience because you only have about four years before you go on dangerous missions, so getting experience will help you." Ajax explained in a serious tone, that meant he wasn't joking as he looked Naruto in eye.

"I see. Does that mean I'll have to... Kill people as well?" asked Naruto as he spit the word 'kill' with such despite, Naruto could understand Ajax's reasoning but he was wondering whether or not, Ajax would make him kill someone.

"Yes, you will have to kill one day but we'll cross that bridge when we have to. Right now, we can focus on your arsenal and you can start by learning the jutsus in the scrolls." stated Ajax with a smile on his face as he tried to lighten the mood by getting rid of the thought of killing from Naruto's mind for the moment. It worked as Naruto was smiling.

"I guess you're right, I should focus on improving myself for the time being." said Naruto with a happy smile on his face as he opened the scrolls to look inside of them.

Naruto decided to learn the one on the right, he tried to use the jutsu but nothing happened. Naruto tried as he went through all the required handsigns and tried to use the jutsu... But nothing happened. He decided to try the one on the right, he followed the instructions of the scroll and used the jutsu. 10 clones suddenly appear with a bit of smoke near them.

Naruto looked at the clones, he didn't know what to do. He walked up to one of them and poked him, "Hey, what was that for?" asked the clone.

'I just felt the clone, but how is that possible, the clone isn't supposed to be solid are them?' Naruto amazed, he didn't think the clones were real but when he poked the clone. There was no doubt that they were solid.

The clone that Naruto poked looked at him, making sure to memorise everything he was seeing as he scanned Naruto from top to bottom, "Wow I never saw myself completely like this before, but damn, I look badass." commented the clone as the rest of the clones agreed. The little wolf barked in agreement. Ajax didn't agreed much.

Naruto was going to give Ajax a piece of his mind. Naruto got back to his earlier thought, Naruto was couldn't handle what he was seeing: ten solid clones of himself, which was too much for him to handle, after all he was still 8-years-old. Naruto asked the clone if them could leave him, which they did as they took out their kunais and stabbed each other causing them to poof out of existence.

Naruto suddenly got attacked by confusing memories and a big pain. Naruto wondered what it meant but decided to ponder on it later. Naruto practiced his taijutsu out as he kept throwing punches in the air over and over. Once he was done with his punches he threw kick to the left, right and a roundhouse kick. He focused on improving his taijutsu.

Naruto stopped improving taijutsus, he sat down with his legs crossed and mediated as he tried to rest himself. Once Naruto felt calm and relaxed, "Half-beast transformation." called out Naruto as his hair became wilder; his hair lengthen until he covered the back of his neck and his nails got sharper and lengthened.

Naruto expected to be overwhelmed by his bloodlust but much to his surprise, he felt great, he felt empowered and energised. Naruto quickly rushed the nearest trees and started to throw punches and kicks at them, after breaking five trees and making them fall. Naruto was feeling exhausted as the energy he thought before leave him.

Naruto took a rest for ten minutes before he got back to it, he decided to improve his chakra control as he continued slowly walking on the trees for the whole day until he was able to slowly walk to the top of the tree without falling.

Naruto gave Ajax the scrolls to keep until the next time he need them. Ajax disappeared in a puff of smokes and Naruto started walking home. While on his way out of the forest of death, the little wolf jumped on top of him and made itself comfortable. Naruto walked home.

Once Naruto got home, he entered his room. Naruto knew that tomorrow he had to go to the academy as he was a student there, Naruto laid back on the bed fell asleep as the little wolf made itself comfortable on Naruto's head.

*snore* *snore*

*Ring* *Ring* *Rin...* *...Yawn*

The alarm rang twice and began to ring the third but was stopped by Naruto's hand as he let out a yawn, he got up and walked to the bathroom.

Once he washed his face and brushed his teeth, he headed to his bathroom as he took off his clothes and took a shower, but not before locking the door. He couldn't have anyone opening the door by accident and seeing Naruto's hair and eye colour changed.

After he finished washing himself, Naruto got out of the bathtub with one thought on his mind. That was a great shower. He put on his clothes, covered his hair with a bandana and wore sunglasses. He headed to his room and equipped his ninja weapons. He was about to leave but a howl stopped him.

The little wolf that had awaked howlled as it walked up to Naruto. "So you want to come with me?" asked Naruto, to which the wolf responses with a howl. Seeing as the wolf wanted to go, Naruto pulled it up and placed it on top of his head.

Naruto walked out of the house and headed to the academy, he whistled a joyful tone as he was holding a kunai on his right hand, he made his way to the academy as he ignored the glares thrown his way. The little wolf on Naruto's head noticed the glares and responded with a growl, that caused the glares to stop.

Naruto got to the academy and entered his classroom, where he saw that it was empty. Naruto sat down on his seat at the back as he played around with the little wolf until Kiba appeared.

"Hey Naruto, since when did you have a little pet wolf?" asked Kiba in surprise, his surprise was replaced by fear when he heard a low growl as he started to run back from the terror that was the 'little pet wolf'. Naruto just watched as they ran around in circle and laughed when he saw the wolf nearly bite Kiba's butt.

Eventually, the mess was cleaned up when Kiba was beaten by the wolf. The little wolf was standing besides Naruto proudly while Kiba was sitting next to Naruto. The three and Akamaru talked and had fun joking around.

Suddenly the door of the classroom was opened slightly as Hinata poked her head out and looked around, she saw that Naruto and Kiba were the only ones there and sat on her seat, which was next to Kiba's.

"T-that's a c-cu-cute wo-wolf you have, d-do-does she ha-ave a name?" asked Hinata shyly in a small voice as she stuttered.

"Well, the thing is ... What!? she's a girl!?" said Naruto as halfway through his sentence, his eyes widen as he realised Hinata said 'she', since when was she a she instead of a he.

"Since , you can tell she's a she." Kiba stated.

"You know you should call her Tala. I mean, she does look like a Tala." suggested Kiba as he looked critically at the little wolf.

"That does sound like a good name for her." stated Naruto, he rubbed his his chin and thought about the name.

Naruto turned towards Tala, "What do you think? Would like to be called Tala?" asked Naruto and the wolf responsed with a nod as she licked Naruto's face.

"Okay then, I'll call you Tala from now on." said Naruto as his face was being licked continuosly by Tala. Before long Tala stopped licking Naruto's face as she jumped on of his head and took a nap.

Naruto, Hinata and Kiba talked as they shared their interests and talked about a lot of stuff, like jutsu, weapons and what not. They spent the remainder of the time before the academy students arrived to talk to each other about their hobbies and more.

*Brrring*

The bell echoed throughout the academy and within minutes there were a horde of students marching into the academy and moving into their classrooms. After about five minutes, everyone had arrived. They chatted amongst themselves as they were waiting for Iruka to show up, which he did and so began the start of school or as many of the student would call it, torture.

Naruto had sighed in relief, he didn't know if he couldn't handled being in the academy with all of those annoying people, with the pink-haired banshee and the blonde-haired gossip being on top. Man did he feel sorry for that Sasuke guy for being stuck with them for about four of academy, suddenly after that thought, Naruto felt great since he didn't have to deal with that.

Naruto whistled a joyful tone as he headed home while Tala was sleeping on his head. Naruto walked home by himself as he enjoyed the silence, but it didn't last very long as the 'Official Sasuke fanclub' was running after Sasuke. As soon as Naruto saw that they were headed his way, he went into top gear as he ran from the terror that was the official Sasuke fanclub.

Once Naruto got home, he walked into his room and got ready for the training he was gonna do. Naruto then headed to his usual training ground with the collapsed temple as he exited the house. Naruto spent the rest of the walk there in silence while Tala just continued to sleep on top of his head.

After Naruto got there, he used the summoning jutsu to summon Ajax. Ajax appeared out of thin air as he landed softly on the ground, he handed Naruto the two scrolls that he held since yesterday and Naruto tried to do the jutsu that he couldn't do last time, but just like last time nothing happened.

Ajax got a bit bored of seeing Naruto try the new jutsu and fail, so he took the scroll and read it. Ajax sighed as he read over the jutsu and knew that Naruto couldn't use the jutsu even if he tried as he knew it was an advanced jutsu that required control over water affinity.

"Naruto you can't use this jutsu, it requires good amount of control over water affinity and you haven't even learned what your affinity are." stated Ajax as he handed Naruto the scroll and vanished.

Naruto stood there with the scroll at hand, he decided to pass the time by doing chakra control exercises as he walked slowly up the trees to improve his chakra control. He decided to take it further by jumping from branches to branches as he focused his chakra on his feet to make sure he didn't fall down and to keep him balanced.

After a while of training, Naruto noticed that there was clouds of smoke everywhere, Ajax appeared out of nowhere as the clouds of smoke dissipated, he turned to Naruto and gave him a piece of paper.

"Just focus chakra on the paper." commanded Ajax.

Naruto just shrugged and decided to play along as he poured his chakra on the paper, suddenly the paper split into three pieces: the first piece of paper folded into a ball and crumbled and the second piece of paper was overflowed and drenched in water while the third piece of paper ripped into 16 smaller pieces. Naruto watched in confusion as he didn't know what all that was about.

Ajax's eyes were wide open in surprise, "It looks like you have three affinities; water, wind and earth. From the looks of it, wind seems to be your strongest affinity with water and earth coming in second by a bit." said Ajax as he surprised, he didn't know how Naruto had three powerful affinities. He tried to figure out how that happened. He knew that the powerful wind affinity was from him but the powerful water and earth affinities, he didn't know how Naruto got it.

"Is having three affinities a good thing?" asked Naruto as he didn't understand what the affinities were about, he was curious about what Ajax was talking about.

"Yes, you should know that only a very few amount of shinobis ever had three affinities since the beginning of chakra to this current day. You are one of the very few to possess three affinities, especially one's as powerful as yours." stated Ajax as he explained to Naruto just how lucky he was to possess three affinities.

Naruto was surprised to learn that and before long, he was jumping up and down with excitement and joy to have three affinities.

That's it for this chapter, but make sure to stick around for the next one.

That's all folks!